The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17. 1858.

54,400/. for defraying the salaries and expenses of her
MajeAtv's Tr..aanry.

27,59L1. ior :I,:t!rY t. of
office of her Majesty's S.:crLtary of State fur the Home
Departmeet.
83,849/. for defraying the salaries and expenses of the
office of her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, including the expenses of messengers and extra
couriers.

35,8971. for defraying the expenses and salaries in the
department of her Majesty's Secretary of State for the
Colonies.

75.733/. for the expenses and salaries of the Privy
Council office and Board of Trade, -including the regi—
tzar of merchant sewuen, marine, and railway depart.
ments.

2,7001. for the salary and establishment of the Lord
Privy Seal.

25,211/. for the salaries and expenses of the depart
ment of the Paymaster-General.

7,314/. for the salaries and expenses of the •ffice of
the Comptroller-General of the Exchequer.
21,595/. for the salaries and expenses of the office of
Works and Public Buildings.
21,862/. fur the salaries and expenses of the office of
Woods. Forests, and Lard Revenue.
14,098/. for the salaries and expenses cf the office of
Public Records.

205,383/. for the expenses connected with the admi-
nistration of the Poor-law in England, Ireland, and
Scot'and.

15,5301. for the expenses and salaries of the Inspec-
tors of Factories, Mines, &c.
5,156/. for the salaries and expenses of the office of
the Queen's and Lord rreasurer's Rernembrancer of
Scotland, and other charges, torinerly on the hereditary
revenue.

6,4311. for the househgd of the Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland.

17,0321. for the salaries and expenses of the office ol
Chief Secretary of Ireland.

6,8394% for the charges )f the Paymaster of the Civi
Service office in Ireland.

On the question that -:2,7891. be voted to defray the
Palsies and expenses of the Board of Public Works in
Ireland,

Mr. MACARTNEY asked for some explanations as
to why Messrs. Brinsley awl Stephens's report in refer-
ence to public works in Leland had not been carried out,
or at least 0n1,7 partially in ?
Mr. WILSON said, so far as the recommendations in
the report related to the Board of Public Works, they
had been fully carried out ; but, inasmuch as the report
was drawn up upon the iissumption that the Poor-law
Board was unaltered in its constitution, the recommen-
dations, so far as that board was concerned, could only
be partially carried out.

KA VAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGEN".:II.

year-Attilltra; t•Li rliej I'ui t 111.:;ttit
day and rehoisted his flag on board the Retribution
steam-frigate as third in command in the Baltic fleet.
The Rosamond steam-sloop, Commander Crofton, left
Spithead on Sunday evening for the Downs, where Sir
Thomas Cochrane's squadron of honour has been aug-
mented since it left Spithead by the joining. of the Odin,
16, Captain Willcox ; the Harrier,l4, Commander Story;
the Phcenix, 6, Commander Hayes ; the Crane, 6, Com-
mander Miller, etc. The Duke of Wellington, 131,
Captain Cold% ed, having repaired the darns es sustainer'
by her collision with the American ship Hurlbut, left
Spithead yesterday afternoon under sail for the Baltic.
She looked splendidly, standing out of the anchorage
under all plain sail. Her tender, the Lightning, Lieu-
tenant-Commander Campbell, was also refitted and ready
for sea again at Portsmouth yesterday, but did not sail
with the flag. Another of the gun-boats built for the
Baltic service was towed into Portsmouth harbour from
Cowes yesterday, to be fitted out for sea service. The
Medway's invalids, whom she brought to Spithead at 6
o'clock on Friday morning last from Malta, were at
length landed yesterday morning in the manner they
might have been disposed of one hour after being re-
ported, viz., by the eteam-tug Pigmy. The St. George,
120, at Spithead, sent a working party to the.dockyard
yesterday to dismantle the Bellerophon. The Sampson,
6, paddle-frigate, is ordered to be docked forthwith and
brought forward for recommission. No. 47, sailing-
transport, arrived at Spithead from the westward on
Sunday evening to await orders as to disposal. The
2-Eolus, old 42, converted into a sailing shell depot lop
the Baltic fleet, was put into commission
,yesterday at
.Portsmouth dockyard. She is being ri,Nful with all
despatch ; her interril fittings were accomplished in
dock. The Brittannia, 120, hailed under the ,hears
yesterday to have her mats taken mit ready for going
into dock to-morr .Iv, to be fitted as an hospital-ship as
before reporttd.

The ship Royal Albert, Captain Norris, from Calcutta
and the Cape of Good Hope, off Plymouth on Sunday.
spoke on the 13th of March, in lat. 1.37 N., long. 21.26
W., the barque Limehouse from London 30 chys, for
Singapore ; 25th, in I.t. 28.5 N.. long. 39 27 W., the
brig A. F. Moore, from' Coquimbo 75 'days, for Swansea,
and the barque Roehampton, 54 days, for the Mauritius ;
30th, in lat. 3i N., long. 38.25 W., the ship Childe
Harold, from Manilla 91 days, for Cork. April 9, off the
Start, the ship Hotspur, from Calcutta 84 dap, for Lon-
don, and a Dutch barque, with a red burgee, No. 514,
outward bound.

DESTITUTION IN THE HEBRIDES.

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me through the medium of your columns
to call attention to the severe distress which now op•
presses numbers of the poor but loyal population of the
Hebrides and West Highlands.
Owing to an insecurity of the tenure of those who
hold land, the want of money capital, and the absence of
the economy it is the object of the Royal Patriotic and
Industrial Society of Scotland to teach, the people re-
ferred to have, from time immemorial, beim accu-toured to
experience great difficulties in obtaining the most siinWe
elements of food between the exhaustion of one crop and
the ingathering of another, generally from June till
September.

Owing to a more complete failure of the potato crop
last autumn than in any previous year, and a wet and
bad harvest, of their scanty patches of oats, or barley,
aggravated by the dearness of previsions, destitution in
a most alarming form oppresses the people of the remote
islands of the west, and the iiociety has been urged to
extend industrial employment, in knitting of hose, the
weaving of cloth, towelling, &c., which it organised In
18.511, as a means of "helping the poor to help them-
selves." As regards this plan of feeding the hungry,
without pauperising them in spirit, the most gratifying
testimonials have been received.

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