The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-10 00:00:00

ROYAL ARTILLERY:

WOOLWICII, MAY B.—The officers of the Royal Re-
ciment of Artillery gave a grand ball cn Thursday night
last, which was attended by about 500 of the nobility
and gentry of the neighbourhood, and the dancing was
kept up with great spirit to the music of the excellent
band of the Royal Artillery until a late hour on the fol-
lowing morning.
The whole of the Royal Artillery in the garrison as-
sembled on Wednesday last, and went through their
evolutions in light marching order, and all the troops in
the garrison will assemble shortly after nine o'clock on
Thursday next, the 13th inst., ineludivg the Woolwich
division of Chelsea Pensioners, that day having
mb ,
decided upon for the celebration of her jesteen
ya
birthday.
The sanction of her Majesty's G6verninent has been
obtained for an augmentation of te Bows
dl Aatrritbiluleteryd
ao
sf
1,000 men and 135 horses, which are
follows: 35gunnors, 11 drivers,
To he Royal horse Artillery,
t
and 35 horses.
To the battalions, 954 gunners and drivers.
To the batteries, 100 horses.
TUE wooLwica DIVISION (,F CHELSEA I'ENSIONER3.
The following divisional orders have been issued c—.
• " Woolwich, May
The Woolwich division of enrolled pensioners will
assemble on Thursday, the 13th inst., at a quarter before
nin
•c o'clock A.f for the celebration of her Majesty's
,
birthday.
" Nos. 'I and 2 companies will receive their clothing,
&c., on Monday, the 10th instant, the unemployed
men from 10 to 1.
o'clock, the employed from 5 to 7
o'clock.
m
Nos. 3 and 4 companies, buglers, drummers
fifers, will receive their clothing, ece on Tu Xs' and
ay, the
11th instant, the unemployed from 1.0 to 1 o'clock, fled
the employed from 5 to 7 o'clock.
When the men assemble to receive their clothing
they will bring with them the necessaries ordered by'
the Secretary at War.
.4 The one-half of the enrolment money will be paid
on the, Queen's birthday, and the other half at the ter-
mination of the spring drill.
" No. 1 company will assemble for drill on Tuesday,
the 18th, and Wednesday, the I9th.
" No. 2 company on Thursday, the 20th, and Friday,
the 21st.
" No. 3 company on Saturday, the 22d, and Monday,
the 24th.
" No. 4 company on:Tuesday, the 25th, and Wednes-
day, the 26th.
" The whole force will assemble for battalion drill on
Thursday, the 27th, Friday, the 28th, Saturday, the
29th, Monday, the 31st of
Wednesday, the 2d of Alay, Tuesday, the Ist, and
line) and will assemble at 8
o'clock."

TERRIFIC CONFLAGRATION THIS MORNING:-:—One
of the most extensive fires that has occurred in the borough
of Southwark fora considerable period broke out about one
o'clock in the large seed factory belonging to Messrs. Hay-
man and Co., situate in what is termed the Grove, a tract of
ground of vast dimensions, and literally covered -with fac-
tories. The building in which the disaster commenced was
separated from another of equal size, belonging to Messrs.
Yates, by a very narrow pathway, whilst the extensive
ironfoundry of Messrs. Austin flanked one end of the first.
named property. Nearly a dozen
powerftf engines arrived
almost simultaneously; but the fire, comparatively 'unre-
strained at- any point, continued to spread. Hoverer,
half-past two all danger of any extension of
emischief
was
over, extin-
guished for some hours. So great was the crowd
over, but there seemed no chance of•getiing
wthat about
100 constables and Inspector Townsend were required to keep
them out of danger.
PROFITABLE EMPLOYMENT. ~ _ gold
from the Alla} rat=
--The son of a Liver-
pool gentleman, writing. home
he succeeded in getting
diggings, states that in so' weeksate of 31. per ounce. would
1501 b. of gold, which, at the r
,00/. a•week,—Liverpool
be worth 7,2001. sterling, .or .. ".
4 AfercurY,

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(corriNuEn ON BroN
,At.Nh'De
TweEnDanNtESitnigAhv
1
WEDNESDAYS.)
Sir,—On ednesday t: DicA 5T
lend) Bill was thrown out on the second reading by 167
W t )(Ire-
to 37; than which no other kind of conclusion can be
expected, till the principle is more clearly defined and
more cautiously lissitsd then at present
On Thersdey the debate cn the Militia Bill was re
sumed in Corninifto. The determination of the Govern-
ment to retain the coinpufsury clauses (which impose the
ballot in case of the required number failing to be
raised by voluntary enlistment) hangs only by a single
thread; which might have been fractured on Thursday
night, by a lit:le concentration upon the point. The
Government has consented to make these clauses inope-
rative until the commencement of the new year. What
then would it have to lose, by leaving them to be en-
acted, if foued necessary, by the new Parliament?
Surely a railiainent with t`.e facts of the necessity before
it, tees: be better able to judge than a Parliament acting
in the svay it prep'necej; and if the thing is then found
necessary, mesh better able to pass the measure.
Whet the Government wend have to gain, is plain
enough. It would gain the riddance of an unpopular
proceeding for the present., and quash half the resistance
of the public to its Bill.: For the fact, whether
rightly cr wrongly, is, that the public cares very little
about the men who enlist for money, or what is mime
quently to be done to them, compared with its anxiety
upon the possible results of taking its friends and re-
leaves by force from their civil occupations, and sub-
jecting them to punishment in the awkward squads of a
local militia: regiment. A time for pressing this point
will be, when the subject is raised of the liability of
Local Militiamen to corporal punishment under the
Mutiny Act. The Secretary for the Home Department
intimated when the point was touched upon, that such
punishment was a matter hardly coming within the
compass of probability. The best way of parrying
which, would he to call to life the pamphlets, not without
decorations by the wood-engraver's art, wherein was set
forth the tragedy (oculis suhjecta fidelibus as the ancients
have it) of tee Local Militiamen who were punished
by the lash under the superintendence of the German
Legion, and for commenting too sharply upon which,
William Cobbett for a considerable space was doomed
to walk the night, and day too, in purgatory of durance
vile. A popular dwelling upon this subject, would as-
suredly drive out the compulsory clauses.
On the same night the Property Tax Bill was read a
second time and committed. There is a manifest move-
ment in Parliamentary opinion, hostile to indirect taxa-
tion; which if the people, meaning thereby the nume-
rous and Working
Classes, had the genius to take up, it
might lead them to "something to their advantage."
One important circumstance in the debate resulting,
was that the Chancellor of the Exchequer took the
second occasion, to
L
protest against anything he had said
upon the Budget being
interpreted
h s ein,e, ivoehnai
event cif
frthough
engagementtheh
coming
elections putting
it
within
not to restore the Corn
reach. Fo , he
La
avoided using the term "Corn
genuine construction of what 'bets al s'dwasltlise party
sense
and
press him inopportunely,—that is to say, for them-
selves, but not for others. If he could have been let
alone, he would have gone to the electioes with such in-
ferences as men might have chosen to draw from his
speech upon the Budget. If any in their weakness bad
inferred, that all contest was at an end, and there
was no reason why one man should not be elected
as well as another if he made as fair a
show, it would have been a severe judge who would
have found iu this much for which he could be blamed.
But his party have driven him from this ground. They
have demanded that he should come forward, not once
but repeatedly, and say distinctly, " Ladies and gentle-
men, we are bound to give notice, that we mean to restore
the Corn Laws, or else pay ourselves in some other way,
so soon as you at the elections shall have given us the
power. We beg you to make no mistake ou this. We
present ourselves at the elections, under promise to re-
store the Corn Laws if you will only let us." It is to be
hoped this fairness on one side, will be met by equal in-
telligence en the other.
At this moment, there is hardly a constituency where
somebody is not canvassing under something very much
like an error on this subject. It is of high importance,
that this should be corrected; and the reiterated decla-
ration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is perhaps
the best remedy that can be put in by way of cure.
On Friday, on the motion for goiug into Committee
on the Bill, a desultory debate ensued on all
imeginablo subjects. One of the most important results,
was that the Protectionists took a third occasion
for declaring their immovable determination to restore
the Corn Laws, or impose such substitute as their power
should admit, when they had tried the fortune of the
Elections. Of course they did not use the term " Cern
Laws;" but they said the thing in so unmistakeable a
way, that any man ought to be driven to market between
two hampers of greecs, who acts under the slightest mis-
apprehension of what it is they intend. They declare
with all the energy of virtue, that their honour, their
word, their respectability, are engaged to the full re-
storation of all they defended when in opposition, and
that nothing can excuse their leaving:a hoof of it behind,
except the failure of power. Their " Mystery-man"
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is in the situa-
tion of a squadron-officer who is ridden over by his
men behind him. He would have conducted the affair
more quietly; but his followers insist on marching to
surprise your post with trumpets sounding. And yet for
all this, you will see there are men who will be deceived,
or will pretend to be.
in Committee the hon. member for Manchester
raised e most effective debate upon the punishments to
be inflicted on Militiamen. If there is among your as-
socia tea a dread and disinclination to the ballot, I re-
pest the intimation that it may be thrown out if they
will take the trouble of directing public attention to the
Cobbett case. Do you see clearly what the question
hangs by? The Government says, "W o have agreed
the ballot shall not come into operation before next year,
and that is all the ssme as if we left it to be enacted by
Parliament next year." You will reply (for lam sure
you will), that it is not all the same; that there is a wide
difference between enacting a bad thing now at guess,
and leaving it to be enacted, if found inevitable, by a
Parliament which shall have the case before its eyes.
blight you not as well be asked to vote the expenses of
a European war eieht months hence? And is not the
ready answer, that it is quite enough if Parliament
votes them when the eight months are over? The
effect of voting the ballot note, is to secure the power.
There are tenfold chances of a thing being put in execu-
tion, when a vote has paFsed for it. Therefore stick to
the suegestion given, and you will find the ballot will be
left for the next Parliament.
The Bill for Ale to Electors, was refused a reading by
77 to 61. It is worth observing, how snugly this Bill
was
wrapped up in the printed proceedings of the House,
Generalcalied osni,maonßyi,l!
would suppose that either malt or hops were in it. It is
lay
under the this.. of "County Elections Bill.". Nobody
to legalize what barren h ,toyfnaard
should have been thrown out v,it
a good sign, that,on.thetevivei
strong expressions of
aversion by the House.
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD ItEVORMER.
BlaCkheath, May 10,1852.

1-Acielr STATION. Ott
oaflDlderh•ae
~
t 9 solicit the Lid of
The "Very Real, pier
ciali ar:ss:riTc
(7:7
ia)rotwAr..,Ni
nr:s t r € e t ,
Friday a deputation welted on the Earl
breakwaterh i 3 cifia-t
Go-
vernment for the construction et
the port of Galway.
object°, the plan, the estimate, ..
Ur. Daly explained the
proposed undertaking, and then and the advantages of the
sections ot the pier -and t real; exhibited several plans and
supported by. Mr. Edainn • " s
A titer. He was followed and
M.P. The Earl of Der! ti
.la Flaherty and Mr. Revn
av 1 Ws,
vantageous the ' , n reply, said that., however
a proposed wee ,
at :id-
view f , ie must, on the part of it might be in a kcal point of
as an imperial question, and Government, consider it solely
be considered, aster all, itsview it in regard to what must
meut of a Transatlantic ultimate objects—the establish-
Now th 3 commiesione packet station in the west of Ireland.
two ports et tl'er6 to
inquire into this question had se-
lectedmerit—ualway,
and.
_western coast cf Ireland, as of equal
could not, l'°Ynes on the Shannon. The Govern-
ment
of these therefore, consent to any grant for the im-
provement
which of them pO9. ports, until they had first ascertained
station, with due • possessed the greatest advantages for a packet
consideration, of course, to the expenditure
that would be required to render those advantages available.
With the vi •ew of ascertaining this, the Government had de-
termined to scud three naval ollicers, upon whose knowledge
and impartiality they could place full reliance, to report
Upon the relative advantages of the two ports—Galway and
"Dies. When he had that report before him he would be
prepared to give an answer to the prayer of the petition pre-
sented by the deputation. But the deputation would, he
trusted, hilly understand that he did not, at ',resent, pledge
the Government to anything beyond the appointment of the
Commission of Inquiry he had mentioned, Mr. O'Flaherty,
on the part of the deputation, expressed their readiness to
abide the result of any inquiry into the merits of the Bay of
Galway, and gratefully acknowledged the kindness with
which they bad been received.—Telegrapk.
Advices have been received from Australia to the
24th of January, being a fortnight later than those by the
India mail. They contain no consecutive intelligence, but it
appears that news had just arrived of the discovery of gold
in New Zealand, in the island of Waiheki, about 15 miles
east of Auckland. The Deputy-Governer was stated to have
sailed for the spot for the purpose of collecting information
and specimens, and further details were expected in the
course of a few days. From the New South Wales mines the
reports seem to be very favourable, and abundant
ipstances of individual success continue to be cited,
while according to the last accounts received at Sydney,
the yield at I'ort Philip (Victoria), notwithstanding the
wart of meter, was almost equal to any former experi-
ence. The price of gold has slightly recovered, the quota-
tion, being 635. to 635. 9d. per ounce. The Oriental had
sailed for London on the 20th of January, with 19,150
ounces, and the Catherine Jamieson, on the 22d, with 4,291
ounces. The total export from Sydney bad now reached
702,895!. Mr. Hargraves had left on a new journey of disco-
very to the northward, and would probablyexplore the whole
country as far as Moreton Bay. The import market had
shown more steadiness, stocks' f several descriptions of con-
stumble goods being ligt. the wool trade there had
been no great activity, and prices would be regulated ahnolt
entirely by the statements from England. The present ac-
counts are yid 'Valparaiso, at which port there had been an
arrival from Sydney, with dates as late as Feb. 1.
THE MURDER OF 14014 D Noaßulty.—A soldier of
the 67th depot, quartered at Dover Heights Barracks,
while
confined at the guard-house on Monday eight last, contested
to the sergeant of the guard being the murderer of the late
Lord Norburv, in Ireland, same 10 years since,
in his pare. The man stated that he abet th at noon day,
no in
blean, and gave a detailed account of the murder (which
' e unfortunate
' the sergeant very properly committed
u
pre-
sence of two men of the gnard); and to writing in the
locality in which ;he murder way as
he
comes
from
the
bability of the truth of his dperpetrated, there is a pro-
entered the army after a missions. He adds that he
were committing the deed. immediately Communic-
ations
forwarded by Major Deverill, the
commanding officer of t
the civil authorities, the 67th, to the Horse Guards and
in the , and the man is now in very close con-
finementard-house, at the Western Heights, await-
ing the results of inquiries which have been set on foot. Our
Superintendent et Police, Mr. Ceram, has forwarded a copy
of the depositions of
. the sergeant and men, as well as a full
descri lion
, Jo .of the prisoner, to the (Ala Corami:slattat or..
t lice, Utdilin,.-Pover Citroitick.

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