The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-27 00:00:00

THE IRON TRADE.

The position of this trade remains unaltered, except
that several additional furnaces have been put out of
blast The spirit of infatuation still prevails among
the workmen, and they continue to absent themselves
from the works, while the unabated stagnation of
business affords no prospect that the masters will be
enabled to give way to their demands.
The colliers and miners are also partially on the
strike, and a few disturbances hare taken place in the
neighbourhood of Kingswinford and Dudley, by the
exhibition of violence on the part of the unemployed
against the more reasonable of their companions who
have returned to werk. From the evident intention
to commit outrage, it was judged expedient, in one
instance, to send for the aid of the military, but the
mob having accomplished their ends of intimidation,
quietly dispersed.
We begin, however, to feel some apprehensions for
the prospects of our labouring population. The few
iron masters who hold stocks of wrought iron are
unwilling to part with them at the reduced rates,
while the general merchant and other orders are of a
nature scarcely justifying the manufacturing con-
sumers in purchasing at the former prices, although
their warehouses prove, as we predicted, quite desti-
tute of iron ; hence their workmen are daily being
thrown out of employment for want of materials.
Among the nail makers, especially, the deplorable
wretchedness that must ensue is fearful to contem-
plate. A respectable dealer informs us, that in col
letting his small accounts through one district he
found in several houses the whole family huddled to-
gether without food or fire, their spirits completely
broken; and, instead of asking for his money, he was
constrained to offer his mite towards alleviating their
distress.

It therefore becomes a consideration of moral re-
sponsibility to each individual concerned, to lend his
assistance towards alla3 ing the confusion that results
in so much wretchedness to his fellow-creatures; and
not to allow either pride or avaricious selfishness to
obscure his perception that the interests of the trade,
of which his own are part and parcel, hare a claim
upon hi.; cordial co-operation.
The propriety of taking the most stringent mea-
sures has been canvassed, and unless a speedy inti-
mation of some intention to resume their employment
by the paddlers, forgemen, colliers, and others, is ap-
parent, we should not be at all surprised to hear of a
resolution to blow out simultaneously the whole of
the furnaces in the district.—Birmingham Gazette.

THE GREAT SNOW STORM OF 1620.—The snow
fell Turing thirteen days and nights with very little in-
termission, accompanied with great cold and a keen
biting wind. About the fifth and sixth days the young
sheep fell into a torpid state and died, and about the
ninth and tenth days the shepherds began to build up
large semi-circular walla of the dead, in order to afford
some shelter for the living; but the protection was of
little service. Impelled by hunger, the sheep were fre-
quently seen tearing at one another's wool with their
teeth. On the fourteenth day there was, on many a
high lying farm, not a survivor of extensive flocks to be
Large missharen walls of dead surrounding a
small prostrate group, likewise dead, and stiffly frozen in
th r
t :,he eye of the forlorn shepherd and h's
i
a,„st„r. of uvw„rds „f 20,!,00 sheep maititaind in the
extensive pastoral district of Eskdale Moor, only about
of Nature.
forty-five were left alive.—Gallery

Sir,—For some years past our Indian Governors,
though they may have got measured for their coats,
have been forced to put on their wars ready made.
Let us hope that, in this respect at least, Lord Dal-
housie will have been treated less scurvily than his
predecessors; and that on taking charge of the im-
portant countries committed to him he may have
found a tranquil field open to his abilities. Where so
much is to be done, it is fortunate that there should
be so much to do it with. For the present we seem
to have got out of our scrape :in the Punjaub much
better than we had any right to expect ; and upon
this we should hardly have had to plume ourselves,
as we now may, but for the energy and talent which
have been displayed in such ample measure, and with
such steady perseverance, as we have lately seen.
We have little now to fear from our advance
beyond the Sutlej, but that it takes us so much
nearer to the Affghans, who may still prove no less
dangerous as neighbours than we have already found
them vigorous as enemies. While Runjeet Singh
lived, and while the Seikh soldiers retained their
French officers, they, too, were a formidable people
to deal with ; and even since they lost their ruler and
their leaders, they have offered a resistance, both for
courage and activity, such as we had not before en-
countered in India. But left to themselves the Seikhs
are physically no better than our own Sepoys. They
belong, in fact, to the same race ; and having once
been put down effectually, the probability is that they
will remain down. If it be asked why they were
not put down sooner, like all previous Indian armies
composed of similar materials, I can only say that
I think it was the consequence, not of any superior
courage in the men, but o, the isugression left upon
them by their French officers.ra—Coniznanders of
Indian soldiers, and generally as implements of Indian
warfare, there seems to be this remarkable distinction
between the English and the French,—the English
make the best leaders ; the French are good leaders
too, and they are comrades into the bargain. When
the Sepoys lose their English officers they lose their
all ; much as they can do with their officers they can
do nothing without them. But when the Sepoys lose
their French officers, though they lose a great deal,
still they retain something. The English officers
never descend from their position ; they are offi•
cers off the parade as well as on it. The French
officers, on the contrary, associate with their soldiers,
both Indian and European. In Europe they have
many, if not most of them, risen from the ranks;
and, therefore, it is easy for them both to go down
towards their men, and to draw their men up towards
them. They meet half-way, and have an acquaint-
ance, an intimacy, beyond and independent of their
military relation. I have been told by a friend who
served through the greater part of the last war in
Europe, that he had seen French officers playing at
billiards with their men. The French officers and
privates are " hail fellow well met." With the Eng-
lish it is different. The energy and dogged resolu-
tion of the Englishman will always rouse and carry
on his nen when they see him in their front, but the
familiarity and flexibility of the French character
make a deeper and leave a longer impression than the
reserve and stiffness of the English. The beggars at
Hyderabad, in asking charity of an European, still
used, in my time, to call him Bussy, after the officer
who had commanded the Nizam's French corps be-
fore we were any of us born ; and as late as 1820 M.
Raymond's tomb there was still periodically illumi-
nated, though he had been dead, I think, since 1797,
and, for aught I know, it is so still. lam aware that
they were both of them men of eminent ability; but
we too have had no want of men of equal eminence ;
and yet where is the English name, or the English
monument in India, that is remembered in this way ?
For ourselves, therefore, and for those of our
Indian neighbours who, though now our allies, may
some day become our enimies, I need hardly say that
in this respect no change from our present circum-
stances could be for the better. Let but our Sepoys
continue to have the same officers to lead them as
have led them hitherto, and they will go anywhere;
but the French Sepoys, even when their officers are
no longer with them, for a time at least, prove the
better soldiers of the two.
Yet even this distinction has its limits. The
French are no longer conciliatory when they are no
longer dependent. They are spoiled by power ; and,
strange as it may seem they lose instead of gaining
influence by elevation. I remember to have heard it
said by Meer Allum, who, measured by our standard,
was, out and out, the ablest man I met with
among the natives of India, and wto would,
indeed, have been an extraordinary man in any coun-
try in which he had been placed—l remember to
have heard him say, after ample experience of them
both, that the French made the better servants and
the English the better masters of the two. Let us
take what pains we can to retain that lofty position,
to which it seems, therefore, that we are properly
suited.

I am concerned to see that the resistance in Goom-
soor is still continued. In itself, it can be of no ul-
terior consequence ; but, as an example, every in-
stance of successful rebellion is to be deprecated. We
ought, in all cases,
to avert resistance as long as we
can ; and when it does occur we ought to suppress it
as soon as we can.

...._.
While we are watching, however, with solicitude
the influence which the intelligence from India may
have upon our interests at home, we must not be
negligent of what we are ourselves doing, or suffer-
ing to be done, to impair or improve our prospects
abroad. I regret to see the attempts which are still
beiqg made to interfere indiscreetly with the religion,
or call it the superstition, of our Indian subjects. I
say indiscreetly, because I am persuaded that, be
our design as good as it may, the way in which we
are going to work is calculated rather to obstruct
than to promote it. For the same reason I regret the
recal of our contribution to the Indian temples. As
to any influence which that contribution may be
thought to have upon their support, we may be as-
sured that it will have none. They will not stand
one single day longer with the help of our contribu-
tion, nor fall one single day sooner for the want of it.
But by what we are now doing we shall excite sus-
picion of our purpose, and provoke, where we ought
to appease, resistance.
The sacrifice of human life into which the Ilindoos
are betrayed is earnestly to be deprecated. But it is
not in Pagan rites alone that that sacrifice has been
wantonly
and prodigally made. There always have
ben, and there still are, fanatics in every creed
and every country. Even we ourselves have not
been exempt from the contagion. Can we have for-
gotten what happened in our own crusades, or how
whole provinces, both in Europe and in Asia, were
strewn with the carcases of Christian victims ? And,
as far as sanctity of purpose is concerned, in what
respect are the infatuated Hindoos to be denounced
for l
verythat same
w e
holdde vo t
to
o have consecrated the en-
thusiasts n, much as it is to be de-
plored,
among ourselves ? We have grown wiser
since those days, and the Ilindoos will grow wiser
tehde,
too as they advance as we have done, and as know-
ledge and reflection acquire dominion over them.
Let us pause, therefore, before we incur the risk of
retarding or averting that consummation by a pre-
cipitancy which can only defeat our endeavours to
advance it. Even if it be denied that any of the
votaries of a wrong creed are ever led right, at least
it will be admitted that many of those of the right
creed are often led wrong.
What reason is there for our shrinking from the
Pagans of India more now than ever we have done
before ? In what respect are either the Alahometans
or the Ilindoos inferior to ? the professors of any
other creed besides our own . Or in what particular
do they lose in the comparison ? Neither the Ma-
hometaas nor the Ilindoos ever saw or heard of
Christ, or were brought within the influence of His
example. They neither depreciated nor rejected
Him. On the contrary, the Mahometans still recog-
nize the divinity of His mission ; only they deny
that it was a final one. They hold that it had been
announced in previous missions, and that it was corn-
P' lete I in that of Mahomet. Whenever they do
speak of our Saviour, they speak of him reverentially,
as Hazrut Esau, the Lord Jesus. And as to the
Ilindoos it was not that having a choice to make,
they made a wrong one ; they had no choice, and
they made none. There was no option. The truth
was never revealed to them. If they are still in the
dark, it is because they never were admitted to the
light. What they still are, they already were before
our Saviour's mission was vouchsafed to us ; and we
must not revile them because they have not received
what was never offered, and because, having been
born and bred where they have been and as they have
been, they arc slow to abandon the ancient faith of
their fathers. Let it be remembered, too, that we
are ourselves both foreigner and intruders in that
country, where the Mahometans and the Ilindoos, at
far as time can give a title, may hold themselves to
be at home.
Are we not entitled to expect that the sun will
again appear in the East as it rose there ? and may
we not content ourselves in waiting for the appointed
time ? Whenever it may be decreed that t'he truth
[ shall be shed upon our brethren in India, they will
discern it more calmly,
mere profitably, and, what
chiefly concerns us, more peaceabiy if they discern it
by the spontaneous exertion of their own faculties.
They are already in the hands of One who will en-

lighten them when He shall see fit; and we cannot
do better, either for them or for ourselves, than leave
them to His good pleasure. For the present, whether
we contemplate the certainty of the end or the safety
of the means, it will be wise in us to trust to educa-
tion to work its own way, and to wait for it to pro-
duce its own result. As far as we presume to specu-
late on that result, though I hope and believe that the
inhabitants of India will all become Christians in the
end, it will still be a long while first, and we shall
ardly be allowed to remain there to witness the com-
pletion of the change. Even if we should enact the
part of lookers-on, it is not likely that we should have
any share in the ceremony.
I may probably be rebuked for fancying, because
see differently from other and perhaps better men,
that therefore I see farther than they do. But I can-
not help fearing that I see more accurately when I
dread that without greater caution our projects, with
whatever good intentions they may be meditated,
besides defeating their own end, will lead in•the re-
sult to disastrous consequences; and we may as well,
therefore, while there is still time, calmly contem-
plate the distinction between the ground on which
we .shall in that case stand ourselves, and that on
which we shall place the Indians—the distinction, in
fact, between the attempt to impose religion and the
attempt to defend it. Sir J. Mackintosh says, in his
History of England, that " wars to impose religion
by force are the most execrable violations of the
rights of mankind; but that wars to defend it are the
most sacred exercise of those rights."—l am, sir, your
obedient servant,
Jan. 24. CIVIS.

FUNERAL OF THE REV. GEORGE

CLARK.

Yesterday the remains of this Rev. Gentleman
were consigned to their last resting place, in St.
Luke's burial-ground, Chelsea, with all the pomp and
circumstance of military honours. For the past 44 years
the Rev. Gentleman has been Chaplain to the Royal
Military Asylum at Chelsea, and during the whole of
that long period of service, he was highly appreciated
for the exertions he made in behalf of the interests of
the institution by all who had its welfare at heart. By
none was he more esteemed and respected than by
the boys connected with the asylum ; and from his
long period of service, and from the number of those
who had been placed under his care, it may be said,
that in all parts of the world where a British regi-
ment is stationed, the name of Mr. Clark is no un-
familiar one, as there is scarcely a regiment in the
service that does not contain several of those who,
in their youthful years, had been placed under
his tuition, and who still retain a high sense of his
kindness, and recollect with feelings of gratitude the
useful lessons he has imparted to them. His whole soul
was bound up in the asylum; so much so, that in the
month of April last, when he felt that his mortal career
could not in the course of nature be much longer
continued, he expressed a wish that he should be
buried in the ground set apart for the children of the
institution, stating that, as he had so long lived
amongst them, he should like to be buried amongst
them. Yesterday, on the occasion of his funeral, a
large number of the respectable inhabitants of the
place attended the funeral, as a token of respect to
the deceased. The funeral procession started from
the Asylum at one o'clock, and consisted of; besides
the family and relations of the deceased, the students
of the normal school, amounting to forty in number,
the boys of the model school to the amount of three
hundred, all the sergeants connected with the insti-
tution, together with the private friends of the de-
ceased. Mr. W. Cousens, the Quarter-master, and
Colonel Brown, the Commandant of the Hospital,
also joining in the procession. The boys' band con •
nected with the Asylum headed the procession, and
delighted all who witnessed by the admirable manner
they performed the pieces of music assigned thorn.
The funeral service was conducted by the Rev. Mr.
Dusatory, in the presence of a crowded assemblage,
who seemed to be impressed with a deep feeling of
respect for the reverend gentleman.

LAMENTABLE SUICIDE AT
WINDSOR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING. - Considerable
excitement was created throughout the town yesterday
morning, in consequence of a report that Mr. Thomas
Hyde, a highly respectable inhabitant, about 60
years of age, who had carried on an extensive
business for several years past as a wholesale and
retail bacon factor, in Thames street, had committed
suicide, by first cutting his throat on the banks of the
Thames close to the town, and afterwards throwing
himself into the river. The report unfortunately
proved correct. The body was taken out by two
watermen and conveyed to the King's Arms, and
afterwards to the residence of the deceased. The
unfortunate man expired the same night. An inquest
was held upon the body this afternoon, at the Town-
hall, before J. IV. ➢lachin, Esq., the coroner, when
the following evidence was adduced :
Charles Hicks, a waterman, who was standing on
indsor-bridge shortly after seven o'clock yesterday
morning, saw the body, on its side, floating down the
stream, and he, with another man, got it into a punt
and pulled the body on shore. On taking it to the
King's Arms public-house, close by, and unbuttoning
the shirt collar, he found the throat cut, and the
wound still bleeding. There were not the least signs
of life. He went to the house of deceased to acquaint
the shopman, when he was told his master had only
left the house at seven o'clock that morning. The
deceased had no shoes or hat on.

George Brown, another waterman, who assisted th
last witness to take the body out of the river, gavee
similar testimony.
Edwin S. Collins, assistant to Mr. Alderman Soley,
surgeon, deposed that he attended deceased, who was
in a state of suspended animation, shortly after he
was taken out of the water. There was a bleeding
wound under the chin. After some time animation
was restored by the usual means. Deceased was then
conveyed to his own house, in Thames-street, and
afterwards attended by his own family doctor.
Mr. Edward Andrews, surgeon, who had attended
Mr. Hyde's family during the past seven years, stated
that, for the last three weeks, the deceased had been
suffering under a general derangement of health oc-
casioned by lowness of spirits. From his knowledge
of him, he had no doubt he had been liable to attacks
of insanity during the preceding fortnight. His
death, which took place the same evening, was in
consequence of the effects of immersion in the water.
The jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity.

THE LIVERPOOL BANKING
COMPANY.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, HALF-PAST FOUR,
P.M.—This afternoon a public meeting of the deposi-
tors in this company,:which suspended payment in
October last, was held at the Clarendon Rooms, to
devise the best means of getting a prompt settlement
of their accounts. The meeting was very nume-
rously attended, the large room being quite crowded.
Mr. John Bennett was called to the chair.
The CIL% IRIIAN said that a statement had been made
proposing to pay the depositors by promissory notes,
one-third on the Ist of April, one-third on the Ist of
August, one-third on the Ist of December, and on
the Ist February, 1849, the interest at 5 per cent.
That morning he had called upon the manager, and
told him that he would not agree to the interest
remaining over until February 1849, but hare it paid
along with the instalments. This proposition was
agreed to, and he now recommended the depositors to
accept it.
An exceedingly long and warm discussion here
arose on the proposition. The complaints were gene-
ral respecting the deposits not having been returned,
and it was contended that they ought to have been
paid at once out of the 21. per share call lately made
upon the shareholders.
Mr. JONES said he held a bill endorsed by the bank,
and could not get the money, in consequence of
which he was suing another person for it.
Mr. ATKINS said he objected to the proposition
altogether.
Mr. PRIEST complained of the inconvenience to
which the depositors had been put, and said that if
necessary, another 21. per share should ho made to
pay the depositors.
Mr. SHORTHOUSE would reverse their position. If
they had been debtors instead of creditors to the bank,
1 and had offered such terms, the bank would have
treated it with contempt.—(Hear.)
resolution was passed appointing a committee to
wait upon the directors to-morrow (this day), and
the meeting was adjourned to Friday next.

PROSECUTIONS.—The several Police-courts in the
metropolis have received the following directions on the
subject of prosecutions for all serious offences within
their respective districts:—" Whitehall, Dec. 30, 1847.
Geetirrnen,—Soine instances having recently occurred of
prisoners charged with serious offences being committed
for trial, and of public inconvenience experienced from
want of directions to counsel to prosecute, I am directed
by Secretary Sir George Grey to desire that for the
future, in MI serious cases of committals, when the
party irjured is not bound over, or is unable to prose
cute, you will transmit as early as possible, for the in-
formation of the Secretary of State, copies of all depo-
sitions taken by von therein, that the same may be con-
sidered, and directions given for prosecutions.—l am,
&c., S. M. Pinuans."

The following extracts from a recent American
paper, present a description of the enormous cost
already incurred by the United States' invasion of
Mexico ,
The President's Message states, that " On the Ist
of the present month the amount of the public debt
actually incurred, including Treasury notes, was
45,659,659 dollars ; and on the 4th of March, 1845,
including Treasury notes, the public debt was
17,788,794 dollars ; and consequently the addition
made to the public debt since that time is 27,870,859
dollars." Thus the President, without positively
asserting it, evidently wishes to convey the impression
that the actual cost of the war with Mexico up to the
Ist instant, is less than 28,000,000 dollars. To coun-
teract this false impression of the cost of the unneces •
sary and unjustifiable war with Mexico, into which
the nation was plunged by the act of the Executive,
we present a few facts and figures, availing ourselves
of the statements in an able article in the New
Orleans Commercial Bulletin. The following is a
recapitulation of the items :
The increase of the public debt, agree- Dollars.
ably to the statement of the President,
has been ..
27,870,859
The surplus in the Treasury, at the com-
• tnencement of hostilities, was •
000000
The additional surplus that would have

accumulated up to this time, uncleie
peace establishment and expenditure . 12,000,000
The further extra surplus that would
have accumulated, under the operation
of the tariff of 1846, agreeably to the
President's statement, of more than 8,000,000
The Bounty Lands to the volunteers 8,000,000
The arrearages for pay due to the army
and volunteers, and for supplies, con-
tracts, damages, &c.
The sum required to replenish our
arsenals . . 4,000,000
The Pension List, estimated, on the
average duration of 20 years of life,
to the wounded and families of the

dead, two millions per annum ....... 40,000,000

Making a grand total of .... 123,870,859

A MELANCHOLY STORY.

A singular instance of maternal affection, and me
lancholy misery, occurred in this city a few days
since. A widow, who unfortunately for them, was
the mother of six children, found refuge in a dilapidated
dwelling in one of the lanes. The youngest of her
children fell ill and died. The whole family were in
a state of the utmost destitution, and the disease
rapidly mastered the young orphan's energies. A
coffin was begged. Coffin and corpse would have
been borne, perhaps without the mother's assistance,
to some graveyard near. But she had lived at a dis-
tance of many miles from this city, and in the burial
ground of her native place her friends were interred.
The distance was far, and as few would consent to
carry a coffin containing a stranger so far
i unneces-
sarily, the poor mother resolved to bear t herself.
She actually did so. She had it placed on her
hack, and slowly and wearily she bore it away,
reached the graves of her kindred, scratched
a trench, we have heard, with her hands,
and thus consigned to the earth where she
wished they should rest the remains of her offspring.
She returned to her orphans. A second took sick,
died quickly, like the other ; like the other was
placed in a charity coffin, and conveyed in the same
way, by the unfortunate mother, to the same place of
burial, and buried in like manner by her own bands.
She returned again. A third child 'took sick, died
speedily also, was stretched in a coffin procured from
the charitable, borne away as before by the sorrowing
mother, and interred near to the other two by the
hapless poor creature's almost excoriated hands. She
returned a third time. A fourth child was ill ; fell a
victim as quickly as each of the others, was coffined
by charity, and carried off and laid by the mother
beside her three other children. She came back to
her wretched apartment. A fifth child was seised by
the malady, a fifth coffin procured, a fifth wearisome
journey made alone by the mother, and a fifth body
consigned to the earth, there, at all events, no longer
to feel the pangs of disease, or the slow wasting pro-
gress of unalleviated hu n ger." Limerick Examiner

EXTENSIVE SHIPWRECKS IN
ZTLAIi D.
The following (says the John O'Groars Journal)
are the d: tails of shipwrecks and loss of life, during
the gales which burst with such terrible fury along
these northern coasts in the course of the past and
the beginning of the present month. By the list
which we subjoin, it will be seen that six large
vessels have suffered shipwreck, and that five of these
are total wrecks.

The barque Harmonie, Hansen, of and from Ber-
gen, for Venice and Trieste, with a cargo of stock
fish, struck on the south point of the Ness of Quien,
east side of the island of Yell, on the 15th ultimo, at
midnight, and in ten minutes was reduced to splin-
ters. The crew, twelve in number, were saved, and
were to be forwarded by the ship Vigilantia, %Verge,
for Stathelle. A watch was set to guard any portion
of the wreck that might come on shore, but not-
withstanding this precaution, everything was car-
ried off.
The schooner Humber, Frankish, of Hull, for Go-
thenburg, with a general and very valuable cargo,
was driven ashore at ten A.M. on the 18th ult. at
Housebiater, about two miles from the Church of
Nesting. Part of cargo and materials have been
saved in a damaged state. A great deal of plunder is
reported to have taken place. The crew, six in num-
ber, arrived at Lerwick on the 22d ult.
The schooner Oscar, Gray, of Hull, reported from
Got.ienburg, with a cargo of sleepers, struck a reef
off Scaw Ting, island of Whalsay, at two P.M., on
the 19th ult. and immediately broke up ; crew lost.
From a part of the log found, it appears that she left
Gothenburg on the 30th of November, put into
Arendal on the 4th of December, and sailed again the
7th. The last entry was made on the 13th, when she
appears to have been under three reefed mainsail, a
single reefed foresail, going with the wind at south,
from four to two miles per hour.
The brig Amelia, Douglas, of Kirkaldy, from
Cronstadt ‘1 ith a cargo of flax and hemp, struck on a
reef off Stava Ness. Nesting, at two P.M. on the
19th ult. and still remains ; the cargo is discharging,
and vessel dismantling. Should the weather con-
tinue fine, it is probable she may be got off.
The ship Clarendon, Macfarlane, of Leith, from
Miramichi, with a cargo of timber, was wrecked at
Tresta, island of Fetlar, on the 19th ult. ; crew—
twenty in number—and one passenger saved, together
with the cargo. The mate, and eight of the crew,
and the passenger, arrived at Lerwick on the 25th,to take passage in the Matchless. 'The cargo saved is
much damaged. The Clarendon lost her rudder in
Sumburgh Roust, two days previous.
Th. ship Fortuna, from the Baltic, laden with
deals, was totally lost at midnight on the 2d instant
on the Island of IVhalsay ; master and nine men
saved, and eight of her crew drowned.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY EveninG.---Lord John
Russell arrived at the Castle to-day, from Richmond
Park, accompanied by his lady. The Viscountess Pal-
merstcn also joined the Noble Viscount, who is staying
at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. Earl Spencer
(the Lord Steward)
was also amongst the arrivals to-
day. his Royal highness the Prince Consort had pro-
posed Fa shooting party in the orest for to day; but in
consequence of the intense cold of the morning, the sport
The King and Queen of the
Belgians went in one of the royal carriages to Frogmore
again to-day,, to her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent. `Their Majesties returned to the Castle within
an hour.
WRECK OF THE SHIP IDALIA, AND MELANCHOLY
Loss of LIFE,--Letters received yesterday from Ruyan,
dated the 18th instant, communicate the melancholy loss
of the British ship Idalia, (int:in Keith, of London, on
the night previous, on the Coubre Point, at the entrance
of the Gironde, with the greater portion of her unfortu-
nate crew, fourteen in number. The vessel was bound
to Bordeaux, from Hartlepool, which port she left on
the 12th. She encountered the gale on the 17th, and, it
is presumed, that in attempting to run into the Gironde,
she was driven on the rocks at the Point within a short
distance of Coubre Lighthouse. Her boats being washed
away, the crew took to the rigging, but in a few hours
the vessel was totally demolished, and the whole of the
poor creatures (with the exception of three seamen)
found a tomb in the deep. The marine authorities have
taken charge of the remains of the wreck and cargo that
have been washed up. It is not known if the vessel is
insured.
We have much pleasure in stating that a Mr.
Bown, from Birmingham, who is connected with the
management of a Sunday-school belonging to St.
George's Church, in that town, did, on his jJurneys. as a
commercial traveller solicit contributions of one shilling
each from his fellow-travellers, and in about eight months
received 281. 7s. 6d., which ho paid over on the 31st
Dec. last, as a donation from that body, for the use of
these schools. It is understood Mr. B. intends pro-
ceeding with this subscription until he has collected 501.
Much to the credit of the commercial travellers, the re-
fusels have not been more than one in a hundred.
CREDIT AT OIFORD.—NOthIDg can more strikingly
prove the scandalous readiness with w Inch credit is given
at Oxford, than the fact that the Bishop of Oxford long
got credit there for straightforwardness and sincerity.—
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SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.—The Teviot,
commanding., has not yet made her appearance,
al. though due at the Post-office since the 22d instant.
the minds of those who have i
friends on board, it may
not be amiss to state that she is not expected to arrive
,rrow
, or .Friday at the farthest, in consequence
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of some 1.. e inegil WY
a having occurred with - one
of the steamers conveying the inter-colonial mails.
This irregularity was i.ie result of the late tempes-
tuous weather; and as the ,Teviot could not leave
Bermuda, her last port (..1f call,. until the arrival thither
of the mails alluded to, tio Cause of her non-appear-
ance at Southampton at her usual I,:irne is fully ac-
counted for.
The Madrid, Peninsular steam ship, in ordin.‘l7
weather, would no doubt have arrived:to-dzy, but .it
having been blowing strongly from the east an d
worth east since her departure from Lisbon, her pro-•
gress across the Bay of Biscay has most likely beet&
much retarded. She is, however, looked for in the,
course of to-night, or to-morrow morning.
The weather here has set in intensely cold, with
severe frost, but in consequence of much wind the
water in the ponds has not yet frozen. The ice
merchants, of whom there are three or four extensive
ones in Southampton, for supplying the shipping with
this article of luxury for summer use, are conse-
quently almost inactive.

. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
CAMBRIDGE, JAR. 26.—THE BISIIOF OF MAN•
CHBSTRR.—There was no congregation holden to-day
for the purpose of sanctioning a grace to authorise
the conferring the degree of D.D. upon the above-
mentioned reverend prelate, as it had been previously
stated there would, on the authority of the Vice-
Chancellor's notice. It would appear, that at the
time the notice was issued the fact of the consecration
of the bishop was unknown to the University autho-
rities. This ceremony having been performed, the
bishop is entitled (ander an interpretation made
R
May 31, 1786), ,to proceed to the degree which was
*bout to be
of conferredanother on
Right him
ht " a
Reverend of
tion. The Vice-Chancellor, acting with the con-
currence ter
prediaistt,eitc-a
mutual friend of the parties, consequently withdrew
his notice, and intimation of this fact having been
circulated, the officers whose presence is necessary
to the constitution of a congregation did not se,
se mble.

OXFORD, JAN. 25.—The following gentlemen have
been appointed to studentships in Christchurch
Rich, jun., Cotton, and Thomas Scratton, from
Westminster School. Henry W. Mason, Walter
Thomas, W. S. Stanhope, Edwards, George
Howard, Edward William Whately, F. G. Sandys-
Lumsdaine, Lane, and Thomas Henry Hunt,
Commoners of Christchurch.