The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MAY 12.—The accounts received from the
west of Ireland this mottling are, if possible, of a m; re
;!istre,sing character than the preceding advices. One
later gives an account of nine dead bodies being found
on the roads and behind the ditches in the neighbour-
hood of 1i:01)1110re, county Mayo; and another gives a
description of au entice family, consisting of two bro-
thers, a sister, and brother-in-law and infant child,
bong found dead in the same house. This statement
will appear almost incredible in England, but there is no
reason ;o question its accuracy. It has been confirmed
en the uutholity of trustworthy eye-witnesses.
THE STATE PRISONERS.

The afiirmatio❑ by the Lords of the judgment of the
Court below in the case of O'Brien and others reached

Dublin this morning by express. The friends and sym-
pathisers of the prisoners affect to be greatly disap-
pointed at the result; but we believe no one outside the
confederation expected anything else. It is reported
that a Government steamer is at Kingston, waiting to
convey the prisoners to Spike Island.
DEATH CF DR. PEMBERTON, OF BALLINROBE.—We
regret to have to annouuce the death of Dr. Pemberton,
of Ballinrobe, which took place en Wednesday evening
last, from cholera, contracted in the discharge of his pro-
fessional duties. The loss of this gentleman, who had
attained a high position is his profession, and was much
esteemed by rich and poor, will be severely felt is the
county Mayo.
The Freeman of this morning states that we have seen
a private letter received yesterday morning from Bal-
liurobe, in which the death of Mr. Fishbourne, the
vice-guardian, by typhus fever, after a week's illness, is
announced. Consternation is said to reign throughout
the entire town. Mr. Ralph, the only apothecary there,
was represented as being very ill. No new cases of
cholera had, however, occurred within the previous three
days, but that fatal one that carried oil' 1)r. Pemberton.
We should mention that Mr. Fishbourne's wife had died
of cholera shortly before the death of her husband.
The want of a-lccal board of health has, we under-
stand, been severely felt. All who can are leaving the
town iu consequence of this want. This adds to the
prevalent consternation and favours the work of disease
and death.
SIGNAL FIRES IN TIPPERARY.—A glare, as of an
immense pile of burning timber, was observed in a
north-westerly direction from Nenagh, on Thursday
night. It burned steadily for several hours, and was ap-
parently erected on the summit of the hill of Kaigh, on
the eastern bank of the Shannon. At ten o'clock a lesser
fire appeared in the direction of Portroe, and several
Others were observed by the people near the Shannon,
on the hills of the county Galway.
THE EARL OF BLESSINGTON'S ESTATES.—There was
an order made at the Rolls on Thursday last, in the
cause of Gardiner v. Blessington, for payment of the
several creditors of the late Earl of Blessing-
ton having cliarges on these estates. The sums
distributed by this order amount to 166,777/.
ss. 103., and which are directed to be paid out of the
Three per Cent. Consols, now in bank to the credit of
the case, and after making these various payments there
will remain in hank upwards of 58,000/., besides the un-
sold portions of the estates, producing an annual rental
of about 13,0001. It would appear that some of the
parties are nut yet tired of litigation, though the cause
has been in court since 1831, as applications were made
on the motion in more than one instance to impound
the sums reported to certain incumbrances until the
rights of adverse claimants were settled. We understand
'hat it is the intention of the parties having the carriage
of the preccedings to bring further portions of the es-
tates to sale in a few mouths, as there are still unpaid
large sums due to creditors of Lady Harriet D'Orsay and
Mr. Gardiner.
CORN EXCHANGE.—We had rather a livelier market
for all descriptions of grain to day, and prices of Tuesday
were fully in.lintained. White wheat, 235. to 265. 63.;
red, Vs. to 61; barley, 13s. to 17s. 6d.; oats, 11s. 6d.
to 13s. 6:1. per barrel; oatmeal, 12s. to 145.; bakers'
flour, 14s. to 17e. per cwt.; Indian corn, 325. to 375. per
480 lbs.

DUBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING.—Up to the present
hour nothing is known of the ultimate intentions of
Government with regard to the disposal of the State
prisoners upon whom the judgment of the Irish Court
bus been cenflrmed by the House of Lords. They are
now, it is said, rather cast down by the adverse result of
the final appeal.
It was was currently reported last night that Mr.
John Martin, of Loughurne, had died in the course of
yesterday ; ro far from this being the fact, he is much
better to-day than ha had been for some time past. The
opposition to the "rate in aid" has recommenced with
new vigour in the north.
The guardians of the eleven unions in Ulster met in
Belfast on Friday to protest against the imposition of
this measure, and, by petitioning the House of Lords to
reject it, give confidence to the largo body of Peers who
opposed the measure, and show that Ulaer was now, as
from the beginning, most hostile to it.
Several gentlemen ape against the project, and in-
stanced the extent to which the feeling uf opposition
in their several localities had arisen as such that
they were very apprehensive of serious disturbances
in the event of the Bill passing, and the rate being
levied.

It was next resolved that means be taken to convene a
further matting of the chairmen, vice-chairmen, and
deputy vice-chairmen, and of such guardians of the
Ulster Unions as could make it convenient to attend on
Wednesday, the 25th inst., to consider what further steps
should be taken by them with relcrence to the "hate in
Aid" measure.

REWARD OF 20,000 POUNDS FOR
ASSISTANCE TO SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S

EXPEDITION.

The following are extracts of letters received from
the Consuls at New York and Boston-- respecting the
promulgation of the notice of the Parliamentary
grant of 20,0001. to any ship or ships of any nation
who may render assistance to Sir John Franklin's
expedition, by which it will be seen that the most
active measures have been taken to give the desired
publicity to the important document :

New York, April 10, 1849.
I have given the utmost publicity within my Consular
district to the offer of a reward of 20,0004 to such pri-
vate ship or ships, of any country, as may, in the judg-
ment of the Admiralty, have rendered efficient assistance
to Sir John Franklin, his ships, or their crews, to extri-
cate them from the ice. The course which I have
adopted has been to exhibit copies of the minute in
some of the prominent places of mercantile resort, and
to have it inserted in the two newspapers of largest
circulation.

Boston, April 17, 1849.
I have taken immediate steps to make the offer of the
Government for the reward of 20,000/. known through-
out the district of this consulate, one of the ports in
which, New Bedford, is by far the most considerable
port engaged iu the whaling business in the United
States.

The rifer of the reward was, without delay, made
public in the leading journals in this city, and I at once
addressed a circular to my 'ice•consul at New Bedford,
and some of the principal firms,engaged in the whaling
bthiness in this state, explaining the offer of the Go-
vernment, with copies of the minute; and in order that
the matter might be fully known in all the ports from
which whale ships aro likely to sail, I did not omit ex-
tending the intelligence to the leading ports in the
neighbouring states of Connecticut and Rhode Island,
where wo have no regularly appointed consular agents,
but from some of which, such us Stonington and New
London, a very enterpiising class of merchants are
largely interested in the whaling business.
Much attention has been paid in this consulate for
some years past to the whaling business, which forms so
impoitant a branch of commerce in this state.
It is only within the last two years that the Polar seas
have begun to be frequented by the American whalers.
But some vessels have lately returned from this new
ground, bringing very satisfactory accounts of their suc-
cess, and such as to immure whalers from this country to
persevere in their operations in thew seas. The liberal
reward offered by the Government will, lum confident,
greatly stimulate the exertions of these whalers in the
exploration of those seas with, it is to be hoped, a chance
of success in affording relief to the Arctic expedition.
Enclosed is an extract from the Beaten Daily Adver-
tiser, containing an account of the late remarkable voy-
age of the barque Superior, of Sag Harbour, in the
State of New York, which, it will be observed, proceeded
through Behring'a Straits, as far north as lat. 70, with-
out encountering any ice or meeting with.any impediment
whatever to their whaling pursuits at that extremely
northern point.

It has been suggested to me by a very intelligent and
enterprising merchant of this city, Mr. W. H. Bordman,
who is himself engaged is the north-west trade, that it
would be highly advisable to transmit intelligence of the
reward offered for the relief of Sir John Franklin to
Petrorawlowski in Kamtschatka, commonly known as
St. Peter and St. Paul's, a port which he tells me is
almost universally resorted to by the whalers who visit
the north-west coast.

Intelligence transmitted overland through St. Peters-
burgh might reach PtArepa% lowski in time to admit of
vessels now on the north west coast joining in the search
for t-ir John Franklin in the course of this summer, and
would thus greatly anticipate the arrival in those seas of
any vessels sailing from ports in this country at this
time round Cape Horn. The Russian government would
be, doubtless, disposed to render all possible aid in this
matter ; and should this suggestion not yet have been
made, I believe it is one well worthy of the attention of
the government. I herewith enclose a copy of Mr.
Bordiusn's letter.
I propose to follow 'up the measures I have already
taken by visiting; personally some of the chief whaling
ports within my consulate, and I shall not fail to use all
my endeavours to carry oat the object in view.

LETTERS FROM A WHALE SHIP.
(From the Boston Daily Advertiser.)
.• Homeward-bound, South Pacific Ocean,
lat. 54, S., long. 82 W.
Different practised whalemen tell me of twelve or
fourteen diff.-rent species of this great sea monster;
right, sperm, black fish, bump-back, razor-back, fin-back,
grump's, sulphur-bottom, killer, cow-fish, porpoise,
narwhale, scrag whale, and elephant whale. In the at-
tj mpt to capture ono of the latter kind, a New London
slnp, not long since, lost eleven men, including the first
mate.
" The places where the right whale is now most sought
by the adventurous American whalemen are, in the
Atlantic Ocean, on what are called Main and False
Banks, between Africa. and Brazil, the parts round the
Falkland Islands and Patgonia, and the region of ocean
in mid Atlantic in the vicinity of the island of Tristan
d'Acunha in the Southern Ocean. South of the Cape of
Good Hope there are the uninhabited Crozettes Islands,
St. Paul's, and other parts of the Indian Ocean. In the
Pacific Ocean there aro the New Zealand cruizing ground,

the New Holland, Chilli, and the north-Kest from the
coast ef America clear over to the Kamchatka.
"This last is now the great harvest-field of American
whalers from May to October, and it will he likely to
last longer than any other, because they are prohibited
by the Russians from bay whaling, which destroys the
cows about the time of calving. Almost all the ships
fill up there. Some have even thrown overboard pro-
visions to make way for oil. The havoc they make of
whales is immense. There are ships that took during
the last season 2,500 to 3,300 barrels in a few months.
I have heard of one ship that sunk 26 whales after they
had been killed; of another one that killed nine before
they saved one; of another that killed six in one day,
and all of them sunk; of another that had three boats
:Wye, and all the men pitched into the sea, without any
one being lost. This forced trial of hydropathy is in-
deed so common an occurrence, that whalemen make
nothing, of it.
" By a recent arrival from the Sandwich Islands we
learn that the Arctic Ocean has been entered at Bch-
ring's Straits by our intrepid whalemen. Captain Royee,
of the barque Superior, from Sag Harbour, is thus re-
ported in tile Friend:—
"‘ I entered the Arctic Ocean about the middle of
July, and cruised from continent to continent,:going as
high as 1at..70, and saw whales wherever I went, cutting
in my last whale ou the 23d of August, and returning
through Behring's Straits on the 28th of the same
month. On account of powerful currents, thick fogs,
the near vicinity of land and ice, combined with the ins-
perfection of charts, and want of infermation respecting
this region, I found it both difficult and dangerous to get
oil, although there were plenty of whales. Hereafter,
doubtless, many ships will go there, and I think some
provision ought to be made to save the lives of those who
go there, should they be cast away. Durieg the entire
period of the cruise no ice was seen, and the weather wss
ordinarily pleasant, so that the men could work in light
clothing.
" • In most parts of the ocean there was good anchor-
age, from 14 to 35 fathoms, and a part of the time the
vessel lay at anchor. The first whale was taken at 12
o'clock at night. It was not difficult to whale the whole
24 hours ; su light was it that at midnight it was easy to
read in the Cabin. The whales were quite tame, but
quite different from any Captain Royce had ever before
taken. He took three different species, one of the
lagest yielding 200 barrels of oil. The first species
resembled the Greenland whale, yielding about 160 or
170 barrels; the second was a species called Polar whale,
a few of which have been taken on the north-west coast;
nod the third was a small whale peculiar to that ocean.
The last three whales which were taken yielded over 600
barrels.'

"If- we inquire for the probable duration of this
north-vest whaling, there seems good reason to believe
from thee extent of ocean it embraces, greater than all
the other cruising grounds together, that it will continue
good at least twenty or twenty-five years from its com-
mencement. An experienced captain thinks that as
there is not, nor is likely to be, any bay whaling on this
cruising ground, the whales will be less constantly
hunted, and nearly all the calves born will arrive at an
age when they can take care of themselves, before the
old whales are encountered in the summer season by
their sworn enemy, man. He estimates that by 300
shire capturing or mortally wounding forty whales each,
12,000 whales are killed in a season. And as many of
these, perhaps full half, are cows iu calf, the number of
whales to be born and arrive at maturity, in order to
make up this sweeping destruction among them, must be
not less than 18,000.

"‘ He thinks, therefore, that the poor whale, chased
from sea to sea, and from haunt to haunt, is doomed to
utter extermination, or so near to it, that too few will
remain to tempt the cupidity of :man. The history of
the sperm v.hale fishery from the first, when only five
and six mouths were necessary to complete a cargo upon
the Brazil ground, and fifteen upon that of Chili, to its
present almost entire abandonment as a separate busi-
ness, confirms this calculation. Before the end of the
present century, therefore, we may expect to See the
hunting of whales on the sea no more pursued as a busi-
ness, than the hunting of doer on the land."'
The following is Mr. Bordman's valuable sugges-
tion :

" Boston, April 17, 1849.
" Dear should thick, in reference to the miss-
ing ships, that it would be advisable for your Govern-
ment to notify (if they have not already done so) to the
governor of St. Peter and St. Paul's Kamtschatka, and
request him to advise the American shaling ships, who
resort to that port, of the liberal reward offered.
" The address of the Governor is—" his Excellency
Governor Machin, St. Peter and St. Paul's. Kamts-
chatka, and there is a regular mail from St. Petersburgh.
" Governor Machin would, I am sure, do all in his
power to aid the cause, and a letter might be trans-
mitted through the Imperial Embassy in London.
" I have au agent at St. Peter and St. Paul's, and were
a letter addressed to him he would be sure to notify the
shipmasters. Ills address would be Captain T. F. B.
Knox, or whoever may be acting as agent for ma at that
port."

KING'S COLLEGE noserran.—The tenth anniver-
sary festival of this valuable institution took place en
Saturday, at the Freemasons' Tavern and was remark-
ably well attended. The Earl of Carlisle presided, and
among the company present were the Bishop of Ripon,
the Dean of Westminster, Major Moore, Sir Waller
Riddell, the Rev. Temple Ftere, Mr. Sergeant Stocks,
the Rev. Dr. Jell, the Rev. R. Jones, Mr. W. Cotton,
Mr. Elbigran, Mr. W. Ferguson, and Mr. C. Ileberden.
About two hundred gentlemen sat down to dinner.
which was provided in the best style. After the usual
loyal toasts, the chairmen proposed " the Archbishop of
Canterbury Land the Church," to which the Bishop
of Ripon responded in appropriate terms. The Right
Reverend Prelate bore testimony to the religious cha-
racter of the training at King's College, and the
value of the institution, the funds of which they bad
met to aid. In proposing "Prosperity to the Hospital,"
the chairman expressed his delight at finding that during
the ten years of its existence the benefits which it had
conferred in the alleviation of sickness and bodily dis-
tiass had been without exception regular and progres-
sive. In the year 1840 the number of out-patients
amounted to 4,056, and of in-patients to 778. Now,
however, he found that during the past year there had
been 19,383 out-patients, and 1,253 in-patients. The
generosity of the public bad not kept pace with the de-
mands upon the skill of the medicalictlicers attached to
the hospital, but the good offices of the latter had been
rendered notwithstanding. The hospital Supplied great
facilities for the attendance not only of medical, but also
theological students, on the sick, and the clergy had con-
stant access to the wards for the purpose of administer-
ing spiritual consolation to all who might be willing to
receive it therein. The Noble Lord concluded a very
eloquent and impressive speech by calling on the com-
pany present to subscribe according to their means to-
wards the support of so excellent an institution. The
secretary, in the course of the evening, announced sub-
scriptions and donations amounting altogether to a
sum very little short of 2,000/. Toasts were dedicated
to " the Council, the Principal, and Professors of the
College," to "Mr. Charles Ileberden and the Committee
of Management," to " Dr. Johnson and the Medical
Officers," and to all who had exerted themselves conspi-
cuously iu aid of the institution. The musical arrange-
ments, which were excellent, were under the direction
of Mr. Ransford, assisted by Miss Ransford, Mr.
Genge, Mr. N. 'l'. Sporle, and Mr. W. E. Ransford. Mr.
Harker was toastmaster. Up to the last moment confi-
dent expectations were entertained that Lord J. Russell
would have honoured the festival with his presence, but
a note was received from his Lordship expressing his
great regret at being unable to attend, and the lively
interest which he took in the prosperity of the hospital.
TILE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.—On Saturday
afternoon the anniversary meeting of the members of
this society wits held in the spacious Museum, New
Burlington•street, and was fully attended. The Earl of
Ellesmere was iu the chair, supported by Gen. Briggs.
the Right lion. Holt Mackenzie, Sir Harry Verney,
Colonel Sykes, Colonel Dickenson, General Delamotto,
Sir C. Malcolm, Sir G. Staunton, Bart., M.P., General
Goodfellow, Major J. Lewis, Professor Lee, Professor
Wilson, Dr. Iforsfield. &c. The secretary read the re-
port of the council. It commenced by mentioning the
losses the society had sustained by death since the last
meeting. The society had been deprived by death or
retirement of a more than ordinary number of mem-
bers. The total had been twenty-five, while the acces-
sions had been thirteen. The council believed that
the improvement in the library and museum would
afford greater iuducement to gentlemen interested in
the society's pursuits to join the ranks of its members.
The Honourable East India Company had munificently
doubled the atm= of its annual donation. Amongst
the donations to the museum during the past y ear
was one claiming especial notice—it was a cast of the
Obelisk at Nineveh, and which they owed to the muni-
ficence of Sir George Staunton. The report concluded
by stating that the library had been enriched
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then elected. The Earl of Ellesmere was chosen pre-
sident; Professor Wilson, director; and Sir George
Staunton, Burt., M.P., the Hon, Mountstuart Elphin-
stone, the Right lion. Sir E. Ryan, and the Right Hon.
Holt Mackenzie, vice-presidents. The beembers of the
council having been also elected, and a vote of thanks
passed to the Noble Earl for presiding, the meeting se-
parated.

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21, 1849, 'lasi-sheen printed on the motion of Mr. Card-
well, M.P. It represents to the Home Secretary the
results of the Irish immigration into Liverpool, and sug-
gests measures calculated to lessen the burden on the
public resources of the borough and parish of Liverpool.
The accumulation of a vast number of half-naked and
destitute Itish in that crowded commercial town has not
only imposed additional burdens on the townspeople, but
infected the place with a most malignant pestilence. As
a remedy for this crying nuisance Mr. Rushton recom-
mends an extension of the provisions of the Act for the
removal of Irish paupers, so as to render all Irish per-
sons once removed to Ireland under the powers of that
Act, who again return to England and there become
chargeable, liable to punishment as rogues and vaga-
bonds, and the limitation of the number of deck passen-
gers brought in steamers from Ireland.
The solemn inauguration of the present King of
the Netherlands (William IIL), which took place at
Amsterdam on Saturday, the 12th instant, was, by royal
conni..nd, celebrated yesterday, in all the churches of
Holland. The Dutch congregation in London nu-
merously assembled yesterday in the chapel, .Austin-
friars, and joined with their countrymen in prayers for
. the prosperous rcigq of the new King. The Rev. Dr .
Gehie officiated.