The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-27 00:00:00

I will say that, if this had been an express from
the newspapers, Mr. Foster would
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affect thereforesctnloheemaster. He knew that this was an express rider
from The Sun newspaper office, and that it was essential
he should be at post before half-past seven o'clock,
and it would be gratifying a little petty malice against the
proprietor of. The Sun newspaper to delay the delivery of his
papers. It was clearly evident that Mr. Foster had acted in
this manner, not because he had humanity at heart,
but because his communications had been rejected by
Mr. Young. You have simply to deal with the merits of
the case. I shall show that the horse left The
Suss-office in good condition, but by some means
or other he was injured on the way, and
therefore, Sir, I contend that there is no case on which
"a fine can be properly inflicted, The animal is now perfectly
recovered, and the boy on the particular day in question
was not to know that he had been iu any way seriously in-
jured.
Sir GEORGE CARROLL said I wish to have evidence as to the
as to the state of the animal now.
Mr. Murdo Young was called, and stated that the horse
was now perfectly recovered, and that on the evening in
question (the 17th instant) it was in a perfectly
sound condition. The boy told him on returning,
that when near Temple-bar he had felt the horse
stumbling ; he went on, however, but feeling tht there
was something wrong, he was going to pull up the horse,
but could not do so at once, as it was hard mouthed when
Mr. Foster took hold of the bridle.
After some further evidence,
Sir GEORGE CARROLL said, that looking at all the circum-
stances of the case, he could not see that the defendant
was in fault. There was a very heavy duty
incumbent on him to be at the Post-office in time, for it
would entail a very heavy grievance on the country readers
if their newspapers did not arrive regularly—he felt it a
grievance in his own case. The boy, knowing that the
horse was sound when he left the office, and seeing when he
stopped that the animal placed his leg on the ground, could
not be supposed to know that he was seriously injured.
and, therefore, he did not think that that was a case for
punishment. Time was a most valuable consideration to
newspaper proprietors, and they were bound to make the
most of it.

Mr. Foster said that too little time was given, for he
believed that only four minutes were allowed between The
Sun office, in the Strand, and the General Post. office.
The defendant was then discharged.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
William Mating, a young man of fashionable appearance'
was charged with being drunk and causing a disturbance in
the pit of the Haymarket Theatre.
Police-constable No. 77, of the A division, said he was on
duty at the theatre on Saturday night, and about half-past
nine o'clock, a disturbance having occurred in the pit, he went
there and found the defendant behaving in a riotous and dis-
orderly manner, and offering to fight any one. Witness re-
quested him to behave himself properly, but as he conti-
nued to annoy and interrupt the audience he took him into
custody.
Mr. MALTBY asked if the defendant was drunk? The con-
stable said he was so, most decidedly.
Mr. MALTBY (to the defendant)—What answer have you
to make to this charge? Defendant—l am extremely sorry
for having so misconducted myself, and I am assured I
should not have dune so if I had not had too much wine. I
am generally very orderly, and never before got into a row.
Mr. MALTBY (after consulting with Mr. Bishop, the clerk)
said that, under the circumstances, he could only deal with
the case as regarded the defendant's drunkenness, for which
he should fine him ss.

The defendant, who evidently expected a severer punish.
meet, paid the fine with alacrity, and left the Court.

NE W MARKET RACES
(THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.)

BY THE E A.STERN COUNTIES
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Plate of 501.

Maynooth
Miss Elis

1

Fire ran.

Handicap of 20 sovs. each. T.Y.C.
Fidelity colt
Cocoa Nut 2
Duc au Durras 3

Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. tach.
Colonel Anson's lago ... 1
Duke of Beaufort's Taurina
Mr. Phillimore's Side-saddle 3
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each. A.F.
Duke of Bedford's Paragone
Lord Exeter's Lebanon
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, T.Y.C.
Ifr. Ring's Young Lochinvar, 6 yrs, 7st 51b
Sir J. Hawley's Bishop of Romford's Cob, 6 yrs, Bst 71b 2
Colonel Peel's Garry Owen, aged Bst 71b 3
Match—Woodpigeon beat Oakley.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON GROUP (No.
29) OF 11.AILWAX
RUGBY AND HUNTINGDON RAILWAY BILL.
Mr. Labouchere reported from the Select Committee on Group(No.
29) of Railway Bills, to whom several petitions against the Bills
comprised in the said group were referred, That in the case of the
Rugby and Huntingdon Railway Bill they had heard counsel in
support of several of the said petitions, end had also heard counsel in
favour of the Bill, and that they had examined the allegations con-
tained in the ipreamble of the Bill, but that the same had not been
proved to their satisfaction.

Sir E. B. Lytton has joined the number of dis-
,nguished Englishmen at present sojourning in Paris.
An American journal informs us that a daily paper
wice a week, has been commenced at Niagara Falls.
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.—THE SHIER COUNTRY.—
On Saturday, at a very full meeting of the members, the Right Hon.
the Earl of Auckland, late Governor of India, and President of the
Society, in the chair, a paper was read by Professor Wilson, on the
origin and history of the Seikhs, the interest of which was considerably
increased by the relation of the experience of the Noble President,
when, as Viceroy of India, he visited the Court of Lahore. The
Siekh nation took its rise from one of the earlier Hindoo reformers,
many of whom were men of great acquirements, and for a long time
they were a ;'nomadic race of inoffensive barbarians, or scattered
bands of banditti, distinguished principally for their hostility both to
Hindoos and Mohatnmedems. One of their laws in their sacred
works was to " slay a Mohammedan wherever they meet him ; and
if a Hindoo, beat and plunder him." They were governed by many
chiefs, who early united in a confederacy forming a general diet, to
which every one who commanded an armed band belonged. It was
not until the present century that they were transformed from ill-de-
fined military bands into a compact body by the late Reinjeet Singh.
which had never, however, the elements of solidity, as was shown
by ,recent events. The original Seikhs, instead of being the hardy
race which was supposed, had greatly degenerated from physical ex-
eesses, and the prowess displayed in the last great events was more
that of the Hindoos and. ether people who were in their armies than
of themselves. In the conversation that ensued, the President de-
scribed his reception by the members of the Court of Lahore, who
were a fine manly race, of a very hospitable character, and stated
that so tenacious were they of their religious rites, that although he
was admitted into the chief temple of their sacred worship, he was
excluded the sight of the sacred tank, in which is contained the first
precepts of their religion, as given by their founder. The report was
ordered to be printed.
VISCOUNT HARDINGE AND HIS LATE CONSTITUENTS.
—LAUNCESTON.—A highly respectable meeting, convened by J. K.
Frost, Esq., the mayor of the borough, took place at Launceston on
Friday last, for the purpose of presenting an address of congratula-
tion to Lord Hardinge on the occasion of the great victories recently
won on the banks of the Sutlej. The address was unanimously agreed
to after several highly complimentary speeches by the Mayor, by
Thomas Pearce, Esq., Dr. Rowe, W. A. H. Aundell, Esq., and otherin-
fluential inhabitants. Lord Hardinge sat in the House of Commons
for thirteen years as the representative of Launceston, and the con-
nexion which had existed between his Lordship and the borough,
with equal honour to himself and satisfaction to the electors, was
terminated by his recent acceptance of the high office he now holds
as Governor-General of India.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Captain
MTiremau's Comn,
4th ba tau on embarked at four o'clock P.., for conveyance pa
to Black-
wall, to proceed on board a steamer for Leith, to relieve Captain
Binghanes company, Bth battalion, at Leith Fort, the latter being
under orders to return to head-quarters at Woolwich.
A CHILD DROWNED IN A BUTTER-FiRRIN.—On
Saturday, Mr. Mills, Deputy Coroner for Middlesex, held an inquest
at the Coach and Horses public-house, at Ealing, on the body of
William Smith, a child sixteen months old, who met his death under
the following circumstances :—The deceased was the son of a labour-
ing man employed in the gravel-pits, and living in the Uxbridge-
road. On Thursday morning, about ten o'clock, the mother of the
deceased left him for a minute or two crawling on the floor of the
room near an :Almost empty butter-firkin standing there, and
when she returned she discovered that the child had, in the Interim,
crawled to the tub, raised itself by it, and then tumbled head fore-
most into the tub, face downwards, into about four Inches of water.
It was immediately got out, and a surgeon sent for, who pronounced
life to be quite extinct. Verdict —" Accidental death"'
It is said that the arrangements consequent on the
death of Sir William Eoothby, Receiver. General of Customs, have
not yet been completed. The salary of the late Receiver-General
was 1,5001. a year.
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ACCIDENT AT MILLEANE.--TWO LIVES LOST.— An
accident of a frightful character, by which two persons were killed,
and several other parties seriously if not fatally injured, occurred on
Friday afternoon, upon the extensive premises belonging to Mr.
Sortis, stone-merchant, carrying on business at 3lillbarik, opposite
the General Penitentiary. It appears that between the hours of
f marble blocks. The vessel Was draughted to the edge of
three and four, a number of Sortis's men were engaged in unloading
a barge o
Whilst the men were thus the wharf, and the blocks of marble were being lifted by means of
what is termed a shifting crane.
en-
gaged, a heavy block of atone, weighing several hundred weight,
massive block of marble was sent
flying into the barge lying at the edge of
the water. As soon as it
be-
neath made an attempt to get out of the reach o
which was being drawn to the top of the crane, caused the cross-
bar to snap asunder, and the
was perceive
of the same ; but
before they had time to accomplish their object, not only the pon-
derous mass of marble, but the machinery also, fell forward with a
fearful crash. The men who were immediately underneath were
almost doubled up by the great weight that fell upon them,
and those who were close at hand were thrown in various directions
native of Oxford, who had been employed on the works
Johnson, a
by the stones flying around them. A young man named William
only a few days, was picked up in an insensible state; he was re-
moved to the Westminster Hospital, where he died in less than ten
minutes after his admission. Another of the workmen namednGel a
George
Richards, of Dorset-street, Vauxhall-In idge-ftiad to the found
Vauxhall-bridge-load, d
sameu hos-
pital, where he received every attention that henmanity and surgical
expired in the
similar state to his companion ; he was removed
fellow skill could suggest, in spite of which the poor
course of the evening from the effects of the dreadful Injuries he had
George Holloway and
Henry Burke, had their thighs broken, and were taken to the West-
minster received. This party, we regret to say, has left eleven children
totally unprovided for. Two workmen, named G
Hospital, as was another man, named William Murphy.
The latter is in a fair state of recovery, but the men Holloway and
Burke still remain in a very precarious condition. The cause of the
accident appears to have been from the rottenness of the crane,
which doubtless arose from its long exposure to the weather. An
inquest will be held upon the bodies.
11311 AUDI PACT:lA.—lbrahim Pacha has arrived in Paris.
The royal carriages were in waiting at the station of the Orleans
railroad to convey his Highness and suite to the Elysee Bourbon.
Ibraham Pacha occupies the apartment on the first floor which the
Emperor Napoleon inhabited during the hundred days. The distri-
bution of prizea in the Egyptian school, which was to have taken
Place a few days ago, was postponed till the arrival in Paris of Ibra-
him Pacha, who had signified his wish to be present. This school,
witch has now 58 pupils from Egypt, chosen by Mehemet All, 'was
founded rather more than a year ago, under the patronage of Mar-
shal Soult. It is supported entirely by the Viceroy. Amongst the
pupils are two sons of Mehemet Ali and two sons of Ibrahim.
The Journal des C'henzins de Fer announces that the
differences which hitherto divided the two Versailles companies had
been at last aktjusted, and that no further diffioulty existed in tho way
Of the aquillontlou of tho Western itsturesd.

AMERICA NEWS.
FOUR DAYS LATER.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING,
We have this afternoon received New York and other
United States papers of the 4th instant, per the packet-ship
Roscius, Captain Eldridge, which arrived here shortly after
four o'clock. The news is not of an important character.
Up to the time the Roscitts left, no tidings of a division in the
Senate on the Oregon resolutions had reached New York.
At the same time the subject was still debated. On the
31st ult. General Cass had made a very intemperate and
warlike speech, in which he castigated some of the leading
Senators who disagreed with his opinions, and alluded to
Lord Brougham in no very complimentary terms. The fol-
lowing is an epitome of what passed in the Senate on the
31st ult. :

WASHINGTON, MARCH 31.
The President's secretary appeared at the bar of the Senate
with a message, informing that body that the President had
signed the Bill authorising the Secretary of the Navy to pur-
chase water-rotted hemp for the use of the navy.
Mr. Cass took the floor in support of the resolution of no-
tice. His speech gave character to the proceedings of the
day. He said he would not discuss the question of the Ame-
rican title to Oregon, as that was not properly before the
Senate, and had moreover been very ably and satisfactorily
examined and vindicated by the present Secretary of State
and many others. He would not consume the time of the
Senate in correcting the misrepresentations of his own mo-_
tives, acts, and speeches. That was a sort of tribute which
was required of public men in eminent station.
General Cass referred, in the course of his remarks, to the
speeches of several senators who had preceded him. Alluding
to the assertion of one that the debates in Congress were less
dignified than those of the British Parliament, he said he
knew from personal observation that this was an error.
General Cass then read an extract from the speech of Lord
Brougham, in 1843, in which he honours Mr. Lass with a
torrent of Brummagem scurrility, for his agency in defeating
the quintuple alliance. And such indecorous trash, said Mr.
Cass, is a specimen of the superior dignity of the British Par-
liament. He next adverted to the different propositions for
compromising this dispute. He could not perceive what
claim the favourite parallel of 49 degrees had over any other.
His own opinion was, that our claim was good and perfectly
tenable up to 54 degrees 40 minutes, and such was the
opinion of the President. He then turned to the subject of
the necessary augmentation of the army and navy, as defen-
sive preparation against the hostile designs of Great Britain.
He read a letter from General Scott, setting forth the neces-
sity of an increase in the army, and several other communi-
cations that have not before been made public. He said
he had found no reason to change the opinion he had long
before expressed that there was imminent hazard of war
between the two countries. He did not attempt to conceal
the immense injury that would result to our national
interests from such a war, but he showed that the injury to
British commerce, and all other interests, would be greater
in proportion, as they were more extensive than ours.
Mr. Cass and Mr. Calhoun then had a brief conversation
upon the probable effects of a war, which was carried on with
good feeling.
Mr. Ashley then took the floor to follow Mr. Cass, but pre-
vious to commencing his speech, moved that the Senate go
into executive session, which was done.
On the day following (April 1), Colonel Benton replied
to General Cass, and showed that the treaty of Utrecht, of
1713, gave authority for the extension of 49 west of the
Rocky Mountains. On establishing this position, Mr. Hanne-
gan replied, and dealt some very unmerciful blows upon
the Colonel, from whom he said he had learned all he knew
as to the United States' title to the Oregon territory as far as
the 54th degree.
The Senate has been to-day ascene of the greatest interest.
Contrary to expectation Mr. Benton came out with a full
and explicit definition of his position upon the Oregon ques-
tion, and his manner of doing it was characteristic.
The first business of general interest was Mr. Breeie's re-
solution, the apparent object and real effect of which would
be the expulsion of the newspaper correspondents. But,
after a brief though uninteresting debate upon the proposi•
tion, it was laid over until a more convenient season.
Mr. Speight moved that the resolution of notice be at once
taken up, though the regular hour for that order of business
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Cass yesterday, about the treaty of Utrecht.
Mr. Benton rose—He said that yesterday General Cass had
avowed that if it could be established, that the line of 30
deg. was established between the possessions of France and
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tion to that line. Now he was ready to prove that such a
line was run and established. Mr. Cass had said that Mr.
Madison had instructed Mr. Monroe to investigate and ascer-
tain if that line was so run, and if so, to offer it to Great Bri-
tain. But, according to General Cass, Mr. Monroe never
had made that examination, but bad made the offer without
taking the trouble to ascertain how the matter stood. Mr.
Benton went into a laboured and searching examination of
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been run, and General Cass must take his place among the
49 men.
Mr. Hannegan defended General Cass with great vigour
and brilliancy.
The Senate went into executive session, and soon after
adjourned.
In the House of Representatives, the debate upon the Sub-
Treasury Bill was continued, and nothing else was done.
On the next day (April 2) the debate was resumed by Mr.
Ashley, who made a few very important remarks, when
General Cass got up and replied at some length to Colonel
Benton's remarks of-the prerions-da-, and nausea to accede
to Mr. Benton's principles, inasmuch as he considered the
grounds upon which they were laid to be fallacious. An-
nexed is an outline of the proceedings of what occurred in the
Senate on the subject on the day in question, from which it
will be seen that Mr. Webster is still exerting himself in
favour of peace :
Mr. Ashley moved, in the Senate, that the special order
of the day, the Oregon question, be taken up, in order, as he
remarked, to give the Senator from Michigan, General Cass,
an opportunity to reply to the. remarks of Mr. Benton, of
yesterday. This was agreed to.
Gen. Cass commenced by saying that he was surprised at
the tone of Mr. B.'s animadversions upon his speech. It had
been his misfortune to be twice captured by the enemy, once
he had been redeemed by the people •of the country he was
serving, and this time he hoped to be able to redeem himself
from that captivity among the forty-nines, into which the
Senator had yesterday consigned him.
Gen. Cass then proceeded to answer in detail each of Mr.
Benton's strictures, and began by denying that he had com-
mitted himself to the position which Mr. Benton had as-
cribed to him. The point of this controversy seems to be,
that one party asserts that the line of the forty-ninth paral-
lel of latitude, established by the treaty of Utrecht between
the possessions of France and England in America, applied to
the now Oregon territory west of the Rocky Mountains, and
the other denies it.
General Cass also denies that this line was ever run at all,
and Mr. Benton is understood to assert both propositions.
General Cass spoke to-day some two hours, confining him-
self closely to the question, and showing most satis-
factorily, that the line was intended to stop at the monu-
tains, and had never actually been run. He read statements
from the latest and most authoritative French work on the
subject, that of De Mofras, who positively asserts that this
line was not run.
Mr. Benton rejoined. He said General Cass had now
taken a position which was like jumping from the frying
pan to the fire. In denying that the line of the treaty of
Utrecht had extended beyond the Rocky Mountains, he had
denied the existence of any title in the United States to
Oregon before the treaty of the Floridas in 1817 ; for by the
treaty of 1804, the line of 49th degree was adopted as the
boundary between England and the United States, as far
as the respective territories of the two powers extended
in that direction, in the precise words and meaning of
the treaty of Utrecht. He could not escape this. He had
denied that we had any title but that founded on that
Spanish treaty. Mr. Cass might have answered to this by
saying that our Commissioners may have assumed that
Great Britain had no territory west of the mountains, and
that therefore the respective territories alluded to stopped at
their eastern base.

But Mr. C. did not go into an argument in his reply, but
briefly adverted to one or two points made by Mr. B.
Mr. Webster argued for the authority of the line of
Utrecht ; and that if the termination of the 49th parallel
was not clearly defined in the terms of the 10th article of
said treaty, it was to a great extent confirmed by subse-
quent acts, based upon said treaty—the lines upon certain
maps, for example ; and the line
marked- upon one of them
as established by the treaty, or by the Commissioners, after
the peace of Utrecht, making a course from Davis's inlet on
the Atlantic sea, down to the 49th degree, &c.
The only thing worthy of notice that has occurred in the
House of Representatives is the passing of the Sub-Treasury
Bill, the first step towards the establishment of a national
bank, an institution which the United States stood in great
need of. The numbers were—ayes:
124 ; noes, 67. A New

York paper of the 4th April has the following particulars

respecting this measure :

sections, and covered eighteen foolscap pages. As it to-day
passed the House, it provides, in substance, that the rooms
'i The Bill, as originally reported, contained twenty-seven
in the Treasury buildings prepared and provided for the use
of the treasurer of the United States, his assistants, and
the vaults
oina-nlidouses in New
clerks, and the fire-proof vaults and safes, are constituted
and declared to be the Treasury of the United States, the
soe branch,cugt
treasurer to keep the public money which shall come to his
hands in the Treasury until the same shall be drawn there-
from according to law. The Mint of the United States at
York, Bbston, Charleston, St. Louis, heretofore prepared
for that purpose, shall be Places of aafe keeping.
and Philadelphia,safe s
Re-
tli thereof ; Ntheew roomsOrlenant
ceivers-general to be appointed by the President, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, to be located at
the places last named. The treasurer of the *United States
the treasurer of the Mint of the United States, the t '
surers, and those acting as such, of the various brarecah-
mints, all collectors of the customs, all surveyors of branch
customs, acting also as collectors, all receivrs-general of
public moneys, all receivers of public moneys at the several
land offices, and all postmasters, are required to keep safely
without loaning or using, all the public money collected by'
them, or otherwise at any time placed in their possession and
custody, till the same is ordered by the proper department
or officer of the Government. The officers appointed to give
bonds, which may from time to time be renewed, strength-
ened and increased ; to make trmsfers when directed, and it is
made lawful for the: secretary of the Treastr—
.l, to order the
same. Examination of books to be made by
selected for that purpose, in addition to checks agents to be on the offi-
cers. Expenses for contingencies, tire-proof safes, &c.
allowed, the whole number of clerks to be appointed not to exceed ten ; the aggregate compensation not to exceed eigh
thousand dollars, nor the compensation of any clerk eightt hundred dollars per annum. Ifat any of
or those connected with the Post office the officers Department,
shall convert to his own use, or invest in any
kind of property or merchandise, or shall loan
any portion of the public moneys, the act shall be deemed an
embezzlement, and declared a felony, and all persons ad-
visi4 or participating in such act, being convicted thereof,
fora shall be sentenced to imprisonment term of not less
than six months, nor more than ten years, and to a firie equal
to the amount of money embezzled. After June 30, 1848, all
payments to be made in gold and silver Foin nly. Drafts
to be used or thrown into circulation
are notas a a cur-
i
rency, or a medium of exchange. Salary to Roc eivepr Ge per
neral
a
t Now York, 4,000 dolls. ; at Boston, 2,441 dons. .
Charleston, 2,500 dolls.; a• t Si Louis, ',dolls:.' 500
2the
Treasurei of the Mint, 500 dolls. additional ; Treasurer of
Branch Mint at New Orleans, 500 dolls. additional per
annum—no commissions, pay] or perquisites
penalty of being considered a misdemeanour, punishable by
fine or imprisonment, or both. Five thousand dollars ap-
propriated for offices, safes, vaults, 810., and incidental ex-