The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-13 00:00:00

THE WRATH= AND THE PAER§. —The weather still
continues intensely cold ; t'te thermometer at the Royal
Humane Society's Receiving-house in Hyde-park during
Sunday night stood at 24 deg., at 9 o'clock yesterday
morning it rose to 30 deg., and at noon it registered 32
dog., even in the sun. Lithe evening the mercury fell
to 29 deg. The barometer yesterday stood at 29.44,
being just 13-100ths less than on the preceding day. The
wind was dorng the greater portion of the day north-
east. The various footpaths Were densely crowded.
Several matchcl took place between the soldiers of the
Life Guards and the Foot Guard; which excited con-
siderable interest.
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ing upon the more important and prominent symptoms,
and the most successful mode of practice in the treat-
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street, Berkeley-square.

THE MILITIA.
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signed The f: n
Ag gentlemene oek bu r
o
Durham egunen of
Foot to be Major in the North
havelate ahacdapthtaeiinr citinitt.uheissliota
Militia, L.
Hoo dto
vicea Baker,
Lieutenantwho,
viceh as
jecshi
seodn. Mr.
,
who
signed. Mr. C. Wilkinson, to be a Lieutenant, vice
Featherstonhaugt, who has been promoted, and Mr. J.
hex s
Bowling to be an Ensign, each commission to bear date
the let of February.
Mr. William Hartshorn, late a Captain in the 24th
Foot, has been appointed Adjutant of the 6th Regiment
of Royal Lancashire Militia.
Two new regiments of militia are to be raised in Lan-
cashire, to be called the Gth and 7th Royal Lancashire
'Militia ; the fint of which, commanded by Colonel the
Hon. E. B. Wilbraham, is to be raised in Salford, and the
other is to be raised in Manchester. Colonel Wilbra-
ham and Adjutant and Captain Hartshorn have already
advertised for volunteers, offering a bounty of 61. for
men between 18 and 35 ; but men who have served in
the army, if well recommended, are to be received up to
45 years of age. The standard of height is 5 ft. 4 in.,
and the corps are to be each 1,000 strong.
The martial spirit that pervades both officers and men
of the two Antrim regiments has latterly manifested
colonel,
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received
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nor
retddheietranbfalremo imens c iotdnfheea t. Major
ilmwaractrinnigs Verner, hay-
sg ua
re activead
unanimouslye
or
nv cheee,axrppianrrgeasdts paraded
de tnhtaheteui
their
nature
Riflesof in t
willingnesso
her Majesty whenever and wherever their the
servicesort r:Dßtotoloahuwrnearneoaetgruce offi-
cersavkle der
into :
be required. This noble conduct was responded to on
the part of the men by a general cheer, and all expressed
their desire to follow wherever their officers would lead.

THE MAGISTRAOT.—The Lord Chancellor of Ireland
bas appointed M. E. Murphy, of Bellefield, Ballinasloe,
Esq., to the commission of the peace for the county of
Roscommon.

THE CONDUCT OE THE WAE.—DBEBT, Saturday.--A
very crowded meeting, attended principally by working
men, was held last night, in the Town Hall, "to take
into consideration the. present deplorable and wretched
condition of our army in the Crimea, to canvass the cause
thereof, and to determine such means, as to the meet-
ing may seem good, to avert the dangers besetting us."
Resolutions were passed unanimously, condemning the
conduct of the war, and a memorial to the House of
Commons was adopted, praying the house " to carry cm
the war with vigour, " attributine• the losses and suffer-
ings of our brave soldiers in the Eaet to "culpable mis-
management and incapacity."
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAIL-
wAY. —On Friday, a fatal accident occurred on the
Great Northern Railway, at a level crossing a little north
of Carlton station, between Newcastle and Tuxford, to a
youth whose name has not been ascertained, but who
appeared to he about nine or ten years of age, and of
respectable connections. It appears the boy was about
to cross the line when he perceived a coal train approach.
ing from the north. Ile waited until this bad passed,
and was in the act of stepping on the down line just at
the moment the first-class express from Loudon to
Edinburgh came up'at full speed. The buffer of the ex-
press engine struck the youth with great force, and he
was killed on the spot. .

A. few Union Rank shares sold in the market the other
day as high As COI. the 251. sharp. Now, investments
here ought to pay something like 10 per cent. at the
least. To do this on the price paid the dividend should
be 10 1-sth per cent. ; but the mean dividend of all the
balks this year is under 18 percent., and this rate can-
not he kept up. I should say the Union Bank is the
most tiouriehing, and is likely to continue so. It has a
large number of good non-mercantile customers, who
keep good balances, and who do not require documents.
I have before allueled•to the number of small failures
of late, and the causes of them, and I expressed an
opinien that the mercantile houses of note were quite
safe. I have since made considerable inquiry on the
subject in channels worthy of reliance, and I have no
reason to vary my previous statement. The aggregate
of failures, is however, large, but then-all our aggregates
are large. Dating from the culminating point of pricer,
and the first failure thereafter, ram assured that the
total to the present time amounts to 1,000,0001., but,.
from the classes who have been compelled to yield to
the pressure of the times, I do not think a large amount
will fall on the English merchants. Where they will
suffer is where they have blindly shipped goods on con-
signment, merely because they have seen purchases of
similar goods made on Melbourne account. This they
have in many cases done in fraud of their own customers,
and we cannot much deplore their burnt fingers.
The cry cf " the unemployed" has been almost hushed. -
I can state in a few cases what I have paid within the
last ten days for some kinds of labour; in some few
cases mixed up with a small dose of remuneration'for
capital. I paid a jobbing carpenter 20e. a day •I am
paying a pair of hewers of wood 12s. a day each for' cut-
ting up firewood into convenient billets ; I have recently
paid
usideoacaprutrecrhfaosrets a
akinga single horse cartload of distancemiscel-
laneous of three and a half miles
20s. This is an honest fair-dealing man whom I always
employ ; another, for the single job, would have charged
me 25'. The charge fer a cab (2 horses) the same dis-
tance varies from 255. to 40s. (generally 20a.), according
to the competition on tie stancl. We pays laundress Bs.
a day and her food, but washing given out is Bs. per
dozen. The drawers of water are as well paid as the
hewers of wood. These are all. I can state from my own
payments ; but I know that common labourers get 10s.
ratesanythinguul mdl d onrboe
et
oeb t
ben nsme ara
vir
tele
td, i n ray
he
od
.vi e v e
rifi
a day, and the police get 12g. If the unemployed were
insigncant proportion, these
has been a considerable number Of, that there always
men either without
any serviceable qualificationa, or for whose particular
kind of work there' is no demand_
Regent-street,
htreeatit, " Gents" from the
b
clerks from the, large commercial towns. They are far
less
df: instance, and soft-handed
to some profitable account
than gentlemen from our public schools and universi-
ties, whose palms have been prepared for the pick and
spade by handling an oar on the ones "Silver Thames."
countersale °
to t
1 think, also, there must be acme pressure among pro-
fessional men ofi allkinds. Surgeons, doctors, barristers,
and attorneys in England hear of the large professional
incomes realised here. These are not so large or so,
numerous as they were, but still there are, no doubt,'
men of all professions who are makinglarge gains ; but
known and established, andof •
they are men reputation
ill and ex • commensurate with t heir skperience. On the
other hand, we have professional men in very straitened
circumstances, and in walks of life very repugnant to
their previous habits. I have heard
of a barrister of
eighteen years' standing acting as ,the clerk of aeother
barrister, and subsisting, or trying to subeiat, on the
1 usual clerks' fees. I know of
a Physician who is act-
'clerk to brace of barristers who have act-
rag as
abiding places. Some of the large Solicitors' firma are
making many thousands a year. I have beard of others
who are in insolvent
circumstances.
to the This inequality
of condition is not confined
tends to all occupations, though least
of all to mechanics
and labourers, who must always, in all countries, be
more on an equality.
the Eureka .
Bentley, the landlord of Rotel, at Ballarat,
who was ouses of the murder of one Scobie, has been
tried and convicted of manslaughter,!and sentenced to
throe years' hard labour on the roads. The lawyers say
the verdict is perfectly correct, and the sentence a proper
oite. 'The rioters, who burnt down Bentley's ins, after
the magistrate
had dismissed the case against Bentley,
a was not tittle of evidence telling him that there . against
been tried and convieted. They were
him, have also •
recommended'to mercy on account of the Supposed laxity
on the part of the public authorities.,
panied their verdict with this ri, , The jury accom-
panied as,they called it
"The jury feel Veit in retursing a verdict of pay
against the prisoners for the riot at Ballarat, they would
not have had that painful duty to perform if those ie.
trusted with the conduct of
too
Government affaire at
Ballarat had done theirs properly. The Judge said,
he could not receive this "rider," but asked for a copy.
It is believed that it influenced his sentence, for, as an
adequate punishment fur this enormous outrage, the
three priqotier, were sentenced respectively to three,
imprisonment, without hard
four, and six months'
labour. Generally speaking,' the judges here are severe
in their' sentences, but this certainly appears to err the
other way.
His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has given.
the Royal assent to the Convicts Prevention Bill. I have
in a former letter given a history of this bill, and its
bearing on the policy pursued in Van ".:oienien's Land.
I think it is pretty certain that .
the bill will be disallowed,
and the governor will receive a peremptory order to
proclaim such disallowances. I think a better bill might
be devised in the shape of a very stringent Vagrant Act