The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-23 00:00:00

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lIAMBURGH MAIL.

CRACOW, Manx 9.—Perfect tranquillity—that is, what
is called tranquillity—now prevails in our city. All possible
measures are taken, on the part of the Allied Powers, to re-
press any idea of resistance to their ordinances. In the city
country detachments of military go about and take away
what arms they find. The clergy are deeply , implicated in
all these affairs. This evening seven waggons, with priso-
ners, were brought in under a military escort. In the city
itself, 172 persons were to-day designated as to be arrested.
On the whole 150 have been hitherto arrested. Negotia-
tions respecting Cracow are going on very actively. Co-
lonel Van Rohe, of the 10th Regiment, is appointed Com-
missioner on the part of Russia.
' Many Polish women, whose husbands have baen killed,
or have fled, are gone out of their minds.—Silesidn Gazette.
CRACOW, Dimwit 11.—The city is for an indefinite time in
a state of siege. The Senate is dissolved, and a council of
administration appointed instead; which, however, chiefly
consists of the members of the Senate. Carriages with
prisoners are brought in early; the prisoners think them-
selves fortunate when the escort is composed of Prussians,
by whom they are well treated. The Russians and Austrians
are more disliked. Business is at a a stand still, and every-
thing is very dear. The insurrection of the peasants in
Gallicia is said to be spreading. Troops continue to be sent
from this city to that country. Travellers affirm that some
parts of the province are like a desert ; from the frontiers of
Cracow to Lemburgh scarcely a nobleman's residence has
been spared.---Bremen Gazette.

WARSAW, MARCH 11.—The Warsaw Courier of to-day
says,_ "public tranquillity has not been interrupted in the
slightest degree, and the accounts from the provinces states,
that they. too, enjoy undisturbed tranquillity."
BERM', MARCh 11.—It is said that remonstrances have
been made by the Austian Legation on account of the state-
ment lately published in the Univ. rsal Russian Gazette that
Austrian magistrates in the Polish provinces had induced the
peasants, by rewards in money, to take prisoners, or to kill
the Polish landowners. People here wondered at the very first
how the generally cautious editors of the Universal Prussian
Gazette could admit such accounts into its columns. The
Universal Prussian Gazette has, we know, published such
accounts.

VIENNA.—IIIs Ilighness.Prince Metternich had addressed
the following circular, dated the 7th of March, to the re-
presentatives of Austria at the several German Courts.
"The latest Vienna journals bring the account of the occu-
pation ofCracow by our and the Imperial Russian troops, and
of the ignominous end of the insurrection in all parts of the
republic. If we look back on the events which have been
crowded together in the short space of a few days, causing
extensive convulsions, and occasioning unspeakable calamities
we know not whether to be most astounded at the wicked-
ness of those who formed the plan, or at the foolhardiness of
those who executed it, in total ignorance of the amount
of means that they could command, and voluntarily made
themselves the victims of hopeless undertakings. The
preliminaries of the project were certainly ably contrived.
An extensive conspiracy spread over the Austrian and Rus-
sian frontier of ancient Poland was formed, and the republic
of Cracow was chosen as a staple place at the command of
the Revolution. Numberless emissaries, sent out by the
chiefs of the emigration, who remained in safety, covered
these countries, and their insinuations and seductions were
listened to by these countrymen, these officers and client s,
who are more numerous in the former Polish countries than
elsewhere. In the territory of Cracow defective adminis-
nistrations, and an unsettled agitated state of society, in-
creased the success of their endeavours. Communist doctrines
were propagated among the people with indefatigable activity
and in every direction; and the leaders of the movement
(who certainly cared little for their own persons about the
application of the communist doctrines) indulged the absurd
hope of making the masses ready instruments of their
revolutionary plan, by holding out the prospect of freeing
the peasant from taxes and contributions, the Government
should be overthrown, and the utophia of a Polish kingdom
should be realised—fancied they should be able to lead the
raging waves into the channel which should appear to them
the most convenient. But the insanity and utter worth-
lessness of such plots appeared in the clearest light in Ga-
lacia. This country has been for nearly eighty years under
the Austrian Government, and at the time when it became
subject to Austria was in the most wretched old Polish
condition. The Austrian laws, especially our admirable
Urbarial, were introduced there. Their efforts are manifest.
They have inspired the peasantry, the mass of the popula-
tion with the feeling that the Throne is the power which is
the protection of their whole existence. This is what the
leading Polish emigrants have overlooked and forgotten—
they ascribed their own spirit to the population, in which
they were happily mistaken—the Galician peasant cannot
understand communist phrases, and Polish nation.
ality is odious to him, because it reminds him
of his misery. The majority of the preachers
at home, and among these peasantry, are their
oppressors. When they called on them to rise—when the in-
surgents, in places where they had assembled in great num-
hers, attempted to compel the peasants by violence—the move-
ment they thought to excite turned upon the instigators
themselves, many of whom fell victims to the anger of the
people, and the others were given up. by the peasants to
their natural protectors, the authorities of this province.
The movement is now subsiding in all Galicia, which cer-
tainly cannot be called a revolution, but rather an anti-revo-
lution. Now that the focus of the revolution in Cracow—
where, though no where else, it certainly had the upper
hand—is quenched,and the mass of the insurgents in Galicia,
where they have failed in their attempts, is put down,
it is not probable that the public tranquillity will be
further disturbed. It is evident, that after such con-
vulsions, moral tranquillity cannot be so soon restored to
people's minds, and that the task of the Government is not
easy. It, however, directs its first attention to this object,
and has the more confidence of success as it rests on the broad
basis of the Government at Galicia, viz., the faithful
attachment of the sound part of the population.
I wish you to make use of the present dispatch, in
communication with the cabinet, which we decree to make
you acquainted with the real state of affairs, and as accurately
as possible.—Vienna, 7th March."
COPENHAGEN, 13th March.—Some Members of the Fadre-
lan and of the Copenhagen Post, have been seized for in-
serting the Polish Insurrection' which unprivileged papers are
not allowed to do, though it has often happened.—Hamburg
Papers, 17th March. .

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY RILLS.
TUESDAY, MARCH 24.
Morecombe Harbour and Railway.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway Company's
Amalgamation.

WEDNESDAY; MARCH 25.
London and Birmingham (Leamington Extension and Coventry and

Rugby Stations Enlargement). -
Edinburgh and Glasgow and Scottish Central Junction.
Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Forth and Clyde Navigation Junction.
Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Wishaw and Coitness Junction.
London and Birmingham Grand Junction, and Manchester and Bir•
mingham Companies Amalgamation.
Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Monkland and Kirkintilloch, Balloch
ney, and Slamannan Junction.
Midland (Birmingham Extension).
Loudon and Birmingham (Aylesbury Railway Purchase).
Midland (Barfield to Elsecar, and other Branches).
Leicester and Birmingham.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, & Manchester (Worsborough Branch)
Leeds and Thirsk (St. Helen's Branch Deviation).
East Coast.
Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction.
THURSDAY, MARCH 26.

Cornwall.
Surrey Iron Railway Company Dissolving.
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, & South Staffordshire Junction (No. I),
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction (No
_ _

2—CoaltirOokdale Branch).
Glasgow Southern Terminal.
Scottish Midland Extension.

FRIDAY, DIARCII 27.
Bristol and Birmingham, and Midlands.
St. Alban's, Luton and Dunstable.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS

MANCHESTER, MARCH 21.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tke sales are—Anibergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, % dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 114 —Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, Halves, Sp. —Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield,
p.—Grand Union, Bs. 6d. dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 1 dis.—Derby
and Crewe, 2% p.—Liverpool, Ormaklrk, and Preston, see. lid. p.—
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, I% dia.—Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock, 34 p.—Northumberland and Lancashire, 114 dis.—North
Staffordshire, S% p. c.—Preston and byre, Halves (B), % p.—
Sheffield and Manchester, No. 3,1 N p.—West Riding Union, 21,4 D.
—Leicester and Bedford, % dis.—Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle, 7-16 p.—Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and Stockport, par
—Sheffield and Lincoln, 7
p.
LEEDS, Matted 21. _ .

&rock Excnixos.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 13s. 6d. p —Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 9M p.—
Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarters (B), 7% p. —Great
Grimsby and Sheffield, 15s. dis. —Ditto, Quarter Shares, 2s. 6d. dis.
—Ditto, Extensions, 10s. dis.—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 61,4 p.—
Leeds and Bradford, 46—Leeds and Dewsbury, 5 p.—North British,
New Carlisle Branch, 21. 4s.—London and York, 21. 19s.—Liver-
pool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 1% p. West Riding Union, 41. 4s.—
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 21s. dia.—Birkenhead, Chester,
Mold, Esc., 28s. 6d. dis.—Grand Union, 10s. dis.—Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, Bs. dia.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 265.
dis.—Nerthumberland and Lancashire Junction, 255. dis.—North
Staffordshire, 3% p.—North Western, 1 ls. 6d. p.—South Midlands,
17s. 6d p. _ _ _

NAVAL- INTELLIGENCE.
Poarsmourn, Fm MAX.—The Cary sfort, 26, Captain Sey
mour, left Portland Road?, on the 18th, for Sydney.
The Bth (King's Own) Regiment, under the command of
Colonel Sir Henry Bayley, G.C.H., and Lieutenant-Colonel
Hartley, was inspectxd this afternoon, on Southsea-common,
by Major-General tits Hon. Sir Hercules Pakenharn, K.C.8.,
in command of the south-west district, and Lieutenant-
Governor of this garrison. The man were put through the
various evolutions by their respective officers in a manner
showing the well-skilled officer and practised soldier, and
performed theni with a precision and minuteness of detail we
never saw surpassed by any regiment in the service. The
Gallant General was pleased to express his warm praise at
the highly efficient state of the regiment, the excellent order
of their movements, the precision of their fire, and their war-
like and soldierly appearance, before leaving the ground. The
Bth now musters 900 strong, which will be increased to 1,000
before leaving on foreign service.
It has been reported that the Bth is abut to proceed to
India, but we have good authority for stating no troops will
proceed from this quarter for India before June. Notices for •
tenders far conveying troops to India are not yet issued by the
GoVernm en t or P.ast- India Company.
CHATHAM, MARCH 20.—The African steam-yessel, J. King I
master, arrived here on the 18th instant with reameu from
the Trafalgar, flag-ship at Sheerness, for tkee Raleigh, 50
guns, Captain Sir T. Herbert, K.C.8., and r Armed to Sheer-
ness again the same day, taking the Goodwill lighter in hew,
loaded with stores for that dockyard. •
The Duck, Savage master, arrived on the 19th init. with
stores from Portsmouth yard.
The Cockatrice schooner, fitting for et victualling vessel for
the coast of Ireland, is nearly cotuleleted, and is new getting
her niasts in place.
The Magpie, fitting for a water tank, is masted and nearly
completed for service. .S
The Teazer Steam-vessel, building—The caulkers have
completed caulking this vessel. She is expected to be ready
for launching the middle of next April.
The Raleigh, 50 gnus, is nearly completed in her rigging.
The painters commenced yesterday painting her. She is ex-
pected to be ready for service next month.
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The Myrmidon steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Jen-
kins, went to Greenhithe on Monday to have her compasses
adjusted, and subsequently proceeded to Portsmouth where
she will be paid in advance, and is expected to serve on the,
Mediterranean station
The Phoenix steam-vessel, Commander Dennis, will be
ready for sea on Sunday. She will be paid advance at
Portsmouth.
The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain Ramsey, was taken
out of the basin at Woolwich on Tuesday afternoon, in the
presence of a great number of naval and military officers,
who had visited that fine vessel during the day. She will
leave for Greenhithe about the middle of next week.
The Mastiff, Master-Commander Thomas, with her tender,
the Woodlark, left Woolwich yesterday for Kincardine, on
the coast of Scotland, to resume her surveying duties.
The Violet steam-vessel, built for the Dover station by
Messrs. Ditchbum and Mare, and fitted with engines by
Penn, was tried down the river on Tuesday, and her average
speed was found to be 14.270 knots per hour.
Captain Jerningham has continued his experiments in
Woolwich marshes during the :week, with a view of ascer-
taining the simplest and most effective mode of saving lives
from shipwreck, and to-day Lieutenant Knolleart, com-
mander of the Adder war schooner, belonging to his Majesty
the King of the Netherlands, attended in the marshes to wit-
ness them. The mortars were fired at an elevation of 33 de-
grees, and charged with 12 ounces of powder, which enabled
the shot fired to carry a strong rope of Manilla hemp, one
inch in circumference, and very elastic, a distance of 320
yards. The Manilla rope was rolled up on this occasion in
the manner used by riggers, and the inside end of the ball
attached to the shot; the ball was then placed in a tub and
run out when fired all clear, and this appeared to be the best
plan yet tried. The anchor was also fired, and carried a dis-
tance of 182 yards, and when it alighted its holding powers
were so great that the united strength of twenty men could
not bring it home. Yesterday two lines were fired at one
time, and carried a distance of 210 yards, and this mode gives
great advantages, as on being spliced, those on board and on
shore could make an endless rope of them, which would be
of great assistance during shipwreck.

SUICIDE OF CAPTAIN M'LEOD.
The following is an extract from a letter written by Mr.
Santos, agent for the Peninsular and Oriental Company at
Corunna, dated March 12:—
" I returned from the wreck of the Great Liverpool on the
10th inst., and have relieved Mr. Baker, from the temporary
duty as agent to your company at this place.
" The melancholy death of Captain M'Leod, which took
place on the morning of the Bth instant, has, as you may
well suppose, added greatly to my labours, and, indeed, must
plead for my present hasty report, relying upon your indul-
gence to permit me to furnish snore details when the depar-
ture of the Queen shall afford 1116 more quiet and leisure. •
" Poor Captain ll‘Leod has been, ever since the unfortu-
nate loss of the Liverpool, in an extremely depressed state,
and caused me very serious apprehensions. At five O'clock in
the morning I went to the habitation where he, with one of
his officers and the doctor, bad been sleeping. I told them
to get ready, as everything had been arrrnged by me
fur an early start for Corunna. I asked Captain Bl'Leod
how he had rested, when he replied that he bad not
closed his eyes, went to the window, and agreed with me on
our having fine weather for our journey; immediately
after he took off his coat and went into his sleeping-
room, I thought to' wash ; we soon heard a noise, and the
landlord coming in to report the same, made us all rush
into his room, where we found him weltering in his blood,
and his throat cut from ear to ear. All our efforts could

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not prevent his expiring within ten minutes, so effectually
had the rash act been done. You may well conceive the

consternation we were thrown into, but, overcoming my
feelings I immediately proceeded to go through everything
that was necessary to be done. I sent for the judge, and ar-
ranged matters for holding an inquest. I interred the body
of the unfortunate Captain M'Leod the same evening, and
early the next morning set out upon my journey with all the
remaining officers and crew."
The following additional particulars are contained in a
letter from Southampton :
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" I have very little to communicate in connexion with
the melancholy death of poor Captain M'Leod, of the
Great Liverpool steam-ship. It appears that everything
was in readiness to depart from the inhospitable shore
on which the remainder of the passengers and crew had
been located since the unfortunate wreck, and Captain
M'Leod had retired to his room to make preparations for
his departure. Iris protracted stay was remarked ; and on
one of the party knocking at the door of his room, to an-
nounce that every person was in readiness, no answer
was returned, and after repeated knockings with the same
result, the door was opened, when the horrid spectacle of the
unfortunate gentleman with his throat cut from ear to ear,
presented itself to view. So determined was the suicidal act
that life was quite extinct. lie was buried in the village of
Cee, where the distressing catastrophe was perpetrated, every
one of his fellow sufferers following his remains to the grave
with heavy and mournful hearts.
" Captain M'Leod was a gentleman of extremely high spirit
and honour, and it is not improbable that the severe suffer-
ings, anxiety, and trials, the loss of the vessel entailed upon
him, superinduced the committal of the dreadful deed.
" Mrs. M'Leod, with her youthful family (and a prospect
of further increase shortly), is resident in Southampton.
The distressing intelligence was communicated to her as
delicately as possible immediately on the Queen's arrival,
but it is impossible to describe the agonising state of mind of
this truly unfortunate lady.
" Captain M'Leod was a lieutenant in the navy ; his corn-
mission bears date the 19th of July, 1823.
" The conduct of the natives is described by the passen-
gers as villanous in the extreme; they openly filched every-
thing they could lay their hands upn, accompanied in many
instances with acts of violence. Even the guards sent by
the British Consul at Corunna are, it appears; not exempt
from the charge of robbery. Au investigation, it is said, is
abort to take place on a charge brought forward against one
of these worthies, and, if proved, no doubt the rascal will be
shot. _ . _ . _

" The unfortunate 'ship had entirely disappeared; not a
vestige of her was to be seen. Occasionally, however, things
floated ashore, but they were quickly pounced upon by those
ravenous wolves in human shape, and divided amongst
them."

LOSS of THE GREAT LIVERPOOL
PRESENT TO HER MAJESTY.—Some time after the passen-
gers of the unfortunate steamer, the Great Liverpool, had
been safely landed, it occurred to the late Captain M‘Leod
that it was possible to save from the wreck a box which had
been specially consigned to his care, containing a present
to her Majesty from a wealthy, native merchant of Bombay.
Captain M'Leod, accompanied by the chief officer, Mr.
Hamilton, and two of the crew, got on board the steamer,
and cut through the deck to the place where the box
was deposited, and with great danger and difficulty got
it on shore, and from thence it was conveyed with the
mail boxes to Corunna, and consigned to the care of the
consul, who fearing it might have been damaged by being
so long under water, unpacked the box in the presence of the
captain and officers. Although it was inclosed in many
cases, the water bad penetrated through them to the morocco
case, which was richly ornamented with the royal- arms of
England. The present consisted of a large sized and richly
wrought gold box, an exquisite specimen of Eastern work-
manship,„ worthy of Benvenuto ellini; the box was sup-
ported by four stands in the form of snakes, and it contained
several dresses of the most elegant and costly fabric, worked
by the needle, and of cobweb texture, but the salt water had
penetrated, and the consul's wife had them carefully washed
and repacked, and they were transmitted with the mails to
Southampton. It was fortunate that the box escaped the
clutches of the Spanish brigands, whose infamous conduct
has been already described.
Just before Captain Dl'Lcod committed suicide, he gave
into the charge of the consul a handkerchief containieg gold,
with which he had been entrusted, to deliver to a merchant
in Loudon, with a special recommendation that it should be
forwarded to its destination.
The escape of one child was miraculous, and has not yet
been mentioned in the accounts published of the disaster.
The first boat, it has been stated, was upset in the raging
surf, when three persons lost their lives, and a second child
was supposed to have been drowned, but when the boat
righted the infant was found floating at the bottom, :and was
taken on beard the vessel as it was going to pieces ; restora-
tives were applied, arid the child was saved. The chief
officer, Mr. Hamilton, was not on duty at the time when the
steamer struck, and is now in town.

There were present at her Majesty's Theatre, on
Saturday- night, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
accompanied by Lord and Lady Dalhousie' Lady Mary
Howard, and the Hon. Captain Murray, and attended by
Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Cowper; her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baroness
Ahlefeldt and the Baron Koesebeck ; his Royal Highness
Prince George of Cambridge ; the Duke and Duchess of
Beaufort, Marchioness of Worcester and the Ladies Blanche
and Rosa Somerset ; the Duke of Wellington ; the Marquisses
of Clanricarde, Huntley, Londonderry, Palacino, and Titch-
field ; the Marchioness of Douro; the Earls of Falmouth,
Lonsdale, Cardigan, and Monster; Count de Noailles ; Vis-
counts Castlereagh and Cantalupe ; his Excellency the
Russian Ambassador and the Baroness Brunnow ; 'Lords
Brook, Lilford, Duncannon, Laecelles, E. Bruce, and Canter-
bury • Baron de Brennes and Baron de Kubeck ; Ladies
Charles Wellesley, Boyer Smyth, Gage, Goldsmith, Wilson,
and Pollington ; Sir Ralph and Lady Howard ; Honourables
O'Tolcr, B. Baring' Colonel Fitzgibbon and family, Spencer
Cowper, James Johnstone, and Mrs. Dawson Darner and
Miss Dawson Darner; Sirs Andrew Barnard, H. Webb, F.
French, T. Hare, and H. Willoughby; Colonel Webster;
Majors Buckley and Whyte, &c. &c.
MAILS TOIL INDIA, VII MARSEILLES. - The next
mails for the Mediterranean, India, Egypt, Ceylon, China,
&c., rid Marseilles, will be dispatched on the evening of the
24th hut, (to •mMow.)