The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND.

Extract from a private letter, dated Singapore,
17th August, 1849, received from Mr. Charles H.
Hodgson, of Carlisle, who is chief mate in the Ber-
hampore (Captain Smith), which sailed from craves-
end in March last, with emigrants for New Zea-
land :

" We left Auckland on the Bth cf July, and
arrived here this day, after a very exciting and
beautiful passage. After getting through Torres
and Endeavour Straits, there is an island
called. Booby, quite a barren place : upon its
lee side an immense cape is fitted up as a store-
room. Ships getting through safe, call and deposit in
the cave any provisions they can spare for the benefit
of shipwrecked crews. We left some. There are pro-
visions in it enough to last a large ship's company for
at least six months. In another part of the island
there is a post-office, but of course no postmaster
or person to carry on the business. Ships leave
their reports and communicate any new reef or danger
they may have found on their passage, for the benefit
of the next ship arriving; or if bound to any out•of
the-way peeet, the captains write to their owners, &c.
We found letters addressed to London, Liverpool,
Sydney, Scotland, Calcutta, &c. We also found re-
ports of the following two vessels :—Bark Symmetry
(Captain Young), and the bark Cadet (Capt. Pratt),
left Sydney 24th June; arrived at and left Booby
Island on the 17th July, 1849, bound for Manilla.
These two vessels left a report as follows :
" We found on this island the crew of the
whaling ship Ceres, which vessel was wrecked on
Osprey reef; off Cape Melville; they are 29 in
number, were six days in the boats, and eleven days
on this rock : the crew were all saved, and embarked
on board the above two ships for Manila. The cap-
tain of the Ceres reported_ the Osprey reef as being
20 miles long, whereas it is laid down in the charts
as only 10 miles. The Ceres left Sydney on the 12th
of June.'

" There was also the report of the ship Mary Ann
(Captain Darby)—left Sydney on the 20:11 June,
bound for Anatam ; left An atam on the 13th July ;
arrived and left Booby islazal on the 24th July, at
six, P.M., bound for ChT,ria ; they had left a lot of
provisions.

" To which charge the prisoner pleaded not guilty.
" Finding—The Court having maturely weighed
and considered the evidence in support of the charge
against the prisoner, Lieutenant Owen Wynne Gray,
staff officer of the New Zealand Pensioners, his de-
fence and the evidence adduced in support of it, are of
opinion that he is guilty of the whole of the charge
preferred against him, with the exception of the words
scandalous and infamous,' of which the Court do
acquit him.

"Sentence—The Court having found the prisoner
guilty of the charge preferred against him, with the
exception of the words scandalous and infamous,'
and taking into consideration his former good service
and character (certified copies attached and marked
R 1,2, and 3), do now sentence him, the prisoner,
Lieut. Owen Wynne Gray, staff officer of New Zea-
land Pensioners, to be suspandeded from all rank and
pay for one year, to be severely reprimanded in such
manner as the Major-General commanding the troops
in New Zealand may be pleased to direct, and further
to be removed from, and rendered incapable of again
serving in the Pensioner force in New Zealand.
(Signed) "DANii& BOLTON,
" Lieut.-Colonel Royal Engineers, President.
" J. Greenwood, Captain, Major of Brigade
and Officiating Judge Advocate.
" Approved and confirmed,
(Signed) "G. D. PITT, Major-General,
Commander in New Zealand."
" Auckland, April 26, 1849."
In promulgating the finding and sentence passed
by a general court-martial on Lieutenant Owen
Wynne Gray, staff officer of New Zealand Pen•
sioriers, as a severe reprimand forms part of that
sentence, his Excellency the Major-General command-
irg takes this opportunity of reprimanding him
accordingly ; and his Excellency trusts that the
extreme leniency of the condemnation passed upon
Lieutenant Gray may have a salutary influence upon

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his conduct.
The sentence will be carried into effect from this
date inclusive.

His Excellency the Major-General commanding is
pleased to direct that the above order be read on
three successive parades, at the head of every regi-
ment and detachment serving in this command.
By command, &c.,
(Signed) J. GREENWOOD, Major of Brigade.
BRIGADE ORDERS.
Auckland, 26th April, 1849.
His Excellency the Major. General Commanding is
pleased to order, with reference to that part of the
sentence of a general court martial on Lieutenant
Owen Wynn Gray, published in Brigade Orders of
the 26th instant, which is in opposition to the 121st
article of war, viz.—" To be suspended from all rank
and pay for one year"—shall be hereby rescinded,
and his Excellency confirms only the latter portions
of the decision of the court upon that officer, viz.:—
" To be severely reprimanded in such manner as
the Major General commanding the troops in New
Zealand may be pleased to direct, and further, to be
removed from and rendered incapable of again serv-
ing in the Pensioner force in New Zealand.

Which sentence will take effect from the date of
the original order.
" This order will b 3 read to the troops serving in
this colony, in the usual manner.
" By command, &c.
(Signed) "J. GREENWOOD, Major of Brigade."

GLASGOW, OCT. 27.—Cotton.—For the first two
days of the week the market was exceedingly animated
and large transactions were effected, principally on spe-
culation, at an advance of nearly per lb. Since then
the market has been quiet, and prices have lost their
upward tendency. The demand for all kinds of cotton
goods is still brisk; stocks are light, and prices looking
up. Manufacturers and weavers are fully employed.
Iron.—We have experienced very little change in our
pig iron market during this week, and prices remain
nominally the same. There are sellers of mixed num-
bers at 425. 6d, and buyers at 425. cash, but the business
doing is still confined to very small parcels. For manu-
factured iron the terms are from 5L 10s. to 5/. 155., with
4 per cent. discount for cash.
A WHIPPER IN DROWNED WHILE lIUNTING.—OH
Monday, the 22d instant, when the hounds of Sir W.
W. Wynn, Bart., were hunting, the fox took the river,
and the hipper -in (Mr. James Shaw), who with his
horse plunged into the river Dee, near Nant-y-bellan
Tower, at New Bridge, for the purpose of crossing, the
hounds being in full cry, was drowned. The horse, it
appeared, jumped upon a large stone and fell over into a
very deep part of the river, throwing the rider. The
body was soon after recovered ; and on that day an in-
quest was held before B. H. Thelwall, Esq. A verdict
in accordance with the evidence was returned. Deceased
was much respected by the gentlemen who hunted with
Sir Watkin's Courier.

The Elder Brethren of the Corporation of the
Trinity House, London, have contributed 1001. in aid of
the funds of the Committee for Promoting the Establish-
ment of Baths and Washhouses for the Labouring
Classes, towards the completion of the model establish-
ment, Goulston-square, Whitechapel.
NEW ORLEANS.—The Univers Israelite informs us
that prayers of thanksgiving were offered up, by order
of the President, on the 9th of August, in tho synago-
gues as well as in the churches, on the occasion of the
abatement of the cholera in the United States,—Jewish
Chronicle.

The damage done is very considerable. The dry-
ing-house is entirely consumed and all it contained.
The mangling and ironing compartments are also
destroyed, but fortunately nearly the whole of the
tubs in the washhouses have escaped with trifling
injury. Although some of the other parts are burnt
out, the iron roof is still hanging ; but, owing to the
ceiling under it being formed of timber, it is very
seriously injured, and, what is worse, the back wall
has bulged out, so that it is feared it will have to be
pulled down. Fortunately the premises were insured
for 12,0001.
LATEST PARTICULARS.-ELEVEN O'CLOCK P.M.
From the inquiries made by the brigade as to the
extent of the damage done, it seems that, notwith-
standing so much property has been consumed, the
whole of the engineer's department has escaped un-
injured. The boiler-rooms have likewise escaped
any injury, except from water. The steam-engine
and the machinery have also received no damage, ex-
cept by water. At one time it was feared that the
sudden application of cold water to the machinery
would cause an explosion, but, owing to the admira•
ble arrangements of the firemen, nothing of the sort
occurred. Had it not been for the present unfortu-
nate occurrence, it is quite probable that in the course
of a few days, the dryinghouse, which has proved to
have been the cause of the disaster, would have been
pulled down, and a more substantial building erected
in its place. The greater portion of the private baths
have likewise received no injury of any importance ;
but, notwithstanding, the damage is considerable, and
the poor people for whose accommodation the baths
were specially erected will be put to great incon-
venience.

DAVIS'S STRAITS FesHERT.—The Advice, Captain
Penny, arrived in this bay on Friday week, from Davis's
Straits, and proceeded for Dundee. Captain Penny
does not bring any later intelligence, having left the ice
immediately after the vessels which have already ar-
rivedalt will,be remembered that the Advice was the
vessel which accompanied the Truelove of Hull, in the
endeavour to examine Lancaster Sound, in search of the
discovery ships of Sir John Franklin and Sir James
Ross. The Alexander, Sturrock. also passed through
the bay on the same day. She left the ice on the 15th,
and had a very rough passage. The Advice brings 17
fish-170 tuns; the Alexander, 22 fish, a bumper ship.
This is pretty nearly in accordance with the accounts
previously received. These vessels bring no further news
of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The St.
Andrew arrived here on Wednesday evening, with 20
fish-140 tuns. She brings intelligence of the acciden-
tal death of her respected master, Captain Dring. In
the month of June, while Capt. Dring was at Lancaster
Sound, in search of the discovery ships, he, unfortu-
nately, got his hand injured, while in the act of ffring a
harpoon gun. From this accident ho had perfectly re-
covered; when, about the 10th September, while in the
act of stepping on the taffrail, with a gun in his hand,
to shoot some wild fowl; the trigger came in contact with
the wheel, rope, and caused the gun to go off, lodging its
contents under his arm and side. The surgeon of the
Rvgslia, of Kircaldy, immediately came on board, and
pronounced the wound mortal. He died of it three days
afterwards. His death is much regretted by all who had
the pleasure of his acquaintance, for he was a man of
strict integrity and obliging disposition; he was also
thoroughly acquainted with his profession, this being
his sixth voyage as master to the northern regions, and
in none of which he ever carried a surgeon, it being his
expressed opinion that, with strict discipline and whole-
some provisions, it was unnecessary.— Aberdeen Herald.
THE AGE OF CHEAP CONVEYANCE.—Few things
in modern times have been such influential agencies as
the omnibus. Their history is one of more dignity than
shows on the surrace. Those social conveniences have
revolutionized all the chief capitals of Europe. Invented
in 1827, they ruined the elder branch of the Bourbons
in 1830. The accidental upset of an omnibus suggested
the first idea of a barricade, and for a long time consti-
tuted an essential part of the structure which changed
the whole science of revolutions. The overturn of the
carriage Was converted to the 'overturn of a monarchy.
Since that time the omnibus, as we have said, has made
the tour of Europe. Among ourselves it is a peaceful
and health-giving instrument. By its help all the
world is able to live out of town. Barristers,
merchants, artists, and men of letters, who formerly
crowded the narrow courts and passages of Fleet-
street and Cheapside, live now, by its permis-
sion, in snug suburban cottages in Norwood, Hamp-
stead, Putney, or Blackheath. The Johnsons and
Goldsmiths of the last age met in close courts and
stifling taverns for want of the omnibus. It is not
very metty years since a single coach ran from Hamp-
stead to London once a day—the charge eighteen pence!
A man may now ride from Charing-cross to any part of
the suburbs of London, at any minute, for a sixth of the
money. This change in the distribution of the inhabi-
tants has tended greatly to raise the value of property
in the suburbs, and to diminish the rate of mortality in
London. Wherever a good and cheap service of omnibus
is established, rents along the road go up. As a conee-
quence which might be expected, owners of cottages are
beginning to see the wisdom of themselves setting up
such services where they do not already exist. Our
attention is called to the subject by reading the report
of a meeting of owners of property, who ended their
conference by forming themselves into an omnibus com-
pany. Civilization has had its triumphs of many kinds
—has built pyramids and armadas, temples and tunnels;
but it has seldom achieved anything for the comfort and
physical benefit of mankind to surpass the class•results
which have been derived from the halfpenny steam-
boat and the penny omnibus.---= Athenceum. _ _ _

ADVERTISEMENT.—The Observer of Sunday, Oct
28, with its gratuitous supplement, together 60 of the
Observer folio columns, the price only sixpence. A very
full report and original introductory remarks, over 20
columns of the Mannings' trial and conviction, with a
rep tition of their profile wood cut likenesses. The
Observer, of Oct. 28, will be kei t on sale all next week.
The extensive publication of the Observer commences
at four o'clock on Sunday mornings. Newspaper agents
can have any number of copies before five o'clock on
Sunday morning, in time to supply passengers going by
all the railways. Published by Mr. Clement, jun., 170,
Strand. Monday's editioa of the Observer is regularly
published at four o'clock on Monday afternoons.
RIOTS AT WIIEATLEY, thiON.—This parish for
some time past has literally been in the hands of a set of
drunken and disorderly individuals, whose conduct has
been such as to compel the clergyman and his wife to
leave the place and to live in an hotel in Oxford. Dr.
Harrington, one of the bench of magistrates, said, that
this desperate and disreputable state of things at Wheat-
ley is owing to the constables not doing their duty, one
of whom is a maltster, and supplies the houses which
the delinquents frequent with beer. Mr. Marsham and
Major Weyland suggested that Mr. Garrett, the curate
of Wheatley, should make a deposition, showing the ne-
cessity fora vpecial constable, and that document the
magistrat.s would transmit to the Secretary of State,
and if he sanctioned it, all the dildoulties of the case
weak' be kurnwunted,

THE MANNIN GS' TRIAL.
MR. SERGEANT WILKINS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS.
Sir,—Pray allow me, through the medium of your
widely-circulated journal, to make public the expres-
sion of surprise which I have heard this day in
every quarter at the misreport in a leading morning
paper of that which the Attorney• General said, when
replying on the part of the Crown, in reference to
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins's defence of the convict Man-
ning. In the paper to which I refer the Attorney-
General is reported to have said (alluding to Mr.
Ballantine's observations upon the Learned Ser-
geant's speech) "he considered Mr. Ballantine was
justified" in his animadversions on the Sergeant's
speech, whereas the actual words used by the At-
torney-General, and correctly reported in every other
paper I have seen, were, " he considered Mr. Ballan-
tine was NOT justified," &c., and proceeded to observe
that the Learned Sergeant had only done his duty to
his client, &c.

Comment on this unfair attempt to prejudice Ser-
geant Wilkins would be worse than superfluous.
Permit me, however, to take this opportunity of
saying that I believe there exists amongst all unpre•
judiced and impartial persons, professional as well as
nonprofessional, who were present at the trial, but
one opinion as to the propriety of the course adopted
by Sergeant Wilkins, viz., that no other line of de-
fence would have been at all feasible ; and that, con-
sistently with his duty to his client, he not only could
not have acted otherwise, but, in fact, had no
alternative. I am, &c.,
A BARRISTER PRESENT AT THE TRIAL.
Temple, Oct. 27, 1849.

SILK TRADE.—Probably the oldest silk manufac-
turer cannot call to memory a time when raw silk was so
low in price as during the late political struggles on the
Continent. With that forethought peculiar to our
countrymen, they took advantage of cheapness, and pur-
chased the entire crop, thus securing to themselves at
least a year or two's supply. The consequence of which
is, that our Spitalfields weavers are now actually em-
ployed in throwing silks for the Lyons manufacturers.
The most bent ficial effects are derived by our own con-
sumers from the markets being enormously stocked, so
much so that the Messrs. Jay, of Regent-street, have
literally "stacks" of black silks, purchased at nominal
rates, during the French commotions, and passing into
the public hands for not more than the prices of that
period, although raw silks are now at least 25 per cent.
dearer than at that time, with every inclination to ad-
vance and maintain high quotations.—Morning Pot.
WESTERN LITERARY INSTITUTION.—The fourth
Monday evening glee concert took place here last even-
ing, and much exceeded its predecessors in the selection,
arrangements, and execution of the several musical
compositions. The first part consisted of the whole of
the splendid music in Macbeth, excellently executed by
the following performers :—First Witch, Miss M. Hud-
dart ; Second Witch, Mr. Howe; Third Witch, Mr.
Genge; Hecate, Mr. Lee. llerr George Pigall gave a
Styrian song, " The Spring," very beautifully, which
was rapturously applauded. In the second part wo had
a Grand Fantasia, introducing the airs of .'Tis the
harp in the air," " Non pia. meats," "In this old
chair," and "Rule Britannia," brilliantly executed by
Mr. IL S. May on the piano-forte; and also a fantasia
from in Egitto, the Recitative, Prayer, and Air
Varie—all performed on one string (the 4th), by Mr.
Griesbach on the violin, very admirably. Altogether it
was a most excellent concert.
A NEW VEGETABLE.—TDE QUEEN AND PRINCE
ALBERT PUZZLED.—As a specimen of the stories afloat
regarding the peregrinations of the royal party in the
vicinity of their Highland residence, we give the follow-
ing from a vernacular correspondent of the Montrose
Standard. We copy it word for word :—" Her Maijestie
sometimes gangs into ither folk's houses. Wheel, her
an, the Prince geed into an auld 'oman's hause last week
wha bides about a mile frae the castle. The wifie
kent them brikwly, and' bade them sit down.
They accepted the invatashon, an' kindly speired for her
welfare. After lookin' roun' the house, an' particularly
on the fireplace on the floor (nae grate, ye ken, but just
a wee bit holie, an' a sod or twa roun' the bodom o' a
little kail pottie), the Prince said, Gif if it be nae ill
manners to speir, fat are ye to dine upon the day? Fat
are ye boilin' in yer pot?' The auld wife said, In me
pat? Ou, there's neaps intilt, an' carrots intil't, an' leaks
intil't, an'—' Stop, stop ! said her Maijestie, " What kind
of a vegetable is intil't?' Intik?' replied the ould'oman,
astonished at the question; Latin! Ou, plaise your Mai.
jestie, nane ars, but jist that there's neeps in til't, an'
carrots Beg you pardon, my good woman,' said
her Maijestie; tell we 14 bat vegetables you mean b)
ietil'i." Intirt ? intil't replied the woman, holding
up her hands in surprise, and beginning to lecture in her
look with her finger; intil't,. intil't, Lord keep your
Maijestie, just intil't; there'd carrots intil%, an' neeps
intilt, an' leeks intil t,
an
' a gie cure barley intil't; '
thae things are intil't, an' ye see brawly that the pattie's
on the fire, hinging on the crook. I see the pot,' said
the Prince, but we are fairly at a loss to know what you
mean by ono vegetable in it, which you cell intil't.
Bless your heart !' replied the wife, intil'es nae i' the
pat; but th,ere's neeps intil't, an' carrot's intil't, an' leeks,
an'—. here the woman was interrupted by her
Maijestie, who could contain hereelf no longer, but rose
to her feet, and ran out to the door, being ready to burst
with laughter, and she etas followed by the Prince, who
left the woman standing on the floor with her finger in
her loof and the words, Carrots intil't,' sticking between
her teeth."

STRASBURG.—We read in the Archives Israelites de
France, that a teacher in the Jewish national school was
recently elected a Member of the National Assemby of
France. The pedagogic M.P. had to vacate his situation
according to Art. 28 of the Conetitutioni—Jetaish
Chronicle.