The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-27 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The following has just been issued for the guidance of
commanding officers of regiments:—
" (Circular, No. 1,073.)
" War-office, Sept. 19, 1850.
" Sir,—l am directed by the Secretary at War to
annex for your information and guidance a statement of
the daily rates of allowance to general and other staff-
officers, and to field and staff-officers of infantry regi-
ments, in lieu of forage for the horses required to be
kept by them for the public service, for the half-year
from April I, 1850, to September 30, 1850, agreeably to
which the charge for forage will be allowed.
" I am to add that if a charge at a different rate has
been already made, the same should be corrected accord-
ing to the said statement.
" I have, &c.,
" L. SIILIVAN.
" Officer commanding the Regiment of ."
Statement:of the daily rates of allowance in lieu of forage
for the period from the let of April, 1810, to the 30th
of September, 1850:
GREAT BRITAIN.
Rate of
Counties. Allowance.
a. D.
Berks 1 7
Chester 1 8
Devon
Dorset ....
Essex. 1 9
Gloucester 1 7
Hants 1 9
Kent
Lancaster
Leicester
Middlesex 1 7
Norfolk 1 7
Northampton 1 8
Northumberland 1 7
Nottingham
Somerset
Suffolk
Sussex
Warwick
Worcester 1 9
York
Wales 1 7
North Britain
The counties in
which there arei 1 7
no contracts ...
Monmouth 1 7
Jersey
Guernsey

IRELAND.

'Rate of
Counties. Allowance.

S. D.
Antrim
Armagh 1 4
Carlow
Cavan 1 4
Clare 1 4
Cork
Donegal 1 4
Down 1 4
Dublin
Fermanagh . 1 4
Galway 1 4
Kerry 1 4
Kildare
Kilkenny
King's County
Leitrim
Limerick
Londonderry 1 4
Longford
Louth 1 4
Mayo 1 3
Meath
Monaghan 1 5
Queen's County
Roscommon
Sligo: 1 4
Tipperary 1 3
Tyrone
Waterford 1 4
Westmeath
Wexford
Wicklow

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TlMES.—Everybody is asking what bas become
of the Protectionists. For some years past they have
come out with unusual force at this season, and we
were as sure to have a demonstration by Lord Stan-
hope or Mr. Newdegate, or the Marquis of Granby,
as a fat goose on Michaelmas-day. It makes one
shudder to think of the dreadful auguries and stern
denunciations that began with the falling leaf, and
fell in one continuous shower till Midwinter. But
now all is still in the agricultural atmosphere. The
equinoxial gales will return in due season, hut no
Duke of Richmond or Mr. Disraeli. Sir John Tyrell
is quiet, and the Earl of Winchilsea at peace with
mankind. We will confess ourselves not yet recon-
ciled to the change. Like the lady who could not
sleep except on the ground-floor of her mansion in
Piccadilly, we miss the rumble of Protectionists.
Their tameness is shocking to us. With the single
exception of the friendship they have struck up with
the draymen of Bankside, they have hardly stirred
a finger or wagged a tongue since the prorogation.
Lord Stanley has made a speech at Warriegton
so full of civility and kindness to all parties as
hardly to he worth a report. At Newark, on Tues-
day, Mr. Hildyard, whose contest with Lord Lincoln
rent the county in twain, could only recommend
landlords to lower their rents, and tenants to employ
more labourers, so as to save the first from the Ga-
zette, and the last from the union. The furious
Chowler interrupted him in vain, for the meeting was
all for peace. What does this presage ? Is it the lull
before the storm, or are we really about to have a
grand fraternal embrace of all classes ? Has Ana-
charsia Kloots really carried the day ? Even the
Standard would be content with the destruction of
Lombard-street, and the .Herald would be happy but
for the spectacle of Mordecai sitting in the gate.
Possibly so small an affair as our extinction would
satisfy them both. Nor is this all. Where are all
the calamities with which we are threatened ? The
land is not gone out of cultivation. Excursion trains
have visited Stonehenge, and returned without encoun-
tering either bustards or lions. The southdowns are
disappearing under the plough, and half the Wash is
being rescued from the ocean. As for the labourers,
who by this time were to be laying themselves down
to die at the door of the House of Commons, we hear
everywhere the complaint that, like the emancipated
" niggers," they are getting quite saucy. In spite
of the most tremendous difficulty, a dearth
of material, the cotton mills manage to keep
t work. There is distress, it is true, for the t
Irish bubble, and the colonial bubble, and the rail-
way bubble have all burst. Vicious systems will ul-
timately work themselves out, and frantic speculation
will end in a collapse. But, somehow, the mass of
the people are enjoying a great deal of" vulgar pros-
perity. One cannot help asking, ;,then, when is the
explosion to come ? The catastrophe hangs fire.
England's sun is a long time setting. That sad event
was confidently announced twenty years ago, but it
has not yet taken place, on the testimony of alarm-
ists themselves, for they still predict it. So far, how-
ever, from the old alarm being fulfilled, a new alarm
has almost supplanted it in the timid and prophetic
Protectionist soul. The present fear is that the
foreigners about to visit us on the pretence of the
Exhibition next year, finding themselves in a
vast majority, hating England, and being
perfectly unanimous, will seize the me-
tropolis and declare a republic ; or, at all events, do
us a mischief of some sort or other. Well, one nail
drives out another. A succession of bugbears is not
quite so oppressive as a constant one. Depend upon
it we shall have something else next year—the ap-
proach of a comet, or the conflagration of the Thames.
The middle classes have been very severely punished.
We have gone through a social revolution. The last
five years have scattered, partly over the rest of so-
ciety, and partly to the winds, the hard earnings of
many industrious families. It could not be other•
wise when the vast majority of the middle class, of
commercial and professional men, were the victims
of a mania in which they bought dearly what was
good for nothing, and undertook what was impos-
sible. Misfortunes seldom come alone, and they that
basted to become rich have found their difficulties
aggravated by famine and revolution. Hence pro-
perty has been destroyed, and property has changed
hands. But the labouring classes of this country
have been gainers. One of the most striking fea-
tures of the last five years, and of the present hour, is
the number of persons rising from the ranks. In-
dustry already gives proofs of its emancipation. The
wealth, and consequently the power, of the country
have been distributed among a larger and a humbler
class of owners. They have been divided as it were
into premiums for industry and talent, and have re-
warded the exertions of innumerable persons pushing their way upwards from the plough, the shovel, and the loom. It has often been complained that the ten-
dencies of our social state are too much in favour of
accumulation, and that the many are continually sa-
crificed for the aggrandisement of the few. Un-
questionably these tendencies are still at work, RAIL WAY SHARE MARKETS.
and many great fortunes have been made, and BRISTOL, &CPT. 26.
houses established on the commercial devasta-
STOOK EXCHANGE.—The share market was firm to-day,
remain without any material deviation, the only
dons of the last five years. But it is equally
reported being—Midland, 41.
itlrnadn s cprices
n
certain that what the middle classes have lost has LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 26.
not been altogether, or even mainly, swept up by STOCK ExCHANGE.—The share market was firm to-day
the giants of commerce. The more important result at the.d quboletaiovnsoi..lMhiiTrdehlaectondrnanason! Dover shares commanded
of the recent crisis has been the elevation of the work-
ifannsci ashire anidn transactions
4737 fisittfoo,ll;iwftrs.
in g classes—the greater independence and comfort of
8% die.—London and North-Western 11414—Ditto, New
the whole, and the ascent of many among them to Quarters, 2 p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 2 p.—Manchester,
superior and more lucrative employment. Such we Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, l8!4 Midland, 42 Ditto,
believe to be a fair account of the last five years. The Halves, 221. dis.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham ( B), 213-16
disasters of that period are now becoming matters of
—South.Eastern and Dover, 20'—Ditto, (No. 4). Regis-
tered, 634— York and North Mi nd, 204—Dutch Rhenish,
history; its benefits survive and grow. We never 5 die.—Lancaster and Carlisle, !4.irds, 234 p.—Newcastle
have denied the existence of much calamity and di and Carlisle, 833,a North Britis., 6%—North Union (B.),
tress, even though sure to see our statements tor- 1663,0 —Shrewsbury and Chester ( Oswestry and Chester),
tuned into admissions against the operation of free 6!4—Ditto, Preference, guaranteed 8 per Cent., 12%.
trade. But free trade is now at length fairly in one- MANCHESTER,.
em amarket
tSwE
was
pretty
Srocx Exc active t d y
ration, and we may begin to form a judgment upon
and prices were firm. The transactions were as follow:
it. it. Where, then, is the ruin ? In what state do we East Lancashire, 10—Great Northern, 12 dis.—Lancashire
find ourselves ? In a state not of ruin, but of reco- 1 and Yorkshire, 471/4—Ditto, Fifths, 8 c. dis.—London and
very. Notwithstanding a more than usual allowance North-Western, New Quarters, 2 p.—Ditto, Manchester and
Birmingham,:uairtßersDTti));
Q 2 p.—Manchester,uca.rters(Nel),
Sheffield,
of difficulties, the country is now in a far more pros-
and Lincolnshire,
perous state than it has been at any time since the re- Central, 123/4—Shropshire Union 3% di .—South-Eastern
peal of the corn-laws. and Dover, 20—Ditto Consol. (No. 4), 63/4 c.
DAILY NE W S.—A representative system of YORK, Sarr. 25.
government has its defects as well as advantages. The STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fol-
latter, indeed, incalculably overbalance the former ;
low:—Great Northern,.
N.
1 E. Purchase), 41/11.1%—York, Newcastle, and Bar-
E
but that is no reason why such defects should not be wick, 16%—Ditto (tx

TRAGICAL EVENT.
YORK, THURSDAY.—Two events of a painful and
tragical nature have occurred in this city, viz the
suicide of one female, and the supposed death, by her
own act, of :another.
The first victim was a woman about forty years of
age, named Burton, who, along with her husband,
kept a lodging and coffee-house for the accommoda-
tion of railway passengers, opposite the station in
Tanner-row. She has had a family of two or three
children, and she and her partner have lived very
comfortably together, but for the last three-quarters
of a year she has been afflicted with an internal com-
plaint. For this she had been at Buxton, and it was
thought that her health had much improved. No-
thing peculiar was observed in her conduct on Tues-
day, but she attended her domestic duties as usual as
well as her strength would allow. In the evening
she went upstairs, and some time afterwards the door
of her room was discovered to be fastened. A ladder
was obtained, by which the room was entered and
the door unfastened, and on the husband going into
the room with a candle a dreadful spectacle presented
itself. His wife was hid extended on the bed
with two fearful gashes in her throat, and life quite
extinct. There was a razor and a pool of blood on
the floor, and a portion of the blood had trickled
through the flooring into the room below Mr.
Keyworth, surgeon, was sent for, but of course too late
to render the female any assistance. An inquest was
held yesterday before Mr. Wood, the coroner, and
the jury returned a verdict that the deceased had cut
her throat whilst labouring under temporary insanity.
The second inquest was held the same day on the
body of a young female named Smith, who had
drowned herself. This event happened on the same
night. The deceased had been labouring for some
time under a depression of spirits, and had complained
that she could net appear in as decent clothes as any
other person. She had declared she would drown
herself. She was heard to fall into the Ouse by some
person near, and immediately to utter the exclama-
tion, "Oh dear !" An alarm was raised, but no
assistance could be rendered, and she sunk. There
was no positive evidence as to how she got into the
water, and therefore a verdict of " Found drowned"
was recorded.