The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-18 00:00:00

NIGHT POACHING PREVENTION BILL.

Order for Consideration of Lords Amendments read ;
Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the said Amend-
ments be now read a second time :"—Ainendm.nt proposed,
to leave out the words " now read a second time," in order to
add the words " taken into further Consideration this day six
months," instead thereof :—Question put, " That the wards
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question :" The
House divided

MAJORITY-AYES. 37.

MINORITY-NOES, 5.

Collett, John Hawes. B. TELLIIIIS.
irETIICOUrt, C.T. Roebuck, J. A. Warburton, H.
Escott, Welch= Brothecton, Joseph

THE .LORD- MAYOR AND THE
• DUFFERS.' •
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Snt,-How was it that the Loid Mayor did not • declare
the I3ritish goods, found in the possession of M‘lOonald and
pnboi•s, to be forfeited, which had been identified'as having
been offered as smuggled goods for sale by those parties?
There is an express provision, in 3d and 4th W. IV., c. 53,
s. 47, to meet these duffers, as follows :—" 'lt' any person shall
offer for sale any goods, under preteme that the same are
prohibited, or have been unshipped and run on shore with-
'out payment of duties, such goods'(ahhough not liable to
.any duties; or prohibited.) shall be forfeited; and the perion
ofiering them for sale. shall forfeit the treble value of such a
goods, or the penalty one hundred pounds, at the election
of the Commissioners of Customs." • '
11I'Donald's excurse, that the goods were British, ought to
have been of no avail ; if the Custom-house officer had iden-
tified an article of British manufacture, which had been
offered to him for sale under' the pretence of Its having been,
'imuggled, it ought to have been declared a forfeit to her
Majesty by the Lord Mayor of London. A few of these ex-
periments on the,London duffers, would help to stop the daily
and hourly frauds that are practised by these gentry.—l am,
'§ir, yours, &c. . R. W. D.
Ilfracombe, Juno 17, 1844.

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MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, JUNE 17.
On Saturday, the 15th inst., the four company depot of the
74th Regiment, under the command. Of: Major J. Casimer
Harold, arrived here by the troop steam-ship Dee, Master
Commander Thomas Driver, froni Kinsale, :which place they
embarked from-on the lOst'instant. The troupslanded at the
dockyard; and immediately marched into Chatham. barracks
and were placed in quarters, their effective strength being 13
'sergeants, 4.drummers, and 235 rank and 'file, with the fol-
lowing officers*:—Captain Ansel!, Captain Camble, and
Captain Seton ; Lieutenant Munns,' Lieutenant' Monkland,
Lieutenant Cardew ; Ensign Bolton, Ensign Williams,' En-
sign Fellows, and Assistant-Surgeon.' Cumming. This depot
will remain for duty at this garrison' for some time. The
Dee steamer left this Port the same evening, having em-
barked the 77th depot, consisting of 13. officers and 320 men,
under the command of Major J. Peter Nelley, for Cork: The
Dee will then return to Chatham with;,-the depot of the 524
Light Infantry, consisting, of 12 sergeants, 4 buglers, and
279 rank and file, 'under thi commz.nd of Major Henry
Samuel Davis., with Captain Bull and Captain Denison ;
Lieutenants Fontaine, Corbett, and Coming, Deputy-pay-
master, and Lieutenant Peel, Deptilant-Adjutant ; Ensign
Arehdall, Peel, and Brook, with Assistant-Surgeon Robin-
son, 31.1). Colonel Sir • Thomas NI, illabire, K.C.8., Coin-
Mandant of the garrison; issued the following garrison order
bn Saturday, directing Colonel Thoinas Weare, K.H., of the
Provisional Battalion, to hold' the undermentioned corps in
readineSs for embarkation on the 20th inst. by the freight-
Ship Runnymede for Bengal, the 10th to furnish 40 privates,
and the .50th 121' privates, with the following officers belong-
ing to the latter corps :—Captain Stapleton, Ensign Yenables,
Ensign Percell, and Ensign Du Vernet. The. Commandant
inspected the men on Monday, the 17th, when each, man was
furnished with the -Articles of \Var. Lieutenant-Colonel
Henry Wynyard, commanding the 58th Regiment, by direc-
tions of Colonel Sir Tho Mas Willshire, K.C.8., fUrnishes the
following' detachments as convict guards to proceed to Iran
Diemen's Land. The first marched on Monday, the 17th,
routeen for Deptford; to proceed by the transport-ship Lord
Auckland.' Its strength consisted of 2 sergeants and 30 rank
and fileovith 6 women and 10 ehildren, under the command
of Captain Russell and Lieuttnant.Pedher. The second guard
will 'march from here- on Thursday, the 20th, the strength
being 2 sergeants and 48 rank and file, with 7 women and 12
children, under the conumond of Lieutenant Payer and Lieu-
tenant\yinthrope, and embarks at Deptford the same day on
board 'the convict-ship Agincourt for 'Van Diemen's rand.
On Sunday morning, the 16th, private information was re-
ceived at this garrison of the movements of.the following re-
githentS from Quebec—The right wing of *the 2d battalion of
Royals embarked on the 26th of May' on board her Majesty's
ship Resistance for the West Indies; the 68th Light Infantry
also embarked at' Quebec on the 24th of May for Portsmouth
in the Apollo troop-ship.
Dr. Thomas Hope,' for more than forty years Pro."
fessor of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh,
died last week from a stroke of paralysis. He was in
his 77th year. '
!SCOTTISH CHuncH, LONDON.7—The Rev. James
Fishar,ALAl,uwasiadactedao tbeHlitiisteiiatalairge!,of, the,
Scotch Church, Swallow-street, St. James's, by the Scottish
Presbytery, in London, on Thursday last.