The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-03 00:00:00

THE LAND COMMISSION.

The following brief report of the progress of the Land
Tenure Commission appears in an Evening. Paper:—
" The Commission, consisting of Sir R. Ferguson, Mr.
G. Hamilton, Mr. Redington, and Mr. Wynne, were
actively engaged at Belfast on Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday last, in making inquiry respecting the occu-
pation of land in the counties of Down and Antrim.
They examined at great length the agents of the exten-
sive properties of the Marquis of Hertford, the Marquis
of Londonderry, Mr. D. Ker, and other proprie-ors, to-
gether with a number of occupying tenants and farmers,
as well as the persons selected for examination by the
several boards of guardians in the neighbourhood of Bel-
fast. On Thursday they proceeded Co inspect the exten-
sive and interesting improvements now in progress on
Lord Dufferin's estate, near Donaghadee, and on Lord
Londonderry's, near Newtownards, and the draining.
&c., on the property of Messrs. Andrews, at Cumber.
On Friday they held their inquiry at Antrim. On Sa-
turday they were joined by the Earl of Devon, at Ban-
bridge, and examined a number of witnesses respecting
the occupation and management of land on the large
estates in that neighbourhood of the Marquis of Down-
shire, as well as those of Lord Roden, Mr. Whyte, of
Lougbrickland, and others. During the present week
they are to visit Larne, Coleraine, and Moneymore."

Sotrrn.4.3lprox, APRIL 2.—The East India and China
mails, consisting of 94 boxes and 7 bags, were dispatched
from this port yesterday at 4 r.ar., in the Oriental Company's
splendid steam-packet the Great Liverpool, Captain M'Leod,
rid Alexandria. She has also upwards of 40 passengors,
and a very full cargo of bale goods. The Liverpool upon her
homeward voyage will proceed into the docks and discharge
her passengers and cargo, and then undergo a thorough re-
pair. The mails of the first of June will be taken out by the
Great Western steamer, which has lately become the pro-
perty of the Oriental Company. The 'Royal West India
steam-packet, the Tay, Captain Hayden, left this port to-
day for the West Indies. She carries out the South American
and West Indian mails, the largest ever shipped from this
port. The Tay has thirty-nine passengers on board, besides
1,460 bottles of quicksilver and 4,0001. in specie. The Rain-
bow, 500 tons, Captain Arnold, sailed out of dock, at 4 A.M..
this day, for Canada, with 185 emigrant passengers. She
will call at Plymouth, where it is expected she will take in
many more. The next emigrant ship will sail on the Ist of
May. The passengers and luggage came down on Saturday
by a special train, which took them alongside the vessel,
The Peninsula mail packet, the Paella, Captain Wilson,
arrived last night from Gibraltar, and proceeded into the
docks, and landed her mails, which were forwarded to London
by the ten minutes past two mail train this morning. Her
dates are—Gibraltar, 23d of. March ; Cadiz, 24th ; Lisbon,
27th; and Oporto and Vigo, 28th. She has a full cargo of
fruit. and only six passengers.
MILITARY HEROES.—Mr. Field last week delivered
his second musical lecture on the military service and its
heroes at the City of y‘ estminster Literary and Scientific In-
stitution. Mr-Field introduced the discourse of this evening
by a chronological description of the various improvements
in the implements for warfare, in short, treeing them from the
hands of the rudest art to those of the most profound science.
The costume of the army was also briefly noticed, not for-
getting the reminiscences of that so recently in use, but
which appears, from having left no trace behind, to be as far
removed as the buff jerkin of a couple of centuries gone by :
need we particularise the powdered hair, the well-nourished
queue, and the white (and tight) inexpressible shorts of our
tall grenadiers. A sketch of those hospitable retreats for dis-
abled veterans--Greenwich and Chelsea—and a reference to
the visit to them made by the Queen and Prince Albert, ap-
propriately introduced a very good song, the words and air
Field,
'of which were by Mr.`: Here's a health' to Victoria."
The enjoyments of a soldier's life were briefly glanced at—his
enfranchisement from all the ordinary perplexities of daily
life—the hearty abandon of the bivouac—enlivened by narra-
tives, in which the narrator is often the hero of kis own
story—and the rousing call to arms in the freshness and
beauty of the morning. Mr. Field here introduced a fine
hearty burst of cheering melody, "Our homes and native
land," which elicited an enthusiastic encore. This was a
manuscript composition by Mr. West, of the Royal Academy
of Music. In celebrating the achievements of our most dis-
tinguished Generals, the sad fate of Sir John Moore at Co-
runna could not fail of notice ; and the lecture was brought to
a close by a neat sketch of the European career of the " Hero
of a hundred fights," and including a p'ersonainarrative.by
one of the survivors, of-the:deferred-of tie -dratted' of 11-OugOu.:
mont, The " Army and Navy" was sung es a finale, and
Mr. Field retired amidst the warmest plaudits.
The Attorney-General for. Ireland had an interview
with Sir Robert Peel on Monday.