The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-17 00:00:00

No. 17 621.11
, LONDON, SATURDAY
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9
MARCH 17 1849.

UNITED STATES and CANADIAN EMI-
GRATION SOCIETY.

TRUSTEES ♦ND DIRECTORS.
T. LAMIE,;.MURRAT. Esq , Chairman

Wallop Brabazon, Esq. N. Valentine Maher, Esq., M.P.
Dominic Daly, Esq., M.P. for Maurice O'Connell Esq., M.P.
Canada. M. Charles Maher, Esq.
Charles Dndeney, Esq. Edward S. Symes, Esq.
Anthony O'Flaherty, Esq., M.P. Colonel C.C. Keymes Tynte, M.P.
T. Colley Grattan, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
MEDICAL BoAnn —E. S. Symes, Esq. ; It. F. Power, Esq.
BANKERS—National Bank of Ireland.

HELL GWYNNE TAVERN and CHOP-
HOUSE, Bull Inn-court, Strand, Three Doors East of the
Adelphi Theatre, and opposite Adam street.
Visitors to the Theatres will find the Nell Gwynne Coffee Room,
which is fitted up in the style of the period in which she lived, the
most comfortable and convenient Tavern for Luncheons, Dinners,
and Suppers.
Table d'Hote at rfalf-past Five (Sundays excepted). Hot Joints
until Eight.
Excellent Wines and Spirits, flue Ales, Barclay and Perkins's
Stout

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, 31Ancu 16. ,
STOCK EXCHANGE.--The share market remains very dull.—The
sales are—Midland Stock, 81 —Great Western, Quarters, 2% dis.—
Ditto, New 171. Shares, 11. Ids. 9d. dis.
LIVERPOOL, Mencii 16.

STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market was dull and eloomy to-
day, but we close with a better tone.—The sales are—Bolton, Bir-
kenhead, c_hester, and West Yorkshire (No. 1), 7—Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire and Cheshire (late C. and11.),.221. shares, 6 per cent., 1849,
7 dis.—East Anglian, 3/. 10s. Shares, guaranteed 6 per cent., 2 I,‘ c.—
East Lancashire, 13 —G: eat NoAnern, 9 dis. Lancashire and
Yorkshire (late M. and 1;.), Fifths, 3%—Ditto, 10/. Preference, 6 per
cent., 144 p.—London and North-Western, 134 c.—Ditto, Quarters,
New, 51. Is. 3,i. p.—Manchester, Shetheld, and Lincoln, 10/. Prefer-
ence, 103.4 c.—Midland Stock, 78% c.—Ditto, New Halves. 81,4 c.
dis.—North Britishr, Quarters, 3% dis.—North t•taifordshirc, 31,4
di,.--Scottish Central, 25 ex div.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick
(Extension, Nos. 1 and 2), 11,.'2 dis.—Ditto ((I. N. E. Purchase), 6
per cent. guaranteed, l dis.—South-Eastern (No. 4), 71. Us. 3d.—
South Staffordshire Junction, 3lfi dis.
3IANCIIESI'ER, MAtten 16.

STOCK EXCIIINGE.—The Salo3 are—Slivtlield, Preference, % p.—
North Staffonlshire, 3 —Dover (No. 4), 7%—Nest Sliding t nion,
dis.—GrintsV, 201. _Shares, I c. dig.— Sheffield, and Lincoln,
aad Birmingham (It), Quarters, 3►4 P.—
Norther. (A), 4%—01d Dover, 24% c. dis.—Birkenhcad, 221. Shares,
7 dis.--Leeds, Fifths, 3 9-16 n. dis.—. East Anglian, Preference,
6 per cent., 2 5-16 —Exeter and Exmouth, 7 cl!s.—Great Northern,
9 dis.

THE FIRST LIEUTENANT OF THE Vicroisx.—By
I the appointment of Lieutenant R. E. Bullen (1830),
as Senior Lieutenant to the Victory, vice Herrick,
promoted, another act of justice has been done the
• ervice by Sir F. Baring. Lieutenant Bullen has
served upwards of seventeen years %float, the greater
part of that time in the West Indies and coast of
Africa, and his already held the position of Senior
Lieutenant of various ships for newly five years. He
is the nephew of a most distinguish, d nfficer, Vice-
Admiral Sir Charles Bullen, K.C.B , &e., and has
been Second Lieutenant of the Victory fur the last
15 months.
MANNING THE NAVY.—Notwithstanding the num-
bers of seamen that have been paid oft• during the
last nine months, and the numbers of extra men
borne in the books of the guard ships, there has been
the greatest difficulty experienced in filling up the
complement of the Caledonia to 950, that is of en-
tering some 300 blue jackets; and at length the Ad-
miralty were compelled to open a rendezvous at Ports-
mouth, and go to the expense of sending steamers to
and fro between Devonport and Portsmouth for their
conveyance. It appears that Captain Carter has been
very particular in his selection, refusing to enter any
man who had not a " very good" certificate up to the
last moment; when, finding that the " very good
had been starved away out of the ports to seek some
other mode of livelihood than that of service on board
a man-of-war,' he at length felt disposed to accept
" good" seamen. It was now, however, Jack's turn
to refuse, and refuse numbers did, swearing that they
would rather join the merchant service or follow
their shipmates to America than accept such offer.
The Caledonia was 80 men short yesterday, but it is
expected that she will sail to-morrow for the Mediter-
ranean nevertheless.
SAILORS' HOME, DUBLlN.—Captain W. H. Hall,
of her Majesty's steamer Dragon, now on the coast of
Ireland, having been lately awarded some salvage
money from the Admiralty Court there, for assisting.
at great risk and peril, a Spanish vessel in distress,
has munificently given 2001. of this money to open a
subscription for the endowment of a Sailors' Home at
the port of Dublin. Among the benefactors to so
truly humane and national a work we find recorded the
names of those steady, liberal, and persevering friends
of seamen—Admiral Dudley Oliver and Sir Charles
Forbes, Bart., of London ; the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, M.P.; Captains Janus, Coote, Sotheby, and
Rawdon McClean, of the Navy ; and Henry Scovell,
Esq., E. Hayes, LL.D., and G. Roe, Esq., of Dublin.
The subscription already amounts to 500/., and is fast
progressing, under the direction of a provisional com-
mittee, of which the warm-hearted Admiral Oliver
has been elected president, and Captain Hall, F.R.S,
of her Majesty's ship Dragon, honorary secretary.
FOREIGN TIMBER FOR THE DOCKYARDS.—ln-
structions have been issued to the dockyards to the
effect that in future the officers of the service are to
co-operate with the officers of the Customs in the
measurement of all foreign timber received into the
royal establishments.
VALUE OF DOCKYARD STOCK.---Mr. Freeman, the
store receiver of Sheerness Dock-yard, who has been
absent on special duty for nearly nine months, has been
appointed by the Admiralty to determine the value of
the dock) and stock of timber, in which service their
Lordships have ordered him to be assisted by Mr. J.
Bennett, the timber inspector of Portsmouth Dockyard.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF FRIDAY.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 28, 1849.

The Queen was this day pleved to confer the honour
of Knighthood upon Captain Thomas Seymour Sadler,
Senior Exon of her Majesq's Body Guard of Yeomen of
the Guard.

March
11
10
11
10
10
11

Aberdeen

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Amiens and Boulogne . • • •• • •
Belfast and Ballymena •• • • ••
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshin
Bolton, Blackburn, Clltheroe, and W. Y.

14309

1,365

380
4.496
1,085

Chester and Holyhead. • ......... • • ..
Cockermouth and Workington.... • • • •
Dublin and Drogheda.. •• • • ••••• • • • •
Dublin and Kingstown
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen • • • • • • • •
East Anglian.... .... ................
Edixburgh and Glasgow . •• • •••• • • ••
Edinburgh and Northem • • • • • • • • • • .•
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
East Lancashire
Eastern Union

596
1,001

70
3,291
1,689
13,313
2,003
1,202
2,50
1,014
1,829

599

Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • • •
Glasgow and Greeneck•• • •
Great Northern and E.
Great Southern and Western • • • • • • • •
Great Western, &c • • • •
Kendal and Windermere• • .... • • • •...
Lancashire and Yorkshire..•• •.• • ..
Lancaster and Carlisle • •

17,926

11,317
1,80
71

2,568

Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport....
Londonderry and Enniskillen........
London and North Western, &c......
London and 81ackwa11..............

417
3,119
1,003
12,144

London and Brighton

14,210

London and South Western , ........
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham....
Midland Great Western (Irish) • . • . ..
Monklands ... • • • • ...... • • .... • • .. • •

Newcastle and Carlisls.• • • • • . • • • .

Norfolk.. •... •...

North British .. •. •• •• ..

Paris and Rouen. •• •• •• •••• •••••• ••
Rouen and Havre .... ..

Scottish Central ........

• _
Shrewsbury and Cheater
South Eastern and Branches .• •• ••
South Devon• • • • •• •• . •• •• •• •• • • •• ••

Taff Vale ........ ...

Ulster . ........

Waterford and Limerick... .. • • • • • • •
Whitehaven Junction •• . • ••
York and Newcastle

433
7,109
8,239
3,154
20,136
1,061

York and North Midland

2,698
5,517
2,979
858
1,237
1,782
1,412
1,842
' 713
255

983
1,086
2,053
924

1.129
16,53

' .114
9,133
1,491

157
34,856

684
6,929
6,296
2,145
111,956
672

1,612
9,605
3,176

11,376
6,911

SETTLEMENT LAW.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

60S
6,581

744
:,901
864

166
10.063
7.474

SlR,—lndependent of the reasonable objections *MA
are, and may be, urged against the removal of poor per-
sons to, as is termed in law, " the place of last legal
settlement," I think there is not a member of the bar,
nor a respectable solicitor, but who is ashamed (though
called upon to perform their duty honourably to their
clients) of the special pleading and the vast nicety now
required in a case of removal. The amendments of the
law are in the right direction, provided the forms were
but plain, simple, and straightforward, instead of which
they are confounded, intricate, and crooked.
I lift up my humble voice in favour of a total abolition
of the law of removal.
March 12, 1849.

A PROFESSIONAL

COURT OF ALDERMEN.-Yesterday a special court
was held to consider certain clauses in the Bill now be-
fure Parliament, disqualifying aldermen under circum-
stances therein stated. The principal clauses alluded to,
which were read, were to the effect, " That any alderman
or common councilman of the city of London becoming
a bankrupt or an insolvent debtor, or compounding with
his coeditors, or absenting himself, unless obliged so to
do by illness, or other reasonable cause, for more than
six calendar nienths at ono time, from his duties, or being
convicted of fraud, &c., shall be immediately disqualified
to hold the office." Sir Peter Laurie having expressed
his satisfaction at the contemplated enactment, Alderman
Humphery objected to the words in the clause " other
reasonable excuse," as he could not see who were to be
the judges of " reasonatile excuse." Several of the alder-
men present said, the Court of Aldermen were to be
the judges. The Lord Mayor, in answer to some obser-
vations from Alderman Hooper, said it was clear by the
Bill they were discussing, that no alderman who did
not pay twenty shillings in the pound could be re-
elected. Alderman Wilson thought the 7th clause of
great utility. The Common Sergeant was of opinion
that under the clause, as it stood, a person disqualified
was incompetent to re-election, and in this opinion the
Town-clerk concurred; and after some observations
from Alderman Copeland and Sidney, en addition, pro-
posed as an amendment by Alderman Humphery,
" that any person so disqualified should not be qualified
dfoirscurses-ieolnec
ot en
lection,"
the
vic.alasusneesgarteiraetding toA fttehresopms3e.mfeunrtt ofher
rates and the regulation of the polling, Alderman
Humphery begged to inform the Court that when the
Bill should come into Committee in the House of Com-
mons, it was his intention to move clauses for the
increasing
the of the City wards, but without
the number of aldermen; Alderman Copeland said, he
should strenuously oppose any such proposition.
Mr. J. Prior, chairman of the Committee of the Com-
mon Council, having expressed the satisfaction he and
his colleagues felt at the manner in which the Bill had
been received and discussed by the Court, the business
terminated.

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MAJOR
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itssaid,
racy to murder Major Mahon.—Roscommon Journal.
Mr. Justice Maule was sufficiently recovered from
guilty,
his indisposition to open the Nottingham commission.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAT.—Mr. Waddington,
M.P., was appointed, by the board at their meeting on
Thursday last, Chairman of the Company, in the room of
Mr. Hudson; and Mr. Samuel Anderson was elected
Deputy Chairman, in lieu of Mr. Waddington.
At the Dorsetshire Assizes on Wednesday, Mr.
Hingeston, an attorney residing at Lyme Regis, reco-
vered 1661. from Sir Fitzroy Kelly, the late Conserva-
tive candidate for the borough, for services rendered to
Sir Fitzroy as his agent at the last election. The de-
fence set up was, that Mr. ilingeston had agreed to row
der his services gratuitously, last
A JUDGE ASSAULTIE.—On Saturday e"ningWil-
Mary Ann Brown pleaded guilty before Mr. Justice,iotour 21b.
Wil-
liams at Salisbury, to the charge efste of
loaves, the property of Harriet Browns shopkeeper,
this city. Ilis Lordship havingsentencedr
for one month, the
and suiting the
her to e im-
prisoned and k. pt to hard labford,,,
prisoner said, " Thank ye, Y.._
I:: ,:kheisthat at thheeasazi
Lordship's
actiontime
throwingthe
old
added,
boot a
Sherborne Journal.
in the Lincoln gaol, to such an extent as almost to mkt/
A fever, said to be of a typhoid character, prevails
it necessary to postpone the assizes.