The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-05 00:00:00

JULY 5, 1849.

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF
SOCIETY. TUESDAY.'
June 25.—Captain Smyth, R.N., President, in DIVIDENDS.
the Chair.—Sir Wm. Kay, Bart., and Edward
Manchester'
attohu ert
In the Country. , ttaisl
aantchgeter, cotton manufacturers, July 25, at
Gordon, Esq., M.A., were elected Fellows of the
and •
3Saidebotham and T. Lewis, Haughtoe, Laneashire,"
Society. Read :—The copy of a letter addressed
atwelve,
6illonudarntcLheeescitesr, —hmJas
uWfac.ußrutsi,njaunl
by the President to Mr. Bancroft, the Atneri-
W. Smith,
d, Yorkshire, cabinetmaker,aceer Aug- Norman,7, a
can Minister, expressive of the thanks of
161:1:tittiwehelmveo,9
the Royal Geographical Society for the kind
sympathy evinced by the ' Government of eleven, at the Court, Leeds—E. Raisbeck, Dew sbuiy,
the United States in the fate of Sir John Franklin Yorkshire, ironmaster, July 24, at twelve, at the Court,
and his companions. Papers read :-1. "A proposal Leeds—J. Peckmore, Liverpool, baker, July 24, at
for the Construction of Maps upon the walls of the eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—W. Tweddle, Liver-
Corridors and Committee Rooms of the New Houses pool, soap manufacturer, July 25, at eleven, at the Court,
of Parliament," by Mr. Saxe Bannister, with remarks Liverpool—R. Rimmer, Liverpool,
and draper,
_
upon the subject by Mr. G. Belles Greenough, July 25, at eleven, at the Court, L
tailor
027)001—C
V.P.R.G.S. 2. "On Abila and the district of Abilene Liverpool, corn factor, July 26, at maven, at the Court,
near Mount Lebanon," by Mr. J. Hogg, F.R.S.' Liverpool—R. D. Wilmot, Liverpool, merchant, July 26,
Hon. Sec. 3. " Notes on the Physical Geography of at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
Palestine," by Col. von Wildenbruch. 1. Mr. Ban- J. W. Burton, G. Outman, and W. Smith, Manchester
nister proposes the construction of maps on a large and Leeds, manufacturers and warehousemen, ss. 71d.,
scale as useful decorations to the New Palace at on Tuesday, July 3, and every following Tuesday, be-
Westminster, such as that constructed by our great tween ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Man-
navigator, Sebastian Cabot, long suspended in the cheater.
Gallery at the Royal Palace of Whitehall ; as the
celebrated views of the Spanish Armada in tapestry
in the old House of Lords ; as the vast maps in the
temples, the porticos, the colleges of ancient Rome ;
and, above all, as in the Gallery of Geography of
the Vatican. One series of maps would present to
the eye pictures of the whole globe ;—the forests
of the Canadas in contrast to the houses and the
harvests so rapidly thinning them—the fisheries of
iceclad Greenland—the fur regions of Hudson Bay,
and the tales of lost, as well as the track of successful,
explorers of the frozen north—the West Indian Isles,
brilliant in natural beauties, and struggling to pro-
duce results worthy of the sublime cause of Negro
emancipation—the free, peaceful, and Christian set-
tlements of Western Africa, in contrast with its man-
hunts and its slave marts—the sheep-walk and the
ni
sos oSno-
uh
tohu s eA, fsr oi ra rapidly dr
minesv in g
and
na
dc k barbarismt
of
na far
into South Africa—the mines and stock-stations
already pushed deep into the Australias—the infinitely
varied works of nature and of man in New Zealand,
in Ceylon, in India, in the Asiatic Archipelago, in the
islands of the Southern Ocean, and in China. To
these scenes of British enterprise would be added
correct delineations of the rest of the globe, moun-
tains, valleys, and plains ; rivers, lakes, and seas;
cities and ports, with each tribe and people distinctly
characterised, and with the traces of great events,
now visible in monuments or in ruins, correctly dis-
played to the eye. These maps, drawn according to
the best resources of modern science, should be on
the largest possible scale, and uniform in magnitude.
Great size is indispensable for grandeur of effect and
in order to admit of duly proportioned details, while
uniformity of magnitude will furnish exact ideas of
the comparative importance of countries. All sepa-
rate maps should be large enough to admit of distinct
objects, geographical, geological, meteorological,
natural and artificial. In addition to such maps of the
land, there should be carefully prepared a collection of
marine maps—not merely charts, but more complete
even than those already suggested by Humboldt—for
the shallows, the depths, the currents and trades of
the ocean. These marine maps should have ships,
rocks, storms, and wrecks, shores and lighthouses,
correctly delineated, and would form one vast series
of the highest importance to commercial and colonial
enterprize, to science, to medical and religious mis-
sions. Another series would be important to the '
history of geographical discovery, and, would form a
collection dating from the earliest days, from those of
Cosmas Indicopleustes, and the Peutinger Tables, to
the Anglo-Saxon and Chinese Maps, down to the
Hereford Map, and including such as furnished
Columbus and the Cabots, Vesputius and Magellan,
with the strongest motives for heroic enterprize. A
third series would include the representation of the
elements of intelligence found in the rude geogra-
phical designs of the Esquimaux, the Indian, and the
native of Australia, to guide the colonist to rich pas-
tures, to relieve the explorer in his perplexity, and
sometimes to warn the civilized man that even the
savage understands his territorial rights. Mr.
Greenough would, in case of any recommendation
being made by the council to Government upon the
subject, prefer, to the series of maps suggested by Mr.
Bannister, a series of cartographic compositions. An
ordinary map is at best only a representative of
nature, while cartographic compositions would repre-
' sent mind, and would bear the same relation to a
Government survey that a historical or poetical com-
position does to a portrait. The physical map of
Berghaus may be taken as a rude type of this deside-
ratum, which might be more diversified in character
and subject, much enlarged in scale, and wrought up
to a degree of excellence, which an alliance of art,
science, and literature can alone produce. Of all con-
trivances for geographical expression, the georama of
Mr. Guerin is the most fascinating and instructive ;
and it would be desirable to have two georamas, the
one for inanimate nature, the other for man in his
several relations, and for the changes which the sur-
face of the globe has undergone under his operations.
An empire over which the sun never sets requires of
its rulers, and in a minor degree of its people, a fa-
miliar acquaintance with the entire globe. A
writer of no mean authority has informed us that the
affairs of our forty-three colonic* aic
at home by a staff so small, that on an average two
clerks are all that can be spared for each ; and surely
it cannot be unreasonable to desire that the labours
of these singularly overtasked officials should be
eased, by placing at their disposal the readiest means
of acquiring standard information ; nor does it
appear less expedient that Members of Parliament
should have distinct ideas, at least upon those respec-
tive colonies whose interests and capabilities are often
mainly dependent on geographical position and
local considerations, and in respect to which they
may be at any time called upon on short notice to
assent to, or dissent from, complicated legislative
enactments. In the Bibliotheque National at Paris,
there is, or was, a colossal globe, but how incon-
venient for reference, how meagre in information is a
globe, however large, compared with a georama In-
dependently, however, of this contrivance, the object
of which is to exhibit the earth as a whole, provision
should be made for a detailed study of the constituent
parts of the British empire, by exhibiting them
severally under various phases. This might
be done by a series of maps or cartoons, hydrogra-
phical, typographical, geological, agricultural, statis-
tical, administrative, industrial, &c. &c., all uniform
in scale and projection. Here at least there is no
want of raw material. Almost every state has of late
years taken care to have every part of its area correctly
and minutely surveyed. The maps derived from
these surveys are, however, constructed upon
no uniform principle. Each of them, notwithstanding
their excellence in other respects, has this defect—
that it is only a national work, an insulated docu-
ment, a part formed irrespective of a whole ; hence
the various surveys of European states are mere
fragments : like the coins of these countries, their
currency scarcely extends beyond the frontier. The
Prussian reckons his longitude from Berlin, the
Austrian from Vienna, the Frenchman from Paris,
the Englishman from Greenwich, the Russian from
St. Petersburgb, the Spaniard from Cadiz, the Portu-
guese from Ferro. One gives his measurements in
feet, another in toises, another in metres.
advantage
would,
then, be to the honour as well as to the
of
o E _
re n
were rendered
geography
as
England if
attractive,bidd
Con-
sistent—if the unwieldy mass of valuable material
bidding
ge°gr
more y, more
m
were
brought into symmetry; and this may in a great
measure be effected by the construction of mono-
graphic compositions or cartoons, based upon philo-
sophical principles, and tending to illustrate the
various departments into which general science
is divided. It is obvious that the remarks made upon
the British dominions, and on the Continent of
Europe, could not be applied to all other parts of the
earth's surface without much modification. In what
manner the latter should be dealt with is a subject
for inquiry hereafter, the present object of these
remarks being rather to enunciate a principle than to
lay down a system.

NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES,
At the Court Basinghall-street.
H. Clark, Redcross-street, and Plummer's•row, White-
chapel, oil and colourman, July 25, at eleven—J. Waite,
High Holborn, licensed victualler, July 26, at one.
In tko Country.
J. Rogers, Shrewsbury, hop dealer, July 26, at twelve,
at the Court, Birmingham—W. Newby, Manchester,
joiner, July 26, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—T.
Carter, Gainsborougb, Lincolnshire, engineer and wheel-
wright, July 25, at half•past ten, at the Town-hall,
Kingston upon Hull.
At the Court of Review, July 24.
J. B. B. Smith, Liverpool, joiner and builder—L.
Rudge, Great Barford, Bedfordshire, apothecary—J.
Connell, Staiusby-road, East India-road, Poplar, timber
merchant—C. Edmonds, Strand, bookseller—J. Staddon,
Holsworthy, Devonshire, grocer—H. H. Spurway, Ti-
verton, Devonshire, brewer—A. Green, St. Ives, Hunt-
ingdonshire, veterinary surgeon—J. Wiggins, Green-
wich, bookseller—J. Adams, Laverton, Somersetshire,
fuller—H. Cost, Clapton, Middlesex, publisher—l).
Smith and F. D. Smith, Hammersmith, Middlesex,
wholesale drysalters.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. H. Neuber and G. Watkins, New Oxford-street,
varnish manufacturers—J. Blampied and R. Fowler,
Sherborne, Dorsetshire, tailors—William Tennick and
J. Tennick, Gainford, Durham, builders—W. Rosie-
burst, J. Hazlehurst, T. Hazlehurst, and C. Ilszlehurst,
Runcorn, Cheshire, soap boilers—J. Taylor and J. Firth,
Birmingham, mechanical engineers—E. A. Mitchener
and W. Mitchener, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury,
printers—J. Downes and J. Bennett, Middlehills, Staf-
fordshire, sheep dealers—E. Llewellyn and A. Eung-
blut, Dean-street, Soho, pianoforte makers—C. Harri-
son and A. T. Webster, Luton, Bedfordshire, straw-hat
manufacturers—T. W. Tanner and J. P. Woolley,
Brighton—W. Cooke and J. Cooke, Huddersfield, York-
shire, merchants—G. R. Howard and D. Blott, Maid-
stone, Kent, chemists—W. Smith and E. Robinson,
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, fancy waistcoating manufac-
turers—W. Fossey and G. Fe,ssey, Mill-wall, Poplar,
timber merchants—D. Sims and J. Stiff, Blakeney,
Gloucestershire, wiredrawers—T. M. Lake and J. Mac-
kenzie, Uxbridge, Middlesex, printers—J. Hartas and
T. S. Hartas, Simington Grange, Yorkshire—J. W.
Cater, M. W. Collet, and T. R. Arnott, City, merchants
(as far as regards the said T. R. Arnott)—R. Caton and
J. H. Bennett, Bradford, Yorkshire, surgeons—E. Cor-
rie, W. B. Corrie, J. M. Corrie, V. B. Corrie, and H. F.
Barclay, Mincing-lane, Liverpool, and Manchester,
general brokers—S. M. Morris and C. Kay, Manchester,
calico printers—R. Milner, R. Van Hees, and J. F.
Phillips' Manchester, commission agents (so far as re-
gards the said J. F. Phillips)—A. Metz and B. Halcrow
Droylsden, Lancashire, silk dyers—E. V. Blyth and T 1
Farmer, Birmingham, papermakers—C. Battley and A.
Bustin, Basinghall-street, accountants—W. Christie and
J. C. Christie. Somerset street, Aldgate, brassfounders—
J. A. Lewthwaite, and W. Haslam, Isle of
Man, paper manufacturers—Ann Butler and T. Butler,
Water-lane, Tower-street, wino merchants Nancy
Brown, Mary Mason, and E. J. Richardson, Old Bailey,
hay salesmen—M. E. Bowra, D. S. Walker, and J. C.
Greenhill, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, patent band ma-
nufacturers (as far as regards the said M. E. Bowra)—
J. R. Jennings and J. Yeo, Birmingham, and Eldon-
street, Finsbury—T. Wyles and J. S. Gilbert, Coventry,
school masters—J. Guillemard and J. Bates, Copthall-
chambers, stock brokers.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Thomas Snowden, Peckstin, Arundel-street, Strand,
civil engineer.
Thomas Day, Ipswich, shoemaker.
Nlichat 1 lon, Liverpool, s tay maker.
Berdoe Wilkinson, Needham-Market, Suffolk.
Jonathan Saxon, Manchester.
John Hammond, Manchester, nail manufacturer.
Robert Murray, Lanchester, Durham, grocer.
Alpheus Thornley, Shardlow, Derbyshire, hairdresser.
Arthur Fitzeilliam Tait, Manchester, artist.
Bertrand Williams, Derby, carver and gilder.
George Schulen, Ipswich, journeyman potter.
William Wellsted, sen., Gloucester builder.
Edward Barman, Beverley, Yoikshire, butcher.
William Drake, Bradford, veterinary surgeon.
William Croser, Bradford, Yorkshire, doctor of medicine.
Isaac Watts, Bradford, Yorkshire, farm labourer.
Matthew Riley' Bradford, Yorkshire, auctioneer.
Henry Cooper, Dawley, Shropshire, grocer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
R. Bryce, jun., Edinburgh, brasefounder, plumber, and
ironmonger, to meet within Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh,
July 10 and 31, at one.
D. Russell, Dundee, druggist, to meet within the
Royal Hotel, Luudee, July i and 30, at two.

COURT CIRC ULAR.
OSBORNE, JULY 4.
The Queen and Prince took their usual early wuik in
:he grounds at Osborne.

Ills Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the
younger members of the Royal Family walked and rode
i❑ the Park.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party
yesterday.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
n d the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenbourg
Strelitz arrived at Bushy House, Bushy Park, yester-
terdey morning, to pay a visit to her Majesty the Queen
Dowager. Their Royal Highnesses partook of a &junk'
with her Majesty, and in the afternoon left Bushy
House on their return to town.

_ .• _
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, and Sir
George Couper, left town, at two o'clock yesterday after-
noon, for her residence, Frogmore House, Windsor.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited
the Botanic Gardens in the Regent's Park yesterday.
Mr. Job and Mr. Crowdy had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday. Mr. C. Worsley had also an interview
with the Noble Earl at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Anderson, M.P., Mr. George Moffat, M.P., and
Mr. Morgan, had an interview with the President and
the Vice-President of the Board of Trade yesterday, on
the subject of the Light Dues.
The Marquis of Breadalbane had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
Mr. C. Nash, from the Committee of Shareholders as
to Amendments in the Railways Abandonment Bill,
transacted business yesterday at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Railways in the Board of Trade.
Sir Edward Ryan had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing-
street.
Sir J. Pelly had also an interview with his Lordship.
The School of Design had a meeting yesterday, at
the Office of the Board of Trade.
A deputation from the Great Western Fisheries, con-
sisting of Mr. Jackson Barwise, Mr. Henry Burt, Mr.
Augustus Cullingridge, and Mr. Thomas Felton, with
Mr. William P. Metchim (secretary), had an interview
yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mr. lacks had an interview yesterday with Earl
Grey.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Culonial-uffice for the Governor of the Falkland Islands.

Acoc. on Monday, convict-chip
from
Crane,
eA:l6shai
LieutenantyP, a nci
J. Parsons, arrived
MORE DEATHS FROM CHOLERA IN THE MILLIILICK
PRISON.—An inquest was held yesterday before Mr.
Bedford, in the Milib tuk Prison, on the bodies of four
prisoners who had died therein of Asiatic cholera. Their
names were James Catling, aged 16; John Donovon,
aged 21; John aountfold, aged 23; and Thomas Jones,
aged 13. The evidence proved that, when admitted,
they were all in a good state of health, but they were
(latethhoh
aaui
Bsvt
ii attacked
Konnmoniofz.also
her
jo seci
on. withrcn_ru Presented
rir
;efhsAdree: n
from
AsiaticMajesty'so Rio
u Tii
brigantine
,j cholera,ajpn uae
Li
rOO f,
Spider),
41s i which
ayT
It]
uh 3 they died.Bi ai
Hogg,
gißahia,
i In
hob
of
cholerae a
hopedwo.
lociautthleldlvyrose prison.eocnvol
welr;l:rehi lacre.lheit Poe
recover.—Verdict
hadihileelrrn: 1
i:
death
aect
casesus°
in
tudh
answer to a question, Dr. Baly, the prison physician,
said that the prison was unhealthy, from its being low
and so near the river. Moreover, there were bone-
boilers and gas-works on the opposite side of the river,
and
twenty-four ano
cadseitsc
fourteen deaths. There were at the present time three
coathdeirccaassees4:
Dwehaietlib
ciahtoiclecrao era.
has again broken
nted themselves.
MajTenstny,sCiimi cc:::
A m —Her
Mr. 26
Pernambuco, Juno 2. Passengers—Lieut. Hayden
She brings Ilayman, Mr. Mallett
no
ounnet
wofs,shpeecriein
Hitchins. liar amount and family, and two Masters
freightte l len notes having ascertain-
able.
beenanticipated by a steamer later come to Pernam-
buco, to meet the Columbus, arrived at Liverpool. The
Tweed continued to remain at Pernambuco, expecting
hourly to be relieved.
CHOLERA ON BOARD THE sum HAVERING."'"
FALMOUTH, JULY 3.—No new case has occurred since
the ship's arrival at this port, nor any death. The six
men reported as convalescent still continue to improve.
One of the two men who were attacked severely is much
better this morning; the other man fucontines in the
same state, but hopes are entertained his reco-
very also.
Yesterday the foun•
SHOEMAKERS' ALMSHOUSES.--
dation-stono of the almshouses about being erected by
the metropolitan master
boot and shoe makers, at Mort-
lake, as an asylum for decayed members of the trade,
was laid with the customary observances by R. Taylor,
Esq., president of the institution. The proposed erection
will contains habitations for 14 individuals. The funds.
now exceeding 5,0001., have been subsCribed entirely by
persons connected with the shoo trade.
P.toorouTit, JULY 4.—Wind W.S.W.—Sid. Trafalgar,
Adelaide, South Australia; her Majesty's ship Ranger,
gm; of Africa.

DARING ROBBERY IN CAMBERWELL-GROVE.--,013 1
the night of the 30th of Jane a most daring robbery wes
porpetrated by some burglars upon the private residence
of Mr. Henry Barrett, Springfield-terrace. The thieves
gained admittance through the back kitchen window, by
cutting the shutter most adroitly with a circular saw,
and then removing the fastenings; proceeding to the
dining-room they abstracted from the sideboard a silver
cruet stand and a quantity of silver spoons, and forced
open a secretary and took therefrom three gold watches
Isl cl
io,vhei , h the
and a silver watch, together with several articles of jew el-
lery—valued altogether at about 70/, Not satisfied with
this, they broke open a case containing a
valufablew'-croscope, also a cabinet with selected specielennsoo
micros-
copic interest, but finding them to
_beefoorfe
value, they left them unmolested. B
house they made themselves somewhatthat not the least
wine. All was accomplished so quietly
Early in the morning
notice was
freleea;miinteligta tChlieec
rbyut
of
thenothing
offenders.
disturbance occurred
givenyet transpired aantstphireepdrtionclipeaadl
whole affair
5 mptooalnitc.niit...:er stations,diib
ut that they were con-
nected From the
.t
hdseoxmt dexterous oe
experienced
perienced gang.
doubt
arises but
6792 votes, and the
CITY ELECTION.—At the general election of
waTs_iiliwrl conducted
Rothschild,
highestlS oenservative candidate, Mr. John Masterman,
6,722. The highest unsuccessful Tory candidate on the
list, Mr. Bevan, only polled 5,26 S votes; and the lowest
unsuccessful Tory candidate, Mr. Freshfield, only 4,704.
Mr. Rothschild, on the present occasion, has maintained
his position, whilst the Conservatives have evidently lost
ground greatly.
THE FATAL EXPLOSION ON THE SOUTII-DEVON
RAILWAY.—PLYMOUTH, JULY 3.—The inquiry into the
death of Evans, the stoker, and the cause of the Into
accident on the South-Devon Railway, was concluded
on Monday. When all the evidence had been heard,
the Coroner summed up very minutely, and the jury,
after a short consultation, returned a verdict that the
deceased's death was caused by the bursting of the
boiler of the Goliath engine, but how or in what way
this was caused they had no evidence to show.