The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-05 00:00:00

GAS-LIGHTING.

The Committee for Paving, Cle 'timing, and Lighting t/
parish of St. James, Westmins-e,, tort on WAnesdl
morning, pursuant to public advertisement, to receive PO
posal. for lighting the streets, &c., with gas for one ye
from Michaelmas Day next. The Chartered Gas Compai
having had the monopoly for the supply to that parish
14 years ending at the above period, and as the new CO'
pany, called the Equitable Gas Company, had not be
successful in their previous applications to be permitted!
extend their mains therein, much competition between S°
two Companies was excited.
Mr. GUDE attended, and stated, for the information!,
the Committee, that a plan was maturing, and well'
shortly be submitted to the public, to establish gas work
in every parish. The manufacture of gas was now so cre
understood, and the process so simple, that there would b!
no difficulty whatever, without incurring any risk or tog,
sance, and the profit, instead of supporting a Joint Sto
Company, with an expensive establishment of Direcfoti
and clerks, would he derived by the inhabitants themselo
The advantage of lighting separate parishes was not tbi
only consideration—the article of coke might be 901 d i
half its present price to yield a profit, and the other ru(l
ducts arising from the works sold to great advantage. V„
poor of the respective p irisbes might also be profitsh
employed therein.

It appeased that the Chartered Company had lately re:,
duced their charge 25 per cent, to secure the supply 1
this extensive and important parish, and it was represent_S,
that by p krishes manufacturing their own, a much great
saving might he effected.

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The Committee, after some discussion, agreed to pot'
pone their determination for a fortnight.

We understand that Sir FRANCIS BURCSI.'
has yielded to the entreaties of the Minitters, and will
mediately be elevated to the Peerage.

We are happy to learn that in the large tvil
nufaciuring town of Leicester there is scarcely a WO
unemployed.

The first of the Circuits commencei
morrow at Cardiff.

Some surprise has been expressed at the
length of time which has elapsed since the Rank publish'i
any list of unclaimed dividends. This information is yell
itnpottant to the public, and ought not to be withheld.
It transpired early on Thursday morning on
'Change that the house of FAIRLIE, CLARKE, IWO
and Co., one of the first standing in the East India trade
had stopped payment. The circumstance, though it hs,.
given a severe shock to credit for the time in that bran('
of the mercantile interest, appears not to have been who'll
unexpected, since it was known that the house in Calcutta
with which this is connected had entered into some sr
rangement with its creditors not to press for a give"
period the claims against it. There is no positive infer'
oration as yet of the house in Calcutta having suspend'''.
payments, though it is feared that the intelligence of dig
failure here must, at all events, if it does not take pia°
earlier, produce that effect. Of the liabilities of tb',
London house there are several accounts in circulatiots
and, as is usual in such cases, varying extremely in amount'
I ut they are probably not near so large as they would hart
been had the calamity occurred a year or two back, and
we should be disposed to take that estimate as nearest
the truth which fixes them at between 200,0001. a°
300,0001. On the means of the house to meet those
liabilities it is impossible thus early to offer any opinion'
The losses, it is understood, will chiefly fill on tradesmetu
manufacturers, and ineichants, who have supplied good°
for the export transactions of the house, awd on an ester
sive class of retired annuitants, who have placed their
capital at interest with it. In this respect, and especially
it the failure of the house in Calcutta should follow, the
consequence must be in the highest degree calamitoo'
numerous fluidics, who live at present in respectabiliti
and opulence, having placed their whole means on that 04'
curity. The high rate of interest paid, which was 7 c'r
8 per cent , as it was the temptation to such investmeOtt
has been also one of the chief causes of the ruin of ti
house in question, and of the others which have recently
failed in Calcutta. The profits of trade, having naive'
sally declined, could no longer afford the same high rate
of interest, but it was persisted in until It became lo''
possible to pay it.— Times.

THE FRENCH COLONIES.--The Annals
Maritimes, a work published under the sanction of Go'
vernment, contains the following statement of the popula'
ticn and commerce of the French colonies for the year
1831 :-1. Martinique, free population 23,417, of which
11,628 are males, and 11,789 females. Population °(
slaves e 5i836,5,259194,
13,554,477
7f whichfrcs 4; 1,825
exportsare
of mdailtetso, n2(1,442;43::
females ; total population 109,716. Imports of merchaa"
tse
francs ; hal ince in favour of importationl,l33,ll2 franc,'
2. Guadaloupe and dependenci. s ; free population 22,324'
of which 10,555 are males, and 11,769 females. Pep;
Winn of slaves 97,339, of which 47,259 are males, and
50,080 females ; total population 119.663. Imports of
merchandise 11,053, 997 francs ; export of ditto
16,544,171 francs; difference in favour of exportation
5,490,174 francs, 3. Guiana; free population 3,780,
population of slaves 19,261. In this colony there were
266 births to 417 deaths. This disproportion, which
par ticularly remarked among the slaves, is owing to the
disproportion of the sexes. To 7,483 males, of from 14'
to 60 years, there was only 5,835 females, so that the
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21,6p,33idiminishes,op8,;()::43ti67it
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117 n
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laTf:tte,hi2rsoewc.3,tlh4ai
merchandise
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nelp4elsui:oo7ll population
;o:on81:05:01:e
francs; exports of ditto 1,633,294 francs; balance I'l
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the
total population is 100,558, inclmling 2,628 free Indian':
Imports of merchandise 7,335,755 francs ; exports of
.
dam 9,910,980 francs ; difference in favour of exports'
tion 2,575,225 francs.— Gallynani's Messenger.
HUNTINGDON, JULY 6.--Yesterday morn-
ing, about eight o'clock, Mr. COOPER, baker, of this town,
terminated his existence by hanging himself. For some,
time past the deceased had been in a desponding state 01
mind owing to embarrassed circumstances, and in M'
last he made an assi.gnment fur the benefit of his creditor*
since which period he had been exceedingly low and de-
lected. Yesterday morning his only daughter was to ha"
been married to a respectable young man, a coachmakerr,
with the entire concurrence and assent of the deceased'
The wedding party was assembled, and was just on 08
point of leaving for church, when 111 r. CoorEit's absenee
excited observation ; inquiry was set on foot, and on his
sun going to tt e flour-house, on the premises, he discovered
Lis label- suspended from a beam, and quite dead. FroUi
tire time he left the house to the period of his being found
scarcely half •an-hour elapsed. He was about 60 year'
of age, and has left three sons and a daughter before
alluded to. The rope which he had used was not tied to
the beam, hut merely twisted round it two or three times'
and as he w.rs a heavy man it is rather remarkable that i"
continued firm, for on a person laying hold of it for the
in pose of cutting him down, it immediately siilPed 011
Verdict—Temporary Insanity.