The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-27 00:00:00

THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.

The select committee of the House of Commons
appointed to consider the state of those British
possessions in North America .which are under the•
Hudson's Bay Company, or over which they possess
a license to trade, have agreed to their report, The
following are the more important portions of this
interesting document :—The territory over which
the company now exercise rights is of three desrip-
Cons ; first, the land held by charter, or Rupert's
L ind ; second, the land held by licence,' or the
Indian territory ; third, Vancouver's Island. For
the nature of the tenure by which these countries
are severally connected with the company your com-
mittee would refer to the evidence 'they h*te re-
ceived and the documents appended to theiirePort.
Among the various objects of imperial policy which
it is important to attain, your committee consider
that it is essential to meet the just and reasonable
wishes of Canada to be enabled to annex to her ter-
ritory such portion of the land in her neighbour-
hood as may be available to her for the purpose of
settlement; with which lands she is willing
to open and maintain communications, and
fur which she will provide the means of
local administration. Your committee apprehend
that the districts of the Red River and the
Saskatchewall are among those likely to be desired
for early occupation. It is of great importance
that the peace and good order of those districts
should be effectually secured. Your committee
trust that there will be no difficutly in effecting ar-
rangements as between her Majesty's Government
and the Hudson Bay Company by which these dis-
tricts may be ceded to Canada on equitable prin-
ciples, and wi, hin the districts thus annexed to her
the authority of the Hudson's Bay Company would,
of course, entirely cease. Your committee think it
best to content themselves with indicating the out-
lines of such a scheme, leaving it to her Majesty's
Government to consider its details more maturely
bef .re the act of Parliament is prepared, which will
probably be necessary to carry it int effect. In case,
however, C inada should not be 'willing, at a very
early period, to undertake the government of the
Red River district, it may. be proper to consider
whether some provision for its administration
may not be advisable. Your committee are of opi-
nion that it will be proper to terminate the connec-
tion of the Hudson's Bay Company with Vancou-
ver's Island as soon as it can conveniently be done,
as the best means of favouring the development of
the great natural advantages of that important
colony. Means should also be provided for the ulti-
mate extension of the colony over any portion of
the adjoining continent, to the west of the Rocky
mountains, on which permanent settlement may be
found practicable. •

THE LATE ACCIDENT Ols7 THE
BRIGHTON RAILWAY.

On the first report of an accident on a railway,
.he poor directors and head officers are taunted
with mismanagement, carelessness, and a multitu'de
of other sins. In many cases, these charges are not
erroneously brought forward, but in the late acci-
dent on the Brighton line, the directors .and chief
officers are blameless, and the unfortunate occur-
rence is only to be attributed to the engine-
driver, and to the person whose duty it was to
have coupled the signal line from guard to driver,
and to have seen that that line was in proper
working order. It is admitted that the danger
signal was on, but from inattention it was un-
noticed or disregarded by the driver ; it appears,
also, that the Brighton trains are provided with
a cord or rope running under every carriage,
furnished with a snap swivel joint at each end ;
the swivels are connected when the train is made
up, and thus a continuous connection is effected
from one end of the train to the other. One end
of this line 'of communication is attached to a bell
on the engine, and the other eaters the guard's van.
This is au admirable contrivance, and if maintained
in efficient working order should be adopted on every
line of railway. As the guard of the train to which
the accident occurred was on the alert, and noticed
the danger signal, it is to be assumed the accident
would have been prevented, notwithstanding.th et
driver's neglect, had the signal cord been in efficien
er
order. Whose duty was it to attend to the propa
connecting and working of this cord nctAenr dawt
as
it neglected ? If entrusted Oh: p
directors at once
week wages, we urge upondt
res risible man at
to' appoint a well-paid
.an up
Andto at-
tendin especially to these signal
every station where trains
ar
pine
:Ides .
observing, or, observi
order to avoid accidentnfgromfaitlhinegetrippneaydartivteenrtnicoiti
nal, would it not
.be practicable
of the danger signal to throw
tnhgee rt
turning
g
upo
an inclined plane by the side of the rails, and
tt
causeaed
aa upon a rod depending from the engine, con-
nected to the steam valve, and shut-off steam from
the cyliaders
This or some other similarly-acting appara'.us
might be tried at little expense, and any plan
which would stop the engine, with or without
the aid of the driver, upon the exhibition of the
danger signal, would go far to prevent those ac-
cidents which occur from trains running into
other carriages.—Mechanics Magazine.
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SHIPPIN4 DISASTERS.—GREAT LOSS OF COTTON.—
Information was received at Liverpool yesterday that
the ship Lexington, from Orleaps to Liverpool, bad gone
on shore at Brandon Bay, near Tralee, with 1,091 bales
of cotton and 100,000 staves. The Liverpool consignees,
curiously enough, are Messrs. Boult,
Englieb, and
Brandon.

Naval an Tviiittary. Intelgt =',-'--1-- „:;,A..f. :
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In consequence cf the Court .
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precincts of the port of PorLmonth okyilio'nfitivii
sary of the • bit ti,day of his Royal iligi*sa: . tits ~.• ,
Prince Consort, yesterday, at 8 a ra., •U.l-111---piq--i-t• -
on the station dressed in cflours, and at nctatt fire S
a general Royal salute ; the gariis_on battery also,
fired. The annual fete in the grounds at o,borne -
to the seamen of the Royal Squadron took place on:.
the lawn in the afternoon. Tile bands of the Royal ..
Marines and of the 66th Foot attended..
The Duke of Cambridge, Command. t in-Chief,
having decided on removing the second depot bat-
talion, now stationed at Colchester, undo: tin com-
mand of Lieut.-CJI. J. W. Armstrong, C. 8., to
Chatham, orders have been received at that garri- '. -
son that the entire battalion, consisting of the de-
pots of the Gth (Royal First WarwiAcshir..) 38d
(Duke of Wellington's), 45:h, and 50th (Queen's
Own) Regiments, are to proceed from Colchesterto .
Chatham Barracks to-morrow, with the whole of '..
the following staff :—Major Dowbiggin, Adjutant
Captain the Hon. B. M. Ward, Captain Gordon •
(45th Regiment, instructor of musketry), Paymas-
ter
T. Cassidy, Quartermaster T. Vousden. Second
Class Staff Surgeon W. H. Fairbairn, M.D., Assis-
tant-Surgeons A. J. Hepworth and J. Campbell, . .
M.D.

An order has been received at Chatham garrison
for a number of non-commissioned officers belong-
ing to the Provisional Battalion to be selected from
the Indian depots for the purpose of being attached
to the st of the 20 new battalions of Foot which
are about to be raised.
The fold swing changes are ordered to take place
in the quarters of the troops stationed in the south-
west district--The depots of the 54th, 66th, and 2d
and 3tl b.ittilions of the Rifle Brigade, from Win-
chester, and the depot of the 31th, from the fele of
Wight, to Colchester. The depots of the 19th, from
Parkhurst to Chatham, on the 29th inst. The
depot of the 22d, from Chichester to Winchester,
this day.
Fourteen officers and 258 men of the 44th Regi-
ment embarked yesterday at Portsmouth in the
clipper ship Flersilia for India ; 14 officers and 296
men of the 72d Highlanders embarked at the saute
time in the Matilda Atheling this day f,r India.
The officers of the 44 h are—Lieut.-Colonel •
M`Mahou, Capts. F. N. Gregory, W. Handecock,
and Walters ; Lieuts. Key, Hawartb, and Kendal;
Ensigns Anderson Webster, Briggs' Foley, Trim- '
mer, and Lewis ; Assistant-Surgeon
officers of the 72d are—Major Thellusson, Copts.
Best, the Hon. Fitzmaurice, Hunter ; Lieuts.
Cameron, Beresford, and the Hon. Fitzmaurice ; )
Ensigns Stewart, M`Kinnon, M‘Kay, Benfield, •
and Kildahl ; Assistant-Surgeen Rutter.
The 16th Lancers, in Kilk-inny, having at length -
received the expected route for Edinburgh, have
already begun to march. On Monday morning a --
troop, under the command of Captain Irwin, with
Cornet Armstrong, left for Belfast, via Carlow ;
and on Tuesday morning the head-quarters divi-
sion,
under the command of Lieut.-Col. Pattie, fol-
lowed them. The four troops at Athy, Carlow,
Waterford, and Cahir, have also commenced mov-
ing to Belfast, from which the whole regiment (con-
sis: ing of 24 officers, 300 non-commissioned officer?,
trumpeters, farriers, and rank and file, with 45
officers' chargers and 271 troop horses) will embark
on the 4th, 7th, and Bth Sept. for Glasgow, and
march thence to Edinburgh, where they will occupy _
the Piershill barracks.
The arrival of the Conqueror, 101, screw two-
decker Capt. Yelverton, C.B. at Spithead yester-
day morning is to be accounted for as follows :
When Admiral Lord Lyons was at Gibraltar with
his squadron the transport Abeona, destined to
bring the 47th Regiment to England, arrived from •
Malta in a disabled state. As the Governor of Gib-
raltar represented to the Admiral that the autho-
rities at home were particularly desirous of get-
ting the 47th to England with the least possible
deley, his lordship detached the best line-of-battle-
ship
at the disposal for the purpose, and at 24
hours' not;ce from the time of the Governor'e ex-
pressing his wish the whole regiment were embarked
and the Conqueror under way. She made the pas-
sage to Spithead in six days. Hertroops were landed
on Tuesday afternoon by the steam tugs Pigmy and
Com.t at Clarence-yard, whence they proceeded by -
rail to quarters.
The screw despatch steam gun veesels Roebuck,
Sparrowhawk, and Assnrance, 6, Commander -
Martin, Annesley, and Byng, have left Spithead
for Calcutta, under convoy of Capt. De Conroy, in •
the Pylades, screw, 21.
The Falcon, 17, Commander Campion, has been
paid off at Portsmouth.
The gunboats J aseur and Jasper are ready for ,
Spithead.
Capt.-Moorsom, C. 8., hoisted the pendant on
board the new screw corvette Diadem, 32, at •
Portsmhth, on Tuesday afternoon.
We Mermaid, transport, isashipping provisions.
from the Royal Clarence-yard for India. ,
The Khersonese, steam transport, arrived at
Portsmouth from Liverpool yesterday to embark
troops for India.
The Athletae has been chartered, and is hourly
expected in Cork harbour to embark Major the
Hon. D. Frazer's C battery of artillery. The horses
have been handed over to the 9th Battalion of
Royal Artillery at Ball:ncollig.
The head-quarters of the 56th will not be able to
leeve Cork before the end of the week, as the Wa-
terloo, in which they are to proceed, is not expected
to arrive before Thursday, owing to the preparation
of some necessary fittings.
The sailing ship Alipore, belonging to W. S.
Lindsay and Co., fitted out at Deptford to receive
the artillery troops for Kurrachee, went down to
Woolwich on Tuesday evening, and has still a num-
ber of artificers on board arranging the military fit-
tings. She is expected to be in readiness to-day
(Thursday) for the inspection of the Naval Board,
and will probably embark her troops on the follow-
ing day. They are to consist of Lieut. -Col. E. Price;
Lieut. W. Stirling, Adjutant ; Lieut. A. T. C.
Peurse (Pearse), Quartermaster; Capt. A. F. Con-
nell ; in command of the X field battery ; Captain
H. A. Thrupp ; Lieut. F. T. A. Law, Lieut. B. F.
Schreiber, Lieut. W. Newman, Assistant-Surgeon ;
R. A. Chapelle, Veterinary Surgeon ; J. H. Car-
ter, and 184 rank and file ; 20 gunners and drivers
to join two companies already embarked , two ser-
geants, as clerk and storekeeper, and two hospital
sergeants—total, 10 officers and 208 men. •
Captain Morris, in charge of the ship Rio Blanco,
recently arrived in Young's Wharf, at Millwall, has
engaged 10 Artillery sergeants (the majority of
whom are employed in Woolwich arsenal), to pro-
ceed to Peru as troop instructors in the Peruvian
Horse Artillery.
Eighty extra labourers were yesterday engaged to
clear outf the iron ballast, consisting of 800 tons, on
board the Defencehulk at Woolwich, so as to enable
her to be towed into dock. The whole of the stores,
to the value of 2,0001., principally bale goods, da-
maged bytheirlong immersion inthe water,have been
disposed of to the naval contractor, and have been
removed.
A telegraphic order was yesterday despatched to
Woolwich directing the steam frigate Curacoa to
retain her stores, as, by Admiralty directions, she
is not to be paid off at Woolwich.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :
Captain—A. C. Aldersor, to the Valorous.
Commanders—R. W. Courtenay, to the Conflict ;
C. Vesey, to the Styx.
Lieutenants.--11. D. Hieldey, Lewis Barstow, and
A. J. Kennedy to the Diadem.
GOOD SERVICE PENSION.
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,o his flag.

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