The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-09 00:00:00

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This is a coiltempbted railway from Sheffield to Chester-
field, with a branch to Bakewell, the estimated cost of which
is 1,050,0004 and the length 23 miles. The engineer is Mr.
Vignol!es who was this day examined as a matter of cenve-
nicnce tolimself, but the petition will be taken in its proper
turn.

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The estimated cost of till, line was 54,000/. Mr. Venables
appeared to promote the Bill, and the Committee declared
the petition proved.
The ComiLtcce adjourned until twelve o'clock to-morrow.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING
Six O'CLOCK.

CHESTER CUP.
18:to 1 agst 13c-,t Bower
25 to 1 agst Sweetmeat
23 to I agst Whinstcne
25 to I agst The Baron
30 to 1 agat Miss Burns
35 to 1 agst Intrepid
40 to 1 agst Eitzallan
40 to 1 agst Roderick
40 to 1 agst Mermaid
40 to 1 agat Hope
40 to I agst Cataract
40 to 1 agst Colleen Dhas. •
4) to 1 agst Salopian
DERBY.
5 to 1 sgst Sting

18 to 1 aiist Broardo
20 to 1 agst

30 to 1 agst Maienlm
40 to 1 agst Fancy Boy
40 to 1 agst Tibthorpe

ALARI

'11N(1- POTATO RIOTS AT
INVERNESS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
INVERNESS, FEB. 6, 1846.—As some excuse for not at-
tending to your letter, I enclose two proclamations and a note,
from which you will gather the alarming nature of the po-
sition of Inverness, and, indeed, as I am informed, of every
shipping place in the northern counties, but our situation is
much more critical than that of any other place from the
large body of navigators at present employed in the neigh-
bourhood, and who are taking an important part in the fray;
and as some of them are captured, we may to-night
expect an attempt at rescue. Unfortunately there is only
a small number of military at Fort George at present,
but as many have come into Inverness as could be spared so
as to leave enough for the defence of that important position.
There appears to be about 70 or 80 who occupy the castle,
and under the prudent and spirited command of Captain
Campbell, of the 87th Irish, they have been of important use
in preserving order, and as vet nobody has been killed, but
the number wounded must be ten or twelve, some pretty se-
verely, by the bayonets which the soldiers were obliged to
use when retreating to the castle with about a score of pri-
soners ; and some of the gentlemen and constables were se-
verely cut by the stones.
If in the course of the night the navigators,
of whom there are upwards of a thousand, overwhelm the
military, it is impossible to say where this unfortunate
affair will end, the whole town and neighbourhood will be
at the mercy of these blackguards for six days, being the
shortest period within which we can obtain assistance. Oh
for twelve hours of our Perth and Inverness railway I If
anything will open the eyes of Government, it is the danger
in which we are at present.

The riots began on Wednesday, in the attempt to ship
some potatoes at Thorn Bush pier. The low popula-
tion of the town opposed it Fuccessfally, in spite
of the police magistrates, and the military wire
sent for, and placed in the castle, in case of
need. The town was quiet all day on Thursday, being the
Sacramental fast-day, but in the evening the navries marched
in from the canal, and being joined by our own mob, pro-
ceeded to smash windows, threatened or attempted to set
fire to the Provost's distillery, and it was considered proper
to order out the military, who, after n brnoh, ..xectied in
capturing about twenty rioters, when the mob dispersed.
To-day special constables were sworn in, and under cover of
a strong body of constables, with the Provost and Sheriff at
their head, an attempt was made to ship the rest of the
cargo. About half-way to the pier the mob attacked us
slightly, but surrounded us in 'thousands, and after
the Sheriff read the Riot Act and a proclamation,
we continued our march to the pier. The mob
had taken up a very strong position here close to
the place of shipment, and whenever the attempt was made to
ship the potatoes we were attacked with the utmost fierce-
ness, and we were all after a very short combat obliged to
fly. The soldiers were sent for, but before they arrived our
cart and its potatoes were sent into the river. The military
shipped another, and so the affair ended in the meantime.
The soldiers have behaved very well, and Mr. Tytler and
Provost Sutherland are heroes.

The was a riot in Nairn last night, and at Campbeltown,
Invergordon, &c., the same spirit prevails, and not a potato
will be shipped without a military escort, though the
authorities assured us to day there was an abundance in the
country.

vV
The following proclamation has been issued by the Sheriff
of the county :

" Whereas, notwithstanding the proclamation issued by
the Provost and magistrates of Inverness on the 4th inst., the
authorities of the county and town were this day deforced and
asssulted by a riotous mob, compelled to read the Riot Acr,
and call in the assistance of the military power.
" The authorities, in addition to the prisoners already in
custody, have marked several others, who were active in the
riot and mobbing, ancithey have been inf.,rmed that the
public peace is still threatened ; they therefore prohibit all
parties from appearing on the streets, lanes, and roads
of the town of Inverness and its snbnrbs, after the
hour of nine o'clock of this evening; and they hereby inti-
mate that any person or persons so appearing on the said
streets, lanes, or roads, between the said hour and six o'clock,
A.M., to-morrow, shall be deemed and held to be disturbers
of the peace, and act and part in the said riot and mob, and
shall be apprehended and prosecuted as felons—the Riot Act
already read being still in force.
"The authorities aforesaid, while they are determined to
enforce the law, take this opportunity of informing the in-
habitants, that measures have been taken for supplying the
market of Inverness with potatoes.
"God save the Queen !
"By order of William Fraser Tytler, Esq., Sheriff of the
County of Inverness, and James Sutherland, Esq., Provost,
and the other Magistrates of Inverness.
" PATK. GRANT, Sheriff-Clerk.
"ALEX. MACTAVISII, Town-Clerk.
"Inverness, 6th Feb., 1846."

THEATRE ROYAL, EDINBURGH,
(From the Edinburgh Weky Journal, Feb. 4th.)
The engagement of Celeste and Mr. Webster has proved
signally successful. Mr. Webster is evidently an actor of
very considerable power, and he has a much wider range than
his first appearance in any character would cause us to anti.
cipate ; this, we think a great proof of excellenc, and he
throws himself so thoroughly into his part, and evinces so
much tasle and discretion, and in fact is so much at home that
we do not know how he couid well go abroac into a different de-
partment, till we find him eqnally at home there also. Perhaps
his ablest personation is in his own clever farce, called
The Miseries of Human Life, where old Mr. Ally Croaker,
fretting at every thing, finds, of course, every thing to fret
him, even to the pulling on of his boots. He does, in-
deed, seem as if he had been scalded or skinned, and
then clad in a shirt of nettles—while his droll agonies
are well contrcsted with the coolness of his friend
Mildmay (Murray, who was quite id his element),
to whom nothing comes amiss, and who, equally
of course, finds every card a trump. The Lioness
of the North is a clever comedy, founded on the
mistake of Elizabeth of Russia (Celeste), who makes im-
perial earl imperious love to a young lieutenant (Webster),
thinking that he is the famous Biron Duke of Courland.
Celeste acted the sovereign virago with her usual animation
and dignity. Mr. "Webster, in his charactor of Alexis, rose
into graceful and genteel comedy, and fully sustained his re-
putation. Mr. Murray, as the intriguing, conceited, and ever
baffled Schuvoloff, or Sugar-loaf, or Shave-all-off, we forget
which, the Russian chief spy, or minister of police, was very
effective, as was Ray in the perplexed kind-hearted jailer of
Shiussclbourg. Lloyd has a capital part—as capitally acted
—an ambitious "full private," making love to an Empress,
and rewarded with an immediate ducking in a horse-pond.
Altogether, the piece was very enceessful. A new and better
adaptation of the " Invincihles," called " The Pretty Girls of
stibeeez''antis, W; as
e may say,
out on Monday, with very great
say, thunders of applause. Web-
sher
doubteda by his comrades.,Pnund ertook for Napoleon ; this was
he turned his hack for a few mo-
ments, unbuttoned his coat, turned his wig, and
.presto the
very " little corporal' himself turned round' and justified the
apparently involuntary military salute of his merry comrades.
Ile was ever afterwards in and out of Napoleon, in the
drollest and most graphic war., particularly when he did—
what Napoleon never did—got thoroughly drunk. Celeste,
as a Prussisn captain, thereafter took them all prisoners.
She appeared at the head of a most efficient troop of heroines,
ably assisted by Sergeant Majoress Tellet.
• (From the Edinburgh Weekly Express.)
THE THEATBSI—The attraction of the Theatre Royal du-
eafkthhasHbaeennitarhkeetrilalinadntthaecetlienzgaonft
Madame
Celeste. jraminginthwe
epbassttevrio
Webster e
is not often on our boards, but he
hearty wish that he may soon
return again.
certainly
Murray, f Mathews, or any of
13elarv—esnIslswitahctia'ng is of an entirely distict
cast from that of
iatcstinkigndw. k the other
other comedian we lave seen; 'but it is certainly. excellent in
ao_nyethaisnAgimlyocrreoc_oemnie than his
all the effect of the most vivid
as Hildmay. The scene had a
ithWounrc3lnannostgennr—agtinhee
Celeste figured in her
the week's performances. Madame
contrast. The "Pretty Girls of Solberg," was the charm of
most graceful style, and drew down the raptureug applause of

the audience. The Polka danced with Mr. Webster, will
give an entirely fresh idea of it to our Assemblies.

DIP ORTANT" NEWS from MEXICO.
( From a Second Edition of the Tines.)
We have received the following important intelligence,
brought by the West India Mail steamer Trent :
The Royal Mail steamer, Trent, Captain Boxer, arrived at
Southampton this morning, from the Gulf of Mexico, last
from Bermuda. She brings 510,822 dollars, 1,256 ounces of
silver, and a large quantity of.platenum, cochineal and inigo,
from Guatimala. The passengers by her are Lieut-
tenant Peel, son of Sir Robert Peel, from the Pacific, with
dispatche:*, Gen. Mendoza. Captain Gracio and lady, Mr. and
Mrs. Neilson and child, and Mrs. and Miss Trew, Captain
Deering, lady, and two children, Messrs. Stanley, Michaud,
Bonavero, &Tilton, Silva, Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Valmyniple,
Bosbill, Dr. Vamu, Lieutenant M'Cleave, Dr. Findlay, and
Mr. Wm: Neilson, of her Majesty's late ship Romney, Mr.
and Mrs. Dalrymple.
PRONUNCIAMENTO OF GENERAL PAREDES AND
MARCH OF HIS DIVISION ON THE CITY OF
MEXICO.

We have received from cur Correspondent in the city of
Mexico letters of the 30th of December.
Ge:!eral Paredes, with his division 7,000 strong; pro-
nounced en the 15th ult. at San Luis Potozi, and marched
against Mexico en the 21st for the avowed purpose of over-
turning the present Government, and calling a National
Convention to establish whatever Government it might
think fit.
Parades and his division arrived on the 29th in the imme-
diate vicinity of the capital.
The Government prepared to resist in an energetic manner.
They appointed General Bustaniente Commander-in-Chief,
armed 3,000 Civicos.or National Guard, barricaded the town,
cut trenches in all the roads, declared the city in a state of
siege, and culled out the male population between the ages of
16 and 60.

The garrisons of the fort of San Juan de lea, Vera Crnz,
Jalapa, Guanxuato, Guadalaxara, Zacatecas, pronounced in
favour of Paredes, but the civil authorities in all those places
and in several other towns issued manifestoes in favour of the
Government.

Several arrests were made, and the Archbishop was con-
stituted a prisoner in his palace at Saenbaya.
M. Slidell, the new Minister of the United States, has not
been received by the Government under the plea that Mexico
agreed to accept a Minister ad hoc for the regulation of the
affairs of Texas, and not an Envoy for general purposes. M.
Slidell has written a very angry note, and retires to Jalapa,
there to await instructions from his Government.
Lieutenant W. Peel (son of Sir It. Peel), of her Majesty's
ship America, now at San Bias, on the Pacific coast, passed
through Mexico on the 27th fur Vera Crnz, charged with
dispatches for the Hon. Captain Gordon, of the America, sup-
posed to be relative to Upper California and the Oregon.
...Our correspondent at the moment of closing his dispatches
says, that the whole of the garrison has pronounced in favour
of Paredes, and that the Government of Herrera may be
considered at an end. The city was perfectly quiet and not
a shot fired.

The Clyde brought to Bermuda the windward mails, they
bring the dates since the last steamer left, to the 14th of
January from St. Thomas, and Bth from Jamaica.
There is nothing of any marked interest among the islands,
the out ships have begun to congregate at the different ports,
to receive the coming crop, which it is said will at least be an
average one, or perhaps beyond it ; as the cane, especially to
windward, was much favoured by the rains at the end of
last year.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the
'Woolsack at Five o'clock.

Lord STANLEY presented a petition, stned
by 12,3339 owners ar d occupiers of land,
and trapesmen, manufacturers, and labourers of
the north division of the county of Lancaster. He had
examined the signatures to this petition, and he bad
found them all to be genuine, and to belong to the dif-
ferent classes of trades and callings enumerated in
the heads of the petition. The petitioners stated
that their confidence in the continuation of
the protection to agriculture was such that they
had been induced to expend capital in extensive
improvement in agriculture and manufactures. It fur-
ther stated that it was the opinion, not o. ly of the
owners and occupiers of land, but also of the working
men and manufacturers, that it was of the greatest im-
portance to their different trades that the protection
to agriculture should be continued. The petitioners
also complained of the unconstitutional, they would not
say illegal, interference of the Anti-Corn-law League.
with the constituency of the country. Ho had also
several similar petitions from different parts of the
county of Kildare in Ireland.

Loi:d REDDESDALE said he had a petition of a
similar nature to present from the county of Oxford.
Lord BEAUMONT presented several petitions frem
tenant farmers and others connected with agriculture in
favour of protection to agriculture, and expressive of the
great alarm those individuals felt at the proposed
chonges ; and he also begged to give notice, on the part
of his friend the Duke of Richmond, that, on Thursday
next, the Noble Duke would move for certain returns
regarding local taxation.
Lord FARNHAM presented petitiens against the
repeal of the corn-laws.
Lord GREY presented :several petitions from tenant
farmers and others connected with agriculture, in favour
of the propositions of her Majesty's Government. They
had only two objections to those prepositions ; namely,
that the abolition in corn and sugar were not immediate.
Almost all the tenant-farmers in this country con-
curred in the opinions expressed in the petition. He
had great satisfaction in presenting that petition, and he
hoped and believed that the opinions therein contained
were entertained by the first farmers in thia country,
whether they were at once opposed to protection, or in
favour of a delay of three years.
Earl ST. GERMAIN said, that with regard to the
motion he was about to aubwl6 to their Lordships, he
anticipated their fullest consent. This was a Bill for the
further amendment of the Act now in force for the ex-
tension and promotion of the public works in Ireland.
The proposed measure divided itself into two questions;
first, that of loans, and second that of grants. In regard
to the first of these, the alteration upon the old law was
very small. It was proposed to place at :the disposal of
the Commissioners of Public Works for Ireland
the sum of 50,0001.; the sum originally placed
in their hands being :now reduced to 6;9001,; and
the present grant a further suppty. The al-
teration in its administration was, ;that
whereas formerly the application had to be made
through three magistrates, it was now proposed to be
made through two magistrates, assisted by three rate
or assessed. Respecting the second division, that of
loans advanced for the improving and reclaiming of
lands, the old law required that such advances should
he paid back in three years after the improvements
were effected. This was found be impracticable,
and now it was proposed in . the Bill to
extend the period to twenty years. He had no doubt
this measure would work benefially in developing the
resourses of Ireland, in connexion with three or four
other measures submitted by the Government to the
other House of Parliament.