The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-22 00:00:00

THE CAPTURE OF RANGOON.

Extract from the letter of an officer, dated Rangoon,
April 18:—" I must write a few lines to you b. y the
Admiral, who is just off to Calcutta with the intelli-
gence of the fall of Rangoon. We took it on the 14th
after three days fighting. The first day, Easter
Sunday, we engaged the stockades on the banks
of the river. The Sesostris, Moozaffar, and Ferooz
had the brunt of the action. The fire from the Sesos-
ttis, Captain C. D. Campbell, biew up one and
burnt two other stockades, and before night the
whole were silenced. We engaged them at from
300 to 500 yards, and our eight-inch shot and shells
were too much for their redoubtable stockades to
stand. We killed about 300, and took or silenced
forty guns—some. good. de The next thing was to take
24 and 18 pounders, worked
the new town, which is a mile and a half from the river,
butby Englishmen,ourgunsraictrhlesds9'iltasily, and we shelled away for
-pounder nd n 1
red hot shot—the first, I think,
ON, that gallant fellow Campbell
efitwvreionrgdfiay6reBs and
. afloat on board ship. The effect was
tremendous. The whole place was sot on fire, and
two-thirds of it burnt down. The troops (the
18th, 51st, and 80th Queen's,
Europeans, and two Ma-
dras and one
It, Bengal native regiments) stormed the
place and took it at once.
, was very strong, being 20
feet high, and covered in front by spikes. There were
100 guns on the walls, 40 of which are heavy, the rest
brass, 6 to
place, 3 p
alloible..ng generally well mounted, besid( s
jingals innumerable. Thor© was but little found in
the been removed beforehand.
The loss has been heavy of officers, as much
ind::::
from sun and cholera as from the enemy's shot. The
Indian navy seems to stand high in the good opinion
of ell,complimented in most gratifying
terms
It was a fine sight at night—
the stockades all burning, the roar of the 8 inch
guns, the flight of shell and rockets, and the
flames and bursting of the shells in the distant fort
by the the hasAdbmlnal.
formed a great tableau worthy of a master hand to
describe. That noble fellow Campbell, of the Se-
sostris, worked. like a horse all the time of the bom-
bardment, till he fell down from sheer exhaustion, and
actually slept for en hour and a half within a couple of
gun during the firing, and woke
up yards of the 8-Inch
asking if they had stopped firing ! The charge of
the gun was I.olb, of powder, and he bad slept undis-
turbed by its repeated discharges I The vessels
were struck repeatedly., but no one was killed except
two
Sesostris, poor
ba fellowspotahurotlllieir heads being taken off by one
board arda transport towed up by
the
officer was mortally wounded,
also, on board the Sesostris, and died shortly after the
action. You will also probably see by the official ac-
n
counts what a pa
-ant part Campbell took in the capture
of some of the stockades ashore, with his bluejackets.
cannon
iti.Ayou
For all this he was selected to carry the dispatches to
Calcutta, until the Admiral altered his mind, and decided
on taking hein bhimself.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
The following h the official statement of the quantiti
corn, &c.,received in the port of London from the poi
Essex, from the 14th Jane, 1852, to the 19th June,
both inclusive :-..

ies cf

ar•
•
0, 4.1
r,
1:4
io
150

o fs4
, _

CLeoilgchhe.
......... .... ...
...........
Harwich .........
Maid= ..................
............

633 i

to 31s;
tick,
CH/ILE/Erean hi /fit IS.—Prices to-day were as follow:
Wheat, white, 42s to 48s ; red, 37s to 42s ; barley, 27s to 30s;
chevalier chevalier 28s to 333; grinding 22s to 28s ; malt 55s to 565;
06 oats 19s to 25s ; peas, partridge, 29s
to 32s ; white, 29, to 31s ;
~,8 ;
o
boiling, 30s to 33s ; dun, 29s
3ilsie; r
beans,
28s to 31s ; harrow ticks, 28s to S2s;
mazagan, 26s to 30s.
COLCHESTER, JUNE 19. Wheat, white 46s to 48s ; red 396
to 42s ; oats, 21s to 235; beans, mazagan `295 to 30s; middle
32s ; barley, 28s to 30s per qr.
345; peas, white 36s to 38s, grey, new 30s to
for grain :—..
Oatmeal,
1.31:2:,t0J01TE 19.—The following are the quotations
Barley. -
First ......... 443 Od 31s Od
andKaimitlvlcalAlheat
s econd ..... . 42s Od 308 Od
Third ...... 388 Od 28s Od i
per bag of 2801bs
HADDifiarox, JIINE 18.—T'
grain at our market to-day:—
Wheat.

Oath.
223 6d
' 213 9d
13.3 9d
imperial,
Le followii

Beans.
—s Od
—s Od
—s Od
30s Od to I
2g are the

First ............. : .......... 41s Od
Second ............ 415 4d
Third •••. ..... ...... 375 Od
Do. Barley
Do, Oats
Do. Beans
quantity of Wheat
Total

Barley.
31s 6d
29s 9d
27s Od
market
do.
do.
do.

Oats.

' Peas.
--s Od
—s od
—s Od
1 Os 01.
prices of

23s 6d
22s 5d
21s Od

Beals.

35s Od
328 8d
32s Od

COAL MAIME'.
Prices of Coal per ton at t
Bate's West Hartley.. 13s 6d
Hartlepool'`, Hartley 13s Gd
Hasting's Hartley 14s Od
North Percy Hartley.. 13s 6a
ranfield Moor Bates... 13s Od
Wylam ............ 13s 9d
Wall's End &o.
........... 14s Od
Heaton ............... 14s Od
Eden Main ..... . ...... 15s Od
Belmont ................« 14s 30
Ships at market,

410 qrs.; 391 sold
110 qrs., 110 sold
207 qrs., 207 sold
62 qrs., 62 sold

T. -YESTiRDAY.

,he close of the market :-
4 etton
Keepier l4s 9d
Russell's Hetton
Stewart's .. 16s Od
South Kelloe l4i 9
"Thornley
Woodhouse Close. l3s 6d
Derwentwaterllartley 14s 0
Nixon's Merthyr and
Cardiff

102 Sold, 45.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 21.
POOR-LAW BOARD CONTINUANCE BILL.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Sir EMERSON TENNENT did not intend to follow
the Noble Lord through his very diceursive speech, but
it was necessary that he should remind the House that
the Noble Lord had totally misconceived the reason
which had induced the Government to prepare this Bill.
The object of the proviso un-ler discussion was identi-
cally the same as that of the clause which the Noble,
Lord the Member for Marylebone proposed when the
Bill was in Committee, and which the Committee re-
jected. The power which the clause proposed to abolish
had been exorcised by the Poor-law Board for a period
of upwards of 18 years, and if the clause was carried it
would affect 380 Parishes. New such an important
change in the law ought not to be made at this period
of the session, and he therefore called upon the House to
reject it.
Mr. HUME was sorry so much time had been taken
up with the discussion. Tho question which the House
had to decide was simply whether the poor-law should
could not be attained, in
hadad to oalwsoortkhewpeolwl
his opinion, without the same
parties who had the Power of appointing the parish
obffie
caellrosw the metropolis? That end
this provision recognism
that principle he should cer-
tainly give it his hearty eu
power of dismissing them, and as
pport.
Sir G. PECHELL was fully sensible of the necessity
of shortening their proceedings, but really, if Govern-
ment was also anxious to bring the session to an end,
they would take care that no two of its members were
allowed to make long speeches upon a topic of this cha-
racter. Now the Pre3ident of the Poor-law Board had
told the House that it was only the metropolis that re-
quired this change
in the law, but he, for one, knew
better; and if it had not been that the country was satis-
fied with the determination of its representatives to
restrict the power of the Poor-law Board as much as
possible, there would have been an unlimited number of
Ponpetitions
to the presen
continted in favour of the proviso. His objec-
uance of the Poor. law Board for two
years was, that the income-tax itself was only to last
for one year, and this was of as much importance.
Mr. BELL considered that it was very unnecessary
to protract tho present discussion. He shculd vote for
the clause proposed I,
'Y his Hon. Friend.
Lord EBRINGToN
said that from the return of the
Registrar-General the
number of deaths in tho London I
workhouses was 19 to 23 er cent. The Government
should hesitate Wore entrp tine. with further powers
bodies which had so enti 1
usf
"le'd n their duties.
Mr. W. WILLIAA, 're
stated that the greater part of
the
caused death
the dew by s mentioned
Y b the Noble Lord had been
.
t ere in when
itution the patien s w
taken to the work n efil •
II
-uses. H as satisfied of the
cieecy of the bodies complainedewof by the Noble Lord.
Sir BENJAMIN ui‘i_
I, considered that this Bill
should not have been brought forward at this late period
of the session.
After a short conversation, the House divided, when
there appeared—
For the clause
Against it

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Mr. LOCKEis
loom weavers then read a third time.
- 211 i y.; •• •••
The Bill wa ".-tY ... ...
On clause ;51111,:r presented a petition from the hand,
" for o raislev, complaining of distress, and
praying relief. -
of Works Tiv
METH
The House °POLITAN BURIALS BILL.
that board
Sonthwood' went into Committee on this Bill.
Lord SE ymnrt,
tinning the --"`"un pointed out the inutility of con-
Board of Health. The first Commissioner
to be ineltulei
it. The board' but
asjeaponsible to the House for the doings of
he had no control whatever over
The clause,consisted of Mr. Chadwick and Dr.
anything be „„
Smith and when he went down to propose
der ( was always told that there was no se-
Mr.con .--. A ,
T. Sdmaugh.)
appointed t
Mr. Chadwick
-0 his office in August, 1850, and he had re-
ceivedlttl2,ooo/. for going to Paris and writing a few
were
nCOMBE said Dr. Southwood Smith was
swbi.ectrhhs'r, Now this Bill was to abolish the Act under
Dr. Southwood Smith acted, and the sooner Dr.
Lord
Smith followed the r ---(
wood Smith and
sir B. ja Act the bette .
and they ought
Laughter.)
, with a proviso, Bill.
ik "
etrsaid
p ebrofetcht
NuisanceD
AbolitionrSnuisances,llth
On Clause 2,
Lord JOEIN
of the i
Mr. FITZROYmoved proviso that the proprietors
of existing a
lowed the burial-grounds should have one year al-
was then agreed to.
thorn for providing a new ground - after the issue
e-°Sing order.
showed the
EBRINGTON said this amendment only
necessity for delaying the whole question
until the next Parliament,
proviso.
time, but it could
Lord ERPT
---*.NGTON asked if they were to understand
that no order could be made for closing a burial-ground
MANNERS had no objection to the
for one year, however horrible the scenes might be that
were committed on the ground?
Mr. FITZROY said the order might be made at any
not be enforced until the epiration of
the year after it had been issued.
Mr. T. DITNCUMBE said the Bill was not worth
having if a year was to expire before the order could be I
enforced. I
The CHAIRMAN was then directed to report pro-1
grew, and, the House having resumed, he did so accord-
ingly, and obtained leave to sit again to-morrow at
twelve O'CIOCk.