The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-17 00:00:00

TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEY OF

SCOTLAND. -
(From the InverncsB Courier.)
We have been faToured with a arTy of the following
communication from the Treasury to tiv-, Dul:r t Moa-
trOse, as President of the Highland and _Agricultural
Society of Scotland:—

`• Treasury Charribi rs, Aug. 26, 1345.
"My Lord Duke,—The Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury having had under their consideration
the two memorials of the Highland and Agricultural
Society of Scotland, signed by your Grace as President
of the Society, calling the attention of the Government
to the Ordnance Survey of Scotland, and praying that
the sum of 25,0001. annually may be placed at the dis-
posal of the Board of Ordnance for carrying on the
survey in question, I am commanded by their Lordships
to acquaint your Grace in reply, that it has not been
owing to the want of funds that greater progress has
not been made of late years in the survey of Scotland,
but to the want of qualified surveyors, caused by the
number of railways which are being executed in diffe-
rent parts of the United Kingdom.
" Exertions are, however, being made to prepare a
sufficient number of well-trained assistants, and it is
their Lordships' intention that the sums which may be
hereafter set apart in the annual estimates for carrying
on the Ordnance survey of Scotland should be strictly
appropriated to that object, and that the sums so set
apart should be increased to the extent which may be
justified by the demands of the service, and by the funds
which may become available by the completion of the
survey in other quarters.
" I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) " C. E. TREVELYAN.
" To his Grace the Duke of Montrose."

We trust that this national work will ere long be
proceeded with in a manner commensurate with its im-
portance. Scotland has considerable cause of complaint
in this matter, for while the survey of England has cost
nearly 600,0001., and that of Ireland above 750,0001.,
the whole expenditure in Scotland has been under
30,000/. This difference is not attributable to any luke-
warmness evinced on this subject in this part of the
empire, repeated representations having been made to
Government by most of our influential bodies.

MAUCH LINE, AYRSHIRE.
(From the Dumfrzes Courier.)
Mauchline is a changed village since the time when
Burns resided in its neighbourhood. The parish church
is a handsome building, and the tower commands
a fine view of the surrounding country. The village
is now celebrated as the seat of a very in-
genious manufacture originally prosecuted at Corn-
neck. In the principal work at Mauchline upwards
of 100 persons are employed in the formation of snuff-
boxes, memorandum books, and various knick-nacks,
beautifully finished. Many of these articles are painted
quite in artistic style, and no traveller who has an hour to
spare in Mauchline should omit to visit the workshops and
warehouse of Mr. Andrew Smith. Within the last few
years an entirely novel branch of the business has been
added, in the manufacture of wooden buttons, which is
now the most important of the whole. The buttons are
made of beechwood, and after being roughly shaped out,
are hardened by exposure to a high temperature. They
are then polished and painted, varnished and dried, every
button undergoing twelve different processes under the
hands of as many separate persons. A large portion are
painted in tartan patterns, and this process is very inte-
resting, the lines being drawn by machines, insuring the
utmost precision and regularity. I was shown some very
beautifully executed by the hand, with pictures of game
birds and hares, which wero intended for the Parisian
market, where they are in great demand. The Mauch-
line buttons are chiefly used for summer clothing, such
as shooting-jackets, and are found to be remarkably
durable. Many boys and girls are employed in this
work, and receive fair wages. In addition to its ordinary
population, Mauchline has at present a couple of hun-
dred navies, employed on the extension to Cumnoek of
the Glasgow and Ayr Railway, chiefly from the High-
lands, squeez.d into every available corner. They have,
on the whole, conducted themselves very well, and a
number of them have saved money.
Mossgeil, the residence of Burns for several years,

and where he componed many of his finest poems, is
about half a mile from Mauchline, and is very little
changed since that period. One improvement has been
made, however, as a large part of the farm has
been drained; the want of which was one great cause
of the poet's failure as a farmer here, as the land lies
upon a cold retentive sub-soil, and in his day the clay
tubes, which have added so much to the wealth of
Ayrshire, were not. It was while the poet resided
here that he wooed his bonny Jean. Their first intro-
duction was somewhat curious. The poet had attended
a dance in Mauchline, accompanied by his dog in place
of a fair partner, and, in reply to some remark, he
said, " he wished he could get any of the lasses to
like him as well as his colley did." A few days after-
wards, when the poet was strolling down the banks of a
burn which runs through the village, a lass who was
engaged on the bleaching-green inquired " if he had got
a more loving sweetheart than his dog yet ?" This
was Jean Armour, and this the first time of meeting be-
twixt the future husband and wife.

ROBBERY Or THE SERGEANT'S MESS Or THE
13711 FOOT.—lnformation has been forwarded to every
police station of the desertion of a private of the lath
Regiment of Foot, named Anthony Heath, who, when
he absconded from Portsmouth on Sunday, took away
with him the sum of 391., the property of the sergeant's
..........ir his company.
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Russell has been pleased to appoint his only surviving
son to a situation in the Customs. Mr. Robert Barker,
the individual referred to, was apprenticed to Messrs.
Pattison and Hine, builders, in this town.—Nottingham
Review.
WEST RIDING REGISTRATION.—The result of the
revision of the lists for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
which is just completed, is to give the Liberals a gain of
1,683 on the revision of last year. The present liberal
majority on the whale constituency is 4,100.
PROCLAMATIOXS or OUTLAWRY.—The following
parties were, at the Sheriff's Court, on Thursday,
called upon to surrender to their various creditors,
or be severally outlawed :—Thomas Harries Wilson,
at the suit of John Garrod ; J. L. Wellesley, at
the suit of Benjamin Spilsbury ; Richard Augustus
Seymour, at the suit of William Henry Vernon ;
W. 11. Gardner, at the suit of George Augustus
Brown ; Mary Ann Perryman, at the suit of James
Edward Pye ; George Hicks, at the suit of W. H.
Savage ; Arthur Wellesley Williams, at the suit of John
Miller Duffield ; Samuel Bertie Ambosse, at the suit of
George Samuel Ford ; George Pitt Rose, at the suit of
Seneca Hughes ; Richard Samuel Mayer Spry, at the
suit of John Forbes ; and Samuel George Beamish, at
the suit of William Sylvester Wilson.
GREAT BELL or HOWTH.—The Ballast Board
has adopted the very useful engineering suggestion of
our friend Mr. Steele, and has decided upon placing a
splendid bell, that will cost about four hundred pounds,
on the Bailly Rock on the Mountain Promonotory of
Howth, to be rung as a warning to vessels approaching
the rocky cliffs in heavy fogs.—Dublin paper.
MILITARY SPREES.—A transaction, very dis-
creditable to some of the parties engaged in it, took place
about ten o'clock on Saturday evening, on Pope's-quay.
For some time past a house of rather a doubtful character
has existed in that locality, which has caused much annoy-
ance to the respectable inhabitants residing there. They
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passing in that direction, called to the boy and asked
him his reason for carrying the torch, when the other
very civilly informed him what his object was. Upon
this the chivalrous son of Mars told him he should not
annoy the ladies, and attempted to wrest the torch from
him, but this was resisted by the boy, who made a blow
of it at him. Having demanded the boy's name for
the purpose of indicting him, the officer went
away, and nothing more was heard of him until Sun-
day evening. About ten o'clock on that night several
officers of the regiment, assisted by some of their ac-
quaintances, amounting in all to nine persons, sallied out
armed with sticks fur the purpose of avenging the insult
offered to their brother officer on the previous evening.
Having arrived at Pope's Quay, they made an attack on
the poor boy, about fourteen years of age, who began to
cry out for help, when a man who was in the neighbour-
hood ran to his assistance, and called on them to desist
beating him, but he was answered by being knocked
down with a blow of a stick from one of the party, while
another of them having placed his knee on his
chest got his hand in his neckerchief, and
struck his head against the ground. On this a young
gentleman residing in the neighbourhood also went
to render assistance, but was also knocked down,
several of them striking bim in front and rear to-
gether. At this juncture of the proceedings constable
.Porter and another sub-constable made their appear-
ance, and called on the officers to give their names and
addresses, which they at first refused, but on being told
that if they persisted in the refusal they should be taken
into custody, some of the party gave their names, while
others succeeded in making their escape. We are in
possession of the names of the parties engaged in this
affray, but as the transaction is likely to engage the
attention of the courts in the conrse of a few days, it is
deemed advisable not to publish them until it comes in a
proper form before the public.—Cork Reporter.
LECTURES ON ART.—At the Western Literary
Institution on Thursday last, Mr. R. W. Buss, the ar-
tist, delivered a lecture on fresco, and the British school
of Historical Painting ; and will complete the subject
next Thursday. At the Islington Literary Institution,
Mr. Samuel Nixon will give two lectures ou modelling
and sculpture, December 10th and 17th. At the same
place on January Ist, Mr. John Hawksworth will read
a paper on art, considered in its ancient, mediaeval, and
modern manifestations, with a view to the development
of its prospective tendencies. On Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, at
the Literary Institution, Newbury, Berks, Mr. George
Godwin will lecture on the architecture of the middle
ages. • Professor Hosking commenced his course at
King's College, on Tuesday last , and Professor Donald-
son's will begin at the London University on Tuesday
next.—The Builder.

HUDSON'S BAY PuoDuci.—The annual arrival of
furs, skins, &c., from the territory of the Hudson's Bay
Company, has just taken place, by the vessel Prince
Albert, which has just arrived in the London Docks from

(the district named, extensively- laden with furs and skins
of the most valuable descriptions, all of which are now
free of duty, in addition to a large quantity of feathers,
oil, sea-horse teeth, whalebone, and other productions of
that northern region.
REDUCTION OF RENTS.—Lord Rossrnore, " tread-
ing in th© footstep;" of the Earl of Erne, has just issued
a circular, apprising his tenantry in the county of Mo.
naghan, of his Lordship's determination to return 15 per
cent. on the year's rent now in the coarse of payment