The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-27 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY
„MORNING, JULY 27, 1846.

CALEDONIAN CANAL -

PARLIA-

THE SUGAR DUTIES.
GLASGOW PETITION.
GLASGOW, TlNlRSDAY.—Yesterday the following petition
to the House of Commons was laid down at the bar of the
Royal Exchange. It was numerously and respectably
signed in the course of a few hours, and transmitted for pre-
sentation in the evening:—
" To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and
Ireland in Parliament assembled—
" The Petition of the undersigned Merchants, Bankers,
Manufacturers, Shipowners, and other Inhabitants of
the City of Glasgow.
" Sheweth,
" That your petitioners hail with the greatest satisfaction,
the plan submitted to your Honourable House by her Ma-
jesty's Government, for the settlement of the sugar duties.
" The amount and duration of protection accorded to the
colonies are ample and liberal, exceeding in both respects
what many of your petitioners had anticipated; and, while
they trust it will put an end to everything like unreasonable
opposition, they are confident it will confer great benefit on
the public, and the trade of the country in general.
" May it therefor* please your Honourable House to
pass the said Bill, as it is of great consequence it
should become the law as soon as possible."

MENTARY PAPER.

The forty-first report of the Commissioners for the
Caledonian Canal has just been issued. It contains a
statement of the progress of the repairs during the year
that has elapsed, and which is described as in all respects
satisfactory. The following are the most important
passages ;
" The commissioners are assured that there is every
prospect of their being able ti open the navigation at
the expiration of the stipulated period of three years,
viz., the 25th of September next, although an important
addition to the works has been made, at a compara-
tively recent time, in a now swing bridge at the Muir-
town Locks. With regard to the execution of the
works, the solidity and excellence of the new portion
has received the highest approbation, as well of military
engineers as of the principal engineers of the board. The
superintendence has been strict, as was rendered neces-
sary by the extent and variety of the works, as well as
the distance over which they are spread. In addition to
the services of Mr. May, the resident engineer of the
canal, and the foremen under him, and the frequent
visits of inspection of Messrs Walker and Burges, those
gentlemen have kept two, and sometimes three, assistants
constantly on the ground. The number of workmen
employed has varied from 1,729 to 1,023.
" In the last report it was pointed out that the entire
restoration of the Banavie culverts, involving an expense
of 13,711/., had become indisputable. It has since been
found advisable to make further alterations and addi-
tions, not originally contemplated; but these, though
greatly conducive to the public convenience, will but
little enhance the ultimate cost. The most important of
them is the substitution of an improved lock-sluice ma-
chinery for emptying and filling the locks, and of im-
proved capstans for moving the gates. These will
diminish the time required for passing each lock by eight
or ten minutes, thus effecting a saving of three hours in
the lockage of the whole canal. They have in conse•
quence very advantageously superseded the necessity of
making a passing place in the chain of the Banavie locks,
as originally proposed, by which the passage of vessels
would have been expedited only in the case of vessels
ascending and descending at the same time.
" Air-tight cases have been attached under water to
some of the lock-gates, to increase their buoyancy, and
diminish the friction upon the rollers.
" The sanction of the Treasury has been obtained for
the placing of a new swing bridge over the canal at
Muirtown Locks; the existing bridge has been repre-
sented by the authorities of the county and burgh of
Inverness, and also by the officers of the commissioners
for Highland roads and bridges, to have become in-
, adequate to the increased traffic on the great northern
road, but it will suffice for that which may be expected
at the Gairlochy Lock, and will, accordingly, be trans-
ferred thither in lieu of the new bridge stipulated for at
that point by the contract. The cost of this substitution
will not exceed 1,5001.

KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL.
On Friday the annual distribution of prizes to the boys of
the various classes of this institution who have most distin-
guished themselves in their studies during the past year, and
the recitations from ancient and modern authors, took place
in the theatre of the College. The chair was taken, at two
o'clock, by Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., who was supported byDr.
Major, the head master of the school, and the assistant mils.
ters. There were also present Lord Radstock, the Rev. Mr.
Lake, and many other supporters of the establishment. The
seats round the building were filled with ladies and gentle-
men and with the pupils. On the floor of the room was a
raised platform, on which those who recited took their places.
The principal, the Rev. Dr. Jelf, was unfortunately not able
to attend, his duties at Christ Church, Oxford, detaining him
in that University.
The business of the morning was commenced by a state-
ment from the Hon. Baronet who presided, of the occasion
and objects of the meeting; after which the recitations were
delivered in a very creditable manner by the following gen-
tlemen from the authors mentioned :
Iphigenia
Orestes 1 Eur. Iph. T.
Pylades
Praises of Britain Thomson
Cicero pro Plancio .
(Liddon.
JSvphax ' **** } Addison's Cato IF. Bacon.
üba ***** "••
Harpagon
Valera ... ........
Maitre Jacques ... De Lisle.
Brutus
Shakspeare
Cassius ... ..... ... j 1 Harrison.
Joan of Arc
Demosthenes Olynth. I Parker.
Peasant's Grave:— Wordsworth -
Hannibal 1 Conolly.
Scipio I Livy
1 H. Edwards.
Death of Marmion Scott Thompson.
Le Grondieur / S Bailey.
Le Valet ...... Brays 1 Irving.
Wallenstein
1110 } Schiller lrving.
Tersky Harrison.
Cwsar Nussey.
Cato
Cicero ...
Ben Jonson's
Ware.
Catiline
Pomptinius
Syllanus Fleay.
At the conclusion of this part of the business, the prizes,
which consisted of books elegantly bound, were presented by
the chairman to the successful competitors ; and a prize was
also presented to the best pupil in each of the schools in
union with the school of King's College. The head master,
The Rev. Dr. Major, then announced the names of the
scholars for 1846 :

"The ready co-operation of the commissioners for
Northern Lighthouses will enable the commissioners at
once to place the requisite light at the western entrance
of the canal, as recommended by Sir Edward Parry,
while the erection by that board of three new light-
houses on Crotnarty Point, and Craighead, in the Moray
Firth, in addition to that already placed at Tarbetness;
have left nothing to be done by the Caledonian Canal
Commissioners for the further accommodation of lights
at the eastern end.

" The improvement of the access to the canal by
dredging the Mickle Mee Shoal in the Moray Firth,
has been pressed upon the attention of the commissioners,
as well as the authorities of the royal burgh of Inver-
ness, and will be kept in view. An excellent chart of
the Moray Firth has just been prepared under the autho-
rity of the Admiralty, and will be forthwith made avail-
able for the public.
" The provision of steam-power for towing vessels
through the locks, is the last and most important ele-
ment of success for the navigation under its peculiar and
well known circumstances, and the commissioners are
taking measures for accomplishing it with effect and
economy.
"In respect of the claims for land and damages to
land on the line, the Commissioners have to announce,
that they have received a full discharge of the long-
pending demand of Lochiel, to whom they have paid
the sum of 4,9511. 165., the amount at which his claims
were ascertained in 1835, and 1,9391. 10s. Bd. for inte-
rest thereon subsequently accrued. Of the other prin-
cipal claims, that of Glengarry only still remains un-
settled; not in respect of the amount of the principal
sum due to him, but of questions which have arisen
upon the discharge and conveyance exigible from him,
and which have been lately made the subject of a refer-
ence to the Solicitor-General for Scotland. Two or
three small payments for land taken or temporarily oc-
cupied or damaged during the last four years (including
2281. for damage to Lochiel's land by the break of the
culvert at Banavie, and 1201. for land taken and damaged
at Fort- Augustus), probably not exceeding in the whole
6001. or 7001. will, it is believed, finally close this kind of
expenditure."

First class—Classical, Maurice Day ; mathematical, Ed-
mund Thompson.
Second class—Classical, William Ayerst ; mathematical,
Malcolm Currie Ancell.

Third class—William Henry Brown; Edward William
Meredith.
Fourth class—George Moody.
Fifth class—Francis Smale Drake.
Sixth class—Robert Howard Shepard.
The whole of the presentations being concluded,
Lord RADSTOCK moved a vote of thanks to the chairman,
which was seconded by the Rev. Mr. LAN=, and carried by
acclamation.
Sir R. H. Nat.'s immediately returned thanks, and in so
doing exhorted the pupils of the school to lose no exertions
in their studies and in their religious duties. He would give
them for their motto the word " onward," and he would wish
to impress upon their minds the necessity of continued pro-
gression towards excellence.
The meeting broke up short
The following is a list of the
the prizes were awarded :
UPPER 6TH CLASS.
Hugh Bacon
Edmund Thompson
Charles Lewis Parker
Edward Richard Nussey
Alfred Bailey
George Robert Chaplin
Marmaduke John Conolly
Martin H. Irving
Frederick Harrison
LOWER 6TH CLASS.
Francis Charles New
Henry Val lings
Edward Headland
Henry Aughton Maude
Hector Cameron
William Ayerst

ly before five o'clock.
names of the pupils to whom

Richard James Walker
'Ferdinand Oliver Camroux
James Rankin Fergurson
James
M. Hope Gleig

MATHEMATICS.
Frederic Gard Fleay
Edmund Thompson
George Walter de Lisle
Henry Ware
Burford Wm. Gibsone Eq.
Thomas Walker Scott
Arthur Cates
Alexander Barry I Aq.
Martin H. Irving j
William Henry Brown
Edward Headland
Edward Richard Nussey
Charles Augustus Ward
WRITING AND A RITHMETI C.
William Lightly
Arthur Kerry
Frederick Braby
Alfred Braby
Samuel Harman
William Mandalay
Horatio Brandon
Richard William May
James Harvey

STH CLASS.
William Henry Leigh Green
George Edward Dickson
Sidney Biddle
William Gerald Frampton
Cristall
Charles Froom
James Walbancke Jones
Thomas Walker Scott
UPPER 4TH CLASS.
Ernest Peake Newman
John Turner Hopwood
Algernon Borthwick
Frederick Evans
John C. C. M'Caul
LOWER 4TH CLASS.
John Craske Webb
Francis Edward Thompson
John William N. Blackburn
Frederick Wright
Mortimer New
UPPER 3D CLASS.
Edward Stanley Heywood
George Schrader
David Rudolph Chambers
George Moody
John Whitaker Hulke
Charles Joseph Hughes

HEBREW.
Roland Edwards

FRENCH.
George Walter de Lisle
Charles James Fox
Frederick Wright •
William James King
George Harvey
Horatio Brandon
Marmaduke John Conolly
Lawrence Harrison
Alfred Bentley
Edward Stanley Heywood
Wm. Underwood Gompertz
Sands Clayton

LOWEit 3D CLASS.
Walter William Skeat

Henry Stanley Giffard
John Piper
Edward Abraham De Grave
2D CLASS.
Horatio Brandon
Robert Howard Shepard
Edward Hall
George Winslow
John Drake
UPPER IST CLASS.

Edward Thomas Pate
John Wilson Moore
Walter Wood
Richard Hughes
LOWER IST CLASS.
Robert Hildyard