The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-06 00:00:00

COMMEHCIAL MAGAZINE.

This is the first number of a new periodical, professing
to furnish,
" First, Original Articles and selected documents referring
to commercial subjects.
" Second, Papers on the varicus branches of commercial
law, which should be familiar to all men of business.

" Third, Mercantile Statistics of every description ; and
"Fourth, Commercial and Monetary Intelligence of the
kind most required by merchants and bankers, as indicative
of the prospects of trade and of the currency.
The want of such a periodical has long been felt. The
army, the navy, the professions of law, of medicine, of
the church, have each their own special magazine.
Every class of religionists has its organ—bankers, and
builders, and engineers, and artists,-and railway pro-
prietors, and mechanics, have each their one or more
journals; but the great commercial body has as yet had
no magazine specially engaged in their service, open at
all times as a repository o commercial statistics ready
to do battle in behalf of the commercial portion of the
community, where necessity may require. This want
it is the object of the projectors of the present pe-
riodical to supply; and, judging from the contents of the
first number, the commercial body cannot desire a more
talented instructor, a more efficient advocate, or a more
able organ than the Commercial Magazine. Its policy is
in strict unison with the principles of free trade, and
perhaps the most able article which has yet appeared on
the sugar question is the opening paper of this magazine.
We have also a most able article on the commercial law
of stoppage in transitu, besides the monetary and trade
reports of the month, the new tariff complete, and an im-
mense mass of useful statistical iuformation on matters
relating to trade and commerce.

THE NEW NAVY LIST and General Record of
the Services of Officers of the Royal Nary and Royal
Marines. Conducted by Joseph Allen, Esq., R.N.,
Greenwich Hospital.
The New Navy List, as edited by Mr. Allen, is not a
mere dry list of names ; it is a readable, and, in many
instances, most amusing book. At the end of each list it
gives a complete record of the services of every officer in
the list, and thus furnishes us with a resume of our naval
annals during the last three-quarters of a century—the
most glorious three•quarters cf a century in British
naval history. As a specimen of the manner in which
Mr. Allen has performed this portion of his task, we
extract the following record of the services of Sir Charles
Napier:—
" Sir C. Napier, Lieutenant of Courageux, at capture of
Marengo and Belle Poule, 1806. Commander of Recruit,
18 gun brig, in action with Fr. 20 gun corvette Diligente, in
1808; and in same brig at the capture of Martinique, 1809,
and at capture of Fr. 74 gun-ship Hautpolt, which ship he
closely engaged. Captain of Thames, and in conjunction
with Cephalus, destroyed a convoy on the coast of Italy,
1811; and assisted at the capture of another, in company
with Imperieuse, in 1812. In company with Pilot took the
port of Sapri ; and in 1813 commanded the naval forces at
the capture of Ponza, and assisted at the capture of a convoy
in Calvacie Roads. Captain of Euryalus in the Potomac,
at the capture of Alexandria, and attack on Baltimore.
Commopore on the coast of Syria in Powerful, in arious
operations, including the bombardment of St. Jean D'Acre,
1840. Gaz. 1799, 1809, 11, 1!, 12, 13, three times, 1814."
Mr. Allen's New Navy List is the most complete
record of the services of our naval and marine officers
extant. The improvements introduced into the first
number of the revised series have been perfected in the
present, and the editor proposes to extend them in his

January number, by ineroducing distinguishing marks
against the names of those officers who have received
medals from the Royal Humane Society, or other public
bodies, for saving the lives of their fellow-creatures.

FUNERAL tf the BABOO DWAR-
K ANAUT II TAG ORE.
The mortal remains of this highly esteemed and dis-
tinguished foreigner was yesterday consigned to a vault at
Kensal-green. •
In accordance with the wish of the son of the deceased,
the funeral was conducted in a strictly private manner.
The cortege left the late residence of the Baboo (St.
George's Hotel, Albemarle-street), at half-past ten o'clock
yesterday morning.
The hearse was succeeded by Major Henderson's private
carriage, in which rode the son of the deceased, Nogendra-
nath Tagore, Mohun Lal, and robin Chundro Mookiyse, a
young Indian of distinction, related to the Baboo. A mourn-
ing coach followed, in which rode Sir Edward Ryan (the
appointed guardian to deceased's son), Major Henderson
(the deceased's partner), Dr. Raleigh, and Mr. D. J. Mac-
killop. A second mourning coach contained the Hon. Captain
R. Gore, Captain Henderson, Mr. C. Plowden, and Dr.
Goodeve. A third contained Mr. Mordaunt Ricketts, Mr.
Prinsep, General Ventura, and Mr. Roberts, all intimate
personal friends of the Baboo. The mourning coaches were
succeeded by the private carriage of Mohun Lal, which con-
veyed three native students. The courier and domestic
establishment in the service of the Be boo closed the pro-
cession, these latter riding in the deceased's private carriage.
On arriving at the cemetery the cavalcade filed off into
the unconsecrated portion of the ground, where, nearly
opposite the entrance gate, a large brick vault had been
prepared.
Every portion of the ceremony was conducted in solemn
silence, broken only by the peals of thunder and tempest of
rain which burst over the cemetery just at the period of its '
performance. The cfficiating chaplain to the cemetery, the
Rev. Mr. Twigger, was in attendance in his private capacity,
but no religious service of any kind was performed over the
body.
As the mourners were about to retire they were requested
by Nogendranath Tagore to remain until the vault was
closed, a desire which they of course at once complied with.
This occupied some tinie. At length a huge stone having
been placed over ther cavity the parties retired to their car-
riages and left the ground.
The son of the deceased was attired in an Indian costume
composed wholly of black cloth. Mohun Lal and the other
Indians present wore the ordinary brilliant costume of their
country.
The coffin containing the deceased's remains had a very
magnificent appearance. It was covered with puce silk
velvet, and studded with silver ornaments. On the lid were
two silver plates—the one bearing the style and titles of the
deceased Baboo in the Hindostanee language, and the second
a translation of the same in English, as follows :
" BABOO DWARICANAITTII TAGORE, ZUMINDAIt, DIED
NS IST AUGUST, 1846, AGM TEARS."
It is stated that the fine face and features of the deceased
were so little changed by death, that the parties called on
to perform the usual offices on similar mournful occasions
were with some difficulty persuaded that the spirit had fled.
While in this state a cast of the Baboo's face was taken.
The heart was subsequently removed from the body for
transmission to India, there to be dealt with in accordance
with the tenets of the sect to which the Baboo belonged,

PARLIAMENTA itY B U SINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
WEDNFAMAY, AUG 5.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.
Messengers from the Lords brought up the following Bills, which
their Lordships had agreed to :
Edinburgh Paving (No. 2) Bill—Argyll Canal Bill —Taw Vale
Railway Extension till—Sligo Ship Canal fltill—Campbeltown Bar-
bour, Waterworks, and Paving Bill—Amendments to Lord Kin-
naird's (Sir John Webb's) Estate Bill —Wisbech, St. Ives, and Carib.
bridge Junction Railway Bill, without Rmendnient— Rugby and
Leamington and Warwick Railway Bill—Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle Railway Blll—Airdrie and Bathgate Junction Railway Bill
—London and South-Western Railway (Basingstoke and Salisbury
Extension) Bill —West London Railway Improvement and Extension
Bill, with Amendments.

THE TWENTY-FIFTH REPORT
FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAIL-
WAY BILLS CLASSIFICATION.
The Select Committee appointed for the Classification of Railway
Bills, according to the Resolutions adopted by the House, have
considered the several matters referred to them, and agreed to
report as follows :
Your Committee recommend that the Cork and Waterford Railway
Bill be referred to a distinct Committee, Group No. 72.

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The following Members were in the House when counted
out on Tuesday evening:—

.
Mr. Strutt Dr. Bowring
Sir W. Feilden Mr. Bouverie
Mr. Maitland Mr. 11. Berkeley
Mr. Parker Mr. B. Escott
Mr. Tufnell Mr. D. Morris
Mr. Brown (Lan.) Mr. Wawn
Lord J. Russell Lord M. Hill
Mr. Ewart Chancell3r of Exchequer
Mr. Warburton Sir E. Colebrooke
Mr. Fox Manic Mr. Pattison

Mr. Duncan Mr. Langston
Mr. Dickinson Mr. Christie
Lord Courtenay Sir T. Esmond°
Mr. Hawes Sir G. Grey
Mr. Hume Air. Thornely
.._ .

Mr. Mitcalfe
Mr. Balm

Mr. Barnard.

An accident happened a short time since on the
Southern Austrian Railway, near Cliii. The engine ran off
the rails, and drew after it three waggons. Fortunately no
one was killed, and only two men, an engineer and a stoker,
wounded, The call§e of the Accident is not known.

The above list does not include surveying or other vessels
employed on " particular service," whose terms of commis-
sion are not defined, as are the other ships in the Royal
Navy. We may add to the above the America, 50, Captain
the lion. J. Gordon, hourly expected from the Pacific with
valuable freight, but whose term of service will not expire
until February next.
A terrific thunder-storm visited this place this morning be-
tween the hours of three and five o'clock, creating the most
alarming consternation among the inhabitants, none of
whom had ever experienced anything like it before. The
lightning continued to flash as if in one uninterrupted blaze
of various hues during the whole time, and long after day-
light the storm continued. Peal after peal of thunder, more
like the cannonade of a fleet or army, each succeeding one
louder than the last, shook the place and all in it, during
the time the terrific strife of the elements lasted. A mass of
water, accompanied by huge hailstones (for it surely
could not be called rain), fell during the storm, de-
luging the streets, and choking up such few drains as the
locality is blessed with, beating down standing crops,
smashing, windows and skylights, conservatories, &c. The
electric fluid entered a house in Mount Pleasant, Landport,
by the chimney, smashed the looking-glass, and set fire to
the tenement; happily an elderly woman and a child wbo
were in the house at the time were not injured, and the fire
was immediately subdued by the neighbours. At another
part of Portsea, a woman was so shocked by tho thunder and
lightning as to fall into a state of catalepsy, from which it is
feared she will never be roused to life. Further inwards,
I'ortsea has received considerable damage from the floods
which have rushed down Portsdown-hill and deluged the
meadows and roads below to a most destructive extent,
which, following so closely upon the awful storm of Friday
night last and Sunday night, will, it is feared, form a sad
item in the harvest accounts of many small farmers and
others whose crops were exposed to the ravages of the floods.
The electric telegraph is, of course, hors de combat. Such
shocks as it has met with in the late storms will take some
time to adjust. It is conjectured that the attraction it ap-
pears to present to the electric fluid will be an insurmount-
able bar to its safe and effectual working in the dockyard,
where so much attractive and combustible matter is at pre-
sent stored. Much fear was entertained for the safety of
powder in magazines at this port. The houses situate low
in Portsmouth, l'ortsea, Southsea, and the adjacent villages
were all inundated to some depth with water, which, owing
to the very inefficient drainage, will be some time in sub-
siding.
StlEEasE:ss, AUGUST s.—The Alutine, 12, Commander
Crawford, discharged her powder at the Little Nore on Sun-
day, and was towed up to Chatham on Monday, where she is
to be taken into the dock at present occupied by the Trident
steam-sloop, nearly ready for sea.
The Columbine, 16, Commander Booth, arrived from
Chatham yesterday morning, and is now having her com-
passes adjusted in this harbour. She will undergo the usual
inspection by the Commander-in-Chief, and afterwards sail
for Portsmouth, where she is to be paid advance wages and
receive her final orders.

An accident which might have terminated In the destruc-

tion of that fine vessel the Dragon steam-frigate occurred
here on Sunday evening. It appears that an old catrvas
jacket had been left behind a bull's eye of one of the paddle_
boa cabins, which by the convergence of the raga of the sun
had ignited and was smoking away at a furious rate when it
was happily discovered by the policeman on duty, who gave
the alarm. The fire was soon afterwards subdued without
having done the slightest injury to tho vessel,