The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-22 00:00:00

WOOL.

The public sales of foreign and colonial Wools commenced
on Thursday, and will be continued during the present week.
As yet, the biddings have been inactive, but no material
change can be noticed in prices. The quantity advertised is
about 12,000 bales. By private contract next to nothing is
doing, The imports in the past week have amounted to 31
bales from Antwerp, and 281 from New South Wales.
TALLOW.

On the whole, this market is firmer than for some time
past, at an advance of quite Gd. per cwt. Fine P.Y.C. on the
spot ha sold at 5041 3d to 50s Gd per cwt. For forward de-
livery we have but few sales to report. Home made is im-
proving in value.

NAVAL IN TELLIGE.N CE.
PORZSMOUTII, FAB. 19.—The Emerald tender returned
from Yarmouth last night, and this morning the Echo and
Monkey towed up the two mooring lumps, and the flat boats
which have been employed. Mr. Bellamy, Assistant-Master
Attendant, and all the men who were employed afloat, have
also returned. As we stated yesterday, there will be no fur-
ther attempts made to get the Sphynx off until settled fine
weather sets in, and it seems the general impression that
that will not be before the latter end of April or beginning
of May. In the meantime everything will be taken out of
her that can be removed, There has been no possibility of
commnnicating from seaward with the Sphynx since Satur-
day, the vessels having been obliged te take shelter in Yar-
mouth Roads. The vessels have been left behind.
The Birkenhead steam-transport, Commander Ingram, has
had her compasses adjusted to-day by Captain Johnson, for
local attraction. She is to be ready for embarking troops to-
morrow.
The African steam-tug, Mr. Barker, master, has bed her
mast taken out to-day, the head of which was carried away
in coming here from Sheerness. The dockyard artizans are
at work on her, and as she must have a new mast, it is not
likely she will be ready to take the supernumeraries for the
Rosamond steam-sloop for Plymouth before Monday.
SUNDAY, Fun. 21.—The officers and crew of the Sphvnx
were paid off at the Navy Pay-office in the dockyard yes.
t.raila'hY.
e Emerald tender, Second Master-Commanding H.
Beach, sailed yesterday for Plymouth, with supernumeraries.
The Dolphin, 3, brigantine, Commander It. J. T. Miller,
arrived last night at St. Helen's, and came to Spithead this
morning, from South America. We give her news, which is
very late, in another place.
Letters have been received here from the Salamander
steam-sloop, Captain Hamond, dated English Harbour, An-
tigua, the 29th ult., from which it appears that she left
Bahia on the Ist of January, but that on the 17th, in a squall,
she carried away her bowsprit and sprung her main-mast,
which induced her cemmander to make for Antigua, where
he arrived on the 28th. As the vessel required caulking and
refitting, they were not in expectation of reaching England
before April.
The Birkenhead steam transport, Commander A. Ingram,
has been so much retarded in her refitment by the late bad
weather, that she will not be ready for receiving troops be-
fore Wednesday next. The baggage will, it is expected ar-
t rive on Tuesday.
The Admiralty have issued an order prohibiting the entry
of any more boys for the navy. The Victory is daily vic-
tua iling about 1,150 stomachs. Boys from Ireland, Scot-
land, and the innermost recesses of Wales, are daily offering
themselves for entry. We are requested to make known that
no more can be received at present.
The Devastation steam-sloop, bearing the broad pennant
of the Commanger-in-Chief, on the west coast of
left Afrhice
a
station, Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., t
Island of Akcension, in compaith the Actieon, '26, Cap-
tain Mansel, on the 29th of Dececember, on a cruise of inspect-
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plentiful, as was good water. The Hydra steam-sloop, Com-
mander Young, was left at the island by the commodore, to
recruit the health of the officers and crew prior to returning
to England to be paid off. Commander Morrell, late of the
Tortoise store and guard ship, will bring her home. She
was to leave on the Ist of February. The Larne, 18, Com-
mander Brisbane, and the Espoir, 10, Commander Hand, are
also ordered home.
The Flying Fish, 12, Commander Dyke, was at Lagos on
the 12th of November, all well.
The Wanderer, 12, Commander Somerville, was at Lagos
on the 15th of December. The fever was raging violently on
board; Lieutenant Wallers and many others had fallen vic-
tims to it.
The Pantaloon, 10, Commander Douglas, was also
sickly by the last advices. very

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been suffer-
ing the laikt few days under a slight attack of lumbago. We
are happy, however, to hear the Right Hon. Gentleman was
better yesterday morning, and it is expected he will be able
to attend in 4;4 place in Pailiauient this evening.

IRISH PAIWY-

The Irish party assembled on Friday at their newchahl-
- King-street, St. James's, for the special purpose of con,-
sidering the provisions of the important Bill recently intro-,
duced into the House of Commons by Lord J. Russell, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Labouchere, to facili-
tate the improvement of landed property in Ireland by the
owners, and to afford employment to the labouring classes.
The Marquis of Westmeath presided. Among the Irish
noblemen and members of the Lower House present were the
Earl of Mountcashel, Lord Monteagle, the Marquis of Sligo,
Lord Bernard, Mr. W. Smith O'Brien, Mr. F. Shaw, Mr.
Bernal Osborne, Mr. Fitzstephen French, Mr. G. A. Hamil-
ton Mr. Ormsby Gore, Mr. R. A. Fitzgerald, Mr. Lefroy,
Mr. Gregory, Mr. H. Grattan, Mr. T. B. Martin, Mr. Grogan,
Mr. J. R. Godley.
The Noble CsAtratart proceeded to read the clauses of the
Bill seriatim.
After a vast deal of conference and consultation it was
agreed that several suggested amendments should be brought
under the consideration of the Legislature. The limitation
of the advances out of the growing protuce of the Consoli-
dated Fund, for the purposes of the Act, to 1,500,0001., was
regarded as injudicious, and the general impression appeared
to be that the Treasury Commissioners should receive per-
mission to issue, as from time to time might be required, sums
of money not exceeding in the whole the sum of 2,000,0001.
Air. F. FnExcif suggested that the third clause, which
vested all powers appertaining to the execution of the Act in
the Commissioners of Public Works, should be amended by
the substitution of local commissioners, paid or unpaid.
Viscount BERNARD and Mr. HAMILTON considered that,
in addition to the works of drainage, subsoiling, trenching,
irrigation, or warping of land, reclamation, erecting and
making corn mills, clearing lands of rocks and stones, erect-
ing substantial farmhouses and buildings, embanking' lands
from the sea, specified in the 4th clause as those on which
the proposed loans were to be expended, the construction of
bridges and embankment of tidal piers would be found mani-
festly advantageous.

Mr. SMITH O'BaiEw recommended an amendment of the
12th clause, which authorised the Commissioners of Public
Works to require by deposit, land or otherwise, security for
payment of the expenses incurred in reporting upon and in-
vestigating the subject of an application for loan. Instead
of leaving the Commissioners at liberty to charge such costs
as they pleased, he thought it would be well to have the
liability for expenses limited to a per centage on the amount
applied for. Mr. O'Brien also suggested that the Commis-
sioners should give notice of such application, not only---in -
the Dublin Gazette and the newspapers circulating.ln the
county in which the lands are situate, as the 18th clause
prescribed, but in the Dublin newspapers also, and in such
other manner as wilt secure proper notice to the immediate
lessor or his known agent. With regard to the 22d clause,
rendering lands chargeable with loans granted from the date
of the Commissioners' order, Mr. O'Brien further suggested
that each portion ,f the land improved with the loan should
be only liable for the amount expended on itself.
Lord MOUNTCASHELL intimated that, in his opinion, the
22d clause—providing that errors and omissions in memo-
rials, schedules, or hakes proceeding; under the,Aet, were
not to prevent. the
.Commissioners all ,intittcry m
jridginent requisite for '''efuryinglthe provisions into
effect, or to invalidate any rent charge chargeable under
the Act—should be reconsidered when the Bill went into
Committee.

It was generally considered by the meeting that the loans
should be issued by instalments, not exceeding at any time
one-tenth of the entire sum, instead of one-fifth, and that no
instalment should exceed in any case 500/., instead of 300 L
It the event of an owner desiring to clear of his rent charge
for loan more speedily than at the rate of 6/. 10s. per cent.
for 22 years, the 40th section enacted that he could do so with
the sanction of the Treasury Commissioners • but the Irish
party thought that in such case notice should be given to the
reversioner, and his consent obtained.

Mr. ORMSBY GORE suggested that there should be clause
introduced into the Bill, extending its benefits and advan-
tages to incorporated societies, such as the Waste Land Im-
provement Society of Ireland.
Many members agreed with Mr. Gore, and it was deter-
mined to bring the subject under the consideration of Go-
vernment. _ _

Some routine business was then transacted, and thanks
having been voted to the Marquis of Westmeath the meeting
separated.
" The Irish party" met again on Saturday ; the Earl of
Massarene in the chair. The following members were pre-
sent :—Mr. W. S. O'Brien, Mr. P. S. Butler, Mr. H. Grattan,
Colonel Acton, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. T. Martin, and Mr.
Grogan.
Some clauses of the proposed Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill
were again discussed.
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN announced that it was his intention
to move several amendments to the Bill in Committee. In
the formation of electoral districts pauperism bad been so
allocated, in respect of the property liable for its relief, as to
cause the pressure of poor-rate taxation to be very unequal.
He should, therefore, propose that the Poor-law Commis-
sioners should revise and reconsider the electoral divisions
of the several unions in such a manner as that the pau-
perism of each district should bear to the property liable for
its relief as nearly an uniform proportion throughout each
union as circumstances would allow ; that for each elec-
toral division there should be formed a relief committee,
consisting of the justices of the peace, residing or pos-
sessing rateable property within such electoral divi-
sions, of the Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Protestant,
and Presbyterian clergymen, usually officiating in such divi-
sions, and of a proportionate number of wardens to be elected
simultaneously with the guardians ; that the relief committees
thus constituted were to consider and determine who stood
in need of relief in each electoral division, and to certify their
opinions with respect to the claims of each person applying
for relief to the board of guardians, stating at the same time
their opinion whether the person so applying ought to be re-
lieved in the workhouse or out of it; that the Poor-law Com-
missioners shall revise and reconstruct the unions, so that the
extent of each shall not be more than 150,000 acres; that

the repayment of the loans borrowed for the construction of
the workhouses shall be defrayed by a rate levied accord-
ing to the net valuation, as an uniform poundage upon all
rateable property in Ireland ; that the Poor-law Commis-
sioners shall make an uniform valuation of rateable property
throughout Ireland, in so far as the same may be possible
under the existing valuation Acts ; and lastly, that persons
receiving fixed incomes from rateable property, by way of
jointure, rent charge, or any other annuity, not being created
in satisfaction for debt, shall be liable to all rates levied for
the relief of the poor, just as if the income so received were
receivable as rent.
Several letters were read giving an appalling account of
the daily increasing state of destitution in Ireland. It was
unanimously resolved, that the fearful details of misery and
suffering contained in those communications should be stated
in the House of Commons, and the necessity of immediately
providing food and seed for the Irish people again pressed
upon Government.

THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 20. —The
Oriental Company's steam-ship Oriental, Captain Brookes,
left, the docks at 3 r.m. this day with the Last India and
China mails for Alexandria, a full cargo of bale and other
goods, and 60 passengers. Captain Brookes was formerly
the commander of the Tagus, and prior to his removal to
the Oriental had the Erin. He is the oldest officer in the ser-
vice. The next Portuguese mails will be brought in the
Tiber, Captain Bingham, and may be expected on the 26th
inst. The Royal Tar steamer came into the dock at 6 P.m.
to-day from the Lazaretto, at the Motherbank, and landed
the cargo of the Erin, consisting of silks, goats' wool, &c. A
very fine steam-ship. called the Fire King, came into the
docks at 3 r. u. from Liverpool. She is appointed by her
charterers to trade between this port and Carrel and Spanish
coast with cattle, &c., in the, room of the Transit steamer.
The Ripon, Captain Soy, with the East India and China
mails, may be expected from Alexandria on Sunday next.
The Erin, Captain Russell, will leave on the 3d proximo
for Malta, Constantinople, and the Black Sea, &c., with
mails and passengers, including those for Alexandria and
Bombay, &c. The Montrose, Captain Burney, will take out
the Peninsular and Mediterranean on the 27th.

EXTENSION OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
On Saturday the viaduct reached Glasshouse-street, Lam-
beth, having completed one-half of the proposed extension,
and already crossed the Kennington and Vauxhall-bridge-
roads ; to-day the houses in Gloucester-row, Princes-row,
Moss-fields, Salamanca-place, street, and row, together with
several in Anderson's-walk, will be demolished for the further
progress ; as also, in the course of a few days, the houses on
either side of the Westminster-bridge-road, where the rail-
way crosses at the Marsh-gate.
ACCIDENT ON CONSTITUTION-HILL.—An accident,
which was fortunately not attended with serious results, oc-
curred to a gentleman who was riding a spirited horse, on
Saturday, down Constitution-hill, at the time her Majesty
was proceeding through St. James's-park, en ronte to Clare-
mont. The horse, alarmed at the lances of the troop of
Lancers, who formed her Majesty's escort, became unma-
nageable, and backed against the carriage in which the
Queen was riding, nearly unhorsing its rider. It had no
sooner cleared her Majesty's carriage, than it dashed with
great force against the carriage and horses which followed,
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alarming situation of the gentleman, immediately ordered
the carriage to stop, and commanded the Equerry in Waiting,
the Hon. Colonel Grey, to ascertain the state of the gentle-
man who had met with the accident. Her Majesty, after a
delay of some minutes, having been informed that the gentle-
man, although covered with mud, was not seriously hurt, then
proceeded onwards to Claremont. Both the Queen and the
Prince Consort manifested great regret that an accident,
under such circumstances should have occurred.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE, GEORGE-
STREET.—The periodical " soirée," which took place on
Friday evening last, in the drawing-rooms of the institute,
was attended by the largest and most brilliant company of
the season. The amusements were of the usual diversified
and agreeable kind ; music, both vocal and instrumental
being contributed by Miss Dolby, Miss Ransford, Mr. and
Mrs. Weiss, Mr. Bodda, Mr. Lindsay Sloper, Mr. Willy,
Mr. W. Dorrell, Mr. Goodban, and a new Belgian violinist,
whose name has escaped us; while Mr. Buckingham took
occasion to deliver, in his own popular, fluent, and instructive
manner, a short lecture upon Babylon and the Tower of
Babel. The reunion passed off with great spirit and enjoy-
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ATTACHSaturday OF
violent attack made by a mob
Lambeth in consequence of a
parish workhouse. It was
of at least 100 persons on the
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stated that several men,
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women, and children, had applied
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possible .
and other rubbish were thrown
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against the doors, threatening at the same time a forcible
entrance. Things began to assume the most alarming
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dofexthpeosapprehending the ringleaders, and clearing the
neighbourhood of their violent followers. This workhouse
already numbers nearly 1,000 inmates, the relief for which
body terms no inconsiderable item fur the burdened rate-
payersatees y of
yesterday
a3morning, pa, ris li
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THE TRIESTE ROUTMr VabgboAirnr.lAefutsßtinams-
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accompanied
engineer, to obtain more land facilities for for the overland
route, route, by way of Trieste.
FRIGHT/AIL OCCURRENCE AT CARSHALTON.-011
Friday afternoon an inquiry was gone into before William
Carter, Esq., at the Greyhound Inn, Carshalton, touching
the respective deaths of Charles Cooper, aged 45, Alice
Cooper, aged 43, and Charles Cooper, aged 6 years, who lost
their lives under the most frightful circumstances. It ap-
peared from the evidence that the deceased persons resided
in a house built against a chalk pit, and formerly used as a
stable, the roof being level with the adjoining fields. On
Wednesday the earth gave way, forcing the brick wall in on
the unfortunate occupants. At the back of the premises was
formerly a warren for rabbits, which most likely was much
undermined by them. The Coroner having summed up the
case, the jury returned tha following verdict :--A That the
decased persons were accidentally suffocated by the falling of
a quantity of earth, which forced in the wall of a certain
dwelling-house, which fell upon them as they lay in bed
asleep.''

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