The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-24 00:00:00

No. 16,853. LON DON THURSDAY, E E N G Su N 9 SEPTEMBER 24, 1846. PRICE SD.

HALL OF ROME, GREAT WINDMILL-
STREET, MAYMARKET.
Professor TURNOUR begs most respectfully to inforn the Nobility,
Subscribers, and Public, that he has produced that novelty never
before attempted; viz., the introduction of FEMALE MODELS of
COLOUR, who will appear every Afternoon and Evening, in varied
groupings, expressly arranged for them.
Stalls, 2s. 6d.; Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is. Doors open at Half-past
Two in the Afternoon, and commence at a Quarter past Three
punctually. Evening performance, Half-past Eight o'clock.
Venus will rise from the sea till further notice.

ir HEREBY give NOTICE and request that no
1 GOODS may be sent to our house at Glasgow, or without my
special order, as the business will in future be carried on at Leek
alone, and on behalf of the subscriber,

JOHN GAUNT.

Leek, Staffordshire, 17th September, 1846.

HOT WE ATHER.—TR AVELLING.—SEA-
SIDE.—The REGISTERD PALETOT in London, only at
22, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange ; and the chief Llama
Cloth Warehouse, 114, Regent-street. Do not be deceived by a
similarity of name, placed In the windows of a few petty shops in the
neighbourhood of the Patentees. Each Paletot is stamped " H. J. and
D. NICOLL, 114, Regent-street."

BuRGESS'S NEW SAUCE, for general pur-
poses, having gained such great approbation, and the demand
or it continuing to increase, JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most
'espectfully to offer thus their best acknowledgments to the Public
or their liberal patronage of the same ; its utility and great convent-
nce in all climates have recommended i', to the most distinguished
oreign connections, who have all spoken highly in its recommenda-
ion. It is prepared by them only; and for preventing disappoint-
•nent to families, all possible care has been resorted to, by each
)ottle being sealed on the cork.with their firm and address, as well
is each label having their signature, without which it cannot be
genuine.

JOHN BURGESS and SON'S long-established and much-esteemed
ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES continues to be prepared by them after
the same manner that has given the greatest satisfaction for many
years.

Warehouse, 107, Strand, corner of Savoy Steps, London.

DUTCH PAPERS.
THE HAGUE, SEPT. 18.—Yesterday a Cabinet mes-
senger arrived here with dispatches from his Majesty
the King. It is now certain that his Majesty will not
return to this town before the 25th of this month. The

Leenio steamer, in which the King is to return, is to

be at Dasseldof on the 21st.

According to a letter from New York, of the 21st of
August, the Secretary of the Treasury has given the
necessary instructions to the receivers of customs, im-
mediately to carry into effect the Bill of the 3d of Au-
gust, by which exemption from duties on importation
is granted to Java coffee, coming from the Netherlands,
in Dutch or American ships, and to regulate the reim-
bursement of duties authorised by the said Bill.
THE liwoux, SEPT. 22.—We borrow the following
afflicting details from a letter from Alort, addressed to
the Courrier d'Anvers :—All that has been stated of the

misery which prevails in the country is below tho truth.
half of the population live in the Irish fashion, that is
to say, on potatoes, vinegar, and water ; rye bread is too
dear. As for pork, which is scarce this year, it is banished
long since from the tables of the poorer classes.
The mortality is becoming frightful in several villages,
even those which lately enjoyed a certain degree of
prosperity. It exceeds by 50 per cent. that of the years
1842 and 1843. The long drought has dried up
most of the wells ; and, being forced to drink muddy
and unwholesome water instead of beer or milk,

our country people have almost all contracted disorders
in the stomach, to which many hundreds have fallen
victims. I have visited a cottage where the father,
mother, grandfather, and , seven children were ill, lying
upon straw, badly attended, and abandoned by every-
body except a poor pastor and the physician of a neigh-
bouring commune. The pastor has nothing to give
them but consolation, and as for the physician, he is
overwhelmed with work, and three-quarters of his stock
of medicines are absorbed by his indigent patients.
The poor family of which I speak would be obliged
to sleep in the open air, if the burgomaster, to what) the
cottage belongs, had not excused them froth paying
their rent for the last eighteen months. This sight was
very distressing, especially when the father said,—
"It is very fortunate that we are ill, for we are not
so hungry. What will become of us when we are
cured? " There are above a hundred such instances;
in all our villages the misery is becoming general. The
small farmers are ruined in giving alms. The large
farm near which I live is visited every week by 600 beggars;
each of these persons receives a centime or a potato
The farmer talks of abandoning his farm because he
cannot bear so heavy a burden. In our village, as in
many others, the rich inhabitants subscribe to give work
to our unfortunate countrymen These burdens are four
times heavier than the taxes. The women who are em-
ployed in spinning in the houses of the farmers work
from five in the morning till seven in the evening, for
which they receive four centimes and their food. In
some farms they are contented with their food alone;
this may do for them, but what becomes of their
children ? r
MAEsTniburr, 19.—The water in the Meese
has become so low, in consequence of • the continued
drought, that steam-boats between this 'city" and Rot-
terdam have been obliged entirely to suspend their voy-
age; and even the service between this city and Liege,
is attended with great difficulty.
HARDENDURG, SEPT, 17.—The River Vicht is so ex-
tremely low- at this time, that it may be passed dry
shod at several places, a circumstance which never hap-
pened here in the memory of man.
AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 19.— BORNEO AND THE TREATY
OF 1841.—" For some months past the island of Borneo
has become the subject of the most lively interest to all
civilised nations—the establishment of the English in
that island, the largest in the world, is a question which
rivets all eyes on the two nations which are most imme-
diately interested. - Great Britain, whose influence in
the theatre of the world •is already so powerful, will
gain inconceivably by the last acquisitions and their
consequences; and the Netherlands, which, though not
without influence in Asia, sees that influence daily more
restricted on all sides by the extensive encroachments of
a neighbour -wbose possessions and colonies spread more
and more over the terrestrial globe, the Netherlands'
colonial and national interests, in the opinion of
many foreign statesmen, are exposed to the utmost
danger, by the events- of which Borneo is the theatre.
It may, thcrefore, 'ha "s'em out of the say to inquire
what ha& lattCily tiken place in Borneo,- and- theta -to
examine whether those events are contrary or not to the
treaties between the Netherlands and Great Britain
which are still in force, and have been frequently ap-
pealed to by both parties." The Handelsblad adds long
extracts from Captain Keppel's account of his voyage to
Borneo and the journal of Mr. Brooke.
ZWOLLE, SEPT. 14.—This evening some families em-
barked here for Rotterdam, intending to proceed to North
America.
On Thursday next six families will embark from the
district of Hardenburg, with the intention of proceeding
to North America, with a capital of 3,000 florins ;
religious motives aro the cause of this emigration.
THE HAGUE, SEPT. 17.—The Senate of the Free City
of Frankfort has just published a proclamation allowing
the importation of corn, duty free, into the territory of
the Republic. The Government of Frankfort will pay
to the Zollverien the duties chargeable on this corn,
according to the general tariff, which is common to all
States of the Union. This measure has become neces-
sary, in consequence of the very high price of provisions.
On the 12th of this month a decree of the Government
of Baden was published at Carlsruhe of the following
tenor:—
" Article I.—The existing regulations respecting the
importation of foreign corn and pulse, shall remain in
force till the Ist of April, 1847.
" Article H.—Foreign flour, as well as foreign articles
made of corn and pulse, as also pearl barley, groats, flour
of buck wheat, are free from import duty from the Ist
of October of the present year, till the Ist of October,
847."

PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Busiati, SEPT. 17.
Bills. Money.
9 2 34,

St.Schuld Sch., 334 per Cent • • • • ,
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent
Foreign Exchanges.. •• • • •••• • • • • • • •• • . • • •
Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 3 Months. 6 24
DUTCH F UNDS.—AXSTBRDAM, SEPT. 21.
Money. Bills
Actual Debt, 23! per Cent.. ••• • • ••• • 59X 60
Ditto, 3 per Cent .....• •••••• • • • • .• 724 723
Ditto, 4 per Cent.• ••••••••• •• • • • • •• 943 95
Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent . . 894 89X
Commercial Company, 434 per Cent • . 173 X 175
East India Loan, 4 per Cent• • • • • •
Exchange on London, at sight ••• • • • 12 17
Two months.• ••••••• • • • • • • 12 12
On Hamburgh, at sight •• • • 35 75
Two months•• ••••••• • • • • • • 35 43
On Paris •••••••• •• • • • • • • 56 74

T; oinon tbs. ••••••• • • • • • . • 56 25
-Dutch rapers, Sept. 22.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA., SEPT. 11.
5 per Cent. Metalliques •. • • .
4 per Cent. ditto •••••• • • • • • • ••••• • • • • • 101
3 per Cent. ditto •••••••••••• • . . • .. • . • • • • 731%
Loan, 1834 .. • ................. ..
Ditto, 1839 •• • • • • ••• • • • ••• • • • ••• • • • • • 127
Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • . • • . • . 1564
Esterhazy's Loan ......................-
-RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand • • • • • • • • • • - • 173
Gloggnitz •• • • • •• • • • • • • • • • •• • • •• . • •• • • 129
Vienna—Milan . • • • • • • • . • • • • • • . • • • • • 11214
Leghorn 10414
Sienna .. . • • • • • ..... SO
Grosetto ....... ........ ..
Apenninen ........ ........
Teeth Bridge
—Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept. 14.
BELGLAN FUNDS.—Bausms, SIiPT. 22.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.. .
Ditto Three per Cent.... ............
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto
Ditto, ditto,lB4o • • • • •
Ditto, datto,1842
Ditto, 1844. ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • •• • 99
Ditto, 1836... •• .. •••••••••• • . • • • • • • • 96
Ditto, 1838 ... •
Ditto of the City, 1832 .
Ditto, 1843 •••• • • • ........ •••••• • • • • • 99%
Bank ofßelglum•..... 934
—Brussels Papers. Sept. 23.

On the 13th instant a murder was committed at
St. Pahu, near Brest, under the following horrible cir-
cumstances. A farmer of the commune was married
only three months ago, but having become enamoured of
his servant-maid determined to get rid of his wife. To
accomplish this, he prevailed upon the servant to
smother her on, the Sunday while all the inhabitants
were at church. When the service was over she was
found dead, and it was believed to have been from apoplexy,
and she was buried the next day. The mother of the
deceased, however, afterwards finding cause to suspect foul
play, laid an information before the magistrates, and
had the body of her daughter disinterred. The servant,
on being brought to view the corpse, was struck with re-
morse and confessed her crime, which she protested she
committed at the instigation of her master, who pro-
raised to marry her. She was committed to the prison
of Brest, together with Jobert. The girl is only eighteen
years of age.
Dispatches from the Governor of West Australia
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
SOUTH ESSEX.
The revision of the list of voters for the Southern
Division of the county of Essex was proceeded with be-
fore Samuel Richard Bosanquet, Esq., at the Court-house,
Romford, yesterday, for the parishes of Barking, Dagen-
ham, Hornchurch, Brentwood, North and South Ocken-
don, Up►ninster, Great and Little Worley, Havering atte
Bower, &c.
Messrs. Clifton and Bonne appeared for the Conserv-
atives, and Messrs. Rawlings, of Romford, for the Li-
berals.

In the parish of Romford, Mr. Joseph Collin, surgeon,
of North-street, was objected to by the Liberals, on the
ground that he did not pay sufficient rent to entitle him
to be on the register.
Mr. Collin stated that he had been eight years in oc•
cupgtion of his house, and paid 601. per annum rent for
it. Seven years ago, just before the election, a similar
objection was made to his vote, and he attended before
the Revising Barrister, and the objection was disallowed.
As he had been taken away from his profession, that of
a surgeon, on so frivolous and vexatious an objection,
especially as he wrote to the persons objecting on the
14th, stating that he held the same qualification he did
seven years back, that it was a case in which costs
should be allowed. _ _

After hearing the Learned Gentleman for and against
he application,
The BARMSTER awarded Mr. Collin 10s. for his loss
)f time.

The following is the result of the day's revision :
Conservative objections, 17; sustained, 15; failed, 2.
Liberal objections, 30; sustained, 21; failed, 5; with-
drawn, 4.

On Tuesday the Court sat at the Cock, Epping, for
the revision of the parishes of Ongar, Waltham, Harlow,
Epping, Houghton, Chigwell, &c., &c., when the follow-
ing was the result of th day's revision
Liberal objections, 29 ; sustained, 15 ; failed, 14.
Conservative objections, 4 ; sustained, 3 ; failed 1.
The Court sits this day atßillmicay:

HERTFORDSHIRE.
Mr. Espinasse sat yesterday at the Bull Inn, Hoddes-
don, at ten o'clock.
Messrs. W. H. James, E. R. Spence, and J. F. Bun-
tems, attended for the free-trade party, and Mr. Long-
more for the Conservatives.

_
The REVISING BARRISTER complained of the negli-
gent manner in which the overseer of Witford had
performed his duty, and fined him in the sum of 20s.
for not forwarding to the clerk of the peace the lists of
voters, as directed by the Registration Act.
In the Hoddesdon list the claim of William Crawley
was objected to by the Conservatives.
Mr. Spence called a person of the name of Whitley,
a tailor, to prove the qualification, who stated he knew
William Crawley, and knew he possessed four free-
hold houses, and had been in possesion since his
father's death, which event occurred three years since.
Cross-examined by Mr. Longmore—l consider the
whole of the cottages belong to William Crawley. Each
of them let for about 41. a year ; he lives in one of them.
At the death of the father a will was found. There
had been something said about the property being.di-
vided among his children, four in number. The claim-
ant was the eldest son. The will was disputed, but
I consider the claimant the owner of the cottages. Ido
remember something being said about the property being
left to the daughters. There were not any witnesses to
the will. The fact is, the will was not signed. I have
seen it, and immediately it was shown to me I said it was
good for nothing. The son takes the rent of the whole
property, and he does not divide it with his sisters. The
will was not disputed by action. Ido not think the will
give, the property to the sisters. I consider, by the will,
that the claimant is the owner of the property. I have
not the will with me.
Mr. ESPINASSE said it would be very unsafe to receive
the testimony of a Hoddesdon tailor as to the devise of a
legal estate. He should therefore call for the production
of the will.
The witness left for the purpose of procuring the will,
and in a short time returned and stated that he had
seen the voter, but that he could not attend or produce
the will. _

Mr. ESPINASSE said, if a voter would not attend, of
course he' must expunge the name, which was conse-
piently done: .In the same list Charles Borham War-
ner, and four other.gentlemen claiming for a rent-charge
on freehold property, were objected to by the Conser-
vatives.
Mr. James took an objection to the notice to the effect
that the objector had not signed his name in full, but
only " 'rho." for " Thomas,' which was overruled by
the Court. lie then put in a deed of conveyance, dated
the 29th of January, and proved that Mr. Charles Bor-
ham Warner was living upon the property upon which
the rent-charge was secured, and contended that he so
residing constituted a possession in fact, as well as in
law, as required by the Reform Act.
Mr. Longmore submitted that the possession of the
property was not such a possession of the rent-charge
as required.
It was admitted as a fact that Mr. Warner was in oc-
cupation of the premises, and had been so since and at
the time of the execution of the deed, and also that such
occupation was permissive.
Mr. ESPINASSE said he would reserve his judgment on
the case of Mr. Charles Borham Warner, but with re-
gard to the other four gentlemen, be would strike out
their names, as it appeared they had not received any
rent on the deed, nor was it due at the time of execution.
In the Chesbunt list, Joseph Jennings was objected
to by the Tree,traders.
Mr. Jennings.a.ppeared and stated he was possesed of
it fee farm rent, upon the manor and rectory of
eemsilu nit was of more than forty shillings
artal.vt and
value, andthat
had been in possession more than

Upon; cross-examination he admitted that no consi-
deration, money bad been paid, or that the rent had been
received by the claimants.
Mr. Spence submitted that in that case the names
must be expunged.
Mr. 1 SPINASSE thought there ought, in all cases of
rent-charge, to be a payment either of a penny or half-
penny as seisin, it being an incorporeal hereditament,
which should be paid before the 31st of July last. In
this cafe there was no actual payment of the rent, or
anything in lieu of it, prior to the 31st of July. On that
groundlhe was of opinion the names must bo expunged,
but independently of that point, there was no considera-
tion in the deed of rent-charge, and as it did not appear
any money or other consideration had passed, it was
clear the case came within the Splitting Act.
The names were
_consequently expunged.
The following is the result of the day's revision:—
Claims by Liberals 5O
Claims, by Conservatives 59
- _

Liberals struck out
Conservatives struck out

116 95
Majerity on the day's revision, 21; previous majority,
221—thtal, 242.
The:Court rose at five o'clock, and will sit this day, at
the Shire Hall, Hertford, at ten o'clock.

SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS IN

JERSEY.
(From the Jersey News.)
Our attention has been called to a large printed paper,
headed, in conspicuous characters, "Jersiais, Lisez ! !
purporting to be an extract from L'Epoque, Paris
journal, of the 9th September, 1846. The article con-
sists of four long columns, and its seditious and treason-
able character will he seen from the following summary
of it. It first alludes to the visit of her Majesty and
Prince Albert to Guernsey on the 24th August, and de-
clares that it was done with a political motive, " to
calm resentment, and to prepare the way for important
alterations, which it had been foreseen were not to take
place without resistance. This resentment was caused
by the Lieutenant-Governor, Major-General P. W.
Napier, and the alterations in the drstruction of the
national language, Franco-Normandie, the Norman
customs, to substitute the English laws." It then
states, that " England had accomplished these altera-
tions as much as she could in Madras, Quebec, Malta,
Corfu, St. Lucia, and at the Mauritius, in spite of the
formal terms of treaties and capitulations; and argues,
that as Jersey is not a conquest, it only acknowledges of
the three powers of the Baitish empire, but one ; the
King or the Queen, and that only as Duke or Duchess
of Normandy." It then goes on to establish historically,
that the Channel Islands belonged to France, and then
enumerates their advantages, and continues, that " they
are situated nearer to France than England, too weak to
form by themselves two completely independent states,
in consequence of which they are obliged to acknow-
ledge the protectorate of one or the other country.
Their possession is of great importance in time of war ;
they have belonged to France, they have French man-
ners, French language, and laws ; England then has
been obliged to make it an El Dorado, to prevent them
throwing themselves into the arms of France. That
which has not been dared for eight hundred years with-
out almost incessant strife is wished to be now attempted.
Encouraged by peace, which has existed thirty years,
and which promises to last longer, the English Govern-
ment wishes to naturalise these old remains of an ex-
tinguished people, and assimilate them to England, in
regard to hmguage-and law." The writer then proceeds
to speak of the acts of the Lieutenant-Governor of
Guernsey, gilinehim plentr of abuse ; and continues in
a similar strain throughout.
Now. this article appearing in a Paris paper, would
have mattered but little, for none here either knows or
cares what L'Epoque may say, but it is quite another
matter when these sentiments are republished here for
the purposes of sedition and treason. If Jerseymen,
seeing, reading, and knowing the tendency of this ar-
ticle, have caused it to be printed, published, and ex-
tensively circulated, they have gravely compromised
themselves. To make it attractive it is headed, " Jer-
saiais Lisez I" and at the end is also in large charac-
ters, "Soyez sur vos garde,:, le serpent est sous lee fleurs"—
Be upon your guard, the serpent is under the flowers.
This matter requires the immediate interference of our
authorities.
It is stated that a meeting of the British residents is
contemplated, to express their abhorrence of the above
infamous publication—at which all loyal Jerseymen will
be requested to attend. _

ROWING MATCH FOR FIFTY POUNDS.
The sculler's contest between Thomas Coombes, the
brother of the champion of the Thames, and Frederick
Lett, of Lambeth, came off yesterday afternoon. The
race had been looked for with a great deal of interest,
and from the well-known qualities of the men, who had
distinguished themselves in many very spirited contests,
a first-rate struggle was anticipated. The men have
contended on three previous occasions, Lett having won
the first match after a great deal of fouling, Coombes
the second, and Lett the third, and the result of yester-
day's performance makes the score even between them.
Both men have been in very active training, and came to
the starting place, Battersea-bridge, to row to Hammer-
smith, in first-rate condition, Coombes in the beautiful
wherry, built by Cownden and Wentzell, in which his
brother defeated Charles Campbell for the championship,
and his opponent in one by Noulton and Wylde, of very
handsome construction. Betting was 5 to 4on Lett.
Lett got the start, and at Battersea Church was a length
a-head, having had considerable advantage by the choice
of station. His opponent, however, stroke by stroke,
gained upon him, and almost immediately came scull and
scull, and passed him in gallant style. Lett did his best
to overtake his antagonist, but his efforts were useless.
Coombes was five or six lengths a-head at Wandsworth,
went on gaining, and won by about two hundred and
fifty yards.

We regret to hear that the Earl of Munster and
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence received the melancholy
intelligence, on Monday last, of the death of Lady
Augusta Bona whose premature demise took place at
Stockholm on the sth instant. Her Ladyship's accouche-
milt happened on the 2d, and her death resulted from
her confinement. The deceased lady was second daughter
of the late Earl and Countess of Munster, and grand-
daughter of his late Majesty William IV. Her Lady-
ship was born 31st of July, 1822, and was married last
year to M. Bond& at Paris, when Lady Mary Fox, Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, and other branches of the family
attended the nuptials. By the lamented death of her
Ladyship, the Earl of Munster, Viscount and Vis-
countess Falkland, the Earl and Countess of Errol, Lord
and Lady Frederick Fitzclarence, Colonel and Lady Mary
Fox, Lord De Lisle and Dudley, Lord and Lady Augustus
Fitzclarence, Lord Frederick and Lady Augusta Gordon
Hallyburton, &c., are placed in mourning.
FOREIGN GRAPES.—TO show the extent to which
the importations of foreign grapes are carried at the
present time, the following arrivals may be especially
mentioned as having just taken place, and will be suffi-
cient to illustrate the subject :—Tho Tyro, from Lisbon,
brought 503 large boxes, 651 half boxes, 94 quarter
boxes, and 50 other packages of this kind of fruit, be-
sides several hundred packages of oranges, lemons, &c.,
the production of Portugal. The steam-ship Rainbow,
from Rotterdam, brought 893 baskets of the large and
fine description, known as the Hambro' grapes, and pro-
duced in the vineyards in the neighbourhood of Ham-
burgh ; and the Giraffe, from Rotterdam, also the un-
usually large number of 1,423 baskets of the same kind
of grapes. The Racer, from Lisbon, subsequently
brought 899 half boxes, 6 quarter boxes, and 43 large
boxes of grapes, the produce of Portugal. The impor-
tations of the description of grapes known as the Ham-
bro' grapes, previously alluded to, are taking place this
season to an extent beyond all former precedent. The
shops throughout the metropolis are abundantly supplied
with them ; they are of unusually fine quality and fla-
vour, and are vended at so reasonable a price as to place
them within the reach of the general public, which is to
be ascribed to the unusual and extraordinarily fine wea-
ther which has been experienced generally throughout
Europe during the past summer and up to the present

time.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.-011 Sunday, the 20th
instant, Mr. Luscombe, the Netherlands Consul at Ply-
mouth, was applied to by Edward Johansen, a native of
Holland, under the following extraordinary circum-
stances:—The applicant stated that he formerly belonged
to the Isis, a Dutch East Indiaman, new masted at
Plymouth about fourteen months since, and he recalled
to the recollection of the Dutch Consul several things
which made that gentleman believe his statement. Having
gone on to Batavia in the Isis, Johansen suffered there
severely from a discharge of blood, and was in conse-
quence under medical treatment in the public hospital
for two or three months. On his recovery he joined the
Dutch barque Jocatra, Captain Verkevisser, bound from
Batavia to Amsterdam, and when off the Cornish coast,
on the passage home, about five or six days since, in
the middle watch, he took his trick at the wheel
from twelve to about one o'clock, at which hour hi
was relieved by. the mate, who ordered him aloft, to
prepare for rigging out studding-sails. While at the
end of the mainyard, fitting a boom and gear, the
rope which for security he had fastened round his
body gave way, and he unfortunately fell into the sea.
In his first attempt to alarm the ship his mouth
filled with water. It was very dark at the time, and
the vessel passed on out of sight, his shipmates being
totally unconscious of his perilous fate. Providentially
for Johansen, he had on only his shirt, shoes, and
trousers. He is about twenty-five years of age, strongly
built, and an expert swimmer. The land was in sight
on the previous day, and by the help of the stars he now
endeavoured to swim in that direction. After remaining
in the water an hour and a half or two hours, he became
almost exhausted, when day began to break, and to his
unutterable joy he was happily descried by some
fishermen who were passing near him, and between four
and five o'clock in the morning, took him on board their
vessel. The figures No. 11 were on the boat's sails. His
deliverers immediately landed him, in a very weakened
condition, at a small fishing town of about ten or twelve
poor houses, where he was humanely treated, and re-
mained two days and nights in bed. He does not know
English, but, when somewhat recovered, in the best
manner that he could he begged his way, about thirty
miles, to Plymouth. Mr. Luscombe and two Dutch
captains have closely interrogated Johansen, whose
answers, under the circumstances, were very satisfactory.
He is supplied with suitable clothing and necessaries
from the office of the Consulate, and has been kindly
taken on board the galliot Jantina, Captain Potler,
which put into Plymouth from Bordeaux, bound to Rut-
, terdam.
BURIAL SERVICE.—By the Act of 9 and 10 Vic-
tonic, c. 68, which came into operation on the 26th of
August last, provision is made to enable the burin
service to be performed in one chapel, where contiguous
burial-grounds are provided for two or more parishes
or places. The Bishop of the diocese may declare, in
the sentence of consecration, that a chapel is intended
for the use of the several parishes or places. The
Act is to extend to any parish or place already or here-
after to be formed under the provisions of the Church
Building Acts, and also any new parish already or to be
hereafter constituted by or under the proceedings of the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England.
DELAY OF THE DELIVERY OF LETTERS.—Yester-
day morning the whole of the General Post-office letter-
carriers were ordered back to the office in St. Martin's-
le-Grand, in consequence of the non-arrival of the mail
bags from the Liverpool branch of the North-Western
Railway. The men, after having delivered the first dis-
patch, were sent out with the Liverpool mail about five
hours after the usual time. A serious accident below
Birmingham is stated by the Post-office authorities to
have been the cause of the detention of the correspondence.