The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-05 00:00:00

A. GOOD EXAMPLE.

STORNOWAY, JUNE 26.—Emigration has now for
this season ceased, the last ship with her living cargo
having left Loch-Roag on Saturday evening. In all,
upwards of one thousand persons, old and young,
have shipped from here to America, and under
circumstances which must reflect the highest credit and
honour on Sir James Matheson. Not only has he foregone
all arrears—taken all their effects at valuation and paid them
ready cash—but has transferred them solely at his own ex-
pense across the waters of the Atlantic. His generosity,
however, does not stop here, he does not allow them to
wander as outcasts on a foreign shore, but has engaged to
place them, free of expense on their part, in any locality in
Upper or Lower Canada which they may choose to mention.
Most of them have friends and relations before them, in
happy and comfortable circumstances, and they will
thus be left •by Sir James amid their more
favoured friends and former companions, who will
be amply able to minister to their wants, and ere many
summers' suns have passed over, the once poor crofter on
the bogs of the Lewis will have become the happy land-
holder on the banks of the St. Lawrence. The people them-
selves seemed in no way dispirited at the prospect before
them. and yielded submissively to the will of Sir James,
convinced that all was done for their ultimate benefit and
advantage—there were no squabblings, and all embarked
without a murmur. It is also worthy of remark, that t'be
shopkeepers and merchants of Stornoway did in no way in-
terfere with Sir James in carrying through his philanthropic
views. By the departure of these emigrants they have sa-
crificed large sums of money for meal and shop goods,
which they had advanced from time to time to the poor
people during the late disastrous years, but rather than be
the means of detaining them in a poverty.s' rieken land, and
thus prolong their miseries, they have handsomely forgiven
them all.— Inverness Courier.

At the Essex sessions on Thursday, Walter Smith,
a child between nine and ten years of age, was indicted for
wilfully placing stones upon the Maldon branch line of the
Eastern Counties Railway, thereby greatly endangering the
lives of the passengers. The prisoner was convicted and
sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment.
DEATH FROM ILL-USAGE AND STARVATION.---A 0
inquest was held yesterday by Mr. Rutter, coroner for
Salford, on view of the body of Esther Swinnerton, aged 16,
who died in the Salford workhouse. The unfortunate deceased
was discovered last week in a disgusting state, and was taken
to the workhouse by direction of the magistrates. It was
not expected that she would so soon die, but she sunk
rapidly after her removal, and died on Thursday morning.
The inquest was proceeding when our parcel left, a surgeon
having given evidence that death was caused by consump-
tion, diarrhoea, and inflammation, accelerated by neglect,
ill-treatment, and confinement in a damp room. We learn
by electric telegraph that the jury returned a verdict of
wilful murder against Elizabeth Swinnerton, the deceased'e
mother.

Suruirrsnir or ARGYLL.—Robert Bruce, Esq.,
the Sheriff of Argyll, died on Monday last. We understand
that the office of sheriff, thus left vacant, will be conferred
upon Mr. E. F. Maitland, advocate, the brother of the late
Lord Uundrennan.— Edinburgh Witness.

BOAT FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES.—Noulton
and Wyld, of Lambeth, have just completed a handsome
boat, to be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales by the body of Thames watermen. It is built in the
old style of wherry; of mahogany planking, with maple
timbers and b rd's• eye maple thwarts, highly polished and
copper-fastened. The rail is mahogany, with the Prince of
Wales' crest carved in the centre. The Prince of Wales's
crest is painted under each rowl,,ck and on each side abaft
the rail. The City arms is painted on the bridge under the
sailing thwart, and the watermen's arms un the fashion
board in the stern. The cushions and upholstery work
were done by ➢lr. Blincko, also of Lambeth.—Builder.

METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY.—The Select
Committee, to which the Government Bill on this subject is
referred, sat again yesterday, Sir J. Graham in the chair,
and the evidence in support of the preamble was continued.
Mr. Creasey, of the Birmingham Water-works, who had
given his evidence on the day previous, was cross-examined,
and Mr. H. G. Martin, of the Wolverhampton Water-works,
described the mode in which the constant and unintermittent
supply of that town was managed. Mr. Simon, the medical
officer of the city of London, and Mr. Brande, the eminent
chemist, were also examined, alter which the Committee ad-
journed.
LEICESTER TRADE.—Trade, so far as actual bug-.
ness is concerned, remains essentially the same. Still there i
a decidedly improved tone of feeling developing itself, and
confidence that things have reached the worst, and that ere
long renewed activity will manifest itself.
ALARMING EXPLOSION OF GAS.—For some days
past the neighbourhood about New Tothill-street seems to
have been in a state of great jeopardy from an immense
escape of gas, and it was on Thursday found that one of the
pipes had been broken, in making the new sewer for the
Westminster improvements. On the previous evening, at
five o'clock, the potboy at the Old Bell, in New Tuthill-
street, went into the cellar for the purpose of cleaning the
measures, and when he had lighted a luau he was knocked
back by the explosion of some gas, and the cellar in the
adjoining house in Dean-street, being apparently filled with
the fluid, that Ignited, and with a loud noise blew up a por-
tion
of the pavement in the street. Another and serious in-*
jury has been done. The cellars at this spot have been over-
flowed with water. Mr. Bishop, of the Northumberland
Arms, in Charles-street,
.has had it three or four feet deep;
se has Mr. Heavens, of tT3 Red Lion, Princess-street; and
Mr. Lyons, baker, who resides next door, has had 10/. worth
of flour destroyed.
Loos. OuT, GIRLS.—Eliza Emery warns all the
girls in the south and west—hoziers, buckeys, and all—to
luok out for her gay, deceiving,
runaway husband, David-
She says that he has cruelly left her, and told the folks when
he started, that he was going south- west to preach universal
salvation, and marry a hozier. Eliza thinks he may easily
be known, and to prove it says, "David has a scar on hle
nose where I scratched it !"—.lVew York Era.
LARGE NUMBER OF PRISONERS IN THE HOUSE Or
CORRECTION.---Notwithstanding the apparent decrease in the
number of prisoners for trial at the recent sessions of the
Central Criminal Court and at Hicks's Hall, Clerkenwell,
yet at the present time the House of Correction, Coldbath-
fields, contains a larger number than has been collected
within its walls for the last seventeen years- viz., 1,320.
This increased number is supposed to have been caused by
the great number of summary convictions by magistrates for
minor offences, and committals of prisoners suspected of the
intention to commit felonies.

BIRTHS.
OF A SON.
On the 27. th ult., at Barlow-hall, Lancashire, the wife of
W. C. Brookes, Et+
On the 28th ult., at Brighton, Dirs. B. Seabrook.