The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-07 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet-Company's ship Dee,
James Fuller Boxer, R.N., Commander ; Lieutenant-
Commander W. South, R.N.,Admiralty agent, arrived at

Southampton at half-past ten o'clock on Friday morninfj
She brings on freight 252,040 dollars on merchants' ac
count, but none on account of the Mexican dividends

17,708 ounces of silver, 66-i ounces of gold, 37 ounces of
gold and silver amalgam, 440 ounces of gold-dust, 625
franc- pieces, and 1,0351. 7s. 6d. silver coin ; also
1,230,250 cigars, 9 cases, and 99 bales of leaf tobacco, 83
cases of ditto, 1 bale of bass, 75 cases of pine-apples, 13
casks and 9 cases of preserved turtle, 20 head of live
turtle, 6i barrels of arrowroot, 63 bales of sarsaparilla,
22 gourds of aloes, 8 cases of plants, 5 cases of succades,
and 55 packages of sundries—the largest amount of
cargo yet brought by any of these ships.
The Dee brings mails to the following dates :—From
Tampico, July 22 ; Vera Cruz, August 2 ; Havannah,
10th ; Nassau, 12th ; Bermuda, 20th ; Jamaica, Bth ;
Jacmel, 10th, Porto Rico, 13th ; Honduras, July 20th ;
Demerara, August 3d ; Tobago, sth ; Trinidad, sth ;
Barbadoes, Bth ; Grenada, 9th ; St. Vincent, 10th ; St.
Lucia,evisl2th 10th Dominica, 11th ; Martinique, 11th ;
Guadaloupe, 11th ; Antigua, 11th; Montserrat, 12th ;
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St. Kitts, 12th ; Tortola, 13th ; Porto
Cabello, sth ; La Guayra, 7th ; St. Thomas, 14th ;
St. Jago de Cuba, sth.
The Dee also brings fifty-three passengers, as follows,
viz.:—from Nicaragua, Don J. Costerica; from Chagres,
Captain Loit, Gen. Col. Superintendent of the Royal
Mail Steam-packet Company, and servant •
de Quiros and Messrs. A.\
Pridham ;
from Santa Martha, Messrs. Mackirdy and
de Boon, T. A. Bareau,
Klein ; from La Guayra, Mrs. Andral, daughter, and
Mr. Foulguce ; from Havannah, Senors. Urban°, T. de
Sotomayor, S. de Martiartu and servant, A. Kleinwort,
J. F. Lineros, and Mrs. Scull and daughter • from Ja-
maica, the Rev. J. C. Hall, lady, and family, Messrs.
Westmoreland, R. Moss, Benite, and P. Blake, and Mt.
and Miss Read ; from Demerara, Mr. Foster ; from
Barbadoes, Miss Stopford ; from Trinidad, Messrs. Le-
guin, Bowen, and Armstrong ; from St. Vincent, Capt.
Griffin, R.A. ; from Dominica, Messrs. Hockin and
Scott ; from Guadaloupe, Mr. Le Dentu and two chil-

dren, and Mr. CouchiMbert ; from Montserrat, Mr.
Buchan ; from St. Kitt's, Messrs. Barr and Turner ;
from Bermuda, the Right Hon. Lord James W. Butler
and servant, Mrs. Ross and family, and Captain
Powell of the 20th Regiment, also two Government in-
valids, one Company's invalid, and three distressed Bri-
tish subjects.
Our letters from the city of Mexico are dated the 30th
of July. Most of the troops had left for the north, and
General Paredes was abont to place himself at their
head, having transferred the Government to General
Bravo, the Vice• President. All the Ministers had
resigned. The new Cabinet was not yet formed. An
amnesty to prisoners accused of political offences had been
published.
The insurgents at Guadalaxara still maintained their
position in the centre of the city. General Arevalo had
been killed.

.....
The Americans appeared to be waiting the ter-
mination of the rainy season in order to resume hos-
tilities. The blockade of Vera Cruz and Tampico
continued.
The ports of Vera Cruz and Tampico still remained
blocaded by the American squadron, consisting of one
corvette at Tampico, and two frigates, one corvette,
two brigs, and two steamers, off Vera Cruz. The Ameri-
can commodore's frigate (Cumberland, 60, guns) had
gone on shore on the Anton Lizardo shoals, and
been obliged to get all her guns out ; she got off with
the loss of her talse keel, and other serious damage,
and it was expected would shortly sail for the States to

repair.
The town of Vera Cruz had declared against the
Government, and in favour of Santa Anna, on the 31st
of July, and a deputation left in the Dee. to invite him
to return and resume the command of the army. He
left Havannah with his family, General Almonte, and a
number of other followers in the Arab steam-vessel of
Liverpool, on the evening of the Bth ult., cleared out for
Sisal, but it was supposed he would go direct to Vera
Cruz, having been assured that no obstacle would be
offered by the American squadron to his landing.
The light on the Castle of San Juan do Ulloa was re-
lighted on the 23d of July, and continued 130 every night
during the Dee's stay.
The Endymion and Rose (all well on board) were the
only English vessels of war at Sacrificios, the Vesuvius
steam-vessel having been ordered to Bermuda from
having severe sickness amongst the crew. The Alarm
and Daring were daily expected. There was one
Spanish frigate and a brig, and a French brig at Sacri-
ficios.
The Vesuvius was off Bermuda on the 9th ult., with
27 cases of yellow fever on board. She took in 100 tons
of coals, and sailed for Halifax.
Information had been received in the L'acific of the
blockade of the Mexican ports by the Gcrvernment of
the United States. The feeling it seemed to produce
was that it might tend still further to comr plicate our re-
lations with the latter power. The news of the peace-
able issue to the Oregon quebtion had n ot, however,
reached Peru or Chili at the time the ma ails were dis-
patched.
Her Majesty's ships Daphne and Sampson (the latter
a steamer), a French corvette and a brig of war, were
lying at Valparaiso. The Grampus, 50 guns, Captain
IL B. Martin, C. 8., sailed for Callao o u the 28th of
June, there to await the arrival of the E uropean mails,
due on the 7th of July; and after receiving her dis-
patches, she put to sea on the 11th, to join the Admiral,
whose " whereabouts" every one seemed to be igno-
rant of.
The United States squadron were sup osed (with the
exception of the frigate Constitution) to Ile off the coast
of Oregon and California. The latter ye ssel had pro-
ceeded homeward, her timbers, it is said, being in a de-
cayed state.
There was a French corvette at Callao.
A silver mine, lately discovered by a watchmaker
na.m eldtsTueraere is, os ta
said
otruocc
nonrota,iinn Banoluivnivasiaeily large , ; greatly spoken
of
propor-
tion of silvel, and anticipations bad already been
hazarded that this mine would surpass; in value the far-
famed Potosi mines. . .

We learn, moreover, that arrant gements have been
made by the Royal Mail Steam P acket Company for
conveying treasure from the Pacific t o Europe across the
Isthmus of Panama, and that the pr oject is looked upon
with much fuTour on the west coast.

By the latest accounts the Company's ships were as
follows:—viz„ the Thames at Grenada, on the 9th of
August, proceeding to Trinidad ; the Eagle at Barba-
does, on the Bth of August, proceeding to Tobago and
Demerara ; the Reindeer at St. Thomas's, on the 14th of
August, returning to Grenada ; the Tweed at Grenada,
proceeding to Jamaica; the Avon at Jamaica, on the Bth
of August, to follow the Dee to England, via St. Thomas;
the Medway at Havannah, on the 9th of August, pro-
ceeding to the Gulf ; the Severn at Bermuda, on the
29th of August, proceeding to Nassau, Havannah, and
Jamaica; the Lee schooner was gone to Honduras on
the Bth of August; and the Larne at St. Thomas's on
the 14th of August, proceeding to Grenada.
The Jamaica Despatch of the Bth of August states
that the whole face of the island has been blessed with
most abundant rains. The entire aspect now wears a
change almost indescribable. The rapid growth of the
sugar-cane is most amazing, and plants which in many
districts were conceived to be entirely burnt out of the
ground are now making great strides towards advance-
ment. Next year's crop will be very early, and a large
increase on the present. The appearance of the coffee-
fieles is most cheering, betokening a growth of wood
which must yield very large returns at maturity if at-
tended to; while the new crop promises a fair—we do
❑ot think an excessive, but a considerable advance on the
last. The native labourers had not resumed their work
after the August holidays, but the Coolies were em-
ployed and conducting themselves in a very satisfactory
manner.

The Trinidad Gazette of the 31st of July mentions a
violent gale from the south-west, which bad done con-
siderable injury to the roads and bridges. Dysentery
was very prevalent in the island, and many deaths had
occurred from it. .

The St. Kitt's Gazette of the 7th of August says—
" We do not remember for a long period past to have
had the delightful and continuous showers of rain that
have fallen during the last few days. The appearance of the
country is exceedingly gratifying, and we have no doubt
that the young canes will be materially benefited."
Throughout the whole of the West India Islands
there seems to be an unmixed feeling of satisfaction
with the weather and the appearance of the crops.
The Dee passed on the 31st of August the General
Parkhill, American ship, in lat. 46 deg. 41 min. N., long.
19 deg. 16 min. W., and on the Ist of September the
American barque Wallace, of Boston, steering to the
westward. On the 2d of September passed a barque
standing to the N.E., painted with a white streak,
under jury-sails ; made no signal of distress.

DERBY ELECTION.

OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE POLL.

DERBY, FRIDAY MORNING, ELEVEN O'CLOCK.—The
official declaration of the poll has just been made by the
Mayor, in the presence of a large body of inhabitants, at
the Town.hall, and the bells of the different churches
are ringing merrily. The satisfactory result of the elec-
tion has given pleasure to the vast majority of the town.
Mr. Strutt was received with plaudits on entering the
Town-hall at ten o'clock this morning. Sir Digby
Mackworth did not make his appearance.
The MAYOR having cast up the books, declared the
state of the poll to be as follows:
Strutt 835
Mackworth
Majority for Mr. Strutt —276
The announcement of the numbers was received with
loud cheers.

Mr. STRIITT then rose, and was received with loud
applause. He said, the electors had again placed him
in the proud position of one of their representatives in
Parliament, and with most grateful, most heartfelt
thanks did he receive this renewed proof of their confi-
dence. Not only had he to thank them for the honour
they had thus done him, but he had to thank them still
more for the proud position in which they had placed
him on the poll—(Loud cheers)—a position which had
proved most unequivocally to the whole country that the
town of Derby had not swerved from the principles
which it always professed, and that it had boldly an-
swered the appeal that had been made to it.—(Renewed
cheers.) Notwithstanding the differences of opinion
that had been manifested on some subjects during this
election, he thought they would all be agreed in this,
that as on the one hand no pains had been spared to pro-
pagate charges against him, so, on the other hand, he
4iad not flinched from meeting those charges.—(Loud
ftcbeers.) He had retracted nothing—(Cheers)—he had
equivocated in nothing—(Cheers renewed)—and there-
fore there was no mistake—(Cheers)—there was
not a doubt about this, that the electors bad
answered the appeal that had been made to them.—
(Cheers.) At the commencement of the present con-
test he expressed some regret that on his account the li
electors of Derby should have to incur the trouble and
inconvenience of an election ; but he did now rejoica
that the attempt had been made, for the result of this
struggle was of the greatest importance to the cause of
Liberal principles, and the cause of religious liberty,
not only in this borough, but throughout the whole
country.—(Cheer!) At the nomination their opponents
told them that the eyes of the country were upon them.
If the eyes of the country were our witnesses in the day
of trial, they were turned upon us in the hour of vic-
tory—(Cheers)—and he was convinced that the struggle
that had been made would have its influence in other
places as well as in this town.—(Loud cheers.) Let
him now congratulate them—and if his friends who
had been arrayed in the ranks of his opponents (for
many of whom he felt personal attachment) had
been present on that occasion, ho should have
wished also to congratule them upon the re-
spectable manner in which this election had been
conducted. It had been conducted in a manner credit-
able to the town, creditable to their opponents, as well as
to themselves.—(Hear, and cheers.) If Sir Digby
Mackworth had been there he would have said that the
fair and gentlemanlike conduct of his hon. and gallant
opponent accorded with the high personal character he
bore. One of his (Mr. Strutt's) opponents on the day of
election did him the justice to say, although he was
elected by only one part of the electors, yet that, on all
matters connected with their local or general interests,
he gave the same attention to his political opponents as
to his friends. He now begged to say, as he had said on
former occasions, that although he would never flinch
from the due assertion of his political opinions, yet he
never wished to carry them beyond their due sphere, and
on all matters where he could promote their interests he
wished to be considered the representative not of a part,
but of the whole constituency.--(Hear, hear.) Upon that
principle he had acted, and would continue to act. And
now, in takinc, his farewell, they must permit him again
to return to them his most grateful thanks for the honour
they had done him, and the exertions they bad made in
his behalf. He trusted, that although this contest had
been a strong one—and a strong one it certainly had
been—that it would not leave behind it one spark of
animosity.—(Cheers.) He retired from the contest with
grateful thanks to those who bad supported him, but
without one unkind feeling to any one of his oppo-
nents.—(Much cheering.)
Mr. STRIITT again rose, and said he had now the
pleasing duty to perform of proposing a vote of thanks
to the Mayor for the able, efficient, and impartial man-
ner in which he had conducted the business of the elec-
tion.—(Much applause.)
Mr. JESSOPP had much pleasure in seconding the
motion.

The MAYOR returned thanks.
Three times three cheers wero given for Mr. Strutt,
and the large audience dispersed.
The affability and courtesy of Sir Digby Mackworth
pleased opponents as well as friends. The Honourable
and Gallant Baronet has left the town.

LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. Br AGNES
STRICKLAND. VOLUME 9.—We have repeatedly intro-
duced to the notice of our readers with deserved com-
mendation the Lives of the Queens of England. The pre-
sent volume is one of the most attractive that has yet ap-
peared. It is exclusively devoted to the life of Mary of
Modena, Queen Consort of James IL It is a delightful
piece of biography, and has cost Miss Strickland more
labour and research than any of her previous volumes.
She visited France in 1844, and subsequently Edinburgh,
to say nothing of her inquiries in the State Paper-office
at home, in order that every interesting particular re-
garding the life of Mary Beatrice, which is accessible,
might be made to contribute to the interest of her nar-
rative. Miss Strickland has discovered a large mass of
papers relating to the consort of James 11., and the
eventful period in which her husband reigned, which
had never before seen the light since they were written.
Among these new documents are upwards of two
hundred original autograph letters of the Queen, com-
prising her confidential correspondence with her bosom
friends in the Convent of Challiot, to which place she
peatedly retreated in the days of her exile. The
volume, we repeat, is one of the most interesting of the
interesting series. No words can sufficiently express
the sense which every intelligent reader must feel of the
research and labour which Miss Strickland has bestowed
on her work.—Observer.

WIDENING OF TIE GREENWICH RAILWAY.--
ERECTION 0111 THREE ADDITIONAL LINES.—The South-
Eastern Company have determined that the extensive
works for the widening of their branch line, the Green-
wich Railway, for which they obtained the sanction of
the Legislature during the past session, shall be pro-
ceeded with forthwith. The works comprise another
viaduct, built on brick arches, the entire length of the
Greenwich line, so as to provide for three additional
lines of rails; one of which is for the Atmospheric Rail-
way, and the other two for the North Kent line. Half
the work, we are informed, is under contract, and the
remainder will be let in the course of three weeks or a
month. It is executed under the direction of Mr. Peter
W. Barlow, the company's acting engineer. The joint
station at London-bridge is also to undergo important
improvements, and will be enlarged nearly to twice its
present dimensions. The contracts for widening the
Greenwich line include the works at the station.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—This institution will
close on the 11th inst. for six weeks, for the place to
undergo a thorough cleansing, after which it will remain
open till next September.
RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—On Friday the
41b. loaf was raised to 7d. by the cheap bakers in the vici-
nity of Clare-market and other poor localities, the price
being Bd. at the best bakers at the west-end of the
metropolis.
AN USEFUL M.P.—Last Thursday morning the
passengers on board the William Jolliffe steam-boat, on
her passage from London for Yarmouth, were informed
by the captain and stewardess that they might shortly
expect an addition to tneir number, one of the female
passengers having been taken with the pains of labour.
The unexpected addition at length took place, a well-
known medical Member of Parliament acting as doctor
and midwife on the occasion. Both are " doing as well
as can be expected."
BURGLARY.—On Friday, information was forwarded
to the police that the premises of Mr. Turbyfield, of No.
8, Hayfield-place, Mile-end-road, had been burglariously
entered, and a great number of valuable silk umbrellas
and other property abstracted.

ANNUAL MEETING of the HIGH-
LAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF
SCOTLAND.
(From the Inverness Courier.)
INVERNESS, SEPT. I.—The members of the Highland
and Agricultural Society of Scotland, having resolved to
hold their fifty-third annual general meeting and show
at Inverness, on the Ist, 2d, and 3d of September cur-
rent, arrangements were made by the local authorities,
in co-operation with the society's committee of manage-
ment, for rendering the demonstration in every respect
worthy the important occasion. The spacious grounds
of the Academy Park were set aside for the show of im-
plements 'and stock, while a splendid pavilion was
erected for the dinner party, capable of dining from
1,800 to 2,000 persons.
The great influx of strangers during the fine weather
of the last two weeks, more especially during the fes-
tivities of the northern meetings, had made accommoda-
tion in the hotels scarce enough and dear enough before
to- day •' but when the Duke of Richmond's steamer
arrived in the afternoon with some eighty or a hundred
passengers, many of them from England, every acces-
sible place where one could get either bed or board was
at once taken up, the charges being from five shillings to
a guinea a night for a sleeping room, even a couch or a
sofa; and for eatables-at least four times the amount for
which, in ordinary circumstances, one might either lunch
or dine. The only commodities that might truly be
called cheap were hare soup and Highland whisky, which
seems to imply that the good people in these northern
regions have practically abolished the excise and game-
laws, and that in shooting of hares and brewing of Ferin-
tosh they do ample justice to the more elastic principles
of free trade.

The business arrangements were these :—Tuesday (to-
day), a public breakfast at half-past eight &cloak, under
the direction of the Agricultural Chemistry Association,
the subjects of discussion being the use of prepared food
in feeding stock, and the mode of improving bill pastures,
and hill land generally; the exhibition of implements
and machines, dairy produce, seed roots and plants; a
dinner of the committee and members, and a lecture in
the evening by Mr. Smith, of Deanston, on thorough
draining. Wednesday—the general show of cattle,
horses, sheep, swine, poultry, and the whole of the arti-
cles exhibited on Tuesday, to conclude by a public din-
ner in the pavilion. On Thursday a public breakfast,
when the uses and value of artificial manures will be
discussed; and the whole will conclude by a sale of stock.
The breakfast this morning was given in the Northern
Meeting-rooms, J. B. Fraser, Esq., of Reilig, in the
chair. Amongst those present we observed James
Matheson, Esq., M.P., Professor Johnston; Mr. Horne,
of Longwell; Mr. David Milne, of Gradden; A. Mathew-
son, Esq., of Ardross; Colonel Mathewson; Major
Campbell, younger, of Oraigie; Mr. Ainslie, commis-
sioner of the Earl of Moray; Mr. Brodie, of Lethen;
Mr. Wallace, of Kelley (late M.P. for Greenock); Col.
Mackintosh; Mr. Smith; of Deanston. &c.
The CHAIRMAN, after remarking on the importance of
the topics to be discussed, introduced
Professor JOHNSTON, who congratulated the members
on having assembled in a district of Scotland where
agricultural science had been carried to a higher state of
perfection than in any other ; and where improvements
of a yet more important character were now to be car-
ried out by Mr. Matheson, the proprietor of the island
of Lewis, under the able direction of Mr. Smith, of
Deanston ; the question as to the best food for cattle,
and the best mode of supplying it, was one of vital in-
terest, seeing that they had now to depend so much on
the produce of stock, and had opened up for them, by
the facilities of steam conveyance, the advantages of the
London market. The learned Professor then went into
an analysis of the food generally used for feeding cattle;
and, in the course of an able and instructive lecture,
showed that though much had been done, much yet re-
mained to be done before they could produce the finest
qualities of meat at the minimum cost of production.
Some conversation followed, in which Mr. Smith, of
Deanston, took part, and spoke briefly on the same
question. The meeting seemed surprised at a remark by
Professor Johnston, to the effect that the cattle feeders
of England, as had been shown by the exhibition of im-
plements for preparing food for cattle, at the late show
at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, were making more rapid pro-
gress in this department of agricultural science than the
breeders of stock in Scotland.

The show of implements in the yard was a poor one.
There were a few new inventions exhibited, the most
novel and important of which was a plough for digging
potatoes; but the universal destruction of the esculent
detracted from the interest which this ingenious machine
would otherwise have excited, and hence it was passed
over with but little remark. There was one feature in
this exhibition of a peculiar and novel character; the ex-
hibition of two ploughs, or rather a plough and a spade,
used by the ancient Caledonians, side by side with some
of the finest specimens of our modern inventions for the
tillaze of the ground; the rude stock and half-forged
grubber contrasted oddly, but most instructively, with
the finely-moulded plough, polished stock, mid sword-
like coulter of the present day.
The dairy produce exhibited was not of great attrac-
tion. In this department of husbandry the Highland
Society yields the palm to the Royal Agricultural
Society of England. A circumstance of considerable
importanie to the dairyist, as well as to every one
who can appreciate mellow butter and good cheese,
occurred at this show to-day. A gentleman ap-
plied for permission to enter some milk pans,
manufactured by Mr. Rice Harris of Birming-
ham, on a principle which, while it possesses
the singular advantage of preserving milk in process of
creaming from the destructive effects of electricity, at
the same time shows the remarkable quality of inducing
the milk to generate, and throw up to the surface a rich
cream, and in larger quantity than can be induced by
any other kind of pan yet made. The pans, which are
called " The registered compressed milk pans," it seems
were first tried in comparison with wedgeware and
brown ware, when a difference appeared in favour of the
compressed glass of thirty per cent. Mr. Percy, the
dairy chemist of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng-
land, then made a series of experiments, the results of
which were thus stated:—
ANALYSIS OF THE CREAM OF FOUR PHIALS.—SAME

MILK.

Compressed Blown Wedg-
Glass. Glass. ware.

Brown-
ware.

No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4.
Water 58.62 71.91 73•86 64.79
Butter 35.04 21.31 18.88 27.94
Solid residue 6.64 6.78 7.26 7.27

100'00

100'00

100'00 100'00

Struck with the remarkable results, Mr. Percy was
led to try other experiments which have proved equally
satisfactory. The application for entry was too late,
but the subject was considered to be of so much im-
portance that means were to be adopted for getting the
whole subject fully discussed. There was an excellent
show of seeds and plants, of native pines and bulbous
roots, grasses and potatoes. Prizes were awarded for
the best of each. In this class wero conspicuous collec-
tions of native and foreign pines, and forest trees in
general, from the nurseries of Messrs. Peter Lawson
and Son, the society's seeduien, Edinburgh, and of
Messrs. John Grigor and Co., Forres Nurseries. The
latter collection attracted universal attention, and of it
we may specify Cedrus deodara, Pinus excelsa, P. Ge-
rardiana, abies, Smithiana, &c.; also specimen branches
with cones, brought from the Himalayan mountains,
illustrative of the various kinds of seedlings shown.
The first premium was awarded to Messrs. John Grigor
and Co.
At six o'clock this evening, the members dined in the
Northern Rooms, Mr. M‘Pherson Grant, of Ballen-
dalloch, in the chair. The discussion and conversation
at the dinner were of a private character, for what
reason does not very clearly appear.
At half-past eight, Mr. Smith, of Deanston, delivered
his lecture on thorough draining, and was listened to
throughout by a most numerous and attentive audience.
Some conversation followed on the general question, the
great bone of contention still being whether the deep, or
the comparatively shallow drain be the best; the impres-
sion evidently was that both are necessary, and that
local circumstanced must determine in each case which
should be adopted.
Amongst the noblemen and gentlemen present at the
show, were the Duke of Montrose, president of the
Society; the Duke of Manchester, the Earl of Cawdor,
Sir James Mackenzie, Bart., of Scatwell; Sir J. Drum-
mond, of Ilawthornden ; Sir Archibald M`Donald,
Major Cumming Bruce, M.P., Captain Cumming, Sir
W. Cumming, the Mackintosh, the Chisholm, Mr.
Brodie, of Lethen ; Colonel Baillie,

ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.—AIARSEILLES,
AUG. 31.—The inhabitants of Leghorn were only begin-
ning to recover from the alarm into which the earth-
quake on the 14th had thrown them, when they were
again surprised by a similar warning. The Archimede,
which came in yesterday from the coasts of Italy, brings
tidings, that on the 27th, at a quarter past ten in the
morning, a severe shock of earthquake was felt at Leg•
horn. The Archimede has no written details of this
fresh calamity, arising, no doubt, from her having been
on the point of departure, and her mails made up.
INHUMAN CONDUCT OF A SWEDISH CAPTAIN.,-.
About seven o'clock on the evening of Monday last, a
Swedish seaman, of the name of Anders llendricksen,
of Gottenburg, fell from the yard of the brig Albertina,
of Gottenburg, when about seven miles off Dover. It
appears Captain Berg tools very little trouble to save
the poor fellow, never heaving to or putting the brig
about to pick him up, but merely threw a plank over-
board, in compliance with the poor fellow's cries. This
plank (about fourteen feet long and ten inches wide),
from being a very expert swimmer, he succeeded in
reaching. He then stripped himself of his clothes, took
off his boots, and lashed them all to one end of the
plank, and took up his position at the other. In this
state he continued for four hours, when an English
schooner, the Joshua Carrol, of London, Captain
George, from Cardiff, with iron, for Bremen, came
within hail of him ; and hearing the unfortunate man's
cries in the water, immediately lay to, lowered a boat,
and succeeded in rescuing him from his perilous condi-
tion. The schooner, Joshua Carroll, brought up the
next morning in the Dover Roads, and Captain George
brought the man ashore in his boat; after having treated
him in the most humane, kind, and judicious manner.
The Swedish Consul procured him a refit in clothing,
with a little supply of cash, from a fund for the aid of
shipwrecked foreigners, at the disposal of the Master of
the Fellowship of Pilots, and, thus equipped, he was
immediately shipped as seaman on board the Norwe-
gian brig Ocean, of Drontheim, lying in our harbour.
The poor fellow has, during the last two days, been
suffering from the effects of his exposure, but, we hear,
is in a fair way of recovery.—Dover Chronicle.
Partridge shooting commenced on Tuesday, with
splendid weather. We hear some complaints of birds
being shy, and also of barren pairs being found fre-
quently ; but upon the whole believe that the sport in
this district has been tolerably good, Worcester
Herald.