The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-11 00:00:00

BRITISH CLAIMS ON FRANCE.

After many delays, and as much vexatious opposition as
could well be practised without an absolute denial of right,
the Commissioners for the liquidation of the claims of
British subjects on the French Government have issued the
following circular and declaration of arbitration:—
" Sir—l am directed by the Commissioners to inform
you, in obedience to directions from the Lords Commis-
sioners of his Majesty's Treasury, they have to require
your signature or that of your legally appointed agent to
the accompanying paper, before they can proceed to the
consideration of your claim, and that such signature must
be attested by two witnesses, and sealed in their nre.PncP.
(Signed) " HENRY RICH."
(Enclosure.)
" I do hereby undertake to n'uie by any decision the
Commissioners appointed by the Treasury minutes of the
15th March, 1833, for the final adjudication of the
French claims, may give concerning the claims made by
ne under the said Commission, and to consider any such
decision to be final and conclusive."
We know that a great portion of the money intended for
the satisfaction of these claims was alleged to have been
appropriated by George the Fourth, with the sanction of a
Tory Ministry, to the building of palaces and the purchase
of diamonds ; but we confess we did not expect that any
obstacles to the distribution of what remains would be
thrown in the way of the claimants by the present Admi-
nistration, or that those who have waited eighteen years
for their money should be deprived of all complaint and
appeal from the decision of the Commission under any
circumstances, and refused all consideration of' their claims
unless they place themselves at the mercy of the nominees
of the Treasury.

PRESTON.—In this town and the neighbour-
hood the gingham weavers are earning tolerable wages, as
the following statement will show. For a 48 reed
gingham check 30 yards is lenth, and 84 picks in the
inch, with two shuttles, is paid is. 61. per cut; and there
every probability of a further advance. —Manchester
Chronicle.

TRADE AT OLDHAM.—AI, the majority of
the cotton factories the employment of the hands for
only half time continues, greatly to the disadvantage and
distress of numerous families. The work people at a few
If the mills have, however, again begun to work full
time. A brisker demand than there was some time ag,o
has arisen for cotton hand loom cloth a new description.
Silk weaving, as winter is hastening towards us, declines
in spirit.—Manchester Chronicle.

Last week, two private soldiers were punished
by flagellation at the Castle Barracks, Galway, under
sentence of courtmartial. One received 200 lashes, and
the other 250. One of the drummers fainted during the
process.—Dublin Morning Register.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Nov. 4.
Notwithstanding the wetness of the day, there was a good
attendarice of buyers at to day's market; and many goods
of inferior quality changed owners, and in some instances
it better prices. A few sales were also effected in the
middle and finer qualities. The general opinion seemed to
he, that goods will attain a still higher price.—Mn-
chester Chronicle.

TRADE IN BOLTON.—In consequence of
yarns having settled down to the prices paid previous to
,he late speculations in cotton, plain goods are dull of
sale ; hut checks are in great request, and one house here
has offered to employ as many weavers as will apply on
tape and other checks, from 10 reed to 56 reed, at an
advance of ten per cent. on the present wages. The quilt
and counterpane trade is languid ; waste yarns maintain
their prices better than the finer sorts.—Manchester
Chronicle.

MYSTERIOUS LOSS OF A CAPTAIN AND
THREE or HIS CREW IN THE MEDITZRRANEAN.—,
Captain Garwood, of the brig Donor, of Yarmouth, has
communicated to us that on Saturday, the 21st Sept. being
in lat. 38. 29. N., and long. 9. 40. E., at nnon,was hailed
by the crew of the brig Diana, of Perth, from Smyrna,
bound to Dublin, out nine weeks, and was informed by
them that, on the Bth inst., being off the bay of Tunis,
shout ten miles from shore, the master and three of the
crew left the vessel in the jolly boat, in search of fresh
water, the stock of the brig being almost exhausted.
The following evening it blew a fresh breeze, and the
remaining part of the crew, which consisted of the mate,
one seaman, and one boy, with the master's wife
considered, as the boat was small, that she must have
been lost in the attempt to get off to the ship. They
remained off and on about the place where the bast left
the ship for five successive days, but could not see or hear
any thing of them. Captain Garwood supplied the Diana
with a cask of water; and, in consequence of the reanair—
ing crew having expressed a wish for some assistance, he
sent Robert Duffield, one of his seamen on board.—
Liverpool Standard.

DREADFUL HURRICANE.—From Friday
morning til Sunday morning, we experienced most
boisterous weather along the Ayrshire coast—indeed,
during the greater part of Friday, and on Saturday night
and Sunday morning, the wind blew a perfect hurricane
right in shore. No accident of a serious nature, however,
has occurred in this town or in our immediate vicinity, but
we are sorry to learn that the storm has produced serious
affects en other parts of the coast. The sea wall at our
large lighthouse has bee❑ partially damaged, some of the
palls along the quay have been started, and a great num-
ber of chimney-cans and slates have been blow❑ from the
houses in the town and neighbourhood, but beyond this
we do not learn that any other damage bas been sustained
here. At Ardrossan, part of the breakwater was de-
molished, and a portion of the new pier at Lags was also
injured.—Ayr Observer.
ATTEMPTED HORRIBLE MURDER AND
SUICIDE. —On Wednesday morning last, about three
o'clock, A.sr., an unfortunate man (of very violent dispo-
sition when he took drink) named a.rmody, a grocer and
publican in the Irishtow❑ (in this city) had, it teems,
some dispute with his wife respecting drink which he
wanted, but being opposed in his wishes, got suddenly out
of bed, and seizing a razor, horrible to relate ! rushed at
her (she was large in the family way), and cut her in the
back nearly across ! The gash, we have bean told, way
three inches deep at either side. As she turned in agony
and horror-stricken, the wretched man gave her two ether
cuts, and then ran out of the room with scarcely any
clothes on him except his shirt and neckkerchief, with
both of which—by tying them together—the unfortunate
being succeeded in hanging himself in a neighbouring yard.
The poor woman has been since delivered, and is still
living.—Kilkenny Journal.

At twelve o'clock on Saturday morning Mr.
Stirling, the Coroner, and a respectable jury, met the
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time of the melancholy catastrophe the deceased was
residing with her husband in the Mews, at the back
of Mr. L tw's house. On Thursday morning she had
been washing, and between twelve and one o'clock,
while in the act of throwing some suds from the left
entrance, the gate against which else leaned gave way,
and she pitched on her bead on the pavement under-
neath. Mr. Pelham, who was engaged in the stable,
hearing the smash, tan to ascertain what occurred, when
he was horror struck at beholding his wife weltering in
her blood. He stooped to raise her, but perceiving her
skull battered in, he fell insensible by her side. A medical
man, who was immediately on the spot, pronounced the
dead. His attention was t•len
poor woman to he quite
turned to the husband, whom he shortly recovered from
the swoon; but such is the effect which the drea
accident has made upon him, that it is feared h.! will
lose his intellect. A verdict of "Aeeideutal IX.ttit" tv-ti
returned.