The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-21 00:00:00

A,PPOINTMENTs.

H. A. Norman, Lieutenant, Rodney.
Thomas H. Downes, Chief Officer, Coast Guard.
CHATHAM, SEPT. 18.—On Tuesday, the 15th instant,
the Fearless steam-vessel left the harbour in the morn-
ing for Sheerness, and embarked the captain andj other
officers, with a number of pupils of the Aur4a, a Sar-
dinian corvette, and brought them to Chatham, and they
landed at the Queen's stairs. The party consisted of
about forty gentlemen ; with them were also some of
the officers from the guard ship. These visitors were
received by the Captain Superintendent, and other
officers, and Lieutenant Win, director of police. They
were conducted over the yard, and after making a
minute inspection of the smithy, the metal, saw, and
lead mills, and the ships building and those in dock,
they re-embarked on board the Fearless, and returned
again to their ships off Sheerness, expressing themselves
highly gratifiea with their visit, and the courteous atten-
tion they received from the officers of the yard.
The Mutine, 12 guns, in dock, is nearly completed iii all her repairs, and during the week she has been
painted. and is only waiting to be reported fit to be com-
missioned, which is expected to be done in a few days.
The Southampton, 50 guns, fitted for the ordinary, has
been newly coppered, and will be put out of dock next
week.

A party of men have been sent from the metal mills at
Portsmouth to be employed at the new metal mills at
this,yard. A sight wing to the new metal mills is to be
erected, to correspond with that handsome building, far
drilling iron and other metals. -

The Rochester, Sedgwick master, has arrived from.
Plymouth with stores for this dockyard; and the Duck
Savage master, sailed yesterday with stores for Deal any
Dover; and the Sinbad, Follett master, sailed with store:
for Woolwich dockyard.

The Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin has
elected as a corresponding member M. J. P. Secchi,
a Jesuit of Rome. This is said to be the first instance
of a Jesuit becoming a member of the Berlin Academy.

can stiit her to make
them walk leagues and leagues with chains around their
necks, naked and bare-footed.
We could cite many ,similar acts, and if France
committ3 them in the consultation of her con-
venience, we, consulting our own, ought to
entreat Almighty God to divest France of all her
conveniences. Her conveniences and ours are diame-
trically opposed to each other. In the year 1823 it
suited her to invade our soil with an armed force, to
wrest from us our liberty, and to leave the Liberals in
the clutches of absolutism. At a subsequent period it
suited her convenience, when war began to blaze in the
provinces, to add fuel to its flames ; and she finally ad-
ministered a narcotic to the whole of her police, in order
that Don Carlos might cross the French frontier without
being seen. It afterwards suited her to overthrow
Espartero, and now it appears that it suits her conveni-
ence to marry the Duke de Montpensier to the Infanta,
after it had suited her to marry the Queen to Montemo-
lin, to Trapani, or to whomsoever else it did rot suit our
convenience that she should be married !
Fortunately, Providence bas ordered for some years
that whatever suits us should also suit England. It
suited this powerful nation, as well during the "Liberal"
emigration of 1823 as during that of 1843, to conciliate
the affection of the emigrants neither more nor less than
it suited France to gain their hatred. Thanks to this,
the political outcasts who 'at these two distinct periods
had the good fortune to gain the shore of England, met
on those shores with abundant sympathies, which greatly
alleviated their condition. It suited England, as well as
ourselves, that the cause of Don Carlos should succumb,
and her valiant soldiers participated more than once in
the dangers and glories of our own.
It suited England that the regency of Espartero should
issue victorious from the blow which dE stroyed it in the
year 1843, and Espartero would not have fallen had
England paid as little respect as France to the inde-
pendence of our nation. In all these capital points the
interest of Spain and England was synonomous, and
hers as well as ours was opposed to that of Fence. To
England it is owing that, on the marriage
question, none
it will be
of the candidates which the instinct of 'Spain has re-
pelled has triumphed until now. It is rumoured that
present
not take
sieli place,a will
not
even now she is opposed to the Montpensier match, al-
though in this the will of that nation is equivalent to
moaft c ht h dues
e
have been able to conquer the repugnance of England.
We know these men, and we know well enough how
becauseo ur
own.
the If
this
men
little their, acts are influenced by the will of their
country. But what matters it that if Louis Philippe's
marriage scheme is not realised, it is owing to the
influence of a foreign nation? Spain will not be the less
contented.

What matters it that in thwarting this match England
may only propose to herself to weaken or binder the
strengthening of the fatal influences which make of our
country a mere French colony ? It suits us to expel
these influences ; -we ought not to perceive that it may
equally suit England to expel them. When the will of
a country is not respected, we ought to &sire that those
who are at its head ma) see themselves compelled to re-
spect the will of another country which is comforrnable
with that of our own.

_From an authority, on which we can entirely rely,
we are enabled to state that T. W. Bramston, Esq.,
intends to retire from the representation of the county,
whenever a dissolution of the present Parhament may take place.—Chelmsford Chronicle.

. BER 18. STocic Excnewar.—The HULLsaIesSEPTE
are M - North British, Carlisle. 8 ls.
6d. —Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 7s. W.—Leicester and
Tainworth, 395. 6d.—North Western, ss. p.—North Staffordshire. 3%
p —Shropshire Union, % dis.—West Riding Union, 4/. Bs.—Grand
Union, 13s.—Leleester and Bedford, 123.—Shrewsbury and Here-
ford, 7s.

SHEFFIELD, SEPTEMBER 18.
SToett EXcliAttot.—The sales are Eastern Counties, York Ex.
tension, 1% p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3/. 3s. 6d. c —Ditto,
Extensions, 21s. dis.—Ditto, Docks, 21.35. 6d. dis.—Leeds and Dews-
bury, 1/. 18s. 9d. p.—Midland, New, 1114, p.— Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 13s. Gd. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, arid Midland, 13s.
6d. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 1/. 4s. p.—
North Western, 3s. p.— Sheffield and Lincoln, dis.
YORK, SEPTEMBER 18.
STOCK EXCRANGE.—The sales are —lpswich and Bury Extension
(Norwich), 21. IL—Ditto (Cambridge and Ely), 1% —Mal ton and
Driffield Junction, 2/. 14s. Gd. Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and
Midland, 3% --North British, Carlisle Extension, 4/. Is. —Sheffield,
Rotherham, &c., 21. 2s.—West Riding Union, 4/. 98.—York and New
castle, New, 10% scrip--York and North Midland (East and West
Riding Extension), 12%.

FIRE NEAR HouNsLow.—Between twelve and one
o'clock on Friday morning, one of. two ricks of clover
hay, containing about sixty loads each, belonging to Mr.
Mathew Sherborn, of North Hyde, in a fieki in Craw-
ford-lane, about two miles north-west.of Hounslow, was
discovered to be on fire. The discovery was made by
one of the_ labourers in Mr. Sherborn's employ, who
resides in a cottage not far from the ricks, who imme-
diately alarmed the neighbourhood, and in a very short
time numbers of persons arrived in rapid succession, and
exerted themselves to the utmost in endeavouring to ex-
tinguish the flames, but without effect, and the devouring
element quickly extended to the adjoining rick, which
with the first became one body of fire. The fire conti-
lined burning throughout the night and during the
greater part of Friday, the whole of both stacks being
completely destroyed. The loss is estimated at about
4001., the principal portion of which is fortunately
covered by an insurance office. There is no doubt that
the fire was accidental, and was occasioned by over-1
heating__
Mr

, Thomas Score, of Okeford-Fitzpaine, Dorset,
has, in consequence of the failure of the potato crop,
with his usual liberality, again reduced the rent of his
land one-third, for the benefit of his poor tenants. It is
sincerely to he hoped that every wealthy landowner will
follow so praiseworthy as example.—Salisbury Journal.

It appears on the oath of Jane Grace, that about four
years ago she saw her sister, then fourteen years of age.
and an inmate of the workhcuse, in the girl's class, a
short time before her supper, give Joseph NiTtougal,
who was not at the time in the office of schoo'rnaster, one
penny for a square piece of bread, which she supposes
to have been one of the women's supper rations.
Joseph M'Dougal denies the fact, but it des not ap-
pear probable that Jane Grace, against whose character
there is no reproach, would deliberately perjure herself
by making such a statement falsely. She adds, more-
over, that she never knew or heard of another case in
which Joseph M'Dougal had sold provisions of any kind.
I am of opinion, therefore, that Joseph M'Dougal did
about four years ago, holding no official situation at the
time, sell to Jane Grace's sister a certain piece of bread
ofabout six ounces weight, for one penny, whether be-
longing to the provisions of the house or not does not ap-
pear ; and that there is no proof whatever of his having
sold provisions the property of the guardians on this or
any other occasion.
It appears, lastly, that about the same time, viz., be-
fore he was appointed to the office of schoolmaster, and
holding at the time no office of any kind under the Poor-
law Commission. Joseph M'Dougal did commit an as-
sault upon Jane Grace by beating her, and also upon
William Waldron ; but as I have no authority to in-
quire into offences committed by persons not employed
in the administration cf the poor-laws, I did not feel
justified in making further inquiries into these cases,
nor indeed was it necessary to do so, to carry out the
instructions received by me from the Commissioners.
The evidence given in support of the first charge ap-
pears to me sufficient to show that Joseph M'Dougal
has forfeited all claim to one of the most essential qua-
lifications of a workhouse schoolmaster, namely, a com-
mand of temper ; but the evidence of his zeal given by
the progress of the children under his charge, and the
testimony of the master of the workhouse as to his ge-
neral good conduct, to which may be added the consi-
deration of his youth, will probably induce the Com-
missioners to be satisfied with accepting his resignation
without inflicting on him the serious stigma and conse-
quences of a dismissal.
I wish to call the attention of the Commissioners to
the fact that neither the schoolmaster nor schoolmis-
tress of the Andover workhouse reside in the work.
house ; a circumstance which I consider as very disad-
vantageous to the children.
I have, &c.,
(Signed) G. PIGOTT,
The Poor law Commissioners, London.

FATAL 11ICIE FROM A HORSE.--On Friday Mr. W.
Payne held an inquest at St. Thomas's Hospital, re-
specting the death ~f James Ferns, aged thirty-eight
years, a carman recently in the service of Mr. Wright,
Eltham carrier. On Tuesday night last, about ten
o'clock, the deceased was proceeding along the high road
leading from Eltham to London, in charge of a van and
two horses, when one of them, a very spirited animal,
suddenly took fright, and in endeavouring to check the
career of the near horse he was knocked down, and
before he could recover his feet he received a frightful
kick in the face, which brol.e the upper and lower jaws.
He was brought to the above hospital, where he expired
immediately after his admission. Verdict, "Accidental)
death."

MORTALITY AMONGST /TARES.—It is a curious
circumstance, as connected with the present season, that
not only has there been extensive and dangerous disease
among cattle, but hares are now found dead in large
numbers in the fields. On one estate on which the game
is very numerous, about a dozen miles south from Edin-
burgh, the mortality has been very extensive.—Edinburgh
Witness.

-COPENHAGEN, SEPT. Il.—On the Bth of this month
his Majesty convoked the Provincial Assemblies of
North Jutland and Schleswig-Holstein, for the 2lst of
October next, and has appointed the Councillor of State
and Deputy to the Chambers, M. Bang, as Commissioner
in the first assembly, and Mr . Chamberlain Scheel, Pre-
sident of the Goverments of Schleswig-Holstein, as Com-
missioners in the latter assembly.
PETERSBURGH, SEPT. s.—The departure of their Im-
perial Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of
Wurtenburg is fix-d for Wednesday next. The Duke of
Leuchtenburg left us last week. Our latest journals
announce his passing throuoh Moscow and Tambow. It
is thought that his Royal Highness is going to make a
second tour to inspect our mines in the Ural and Altar.
The energetic representations lately made by our Go-
vernment to Turkey against affording secret assistance
to the Circassian mountaineers, appear not to have had
the desired results.
LUBECK, SEPT. 13.—The St. Petersburgh steamer
Naslednik, which arrived this morning at Travemande,
brings word that Count Rantz in, the Danish Ambassa-
dor at St. Petersburgh, has applied to the King of Den-
mark for leave to retire from his post. his Countess
arrived by the same vessel.
BRESLAU, SEPT. 9.—A pious wealthy Jewi,h banker,
named Altharas, from Marseilles, passed through this
place yesterday, being sent by Sir Moses Monteln,re to
Russia, to obtain leave from the Emperor for the emi-
gration of a certain number of Jews to Algiers, which
the Emperor is said to have promised to Sir Moses. It
is reported that the traveller has many important letters
of recommendation to the Prince of Warsaw, and that
it depends much on the Prince to support his views with
the Emperor. He is endeavouring here to find a jour-
neyman acquainted with the Polish and French lan-
guages, to accompany him as his interpreter on the
journey.—Hamburgh papers, Sept. 15.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTEaDAIii, SEPT. 15
Money. Bills
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.-- .• • 604 60%
Ditto, 3 per Cent. ••••••••• • • • • • • • • 72% 72%
Ditto, 4 per Cent • ... 94% ss
Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent...—. •• • . 89% 90
Ditto, 3% per Cent... • • • • • • • • • • •
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent . • 173% 175
East India Loan, 4 per Cent •• • • •• • • 91% 94%
Exchange on London, at sight •••••• • . 12 •20
Two m0nth5......... ••• • • • 12 12
On Hamhurgh, at sight •. • . 3.5 75
Two m0nth5......... ••• • .. 35 43
Twomonths. • ••
—Dutch Papers. Sept. Id.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BROSSELS, SEPT. 16.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ....... . .
Rothschild's Loan, Five per cent ........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •. • •
Ditto Three per Cent.. ••
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto • • ••
Ditto, ditto,lß4o
Ditto, ditto,lB42. ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • 103
Ditto, 1844.. • •99c
... Ditto, 1836..
.... 96'5
Ditto, 1838 • .• .•• • . • .......... 74
Ditto of the City, 1832 •• . • •... . • 1005 i
Ditto, 1843 ....... ••• • . • ..
Bank ofßelgium...... ...... • 935
-Brussels Papers. Sept. 17.

AUSTItIAINI FUNDS.—VIENNA, SErr. 10.
5 per Cent. Metalliques...... •• • ....... 100%
4 per Cent. ditt0.............• •••• • • • • 101%
3 per Cent. ditto.. • ••• . • ... 73
Loan, 1834 .............. •• • • •• • • ...... 157
Ditto, 1839 ..
Bank Shares • • • • • •
• • • • • • 1660
Esterhazy's Loan ........ . ...........

RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand ...... •• • • . 174%
Gloggnitz .... • • • • ... • • • • • • • . • . 129%
Vienna—Milan .. • • • ••.••• • • • • . 112 U
Pesth • . 91%
Sienna ....... ..... ...........• •••• • • • . 80
Apenninen
Pesth Bridge ...... .................. ..
Allgemeine Zeltung, Sept. 13.
HAMBURGII BORSENHALLE, SEPT.Bius. ls.ifoney,
Austrian 5 per Cents ••.•••• • • • • • • • 112
Bank Shares 1570
Anglo-Russian Loan Ins
107%
Russian 5 per Cent., Hanab. Certificate. 101%
Ditto let series Inscription—. ••• .• •• • • 10214
Ditto, !lope and C0.,3d and 4th series.. 97
Ditto, in Certificate.......... ••••• • • • • 97%
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co.
90
Ditto Stieglitz ....... ....... 88% 85'4
Spanish New 5 per Cent........ 187 18%
Ditto 3 per Cent 32
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent..
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••••• 59
Ditto 3 per Cent. . • •• • • •• • •
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.• • • 78%
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •• •• • • 86
National Bank Shares..
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, SEPT. 12.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuh] Sch., 3% per Cent •.• • • • 94 7-1 2 94 1-111
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent • . •
Foreign Exchanges.. • • • • • • •• ........
Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 3 Mouths.

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