The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-06 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL MAGAZINE'.

This is the first number of a new periodical, professing
to furnish,
" First, Original Articles and selected documents referring
to commercial subjects.
" Second, Papers on the varic us branches of commercial
law, which should be familiar to all men of business.

"Third, Mercantile Statistics of every description ; and
"Fourth, Commercial and Monetary Intelligence of the
kind most required by merchants and bankers, as indicative
of the prospects of trade and of the currency.
The want of such a periodical has long been felt. The
army, the navy, the professions of law, of medicine, of
the church, have each their own special magazine.
Every class of religionists has its organ—bankers, and
builders, and engineers, and artists, and railway pro-
prietors, and mechanics, have each their one or more
journals; but the great commercial body has as yet had
no magazine specially engaged in their service, open at
all times as a repository of commercial statistics ready
to do battle in behalf of the commercial portion of the
community, where necessity may require. This want
it is the objfict of the projectors of the present pe-
riodical to supply; and, judging from the contents of the
first number, the commercial body cannot desire a more
talented instructor, a more efficient advocate, or a more
able organ than the Commercial Magazine. Its policy is
in strict unison with the principles of free trade, and
perhaps the most able article which has yet appeared on
the sugar question is the opening phper of this magazine.
We have also a most able article on the commercial law
of stoppage in transitu, besides the monetary and trade
reports of the month, the new tariff complete, and an im-
mense mass of useful statistical iuformation on matters
relating to trade and commerce.

THE NEW NAVY LIST and General Record of
the Services of Officers of the Royal Navy and Royal
Marines. Conducted by Joseph Allen, Esq., R.N.,
Greenwich .Hospital.
The New Navy List, as edited by Mr. Allen, is not a
mere dry list of names ; it is a readable, and, in many
instances, most amusing book. At the end of each list it
gives a complete record of the services of every officer in
the list, and thus furnishes us with a resume of our naval
annals during the last three-quarters of a century—the
most glorious three-quarters 6' a century in British
naval history. • As a specimen of the manner in which
Mr. Allen has performed this portion of his task, we
extract the following record of the services of Sir Charles
Napier:—
" Sir C. Napier, Lieutenant of Courageux, at capture of
Marengo and Belle Poule, 1806. Commander of Recruit,
18 gun brig, in action with Fr. 20 gun corvette Diligente, in
1808; and in same brig at the capture of Martinique, 1809,
and at capture of Fr. 74 gun-ship Hautpolt, which ship he
closely engaged. Captain of Thames, and in conjunction
with Cephalus, destroyed a convoy on the coast of Italy,
1811; and assisted at the capture of another, in company
I with mperieuse, in 1812. In company with Pilot took the
port of Sapri ,• and in 1813 commanded the naval forces at
the capture of Ponza, and assisted at the capture of a convoy
in Calvacie Roads. Captain of Euryalus in the Potomac,
at the capture of Alexandria, and attack on Baltimore.
Commopore on the coast of Syria in Powerful, in various
operations, including the bombardment of St. Jean D'Acre,
180. Gaz. 1799, 1809, 11, 11, 12, 13, three times, 1814."
Mr. Allen's New .Navy List is the most complete
record of the services of our naval and marine officers
extant. The improvements introduced into the first
number of the revised series have been perfected in the
present, and the editor proposes to extend them in his
January number, by introducing distinguishing marks
against the names of those officers who have received
medals from the Royal Humane Society, or other public
bodies, for saving the lives of their fellow-creatures.

FUNERAL Lf the BABOO DWAR-
KANAUT II TAG ORE.
The mortal remains of this highly esteemed and dis-
tinguished foreigner was yesterday consigned to a vault at
Kensal-green.
In accordance with the wish of the son of the deceased,
the funeral was conducted in a strictly private manner.
The cortege left the late residence of the Baboo (St.
George's Hotel, Albemarle-street), at half-past ten o'clock
yesterday morning.
The hearse was succeeded by Major llenderson's private
carriage, in which rode the son of the deceased, Nogendra-
nath Tagore, Mohun Lal, and Nobin Chundro Mookiyse, a
young Indian of distinction, related to the Baboo. A mourn-
ing coach followed, in which rode Sir Edward Ryan (the
appointed guardian to deceased's son), Major Henderson
(the deceased's partner), Dr. Raleigh, and Mr. D. J. Mac-
killop. A second mourning coach contained the Hon. Captain
R. Gore, Captain Henderson, Mr. C. Plowden, and. Dr.
Goodeve. A third contained Mr. Mordaunt Ricketts, Mr.
Prinsep, General Ventura, and Mr. Roberts, all intimate
personal friends of the Baboo. The mourning coaches were
succeeded by the private carriage of Mohun Lal, which con-
veyed three native students. The courier and domestic
establishment in the service of the ILboo closed the pro-
cession, these latter riding in the deceased's private carriage.
On arriving at the cemetery the cavalcade filed off into
the unconsecrated portion of the grgand, where, nearly
opposite the entrance gate, a large brick vault had: been
prepared.
Every portion of the ceremony was conducted in solemn
silence, broken only by the peals of thunder and tempest oY
rain which burst over the cemetery just at the period of its
performance. The officiating chaplain to the cemetery, the
Rev. Mr. Twigger, was in attendance in his private capacity,
but no religious service of any kind was performed over the
body.
As the mourners were about to retire they were requested
by Nogendranath Tagore to remain until the vault was
closed, a desire which they of course at once complied with.
This occupied some time. At length a huge stone having
been placed over ther cavity the parties retired to their car-
riages and left the ground.
The son of the deceased was attired in an Indian costume
composed wholly of black cloth. Mohun Lal and the other
Indians present wore the ordinary brilliant costume of their
country.
The coffin containing the deceased's remains had a very
magnificent appearance. It was covered with puce silk
velvet, and studded with silver ornaments. On the lid were
two silver plates—the one bearing the style and titles of the
deceased Baboo in the llindostanee language, and the second
a translation of the same in English, as follows :
" BABOO DWARKANAUTII TAGORE, ZUMINDAR, DIED
IST AUGUST, 1846, AGED 51 TEARS."
It is stated that the fine face and features of the deceased
were so little changed by death, that the parties called on
to perform the usual offices on similar mournful occasions
were with some difficulty persuaded that the spirit had fled.
While in this state a cast of the Baboo's face was taken.
The heart was subsequently removed from the body for
transmission to India, there to be dealt with in accordance
with the tenets of the sect to which the Baboo belonged.
•

PARLIAMENTA KY BUSINESS.
;From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.

WEDNESDAY, AUG 5.
MESSAGE FROM TILE LORDS.
Messengers from the Lords brought up the following Bills, which
their Lordships had agreed to:—
Edinburgh Paving (No. 2) Bill—Argyll Canal Bill —Taw Vale
Railway Extension Bill—Sligo Ship Canal illill—Campbehown Har-
bour, Waterworks, and Paring Bill—Amendments to Lord Kin-
naird's (sir John Webb's) Estate Bill —Wisbech, St. Ives, and Cam-
bridge Junction Railway Bill, without amendment—Rugby and
Leamington and Warwick Railway Bill—Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle Railway Bill—Airdrie and Bathgate Junction Railway Bill
—London and South-Western Railway (Basingstoke and Salisbury
Extension) Bill—West London Railway Improvement and Extension
Bill, with Amendments.

THE TWENT Y-FIFTH REPORT
FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAIL-
WAY BILLS CLASSIFICATION.
The Select Committee appointed for the Classification of Railway
Bills, according to the Resolutions adopted by the House, have
considered the several matters referred to them, and agreed to
report as fellows :
Your Committee recommend that the Cork and Waterford Railway
Bill be referred to a distinct Committee, Group No. 72.

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The following Members were in the House when counted
out on Tuesday evening :
Mr. Strutt
Sir W. Fell(len
Mr. Maitland
Mr. Parker

Dr. Bowring
I\ Ir. Bouverie
Mr. IL Berkeley
➢!r. B. Escott

Mr. Tamil Mr. D. Morris
Mr. Brown (Lan.) Mr. Wawn
Lord J. Russell Lord M. Hill
Mr. Ewart Chancellor of Exchequer
Mr. Warburton Sir E. Colebrooke
Mr. Pattison
Mr. Fox Maule
Mr. Langston
Mr. Duncan
Mr. Christie
Mr. Dickinson
(' Lord Courtanay Sir T. Esmond
Mr. Hawes Sir G. Grey
Mr. Hume Mr. Thornely
Mr. Barnard.
Mr. Mitcalfe
Mr. Baine

An accident happened a short time since on the
Southern Austrian Railway, near Cilli. The engine ran off
the rails, and drew after it three waggons. Fortunately no
One was killed, and only two men, an engineer and a stoker,
wounded. The cause of the accident is not known.

NA' TAL INTELLIGENCE.
POUTSMOUTI.4 WEDNESDAY.—The Comet steam-vessel,
Lieutenant-Co cans ander Johnson, returned from Devonport
this afternoon .whither she had conveyed arms for the In-
flexible to ta'se out to the Cape, and left again at 6 o'clock
for the eastw and with supernumeraries.
The folio wing extract of a private letter received this
afternoon dr.scribes the passage of the Constance and Eury-
dice front Spitteact to Plymouth sound :
" On leavi og Spithead all ashore must have seen how
beautifully 7.2:urydice took the lead, and maintained it for two
hours, whell she was 5.5.E.4E., near two miles. The wind
on startin g was near S.W., but just before tacking it
changed t o W.S. W., which gave the Constance the advan-
tage of ti :To points, yet they crosred each other within 300
yards, the Eurydice to leeward; but at 4 pm.•(Sunday) the
Constano a Was to leeward, and at 8 rm. she bore S.S E.
five miles , wind variable from S.W. to W. by S. After mid-
night they bad a leading wind until daylight, when the Con-
stance was seen S.S.E., courses down from deck. At 9 A.m.
(Monday), wind from W.N.W., the Constance bore E. S.
13 miles, and by noon the Eurydice lost sight of her, bearing
E. Tae Eurydice continued to make the best of her way,
and st ortened sail this morning (Tuesday) at 2 A.M., Eddy-
stone Light 'W. three. miles, and at lyreak of day bore up,
anchoring in the Sound shortly attar 6 A.M. At ell A.M. the
Constance made her number, but kits not yet (1.45 P.M ) ar-
rived. This shows the Eurydice to advantage, as she must
have left her competitor fast. Of course the variable winds
precluded a fair trial, and renders it impossible to enter more
fully into detail as to. distance.".

A gunner's mate, belonging to the Excellent, named John
Porter, lately serving in the Warspite, 50, fell, i❑ descending
the side, into the Liberty boat, on Monday evening, and his
head striking the boat's gunwale, he died instantly. He was
interred to-day, the ships, as the procession passed, tolling
their bells.

The Athol troop-ship did not sail yesterday, according to
Admiralty order, and remains at Spithead.
The Aid, naval lighter, Smallman master, arrived this
morning with stores from the eastern yards.
The following ships have served the usual term of commis-
sion (three years); some of them nearly double that time,
and may shortly be expected home to be paid off. Many of
them, having been relieved, are on their passage:—

Ship's Names.

Agincourt, flag-ship
Acheron, steam-

vessel ..
Alert
Castor
Cleopatra ..

Conway
Cormorant, steam-
sloop

Curocoa
Cyclops, steam-sloop
Daphne
Driver, steam-sloop
Espoir
Ficn-trti

Gorgon, steam-sloop
Hazard ..
Ileela, steam-sloop
Venues, steam-sloop
Hydra, steam-sloop
Lark
Modesto • • ..

North Star
'Orestes

Royalist .. • •
Salamander, steam-
sloop .. . •

Sappho ..

Sealark . • ..
Spider .. .
Spiteful, steam-sloop
Talbot • • ..

Thunderbolt, steam-

By whom
commanded

leapt. Johnston

Lieut. Aplin ..
Corn. Ellis ..
Capt. Graham
Capt. Wyvil ..

'Capt. Kelley ..

004 •: ••
Tyne ..
Vestal ..
Virago, steam-sloop
Wasp
Wolf
Wolverine

Corn. Gordon .
Capt. Broughton
S Capt. Lapidge
s Capt. Onslow..
; Com. Mayes ..
) Com. hand
! Capt. Duntze
Corn. II anilton
Com. Crouch ..
Coin. Egerton
Cern. Stunner
Lieut. Carr ..
Coln. Young ..
LieuE. Lawrence

Coin. Watkins
Ct. Sir J. Home
Com. Cannon..
Com. Wilson ..
Corn. Reed ..
Com. relley
Com. Ogle

iCapt. Hamond
Coin. Gambier

lOn what station

jEast Indies; ..

;Corn. Gooch • •
'Lieut. Pym • •
ICorn. Maitland
,Captain Sir T.
Thompson • •

Nfediterranean
Coast of Africa
East Indies ..
Cape of Good
Hope ..
Cape of Good

Hope ..
Pacific .. ..
Brazils .. ..

IC ban. Squadron
Pacific • • ..

'East Indies
Coast of Africa
Pacific
Pacific
Brazils
East Indies ..
Mediterranean
West Indies ..
Coast of Africa
West Indies ..
Pacific
East Indies ..
Mediterranean
East Indies ..
Brazils ..
West Indies ..
East Indies ..

When
commis-
sioned.

Feb., 1842

Com. Boyle ..
'Capt. Glasscock
Capt. Talbot ..
'Con.
Lunn ..
Com. Ussher • .
Corn.Vordon..
Coin. Clifford..

Dec , 1842
July, 1843
Apr 11,1843

April,lB42

May, 1843
April,lB43
Feb., 1843
Mar., 1843
July, 1842
Sept.,lB4l
May, 1843
May, 1843
Nov., 1842
Nov., 1842
Oct., 1841
Jan., 1843
May, 1843
Aug., 1843
July, 1842
June,lB43
Aug., 1841
Aug., 1842
July, 1843
April,lB43
Mar.,1843
Oct., 1841

Pacific
Cape of Good
Hope ..
Coast of Africa
Brazils ..
East Indies ..

Pacific ..

June,lB42

'Cape of Good

Feb , 1843
Oct., 1843
April,lB42
Dec., 1842

Hope • . • •
Mediterranean
East Indies'. ..
Mediterranean
Coast of Africa
East Indies ..
East Indies

Apr 11,1842

Dec., 1843
Apr 41,1843
Nov., 1843
May, 1843
Oct., 1842
June, 1842
Jan., 1842

The above list does not include surveying or other vessels
employed on " particular service," whose terms of commis-
sion are not defined, as are the other ships in the Royal
Navy. We may add to the above the America, 50, Captain
the Hon. J. Gordon, hourly expected from the Pacific with
valuable freight, but whose term of service will not expire
until February next. _ _

A terrific thunder-storm visited this place this morning be-
tween the hours of three and five o'clock, creating the most
alarming consternation among the inhabitants, none of
whom had ever experienced anything like it before. The
lightning continued to flash as if in one uninterrupted blaze
of various hues during the whole time, and long after day-
light the storm continued. Peal after peal of thunder, more
like the cannonade of a fleet or army, each succeeding one
louder than the last, shook the place and all in it, during
the time the terrific strife of the elements lasted. A mass of
water, accompanied by huge hailstones (for it surely
could not be called rain), fell during the storm, de-
luging the streets, and choking up such few drains as the
locality is blessed with, beating down standing crops,
smashing windows and skylights, conservatories, &c. The
electric fluid entered a house in Mount Pleasant, Landport,
by the chimney, smashed the looking-glass, and set fire to
the tenement; happily an elderly woman and a child who
were in the house at the time were not injured, and the fire
was immediately subdued by the neighbours. At another
part of Portsea, a woman was so shocked by the thunder and
lightning as to fall into a state of catalepsy, from which it is
feared she will never be roused to life. Further inwards,
Portsea has received considerable damage from the iioods
which have rushed down Portsdown-hill and deluged the
meadows and roads below to a most destructive extent,
which, following so closely upon the awful storm of Friday
night last and Sunday night, will, it is feared, form a sad
item in the harvest accounts of many small farmers and
others whose crops were exposed to the ravages of the floods.
The electric telegraph is, of course, hors de combat. Such
shocks as it has met with in the late storms will take some
time to adjust. It is conjectured that the attraction it ap-
pears to present to the electric fluid will be an insnrmount-
able bar to its sate and effectual working in the dockyard,
where so much attractive and combustible matter is at pre-
sent stored. Much fear was entertained for the safety of
powder in magazines at this port. The houses situate low
in Portsmouth, Portsea, Southsea, and the adjacent villages
were all inundated to some depth with water, which, owing
to the very inefficient drainage, will be some time in sub-
siding.
SHEERNESS AUGUST s.—The Mutine, 12, Commander
Crawford, discharged her powder at the Little Nora on Sun-
day, and was towed up to Chatham on Monday, where she is
to be taken into the dock at present occupied by the Trident
steam-sloop, nearly ready for sea.
The Columbine, 16, Commander Booth, arrived from
Chatham yesterday morning, and is now having her com-
passes adjusted in this harbour. She will undergo the usual
inspection by the Commander-in-Chief, and afterwards sail
for Portsmouth, where she is to be paid advance wages and
receive her final orders.

An accident which might have terminated in the destruc-
tion of that fine vessel the Dragon steam-frigate occurred
here on Sunday evening. It appears that an old canvas
jacket had been left behind a bull's eye of one of the paddle-
box cabins, which by the convergence of the rays of the sun
had ignited and was smoking away at a furious rate when it
was happily discovered by the pol►ceman on
,!luty, who gave
the alarm. The fire was soon afterwards subdued without
having done the slightest injury to the vessel.