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LORDS' SUMMARY.

Lord BEAUMONT, after a most vituperative speech against
Austria, asked if it was true that the Austrian authorities
had instigated a servile war against the landed aristocracy
in Wilkie, and had rewarded the peasantry for killing the
nobles by paying a sum of money for the head of every
noble, if any means had been taken by the Government of
this country to express its disapprobation of such conduct?
The Earl of ABERDEEN replied that the subject was one
not affecting British interests, and that the statutes
on the subject were so contradictory, that it was almost im-
possible to ascertain the truth. From his knowledge of
Prince METTERNICH', he felt that it was as impossible
for him to adopt the course alluded to,
as it would be for any of their Lordships
Certainly since Gallicia had been under the Austrian Govern-
ment the condition of the peasantry had been much ame-
liorated, and it was therefore natural that they should be
actuated by feelings of loyalty towards Austria. lie did
not think it his duty to interfere in the matter.
The accounts he had received from the British Chargé
d'Affaires in Austria gave a very different account of the
transaction, and represented that the nobility had fallen in
theirattempt at coercing their peasantry to take part in the re-
bellion wb ich the peasantry strenuously so successfully resisted.
Now, in all this lie saw nothing but what was praiseworthy.
But he had received no further information on the subject,
and lie could not state how much of the published accounts
were true or false.

After a few words from Lord KINNAIAD, the subject
dropped. .

(LEFT SITTLNG.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKTM took the Chair at Four o'clock.
SECOND READINGS.

The following Bills were read a second time, and or-
dered to be committed, viz.:—

Inverness ;;d Elgin Junction Railway.
Dunblane, Donne, and Callander Railway.

Tramore Embankment.
Sidmouth Market.

Severn Navigation.
Manchester Markets.
Caledonian Insurance Company,

Carshalton Rates.
Hull and Lincoln Direct Railway.
St. George the Martyr (Southwark) Rectory.
Westruther Roads.
Port Ellen Harbour.

Edinburgh raving.
Leith Paving.
Airdrie Police.

Greenlaw Roads.

Sligo Ship Canal. •
Halesworth and Norwich Railway.
Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway.
East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction
Railway (by order).
London ard Windsor Railway (by order).
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY BILL.
Mr. HAWES moved the consideration of the report
of the abuve Bill, when
Mr. ROEBUCK objected that this was not a strictly
Private Bill, and therefore he should oppose the con-
sideration or the report.
The SPEAKER said that the Bill, in his opinion, was
strictly a Private Bill, although it gave extended power
to the Company proposing it.
Mr. ROEBUCK contended that notice ought to have
been given to. each Member of that House who repre-
ented a borough of the provisions of this Bill. What
had been the effect in London ? The Corporation of
London had carried a clause to be inserted, which ex.
empted them from the operation of this raeasure. He
thought that similar justice ought to have been done to
Bath and other cities.

Lord MORPETH observed that he had been re-
quested to, interfere with the progress of this Bill, so far
as to ask that the evidence upon it be printed. He
would ask that some Hon. Member who had been on the
Committee would state whether, he thought that in
justice to other . parties who might be interested, this
ought not to be done.
Mr. HAWES said, if the Mouse thought that the
powers were too large, he, on the part of those interested
in the Bill, would consent to any proper limitation of
them, but hr asserted that no public inconvenience would
result from the passing of this measure, as several Acts
were already in existence which professed similar exten-
sive powers.

Mr. ROEBUCK contended that as this Act gave
powers to enter into contracts with all railway compa-
nies, it was deoidedlia first or second, and not a third
class Bill. He could instance a case in point,
where the same objection was entertained by the
Standing Orders Committee of the House.
The Railway Guarantee Incorporated Company was
introduced into the House as a third class Bill,
but as it gave powers to treat with all railway companies,
it was held to be a first, and was therefore throv.n out
as a. third class Bill. This Act, in a similar manner, gale
the Company power to contract with the railways in the
kingdom.
The SPEAKER said, that in his opinion, the Bill was
strictly a third class Bill.
After a ft.w words from Lord G. SOMERSET, which
was net audible in the galiery,
Mr. HAWES said he should have been better able to
discuss the technical objections of his Hon. and Learned
Friend, if be had given him notiee on Saturday, that it
was his intention to make them. But after what had
fallen from the Noble Lord and the Speaker, he should
postpone the further consideration of the subject until
after Easter.

Lord MORPETII also postponed his motion for the
printing of the evidence adduced before the Committee
until the same period.
NORTH KENT RAILWAY.
Mr. HUME said he had a petition to present from
Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, the chairman of the North
Kent Railway, which was of a peculiar nature, but be-
fore he presented it he wished to ask a question. It
stated that a petition had been presented by the Hon.
Member for Southwark (Sir W. Molesworth) agairat the
Bill, ap.d expressing a wish that it would ba taken
from group 14, and referred to the Corn
mittee to be appointed in the City of London.
He believed the line was not intended to cross the
Thames, but to run to Camberwell, about two miles from
the river, and was to have a terminus in Union street,
Southwark. He wished, therefore, to ask whether, when
the Bill had been classified with another, which proposed
to make,a line from Union-street to Southwark-bridge,
it was competent for the House to take it from the Com-
mittee and to refer it to the Commission to which he had
referred ?
The SPEAKER was understood to say, that it was
competent for the House to order a Bill to be so referred.
WIG AN ELECTION COMMITTEE.
The following Members, appointed to serve on this
Election Committee, appeared at the table of the House,

and were sworn :—Sir W. Heatheote, 'and Messrs. E.
Denison, Totter, Botfield, and Intnbton

LONDON AND NEW WINDSOR RAILWAY.

Sir DE LACY EVANS presented a petition from
certain inhabitants of the city of Westminster, in favour
of this line of railway; also one,from the parish of St.
Mary Abbots, to the same effect.
The following Bills were read a third time :
Eastern Union and Ha'lleigh Junction Railway.
Maldon, Witham, and Braintree Railway.
London and Brighton Railway( East Grinstead Branch).
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway
Amendment and Branches (No. 1).
Glasgow, Paisley,Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Amend-
ment and branches (No. 2).
South Eastern Railway (No. 7) (Exteesiou of stations
at Ashford).
Brighton and Chichester Railway (Bognor and Little
hampton branches).
Scottish Grand Junction Railway.
The Manchester Markets Bill was read a second time,
on the motion of Mr. Mark Philips.
The third Reading of the London and Brighton (East
Grimstead Branch) Bill and Brighton and Chichester
Branches Bill were postponed till to-morrow.
Mr. KEMBLE moved that the .second reading of St.
George the Martyr (Southwark) Rectory Bill be post-
poned until Monday the 27th day of April. No one
regretted more than he did that there should be any
cause of division between the rector of St. George's
Southwark and so respectable a body of people as his
parishioners. If the pltstponernent of the Bill would
tend to have a good effect as he apprehended it would be
hoped the House would concur in his motion.
Sir W. MOLESWORTH opposed the postponement.
some valid grounds ought to have been stated for such a
,course; and as that had not been done he did not see
why they should violate the standing order of the House,
that there should not be more than 21 days between
the first and the second reading of any private Bill.
This Bill was to exempt the rector of the parish from
the payment of rates. To show the excitement which
the Bill had produced he (Mr. W. Molesworth) had
received a petition from the ratepayers, signed by 2,000
out of the 2,500 ratepayers composing the entire parish
against the Bill. The petition was also signed by the
churchwardeps,. with all the parish officers. He should
therefore oppose the motion Ly theilon Member.
Mr. ANTROBUS supported the motion.
Mr. HAWES considered that as no valid reason had
been assigned fur the postponement, he thought the
House should not depart from its own standing orders.
Sir DE LACY EVANS was of a similar opinion.
Mr. KEMBLE thought that the House were not per-
fectly aware of the precise effects of the motion which
he had made. He would ask whether he was not bound
to present a petition which had been signed by the ma-
jority of his constituents ? The rector himself
had not the slightest apprehension that the
kecand reading of this Bill would be bronglit
on before Easter. As regarded the sessional orders
he would remind the House that they had several times
been set aside; and in the case of this Bill, he ought to
observe that it was only introduced on the 19th of
February, and he thought, therefore, that the House
would not refuse what appeared to him so reasonable a
request as its delay.
Mr. HUME thought that no reasonable grounds had
been made out for the delay. If an Hon. Member had a
duty to perform to his constituents, he had also
a duty to perform in obeying the orders of that
House. The rector came before that House with a Bill
to serve his personal interests, and as was allowed, it
lwas quite opposed to the feeling of his parishioners,
what reason was there therefore for the suspension of
the standing orders. I: the business of that House was
to be sa.isfactorily conducted the suspension of the
orders was not to be lightly made, and he hoped there-
fore that the object of this motion would not be granted.
. .

Mr. SPOONER thought the orders in this case might
b e very well dispensed with, and there was soome3hing
of a claim for that request, as although the rector ap-
peared as a single party, yet there were several other
individuals of influence who were anxious respecting it.
There was sufficient reason for the suspension of the
sta.-Kling orders in the feet that, acceding to this motion
woi tld allay much angry feeling, and lead to no injurious
resalts.

11 WARBURTOS submitted that if the House
asset tfed to the validity of the reasons assigned by the
Hon. _Member for bringing in this Bill, Hon. Members
would be in a worse position now than before the passing
of the standing order that existed against such a propo-
sition..—(Hear.) fly the order being strictly adhered
to, -Hoe. Members were aware that if it were not com-
plied a ith there was an end of every Bill in the same
predicament; but if the rule be departed from there
would b e an end to all certainty,

Mr.. J.. COLLETT, amidst loud cries of " Divide
divide," said he would oppose this Bill upon its merits,
for he considered it nothing more nor less than a gross
attempt a.fjobbing, and if any additional instance were
wanted, Ci.is would supply it, of the grasping and un-
christian spirit of the clergy, who now sought to get
themselves •exemptid from any liability to the support of
the poor.-4 Hear, hear.) On these grounds, he would
give the Bill his most determined opposition.
AIderman..HUMPRIES hoped his Hon. Friend would
withdraw the Bill, as it was quite clear that it would not
pass the Heels e even after Easter, and he had not heard
any one say tr. word in favour of it, while it appeared that
all the parish knees were against it.
Mr. WILS C'N PATTEN, amidst loud cries of " Di-
vtde,': was understood to say he hoped his Hon. Friend
would bring ti.se question before the House at once.
Mr. LABOI3 CHERE hoped that the House would
not for one mo went listen to the proposition of the Hon.
Member opposyito, but adhere to the sessional orders.
What were they asked to do ? Why they were asked
to postpone the second reading of a Bill, not upon its
merits, but beest•se of its demerits He hoped, for the
sake of maintaiining the dignity of the House, Hon.
Members would mot sanetion such a proposal,
Mr. GREEN E suggested that the motion had better
be withdrawn, a red not let the House be put to the un-
necessary trouble of a discussion.
Mr. KEMBL E was the last man to put the House to
unnecessary trc utile, and after the strong expression of
opinion expresst d on both sides of the House with re-
spect to the Bill, :he should withdraw his motion.
The motion aa3 accordingly withdrawn.
Mr. lIUME understood that, in withdrawing the
motion, the Bill. dropped.
Mr. KEMBLX. said his motion was for postponing
the second readistg of the Bill till the 27th inst., but of
course it would b e competent. for him now to move the
second reading v'Kthin the twenty-one days. He appre-
hended, however., that the promoters, acting upon his
own advice, wotild withdraw the Bill altogether.
Viscount SANDON embraced that opportunity of
asking the question, of which he had given notice, re-
lative to the ins.nner of treating railway Bills-? The
occasion which the Hon. Member for Sheffield
presented was a fitting oppportunity for him
to do so. He would now therefore, present
a petition front merchants, bankers, and others,
of Liverpool, praying that Parliament will take steps
for postponing the passing of any considerable number
of Railway Bills this session ; and, in doing so, he
would ask Sir Robert Peel, whether he was prepared to
advi te any course which shall have that effect. The
petiConers stated that they had heard that there was
great depression in all branches of commerce. Messrs
Truma n and Cooke, brokers, stated that the various
branches of commerce were severely depressed. Not
only has. there been a great fall in prices, but in the
demand _for goods in the Indian and China trade. The
principal cause of this they said was the enormous
amount or .railway undertakings which had sprung up,
and which were absorbing the capital of the country.
It had beer' proposed that Parliament should not pro-
ceed with tlt e Railway Bills before it without hav-
ing a meetirkg of the shareholders of the various lines,
so that no Bill should be gone on with till the
sanction of the great majority of the shareholders was
obtained. lie would propose that no sanction should
be given to nny railway Bill, where after a meet-
ing of the shmreholders, the House was petitioned by
a majority o f that meeting, not to allow such Bill
to proceed. This would prevent many ofthe schemes
which were isn't likely te turn out good speculations,
from being passed. He hoped her Majesty's Govern-
ment would give this important matter their fullest con-
sideration.

Sir R. PEEL .said there wore few persons in thii`
Hun: e who could not at first have seen that many of the
railways which were sought to be sanctioned were not
profitable speertlations. There had been a spirit of spe-
culation for sum e time past, but he thought it could not be
checked by that House. The speculation in railways was
the same as the speculation in South American Bonds, and
the interference with one would be an interference with
the other. Ti experience of time would prevent
these railway operations from being too largely
indulged in. Re thought that there was .uo
greater right to interfere with this question
than in the ordinary commercial speculation s
for he went on Ole principle that every person was the,
best judge of his own concerns, and was best competent
to manage his own affairs. At the same time, consider-
ing the extensive powers the House had in railway spe-
culations, it was in some measure a party to them.
Speculations of this kind differed from
the ordinary run 44 speculation in the respect that the
Legislature was called upon to take away and interfere
with private property for public purposes, and it ap-
peared to him that the House might, therefore, inter-
fere with respect to that species of speculation. As
far as the individuals themselves were concerned,
he had no pity for them, for this sort of speculation
would never be corrected except from the per-
sonal suffering of the party—(Hear, bear)—for
many of the speculators diverted their money from
their ordinary courses, and from the trade from
which they derived their subsistence. At the commence-
ment he, on the part of her Mnjesty's Governmet, gave
it as his opinion that it might be possible to interfere with
this habit by putting a check upon some of the railway
Bills. He spoke with considerable hesitation on this
subject, as it might be unwise for the House to it t eere
on this subject. His Hon. Friend the Member for Liver-
pool culled the attention of the Ilouse to this subject.
(LIFT SPEAKING.)

NOVEL METHOD OF RELIEVING THE DISTRESSED.-
The following method of relieving the unemployed operatives has
been adopted by Mr. Abraltam Bairstow, of Horton. A square yard
is chalked out on the causeway, on the highway-side in front of his
house, and he will pay one shilling a day to any man who is destitute
of employment if he will stand within the square six hours a day fi r
twenty days, viz., from nine o'clock in the morning to twelve at
noon, and from two to five o'clock in the aiternoon. One man has
already accepted this benevolent offer, and is attracting a large mum
ber of spectators every day.—Bratfford Observer.

ACCIDENT TO RIGBY WASON, ESQ.—We learn with
regret that Itig,l4y-Wason, Esq , of Corwar, late Ni'.. for Ipswich,
while out inspecting some improvements on his estate on Tuesday
last, met with a severe accident by falling from his horse on some
rough stones. Dr. Wilson and another medical gentleman were
speedily in attendance, when he was discovered to be much injured
about the head. We are happy to learn, however, that the wounds,.
though severe, arc not considered dangerous.—Ayr Advertiser.

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INSTRUCTIONS to COMMITTEES
OF RELIEF DISTRICTS IN TOWNS IN IRE-
LAND.
(Etracted from minutes of the proceedings of the Corn •
missioners appointed in reference to the apprehended
scarcity.)
The Commission having had under their considera-
tion the necessity of establishing local Committees, pro-
perly organ;zed, in towns where destitiitioti is likely to
prevail, through whose superintendence the approach and
progress of distress, in such localities, may be watched,
and the means of relief administered, according to the
instructions of Government, it is resolved—
I. That the Mayor, or, where there is no Mayor and
Aldermen, the Chairman of the town Commissioners of
any town in which it shall be established, on good and
sufficient grounds, that extreme distress is near at hand,
in consequence of the failure in the potato crop, be
requested to convene‘a meeting, composed of the follow-
ing classes:—
Mayor and Aldermen.
The town Commissioners (in towns where there is no
Mayor or Aldermen.)
Clergymen of all persuasioes.
Chairman of any Poor Law Union, which may include
any part of the town.
Poor Law Guardians of electoral district or districts.
Magistrates of Petty Sessions.
That this meeting should select, from amongst them-
selves, not more than twenty members, who, with the
resident Magistrates (if any), Cost-guard officers (where
available) and an officer of the Board of Works, should
form the Local Relief Committee.
II That each Committee should hold regular periodi-
cal meetings, at a place or places to be fixed by them,
where all Committee business should be transacted ; and
that regular minutes should be kept of the proceedings,
in a book to be supplied to them from this Commission,
and that three members should be a quorum.
111. That it is evident, and is also in strict accordance
with the, views and instructions of the Government, that
the owners of property, and other rate-payers, are the
parties both legally and morally answerable for afford-
ing due relief to the poor, and that the same parties are,
from their local influence, and their knowledge of the
situation and wants of the people in their neighbour-
hood, best able to furnish such relief, without waste or
misdirection of the means employed.
That the measures to be adopted by the officers of
Government, are to be considered merely as auxiliary
to those which it is the duty of the persons possessed of
property, in each neighbourhood, to adopt.
That the Local Committee should, therefore, put them-
selves in communication with such persons, and should
solicit subscriptions from them, proportioned to their
means, and to the extent of distress in the locality to
which they belong.
That where, notwithstanding such subscriptions, some
assistance is likely to be required from the Government,
a list of the sums subscribed, together with a list of in-
dividuals
from whom subscriptions might have been ex-
pected, should be confidentially brought under the notice
Hof the Lord Lieutenant, who, after due consideration of
the case, will determine on the sum to be contributed,
from the funds at his disposal, in aid of the local sub-
scriptions.
In cases where there mar arise a scarcity of food, within
a district, or the price of food may have been artificially
raised, the Government will be prepared to transmit to
the Local Committee, at cost price, including the ex-
penses of carriage, a quantity of food corresponding to
the amount of subscriptions paid in for that purpose, and
to place that food in the hands of the Local Com-
mittee, for distribution, on their own responsibility, at
cost price, or as wages of labour to destitute persons un-
employed on local works, or when absolute destitution
is united within ability to labour, in gratuitous donations.
I T. That, in cases where any assistance is afforded
by Government, either in aid of local subscriptions, or
otherwise, the following rules are to be invariably ob-
served in the administration of relief :-
Ist. A task of work shall be required from every per-
son capable of giving it, who applies for relief.
2d. The payments for the work performed shall be
made in food, and shall, in every case, ce limited to
such a quantity of food as will be sufficient to support
the workman, and the helpless persons of his family.
3d. If, in any case, it be impracticable to pay in food,
the payments in money shall be limited to what is ab-
solutely necessary for the above purpose.
4th. Gratuitous relief shall be afforded only to those
persons who are entirely incapable of giving a day's
work, and who have no able-bodied relative on whom
they are dependsnt, and in these cases only, in which
their reception in the workhouse of the union to which
they belong, is, from want of room, impracticable ; and,
lastly,
sth. The works in which destitute persons are em-
ployed, shall be in prosecution of some public improve-
ment, approved of by this Commission, within, or
adjacent to, the distressed locality, and shall be such
as will be capable of being brought at once to a close,
when the circumstances of the people are improved.
V. That the Committee should be prepared with plans
or suggestions of small useful works of public improve-
ment, for the employment of the destitute poor, in all
cases where relief is given to the able-bodied.
VI. That the Committee should divide the town into
districts, and should obtain minute reports of the cir-
cumstances of each family, from whom application fur
relief may be made ; that at their meetings certificates
or tickets should be given to such only as are ascer-
tained to be without means of providing for their fami-
lies ; that such tickets or certificates be the authority
to the buperintendent of the Public. Works for receiving
the persons to whom they are granted ; and that a re-
gister of all certificates or tickets granted by the Com-
mittee be preserved in a book, to be supplied for that
purpose by this Commission.
VII. That the secretary, or person officiating as such,
of the Committee, should take charge of the books, and
other documents, and should conduct the correspondence
with this Commission.
VIII. That towns in which there is no mayor and
aldermen, nor town commissioners, be considered as
coming under the class of county relief districts.
J. P. KENNEDY, Secretary.
Castle, Dublin, 14th March, 1846.

THREATENED ATTACK BY
INDIANS.
_ -

MAY s.—On account of our animals, it was necessary
to remain to-day at this place. Indians crowded name-
rously around us in the morning ; and we were obliged
to keep arms in band all day, to keep them out of the
camp. They began to surround the horses, which, for
the convenience of' grass, we were guarding a little
above, on the river. These were immediately driven in,
and kept close to the camp. In the darkness of the night,
we had made a very bad encampment, our fires being com-
manded by a rocky bluff within fifty yards; but, notwith-
standing, we had the river and small thickets of willows
on the other side. •Several times during the day the camp
was insulted by the Indians ; but, peace being our object,
I kept simply on the defensive. Some of the Indians
were on the bottoms, and others haranguing us from the
bluffs ; and they were scattered in every direction over
the hills. Their language being probably a dialect of
the Utah, with the aid of signs some of cur people could
comprehend them very well. They were the same people
who had murdered the Mexicans ; and towards us their
disposition was evidently hostile, nor were we well dis-
posed towards them. They were barefooted, and nearly
naked ; their hair gathered up in a knot behind ; and
with his bow, each man carried a quiver with thirty or
forty arrows partially drawn out. Besides these, each
held in his hand two or three arrows for instant service.
Their arrows are barbed, with a very clear, translucent
stone, a species of 'pal, nearly as hard as the
diamond ; and, shot from their long bow, are almost
as effective as a gunshot. In these Indians, I was
forcibly struck by an expression of countenance resem-
bling that in a beast of prey ; and all their actions are
those of wild animals. Joined to the restless motion of
the eye, there is a want of mind—an absence of thought
—and an action wholly by impulse, strongly expressed,
and which constantly recalls the similarity. A man
who appeared to be a chief, with two or three others,
forced himself into the camp, bringing with bim his
arms, in spite of my orders to the contrary. When
shown our weapons, he bored his ears with his fingers,
and said he could not hear. " Why," said he, " there are
none of you."-Counting the people around the camp, and
including in the number a mule which was being shod, he
made out 22. "So many," said he, showing the num-
ber, " and we—we are a great many ;" and he pointed
to the hills and mountains round about. "If you have
your arms," said he, twanging his bow, " we have these."
I had some difficulty in restraining the people, particu-
larly Carson, who felt an insult of this kind as much as
if it had been given by a more responsible being. " Don't
say, that, old man," said he ; " don't you say that—your
lifes in danger"—speaking in good English ; and pro-
babl:,- the old man was nearer to his end than he will be
before he meets it. Several animals had been necessarily
left behind near the camp last night ; and-early in the
morning, before the Indians made their appearance several
men were sent to bring them in. When I wastth
begin-
ning to be uneasy at their absence, they returned with
information that they had been driven
the tarcks, in a
short distance they found the off from the
trail by Indians ; and, having
! out upon bushes. In the evening I gave a fatigued horse
to a
r
feast; and the village which
eanfinmls cut up and spread
a
with the others, who
loud complaints f
Many of the rocks of the partial dis-
hoifm the
off Indiansrrue4foror
someried
to
tribution.ala share
these Indians had long sticks,
hooked at the end, which they
other small animals, from their holes. These
belong to
the people who are generally known under the
Fizards, and
ns, of Diggers ; and to these I have more particularly
haarreference, when occasionally speaking of a people
whale sole occupation is to procure food sufficient to sup-
port existence.—Captaiu Freemont's United States' Ex-
-wloring Expedition in Oregon and California.

TAE ARMY OF THE SUTLEJ.—There is one little cir-
cuctstance connected with a portion of this gallant army of
so t oching a character, that we cannot forgo the delight in
recording it in our colums. Amidst the din of battles and
the -wild hurrahs of victory, the wail of distress from his native
lan. d reached the Irish soldier on the remote banks of the
Sut lej. His heart responded to the call, and within a few
day s the Irish soldiers subscribed no lees than 8401. to the re-
lief of their suffering fellow-countrymen, and this sum they
plat ed in the hands of their veteran commander, Sir Hugh
Goucfs., himself an Irishman, for transmission to the scene of
distre tic Having thus discharged their duty to the God of
Charily, they went with lighter spirits to the stern per-
formar.oe of their military duties to their Sovereign and their
coturtry.— Observer
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, APRIL 3.—Scarcely any
brasiniss has been transacted in West-India sugar this week,
o wing; to the want of supply ; but for Mauritius there has
been a good demand, and about 5,000 'oats have found
beivers at extreme rates. For Bengal there has been but
li/tle inquiry.—Bristol Mercury.
Sir Harry G. Smith, who commanded the British and
native troops in the recent , ngegement against the Seikh army, is a
son of the late Mr. Joint Smith, surgeon, of Whittlesea, Cambridge-
shire, and brother to Charles Smith, Esq., captain of the What e-
sea troop of Yeomanry. Sir Harry served in every action of the
Peninsular war, except Talavera, and he was a staff Officer at Wa-
terloo.—Limerick Chronicle.