The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-16 00:00:00

FRIGHTFUL STATE OF TIPPERARY.

The post of to-day has brought from the ill-fated
county of Tipperary the most disastrous accounts of three
more dreadful murders. The .Neisayls Guardian gives the
following account of them :

THE SIXTH MURDER.—On Saturday last, about the
hour of four o'clock, as a man, named Pat M`Gennissy,
was on his return home from the Quarter Sessions of
Thurles, where he had been obtaining a decree for the
small sum of 305., and when near the demesne of Brittas,
two men jumped out from over a ditch and pulled him off
the car on which he sat, and on which three men were
also travelling, but who never interfered to save the un-
fortunate man. The two murderers beat their victim
with stones about the head to such an extent, that he
died from the effects on Sunday evening last. A man,
named Tracey, against whom M'Gennissy had obtained
the decree, has been arrested, and is in custody.
THE SEVENTH MURDER.—On the evening of Sunday,
the 20th of October last, three men, named James Molo-
ney, Patrick Carr, and William Carr, went into the
house of Denis Bryan, a publican, at liilcommon, and
after drinking some beverage, which had the effect of
making them a little tipsy, they had some dispute, and
after leaving the house a quarrel ensued, and the two
Carrs went into the dwelling of another brother,
named John Carr, out of which they came, and after
shouting outside the door of the house where Moloney
went in for protection, Moloney jumped out of the win-
dow, and was seized by Joh❑ and Wm. Carr, and was
beaten with stones on the left side of the head by Paddy
Carr, which fractured his skull, and of which he died on
Saturday night last, the 9th of November. An inquest
was held by James Carroll, Esq., coroner, and a verdict
returned, " That said James Moloney received a mortal
wound on the 20th October, inflicted by some person or
persons unknown, and of which he died."

n THE EIGHTH MURDER.—An inquest was held in
Thurles on Saturday last, by Michael Cormack, Esq.,
coroner, on the body of a man named Thomas Ryan,
who had been assaulted by Patrick Ryan, on the 2d of
October last, in that tows. The jury brought in a ver-
dict to the following effect :—" That the deceased, Thos.
Ryan, came by his death in consequence of a blow from a
stone on the head, inflicted by Patrick Ryan, on the 2d
of October last, of which he died on Friday, the Bth of
Nov. inst." The Coroner's warrant was then issued, and
Patrick Ryan has been arrested.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, Nov. 14.—This morning, Mr. Henry Nowell
Barton, scholar of Pembroke College, was elected a
Fellow on the foundation of Thomas Tesdale, Esq.
At a congregation holden this morning, the following
degrees were conferred:—
MASTER OF ARTS.—Archer Robert Tawney, Merton
College; Rev. Alfred Thomas Wilmshurst, Magdalen
Hall; Joseph H. Thompson, Magdalen Hall.
BACHELOR OF ARTS.—John Turner Fisher, Univer-
sity College; Heathcote Allen Wake, University College;
Arthur Dyott Thomson, Balliol College ; T. Dundas
Harford Battersby, Balliol College; John Joshua Proby,
Balliol College ; Walter Eaton, clerk, Merton College ;
Egerton D. Hammond, Merton College; John Beauvoir
Dolison, Merton College; Edward Hooper Kittoe, Exeter
College ; Thomas Sanctuary, Exeter College ; Francis
Raikes, Exeter College ; John Acton, Exeter College ;
William Henry Richardson, Oriel College; George Ma-
pletoft Paterson, Lincoln College; Charles Kipling, Lin-
coln College (grand compounder); lion. Llewellyn C. R.
Irby, Brasenose College ; Edward Pickering, Brasenose
College ; Arthur Evans, Brasenose College ; Felix
Palmer, Brasenose Cellege; Thomas Palvertoft Thirkell,
Brasenose College; John Ducker, scholar of Brasenose
College; Thomas Bowden Banner, scholar of Brasenose
College ; David Barttelot, scholar of Corpus Christi Col-
lege ; James Frith, Christ Church ; William Bell, ex-
hibitioner, Trinity College ; Martin Edgar Benson, St.
John's College ; Rev. Thomas Z. Davies, scholar of Jesus
College ; Edward Jones, Jesus College ; Frederick God-
fray, Wadham College ; James Lewis Walker Venables,
Wadham College ; Charles Harris, Wadham College ;
George Cressner Tuffnell, Wadham College ; Henry
Nowell Barton, fellow of Pembroke College ; Thomas
Horace Cookes, scholar of Worcester College ; John
James Colman, Worcester College ; Harvey Alexander,
Worcester College ; John William Bussell, Worcester
College ; Edward Hoare, St. Mary Hall ; Robert Evans
Crawley, Magdalen Hall ; Horace Phillips White, Mag-
dalen ; Raymund Samuel Daniell, Magdalen Hall;
Francis Thomas MacDougal, Magdalen Hall ; Denham
William Norreys, New Inn Hall ; John Grove, New Inn
Hall.

RELIEF TO THE CASUAL POOR.-011 Thursday, at
the weekly meeting of the board of guardians of St.
George the Martyr, Southwark, Mr. Boxer (the chair-
man) called attention to the report which appeared in
the daily papers, of an inquest on the body of John
Mason, aged 71, who appeared to have died in very dis-
tressed circumstances. The daughter had deposed that
about ten days before, her father, unknown to her, had
applied to the parish authorities of St. George the Mar-
tyr, Southwark, for relief, and that a portion of a quar-
tern loaf, a little tea, sugar, and oatmeal had been given
to the deceased. Mr. Caslake said the report of the in-
quest stated, that the application was made ten days
ago, whereas it was made on the evening of the 15th of
October. John James Mason, aged 71, then applied for
a little casual relief ; he said he was very old and ill, and
that his daughter was also ill. He being informed of
these circumstances, took the name and address of the
deceased, who then lived at No. 27, White-street. De-
ceased then said he only wanted relief until Thursday,
on which he gave the deceased an order for half a quar-
tern loaf, an ounce of tea, half a pound of sugar, and one
pound of oatmeal. Tho deceased then said, that upon
Thursday he should come into some property, and then
he should not require any further assistance. lie had
no wish to go into the workhouse ; if he had, he could
have done that long since, for a friendly order had been
given him on Camberwell, which he had in his pocket.
After the deceased had received the order, he (Cas-
lake) desired Mr. Lockhart to visit the case, and to desire
the deceased, if he wanted further relief, to apply
again, but he (Mason) never made a second applica-
tion. The reason why he had ordered only two pounds
of bread was on account of the age of the deceased.
Old people ate but very little bread. Mr. Lockhart
was then called in, and said, that within an hour and
a half after the order had been given he went to the
lodgings of the deceased, and he then saw on the
table about a pound of cooked mutton-chops and a pint
of porter. Finding that both the deceased and his
daughter were ill, he informed them, that in case any
further relief was required, to come on the next day
to the board. At this time he saw a friendly order,
directed to the master of Camberwell workhouse, fir
the admission of the decersed ; that was dated as far
back as July, 1843. The deceased had been, three days
before he had applied for relief, removediin a cab into
the parish. After the visit he neither saw nor heard
anything further of the deceased until last Sunday,
when he was directed to attend the inquest, but he was
not called. One of the witnesses who had been exa
mined informed him (Lockhart), that the bread which
had been given the daughter had been put into the
slop-pail, and that she afterwards sent the person al-
luded to out for a penny loaf. Mr. Boxer, Mr. boole,
and Mr. Moggridge, said, from the explanation which
had been made, it was quite evident their officers had
done their duty, and had afforded relief as soon as it
had been applied for.
DREADFUL EFFECT OF FRIGHT.—SOIIIe two Or
three weeks ago, a young woman, whose name we
do not give, went to the house of a poor but respec-
table man named High, with whose daughter she
was on very intimate terms, having on a mask made
to resemble an ass's head. Finding the poor girl
alone, and thinking to enjoy a fine piece of fun in
frightening her, she insisted on her dancing. The
poor creature was so dreadfully frightened, that she
fell into violent fits, which continued for some time,
when she became a decided lunatic ; but the shock her
whole frame had sustained was too violent, and nature
gave way to the sufferings consequent thereon. A few
days ago she died a sacrifice to the thoughtless folly of
a foolish companion, whose own mind must be greatly
embittered by the melancholy reflection.—Cambridge
Advertiser.

GREAT TROTTING MATCH FOR ONE HUNDRED
POUNDS.—The long-pending match between Mr.Vander-
stein's (of Whitechapel) grey gelding and Mr. M'Grath's
(of Lambeth) bay cob, to trot two miles in harness, came
off on Tuesday on Sunbury-common, and, from the
amount of stakes, the heavy betting on the race, and the
great celebrity of the horses, an unusual degree of in-
terest was created in the sporting arena. The spectators
might be fairly computed at 1,500. The distance being
measured, the horses, harnessed to light match-carts,
were driven to the starting mark, and at the signal they
went away at great speed, and accomplished half a mile
in eighty-eight seconds. At this stage the bay horse
broke out into a gallop, and was suddenly pulled in (in
compliance with the usual rules of trotting), and the
great cavalcade of horsemen and vehicles came violently
upon it, and it was thrown down, the chaise overturned,
and the driver seriously injured, and, being unable to
proceed further, the grey horse completed the distance
and won the stakes, the spectators being much mortified
at so unsatisfactory a result. The winning pony is of
American breed, and performed the two miles in six
minutes.

Prime mutton is now selling at WTotton-under-
Edge, Gloucestershire, at 4icl. per lb. The contract for
mutton for the the Dursley Union for the nest three
months was taken a few days ago at aid, per lb.—Bristol
Mirror.

I REGULATION OF DISTILLERIES.
Some proceedings lately instituted by the Board of
Excise, and still in operation, against Messrs. Smith, the
extensive distillers and rectifiers, of Mile-end, White-
chapel, are exciting a painful degree of interest in the
wine and spirit trade, the more particularly as the cir-
cumstances out of which those proceedings have arisen
are very imperfectly known, if at all. There are ru-
mours in abundance afloat on the subject, which tiatu
rally assume that there is some very serious charge
against a firm, whose business is so extensive that their
payments to Government, for the duty on spirits, are
not less than at the rate of 1,0001. daily ; and that this
charge must rest upon something like legal evidence to
justify a course which will appear to all, but especially
to those who have had no experience in the working of
the Excise laws, extremely severe and harsh. When
thesejumours, however, come to deal with facts, they
betray the greatest ignorance of the real state of the
case ; and it becomes, therefore, of unusual importance
to put the affair in an authentic shape, so far as it is
accessible at the present moment.
By the Act 57th Geo. IV., cap. 123, for the regulation
of distilleries, &c., it was enacted that the business of a
distiller and rectifier should not be carried on upon the
same premises; but, as there existed at the time when this
law:was made some establishments, of which this now
conducted by Messrs. Smith' was one, uniting both ope-
rations within the same walls, an exception was created
in their favour, and a few others similarly situated,
with only this proviso—that the communication between
the distillery and the rectifying houses should only take
place by means of carts and waggons, in an open man-
ner. By a subsequent Act, the 6th George IV., cap. 6,
a modification of the clause above described took place.
and, instead of the expression " shall only take place,"
the words " can only take place," were introduced.
This Act is dated in 1825 (nearly twenty years ago),
but it is only just discovered that there is an arrange-
ment on the premises on which both the operations of
Messrs. Smith are situated for conveying water from one
department to the other, and which brings them within
the range of the altered clause in the Act of 1825. On
Saturday, the 2d inst., they received notice, not in writ-
ing, but verbally, from the Excise-officer on the premises,
that their works must be stopped, which was of course
complied with, as no offer from them to give any se-
curity that might be required would be listened to.
Early in the week following the water communication
between the two establishments was adverted to by the
officers of Excise, and notice given that the experiment
must now be made whether by the same medium spirits
could not also be conveyed. To this no opposition was
made, and it was ascertained, what there could
be no doubt of under the circumstances, that the
hydraulic principle would be just as available
for one liquid as for the other ; but the spirits so
conveyed were, as it is stated, so much deteriorated
and mixed with water as to become unfit for use with-
out undergoing again the process of distillation. Under
this experiment, therefore, property of considerable
value was wasted. That it must have been considered
by those who made it conclusive against the Messrs.
Smith as a breach of the law of 1825, must be assumed
from the coatinuance of the restriction from carrying on
their business, which still remains in force. Under that
restriction about sixty of the workmen were discharged
on Saturday last, and the same number will be dismissed
at the end of the present week. The premises, from the
disappearance of the activity manifested there when at
full work, have a mournful appearance, and are further
disfigured by the laying open of the whole pavement be-
neath which the pipes passed for conveying water from
the distilling to the rectifying house.
This is, we believe, all that is known, unless, perhaps,
to the Commissioners of Excise ; but Messrs. Smith
have addressed a memorial to the Treasury o❑ the sub-
ject, an answer to which is daily expected, and which
may throw some further light upon the matter.
The question arising out of this affair is one which
will be viewed with much interest by the Scotch and
Irish distillers, who complain that the indulgence granted
to the existing large English distilleries by the Act of
1817, in allowing both operations still to be carried on
within the same walls, was injurious to them, and shut
them out from the competition with their rivals in this
country. Under Lord Liverpool's Administration a
commission of inquiry was instituted, and an Act passed,
4 George IV., cap. 94, extending at first only to Scot-
land and Ireland, but which had for its object the con-
solidation and assimilation of the laws for regulating
distilleries, and the trade in spirits throughout the
United Kingdom. The provisions of the Act last re-
ferred to were found to be so well adapted for the pur-
pose in view, that it was proposed by the Government
to extend the same regulations to the United Kingdom,
but in this they did not succeed. There can be no
doubt that a pretext will be afforded by what has just
occurred for a revival of this discussion by the Scotch
and Irish distillers.—Times.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
Thursday a lengthened investigation took place before
Mr. W. Carter, touching the death of John Thomas.
The body was lying at Kent-street, Borough, in one
of the most horrible dens that ever met the human eye.
The room was about eight feet square, in the centre of
which stood an old counter, underneath was an old flock
bed, and a parcel of dirty rags, covered with filth and
vermin, which formed the deceased's bed-place. There
were neither table nor chairs, nor any signs of food.
The body of the deceased was lying on the floor, and
presented a most wretchedly emaciated appearance. The
walls, which were bare, were covered with cobwebs,
and the room had evidently not been cleaned out for
some years.

The CORONER said, that he had seen a great many
strange places, but had never met with such a horrible
one before.

Ann Nash stated, that she had been living with de-
ceased twelve years, and was not married to him, al-
though she went as his wife. He was a shoemaker by
trade, but had not done any work for some years. He
always pleaded the greatest poverty to witness, although
she know him to be in the receipt of 15s. per week. She
was in the habit of earning a shilling or two now and
then, but he always took it from her, and sometimes
spent it in buying food. She had had one child by him,
which was ten years old. They were often left two and
three days together without food or firing. He would
never allow her to apply to the parish for assistance, as he
was fearful of its coming to the ears of his relatives, who,
she had heard, wore highly respectable, and lived
somewhere in the city, near Newgate-market. He was
of the most filthy habits, and would never permit her to
wash any of his clothes. He had formerly had plenty
of good wearing apparel sent to him by some friend,
which he had pawned in the Dover-road. He was in
the habit of going out every Monday morning to receive
his money, but she had never received a single farthing
from him during the twelve years she had been with
him. On Wednesday week he went out with an old
great coat •n, but be returned without it in about an
hour afterwards. She asked him for some money, as
they had not tasted food for two days. He said that he
had not got any. Shortly afterwards he took some money
from his pocket, and sent for half a quartern loaf, which
he shared among them. In the evening of the same day
ho was seized with pains in the groin. He got into bed
with his clothes on (as he had been in the habit of doing
for years), and remained in his bed until Friday last,
when he appeared so bad, that witness called in Mr.
Hankin, surgeon, of Dover-road, who attended with
promptitude, and ordered a mustard poultice and leeches
to be applied immediately. He then gave her 6d. to
purchase them. She went out, and returned in a few
minutes with the articles, and on entering the room she
found 4s. lying on the corner •f the table or coui ter.
She tried to rouse him ; but he had expired, and on
looking in the bed she found four more half-crowns and
a shilling, which must have been his last payment, on
the Monday previous to his death. She had repeatedly
begged of him to have a doctor, but he always said,
that "if she brought a doctor into the house, he would
kick him out again."

A Juror observed, that it was a most extraordinary
case; he could hardly believe that a woman could live
in such a state of horrible filth and destitution for so
long a period as twelve years.
The CORONER—Do you think the deceased has died
from want ? Witness—l do, Sir. He had the means
of getting food, but he would not have it. I and my
child have been without food for some days together.
He would occasionally pull out money, when he found
that I had none.

The CORONER—You must be a very strange woman
indeed, to have lived with a man so long in such a nai-
sorable state. I never met with a case before to equal it.
Mr. llankin, the surgeon, said he had found deceased
labouring under strangulated hernia ; inflammation had
taken place, and mortification ensued, which was the
cause of death.

The jury found a verdict in accordance with this evi-
dence.

ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—
About twenty-five minutes past ten o'clock on Wednes-
day night, as the goods down train, which left the Nine
Elms terminus at ten o'clock, had just passed the Merton
Gate, the train was suddenly thrown off the rails
by coming into contact with something upon the line,
Fortunately no injury occurred to any person ; but upon
examining what was the cause of the occurrence, two
bullocks were found :with their heads severed from their
bodies, and several others were lying upon the rails so
dreadfully mangled, that it was found necessary for them
to be killed. It was found that the beasts had broken
through the hedge of an adjoining field, and strayed on
to tho line, ; Several police-constables of the V division
lent their assistance, and a special engine and other as-
sistance having arrived from the Nine Elms terminus,
the train was shortly after replaced, and it proceeded on
to its destination,

T.ll ATTOIINY• GENERAL V. GIBBS.—We are
enabled to state, that in this suit there is no likelihood
of a report being made. The suit was originally re•
ferred to Sir George Rose, but from the alloged anxiety
to bring the cause to a conclusion, au order was obtained
to refer it to the vacation Master, who has done nothing,
gild bout it back to Sir George gosc,

PROPOSED PASSAGE FROM
CAIRO TO SUEZ.
We copy the following articles on this subject from
two of the leading Paris journals of opposite politics
which seem to agree wonderfully on one point—the
superiority of a canal to a railroad :
(From the Journal des Debats.)
" By the letter of Mr. Waghorn to the Pacha of Egypt,
it may be seen that fresh efforts are making to improve
the communication with India by the Isthmus of Suez.
The grand question is to determine whether a railroad
or a canal will be the preferable plan to carry this object
into effect. At this time passengers going from Europe
to India by Egypt land at Alexandria, gain the Nile by
the Mahmoudie Canal; again ascend the Nile as far as
Cairo, and then cross the Deserts to Suez, where they
embark in the Red Sea. The railroad proposed by Mr.
Waghorn would also go from Cairo to Suez, and would
thus save passengers the disagreeable route across the
Desert, which, with all the attenipts made to render it
comparatively easy, is still most tedisus and fatiguing.
If the proposed canal is also to be cut from CaTo to
Suez, certainly the railroad should be preferred. The
canal of the Isthmus of Suez has long since existed.
Rendered impassable several times by reason of the sands
which accumulate, and which the jealousy of the Arabs,
whose traffic by canals is injured, prevents them from
clearing- away. But the canal in this direction was
extremely inconvenient, being fed by the waters of
the Nile, it was useless except when that river was
high ; and, therefore, the navigation of it was
interrupted for six months in the year. Commerce
demands a more regular and uninterrupted com-
munication ; it cannot, therefore, be surprising
that Mr. Waghorn, and those whose ideas he re-
presents, should be in favour of a line of railroad from
Cairo to Suez. But the time for comparison is ill
chosen. Without doubt two hundred and sixty kilo-
metres of canalisation, or extensive proportions, between
Alexandria and Cairo, joined to one hundred and sixty-
five kilometres of the canal from Cairo to Suez, would
be a most costly undertaking. But it is not the less
true that a canal large enough to take a vessel of the
size of the first-class:East Indiamen, would be a thousand
times better than a railroad. The railroad from Cairo
to Suez would be exclusively for passengers and mails,
whereas if a canal of the above dimensions was cut
through the Isthmus, it would be of immense advantage
to the whole commercial world. The obstacles to such
an undertaking are not insurmountable. There is a
means of cutting through the Isthmus from one side to
the other without the enormous expense of an artificial
navigation between Cairo and Alexandria. This is to
commence precisely at its narrowest point, from Suez to
the strand of Faramah, on the borders of the Mediter-
ranean, near the small village of Thynah. Everything
is here suitable for the undertaking. The clistanee is
short. From Suez to Thynah, as a bird would fly, it is
only 120 kilometres, and in this space would be in-
cluded what are called the Bitter Lakes, whore the bed
of the canal is now cut by nature, and the lake Men-
rahleh which only requires deepening. The ground at
this point is level, for iu the whole distance there is only
a metre of elevation.
" Again, the Red Sea at Suez being eight metres at
least higher than the Mediterranean, the canal would be
easily fed by the waters of the former. Nothing but
the greatest negligence could ever cause a collection of
sand to impede the navigation. Everything, therefore,
is in favour of the plan except one thing—the want of a
good port at the terminus in the Mediterranean ; but
this difficulty may be conquered by the improved state
of modern science in deepening ports, and causing good
anchorage in places where formerly it was impracticable.
" This direct canal across the Isthmus of Suez is not
more difficult, if so much see as that of Mahrnoudie,
formed by Mehemet Ali. The formation of a port at
Thynah is a very easy work, and would not be so diffi-
cult as what has been clone to form the harbour of Cette.
The question now is, by whom is this canal to be made ?
As it is a work of general European interest, and a work
of the greatest interest to the commerce of the world.
and of more immediate importance than the proposed
communication across the Isthmus of Panama, all the
maritime nations might take the enterprise under their
patronage and their guarantee, so as to make the passage
a complete neutral one.
" Moreover, the work is entirely within the power of
the Pacha of Egypt, without any foreign assistance. The
Pacha, who has constructed more than a thousand kilo-
metres of canals or large dykes for the purpose of irri-
gation, might without difficulty with his own people ac-
complish the work. It would only be a continuation of
what he has before done. M. Le Pee, who had been
charged by the General-in-Chief to prepare a plan for a
canal across the Isthmus, estimated the expense at only
seventeen millions of francs. But let us call it thirty, or
even forty millions, in consequence of the works to be
done at Thynah and Suez. Tho cutting the canal would
bring into cultivation an immense extent of ground which
is now in desert, and which was formerly fertile until
buried in the sand. This would be adding an immense
capital to the Pacha, and the right of toll dues would.
also bring him an immense revenue. Thus, materially
speaking, the undertaking would be a profitable one for
the Viceroy ; politically speaking, it would be of im-
mense value to Europeans. By the Pacha, therefore,
with his own resources, in default of the coacurrence of
the maritime powers, the cutting through the Isthmus of
Suez may be caraied into effect, and there is reason to
suppose he will enter into these views.
" While waiting for this desired event, which viould
remove so many obstacles to general commerce, should
not the French Government remove another which
presses heavily on our trade with the Levant, and vk hich
naturally occurs to the mind when speaking of the com-
munication with Egypt. We allude to the quarantine
which is maintained by the French Government, though
in a great measure suppressed by the English, and which
has the effect of causing the passage from Alexandria to
Paris to be shorter by way of England than by Mar-
seilles."

(Frcm the Constitutionnel)
" The English Government and its agents, direct or
indirect, have peculiar motives for thinking of the esta-
blishment of a railroad. We need not say that these
motives are foreign to a commercial interest. England
cares nothing about seeing the commerce of India take
other modes of transport than that of the Cape of Good
Hope, and does not feel for Trieste so violent a sym-
pathy as to sacrifice to it a portion of the interests of
' London or Liverpool. Besides, if the commerce of India
were to pass through Egypt, Marseilles, and even
Odessa, would be as great gainers as Trieste. What
the English Government seeks in the establishment of a
railroad across the Desert is, first, the means of trans-
porting with facility and rapidity, the troops and materiel
of war which may be wanted in India; and, secondly, the
protectorate which the passage of these troops, and the
residence of an English company at the head of the rail-
road, would permit it to exercise over Egypt, The
English Government knows very well that the Paella
has neither iron, coals, nor wood, and still less the money
which would be required for making and working a rail-
road, The Pacha, however, may and ought to attempt
another means of communication. What the interest of
his power and the prosperity of Egypt counsel is the
construction of a canal between Suez and Cairo. All
the objections which he has made to a railroad disappear
when a canal is proposed. He is able to execute this
enterprise with his own means. He has an army habi-
tuated to all the labours of digging and embankment,
and there are capable engineers in his service. A canal
which should join the Nile to the Red Sea would give
considerable commercial advantages to Cairo and Alex-
andria, communicate great activity to the navigation of
the Red Sea and the Nile, and .probably fertilise an.
extensive none of desert on the two banks. A loan eo.
traded for the execution of this enterprise,
and guarann-
teed by the revenues of the canal itself, might be
effected in aid of the finances of the Pacha, without
depriving him of any portion of his financial inde-
pendence. This is an enterprise which would be profit-
able to England in common with the rest of Europe, and
which ought to be encouraged by all who take an in-
terest in the prosperity of Egypt, and in the progress of
civilisation."

ATTEMPT TO ARREST TIIE MURDERERS OF THE
MORMON PROPHET.—Governor Ford, of Illinois, ordered
a detachment of troops under General J. J. Hardin to
encamp near Carthage on the 26th ult., intending to aid
the civil authorities in the arrest of the murderers of Joo
and Hiram Smith. The country will applaud this de-
termination of the Governor to sustain the laws. The
lawless enemies of the Mormons had planned an attack
on Nauvoo for the massacre of the Mormons on the 26th
and 27th ult., their forces to be collected under the pre-
tence of joining in a wolf hunt ; but Governor Ford, by
a judicious arrangement of his troops, disconcerted their
arrangements, and it was supposed they would not at:
tempt to carry out this wicked project. The Governor
was at Carthage. Writs were issued and placed in the
hands of the Sheriff for the arrest of Thomas C. Sharp,
editor of the Warsaw Signal, and for Colonel Williams,
of the same, both charged with participating ha
the murder of the Smiths. The Sheriff came to
Warsaw and attempted to arrest Sharp, but he refused
to surrender himself, and in this resolution was sustained
by the infamous part of the population of Warsaw. The
Sheriff returned and reported his inability to arrest him,
when three hundred of the troops were ordered to march
to Warsaw. The troops had not arrived at Warsaw
before the last steamer left, but Sharp and Williams had
escaped to the Missouri side of the river, where they
will find a :horde of sympathising spirits. Sharp has
issued an address. He says, " I did not help to kill Joe
Smith, for I did not go to the gaol with those who killed
him. If my influence helped to produce the state of
feeling that resulted in his death, why I am, in common
with some hundreds of others, guilty, not of murder.
but of an extra-judicial execution. I have the most
satisfactory proof that Joe Smith threatened my life,
and sought to take it. If I had, therefore, killed him,
I should only have acted in self-defence." • He acknow►
ledges himself, then, an accessory to the murder before
the fact, and should be held accountable to the law.—
New York paper.
PARTIAL OVERFLOW OP THE THAMES.—The pre-
sent spring tides have risen much higher than any for
several years past, in conseqaence of which the Thames
has overflowed its low lying embankments above and
below London-bridge, doing considerable damage to pro.
licensedwaterside.
victuallers, as well as
tpheer t
cellars
situate
u of
numerousalon
those of private houses, have been flooded. The damage
sustained is, however, less than might have been ex-
pected. On Wednesday and Thursday afternoon Stoney-
lane, Tooley-street, was partially flooded, and near to
Stanton's lower wharf thorn was no passage for pedalo.
trians.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.---It was rather generally supposed that this vessel would have left Cumberland
basin on the high tides of the early part of this week.
She could uQt, however, be got ready in time, and her
departure is postponed to the corresponding period or
next month, when it is confidently expected she will pro,-
oead to sea, We understand no doubt is entertained, of
there being a sufficient rise of water to carry her out
without ditliculti.—Vristol Gazette.