The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-23 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, MARCH 20.—Sales
have bean rather on the increase during the past week,
at recent rates, but the amount of business done is still,
notwithstanding, only to a limited extent.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, MARCH 20.—The
demand for •vool during the present week has been much
the same as for some weeks past, and is confined to the
supply of the immediate requirements of the manufac
turers ; prices are consequently a shade lower.
LEEDS.—We have had very dull markets this week at
our el‘sth halls. There was very little done either on
rsaturday or Tuesday, except in very low tweeds for tin
German markets : fine and middle cloths continue dull
of sale : prices continue firm, and the stocks are rat:).
&rate. There have been but few buyers in the town
during the week, and business has, in consequence, been
dull in the warehouses.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY —Our report for
this week need only be a mere repetition ofntnhlatfor tin
last few weeks. The business done in w
limited, but prices are firm, as the country
dealers arevery
obstinate for present prices. In yarns there is nothing
better doi: g. Nearly all is produced to supply
present demand. For plain piece goods the d merelyreand is
tolerable, but for fancy pieces there is a miserable trade.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have
not
bad the least signs of any improvement in our cloth
market this week ; indeed, the heaviness has, if any-
thing, increased, and prices further receded for most
deseliptions of goods. Nothing can well exceed the
prostration of the market, al; stocks are accumulating
to an inconvenient extent. vea the richest and the
most wealthy are becoming anxious sellers. The yarn
market is as dull as may be, and we note, if any change
at all, that things aro in favour of the buyer.
BARNSLEY.—We cannot report any decided improve-
ment in the linen trade of this town, which has been
very much depressed since the commencement of the
year ; arising, in a great measure, in addition to the
various causes in operation at home, from the unsettled
state of our relations with America.
LEICESTER.—There has been rather a better demand
for manufactured goods for the home trade. Shipping
orders for the American market have been suspended
for the present.• Worsted yarns are more in request.
The cotton hosiery branch still continues good, espe-
cially for coloured sorts. Wools are firm ; combing
skins and noils obtain good prices, and farmers' lots
average 30s. per tod.—Leicester Journal.

A notice has been received by the Customs' authorities
of a revolving light having been established at the entrance of the
Harbour of St. Juan, in the island of Puerto Rico, and a copy of the
name will be posted, by their directions, at all the ports througLout
the kingdom, for the information of masters of vessels and all other
parties concerned.

POOR REMOVAL BILL.
The following outline gives the general clauses in Sir
Samos Graham's Bill "to consolidate and amend tho
laws relating to the removal of the poor."
1. Repeal of such former Acts of Parliament as relate
to the removal of poor persons settled in England.
2. Declaration, that unsettled persons are to be re-
liesed at the charge of the parish where they are desti-
titute, as if they were settled there, until they are
lawfully removed, or their destitution there is lawfully
at an end.
3. Board of guardians empowered to charge relief in
doubtful cases, subject to warrant of removal, or appeal
to the Commissioners.
4 The books of overseers and relieving officers made
prima facie evidence of chargeability.
5. The Commissioners, with the consent of the ma-
jority of the board of guardians, may make houseless
poor a union charge.
REMov kersons chargeable to a " parish" in
which they are not settled, declared liable to be removed
to the parishes of their settlement.
RESTRICTIONS ON REMOVAL.-7. But persons are not
to be removed from one parish to another parish in the
same union. Their settlements may, however, be ascer-
tained by order of justices.
8. Persons exempted from the liability-to be removed
after five years' residence in parish without relief.
9. Also widows for twelve months after the death of
their husbands.
10. Also children and wives, when the father, mother,
step father, or husband is not removable.
11. Also persons chargeable through temporary sick-
ness or disability from accident.
12. Power to overseers to admit settlements, and
agree to amicable removals.
13. Summons of persons liable to be removed ; their
examination; the warrant for their removal. Proviso
for the examination of persons who cannot attend the
summons.

14. Board of guardians may apply for warrant of re-
moval after notice to the overseers. Proviso for saving
the power of overseers to apply for such warrant.
15. Paid officer may be appointed to conduct removals
and regulations to be made with reference to his duties.
16. No removal to be made until after forty days'
notice, unless the removal be previously submitted to.
In case of appeal, the removal not to be made until such
appeal is ended.
17. Overseers, or persons employed by them, may ex-
ecute the warrant of removal. _ _

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18. Persons procuring removals for the purpose of
causing chargeability to another parish without warrants,
made subject to penalties.
19. Delivery of paupers under warrants of removal, at
;he workhouse of a parish or union, to be regarded as
delivery to the overseers.
20. Suspension of the removal ; recovery of the
charges incurred by such suspension.
21. Appeal where such charges exceed 101.
22. Overseers may abandon a warrant of removal,
paying the costs caused to the other party.
23. The clerk of the justices to transmit a duplicate of
every warrant of removal and the original depositions to
the clerk of the peace.
24. The clerk of the peace, on application, to furnish
copies to the overseers of the parish to which the re-
moval is directed to be made.
25. The parish aggrieved by a warrant of removal
may appeal, giving notice of the grounds of their appeal.
Appeal to be respited only on affidavit of special cir-
cumstances. Warrants of removal made before the
passing of this Act may still be appealed against, as if
the Act had not been passed.
26. Appeals against warrants of removal from parishes
ut of the union not to be entered without the consent of
the board of guardians. Expenses of removal to be
controlled by the board of guardions.
27. Overseers may have access to the pauper touching
his settlement.
28. Summonses of witnesses.
29. Quarter Sessions held fourteen days after notice
af appeal to bear the appeal ; no grounds to be gone
into, but such as have been set forth in the respondents'
and appelants' statements.
30. On the trial of the appeal, the duplicate of the
,varrant, and the original depositions transmitted to the
,clerk of the peace, may be referred to for certain pur-
poses.
31. Costs incurred by reason of notice of removal, or
,f appeal, and costs of trial, and costs caused by state-
aaents of frivolous or vexatious grounds of removal or
appeal, to be awarded and certified by the Court ; re-
covery of such costs.
32. Costs may be taxed by the proper officer at any
time, although the Court be nut sitting.
. 33. The cost o: relief and maintenance of persons
under warrant of removal incurred from the time that
lotice of chargeability was sent, till the time when the
warrants might lawfully be executed, to be repaid to the
parish. Proviso saving the provisions in clause 15, re-
specting suspended warrants.
34. Certiorari taken away.
35. Notices of removal, appeal, &c., may be tent by
post.

r
UARDIANS OF PARISHES INVESTED WITH POWERS
FOR REMOVAL OF POOR PERSONS.-36. B Arch of Guar.
lians of single parishes may act in matters relating to
.he settlement and removal of the poor.
CONSTRUCTION AND LIMITATION OF THE ACT.-
17.—This Act to be construed as one Act with the Poor.
law Amendment Acts.
38. Forms set forth in the schedule to be sufficient in
aw in proceedings under this Act.
39. The Act limited to England.
40. The Act may be amended this session.
The schedules give the form of order of settlement ;
l'orms of admission of settlement, &c. ; of warrant of
removal ; of suspension of a warrant of removal, to be
qlorsed on the back of such warrant ; of a permission
to execute the warrant of removal, to be endorsed there •
and order of payment of expenses incurred by the
suspension ; of notice of application for a warrant of
..emoval ; and of consent of guardians to overseers ap-
„waling against warrant of removal.

CASE OF THE LADY SALE.
(From the Nitutical Standard.)
The owners, master, and crew of the ship Lady Sale,
,eve been subjected to every kind of annoyance and in-
sastice short of being tried and condemned for an offence
.)f which they were not guilty. We trust their guilt or
nnocenee will yet be made clear as noonday. The
)wners of the Lady Sale cannot sit down tinier the im-
autation of trading in slaves; and if their vessel has been
!legally condemned, the Portuguese Government must
restore the value of her and pay all expense,. It is evident
,he matter cannot rest in its present undefined position.
Capt. Tyrrell, and his crew, after being brought to England
is felons, in vain appeal to the Thames-police magistrates;
hey are referred to her Majesty's Government. The
Lords of the Admiralty virtually dismissed the case,
when the master and cre w were ordered by them to be
iberated from custody on board the Duke of Cornwall.
If innocent, surely they had serious grievances to redress
—if guilty, justice was outraged, and the sincerity of Eng-
land's zsal in the oppression of slavery laid open to suspi-
ion by our Government not showing itself anxious to sift
his matter to its last grain of truth. One would really
imagine it an affair of every-day occurrence, fur the
e-sw of a British vessel to be sent home as prisoners guilty
X felony in trading for slaves ; and that England felt
nclined to make as light of the crime imputed to them
.i.s the Portuguese, when slave-crews are sent on shore
tt Princes Island. Yes, these men charged with felony
ere turned loose in England by Government, without a
.ilgle intimation of being made to them, as to the belief
,f the authorities in their guilt or innocence. The owners
lave lest their ship, and refuse to pay the wages of their
-row; nnd,while the amount claimed by the mate takes his
me oat of the magistrate's hands, and transfers it to the
Court of Admiralty, the sailor is refused a summons,
which might lead to the recovery of his few pounds,
hardly earned in the pestilent climate of Africa, because, I
orsooth, he is miserably poor, and carnet buy even two
shillingsworth of justice! What a mockery is it, that
the Merchant Seamen's Act provides for the pay-
ment of a sailor's wages " within three days after the
cargo shall be delivered, or seven days after the man's
lischarge, whichever shall first happen, when it must
first happen, that the seaman whose wages are unjustly
withheld has two shillings in his pocket wherewith to
buy a summons from those who sell the commodity
in a court of justice. If he has not that sum, he must
raise it from some Jewish money lender, who having
once got a lien upon the poor fellow's wages, knows
well how to appropriate a considerable proportion of
the remainder. We could hardly have believed it
ooseible, did we not know it as a fact, that on the
Friday of last week, two seamen of the Lady Sale
were refused summonses to recover their wages from
the master of that ship because they had not two shil-
lings a-piece wherewith to pay fur them. Of what
use is the " Merchant Seamen's Act" to the sailor
without two shillings in his pocket? It would seem that
.he whole case of the Lady Sale, from first to last, re-
quires investigation and amendment. Guilty or innocent,
tier sailors have in either case less than their due. The
country is not satisfied, for a Portuguese man-of- war has
insulted our flag, and appropriated the proprerty of our
merchants under false pretences ; or that flag has been
prostituted to the worst of purposes; we have slave-dealers
in Liverpool! and a British slaver has been taken in the
African seas, beneath which the bones of many thousand
English sailors lie, whose lives have been sacrificed to
:oppress the slave trade. In defiance of our treaties with
foreign nations—in despite of our laws, which declare
slave trading piracy, and give to the crew of a slaver
the pirate's death, the seamen of the Lady Sale, with
their characters blackened by the judicial condemnation
of their vessel as a slaver, with the pirates' brand upon
their brows, are even now walking the streets of slavery-
hating London with as bold a front as though they were
treading the accursed slave marts of the Havannah. Let
us hope that the proper authorities, however tardy at
present, and difficult to be discovered, will be obliged to
itnte weroferulsat:dmjausstteire, l)
e and ship's
to England, as well as to
h
rious African trader.

PERSONAL APPEARANemEaOnF DAVID HUME.
The
powers
unlike his real ,
physiognomy were
I believe, never formed an3r
discover the d —Nature
the must skilful
trace of the
cha-
racter titan David Hume.
baffled by his countenance; neithereresoloifl
features of
that. ofmouth
in that science pretend to
smallestantnhan i
faculties of his mind in the unmeaning
his visage. His face was broad and fgat,
wide, and without any other expression
im-
becility. His eyes vacant and spiritless, and the
corpu-
lence of his whole person was far better fitted to communi-
cate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman, than of a refined
philosopher. His speech in English was rendered ridicu-
lous by the broadest Scotch accent, and his French was,
if possible, still more laughable ; so that wisdom most
certainly never disguised herself before in so u
hencouth
was
a garb. Though now, near fifty years old,
healthy and strong; but his health and strength, far from
being advantageous to his figure, instead Of manly comeliness,
hid only the appearance of rusticity. His wearing an uni—
form added greatly to his natural awkwardness, for he wore
it like a grocer of the trained bands—Lord Charlemont.

IRELAND.
THREATENING NOTICES.
Dunuw, MARCH IB.—Two young men, entered at Trinity
College here, and, therefore, socially in the rank of gentle-
men, have, I understand, been arrested here to-day by the
police, on a charge of having written and sent two notices to
a gentleman in the vicinity of Dublin, threatening him with
death, and his family with dishonour.
THE APPREIIENDED SCARCITY.
The Cork Reporter of yesterday has a long article com-
plaining of the "evils of delay," and asserting, that while
parties in the state and elsewhere are squabbling among
themselves as to what is to be deemed the starvation test,
sickness and famine are already doing their work.
" The afflicting spectacle," says the Reporter, "of men
and wife borne to the grave from fever was witnessed in
our streets yesterday. The melancholy procession, and the
cry by which they were followed, sufficiently attested the
class to which they belonged—they were of the poor.
Three of their orphans are struggling with the same malady,
and remain in the same building from which they were re-
moved. How many, let us ask, must perish before any of
the four Bills lately passed is in operation, or any of the
food in hand distributed ? Are we to have nothing, and
hear of nothing but precautions ? Will the Fabian policy
conquer hunger and subdue a pestilence? As yet no family
has had ti'paal of the state-imported corn. It is here—it is on

the way—it is grinding—sailing—travelling from one estuary
to another. It is talked of—one day it is off the harbour,
another at the quays; the next it is reloaded and wafted
down the river, and the last announcement left it off the
coast of Dingle, where the ship that bore it loomed through
the mist like the flying Dutchman, disappearing, perhaps,
to attract the anxious gaze of the watchers on some other
shore. We have the substantial proof of food being really
here in the daily marchings and counter marchings of marines
and regulars, but beyond that we have no gratification.
The people do not well know how to apply or where to come
to ; the distant parishes hare heard rumours, but yet require
information. They have received hints and read letters
once or twice, but there is no public proclamation of the terms
on which they are to apply for sustenance. They have gone
on eating or fasting on the tainted potato, imbibing mortal
disease, and have sickened, died, or starved, while the ma-
chinery of grand jury and other intervention was preparing.
Food and employment ought to be afforded at once, in-
stantly. We have said so over and over; we repeated the
warning until we grew tired of the reiteration."
After briefly noticing the fever report recently laid upon
the table of the House of Commons, the Reporter thus con-
tinues :
" Unsound potatoes have bred typhus. The sick are in
some cases quintupled ; contagion is feared ; even the word
we fear to write—cholera is apprehended. Why is this?
Where is it to end? Precautions were taken. Every wise
and ,ufficient antidote was contemplated. The plans were
faultless, the scheme of the campaign against the double foe
of famine and pestilence was without a flaw. Sir Robert Peel
assures us he had foreseen all that was to happen, but how
many are they who have gone to the grave through the
wards of the hospitals while he and his colleagues were quar-
relling and pondering, resigning and resuming office? We
repeat our question, what is the number of dead we must
first count over before food will begin to be distributed?"
And, by way of bearing out the foregoing remarks, the fol-
lowing correspondence is quoted :
" Mayor's-office, Cork, March 11, 1846.
"My Lord,—l take the liberty of addressing your Excel-
lency in compliance with a resolution adopted by the trus-
tees of the Poor Relief Fund of this city, and as the chair-
man of their meeting held on Friday last. It is unnecessary
for me to go into the numerous and most painful details of
the deep distress of the poor of Cork, and of its alarming
progress ; but I am directed to lay before your Excellency
the humble prayer of this committee, that immediate mea-
sures may be taken for a general issue and sale of Indian
corn and oatmeal to the poorer classes, who are at this mo-
ment for the most part subsisting on rotten potatoes, and
among whom cisease is already making fearful ravages.—
I have the honour to be, my Lord, your obedient humble
servant, "A. F. ROCHE, Mayor of Cork.

" To bis Excellency William, Lord Heytesbury,
Lieutenant-Governor and General-Governor of
Ireland, Dublin Castle."

" Dublin Castle, March 14, 1846.
"Sir,—l am commanded by the Lord Lieutenant to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th instant, and
to acquaint you, that by his Excellency's directions, your
communication, with its accompanying resolutions of the
trustees of the Poor Relief Fund of the city of Cork, has been
sent to the Commissioners for inquiring into all matters re-
lating to the failure of the potato crop, for their considera-
tion.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
"RICHARD PENNEFATHER.
" To the Mayor of Cork."

TERRIBLE OUTRAGES.-MURDER OF A MAGIS-
TRATE.

The intelligence from the country to-dayds of the most
painful character. In the long catalogue of crimes reported,
are-
1. The murder of Mr. Carrick, a magistrate, in the county
Clare.
2. Attempt to murder Mr. Smith Blood, who lies danger-
ously wounded, in the same county.
3. Murder of Denis Meara, in the county Tipperary.
4. Murder of Murphy, in the county of Waterford.
Several cases of firing into dwellings, threatening noti,:es,
and violent assaults, make up the frightful record for this
day.
I shall now proceed with some' f the terrible details.
It appears that a meeting of the gentry of Ennis, and the
surrounding district, was held at Spaniel Hill, in the county
Clare, for the purpose of devising means for ' relieving the
distress of the people, and it was returning from this meet-
ing that one of its promoters, Mr. Pierce Carrick, was shot
down by assassins, He was in his car, within a mile of his
home, Toureen-house, when he was fired at from behind a
wall, and a bullet lodged in his thigh. Mr. Carrick jumped
from the car, and without a moment's delay a second shot
was fired. Another ball entered at his groin, and passed
round towards the spine, inflicting the wound of which he
died yesterday morning.
Mr. Carrick was possessed of a considerable estate, which
he managed in such a manner as to give extensive employ-
ment. Ile was also the receiver under the Court of Chan-
cery of a large property, and he appeared to be extremely
popular amongst the people. He was also a Catholic and a
Liberal.
Of the second outrage—the wounding of Mr. Blood—
there are no particulars in town beyond the following, from
the J,;merick and Clare Examiner :—" We have heard that
Mr. Smith Blood, of Castlefergus, who also attended the
meeting at Spaniel Hill, was fired at and dangerously
wounded."
The Limerick Chronicle confirms the above thus :—" There
's an account in town this day that another gentleman, a
magistrate, was fired at last night, between Quin and New-
market-on-Fergus."
A correspondent of the Ecening Packet says, that " A
person named Molloney is in custody, and it is said that Mr.
Carrick identified him at once."
ANOTHER MURDER.

On Sunday night a man named Denis Meara, was mur-
dered by six miscreants, who broke into his house near
Clough-jordan, in the countrof Tipperary. They dashed the
unfortunate man's brains out with clubs and stones. An
inquest was held on the body next day, by Mr. Carroll, when
a verdict of Wilful Murder against persons unknown was
returned.

A THIRD MURDER.
The Waterford Freemen of yesterday contains the follow-
ing :—" A man named Murphy was so severely beaten on his
return from the fair of Killedmund, on Thursday, that he
died on Sunday. The deceased was one of the most power-
ful men in the county, and attended the fair to take part in a
factioa fight, which would have taken place but for the in-
terference of the magistrates, and a large force of police. In
the course of the day several persons were arrested, charged
with this murder."

EXTRAORDINARY AND MELAN

°HOLY DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN.

On Thursday Mr. Biker held an inque3t at the Britannia
Tavern, Commercial-road, Limehouse, on the body of a
male person, apparently about twenty-six years of age,
whose name was unknown, and accordingly so described in

the inquisition.
Th.; first witness examined was Mr. Charles Clenton, the
proprietor of the above tavern, who deposed that on the 14th
of February last the deceased came and engaged apartments
in his house; he went by the name of Mr. St. George, and
-represented himself as connected with the shipping interest.
Witness believed it to be a fictitious name, from the general
tenor of his conduct. He was of very gentlemanly appear-
ance and manners. On Thursday morning, about one o'clock,
he retired to bed, quite sober, having only taken a glass of
brandy and water, and smoked some cigars in the public
coffee-room. _ _ .

Vv
By the Coroner—Deceased was of sound mind and very
gentlemanly in his manners; but there was an evident
anxiety to conceal his real name, he having cut the initials
from his linen.

Edward Lexton, the waiter, said that on descending the
stairs adjacent to the deceased's bed-room, on the morning of
Thursiay last, the deceased called to him in a faint voice for
assistance. He went in and found the deceased lying on the
bed. He was unable to speak for some minutes, when he
said he had been reading in bed and fell asleep; finding his
shirt on fire, he jumped out of bed, and extinguished the fire
as best he could. It happened at three o'clock, but he would
not call for assistance as he was unwilling to disturb the in-
mates of the house, although in great pain.
Mr. Adolphus Burrell, surgeon, of the Commercial-road,
said he was called in and found him dreidfully burned from
the right arm and shoulder down to the hip. He went on
favourably until Tuesday morning, when collapse took
place, and he died in two hours. Death was the result of the
injury sustained by the burns.
After deceased's death, his desk was opened, when, from
a quantity of correspendence therein, it appeared that he is
brother-in-law to the Hon. G. F. Nugent, who is at present
in Ireland, to whom a communication has been forwarded.
The jury returned a verdict of "Death from accidental
burning."
After the inquisition was signed, the Coroner, addressing
Mr. Clenton and signing his warrant for the burial of the
body, asked what was intended to be done?
Mr. Clenton replied that he should keep the body on his
premises as long as he could possibly do so, for its identifica-
tion, and the delivery of some rings, &c., remaining in his
possession.

A NEW LUNATIC ASYLUM.—The noble and spacious
building in the Camberwell New-road, which a year or two since
was occupied by the youths connected with the Royal Naval School,
the head master, and his numerous assistants, has, withift a few
weeks been opened as an asylum for the reception of pauper luna-
tics, by Mr. Aubin, the proprietor of the Infant schools at Norwood.
Already upwards of eighty patients are entered upon the books ; and
the establishment is capable of containing 250 persons. Perhaps a
more airy and healthy situation could not have been selected ; while
the house itself, alluding to domestic arrangements, is replete with
every convenience. The dormitories are extremely well fitted-up,
and ventilated, and the day apartments for the inmates allow ample
space, when the weather is unpropitious, for exercise ; the grounds
also afford abundant scope for recreation and amusement. We were,
we confess, much pleased with the interior accommodation, and not
less with the mild treatment of the poor creatures; there were no
eh sins or manacles to be seen ; no handcuffs or feet-straps, which
used to characterise the whole disgusting and brutal system ; nor
any of that dreadful coercion, which formerly drove those raving
mad who had only slight symptoms of lunacy about them. Nearly
all the inmates were cheerful, and spoke in warm and affectionate
terms of the medical officer and chaplain, and indeed of every one
connected with the asylum. We should rejoice if the Hanwell prac-
tice were to be adopted, as we suspect it wiz, for the poor will know
that their friends and relations, who may unfortunately be afflicted
with lunacy, will then be treated IN ith kindness and without harsh
restraint.
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.-011 Fri lay, a girl named
Susan Pickett, aged 18, servant in the employ of Mr. Abbet, hook-
seller, No. 210, Tottenham-court-road, corernitted suicide under the
following singular circumstances. It appeared that the deceased had
been in her situation for about two months, and bore an excellent
character. On Wednesday night she went to bed somewhat melan-
choly, and the next morning proceeded to her aunt's, in John-street,
and stated that she had had a very curious dream to the effect that.
she had got up and lighted the fire, and then went and hanged her-
self behind the kitchen door. Her aunt, perceiving that she was
frightened, began to expostulate with her upon the folly of her fears,
and she afterwards seemed more cheerful. She went home, and re-
tired to rest at the usual time, but the next morning (Friday)
was discovered suspended to the kitchen-door, with a rope fixed
tightly round her neck. A surgeon was called in, but life was quite
extinct. The body now awaits the inquest.
At the Southwark Police-court, on Friday, William
Gordon, a inan of respectable appearance, was committed for trial,
charged with committing several robberies under the pretext of sell-
ing patent ink.