The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-05 00:00:00

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BLACKFRIAR'S-BRIDGE.

1833, March Bto 14. Seven days. Passed over Black-
friars-bridge—
Waggons
Carts and cabs (one horse) 19,560
Two-horse carriages
Four-horse ditto 439
Saddle horses
Beasts
Sheep
Horses for market
Foot Passengers 369,410

Lord Stewart of Garlies on Friday took the
oaths and his seat in the House of Lords.

Princess Polignac has arrived in Paris for
her approaching accouchement.
The Emperor of Austria will proceed to
Schoenbrun, or Luxembourg, in the course of this
month. He will afterwards visit his family estates,
and drink the waters of Baden, according to his usual
custom. _

Another remarkable instance of poetical ta-
lent among the English nobility has recently arisen in
Lady G. Talbot, youngest daughter of the Earl of
Shrewsbury.— Court Journal.
Lord Melbourne has communicated to the
High Bailiff of Birmingham, that it is not the inten-
tion of Government to proceed at present with the
Municipal Corporation Bill which was introduced last
session by :the Lord Chancellor.—Leamington Free
Press. .

Wilkie, the Royal Academician, and Allan,
the Royal Associate, will, we are glad to understand,
furnish paintings for the forthcoming Illustrations of
Crabbe,_ the poet's works.
Lord Panmue and about forty passengers
arrived off the London Docks, on Friday evening, in
the new and splendid steamer, the Dundee, Captain
Wishart. This is her third voyage. The power that
impels her progress is equal to that of 400 horses.
This vessel is termed a " moving palace," but it is
also a moving warehouse, for an immense quantity of
goods, mgat, &c., is thus conveyed to the London
market, familiarisirig the cockneys with " Highland
mutton."

The Victualling Establishment at Sheerness
is tp be restored.
Mr. John Parish has just been admitted as
Vice-Consul of his Majesty the King of the Belgians,
at Hamburg.
FRANKFORT, APRIL 28.—The Prussian
Aml:qssador' Baron Von Camitz, has returned from
Biberich. The reigning Count Albert, of Erbach
Furstenau, will repay, on the 15th of July this year,
the loan of 300,000, contracted on the 15th of May,
1827, with the house of Rothschild, at four and a-half
per cent. interest.
The number of Admirals deceased, since the
last promotion, in 1830, being 22 Admirals, at 21. 2s.
per diem ; 16 Vice-Admirals, at V. 12s. 6d. ; 10
Rear-Admirals, at 11. ss. ; and five retired Admirals,
at IL ss. • it results that it will lessen the annual half-
pay to Officers in the sum of 33,1961.—Hampqdre
Telegraph.
ST. PAUL'S, COVENT-GARDEN.—We are
requested to state, that Mr. Cribb, in giving an ac-
count at the meeting on Thursday of the strike of 109
men, did not say that they were his workmen, but that
they were employed by an eminent building firm, for
whom Mr. Cribb was supplying a quantity of plate
glass.

PETITIONS TO PARLIAMENT.--AS many
persons are deterred from petitioning the Houies of
Parliament, by the apparent cost and trouble, it is ad-
visable to observe that there is official authority for
stating that the petitions may be on paper, and need
not be on parchment. Care must be taken, however,
that there is at least one name on the same paper
which contains the petition, however many sheets it
may be advisable to add.
We understand that a sergeant of marines,
named Stratton, formerly of this, but now of the Ports-
mouth division, has been declared the heir at law to
the titles and estates of the Earldom of Wilton, by the
demise of the late Earl, who died about three weeks
since. The estates are said to be worth 40,000/. a
year I—Devonport Telegraph.
The society of master carpenters have re-
solved to support the master tailors in their determi-
nation not to agree to the demands of the working
tailors, by refusing to give any orders, or to require
any work to be done, until their dispute with their men
is finally settled.
One of the principal West-end tailors is
again in full employ, having readily found a sufficient
number of anti-unionists to supply the places of the
rebellious flints who had left him.
During the past week a large portion of the
west cliff, beyond the mills, Ramsgate, has fallen into
the sea; and from the many cracks in other parts, it
is to be feared that pleasant walk will be soon abridged.
Moon, the printseller, of Threadneedle-
street, late partner in the house of Moon, Boys, and
Graves, has obtained permission from Sir Robert Peel,
to engrave Wilkie's celebrated picture of " John
Knox." Moon has paid Wilkie five hundred guineas
for the copyright, and for watching and superintending
the progress of the engraving, which will now proceed
with:all possible despatch compatible with the import-
ance of the subject.
Allan, the artist, and associate of the Royal
Academy, has a most interesting picture, No. 169,
in the catalogue distributed to those who had the
entree at the private view of the present exhibition at
Somerset house on Friday, " The Orphan." In the
revised catalogue it is called " Interior at Abbotsford,
Oct. 1832," with this line from Crabbe—
" The accustomed chair, still set, but vacant still."
The picture, in fact, represents the room in which
Sir Walter Scott died, as the painter saw it the day
after the funeral.

The MILITIA.—By a return to the House
of Commons, it appears that the expense of the Mi-
litia of Great Britain and Ireland, from 1816, to Ist
January, 1834, amounts to the enormous sum of
6,084,4061. The largest expenditure was in 1821,
when the amount reached 420,3771. Since that pe-
riod it has been gradually reduced, and we find that
the total expense of 1833 was only 222,1731.
So great, we understand, was the demand for
" Rookwood," that nearly the whole impression was dis-
posed of to the booksellers on the first day of publication.
It is said that symptoms of disunion have
already appeared among several members of the Trades'
Unions. The mechanics who are superior and sober
workmen have taken offence at that part of the plan of
those who take a lead in the confederacy which insists
that slovenly and bad workmen shall be paid the same
wages per week as those who are twenty per cent.
better. The good workmen think it exceedingly hard
and unfair that their interests should be sacrificed by
the strike to those who are mere drones in the hive.
ACCIDENT AT ST. PAVIA CATHEDRAL.
—About eight o'clock on Saturday night, wkile a
gravedigger, named Johnson, was employed in digging
a grave in the buriaLground of St. Faith, on the
north-east side of St. Paul's Cathedral, a few feet
from the building, the earth fell in upon him, and
buried him. The man's assistant, who was on the
ground above, immediately raised an alarm, and the

burial-ground was in a very short time filled with
F eople, who instantly commenced removing the earth ;
but owing to the depth of the grave, the man having
dug as low as ten feet when the accident occurred, it
was nearly an hour before they reached his body, when
he was found apparently lifeless but, on taking him
out of the burial-ground, it was discovered that he
still breathed, and he was removed to St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital. It is feared that the poor fellow will
not recover.

The General Steam Navigation Company's
mail packet, the Attwood, from Rotterdam, arrived off
the Custom-house at ten yesterday morning.
The General Steam Navigation Company's
packet Lord Melville, from Calais, arrived off the
Custom-house at ten this morning.

The General Steam Naviiation Company's
mail packet, the Columbine, from Hamburg, arrived
off the Custom-house at eleven this morning, having
come over in 50 hours. She made the passage out
in 49 hours.

It is calculated that there are not more than
15 Grandees of Spain who have the stipulated revenue
of 200,000 reals, free from all mortgages or legal liens,
to qualify them for a seat in the Chamber of Proceres,
for they are almost all in debt, and constantly being
sued by their creditors.
The Swabian Mercury gives the following,
dated Munich, April 25 :—" We learn by private
letters from Greece, that negotiations are about to be
opened for a marriage between King Otho and the
eldest daughter of the Emperor Nicholas, who is 14
years of age. Similar negotiations with a great
Western Court were formerly talked of, but it would
seem that they have been broken off."
VIENNA, APRIL 23.—1 t appears that our
government is about to negotiate a loan of about
25,000,000 of florins. It will be in shares, at 5 per cent.
PoLisll EXILES.—A highly respectable
meeting of ladies and gentlemen was held on Satur-
day afternoon at the Freemasons' Tavern, to take into
consideration the best means of relieving the urgent
distress of the unfortunate Polish Exiles in this coun-
try. Amongst those present were Lord Dudley Stuart,
M.P., Lord Sandon, M. P., Lord Morpeth, M. P., Col.
Stanhope, Mr. Hume, M. P., Mr. O'Connell, M. P., Mr.
Sheil, M.P., Mr. Smith, M.P., Mr. Beaumont, M.P.,
and other distinguished individuals. Mr. Beaumont was
called to the chair. Lord Morpeth moved a resolution
to the effect that the Polish refugees were entitled to
the sympathy of the British public, which was carried
unanimously. Mr. Hume, in moving that a fund be
raised for their support, said the' refusal of the Govern-
ment to afford any assistance to the Poles was asto-
nishing, when the lavish assistance formerly given to
refugees from Portugal, Spain, America, France, and
Holland was recollected. Mr. Adam Smith, Lord
Sandon, Mr. W. Patten, M.P., Mr. Sheil, M. P.,Mr.
C. Ferguson, Mr. O'Connell, and Mr. Buckingham,
M.P., addressed the meeting, and trusted that the
present appeal to the generosity and humanity of a
British public would not be in vain. A Committee
was then appointed to forward the object of the reso-
lutions. The following subscriptions were announced :
The Marquis of Lansdowne, 501. ; Lord Morpeth,
201. ; Mr. J. Evans, 25/. ; Mr. Labouchere, 20/. ;
Mr. T. Smith, 20/. ; Mr. Morrison, 20/. • Mr. Wynn
Ellice, 101. ; Mr. Maxwell, 10/. ; Lord D. Stuart,
101.; Mr. Hume, 5/. ; Mr. O'Connell, 5/. ; and an
Hungarian gentleman, Si.
THE TAILORS.—Up to a late hour on Sa-
turday there was no indication of either the masters or
unionists giving way for the present. Since the strike
the men have received instructions to muster four
times each day at their respective lodges, and answer
to their names. This course has been deemed neces-
sary in order to prevent any of the men from following
their avocations either at home or elsewhere. A fine
of half-a-crown is levied for non-attendance, which is
deducted from their weekly allowance. In the first
instance, the amount to be received per week by each
unionist was decided should be 125., but we understand
that on Saturday night it only amounted to Bs., and
that some dissatisfaction was expressed in consequence.
It is reported that many private subscriptions have
been forwarded to the secretary, on behalf of the turn-
outs. Some of the men have returned to their work
in the city, but at the west-end we are informed that
not half-a-dozen men are at the present time to be
found at work. It was stated during the week
that the shoemakers had struck; but such is not the
fact, they, as well as other unions, deeming it impru-
dent at present to adopt such a course.
TRADES' UNIONS—MEETING OF MAS-
TER TAILORS AT BRIGHTON.—On Thursday evening a
meeting of the principal master tailors of Brighton was
held at the Golden Cross ; and, after considerable
discussion, they passed the following resolution, ex-
pressive of their determination, in the event of a
strike, to resist any exorbitant demands of their
workmen :—" Resolved, that this meeting view any
attempt set up on the part of the journeymen for any
advance of wages to be unjust and uncalled for. And
that we, the undersigned, do unanimously agree to
reject the same; and that we will not, under any cir-
cumstances whatever, comply with unreasonable re-
quests." To this is attached the names of the
tradesmen.
EXPECTED GREAT MANCHESTER MEET-
ING, THIS DAY.— MEETING OF THE LABOURING
CLASSES.—The authorities are taking ample measures
for the maintenance of the public peace, in reference
to the meeting of Monday (to-day), in Granby-rat
fields. An accession of military is expected in the
town, and we understand that divisions of the special
constables are to be in readiness. No doubt these
precautions are prudent ; but we are sure they will be
rendered unnecessary by the conduct of the unionists.
—Manchester Advertiser.
OLDHAM.—AII the mills are at work, and
the town has assumed its usual appearance, but 300 of
the foremost of the refractory workmen have been de-
nied their situations, and are left to cogitate on the
folly of their conduct.—Stockport Advertiser.
OLDHAM.—All the bustle, turmoil, confu-
sion, and gxcitement arising out of the late disturbances
seem to have entirely subsided ; the operatives, with
the exception of the hands of Mr. Sevill, at Lower
Moor, who stand out upon grounds affecting them-
selves alone, have resumed their work ; the special
constables have returned to their ordinary domestic
occupations ; the troop of the sth Dragoon Guards
have left the town for quarters in Manchester ; and
the only remaining sign of the late " state of siege" is
exhibited by the solitary sentinel parading at the
Angel Inn, the head-quarters of the five companies of
the 28th foot, which are still here. The future pro-
ceedings talked of here are an application to the
Court of King's Bench, by Mr. Thompson, for the
liberation on bail of the two men committed by the
coroner for manslaughter ; and the prosecution of
Heywood, the deputy constable, by the trades' union,
for an illegal forcible entrance into their lodge.—
Manchester Chronicle.
THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER.—This new
work is now understood to comprise the autobiography
of a British field-officer, who has been engaged in
most of the grand military actions of the last thirty
years. In recording these history can only speak of
their general features and results, and must pass over
those minor details, and traits of individual feeling
and adventures so interesting to the reader. A sol-
dier's career, and a soldier's fortune, if related in a
spirit of " plenary confession," must present much
matter for keen amusement and extensive information.
Its vicissitudes from " grave to gay,"—from the bril-
liance of parade, and the pleasures of home quarters,
to the turmoil and havoc of the field of battle, furnish
contrasts such as can no where else be found ; while
the perpetual changes of the scene must keep attention
considerably on the alert. Much is expected from the
present distinguished and gallant officer's autobio-
graphy.
Extract of a letter from Alexandria, dated
March 23 :—" It has been rumoured within these last
few days, that the policy of the Pacha has been
changed. The French and English governments had
called upon Mehemet Ali to disarm, in order to de-
prive the Porte of 411 pretence for maintaining its late
treaty with. Russia; and he made some show of com-
pliance by discontinuing the building of ships; but now
the dock yards have resumed all their former activity.
Yemen is in full insurrection. The Pacha has already
sent a strong force into the province, which, however,
suffered so severely that it was obliged to retreat,
losing upwards of 1,800 camels on he road. The
Pacha is preparing a fresh expedition, which will very
shortly be ready to leave Cairo. The fate of Mocha,
Sana, and other towns, is already known. Mocha
aAaprprs, Alirato
bo completely rnined. The Chief of the
Mujestal, gave up the town to be plun-
dered by his troops for three whole days • nothing has
been spared, and it is entirely abandoned by the inha-
bitants: A long time must elapse before it can be
restored. The commerce between India and the Red
Sea will this year, it is feared, he redueed to little or'
nothing. The Arab army under Ali Mujestal is about
20,000 strong,"

CAPTAIN ROSS.

REPORT FROM SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE
EXPEDITION TO THE ARCTIC SEAS,

COMMANDED Ey

CAPTAIN JOHN iloc:s, R.N.

Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed,
April 28, 1834.

The SELECT COMMITTEE appointed to inquire into the
circumstances of the Expedition to the Arctic Seas,
commanded by Captain John Ross, of the Royal Navy,
with a view to ascertain whether any and what reward
may be due for the Services rendered on that occasion,
and to report their Observations thereupon to the
House ; together with the. ➢iinutes of Evidence taken
before them :—Have inquired into the matters referred
to them, and agreed to the following Report :
Your committee have not felt themselves either called
upon by their order of reference, or competent to give an
opinion on the precise merits or extent of the discoveries
made during the expedition commanded by Captain John
Ross, whether in a geographical or scientific point of view ;
they have therefore confined themselves to such a general
investigation into the facts, as may suffice for a decision
on the main question committed to their hands, whether
any reward should be allotted from the public purse, and
to whom that reward is due.

In the course of this inquiry, they find that, in the year
1827, Captain Ross, stimulated by the desire of securing
to this country the honour of settling the long-agitated
question of a north-west passage, proposed first to his Ma-
jesty's Government, and, on their declining to undertake
it, to his friend, Mr. Felix Booth, to fit out an expedition
for that purpose : that in the following year Mr. Booth,
finding that the act, by which a parliamentary reward was
held out for the discovery of a north-west passage, had
been repealed, and that no suspicion of interested motives
could any longer rest upon the undertaking, " having no
other object in view than the advancement of the honour
of his country and the interests of science, and to gratify
the feelings of a friend," immediately agreed to Captain
Ross's proposition, on condition that his connection with
the enterprize should not be made known : that accor-
dingly, with the exception of about two thousand pounds
expended by Captain Ross, Mr. Booth .did actually bear
P all the charges of the expedition, to the amount of between
seventeen and eighteen thousand pounds : that Captain
Ross, being left by Mr. Booth at liberty to choose whom
he pleased.to accompany him, received gratuitous offers of
zealous service and assistance, in any capacity, from those
distinguished officers, Captains Back and Hoppner, offers
equally creditable to Captain Ross and to the spirit ofthose
who made them ; but finally selected his nephew, com-
mander James Clark Ross, a young officer of distinguished
scientific attainments, who had been employed in every
previous expedition to the Arctic Seas; and having engaged
Mr. Thom as purser, who, as well as commander Ross,
agreed to go without pay, and Mr. M'Diarmid as surgeon, to-
gether with a crew of 19 men, sailed from England in May,
1829 ; that in spite of the mutiny of the crew of a whaler,
which hadbeen engaged to accompany them with provisions,
Captain Ross persevered, in reliance on finding the sup-
plies which had been landed by the Fury, on Fury Beach,
and then entered upon a course of sufferings, of dangers
and discoveries, for a summary of which your committee
would refer the house to the following letter addressed by
him to the Secretary to the Board of Admiralty.
(Here follows the letter of Captain Ross, which has ap-
peared already in The Sum.)
Your committee have found the statements contained in
the above letter confirmed, as far as they have been ex-
amined, by the evidence which has appeared before them ;
and, supported by the opinions of Captain Beaufort, hydro-
grapher to the Admiralty, of Mr. Children, one of the
secretaries of the Royal Society, and of Professor Bar-
low, who has made the magnetic variations his particular
study, they see no reason to doubt that Captain Ross
nearly approached, and that Commander Ros actually
reached, the Magnetic Pole.

The importance, especially to a maritime nation, of this
discovery, and of the observations connected with magnetic
science, arising thereout, is most highly estimated by the
scientific witnesses who have been examined, and is further
attested by the zeal with which this branch of science has
been of late pursued by eminent men in every country,
and by the expense which several foreign governments
have of late years incurred for the same object.
Under these circumstances your committee can have no
hesitation in reporting, that a great public service has been
performed. Independently of the demonstration that one
passage, which had been considered by preceding naviga-
tors to be one of the most likely to lead from the Atlantic
to the Pacific Ocean, does not exist, thus narrowing the
field for future expeditions, if such should ever be under-
taken ; independently of the addition of between six and
seven hundred miles of coast to our geographical know-
ledge, and of the valuable additions to magnetic science
and meteorology, which this expedition will supply, your
committee cannot overlook the public service which is ren-

dered to a maritime country, especially in time of peace,
by deeds of daring enterprise and patient endurance of
hardship, which excite the public sympathy and enlist the
general feeling in favour of maritime adventure. Of this
result they have strong evidence in the national subscrip-
tion which furnished the funds for the expedition of Cap-
tain Back, in search of Captain Ross and his gallant part},
to which the government also contributed two thousand
pounds.
To the importance of these considerations, your com-
mittee are happy to have to report that his Majesty's
government has not been insensible. Although Captain
Ross's expedition was undertaken entirely on private risk,
and the Board of Admiralty. could not therefore be held
responsible for any liabilities incurred, or be called upon in
strictness to notice in any way the services of the indivi-
duals engaged in it, yet, as far as the power of the Admi-
ralty extends, none of these services has gone unnoticed
or unrewarded. It appears from a memorandum deli-
vered in to your committee by the Admiralty, that " all
the men have received double full pay until they finally aban-
doned the ship, and full pay after that until their arrival in
England, amounting to the gross sum of 4,580/. ; that they
have besides been employed in eligible situations in the
dock yards, or placed in others that will lead to promo-
tion •" that Mr. Abernethy, the gunner, " has been pro-
moted, and appointed to the Seringapatam ;" that Mr.
Thom, purser, " has been appointed to the lucrative situ-
ation of purser of the Canopus, of 84 guns ;" that Mr.
M'Diarmid, the medical officer of the expedition, " has
been appointed assistant-surgeon of the navy, and, when
qualified to pass his examination, will be promoted to the
sank of surgeon ;" that commander Ross, to whom it ap-
pears that the greater part of the scientific results of the
expedition are due, " has been placed on full pay, .and ap-
pointed commander of the Victory for twelve months, that
he may, by that length of service, be enabled to receive
the rank of Post Captain, which is, by a special minute of
the admiralty, insured to him at the expiration of that
time ;"and that Captain John Humphreys, of the Isabella,
to whose persevering humanity alone Captain Ross and his
pasty, under ProvidenCe, in all probability owe their lives,
has received that remuneration for the expense of bring-
ing them home, which, upon consideration, has been
thought proper by the admiralty, and which appears to
your committee to be a reasonable compensation. Capt.
Ross alone, the commander of the expedition, who had
the anxious and painful responsibility of the health and
discipline of the party for above four years, under circum-
stances of unparalleled difficulty and hardship, and who had
the merit of maintaining both health and discipline in a
remarkable degree, (for only one man in twenty-three was
lost in consequenceof the expedition) is, owing to his rank,
not in a situation to receive any reward from the admiralty
in the way of promotion. Having incurred expenses and
losses to the amount of nearly three thousand pounds, and
received no more than the half pay which had accumulated
during the expedition, he remains with the same rank with
which he went out. Under these circumstances, and
looking to the advantages to science and the honour to his
country, which have resulted from the expedition under
his command ; -looking to the expense which the country
has been willing to incur on former occasions for similar
expeditions, and to the rewards which it has voted even
for less important and honourable objects, your committee
hope they are not transgressing the bounds of a due regard
to public economy, in recommending that a stun of five
thousand pounds be voted to Capt. John Ross.
Mr. Felix Booth, to whose modest public spirit and rare
munificence this expedition is entirely due,jyour committee
regret that they have it not in their power to propose some
fit token of public acknowledgment; but they cannot for-
bear offering the tribute of their admiration and respect.
The case of a poor man afflicted with blindness in con-
sequence of the expedition has been brought before the no-
tice of your committee by a member of the house, and your
committee beg to recommend it to such consideration, as
to his Majesty's government, after a due investigation of
the facts, may seem fit.
April, 1834.

AWFUL OCCURRENCE.—Monday morning
the following tragical event occurred at the Broomie-
law :—A fireman in one of the steam-boats, who re-
sides on the south side of the river, had, in the course
of the night, quarrelled with his wife, and it is said
gave her a beating; after which he left the house.
She, however, followed, pouring abuse upon him, he
from time to time retaliating, till they arrived at the
Broomielaw. There her abuse of her husband for the
usage she had received became doubly violent ; and he
made several efforts to get out of her reach, but she
so closely dogged him that he found it impossible,
Exasperated and vexed he threw himself into the river
at one side of the ferry stairs, and swam ;or the oppo-
site side. His wife, swollen with rage, looked after
him for moment, and, as if prompted by a stern feeling
of revenge, also plunged into the water, and made an
effOrt to follow.; but, in the mad attempt, sunk in the
stream, and was taken out a corpse ;:Q nhusaifeurertnaisihniinngg.
an appalling instance of the effects of female passion.
The husband reached the opposite bank in safety ; but
who can pretend to depict his feelings,
the fate of his partner under melt circumstances. It
is alleged that the quarrel betwixt them originated in
tilt supposed infidelity of the female.— Glasgow Paper.