The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-27 00:00:00

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF

MAILS.

SormuirroN, Nov. 26.—The Portugal mails ar-
rived here at half-past twelve last night, in the Oriental
Company's steam .ship Royal Tar, Captain Hamilton, and
were forwarded to London by the mail train at one A.x.,
this day.

The Tar has eighteen passengers, a full cargo of fruit,
eggs, and twelve oxen. Her dates are—Gibraltar,
November 16th ; Cadiz, 17th ; Lisbon, 201 ; and
Oporto, 21st. _ _

•
DISTRIBUTION OF SHIPPING. Gibraltar—Her Ma-
jesty's steamer Virago, Flower of Yarrow yacht; her
I Majesty's ship Vanguard sailed for Carthagena; a
French war steamer arrived on the 15th, and sailed on
the forenoon of the 16th. At Cadiz, in the bay—A
Spanish brig of war. Arrived on the 17th, a French
steamer of war, saluted with twenty• one guns. A Spa-
nish steamer, Sello, got on shore on the night of the
14th, and was not off when the Tar left on the 17th. It
was reported that she was breaking up. The experi-
mental squadron was in the Tabu, also French brig
Cygne, and the usual Portuguese squadron.
The Gibraltar packet Queen, Captain Weeks, will
leave the docks at three r.iu., with outward mails, a full
cargo, and usual number of passengers.
The Transit steamer, belonging to the South-Western
Steam Company, arrived here this morning from Co-
runna, which place she left on the 21st instant, and
landed forty very fine Spanish cattle; also a full cargo
of fruit.

FATAL BURSTING OF A STEAM-BOILER:LISDURN,
MONDAY, Nov. 23. This day an inquiry was held in
the Court-house at Lisburn, before Thomas Johnson
Smith, D.L., Henry T. Higginson, William Gregg, and
R. Johnson Smith, Esqs., justices of the peace for the
county Antrim, on the bodies of Hugh Fleming and
William Rafferty, deceased, and after a lengthened and
full investigation, the bench came to the conclusion,
from the evidence, that these two persons came by their
death on that morning, in consequence of the bursting
of a steam-boiler (cause unknown), in the boiler-house
of Mr. William Barber's sewing linen thread manu-
factory, at ililden, near Lisburn, but that no blame was
attached to any person, nor did it appear to have taken
place through neglect. Four young girls were also seri-
ously scalded by the accident, and now lie dangerously
ill in the county hospital.
NEWPORT, MONMOUTHSHIRE, Nov. 26.—A fine
schooner was brought in here last evening's tide, called
the Rowena, of Jersey; she was towed in here by a large
schooner. She is loaded with palm oil and nuts from
the coast of Africa, and she was picked up off Ilfra-
combe. There were three men dead on board, one in
the cabin and two on deck ; one was lashed to the mast.
The Custom-house authorities have been on board of
her, and there were two boxes of ship letters, which
were forwarded to the General Post-office, London, this
evening. She fills with the tide.—From a Correspondent.
RAILWAY NOTICES.—A daily issue of the London
Gazette is taking place, in order to enable railway com-
panies to comply with the terms of the standing orders
directing the publication of their respective Parliamen-
tary notices therein. The Gazette of yesterday contains
51 notices of intended applications for railway Acts next
session. The majority of the current notices appear to
be from existing companies, who are desirous either to
construct new branches or works, or to sell or lease
their lines to the directors of other companies.
CANNING'S REMEMBRANCE OP A VOICE.—One
peculiarity he possessed, which is but partially known,
—his thorough remembrance of a voice, and his ability of
connecting it at any interval of time with the party to
whom it belonged. More than one instance of this
faculty is remembered at Hinckley. lie was dining with
a large party at Mr. Cheshyre's, the medical gentleman
before referred to, when a note was brought in and
handed to the host, with an intimation that the bearer
begged to see him for five minutes. Mr. Cheshyre left
his party with reluctance, and was absent some time.
When he returned he prefaced his lengthy apologies by
observing, he had been detained by one of the most re-
markable men of the day; that the gentleman was by
accident passing through Hinckley, and he could not
pause on his route; that he purposed placing one of his
family under his (Mr. Cheshyre's) care, and that he
(Mr. Cheshyre) was obliged to listen to all his arrange-
ments. " I will name him," said Canning, gaily, " and
then drink his health." " The latter point Diay be very
easily managed, but the former will, I believe, baffle
oven your acuteness, Mr. Canning." This was said with
some degree of tartness; for, among other affectations
which the wealthy quack indulged in was that of pro-
found mystery with respect to the most trivial occur-
rences. " Your visitor, Sir, was Wilberforce," said
Canning, stoutly. "How could you possibly discover
that?" cried his annoyed host. "We conversed with
, closed doors; he sent in no card; as we parted he spoke
but five words." "Of which I heard but two." " What
were they !" " Conventional arrangements," said Can-
ning, imitating Wilberforce's distinct enunciation, and
dwelling on each separate syllable.—Stray Leaves by a
Suffolk Bettor.
THE GRAVE-YARD NUISANCE.—WC are glad to
•F find that the agitation against the grave-yard nuisance
is now commenced in earnest. Mr. Walker, whose pub-
lications on the subject of the grave-yards of London
are well known, commences a course of lectures on the
present condition of metropolitan grave-yards this even-
ing,, at half-past eight o'clock, at the Mechanics' Institu- '
tion, Southampton-row. We hope that a similar course
will be delivered at every institution in the metro-
polis, and that public meetings will be held on the sub-
ject for the purpose of petitioning Parliament ; for all
other sanatory measures will be comparatively useless so
long as large centres of corruption shall be suffered to
diffuse their pestiferous exhalations over the length and
, ' breadth of the metropolis, polluting the wholesome air,
, and rendering it a wholesale propagator of deadly
' disease.

The Gazette de Vos states that the Prussian Go-
vernment has forbidden railway companies to construct
electric telegraphs on their own account, and preserves
to itself this mode of forwarding intelligence.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen, and their Royal Highnesses the Prince
of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess Alice left Osborne House yesterday morning
for an airieg. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prin-
cesses, taking a carriage drive on the Newport Road,
and the young Princes proceeding to the sea-beach,
where their Royal Highnesses took walking exercise.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge,
and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg
Strelitz, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of
Hesse honoured the Adelphi Theatre with their presence
on Wednesday evening.
His Excellency Count Schimmelpennm. ck, the newly
appointed Minister of the Netherlands to this Court,
arrived on Wednesday at Batt's Hotel from the Hague.
The Marquis of Clanricarde (Postmaster-G eneral),
has returned to town. The Noble Marquis had an inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-.
office from the Governor of Gibraltar. _

- The Chancellor of Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood had a dinner party on Wednesday. Among the
company were Prince Lowenstein, the Farl and Coun-
tess Granville, the Earl of Auckland and the Hon. Miss
Eden, Vhcount and Viscountess Palmerston, the Right
Hon. E.. J. Stanley, the lion. Captain Grey, Mr. C.
Greville, &c.
Sir George Grey left town yesterday, on a visit to the
Right Hon. the :Speaker of the House of Commons, at
his seat lleckfield-Mice, Hartford Bridge.

THE CONDE DE MONTEMOLIN.
Yesterday his Majesty walked out for some time at
an early hour in the morning, entirely unattended, and
was subsequently employed in the transaction of
business.

In the afternoon his Majesty received visitors, amongst
whom were Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Ranelagh,
and several gentlemen who take an interest in the affairs

of Spain. _
His Majesty dined in private with the officers of his
suite.

We believe it is his Majesty's intention, on a very
early opportunity, to visit the various public establish-
ments and institutions for which England has become so
celebrated.—Post.

THE SALT MONOPOLY IN INDIA.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. In conse-
quence of a requisition presented to Elkanah Armitage,
the mayor of this borough, by the presidents of the
Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Association,
a meeting of the bankers, merchants, manufacturers, and
other inhabitants of this borough was held this forenoon,
at eleven o'clock, in the Town-hall, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the oppressive and injurious
tendency of the salt-tax and monopoly in India.
Shortly after the appointed hour the mayor took the
chair, and amongst the gentlemen present we noticed
Alderman W. B. Watkins, late mayor; Robert Gardner,
Esq.; Thomas Bexley, Esq., J. A. Turner, Esq., Robert
Stewart, Esq., Lewis Williams, Esq., William Peel, Esq.,
James Atherton, Esq., and other gentlemen.
Rowr. GARDNER, Esq., rose to propose the first resolu-
tion,which was as follows:—" That, in the opinion of this
meeting, the present administration of the salt revenue in
India is indefensible in principle, oppressive to the people
of that country, and ought to be abolished." In pro.
posing the resolution, Mr. Gardner said that it must be
quite apparent to any person who had taken the slightest
interest in this subject, that the administration of the
salt revenue was oppressive, inasmuch as it absorbed one-
fourth of the earnings of the labouring classes of India,
than whom a more oppressed race could not possibly be
conceived. If the importation of salt to India were
freely permitted, it would employ a great amount of
British shipping, a circumstance which would be advan-
tageous not only in a commercial point of view, but also
to the ships themselves, for nothing did a ship so much
good as being employed in carrying salt. It was an un-
doubted fact that ships, when employed solely in carry-
ing salt, would last twice or thrice as long as when they
were employed in any other traffic. He called upon the
meeting to support the resolution on the grounds of mo-
rality and Christianity.—(Applause.)
Alderman WATKINS, late mayor of the borough, se-
conded the motion. He could not have believed; until
he had read the pamphlet of Mr. Aylwin, that such
gross inhumanity had been perpetrated upon so many
millions of the most abject people on the face of the
earth. He was surprised that the subject had not come
under the notice of the Honourable the Court of Direc-
tors of the East India Company, and at least under the
notice of the humane British public.
The resolution then passed.
Mr. SAM. FLETCHER briefly moved the second resolu-
tion, which was as follows :—" That this meeting holds
it to be the first duty of a Government to provide that
no obstruction exist against a sufficient and cheap supply
of the first necessary of life to its subjects. That the
insipid nature of the principal food of the people of India
gives to salt the character of the first necessary, and ren-
ders an abundant use of it indispensable to health." In
moving the resolution, he said that salt was a first ne-
cessary in India, for the purpose of preventing disease
among the natives, and ought therefore to be plentifully
supplied to the natives.
Mr. ROBERT STEWART (of the firm of Gladstone and
Co.), seconded the resolution • and, in doing so, drew
attention to the fact, that the salt which was now sup-
plied to the natives of India was not pure in quality, for
in the course of its transit from the sea coast it acquired
such a variety of impurities, that Europeans could not
possibly eat it. This was a state of things which the
Honourable the East India Company must have been
aware of, and which they ought long since to have
abolished.
The resolution, on being put from the chair, passed.
Mr. E. SHAWCROSS moved a resolution to the eff,ct,
that the system under which salt is now distributed in
India causes a deficiency in the supply, great enhance-
ment in price, great deterioration in quality, and much
' consequent deprivation and suffering ; that it encou-
rages smuggling and dishonesty, and in many ways re-
tards the development of the resources of the country.
Mr. W. PEEL seconded the motion, which was passed.
Mr. Alderman MAysosr moved a resolution to the ef-
fect, that the East India Company's monopoly in salt
was not only unjust and cruel towards the people, but
was a direct contravention of the company's charter of
incorporation.
Mr. JAMES OwEN seconded the resolution, which
passed mem. dis.
It was then resolved that a petition be prepared to the
House of Commons, embodying the substance of the re-
solutions, and that it be presented by the Members for
the borough.
A committee was also appointed to draw up the peti-
tion, after which the proceedings terminated.

REDUCTION OF TIIE DUTY ON TEA.
A requisition to the Mayor of Manchester, requesting
him to call a meeting to petition for the reduction of
the duty on tea, is in the course of signature, and will be
presented in a day or so.

FIRE AT WALWORTH.—This morning, between
the hours of twelve and one, a fire, that did considerable
damage, broke out in the extensive premises belonging
to Mr. G. Austin, tea-dealer and grocer, carrying on
business at 3, Black Prince-row, Walworth-road, near
the Elephant and Castle. It appears that whilst a
neighbour was passing, he discovered smoke issuing from
the window-shutters ; this satisfied the party that the
place was on fire. Having raised an alarm, police-con-
stable, 181 L, came up, and having roused the inmates,
they succeeded, at some trouble, in effecting a safe re-
treat from the premises. The information having been
sent to the engine stations, in a space of time, almost
incredibly brief, the brigade engines from Southwark and
Waterloo-bridge-roads, with Mr. Henderson, the chief
officer of the district, and Mr. Connorton, with the West
of England engine, reached the scene. At that time
the shop and its contents were completely enveloped in
flames ; the mains of the Lambeth works, however,
yielded an immediate supply of water, from which the
firemen set to work, and by one o'clock, or a little after,
they succeeded in entirely extinguishing the flames. By
trade,that p period, however,
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destroyed,
and the furniture and upper portion of the premises were
extensively damaged by heat and smoke. The cause of
the fire could not be ascertained. Had it not been for
the timely discovery, and for the police having kept the
doors closed, a most fearful conflagration, and probably
loss of life, must have been the result. Fortunately the
sufferer was insured in the Sun Fire-office.

REPRESENTATION OF WEYMOUTH.—On Monday
evening a meeting of the friends of Mr. Robert Gordon,
who has flatly declined the honour of representing this
borough, was held at Luce's Hotel, for the purpose of
adopting measures to persuade him to become a can-
didate. Mr. R. H. Swaffield took the chair, and Mr.
W. Hodges proposed Mr. Gordon as a candidate, when-
ever a vacancy should occur. This proposition having
been assented to, a committee was appointed to wait on
Mr. Gordon, and obtain his ultimate determination. A
correspondent says—" It is quite evident that therebowill
be a struggle for the representation of thisr
borough
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held at the board-room of the establishment, for the pur-
poseand supporters of this extensively useful institution was
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hour,
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of electing an assistant physician, and on other
general business. The chair was taken by Thomas
Haviland Burke, Esq. The report, read by the secre-
tary, Alexander Shedden, Esq., was of the mcst satis-
factory nature, and some preliminary business having
been disposed of; the election was forthwith commenced.
The candidates for the vacant office were Dr. Robert
Gordon Latham and Dr. J. W. Woodfall. After a very
animated and close contest of four hours, Dr. Latham
was chosen by a majority of 21 over his opponent; the
numbers being, at the close of the poll, for Dr. Latham
190 votes
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satisfactory to the meeting, which shortly afterwards
broke up, having paid the customary compliment to the
chairman.

IMPUDENT ROBBERT.—Yesterday morning two
fellows walked into the house of Mr. William Brown,
Prospect-place, Sulthill, during the absence of the in-
mates, and after dressing themselves in suits of clothes
belonging to Mr. Brown, walked quietly off in their new
habiliments without exciting the suspicion of the next.,
door neighbours. The thieves, who are supposed tc• be
a couple of well known beggars frequenting the neigh,
, bourhood of Slough and Eton, left their rags behind them.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-CHANCERY COURT, Non. 26.
Honour the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce sat in
his Court in Lincoln's Inn to-day, and heard bankrupt
petitions as Chief Judge of the Court of Review in
Bankruptcy. His Honour also disposed of several causes
as Vice-Chancellor.

WROUGHTON 0. COLOQUHER.
This cause came before the Court to-day on further
directions.
His Hosortt, at the conclusion of the arguments, said,
the case arose out of the supposed ambiguities in the will
of the testator. He considered that these ambiguities
did not exist, and that the intentions were very clearly
expressed, and he therefore considered that the annuitant
was entitled to have a charge on the income for her an-
nuity, and that the debts should be paid out of the fund
(5,9001.) then iu Court, to the credit of the cause.