The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-28 00:00:00

ROUTE OF 11ER MAJESTY.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE INDIA AND CHINA SQUADRON.

TRINCOMALEE, AUG• 7.-11 er Majesty's steam-
sloop Fury, Commander Willcox, left this for Madras
on the 19th ult., to bring coals and provisions—the
former for herself, the latter for the small squadron
here. During her absence the Canada freight ship
arrived with abundant supplies of everything from
Deptford, and on the 23th tilt. the Fury returned from
Madras. A small schooner, the Australia, purchased
for the colony of New Zealand, at Bombay, and
brought hero by the Cambrian, 40, Commodore
Pluturidge, C.B , left this place for Singapore on the
lst instant, in charge of Lieutenant Webber, of her
Majsty's ship Hastings, 72, flag of Hear-Admiral Sir
Francis Collier, C. 8., Etc. On her arrival there she
will be handed over to the Hon. Captain Keppeliof
her Majesty's ship Meander, 44,.which ship is about
to quit this station for the Pacific, and on her way
will leave the Australia at New Zealand. The Haat-
ings and Cambrian have remained here since the 30th
of "June, to afford time for the proceedings of .a board
of revision of the dockyard expenditure, composed of
the senior officers of both ships; its sittings being now
terminated the squadron is once more about to disperse.
The Hastings and Fury sail to morrow for Singapore,
and after a week's stay there will proceed to China
once more to remain there all next winter, while the
Cambrian, after touching at Madras, will go on to
Moulmein, conveying a variety of stores requisite ;for
the Malacca steam sloop, now in course of construe•
tion at that place. The Hastings will meet the
Columbine, 16, Commander Hay, at Singapore, on
her way home, about the first week in September, and
will probably remain at that port until the arrival of
the Cleopatra, 26, Captain Massie, and the neynard,
11, Commander Cracroft, from England. 140ort
says, and (adds our correspondent) .1 believe truly,
that the Hastings will not winter as before at Hong-
Kong, but proceed to Woosung, where a colder and
clearer atmosphere prevails, and where the health of
the officers and crew is most likely to be renovated
after the intense heat of the Indian summer.

Various opinions are expressed with respect to
Captain Keppel's proceedings in the affair with the
authorities at Macao, and much curiosity is felt to
know what view the Government at home may take
of it; but as far as he himself is concerned (and I
write impartially, being a perfect stranger to him
personally), the universal feeling is, that his conduct
was in perfect keeping with the manly and dashing
character he has maintained throughout his career in
the service, and that the navy and the country would
gain by having a few more officers of his stamp in
active employment.
When the Ilastings and Fury leave for the Straits
of Malacca and China to-morrow, the Cambrian
will remain the sole representative of the British
naval power in the Indian seas, which is surely not
right.
PROMOTIONS AND EXCHANGES IN THE SQUADRON

REVIEW OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY.
WOOLWICH, SEPT. 27.—M. Drouin de ',buy's,
Ambassador from France, with Madame Drouin de
',buys and a party of ladies and gentlemen, visited
Wpotwich to-day, accompanied by Major-General
Fox,.Sidreyor-Geaeral of the Ordnance.
The whole of the Royal Artillery in the garrison,
with the exception of those on duty, assembled on the
common at half past ten o'clock, A.M., the Royal
Horse Artillery under the command of Lieutenant-
Colonel Brereton, C. 8., K. 11.; the right battalion of
the Foot Artillery, under the command of Lieutenant-
Colonel Bent, with Captain and Adjutant Campbell ;
Captain Marriott's company, with 9 pounder field
batteries, the gunners dismounted, under the com-
mand of Lieutenant-Colonel Ingilby ; the left batta-
lion of Foot Artillery, under the command of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel James, with C;iptain and Adujutant
Domville; and the Field Batteries, consisting of three
companies, with four light 6 pounder guns each,
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson,
with Captain and Adjutant Rogers ; the whole under
the command of Colonel Cruttenden, with Captain
Adjutant Radcliffe acting as Aide-de Camp.
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Do wnman, C. 8.,
K.C.H., Commandant of the Garrison, arrived on
the ground at eleven o'clock, accompanied by Colonel
Campbell, Lieutenant-Colonel Reid, Commandant of
the Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers and Miners
at Woolwich ; Lieutenant-Colonels Furneaux, Evans,
Wilson, Wright, Brigade-Major Bingham, and
Captain Tylden, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-
General, with Captain and Adjutant Bradling acting
as Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant General.
Major-General Fox joined the staff of the Lieut.-
General, and M. de Lhuys remained at the flag-staff.
The troops received the Commandant with the usual
salute, the band playing the National Anthem. Ac •
companied by the staff, he rode down tile front to
inspect the men, who then broke into open column,
and right in front marched past at slow and quick
time. The field batteries then marched forward, and
went through the exercises of a field day with excel-
lent effect.
A serious accident happened to gunner Lomes, of
Captain St. George's company, who lost four fingers
of his hand, and had his face singed, and one of his
eyes injured, by the charge he was ramming home
going off before he could withdraw the rammer.
The Royal Horse Artillery then marched forward,
and went through their evolutions in a superior man-
ner, each troop having two 12-pounder howitzers and
two light 6-pounder guns, and each howitzer and gun
served with thirty rounds of ammunition. The men
attached to the 6 pounders dismounted them, and
again commenced firing with great celerity of
movement. The troops then marched past in single
file to the barracks.
M. de Lhuys, with Major-General Fox and party,
accompanied olonel Campbell to the Repository-
grounds, and were conducted over the Rotunda by
Colonel Campbell and Captain Anderson, and ap-
peared much interested with the model of Rio de Ja-
neiro' and other curiosities. Colonel Campbell next
conducted the Ambassador and his friends to the
place where the hearse is kept on which the remains
of the Emperor Napoleon were conveyed to the place
of interment in St. Helena.
On leaving the Repository-grounds the Ambassador
with his friends returned to town.

CITY of LONDON REGISTRATION.
Wednesday morning the Court was opened at ten
o'clock, when the revision of the list for Bridge, Can-
dlewick, and Walbrook Wards was proceeded with.

PARISII OP ST. MART, ADCHURCH.-QUESTION AS TO
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN CHURCIIWARDEN AND

OVERSEER.
It appeared that the notices of objection by the
Conservatives had been served upon a Mr. Marshall,
who was not an overseer of the parish, and the party
serving the notices had called upon Mr. Swepson, the
churchwarden of the parish, but, upon some person
representing on that occasion that Mr. Swepson was
only the churchwarden, and that Mr. Marshall was
the overseer, the notices were afterwards served upon
the latter. From these premises,
Mr. Browne argued, that the mere calling on Mr.
Swepson with the notices, and being sent by him to a
person who was not an overseer, could not be con-
strued by the Court into a service upon Mr. Swepson.
The COURT decided against the objection, on the
ground that the notice was not a good one.
Mr. Brown then contended that the notices served
on the part of the Liberals were invalid, inasmuch
as they had been served upon Mr. Swepson, who
was a churchwarden, and not an overseer. In support
of his argument he cited the 6th Vic., c. 18, s. 17,
which enacted " that evry person whose name shall
have been inserted in any list of voters for any city
or borough may object to any other persons as not
having been entitled on the last day of July next
preceding to have his name inserted in any list of
voters for the same city or borough, and every person
so objecting shall, on or before the 25th of August in
that year, give or cause to be given a notice to the
overseers who shall have made out the list." The
101st section, which was the interpretation clause,
went at full length into the subject, but it did not
include the word churchwarden within the meaning
of the term overseer. This clause enacted that
" wherever any notice is by this Act required to be
given or sent to the overseers of any parish or town-
ship, it shall be sufficient if such notice shall be de-
livered to any one of such overseers, or shall be left at his
place of abode, or at his office or other place for trans-
acting parochial business, or shall be sent by the post
addressed to the overseers of the particular parish or
township to which the notice may relate." Upon the
authority of these enactments he (Mr. Browne) sub-
mitted that the Legislature drew a distinction be-
tween the office of churchwarden and that of overseer.
Their duties were entirely distinct, and it was clear
that a service upon a churchwarden could not be en-
tertained as a service upon an overseer.
Mr. Stnith contended that under the authority of
the 43.1 Elizabeth, chap. 2, the churchwardens were
ex officio overseers. This Act state .1 that the church-
wardens of every parish shall be called overseers of
the poor of the same parish; and it was quite clear
from the interpretation clause of 6 Vic., chap. 18,
that the statute was intended to refer to any person
who exercised the duties of overseer. But he sub-
mitted that the decision of the Court of Common
Pleas in the case of "Beenlen v. ITockin " (reported
in Lutwyche's Registration Cases), was conclusive upon
the question. Chief Justice Wilde had there said
(in reference to the same point which had been
raised on the present occasion) " The question turns
upon the meaning to be given to those words in the
17th section of the 6 Viet., c. 18, which say that
notice of objection shall be given to the overseers
who shall have made out the llit. It is contended

that service upon a churchwarden of the pat ish who
hail not signed the list was bad ; but I think an
effictual answer has been given to that objection.
The several sections of the Act which have been re-
ferred to, beginning with the 10th, are general in
their terms, and apply to all those who fall within the
description of overseers of the poor." Tie (Mr.
Smith) continued to urge that, upon the authority of
the statutes he had cited, and also upon the opinion
expressed by the Court of Common Pleas, the party
now in question stood in the position of an overseer,
and that therefore the notices of objection were valid.
Mr. M'CiatisTir, hell that the services upon the
churchwarden were good according to the authorities
quoted.
ST. BENET, GRACECHURCII.—ADMISSIBILITY OF
EVIDENCE.—SamueI John Nail, whose name ap-
peared on the list as the occupier of a counting-house
at 10, St. Benet's place, was objected to by Mr.
Browne (for the Conservatives) on the ground that
his landlady resided on the premises.
The claimant stated that the building in which his
counting-house was situated had only one street-door,
and the counting-house was on the ground-floor. He
did not know of his own knowledge whether the
landlady lived on the premises.
Mr. Browne said he had a witness who was pre-
pared to prove that the landlady's son had told him,
on his going to the premises to make inquiries into
the subject, that his mother had no other place of
abode than No. 10, St. Benet's-place. He (Mr.
Browne) thought that under the circumstances the
Court was bound to receive such evidence, Mr. Nail
himself being unable to give any positive information
on the subject.
Mr. Smith objected to the reception of such evi-
dence.
Mr. M'CIIRISTIE was of opinion that the evidence
tendered was inadmissible, and that the name must
be retained. •
The Court then adjourned.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and Miss Peel, leave
W B
Eileen Rigas, near Wanly, N.
~ the second week in the
ensuing month for Drayton Manor,Staffordshire, for the
winter. The Bight Hon. Baronet and her Ladyship in-
tend to snake visits en route to the south, to several dis-
tinguished friends. Lady Peel and Miss Peel, Levan-
panied by Captain W. Peel, RN., went ovor to Inverness
to be present at the northern meeting. Sir Robert has
received a.select circle of visits, the party never exceed-
ing eight in number at one time, from the limited ac-
commodation afbrded at his shooting box.
MINSTER.—That direful disease the measles is
very prevalent in this village, several children having
recently died from it. It is believed that the late sudden
changes in the weather have caused the disease.—Aen-
Get U4sorrcr,

(From the Glasgow Daily Mail of yesterday.)
A considerable alteration has been made in the
arrangements as to her Majesty's route southward,
and also as to the time of departure from Balmoral.
It was understood last week that her Majesty %%foal
arrive in Perth yesterday, and remain during the
night in the Royal George Hotel ; indeed, the whole
house was engaged for the Royal party, and it. was
understood that the Quo en would proceed next
morning by the Scottish Central, Edinburgh and
Glasgow, and North British Railways ; but owing,
as is alleged, to the state of the public health in
Perth, a change of route was deemed advisable, and
arrangements were made for her Majesty passing
Wednesday night in Gibb's Hotel, Stirling. Sub•
s. quently, however, it was decided that her Ma-
jesty should not remain ‘a night in Scot-
land at all, Lut that the Ito\ party, by leav-
ing Balmoral at nine o'cloc this (Thursday)
morning, should post to Cupar• Angus, and
then proceed by the Scottish Midland, Scottish
Central, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and North British
Railways, to the seat of Earl Grey, Ilowick
Northumberland, where her Majesty will remain for
the night. The Royal party will most probably ar-
rive at Cupar-Angus about two o'clock, and then
proceed direct for Edinburgh. At the railway station
at Cupar-Angus the splendid royal saloon carriage,
which has arrived by the North British Railway from
England, will be in waiting to receive her.
Her Majesty will arrive in Edinburgh between
four and five o clock, bat she will make no stay .there.
As soon as the engine of the one railway com-
pany is exchanged for that of the other, which will
be the work of only a few minutes, her Majesty
will proceed along the North British line, passing to
the Newcastle and Berwick line at Berwick, and
making no stoppage till she makes Longhoughtoa
station, which is about thirty miles beyond
Berwick. Her Majesty will then leave the railway
carriage, and drive to Ilowick, the residence of Earl
Grey, about two miles distant. This change in the
arrangements had not become generally known ; for
at Stirling yesterday, the railway station was crowded
by a large assemblage of people anxious to obtain a
glimpse of her Majesty.
The Countess Grey, who was accompanied by Lady
Duncan, passed through Edinburgh on Monday after•
noon, to make arrangements for her Majesty's recep-
tion at Ilowick.

Arrangements for her Majesty's reception in Edin-
burgh have been made by the authorities.
The Queen is not expected to leave her car-
riage on arriving at the terminus of the North
British Railway. The engine will be changed
in two or three minutes, when the Royal
cortege will at once proceed southwards. Every
precaution has been taken by the authorities here
to secure the comfort of liar Majesty and the Royal
family in their rapid transit through the city. There
is no desire to prevent access to any point of view
from which the royal train may be visible, without
on the one hand exposing the spectators themselves to
the risk of injury, or, on the other hand, rendering
any accident to the train in any way possible. The
Eastern Prince's-street Gardens will be open to the
public on the north side over ull the space to the
north cf the lower of two strong stockades which
have been erected there. Nobody will be permitted
to pass the lower stockade. And from the south side
of the East Gardens the public will be altogether
excluded. The nature of the ground, taken in con-
nexion with the operations now in progress at
this spot, make this exclusion imperatively neces-
sary on the ground of public safety. The
West Prince's-street Gardens are of course ac-
cessible only by permission of those who have keys
to them. But effectual means will be adopted to
prevent anybody from coming too near the walls
close to the railway. There are other points which
are in like manner to be carefully guarded from all
hazard either to the railway or to the public. On
the Waverley Bridge we understand that the na-
gistnites will permit a row of hackney carriages to
stand from the curve at Prince's street, downwards
along the palisade for some distance. But all persons
will be prohibited from occupying the Waverley
Bridge. The North Bridge will likewise be strictly
guarded, so as to prevent the people from looking over
the parapets. And in general this necessary pre-
caution with regard to bridges will be everywhere
enforced. Sheriff Gordon, with Mr. List, has in-
spected all the line of railway within the county
which her Majesty is to traverse ; and the most im-
plicit instructions have been issued to prevent any
bridge over the railway, of any land, being occupied
by anybody on any pretext whatever. A handsome
platform is being erected within the terminus, to
afford the Lord Provost and magistrates, Major-
General Riddell and his staff; and the railway direc-
tors and other officials, an opportunity of quietly
testifying by their presence their duty to her Majesty.
We have no doubt that the utmost regularity and
tranquillity will characterise the whole very rapid
proceedings of the day.

HER MAJESTY'S WALKS AT BALMORAL..—At the
Bridge of Crathie, a short distance from the castle, there
is a cluster of cottages. Some of the labourers, and
others connected with the grounds, reside them, as well
as several persons at the adjacent distillery. Her Ma-
jesty almost daily passes these in her walks, and is no
stranger to the hearths of many of them. Her visits
have been frequent and most friendly. It appeared that
she was anxious to introduce his Royal Highness to the
villagers; and, accordingly, they walked out together,
going first to the distillery. They visited several houses
there, and alto examined a buthy, where some of the
persons employed in the distillery sleep. On returning,
they took tho Bridge of Crathio in their way. The
houses cf the brewers there they also visited, inquiring
with much minuteness and interest into their domestic
arrangements, and examining their accommodation. Her
Majesty was quite familiar. Both conversed kith the
mistress of the house with much urbanity and frankness,
but the Queen had to sustain the principal part of the
conversation, his Royal Highness being unable wholly
to understand the auld wife's" meaning until it was
put in other language.—. North British Mail.

NEW ELI CTRO-TELEGRAPII PATENT.—The intro-
duction of the electric telegraph a year or two back ex-
cited amazement, but the working hitherto of that ex-
traordinary power has not been worthy of the subtle
agency emp!oyed. We learn that this most striking in-
vention of modern times has now been brought to a state
of perfection in the working which will cause it to be
generally used. The prices of transmission will be 300
or 400 per cm'. under those now charged. A business-
man at Liverpool, or elsewhere, may communicate with
his commercial conficant in London or Pa is without tha
pr,s,ibility of a third party penetrating their secrets, and
all this is done with a rapidity unknown to the existing
system. The new invention occurred to the minds of an
American and an English gentleman almost at the same
time. The two patents have now been united, and the
working management has been entrusted to excellent
hands, Mes-as.!liner and Smith, of Lia-,don and
live' pool, whose energy aad activity, as representatives
of the United States and the metropolitan press during
the last thirty years, are familiar to most newspaper
readers. These gentlemen will he enabled to print mes-
sages at the rate of two hundred letters a minute. The
Fr, rich Government have conceded to the English pa:en-
tee, Mr. Jacob Brett, the exclusive right of telegraphing
between this country and France. Altogether the
invention of louse and Brett is one of the marvels of
the age.
CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE ARISING OUT OF A DEATH
}Tom CllOLERA.—Yesterday an inquest was held be-
fore the Borough Coroner Linda the following peculiar
cireumstances:—Oa Thur,cl4 last a girl, aged eight
years, residing with her parents in Sherwood- street,
died, an-I wax buried in St. Martin's Cemetery. It was
understood by the neighbours that the child had died of
cholera; but on naming the matter to the father and
mother of the deceased, they were informed that there
was no truth in the report of the child's death, but that
she had gone over to Ireland. One of the neighbours
being satisfied that the child was dead, and had- been
buried in St. Martin's Cemetery, instituted an inquiry,
and found that the child's death had ben registered as
having been caused by cholera, and the party further
learnt that the surgeon who certified had never seen the
deceased during her illness. Information was then given
to the coroner, who ordered the body to be exhumed,
and at the inquest yesterday the father of the deceased
was exan3iried, when ho admitted that he had told the
neighbours that his daughter was net dead, but gone
from home, and that he took this course, and ordered
his wife and children to do the same, to prevent any
alarm to the neighbours. It appeared from his evidence
that no medical man ever saw the deceased during her
illnese, and that the certificate wads obtained upon re-
presentations made by bin-. Mr. Woods, surgeon, was
next examined, and stated that he had made a post
mortem examiaation of the body, and was of opinion
!hat the deceased had died of cholera. 4. verdict was
therefore returned accordingly.—Liverpool Courier.
ENGLISH GRATITUDE.—A few days ago a medical
man Was passing through the Quartier St. Germain, in
Pari3, where he was attracted by a crowd, in the midst
of which he found a poor Englishman smitten by an at-
tack of apoplexy.
lie hastened to render him the as-
sistance that medical aid could . • afford. The next day
the medical man called upon his patient to inquire how
he felt. The Englishman asked him what he was to
oThe doctor replied, 10f. for two visits, at sf. each.
Pay.g
•," cried the Englishman, "my life is worth more
• 66•
than th,t;" whereupon he handed the physician a cheque
for 500 f.
Arithmetic is a science differently studied by fathers
,
and sous-the first generally confining themselves to
addition, and the second to subtraction.—Eliza Cool's
Journal.

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