The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-15 00:00:00

MANBY'S LIFE PRESERVER.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE IaNT---
SlR,—Finding in your paper, of the 11th instant, a
letter from Captain Manby, in which he states that he
considers his apparatus and mortar (ror rescuing sailors
from shipwrecked vessels) perfect, and that his plan has
not been improved upon, I beg most respectfully to state
to Captain Manby, through the medium of your journal,
that there are others besides Captain Jerningham who
deserve the credit of having improved upon it.
I do not mention this from any wish to injure Captain
Manby's apparatus in public opinion, but merely to show
that it has been improved upon, and that materially. I
allude to the plan invented by Lieutenant J. It. O'Reilly,
who commands the coast•guard stationed at Horusea. I
was formerly a resident there, and had opportunities of
seeing the inefficiency of the apparatus invented by
Captain Manby when used in the night, and the great
difficulty of directing a shot with precision during dark-
ness. Now, in justice to Lieutenant J. R. O'Reilly, I
feel myself bound, from the numerous opportunities I
have had of witnessing his invention, to state that he has
obviated the difficulty alluded to in the old plan of using
the mortar during a dark night. He has succeeded in
illuminating the shot belonging to Captain Manby's ap-
paratus used for projecting a line over a vessel in dis-
tress, and that by means of the most simple contrivance,
viz., by a fuze inserted into the shot, which, on the
mortar being tired, ignites, and gives out a most brilliant
light, sufficient, indeed, to be seen at a distance of several
miles.

I think Captain Manby must allow that the improve.
ment alluded to is one, at least, deserving of credit, and
" confirmed by practicrd experienced men, competent to
decide," as the plan has been inspected by the Govern-
ment, and approved of, although, as yet, I believe, it has
not come into general use.
It is not my wish to take from the merit of the original
invention, which has been the means of saving numbers
from a watery grave, but merely to point out an im-
portant addition to the apparatus for night use.
I have the honour to be,
Sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS WILSON, M.R.C.S.E.
Hull, April 13, 1846.

A letter from Vienna states that Lieutenant Field-
Marshal Count d'Urbna arrivcd at that city from Cracow
on the Ist of April, and states, " that the troops concen-
trated in Moravia and Silesia have been disbanded. The
Count d'Urbna is to take the command as chief of the divi-
sion at Vienna." In Hungary measures of precaution are
still taken by the authorities, and travellers are subject to a
strict examination.
The young Prince Czartoryski, who proceeded to Ber-
lin, to intercede in favour of his countrymen, has been ordered
to leave Berlin, and has left for Belgium.

FIRE AT MESSRS. KINAHAN'S SPIRIT STORE Room.
—Yesterday morning, about half-past eight o'clock, the inha-
bitants of King William-street, Charing- cross, were alarmed
by an outbreak of fire on the premises of the above firm.
their The r porters,eturn t
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lappeared,foun a
had
po
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t oth their
thefl
breakfasts,ooring on
and
fire.on
The fire threatened, for a time, the most serious consequences,
but the firemen ultimately succeeded in subduing it, though
not until great damage had been done to a portion of the
stores. It is supposed that a spark must have fallen among
some loose straw, whilst the porters were engaged in corking
some bottles of whisky for order. The firm is insured with
the Licensed Victuallers' Company.
A curious case has occurred at Plymouth. In conse-
quence of some remarks made by a relative, the body of
Rebecca Wyatt has been disinterred after being three
months in the grave, and an inquest having been held upon
the remains, the husband, William Wyatt, has been com-
mitted to gaol for manslaughter.
DEATH OF LADY ELIZABETH MACGREGOR.—We have
to record the demise of Lady Elizabeth Macgregor, widow
of Major-General Sir Evan John Murray Macgregor, Bart.,
K.C.13., and K.C.H., formerly Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of the Leeward Islands, who expired on Sunday last in
Hanover-square.
DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL 11. GARRETT.—We have
to record the death of another flag-officer. The above gallant
Admiral died on Monday morning, at his residence at Angle-
sea, near Gosport, in the seventy-third year of his age. He
had been above sixty years in the service. When Lieute-
nant of the Princess Royal lie served on shore during the
occupation of Toulon in 1793, and in 1797, while in com-
mand of the Trial cutter, he captured a French privateer of
far superior force. In the following year he assisted at the
destruction of the French frigate Confiante off Havre. His
commissions were dated as annexed :—Lieutenant 18th Feb-
ruary, 1793; Commander 27th December, 1798; Captain,
16th September, 1799 ; and retired Rear-Admiral, 16th
October, 1833. In pursuance of her Majesty's pleasure, in
1839 he was transferred to the active list of flag-officers,
with the rank of Vice-Admiral of the Blue. He was. in the
receipt of an annual income of above 300/. for his services.
SEAMEN OF THE PORT OF LONDON.—As anothern in
proof of the great demand at present existing faerrdesrseamate
thet
the merchant service out of this port, the o
are
usually
Sailors' Home (where from 100 to 200 men
voyages, are actually engaged by
ceasPfrom the last vessel.
living), who have only a few daysreturntaeidnafrotranlongship
foargeaiginn,
before they have received their wag
This increased demand has had. thl-eunveffpecatyionfg rafoisrinclutehbeeicr
voyages.
STONE 2/. 15s. per month is
crgate•strect, which has been
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tbol oteilicee
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of new granite, place
Ludgate- hill and Blackfriars-bridge, in lieu of the blocks of
wood. The first vehicles which passed along the new-payed
riy ivrawl On city Pr906d94 W amita

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
MANC HESTER, APRIL 14.
ST Excriastoz.-The sales are-Birkenhead and Holyhead
Junction, 325. dis.-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, p.
-Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 16s. dis. c.-Chester and
Manchester Direct. 245. dis.-Derby and Crewe, 14 p.-
East Lancashire, No. 2, % p.-East Lincolnshire, 7-16 dis.-
Glasgow and Dumfries, 14 dis.-Huddersfield and Manchester Rail-
way and Canal, % diss-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, % dis.-
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 2 p.-Liverpool and Bury, 64 p.
-Liverpool, Onnskirk, and Preston, 12-16 p.-Liverpool, Warring-
ton, Manchester, and Stockport, % die.-Manchester, Buxton, Mat-
lock, and Midland, par-Manchester and Birmingham, 754-Ditto,
Quarters (B), 73{ p.-Ditto, ditto (C), 6% p.-Manchester and Bury
Atmospheric, 10s. 6d. dis.-Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 816 P.
Ditto,•Extension, 14 p. -Manchester and Southampton, die.
-Northumberland and Lancashire, 21s. dis.-North Eastern, 136
dis.-North Staffordshire, 2 1-16 p.-Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Junction, 1-16 dis.-Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters (No. 3), 36 p.
-Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 21s. 6d. dis.-South Eastern
and Dover, Halves, No. 4, % dis.-Tean and Dove Valley, 11-16
dLs.-Welsh Midland, 14 dig. -West Riding Union, 1% p.-Eastern
Counties, York Extension, 34 p.
HULL, APRIL 14.
Srocts ERCIIANGE.-A meeting of shareholders in the Leicester
and Tamworth was held here to day, and although the attendance
was only small, the parties present were said to represent a large
nuinber of shares. Much complaint was made respecting the Secre-
tary not having replied to letters asking for Information as to the
prospects of the Bill being passed this session. After some conversa-
tion as to the Propriety of appointing atdeputation to seek informa-
tion, it was ultimately agreed that, previous to doing so, the chair-
man of the meeting should address a letter to the chairman of the
Tamworth, &c., expressing tile feeling of the meeting, and upon his
reply being received, a deputation of the shareholders, if necessary,
should be appointed to obtain such information as may render it de-
sirable either to further promote the Bill or to call for a dissolution
of the company. There has been a fair business in scrip to-day,
The sales are-Great Grimsby and Sheniela, 5-North British, Car-
lisle, 335.-Boston, Newark and Sheffield, 265. 6d.-Chelmsford and
Bury, 9s. 6d.-East Coast, 235.-Grimsby, Louth, and Horncastle,
20s. and Barnsley Junction, 235. ad.-Hull and Lincoln,
205.-Liverpool and Leeds, 21. Bs.-London and York, 14-Ports-
mouth Direct, 225. ad.-Teen and Dove Valley, 155.-West Riding
Utiton, 31. 9s. 9d.-Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 20s. Gd.
YORK, Arai. 14.
STOCK EXCUANGE.-The sales are-Great Grimsby, Louth, ece.,
11. 25.-Great North of England, New, 14-Ipswich and Bury (Cans--
bridge and Ely), 14-London and York, 11. 3s. 9d.-Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 21.2x.-Newcastle and Berwick, 17%
-Newcastle and Darlington, Brandling, 4234-Dittk Extensions,
8 %-North British, Carlisle Extension, 1/. 135.-North
%S-tatlNoortrdh-
shire, 436 -Northumberland and Lancashire Junction,
Western, Ms.-Welsh Midland, 14-York and North Midland, New
(East and West Riding), 8%.
EDINBURGH, APRIL 11.
STOCK Excnmens.-The sales are-Aberdeenl yr and,s.-40As,-Abe rdeen,
Bauff, and Elgin, 255.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 4
Gal-
loway, aft-British and Irish Union, 40s, 6d-Caledonian Exten-
sion' 295. 6d.- Cornwall and Devon, 325.-East Indian Railway,
7s. 6d.-East of Fife, 305.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 408.-Edin-
burgh and Leith Atmospheric, 215,-Edinburgh and Northern, 405.-
Ditto, Newport, 93.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 125.-Edinburgh and Peebles,
s.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 275. 6d.-Great North of Scot-
land, 30s. ad.-North British, Extension to Carlisle, 31s. 6d.-Perth
and Crieff Direct, 335. -Perth and Inverness, 28s. 6d. -Scottish Cells
tral, 131. 55.-Scottish Midland, 51. 10s.-South Midland, 265. 6d.

THREE HORSES KILLED WITH THE QUEEN'S
BUCKIIOUNDS ON EASTER MONDAY.
The long line of country, which, in many parts, wag
in an exceedingly heavy state, in consequence of the late
rains, gone over by the royal buckhounds on Monday
last, and the extraordinary pace kept up nearly through-
out the run in pursuit of the stag Rob Roy, has proved
fatal to three of the horses engaged in the chase. Cap-
tain Hesketh's well-known horse, Stumps, which won
the Surrey Stakes on the last day of the Windsor
Steeple Chases, died on Monday night, from over exer-
tion during the hunt, at the Cavalry Barracks, Windsor.
' Stumps, ridden by its owner, was pulled up, before
the finish, but in far too exhausted a state to hope
to save it. Maggie Lauder, a celebrated steeple-chase
horse and hunter, belonging to Mr. Henderson (vete-
rinary surgeon to his Royal Highness Prince Albert
at Windsor), by whom it was lent to a friend for the
day, was with the greatest difficulty enabled to reach
home after the take, which was at least seventeen
miles from the town. Maggie Lauder, who ran well,
"and was a favourite in the fourth steeple-chase on
Wednesday last, died yesterday morning. A fine nag,
valued at 150 guineas, ridden by Mr. Jackson from
London, dropped down dead while in full chase, in a
grass meadow between Moor Park, the seat of the Mar-
quis of Westminster, and Rickniansworth. Mr. Jack-
son fortunately escaped unhurt. Several other horses,
and some not expected to recover, reached their stables
in an exceedingly distressed and disabled state.
It has been the subject of remark for some years past,
that the high breed of the royal pack (nearly approach-,
ing to that of bloodhounds) gives them such extraordi-
nary powers of speed and endurance, that nothing but
first• rate cattle and those in the highest condition, have
the least chance of living with them, especially when
the deer, as was the case with Rob Roy, goes away
right ahead, and no doubling. The hounds on Monday,
and the horses ridden by the whippers-in, went over
nearly seventy miles of ground— the distance from the
kennel at Ascot to the meet at Stoke-common being
thirteen miles ; the run was about twenty-eight miles ;
and Eastcot, where the deer was taken, is twenty-four
miles from the royal kennel, where the pack arrived be-
tween six and seven o'clock the same evening.

EARTHQUAKE AT MALTA.
Our letters from Malta announce, that on Saturday,
the 28th of March, at 4 43 P.N., a smart shock of an
earthquake was felt in that and the neighbouring island
of Gozo, which lasted for several seconds ; and, after
two minutes, another very violent shock, which was of
longer duration. The first appeared to come from the
westward, and was like a wave rolling eastward ; the
second from the opposite direction, as though the same
wave retiring, with a heavy rumbling noise, the weather
being calm. Several people were carried off their feet
and fell, whilst others were attacked with vomiting and
all the nausea of sea-sickness. Divers stone dwelling•
houses, the archives of the justice, and some outhouses,
have suffered damage in their walls and foundations, and
general panic and consternation prevailed throughout
the night from apprehension of other shocks. Such an
event has not been known here since 1809. A mercurial
regulator in a watchmaker's establishment stopped at
the moment of the second shock, and some candlesticks
on
.the high altar of St. Paul's Church were thrown
down. In the night lightning was perceptible in the
direction of Mount /Etna ; but subsequent accounts
from Catania only mention the shocks as having been
felt there, without attributing the same to the volcano.
At Alexandria, between five and six P.M. on the same
evening, two shocks were felt. At Mytelene and Smyrna
shocks were felt on the 11th inst. The Genoese astro-
logers prognosticate earthquakes on the 27th March and
16th April, so that they appear to have made a pretty
near guess.

Why are ladies become thieves ? Because they have
taken to steal (qy. steel) buttons.
PROSPECTS OF CHEAP AND GOOD FOOD.—Amongst
the matters of present exciting interest, nothing is more im-
portant, or displays more the character of the commercial
enterprise of the day than the steps now taking for insuring
a future supply of food. Within a very few days there has
been rivalry between the American and Norwegian mer-
chants in ice, turkeys, and capons, many of which have ar-
rived in a state fit for the domestic table. Within the last
three years nearly 500,000 pine apples have been imported
from the West Indies; turtle in abundance; and even pre-
served apricots from Port Philip in Australia. The measures
of the proposed tariff have in many instances been an-
ticipated by intelligent speculators in the City, and
reciprocated by agriculturists abroad. One intelligent
firm in Monument-yard alone have added, within the last
two years, many luxuries and necessaries to the table,
including pine-apples and turtle from the Bahamas ; new
potatoes from the Azores ; salmon from Labrador, imported
by the Hudson's Bay Company; pork and bacon from ;Lis-
bon ; preserved meats from Australia; hops, smoking beef,
and tongues from the United States, &c. The most extra-
ordinary results, however, perhaps from anticipated free
trade have been in the importation of American cheese. The
potatoes introduced as novelties from the Azores last spring
have now become almost absolute necessaries, as they are
the chief source on which a future healthy crop can be
looked forward to. The Horticultural Society bas not been
behind in anticipating the future wants of the community,
ib
ny
farinaceous introducing
fos several ranew sorts
have
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that the want of Irish
beef and pork for ships' p
statements, it is a matter of notorietytanh,
and
has
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in pcolr
tation of yams and bananas. In connexion with es-
apse
port without a
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texture,
DEATH IN A TAP-ROOM.-011 Tuesday, Mr.
, "lelgh: swuraley.trousers
trousers,
waonrnar
Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Coronation, Seymour-
street, Somers-town, on the body of John Snell, aged fifty-
eight, whose death was awfully sudden. The deceased, on
Saturday night last, was sitting in the tap-room of the above
house, relating a tale about the whale fishery, when his head
suddenly fell forward on to the knee of a companion: A
medical gentleman was sent for, and one promptly attended,
end pronounced the deceased to be dead. Verdict, " Natural
death."

THE LATE ACCIDENT OFF 1117NGERFOPtD PlER.—Not-
withstanding every exertion that has been made since the
accident, which took place on Saturday night at the above
pier, the body of the missing young man has not been reco-
vered. It is much feared that he and the man Fowel, who
was taken out dead, are not the only ones whose lives were
sacrificed on that occasion, inquiries being still made after
persons, of both sexes, who were on the spot when the
occurrence happened, and who have not been seen or heard
of since.
GROSS OUTRAGE AND ATTEMPT AT VIOLATION.-c-,
Yesterday's Police Gazette contained information of the fol-
lowing gross outrage upon, and attempt to, violate the per-
son of a respectable married female, named White, residing
in a cottage upon the estate of Colonel Keppel, at Ashley,
Milton, Warwickshire. It appears that a storm of rain came
on suddenly at about four o'clock in the afternoon of the
6th inst., when a horse and chaise was drawn up at the door
of the cottage, and a respectable-looking man having
alighted, he inquired of Mrs. White for a Mr. Thomas Taylor
(Colonel Keppel's bailiff). He then requested to be per-
mitted to enter the cottage for shelter from the rain forthea
int:le ere
short time, which, being assented to, he walked
house, where, however, he had not been manoy_s_ersco.n
White,
he commenced making improper overtures t
with him for s
k with which she
ia,enrsdounl.timAatfteelyr
stthrruegwglhinegr down, and attemsnteedtitmo
d He then
chopped him, as she believes,
.
ceeded in catching bold of a bill; o:
veaszy stout,being
five and was dressed in a dark
fresh complexion and slacks_rl kid
gloves.
coat, grey trousers, and aebffocucttefdorlilyzsyeesacraspoef.agTe,hedeflinetqUnteennttinicshgdaseschirgibedh,
of the progress of railways the directors of
—ln consequence
INCREASE OF ORDERS FOR MACHINERY TO FRANCE.
not only in obtaining their rails, chains, &c., and other requi-
sitethe different 11119. find that they have a very great difficult
material. but more particularly their locomotives. The
following are the orders now being completed for steam-
engines in this country by our most eminent engineers, viz.,
Messrs. Stephenson, f 424 ; Sharp, 196 ; Hawthorn, 70 ;
Forster, 80 ; Fairbarn, 35 ; and Nasmyth, GO. The average
price cf each locomotive is from 1,8001. to 2,0001., according
to its dimensions. In addition to the above, the following
bestetocaio; locomotives v. es
manufacturers ve
n France, ordered tomi t
hb e
the constructedgreate ,it expedi-
tion the
:—Messrs. Allcard and Buddicom, 80 ; Derosne and
Meyer and Company, 70; Gouin, 38 ; Cave, 35 ;
Crensot;2o ; La Ciotal, 25 ; Hallette. 16 ; Andre Kcechlin,
12 ; total, 371, to be manufactured in France, and 665 in
England.
Great activity prevails in the Pavilion, and it is
generally understood -that preparations are making for the
reception of the Princess Royal, and one other of the royal
children, who are to remain here for some little time after the
accoachfment 91 hoz' Alajoty,—Sussex erldrertiaer.
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