The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-29 00:00:00

THE LATE GENERAL SIR WILLIAM MOORE.-

Lieut.-General Sir William Moore, who died at Peters-
ham on the 23d inst., was the son of Mr. Francis Moore, a
younger brother of General Sir John Moore, who fell at
Corunna. He was born in November, 1795, and was con-

seqnently 66 at the time of his death. Sir William
entered the army at the early age of fifteen, having been
appointed in 1811 to the 52d Regiment, of which his
uncle, Sir John Moors, had formerly been colonel,
and under whom it was formed into light infantry, being
the first introduction of that force in the English army.
Embarking at once for the Peninsula, Sir W. Moore was
present at the sieges of Ciud.d Rodrigo, Badajos and St.
Sebastian, and at the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria,
Nivelle, and Nive. He served as aide-de-camp to Sir John
Hope at the siege of Bayonne, and was severely wounded
and taken prisoner while attempting to assist his General
when dismounted and wounded at the sortie from that
place on April 14, 1814. He also served in the campaign,
and was present at the battle of Waterloo, being attached to
the staff of the Quartermaster-General. Sir William Moore
obtained the rank of lieutenant-Gensral on June 5, 1855.
He was appointed colonel-commandant of the 2d Battalion
of the 60th Regiment on the 26th of January, 1856, and on
the 4th of February of the same year he was nominated a
K.C.B. Sir William had had received the Waterloo and
Peninsula war medals with seven clasps.
ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL—The Court of the
Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital met yesterday after-

noon, Sir John Musgrove, the President, in the chair, when

the report of the deputation of four of the Governors, re.
cently appointed to examine the hospitals of France, Bel-
gium, and Holland, was received with great satisfaction.
A motion was then made to leave the whole question of
choice and purchase of site to the grand committee, subject
to the provisions of the act of Parliament, upon which an
amendment was moved, very much, it was understood,
with the view of continuing the hospital at the Surrey
Gardens. In the debate that followed the treasurer (Mr.
R. Baggallay) and the leading members of the grand com-
mittee stated that no site had been chosen or even dis-
cussed, and that 30 to 50 acres ought to be obtained as near
as possible to London. Finally, the motion was carried
by a considerable majority; as also another, directing the
architect of the hospital to prepare plans to be submitted to
a future court and to the medical men ; and, after votes of
thanks to the deputation and President, the meeting ad-
journed.
A LANDSLIP AMONG THE WELSH MOUNTAINS.—
The Merthyr correspondent of the Leeds Mercury relates
an extraordinary incident which happened during the late
gales in an isolated and mountainous district between
Merthyr Tydvil and Tredegar. Police-constable Lewis, of
Tir Dhil, a dingle in the Rhymney Mountains, on the slope
of a precipitous occupies one of a iow of houses quite
isolated from Merthyr district. About 7.30 on Wednesday
evening last he was cleaning out the gutter in front of his
house, when he was alarmed by a terrific rumbling noise
that seemed approaching, paralysing his movements. He at
length mustered courage to venture out and see what was
the cause, when he found a torrent of water rushing down
the mountain opposite his back door. He ran to warn his
wife and children of the danger, but had only gone a few
yards when he was struck down by the flood of water, clay,
aril stones. Ho got up, but die not know for a moment
where he was, and ran round to the front of the house ; the
back he could not reach on account of the mound of clay and
stones that was against it. Mrs. Lewis, in the meantime,
was in the housa, but knew nothing of the occurrence until
the back door was forced in, and before she could reach the
front door to escape the house was half full of stones, com-
pletely blocking up the front door and rendering esca,e
impossible. She than made her way to the door of the
stairs and tried to open it, but that also was blocked up.
At this tfme the water had risen up to her shoulders. She
held one child on her shoulder, and the other was climbing
up her side when Lewis broke in the front window with an
axe, and rescued first the children and afterwards the wife,
but it was with the greatest difficulty Mrs. Lewis was
saved, as the clay and stones had accumulated around her.
The damage done was very great; the wall between the
kitchen and front room was knocked down, the pantry was
filled to the ceiling, and everything in it destroyed. The
front room was also filled up, and all the furniture down-
stairs broken up or rendered worthless. The next house
escaped with only three feet of mud and rubbish on the
ground floor, and the remaining houses of the row were
I simply wetted as if a torrent of water had passed through.
lAdvices from rangier describe a retrograde act on
the part of the Moorish Government, which,
although probably not intended, is virtually a
breach of faith. The Sultan, by whom only a few
months back a loan was obtained in London on the
security of the trading revenue of his country, has,
it appears, just issued a mandate by which that
trade must be seriously.crippled. He has prohibited
the exportation of wool and grain from the southern
ports, and, as it was these articles that constituted
the chief exchangeable staples of the people, a blow
has thus been struck which cannot fail to check the
prosperous foreign traffic which under the existing
commercial treaties with some of the Christian
Powers of Europe was rapioly growing up in his
dominions; while, as the duties on exports are a
leading part of the hypothecation to the English
bondholders, the proceeding, as far as they are con-
cerned, is one of absolute illegality. Doubtless the
security they possess will still be found practically
ample; but, whatever may have been its original
amount, the Sultan cannot honestly enforce any
measure tending to reduce or weaken it. A report
was circulated a little while back that it was con-
templated to raise a further loan in London so as to
Pay off at once the amount remaining due to Spain,
but if any such idea was entertained, nothing could
more effectually preclude its realisation than the
announcement now made. It seems that the Foreign
Ministers and Consuls are likely to makelirecparuess
ee
a
tions on the subject which it is ho.pedt:
g the Gsbral•
return to better policy, as,
tar Chronicle, there is reason according
believe that the
real cause of the Sultan's decree. is not an indiffer-
ence. to foreign trade, and certainly not a wish to
evade any of his obligations."

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