The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-13 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1855.

MR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC
TO-NIGHT, at 8 o'clock, and Every Night (but Saturday).
Stalls, 35.; Area, 25.; Gallery, Is. The Mornin3 Representations
take place e7ery Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock.—
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY. NOTICE IS 11 EREBY (LIVEN, That on WED-
NESDAY, the 21 at instant, tha day appointed as " A Day of Humilia-
tion and Prayer," the TRAINS will only RUN as on SUNDAYS,
with the exceetion ofthe 9.15 a in. Down Mall Train, which will run
as on other week days.
By order of the Board

MARK IIUISII.

General Manager's; Office, Eurton Station,
Mcrch 12, 1855.

TO CAPITALISTS, INVESTORS, and
BUJ LDERS.----Mr. HOOPER hems to inform such that an
OPI'ORTUNITY OFFERS of making a ready, remunerative, and
secure return for their outlay Wanted 150 to 200 fourth-class
Dwelling-houses for the many hundreds of workmen employed on
the Is!e of Dogs, who are, for the want of such houses, compelled at
present to reside in Poplar New Town, Limehouse, and even Dept-
Ird ant creenwich. The choice of four diffireilt estates for build-
ing is offered by the advertiser. Apply at his Offices, Mill-wall,
Poplar.

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, male inn cause, RUTTER azainst RUTTER, the
Creditcri of. THOMAS BLAKE, late of No. 23, Cloudesley-terrace,
Islington, in the County of Middles x, Esquire, who died in the
month of August, 1854, are; by their solicitors, on or before the 10 h
day of April next, to come in and prove their Debts or Claims at the
Chambers of the Vice-Chancelivr, Sir Richard Torm Kindersley, No.
3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's inn, Middlesex, or, in default thereof,
they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said
Decree.

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Monday, the sixteenth day of April, 1855, at Three o'clock in the
afternoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudi-
cating upon the claims.
Dated this ninth day of March, 1855.
CIIA.S. PUGH, Chief Clerk.
Richard Stephens Taylor, 3, Field-court, Gray's-inn, plaintiff's
solicitor.

ADVERTISEMENT.—A Renewed Appeal in
behalf of the FAMISHING HIGHLANDER is respectfully
made by the Committee. Contribution* are earnestly requested to
latilnadislo the royal Patriotic and Industrial Society of Scotland's
account (marked Highland destitution), at Messrs. Smith, Payne and
Smith's, Lombard-street; to Messrs. llatchard, Piccadilly ; Nisbett,
Bernet's-street ; Rivington's, 'Waterloo-place ; J. Bigg and Son's, 53,
Parliament-street; to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., Broom Wood, Clap-
ham ; to Colonel Sir Duncan MacDougall, Bart., Eaton-square ; to
W. F. Caldwell, Esq., of Mishinish, Boundary House, St. John's
Wood; to Benj. Bond Cabbell, Fsq , M.P., Treasurer ; to Chas. Cowan,
Esq., M.P. ; to Capt. Geo. • tevenson, 17, Grafton-street; to George
Bain, Esq., lion. See., 18, Parliament-street; or to the Secretary,
Mr. Charles Bond, at the Sociaty's Highland Industrial Hosiery
Depot, 196, Piccadilly, where also orders for Hosiery will be grate-
fully received.
N.B.—A large stock of warm, soft, and very durable long and short
kn'tted hose on hand, suitable for officers and men ordered to the
Baltic, and indispensable to health, during the rainy jnonths in the
Crimea, to those about to enter upon a spring campaign, wet feet
having destroyed snore than the sword.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas,
C.B , arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, and hoisted his
flag (blue at the wizen) on board the Duke of Welling-
ton, 131, Captain Caldwell, as Coutmander-in-chief of the
Baltic fleet. He saluted the port-admiral (his sexier
officer), Sir Thomas Cochrane;s K.C.8., stith 15 guns,
which Sir Thomas acknowledged by firing 13 from the
Victory.
The -Orion' 91, screw steam-ship, Captain H. E.
Erskine, is ordered to.get her steam up at Sheerness to•
day, and steam round to Spitkiad. The Adder steam-
ressel is to follow with sails, &c.

The Edinburgh, screw block-ship, Captain Hewlett,
Will haul out 01 (lock in Portsmouth yard to-day, and
proceed to complete her refit in the basin.
The Penelope, 13, paddle-frigate, Captain Sir William
Wiseman, Bart., left Spithead yesterday at 3 p.m. for
Cork, to embark Royal Artillery for the Cape of Good
Hope.

The Rhadarnanthus steam store-ship, Master Com-
mander John Belau), arrived at Woolwich yesterday
from Portsmouth.

The steam gun-boat Ruby arrived in Portsmouth har-
bour on Sunday evening from the westward.

The guns have been all mounted at the nsw battery,
Sconce Point, Isle of Wight, and the works for a for-
midable redoubt commenced at Freshwater-gate, Isle of
Wight.

AN APPEAL FOR THE FAMISHING.

The pressure of severe destitution is, we regret to say,
again experienced by .numbers of the poor in the
Hebrides and West Highlands, whose case las been
taken up by a number of gentlemen in London, who are
identified with efforts for ameliorating the condition of
the highlanders, through the best of all instrumentalities,
viz., by developing their industrial resources ; in a word,
by " helping the poor to help themselves." The com-
mittee say owing to a more extensive failure last autumn
of the potato than in any previous year, and a wet and
bad harvest of the scanty cereal crops grown by the poor
inhabitants of parts of the West Highlands, and of the
Hebrides, including Skye, Mull, and Islay, not merely
want and hunger, but destitution of an alarming charge-
ter afflicts numbers of the population. By the existing
Poor Law of Scotland, no able-bodied person, however
destitute of the means of t-mbsistence, possesses a claim,
a., in England and in :Ireland, to workhouse, or out-
door relief, as a refuge from starvation.
It is only when disabled by famine, or other casualty,
that a pittance, hardly sufficient to keep the body and
soul together, can be claimed of the inspector ofthe poor
of a parish, generally as extensive as an English
county, with lofty mountains, or stormy firths lying
between the destitute and the poor law official, who can-
not ascertain the period when famine has reduced the
once hardy and athletic Highlanders to physical dis-
ablement, so as to prevent exhaustion and exposure re•
suiting in death.

The directors of the Royal Patriotic and Industrial
Society of Scotland, having in 1851 relieved destitution
in the highlands by employing poor families in weaving
of cloth, and the knitting of hosiery which they
have introduced into the London market, by
establishing a depot for their sale at 196, Pic-
cadilly, are again importuned by ministers of religion,
and other trustworthy persons, to resume -and largely
to extend the sphere of their iniustrial relief—the posi-
tion of the people, until the ingathering of the next
crop, being most destitute and alarming. Every true
patriot must have viewed with gratitude and pride
the heroic defence of Balaklava by the 98d High.
landers, though opposed to the hordes of Russia, who,
had they overcome that wall of fire and steel, might
have destroyed that town with its magazines and ship-
ping, and have added a disastrous defeat to the other
calamities of the campaign. The hardy sons of the
mountain and the flood, however, stood invulnerably
firm in defence of the interests of their country, and of
humanity—and shall no sympathy be felt by the Bri-
tish public for their suffering Highland kindred, when
a shilling or eighteen pence a week, conveyed in the
best possible form—of wages, in return for industry—
will supply the wants of a family, accustomed to live
thriftily and simply on a little oatmeal ? Shall no inte-
rest be felt, no effort be made, where there are, on ac-
count of remoteness of locality, of unequal Poor-law
legislation, and of great destitution of food and clothing,
such urgent claims upon Christian charity, and such
immunities against the possibility of its abuse ?
The directors confideitly anticipate a different result,
and will be happy to afford further information, and to
receive contributions, which will be immediately de-
spatched to districts, which the exhausted funds of the
Society have hitherto been unable to relieve. Ministers
of religion, and benevolent ladies and gentlemen, are
solicited to originate collections in their various locali-
tie., and to forward the amounts as announced is our
advertising columns.