The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT WESTERN.—A great convenience and accom-
modation has just been provided at the Paddington
terminus, by the appropriation of a waiting-room, well
warmed and lighted, for second-class passengers; who,
until lately, had no place to wait in, until the departure
of the trains, than in the open space were the tickets are
issued. Similar accommodation has also just been pro-
vided by the company for passengers travelling by the
third-class (Parliamentary penny-a-mile) trains.
NEW STATION ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES AT
CAMBRIDGE.—In consequence of the great increase of
traffic on this line, the station at Cambridge is found to
be quite inadequate for the purposes for which it is
required. The directors have, therefore, resolved to
erect a splendid and commodious station, for which pur-
pose they have purchased upwards of fifty acres of land,
which will be added to the site of the present station.
INCREASE OF CHARGES FOR LIVE STOCK ON THE
NORFOLK AND EASTERN COUNTlES.—Considerable dis-
satisfaction exists, we understand, amongst the farmers
and graziers of the district, at the new regulations
issued by these companies, which aro considered vexa-
tious and oppressive, besides increasing the cattle rates
one-fourth in comparison with their former scale. A
meeting of the farming and grazing interests is to be
held on Saturday next, at Norwich, to remonstrate oa
the matter.

MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN OW IRELAND.—The num-
ber of men employed on this line, week ending the 13th,
was 4,140, and 358 horses.

If the calculation be correct that 260,0001. are at
present paid per week to labourers employed on railways
in progress of construction, the sum total (outlay per
annum upon railway works alone approaches to some-
thing like fourteen millions.

MOULINS AND ST. ETIENNE.—The project of the
route of this line by Roanne is the subject of a cord-
mission of inquiry in the department of Allier. The
construction of this piece of line, which in itself d6es
not exceed 62 miles, will afford an unbroken railway
communication for Paris and Nantes with Lyons.
The municipal council of Dijon have accepted the
projet for the station which was proposed to them, and
have voted the gratuitous surrender of the land belonging
to the town which may be necessary for the station.
Some trifling modifications have been proposed, and it
is expected that the works will be immediately com-
menced, in order to afford employment for the workmen
of the town.
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-EyoXs.—The question as to the spot for the station is
not yet decided. The Minister of Public Works, ac.
companied by the Under-Secretary of Stale and the
Prefect of the Seine, with several engineers, lately
visited the ground.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND M. LEVERRIER.--We
hear, with pleasure, that the council of the Royal So-
ciety have awarded the Copley medal to M. Leverrier,
for his investigations relating to the disturbances of
Uranus. This prompt action of 's body not famous for
the rapidity of its movements in the distribution of ho-
nours, will do much to remove from the minds of French
philosophers the suspicion of English scientific jealousy
or unfairness, and. to silence the French t
newspaperk ic eu m .
writers who so scandalously assumed them.--
the passers of bad
should be on their guard against .
CATmoN.—BAD HALF-SOVEREIGN
money. A number of bad half-sove g ,_
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a sort of metal resembling zip: and g
tro-plating process, are !I ns composed of
reilded by the elec.
HALF-SOVEREIGNS.—The public
circulation. They are
executed. The
im-
mediately shows they are counterfeits.
ybyoowfthtelheririnwg,eiagnhdt,
hthoewyeaverer, well
not easily to be detecteddefidienc
THE MURDERESS OF THE POLICEMAN.--It is
rather
an extraordinary fact connected with the case,
that when the murderess after committing the deed,
went
in a fly to the station-house for the purpose of
surrendering
dering herself, she was driven there by her own
brother ; the sergeant who received her was her step-
father ; and the housekeeper at the station-house was
her own mother.—Bristol Times.
DEATH OF REAR-ADMIRAL THOMAS WHITE.--.
We have to record the demise of the above gallant naval
officer, at the age of 77 years. The venerable deceased
died on Wednesday last, at Buckfast Abbey, near Ash-
burton, after an illness of some months. The deceased
had only recently attained the rank of Rear-Admiral, by
the acceptance of the retirement in the navy, which took.
place a few weeks back.
icoging to
gentleman Mr.h as 117;
DIABOLICAL ACl.—Late on Tuesday night, at
Wednesday morning last, some person or persons ad-
ministered c
oliegpe-ocisroenscetnot.twoApmigesd, belonging n
nounced it to be either prussic acid or arsenic, and it. is
supposed to have been dropped from a wall into the: sty
for the purpose of destroying the animals, and the reby
causing a serious loss to the owner.—BristolJourna 1
A BARGE Su IN THE RIVER.—Late on Saturday
night, a barge laden with coals, that was comiug s ,p the
river to Arundel Wharf, was bserved to be finial g and
sinking rapidly as she neared Temple Bar Pier. It I very
powerful exertion she was brought past the pier, brit just
as she cleared it, and was being hauled into the al( Awn
dock, she reeled over and sank.

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DEPARTURE OF THE FOREIGN •
MAILS FOR DECEMBER.
The following notice was issued on Saturday at the
General Post-office, St. Martin's. le-Grand :
" EMT INDIA, &C.—The mails for Gibraltar, Malta,
Greece, the loniah Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India,
Hong-Song, and China, will be made up on the morn-
ing of the 3d of December, to be forwarded by the
Peninsular aad Oriental Steam Company's packet via
soathaapton, and on the morning of the 21st Deeeraber.
Ey the overland fottrdghtly 'dosed mail to the Medium-
renean, Malta, Graeae, Egypt, India, hc., via Marseilles,
on the evenings of the 7th and 24th.
" WasT INDIXR, &C.—The mails for Madeira, the
British and foreign colonies in the West Indies, and
Venezuela (except Honduras, Bermuda, and the Ha-
vannah), on the mornings of the 2d and 17th. Mexico,
Honduras, and Havannah on the morni of the 2 only.
Bermuda, San Juan de Nicaragua, New ng
Granada,d Chili,
and Peru, on the morning of the 17th only. The Thames
steamer will take out the mails of the morning, via South-
ampton. Next packets due from the West Indies, &c.,
on the 7th ; Mexico, Havannah, &C., on the 22d.
pmusstriAa, &c.—The mails for Vigo, Oporto,
Lisbon
via Lisbon), Cadiz, and Gibraltar,
will be Madeira (
made up on the mornings of the 7th, 17th, and
27th, to be forwarded via Southampton. Due, the 6th,
16th, and 26th. (The Peninsular steam-packets will not
call at Corunna either on the outward or homeward
voyage during the winter months of November, Decem-
ber, January, and February.)
" Barrna Nonni AMERICA, &c.—The mails for
British North America, Bermuda, and the United States
will be made up on the evening of the 3d, to be conveyed
by :the Cambria steamer, via Liverpool, Halifax, and
Boston. Due, the Acadia steamer on the 15th. (The
mails for the United States, British North America, and
Bermuda are made up on the 3d and 18th of every
month, except in December, January, February, March,
and then only on the 3d.)
" MADEIRA, BRAZILS, &a.—The mails for Madeira,
Brazils, and Buenos Ayres will be made up on the even-
ing of the 4th, to be forwarded via Falmouth.
"SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, &c.—The mails for
Sydney, New South Wales, South Australia, Van Die-
men's Land, and New Zealand, on the evening of the 31st
December."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
MALTA, Nov. 14.—The various packets due have all
arrived.
Serious fears were lately entertained for the safety of
her Majesty's steamer Volcano, which was known to
have left Marseilles on the morning of the Ist inst. On
the 10th, at six A.M., her Majesty's steamer Hecla was
sent out to look for her, and at three P.M. saw her under
sail, and on coming up took her in tow. The Volcano
had experienced very bad weather, and been obliged to
blow of her steam and use her sails. She had the mis-
fortune also to carry away her foreyard. By this delay
that portion of the India mails sent through France did
not go forward, the Oriental having sailed on the Bth.
It is now here, and will be forwarded by the Ariel on
the arrival of the Achilles from England.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Iberia has been taken off this station and sent home,
touching at Malaga and Gibraltar. Her place is to be
supplied by the Ariel, one of the swiftest boats we have
ever seen on this station. _ _

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The Trident appears likely to prove a complete failure.
She has been tried by the Admiral under every circum-
stance considered favourable—laden by the head, and by
the stern. She will next be tried on an even keel, and
if then unsnccessfnl, will be sent home in despair of her
being ever useful here.
The Dutch squadron under Prince Henry is still here.
It is reported it will put to sea in the early part of next
week.
Her Majesty's ship Tyne will leave port on Monday
next, it is said, for England, where she will be paid off,
having been four years in commission in April next.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 22.—The Polyphemus steam-
sloop, Commander M'Cleverty, arrived last evening from
Lisbon, having made the passage in the extraordinary
quick time of four days.
The Scourge steam-sloop, Commander Caffin, came
into the harbour yesterday, and went under the roasting
sheers, where her 13-inch mortar and shells were re-
moved, placed in an ordnance hoy, and transferred to the
gun wharf. She will complete coals, and take on board
stores for Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker's squadron, off
Lisbon, to-morrow, and leave in the evening, or Tuesday
morning.
Commander Gower Lowe has commissioned the Re-
sistance troop-ship, and his officers and crew have been
turned over to that ship from the Crocodile.
The Vengeance, 84, Captain Lushington, was removed
from the basin yesterday morning, and moored off Cold-
harbour, Gosport, where she will complete for sea.
The Rhadamantbus steam troop-ship, Master Com-
mander Laen, put out the marines she had on board
belonging to the eastern divisions into the Terrible
yesterday, and that vessel left with them after dark for
Woolwich, calling at Sheerness to disembark the men
belonging to the Chatham division.
The Rhadamanthus came into harbour and disem-
barked the men of the Portsmouth division this morning.

DREADFUL GALE ON THE EAST

COAST.
NORTH SHIELDS, SATURDAY.—This part of the coast
was yesterday visited by a fearful gale of wind from the
S.E. and S.S.E., which, though of but short duration,
did great damage to shipping at sea, as well as in this
harbour. There was a smart breeze early in the morn-
ing, which subsided after sun rise, and rose again with
the flood tide in the afternoon. Four vessels went on the
Black Middens, in attempting to enter the harbour, but
all hands were saved with the exception of the captain of
the Sceptre. The Briton, trader between this port and
London, was the first vessel that struck, and in a very
few minutes after the Fenwick, of Sunderland, coal laden,
did so likewise. Both vessels were within fifty yards of
the shore ; and, on signals of distress being made, the life
boat was launched, and the crew of the Fenwick were safely
landed. The boat then made towards the Briton, but the
sea was so rough that it was impossible to approach her.
Dennett's rockets were then brought into requisition,
and a line was thrown across the vessel, bnt the crew
refused to make use of it, being determined to remain by
the vessel. The tide had then begun to ebb, and they
calculated on being able to ride the storm out and land
after the time had receded. In about an hour after the
Briton and Fenwick had been cast on the rocks, two
other vessels were observed in the offing making towards
the harbour. One proved to be e. Dutch galliot. She
came ashore close under the battery at Tynemouth, and
was floated up to within a few yards of the oliff. She
got off again this afternoon, when she was towed into
harbour, but has sustained considerable damage. The
other vessel was the Sceptre, of this port, coal laden, and
she went right athwart the Briton, stove in her stern, and
did other damage. The crew of the Sceptre saved them-
selves by leaping on board the Briton, where they re-
mained till the water had receded, with the exception of
the master, Mr. John Ruch:lock, who in leaping fell between
the vessels and was drowned. His body was found the same
evening within a few yards of the Briton. The Sceptre
being in a bad position, was lifted by the sea and dashed
against the rocks, and went to pieces in a short time. The
Briton has sustained great damage, and will probably be
a complete wreck. She had on board a very valuable
cargo, and had only sailed for London on the preceding
day. The wind moderated towards night, and has since
continued so. As soon as the tide receded, so as to allow
the crew to land, the vessels were boarded by wreckers,
and pillaged or everything valuable, sails, ropes, and
everything handy were cut away and carried otf ; even
the clothes of the men were taken. The most disgrace-
ful scenes were witnessed during the night. The
Preventive men were knocked down and thrust aside,
their lights put out, and the vessels were literally gutted.
About nine this morning a detachment of soldiers
from the garrison was sent to protect the property, but
they fully realised the fable of " locking the door when
the horse was stolen."

The authorities, who have had the superintendence of
these men since their arrival at Plymouth in the Terrible,
are not entitled to much credit for their arrangements.
They were embarked in the Terrible at Lisbon, and
taken by that vessel to Plymouth; on their arrival they
were transferred to the Rhadamanthus and brought
here—the Terrible arriving six hours before them; then
the majority of them were transferred again to the
Terrible for a passage to join their divisions at the east-
ward; and as a climax to this apparent bad management,
the remainder, after forty- four hours' spell at Spithead
during awful weather, wore landed hero on Sunday
morning during a heavy squall of wind and rain, soaking
both ram and baggage through. All this might have
been avoided by the exercise of a little common sense.
Why not have suffered all the men, with the exception
of those belonging to Plymouth, to have remained on
board the frigate until her arrival at Spithead? It was
well known she was to call here on her way to the river
long before she left Lisbon. But perhaps the movements
have been conducted with a view to accustoming the
men to tho performance of such manoeuvres!
The Nimrod, 20, Commander Dacres, was at Cape
Mount, coast of Africa, on the 30th of September; at
which date

The Lily, 16, Commander Newton, was en route from
Sierra Leone to Ascension and England. The cause of
her coming home is in consequence of two officers in her
having written for courts-martial upon themselves.
The Water witch, 8, Commander T. F. Birch, was
cruizing, having left for St. Helena on the 22d, after
taking in a tine prize for adjudication.
The Ferrett, 8, Commander Sprigg, was cruizing off
She -Bar.
The Cygnet, 6, Commander Montresor, was at the
Gallinas.
'The Wanderer, 12, Commander Somerville, was en
route to the Pongas.
The Snake, 16, Commander Brown, arrived at Mauri-
tius, from the Cape, on the 10th of August.
The Semarang, 26, Captain Sir E. Belcher, arrived
at the Mauritius, from China and Singapore, on the 25th
of August, en route to England.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Last night this port was visited
by a tremendous storm from the southward and west-
ward, occasionally accompanied by heavy rain.
During the height of the gale, about three this morn-
ing, the small schooner Providence, Captain Allen, of
Falmouth, then lying in the mouth of the Catwater,
with one anchor and a kedge, dragged her moorings,
and not having any of her crew on board, unfortunately
fell across the bow of the brig fleros of about 200 tons,
Captain Boussin, belonging to Port-au-Prince, in ballast
from London, bound for St. Domingo. The brig had
two bowers and a kedge down, and would have ridden
out the gale in safety, but for the accident to the schooner.
They both drove ashore under Queen Anne's battery.
The brig lies with her stern towardsmthe land, hull in-

THE REPUBLIC OF CRACOW.
(From the Times.)
It will give us unaffected pleasure to find that we were
misled by fallacious appearances when we hinted that in
the present position of the French Government it was .
not improbable that the Northern Powers had secured
the secret acquiescence of that Court to their coup d'etat
against the republic of Cracow. Some of the leading
organs of the French Ministerial press have indeed gone
to great lengths In indulging their spite and rancour
against this country by assuring the world that France
was ready to aocept and to profit by the most violent and
rapacious projects that could be entertained at St. Peters-
burgh. Our own remarks on the subject only, imputed
to them a policy in which some of them already placed
the future glory of the French Cabinet; and if they con-
ceive themselves to be injuriously affected by the suspi-
cions we expressed, they have nothing to blame but their
own imprudence in assuming that spurious and unreal
servility which awakened our apprehensions. At the
first touch of fact, all the dreams of the Presse about a
Russian alliance vanish into thin air. The more autho-
ritative and dignified organs of M. Guizot pronounce an
opinion and a protest, as decided as our own, with refer-
ence to the extinction of the republic of Cracow; and in
spite of the divisions which may exist between the two
Cabinets of England and France on another point, we can-
not but rejoice that an event like this should have forcibly
reminded them of their common duties and their common
rights. It is impossible to allow an eventual and contingent
dispute, like that arising out of the Spanish marriages,
to sever those relations of two countries which are based
on the very foundations of their political condition and
their social wants. A Minister of either state would ill
discharge his duty to the public and to the Crown he
serves, if he were to sacrifice all the points on which he
may agree to that one on which he must differ. This
very incident of the annihilation of Cracow is a striking
proof of the use to which other Powers think they may
turn our differences; but those differences are not, we
rejoice to find, so deep as to extinguish or abate the force
of the indignant remonstrance with which the Govern-
ments of England and France are, and must be, prepared
to animadvert upon such a violation of the public law of
Europe. No personal jealousies, we will even add no
recent defeats on one field, can withhold us from support-
ing the principles which are the basis of British policy;
and we are persuaded that there is not a well-wisher
to the peace of the world who will not rejoice that
the influence of France is not lost to the good cause,
but is likely to be exercised in conjunction with our
own. The Augsburg Gazette, which was employed by the
Cabinet of Vienna to announce its conquest and acquisi-
tion to Germany and the world, appears to have pre-
sumed to a most extraordinary degree upon the igno-
, ranee and credulity of the public. The assertion that
the independence and neutrality of Cracow were matters
settled between the three protecting Powers alone, and
regarded by them merely as an experiment terminable
' at their pleasure, is a barefaced falsehood. We had
already anticipated the answer by publishing the article
of the Treaty of Vienna, by which all the stipulations
relating to Cracow are virtually incorporated in that
solemn act ; and it is utterly futile to pretend that any
subsequent act, short of the concert of all the great
Powers, could alter or abrogate those arrangements.
The protecting Courts themselves have repeatedly
acknowledged the indefeasible vigour of the conditions
they now obliterate and deny ; for as often as England
and France have protested against their arbitrary
measures towards Cracow, the answer has been that
they were but temporary, and that Austria herself was
most anxious to restore the republic to its legi•
timate condition. Can anything equal the ab-
surdity of the pretence that the existence of
Cracow was formidable to Germany? It might be in-
convenient to a couple of German Courts, laden with the
spoils of Poland and embarrassed by the political crimes
of the last century; but it was as the root and heart of
Poland that Cracow was to be wiped out of the map of
Europe. Germany, indeed, or at least the two great
German courts, conspired but too effectually against
Poland; but we have yet to learn by what means the
last fragment of their victim threatened to avenge upon
their dominions the wrongs done to that fallen mo-
narchy, of which it was once the head. The sensation
produced by this event in France and throughout Ger-
many has been deep and strong. Such acts of power are
not wrought with impunity; such calamities are not en-
dured in vain. The imperious violence of Russia, the
timid craft of Austria, have combined to strike off one
of the branches of the Treaty of Vienna; and the weak
and vaccillating Court of Berlin, disapproving of the
harshness of one of its accomplices and the baser prac-
tices of the other, has lent itself to sanction the work of
encroachment and oppression. The protest against such
deeds is one of opinion even more than of political in-
fluence and authority; and we venture to affirm that the
protest will be universal throughout the world, and must
again bring the Governments of England and France to
co-operate in a common cause.

The shipping in the harbour have also suffered grew
damage.

TERRIFIC GALE AT LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—We were yesterday visited
by an exceedingly severe storm, which committed much
havoc on shipping and other property in and around
Liverpool. On Thursday the weather was fine, but from
indications which were visible in the position of the
mercury, it was evident that a change was about to
occur. The glass on that day fell suddenly, and Cap-
tain Lott, who left the Mersey for Halifax and Boston in
the Caledonia in the course of the forenoon, was heard
to say that he anticipated a terrific gale. He has, un-
fortunately, been a true prophet ; but we have every
hope that his noble ship has rode triumphantly over the
angry and furious waves of St. George's Channel, and
that she now stems her way across the waters of the At.
lantic, and will reach her destination in good time and
perfectly uninjured.
The gale commenced shortly before three o'clock yes-
terday morning. It originally sprung up from the S.E.,
but gradually ♦eered to S.S.W., from which point it ac-
quired a terrific force, and it was not till three o'clock,
P.M., that it abated—then only partially. The storm blew
exactly down the river Mersey, and many vessels were
lying at anchor outside.
Never did the Mersey present a more sublime and
awful spectacle. Its waters were lashed into madness,
and seemed as if bent upon dealing out universal de-
struction to everything that came within their angry
gasp. The lovers of the wild and sublime thronged the
pier when the storm raged with its greatest fury, and
many who were feasting their curiosity on the majestic
but appalling scene before them did so at the risk of a
complete drenching, which no few of the devotees re-
ceived. The wind had reached its climax about noon.
At that time it blew a complete tornado. It was then
high water, and the waves rose with fearful violence, and
swept over the vessels anchored in the river, whilst the
spray, dancing fantastically, occasionally swept along
the piers. Some of the vessels at anchor in the river
braved the fury of the raging elements with compara-
tively little injury. Others parted from their cables,
and drifted out of the river, and are now on shore on
Bootle Bay.
The following particulars, which we have been enabled
to obtain from various sources, will show the severity of
the storm, and the amount of damage, so far as we now
know, which it has caused:—
The Skerryvore tug-boat sunk off St. George's-pier;
crew saved.

HAMBURGH AND DUTCH MAILS.
VIENNA, Nov. 12.—Yesterday afternoon a report was
first spread of the ineorporation of Cracow with the Aus-
trian monarchy. The funds fell very considerably in con-
sequence of this report, because a conflict with England
and France was apprehended. To-day things are more
quiet, as it is supposed to be certain that Count Stadian,
the Governor and Imperial Commissioner in Galicia, has
taken with him, not only the final conclusions respect-
ing Galicia, but a convention of the great European
powers—Austria, Russia, Prussia—on the final fate of
the republic of Cracow—Cracow, the focus and seat of
the Propaganda, which was constantly threatening with
poison and assassination, has, according to the decision
of these powers forfeited the right of existing any longer
as a republic, and, accordingly, Austria is authorised de-
finitive possession of Cracow.
Count Stadian, after a conference in the Palace of
Prince Metternich, has returned to Galicia. Respecting
this sudden appearance of Count Stadian, we learn that
after the proceedings relative to the conspiracy of the
Nobles, and the revolution in Galicia were closed, the
sentences which have been signed and passed by those
powers will be shortly published and executed. The
final resolutions of the Government are taken. Count
Stadian has received the last full powers, and justice
will be done for the heavy guilt of a nobility, which, for
50 years, has enjoyed all the benefits of the Government,
nay, the greatest favours that any nobility in Europe
enjoyed, and which it requited with unexampled treachery.
Every friend to his country impatiently looks for the day
of decision. The documents which will soon be published
will prove to the enemies of Austria, andeven to the most
influential statesmen in England and France, that the
heavy accusations brought forward in Parliament and the
Chambers of the policy observed by Austria in Galicia
fall to the ground. The depositions of the conspirators
themselves afford the most splendid justification of the
Austrian Government, which has been threatened for
years with murder and poison. It is expected that the
Government :will cause all the depositions of the crimi-
nals, as well as the whole course of the trial, with all the
documents, to be translated into the English and French
languages, that all the less nations throughout Europe
may be put to shame.
BERLIN, Nov. 12.—Mr. Von Gerolt, the Prussian
Charge-d'affaires in North America, left this city the
day before yesterday, with instructions for the conclu-
sion of a treaty of commerce and navigation with the
North American States. He returns to Washington in
order that the negotiations respecting this important
affair may be prosecuted with all dispatch.
WARSAW, Nov. 6.—Since the Ist of October, the
memorable day, on which the Jews in this kingdom, by
laying aside their national costume, made the first step
towards civilization, has afforded us many comical scenes
through the uncomfortable position in which the Jews
have been placed by it. From all the great cities of the
kingdom, respectable looking Jews arrived in all the
splendour of their most costly silk pelisses trimmed with
sable, with their beards and their ringlets in the best
order, to obtain a delay, at least for some years; but,
they had come to meet their ill fate, for they were here
deprived of their silk pelisses, their beards, and their
locks, by some barbers who had received the orders of
the police; and the poor disgraced Jews stole clandes-
tinely out of the city. A few days ago a similar event
took place, which excited no little sensation, from the
remotest part of the country, where Chassietism ex-
ercises its powerful influence on the demoralization
of the Jews. A company, consisting of eighty
men, with their Rabbi at their head, arrived at the
gates of our city, in order to obtain from the Prince
Governor leave to retain their old costumes. That so
strange a company, which might be distinguished at a
distance by their singular gesticulations, was not per-
mitted to enter the city without inquiry, may be con-
ceived. General A., the chief of the police, being in-
formed of the strange party before the city, ordered that
they should be immediately brought, under a good
escort, to the police-office, and then, without speaking a
word to them, their beards and locks should be cut off,
and their pelises slit up behind. In half an hour the
poor people felt the cold air on their bald unprotected
faces, and when they recovered from their consternation,
they found themselves again at the gates of Warsaw,
whither they had been conveyed. They had now no
further desire than to be allowed to take the clippings of
their beards home, that they might bury them in their
cemetery Those, however, were dispersed to all points
of the compass, and the travellers had now nothing more
to do in Warsaw than to satisfy the barbers' appren-
tices, who came for their pay.
The HAGUE, Nov. 19.—We have the following ac-
count from Tubbergen, in Overysel, dated the 12th of
this month :—"ln the course of the years of 1842 and
1843, 27 inhabitants of this district emigrated to
America, among whom there were some respectable
farmers, who sold all their property in order to seek a
fortune, the prospect of which was held out to them.
The result has been that, up to this time, thirteen of these
persons, having expended the money which they had re-
ceived for their effects, they have returned home poorer
than they were before, having convinced themselves
that here, in their own country, they are better off, in
proportion to the agricultural labourers' labour, which
they performed, than anywhere else where they have
tried their fortune.
The Princess of Orange left Stuttgard on the 13th
of this month, in the morning, after having passed
several weeks there, on a visit to the Royal
Family. Her Royal Highness is expected at Munich,
to which city the Chevalier Devres, Minister
resident of the Netherlands at the Court of Bavaria, is
gone to meet her Royal Highness. We understand that
her Majesty the Queen, the Princess of Orange, the
Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxe ‘Veimar, the Crown
Princess of Wurternburg, and Prince Alexander of the
Netherlands are expected here by the end of the month.
Within these few days nine herring vessels have ar-
rived at Schevenningen, which brought altogether
700,000 herrings; of which the first boat had 101,000,
the second 94,000.—Dutch Papers, Nov. 21.

lured, and jib-boom carried away. The schooner lies
across the brig's bow, her mainmast gone by the board,
and being lightly built and moat exposed, will probably
go to pieces next tide. The stores of both are landing.
The schooner Alpha, of Plymouth, Captain Harper,
broke from her moorings between the island and the
main, and went ashore in Firestone Bay. She is laden
with Delahole slate.

This morning the Danish brig Niord, Captain Quaat,
having signalled for assistance, the Queen's Harbour-
master, Mr. Walker, promptly supplied her with a
frigate's chain and anchor.
The American barque Columbus, 750 tons, drawing
111 feet of water, Captain Wood, from Hamburgh,
with ballast and goods, for Batavia, in endeavouring to
dock at Cattedown, in order to examine her bottom, on
Wednesday, just at the pitch of high water, had her
two stern fastenings broken by a barge under sail up
Catwater, in consequence of which the Columbus swung
alongside the quay, with her stern on soft ground : she
strained severely, and the next tide the water ran into
her. While clearing the hold, on Thursday, the main-
mast sprung in the wake of the mainyard by the lifting
of her keel and keelson. To prevent injury to the crew,
her larboard main-rigging was then cut away, and
her mainmast fell on her starboard side, carrying other
spars, rigging, and gear with it. The extent of the
damage is yet unknown.

WooLwicu, Nov. 21.—The Grappler steam-vessel,
Lieutenant Lysaght commanding, will leave Woolwich
on Tuesday next for the Island of Ascension, and will
embark Mr. Hook, one of the Slave Commissioners ;for
the coast of Africa. Captain Hutton, R.N., the new
Governor of Ascension, will also embark in the Grappler
for a passage to that island. The Grappler is one of the
experimental vessels, constructed of iron; and, upon trial
down the river, was found to be very fast, and reported
to answer well.

The Rosamond (late Eclair), Commander J. Foote,
was tried down the river on Friday, and found in good
order. She embarked one,bombardier and nine gunners
of Marine Artillery in the afternoon of the same day,
and it is said she will proceed to the Cape of Good Hope
to relieve the Thunderbolt steam-vessel, Commander
Boyle.
The Gorgon steam-vessel, Commander Crouch, is to be
paid off about the 27th instant.

A quarantine barque -drew her anchors, and went
ashore in Bootle Bay; and
The Wakefield brig, just arrived from St. John's, and
a scnooner also parted anchors, and went ashore in
Bootle Bay. No lives lost.
A flat sunk on West Hoyle; but we are glad to learn
the crew was saved by the life-boats.
The Princess Dublin mail-steamer, ran into the tug-
boat Mona, and very much damaged her.
It was reported that one of the Dublin mail boats had
greyed in a state of wreck, with her funnel blown out
of her, but this arose from the circumstance that the
Princess, which was undergoing repairs, was towed into
the river for the purpose of going into the graving dock.
She was very much blown about during the transit, and
having no fennel, the above-mentioned rumour naturally
arose.
Several small steamers and flats parted their anchors,
but without doing any damage.
The only life lost was that of poor Irish passenger in
a frieze coat, name unknown, who was blown into one of
the docks and drowned. The body was recovered very
speedily, and taken to the receiving house, but all
attempts to restore animation were fruitless.
On land, a few chimney pots and tiles were blown off
old buildings, and it was found necessary, in Church-
street, to barricade the parapet opposite Mr. Rawle's
shop, in consequence of a continuous shower of slates
from the roof. The shop window of Mr. Rogerson, silk
311( tie", Church-street, was also considerably damaged
by the violence of the gale.
At Birkenhead, a newly built house, at the corner of
Chester-street and Ivy-street, the property of Mr. Wal-
ters, was blown down, but providentially no person was
near at the time.
The wind towards evening moderated a little ; and at
ten o'clock last night great hopes were entertained that
there would be no renewal of its violence.

VIOLUT STORII.—RUMABE ABLE FALL 01' THB
BAROMETZB.—During the night of Thursday last, the
wind, which for the last three or four days has been
south-easterly, increased in fury till it blew quite a gale
from the south-east, and there is great reason fo fear
much damage to shipping. Contemporaneously with
this high wind, an extraordinary fall of the barometer
has been remarked, a circumstance which indicates a
great storm. Previously, the barometer had been very
high, but was gradually declining. Thus, on Thursday
week, the 12th inst., it stood at 30 33 all day. It fell on
the subsequent day to 30.32, 30.24, 30.09, 30.04, 29-70,
29.68; and on Thursday evening last, about nine o'clock,
it was 22.58. During the night, however, it fell to 29.10,
and had fallen daring yesterday still further; for last
evening, at five o'clock, it stood at 28.85. It therefore
fall o•4s during the night, and 0.25 during yesterday; in
adl 0'73 (more than seven-tenths) during twenty hours.
—Manchester Guardian.
Acernarx ON TUB RI-vs-rt.—At six o'clock on Fri-
day morning a Greenwich
Webb, about forty-eight years of age, having to pilot a
Teasel up from Gravesend, made his skiff fast to a
schooner going rapidly down n the river. Webb was
supposed to have fallen asleep,
about seventeen years old, kept whilst son, a lad
Fur-
fleet a Government lighter struck thep°and cut it
Off
completely in two. Webb sunk to rise no mti7eel, but a
skiff,
boat having been lowered from the schooner,
picked up in a state of utter insensibility. Weabdbw
left a wife and seven children utterly unprovided for. has
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England held a
committee meeting on Saturday at the omce in White-
ball-place.

The Growler steam-vessel, having had her carpenter's
defects made good at Deptford dockyard, was towed
down the river to Woolwich on Thursday, and taken
into the basin on Friday, to have her machinery put in
order.
The Sidon steam-frigate, Captain Henderson, C. 8.,
will leave Woolwich early in the ensuing week. Her
destination is not yet known, but will be communicated

on her arrival at Portsmouth.
The harbour at Woolwich presents a very animated
scene at present, owiug to the number of vessels in
commission at that port, at present consisting of the
following:—
The William and Mary yacht, bearing the flag of
Rear-Admiral Sir F. Collier, C.B. and K.C.H.
The Sidon steam-frigate, Captain Henderson, C.B.
The Rosamond steam-sloop, Commander J. Foote.
The Gorgon steam-vessel, Commander Crouch.
The Avon steam-vessel, Captain Denham.
The Grappler, steam-vessel, Lieutenant Lysaght.
The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master Commander
S. B. Cook.

The Woodlark, tender to the Mastiff surveying-vessel,
Master-Commander Thomas.

The Niger, recently launched, the Plover, and the
Sulphur, depot for the Royal Marines.
In the Docks—The Amphion, 36-gun frigate, with
steam scrsw propeller, Captain W. Williams, and the
Vixen steam-vessel.
In the Basin—The Medea steam-vessel, Commander
liammoad, the Geyser steam-vessel, Commander Brown,
the Fearless, the Monkey, the Ariel, the Charon, and
Tartarus steam-vessels.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

E. J.
J.H..KdeenCowar,temreats,teCrl,se.rAk,stßirkenhead.the
Caledonia.
Richard Michael, Acting Second-Master, to the
Zephyr.
T. B. Gitt, Surgeon, and Agent for Sick-quarters, at
Donaghadee.
James Holden, Clerk, to the Medea.
G. W. Battershell, Clerk's-Assistant to the Medea.
George Crichton, Acting Second Engineer, to the
Stromboli.
James M'Clymont, Third Engineer to tho Stromboli.
Henry Leyland, Third Engineer to the Lucifer.
Patrick Sleven, Assistant-Surgeon to the Thetis.
E A. Porcher, Lieutenant, to the Sidon.
William Stubbs, Naval Cadet, to the Geyser.
G. H. Barnard, Naval Cadet, to the Rosamond.
Grenville Temple, Midshipman, to the Hibernia.

The seductive nature, as well as utility, of the nove
has seldom been made more apparent than in the new
production by Mrs. Gore, entitled " Men of Capital." If
we are to estimate the merit of any work by the diffi-
culty of success, the novel of society would seem to be
one of the highest achievements of mental ingenuity, as
certainly it is one of the rarest to be found in any degree
of excellence. It exhibits humanity as modified by the
peculiar circumstances of the time in which we live. It
displays the strong and active impulses of nature, and
the restraining action of society mutually influencing
and controlling each other. Mrs. Gore will be found to
htiou ave
And
erasplayaluiaahllmhenert brilliantnew powere.s in the construe-

LORD CAMPBELL AN LL.D.—The Senatus Aca-
demicus of the University of St. Andrew's, on the 14th
instant, unanimously conferred the degree of LL.D. on
the Right Ilon. Lord Campbell, formerly au alumnus of
this University.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1846.

from which everything impure had been picked and
shifted.

Dr. Macilwain continued—That allowing the cinders
to be dry and free from other impurities, it did not alter
his opinion that they were deleterious to health. On
another ground, there was great objection to the collec-
tion of heaps of ashes near dwellings, as they tended to
impede the free circulation of air.
Mr.PAYNTER said he had never smelt anything noxious
from cinders, and he was at a loss to know where they
were to be put—they must be deposited somewhere.
Mr Charles Shillito, of Putney, surgeon, proved that
the certificate produced was signed by him, and then
proceeded to state the facts as already detailed. He
added, there was no doubt noxious gases evolved from
the refuse and dung, and they might exist in a
minor degree in a heap of cinders, especially if they were
wet. He considered that a huge heap of cinders near
dwellings, if it did not contaminate the atmosphere, ob-
structed the free circulation. The drains in that district
were very bad, and he had no doubt that the exhalations
from them and dung heaps, &c., had often caused fever.
He had been in the houses when the stench was over-
powering, and on one occasion he was ill for a fortnight
after visiting a sick patient in that locality. The heap
of ashes which had been alluded to was Price's property,
and as large as three or four houses put together.
Roberts said they never let the dung accumulate to
any height.
Mr. PAYNTER said it was very evident that dung and
refuse were noxious, and therefore the defendants must
remove it altogether.
Mr. Field said that, provided the defendants removed
the nuisance within two clear days, he would not press
for any penalty or costs. The guardians were only de-
sirous of showing that it was their intention to carry
this law into effect.

Mr. Benjamin Ridge, of Putney, surgeon, was sworn
on behalf of Price, and put in a plan of the pre-
mises, together with a lengthened and able report
upon the same; The report had been submitted
to Dr. Golding Bird, who entirely approved of
it. He considered that ashes, in the state
they were prepared for brickmakers, had no decom-
possible matter in them, and therefore no gases could be
generated from them in any appreciable quantity, except
carbonic acid, which is evolved during the night from
every tree and every vegetable. An ash heap, or coal
depot, in such a situation, could not be regarded as inju-
rious, nor an annoyance, except from its unsightliness ;
and any carbon diffused from it, in the shape of fire, did
much rather tend to the carrying off its noxious vapours
from the moist ground, or from the ditches and drains in
the surrounding neighbourhood, which he described as
being abominable nuisances, and the primary promoters
of any cases of fever which arose in that locality.
Dr. Shillito was of opinion that whilst the large heap
of cinders remained, the neighbourhood would never be
cleared of noxious smells.

Mr. PAYNTER said, that with regard to the heap of
cinders, he could not satisfy himself that they came
within the meaning of the Act as noxious matter, and
therefore he should dismiss that summarily ; but he
would not say that the party owning this heap was not
liable to another proceeding. He thought the ditches
and drains ought to be looked to, and was not certain
that the defendants were not acting illegally in keeping
pins so near their dwellings.
The orders were made for the removal of the dung
and refuse by Tuesday next, and the proceedings ter-
minated.