The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-01 00:00:00

NY APRIL I, 1847.

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND COMPANY.
On Tuesday the annual general meeting of the
directors and proprietors of this corporation, established
very many years ago to promote agriculture and grazing
pursuits as well as settlement in the colony of Tasmania,
was held at the company's house, Great Winchester-
street, to receive a report of the last year's proceedings,
the election of directors who have vacated office by
rotation, and upon other matters. The governor, Mr.
Cattley, presided. The minutes of the last meeting were
read and confirmed.

The Secretary, Mr. HOWELL, read the report, which
stated—" That the Government survey of the company's
!ands had been completed, and that the Lieutenant-'..io-
vernor of Van Diemen's Land was about to forward to
the Secretary of State the tracings and descriptions of
those lands, with a view to the grant of the requisite
warrant. by her Majesty's Government, and the directors
are now enabled to state that the said documents have
been received, and that Earl Grey has signified the
intention of Government to carry out this arrangement
fully, in pursuance of the company's charter. Steps
have been accordingly taken for preparing and sub-
mitting a Bill for the sanction of the grant by Parlia-
ment, and the directors trust that an Act to empower
her Majesty to convey the lands in question to the com-
pany will be obtained in the present session of Parlia-
ment. The proprietors will be gratified at learning that
the lands thus awarded to the Company, by an agree-
ment between the Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's
Land and the Company's chief agent, as shown by the
tracings and descriptions transmitted to Earl Grey, con-
sist as follows. viz. :—Circular Head, 20,000; Surrey Hills,
150,000 ; Hampshire Hills, 10,000 ; Middlesex Plains,
10,000; Emu Bay, 50,000; Woolnorth, 100,000; Robbins
Island, 24,450 ;: Walker's Island, 1,720 ; and Trefoil
Island, 255—making a total of 366,425 acres. Valuable
as these extensive grants must ultimately prove, yet
the directors regret to add that the expectation which
they had entertained of- their becoming so at a very
early period, has been—frustrated by Sir Eardley
Wilmot's 'announcement to Mr. Gibson, that in con-
sequence of the Government surveyor's unfavourable
report of the line of road previously laid down between
the settled districts and Emu Bay, the Government
gangs had been withdrawn to another quarter of the
island. The result, however, of an interview with the
present Lieutenant-Governor, before his departure from
England, leads the directors to believe that the project of
establishing such a road will ere long be resumed, and this
expectation is further confirmed by the accounts of ale im-
proving state of the commercial, agricultural, and financial
interests of the colony, as to the unprecedented depression
of those interests, and the consequent want of funds for
public works, rather than the difficulties of the line of
road, its abandonment may probably be attributable.
The proprietors are aware that the chief inducement
held out to settlers to take farms on the company's
heavily timbered lands, was an engagement to take its
produce at certain prices. The engagement was
entered into just before the commencement of
the pecuniary embarrassments and stagnation of
all enterprise throughout the island, and the results
have been very disadvantageous to the company, as
the produce delivered into the store by their tenants was
hardly saleable at any price—the loss, however, has not
been so heavy as might have been at first supposed, be-
cause in the earlier years of occupation the clearance and
cultivation of land proceeded but slowly, and the tenants,
therefore, instead of being creditors, became largely in.
debted to the company for indispensable advances of
provisions and stores. Those advances at one time reached
20,2571. Bs. 5d., and from the tenor of the latest advises,
it would appear that they still exceed 10,0001., but
the increase in the tenant population, and the rapid
clearance of land (amounting altogether to 1,640 acres
under the plough), leads to the belief that a great part
of this debt will be liquidated in the course of the years
1847 and 1848; so great in fact is the progress of
cultivation, that the directors would regard with some
degree of alarm the prospective success of their
tenants, were it not that the improvements in the
!markets of Australia hold out the expectation of
remunerating prices for produce delivered to the com-
pany. Should these prices be maintained, as may
not unreasonably be assumed, for the next three
years, there will be no further loss to the company
from over production by their tenants, as in
March, 1850, their leases, and with them all the
company's engagements will terminate. The sales
of cattle and sheep have been inconsiderable, and at
very low rates, and the horses disposed of were . few,
and netted small sums ; the exact amount cannot be
accurately shown, as, from some unaccountable delay,
no account of sales have yet been received. On the other
hand, the sales of live stock for the tenants' subsistence
have been very large. The company's clip of wool for
the year 1845, consisting of 74 bales, realiSed, at
public auction, 1,075/. 19 11d. In the course
of the eight months from the sth of January
to the sth of September last, 29 vessels had
arrived, and 31 departed from Circular Head
to foreign ports, besides num( runs coasters trading be-
tween ;izatiley, Emu Bay, and Launceston, and that
the traffic was progressively improving. Whilst pro
vision had thus been trade to advance the com-
mercial interests of the new societies growing up at
Stanley and Emu Bay, every attention has likewise
been paid to their moral and religious improvement,
and the directors have great prlcasure in stating that
as far back as March, 1846, the chaplain, the Rev. Mr.
Grigg, had secured the services of a respectable and
well qualified schoolmaster, and also a mistress, for the
schools at Stanley. A master and mistress had likewise
been obtained for schools at Emu Bay, where buildings
for the purpose were in course of erection, at the cost of
the tenants, and Mr. Grigg states his sanguine expecta-
tion that both places will shortly possess as many social
advantages, and exhibit as fair a social character as any
like amount of population in any rural district of Eng-
land."

Upon the question that the report be adopted and
printed for circulation among the proprietors, many
questions were asked by proprietors present,
The GOVERNOR, in reply, said, he as well as the direc-
tors had to regret the report was not more favourable,
but they had laid before the court all the facts that had
come to their knowledge. Every effort had been made to
reduce expenditure in the colony. The great object to be
obtained was, that the corporation should become !and
lords, not farmers. Upon the company's lands all poor
but industrious men would succeed in bettering their
condition in life. With respect to the defalcation in the
number of sheep which appeared to exist in the report,
full returns had not been received of the number which
was at Woolnorth, accounts relative to which had
not yet come to hand. Upon the -whole, however, there
had been a considerable increase in the company's flocks.
As soon as a title could be given to the lands sold by the
company, which would be the case very soon, no doubt
there would be plenty of purchasers.
A PROPRIETOR complained that for seven years the
tenantry system had been going on at great loss, and
that the results had been so small.
Mr. RouGEmoNT explained, that owing to the panic
the directors had directed Mr. Gibson, the com-
pany's agent in the colony, to be cautious. The
prices of produce in the colony had been exceedingly
low, but the markets were rallying, wheat as
well as other produce, as well as stock, was in
demand for Australia and the Cape of Good Hope,
As almost all attention in Australia was directed to the
working of copper mines found in the sister colony, it
was probable that agricultural pursuits would not be
followed up with so much avidity. This would give a
better chance for the produce of Van Diemen's Land.
The company's agent, Mr. Gibson, when he learned the
s►tate of the markets in England and Ireland, would re-
gulate his course accordingly.
After some further discussion the directors sad
auditors were elected.

A vote of thanks was then passed to the governor
and directors,

The GOVERNOR, in returning thanks, observed that
they wished to encourage the emigration of the more
decent portion of agriculturists of industrious habits, and
possessing some small property. To these the company
would afford many facilities, such as the loan of bul-
locks, sheep, utensils, &c., with a view to encourage the
tenants, and bring on their estates a class of people who
would keep their engagements. lie was happy to say
that on going to Van I)iemen's Land, such emigrants
would find every encouragement and kindness from their
excellent clergyman as well as their chief agent, whose
solicitude for those emigrating to the colony was most
praiseworthy.
The meeting then adjourned.

INFERNAL MACIIINE.-It appears that a diabolical
attempt has lately been made to fire the large stack-yard
of Mr. Allez, of the Bordages, St. Saviour's, who has
been recently released from prison for contempt of court.
On removing a stack a few days ago on his premises, a
bundle of cartridges of powder, bound together with
slow-match, and covered with loose hay, was found un-
derneath. The amadoux, or match, had evidently been
lighted, but appears, luckily to have been extinguished
from being too tightly bound to the packet attached to it;
otherwise, no, doubt, one of the largest stockyards in
Guernsey would have been reduced to ashes.—Guernser
Sun.

ARRIVALS OF CORN IN IRELAND.—The arrivals
of corn, meal, flour, and other edible produce continue to
be immense. The prices of food, we rejoice to say, are,
in consequence, falling rapidly.—Dublin Pilot.
An advertiser, in a Western paper, who rejoices in
the various occupations of lawyer, doctor, justice of the
peace, and dry good merchant, adds the following to his
list of pursuits and qualities :—" N.B.—Auctioneering
or the loudest kind, interwoven with ventriloquism."—
i'hiladelphia Gazette.
Mr. Fitzgerald, of Holbrook, near Horsham, has
issued an address to the constituency offering himself to
their notice. The Hon. Gentleman does not deem it
necessary (or prudent, perhaps) to set forth his political
views i❑ a "preliminary- address," though report says
that ho is a Tory Protectionist to the back-bone.—
Brighton Guardian.
FALICLAND.—TIIREE LIVES LOST.—An accident
of a very lamentable nature occurred at Forthar Lime
Works on the afternoon of Friday last, whereby three
men were instantaneously called into eternity, whilst a
fourth was so injured that he is not expected to recover.
The accident was occasioned by the falling of a huge
mass of rock from the face of the quarry in which they
were employed. Upwards of two hours elapsed before
the bodies of the unfortunate men were got out.--
Edinburgh Witness,

MANCRESTER, MARCH 30. The tone of to-day's
market has been decidedly firm. There has been a
great disposition on the part of buyers to do business at
the rates asked this day week, both in goods and yarn ;
but the rise in cotton has induced those who can hold to
seek an advance, which has materially checked opera-
, tions. For those qualities of goods and yarn, especially
the latter, suitable for India, slightly better prices have
been obtained.
ROCHDALE, MAncit 29.—The flannel market has
bean quiet to-day, with a rather thin attendance of buyers.
A small manufacturer stopped payment last week ;
his liabilities are said to be about 1,0001. The principal
creditors are the Halifax wool dealers. The wool
market has been slack, but prices firm. Broke wool,
from 10d. to 1-1(1. per lb., is very scarce, which will have
its due ( ffect upon pricer.
HALIFAX, .SATURDAY, MARCH 27.—Although we
cannot note any improvement in the market to-day,
either as regards the attendance of buyers or the dis-
posal of goods, yet there seems to be a better
reeling in the hall, arising from the downward
tendency of the corn market, as well as the genial
promise of the spring. There is a slight improvement in
the demand for yarn, but hitherto without any corre-
sponding increase in price ; though, as the idle ma-
chinery becomes fully employed, that may be expected
to follow. The stock of long wool in the market is dimi-
nishing, without any temptation in price to purchase to
replace it, as no advance can be established. Hogs are
scarce.—ln short wools there is less doing, and pur-
chasers buy with great caution ; but the prices are de-
cidedly firmer.
HUDDERSFIELD, MARCH 30.—The attendance of buyers
to-day has been numerous, principally on American
account; but they have evinced considerable care and
caution in making their purchases. There is not much
doing for the home trade.
LEEDS, MARCH 30.—There is a rather improving
tone in our market, and a fair average bersinesa hes been
doing since last week: the demand chiefly runs on low
cloth. The Government contracts now out cannot but
act favourably on our markets.—Manchester Guardian.

It is stated in a letter from Munich, that accounts
had been received there of the King of Greece having been
suddenly attacked by severe illness.
THE ARMY.—Lord Alexander Lennox has obtained
a captaincy and company in the Blues, owing to the retire-
ment of the Hon. C. 11. Cust from the Army, and Lord Otho
Fitzgerald, son of the Duke of Leinster, has succeeded to a
lieutenantcy.
CALEDONIAN CANAL,—We understand the Caledo-
nian Canal is now open from Inverness to Gairlochy, and
will, in a few days more, be open from sea to sea.—Ross

INFLUX OF IRISH PAUPERS AND SPREAD OF
FEVER.-We understand that the Committee of thy
Liverpool Guardians Society have appointed a sub-
committee for the purpose of investigating the causes of
the greet increase of lever in the town, and the con-
tinued influx of Irish paupers, and suggesting remedies
to avert the evil, and counteracting the spread of intec-
fiefs. In taking this course the Guardian S.,cietT will
add one more to the many claims on public gratitude,
and we cannot doubt but that its aid will be most accept-
able to the municipal and parocLial authorities. Unfortu
stately, there is but to much occasion for the united
exertions of all classes to stop the progress of the
pending calamity.—Liverpool Mercury.
ETHER OPERATION.—On Thursday, the 18th inst.,
a very painful operation was performed at Saltash, by
Mr. Harrison, surgeon, of Devonport, on a lad who,
having been struck by a marble in the eye, was obliged
to have it removed. Ile was perfectly unconscious of
any pain. The instrument used was one of Mr. Croy-
don's.— West Briton.
COAL TAR AND TILE POTATO DISEASE.—The ap-
plication of the coal tar, which has been ratherextesi-
sively used as a remedy for the potato blight in this
neighbourhood, has, in some instanceg, destroyed the
vitality of the seed. We, therefore, warn our agricul-
tural readers to be extremely cautious in using it. If
this should turn out to be generally the case, the remedy
will prove worse than the disease. We had little faith
in gas tar proving a specific for the potato disease, even
if it had not proved injurious; for although it will de-
stroy fungi, yet it should be understood that fungi are
only the effect, not the cause of the disease. The seeds
of fungi aro almost everywhere—in the earth, in the
air, and are not placed thus to act as destructive agents
to healthy vegetation—if so, they would be always in
operation; but, on the contrary, we can never trace their
effects as primary agents of healthy, vigorous life, but
only in diseased plants. The cause which produced the
disease is still hid from our view.—" Qui potent reruin
cognoscere oausas."— {Vest Briton.

BURGtIEAD RIOTETIS.—On Tuesday last, James
Falconer, !shoemaker, and Angus Davidson, cooper,
Burghead ; Daniel Sutherland, jun.:4°bn Young, and
John Main, fishermen. llopeman, were placed at the bar
of the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, charged
with the crime of mobbing and rioting, and of assault,
in so far as on the 2Gth of January last they formed part
of a mob which assembled, and violently preventing or
obstructing the shipment of meal belonging to John Al-
lan, corn merchant, Elgin, and John Inne3, corn egeut,
Burghead, on board of the James and Jessie, and Ceres,
and with conducting themselves in a riotous and out-
rageous manner, and with wickedly and facniously
attacking and assaulting Mr. Patrick Cameron, sheriff-
substitute of Elginshire ; Mr. Alexander Brown.
procurator-fiscal ; Mr. William Ilay, superinten lent of
police ; and Mr. John Allan : secondly, with having.,,
after the meal was shipped, carried it away from the
vessels on the 27th January; and with having assaulted
C. Innes, the sheriff of the county, and the civil force
which had been raised for the purpose of assisting in
preserving the public peace ; and also with having de-
forced the authorities, and rescued a prisoner in their
custody, and with having severely injured several of
them, and compelled them to take shelter in the inn at
Burghead, the windows of which were broke by missiles
thrown, and also with attacking the carriages in which
the authorities, after leaving the inn, proceeded to
Elgin. James Falconer pleaded guilty to the first charge
as libelled, and the other panels to both charges as
liboled. The public prosecutor passed from the second
charge against Falconer. Evidence as to character was
then led on the part of the panels ; and certificates were
read by the prisoners' counsel from the Free Church
clergymen and elders of the church of Burghead, and
also from other parties. The Court was then addressed
on behalf of the panels by Messrs. Tennent and Fras, r;
after which their lordships retired for consultation for a
short time, and on their return into c,urt the Lord Jus •
Lice Clerk sentenced Falconer to eighteen months' im
prisonment, and Davidson, Sutherland, Young, and
Main, each to seven years' transportation. Considerable
surprise was manifested in the court at the severity of
the sentence.—Aberdeen Herald.

A GOOD RETURN.--A party, in Portsoy, last week
realised upwards of 50/. for turnip seeds, the produce
of an acre ! !

11ERRINGS.-A number of herrings of a very
superior quality, were taken at Shieldaig last week,
and appearances indicate that there are more on the
coast.

MEAT STEALING.—At the petty sessions, held at
St Anstell, on Tuesday lust, a woman named Elizabeth
Stocker, belonging to that place, was brought up charged
with stealing some meat from the shop of Mr. R. Wil-
liams, butcher. It appeared that Mr. Williams, having
lost several pieces of meat, on Saturday last marked his
meat ; and this woman having entered his shop and
walked out again without purchasing any, lie followed
her, and found some meat, which he had previously
marked, concealed under her arm. She was given into
custody, and is now out on bail to appear at the assizes.
West Briton.

The translation of the Rev. H. Macleod, of Logie,
cams before the Free Presbytery of Tain last week.
Three Commissioners appeared from the Presbytery of
Greenock, and several individuals in behalf of the church
of Logic. After hearing parties, it was finally decided
that the call from Greenock be dismissed.
'We learn that Mr. Mc Lean, farmer, St. Martins,
by way of experiment, when lifting his potatoes last
autumn, left about an acre in the ground, taking up
every alternate drill and ploughing the soil over those
left, so as to secure them from frost. On lifting these up
lately, the result, has been that instead of 6 bolls, he only
got half a boll.

The enthusiasm of the Viennese public for the
opera of The Camp of Silesia continues unabated. At
each representation the Imperial Theatre, notwithstand-
ing the great increase of prices is filled to excess, and
the receipts invariably amount to about 11,000 florins
(about 6001.) The opera of Robert le Diable is about to
be reproduced, in which Mdlle. J. Lind will fill the parts
of Alice as well as that of the Princess. It is said that
M. Meyerbeer has undertaken to set to music for the
theatre, An-der- Wein-, a new opera, the words of which
are by M. Baurenfeld.

A letter from Vienna of the 13th says that the
committee for the embellishment of Pesth has received
orders from the Government to employ for the future
the Ifungarian language in their deliberations, instead
of the German. Hungarian is also to be henceforth em-
ployed in all the public establishments of the country.
The Archduke Stephen lately replied in thatlanguage
to a letter of congratulation from the committee, on his
appointment as Lieuteuant-General of the kingdom.
FALMOUTH HARDOUN.—The Trinity Board has
just laid in Falmouth harbour a buoy on a flat ruck,
under water, called the Miss Logos, about thirty-five
yards from St. Mawes Castle Point, and in a line with
the westermost part of St. Mawes town from the Black
Rock Beacon. The spot buoyed has been attended
with greater danger to boats than to vessels of any larger
size, although, in the charts, two fathoms are given as
the quantity of water thereon.— iVest Briton.
11. T. Redmond, Esq., Resident Magistrate at
Carrick-on-Suir, an excellent and most efficient officer,
has been appointed Receiver to the Constabulary in
Dublin.—Dublin Evening Post.
THE DISTRESSED IRlSH.—Upwards of thirty
pounds have been collected at the Scilly Islands fur the
relief of the Irish, and forwarded to the committee, by
the chaplain of the Islands. In addition to this, Charles
Steel, Esq., Inspecting Commander, has remitted to the
Comptroller of that department the sum of 51., being a
voluntary subscription on the part of the officers and
men; also 2/. 10s. by the officers of the customs -at that
port, to the Hon. Spring Rice, one of the honorary seem-
4aries.— {Vest 13riton,

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
It has been our painful duty, upon more than one oc-
casion, to direct the public attention towards the system
which has been pursued by certain railway contractors
in this country in the payment of their labourers. The
public indignation which followed our first notice of this
matter had, wo believe, the useful effect of rousing the
directors of the Great Southern and Western Company
to an interference sufficiently active to put an end to the
enormity, and we have heard no more of its perpetration
on the works of that undertaking. With another com-
pany, however, our remonstrances have not been equally
successful. More than a year ago we informed the pub-
lic that the labourers upon the Midland Great Wectern
or Mullingar Railway, were paid by promissory notes,
having many days to run, and which, to our knowledge,
were issued for sums co small as four shillings, and, we
regret to find, that the evil is still in action and most
mischievous existence; in proof of which let all con-
cerned behold the following copy of a document now
lying hi fore us:—
No. 000
DUBLIN RAILWAY OFFICE.
30, Upper Dominic-street, Dublin,
16th March, 1547.
We owe Patrick O'Rourke, or Bearer, the Sum of
TEN SHILLINGS
which we promie to pay at our MILT on Friday, the 23.1
April instant, or any following Friday:
For WILLIA?I full THOMAS JEFFs,
J. J. VERSO.

£0 10 0

The original of this document was given in payment of
wages to a labourer employed upon the Mullingar Rail-
way, and working, at the time, at a distance of twelve
miles from Dublin, who is thus subjected to the grievous
oppression of the most griping usury. At a period when
so much difficulty exists in bring the cost of taro sub-
sistence within the limits of the highest unskilled labour
wages, thirty eight days' credit is enforced by those con-
tractors upon the wretched pittance of the labourer; and
he is placed under the necessity, if he denies to escape
commission and agency fees, of forfeiting a day's work
for each week's wages. The result of the operation, as
we are informed is, that these notes ere cashed for the
unfortunate holders at a discount of eight per cent. per
month, being at the rate of ninety-six per cent. per
annum.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY OFFICIALS.
—We learn that some important changes have been
made on the list of gentlemen intrusted with the prac-
tical working of this Mr. Milier becomes consult-
ing engineer; Mr. Adie has been appointed acting engi-
neer; Mr. Latham, of the Manchester and Birmingham
line, has been appointed manager ; and Mr. Henry
Guthrie Wright retains the situation which he has so
ably filled as secretary to the company; Mr. William
Paton has been appointed superintendent of locomotives,
in room of Mr. F.rs)th, who has accepted a more lucra-
tive situation in England. It will be remembered that
some time since Mr. Paton was suiljec ed to a let•gth-
ened imprisonment, in connexion with whicii much
public sympathy was excited; and the Lard Justice
Cierli, after complimenting Mr. Paron with having
probed to be a most m-ritorious and excellent officer of
the establishment, conilud.-d with these words, "I do
not hesitate to say that you may be readily intrusted
will the same or any similar situa i n."—Glasgow
Herald.

SLAVE-TRADE-HORRIBLE MassAcaE.—The fol-
lowilur has just Oven received from a very intelligent
naval olTher at :—" ASCENSION. JAN. 1, 1847.
—We have just reerived news of a most hoirii:l-• mas-
sacre on the coast. A slave depot call,d Gsllineas,
known to have 2,000 slaves ready for shipping, was so
closely btorkaded by our eruz Ts, that tne slave owners
finding it impossible to embark the slaves, and not wish-
ing the expense of feeding. them, actually in cold blood
beheaded the whole number. placing their heads on poles
stuck in the beach, saying if you will not allow us to
make profit of prisoners we take in war, we will kill all.
—Cork Constitution.

FRACAS IN AN EMIGRANT SHIF.—An affray took
place on Thursday last on board the Albion, bound from
this port with emigrants to New York, which threatened
to terminate in the loss of life. It appears that on that
day a bailiff got on board for the purpose of executing
a decree against one of the emigrants for the price of
one cwt. of meal which he got last year from his land-
lord, a gentleman in the vicinity of the town. The
bailiff having seised the man, be rescued himself from
his grasp, and the bailiff then proceeded to claim the
protection of the police. lie applied to Sir Thomas E.
Blake for an order for the purpose, and Sir Thomas ac
companied a party of police, under the command of Mr.
Lynch, 5.1., to the vessel. The bailiff then attempted
to get on board but the other emigrants oppo►ed it. The
police interfered to assist him, but they too were resisted
Cho excitement became very great, and at length the
emigrants and police got into collision. Fearing that
loss of life would be the result, Sir Thomas Blake
ordered the police to desist, until they got a reinforce-
ment of the military to overawe the emigrants. A
party of the 49th were then sent for, and upon their
arrival the man against whom the decree was executed
immediately surrendered himself to them, requesting
the other emigrants not to offer any further opposition.
lie was then conveyed to the town prison, and is likely
to remain there until discharged by the insolvent judge.
—Galuwy Mercury.
AccioExT.—On Monday evening last, as Mr.
Rowe' e van was coming into Truro from Bo,lmin, at the
top of the hill, about a mile from Truro, Mr. Rowe thri w
the reins on the horse's back, and was about to get off
to trail( the o heel, Then the horse started elf, and Mr,
Rowe, in attempting to stop him, was thrown to the
ground, and had Lis shoulder dislocated by the violence
of the tall. Mr. Pearce, of Lemon-street, Truro, who
was riding outside, was alto thrown to the ground by the
startng of the horse, and received a serious cut on the
eye, besides other contusions of the fete. The horse
proceeded at a rapid rate in'o Truro, without a driver,
and was not stopped until he arrived at the George and
Dragon, in St. Austell-street. Mr. Rowe was after-
ards taken to the Seven Stars Inn, where he is now
under medical care, end is progressing favourably. The
passengers who were riding inside the van received no
injury.— West Briton.

. _
Some specimens of ancient gold coins have been
discovered near the foundation of the late rectory-house
in St. Martin's, Stamford, by the labourers employed in
excavating for the Syston and Peterborough Itailtvay.
The coins, seven in number, were found in a wooden•
box, and were nearly as bright R, gold just issued from
the mint: they consist of •' noble." of the reign of Edw.
111., and " angels" and " half-ar eels " of the reign of
Henry VIII. The nobles are believed to have been
coined 500 years ag On one side they pr: sent a figure
of the king standing at the hole; of a slop (suomsed to
be emblematie,l of the s,rvereignry of the seas), and on
the reverse a rch cross &tire, wish lions under crown- in
the angles, and surrounded by the woods •• Edwardto Dm
Gra. Rex Anglo. et France, I). Ilyb." Toe " angels" and
‘• halt-angels," so called from having a representation of
the trr,loingel Michael piercing a dragon on the obverse,
are believed to be more than 300 years obi ; the motto
en the reverse is " Per eruce tun. salva nea X. re redo."
—These interesting relics are in the possession of Mr.
Norton. silversmith of Stamford. A few days before
the finding of the coins, and at a short distance from
the spot where the box, in which they were contained,
was dug up, the workmen came upon a kind of cavern,
or subterranean passage, which at the distance of fifteen
feet from the surface ran east and west for about thirty
feet. The height of the passage was six feet, and into
it opened several cavities, sustained by rude columns of
stone. The conclusion is, that it was, originally, a
place of refuge in connexion with some of the religious
houses with which Stamford abounded in by-gone cen-
turies.—Lincoln Mercury.
DESCENT OF MR. GYPSON'S BALLOON.—The as-
tension which Mr. Gypson, the aeronaut, made on Mon-
day, in company with Mr. 11. Coxwell, editor of the
Aerostatic Magazine, was continued for sixty miles, to
Sandhurst, in Kent, where a safe descent was effected,
near the residence of Sir John Herschel, the illustrious
astronomer. The aeronauts intended to cross the Chan-
nel, but a shift of the wind suggested the prudence of
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to the distinguished observers of the aerial
chariot, and the gentlemen from the clouds having been
hospitably received, the merits and probable utility of
aerostation were discussed with enthusiasm and with
considerable competency and knowledge of the science
on the part of Sir John Herschel. The aerial voyagers
at one period of their lengthy journey attained an ele-
vation of three miles, and some ingenious machinery,
invented by Mr. Gypson, to raise and depress the bal-
loon without loss of gas or ballast, was worked with
advantage.
HOUSE ROBBERY.—A heartless robbery was com-
mitted at Caister, next Yarmouth, on Sunday. The
house of a poor man la.donging to the preventive service,
was entered while he was on duty, and his family at
church, and robbed of 101. in money, a silver watch,
some silver plate, and gold rings. Part of the money
belonged to a child, a grand-daughter of the owner of
the cottage, whose son and his wife Ns ere lost at sea last
year. A man named Bensley, was taken up, and exa•
mined before the Yarmouth magistrates on Monday. No
evidence was adduced sufficient to warrant the magis-
trates in detaining him, and he was discharged ; but in
consequence of information since received, the police
are again in search of him.—Norfolk Chronicle.
PORTLAND.—The news circulating in Portland the
last few days is more interesting than ordinary. We
may expect soon to see located on our common 7,000
convicts ; and, it is said, the same number of troops
will encamp in a field midway between the Traveller's
Rest and the villages. Further, that Government has
abandoned the plan of excavating the " mare" for naval
docks, hut will construct the basin just above tbo Ferry
Bridge, and on the Portland side erect its dock-yard.
This plan is greatly to be preferred to the former ; the
site is more out of harm's way, and there is plenty of
sea room upwards to hold all the ships in the navy ;
besides, no stint of ?pace for timber yards, &e., and,
above all, lying under :he lea of Chisel Beach, which
off here is quite of mountainous dimensions.—Sherberee
Journa L

ANCIENT RELICS.—A further portion of the old
Roman wall has been discovered in digging the founda-
tions for some new houses. which arc in course of
erection in the Park, Newltaid. The wall is in excellent
preservation, both stones and cement being hard as
marble. The stones are in rows, placed edgewise, and
the crevices were evidently filled up by the mortar or
cement being poured upon the stones. Some old coma
have been found but the inscriptions are not traceable.—
Linco!nshire Chronicle.

ALARMING OUTRAGE.—The Limerick Chronicle
states that on Monday Captain Fishbourne, the inspect-
ing officer of public works in Newmarket•on-Fergus,
was violently assaulted by a mob of persons who had
been upon the public works.—Dublin Evening Past.