The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

IRISH PROVISION SQUADRON.

The following is the distribution of her Majesty's vessels on
the coast of Ireland, employed in conveying provisions to the
distressed population, under the command in chief of Rear-
Admiral Sir Hugh Pigot, C. 8., K.C.H.
The Tyne, 28, on passage to Galway, to discharge sup-
plies. The Madagascar, Andromeda, and Andromache,
frigates, are depots moored respectively at Tarbert, Kil-
libegs, and Galway. The Cockatrice, schooner (tender),
left Cork on Saturday for Castlemaine Harbour, with
provisions, on account of the British Relief Association.
The Mercury (tender) and the Gipsy, are gone with
supplies on behalf of the British Relief Association to
Ballydehob. The Adventure, transport, has proceeded
with 2,345 barrels and 49 sacks of meal, to Kenmore,
where she is to be moored as a floating depot. The Lively,
lighter, is gone to Clifden and Tarbert, and is to return to
Cork. The Devon, lighter, is on her way from Balti►uore to
Cork, for further supplies. The Ant is gone to Limerick;
the Sinbad to Tralee, Killarney, and Tarbert.
The following are the steam-vessels and their distribution
on the coast :

The Dragon, steam frigate, arrived from Portsmouth, with
meal and biscuit, and accompanied the Tyne to Galway.; from
that place the Dragon proceeds, and there discharges her
cargo, for Sligo. The Odin, steam frigate, has proceeded
with s7ed and supplies to Ballymullet, and is to return to
Cork; discretionary orders w, re given to Captain IVil
liams to land part of his freight at Kenmare if he thought
it necessary. The Scourge, steam :loop, has been to Liver-
pool for supplies and old clothing, &c., furnished by the
Society of Friends, and is distributing them along the
north-westcoast. The Bulldog, steam sloop, has left Cork
for Kenmare, with the Adventure, transport. The Blazer,
steam vessel, left Cork with the Cockatrice in compan,
for Castlemaine Harbour; she is lo land her freight
at Castlemaine, for Killarney. The Geyser, steam
sloop, is on her way to Cork from Dingle to Tralee, where
she has landed supplies. The Tartarus, steam vessel, has
distributed soup boilers along the coast; alter landing her
meal at Arran Island, on the west coast, she is ordered
to Galway, to relieve the Urgent. The Zephyr,
Holyhead steam packet, is at Colic, and has taken on
board supplies on account of the British Relief Associa-
.

tion, for —distribution at Bantry Bay. The Myrmidon,
iron steam' vessel, hag been sent to Waterford to afford
protection to the provision boats passing between Carrick
and Clonmel. The Lucifer, steam steam vessel, is attached
to the depot at Sligo, for the conveyance of provisions in
that locality. The Dasher steam vessel i 3 conveying pro-
visions to Westport. The Acheron steam vessel is stationed
at Black Sod Bay, for the protection of meal vessels passing
that way from bei ig plundered. The Pluto steam vessel is
at Kildysart, to afford protection to meal vessels passing be-
tween Limerick and the river Fergus. The Comet steam
vessel is at Limerick attending to that neighbourhood, as is
also the Swallow. The Alban steam transport is in the river
Shannon, attached to the Madagascar depot.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—This theatre was crowded
in every part last night, the attraction being the benefit of
Mr. Bunn. The performances were of a very varied descrip-
tion, including the services of many popular artists, whose
contributions were received with great enthusiasm. In the
course of the evening Mr. Bunn addressed the house in a
brief speech suitable to the occasion.
SACRED HARMONIC SOClETY.—Tranders oratorio,
"Belshazzar," will be performed by the Society, for the first
time, on Friday next. Although Belshazzar has lain dormant
for many years, it is one of the great composer's finest works.
The libretto is understood to have been written by Mr. Jennens,
who compiled for Handel the text of the Messzak.
MR. BEULER.—This gentleman gave his annual
concert last evening at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, and
as usual, bad a full attendance. The comic songs of the
veteran were the staple of the entertainments, all of which
were received with great merriment. The remainder of the
programme was made up of songs and duets, executed by Mr.
C. Day, Mr. Trenklee, Mr. Sporle, Mr. Shoubridale, Miss
Stewart, Mrs. Aveling Smith, and others.
SPINNING-HOUSE RIOTS.-Our streets still present
from time to time lingering evidence of the ill-conditioned
crusade against Proctorial authority, of which we hope
some of the instigators are now ashamed. On Monday
evening a commotion arose on Market-hill, a little after
eight o'clock, in consequence of the impertinence of a few
dirty little boys ; larger wiseacres by and by interfered,
and there was the usual hooting and shouting and mobbing
of the Proctors, until at last a rather serious row was gene-
rated in St. Andrew's-street, and missiles flew about, so
that the windows of the Bird Bolt Inn, and the lamp over
the entrance gateway, were smashed. A silly fellow, named
Wilson, was captured, and on being brought before the
borough bench on Tuesday morning, was sentenced to pay
a fine of U., or suffer two months' durance vile, for his
ridiculous display of the preceding night.—Cambridge
Chronicle.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT AT LOWESTOPFo-011
Friday last one of the men engaged in pile-driving on the
South Pier was observed to wave his hand to some per-
sons who were passing in a boat ; just at this identical time
the bell of the engine, weighing 21 cwt., was descending,
and forced the hand of the unfortunate individual in con-
tact with the head of the pile. A sad mutilation was the
consequence. When conveyed to the Infirmary it was
deemed necessary to amputate the limb. With a view of
sparing the pain necessarily attendant upon so severe an
operation, the narcotising process with ether was employed ;
but so far from its producing a sedative effect, the most vio-
lent and uncontrollable excitement ensued. At the end of
two or three minutes this abated, wben the poor fellow
allowed Mr. Worthington to remove the limb, which he bore
with the utmost composure and fortitude. At present he is
doing well.—.Ninwich Mercury.
SUICIDE OF A POLISH NOBLEMAN.—On Saturday
an inquest, adjourned from Thursday last, was resumed
and concluded before C. C. Lewis, Esq., coroner for Essex,
at the Crooked Billet public. house, Woodford, on the body
of Mr. Herman Puznanski, aged 37, a native of Poland, and
a nobleman of that country, who committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head, tinder the following cir-
cumstances t—lt appeared from the evidence of the father of
the deceased and other witnesses, that for some time past the
.deceased had been in a low and desponding state of mind,
caused by being reduced from affluence to the most dire
state of distress. On Sunday morning he left home, and
between twelve and one o'clock on that day the report of a
pistol was heard in Epping Forest, between Chigwell and
Woodford. On some persons proceeding to the spot, they
found the deceased lying upon the ground, with blood flow-
ing from his mouth, and by his side a pistol, recently dis-
charged. He was removed to the Crooked Billet, where a
surgeon attended, who found that the deceased had put the
pistol into his mouth and fired, the ball passing through the
larynx and lodging in the neck. Although so seriously in-
jured, the deceased lingered until Wednesday, when he died.
All that was found on his person was two duplicates,'
a half-
penny, a pair of gloves, and a letter addressed to Lord Dudley
Stuart, thanking the
Noble Lord for the part he had taken
in trying to obtain the regeneration of Poland, which he (the
writer) despaired of seeing ever carried
into, effect.
On the 4th instant the funeral of the ufortunate
victims of the destruction oftnthienense crowd of the inhabi-
tants Grand Ducal Theatre was
t
solemnized at Carlsrhue. An
formed a double line to the cemetery gates.
of the victims were =Weed in The ashes
in two torah. eight coffins, which were said

INSTITUTION for the PROTECTION
OF FEMALES FROM SEDUCTION.
Yesterday a meeting of -noblemen and gentlemen wag
held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, to sup_
port measures for " the more effectual prevention of
trading in seduction and prostitution," which will be
introduced this evening into the House of Commons by
Mr. Spooner. The meeting was a very numerous one.
Sir E. N. BUXTON, in the absence of Lord R. Grorp.
venor, M.P., was voted to the chair. He said the objoct
of the Bill they were met to consider was to prevent tho
crime of what he might call the English slave-trade, by
which persons induced by force or fraudful persuasion
young females to become prostitutes in the great cities
of this country. It was not necessary to enter largely
into so distressing a subject, but he could not avoid men-
tioning the defects in the law that punished promptly
and severely other offences, whilst it had no provisions
to check the atrocities of those men and women who
made it the business of their lives to decoy young females
into a course of prostitution, and so destroying their
minds, bodies, and souls.
The Rev. Mr. HUGHES, of St. Pancras, moved the
first resolution:—" That this meeting recognises and de-
plores the baneful influence of a systematic and eaten-
sive trading by procurers and brothel-keepers in the
seduction of female children and young women." It was
very painful to state that the law was inoperative to pre-
vent this nefarious trade, and that so many were allowed
to carry it on with impunity. The law as it stood was
surrounded with difficulties, and therefore it was of the
greatest importance that something should be done tAI
make it effectual.

Mr. CLEWES seconded the resolution.
The Earl of MourtivasuEL said the subject had en-
gaged his attention for many years, and he had the sa-
ristaction of thinking that he was the first individual
who had suggested an institution for improving the laws
for the protection of women. In these reforming times
it was astonishing that no steps had been taken to amend
the laws on this subject since the days of George IL
That law was defective; and did not go to the root of the
evil. The law required was one that would effectually
prevent the system of trading in prostitution. Was it
not shocking that, in this moral and religious country, a,
set of people should be tolerated, who lived by corrupt-
ing females, and selling their bodies and souls for the
vilest purposes? Yet such ‘iwas the case. There did
exist a set of beings—wicked demons he would call them
—who lived by betraying their fellow-creatures into a
course of the most dreadful misery and infamy. Ought
they not to exert themselves' in every possible way to
stop this system of evil—in checking which they were
interested as fathers, brothers, and Christians? He would
not go into long details of the evils caused by this system
of seduction, but would confine himself to one melancholy
case, of which he had a positive knowledge. About two
or three years ago, a baronet—a gentleman belonging to
an old family, of large property and great reSpectability,
who had been sheriff of his county—had two daughters,
young ladies brought up according to their rank and
age, whom he sent to Paris, to an excellent school, to
complete their education.. At vacation time they were
to return by Boulogne, and embarked there in a steamer
for London. At the landing-place servants were wait-
ing•for them, but the steamer did not arrive until the
middle of the night, and the servants having returned
home, the passengers landed, and the young ladies had
not been heard of by their families ever since. All that
could be learned was, that a well-dressed female had
paid them great attention during their voyage, and the
conclusion eventually come to was, that she had decoyed
them to some infamous house, and that they were new
either physically or morally dead. Such a calamity
might come home to any man's family, and the parties
causing it might escape with impunity. In .a country
not so much vaunted for morality as our own—he meant
France—the code penal would be found to contain mere
salutary laws for the protection of young females than
the statutes of England. This was a disgrace which he
hoped to see removed, and he would aid every measure
that tended to do so.

The resolution was then put and carried.
The Rev. ROBERT MErrtno, Chaplain of the Bridewell
Precinct, moved the second resolution, to this effect--

" That by an enactment of the 25th of George
IL, the Legislature of this country not only
sanctioned the principle that prosecution against
brothel keepers should be encouraged, but endea-
voured to afford the requisite facilities for carrying
out the principle. Lengthened experience had shown
that the facilities afforded by that Act are not sufficient
for the object which it contemplates, and proves that the
existing law is inadequate to the protection of female
chastity." He considered the proposed Bill would do a,
great deal of good, and therefore it should meet with his
most cheerful support.
Mr. BITCHINGRAM seconded the resolution, and con-
sidered it disgraceful to the country that prostitution
should be carried on more openly than in any of the
countries he had travelled in, whether European, African,
Asiatic, or American.

Mr. W. EVANS, M.P., supported the resolution, and
considered that the happiness, honour, and strength of
any society depended, in a very great degree, on the
character of its,women. Whenever their character was
lowered, it must fall on the whole mass of the com-
munity, and therefore he was most anxious that evety_
thing should be done that the law could do to prevent
injury to female character.
The Rev. Mr. GLANVILLE also spoke in favour of the
resolution.

The resolution was carried unanimously.
The Rev. Mr. CBS! moved the third resolution—
" That in order to the effectual protection of female
chastity it is requisite that the law should declare the
procurer to be criminally responsible as well as the
brothel keeper; and that in order to the due execution
of the law against both parties, the cheap and speedy
process of a prosecution before a magistrate should be
sanctioned before Parliament.".
The Ray. Mr. BauwN having seconded the resolution,
it was adopted.
The following resolution, rroposed by the Rev. Mr,
LUSIGNAN and secondt:d by the Rev. Mr. WOODYER,
was next carried:—" That this meeting approves of
the Bill which is to be introdu.ed into the House of
Commons by Mr. Spooner, M.P., and desires to ex-
press their most hearty thanks to that gentleman for
along the prominent position he has in the advocacy of
this cause."
Mr. SPJONER, M.P., said that he hsd promises of sup-
port from many Members of rarliament wbo formerly
used to laugh at the Lotion of legislating for the protec-
tion of female virtue.

A petition was drawn up, and signed by the chairman
on behalf of the meeting, to be presented to Parliament,
praying for the adoption of the proposed, or some equally
efficacious measure.

Thanks having been passed to the chairman, the meet-
ing separated.

SCHAMYL, THE CIRCASSIAN

CHIEF.

We extract the following account of Schamyl, the chief of
he Circassians, from a letter dated Constantinople, 17th ult.,
Ln the Univers:—

"It is said that the power of Schamyl Bey is on the in-
crease. Circassia, in place of ceasing the unequal struggle in
which she has been engaged for so many years, appears, on
the contrary, to find new resources in the courage and the
alliance of the surrounding tribes. The Caucasus has be-
come the refuge and the rampart of all the mountaineers who
defend their ancient liberties; and such is the general confi-
dence in the future, that this military leader is already con-
sidered as the founder of a monarchy around which the popu-
lations of Georgia, Armenia, and Daghestan are to be grouped.
Russia has no longer to put down a partial revolt. The
point for her is now to hold firmly against a rising and
creating power, which opposes numerous and strong
nationalities to her own. The vague reports collected
relative to Schamyl represent him as an able and fortunate
warrior, surrounded with a court, and possessing a warlike
army, disciplined by Polish refugees in the European
manner. On Fridays, public prayers are offered up fer his
safety—a Mussidman ceremony in honour of Royalty.
Money is struck with his mark. We do not say his
effigy, for the poverty of the country does not permit
the use of metal for money, but only of leather, which,
however, is received in all places where his authority extends,
and is even preferred to Russian money. Schamyl is of middle
height, well-made, and of a robustconstitution which enables
him to support with ease all kinds of fatigue; continually on
horseback, at the head of a chosen band of determined troops,
composed of Polish lancers and Cossack hulans, he never ap-
pears but with the ornaments of his rank and in full uniform ;
liberal to profusion, he distributes all the booty with those who
share his dangers ; fond of literature, he has around his person
poets who celebrate his triumphs in popular songs ; prompt to
conceive plans of strategy and still more so to execute them, he
flies from one extremity of his territory to the other, and falls
on the Russian outposts with the rapidity of lightning, and after
occasioning them serious loss, returns to his impregnable
mountains or flies to other.dangers. His batteries of artillery
are numerous and complete, and each piece is a trophy which
has cost the enemy dear. Alussulman enthusiasm surrounds
him with a religious respect; but be, with- an elevated and
tolerant spirit,leaves to all his soldiers
Rv aunstsai
ag emo u a y
the free and u exercise o their
time under his authority,
asfwleill as to the pfopula-
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for him withworship. Libertyth in
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sothaed
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gisi oruess de ce
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Go-
vernment, that it has gained bim the sympathies of all the
Christionapersecuted by the official church of the Emperor."

GERMAN RAILWAYS.—RaiIway communication is
proceeding rapidly in Germany. Next year the line will be
complete between Cologne and the extreme frontier of the
East, North, and South of the Germanic Confederation.
Vienna, Breslaw, Berlin, and Hamburgh are now connected
together by a continuous railway. The Augsburg Gazette
informs us that a meeting has just taken place between the
directors of the different railway companies possessing this
vast range of lines. Between Vienna and Stettin there is a
distance of 225 French leagues, and between Vienna
and Hamburgh 250 leagues. This is the greatest
extent that a railway line has yet run. The various
directors have agreed on an arrangement of de..
partures in correspondence with each other, so that the die-
t anon between Vienna and Hamburg may be cleared in forty..
ab ou
eight hours, comprising
ll
stoppages, and betweenViaernrilivaesurciat
Stettin forty hours. The train leaves Vienna at seven •
the evening, and arrives at Breslaw the next day
noon, and leaves 13reslaw at four o'clock, and
Berlin at five in the morning; it leaves sgain at seven fin
Hamburg and Stettin. The back train leaves Hamburg at
one thenneat n
g h afternoon,loa
v eand
again Stettin
aat eleven,
at fo
a;
rirth.es reaches B
Br
esierlaiNny
at
day at eleven. and at Vienna the second day at. seven
nexntii
in the morning. The works on the southern line—from
Vienna to Trieste—are proceeding rapidly. When this lints
is finished ;travellers may book themselves from Hamburg to
Trieste.

COUNTY OF ROSS FAIRS P CRS 4CROP, 1846.
Wheat, first quality, per quarter, 3ELT4s. 846. ; Wheat, second
quality, per quarter, 81.55. ; Barley, 11.18L:10. 0
, Bear Or Bgg
21• Os. 6 Ad. ; Oats, first quality, 1/. 13s. sd. ;ats, Ciommon,
or second quality, 1/. lls. 70. ; Oatmeal, per 1401bs,
1/. 3s. 90.; Barleymeal, 18s. 44d. ; Pease, 2/. 15s. 24d. ;
Beans—no evidence. It is somewhat remarkable that air.,
second quality of wheat was fixed at a higher rate than the
first, and can only be accounted for on the supposition that
the greater part of the first was sold before the rise in the
price, and that the greater part of the second was sold after.
—lnverness Journal.
The German journals announce that the canal
which will unite Bavaria with the Danube and the Rhine,
and which, in honour of the Fang, is called the Ludgwiga
Canal, is to be opened throuz'acut its whole length on the
15th inst., if the state of the weather shall permit.