The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-16 00:00:00

DEATIXS FROM ALL CAUSES

Ponulation
Enumerated,
1811.
West Districts... 301,326
North Districts.. 376,396
Central Dist7icts 374,759
East Districts ... 393,247
South Districts., 502,483

T0ta15........ 1,948,211
Males ...
Females ~.

Males
Females

Total

2,416

Average weekly Deaths
Deaths, 1842-6. in the
Five Autumns. Week.
146 ... 332
. 184 ... 482
196 ... 458
, 232 ... 463
. 288 ... 681

... 1,046

... 2,416

... 1,17.5
.., 1,241

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

... 638
... 667

... 1,305

From the Registrar-General's return for the metropo-
litan districts, it appears that the excessive rate of mor-
tality which was announced in the previous report
continued to prevail in the week ending Saturday last.
The number of deaths is 2,416, showing an increase
above the average of the season equal to 1,370, or 130
per cent.; whilst, compared with the greater number of
the preceding week, it gives a difference of only 38.
The following are the principal causes of mortality in
three weeks:—

Weeks ending Saturday
1 Weekly
_.A...,
r--
—Th i Average,
Nov. 27. Dec. 4. Dec. 11.1
; --
--, 1
ZymoticDiscases 415 ' 638 783 ; 211
Diseases of respi-
ratory organs 634 994 913 333
Typhus, &c 9l 136 140 38
Influenza
Pneumonia and
Bronchitis
All causes

The decrease of mortality in the previous week,
though numerically insignificant, encourk es a belief
that the force of the epidemic has attained its maximum,
and, being checked by some improvement in the
state of the atmosphere, is already on the decline.
Probably, influenza hai done its worst for the present;
certainly it has done more than enough to renew in the
minds of the existing population the " acquaintance ".
which it established with our ancestors some centuries
ago. From the above statement it will be observed, that
while the total mortality is less, the deaths specially
ascribed to influenza show a considerable increase on the

former week. The circumstance it is difficult to explain,
except on the supposition that, at first, medical men per-
ceived in a multitude of cases only the aggravation of a
chronic complaint, or the inflammatory symptoms of a
common cold, till wide-spread disaster compelled them
to recognize the presence of a new agent, and to assign
the appropriate name.

Subjoined to the return are the following exceedingly
important meteorological observations:—
The most remarkable meteorological phenomenon of
this year is the low reading of the barometer on the
morning of Tuesday, December 7, which, as stated in
the general remarks, was 28181 in. ; this reading is
lower than any since that in the memorable storm of
January 13, 1843. which was 28.096 in. ; the lowest
reading in the year 1844 was 28'525 in. ; in 1845 was
28.659 in. ; and in 1846 was 28.536 in. In 1847, De-
cember 1, the reading was high; and at midnight it was
30.237 in. ; immediately after this time the reading be-
gan to decrease, and continued decreasing till the morn-
ing of the sth day, at which time it was 29.205 in. ; it
having been at 30.074 in. at midnight on the 2d ; at
29.885 in. at midnight on the 3d ; and at 29176 in. at
midnight on the 4th. During the sth day the reading
increased a little till the evening, when it again began to
decrease, and at 4h. 20w. A.M., on the morning of the 6th,
it decreased below 29 inches, and continued to decrease
throughout the day, and at midnight it was 28.291. On
December 7th, at 2h. 35w., A.M., the minimum reading
28.381 in. took place, and it remained at this read-
ing till 2h. 50m. e.at. ; after this time the read-
ing began to increase. This reading is P 855 in. less
than it was 5 days 1 hour previously. This change of
reading is great, but in January, 1843, between the
13th, at Oh. 53m. r.ze , and the 19th. at 9h. 20m. P.M ,
the reading increased from 28.096 to 30.437 in., or
5.341 in. in 5 days and 21 hours. (See the Greenwich
Observations for 1843, page 266.)
In 1847, December 7th, at 9h. P.M., the reading had
increased to 29 inches, and it continued to increase till
the Bth, at 7h. P.M., at which time it was 29'634 in. It
then began to decrease, and to the end of the week it has
alternately increased and decreased about the mean
reading as shown in the table.

On beceraber Ist, there were unusual changes of tem-
perature of the air ; the temperature during the pre-
ceding night was high, and generally above 50 deg.;
towards sun-rise on the sky becoming free from cloud,
it began to decline and continued doing so till very
nearly noon, at which time it was 40 deg.; at lb. P.M., it
had increased to 50 deg., and continued nearly this
point till after 4h. P.M. ; it then began to decline,
and at midnight it was as low as 38 deg., and after mid-
night it declined to 31 deg. On Tuesday the sky be-
came cloudy, and the temperature increased from 40 deg.
at 7h. A.m., to 56 deg. at midnight, it did not decline
below 55 deg. during the night. On the 3d, the sky
was clouded throughout the day, the temperature was
high and nearly uniform, till after Bh. P.M., between
which time and midnight it declined from 53 deg. to 41
deg. On the 4th, the temperature of the air increased
till Ih. P.M., at which hoar it was 50 deg., and it con-
tinued very nearly at this point throughout the remain-
der of the day ; after midnight it declined to 24 deg. 5
min. The highest point reached on the sth was 47 deg.,
and this decreased to 37 deg. by 11h. P. 11.; after this
time the temperature increased rapidly all night, and at
7h. A.M., on the 6th, was 53 deg., and from this time it
slowly declined during the day, and at midnight was
41 deg. The 7th day was cold, and there was but
little change of temperature during the day. On the
morning of the Bth the temperature was 32 deg., which
increased to 41 deg. 5 min., by lh. P.M., and decreased
to 31 deg. 3 min. by 7h. p.m. ; at Bh. r.iu., it had in-
creased a little ; at 9h. P.m. it was 36 deg., and from
this time it increased all the night, and at lh. P.M. on
the 9th it was 56 deg. 5 min., being 25 deg. 2 min.
higher than it was 18h. previously. The period of time
between the 9th at 2h. P.M., and the 11th at 2h. P.M.,
was remarkable both for the high temperature and its
uniformity, the extremes between those times being
50 deg. and 54 deg. After lh. P.m. on the 11th, the tem-
perature declined from 51 deg. to 38 deg. by midnight.
From the preceding remarks it will be seen that the
usual uniform rise and fall of temperature during the
day has frequently been reversed. The reading of the
barometer was high on the Ist and 2d, during the 3d
it decreased about a quarter of an inch, and on the 4th
it further decreased half an inch ; on the sth it was low
all day, and on the 6th it was remarkably low, and it
has continued rather low till the end of the 11th day.

THE MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—On Monday a special
general court of the governors of this charity was held
in the board room, Charles-street, Tottenham•court-
road, to take into consideration the case of Mr. E.
W. Tusen, one of the surgeons of this institution.
Mr. B. B. Cabbell presided. There were also present—
the Duke of Cambridge, Sir It- Inglis, M.P., Sir W.
Stirling, Sir B. Smith, Sir E. Pearson, General
Caulfield, Mr. B. Hawes, the Hon. Captain Maude.
R.N., Captain Mirky, the Hon. J. W. Percy, Mr.
W. F. A. Delane, and nearly 100 governors. The
business of the day having been opened by the chairman,
Mr. Sheddon, the secretary, read the statement of the
weekly board of the circumstances the meeting were
called upon to investigate, in which were set forth cases
of complaint against Mr. Tuson for having received
money for defraying the expenses of pupils, and for not
having therewith paid the fees for the lectures in the
hospital, whereby the pupils had been obliged to pay the
money out of their own pockets a second time, and
statements by Mr. Rowden and Mr. Core, co-lecturers
with Mr. Tuson, complaining that he had not duly ac-
counted to them for various tees. The statement having
been read, the Hon. Captain Maude addressed the meet-
ing, and moved " that the meeting confirm the reso-
lution of the weekly board of the 30th of November, by
which Mr. Tuson was suspended." Mr. C. Elliott
seconded the resolution. Mr. Propert moved an amend-
ment to the effect that, although Mr. Tuson had, in his
transactions with his private pupils, been guilty of con-
duct in the highest degree censurable, yet as his duties
during the years he had bean attached to the hospital
had been characterised by skill, assiduity, and great
zeal, the meeting did not deem it expedient to force his
resignation. Mr. Brewster seconded the amendment,
after which several gentlemen addressed the meeting,
and several questions were put to Mr. Tuson. The
debate resulted in a resolution, put by Mr. Hawes, which
was as follows :—" We, the undersigned, feel strongly
the importance of waving every individual feeling for the
security of the hospital, and we deem it right to disclaim
further contention, and to place our resignation in the
hands of the weekly board at the next meeting." This
resolution, which was signed by all tho surgeons of the
establishment, was seconded and carried by the meeting.
The officers will offer themselves for re-election, and it
will then be for the Governors to say whether they will
re-elect Mr. Tuson. His Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge having said a few words erxpraens,sitvheeomf
etehte.
interest he felt for the good of the hospital, and a v
thanks having been passed for the chairman ote
°t
ing broke up.

TtiE
MURDER OF MR. 13ELLCHAmBERs.--The
grand jury at the Central Criminal Court returned last
evening two true bills against George M'Coy, Thomas
Sale, Thomas Doyle, and Thomas Davis, fur the wilful
murder of John Bellchambers, and for felony.
THE BELGIAN LOAN.—The Belgian journals state
that the new loan which is talked of for Belgium will
be for 75,000,000 francs (3,000,000/0 It is not to be
offered to tender, but to be raised by subscriptions.
According to the journals it is to be a 3 per cent. loan
St 60,

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COURT CIRCULAR;
-----,, . The Queen, accompanied by the,lartio- and:- -,
Marchioness of Normanby, and atten ad
..I),Yilie:ll.fiiii.,
Miss Kerr, took an airing in a cur' p-:ancr tor 90: ,
Tuesday afternoon. :-
Professor Sedgwick arrived at Os K sne hour_ on-
Tuesday, on a visit to her Majesty. .- -- ._,..
The royal dinner party at Osborne„ tr Tnesdai,. ,4.10
10
evening, included the Marquis and Mittctieriesi -Of ''' '
Normanby and Professor Sedgwick.
Yesterday morning the Royal Children went to
the beach, and walked and rode on their ponies.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby left
Osborne yesterday morning, embarked at Osborne
Pier on the Undine, commanded by Commander
Allen, and crossed to Gosport, on their return to town.

General Prince Castelcicala had an interview yes-
terdav, with Lord Palmerston, at the Fureign-office.
The Postmaster-General had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer on. Tuesday, at hia
official residence in Downing-street.

Mr. Kinnaird had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
Lord and Lady John Russell had a dinner party
yesterday, at their residence, in Chesham-place.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood had a dinner party yesterday, at their resi-
dence, in Downing-street.
Disp'atches were received yesterday, at the Colo-
nial-office, from the Governor of Gibraltar.

GRAND OPERA, THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.—
Among the noble and distinguished company who were
present on Wednesday evening were—His Excellency
the Russian Ambassador, with the Baroness Brunnow
and party ; the Prince Louis Napoleon, Viscount and
Viscountess Dillon, Lady Frederick Beauclerk, Lady
and Misses Antrobus, Earl of Canterbury, Lord Henry
Lennox, Lord Robert Clinton, Lord Ward, Lord Brook,
Lord Munster, Lord Edward Howard, Sir William Ball,
Sir George Clerk and family, Sir William de Bathe,
Major-General Sir A. Clifton, Right Hon. C. R. Daw-
son, Right Hon. C. Buller, Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay,
Hon. Colonel Cavendish, General Mercer, Lieutenant-
Colonel Macdonald, Henry Baring, Esq., M.P., &c.
TUB COUNTESS Gurcciou.—The name of Lord
Byron's celebrated favourite appears in the Paris papers,
as about to enter once more into the bonds of matrimony.
first arrondissement the
rrondi
ssGm marriagesen r or ppuabrliis she
isd atha
that the hoer ri
f.e
Ho
if the
l aire
Etienne Octave Bouill6, Marquis de Boissy du Coudrais,
Peer of France, and Chevalier of the Legion of Honour,
widower, to Madame Therese Francoise Olympic Gas-
pera Gamba, daughter of the Count Ruggero Gamba
Jriselli, and widow of Count Guiccioli." The Marquis
de Boissy, like his fair bride, has arrived at an age of
decided maturity. He has been for several. years a
widower,M dll e. d e having
Mushier beende Fo 11 e v Married7ll6a inwhtoh,e
wfiers tb einlisetvane,cemwasto
granddaughter and joint heiress of the millionaire
had Mar-
quis quis d'Aligre. By that mitrrlage
• a ja 1843 to tne Prince de
only daughter, who was mains,
alien. The Countess
Leon, eldest son of the Duke de
the Marquisa
' lied to some of the
Guiccoli therefore becomes not only a._
of one of the
noblest families in France, but the wife
wealthiest of the nobility in that country.
WEYMOUTH ELECTION.—WEYMOUTH,
DAY.—The election of a Member to serve for this bo-
rough in the room of Mr. W. D. Christie, who has ac-
cepted the Chiltern Hundreds, took place to-day at the.
Guildhall. It is broadly stated in the town that the re-
tirement of Mr. Christie is the effect of a compromise.,
between the Liberals and Conservatives, induced by the
threat of a petition. It is, however, also rumoured
throughout the town that Mr. Christie is to be appointed .
an assistant-secretary to the New Poor-law Board. The..
certainty that no opposition would be offered to the re-
turn of the candidate agreed upon made the proceedings
very brief and uninteresting. The Hon. Frederick
William Childs Villiers was proposed by Sir George
Thomas, and seconded by Mr. John Francis Hodges, .
and no one else being nominated, was declared by the
Mayor, Mr. W. Devenish, duly returned to serve as a ,
Member for Weymouth.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME ELECTION.—WEDNES-
DAY AFTERNOON.—The election for a burgess in the
room of Mr. Christy to represent this borough com-
menced this morning. Mr. Ross, the father of the late
candidate, appeared as the representative of his son.
The show of hands was declared to be in favour of Mr.
Ross, and thereupon a poll was demanded and conceded.
The poll takes place to-morrow.
RAGGED SCHOOLS UNlON.—Yesterday evening a
meeting was held at the Temperance Hall, King-street,
Long-acre, on the occasion of the opening of a new
ragged school in Neal's-yard, Seven Dials; the Right
lion. Lord Ashley, M.P., in the chair. It appeared from
the report of the local committee that the school which
they were about to open was started by the liberality of
one individual. A lady who had attended a meeting of
the committee of the Ragged Schools Union was so
much struck by the amount of good which they had
effected that she presented to the union a building in
Neal's-yard, Seven Didls, and the sum of 501. to put it
in repair, for the purpose of being used as a ragged
school. She also agreed to contribute the sum of 101.
per annum to defray the expenses, at the same time ex-
pressing a wish that her name should be concealed. A
local committee of several gentlemen resident in the
vicinity was at once formed, with a view of raising
contributions and superintending the arrangements.
The schools which were now ready to be opened
would accommodate eighty children, and the expenses
would amount to 70/. or 80/. per annum. Letters
were then read from the Rev. Mr. Tyler, the rector
of St. Giles, containing a donation of 5/. ; from Captain
Trotter, the secretary to the society, announcing a do-
nation of 2L, to be continued annually, and from other
persons (names not given) announcing donations of 11.
The Chairman then addressed the meeting at some
length, congratulating them upon the occasion of their
meeting, and urging upon them the strong necessity of
carrying out, by their contributions, the work which
had been so well begun. They might ascertain, by per-
sonal inspection of other ragged schools, the amount of
good which had already been effected. The Rev. Mr.
Branch then addressed the meeting, and stated that an
instance of benevolence similar to the one which hasi been
referred to had lately come ander his notice. A gentle-
man who owned two large houses in Seven Dials had
presented them to the City Mission Society, with the
sum of 1001., in order that a portion of the houses should
be applied to some purpose for the benefit of the poor in
the neighbonrhood. Several other gentlemen then ad-
dressed the meeting, and resolutions pledging them to
forward the objects of the union were adopted. A•vote
of thanks having been given to the chairman, the meet-
ing separated.
MAILS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND NORTH ADID-
RICA.—The new postal contract of her Majesty's Go-
vernment for the conveyance of the mails between Eng-
land and North America, every alternate Saturday
during the winter months, and every Saturday during the
other eight months of the year to Boston and New York
from Liverpool, comes into operation to-morrow even-
ing, when the mails will be made up in London and for-
warded by the Caledonian steamer. Liverpool,
Halifax, and Boston, on the 18th. On the 31st by the
Cambria steamer, for the Ist of January to New York,
from Liverpool, and every alternate Friday till March,
and then weekly. The following important notice was
issued yesterday at the Post-office, so as to preven dis-
appointments and delays in the correspondence between
this icountry and British North America:—The Post-
master General of the United States, having given a no-
tice for determining the agreement under which the cor-
respondence between Great Britain and Canada bas
been conveyed in closed mails through the territories of
the United States, as well as all other agreements
subsisting between the post-offices of the two
countries, the mails to and from Canada will hence-
forth be landed and embarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
instead of at Boston, as at present. All letters and
newspapers, therefore, addressed to Canada will in
future be forwarded by the way of Halifax, Nova
Scotia, unless specially directed to be sent by some other
route ; and, as the arrangement under which United
States postage has hitherto been collected in Canada is
also suspended by the notice alluded to, all letters for
Canada which the writers desire to have forwarded by
the way of the United States should be addressed to the
care of parties in the United States, or they will other-
wise be detained for the ipostage due for their transit
through the American territory. The postage on letters
to and from Canada, forwarded via Halifax, Nova Scotia,
will be Is. 2d. the half-ounce, as at present, but no charge
oene
letters in the
for the United
States King-
dom
l
States via Boston or New York, will be Is. for every
wi
lb
ore m i
na de e
Canada.n newspapers
The p postage a either
letter not exceeding half an ounce, and so on. r
he
postage on both must, in every instance,be prepaid."
Cadiz, and News-
papers will be chargeable with a rate of 2d. each.
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, "
Gib-
raltar, and the West Indies, &c., will be made up
to-morrow morning, the 17th instant ; for Gibraltar,
Malts, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon,
India, Hong-Kong, and China, on Monday morning, the
20th instant, via Southampton, and by the overland
closed mail via Marseilles on the evening of the 24th inst.

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establishment took
EAST
distribution of
rcrivssaGtE,thileAatEvy Ry.--The annual
o
place on Tuesday morning. Among the directors present
Were the Chairman (H. St. G. Tucker, Esq.), John
Cotton, Esq., Sir James Weir Hogg, Bart., M.P., Lieut.-
Colonel Sykes, Sir H. Willock, Bart., Major• General
Galloway, E. Macnaughten, Esq., Sir J. C. Whiteman,
Major 011ifant, &c. Among the visitors were his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Sir R. H. Inglis,
Bart., M.P., Major. General C. Pasley, K. 8., Major-
General Sir G. Pollock, Bart., J. Hume, Esq., M.P.,
Major Chase, Major Wilkinson, &c. Several essays
were read. Mr. E. J. Birch read a prize essay on the
causes of the superiority of the Anglo Saxon race over
the French and Spanish in North America. Mr. J. D.
Forsyth read in the Hindustanee a translation of the
character of Aurungzebe, from Dow's History of Hin-
dustan; also a translation of the Toorkoman tribes of
Khorassan, from Bailey's Travels; and a Sanscrit trans-
lation, in verse, of the description of Satan, from the
first part of Milton's Paradise Lost. The Chairman of
the East India Company then addressed the students into
au appropriate speech. The company then adjourned
tGheeodrignei;
' m on gold at Paris
MONEY MARKET.—The premium dining hall,
in where
the chair. tthe
Englishiu Mint price of
is 13 per mills, which, dinner took place. —Mr. St.
ge at Paris on London
ex-
change of 25.47 ;and
the-
follows that gold is 0.80 per
at short being 25.67 i, it
inParis.
By advises from
31.175. 10 1. per ounce foeraxtnshtatahnnedardgold, gives an
cent. dearer in Londos
goldof 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for
the English Mint price
exchange of 13.10 i ; and the
standard gold, gives an_
on
London at short being
Hamburgh the price of than
is 4361- per mark, which, at
exchange at Hamburgh
,Lol3ndoe than in Ilamburgh.
.14 it follows that gold is 0.57 per cent. dearer in

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at
Guildhall,
_ before the Loin CHIEF BARON
and Common Juries.)
CRoucH P. BouTHQATE.

This was an action to recover damages, OH the ground
of loss sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the
defendant, who was charged to dispose by auction of a
number of Art-Union prints. The ground of complaint
was that the defendant had not sufficiently advertised
the sale, or the day upon which it would take place ;
and the articles were alleged, in consequence, to have
been sold for much less than their actual value. _

The case had not concluded when our report left.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Lord Chief Justice WILDE and a London
Special Jury.)
THOMPSON V. FISHER.
The trial of this part•heard case (which was an action
for breach of contract for the non-delivery of certain
quantities of iron) was rPsnmeti this morning, and the
jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, 7001.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON BEN
CAUNT, THE ENGLISH CHAMPION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SC7N.
Rising Sun, Air- street, Dec. 15, 1847.
SIR,—I beg to offer the most unqualified contradic-
tion to the paragraph inserted in your paper of this day,
at the instance doubtless of Mr. Caunr, and headed as
above. The statement contains a tissue of falsehoods,
and has been published by the " civil and obliging"
licensed victualler, with the sole object of lowering me
in the estimation of my friends and the public. The
facts are these—l entered Cannes house, not for the
purpose of abuse or annoyance, but to partake of a glass
of champagne, to which I had been invited by a gentle-
man whom I bad met in St. Martin's-lane, and who,
witk myself, constituted the whole of the fearful gang
who committed this unprovoked assault upon England's
champion. I can prove, by the testimony of the gentle-
man whom I accompanied to the house, that Caunt first
assaulted me, by striking me most ♦iolently in the face
whilst sitting by his side; the offence being my rep y to
his boasting that he could lick me easily, " That he
would not find it quite so easy as he expected." Upon
this, most undoubtedly, I struck Caunt in return, be•
tween whom and myself a scuffle then ensued, but the
ruffians who rushed to his assistance, and created the
disturbance, were the friends of Caunt, and no gang of
mine, being alone and single handed at the time.
I remain, Sir, most obediently,
WILLIAM PERRY (the Tipton Slasher )
[The paragraph in question was sent to us by an
occasional correspondent.—ED. Sun]

EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.
(THIS DAY )
It will be within the recollection of our readers
that an influential meeting was held on Saturday
afternoon, at the residence of Mr. Lennox Boyd,
No. 8, Waterloo-place, to promote the encouragement
in every possible manner of the emigration to Aus-
tralia of small farmers and labourers in the
north of Ireland and Scotland, amongst whom
it was well known the most acute distress
prevails. Several resolutions affirming the de-
sirability of immediately supplying the wants of
labour in the colony were passed, and the meeting,
of which a report appeared in our last edition of the
day on which it was held, adjourned until two o'clock
to-day, to form a committee to devise the best means
of carrying the resolutions into effect.
The following gentlemen were present:—James
Ralph, Esq. ; Edward Green, Esq. ; Hon. Francis
Scott, M.P. ; Captain Chisholm, H.E 1.5.; D. Hague,
Esq. ; J. H. Story, Esq. ; G. H. Donaldson, Esq. ;
John Boyd, Esq., M.P. ; Samuel Sydney, Esq. ;
W. P. Trevelyan, Esq. ; Samuel Browning, Esq. ;
John Evans, Esq.; Captain A. Davies, R. N.; Cap-
tain H. G. Hamilton, R.N. ; Mark Boyd, Esq. ; J.
W. Sutherland, Esq.; G. H. Wray, Esq. ; 'Thomas
Bateson, Esq., M.P. ; Lord John Ohichester, M.P. ;
W. Westgarth, Esq.; Thomas Shaen Carter, Esq.;
A. Shafto Adair, Esq., M.P.; Thomas Mountford
Nurse, Esq. ; William Bertram Evans, Esq. ; B. B.
Cabbell, Esq., M.P. ; Dr. Rutherford ; Sir Thomas
Mitchell ; John Yates, Esq. ; Archibald Boyd, Esq. ;
Edward Lennox Boyd, Esq. ; John Connell, Esq. ;
D. R. Henriques, Esq. ; Charles Bianconi, Esq.; Sir
M. B. Brooke, Bart., M.P. ; John Young, Esq. M.P.;
Sir E. Macnaghten, Bart., M.P. ; Frederick Hale
Thomson, Esq. ; R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. ;
Jacob Montefiore, Esq. ; Archibald Boyd, Esq. (of
New South Wales) ; Lord Crofton, &c.
On the motion of Lord JOHN CHICHESTER, se-
conded by Mr. Boyd, the Hen. F. Scott, M.P., was
called to the chair.

THE SUN,

support of other Irish proprietors and the Govern-
ment, namely, that a sum of money should be raised,
which should, be divided into three parts ; thus—the
Irish proprietor to contribute one-third, the Imperial
Government one-third, and the colony another third.
On the part of the colony, he believed he was entitled
to say that this was an offer which would be received
with great cordiality. Already the colony had con-
tributed 1,000,0001. for the promotion of emigration,
and 100,000/. had been lately provided, and was now
to be expended for the same purpose. Those who
sent emigrants to the colony were benefited by
their removal—(Hear, hear)—and, therefore, the
colonists considered that the proprietors, from
whose land they were sent, should contribute their
quota of the expenses.—(Hear, hear.) Sir Robert
Ferguson and other Irish proprietors should lose no
time in carrying out their intentions, as the advan-
tages which they offered themselves at present would
perhaps never occur again.
A GENTLEMAN inquired the exact geographical
limits of the colony ?
Mr. BOYD replied that Van Dieman's Land was a
separate colony and Sidney and Port Philip, and were
comprised in New South \Vales and formed another.
It was New South Wales which furnished the

The CMAIRMAII, after referring to what was done at
the last meeting, proceeded to say, that they had met
to consider, the best means to be adopted to transfer
the abject -poor of this country who were unable to
find a subsistence to a better climate and a better soil,
where they would find that food and clothing which
they were unable to obtain here, in Scotland, or in
the sister country. The principles of emigration
were so well known and acknowledged, that it would
be unnecessary for him to enter into detail. The
only question which they had to consider was
the mode of carrying these principles into effect
He referred to the resolutions proposed at the
last meeting, he stated that he had to apologise for
the absence of Lord Farnham, in consequence of the
debate to-night in the House f Lords with respect to
Ireland. The Hon. Gentleman then called on Mr.
Archibald Boyd to address the meeting.
Mr. A. BOYD said, owing to the noise of the
traffic, some of the statements he made at the last
meeting were misunderstood ; he wished, therefore, to
traverse the ground he then passed over, and to
adduce additional facts, because they were no doubt
well aware that the success of the movement, and he
trusted it would be successful, depended upon the
triumphant establishment of two material facts,
namely, that New South Wales demanded an im-
mense amount of labour to cultivate her soil, and
that she could profitably employ and maintain
tens of thousands of the pauper population
of England, Scotland, and Ireland, who were over-
whelming the proprietors of land at home.—(Hear,
hear.) Being a stockholder in the colony, and pos-
sessing considerable property there, he believed he
was 11 a condition to offer authentic information with
respect to its resources, the demand for labour and
wages paid. A short time ago he had 70 men in his
employment ; the lowest wages which he paid to each
man was 25/. per annum, and the highest 351., besides
free house and garden land, which in that tropical
clime produced the fruits and vegetables of almost
every nation, and the following rations per week :-
101bs. of fresh meat, 101bs. of flour, which made
151bs. of bread, or a 21b. loaf, per diem ; 21bs. of
sugar, and a -Vb. of tea. When their wives and
children were disposed to labour, they received
half these rations, by shifting the hurdles
and sweeping the pens, which were in the
immediate neighbourhood of the station
notwithstanding these liberal terms sufficient
labour could not be obtained. These rations were
enough to support any mai and his family in the
colony without touching his wages.—(Hear, hear.)
Yet on these liberal terms the colonists were totally
unable to obtain sufficient peasants to tend their
locks and to cultivate their land, and the con-
sequence was that they were obliged to obtain
natives from the Eastern Archipelago and immense
numbers of Polynesian savages. They were obliged
to hold out great inducements in food and clothing to
these semi-barbarians to obtain any human labour,
whilst tens of thousands of their Christian brethren
were starving at home.—(Hear, hear.) Let him
adduce facts to show the ability of the colony to feed
a largely increased population. There were 9,000,000
of sheep and 2,000,000 of cattle atpresent in the colony ;
3,700 bullocks were weekly either consumed
or destroyed by being boiled down for tallow.
They averaged 6501b5. each, so that 2,406,0001b5. of
meat were thus weekly melted into tallow, instead of
being consumed as human food. 2,600,0001b5. of
mutton, which could, of course, be consumed as food,
were, or could be consumed or destroyed in the same
way, making 5,600,0001b5. per week, which would sup-
port nearly 3,000,000 of people at the same rate of
butcher's meat now consumed per head in Man-
cloister and Glasgow, and without adding a
He or bullock to those now existing.
ne would read an important statement which he had
receatl
Y received from the colony. The Hon. Gen-
tpleziip an then
patriot
Tead the following extract frem the Port
and Morning Advertiser, of July 15,
1847 Facts
(Isr
tth Famine.—A member of the
Sydney Legislature (Mr. recently made the
in s
following remarksplace in the Council :-
4 Besides the wool they produced, he computed
that during the present
low would also be prYo:Zdred6,ooo tons of tal-
To effect this 98,000 head of cattlefoor r sheep, equiva-
exportation,
lent to that number, would have to be boiled
and it was lately calculated that at least 7d dawn'ib.
of
meat of each of these cattle would be useless,
have to be destroyed. This in the interior sf
andthe
colony, for on the sea coast cattle could not be fat-
tened sufficiently for boiling down, no less than
84,000,0001b5. of meat would be wasted, sufficient to
feed 1,100,000 of those poor people who were starv-
ing in England and Ireland.—(Hear, hear.)
This was a fact well worthy the attention
of statesmen and Ministers of the present day."
The surveyor- general to the colony, Sir Thomas
Mitchell, who is now present, who bad recently come
from the colony, reported that he had explored millions
of acres which had never been traversed by a white
man, which bad never yielded pasture to a single sheep,
nor bees crossed by a plough, and which would pro-
duce food to supply almost any number of human
beings who might be sent to the colony. The next,
and the most important question, was how the neces-
sary funds were to be raised ? Sir Robert Fer-
guson, at the last meeting, proposed a plan
to effect this, which he thought well worthy the

100,0001. Earl Grey was merely the trustee of this
sum, and was bound to lay it out in those districts
in which the colony whose money was likely
to derive the greatest number of eligible emigrants.
The colony possessed a strong claim upon the Go-
vernment. They might say, it was true, "We gave
you 10,000,0001. last year, and we will give you no
more, as this sum was sunk in marshes : you show
nothing for it." To this he would reply, that
a reproductive system was continually going
on in the colony. The Government contract fcr
emigrant's passage was 121. 10s. a head, and in 1840
the British manufacture imported into the colony
amounted to about 101. per head per annum. At
present the imports were Si. 14s. per head. In
1846, the population was 195,000 ; the imports in
that year were 1,111,2381., which repaid the cost of
an emigrant's transit in two years and a half.
One Hon. Member stated at the last metting that one
great difficulty which they had to encounter was the
expense. Why, the cost of transit was cheaper than
the voyage to America. The expense of carrying
an emigrant to New York was 51. ss. The provi-
sions for fifty days cost Si. more. The expense of jour-
neying to Cleveland or Cana by canal steam-boat was
41.45., making in the aggregate 141.—(Hear, hear.)
The expense altogether was greater than the amount
of the Government contract to take emigrants to New
South Wales, which included provisions.—(A gentle-
man—l thought emigrants to America were allowed a
lb. of breadstuffs.) He did not think they were.
But to come back to the resources of the colony.
Its power of supporting additional millions was
hardly to be calculated, as the finest parts of New
Holland were as yet unoccupied by white men. Then
as to the price of animal food in the interior. 33lbs.
of meat formed lib. of tallow, and tallow sold in the
colony for 3ii. lb.—the net profits to the stock-
holder in the interior being 2d. per lb. Flour varied
from 71. to 1 I/. per ton. Already the colony proposed
1,000,0001. for emigration. If the 10,000,000/.
sunk last year in Ireland had been laid
out in emigration to Australia, it would have
produced a yearly demand for British manufactures,
at the rate of 4,000,0001. per annum. The wool
produced by the colony in 1846 amounted to
90,000,0001b5., the value of which was 1,280,2001.
He should here, as the representative of the
Squatters who, with their flocks, occupied a country
1,600 miles long and 300 broad, and who exported
to Great Britain annually to the amount 1,000,0001.,
independently cf the exports of the rest of the co-
lony. The colony had an elected legislature, but
though the Squatters furnished four• fifths of the
whole exports of the colony, they had no share
of the franchise. They formerly held the land
on an insecurity of tenure, but now they held it by
lease for fourteen years—(Hear)—and this additional
security being given the produce could not fail to ma-
terially increase. He was happy to have this public
opportunity of thanking the Noble Earl at the head
of the Colonial-office for the great good he had al-
ready done for the colony, and fos the readi-
ness with which he had listened to deputa-
tions of gentlemen interested in the colony.
—(Hear.) The people of Ireland were now battling
with gigantic famine, and here was an excellent
opportunity of saving the lives, and of feeding and
clo•hing thousands of them.—(Hear.) In the colony
the emigrants received compforts which the English
peasant dared not to
.dream of. He concluded by
trusting that those present would leave nothing un-
done to promote the great object which they had in
view.—(Hear, hear.)
The CHAIRMAN then read an elaborate report,
which he had drawn up, with respect to the colony
and its merits, compared with others, which was
listened to with great attention, and much applauded.
Mr. BIANCONI said he had sent several of his
tenants to America, at his own expense, who had re-
lations there. He sent them to New York, by

Quebec, and their transit cost Si., and he gave each
51. to help them into the interior. This showed that
the cost was greater than the entire passage to New
South Wales.
Mr. A. BOYD said the emigrants sent thither ob-
tained immediate employment, and their employers
were bound to pay their transit into the interior.
Captain TREVELYAN, adverting to a statement in
the chairman's report, that emigrants received, on the
average, 151., and not 251., replied that those who re-
ceived small amount of wages were those who were
incapable of undergoing much labour—such as the
" lame, the halt, and the blind."
Mr. A. BOYD said during the ten years he was_in
the colony he found the wages as he had stated them.
He expatiated on a Mrs. Chisholm's works with re•
spect to the colony and recommended their perusal.
A gentleman inquired if any provision had been
made for carrying out females.
Mr. A. BOYD said the Government would not
carry out females unless accompanied by their parents
or by a lady. Two children cost from 41. to 81.
Mr. SIDNEY said no emigration would be success-
ful unless they could enlist the good will of the great,
body of the working classes towards it. The increase
of the price of land was 11. an acre, and the refusal of
the Government to let less than 640 acres had
proved extremely detrimental, and unless land could
be set in patches of twenty and thirty acres, no great
scheme of emigration to the colony could be carried out,
because capital was required to purchase it, and capital
to clear it, and the starving populace possessed neither.
The emigrants who went out kept up a constant cor-
respondence with home, and unless they gave them
the means of thinking favourably of the colony,
few, even in their abject distress, wculd be induced
to follow them. The Government must give the
emigrants cause to settle instead of leaving them to
wander about like Arabs.
Captain BATESON, M.P., said the law was so tram-
melled that it was almost impossible to purchase less
than 440 acres. This should be pressed upon the
Government, and smaller plots allotted. He pro-
posed the appointment of the following committee to
carry out the objects of the meeting :
The Honourable Francis Scott, M.P., Chairman ;
the Lord Farnham, M.P.,Lord John Chichester,
M.P., the Hon. Captain axwell, M.P., Richard S.
Bourke, Esq., M.P., Hon. James Hewitt, Sir Robert
A. Ferguson, Bart., Colonel Matheson, M.P., Sir W.
Verner, Bart., M.P., Captain Bateson, M.P., George
Duncan, Esq., M.P., John Boyd, Esq., M.P., Captain
Hamilton, R.N., Archibald Boyd, Esq., Mark Boyd,
Esq., H. De Castro, Esq., A. Lockhart, Esq., M.P.,
W. Lockhart, Esq., M.P., William Forbes, Esq.,
M.P., I. Montefiore, Esq., D. Q. Herique, Esq., R.
Montgomery Martin, Esq., S. Sydney, Esq., J. S.
Henriques, Esq., Lennox Boyd, Esq., Samnel rown-
ing, Benjamin Bond Cabbel, Esq., M.P. ; with power
to add to their number.

Captain TRETELYAN seconded the motion.
Mr. YOUNG, M.P., proposed the printing of a con-
densed version of the Chairman's report, and that it
should be submitted at the earliest possible moment
to the consideration of the Government. _

Mr. BOYD, M.P., proposed that a deputation
should wait on Earl Grey on Saturday. It would be
advisable to see the Noble Lord on that day, as many
of the Irish Members would no doubt leave town on
Monday.
Captain HAMILTON, R.N., seconded the motion,
which, with their predecessors, having been carried,
together with a rote of thanks to the chairman, the
meeting separated at fire o'clock.
Mr. Henry White was appointed secretary.

111 PE RI A L PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in the absence of the
Lord Chancellor, took his seat upon the Woolsack at
Five o'clock.

PETITIONS.

Lord FARNHAM presented a petition from An-
dover, praying their Lordships to adopt measures
to prevent the Roman Catholics priests of Ire-land
from denouncing persons from the altar.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition
from Cricklade, praying for a consolidation of turn-
pike trusts.
The Marquis of LONDONEERRY presented a
petition from Downpatrick, complaining of the ad-
miniitration of the Poor-law in Ireland, more parti-
cularly as regards out-door relief. lie had always
been a friend to the Poor-law in Ireland, so
far as out-door relief was concerned, but
he considered that the system of out-door relief
tended to encourage pauperism.
CASE OF DR. HAMPDEN.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY gave notice
that, to-morrow, he should put a question to the
the authenticity of the corres-
Noble Marquis,
pondence alleged to have passed between the Prime

LONDON THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1847.

cock, Master of the Exchequer, and the Treasury,
relative to compensation and gratuities to officers and
writing clerks, who were affected by the said Act 7
and 8 Vic. c. 107 ; and the number and names of the
enrolling and copying clerks employed by him since
the passing of the said Act, who were not on the
establishment previous to the passing of the said Act
7 and 8 Vic. c. 107.—Agreed to.
REGISTRATION (IRELAND)._

Mr. SCULLY wished to ask the Right-Hon. the
Secretary for Ireland, if it was the intention of her
Majesty's Government to bring in a Registration Bill
for Ireland, and if at an early period after the recess.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that the subject was
under the consideration of the Government, but he
could not say when that measure would be brought
forward.

SMALL DEBTS (IRELAND).
Mr. O'CONNELL wished to know whether it was
the intention of the Governmement to bring in any
Bill for the recovery of small debts in Ireland.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE said that the subject was
under the consideration of the Government.
RELIGIOUS ORDERS.

Mr. C. AN STY wished to ask the Right Hon.
the Secretary of State for the Home Department,
whether it was his intention, during the recess, to
take into his consideration the actual state of the law
with regard to the religious orders of the Roman
Catholic Church within these maims, and the provi-
sions of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill respecting
the same ?

Sir G. GREY, in reply, stated that the Hon.
Member had himself a Bill before the House upon the
subject, and he thought it would be better to reserve
anything that he might have to say with respect to
the intention of her Majesty's Government until that
Bill was again brought before the House upon a sub-
sequent stage.
DEFENCES OF THE COUNTRY.

Lord INGESTRE wished to know wh?ther the
Government had received any communication from
the Commander-in-Chief on the subject of the de-
fences of the country ?
Lord J. RUSSELL said that a letter had been
received from his Grace the Duke of Wellington on
the subject a short time since.
BRAZILIAN TREATIES.

Mr. THORNELY, in the absence of Mr. William
Browne, wished to ask the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs whether any and what steps have
been taken since the arrival of the lately appointed
English Minister at the Court of Rio de Janeiro, in the
negociation of a new treaty of commerce between this
country and the empire of Brazil ; whether it be true,
as has been publicly stated, that the Government of Bra-
zil has refused to enter on any such negociation until the
Slave Trade Act be repealed, which gives to British
ships of war the power of seizing, and to British
Courts of Vice-Admiralty the power of condemning
(without the sanction or authority of any treaty with
Brazil to that effect) Brazil;a❑ vessels engaged, or
suspected to be engaged, in the slave trade; and if
so, whether her Majesty's Government intend to adopt
any and what measures for removing the objection
which exists on the part of Brazil to the opening of
negotiations for a removal of our commercial relations
with that empire.
Lord PALMERSTON said that her Majesty's
representative at Rio de Janeiro had received instruc-
tions on the subject, but at the date of the last dis-
patch no commencement had been made in the nego-
tiations.