The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-22 00:00:00

A VETERAN AMAZON.

The Indicateur of Bordeaux has opened a subscrip-
tion in behalf of a heroine whose history is thus related
by the journal above-mentioned :—" There has been
staying at Bordeaux, for several days past, a poor
woman, already advanced in age, who has passed her
winter days in receiving assistance from some poor
people, and in the cold and wet nights slept in
granges or stables, for want of means to procure
a better lodging. Catherine Rohmer was born at
Bolmar in 1782. Her father was a sergeant, and
her mother followed the camp. At the siege of Cal-
abria she saw her father killed, and at the battle of
Fleurns a cannon-ball carried off the head of her
mother. In 1802, Catherine Rohmar married Fran-
cois Girard, the drum -major of the 62d half-brigade,
A sutler, like her mother, she followed the division or
General Donnadieu, was present at the taking of
Saragossa, entered with the division in Portugal, and
afterwards returned to Barcelona. At this epoch she
had already eight sons all following her regiment.-
From Barcelona she went to Austria with the division
of General Charriere, and received a lance-wound at
the battle of Wagram. She was present at the taping
of Vienna, and also at the battles of Glogkau, lintzen,,
and Bautzen ; accompanied General Rapp to Dstntaie,
stayed a short time at Dresden, and from thence
passed several months in garrison at Naples. Ever
ready to support the fatigues of war and expose her
life in attending to the wounded, she returned again
to Spain, and was present at the taking of Girona,
where her husband was decorated. On this occasion
she acted as a soldier herself, and taking up a musket
fought against the enemy, who for a moment seemed
likely to be victorious. Attached to the expedition
tent against Russia, she went to 'Warsaw, Cracow,
and even as far as Moscow. In the retreat, Catherine
Rohmer crossed, with the first division, the bridge of
the Beresina, and was counted among the 25 meat
who alone remained of the four battalions of 1,000 men
each who entered Russia. At Courbevoie, near Paris,
her regiment was re•organised. She took part in the en-
counters of Chalons, Troyes, Bar-sur-Aube, and
Brienne, and was at Fontainbleau when Napoleon abdi-
cated. With her husband she set out to follow the Em-
peror to the island of Elba. and had then ten sons in
the army. She returned to Paris, and lastly was present
at the battle of Waterloo. In ISIS, her husband was
appointed adjutant in the artillery. In 1823, she fol-
lowed Girard to Spain, where be wt,s killed by a mus-
ket shot between Barcelona and Gracia. She returned
alone to France, and married Antony. Varin, a sergeant-
major, accompanied the latter to Algeria, and was pre-
sent at the - taking of Algiers, Bona, Mascara. Oran.
and Constantine. In this place she lost her husband
and two of her sons, and was herself wounded at
Bougie and in the engagement of the Maison Carree.

The Government prosecution against the proprietor
of the Nation has failed. There being no prospect of the
jnty coming to an agreement, yesterday (Thursday), about
two o'clock, they were discharged by the consent of the
Crown and the traverser. We understand they were nearly
equally divided in opion, there being seven for conviction.
and-five for acquittal. That they could have agreed npifn a
verdict of acquittal was scarely to be hoped for.--Dubin
Freeman.

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The Philadelphia Gazette states that smile armed
schooners, brigs, and small steamers, arc now fitting at New
York, for the purpose of cruising in the Gulf of Mexico.
Lieut. T. D. Shaw of this city is named as having been or-
dered to the command of the Petrel, to cruise in the Gulf
o f Mexico.

TEE MILE:---There is a great difference in the num-
ber of yards in a mile, in different countries. The following
table- will be useful :—England, or America, 1760 yards ;
Russia, 1109; Italy, 1476 ; Scotland and Ireland, 2200;
Poland, 4400; Spain, 5028 ; Germany, 4866 ; Sweden and
Denmark, 7223; Hungary, 8800.
EXPOSURE TO THE SUN.—There are few points
which seem less generally understood, or more clearly proved,
than the fact, that exposure to the sun, without exercise
sufficient to create free perspiration, will produce illness; and
that the (same) exposure to the sun,with sufficient exercise,
will not produce illness. Let any man sleep in the sun, he
will awake perspiring and very ill—perhaps he will die. Let
the same man dig in the sun for the same length of time, and
he will perspire ten times as much, and be quite well. The
fact is, that not only the direct rays of the ban, but the heat
of the atmosphere, produce abundance', bile, and powerful
exercise alone will carry off that bile.—. Popular Errors Ex-
plained.
Books are to be opened in New York, 28th proximo,
for subscription to raise 1,000,000 dollars for shares in the
Ocean Steam Ship Company, which is lately incorporated by
that state, and has a contract with the United States
Government for conveying t he mails, &c., to other countries.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JUNE 19.—About 400
hhds. West India, and 1,000 mats Mauritius have found
buyers this week at the former currency; the market con-
tinues dull, and purchases are still only made to supply im-
mediate wants. In East India there is very little doing.
Refined goods vet:), scarce, and prices have further tendency
to advance.—Bristol Mercury.
'BOLT.--This week, a poor man lost a lovely ti ° y
about three and a half years old, and of course appliadfo;
a Christian burial, but this was refused, because the little
fellow was not a Christian, not having been christened by a
"lndor yet baptitod • by
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unto eteehmartilehT,6, , babuotnwtatswfeel‘e
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like a dog. The
_only mourner allowed to
afflicted mother, present was the
bneight, and buried
who marked the spot where theyh
prejudicedadlaid
her child, then with tearful eves, and a breast heaving with
sorrow, returned to her home, of course not at all
in favour of that church which refused Christian burial to
her son.-esZkverfbie News. . - '
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ACTIVITY AT TUE CHARLESTON NAVY YARD.--AA
Boston journal state that
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Charleston Navy Yard. about_ _ ,
s, there 7
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m
Between three and four hundred of these are to work on. the
Independence. She will probably be ready for her crew in
J seven or eight weeks. The rope-walk at this yard is turning
out about fifteen tons of cordage daily, for the navy. There
are already collected at the Charleston
frame
eyafordr a two
e complete
steamer:
for
frames tor sea steamers, and
harbour defence. All these might be put up and got off its
BEGGING PETITION.--tin Friday
a short time. upon emergency.
afternoon, a man
called on Mr. Harmer, at Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe,, with a
petition, numerously stating that the bearer, John
Gibbs, a farmer, at Ayleiford,had, since April last, lost.four
signed,
valuable horses and three cow
and upwards, and that he wolifle3d tbi i: at
ot et
adua the value of 93/.
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ruined and like-
wise his family,uniees aided by the benevolent in the western
part of of the county of Kent. It, however, happened that Mr-
-firmer had only a few minutespreviouslv read a paragraph in
th e .3ra idstone Gazetre, cautioning the piddle against being im-
posed on by this individual, and stating that the signatures
to the petition were forgeries. He, therefore, told the man
he should detain, him and his memorial, whereupon the
fellow set off at full speed from the front of the house to-
wards the river, and would doubtless have escaped, had
not Mr. Harmer raised an alarm to some people who were
making hay in the ' Pia, when some of the females ran
and got over the Park fence, seized and held him securely
until some of Mr, Harmer's servants came up and took
him Into custody. On being conveyed before 'Axe
Rev. Mr. Renouard, . a neighbouring jFstice, the man -
mitted that the mcmorial-kwas a fabrication, and that his
name, instead of being Sohn Gibbs, was William Miles.; Mr.
Renouard committed him for examination to the lock-up at
Dartford, convicted and .unish
and he will, no doubt, be con p ed
signatures r
as a rogue and vagabond. Amongst the , eq,9,,,
Rey E. G. Marsh Vics.r
mending the petitioner were the • . ,
of Avlesford; the Rev. W. Valiance, Lady M'ariarinch, the
Bev, C. R., Sir J. H. Horley, Ashenden is-.id Son, Colonel
Best, Edward Wickham, the Rev. J. Stiepherd, and '4bout
ilizty other indiyidualf.
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RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

so:

(SATURDAY.)

HOUSE OP LORDS.
ANTS= AND LINCOLNSEME.

Th;Coranii 'nee assembled to-day at the usual hour, Lard
Scans= lathe chair.

iteedu be recollected that in the course of the inquiries of
this Committee the several schemes for communication be-
tween the manufacturing districts and the agricultural coun-
ties on the eastern coast have been brought under considera-
tion. The several companies are now arrived at a point
where it is impossible to distinguish the opposition of their
several interests, and instead, therefore, of using the titles of
the several companies, It will be more intelligible to designate
the group by the title affixed.
The legal evidence continued this morning was on the Swin-
ton and Don ter line, which is especially opposed by the
Doncaster, Wakefield, and Leedsline. Yesterday much dispute
arose upon the respective position of these two companies,
and it was decided that the former of these two companies
could not appear as opponents to the latter. To-day a ques-
tion was raised on the disadvantage which the Swinton and
Doncaster Company would be placed in by the right at that
time possessed by the Wakefield and Doncaster in the power
to call witnesses against their opponents while there could
be no rebutting proofs. On this a long argument arose, the
raona was cleared, and the Committee ultimately decided
that the Wakefield and Doncaster Company should not bring
forward evidence against the Swinton and Doncaster line,
bat the landowners on the line were to be allowed to be
called, and that Mr. Sergeant Wrangham should be per-
mitted to address the Committee on the evidence offered.
Lord Wharncliffe was then called, and he testified as to
the quantity of minerals raised, and stated his impression,
that if the Swinton and Doncaster line were to be made
the monopoly of the carriage of coals would fall into the
hands of the Midland Counties. He was himself a large
coal-owner and was anxious for a free transmission of
. the
coal from the West Riding to the Eastern Counties. Besides,
there would be great difficulty in the return of merchandise
np the line.
Mr. Martin, also a coal-owner and resident at Worsborough
Hall, confirmed this testimony, and stated that on an
average there were 75 vessels containing coals going on the
canal of the Don River Company, averaging 40 tons each,
and making an aggregate of 3,000 tons a year, and that he
thought was better than the interference with the general
trade proposed by this new company.
Mr. Byam, the agent of Lord Wharncliffe, gave similar
testimony, but no new principle was elicited.
Earl fitzwilliam was then called, and he eeplained his
refusal, and assent and dissent from the line, by stating that
he had, in the first place, objected to the Swinton and
Lincoln, or, as it it is now called, the Swinton and
Doncaster line, in consequence of the great injury
it was likely to do to the residential property of
Sir Joseph Copley; in fact, he believed that it was
intended to tunnel under the house itself.—(Laughter.)
But he had withdrawn his opposition when the line was
carried on the other side of the river, and therefore avoided
that injury. When, however, he gave that assent the line
of the Swinton Company was to be carried as far as Lincoln ;
and as the great object of the coal-owners was to get to the
north of Lincolnshire, the case was materially altered when
the line stopped s. ort at Doncaster; fir not only was that
circumstance likely to interrupt the communication between
the districts to be accommodated beyond each of the termini,
but it would throw a monopoly into the beetle of the Midland
Counties Company. I:e is chairman of the South
Yorkshire Coal Company. theugh no railway director; and
in that capacity he had to say that the proprietors would
infinitely prefer a line which was merely a coal line to one
which is intended for the mixed traffic of passengers and
goods. With respect to the great supply of corn from the
Isle of eteehohne, although he must allow that the Sheffield
district was eminently important, he yet. thought the
Leeds—the whole of the clothing district—trom its popula-
tion and wealth, was more so, and consequently, as be con-
ceived, there was five times the quantity carried up the
Aire and Calder canal that was carried up the river Don. j
The Committee here adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP XVIII.
EXETER, YEOVIL, AND DORCHESTER
(LONDON, SAWS/IVRY, AND YEOVIL
BRANCH).
The Committee met at the usual hour; Mr. B. Denison in
the chair.

The Committee were occupied the whole of the day in
pang the several clauses of the Bill, including a protecting
clause to the Earl of Digby.
Considerable discussion wit place as to the forms of the
clause compelling the Exeter and Yeovil Company to lay
down the additional rails for the convenience of the bread
gauge traffic.

Aclause was finally agreed upon, referring the matter in
general terms to the Board of Trade, in accordance with the
re,:olutions arrived at by the Committee yesterday.
The several clauses were then passed, and the report
agreed to.
The Committee rose at four o'clock.

GROUP XX.
The Committee met to-day at eleven o'clock, in Room No.
31 (Grand Corridor) ; present, Mr. Sotheron (chairman), Lord
William Bentinck, Mr. Pigott, Mr. Tancred, and Mr. Ross.
The Committee had adjourned from Wednesday to this
day, for the purpose of hearing Mr. Cockbum's summing up
and reply is the cases of the London, Hounslow and
Western, and the Richmond Railway (Kew Branch), the
evidence for and against those lines having been concluded.
In consequence, however, of Mr. Cockburn's engagement at
the Old Bailey, these cases were deferred, and the Com-
mittee proceeded with the only remaining Bill in the group,
namely,

WITAILIIST =ON IRAZIMITAir DESSOLVITTO.
Mr. PAGET, for the promoters, stated the object of the Bill
to be to enable this Company (which was incorporated by the
Act the 41st Geo. III.) to sell the lands, houses, and other
property of the company together with the navigable com-
munication from the dock of the company to the River
Thames at Wandsworth, in the county of Surrey, and to dis-
solve the company. The inadequacv of the returns was of
course the ground of application far this Bill.
Mr. Cooic, for Messrs. Child, Lyon, Denison and other
persons interested in the maintenance of the line, opposed the
Bill, on the ground that capital had been expended in mills,
wharfs, and other establishments, on the faith that the rail-
way should be maintained. The opposing parties claimed,
on the alternative a reasonable compensation from the pro-
ceeds of any sale which Parliament might authorise.
Evidence was given of the fact that the Company were
almost wholly without funds, that there was little or no
traffic, and that, in short, it was almost impossible for the
company to keep the line open. There were but four or
five persons who ever used the line; and Mr. Lyons and
Mr. Child, who had branches to their mills, were among
the number. This was originally a double line; but as it
bad got very much out of repair, one line of rails wee taken
up to repair the a :er.
Mr. Burcham, solicitor to the South-Western R4ilwa
Company, and also to Mr. Chaplin (the Sheriff of London),
who is chairman of that company, gave evidence of an
agreement between his clients on the one hand, and the Sur-
rey Iron Railway on the other, for the purchase of the line
by the former (in case this Bill should pass) for the sum of
14,000/. The South-Western Company were quite willing
to keep their contract, although they had found they had
made a bad bargain. They did not undertake to continue
the railway, having carefully worded the contract in such a
manner that it should only bind them to purchase the land.
Be had, however, no doubt it would be continued as a rail-
way. When the compact was made, the South-Western
Railway Company intended to apply to Parliament for a
Bill to make a line from Wandsworth to Brighton, in con-
nexion with which this line would become profitable; but
that the Bill, on being submitted to Parliament, was lost
on the standing orders ; and a Bill for a line between the
same termini had been obtained by the London and Bir-
mingham Company. The line would therefore be of less
value than was originally anticipated.
Upon the conclusion of Mr. Burcham's evidence,
Mi. PAGET handed in a copy of the Bill, with some of the
elauste amended, and others inserted, the object of which
amendments and insertions he explained thus :—By the
Lands Clauses Consolidation Actl the landowners upon aline
of railway had a right of pre-emption, in case of a dissolu-
tion. If this provision was enforced in this case, the con-
tract of the South-Western Company would be void. Lord
Shaftesbury had declared that he would not allow any Bill to
pass the House of Lords without these clauses ; but on an
application being made to his Lordship by the promoters, he
said that if the Bill came before the House of Lords, he
would have no objection to giving the South-Western Com-
pany an opportunity of buying the line if they chose, but
it must be continued as a railway, and there must be a clause
introduced, which would suspend the action of the Lands
Consolidation Act, but would provide that if the line ceased
to be used as a railway, the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act
should come into operation. Xn the clauses which he pro-
posed to be inserted it would be provided that in ten ears
time, if the railway were to fall into disuse, the Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act should then come into operation ;
but they would withhold the right of pre-emption in the
interim.

lb. Cauca, who appeared for Messrs. Lyons and Messrs.
_
. and Dr. Reynolds, a petitioner who appeared in per-
ri,7hta:tressed=he Committee in reply, and urged that the
clauses MoterTattim(a) ought to be maintained, and the Lands
The room being
n Act ought not to be interfered with.
nutted for a few rointst and the Committee having con-
rd.
The Gualumie sa on our re_
that the Lanadmirrion, that the Com-
vithds Clauses Consolidation
miLtee were of opinion
Act ought not to be interfered
Doeur Reynolds suggested and moved that the recitation
of the contract in the
preamble be struck out
The Committee declined to decide on this. Point until
the
case was concluded.
The cases of the several petitioners were then promuutt
with.
Dr. Reynolds, and the Counsel on the pa of
aneacdhthef
the other petitioners, addressed the Committee;
cases being completed,
The Committee declared the preamble of the Bill proved,
n
ed,
but struck the recitation of the contract out. The q
as to whether clauses should be inserted, allowing theintNip;
tioners to recover compensation for the loss of the railve.
and also the arrangement of some other clauses, was reserved.
It was announced in the course of the day that Mr. Cock-
burn was detained so long at the Central Criminal Court,
that it would be impos.ible for him to attend here to-day;
and it was then arranged that his case should come on
peremptorily at two o'clock on Monday. Some doubt was
entertained as to whether there would be time before that
hour to dispose of the clauses of this Bill, and it was there-
fore agreed that the Committee should meet on Monday, at
eleven o'clock.

It being past four o'clock when the Committee came to the
decision as to the preumbre of the-Bill, they then adjourned.

Soon after the arrival of the Emperor of Rucsia at
Watiaw. says a Frankfort journal, as he was passing in a caleche,
a Journey man mason, by some accident, lost his footing, and fell
from a gres't height on the pavement. The Emperor immediately
left the carrn.`ge, had the man taken Into a courtyard, sent far
surgeon. and rossalne4 on the spot until the medical man declared
that life bed fled. The Emperor the next day sent 150 Silver roubles
to the father of the deceased.
LITP.XLRY TaxeL.—The long-pending action of Tri-
nity college, Cambridge, against the Trustees of the British Museum,
for the recovery of a manuscript alleged to have been purloined from
the collections of the former, and In which a literary gentleman well
known has been nalnftilly implicated, Is set down fur Tuesday at the
4:°G.Lt of Queen's tieneh.
JbIEALTH o/ THE CITY.—On Friday a deputation
(WA the -National Philanthropic Association, consisting of the Duke
of Gra;ton, Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., Lord Dudley Stuart, Dr.
Jordan I;ynelf, sir. Cochrane. Mr. B. B. Cabbell, F.R.S., &c., waited
upon Lord ,Jelin Russell, M.P.; as one of the representatives of the I
City of LondOn, to draw his attention to the present filthy and neg-
lected state of ;ts courts and alleys, and ask his assistance in their
improvement. fie matter is now taken up with more interest. from
the circumstance ei the increasing prevalence of fevers from the in-
tense heat of the weather, and the apprehended visitation of Asiatic
cholera. The object and views of the deputation met the most cor-
dial approbation of Lord John Russell, who stated that they should
In every way have his voice and support, and a resolution was
Passed expressive of the necessity for the immediate employment In
amseping and cleansing of an additional number of hands. is which
Ms Lordsfhip promised his sr:lnane, in memeralieing the Commis.
Iliona.l o %were.

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MARYLEBONE VESTRY.

VOTE OF THANKS TO SIR ROBERT PEEL FOR
iIIS MENSITRE FOR A REPEAL OF THE

CORN-LAWS.

On Saturday one of the most numerous meetings of
the Marylebone Vestry held for a considerable period
(specially convened) took place at the Court House for
the purpose of considering the following important reso-
hrion, of which notice had been given on the previous
Saturday by Mr. Joseph :
I " That this board, the representatives of nearly 15,000
rated inhabitants' hereby tenders its grateful thanks to
the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., First Lord of
the Treasury, for the untiring zeal, ability, and industry
which he has displayed in carrying the Bill for the repeal
of the corn-laws through the Commons House of Parlia-
ment. That this board deeply laments the bitter and
factious hostility which the Right Hon. Baronet has
been met with from interested parties during the pro-
gress of the measure. The board, however, begs to
sourceßaronet,
express its earnest hope that thetr
from whatever
Right Ho n.
regardless of opposition, no mate
it may come, will continue his invaluable aid as First
Minister of the Crown to the measures for the relief of
trade now before Parliament, measures the most benefi-
cial to the nation at large that Ministers ever originated
or legislature ever passed."
The Rev. Dr. Spry presided, and Earl Manvers, Mr.
Hume, M.P., Lord Montfort, Mr. W. Williams' M.P.,
Bart.,
Sir James Hamilton, Sir Walter Stirling, Mr. P.
Laurie, &C. &c., were present.
Mr. JOSEPH, moving his resolution, observed that he
considered it was the duty of that vestry, as a liberal
public body, to look at measures, not men ; and when
they found a man like Sir Robert Peel stepping out of
the path he had previously followed solely for the benefit
of the country, the nation at large were bound to sup-
port him.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. POTTER seconded the resolution. Sir Robert
Peel had been abused by the Protection party in the
House of Commons by language which was a disgrace
to the lowest pot-house in St. Giles's ; but he had deter-
mined to support the rights of the people, who were,
therefore, bound to support him.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. H. C. WILSON said it was with much regret he
felt bound to oppose this resolution, on the ground that
it made the matter a personal and private question.—
(Hear, hear.) He had not so high an opinion of the
character of Sir Robert Peel as to justify the eulogiums
which had been passed upon him, for he could not shut
his eyes to the fact that he had been returned by the
Protection party for purposes entirely opposite to those
he had carried out, and he might in the same manner
deceive those who now placed their confidence in him.
He also objected to the resolution on the ground that it
was without precedent to call upon the vestry to pass a
vote of thanks to any individual member of a Govern-
ment. Mr. Wilson concluded by moving as an amend-
ment to the effect :

" That the vestry having adopted an address to her
Majesty, praying that she would be pleased to adopt
necessary measures for repealing the corn and pro-
vision laws, desired to express its great satisfaction with
the Bill for that object which had passed the House of
Commons, and now before the House of Lords, believ•
ing that the passing of such measure would be produc-
tive of the most important and beneficial effects on the
interests of she nation at large."
Mr. HARBERT seconded the amendment.

Earl MANVERS said he was desirous of offering a few
observations on this subject, being one of those who had
been described in the resolution as an interested party
in the opposition he had offered to the measure of Sir
IRobert Peel.—(Hear, hear.) He had opposed it in
every stage, and still was determined to do so ' • but
st hilst he did so, he begged to say that he did not class
himself amongst those who had indulged in violent and
1 s Aupere.,tive language in the House of Commons against
Sir Robert Peel.— (Cheers.) He was opposed both to
the resolution and the amendment, and would venture to
submit that they should leave Sir R. Peel to steer his
own ship without the assistance of a set of break pilots
I,ke the Marylebonc vestry.—(Laughter.)
Mr. HUME, M.P., supported the original resolution.
Ife had been in Parliament for thirty-five years, and
until late ly had always been adverse to the policy of Sir
Robert reel. Ile had always been the advocate of
measures, not men, and he would say in the case of Sir
E. Peel with regard to the corn-laws, there was no
minister who bad ever stood in the high and proud
position in the eyes of the country that Sir Robert Peel
did at this moment. Notwithstanding the vituperation
which was heaped upon the Right Hon. Baronet, and
the motives which were imputed to him by the Pro-
tection party, he (Mr. Hume) believed that the Right
lion. Baronet, in carrying out the measures he had
done, had acted on an honest conviction that they were
measures for the benefit of the country. When he 1
(Mr. Hume) found a man sacrificing the power he pos-
sessed in both Houses of Parliament, as well as all the
social ties of a party he had acted with throughout a
long political career, for the benefit of the country, he
considered he was peculiarly entitled to the thanks of
the nation at large.
Mr. W. Winnrsxs, M.P., also supported the original
resolution. He considered there was never in the an-
nals of this country such an instance of a Prime Mini-
ster sacrificing his own interests for the benefit of his
country as in the case of Sir Robert Peel. He hoped,
therefore, the amendment would be withdrawn.
After some private conversation, Mr. Wilson, by per-
mission of the vestry, withdrew his amendment.
Sir W. STiniarna opposed the motion altogether, as
fraught with the greatest mischief at the present crisis of
the country.
_ _

Mr. LAT}RIE condemned the whole of the proceedings,
cn the ground that the vcstry was a parochial and not a
political body.

Sir J. HAMILTON took a similar view of the matter,
and moved as an amendment that the vestry do adjourn,
which was seconded by Sir W. STIRLING.
And a division having been demanded by Mr. W.
EYRE, tbere appeared—For the motion, 10 ; against it,
47 ; majority against the adjournment, 37.
Whilst th© division was being taken, Sir W. Stirling,
and one or two other Conservatives, attempted to leave
the room, but, being observed, a motion was at once
carried to station the beadles at the door, to prevent any
member coming in or going out.
The debate was resumed by Mr. Gomm, who moved
the omission of the paragraph in the resolution relating
to the bitter vituperation of the protectionist party
against Sir Robert Peel, which being accepted by the
mover and seconder, the resolution as amended, was put
from the chair, and was carried but with two dissentients
(Earl Manvers and Mr. Alfred Daniel), amidst loud
cheers.

A NOBLE FRIEND TO THE POOR.
Mr. FLoop, the vestry clerk, laid before the vestry a
rroposal which, though it was at that moment anony-
mous, was from a nobleman of very high rank, who
had furnished him privately with his name, regretting,
!hat under the present administration of the Poor-laws,
there was no distinction made between the best and
worst of mankind, and offering to place the sum of
.SOO/. in the hands of the guardiars, providing a similar
sum was added to it by the parish, for the purpose of
placing that class of persons who had become poor from
no misconduct on their own part, in a position where
they would receive double allowance either in or out of
the workhouse, and a separate apartment where the latter
was the case.

Mr. G. DANIEL moved that such a liberal offer be ac-
cepted, and at some length showed the advantages re-
sulting from a better classification between the really
deserving. and idle, and dissolute poor.
Mr. RIDGWAY seconded the motion.
Mr. Jour; WILLIAMS, in support of the motion, stated
variousinstances of poor parishioners applying to him
on the subject of being compelled to herd with all sorts
of characters. He had no doubt but such a noble pro-
position would meet with a general response throughout
the parish, and as an earnest of his feeling in the matter,
he begged to put down his name at once for ten
guineas.—(Cheers.)
The rector approved of the proposition, and said he
would add 501., recently left him in trust for the use of
the poor by a deceased inhabitant, to that object.
The resolution was carried nem. con., and a committee
appointed to carry out the object. The vestry then se-
I crated.

BRITISH AND AMERICAN SQUA-

DRONS IN THE PACIFIC.

We may refer without inconvenience in this place to some
communications we have received on the subject of the rela-
tive forces of the British and American squadrons in the
Pacific. One of our correspondents has endeavoured to con-
vince us that the American frigates Congress, Constitution,
and Savannah, which are unquestionably very tine vessels of
their class, are line-of-battle ships in disguise, and superior
to our own ships in weight of metal. It is even affirmed that
these frigates have been sent out expressly prepared for an
encounter with our 80--gun ship, the Collingwood. These
apprehensions are altogether unfounded. In the first place,
the list of the two squadrons which has gone the round of
the papers, and was sent to this country from Lima, is in-
accurate ; two more frigates have joined the British Ad-
rid. re of which is, we believe. the Grampus, a razeed 74,
taken
jothe Tremendous. In the second place, we have
ai
Cong:::Ttst ble to compare the armament of the frigate
the armament off riP
Collingwood, mour. The corm. of the American Commodore, and
gives the following results
flag-ship of Sir E. Sey-
7.2.potutdde_r_ii on lower deck.
Collingwood 4 68.-polind= O,l°U lower deck.
24 32-pounders on urn dde.,e2t
L 24 32-pounders on upper

80
Besides ileld-pieces and boat-guns, which do not count is
her mounted armament.
I 6 68-pounders.
Congress 50 long 32-pounders.
Perhaps the American vessel mounts four more guns than
are given in the return from which we quote; but without
in the least detracting from the merit of those frigates, it is
preposterous to put them on an equality with vessels of the
class of the Collingwood or the Superb.
We have, or shall soon have, in the Pacific one 80-gun
ship, four frigates, three corvettes and two or three steamers ;
the Americans have three first-class frigates, four corvettes,
and a schooner—no line-of-battle ship, and no steamer. With
this force the American Commodore will be called upon to
e an an active part in the warwith Mexico, to blockade a
large extent of coast, perhaps to support operations in California,
and to protect the immense fleet of whalers which resort to
the South Sets from the ports of New England. We need
scarcely add that a hostile collision with the British squad-
ron would be a most formidable addition to these arduous
duties of the United States' officers on this station; and
although we sincerely hope that no such calamity will occur,
we cannot entertain the smallest apprehensions as to the re
suit, and we are convinced that the superiority of our forces
in the Pacific at this time will prove an additional induce-
ment to the maintenance of peace.— Times.

Mr. David Pollock (elder brother of the Chief Baron
of the Exchequer) has just received the appointment of Chief Justice
of Bombay, the salary of which is 8,0001. per annum. Mr. Polloek
now on circuit, discharging the duties of Commissioner of the Ingo!.
vent Debtors' Court, which office he has enjoyed (or about two years
having received that appointment on the death of the late Mr. Com-
missioner Bowen. The salary of the Commissioners of the Insolvent
Court is 1,5001. a year. Mr. Cooke, the eminent barrister, practising
in tho Bankrupt and Insolvent Courts, is generally expected to All
the vacancy caused by the removal of XL Pollock.