The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-17 00:00:00

TEI E SUN, LONDON-, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1846.

Pom:na packet,

11,1p,""14"G, OCT. 13. —Put bac:,
or Cr
leak-.
?rtived`ft,'AThl, Oc-r. 16.—The Scours Clinet, which
4L llth insf., and the Freden, FunnemarA, ldt
" leaky, are discharging. A plank, painted black,,
pot, word Ystrcom" cut out and painted yellow, sup-
?pek. the
.quarter-bcard of a large Dutch vessel, has
e(' up in lat. 52 N lon 2E.
15th,lt "'rut 162---WLI variable and light.—Pat back,
ctitaPhne, for Algoa Bar.
k1401,811.„Y oAns,l6.—Arrd.
ONEr, Quebec.
'1..111 LOSS BY FIRE OF OF THE HA,
The fear 1r AND BOSTON STEAMERS..
'km the. °wing is a letter received at Lloyd's this morning
of_ .
chit'
Whi agent at Dublin, dated 15th inst., the substance
kalif no doubt gave rise to the rumour that one of the
by CI and Boston line of steamers had been destroyed
re t.„..
111- r4ett t n Oct. 15th 1846.
Roche,,at of the Torrence, reports that on, the. 30th
lUip ''' o'clocksteeringE.S.E., be fell in with a
tours:al fire to the northward. He immediately altered his
Drittion'and ran down to her; going as close as he could with
he peeint the then crippled state of the Torrence. As we 1
Sti`.:e' judge, she had been on fire some time, as her
'las) -ere all burnt excepting the topgallant forecastle.h
!hie were issuing out of the stern windows.: Fromt tt e
,latintopatiPaPtain Roche made her out first he hoisted ligh s,
tio hoprhi: that. should anv of the crew or passengers happen
taken to the boats and be in the neigh-
ouric., the-
tb ty might see the position of the Torrence.
Rood tor Light he ran clear before the wind, keeping
.a
'utile out, a heavy sea being on at the time. Captain
'learn:. reasons for supposing the vessel to have
.beenna.
darner afrare--a short straight bowsprit, two tier of cabin
etive ir tharp bows, high out of the water. He could wpera-
l:kteatno ens nu both sides amid-ships, where the paidles of _
thli,eartwlie7,lhdebe • but from the smoke and the thickness of
could not clearly ascertain what she was. On
prernoard bow he saw asmall air port open."
their°.ka Liverpool, Lloyd's have received the following from
that b.aat The remains of a vessel of about ton!,
111447' reeentlY been burnt, with the Astrea from`re -
lt, 40 Quebec lying by, was passed on the 25th nit., in
%1Y '°n,• 53, by the Canibyses arrived here. This is the
'otr et reported on fire besides the one noticed by the
a 8 teear'r,"" a t Dublin, the latter of which was reported to be
er
the hey Were probably both derelicts, set on fire by
Nein.3,--ug vessels, whose safety had been endangered by

V11,G411111, SUICIDE.—This morning, between
;ierlist()inlittrs of ten and, eleven,. the utmost con:
`sorpe. Prevailed in the neighbourhood of Cain
oder, street, p_ay,
di„;A s Inn road, in consequence of a
teakliYeirittuttal, named James •Wheeler, a mechanic,
`n the upper portion of the house, No. 5, Lower
kicid IP°-street, Gough-street, having committed
thatthe2l,,ader the following circumstances :—lt appears.
his deceased had been for several years previous to
eo 'en and violent death in a dejected state of mind,
ahicht,sequenee of numercus failures in the businessoa
relsti," was engaged upon, and the recent death_ f
°eeup,en't This morning, about half-past ten o'clock, the
alld a h of the house were alarmed by a deep groan
14 he
crash proceeding from the deceased part-
di'bj,7,llPort repairing thither he was foundd deceased's
i`eross which issued from a frightfully deep gash
4sll 1, throat, inflicted with a razor which hlaod
he- 'Y his side ' Mr. H. Hardwick, a surgeon, _
1160' Calthorpelstreet., and Mr. T. W. Cooke, the
were SallArg eon of the Royal Free Hospital in the. Gray's
eter,°-, were immediately sent for, but their services.
'lead .4tl,°' of the slightest avail; the deceased was quite
;le head being nearly severed front the body.
4tittitCert SPORTING.—There was a grand wolf-
' is ,;" week at St. Laurent-en-Cana, by the pack of the
h4e4-54t d'Ambray which was attended by more
tthan
trlcl vie ,„",,of the most famous sportsmen of the country,
gore ki11:111 three thousand spectators. Three.iwi
A reen s ortsman from Bacquevi e vyas
thja;°-e struck at seeing a wolf coming towards him,
Ivoli.:,tcad firing, he dropped his gun and fell. The
s
htet'e au
butts-atack upon him and tore his face, but
Peniowas ght.—Freach Paper.
,i('llaequ,„l3 AT EDMONTON AND TOTTENHAM.
"aY `t-h'nee of the heavy rains of the last two or
into it
1.11.;(4:'th,,,-e river Lea and other streams flowing into it
risen ,Z,atighbourhood of Edmonton and Enfield, haveh
lael,`Y high and overflooded a considerable breadth
1:444,1' The marshes adjoining the river Lea are in
!004 Parts covered with water. On Thursday night
'I„tIR at4rta Prevailed for the safety of the sheep browts-
,74l' n.,'"re, when hundreds, the property of r.
Pcel4,.7{,s. Mr. Bonlaarndy and Mr. Smith, farmers, were
fat-g: 4t one tin% e the water came down so sud-
PIM a man leading them away was nearly snr-
;dal ir, The high road between the Angel and Lower
4414,1 ;s under water, which is also the case with
,Abeakc,"` tae bye-lanes.
hoar PSTER RAILWAY TUNNEL.—The tunnel has
h"ltt 14 ..1, l'ev3r greatly during the last three weeks, and
it! ti44llce of the most treacherous soil that could
fTe frtn. Anumber of the men work by night, and
Jep e-.usi‘
tio! the firesand their strange appearance in the
%ea& 'ugs have a most singular effect.—Sherborne
Pao
Dire Istb RAILWAY FROM SWINDON TO DON-
-irettext' '''°•--We understand that the Midlandfßfooramrdinogf
line -rs
have not abandoned their inte2: totinocriaseter.
The
Proitt Of railway from Swindon to re
enossie,',°°,olpared with the original propositieoffin,oiewnitllfbore
he ren-n'ai"Y amended, and rendered more
The pro-
e`c)ted ed Purposes of such an extension.
of. Wars-
liamentary
'4° 01;leand by this deviation from the previous plan,
session' etlees raised, during the last Par
Ttihreeee"t'arlrntlite, part of Sir Joseph Copley, Bart., as de-
erty, will be done
.aw!iy with.
the 4e t 0 own property,
,%Wrest
..%Warill join
,and
branch communicating with
be further extended, in the
4es,,i,44tbiozn ntsle,
, the port of Goole; and embrace, be-
leVeith, the vial alterations of au important character,
the en
-eW of effectually meeting all the requirementstd
iWith xr,oPosed undertaking. The station connec:,_
d I,B,liee will as before aareed to, be in the field
The Iln--.."ue ShaksPeare's Head, adjoining' th:Beaalby reoomd:
PleteCcessory surveys, &c., have. baeerrnanglord,dy
with the
View ' and other preliminary matt,rs
this important un-
tierta.:9 the cessful prosecution ofh
la Doncaster Gazette.
18 _ STRESSED EEDL
II —I
111/47 EWOMEN.—The committee. of
el. society, formed for the protection of this industrious
I„'''ss of females, having already been successful in effect-
-I.—g.—g the discontinuance of the starvation. prices encou-
raged by unions and workhouses, are still persevering in
kseir exertions, and are determined that nothing on their
11firt shall be wanting to effect the same arrangements in
,se prisons and charitable institutions. In the course of
'set week a deputation from the ladies' committee waited
ItPon the committee at their meeting at the Female Pe-
ttentiary, Pentonville, for the purpose of pointing out
Zia great detriment that is caused in taking in work
Zder price. The ladies belonging to that establish-
"'eat have adopted the necessary precautions. The de-
Nation then-visited the model prison, when the gover.
11.1,Paid them every attention consistent with his duty,
Promi d soon as the committee could famish him
011 the standardeas prices whieh are about to be adopted
e.,11 Practical tradesmen, he would lay it before the com-
tietssiaaers of.that establishment. The deputation con-
th„tled their route to the Penitentiary, Milbank, when
Pr7s-gPverlior entered most warmly into their views, and
01;1141sed to do all in his power to carry out the same
Jr in that establishment.
l'ey," INQUEST ON TAE WOMAN AT BIRMINGHAM.
Of t-174:2. EVENING.—The inquiry relating to the cause
in ble death of the unfortunate woman Keefe, terminated
the" hours after the dispatch of our last account, in
einal?equittal of her husband. It appeared from the con-
}l,lll testimony that the unfortunate woman's death
eeiv„acl4aused by loss of blood arising from an injury re-
thiv.l ill the scuffle, but there was no evidence to show
the: L'er husband inflicted those injuries upon her, as
was no one in the room with them at the time of
eieceurrence. The jury returned a verdict of korai-
per misadventure.
SSE
Atii'l'°nD Loss Or THE LOCH RYAN ROTTERDAM
Iviii,,-vEssEL.--The Loch Ryan, Rotterdam steamer,
14411 should have arrived in London on Sunday evening
had not not arrived up to eight o'clock last evening, and
about been heard off. The Loch Ryan was laden with
tett t• 2°o head of cattle and 100 sheep, and has been as
thn 4„laed to have sailed from Helvoetsluys on Thursday,
I‘leticilth instant. A. report has reached. the. office
.of. the
stre„erhods Steam-packet Company in King William-
ItYsT;' dated from Ostend, stating that the Loch
541 i' ued, during the storm on the night of the
!bat ntestaot, foundered off the mouth of the Texel, but
'Wee captain and the crew had been rescued by, and
Ivilytib°ls board of, a Swedish barque, which was on her
°°rae,,(l),Tal. Other reports state that the steamer was
Atife;,,`ea, for safety, to run to the Ellie ; but no certain
Six ea ittion has as yet been received, and, as she is now
Soil/ Over due, the worst results are feared.
Pao TIIA:MPTON, OCT. 14. —The Oriental U
the 1) 'team ship Achilles, Capt. Wilson, arrived in
she hoelce early this morning, and landed 21 passengers,is
bici "lag previously forwarded to London the
mails
40tlitacilWaYi yesterday. The Achilles left Malta on has 'ePtember, and Gibraltar on the 7th inst. e
India valuable cargo of silks, &c. The Royal Wet
India
Mail Packet, the " Dee," will take out the West
ited ;s on the 17th ,• she is quite full of passengers
140,,ari datia,on:
ceNtr%:eral. en,
cabins have been erected for their ac-
The Peninsular Company's steamer, the
day, ad' leave for Gibraltar with Mails on Satur-
the had usual number of passengers. The Queen, with
plecesaalebourei Mails from the Peninsula and other
kt,r maybe expected on or about Sunday.
after, EsiPT TO SELL HUMAN BONES.—Yesterday
8110 p 9n, rt lad about fourteen years of age entered the
W.l °I Mrs
d-st • York, a dealer in bones, rags. &c., in Great
S
ale. xrteet, Drury-lane, with a large sack of bones for
ever th'irs• York havirg weighed them, began to look
Were „eto, when, to her horror, she discovered they
teeth Tne bones of human beings, portions of sculls with
the tad them, &c., being in the sack. She then told
etit of t, that they were human bones, on which he ran
raarket7 shop. He was, however, stopped near Clare-
-11114 a policeman, to whom he confessed that he
In Short's_
cted them in the excavations now being made
'where t 8-gardens at the rear of S. Giles's workhouse,
been great number of human bones, coffins, &c., have
b alscurered. Re was taken to statio-house in
eJow-street.
Sep murderer se,~
his,'etoaher 1, at La Chapelle, by a blow on the back of
eoro,nersl while seated behind the counter of a wine shop,
he livecg with the wife of another man, and with whom
in the
colrn a
concubinage, was discovered few nights ago
patrol
oifier of the calf -market at La Chapelle. While
uier perctivgeerarmerie was going its rounds, the briga-
istifrtrlse_d.a a heap of straw in which something
pelieving that there were some young calves
LoaYw
eitne al er, he put the point of his sword into the-
forth,a human cry was uttered, and a man came
Wasbeing able to give an account of hiMself, he
eoild:e't‘eed
tbefore the Commissary of Police, and thence
husbande the Prefecture, where he was recognised
te the
lted. ackno f the woman who, lived with Schwartz,
Mme tire
Wee,
edged that he had killed the man, but at the
:•-•e e confidently affirmed that he had no murderous
, b„.ut merely wished to compel bun to. give tip
Wss cCuxaliteti for trial.

"".' KAFIR WAR.
Ji.

--..-,C,.-

(From the South AfricanConmercial Advertiser. Aug. 8.)
" The last war with the Kafirs commenced about the
middle of December, 1834. On th 6 15th of April a
colonial force reached the Kei river, and crossed it,
threatening Hintze for having abetted or given refuge to
the enemies of the colony. At that date the Gaiha, chiefs
were in the Amatola mountains.
" The Lieutenant-Governor's proclamation declaring
the present war is dated 31st March, 1846. On the 21st
July a colonial force reached the Kei river, and crossed
it, and denounced Creili, Hintaa's successor, for having
abetted or given refuge to the enemies of the colony.
The Gaika chiefs are in the Amatola mountains.
" From the middle of December to the middle of April
is four months. That was the time required by Sir Ben-
jamin D'Urban and Colonel Smith to raise and organise
en army of about 5,000 men, and to force their way to
the Kei. From the Ist April to the 21st July is"some-
thing less than four months, and that has been the time
taken by Sir Peregrine Maitland and Colonel Hare to
raise and. organise an army of about 10,000 men, and to
force their way to the Kei.
" In the former war the Kafire in Lower or South-
Eastern Kafirland professed to be friendly, and even
assisted the troops in the field against the Gaikas. In
this war these Kafirs have been the most active and dan-
gerous of the confederated barbarians in checking the
operations of the troops, and in crippling the columns or
divisions, by cutting off supplies.
"In the former war the Kafirs were .contemptibly
weak in musketry and horses. In the present war they
have exhibited in the field an amount of force in both
these arms, at first sight, justly alarming.
"In operating in a barbarous country, where all sup-
plies must be brought from the rear, the main difficulty
of a commander is in feeding his troops, and especially
his horses ; and this difficulty increases in a much
greater proportion than the numbers he has to feed. It
may be easy to feed 5,000, when it would be difficult to
feed 6,000, and next to impossible to feed 10,000.
" It is the same thing with the raising of forces from
a population scattered over a vast country like this
colony. Sir Benjamin drew his levies chiefly from the
eastern districts, nearest the scene of action. Sir Pere-
grine, requiring a larger force than those districts could
afford, had to wait till the farthest west sent up their
contingents, from a distance of 600 miles by land.
"In naming only the two governors and commanders-
in-chief, the heads of departments, officers, and men,
with whom and by whom they act, are by no means
excluded from their share of reputation. In dealing
with an enemy, armed.with muskets, which, hovveverill-
managed, are atilt formidable, almost every operation is
obstructed in a bushy country, by the necessity of large
armed convoys on every occasion, where the assegai
would have been despised.
" Taking all things together, then, it appears that the
Commander-in-Chief in this war has encountered incom-
parably greater difficulties than Sir Benjamin D'Urban
had to contend with, and that he has achieved the same
success in about the same time. Now, all know the mili-
tary character of Sir Benjamin' D'Urban, a high trained,
long experienced, and most accomplised officer in every
department of service. And all men know Sir Harry
Smith, what sort of a thunderbolt he is, with a horse
under him, and an enemy in front. It is no small
honour to Sir Peregrine Maitland to say, that on the
same field, under greater embarrassments, he has crushed
a stronger adversary, and extended his conquest to the
same river in an equal or shorter space of time. And
this is the plain truth of the case.
" The main divisions of the army, three in number, are
now concentrating on- the Amatola, mountains, where
Sandilli and the hostile Gaika chiefs made their stand
last war, and where their people and cattle are supposed
or known to be placed for defence at present. Sir Pere-
grine, with Colonel Somerset, is on the Buffalo stream,
near to where it issues from those ravines. A letter
dated Fort Beaufort, 29th July, gives the following
sketch of affairs in that quarter :
"'The campaign was resumed on the 25th, Sir An-
dreas' (Stockenstrom's) division taking the lead. On
Saturday of the above date, his division broke up camp
at the Gaga ridge and.leivouacked at Block Drift that
night, whence they marched to the Chumie Station on
Sunday night. Four hundred of the Kat River burghers,
under their officers, Groep,Botha, and Cobus Free, left
on Sunday night to join Field Commandant Joubert's
force, 800 strong, and that of Mr. Joseph Read, 600 strong,
at Gaika's Peak, all to meet Sir Andreas' own force at the
Chumie Hoek, where there are said to be an immense ren-
dezvous of Kafirs. Sir Andreas has new about 2,800 men
under him. Kat River, at the request of the inhabitants,
had been placed in his division. Captain Sutton has been
left in charge of the settlement, a service of the greatest
importance, as that is a gate through which the Kafirs
might rush into the colony, should they, as on former
occasions, shrink from the front and re-appear in the rear
of the invading forces. I was told by an old commander
under the Hottentot chief Boesak, that on Vau der
Walt presenting himself with an overwhelming force, he
called his head men together, and said, " We can't meet
him on equal terms. Don't attempt to engage his forces.
Disperse and attack in large parties their homes; plun-
der, and that will disconcert, divide, and disperse his
command." This was done and had the anticipated
effect.'
" The following from Sir Andreas Stockenstrom's
camp is interesting :--‘ Religious worship is statedly
kept up in Sir Andreas' camp. A gentleman who spent
a night in it says, that the camp appeared to him to be
divided into eight or nine Rations, in each of which re-
ligious worship was held night and morning, Sir
Andreas attending in person. At four o'clock, a herald
plays on the trumpet a tune to the hymn, Praise God
from whom all blessings flow,' when all assemble at
their various sections to praise the Author of Life
and the Lord of Hosts. The services are conducted
either by the commandants or church officers (elders
and deacons) who are in, command. When he heard the
deep manly
cvholaiic
gthe s of the Boers singing God's praises, it
reminded the narrator of the Great Protector's Iron-
sides,lattlesinging charging g 1
tohoet he h Psalmeel y i e
theas
namethey eof
marchedthe
m Most
ot
High God I
noble reliance on ethGeoernor's camp there is the same
nations. May success unperwe meer
eßwunl e rt
haen i
rd disposerhonourable
"

Favourable accounts are still l•fics;aived from Waterloo
Bay (on the east bank of the
the capabilities of that place for landing respecting
goods. A fair landing-place at that Ipnfinatn issihniptng
the foundation of a town and the founding of .a settle-
mentect
equal to any in Southern Africa. It will bring out
the resources of some 10,000 square miles of territory,
already inhabited by perhaps 150,000 souls. The mouth
of the Buffalo River also is probably approachable, and
the river St. John's, beyond the Kei, with some other
indentations of the coast, may soon be made to open the
whole of the vast territory between the Cape and Natal
to trade. Supplies have been landed from the Sophia,
at the mouth of the Kowie, and the Sophia and British
Settler were in that river.

FRONTIER.
In the Graham's Town Journal of the Ist August
details of successful operations on and beyond the Kei
river are given. The Governor is now giving a practical
reply to the lay critics by whom his delays have been
so sharply handled. Having drawn up his forces from
all parts of the colony, and amidst dreadful difficulties
secured provisions for them, he has in the course of '
two or three days swept Kafirland from the Buffalo to
the Kei, performed a bold and startling inroad in
Kreili's country, and is now 'seen enclosing, on three
sides, the whole tribes of the Gaikas in their last strong-
holds among the Amatola mountains, from which their
principal chiefs already sue for peace. Peace they can-
not have. Mercy is what will be granted, the country
having been formally taken possession of by the insulted
and outraged government of the Cape. Sir Peregrine,
with a large force, was near the gorges of the Amatola,
on the south-east side, on the 28th July, and an express
had been sent to Fort Beaufort, directing an immediate
movement of Colonel Hare and Sir A. Stockenstrom, on
the western and northern sides. By this time it is highly
probable that the final blow has been struck.

John Russell to tell the country what he infers from
these premises.
HERALD.—By man's unhallowed ins,rumentality,
" rcquicscat in pace" has been turned into mockery.
-There is no peace for mere humanity, even in the grave.
Day after day, from one end of the metropolis to another,
the awful plague-cry semis revived in a modified form—
" Turn out the dead, turn out the dead." The spirit of
Defoe seems to hover over London, and to glory in im-
pelling its authorities to realise and renew some of the
horrors of his semi-fictitious narrative. A powerful im-
pulse eviscerates our churchyards. Some insane rest-
lessness summons old and young—the mouldering
skeleton of the last century and the fresh corpse of the
present month—huddles them all together, and carts
them off to Kingsland or to Battle-bridge. One day
a trader in death who battens upon burials is found
to cram his dark and putrefying receptacle until
it bursts with repletion—the next, a city church-
yard or a pauper burial-groundj is irreverently
disembowelled, the grave renders back its dead, and
the accumulations of years are transported to
a distance. Sex and" age, social condition and
personal identity, are utterly confounded. The ideas
generated by such a picture may be painful and irritat-
ing,—the mere perusal of such a desecrating deeription
may be at once awful and disgusting; but what are
these compared with the reality of its performance?
A skull in the waste grounds at Islington, an arm at
King's-cross, a foot at St. Giles's, a trunk at St. Pan-
' eras, the remainder anywhere, horror and loathing
everywhere. The latest exhibition we chronicled on
Thursday. If the workhouse at St. Giles's requires en-
largement, the dead pauper makes way for the living.
An infirmary, a dispensary, a casual ward, waiting-
rooms, bath-rooms, and other offices being required, the
pauper churchyard is allowed by mere inadvertence to
furnish a site. Some old sheds are demolished, and as
the foundations for the new buildings are gradually ex-
cavated, the ghastly remains of defunct humanity are
extensively uncovered. Fetid gases are liberated in a
state of powerful concentration—the diffusion of aerial
foulness proceeds with the unchangeable rapidity which
physical laws prescribe and natural science reveals—the
miserable tenements of surrounding poverty are per-
meated with the odours of putrefaction—and the cham-
bers of the half-starved mechanic are filled with the ele-
ments of typhus.- Public indignation echoing the whispers
of common propriety, which could scarcely fail to rise on
their own lips, at, length compelled the guardians of
the poor to exhibit some amount of decency. The ex-
humated remains, we learn, were sent for reinterment
to the St. Giles's Cemetery, in the St. Pancras-road, in-
stead of being any longer diffused in the rubbish of waste
lands, to become the playthings of itinerant infancy.
But after what fashion was this compromise with their
duty effected? Black boxes, of any convenient size or
shape, into which we are told some twenty bodies were
indiscriminately thrust, furnished the machinery of trans-
portation. In the meantime the-excavation makes pro-
gress, and the evolution of pestiferous gases proceeds
apace. If the moral sense and decent feelings of hu-
manity recoil at the history of this loathsome transaction,
we earnestly trust that the consequences of its publicity
will be neither temporary nor personal. Under the cir-
cumstances, it may be asked what could the authorities
at St. Giles's do, beyond that which they have effected ?
The answer is manifestly this—suspend or abandon
this excavation of the dead to make room for the
living pauper. Our complaint is, not that St. Giles's
workhouse and its churchyard are worse than other
places, but, what is far more important, that other places
are no better than St. Giles's. If a man builds a house,
nay, if he erects a wall, or removes a partition, the
Buildings Act and its public officer are instantly on his
hack. A heavy fine teaches him that individual liberty
must yield to public safety. But what district surveyor
interferes with the ploughing, and probing, and disturb-
ance of churchyards ? What officer of health exists on
whom a notice of impending desecration could be served ?
What public functionary augments the speed, and main-
tains the decency of some imperative removal of the
dead, when that lamentable necessity arises ? There
is, in truth, no such person. Why we are so ill
provided let our lawmakers answer ; with them the
disgrace rests—with us the disgust remains. " The
honour generally due unto all men," says Hooker,
" maketh a decent interring of them to be conve-
nient, even for very humanity's sake :" how much more,
then, are we called upon to disinter them decently.
What right has any body of men to aggravate the horrors
of dissolution ? The unimaginative minds of the vast
majority of our population inseparably associate death
with burial, but it has been reserved for the present
generation to connect the ideas of dissolution with the
indefinite terrors of wholesale body -snatching. The

Morgue and the Catacombs of Paris are as nothing com-
pared with the unblushing deeds committed in London
churchyards. in a city where so little outward respect
is exhibited for the human form in a condition of phy-
sical decay, men still wonder that amongst
the lower orders living brutality is rife, and
crime is invested with no terrors. With what
excusable scepticism must the ignorant and the
dissolute regard the doctrine of a future state
and a superintending Providence, when they Fee 'that
which was just now the residence of an immortal
soul become the object of unrestrained insult and revolt-
ing desecration—when the funeral rites are scarcely for-
gotten, the mourning garment scarcely worn out, before
those rites become a mockery, and that garment a dis-
gusting reminiscence. Sorrowing relatives remember
that they laid the mortal remains of their lost friend in
the grave of his fathers ; can they say the next week
where those remains are then ?—even the dead travel.
But the voice of public opinion, if once roused, will be
found to possess no temporising utterance ; the groan
from noisome prisons met the ear of Howard not in
vain ; the trot-11-etre-it-of Slavery encountered the eyes of
Clarkson not bootlessly ; the spirit of military flogging
quailed under the gaze of an independent press ; and the
desecration of the dead, if encountered with one tithe of
the same earnestness and determination, will expiate its
atrocities with equal certainty and completeness.

GOVERNORSHIP OF BOMBAY.
On this subject we have received the following polite
note from the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton :
" Mr. Villiers presents his compliments to the editor
of the Morning Herald, and begs-to inform him that he
has not been appointed Governor of Bombay, and that
he has no reason for believing that such an appointment
is intended.
" Travellers' Club, Oct. 15, 1846."

Vire are very sorry if this be so, for two reasons:—
first, for the sake of Mr. Villiers, who is a gentleman,
a man of talent, and a consistent politician ; and, se-
condly, for the credit and character of Lord J. Russell's
Government. That there has, however, been a talk of
such an appointment for more than a month past in
every club in London—in Brooke's, in the Reform Club,
and in that very Travellers' whence he dates his letter—
no man knows better than Mr. Villiers himself. There
is seldom smoke, says the proverb, without fire, and we
do not believe the appointment was so generally talked
of without some warrant and foundation. That Lord
John Russell, who has always been friendly towards and
intimate with Mr. Villiers, creditably contemplated such
an appointment within a very recent period, we verily
believe, though we may not be in a condition to prove
the fact legally in a court of justice. It will be observed
that the denial, of Mr. Villiers is more diplomatic than
distinct or express.
Mr. Villiers is a lawyer of some twenty years' standing,
and he will thoroughly understand us when we say that
he neither traverses nor avoids with convenient certainty
all the material allegations of our statement. He merely
says that he has not been appointed, and that be has no
reason for believing that such an appointment
is intended. But he does not say that it was not
intended to appoint him to Bombay at any time in
the past month of September. Still less does he
say that no intimation of such appointment was at any
time given to him. We adhere to our previous state-
ment, that the appointment was contemplated. Why it
is no longer contemplated is best known to the Whig
Government. Perhaps that Government can safely count
on the vote and support of Mr. Villiers, and therefore
may postpone his claims till a more convenient time,
while it may be urgently necessary to conciliate Sir
Robert Peel by the appointment of Lor% Dalhousie or
Sir George Clerk. Lord Dalhousie is, unquestionably,
a man of talent and a good man of business, and so far
is well fitted for the appointment ; but we can see no
reason why Mr. Villiers should be held to have a less
preferable claim than the man of all work of Sir Robert
Peel, the " cannie" manager of cannie Scotland. Mr.
Villiers is not a paid patriot—nor a sordid agitator like
O'Connell and the stipendiary staff of the League—nor
a doubtful ally—nor the henchman of an opponent ; and
he, therefore, will probably have his honour and virtue
for a reward, and go without the goverment of Bombay.
—Herald.

RECEIPT FOR BOILING RICE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Should you deem the annexed receipt for boiling
rice, and the modes of using it as human food, worthy
of a place in your newspaper at the present juncture of
the ascertained failure of the potato crop, 1 should be
glad if you gave it publicity. Rice so prepared has
constituted a part of my daily food for the last thirty
years ; I have found it nourishing and agreeable : its
preparation after two or three trials will be found easier
by the cook than that of boiling a pan of potatoes.—Your
obedient servant,

ROBERT WISE.

Allonby, near Carlisle, Oct. 14, 1846.
RECEIPT FOR BOILING RICE.—Put half a pound of
rice into a quart pan with a lid, to which add a pint and
a half of cold water; boil it over a brisk fire, keeping the
lid on, and in from ten to fifteen minutes from the time
it is placed on the fire the rice will have absorbed or
boiled up all the water; it must then be taken off the fire
(as it is apt to burn if left on after all the water appears
to be gone), the pan must then be placed on the hob, or
near the fire for ten minutes longer, when the rice will
be found to be quite dry and fit for use, all the grains
separate, but swelled out and quite soft. If kept warm
in the pan, with the lid close on, it will still be found as
good and fit for the table an hour or more after boiling
as it was ten minutes afterit. was first taken off the fire.
The chief attention necessary is to be particular in
taking it off the fire as soon as the water is all boiled
into the rice (as at that stage it is apt to burn), and to
keep the lid close on till used, as the steam greatly as-
sists in softening it. Half-a-pound of rice so boiled will
swell out and quite fill a quart pan, and other quantities
in like proportion.
Rice boiled in large quantities of water, requiring to
be strained through a cullender before using, in order to
separate the rice from the water, is a waste of its nutri-
trious qualities, and renders the rice insipid : such
water so strained in the East Indies and China, is called
congy water, and it is prescribed by medical men there
as nourishing food for convalescents, invalids, and sickly
individuals ; such water is, in fact, rice-gruel.
Boiled rice, as a substitute for potatoes, may be used
as under :-
1. The cheapest and simplest seasoning for boiled rice
is salt ; hundreds of millions of human beings in East
India and China subsist on rice and salt only; the latter
are strong men.
2. The next superior seasoning is a little salt and
pepper, boiled in water separately frcm the rice, and
used by pouring it when hot on a plate full of hot
boiled rice.

3. The next in quality is to add to No. 2 a few slices
of onion and a little butter, and boil and use as above.
4. Add to No. 3 a few slices of fish, or flesh; or fowl,
and boil and use as before (with or without onion).
5. Add to No. 4 a little curry powder or spice, and
boil and use as above (with or without onion).
Or, on a soup plateful of hotiboiled rice (prepared as
per receipt), pour a couple of lightly boiled eggs, to
which add a little cold butter ; mix these together, and
use with fish,lflesh, or fowl, prepared agreeably to palate;
this will be found substantial and agreeable food.
Or, a soup plateful of rice (boiled as per receipt)
mixed with a little milk, sugar, and spice, will be found
light and agreeable food, either hot or cold.

DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR BROOKE TAYLOR,
G.C.H.—This aged knight, for many years a distin-
guished member of the British corps diplomatique, died
on Thursday last, at the venerable age of 70, having
during his career represented the British interests most
satisfactorily at the courts of Berlin, Munich, Hesse
Cassel, and Wirtemburg. The deceased for some time
back suffered from bodily illness, and, owing to his ad-
Vanced age, no hopes had on any occasion been held out
of his ultimate recovery. He was a native of the county,
of Kent, and was the third son of the Rev. Edward Tay-
lor, of Bifrons, in that county, by the sister of Thomas
Watkinson Payler, Esq., consequently he was brother to
the late Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Taylor. His
birth took place in the year 1776. At an early pericd
Sir Brooke entered the diplomatic service of his country;
in 1822, while Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary at the Court of Prussia he received the
Guelphic Order from George IV.; and on being removed
from Munich to Berlin, in 1828, was sworn in a Privy
Councillor. Sir Brooke possessed some property at
Elstree and a mansion in Eaton-place ; at the latter he
died. He never was married. By the demise of the
Right Hon. Gentleman an annual pension of 1,3361. re-
verts to the public purse, he having enjoyed that yearly
income nearly twenty years for his diplomatic services.
RUMOURED LOSS BY FIRE OF ONE OF THE HALIFAX
AND BOSTON STEAMERS.—A rumour prevailed in town
this week to the effect that one of the splendid Cunard
line of steam-ships, plying between this port and Boston,
had been destroyed by fire at sea. We should not have
noticed this but for the repeated personal applications
which have been made to us on the subject, and we have
the less agitation in doing so, being in a position, as we
now are, to give a direct negative to the alarming re-
port. On Saturday last, a mercantile house here received
a note from Dublin, stating that the captain of a vessel,
which had put in there, on the Bth, through stress of
weather, had reported that, on the 27th ult., in the At-
lantic, he had seen a large steam-vessel on fire, he being
at the time not in a position to render her any assistance.
It was, of course, naturally supposed that the vessel
alluded to must have been the Hibernia, which sailed
hence on the 19th ult. The Cambria, however, has
brought the gratifying intelligence that the Hibernia
arrived at Halifax on the Ist instant, and, as the other
steamer of the line at sea, the Caledonia, only sailed
hence on the 4th inst., of course she could not be the
vessel seen on the 27th ult. Supposing the report to have
any foundation at all, the vessel could not have been any
of the Liverpool steamers.—Liverpool Mercury.
FLTAL FIGHT BETWEEN TWO BROTHERS.—At
Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, on Thursday,
Thomas Shirley, a young man of that place, was killed
in a fight by his brother. It appears that Thomas and
John Shirley, sons of a labourer, were, with two com-
panions, drinking late on Wednesday night. They
quarrelled about some gin, and a fight ensued. They
fought near the village pound for about an hour and a
half, and about seventy rounds, when Thomas, the elder
brother, fell, and on being taken to his father's cottage,
he was found to be dead.
TESTIMONIAL TO THE RAILWAY PROJECTOR.—

We are much pleased to observe that Mr. Thomas Gray,
the interesting author of the railway system, is now
likely to receive a share of the honour and the mote sub-
stantial benefits due to him, inasmuch as a subscription
for a befitting testimonial has been fairly set afloat in
the city where he dwells, and where he must be there-
fore best known, namely:Exeter. It is to be hoped that
this will be but the central nucleus of a wide-spread re-
cognition of his services.— The Budder.
MR. BRIGHT AND THE MANCHESTER 'REFORM
ASSOCIATION.—Yesterday noon a meeting of the Reform
Association of Manchester, at which Alderman Callen-
der presided, was held for the purpose of receiving Mr.
Bright's answer to the request made to him by the
Association to allow himself to be put into nomination
for the borough, in the room of Mr. Philips. Mr.
Bright's letter, which was read by the chairman stated
the writer's perfect readiness to become a candidate for
the suffrages of the electors at the ensuing election. It
was afterwards resolved that a general meeting of the
Liberal electors of the borough should be held at the
Free-trade hall on the evening of Wednesday, the 28th
instant, for the purpose of presenting Mr. Bright's reply
to the constituency, and a committee was appointed to
make the necessary arrangements.
ROYAL BENEVOLENCE.—The whole of the chesnuts
grown upon the royal.-domains in thp Great Park at
Windsor have been placed at the disposal of the paro-
chial authorities for the purpose of their being sold and
the proceeds applied towards the relief of the poor of the
parish, in any way which may be considered by the
churchwardens and overseers most conducive to their
comforts during the approaching winter. The quantity
already gathered amounts to upwards of six hundred
bushels. At the present market price of chesnuts it is
expected that they will realise at least one hundred
pounds. A large quantity still remain to be gathered ;
and it is expected, when the whole are housed, there will
be very nearly one thousand bushels.