The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-15 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Paymaster and Purser—W. W. Parminter (1848),
late acting in the Juno, confirmed in his appointment to
that ship.
Midshipmen—E. Stubbs and Charles Robson, to the
Penelope steam-ship on the const of Africa station.
Gunner—George E. Howell, to the Ceylon receiving-
ship, at Malta.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 13.—Her Majesty's steam•vessel
Myrtle arrived on Sunday from the Cove of Cork, and
sailed the next day for Portsmouth.
On Tuesday her Majesty's transport Diligence arrived
from Deptford; and her Majesty's revenue steam-vessel
Vulcan from Weymouth, with Captain Houston Stewart
on board.

The Amazon frigate, 26, having been repaired, was
taken out of dock yesterday.
I ler Majesty's frigate Southampton, bound to the Cape
of Good Hope, will be paid wages to-day.
In Ilamoaze—Her Majesty's ship San Josef, 110,
Captain Sir Thomas Maitland; her Majesty's ship
Agincourt, 72, Captain William B. Steads; her Ma-
jesty's packet Peterel, 6, Lieutenant•Cominander Thos.
Creser; her Majesty's steam-sloops Hermes, 6, and
Lucifer, 3.

In the Sound—Her Majesty's ship Caledonia, 120,
Captain T. W. Carter; her Majesty's frigate Southamp-
ton, 50, and the Nautilus, 6, tender to flag-ship.
Wind, N.W.; light breez.; cloudy.

FETE AT HAVRE.—The fete of fraternity between
the National Guards of Havre and Paris took place on
Sunday at Havre. The detachment of the Parisian le-
gions, composed of about 1,000 men, arrived the preced-
ing evening, and the Minister of the Interior, M. tieasird,
General Gerard, and the Prefect, came into the town on
Sunday morning at ten o'clock. After the ceremony of
the benediction of the colours presented by the Parisian
Guard, there was a review. A grand banquet followed,
at whice 2,000 guests sat down. M. Slinard delivered a
speech which elicited loud and unanimous applause.
In the evening a grand display of fireworks concluded
the festival, throughout which the most perfect cordiality
prevailed.
To SPECULATORS, CAPITALISTS, PUBLIC COMPA-
NIES, &c.—At a time when the public attention is
strongly excited on the subject of colonization, and nu-
merous cargoes of emigrants:are daily leaving our prin-
cipal ports, Messrs. Russell, Grey, Hawes, and Co.,
i,f Downing-street, and St. Stephen's, Westminster,
who are declining their emigration and colonial line of
business, beg to call the attention of the above to
their stock of crown lands, unoccupied British posses-
sions, &c., in various parts f the world, and of the finest
qualities; for the disposal of which, in consequence of
the unexampled pressure of the times and the difficulties
of the firm, arising from circumstances over which they
have no control, Messrs. R., G., H. and Co. would be
happy to treat on even the most disadvantageous terms.
Their list comprises wood lands, mineral soils, coast-
lines, with harbours, alluvial plains, and other descrip•
tions of territory, most inviting to the capitalist and
best fitted for emigrants, with many spots likely here-
after to be of great value to the public as naval and
steam-boat stations. Capitalists would find this an ex-
cellent opportunity of acquiring immense tracts for com-
paratively nothing, which might afterwards be re- sold
in small lots, at high prices, to emigrants. No ques-
tions will be asked, and no inconvenient conditions at-
tached to the property, which will be disposed of with-
out any (but the usual official) reserve. Companies
formed for hunting or fur-trading purpeses will find this
an opportunity never before offered (and not likely to be
offered again) of securing to their game and fur-bearing
animals uninterrupted possession of fine and fertile
tracts of country. The Aborigines, in all cases, will
be thrown in with the land, without any extra charge,
ar.d will become the absolute property of purchasers.
Emigration societies, by availing themselves of the pe-
culiar facilities which the position of Messrs. R., G., H.
and Co. gives the firm, may make their own terms with
emigrants, and secure an enormous profit, which their
other numerous avocations entirely prevent Messrs. It ,
G., H. and Co.' rom even attempting to realise. Messrs.
11., G., 11. and Co. are kindly permitted a reference to
the Hudson's Bay Company, who have just concluded
with them a most advantageous bargain for Vancouver's
Island. Secresy 'and strict honour may be relied on.
No Member of the House of Commons can be treated
with, and no Irishman (without capital) need apply.
The present time is particularly well suited to colonial
enterprise, as the stocks, plants, machinery, of West
Indian, Mauritius, and other proprietors, who are re-
tiring from business, owing to ruin and other causes,
may be had on the most reasonable terms. N.B.—Great
reduction to persons taking a quantity. As Messrs.
H., G., H. and Co. are anxious to get their entire stock
off their hands with the least possible delay, no oiler
will be refused.— Puns/e.
DONCASTER.—Copious particulars of the four days'
races, with a Portrait of the Winnner of the St. Leger,
will appear in Bell's Life in London, September 17,
Bell's Life is published in time on Saturdays to be sent
by all the mid-day railways. A sixpence enclosed to
Mr. Clement, jun., 170, Strand, will ensure a copy by
return of post. The regular sale of Bell's Life exceeds
27,000.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Bad Leg Cured by Hollo-
way's Ointment and Pills after Twenty Years Suffering.
—Extract of a letter from Mr. Andrew Brack, black-
smith, Eyemouth, dated Aug. 10, 1848. "To Professor
llolloway—Sir, I have the pleasure to inform you that
I have obtained a most extraordinary cure, by the use of
your celebrated Ointment and Pills. For upwards of
twenty years I suffered with a dreadful bad leg, and dur-
ing that time I consulted several eminent surgeons, but
their efforts failed to do any good. I then had recourse
to your Ointment and Pills which, with the blessing of
Providence, has completely healed my leg, and made it as
sound and perfect as ever."—Sold by all Druggists, and
at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand,
London.

PHILANTHROPIC SOClETY.—Yesterday afternoon a
special general meeting of the committee and authorities
or the Philanthropic Institution was held at the Society's
establishment, London-road, for the purpose of adopting
a plan for the farm school about to be founded. After
a careful inspection of the designs, that drawn by Mr.
Moffat was selected, and the committee then entered
into a discussion as to the mode in which the farm
school was to be conducted. The boys are to be accom-
modated in families of 50 or 60 each, the [school being
arranged in the style of a village ; but although they
are to be thus divided, every facility for the most com-
plete superintendence will be maintained, and every
care taken to render the general regulations of the es-
tablishment efficient. There will be no central kitchen
us formerly adopted ; the boys will be cooked for at
their respective houses, where also their education will
be attended to. A general system of agricultural in-
struction will also be kept up. This establish-
ment is confidently look( d forward to by the pro-
moters of the institution as being likely to lay the
foundation of a new system :of training the children
of the poor, and besides offering all the comforts and
having all the influence of home, it will give greater fa-
cilities for instructing the different classes of boys, ac-
cording to their condition and future destination, and
being much more simple than the expensive and artificial
system which has hitherto been employed.
THE NEW METROPOLITAN SEWERS' COMMISSION.
—Among the numerous provisions in the new Act to
Consolidate the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers
(noticed in The Sun) is one under which various sani-
tary improvements will shortly be effected. Section 86
provides—" And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful
for the commissioners from time to time, as occasion
shall require, to levy and raise on each separate sewerage
district within the limits of the commission, a separate
rate, to be called The District Sewers Rate,' in respect
of which such portion in the judgment of the commis-
sioners should be borne by such separate sewerage dis-
trict, of the expenses of repairing, cleansing, and main-
taining in effective action the sewers already made and
completed, as shall, in the opinion of the commissioners,
be incurred for the common benefit of all the sewerage
districts." It then proceeds—" Provided always that
the District Sewers Rate shall not exceed, in one year,
the sum of one shilling in the pound of the net value of
the annual property rateable thereto." By these pro-
visions it will be apparent that the commissioners will
be in a situation to raise sufficient funds to carry out the
improvements as to sewers and drains directed in the
Act generally.
SPLENDID AMERICAN ALOE.—There is now in
bloom, in the gardens of Drummond Castle, Perthshire.
the residence of Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby,
a splendid specimen of the Agave Americana, or great
American aloe, the fi wer stem of which is 30 feet high,
supporting upwards of 2,800 flowers. This extraor-
dinary plant is very rarely to be seen in flower ; and
even in South America, its native country, people travel
great distances to see it in bloom. By the kind liberality
of Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby, the public are
permitted to witness this rare production, and to visit
the beautiful grounds around the ancient seat of the
noble family of Perth.
How TO KEEP HORSES FROM STRAYING.—The
Icelanders have a most curious custom, and a most
effectual one of preventing horses from straying, which
is peculiar to that country. Two gentlemen, for instance,
are riding together without attendants, and wishing to
alight for the purpose of visiting some objects at a dis-
tance from the road, they tie the bead of one horse to
the tail of the other, and the head of this to the tail of
the former. In this state it is utterly impossible that
they can move on either backwards or forwards, one
pulling one way and the other another; and, therefore, if
disposed to move at all, it will be only in a circle, and
' sven then there must be an agreement to turn their heads
the same way.