The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-05 00:00:00

BRITISH TA.

(From the Georgetown Royal Gazette of Oct. 4.)
His Excellency and Mrs. I3arkly have removed to
Demerara and Essequibo, on the west coast of which
they had been spending some weeks. His Excellency
will proceed on a visit to Berbice on Monday next.
On his Excellency's return, a meeting of the Court
of Policy will be held on tle 18th.
The Demerara Railway line is advancing rapidly.
On the Ist of next month, a new section of the line,
extending from Plaisance to the village of Beter Ver-
wagtig, about a third of the way from Georgetown to
Mahaica, will be opened to the public.
The weather during the fortnight hss been very
favourable, scarcely a drop of rain having fallen in
that time. Estates are, accordingly, making sugar as
quickly as their opportunities will allow. It is now
ascertained, that in consequence of the heavy rains at
the beginning of the year the crop of 1849 will fall
short of that of last year by about eight thousand
hogsheads. What will be the fate of next year's crop
it is difficult to say. At present the prospect looks
gloomy for the planter. A large number of the
Coolies, who in many places are the sole support of the
plantations, will be entitled to their return passages to
India next year; and there is little doubt that they
will take advantage of the boon. Many of them have
saved a good deal of money, which will go immeasur-
ably further in the east than in Guiana, and are
anxious to get back to their country. And as regards
the other class of immigrants, the Portuguese, on
whom the planters relied for so many years, they are
rapidly leaving the country. Many of them have
gone to Brazil ; some to the United States ; others
to the West India Islands ; and latterly, several
cargoes have been exported to Cayenne, where the
emancipation has awakened immigration schemes in
the breast of the French planter, and the local Go-
vernment offers a bounty on such of the Portu-
guese as think proper to remove themselves from
British Guiana, and settle themselves in Cayenne
under contracts of service. Considering the im-
mense sums the colony has expended in the way,
of bounties, passage-money, physic, and hospital ac•
commodation on the Portuguese labourers, and the
great want of labour experienced by our planters,
it certainly seems hard that any man possessing a
schooner can crowd as many of these people as he
likes into it, and ship them off uncontrolled to a
foreign colony, where a bounty at so much a head is
paid on them.

- We can report no improvement in the value of pro-
perty. A sugar estate, which was at one time a very
tine one, the Garden of Eden, up the Demerara river,
was sold the other day at a credit of three, six, nine,
and twelve months for only 5,000 dollars. The pur-
chaser was Curtis Augustus Fleming, Esq., who, if
any man can turn a sugar estate in these times to any
account, probably will with this place, for be is a
practical planter of considerable experience. Two or
three other estates in Essequibo were also to have been
sold in the course of the last day or two, but we have
not heard the prices they realized.
The weather, as is usual at this time of the year,
has been very sickly, but all fear with respect to
Asiatic cholera, which, it was reported in some quar-
ters, had reached the colony, has subsided, it being
now ascertained that no case of that kind has oc-
curred.

DEATH OF IVIR. JAMES STUART.
We have this day to announce, with much regret,
the death of Mr. James Stuart, one of the Inspectors
of Factories. The deceased gentleman, the eldest son
of the Joie Rev. Dr. Charles Stuart, belonged to and
was nearly connected with the noble family of Moray.
He was bred to the pro.ession of the law, and became
a Writer to the Signet in 1798. He had excellent
talents for business, and had he given it due attention
he would most probably have attained high distinc-
tion in his profession. But having inherited a re-
spectable property in the county of Fife, he became
attached to agricultural pursuits, and these, with his
duties as a country gentleman and magistrate, and
the political engagements into which he entered with
the utmost warmth, speedily engrossed by far the
greater portion of his time and attention. He was a
zealous and an uncompromising Whig. No man
ever existed more completely devoted to his party,
or more disposed to make every possible exer-
tion and sacrifice to promote its objects. In
the halcyon days of Toryism, when the
Dundases were all but omnipotent in Scot-
laud, and party spirit ran very high, Mr. Stuart
was always to be found in the front of the battle.
His advice, his efforts, and his purse were never
wanting to forward the cause he had at heart. Bence
he naturally became an object of hostility to the
baser portion of the Tory party. Abuse of all sorts
was heaped upon him, most part of it, indeed, was
too scurrilous and conten ptible to deserve any notice,
and but for the circumstance of its having been dis-
covered that Sir Alexander Boswell was one of its
principal authors, it would have speedily and quietly
sunk into oblivion. This discovery led to the duel in
which Sir Alexander Boswell expiated his libels by
his death. The trial which followed was in the
highest degree creditable to Mr. Stuart, who, it was
admitted on all hands, could not have acted otherwise
than he did. His business necessarily suffered by
these continuous distractions; and his means were
crippled, partly and principally by the expenses in
which they involved him, and partly by his too
generous hospitality. Being of an extremely san-
guine disposition, he attempted to repair his for-
tunes by speculating in land ; but the crash of
1825 proved fatal to his schemes, and involved him
in embarrassments by which he was overwhelmed. As
he had done nothing dishonourable, he might easily
have settled with his creditors ; but his feelings would
not allow him to face them, and he took the rash and
unfortunate resolution of retreating to America. On
his return he obtained his discharge, but he lost the
situations he had held in Edinburgh, which he might
have retained had he not left Scotland. After his
return Mr. Stuart became the editor of the Courier,
and gave in this capacity every support in his power
to the Whig party. lie was appointed by Lord Mel-
bourn to the situation of factory inspector, R hich he
held till his death ; and it redounds much to his
credit that in this difficult position he conducted him-
self so as to acquire the esteem, not merely of the
manufacturer-, but of the great majority of the
workmen. Mr. Stuart was robust, active, and singu-
larly capable of bearing fatigue. He died in his 74th
year, of a disease of the heart, most probably induced
by the excitement in which he passed the greater
part of his life.

TUE TERMS OF PEACE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND
TURKEY.—There is no longer, we believe, reason to
doubt that the terms and conditions on which the Russian
Czsr has withdrawn his claim to the extradition of the
Hungarian refugees are most discreditable to the Turkish
Government, and such as all civilized countries will find
it their duty to take active measures to defeat and
render nugatory. The Sultan has engaged to send
Kos3uth, Dembinski, and the leaders of the late civil
war to the remotest parts of the interior of the Turkish
Empire, and to provide an efficient surveillance to pre-
vent their removal or escape during the term of their
lives. The rest of the refugees (comprising the great
bulk of those now encampeu at Widdiu) are to receive
the benefits of the amnesty, and to return to the Austrian
Empire. This announcement has but to be made
authoritatively (which it will be, as we believe, without
delay) to raise an indignant outcry from one side of
Europe to the other. There is not an inhabitant of a
ee state in any civilized land who is not directly in-
terested in the question thus raised, and bound to use
all the means within his power to defeat so gross and
unprecedented an outrage on the common rights of
peoples and nations.—Examiner.

INCENDIARISM IN .BUCKS.7,—SATURDAY.---Laßt
week several ricks with buildings on the farm of Mr.
Lane, of Wooburn•green, were destroyed, as it is be-
liEved by an incendiary; and this week two fires have
occurr< d, one of which was certainly wilful, and the
other is doubtful as to its origin. The latter destroyed
the whole of the tarm premises, except the dwelling.
house, of Mp. Michael Price, of North Marston, and
cottage near at hand. The otbcr destroyed two hay
ricks, 'Consisting of betwen thirty and forty tons, the
property of Mr. Edmonds, farmer, Edgcott. The latter
was insured in the Norwich Union Office, so that the,
wretch who committed the act has failed in his efforts to
injure the owner.

HEALTH OF THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.—WO are
sorry to learn that the Duke of Newcastle has been
suffering from severe indisposition, but from the latest
account received we trust his Grace may be considered
out of danger.

AsTLL IC'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
nder this Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, &c.
Triumphant success of the new Equestrian Spectacle of the Prophet,
which has been nightly received with enthusiasm, and p. on unced
by the public press to ba the m ist gorgeous hippo-dramatic piece
aver produced at the Amphitheatre.
The celebrated Comedian and Clown, Mr. T. Barry, will have the
honour of appearing, having returned from America.
Mr. J. Bridges and Madlie. Amilie every Evening.
Unparalleled Equestrian Feats.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed Fitzball's grand Equestrian Spectacle, entitled
THE PROPHET, in which Mr. W. West will appear.
To De lettowed by an Inimitable display of SCE isTF,A fN THE
C CLE. by the Irst Equestrian talent of the day, in which Mr. T.
Barry will appear.
To conclude with the Farce of JACK JUNK.
box-office (spell from Eleven tail Four.
',cage Manager, Mr. W. West.

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TAM DAT —M .rnine, 43 min. after 4 1 Evening. 7 min. after 5
To-,to.Row— nrnme, 32 min. after 5 vvewn,,, 58 min after 5

Iki F w eiA rasit.—SuN OFFICE. Nov. 4.

THERM'METER, Lowest, 4.5; Efigtost. 54; Noon. 52.
lAROMETER, 29.27—Mercury going down fast.
WIND S.W.—drizzly foggy weather—a regular

Noi,.mbei day.

Nov. 5.

THERMOMETER, LOweSt, L'B, Highest, 52; Noon, 48

BAROMETER, 29.22.
WIND S.W.—fine sunshiny weather.