The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-10 00:00:00

RULL, APRIL 9,

STecx EXCIIANGE.—The intentions of Government, as expressed
by Sir R. Peel and Earl Dalhousie, have given au Impetus to inquiry
for scrip, to which the markets latterly have been unaccustomed.
Buyers, however, generally seem indisposed to give the prices de-
manded by scriphelders, which, in many instances, are equal to the
full of what may reasonably be expected to be the balance of the
deposits returned, should the company be compelled to dissolve.
The sales are—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 3—:north British,
Carlisle, 315.--Chelmsford and Bury, 88.—East Coast, 21s.—Glas-
gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 20s.—Grand Union, His.—Great North
and South Wales, Bs. 6d.—Bull and Barnsley Junction, 235. 9,1,—
Liverpool and Leeds, 23i—London and Manchester (Rem.), 11,i
North Staffordshire, 41. 2s.—West Riding Union, 31. 83.—Yorkshire
and Glasgow Union, 18s.
SHEFFIELD, APRIL 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Grimsby and Sheffield, 5
Ditto, Railway and Dock,' 2 —Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Freston,
21. 16s. 6d.—North Western, I!.

YORK, APRIL 9.
STOCK EICRINGE.—The sales are—Grand Union (Nottingham
and Lynn), Bs. 6d. —Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland,
11. 19s. 6d.—Newcastle and Berwick, 16% —North British, Carlisle
Extension, 11. 12s.—Welsh Midland, 1 h —York and North Midland
Extension, 31 —Ditto, New (East and West Riding), 8.

HUDDERSFIELD, APRIL 9.
STOCK ExcnexcE.—The sales are—Midland, Blimingham, and
'Derby, 29—Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 3 dia.—Hudders-
field and Manchester Railway and Canal, 29—Ditto ditto, 15s. dis.
—Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 3 p.—Leeds and Bradford, 44
—Leods, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 3 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 5%
dia.—Newcastle and Berwick, 7% p.—Grand Union, 12s. 6d.—lltid-
dersfirld, Halifax, and liradtbrd Union, 3—Lancashire, Yorkshire,
and North Eastern, 1 —Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 2% —Matiches-
ter, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, 20s.—North Western, 38. dis.
—Shrewsbury and Hereford, 21s.—Welsh Midlands, 28s.—York and
Carlisle, 31s. dia.—London and York, 1 y6—Glasgow and Dumfries,
% —West Riding Union, 9s.

R1ST01:, .APML 9.
STOCK EXCIIANGS.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, New, 8•1;
—Birmingham and Gloucester, 124%.—Caledonian,
New, 29% —South Devon, 31%—Taft Vale, New, 1U
U.

EDINBIJROII, Arair. 7.
STOCK EICIIANGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 21. 2s. 6d..—Aber-
deen, Banff, and Elgin, 1/. IN.—Airdrie and Bathgate, V. 6s.—
Arbroath and Forfar, 271.—Ditto, Half Shares, 151. 10s.—Armagh
and Portrush,los.—Ayr and Galloway, it. 9s.—Ayrshire and Ittid,,e
of Weir' It. 10a.—Banffshire, 16s. 6d.—Bellast and County l/own 21.
—British and Irish Union, 1/. 15s. 6d.—Caledonian, ex new, 61.
Ditto, New, U. M.—Caledonian Extension, it. 6s.—Caledonian and

Dumbarton, 1/. 103.-Caledonian and Northern Direct, 11. 15s.- Carn-
wath and West Linton, 11. Is. CA.-Chelmsford and Bury, 155.-
Clydesdale Junction, 121.-Cornwall and Devon Central, 11.75. 641.-
Deeside Railway,4/.-Direct Northern, 11. Ss. 6d.-Dublin and Ennis-
killen, 31. 10s.-Dundee and Arbroath, 391.-Ditto, New, 211.-IA:11-
dee and Forfar Junction, 11. 165.-Dundea and Perth, 101.-Ditto,
Kinross Extension, 21.-Eastern Counties Extension, 11.-East Indiatt
Railway, 75.-East of Fife, 1/. 55.-East Lothian Central and Tine
Valley Junction, 11.85.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 21.-Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 721.-Ditto, Half Shares, 131.- Ditto, Quarters, 171. 10s.
-Ditto, ditto, New, 151. -Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton.
lass.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 11. 3s. W.-Edinburgh.
Leith, and Granton, 161. 10s.-Dltte, Preference, 191.-Edinburgh and
Northern, it. Bs-Ditto, Newport, 75. 6d.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 9s. Gd.
-Edinburgh and Peebles, I/. Is.-Edinburgh and Perth, 2/. 7s. 6d.-
Edinburgh, Portobello, and Musselburgh, 11. 10s.-Forth and Clyde
Junction, 11. 135.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 70/. 195.-Ditto, New
Stock, 241.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 171. 10s.-Glasgow Belfast Union,
1/. U.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, I/. -Glasgow and Dundee
Junction, 1/. 145.-Glasgow and (I arnkirk, 401. 101.-Glasgow Gene-
ral Terminus, 91. ss.- Glasgow and Greenock, 191.-Ditto, New
Stock, 101.-Ditto, Preference, 1/. 155.-Glasgow Harbour Gland
Junction, 11. 10s.- Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 11. I ss.- Glasgow.
Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 11. 55.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Les-
inahagow, 11. 155.-Granton Junction, 195.-Great County Down.
IL 10s.-Great North of Scotland, 11. 125.--. Great North and South
Wales, Ss. 10d.-Inverness and Elgin, 175.-Lanark and Lothians„
11. 155.-Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, 11. Bs.-London and Houns-
low, 11.-London and Manchester (Rastrick), 21. 155.-London and
Manchester (Rem.), 1/. 28. 6d.-London and York, 1/.
Halt Shares, 21.-Midland and Eastern Counties, 1/. Bs.-Morziy-
shire, 21.-Newcastle and Berwick, 16/. 10s.-Newry .and London-
derry, 11. 75.-North British, 24/. 10s.-Ditto Halves, 81.-. Ditto,
Extension to Carlisle, 11. 125.--Ditto, Extension to Dalkeith,
155.-2( orth Wales Mineral, 13'.-Ditto, New, 31. 55.-Perth ani
Crieff Direct, 11. 12s. Gd. -Perth and Inverness, 1/. 45.-Scottish
Central, 131.-Ditto, New, 5/.- Scottish Central and Caledonian Junc-
tion, IL 6s -Scottish Grand Junction, 11.-Scottish Midland, 61.
-Scottish Southern, IL 13s. 6d.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 10s.
ewsbury, Oswestry, 1111.1 Chester, IL 17s. 6d.-Soulli 3l!dland,
IL 155.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 1/. 2s. Gd.-Stirling and 31 d;and,
21. 45.-Strathern Junction, it. 2s. 6d.-Surrey Grand Junction,
55.-Tean and Dove Talley, 155.-Wishaw and Coltuess, 471.75. 6d.

SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY.—The quarterly ge-
neral meeting was held yesterday afternoon at the rooms of
the institution in King William-street, when tl:e chair was
taken by Mr. John Labouchere. A petition to the House of
Commons, in opposition to the Charitable Trusts Bill, was
read and agreed to, as the principles were considered both
needless and vexatious. So stringent were the regulations,
that it was stated, should the Bill pass, one of the metropo-
litan hospitals would be closed. The report stated that there
had been received during the past quarter on board the
Dreadnought, as patients, 17 from her Majesty's ships, 55iii
from British and foreign vessels, and remaining on board on
the Ist of January, 178. There were on board 162 ski:, 1
convalescent, and 3 tit for duty; whilst the number of out-
patients, from Jan. 1 to March 31, was 313. The balance of
cash in hand was 466/. 15s. Bd., and the funds were in a very
prosperous condition. It was also announced that the num-
ber of patients who had received the benefits of the institu-
tion since its establishment was 57, 767,
THE QUARTERLY RECEIPTS AT THE LIVERPOCL
CusTost-musE.—We have again at this pert a decreasing
quarterly revenue, arising principally from the reductions iu
raw materials and articles of consumption in this district.
The gross revenue of the corresponding quarter of last year,
viz., the three months ending the 6th of April, 1845,
amounted to 928,973/. To the 4th of April this year, up to
which date the return is made up, the receipts are oi,ly
793,424 L, thus showing a deficit of 135,549L—Lieerpo,1
Standard.

INSANITY IN CANADA.—From the census returne of
the United States, it appears that the number of the insane
and idiotic in Canada is greater in proportion to the popula-
tion than in the United States. The population of United
Canada is 1,199,604; the number of insane and idiotic is
2,376, or Ito bO4. The total population of the United States
is 17,069,453, and the number of the insane and idiotic is
17,457, or Ito 977. The following shows the number of the
insane in Upper and Lower Canada, in proportion to their
oamfnadsleols62i:fiscosen
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lunatics,a
.sna_s(ti2t24oh females—total
male idiotP, and 178
relative population :—Lower Canada,
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origin of the population. The inhabitants of Lower Canadaare nearly all of French origin—those of Upper Canada
British.

DIMINUTIONaretIim
0 FFI INCREASE
CE. justOF
issSlueLdAbitymosrd(ePrtroEfLtllice
—According
House of Commons, it appears that in the year 1845 there
was an increase in the various public offices or departments
of 2,267 persons employed. Of these, 2,035 were engaged in
the Post-office department of the United Kingdom, and 102
in the Customs. In variuus offices or departments, however,
in the same year, there was a diminution in the number cf
individuals engaged of 463 ;:of these, 396 were in the, Ex-
cise, and 49 at Chelsea Hospital. The total increase in sala-
ries, emoluments, retired allowances, and expenses during
the year, was 129,8791., and the total diminution of expen--
diture resulting from the reductions in others of the public
offices amounted to 67,754 L, leaving a balauce of about
62,1251. increase of expenditure during the year 1845.
THE WEATHER.—DEPLORABLE OCCOARENCE.—From
Sunday until Monday the weather was exceedingly inclement
—cold and stormy, with incessant rain. Sunday was one
of the harshest days we remember for a long time. Ac
half-past two o'clock on that day, whilst the sea was
rolling mountains high, two young gentlemen, John and
Zechariah Dawson Williams, sons of our much respected -
fellow-citizen, Mr. Williams, of Clifton-ternee, Monkstown,
and Stafford-street, in this city, were walking along the
shore a little beyond Bullock Harbour, admiring the neap;
l-
ticent appearance of the sea, when a huge wave slashed
and carried off the younger of those gentlemen, Mr. Zecheriali
Dawson IVilliams, who, we deeply regret to say;
The elder brother saved himself 'by c.
watery grave.
tending, The
to the rock upon which he had been s
_Let n
in his 23d year,
has not -1
the deceased, who was
reatl ii• ,
discovered. The country all round Dublin
vo g
Eang
o,r•
and much injury has been deie. y
, ..
It is rumoured that the 1,) rinctss lt,,yel and one 1 the
Royal Princes will shortly arrive at t lel tIYIIIOII, anti remain
here during her It!ajesty ,o confinement. Fires are constantly
in order that__ tit ,v• t
principal rooms,stpar ments
keptin the
the reception of the,RovllTFattlily at Gm
may be prepared for.
Bri hien Gazette.
-
shortest possible notice,— 9
A letter recently receivt d from Home givcs the fol
,mviag
-tatemeut :—" For the last few days a most extraor-
dinary rumour was afloat. As it is in the interes f 141 bytis
of the greatest influence to hush the matter up rid be dif-
ficult to get at the truth. On re-opening the metre Argen-
this, the body of a young woman in a domino, and stubbed
in various tiarts, was found in one of the boxes on the last
row ; the body was in a state of putrefaction. She was, no
doubt, assassinated at the last festival of the Carnival, since
which tinie the theatre has been closed. The PsrPs.
tration of this crime is attribute/4 to jealousy. The name of
the victim has.not transpired."
The Austrian Censorship has placed the whole stock
of a Leipzic bookseller; under seqUestration, and forbidden
the Viennese booksellers to purchase any part of Ale seine.
The cause cf this citreme mzasure is a pamphlet issued frbra
the shop of the "aboi-e publisher; and circulated clandestinely.
in Hungary, containing, as it' alleged, seditious languagc.--_
Augsburg Gazette

BRIGADIER-GENERAL CURE-
TON.

Colonel Cureton was born, bred, and educated a gen-
tleman, and when little more than sixteen years of age,
he was appointed to an ensigncy in a county militia re-
giment of the first pretension, and commanded by a
Noble Earl, who was also the Lord-Lieutenant of the
county. From his ensigncy he was soon promoted to a
lieutenancy, through the esteem and kindess of his
colonel, the Noble Earl. " Young Cureton" became a
general favourite, not only with his brother-officers,
but with every individual in the regiment.
His constant association with men of superior wealth,
and being by them introduced to much society, led to
expense beyond his own immediate resources, and at
the end of the year creditors pressed for the settlement
of their bills—then threatened legal proceedings. He
applied to his family to assist him, and they were dissa-
tisfied at his contracting debts, and refused to liquidate
them. His spirit could not brook their refusal of his
request, nor the thought of being arrested (he was then
a minor, and it legally could not have been done), the
dread of which caused him to absent himself, and a few
months afterwards he was superseded in his regiment,
being absent without leave.
Not long after that event some friend procured him a
commission in another militia regiment of great respec-
tability ; when gazetted to it, it furnished the then few
outstanding creditors with the knowledge of his " where-
about." One or two of them wrote for immediate set-
tlement in threatening language. The fear of arrest
returned strongly, and effectually to guard against it he
resolved again to absent himself; in furtherance of which
he purchased a 'sailor's dress to disguise himself, and
next morning at an early hour went to the sea-side,
dressed in regimentals, with his disguise and a check-
shirt in a bundle, which he put on, leaving his military
dress on the beach (the regiment was stationed in a
maritime town). The uniform was shortly found, and,
after waiting some time in expectation of seeing the
owner, it was taken to the barrack; where it was as-
certained to whom the articles belonged; and an opinion
was entertained that Cureton, while bathing, had been
carried out by the current and drowned. His mother
and family received information from the regiment to
that effect, and they went into mourning for him ac-
cordingly.
By means of his disguise he reached London unknown,
and meeting with a recruiting party of the 14th Light
Dragoons, enlisted in his baptismal names, omitting his
surname. Very soon he was sent from the party to joie
the regimental depot stationed at Radipole barracks,
near Weymouth, tie regiment at the time being in the
Peninsula. His steady conduct and well-stored mind
quickly attracted the attention of those officers who were
doing duty at the depot, and he was in consequence
forthwith appointed to orderly-room duty alone. A
draught being ordered out to join head quarters in the
Peninsula, he was one of the number draughted. Letters
highly recemmerdatory of his general good conduct and
ability were forwarded by the officer in command of the
depot to Sir S. Hawker, Lieutenant-Colonel commanding
the 14th Dragoons. That discerning officer soon became
assured of the young dragoon's merit and talents, and on
the first opportunity advanced him to the rank of
sergeant. Then, when any outpost or other important
duty required to be entrusted to an intelligent,
skilful non-commissioned officer, it was generally con-
fided to the (then) sergeant for execution. The per-
formance of those duties was always meritorious, arid
his reports thereof so well written, that Sir Samuel
Hawker's interest was so far excited in his future pros-
pects and welfare, that he resolved on recommending
him to (at that time) Lord Wellington for advancement
as a commissioned officer, thinking that his talents
would then have greater scope for development. Sir
Samuel stated his intention to the sergeant, also asking
if such a measure would be acceptable. The sergeant
warmly expressed his gratitude to the colonel for his
kind intention and favourable appreciation of his humble
services, adding that previously to Sir Samuel so far
benefiting him, he felt it an imperative duty to lay
before him every circumstance connected with his posi-
tion in life before he entered into the 14th Light Dra-
goons, with the cause and means he took to enlist
therein ; and finished by observing to the colonel that
should he consider what had been related would not
militate hereafter against him as an officer, he most
gratefully should receive the honour so graciously in-
tended for him. Sir Samuel Hawker, by what he had
heard, remarked that from his first knowledge of him he
was of belief that he (the sergeant) bad been a gentle-
man, and his intention to recommend him for promo-
don had become more strengthened.
Consequent thereto, in less than three months from
that interview with Sir Samuel, and about seven years
from the time of his enlisting in the 14th Dragoons, un-
known as he was, with no means of interest to recom-
mend him or advance him, save that which had been
raised in the breast of his gallant commanding officer,
the present brigadier was gazetted in his proper name
—Cureton, sergeant, from 14th Light Dragoons, to an
ensigncy of the 40th Regiment of Infantry. The first
intimation his friends had of his existence, arose from
reading his name, to their great astonishment, in the
Gazette. They were soon made acquainted with the
mode of corresponding with him, being then in the
Peninsula. They then knew that he had honourably
passed the ordeal of a private's and non-commissioned
officer's grades in a cavalry regiment, and submitted to
him which service he would prefer, cavalry or infantry.
He chose the former, and an exchange was without delay
effected in the late 20th Dragoons, as cornet. A lieu-
tenancy was in a reasonable time obtained, when he
was appointed adjutant to the regiment, and remained
so until the disbandonment of the regiment after the
peace, which placed him upon half-pay. In that corps
he was highly esteemed by all his brother officers,
while his efficiency and merits as a cavalry officer were
duly appreciated by the Lieutenant-Colonel command-
ing, Sir Thomas Hawker, brother of his patron, Sir
Samuel Hawker, of the 14th Dragoons.
On the 16th Dragoons being ordered to India, and an
augmentation of lieutenants taking place, Sir Samuel
and Sir Thomas Hawker exerted their joint interest and
earnest recommendation of Lieutenant Cureton, at the
Horse Guards, for appointment from half-pay to full of
the 16th Dragoons, which took place, and soon after-
wards he was appointed adjutant, which rank he re-
tained, until he obtained, by purchase, a troop in the
same reiment. He likewise purchased his majority
and had lodged money for a lieutenant-colonelcy, which
he actually had been gazetted to, in the 3d Dragoons,
by purchase, and which was subsequently cancelled, as
a casualty having turned up in his regiment (16th
Lancers), he was gaietted therein as Lieutenant-Colonel
without purchase—a favour, no doubt, conferred by her
Majesty as an especial mark of his many meritorious
services.