The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-05 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF PORTUGAL.

On the question being put for reading the order of
the day for going into Committee of Supply,
Mr. B. OSBORNE rose to call the attention of the
House to the present state of Portugal and the situa-
tion of our naval and military forces in the country.
He thought it was highly desirable that the
Noble Lord the Minister for Foreign Affairs should offer
some defence for the policy which had been pursued
towards Portugal before the close of the present session.
On constitutional grounds he regretted the abrupt
termination of the recent debate. It would tend
to degrade the House in the estimation of all who
were favourable to political liberty and freedom,
and therefore felt it to be his duty to revive it. It was
clear that the Queen of Portugal had on every occasion
broken faith with her people, and on all hands it was
admitted that her conduct was most unjustifiable.
No one had attempted to defend it, and he
thought it was therefore the more disgraceful
that Government should have pursued the course they
had done. It had been urged on behalf of the Govern-
ment that they were forced into that course by the
French Government; but every one who was in the habit
of reading the French papers, must have seen that M.
Guizot had denied the statement. The conduct of France
towards Portugal was most irreproachable, and it was
clear from the conduct of her admiral that France was
not the power who urged the necessity or the expe-
diency of an armed intervention. It was very evident,
however, to him that the Noble Lord at the head
of the Foreign Department of this country was the dupe
of that great master of modern arts, Louis Philippe,
and that was the individual who was reaping the
advantage of all the odium that was being thrown upon
the country for the part he had taken in the affairs of
Portugal. The Ministers both of France and Spain re-
pudiated the protocol which had been issued at the in-
stance of this country.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

TATTERSALL'S—TiIIs EVENING
Six O'CLOCK.

JULY STAKES.
2 to 1 agst Teetotum—taken
5 to 2 agst Woodcraft—taken
LIVERPOOL CUP.
8 to 1 agst The Conjuror
8 to 1 agst Lightning
15 to 1 agst Cossack
15 to 1 agst Quadruped '
GOODWOOD STAKES.
6 to 1 agst Stultz
12 to 1 agst Milliner
12 to 1 agst The Questionable
14 to 1 agst Vampyre
16 to 1 agst Miss Ells
30 to 1 agst Tantivy

GOODWOOD CUP.
3 to 1 agst The Hero
5 to 1 agst Eryx
8 to 1 agst Fitz-Emilius
10 to 1 agst Dulcet
15 to 1 agst Halo

ST. LEGER.

5 to 2 agst Cossack
10 to 1 agst Red Hart
11 to 1 agst Mr. Martin

DERBY.
15 to 1 agst Assault
25 to 1 agst Flatcatcher
40 to 1 agst Beverlac
40 to 1 agst Glendower

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
PORTS3IOUTH, JULY 4.-By the arrival of her Ma-
jesty's ship Vestal, 26, Captain Charles Talbot, at Spit-
head this morning, we have intelligence and papers from
the Cape of Good Hope to the sth of May inclusive, on
which date there was no later news than that given be•
low from the frontier.

Sir Henry Pottinger intended wintering on the fron.
tier. The Kafirs still continue their predatory in.
cursions.

(From the South African Commercial Advertiser of

May 1.)
The intelligence from the frontier this week includes
one principal fact, from which the happiest results, God
willing, may be expected ; the acceptance, namely, of
the command of the Burgher Force by Sir Andries
Stockenstrom. This gentleman has again been invited
from his retirement in the hour of difficulty -by the
united voice of the people and the Government. He has
well earned the utmost confidence of both. The enemy
also know what they have to expect from him.
PORT ELIZABETH, APRIL 21.
Our new Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Henry Young, ar-
rived yesterday, and started for Graham's Town this
morning, about eight o'clock, in an ox-waggon, accom-
panied by his sister, the widow of Colonel Peake. Pre-
viously to his arrival he had requested Mr. Montagu to
write Captain Lloyd that he wished to be received only
as a private gentleman, and not as a Lieutenant-Go-
vernor, so of course there was no address or anything
beyond the visits of a few of the inhabitants. His
Honour seems to take great interest in his government,
and is very solicitous for information.
GRAHAM'S TOWN, APRIL 25.
The Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Henry Young, arrived
quite unexpectedly at Graham's Town last evening,
alighting at Style's Hotel, where he has taken temporary
quarters. His Honour proceeds to-day to Kalirland,
ior the purpose of having an interview with the Right
Hon. the Governor, before assuming his government.
He has travelled up as a private gentleman, nor has any
address or other communication of an official character
been as yet made to him.

THE LATE COLLIERY EXPLO

SION NEAR WIGAN. -
The lamentable accident on Tuesday last, at Kirkless
Hall Colliery, Ince, near Wigan, we are sorry to say is
of a much more serious nature than could at first be
ascertained. It was not until parties had been sent
round to the dwellings of all the workmen employed
that a correct report could be furnished, and this was
not completed until the following day, when it turned
out that six men were missing instead of one, and that
part of those stated by the man in charge of the lamps to
have come up could not be found.

A long search was made, under the direction of Mr.
Lancaster, during the night of Thursday, for the six
missing men. Two of them were found, and brought
up at two o'clock in the morning ; two others were
brought up at five o'clock; and the remaining two about
eight o'clock on Friday morning ; all of them, as was
expected, shockingly mutilated, and presenting the ap-
pearance of having been dead a considerable length of
time.

The following is a corrected return of the killed and
injured :—.

Dead John Cartwright, of Hindley (dead when
brought out of the pit), leaving a widow and three chil-
dren ; John Berry, of Aspull (died on Wednesday
morning), a married man, no children ; John Rhodes, of
Hindley (died on Thursday), leaving a widow and five
children.

Taken out of the pit dead on Thu:sday night—
Joshua Painman, a wife and one child ; James Hirst,
wife and three children ; John Harding, alias Hokrott,
wife and one child ; Robert Southern, wife and one
child ; William Daiutry, single man ; William Jackson,
single man.

Severely Burnt—John Bolton, not expected to recover;
George Evans, underlooker ; Samuel Evans, his bro-
ther ; Henry Hansen, Henry Whittle, James Wilkinson,
a boy ; Henry Ashmore, a boy ; John Riley, Robert
Wilkinson, John Webster, and James Belshaw.
Slightly Burnt, all expected to recover—Eli Monk, a
boy; John Markland, Jahn Mills, Thomas Lurrisun,
Thomas Cawsey, and Samuel Foster, a boy.—Manchester
Guardian.

PETERSFIELD.—Within the last few days, the pre-
sent Member for this immaculate borough, Sir W, G.
Jolliffe, Bart., has issued an address to the electors, an-
nouncing his intention of soliciting their suffrages again
at the forthcoming election. The number of electors at
present on the registry amounts to upwards of 300, a
considerable part, more than one-third, of which are
tenants of the Hon. Baronet's. It is expected that no
opposition will be offered, although a strict watch has
been kept in the registration courts ever since the last
election, by several professional gentlemen in the "Liberal
interest, who were deputed to attend to defend the Libe-
ral voters objected to. It is now quite evident that the
influential parties have joined tho Whitelock ranks, and
left the Liberal portion of the constituency to be repre-
sented in future by a high Protectionist, also a gentle-
man of the Bentinck and Disraeli clique. The Jolliffe
interest has been predominant in this borough upwards
of half a century, but at the election which took place 1
on the 7th of January, 1835, John Cornthwaite Hector,
Esq., succeeded in routing this interest, being placed at
the head of the poll by a majority of sixteen. He
continued to sit uninterruptedly until July 25, 1837,
when the present Hon. Gentleman was elected by a
majority of one, but was unseated on the 14th of Fe-
bruary, 1838, by a Committee of the House of Com-
mons, who declared the petitioner, J. C. [lector, Esq., to
have been duly elected, and ought to have been returned.
He discharged his duties in a most consistent manner up
to July, 1841, always voting with all the leading Radical
Members of the House of Commons on every important
occasion, much to the satisfaction of his constituents.
This part-pocket borough has been severely contested
of the Reform Bill, the present Liberal
Member for Carlisle, W. Marshall, Esq., being the
on several occasions ever since 1818 ; and, previous toa
the Passin—
g
highest bidder in the market that aspired to a seat in
the Legislature, the then Tory patron, Colonel Hylton
Jolliffe, allowed him to be returned, jointly with himsel,;
were voting in opposition to each other.
but on all occasions, when division took place, both
independent principles.—From aWe hope soon
:Lain represented by
to see this borougha gentleman of
of British manufactured
~,., 1 —From a Correspondent.
EXPORT OF IGRITIS M
II MANUFACTURES. —The
he value
goods exported from the port of
3004; Aden. 30/.; Adelaide,w4aB7
London on the Ist instant, as follows:—Alicante,
. ,
R 001.;
oboe, A 14g0o0a1
.13, Bay,
Bermuda,6ooi
Berbice, 60/.; Bombay, 4601:
o ler,rdn'l2/t.; Good Dom-
e 1;3911.;
165/.; Barbadoes, 1961.• Cape o
200,!.; Cey-
iCoanl,c2ust Calcutta,
Cant0n,.2,74 71. ; C
4hoe
Lr la: o ucroga, a
t2aonOtLi
a;
1,5.,•ul oba..rt
rara, 300 i; Gibraltar,Genoa, p ;
Zealraneadi'
Guernsey and Jersey, 200/.; ginfinug-og, 1007' 115851.;
Town, 3,0804; Hamburgh, 1961.; Jamaica,
Lis-
bon, 4001.; Launceston, 2,2004; Madras, 304; mo.n;t Lis-
-554; Madeira, 60/.; Mauritius, 330/.; New
2,3301.; Port Philip, 9501.; Rotterdam, 5101.; Rio
Ja-
neiro, 1,5004; Sydney, 8,0201.; Syra and Smyrna, 30/.;
Souraba.ya, 8854; St. Helena, 140/.; St. Helena and Cal.
cutta, 604; Stettin, 304; Swan River; 1801.; Sierra
Leone, 3,5001.; St. Thomas, 581.; St. John's, 6201.; St.
Vincent's, 600/.; Ta ste, 1001.; Trinidad, 500/.; Victoria
and Canton, 504 Total value of British manufactures
exported on the Ist of July, 42,219/. sterling.

An agreement has been come to between the
Danish Government and that of the free city of Lubeck
for the construction of a railroad between Lubeck and
Buchen,

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
A Court was held for the dispatch of public business.
CORPORATION PROCRASTINATION.
Mr. EDKINS complained that the time of the Court
was generally so much taken up with empty discussions
upon subjects wholly unconnected with the interests of
the citizens of London, that there were upon the paper
of business notices of motion of fifteen or sixteen months
standing. He thought the Lord Mayor was bound, at
all events, to convene Courts for twelve o'clock, accord-
ing to old custom, instead of the titer hour at which
they assembled, and was sure that the departure from
the earlier time contributed very much to the injurious
procrastination of public business.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir PETER LAURIE said, there were upon the paper
numerous notices of motion, which the persons who
caused them to be inserted never intended to bring for-
ward.—(Laughter.) He would instance the project of
the railroad to Farringdon-market, which was amongst
the complete impracticabilities, and Mr. Bennoch's
notice for holding the meetings of the Court of Common
Council at House of Commons hours.—(Laughter.)
There were also notices of motion for substantial compli-
ments of plate, and nothing could be mere certain than
that the hand of death would be laid upon the indivi
duals selected for such honour before tie motions would
pass. He hoped ati the useless and stupid notices would
be at once removed from the paper by those who hail
been so injudicious as to place them on the list.—(Hear.)
A report was presented upon the subject of appropri-
ating the site of a heuse in Newgate street, the rent of
which had fallen in, to the beneficial plan of widening
the street. It recommended such appropriation, and also
the appropriation to the same purpose of other houses
in the naarow pal t of the street, as the rent of each
should fall in.
The report was agreed to immediately, and amidst
applause, the object being to give greater public accom-
modation in the crowded locality of Newgate-street.
HEALTH OF TOWNS.
Deputy BEDFORD rose to present the petition, which
the lamented Dr. Lynch had expressed so much anxiety
to introduce, from the inhabitants of Farringdon W
ith-
out, praying the Court to set aside a sum of money to
improve the sanatory condition of the ward, and to adopt
such measures as would improve the habitations of the
labouring classes.
The petition, after alluding to the projected new
street from King William street to King-street, which
would cost an enormous sum, without producing benefit
at all corresponding, and which had the appearance of a
monstrous job rather than of an useful undertaking,
represented that there were undertakings appertaining
to the state of the public health within the City which
more immediately and imperatively demanded the
consideration and interference of the Court than any
plan of street decoration. "It is," said the peti•
tion, which enters very fully into the subject, and eon-
sists of twenty-six long pages, " notorious, as shoe n in
the evidence given in the Health of Towns Commission
and the Poor-law Commission, in their inquiry into
the sanatory condition of the labouring classes, that the
disease and mortality of the metropolis are frightfully
increased by the absence of such sanatory regulations as
it is clearly within the power of the Corporation to sup-
ply. Your memorialists remind your Honourable Court
that, in the month of March, a resolution was moved in
the Court of Common Council by Dr. Lynch, urging
upon the Corporation the imperative obligation under
which it lay of immediately adopting those sanatory
regulations which the exigencies of the case le quired
for the purpose of diminishing the disease and mortality
arising out of the absence of such regulations, which re-
solution was supported and illustrated by a speech re
plete with striking and important facts, which created
great interest in the public mind, and obtained a refer-
ence of the said resolution to the improvement commit
tee. Your memorialists cannot avoid expressing their
deep concern at the fact of your having permitted a mat-
ter so important and pressing as this to remain for eight
months without any report having been made upon it,
and without, as your memorialists have reason to believe,
the committee to which was refei red CVcr having given
to it a moment's consideration, especially after it had
been shown by the evidence of the highest authorities
that of the deaths annually occurring within the metro-
polis between 4,C00 and 5,000 occur from diseases pre-
ventible by ordinary precautions, while the disease, de-
bility, and poverty engendered by the absence of them
add greatly to the amount of human suffering, and to the
burden of the poor rates."

The following are the concluding paragraphs:—
" By the 44th of Edward lIL the butchers of London
were f«-3rbidden to slaughter cattle within the City, and
by the 16th of Richard IL the prohibition was extended
to swine. We are at a loss to conceive of any good
reason for now dispensing with a regulation so properly
deemed necessary for the preservation of the public
health in former times. The same may be said of fur-
naces and other sources of atmosp&ric pollution which
call for the like interference of your Court and the Le-
gi3lature. By the 35th of Edward 1., the Mayor of
London was commanded to prevent persons from light-
ing furnaces near the Tower of London during the stay
of the Queen and nobles at the Tower, because the air,
as it was alleged, is corrupted and infection promoted by
the insolubility of the air on account of the said fur-
naces. What was true in the time of Edward the First
is equally true now, and we would respectfully suggest,
that it is scarcely less necessary to free the air from that
infection which is injurious to human life because the
Queen and the nobles may not now happen to stay at
the Tower of London.

We also venture to suggest, that in addition to all
the other and pressing obligations which rest upon your
Court to promote the sanatory condition of the City
there is one arising out of the fact, that it was the cor-
poration of the City that opposed Sir Christopher
Wren's plan for the rebuilding of London, which was
approved by the King, and which would have
excluded all grave-yards, as well as all dark
narrow alleys without thoroughfares, and courts;
as also all trades that use great fires or yield
noisome smells, and would have secured perfect ven-
tilation and arteries of oornmunicatiun throughout
the City, sufficient even for its present enormous traffic.
Taking the premises herein set forth into consideration,
and adverting to the serious responsibility which rests '
upon the Corporation of the city of London, with its
ample revenues and great powers, we confidently rely
upon your Court to proceed, without loss of time, to the
completion of those sanatory arrangements which you
have so commendably beean by the making of sewers,
and the cleansing of highways ; and that you will give
to them, moreover, a preference over the widening of
streets merely for the purposes of traffic, which, however
necessary and important, falls far short of those mea-
sures upon which the health, the comforts, and the lives
of so many of the inhabitants of the city of London im-
mediately depend."
Mr. BUCKMASTER also presented a petition from the
inquest jury of St. Andrew's, Holborn, on the danger to
the public health arising from bad sewerage. It stated
that though sewerage was proceeded in, the locality was
in as bad a condition as if there was no sewerage at all,
as the landlords did not choose to go to the expense of
opening drains to make it available, and that the supply
of water was most ina•lequate ; and it would be desir-
able that the Legislature should make it compulsory upon
landlords to have a due and proper supply furnished t.)
every house.

Ii was stated that an effort, which it was expected
would be successful, was to be made in Parliament to
introduce a clause making it compulsory uphia landlords
to accomplish what the mem,,riali,ts recommended.
The reports were referred to the Improvements Com-
mittee.

Mr. WATERLOW brought up the report of the Parlia-
mentary Committees. with the draft of a petition to
Parliament against the interment of the dead in
churches and churchyard.; ; and also a report recom-
mending the abatement of the nuisance of smoke from
steam-engines, and the draft of a petition on the subject.
Agreed to.

NEW PRISON.
Mr. WIRE brought up a report recommending the ap-
propriation of some City ground at liolloway for the
erection of a prison.—Agreed to.

BRIXTON ALMSHOUSES.
Deputy ALLAN brought up a report recommending
that the Corporation should take the future manage.
ment of the almshouses erected a few years ago at
Brixton under its own management, and to autho-
rise the committee to carry into effect the negotiation
carried on for the transfer of the property, and for their
entire management and control by the Corporation.
Agreed to.

THE CLERK OF THE CITY'S WORKS.
Mr. BURN brought up the report on the reference to
consider the present salary of the clerk of the City's
works, and recommending the same to be increased to
2,5004 per annum.
The report spoke in terms of the highest appro-
bation of the conduct of Mr. Bunning, the clerk of the
works, and of his high qualifications.
Unanimously agreed to.
It is arranged that the freedom question will be dis-
posed of at the next Court.

The Bishop of Sodor and Man, on Tuesday, the
29th ult., was installed in St. Mary's Chapel, in Castle-
town, in presence of the clergy and a numerous con-
gregation. His Lordship was afterwards sworn a mem-
ber of council, and granted commissions or appointments
to the vicar-general, registrars, and surrozates. His
Lordship, the Archdeacon, the clergy, &c., dined with
his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, at tho Govern-
ment-house.

A letter of the 27th, from Berlin, says—" It is
rumoured that the Emperor of Russia has resolved to
place here a very considerable sum of money—some
accounts say 11,000,000 and others 15,000,000 silver
rubles. It is asserted that this loan will not be made to
the Prussian Government, but has been offered to the
King personally. The importance of this fact will not
escape any one who has followed the recent incidents of
our internal polities. It is not uzeless to add that a per-
sonal lean to the King is not a new thing; when the
extraordinary - expenst s occasioned by the state of
Europe in 1830 exhausted the Treasury, the King per-
sonally contracted a loan of 10.000,000 thaiers."
BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—It is with unfeigned
pleasure we announce to our readers the intelligence,
that the British Association has decided on holding its
next meeting at Swansea. The time fixed is the 9th of
August, 1848. The Marquis of Northampton, F.R.S.,
President. The Marquis of Bute, Viscount Adare,
M.P., J. 11. Vivian, Esq., F.R.S., M.P., Sir H. de la
Beche, li. W. Dwyliyn, Esq., F.R.S., the Dean
of Llandaff, and W. R. Grove, Esq , F.R.S., Vice• Pres-
idents. J. G. Jefferys, F.R.S., Treastn•er. Dr. Nicol
and M. Moggridge, Esq., Secretaries.—Cambrian.
We learn from Constantinople that the palace
nants.ovraCrldossethteo
being„s.a built by the Viceroy of Egypt at Beycos, on the
Asiatic side of the Bosphorus, will be of the finest stone
tch;ut can be procured, and adorned with 150 marble
facade
feet) in length. It is believed (it
snah the
srSteiuml
believed that he construction will
50,000 purses (6,000,0000 thantestimated
dT4ollaote
require three or four yearsil:lelabnaedK2:o:oesk:olf-c:srt