The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-09 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

DEATH OF THE HON. FCLIC GAEYILLE HOWARD.— We We to
finbbtir.ce the demiSe Of the abote gallant and vemnble ofneer,
i'Vho died At his teat, Egiii'd flail; iirAr iYedOcitilay;
his 73d yeer. Us was second son of the intelorii, and brother of the
present Viscount Templetown ; end married, July 9, 1807, the
daughter of the late Richard Howard, Esq., of Castle Rising, Nor-
folk, who survives him, and by whom the deceased colonel leaves no
issue. His commissions are thus dated:—Ensign, April 28, 1793;
captain, Oct. 15, 1794; lieut.-colonel, April 16, 18'24 ; end colonel,
June, I, 1813. He never held the ranks of lieutenant or major.
Staff.— 31ajor-tZeneral 11. Wyndham having proceeded to England
on leave of absence, the troops composing the garrison of Dublin will
r pair to head-quarters through the assistant-quartennaster-
general, Dublin district, and the town major.

ROYAL MAtINES.—The following detachments are in course of pro-
ceeding to relieve the force at present serving in Ireland, viz. :—From
the Chatham division--2 captains, 4 subalterns, 8 sergeantz,t, corpo-
rals, 6 drummers, 230 privates. From the Portsmouth div.-2 captains, 4
subalterns, 14 sergeants, 12 corporals, 8 drummers, 290 privates.
From the Plymouth division-1 captain, 2 subalterns, 2 sergeants,
4 corporals, 2 drummers, 80 privates. The Chatham detachment
reamed Woolwich head-quarters yesterday, and have this morning
(7th inst.), proceeded by railroad to Pertsmouth to embark with the
detachment from that division, in her Majesty': sldp Superb, for con-
veyance to Cork. The Superb will put in at Plymouth, to receive
the Plymouth detachment for conveyance to the same destination.
On Friday a strong detachment of the Royal Marines from this divi-
sion, consisting of 8 sergeants, 8 corporals, 6 drummers, and 230 pri-
vates, under the command of two captains, Captain Finmore and
Captain George Griffin, with First Lieutenant Charles F. Menzies
and First Lieutenant P. H. Fellows, marched from their head-quar-
ters en route for Woolwich, where they are to form a battalion with
a detachment at that place, and to place themselves under orders of
the Commandant Colonel T. A. Parke, and from thence to proceed, by
steam-vessel, to Cork, to relieve a battalion there under Captain
Robert Wright and Captain George Logan, which is to return to this

UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION.
The fifteenth annual meeting of this Associa►ion was
held on Saturday, at the institution, Whitehall, at two.
It was expected that Lord Ellenborough would have
preside d, but as the hour for commencing the proceed-
ings had passed, and his Lordship not having arrived,
Major SHADWELL CLERK said that Lord- Ellen•
borough had been compelled to go to Woolwich that
mornirg, and had not yet returned, but he hoped he
would before the proceedings had terminated. In the
meantime he would move that Rear-Admiral Sir Charles
Malcolm should take the chair.

The motion was agreed to, and
The SECRETARY proceeded to read the minutes of the
last meeting, and the fifteenth annual report of the
Council, which stated that the Council, in sub-
mitting to the meeting their fifteenth annual report,
are enabled to announce the completion of the exten-
sive additions and improvements undertaken last year.
The Council congratulate the members on the nearer
approach to the complete fulfilment of the objects of the
associati....n, and they feel justified in exprnsing their
conviction that the institution will not suffer by compa-
rison with the best of its class in the British empire,
while it possesses features of interest peculiarly its own.
The Council are much gratified in stating that, not-
withstanding the necessity of closing the institution
hile the works were in progress, the aggregate number
of visitors is but little short of that in the
pre-
ceding year ; thereby showing the increased inte-
rest taken in the institution. In the course of the
year the Council have caused 1,500/. Three and a Quarter
per Cents. stock to be sold, and have applied this sum,
together with a portion of the life subscriptions received
during the same period, to the cost of the repairs. altera-
tions, and fittings of the building, library, and collection,
and to legal expenses. The funded property of the Insti-
tution row consists of 1,5001. Three and a Quarter per
Cents., besides 3451. 3s. 10d. Consols, being money sub-
scribed towards the erection of a lecture theatre.
The income for the ensuing year may be estimated at
Annual subscriptions
Rent of house
Interest on 1,500/ 47 0 0

£1,462 4 0
This estimate did not include the sums to be received as

life subscriptions. The total amount of life subscrip-
tions received since the foundation of the institution is
5,5441., of which sum about 4,0001 has been recently laid
out in the purchase and alteration of the new premises.
The Council regret that the large outlay of the past
year for general purposes has compelled them to
limit the amount expended on the library to the sum of
1271., but they will not fail to apply a larger proportion
of income to that branch as their means improve. The
Council cannot refrain from adverting to the intrinsic
value of the library. The collection now comprises
8,100 volumes, including the best works of reference
upon almost every subject. Since the last report ac-
ceptable additions have been made to the museum in its
various branches, including Chinese objects. Lectures
were delivered at the institution during the season of 1845,
and were well attended, although the want of prrp-r
accommodation was much felt. At the last general
meeting it was resolved that the secretary be directed
to open a book to receive subscriptions tcwarch
the building of a lecture theatre, and other required im-
provements. There have been received on this
account 341/. The subscription continuing open,
it is hoped that additions will still be made
to the above amount ; a lecture theatre only
being wanted to enhance the capabilities of the
institution. In pursuance of the resolution passed at a
special general meeting held in July, 1845, a clause has
been added to the laws, section 4, requiring the payment
of an entrance fee of one pound by all members join-
ing after the Ist of January, 1847. The eight members
of Council who retire by rotation, are—Lieutenant-
Col. W. H. Cornwall, Colds. Gds. ; Edward Jekyll, Esq.,
late Capt. Gr. Gds.; Lieut. Henry Raper, R.N., F.R.A S.;
Captain G. Parlby, H.P., late 4th Dragoons; Captain
Percy Grace, R.N.; Sir Charles F. Forbes, M.D., K.C.H.,
&c.; Captain M. H. Sweny, R.N.; Major-General H.
G. A. Taylor, C. 8., Madras Army.
Then followed an abstract of the accounts, and a list
of the subscribers to the lecture theatre.

The adoption of the above report having been moved
by Captain LLOYD, R.N., and seconded by Lieutenant
isTiosioLsosr, it was unanimously adopted.
The SECRETARY, in answer to a question from a
member, said that the institution was free from the pay-
ment of rates and income-tax. He then read an alter-
ation proposed to be made in the rules, to the effect that
the rooms should be open daily for visitors, but the li-
brary for members only, who would have access to it
throughout the whole year until 10 o'clock at night.
This having been agreed to, the next subject brought
under discussion was a motion proposed by Captain W.
F. WATKINS, of the Bombay Artillery, to the effect that
the widow of their late porter, John Wilson, who had
died while in their service, should be put on pension.
The Gallant Captain went on to say that the widows
of private soldiers did not receive any allowance from
the Government. He thought that the Hon. Members
of the institution would be glad to have the opportu•
pity afforded them of assisting the widow of their ser-
vant, and called upon his Gallant Friend, Captain
Grover, to second his resolution.
Captain GROVER said he would decline to second the
resolution, as he bad been one of the members of the
Council appointed to inquire into the circumstances.
Captain l'striporrs then seconded the resolution.
Major CLARK said, that it appeared that there bad
been some neglect in this case, as the housekeeper had
considered that the deceased, while in a fit of apoplexy,
was tipsy, but so soon as the mistake was discovered
,-very assistance was given to the unfortunate man. A
Council had been summoned, in which the case was
gone into, but they did not think they would have been
justified in expending the money of the institution for
any other purpose than that for which it had been sub-
scribed by Hon. Members; and to show that the Council
had done all in their power in the present case, he would
call upon the Secretary to read the minutes of the
Council assembled upon that occasion.
The SECRETARY having read the minutes,
Major CLARK stated that, in addition to the trans-
actions there recorded, the Council had paid to the
widow of the deceased the sum of five pounds towards
the expenses of the funeral.
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution.
An HON. MEMBER inquired what was the number of
the family of the deceased ?
Capt. WATKINS stated that there was a large family,
but that they were all provided for.
Colonel Fox moved as an amendment that inquiry be
made into the pecuniary circumstances of the widow,
and that a bot.:; he opened in the hall for the purpose of
receiving the names 1:::0 amounts of those members who
would subscribe towards the relief of the widow.
Colonel HOLDSWORTH seconded She resolution.
The CHAIRMAN, having put the original resolution
which was negatived, then put the amendment of Col.
Fox, which was carried unanimously.
Col. Fox then proposed that the management of this
snbscription should be left in the hands of the Council.
Captain GROVER seconded the resolution, which was
also unanimously agreed to.
The following members were then elected to supply
the vacancies in the Council : Lieut. H. Raper, R.N.,
F.R.A.S., Capt. M. H. Sweny, R.N., Major-General
IL G. A. Taylor, C. 8., Major-General W. D. Cleiland,
H.E.1.C.5., Col. Henry Godwin, C. 8., Lieut.-Colonel
Robert Barnewell, H.E.1.C.5., Lieut. Col. E. Sabine,
R.A., Major-General T. Kenab, C.B.
Maj or CLARK then stated, that with similar feelings,
though with not quite so much of the imperial mode of
expression with which the hero surveyed his Auritectica.
or golden house, so might the honourable members of
the institution now look upon the building in which they
were assembled. They would, however, obi erre a vacuum
as they came up the stairs ; and as nature abhor-
red a vacuum, so it was to be supposed that
Hon. Members would express their abhorrence of a
vacuum in' this institution, by placing their names with a
certain figure or figures placed opposite in the book,
which was opened fur the purpose of receiving sub-
scriptions towards building the new lecture hall.
Hsuggest that those favourable to
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pleased.
A vote of thanks was then passed unanimously to
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race a few months ago.
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ested exert:v._
then declare
that the business which
AtocNoalled together to transact was con-
cluded, and again expressed his regret at the absence of
Lord Ellenborough. He was satisfied, however, that
nothing but the important duties which he bad been
called upon to discharge would have kept him away.
The Chairman having left the chair, and Colonel
tensions
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Holdsworth, one of the oldest members of the insti-
tution present, having been voted into it,
Major CLARK proposed that the thanks of the meet-
ing should be given to Sir Charles Malcolm for his
valuable services on that occasion. He was a practical
illustration of the memorable remark of Sydney
Smith with respect to Lord John Russell, that he would
take the command of the English fleet if it were offered
to him, for Sir Charles consented to take the chair imme-
diately on being informed of the unavoidable absence of
Lord Ellenborough.—(Hear, hear.)
The motion was seconded by Sir BENJAMIN Sivirru,
and carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks, and the
meeting broke up.

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THE GOVERNMENT MEASURES.
(From the Tapes of Saturday.)
It will probably be a surprise to all parties to hear that last night's
side:; of the Hasse Of Commons, which began with the promise of
endless diteiens and delays; and might have been one of twenty, all
equally inisepeht, eentlistled both quietly end speedily with the adop-
t:en of the Ministerial resolutions. 'That first and most important
• part of the tariff which relates to corn end &tit passed without a
divis:on. The various amendments which yesterday bade fair to
diversify the discussion have been one after another withdrawn, and
really there is now almost room to congratulate the country, and
part•cularly the agricultural party in the Commons, ou a cheerful
surrender of the question. Of course, there will be various opportu-
nities of speaking and dividing the Horse in the progress of the Bill
which will be founded on these,reeolutions ; but, as the protectionist
party have not attempted to qualify the measure, or introduce any
substitute of their own, it may be presumed th t they will not think
it necessary to do snore than record their votes on the general prin-
ciple of the change. We are inclined to hope that we have not
hitherto done justice to the negative tactics of the Opposition.
We construed them rather as indicating a want of inge-
nuity, and even of feeling ; as if either the importance
of the crisis had not been perceived, or it had been
found impossible to suggest a remedy which should not
approximate too near to the Ministerial measure. Undoubtedly, an,
opposition mast be feeble which was based me blindness or indiffer
ence to the peculiar exigencies of the time. Undoubtedly, a'se, it
would run some risk of being considered frivolous and vexatious if it
admitted' th, t something ought to be done, !ant contented itself with
objecting to the only remedy actually proposed. The more genial
results of Iss; night seem to show that the protectionists have
merely been satisfying the moral claims of consistency, and the ab•
street merits of their cause. It was really what was called " the
flag of' protection." It WAS only " true blue." The three weeks'
debate was a three weeks' mourning for the departed object of their
regards. That ended, they have no wish to distress the survivors
with any further and more obtrusive memorials of what is now us
more. Such an opposition assumes the modesty and decorum of a
protest, which virtually acquiesces in a great change of policy with-
out thinking it necessary to pronounce against the principles of the
departing system. Last night was the chance, the last chance, of
urging the merits of a fixed duty. There was a double promise of a
last debate on this point. Mr. W. O. Stanley proposed the fixed
Cuty of ss. a quarter on wheat, and Mr. M. Milnea a perpetuation of
the three years' scale in the Ministerial measure. But, seeing that
the battle was against them, both consented to withdraw their mea-
sures. It is difficult, we will not say impossible, to suppose that this
means of compromise of a moderate fixed duty will be ever revived.
We have seen its last. Yet we cannot forbear from pausing to con-
sider its singular destiny. Never was there a proposition so reason-
able, so modest, yet so unfortunate. Fate was always against it. It
was always too liberal for protectionists, too close for free-traders.
Whenever it was brought before the Legislature it was at a crisis
when the very- stars fought against it. The Whigs caught at it when
they were drowning, and dragged it along with them to the bottom.
11l fares the stalking horse of a fallen party. Its undoubted merits
were of no avail. Sir Robert was ever precluded from because
it was a Whig measure. It has been the work of half
his life to avoid it. The Whigs had charmed it for
their own special use, and woe to the uninitiated hand that might
dare to grasp the weapon, though it lay on the public road, and
courted the eye and hand of the passenger. Its evil fate has pursued
It to the last. lhe last resource of the Whigs has now done the same
duty for a section of the protectionists. Again, in the midst of a
great collision, when a minority is rapidly yielding to an over-
powering coalition—when an ancient and respectable party finds
itself outnumbered, outflanked, pushed in the front, and threatened
in the rear, and has no resource but to give way, then, then again,
too late common sense comes uppermost with them, and we hear of
a fixed duty. Its very name, however, by this time is the omen of
defeat. It has become rather, a conventional demand for mercy
than an actual proposition of terms. Yet this is the misfortune, not
the fault, of the plan. A fatality, it would seem, haunts measures as
sometimes men, and sometimes even nations. Reason pleads
in vain against fate. The very fact that the many
recommendations of a moderate fixed duty have not availed to pro-
cure for it a favourable hearing, seems to prove that it is now irrevocably
doomed to rejection. We cannot, of course, anticipate an entire
cessation of hostilities. Though the army seems prepared to accept
a defeat, yet the skirmishers will have their amusement. Resisters,
last night, purchased their substantial success at the price of some
not 'very serious molestation. Sir Robert, who for so many years
has been endeavouring to adjust the price of corn, cannot easily re-
sign his prophetic pretensions. The dupes of his craft still flock
round him, and demand a vaticination of the exact price of corn
from this year to the end of the world under an open trade. In vain
does he profess himself to be no more than man. In vain is the
oracle silent. All the more is he urged to say something or other
which shall fill that horrid vacuity of doubt which yawns in the
protectionist intellect. Some distinct augury, some figure—say
,—say 495., say 45a.,—say anything, will do. It will be
something to look at, something for the mind to repose
on, something to worship. It will be giving form and circumstance
to hope, which cannot realise its objects, unless they have sense dell.
nite outline. Monday promises a renewal of these lesser fights. On
that day a great question is to be discussed. Wheat, barley, oats,
and rye are given up, and Mr. Miles takes his stand on buckwheat,
maize, and rice, which have been taken from their alphabetical
places in the tariff for an early and separate discussion. Mr. Miles—
we readily excuse the instincts of offended dignity—wishes tc retreat
with gravity and deliberation. He will not be hurried off his legs.
lie will pause before he consents to Indian corn being introduced at a
'lamina' duty. We beg to suggest a reason for delay. The experi-
ment has yet to' be tried. Will anybody in these islands eat it? If
they will not cat it, Mr. Miles will not object to so harmless an im-
portation. If they will cat it, and relish it, then let the
plan of the protectionist be dilly considered. Meanwhile,
Mr. Miles has no objection to a small Bill permitting
the importation, duty free, into Ireland. It is scsrccly
necessary to explain how this would operate. The Greek "Joe
Miller" supplies us wills an illustration. A certain slave was once
charged with the care of a vessel of wine. He tapped it at the bot-
tom, and abstracted a portion of its contents. By-and-by his master
observed that the surface had fallen, and charged him with the theft.
He denied it with great simplicity, on the ground that what he had
taken was from the bottom, and what his master missed was from
the top. We should imagine that, if we introduce 100,0001. worth of
maize into British consumption, it does not much matter in what
part of these islands it is. It may be forced in at the bottom, but it
will nevertheless tell at the top. However, we do not expect that
Mr. Miles will do more than look at the resolution relating to these
articles, and then let it quietly pass. The two former we believe to
be especially for the benefit of the agriculturist.

HEAVY GALE OF WIND AN
MELANCHOLY CASUALTIES IN EDIN-
BURGH.
(From the Caledonian Mercury of Thursday.)
In the course of yesterday morning this city was visit-
ed by a gale of wind from the south-west, surpassing in
violence any which has been experienced here for many
a day, and, we are sorry to add, attended not only with
some destruction to property, but also in one case with
loss of life. The heaviest casualty took place in a house
No. 16, Hope street, the residence of Captain Christie,
R.N., whesse famil‘ generally had left for London only,
the day before A chimney stalk on the back part
of the house fell about eight o'clock in the morning
upon the roof, which it penetrated, and carried down
to the area floor part of the attic and three
other floors. Stewart Robertson, servant to Captain
Christie, who it appears had been left in charge a
the house, was either killed or suffocated by the falling
ruins, his bedy being only got out about mid day. A
very extraordinary, we might, almost say miraculou3
escape was made here. Catherine Morrison, servant in
a family which occupied the upper and attic stonier,
was carried down by the debris through the three floors.
and was taken out with some severe bruises, none of
them, however, conceived to be dangerous. She was
conveyed to the Royal Infirmary. In George-street, a
man named Robert Dick, servant to Mr. Mathew. on, :19„
was blown off his feet, and falling on the back of hie
head, was severely hurt. In the High-street, a woman
named Rough, or Wilkie, was struck down by some
chimney cans falling upon her, and had a kg and arm
broken. A large sign at the head of Carrubber's-close.
High- street, 30 inches in length and four in depth, Welt;
blown from the wall, fortunately without hurt to any
one; and at Leopold-place, the greater part of the
balustrades on the tops of the houses, from Elm-row to
Windsor-street, were blown down; but from tite quarter
which the wind blew, they fell inwards and rested cat:
the roof. The whole of our streets were strewed
in the morning with broken cans, tiles, &c.,
brought down from the roofs. and in the country
stacks were blown down in farm-yards, and trees
in various exposed situations. Only one boat was
enabled to cross from Burntisland to Granton, in the
course of the morning and forenoon. About ten o'clock,
during the heaviest of the gale, the ferry boat f.em
Granton, having the Defiance coach on board, made the
point of Burntisland Pier ; but, another steamer lying
there at the time, she could not be got in, and was
obliged to back out :wain' when she got away over about
Inchkeith. but not being able to remain there, she was
compelled to wear and run down for shelter below King-
horn. However, by two or three o'clock the wind fell,
and the boats resumed their ordinary course.
It would appear that the storm was as severely felt in
the west as here, and that in Glasgow it was also attended
with loss of life. For the following particulars we are
indebted to the Editor of the Glasgow Chronicle ;
" Early this morning we were viii ed with a tremen-
dous hurricane of wind, such as has not occurred here
for a long period, by which numerous accidents were oc-
casional, and several lives lost. The gale raged with its
greatest fierceness between six and ten o'clock, and in
that time the streets, particularly in the suburbs, were.
strewed with broken chimney cans, slates, and other net!,
siles from the house-tops. The most serious accident in
connexion with the storm that has come to our
knowledge is that of the blowing down of a house
(about nine o'clock) in the printworks of Messrs.
11. Monteith & Co. at Barrowfield, by which two
girls were killed on the spot, and five others
so much injured, that they are not expected to sur-
vive. Such was the force of the wind at one time, that the
driver of a city omnibus was blown off his seat while his
vehicle was passing through Great Hamilton-street, by
which he was violently thrown to the ground. In the
fall, the wheels passed over his legs, and the poor man
was severely injured. The roof of a house in Great
Hamilton-street was blown in about the same time, but
we have not heard if any persons were in it when the
accident occurred. The entire stone chimney of a house
in Gallowgate was blown down, but no one was hurt.
A man about 80 years of age was thrown to the ground
near Charlotte-street, by the force of the wind, and
was so much bruised that he had to be carried home ;
while in Jamaica-street an aged female was knocked
over, and had one of her shoulders dislocated
and her thigh bone broken. The gable of a new
house in Garnet Hill was blown down, but no
person was injured. In several houses in the
same locality,' the whole of the windows fronting the
street were blown in, and a number of the tenants,
through fear, left their houses. Two or three houses
in that part of the town have been unroofed. A chimney
stalk fell through the roof of a house in Anderston, the
inmates of which bad a narrow escape. Several trees
were torn up by the roots in the Green, and in the
neighbourhood a fourteen inch wall and ' gate were
blown down. These and other casualties of a similar
nature all occurred about the same time. At the hour
we went to cress a considerable quantity of rain had
fallen, which somewhat helped to allay the force of the
hurricane, which is now-pearly abated. From all parts
of the country we learn the: the storm had raged with
fearful violeuee, in many cases W!erly blocking up the
turnpike reads with uprooted trees, hedges, &c. The
gale was from the south-west.