The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

, poor ; our people Lye in huts as miserable, and subsist
) chiefly on potatoes, which have now_ failed them ; why
should we not also get public grants as well as the Irish?
Is it because we are peaceable and obey the haws—be-
cause we have neither soldiers nor police among us, and
because we do not perpetually shriek out our complaints,
but suffer in-silence, that we are to he passed over and
suffered to starve unaided, whilst the Irish, who are no
Worse off than ourselves, are rewarded for their turbu-
lence and defiance of all law by grants of public money?'
Such observations are quite general here, and are natu-
ral enough.
The people themselves are extremely well conducted
and peaceable. But, appared by the prospect before
them, they are beginning to discuss questions
which excite unpleasant apprehensions. They are
beginning to question the unlawfulness and sin-
fulness of helping themselves to food from the sheep
of the farmers on the hills, rather than that they should
starve. Such feelings can only be allayed by prompt
a ensures of relief. For the sake of the people them-
selves such reliefeught not to be eleemosynary, Main the
shape of employment it hick will enable them to purchase
feed. There is here the greatest facility for Empl..)-
rnent calculated to be productive of permanent profit and
advantage, but there is no capital—no means of setting
it agoing ; and without that employment being given to
the people the prospect is frightful. They are abso-
lutely without food, or the possibility of getting it.
The chief proprietor of this part of the island is Mr.
M'Leod of M‘Leod ; in the parish of Duirieish, in
. . .

which this village stands, there is a population f 3,t00
souls entirely depending upon him, the food on which
they relied having failed Ott tn. It is tardly to be ex-
pected that any one proprietor can undertake either to
support or to give employment to so many persons out
of his own means. Mr. M•Leod has, however, com-
menced marking out allttments for the people, and
giving them employment in draining and trenching, re-
lying en the aid of the Government. The efforts, how-
ever, of any one individual are feeble, and insufficient to
meet such an emergency ; and, however much we may
deprecate the existence of such a state of society as here
prevails—the rant of persevering industry of the people
and the absence of all enterprise— or the unwise and in-
judicious laws which have tended to such a result, yet
the people must not be permitted to starve, nor be
al-
loxed by the pressure of want to be driven to acts of
desperation. The prevention of these evils is the duty
of the Government ; and by its efforts to meet the same
mischiefs in Ireland, where there is a louder complaint,
it would be unrair to assume that it will shrink from
meeting the difficulty here, when that difficulty shall be
made known, backed as it is by that best of all recom
mendations, a peaceful, a well-disposed, and deserving
people in want.

Thames.

MEXICAN 130NDHOLDERS.
The rumours that the Watteau G( w
Vte,,r,rn Eat.
ec:.ll.4toril:lhrcem-
pudiated the bonds crented•by the ne
more extensively :•pratl, to• k the public completely by
surprise, and tney were to believe in a change
SO formidai-le. Hence, though there was it fall of nearly
1 per cent, in the course of the day, there was a constant
disposition to r‘Aly, which mi,, ht be lonked upon as the
measure of public incredulity.
On investigation, however, it turns cut that the ru-
mours in question are no idle fancit s. Copit sof the dis-
patch addressed by the Mexican Government to Mr.
Murphy, and brought to the latter by Senor Gomcz Fa-
rias, the younger, are in the city, and these clearly show
that all that has been said on the subject of Mexican re-
pudiation has fallen short of, rather than exaggerated
the truth. According to that doc :meat, the new Go-
vernment has actually repudiated the new bonds, and
does not contemplate any reparation to the bondholders,
who have parted with their former securities. The dis-
patch dec'ares that, the creditors had r utlicient means to
examine into the powers by which the o,nrer:ion was
made; and that it rh;iy,ditl not use the s affordt d
them, they must pat Itj With the e•ors your
'a he Mexican bonditolders will ciearly ryinemb4 that
a plan for convertiog the, eh ht was put ferward hefore
the one cn which the pr, scat bonds arc found, d, and
was rijected, r n the ground that it was to t d.advan-
tageous to tie holders of the deferred stock. Very
shortly after this another plan was brought forward,
which was rceepted, end w hich W.; s ti•e plan now in
opera'iun. At the time when the nu.t-er nal under (Hs-
cth,sion many eau ions holders were um% Ming. to accept
the new scheme, thini,ing th.tt it hal
um made its appear-
r too soon after the rejection nt the preceding one,
and ti at it was a stranue proceeding en the part of the
Mexican Gov, rnment to have a succession of decrees at
hand, see as to be ready with a second as soon as the
first had failed.
This is the point taken up by the dispatch, whrch de-
scribes the rejected plan ss authorised by the Mexican
Government, but the second plan is emanating from Mr.
Murphy alone, without any authority ft om the republic.
It is merely an affair of his own, with which Mexico
has nothing to do.

The case, then, after inspection of the dispatch, locks
infinitely worse fir the bondholders than it did'while
the story was the subjtct of mere rumour. Ile repu-
diation by a Goverment of the acts of its predecessor
was so utterly monstrous that it seemed an impossibility;
but now it appears that the new Government does not
repudnte the fonds because created urder the over-
thrown Parades, but because they were made by the act
of an agent who had no authority to make them. What
will be done in such a state of things it is impossible to
cot2j(.cture.

It is to be repeated that copies of the dispatch are.in
existence in the City, in spite of tall assertions to the
contrary, and in all probability its official publication in
a day or two will open the eyes of these who atter doubts
on the subject.—Times.

DISASTER. TO THE ENTER-
PRISE STEAMER.
About a month since a steam-veNsel, called the Enter-
prise, commenced a series of trading voyages between
the ports of Yarmouth, in Norf.(lts, and Rotterdam. in
Holland, once a week, in the same manner as the Nor-
, folk steamer, which has now been several months en-
gaged in trading between these two places, and it has
been said that the trade is now so considerable that the
proprietors of the Euterr rise contemplated making
double v gages daring the remainder of the autumn.
We regret, however, that a sad disaster befel their vessel
very early on Friday morning, which, in the infant state
of the trade, may hare a tendency to damp the ardour
which the somewhat shining prospects had begun to in-
spire. On her hornmald passage, on Thursday evening,
she had to encounter a very heavy sea. The cargo was
partly bullocks and sheep, there being near 100 of the
former and 400 of the latter on board. The violence of
the waves, and the heaving of the vessel, threw the bul-
locks about, and tiltimat,ly on one side. This caused
the vessel to 14; and, the seamen could not for a long
time get her righted. Some of the beasts were thrown
down the hold amongst the sheep and crushed them,
and others were thrown overboard. The scene became
a very disastrous one, and we understand that from 40
to 60 sheep (some say a vast many more) were mangled
and trodden upon. Some bad their legs and some their
necks and backs broken, and near a hundred had to be
thrown into the sea, or escaped from the vessel. Twenty
or more bullocks were also thrown into the ocean, and
these appear to have been all lost. The vessel afterwards
righted, and soon after reached Yarmouth harbour,
where she arrived with all the passengers and crew safe
early on the Friday morning. The loss, however, of the
sheep and cattle is of a serious kind.

On Sunday morning the following serious accident
)ccurrcd on the Uxbridge road :—About two o'clock, as
Thomas Harris, carter, in the t rnploy of Mr. Johnson,
carrier, of Uxbridge, was returning home with ore of
his master's waggons, drawn by two horses, he fell off
the shafts, and before the horses could be stopped both
wheels bad passed over his legs and broke them. The
unfortunate man wits conveyed to St. George's Hospital,
where he remains in a very precarious state.
EXTENSION OF. THE EASTERN COUNTIES TELE-
GRAPH TO LIVERFOOL.—rkepZratiOHS are 'making for
tift-cting a commurtieatien, vid 'Earleitn Counties, by
electric telegrqh, between, London and Liverpool. Be-
uen Ely and Peierberongh the wires ere already fixed,
:.rid in the opinion of Mr. Poe ell, the superintendent,
the a hat Icngrh b7t,w( en London and Livt rpool will he
coinpkred iii I,•ss than two months. From Ely the
fires WI l run to Stamford, syst,o, nod Derby, pro-
ceeding by the western branch of the Midland Railway
to Birmingham, and from thence to Liverpool. When
completed, ame sage trill he enalled to be conveyed to
and from Liverpool in eight minutes. A communication
will also be opened -a ith York, Newcastle, Hull, Leeds,
&e., by means of the northern branch of the Midland.
Southward uf London the electric telegraph will be car-
ried along the 'north Woolwich line, which will shortly
be opened for traffic-, and passing under the Thames, by
means of the submarine telegraph, form a communica-
tion between Woolwich Dockyard and Liverpool. On
the comp!etion of the Thames Haven and North Graves-
end line it is the intention of the company to effect, if
possible, by means of the electric and submarine tele-
graphics, a communication with Sheerness Dockyard.
THE ROYAL BUCK HOUNDS.—The first meet of
her Majesty's buck hounds this season will take place at
Salt-hill, as upon the last three occasions, early in the
ensuing month. It is expected that Monday, the 2d
proximo, will be " the opening day." The Earl of
Granville, the newly-appointed Master of the Royal
pack (upon the retirement of the Earl of Rosalyn, and
upon the accession of the Russell Administration), has
just taken the mansion at Fern-hill, lately in the occu-
pation of Sir Felix Booth, on the confines of Windsor
Great Patk, and within two miles of the royal kennel at
Ascot, where his Lordship will reside during the whole
of the hunting season. The pack is entirely free from
the disease which had attacked the hounds some two
seasons since. It is now in excellent condition. Several of
the young hounds, which are undergoing the process of
" blooding," hare shown great capabilities, and proved
themselves well up to their work. The pack consists of
upwards of fifty couples.
DEATH OF LADY ANNE ITAMILTON.—When the
Countess 'of Dunmore's death was announced in the
papers a few months ago, it was said that she was the
only surviving daughter of the late Duke of Hamilton.
This was not true, as her elder sister, Lady Anne Ha-
milton, was living at the time. But she has now fol-
lowed her sister to the grave. having died at nine o'clock
on Saturday morning. She was seized with her last
fatal illness on the preceding Friday, and' we believe re-
mained unconscious from the time of the attack to the
period of her decease. Lady Anne Hamilton was one of
the Princess of Wales's (afterwards Queen Caroline)
ladies in waiting. tti hen the Princess of Wales went
abroad in 1814, Lady Anne did not accompany her with
her other ladies ; but when she became Queen Caroline,
and was on her return to this country, Lady Anne joined
her on her way back to• Flanders, and she entered Lon-
don in the same carriage with the Queen. After Queen
Caroline's eh ath, Lady Anne Hamilton retired once
more into private life, and in course of time her moans of
a comfortable existence were greatly reduced. After
several changes of residence, she at last retired to a
small house in White Lion-street, Islington, where she
ended her days. I,,dy Anne Hamilton was the eldest
daughter of Archibald, ninth Duke of Hamilton. She
was born on the 1611 of March, 17C6, and was conse-
quently in the 81st year of her age.
°Pk:NINO OF THE PORTS.—A movement in favour
of opening the ports appears likely to become general.-
A meeting will be held this evening, in the Free Trade
Hall at Manchester, cf the bankers, merchants, manu-
facturers, and others of that town and neighbourhood,
for the purpose_ of memorialising the Government to open
the ports without any delay. We trust this examplP,
which has already been set by Dundee, will be quickly
followed by Live: peel, and other commercial as well as
manufacturing towns. But while they memorialise for
opening the ports, for the purpose of affording every fall-
' edit) for inereine 1 supplies of grain, we trust they
not omit to press upon the Gott rnment the necessity of
admitting sugar for distillation and brewing, as a means
of economising the stocks we at present have.
THE BOISTEROUS WEATHER AND TIl E MAILS.
The following
the
General Post-eft-lee, Sr. i ' 1 d Martn s-
ri„tice was issued ene-nArlaonnday_„at
`rho
with the Corunna, Vigo, Oporto,
of tehoensietqhueitnl Sctea Ootf,
Ituytti Tar Steamer,
put bzele into rhew9atihls,
Lisbon, C.
• Brazil, ar,d Bueeos Ayres mails of the sth
bad we.ather. Iler Majesty's brig Express, with the
31aderra, adizinarrind,ouGthibroanitat
irstar.t, put terck to Falmouth on the 9th, it blowing a
gale from S.W., and sailed ;gain on the 11th inst., with
all letters arriving at Falmouth up to that day inclusive.
The Sydney, with the wails fin. New South Wales,
Australia, Van, I;iereeri's letnd, and New Zealand, et
.the 391 h ultur wa9 compell d by stress of weather, to
run iteo Eslmnouth harbour on the 9th instant. The
Jot.n Bull steamer, for the Harnburgh mails on the
evening of the 13 h instant (this evening), from the
Thames. The lt iinbow steamer, for the Holland mails
mornitg of the 14th inst. .(to. motrow), from the

LEMON JUICE TO SAILORS.— Another of the nu-
merous eases of lail!'.re to comply with that part of the
Merchant t eamtn's Act which requires the supply of
I, mon juice and sugar to the e..ew, when on salt provi-
sions, was brought before the notice of the magistrates
at the Thanits ro:icc Court, yesterday. Mr. 'Thomas
Ilallen, master of tl:e ship Rubv, West Icditunan, was
fined 5/. for one day's default, though' be was liable to
penalties to a large amount for tat breach of the law.
APPREIIENSION Oe• AN INCENDIARY.—Yesterday,
information was received at the various police stations of
the metropolis, of the capture, after considerable diffi-
culty, of Thomas Wiseman, who is suspected of having
set fire to the premises of George Ba!drys, of Hundon, a
few nights since, when considerable property was de-
stroyed.