The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-04 00:00:00

IRISH IMMIGRATION.

On Thursday an inquest was held by Mr. W.
Baker, at the Green Gate, City-road, on view of the
body of Patrick O'Hearn, 10 years old, who died on his
return with his mother to the parish of St. Luke, Old-
street, from Ireland, where they had been sent under an
order of removal. Some of the guardians and other
parochial officers were present. Patrick O'Hearn, of 9,
Elizabeth-court, Whitecross-street, said that the mother
of the deceased came to him about two o'clock that
morning with deceased in her arms, and stated that
he had been dead some hours. • She had an-
other child with her, five years old. She and
her husband were sent to Ireland by tho parish
about a year ago. His brother had since died. Mary
Leary, about twenty years of age, said that she accom-
panied the mother of the deceased on her journey from
Ireland. They left Cork last Friday week in a sailing
vessel, and arrived at Newport, in Wales, On the follow-
ing Wednesday. The deceased was in good health
when ho started, as was also the other child. They
walked the whole distance from Neeeport to London.
Witness carried deceased on her back nearly all the way,
and his mother carried the other child. On Tuesday de-
ceased was very sick, and had great looseness in his bowels.
The last day, Wednesday, they started at five o'cclock in
the morning and walked nearly forty miles. When
they arrived at Kensington they went into a chemist's
shop to gat some medicine for deceased, when they were
told the child was too tar gone, and that nothing could
be done for its reliof ; at Hyde-park-corner they found
deceased dead. Some ladies and gentlemen gave them
halfpence. On one night they slept in a union workhouse.
Every other night they slept in a barn or stable. A young
girl who came with them was left at Maidenhead, as she
was exhausted, having been seized in the same way that
deceased was. Eleanor O'Hearn, deceased's mother,
stated that her husband died soon atter her arrival in Ire-
land, upon her removal by the parish officers of St.
Luke. She must have starved with her two children,
at Cork, where she was not known. She left be-
cause she thought she could maintain her children
in London, when she spoke to the clergyman who
paid her passage to Newport. She came to England at
the age of 13 years. She married when she was 17, and
she had lived 27 years in the parish of St. Luke's, part
of which time she had paid rates, and her family are
buried there. Fourteen months ago her husband
was taken ill, when they all went into the workhouse.
They were soon after removed to Ireland. The Coroner
observed that no one could blame the clergyman for as-
sisting the mother of the deceased, nor could they .blame
her for returning after having been 27 years in the
parish. Mr. John Courtenay, surgeon to the workhouse,
said that the child died from exhaustion, consequent on
the vomiting and purging, together with the absence of
proper food. Had the deceased received proper atten-
tion it might have been then alive. Deceased was much
emaciated. Verdict—" That the deceased died from
exhaustion, brought on by neglected d'arrbm3.

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ROYAL
WOOLWICH, Sept. 3.--The whole of the field batteries
ARTILLERY.
in the garrison here assembled in heavy marching order
at 10 o'clock, A.M., to-day, and proceeded to the Com-
mon, where they wore drawn up, in lino is open order,
with the spare men and horses in the rear, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colo
Commandant of theolonel
Gar-
nc.d Anderson. C
E. C. Whinyetes, C.B•, $•13.,
rison, accompanied by Lieutenant-General Sir Hew D.
Ross, K.C.8., Deputy Adjutant-General of Artillery,
Brigade Major Bingham. and Captain Riddell, Deputy
Assistant Quartermaster-General of Artillery, arrived
on the ground at eleven o'clock, and was received with
the usual salute. The Commandant commenced his in-
spection of the batteries by riding down the front of the
line, and round each gun, minutely inspecting the men
and horses, and their appointments. lie then rode up
the centre and down the rear, and afterwards inspected
the spare men and horses. The batteries then broke
into open columns to the right, the light field batteries in
columns of batteries, and the heavy in columns of half-
hatteries, and marched past at a walk, and subsequently
andof etehtplrbessed his
at a trot, and wheeled up into line on the original
ground, when Lieutenant-Colonel Andersonpptpohinenattttmetcrheoineemtss:.,.
through the evolutions of a field-day. At the In
conclu-
sion of the evolution, the gallant Colonel-Commandant
rode up to Lieue-Co'lonel Anderson,
asndnotice during
entire approbation of the efficient stast,e
rend the clean and soldierlike appearance of the
the fine condition of the horses and their a
from each
men, and
tahnedinwsiptelicteiveeer.y thAingeetlheeattiocnamweausnt(hleernah:ierg::
their kits; and
gun detachment and spare men to show
were
en tfhorememdeniotoarriovlionago in the b
mwhaondhaandt asked if tthoorarea‘v.,earne4battery-square the
h ri3eßloomfield vfe-
were
dismissedu
o n
any amongst them
to dinner.
ascertaining that
there
Lieutenant-Colonel
were none,
from leave of absc-nce . having joined the gar-
risonthe Royal HorFo Artillery,
I has taken the command of
Lieutenant• Colonel WillesY.
from North America, having joined the garrison
of
intendentDrills, -
Cruttenden, in the room of the late Colonel
Captain Pr •
ice's co medically
mpany, Ist battalion, wore
inspected yesterday, at the Ordnance
Hospital, and are y,uantdetwr oorod'celroscktoP.
march3l on Tuesday
next, the 7th inst., for Shorneliff, where the company is
to
be stationed, with a field-battery complete, consisting
of four 9-pounder guns, and two 24-pounder howt
ot-
f
zare, and 68 horses, for the protection of that part
the coast. breaking
The camp on Woolwich Common commences
4th inst., by the marching
up to-morrow (Saturday), the
des until the whole
of two companies per day into barracks .
is cleared off.

TIIaY AGO.—The oldest pub-
LLOYD'S LIST
()Milo bears date 1745, and is in
fished Lloyd's List coronain ittee of Lloyd's, being somewhat
possession of the -- id. We are thus enabled to draw a
Pmore than a century 0
lastcentury, and the middle of
fiddle of the
tions of themtltry. The old Lloyd's List appears to have
tolerably accor.ato
the
between the shipping opera-
the present ctenthat was published once in the week. It is
been the no
narrow slip of paper about a foot in length;
minted 00 - • •
'des containing the price of bullion and the stocks,
and.
i„abesie rates of exchange on foreign countries ; these ar
othside. On the reverse is what was then termed "the onn_e
List,„ which gives a list of 23 arrivals and 12 de.
111ari partures at English ports, with 34 ships at anchor in the
j,was. There are also notices of four arrivals in Irish and
foreign ports, with advice of three British ships taken by
the enemy's privateers. Turning from this document, which
gives a week's news, to one of the year 1800, published
daily, we find it contains on an average notices of 75 ships.
This was in time of war; and comparing numbers, we find
the ships noticed as ten to one against the previous date.
Following up the comparison, we turn to a Lloyd's List for
1850; one of the fullest of these covered 15 pages in the
arrivals and loss books for one day, giving the names of about
460 vessels—being six times the number of those in 1800,
and as numerous as the lists of one entire year in the pre-
vious century.—Dickens's" Household Words."
COLONIES.—It appears frofroma return to the House
of Commons, which has been printed in continuation of part
of a Parliamentary paper, No. 239, of the session of 1849,
that the number of her Majesty's troops employed in the
colonies in the year 1847-48, was 1,655 officers and 39,591
non-commissioned officers and men ; in 1848-49 there were
1,712 officers and 39,400 non-commissioned officers and men;
and in 1849-50, 1,675 officers and 38,752 men. The annual
charge to Great Britain for pay and commissariat expenses
was, in 1847-48, 1,404,8541. ;
1849.50,1,329,6561, in 1848-49, 1,390,769/. ; in