The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-13 00:00:00

CAPTAIN BACK'S EXPEDITION.

The Montreal Papers of Wednesday furnish the following
intelligence of the progress of this traveller on an errand of
humanity

" On Monday last two canoes, manned by voyageurs of
the Honourable Hudson's Bay Company, arrived at Lachine
from the interior. By these, letters have been received
from Captain Back, dated the 19th of June, from Jack
River, a small depot and trading post of the Company at
the north west extremity of Lake Oninioique, in which
Captain Back reports himself and party in excellent health.
He also expresses himself much satisfied with the arrange-
ments made and zeal manifested in the interior to facilitate
the object of the expedition. The following is verbatim:
As the season is fast advancing, I purpose proceeding
immediately in a light canoe to find out the Thleu ci cho,
and also to select a wintering station, which may be effected
before or by the time my heavy barges reach the Athabasca,
and by this means they will be enabled to come on direct to
the end of their journey.' "—New York Papers, Aug. 20.

GENERAL DISPENSARY, ALDERSGATE-
SeßEET.—Wednesday a general meeting of the Governors
of this institution was held, for the purpose of considering
and revising its laws, particularly those relating to the
election of officers of the establishment. A very warm
discussion ensued upon a motion relative to the period
when a govei nor should become entitled to vote. After
it had been disposed of several of the medical gentlemen
complained of the proceedings, and eventually resigned
their offices. Those who resigned were Dr. Clutterbuck,
Dr. Lambe, Dr. Roberts, Mr. Salmon and Mr. Coulson.
Dr. Birkbeck, in expressing his intention to resign, read
a letter from the Duke of Sussex, the President of the
institution, in which his Royal Highness stated that if the
medical gentlemen resigned, he should pursue the same
course. It was then moved and carried (there being now no
medical men attached to the institution), that in future no
member of the pro'ession be allowed to sit on the com-
mittee of management.

An English mail had arrived at St. John's on
the 18th of July, bringing the intelligence that Mr.
Stanley's motions respecting the compensation to be given
to the slave proprietors had passed the House of Com-
mons. The House of Legislature was convened by special
c ill, and the Governor forwarded to them a despatch from
the Colonial Secretary, recommending their unreluctant
acquiescence in the purposes 01 Government relative to
emancipation. A respectful acknowledgment was made
to the Governor for the communication, with an assu-
rance that the House would give its contents their serious
consideration. No comments whatever appear to have
been made on the communication. Mr. Stanley's despatch
appears, with one or two exceptions, to have reached the
whole of the West India colonies, and to have been wel
received in all of them.

THE WOOL TRADE.—The attention of the
manufacturers, and others engaged in this trade, has been
directed this week to several public sales of colonial and
other wools. Yesterday about 1,500 bales of Australian,
Van Diemen's Land, and other wools, were offered, and
the buyers from Yorkshire, &c. were in full attendance.
Some of the finest fleeces from Australian flocks fetched
3s. to 3s. 4,3-1 per ib., which fully maintained former
prices. The lower description of wools were in demand.
The finest fleeces from Van Ditmen's Land obtained from
2s. to 2s. 5d per lb. Early in the week about 1,100
bales of Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales vvo ,Is
were offered, and fully maintained former prices. To-
morrow a further sale of 700 bales is announced, and as
the stocks are still low advatictd prices are expected to be
realised for peculiar qualities. The biddings at the sales
that have already occurred were very spirited, and from
the present activity which exists i❑ the manufacturing
districts, an opinion favourable to the future state of the
trade is held.

POACHERS.—The most scientific poacher,
and the least likely to be detected, is the one who snares
partridges in the open country, or catches hares and phea-
sants in covert, in the middle of the day. Take a covert,
for instance, the poacher with snares and silk ❑ets, goes
through it, and quietly sets them. When this is done,
throu4hout the whole extent of covert, where there are
paths or runs, the coppice is then disturbed by a mute
and unsuspected cur, and the destruction immense, if well
supplied with game. The grand time for this is
on a Sunday ; or on a wet day, when no sports-
men are likely to be out. The fellow, if caught,
has of course some prepared excuse, such as that of nut-
ting ; of cutting a stick; having lost his way, Sc.. You
can find no game upon him, and therefore can do nothing
with him—while possibly his fifty brace are hid awry in
sacks to be brought off at midnight to the receiver.
BATITGATE.—Tuesday, the 3d September,
being the annual election day of the Magistrates of Bath-
gate, William D. Gillon, Esq. of Walhouse, M.P. re-
signed the situation of Provost of the Burgh, and was
succeeded in office, at the unanimous call of the burgesses,
by John Marshall, Esq. of Orchard-place.—Edinburgh
A/it:eraser.

RAIL-ROADS IN FRANCE.-CURIOUS LI-
TIGATION WITH A MINING COMPANY OVER WHOSE
MINE THE ROAD RAN.-The Temporary Chamber of the
Tribunal of St. Etienne gave a lodgment on the 31st
ult. whic;i appears to be of considerable importance he
regards rail-roads running through mining districts. The
parties to the case were the company of share-holders of
the rail-road between St. Etienne and Lyons, of the one
part, and the proprietors of the Couzon coal mines on the
other. The case was first brought befoe the Tribunal
in St. Etienne in the year 1829, and was successively.
carried before the Court of Lyons, before the Council of
the Prefecture of the Loire, b.-fore the Council of Mines,
and lastly before the Council of State. The question in
dispute was as follows :—The Rail-road Company, in its
operations, having occasion to cross the mine of Couzon,
the Prefect of the Loire forbade the working o the mines
either under the rail-road, or within a given distance of
it, in order to guard against accidents, and in his zeal for
the public safety. The coal proprietors protested against
this as an interference with their rights of property, and
applied to the Rail-road Company for remuneration for
the loss which this prohibition caused to them, and the
point to be set at rest was whether or not the demand wal
legal. Mr. Smith, Procureur to the King, ably sup-
ported the case of the miners, and in a speech of two
hours entered into a consideration of the nature of mining
property, and also of that of rail-roads, and contended that
the proprietors of the latter were in possession of a pro-
perty of no use to the public, whilst the Mining Company
were deeply associated with the public interests. The
Court decided in favour of the claims, and appointed
Commissioners
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