The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-17 00:00:00

DESTITUTE HIGHLANDERS OF

THE HEBRIDES.

INVERNESS, JAN. 14.—A public meeting was held
here to-day, in the Town-hall, to hear an address from
C. Bond, Esq., Secretary of the Royal Patriotic and In-
dustrial Society of Scotland, regarding the appalling
destitute condition of numbers of the peasantry in the
West Highlands and Islands, and on the means of if-
fordingimmediate,relief mad effecting
stheir permanent
improvement. .
Among others present were the Revs. A. Clark, J.
Thorburn, J. Scott, R. Kennedy; Capt. Black, Lieut.
Fraser, Messrs. J. SUttierland, late Proyost, G. France,
Ross, R. Campbell, Mulock, Howden, B,
Laing, exc.
The Rev. ALEXANDER CLARK having been called
upon to preside, in energetic terms impressed the object
of the meeting, and concluded by calling upon the Secre-
tary of the Roy al Patriotic and Industrial Society to
address the meeting.

Mr. BOND, af4r adverting to the unfortunate neglect
by the Highland Relief Boards of those measures of
provident and permanent improvement which the Pa-
triotic Society had, during tour years of destitution,
urged upon those bodies as the only means of terminating
that calamity, teed preventing the evils of famine which
now threatened the lives of at least 50,000 persons in the
Highlands, he instanced the gratifying adoption of the
plans of the society by the .Perthsbire Ladies' Relief
Committee. He then described the fearful condition of
the people in the more destitute districts which he had
recently visited, and the liberal manner in which he had
been met by proprietors and their representatives in
expunging debts against crofters, and bestowing
leases on as many as the Patriotic Society could
hold out the hope of aiding and instructing.
Lord Macdonald, the representatives of Colonel Gordon,
of Clury, and other proprietors, had engaged to
give land fur model spade farms, to be attached to every
school, the society would undertake to initiate and su-
perintend in the requisite system of husbandry.
Mr. Bend expressed his conviction that neither pro-
prietors nor tact-men would stand in the way of any
practical improvement, and that if the society possessed
the means, itcould go from one end of the destitute High-
lands to the other without having a single rational pro-
posal on behalf of the people denied by either of the
above classes. Having explained the success of parochial
firms, and their application to Inverness and the desti-
tute Highlands, he shoved that the lives of the people
might, be preserved by their employment in reproduc-
tive cultivation, in return for immediate supplies, to be
advanced by Government, as in the case of Ireland, ob-
serving that because the Highland population had not
required even a sergeant's company to keep them quiet,
there was a still greater reason that they should not be
allowed] to perish as they were at that time on the brink
of doing.
After a discussion, in which the chairman, the Rev.
Mr. Thorburn, Mr. France, Mr. Mulcck, and other
gentlemen, took part, a vote of cordial approval of the
labours of the Patriotic Society was passed unanimously
with the exception of one dissentient, Mr. Muiock; also
a requisition for a meeting to address Government on
the subject of Highland destitution. A petition to Par-
liament was also adopted in behalf of the Highlanders,
and their permanent improvement through the agency
of the Royal Patriotic Society. After votes of thanks to
Mr. Bond and to the chairman the meeting adjourned.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 17, 1851.

Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Charles John Viscount
Ingestre, to be Cornet and Sub •Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Levett, promoted, Jan. 17.
Ist Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant-General Charles
Murray Earl Cathcart, K.C.8., from the 31 Dragoon
Guards, to be Colonel, vice General The Honcurable
Sir William Lumley, G.C.8., deceased, Jan. 9; Jere-
miah Hancocke, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Evered, appointed to the 54th Foot, Jan. 17; Richard
James Combe Marter, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,
vie.) Peareth, promoted, Jan. 18.
3d Dragoon Guards—Major-General James Claud
Bourchier, K.C., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General
Earl Cathcart, K.C.8., appointcd to the Ist Dragoon
Guards, Jan. 9.
6th Dragoon Guards—John Leslie, Gent., to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Pinckney, promoted, Jan. 17.
7th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant William Middleton
to be Adjutant, vice Gray, who resigns the Adjutancy
only, Jan. 17.
3d Light Dragoons—Robert Dymond, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice White, promoted, Jan. 17.
12th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Charles Francis
Fuller, from the 14th Foot. to be Lieutenant, vice
Grogan, who exchanges; Valentine Dudley Henry
Cary Elwe?, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Len-
nox, promoted, Jan. 17.
13th Light Dragoons—Hugh Montgomery, Gent, to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Smith, promoted, Jan. 17.
14th Light Dragoons—Frederick Coates, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Manse], appointed to the 3d
Light Dragoons, Jan. 17.
16th Light Dragoons—Henry Arthur Sleeman, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Sartoris, promoted,
Jan. 17.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain
Lawrence Brown, from hali-pay, 4th Ceylon Regiment,
to be Lieutenant and Captain, vice Trelawny, deceased;
Ensign the Hon. Arthur Frederick Egerton to be Lieu-
tenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Brown, who
retires; Charles, Brandliag, Gent., to be Ensign and
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Thesiger, promoted,
Jan. 17.
lit Foot—Brevet Major Richard Going, to be Major,
by purchase, vice Raymond, promoted; Lieutenant An-
drew Andersoi, to he Captain, by purchase, vice Going;
Ensign Henry Howard Barber to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Anderson; Rupert George Brady, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Barber, Jan. 17.
sth Foot—John Templeman, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Madden, appointed to the
70th Foot, Jan. 17.
7th Foot—Captain Willoughby Harcourt Carter, from
the 21st Foot, to be Captain, vice the Hon. J. L.
Browne, who exchanges, Jan. 17.
13th Foot—William Henry Shafto, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Peel, promoted, Jan. 17.
14th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Edward Grogan, from
the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Fuller,
who exchanges, Jan. 17.
15th Foot—Ensign William Robert Thompson to be
Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Gerahty, who retires,
Jan. 17.

17th Foot—Charles Robert Moore, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Stapylan, appointed to the 2d
.I)ragocn Guards, Jan. 17.

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2lst Foot—Captain the Honourable James Lyon
Browne, from the 7th Foot, to be Captain, vice Carter,
ho exchangeg, Jan. 17 ; Second Lieutenant Joseph
Fitz '1 homes Shadwell to be Fun Lieutenant, without
purchase,
vice Clemison, deceased, Jan. 8; Gentle man
Cadet Charles David Cuninghame Elite, from the Royal
Military College, to be second Lieutenant, vice Shad-
well, Jan. 17.
36th Foot—Assistant Staff Surgeon George Frederick
Bone, M,D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Smith, who
exchanges, Jan. 17.
40th Foot—Thomas Macpherson Bruco Gardyne,
by purchase, vice Atherley, pro-
moted,Gent., jtoanb.eEnsign,
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44th Foot—George Johnstone White,