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

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

The following is posted at Lloyd's :
" FIXED LIGHT OF CEARA, COAST OF BRAZIL.
" Hydrographic-office, Jan. 27, 1847.
" Notice has been received by her Majesty's Government,
that on the first of the present month a fixed light was to be
established at Ceara, on the northern coast of Brazil. The
Lighthouse stands on Mucuripe Point, on the eastern side of
the Bay of Ceara, in latitude 3 deg. 41 min. 10 sec. south,
and longitude 38 deg. 35 mm. 9 sec. west of Greenwich,* and
being thirty-seven feet above the level of the sea, may be
seen at the distance of ten miles.
" In " Baron Roussia's Survey of the Coast of Brazil,"
and in the English Charts, this point is placed in " 3 deg.
41 min. 50 sec. S., and 38 deg. 30 min. 15 sec. W."

PALL OF AN ANCIENT HOUSE IN RATCLIFT.—On
Thursday afternoon much alarm was created in the neigh-
bourhood of Brook-street, Ratcliff, by the falling of an old
house, which, with four others adjoining, have been long
in a very dilapidated condition. The inner wall of one of
the crazy buildings, 75, Brook-street, inhabited by Irish la-
bourers and others, was heard to crack, and some of the bricks
and rubbish fell into the yard. The women, among whom
was one who had just given birth to an infant, hastily
snatched up their children and rushed out of the house.
They had scarcely reached the street when their dwelling fell,
and some of them were nearly buried in the ruins. One of
the inmates, a female, was missing after the clouds of dust
had cleared away, and on search being made for her, she
was discovered in the ruins in the back part of the house
among the rubbisl). and was brought out and conveyed to the
house of a neighbour. She sustained very little injury, and
soon recovered.
FOREIGN POTATOES.—The following arrivals of
potatoes from abroad have taken place during the past eight
days :—The Edward, from Rouen, brought 80 tons weight;
the Giraffe, from Rotterdam. 10 baskets; the Rapid, from
Harlingen, 7 baskets; the Hawk, from Rouen 45 to-a •
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weight; the Scovell, from Rouen, 80 tons;
from Rouen, 40 tons; the Stephen Witney, from New York,
3 barrels; the Flora,,frOni Islay, 4 barrels; and the ~.ntonio,
tom Bout), N teas. - •

WHITEHALL, FEB. 17, 1847
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing the
Right Hon. Lord Langdale, the Right Hon. Lord Beaumont,
Joseph Humphry, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel, Henry
Bellenden Ker, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Walter Coulson,
Esq., Barrister-at-Law, George Frere, Esq., and Francis
Broderip, Esq., her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring
whether the burdens on land can be diminished by the esta-
blishment of an effective system for the registration of deeds
and the simplification of the forms of conveyance.
WHITEHALL, Fan. 18.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Henry
Rogers, 8.A., to the rectory of blelverley, in the county of
Salop and diocese of St. Asaph, void by the death of Doctor
William Carey, late Bishop of that see.
WAR-OFFICE, FIB. 19.
Bth Light Dragoons—Major Frederick George Shewell to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice M'Call, who retires ;
Captain Rodolph de Salis to be Major, by purchase, vice
Shewell ; Lieutenant Henry Francis Cust to be Captain, by
purchase,vice de Salis; Lieutenant George Chetwode, from
the 4th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cust,
Feb. 19.
14th Light Dragoons.—Samuel Kerr Ibbetson, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Buller, who retires, Feb. 19.
17th Light Dragoons.—Lieutenant William Morris, from
16th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice John Stephen-
son, who retires upon half-pay of 16th Light Dragoons;
Lieutenant John Elphinstone Fleeming to be Adjutant, vice
Stephenson, who resigns the Adjutantcy only,:Feb. 19.
29th Foot—Ensign. William Septimus Simmons to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Henderson, deceased,
Nov. 25, 1846 ; Ensign Charles Hugh Levinge to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice 'Simmons, whose promotion, by
purchase, has been cancelled ; George Henry Nevill, Gent.
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Levinge, promoted,
Feb. 19.
56th Foot—Captain John James Bull, from 57th Foot, to
be Captain, vice Warre, appointed to 57th Foot, Feb. 19.
57th Foot—Captain Henry J. Wane, from 56th Foot, to
be Captain, vice Bull, appointed to the 56th Foot, Feb. 19.
61st Foot —Lieut. John Josiah Hort to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Brickdale, whose promotion has been can-
celled, Dec. 29.
62d Foot —Ensign George James Ambrose to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Harrison, deceased, Nov 5.
67th Foot—Colour-sergeant James Anderson to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Breedon, promoted, Feb. 19.
74th Foot—Lieutenant James Whitshed De Butts to be
Captain, by purchase, vice de Saumarez, who retires ; En-
sign John Jago to be Lieutenant, by purchase,vice De Butts;
Charles Thomas Lindow, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Jago, Feb. 19,
88th Foot—Ensign Thomas Gore to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Lucas, who retires ; Jackson Wray, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gore, Feb. 19.
91st Foot—Ensign John Trotter Bethune to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Paton, who retires; Henry Veitch, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bethune, Feb. 19.
94th Foot—Lieutenant George Noble Bredin from 98th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice G. D. D. Cleveland, who exchanges,
Dec. 1.
98th Foot.—Lieutenant George Dowden Dickson Cleve-
land, from nth Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Bredin, who
exchanges, Dec. 1, 1846.
2d West India Regiment.—Molesworth Sackville Eaton,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Shower, de-
ceased, Feb. 19.
BA/VlT.—Captain William Robinson, of the Royal En-
gineers, to be Major in the Army, Feb. 19.
Erratum in the Gazette of the 29th December, 1846.

For Ensign Richard Gunn Brackenbury to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice "Brickdale," promoted, read, vice "Hort,"
promoted.
NEMORAIIDITM.—Lieutenant Granville Levison Proby, of
43d Foot, has been superseded, having absented himself
without leave, Feb. 19. The Christian names of Ensign
Berry, of 9th Foot, are Edward " Ring," not " Ringe," as
previously stated. The Christian names of Ensign Bertram,
of 41st Foot, are Charles "Pelgu4," and not Charles
" Palgue," as previously stated.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire.
Courtland Skinner Shaw, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
Feb. 9.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of
Yorkshire, and the City and County of York.
William Busfield Ferrand, Esq., to be deputy-Lieutenant,
Jan. 5, 1847.
Commission by her Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy
for the City of London.
Regiment of Royal London Militia—George Platt, Esq., to
be Captain, Feb. 9, 1847.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.
Royal North Lincoln Militia—Dudley Heneage, Esq., to
be Captain, Feb. 13, 1846 ; Gervaise Tottenham Waldo
Sibthorp, Esq., to be Captain, Feb. 13, 1847 ; John Pearson
Robinson, Gent., to be Ensign, FeU. 7, 1846; William Bal-
dack Shepherd. Gent., to be Ensign, march 4, 1846; William
John Graburn, Gent., to be Ensign, March 26, 1816.
Royal South Lincoln Militia—George Baker Tathwell,
Esq., to be Captain, May 15, 1846 ; John Baruth Lousada,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, Feb. 7, 1846; Edmund Haworth
Peel, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Henry Hopkinson Tennant,
Gent., to be Lieutenant, March 4, 1846 ; William Simpson
Clark, Gent., t• be Ensign, May 15, 1846.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire.
Warwickshire Regiment of Militia—William Fulke Lucy,
Esq., to be Captain; Marmion Edward Ferrers. Eiq., to be
Captain ; Henry Arnold, Esq., to be Captain ; Feb. 2.
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 16.

Corps of Royal Marines—Edward Joseph Ridgway Con-
nolly, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant; Edward Ralph
Horsey, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 12.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Abraham Greenwood
Eastwood, of Eastwood, near Todmorden, in the county of
York, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High
Court of Chancery.

WHITEHALL, FEB. 18.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Nathaniel Cowdry, of
Bath, in the county of Somerset. Gent., to be a Master Ex-
traordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTS.
John Buchanan and Francis Ede, merchants, Calcutta, to
surrender March 3, at two, and April 9, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Dingwall,
Tokenhouee-yard, City.
Jerome Fitzgerald, cheesemonger, Sheerness, March 3, at
one, and March 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Belcher, official assignee; Sparham, Chancery-lane.
John Storer Flaxman, tailor, Ludgate- street, City, March 3,
at half-past one, and March 30, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Law, Chancery-lane.
Guiseppe Quarto Sandrinelli, merchant, Bishop's-place,
Brompton Feb. 26, at two, and Marchll, at half-past one,
at the Brompton,
of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee;
Buchanan, Basinghall-street.
William Neep, carpenter, Colchester, Feb. 26, at half-past
twelve, and March 29, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-cham-
bers; Milne, Temple.
Richard Hamlin, tailor, Blenheim-street, Oxford-street,
March 1, at two, and April 1, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street;
Dickson, Old Jewry-chambers.
Abraham Daniels, merchant, Alexander-square, Brompton,
March 2, at one, and March 30, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place,
Old Jewry; Mansfield,. John-street, Bedford-row.
James Aackay, tailor, Liverpool, March 2 and April 9, at
twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official
assignee, Liverpool ; Holme and Co., New Inn, London ;
Yeates, jun., Liverpool.
John Jones, tea dealer, Birkenhead, Cheshire, March 2 and
May 4, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Gregory and Co., Bedford-row,
London ; Green, Liverpool.
John William Hance, architectural :ornament and figure
manufacturer, Liverpool, March 5 and 26, at twelve, at the
Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liver-
pool; Cornthwaite and Co., Old Jewry-chambers, London:
Pemberton, Liverpool.
David Davies, coal master, Lydney, Gloucestershire,
March 5, at one, and April 9, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis-
trict Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Treherne and
White, Barge-yard-chambers, Bucklersbury, London ; Sabine,
Bristol.
Jane Anley, milliner, Exeter, March 4 and 2b, at one, at
the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee,
Exeter; Floud, Exeter; Pearson, Essex. street, Strand,
London.
Edwin Cook, tailor, Dursley, Gloucestershire, March 11 and
April 8, at one, at the Bristol District Court. Miller,
official assignee, Bristol ; Bishop, Dursley.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
J. and J. Boyd, hop merchants, Wellington-chambers,
Southwark-first div. of Is. ld. in the pound, on any Wed-
nesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street, City.
A. A. Mackey and N. J. W. Holt, merchant, Bishopsgate-
street-first div. of 4s. 6d. in the pound, on any Wednesday,
at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street, City.
E. Cawdell, toy dealer, Hull-second div. of 2s. Sd. in the
pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Whitmore
Basinghall-street.
J. Russel, jun., builder, Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire-
first div. of 4s. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street.
R. Crompton, M. Price, and T. Crompton, Shrigley,
Cheshire-first div. of Bs. 10d. in the pound, on any Tuesday,
at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester.
S. Hague, cotton spinner, Manchester-a first div. of
3s. 51,4 d. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr.
Pott, Manchester.
J. Phillips, cotton spinner, Manchester-first div. of 4s. Bd.
in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Pott,
Manchester.
W. E. Oldham, commission agent, Manchester-second
div. of Is. 1,4 d. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office
of Mr. Pott, Manchester.
S. Hawley, grocer, Ashton-under-Lyne-first div. of
ss. 9d. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of
Hobson, Manchester.
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Calcutta, March 12, at one-C. Carpenter, grocer, Basing-
stoke, March 12, at eleven-A. S. Tucker and G. M. Biu-
well, grocers, Melcombe Regis, Dorsetshire, March 12, at
eleven-J. E. Green, house agent, Whitecross-street, Crip-
plegate, March 12, at eleven.
In the Country.
T. Taylor, bookseller, Liverpool, March 12, at eleven, at
the Liverpool District Court-W. Whitley, merchant, Liver-
pool. March 12, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court-
R. Elliot, agricultural implement maker, Liverpool,
March 16, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court-G.
Byford, grocer, Liverpool, March 16, at eleven, at the Liver-
pool District Court-J. B. Oram, brewer, Birmingham,
March 19, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court-
W. Bellamy, horse dealer, Haseley, Warwickshire, March 17,
at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court-J. Smith,
grocer, Stratford-upon-Avon, March 25, at twelve, at the
Birmingham District Court-T. Suter, corn merchant, Hull,
March 24, at ten, at the-Town-hall, Hull-W. W. Salford,
builder, Stockport, -Fob, 22, at twelve, at the Manchester

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
On Wednesday Dr. l3achhoffner commenced his annual
course of lectures on astronomy, giving in his introduction a
most eloquent and comprehensive description of the matured
views of our inddern astrunoiners. The clear and compre-
hensive style of the learned Professor, aided as he is by the
gigantic apparatus of the institution, renders the course a
must valuable and instructive one, not only to the rising
generation, but to those of more mature growth.
In the chemical department Dr. John Ryan has commenced
a course of lectures on general chemistry, ever watching
amid his brilliant experiments for some opportunity of
showing how beautifully his favourite science explains the
wonders of the creation and demonstrates the wisdom and
goodness of the First Great Cause. We are astonished to
find that the interest attached to the explosive cotton
remains undiminished, and the Doctor is compelled by the
pressure of applications to give a lecture on this engrossing
subject three times a week. In speaking of the rapid action
of the cotton during an explosion, the Professor showed a
most remarkable experiment. He took a few grains of the
cotton and screwed it up in a soft piece of paper ; after
making a few holes in the paper with a common pin, he
placed the paper in the barrel of a pistol, the cotton towards
the breach ; he then fired it off, and although the cotton ex-
ploded with force enough to expel a bullet, yet the paper
remained untorn and uninjured. At first sight the result
seemed the effect of some sleight of hand, but the Doctor
referred it to the rapidity of action, the newly-formed gases
escaping through the pin-holes, without tearing the paper in
the least.

We cannot overlook the musical department of this estab-
lishment. Dr. Wallis is most happy in the selection of his
music and most effective in his expression of the great
masters. In the arrangement of the airs for the present
series of dissolving views (mostly original compositions by
this gentleman) he deserves great praise, as it gives a most,
pleasing accompaniment to the pictorial illustrations.

IRELAND.
THE GOVERMENT RELIEF MEASURES.

DUBLIN, Fan. 18.—The Reproductive Empleyment Com-
mittee assembled yesterday at their rooms in College-green,
to consider the Goverment measures for relief under the Bill
now before Parliament. Mr. Bolton Massey presided. Very
strong objections were made to the construction of the new
commission, on the ground that five out of seven were Eng-
lish officials, already occupied with their own official busi-
ness, and all of them unsuited for such a duty. A memorial
to the Lord-Lieutenant was adopted, praying that unpaid
members, selected from the Irish resident gentry, should be
added to the commission.
This day the following gentlemen, comprising the deputa-
tion from the committee, waited upon the Lord-Lieutenant
with the memorial :—Mr. St. George, High Sheriff of Gal-
way; Mr. Cole Bowen, High Sheriff of Queen's County; Sit
W. Cox, Sir T. Staples, Colonel Dunne; Messrs. Stanley,
Monk, Vernon' Bolton Massey, Pierse Mahony, and hem-
mis. After the memorial had been read, _

His EXCELLINCY stated that the appointments of the
Commissioners had been made in England, and those selectsd
were heads of departments, considered to be the most com-
petent for the duties. His Excellency observed that he had
caused to be prepared a circular to the Irish country gentle-
men, containing queries to which he requested answers, by
way of advice and suggestion as to the reconstruction of the
relief committees, which was a matter of vital importance in
the administration of the new system of relief.
Mr. liourox AlAssEv, as chairman of the committee, took
the opportunity of assuring his Excellency that their sole
desire was to support the Government on this occasion with
their zealous co-operation ; but lest they might afterwards
be taunted with an acquiescence in those appointments, they
deemed it necessary thus respectfully to protest against them.
The deputation soon after withdrew.
THE FAMINE.

The provincial journals and private communications that
have reached us to-day contain the most heartrending ac-
counts of the ravages of famine and fever in King's County,
Tipperary, Cork, Kerry, Mayo, Sligo, Waterford, and other
counties. The unfortunate peasantry are dying of starva-
tion by hundreds. Some of the details are really horrible.
The most eager applications are made, in various quarters,
liar coffins, to inter the victims of famine. Mr. Jocye, of
Clifden, county of Galway, in a letter to the bulnin Ecening
Post, describes the death of a mother and child at tbat
place, who had been lying in lever. The straw on which
they lay caught fire, and both were burned to cinders. The
fever Lospistals are crowded, and the deaths are increasin
to a fearful extent.
EVICTION OF TENANTRY.

It is really lamentable to think that the system of eviction
should be in operation at such a time, when famine is deci-
mating the population.
We take the following from the Limerick Chronicle of yes-
terday :—" On Tuesday, William Smith, Esq., sub-sheriff,
with Captain Granville and detachments of the 55th and Bth
Hussars, from this garrison, and a strong party of police,
under head-constable O'Malley, proceeded to Ballinacariga
to take possession of land from James Ilanly and six others,
for non-payment of rent. This property belonged to the Rev.
Charles Dawson, who was murdered on those lands in the year
1835. There were great crowds assembled, but no breach of
the peace was attempted."
There are further accounts of ejectment proceedings in
Mayo. It appears that some of those turned out have emi-
grated, and the land they held is lying waste. None of the
neighbouring farmers will take the land.
The .2Vayo Telegraph states that some of the landlords in
that county are proceeding to enforce the last November
rent, even " before a spade or plough has been put in re-
quisition by the husbandmen." That journal states that the
November rent has actually been paid in some instances,
whilst money is sought from the benevolent English people
" for the sustenance of those starving tenantry, now called
upon to pay the November rent."
OUT-DOOR RELIEF.

The Cork Examiner states that the Rev. Dr. Collins and

the Rev. Justin INPCarthy have left that city for London, as
a deputation from the Roman Catholic clergy of Cloyne
and Ross, in order to watch the progress of the Irish Poor-

law Bill, and to secure the enactment of a system of out-
door relief, which might be " interfered with or cushioned
by the manoeuvres or intrigues of an Irish party or Irish
landlords."
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