The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-02 00:00:00

BOW-STREE DAY.)

'Valiant Low icke, a young man lately in the service of
Mr. Walton, newsvender, of 36, Bell yard, Temple Bar,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Jardine, charged with
embezzling several sums of money received as for his
employer.
Miss Tucker, of No. 5, Chancery-lane, said that in the
course of the week before last she paid the prisoner
11. 6s. 9d., due from her father to Mr. Walton.

Mr. Henry Rivett on the 22d April paid the prisoner
.3s. 6d. due to Mr. Walton.

Charles Clarke on the 9th November paid the prisoner
21. 3s. 4d., due from Mr. Bird, of Lincoln's Inn, to Mr.
Walton, for newspapers.
Mr. Walton said that the prisoner bad been employed
by him for more than seven years. Ile was in his ser-
vice up to Saturday, 21st November, when witness dis-
charged him in consequence of some defalcations he had
discovered. Before discharging him, he requested him
to give :him the names of those customers from whom
he had received money, and to state what sums he had
received without accounting for them, as, if he did so, it
would prevent him (witness) from applying for monies
which had already been paid. The prisoner said he
could not do so ; and witness than said, " Well, then,
there's the door, you may go."
Inspector Logan, F division, took the prisoner into
custody on the 20th November.
The prisoner (who neither cross-examined any of the
witnesses, nor made any defence, was committed for trial.
John Mason, who described himself as a marble po-
lisher, was charged before Mr. Jardine with keeping a
private still at No. 9, Princes street, Drury-lane.
John Lewins, an Excise-officer, said that, acting on
information he had received, he went this morning, at
eleven o'clock to the house No. 9, Princes-street, where
the prisoner keeps a tobacco shop, and finding nobody
in the shop went down to the cellar, where he found the
prisoner working a still, which was in full exercise.
The prisoner, who made no defence, was fined 30Z,
and in default of payment was committed to prison for
three months.

MARLBRV-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
William Job Liddington, a pianoforte tnner, was
charged with committing an assault on his son.
William Augustus Liddington, the son of the prisoner,
stated that the defendant had deserted his mother
twenty-three.years ago, leaving her with three children;
and he ascertained some time since that he had returned
to London, had entrapped another woman into mar-
riage, and was living with her. The complainant had
written several times to his father, with the view of ob-
taining a maintenance; for ,his mother, but last night
about halt-past six o'clock, he took his mother to the
defendant's house. When his father came in, he asked
complainant what he had to do there. Upon telling him
his object, the prisoner struck him a severe blow with
his fist, walked into another room, and, having returned,
struck him again with a tuning fork a blow on the head,
which cut it open with a deep gash.
Hannah Liddington, the complainant's mother, corro-
borated ilis evidence.

Police-sergeant, 10 D, handed in copies of two mar-
riage certificates attesting that Job Liddington had been
married to Hannah 141alpus in the parish of Cirencester,
on the 19th of December, 1816. and that on the 28th
of March, 1831, in the parish of St. Giles, William
Liddington had been married to Jane Howland.
Mr. HARDWICK sentenced him to a fine of 51., or two
months' imprisonment, for the assault, and ordered the
police-sergeant to retain the certificates, in case any
future steps should be taken against the defendant for
bigamy.
Patrick Flannagan, for creating a disturbance at an
eating-house in Cleveland-street,. after eating a dinner,
which he had no money to pay for, was sentenced to a
fine of 405., or one month's imprisonment in the House
of Correction.

CLERKE'N lILL.—(T HIS DAY.)
A respectable looking young lad, named Jahn Galt,
was charged with stealing 21 watch chains, the property
of Messrs. Edward Walker and Sons, of Red Lion. street.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, who
was an apprentice to Mr. Parkinson, of Red Lion street,
entered the prosecutor's shop yesterday afternoon, about
three o'clock, 4nd asked to see a watch chain, which he
bought, and went away ; soon after which 21 other
chains were missed, and information having been given
to the police, it was ascertained that the prisoner had
offered some of the chains at a very low price to a fel-
low-apprentice, when the former was taken into custody,
and the property found upon him. He was fully com-
mitted for trial.
Charles Sharpe was charged by Mr. Dodd, the dust
contractor, for the district of Clerkenwell, with stealing
a quantity of dust. The prisoner was observed by the
complainant's foreman to remove a cart-load of ashes
from the Chalk-road, Islington, which they took to the
premises of Mr. Stuckey.
Iu his defence, the prisoner said he was in the employ-
ment of Mr. Stuckey, who had built a great many houses
in the Chalk-road, and he was sent to remove the ashes,
Owingbdos
ae
lraeena
perfect
cleanliness
custtehhseness
us
hci:aa:rdene,cal eeotshcsutenomedsoitsrhl
taaot
that neighbourhood
accumulated
dhi oe r
suchucbo bni.t
srahacmt oi rg,
manner,h;
thare needs:
ssaatoilno-f
ftoherough Mr. Dodd was strict when any person interfered,
there for ever, for all he seemed to care about it

---
The foreman stated that his master paid 1,000/. a year
for the right of taking away the dust, and he was 'very
frequently plundered.

030iIBE said he should only fine the prisoner a
shilling, but trusted that would be a warning to him and
others that they acted illegally.

RAILWAY LABOURERS WORKING ON SUNDAYS.—
At the Town-hall, Horsham, on Saturday last, the en-
gineer to the Horsham Branch Railway made an appli-
cation to the bench of magistrates, to grant permission
for the labourers employed on the line to work on Sun-
days. He said it was necessary for a portion of the
labourers employed on the line to work on Sundays,
to prepare the temporary roads for the removal of
earth, which would prevent a number of men remaining
idle on Mondays. Applicant had found that when the
men were not enabled to ccmmence work on Monday
mornings, it was with the greatest difficulty that they
could be got to woik at all, as they began drinking, and
int '7!,rrei n •nrnetC,, w.,C nriort,A
most
„ • • .• • •I•,
ULM, anti ilbal bLtil lUULU LU nitatalite,
Bthuerraepllp,lic%eiocni: chairman,
positively refusedr to Charlesgran t
intoxication.

ELY and HUNTINGDON RAILWAY.
IS DAY.
A special general(T meeHting of th) proprietors of this
line was subsequently held in the same place, and for
the same purpose ; Mr. Henry C. Lacey, Chairman of
the Board of Directors in the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN considered the terms offered by the
Eastern Counties Company were very inadequate to the
value of their property, and he, therefore, hoped they
would follow the example of the former meeting, and re-
ject them nnanimously. He had no doubt whatever that
eventually the East Anglian lines would pay 101. per
cent., but still a bird in the hand was worth two in the
bush, and he should not object to the 71 per cent.
The same resolutions agreed to by the former proprie-
tors were agreed to at the present meeting.

LYNN AND DERELAM RAILWAY

eTIIIS DAY).
A meeting of the proprietors of this line was then
held, and Mr. Lacy having resumed the chair, the reso-
lutions agreed to at the former meetings wero then put
from the chair, and carried unanimously.

REGENT'S CANAL COMPANY.
(THIS DAY.)
A general meeting of the Regent's Canal Company
was held o-day, at their offices at the Canal Basin,
City-road, J. E. D. Bethune, Esq., in the chair.
The report stated that the profit balance to 30th Sep-
tember last was 13,670/. 13s. 11d., including 600/. ss. 4d.
remaining from the last account, which, after the pay-
ment of the dividend proposed to-day, would leave a
sum of 819/. Os. 11d. to the benefit of the next half-yeai.
All the documents for the Bill for the railway
were deposited with the proper officers, and the direc-
tors were quite prepared to go on with the scheme.
A further sum of 4,474/. 9s. 4d. had been borrowed
from the reserve fund for the formation of the new en-
trance to the Limehouse Dock, and to pay for the pro-
perty required for that ptu)pose. The committee were
happy to say that they were now in possession of the
property, and that the plans and sections for the work
were ready, so that it could be commenced early in the
next spring. Inasmuch, however, as stabling would be
required for the horses in the first instance, it was
tended to charge a sum not exceeding 3,0001. for that
object.
The report of the auditors stated that the profits of
the half-year amounted to 27,415/. 4s. lid. Both the
reports were adopted by the meeting.
A resolution was then put to the effect that a dividend
of twelve shillings a share for the last half-year should
be declared, and that the transfer books should be clos(!cl
for its payment from the 19th December next to the 11,th
of January following. The motion having been se-
conded, after a short discussion, the resolution w
as
adopted.
In reply to an inquiry as to the origin of the increase
of the rents from 1,600/. to 2,1004, the CHAIRMAN stated
that it arose partly from the increase of business, and
partly from the payment of old arrears. The former
came chiefly from the North Western Railway Company.
In answer to another question, the CHAIRMAN sand
that the tonage on the canal had increased from 844,000
to 1,082,000 tons, between 1842 and 1845. The permits
would give little information as to the number of vessels
which had passed on the canal; for while the barges we re
formerly 45 tons on an average, they are now genera'ily
of SO tons burden. The number stated in 1842 leas.

12,448, and last year 16,500. Since 1836, the dividends
had risen from Its. to 21s. per year.
To other inquiries, Mr. BETHUNE replied, that the
shares of the contemplated railway were to be offered in
the first instance, to the shareholders, in proportion to t be
number of shares held respectively by each. But th,
was to be no compulsion, and the shares declined w ere
to be offered afterwards to the public generally. The
8,0001. to be paid to the Regent's Canal Company by
the Birmingham Railway Company was contingent Qn
the latter company getting their Act, and not on the
formation of the railway. The company had obtain d
their Act, and the money would be due on the 6th •of
February next. The directors did not apprehend mtic.h
opposition to the getting of their Act, and under try
circumstances it was decided to keep the waterway• of
the canal uninjured.
The meeting received this announcement with gt .ezit
approbation, and'
Mr. GREEN wished it to be particularly understot)d
that he went heart and hand with the undertaking, ea id
trusted that if there was any one connected with 'tt to
press present this would be noticed.—(Hear, hear.)
A formal resolution was then' passed for the nes .t
general half-yearly meeting, on Wednesday the 2d .of
June next, the day appointed by Act of Parliam en t.
Thanks were voted to the chairman and committee, ar
the meeting was dissolved.

NARROW ESCAPE.—On Tuesday morning, about
two o'clock, M. Perrier, French messenger, in goin g .on
board her Majesty's packet Dover, Mr. A. Hama loud,
acting commander, missed the steps and fell into ;the
water, but fortunately caught hold of a piece of iron pr e-
jecting from the quay. A rope was promptly thr ov In
from the vessel, but ineffectually, as M. Perrier w ou ld
not relinquish his " iron grasp." Police-consent de
Saunders was on duty near the spot, and hearing ehe
alarm ran to the quay, on reaching which be knelt de m vn
and attempted to reach the messenger, but could ni )t.
He then allowed himself to be let down head foremo it to
the water—his legs being held by Mr. Gibbons— -.e,nd
by this means Saunders succeeded in reaching :and
holding M. Perrier by the collar until a ladder eves
brought and speedily lowered, when C. Cher Ira di,
steward of the Dover, and T. King, steward of :her
Majesty's packet Onyx, descending and Si IC-
ceeding in rescuing him from his perilous sit
n-
ation, he having only sustained considerable fright inc 1 a
thorough drenching. M. Perrier then went on 13ottrd
the Dover, where every attention was paid by the
steward to his comfort on the voyage to Calais.—.l ").9 ver
Telegraph.
GRAND JUNCTION CANAL COMPANY.—The I 11 df-
yearly general meeting of the company of proprieto r. s of
the Grand Junction Canal was held yesterday, it i the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand. The report v which
was submitted to the meeting stated that the nett ;ton-
nages for the half-year ending the 30th of June last,
amounted to 41,613/. 3s. 7d., being 16,5261. 19s. 11d.
lees than for the corresponding
.six months of the pre-
ceding year. This decrease, it was stated, had ibeen
caused by the reductions which it had been found r Leoes-
sary to make in the tonnage rates, as also by a dii ninu-
tion of the thoroughfare trade. At the same time, hc,w-
ever, the local traffic had materially increased, not with-
standing a very considerable reduction of the local i .coal
withthelatsht
esiexomrroenspthonsdsintagtepderhioadd
idnecthreeasyeeda,ralsB7s7
iptahraedd
trade, and while the whole traffic on the canal N vit hin
nevertheless exceeded by 22,985 tons the average traffic
of the last seven years. The committee had invest rated
various projects for the improvement of canal natii cation,
for the amalgamation of existing canals with r. eilway
companies, for canal companies undertaking to be a their
own carriers, and these important subjects woul con-
tinue to occupy their serious attention. The repo ae con-
cluded by recommending the declaration of adi midend
of 31. per share, amounting to 34,365 l (from whi e h the
income-tax would have to be deducted), to be p ei .d on
Friday, the Bth day of January next. The repo- rt was
adopted by the meeting, and ordered to be cit.( lated
among the proprietors.
ACCIDENT AT WINDSOR.—An accident oc curred
yesterday afternoon to James Hopkins, Esq., a gentle-
man residing at Earl Grey's mansion at Datch nt.. He
and on passing by the
oad, the animal took
was riding a spirited young horse from Dat ;diet to
Wn
castled
m
fright, proceeding along Park-street, at a trer aendous
s ogra,teast,t einnd Winded be y
Fhrios
ggrnr
ooroem.
r,
pace, into the town. Instead of making for the I High-
street, the horse dashed into the stables oft he New
Inn, the left side of Mr. Hopkins's head c • omi tig into
violent contact with a large iron lantern which vas sus-
pended in the centre. A severe wound was i nflicted,
from which the blood flowed profusely, and Mr. I lopkins
was rendered for a time insensible. Mr. Pearl, t urgeon,
of Windsor, was speedily in attendance, and the r ;utterer,
in the course of the afternoon, Was conveyed to l us resi-
dence at Datchet.

--LADS TOR THE ROYAL NAVY.---Yesterday. there
was considerable activity at the various receiving houses
for seamen, at the east end of the metropolis n ear the
docks, in consequence of the recent regulation resi vcting
lads for the Royal Navy. During the day large Posters
were circulated throughout the metropolis ;am I every
inducement is also heid out for lads between 16 and 19
to enter her Majesty's service. Smart, well grown
youths are taken, though not accustomed to t 1 Le sea,
numbers r f whom entered during the day.
heavy increasing
NEW BRIDGE ACROSS THE THAMES.—AppIi( z 'ion
is intended to be made to Parliamtnt next sessio ,n,, for
tb,
leave to construct a bridge from Lanthecphoupruclhataiton 21E):0
al
to the opposite shore at Westminster ; the want of vv; hi ch
gbyththee,
gale which was fel t
so severely at Plymouth and other ports on the coast ;, on
shiadsiecsboeotttihtmehusrtci
Notwithstanding
feltrd.in
the 21st and 22d instant, every vessel in the outer and
in,-cr rolc!Q of F ilm •"°1 T''''' 't nt,t witi, ti,,, „,,, ti,r
tieg,at at b.b.b., witieli is uite:,:tiy in to me nark) our,
and continued for many hours from that point.—. 17,01-
mouth Packet,

WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29
LYNN AND ELY RAILWAY.
(THIS DAY.)
A special general meeting of the proprietors of this
line was held this day at tha London Tavern, in Bishops-
gate-street, for the purpose of sanctioning a conditional
agreement entered into for leasing the line in perpetuity
to the Eastern Counties Company. Sir William Folkos,
chairman of the board of directors, in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN stated that the agreement was for 51.
per cent. upon the whole capital of the company for
three years from the opening of the line, and a minimum
of 61. per cent. ever after, the dividend being always
two per cent, less than that of the Eastern Counties
Company.
A resolution confirming the agreement was proposed,
and after a long discussion unanimously rejected, and in
its place a resolution was agreed to, authorising the
directors to renew the negotiation with the Eastern
Counties Company on the basis of a axed relit of 7i per
cent. in perpetuity..
Another resolution was also agreed to empowering
the directors to take''the necessary step or assist in ap-
plying to Parliament next session for Bills autho
rising the construction by the Lynn and Ely Company,
from Wisbeach to Spalding, arid Ilolbeach, and from
Ely to Bury St. Edmunds, as well as docks at the port
of King's Lynn, with a navigation or aqueduct from
such docks to the River Nav in Norfolk.
The business relative to the raising of the sum of
118,8001,, part of the 120,0001. authorised by the Ely
and Huntingdon Act, by the issuing of 10,000 shares of
91. each, and 108,000 shares of 24 each, was postponed,
and the meeting terminated.

GIRVAN.

THE PRESENT STATE AND PROSPECTS OF
BRITISH AGRICULTURE.
What bas British agriculture done ? Wbat is it

doing ? What does it—expect to do ?—arc the three
important questions proposed for consideration in an in-
teresting article under the above head in the current
number of the Edinburgh Review. As a reply to the
first question, the writer appeals tiathe fdet that British
agriculture has expanded in productiveness with our
rapidly increasing population, our average corn imports
up to:last year being about the same as they were twenty
years ago. He also appeals to the experience of full-
grown men as to the greater breadth of land in culture,
and its vastly more productive modes since that period.
This last proof seems more conclusive than the
other, as there is no doubt, though the people of
Britain contrived to subsist chiefly on our home
produce for the last twenty years, they did so by being
put on " short commons" through the operation of the
restrictive corn laws. Had such hige duties not existed
'in foreign importations, there is not a doubt but that
greatly more corn would have been consumed and nil-
ported. The people were by no means indulged with
such a fulness of bread, as is desirable, nor their corn-
consuming powers put to full proof. Both the appetite
and the means were by these laws unnaturally restricted.
Bad trade, currency derangements, &c.—then surely fol-
lowed the years of dearth and high prices.
To the second question the writer furnishes an
answer, by a rapid and interesting survey or tour
of the island. He starts from the remote Caithness,
whence arose the most energetic agriculturist of his
day, Sir John Sinclair, and who stirred up practical
men to new exertions. In this country the improve-
ment has been rapid and striking ; rentals increased
from six to eight times within living memory ; and
worthless moorland pasture converted into rich fieds of
oats, wheat, clover, &c.-50 bushels wheat, 56 oats, and
300 or 400 stones hay, being the occasional return per
Scotch acre. Of Sutherland, with its famous clearings
and large sheep walks, the writer admits the great im-
provement in roads, buildings, stock, &c. ; but gene-
rously questions whethet the clearing has not been
carried too far, and whether it would not have more
largely increased the sum of human happiness, added
more to the strength of the state, and to the rent roll of
the proprietor, to have encouraged and educated the na-
tive population, and kept them on the land.
Passing into Ross-shire there much fine farm-
ing, and great activity in Easter Ross-5 quarters
of wheat and 7 of oats per imperial acre being the
produce of some parts of it. Improvement has
even penetrated the straths that run across the
country: and in strath glens the writer met a cart laden
with guano. and in a way-aide schcol heard the boys
taught agricultural chemistry. Inverness is equally for-
ward; and though the cost of the transport of wheat or
oats to the Edinburgh market averages 20 s. an acre, land
at the head of the Beauty Loch lets at 40s. an imperial
acre. The steam-ships from Inverness have been of im-
mense benefit for the conveyance of fat cattle, &c., &c.
Travelling southwards along Loch Ness, wheat is grown
and ripened at a height of 800 feet, while in Strathern a
beautiful crop of turnips have been. raised at a height of
1,200 feet above the level of the sea—only surpassed by an
instance in Wicklow, where a pupil of the Glassuaiven
school raised a fine crop at 1,600 feet„ Nairn and Moray
claiming the title of the " granary of Scotland," have
done much and may do more. Before the drain, the
ague and mildew, once prevalent; have disappeared,
while these with liming have tripled many rentals.
Driving rapidly over Aberdeenshire, improved breeds of
stock, liming, fencing, training, ,and reclaiming, are
everywhere visible. Descending through Perth, Forfar,
and Dundee, to the Carse of Guwrie, which once grew
clover three feet high, deep ploughing, and a ready out-
fall for deeper drains, are the most serious questions, and
their practical solution the likeliest mode of restoring
something like the traditional fersility. Crossing to
Fife, tile-works and lime-kilns, and subsoil ploughs
frequently visible, show the ancient kingdom in
each of its " neuks " to be all alive. Now the
Lothians are reached, where, though capital and
skill have done their best, he deprecates the farmers
resting on their oars, and points out much to be done.
Reaching Ayr and Wigton, the greater produce of grain
and turnips, the abundant tile draining, and waste land
reclamations are approvingly unnoticed. " Public gra
titude is due to those who reclaim the bleak moss and
the wild moor, and who plant their feet firmly on the
quaking bog," such as in the south-eastern parts of Ayr-
shire, particularly along the first six. miles from Barkill to
Newton-Stewart, or the Wason country, where, at a great
expense, the enterprising proprietor, Rigby Wason, Esq.,
has formed a new road across the moor to Cree—drained
and limed, and recalled to fertility a wide extent of once
barren moor.
Crossing to Arran and Cainebelton, the change within
the last fifteen years is equalling surprising and agree-
able ; then there was scarcely a saddle-horse in the
country, and, the cattle, the poor small black High-
landers. Now, fifty or sixty tenants come to market in
their own gigs, while Ayrshire stock and a lowland im-
proving tenantry have been introduced. Hastening over
other portions of the country, and noticing the border
improvements, where one farm out of lease last year
rose in rent from 751. to 9201. per annum, or 1200 per
cent—and bow the land carries triple the stock, and
yields triple crops by thorough-draining. England
entered, and Northumberland is deservedly praised
for its activity and forwardness. Too much time
has been spent in Scotland, with which, indeed, the
writer seems most conversant, and the northern. counties
of England is rapidly sketched off. A stop is made at
Lincoln, where, with much naturally rich land, constant
and high manuring is required to keep the " warrens"
from returning to a state of barrenness, and where the
knowledge unfolded by chemistry as to manure, &c., is
of vital importance.
_ _ _ . _ _

On a review of the whole tour, the writer is satisfied

that great activity is being put forth ; and, "in spite of
corn-law repeal, the energy of the agriculturists as a
body is not depressed, their wits not stagnant, nor their
hands void of cunning."
To the third question as to future progress, he thinks
the produce may be doubled by tho general adoption of
the improved practice now known, while greater disco.
veries and improvements give hopes of a much larger
increase. Another hasty review is made to show bow
much waste land yet remains to be reclaimed, and in
how many places the present best practice is to be in-
troduced. Pipe tiles, cheapening land drainage, bone
mills, railways bringing lime, fuel, and manures to
remote places, artificial manures,, resident landlords,
education, tenant rights, subsoil ploughs, &c., are
desiderated to become general, and such they are
every day hastening to become. The much good
which our absurd entails hinders is also well noticed,
and their modification or repeal very much wished.
Absenteeism and the quality of land under trustees
(which might be sold to new improving proprietors but
for the entail) are also great hindrances. For England
also the abolition of reserved rights, such as timber,
game, &c., and a better machinery, are very much
wanted. In the article of thrashing mills, not at all
common in England, 1,200,000 quarters would be saved
by their general introduction. Agricultural colleges
would also do a great good. Of these there is one at
Cirencester, and one at York.
The article is wound up by the cheerful statement
that there is every reasonable prospect for abundant
food and employment for an increasing people, and that
the change in the corn-laws need act not as a depressing
but as a stimulating influence upon agriculturists.
Whatever art ca►► extract of enlarged crops from foreign
soils may be reaped in Britain. Our capital and mecha-
nical skill, aided by science, should place our farmers
beyond the reach of any protracted competition in the
home market. The loss of the potato crop is with equal
philosophy turned to good account. Affliction of, this
kind may lead to good by rousing to new exertions, and
opening up new resources.

RELIEF FOR THE HIGHLANDS. —PORTSMOUTH,
DEC. I.—The .2Eplus, store-ship, Mr. Thompson, master,
on her way to the Isle of Skye, has arrived here from
the river. She has been brought into the harbour to
take in a large supply of biscuit and other provisions
from the Clarence Victualling Yard, to be distributed
in the districts in Scotland which are suffering from
scarcity, and when loaded will proceed immediately to
join the Belvidera, store-ship. Captain Layton, R.N., is
in that ship, and is appointed to superintend the issue of
the various stores. The Belvidera is destined for the Isle
of Mull. • •
Yesterday Rowland Hill, Esq., entered upon his
new appointment at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-
le-Grand, and was congratulated on the occasion by the
Marquis of Clanricarde, the Postmaster-General, and
Colonel Maberly, the secretary of this establishment;
also by T. S. Duncombe, Esq., the Member for Finsbury,
who paid a special visit on the occasion.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN MANBY, R.N.—This gentle-
man, so well known in the scientific world by his inven-
tions, more particularly his life-rope for saving ship-
wrecked mariners, died on Thursday week last, after a
severe illness, at Cheltenham, in the seventy-sixth year
of his age. . .
HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF
THE CHEST.—Yesterday evening the first general quar-
terly meeting of the governors and directors of the Hos-
pital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest (since
the opening of the new institution at Brompton) was
held at the board-room the Hon. Edward Speer in the
chair. The routine business having been disposed of,
it was stated that at the present time the hospital con-
tained forty in-patients, with twenty more on the books
for immediate admission. An additional assistant phy—
sician was appointed, together with two visiting apothe •
caries, and two clinical clerks. Among the governors
present were the Hon. J. W. Percy, Philip Rose, Esq.,
R. G. C. Gardiner, Esq., M.D., J. Forbes, Esq., M.D.,
F.R.S., F.G.S., &c.; the Rev. Robert Munro, M.A.,
Robert Viner, Esq., Henry Vaughan, Esq., &c. Thanks
having been accorded to the chairman, the meeting,
which was very fully attended, broke up at a late hour.
RAILWAY DEPOSITS.—The railway deposits in the
session of 1845 in England amounted to 3,444,3061. 55.;
in Ireland to 373,8121. 10s., and in Scotland to
180,7631. 15s. For the session of 1846 the deposits into
the Court of Chancery in England on account of rail-
ways amounted to 11,396,7831. 9s. 10d.; in Ireland to
866,3671.; and in Scotland to 2,323,3711. The deposits
for the ensuing session must be made in the course of
next month—before Jan. 16.
POST-OFFICE NOTlCE.—Yesterday the following
was affixed at St. Martin's-le-Grand:—Mails will be
made up for the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius,
and Sydney, to be forwarded by her Majesty's ship
Rattlesnake. All letters intended to bo so forwarded
must be addressed, " By H.M.S. Rattlesnake," and will
be liable to a packet rate of postage of one shilling, not
exceeding half an ounce," &c. The Rattlesnake is ex-
pected to sail from Devonport to-morrow. Letters in
time this evening and to-morrow morning.
1 A NOTII ER CONN' ERT 10 11 OME. '---- Air. Henry
Pownali, boil of 1.1. Pownall, Esq., of Spring-grove,
IHounslow, has just given in his allegiance to the Church
of Rome.—Herald.

1846.

OVERLAND MAIL
INDIA AND CHINA.

The semi-monthly express from Marseilles, in an-
ticipation of the mails from Bombay, to the date of
the 2d of November, arrived last night. It brings
several items of important intelligence. The insur-
rection in Cashmere is said to be nearly at an end.
Sheik Emmam-ood-Deen has again temporised and
made a show of yielding, and has even withdrawn his
troops-from the siege of a small fort called Hurree
Purvut. But the winter is about to set in, 'and then
the greater number of the passes from Jamoo into
the vale of Cashmere will be closed, and the Sheik,
unless dispossessed previously, may laugh for a time at
the armies sent to attack him. In the meantime there
are considerable forces in movement towards Cash-
mere,—viz., Ist, the whole force of Ghoolab Singh ;
2d, the Lahore army (10,000 men), under Tej Singh ;
3d, the British division (6,000 men), commanded by
General 'Moder, which has marched from the
Jullunder Dc;ab to ilifanioo for the purpose of
taking posses:lion of that capital and of guard-
ing it for Ghoo:tab ; and, 4th, the brigade which left
Lahore, on its being relieved by other troops from
Ferozepore, crosteed the Ravee and marched into
Ghoolab's dominions. The movement of this power.
ful force shows that the Governor-General and the
Commander-in-Chief look upon the proceedings at
Cashmere as of great moment. It is evident from
the preparations that some ulterior measures of great
importance will soon be adopted. It is rather pro-
bable that the British authorities are by this time
convinced of the impolicy of placing the Mahom-
medan .population of Cashmere and the neighbouring
districts under the yoke of the Sheik Ghoolab, with
whose rule they are not likely ever to be satisfied,
and that the dominions of Ghoolab• will, ere tha close
of the present campaign, be much circumscribed.
The British authorities, although they gave him the
-transfer of all the hilly or mountainous country east-
ward of the Indus and westward of the Ravee, are
not bound to keep an army there to maintain order
amongst his subjects, or to collect his tribute. The
inhabitants of Cashmere have many reasons for wish-
ing to be rid of the Seikhs as governors, for their
country has been ruined and half depopulated by the
exactions of the Seikhs.

The Lahore force, under Tej Singla, had by the
middle of October got within twelve miles of Bheem-
bur, when he declared his inability to proceed for
want of carriage. This delay looks rather suspicious.
The conflict appears to be going forward between
Ghoolab's troops and the Cashmerians, but the details
are not known.

The settlement of the affairs of Moultan is said
to be going forward favourably at Lahore, where the
Dewan Moulraj Moultanee has been received in
state by his Sovereign, Dhuleep Singh, and his
mother, who performs the duties of Regent during
the minority.

From Sinde there is nothing remarkable. The
regiments which are to be relieved are not to quit
that country until about the Ist of February next.
There was sickness again at Sukkur and. Kurrachee,
arising from the heats of the months of October
and November ; but it was expected to end when
the cold weather set in, in November. Sir C. Napier
is said to be engaged on a work having for its object
to refute the statements of Colonel Outram's " Com-
mentary."
There were slight disturbances in Bhopal, created
by some 'mercenary troops who had been expelled
from the Nizam's territory, and who joined the dis-
affected retainers of an abandoned character, Ameer
Mahomed Khan, the grandfather of the sovereign,
who aimed at becoming Raja. This lawless force was
speedily surrounded, attacked, and routed by the con-
tingent under the orders of the political agent. The
rapid suppression of this revolt has had the best effect
in the interior of India.

Nothing new appears to be known of the state of
Nepaul; the Maharaja had returned to his capital,
where he is ruled by his second wife.
There is no truth in the rumour of the Governor-
General's son and other British officers being pri-
soners in Cashmere.

The financial difficulties of the Nizam's Govern-
ment remain as great as ever.

The re-opening of the 'loan of 1841-42 by the
Government of India has not produced a subscription
of more than six Lacs in Bombay, where the exchange
on England was rising.

There was an important discussion going forward
at Madras, where the Government had rernv et] the
whole of the judges of the Suddur and Foujdaree
Adawlut, the upper courts of the Hon. Company.'

The cause of this removal was the decisions of those
courts in favour of the natives, and against certain
acts of the missionaries of Tinivelly. This has pro-
duced great excitement amongst the native community
of that presidency, who held, a great meeting to call
on the Government to reinstate one of the judges
(Mr. Lewin). The whole matter has been referred
to the Court of Directors.

In Bombay another subject of interest has been
created, in consequence of the trial being ordered of
a civilian of high standing for supporting a widow
against some acts of oppression by a native func-
tionary, who has since been displaced. The mere
words of the judge in expressing his convictions are
the grounds of this trial, which has not yet been
brought forward. An episode has been created in
this matter in consequence of one of the Bombay
newspapers having published some allusions to certain
members of the Suddur Court at that presidency
being involved in debts beyond their power of extri-
cating themselves.
Sir' H. Roper left Bombay on the 2d of November,
and Sir D. Pollock was to be sworn Chief Justice on
the 3d. Great curiosity existed to know who would
be named Governor of that presidency, and also who
would be the next Commander-in-Chief.

The monsoon burst at Madras with extraordinary
violence. The fall of rain within 24 hours up to
noon of the 21st was 17i inches.

The mail was carried from Bombay to Suez by
the Akbar steamer, from Alexandria to Malta
by the Ariel, awl from Malta to Marseilles by the
Spitfire.

GENERAL SUMMARY.
(From the Bombay Times.)
The alarming aspect worn at the date of the last dis-
patch by the affairs of Cashmere has in a great measure
passed away. The troops of the Maharaja have, by
repeated successes, retrieved the reverses originally
encountered by them. The Sheik Emaum-ood-Deen
has sent in his submission ; and, in evidence of the sin-
cerity and peacefulness of his intentions, has caused the
siege of Hurree Purvut to be raised. Not trusting to
appearances, however auspicious, the Governor-General
has directed the military arrangements, commenced in
apprehension of an active campaign, to be continued
until everything be satisfactorily concluded. The sus-.
picions of the good faith of the Lahore Durbar appear
to have been groundless. The Moult= affairs seem in
a fair train for satisfactory arrangement, and the
threatened interruption of the even tenour of our pacific
policy has proved transient and temporary. It seems
highly probable that the whole of the provisions of the
Treaty of Umritsir will be carried out as originally
intended. The force of Brigadier Wheeler is in
possession of Jamoo—that from Lahore being in com-
munication with them. Severe sickness is beginning
make its appearance again in Upper Sinde. The to
Go-
vernor is said to be labouring indefatigably to meet o
subvert some of the most damnatory of the portions of
' Colonel Outram's work. The services of four of the war-
steamers of the Indus flotilla have been made over for
the use of Government, and will be employed for the
purposes of river transport. This is an eminently wise
and judicious measure. The Government Five per Cent.
Loan—mainly required, as is understood, for the exi-
gencies of Sinde—is filling up apace. Further loans may
come to convince the people at home of the unreality of
the surplus of 80,000/.—of the substantiality of the de-
ficiency of a million a-year, which must be met by bor-
rowing. An insurrection in Bhe jai, which threatened
serious consequences, has been suppressed by force of
arms. The Madras monsoon has been ushered in by a'
hurricane of unusual violence and a deluge of rain—no
less than 17i inches of fall, two-thirdsof the English i
fall for one year, having occurred within 24 hours. The
governors of the three presidencies are at present all
enjoying themselves above the
is ghauts. The re-
port that Mr. George Clerk to rule over us
at Bombay has given general satisfaction: no better
appointment could have been made. No change was
wi.hed for, but Mr. Reid we knew could not be
continued in office. The Chief Justice, Sir Henry
Roper, takes his departure for England by this day's
steamer, hip resignation having been accepted and his
seven years' term of service elapsed. Sir David Pol-
lock, who bas for a month past been at the presidency,
will take his seat on the bench, and be sworn in imme-
diately. The cold season has now fairly set in, and the
heather is eminently agreeable. 'I he Calcutta papers
inf,ria us that tilt., cuaiwiLtee appointed by the Bengal
Government to examine into the success of Dr. Esdaile's
operations performed on patients under the influence of
mesmerism hate given in their report. There is reason

to believe that it will prove most interesting and highly
satisfactory to mesmerists.

CASHMERE.
The promise of tidings of interest afforded by Cash-
mere at the date of our last has not been realised, in so
far at least as those are concerned who consider tales of
battle and of blood the only interesting tidings India
can supply. The then formidable-looking insurrection
under the auspices of the Sheik Ewaum•oad-Deen has
been subdued with comparatively little resistance ; • and
there is at present every probability of matters returning
to such a state of tranquillity, long before the term for
the retirement of our troops arrives, as.to permit the
treaty of Umritair to be fairly worked out.• The Gover-

nor-General, the momcnt the defeat of the troops of
Gheelab Singh became known to him, having made every
effort to assist in bringing about an arrangement, caused
Lieut, H. Edwardes, assistant to Colonel Lawrence, to
be dispatched from Lahore, that he might endeavour to
bring the insurgents to reason. The Lahore
J)arbar meanwhile exektecl themselves _to the same

end, and Dewan Hakeim Rae,
a man in high confidence
and, esteem, was dispatched on an embassy towards
Cashmere. While on his way the accounts of the re-
verse of the Jamoo Chief reached him, and delayed his
progress. Having at length got into correspondence
with the insurgent leader, by this time aware of the con-
fiscation of his property, and the arrangements made to
coerce him, arguments were found of sufficient potency
to extract a promise of submission—seem likely soon to
be compelled. The arrangements for the movement of
troops mentioned in our last had by this time been com-
pleted. The Maharaja marched out with all his army,
Bhirsigraeadrierduring Wheeler's
his a
force occupying
a Seikhccupying
fothreee chiefco-operating with him, and a strong division 'of our
troops from the same quarter moving in concertwith those
posts
Lahore in
from
of Brigadier Wheeler. Th, following has been supplied us
from an unquestionable source:—It was quite true that the
Jamoo troops originally sent out had been worsted, be.t
neither to the extent nor in the manner described; that
the bulk of them had gone over to the enemy is alto-
gether groundless, and the report seems to, have been
founded on the fact that 500 or 600 Rohillas did ac-
tually join the insurgents. Since then the Cashmerians
have on three several occasions been beaten by the Seikh
troops. Letters of the sth of October, from Cashmere, in-
timate that the Sheik, in evidence of the sincerity of his
professions of submission, has entirely raised the siege of
the fortress of Hurree Purvut. All the garrison wanted
was a: supply of water, with which they will noyn be able
to provide themselves. With abundance of this at their
command they can defy any attack likely to be made on
them, and maintain them3elves with facility till the siege
be raised, should this prove needful. There was, how-
ever, every reason to believe that the war was over, and
that there was no more risk of conflict. The Governor-
General had wisely determined that our exertions should
not be relaxed—that we should be prepared for the worst
that might occur till everything was tranquillised.! Col.
Lawrence was to leave Lahore for Cashmere on the 15th,
following the two assistants who had preceded him, when
it was hoped a final amicable adjustment would be
brought about. It appears that so light and equitable,
compared to what it used to be, is the revenue settle-
ment we have made in the Jullunder Doab, that the
Ryot warriors, who, according to a correspondent of
one of our north-west contemporaries, were likely to
have shut us up in Cashmere, would most probably be
the very first to make a general. rising in our favour
were we in danger.