The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-19 00:00:00

3ifou3 of beholding the practical improve-
merit of their country and of their ge-
neration. As if to signalise the displeasure
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of the population at that unaccountaMe act of un-
graciousness to Mr ROWLAND HILL, by which he CLAMATION OP
was offici.illy discharged from any further connexion
with the Post-office department, a tribute of money
has been collected amongst all classes of the
community to the amount of fifteen thou-
sand pounds, and on Wednesday last that national
testimonial was presented, at Blackwall, to the projector
of the Penny Postage. Immeasurably disproportioned
as is this subscription when compared with the bene-
fits accruing from the system of communication for
which we are indebted to that gentleman, it is never-
theless gratifying to find the English people coming
forward to acknowledge their obligations to
his exertions, and by so doing virtually to
discountenance the blundering and ungracious pro-
ceeding of the Post•office authorities. It must be
remembered, moreover, that the tribute in this case is
not for some probable or specious advantage,
not for. any illusory hypothesis of good,
not for any pecuniary chimera ; the system has
been advanced and adopted, and ever since
the really memorable period of its adoption it has
redounded more and more to the credit of its origi-
nator, it has justified his most sanguine predictions,
and while proving a source of inestimable advantage
to the public, has acted in no wise prejudicially to
the Exchequer. Before we can properly estima e the
merits of the Penny Postage scheme, we must behold in
it a power labouring for our improvement in three
separate directions ; the scheme acting beneficently
upon our heads, our hearts, and our pockets. It
lightens the cost of correspondence to a marvellous
degree, it widens and deepens the interchange
of sympathies from one extremity of the kingdom
to the other, and it has aroused to an
epistolary intercourse hundreds who would otherwise
continue unlearned in pencraft, and torpid in the
communication ,se ___ •• , • • ,
ouab wrougn the Penny Postage system we shall ex-
perience a material advancement as a think-
ing people, a domestic people, and a mer-
cantile people. In causing the adoption of
this inimitable plan Mr. ROWLAND HILL has-shown
himself the promoter of brotherly love amongst his
fellow-men, he has aided in the intellectual crusade
whose Peter the Hermit was the Society for :he Dif-
fusion of Useful Knowledge, and he has established a
system kindred in all material respects with the
spirit of those great commercial measures which are
now being sanctioned by Parliament. For achieving
all this, Mr. ROWLAND HILL has been ousted from
his office in St. Martin's-le-Grand, and been presented
with a national testimonial in Lovegrove's Tavern, at
Blackwell. Will Government never tire of receiving
lessons in justice, in liberality, and in gratitude from
the people ?

The latest accounts from Rome are of the Bth
June ; at that date the city was perfectly tran-
quil. The Constitutionnel publishes the following
account of the last moments of GREGORY XVI. :
" On Whit-Sunday the Pontiff determined to have mass
said in his chamber, and to take the communion himself.
This was opposed, and he was obliged almost to get angry,
iu order to have his wish complied with; and if he had
not done so, ho would have died without the sacrament.
His valet-de-chambre said to him, ' But, Holy Father,
you will alarm the whole city; they will say that you are
very ill." Certainly,' replied he, I am very ill. I
feel it ; and do you want me to appear before God with-
out having taken the bread of lite? lo voglio morire
da frate, non da sacrano.' (I wish to die as a monk, and
not as a sovereign). The malady made such rapid progress
the following night that the Cardinal Confessor, whose duty
it is to assist dying Pontiffs, could not be summoned in time ;
it was the assistant-cure of the pontificial palace who galre
extreme unction to the Pope, thse cur 4 not having arrived.
Gregory XVI. had expired when Cardinal Bianchi, his con-
fessor, eutered his chamber. The other ecclesiastics, who
were summoned according to custom, had only to watch over
the mortal remains of their master. The Pope expired in
the arms of Cardinal Lambruschini, who had hurried up with
all the speed of his horses, and who assisted him in his last
moments with the tenderness of a friend and a son."

L'Ami de la Religion publishes the following ac•
count of the testamentary bequestsof the late POPE:—

" Pope Gregory XVI. has made two of his nephews his
residuary legatees, and appointed Cardinal Matei his execu-
tor. The Pontiff has left several legacies to the Propaganda,
the convent of St. Gregory, the monks of the Camaldules,
and some of ilia household. The fortune which he has left
has bee❑ greatly exaggerated. A more just idea of it may
be formed when it is considered that the civil list of the
popedom does not amount to more than 80,000 f. a year. A
rich library, some valuable paintings, jewellery, and works
of art, with other property of unimportant amount, form
the whole of the inheritance left fur his nephews in the Ve-
netian States,, instead of the millions at which it has been
estimated."

A letter from Ostrowo, in Poland, states that on
Whit-Monday a number of persons collected in the
market-place of Miloslaw, and two of them, with the
purpose of creating a disturbance, proceeded to the
church, and rang the tocsin, which increased the
crowd. The burgomaster not having any troops at
his command, and finding himself unable to restore
order, sent off to Wreschen for aid, and the next
morning a squadron of hussars arrived. Several
persons were arrested and removed to Wreschen.

Madrid papers of the 6th have been received ; their
Portuguese news has been anticipated by the steamer
which arrived the day before yesterday, and their
contents are utterly devoid of interest.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday'
The estimates were passed on Tuesday in the Cham-
ber of Deputies by a majority of 210 to 27, after an in-
effectual attempt on the partof the Legitimatist Mem-
bers to draw out M. GUIZOT on the affairs of Syria. Both
Chambers sat on Wednesday, but their proceedings
were uninteresting. The Deputies assemble for the
last time on Saturday. The Peers will sit a short
time longer to dispose of the various Bills sent up to
them from the Deputies.

"It is on the occasion of the credit of the fetes
of July," says the Constitutionnel, "that the Prince DE
MOSKOWA is to speak in the Chamber of Peers, rela-
tive to the incident in the deliberation respecting the
verdict upon LECOMTE."
The papers contain accounts of the brilliant fetes
given at Brussels and Lille on the opening of the
Northern Railway. The Princes returned to Paris
from Brussels by rail in twelve hours, and the fetes
passed off without the slightest accident.
The Courier du Havre says that all the American
ships in that port hoisted their flags on the arrival of
the news of General TAILOR'S victory. It adds :
" Our underwriters seem to be so little alarmed by
the risk the American ships have to run from the war,
that the premiums are tending to fall down to the
ordinary rate."

COURS AUTHENTIQUE.—PARIS, JUNE 17.—Fire Per Cents.,
120 f. 15c. 20c ; Four per Cents., 106 f. 25c. ; Three per Cents.,
83f. sc. 82f. 95c. ; Think Actions, 3,490 f. ; Belgian Five per
Cents., 1840,100%; Ditto, Two.and• a-Half per Cents, 56%;
Ditto, Bank, 1835, 880 f ; Spanish Actives, 31 ; Ditto, Three
per ents., 38; Rente de Naples, 102 f. 65c. Exchange on
London, one month, paper, 25f. 60c.; Money, 25f. 60c.;
three months, money, 25f. 42',4c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 18.

Barbadoes, %—Boulogne and Amiens, 1.1% —Dutch Rhenish,
—East Indian, %—ltalian and Austrian; --Louvain and•demappe,
11,i ex d.—Luxembourg, 2—Northern of France Contituted, 141//
Paris and Lyons Constituted, 614—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted,
4%—Sambre and Meuse, 4 —Tours and Nantes Constitutes,

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the royal
suite, left Buckingham Palace at half-past two o'clock this
afternoon, for the South-Western Railway station, to pro-
ceed by a special train to Gosport, on route to Osborne House,
Isle of Wight.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—The last soiree
of the season, but one, was held at the Institute last evening, being
the eleventh of the year, and was more than usually rich in objects
of interest and curiosity, as well as in musical variety. Among the
new paintings exhibited were a splendid Raphael, " Christ bearing
the Cross;" an exquisite Corregio, "the Holy Fami!y ;" and a fine
head of Tazz :a Leonora, by Andrea del Sarto. Considerable interest
was exeited by a large silver shrine of llindoo workmanship, repre-
senting the inner sanctuary of one of the temrles of Vishnu, with the
various attendant deities, executed with a skill that was worthy of
the silver shrine of Diana at Ephesus. Of the music it may perhaps
be sufficient to name the professor s and artistes ho took part in the
pieces of the evening. These included Messrs. Kiallmark, Salanien,
ileisanneesllPeY,
F. Chatterton,Vieuxtemps, Sainton, the Distin family, Messrs. Machin,
Weiss, Bennett, Sir George Smart, Madame Anna Thillon, the
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a late hour.

( From the Tanis.)

STATUE OF TEE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—Mr.
Wyatt, the designer of the gigantic equestrian statue of his Grace the
Duke of Wellington, visited Woolwich Dockyard in the early part of
the week, to ascertain the best mode, and what aid could be obtained
in raising the great weight of material, about forty tons contained in
it, to its destined position. The Captain Superintendent Lord J.
Hay, C. 11., afforded the talented artist every assistance and fa-
cility in acquiring the desired information, and it was ul-
timately arranged that Mr. M'Callum, the boatswain of the dock-
yard, whose great experience in raising heavy weights on the
shears when placing the engines and boiler of steam-vessels
into them, should superintend the raising of the statue, the plan he
suggested having previously been made upon drawing paper. and sub-
mitted and approved by the Admiralty. Mr. M'Calluni is now in
at each, to hold on the 6-inch cables,
London, superintending the raising of the scaffolding, and on its com-
pletion will raise the statue by means of four powerful crabs; worked
by eight men each, at some distance above the arch, with two mf el;
lengths of 130 yards. On the statue being elevated to the required
on a tram •ity
height it will be then moved in a horizontal position
materials, "the
to its future position, The weight of the men and
time of placing it, is calculated to be 60 tons.
GUE.—
DEATII TEE HuN. MISS CARoLINE MOINe,Ti
*at Ditton
We have to announce the demise of this lady ;
sheindher 38th year.
Park, the seat of Lady Montague, on Tuesday.
sister to the
She was third daughter of the late Lord Montague, and
of which it will require ou
Mrs. George W, Hope,
Countess of Home, the Hon. 31n. Frederick Clinton, and the Hon.

NEW ZEALAND.

AND PRO-
'. EACE.

The following important intelhgence is extracted from the
Launcetton Examiner of the 28th of February :
The " war" is at an end, and a general amnesty has been
proclaimed. This intelligence has been received by the
Water Lily at Hobart Town. We subjoin a summary, prin-
cipally from the New Zealander :

It appears that on the Ist of January the British forces
established themselves in a strong stockade, about 400 yards
from the pah of Kawiti, and in which were mounted two
32-pounders, and four small 54-inch mortars.
On the 2d, Kawiti made a sortie from his pah, for the
purpose of turning the flank of this stockade, and destroying
it before it was finished; but Nene and our allies drove them
back, killing four and wounding several of the enemy.

On Saturday, the 10th, all the batteries being completed,
a general fire was commenced for the purpose of effecting a
breach, and rockets were likewise discharged, in order to
annoy the enemy within the pah. Towards evening three
breaches were made. An assault was then contemplated by
the commanding-officer, and 200 of the troops were told off
to lead the attack. The chief 31obi Tawai remonstrated
with the commanding-officer, asserting that it would be
sacrificing the lives of brave men to attempt the assault on
that evening; and that by continuing the breaching, the
object would be accomplished in a few days. The troops
were then ordered back to the camp.

On the following morning, Sunday, the 11th, about twelve
of Nene's natives, with William Waka, his brother, ap-
proached the breaches to reconnoitre, and not perceiving or
hearing any natives within the outer stockades of the pab,
they entered, and, as soon as they found they were unop-
posed, conveyed signal to our forces in the batteries, when
the sailers and troops rushed forward into the pab, before
Kawiti's natives, who were outside the pah engaged at their
karakia (worship), could re-enter. As soon as they ascer-
tained that they had thus, by negligence, lost possession of
their stronghold, they commenced a heavy fire on our troops
from the woods, and from the back part of the pah ; but the
numerical strength of the European forces and native
allies, in addition to the protection afforded by the internal
defences of the pah, rendered all attempts unavailing; and

in
ntovvogifs tthoeli
pan, oaonul
'l'Vf(TlTge"d: i'a-n-a`ti;:s";etrenci-inrt
three miles distant, recently erected by Heki (who joined

Kawiti) as a place of refuge for Kawiti, in case he should be
expelled from Ruapekapeka.
The loss of the European forces was 12 killed, and of which
number 9 were seaman and marines, and 30 wounded, in-
clusive of 17 seamen and marines. The native rebels suf-
fered a loss -of 25 killed, as correctly as it 'could be as-
certained.

Within the pah no ammunition or provisions were found.

The former had been diVided among them on Saturday even-
ing, anticipating the attack; and they had been subsisting
on fern root alone for some time previously.
His Excellency Governor Grey was present during the

whole of the operations, and was eye.-witness to the assault.
A proclamation had been issued by the Governor grant-
ing free pardons to all concerned in the late rebellion, the
chiefs having made complete submission by letter, through

Tomata Waka Nene.
We have received additional accounts from New Zealand
14 days later than the news brought by the Water Lily, from
which we learn that a pah, more strongly fortified than that
which had been lately stormed and taken by the British
forces, had been purposely set on fire and destroyed by Heki,
who had resolved to take to the bush, as affording better
means of protracting the warfare than fortified places, which,
whatever the amount of resistance offered, must eventually
tall into the power of disciplined forces provided with artil-
lery.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY).
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord DENMAN and a Common
Jury,)
WYLD V. LEAHY AND ANOTHER.

This was an action brought by Mr. Wyld, the geographer
and engraver, of Charing-cross, to recover the sum of 5161.
I9s. 5d., the balance of an account due for preparing and
executing the plans and sections of the Great Munster Railway.
Mr. Crowder and Mr. Sergeant Allen appeared for the
plaintiff ; Mr. Martin and Mr. Phinn for the defendants.
Mr. CROWDER stated the case for the plaintiff,
who, he said, was the well-known and highly
respectable engraver of Charing-cross; and the object of the
action was to recover from the defendants, who were engi-
neers, residing in Dublin, the sum of 5161. 193. 5d., bein!.;
the balance upon an account of 1,2001., incurred for the
completion of the plans and sections of the Great Munster
Railway. The order was given last summer, and an under-
standing was come to as to the cost of the work, but from
the delays that took place on the part of the defendants in
supplying the plans and sections to be engraved, and the
fact that the greater portion of them had to be executed
within a very short time prior to the 30th of November
last year, when the prices paid to operative engravers
was enormously high, the expense was much increased be-
yond the original amount specified. 7001. had been paid on
account during the progress of the work, and this the de
fendants alleged was quite enough to satisfy the reasonable
claims of the plaintiff; and further that the sum he sought
to recover was excessive, and a violation of the original
understanding come to between the parties. The Learned
Gentleman said he would be prepared to show that this de-
fence was invalid, bothiroin correspondence between the parties,
in which Mr. Wyld distinctly intimated that the delays of the
defendants throwing the execution of the work near to the
30th of September, would much enhance the expense, and
also by witnesses he would call. The work was well ex-
ecuted—no fault had ever been found with it; and, consi-
dering the demand forlabour at the time, and the fact of
engravers being obliged to work night and day, it was done
at a reasonable price. The company had-failed in going
forward with their scheme, not from any fault in the plans
and sections, but from other causes, and now they sought to
lighten themselves of the liabilities they had incurred.
The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to call his wit-
nesses.