The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

EMENT TO THE EVENING SUN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1845.

passions of the Sinde Army on his side will fail ; the brave
men who have served under Sir C. Napier know too well his
attachment to them, and his gratitude for their matchleoa
courage and endurance, to heed such baseless suggestions.
My letter, published in thel Times and in the Naval and Mili-
tary Gazette, upon the sickness of the 78th Regiment, does
not contain even an allusion to intemperance; the epidemic
is expressly described as one baffling the medical men. It
was written to crush an accusation in the Bombay Times,
which ascribed, as Colonel Outram does now, the mortality
to the General's mismanagement; and it even went so far as
to call him " the murderer of the soldiers."
But I have also, in my work on Sinde, published a letter
in which drink is said to be the great cause of disease with
both officers and men in the army generally. This is called
charging the officers with habitual drunkenness, and affirming
that inebriety alone caused the dreadful mortality in the 78th
Regiment. Now, in that letter the sickness of the 78th is
positively stated to be one which " nobody could account for ;"
and is thus completely separated from the observations about
drink which follow. Those observations are general, the
mere expression of an opinion as to one of the causes of great
mortality in the army at large • they are not even confined to
Sinde; Jellalabad is expressly referred to. They treat of
the bad effect of the common ration of spirits given to all
soldiers; they have no special application to the 78th, or any
other corps ; and if, as Colonel Outram asserts, the command-
ing officer of that regiment applied to Sir C. Napier on the
subject, the reported answer was strictly correct and just, viz.,
that "no such accusation had been made; if it had, the
General would have contradicted it." It never has been made
by anybody but Colonel Outram and his tool, Dr. Buist, of
the Bombay Times.
What, in fact, is the drift of the observations referred to?
Simply that strong drinks, temperately or intemperately
used, produce in a hot climate, not sickness, but a morbid
tendency in the brain and liver, which renders those organs
always the first affected by the epidemic less able to resist
its action; hence the great mortality. This is the simple
enunciation of a pathological fact, which it is the absolute
'duty of a general in command to promulgate, if he is satisfied
of its truth.
The assertion that the officers have been charged with
habitual intemperance is almost too despicable to notice;
officers drink wine, ale, spirits—is that to accuse them of
drunkenness ! If so, they cannot deny the accusation, for
they certainly are not teetotalers. They use fermented and
spirituous liquors in a hot climate winch tends to render
life less secure than if abstinence were practised. This is the
whole that has been said, and malignity tantamount to
drivelling could alone give it any other meaning, or a par-

ticular
The rest of Colonel Outram's letter being merely an expo-
sition of his utter and presumptuous ignorance of the pre-
sent state of Sinde, merits no attention; it is quite in ac-
cordance with the incapacity he displayed when employed in
that country. He speaks of the mountain tribes recently sub-
dued by Sir C. Napier, as having no connexion with the
Seiks I They were nevertheless in constant communication
with those of Mooltan ; they received provisions from them
during the operations; many of them fled for refuge to that
country; and at one time there was a large body of those
Seiks in arms on the point of joining the tribes_to give battle
to the British.
I have now only to notice the statement of Mr. Peart
attached to Colonel Outram's letter. That gentleman, who
is the civil surgeon attending the Ameers, declares that
those Princes, while in close captivity, do not, to his know-
ledge, display the same vices they exhibited when, as
sovereigns, they were unrestrained in the exercise of their
passsions and power—a marvellous proof of innocence,
truly !
I will now ask Mr. Peart two questions :-1. Is he the
surgeon, who, being in attendance on the Ameers, made a
report of their secret conversations to Sir George Arthur ?
2. If so, will he deny that in those conversations they ad-
mitted that their acts and intentions, political and military,
and their diplomacy, were, previous to their dethronement,
'precisely such as Sir. C. Napier had supposed them to be, and
for which he made war on them ; thus vindicating Sir C.
Napier's sagacity, and laying Colonel Outram's incapacity
naked ?

WM. NAPIER, Major-General.

Guernsey, Sept. 18, 1845.
PosTscnirr.—Since writing the above, it has been sug-
gested to me that I ought to notice Col. Outram's charges
against my brother of having improperly provided for his re-
lations. To defend Sir C. Napier from the scurrility of Col.
Outram is, I think, unnecessary; but I will show the true
character of the accusation.
Sir C. Napier found Lieut. McMurdo, then a stranger to
him, on the Quartermaster-General's staff in Sinde. That
young officer soon distinguished himself by his zeal, his
ability, and his heroic courage, andhis General continued him
in a post he filled so worthily ; two years afterwards he mar-
ried that General's daughter : this is called his son-in-law on
the Staff, " contrary to the regulations of the Service I"
Sir C. Napier appointed his nephews to be, the one his Aid-
de-Camp, the other his Military Secretary. Those officers
are the sons of Sir George Napier, whose well-known services
and wounds would alone justify faveur towards them, even
from a stranger, if they were worthy of their station and
descent. They were captains of regiments in India, one in
Sinde ; they had served with their corps and on the Staff in
England and at the Cape for years, and one of them took a
high certificate at the Military College of Sandhurst, where
he was educated : hence, being well acquainted with both
staff and regimental duties, their appointments were natural,
just, and military. This is called appointing his relations "to
lucrative situations !"
Had Sir C. Napier been capable of any sordid feeling, he
could, both of right and from precedent, have made his
nephews prize agents ; they have married his daughter and
his step-daughter, and it would have given them each at
least ten thousand pounds. Without hesitation, he appointed
as prize agents three officers of whom he knew nothing, but
that they had fought gallantly under his orders and served
their country well.
The other examples of " nepotism" adduced by Colonel
Outram, if there be any truth at all, are equally discoloured.
The Messrs. Curlings—for that is the name of which the
initials and terminating letters are given by Col. Outram—
are not near relatives of Sir C. Napier. They were relations
of his first wife, who died without children by him. The
reader may now judge the taste with which Colonel Outram
directs his reproaches against Sir C. Napier, not direct to that
officer who is close to him, but to me, his brother, at ten
thousand miles' distance. Need I say more ? W. N.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sir,—There are but few truths involved in any controversy,
but the falsehoods which may be advanced are innumerable;
it would bo silly, thoroforo, to notice cyciy anonymous slan-
derer of Sir C. Napier. I will, however, expose two gross
assertions made by your correspondent " O. 0.," and having
done so, henceforth treat him, and all other anonymous
assailants, with the silent contempt they merit. It is not
true that Sir C. Napier has " publicly expressed, at his own
table, regret and vexation" at the publication of my work
on Sinde. He feels neither regret nor vexation; he is well
pleased with it. It is not "probable" that ray work has pre-
vented him from being made Commander-in-Chief at Bom-
bay. Ido not know it it ever was intended to offer him that
situation ; but I do know that if it had been offered within
the last year, he would have declined it. His present Go-
vernment is nearly as good in point of emolument, and far,
very far superior in point of distinction and utility. I believe
also that the value of his presence in Sinde is too well
known and appreciated to encourage any project for removing
him. But these despicable insinuations are part of a system
adopted by the friends of Col. Outram at Bombay; this
assertion as to the loss of the appointment there, in conse-
quence of. my work, was published a fortnight ago in the
newspapers of this island.
Guernsey, Sept. 23, 1845.

W. NAPIER, Maj.-Gen.

CURIOUS PARALLEL.
It must, indeed, be admitted, that there had been through-
out the whole course of the French Revolution, a chain of
very remarkable coincidences with corresponding events in
English history, which we have before incidentally noticed,
but which we think it is worth while to exhibit more clearly
in the following synopsis
Charles I. Louis XVI.
Unpopularity of the Queen. Unpopularity of the Queen.
The Long Parliament. The National Assembly.
Flight to the Isle of Wight. Flight to Varennes.
Trial and execution. Trial and execution.
Government by the Parlia- Government bythe Conven-
ment. tion.
Cromwell. Buonaparte.
Expels the Parliament. Expels the Councils.
Military despotism. Military despotism.
Richard Cromwell set aside. Napoleon 11. set aside.
Restoration of Charles IL Restoration of Louis XVIII.
Amnesty to all but regicides. Amnestyto all but regicides.
Popish and Ryehouse plots. Conspiracies of Berton, Bo-
ries, &c.
Unpopularity of the Duke of Unpopularity of Count
I ork. d'Artois.
Fear of the Jesuits. Fear of the Jesuits.
James 11., late King's bro- Charles X., late King's bro-
ther. ther.
Suspected birth of the Pre- Suspected birth of Duke 0
tender. Bordeaux.
Influence of the Jesuits. Influence of the Jesuits.
Royal declaration of indul- Royal ordinances,
gence.
Convention Parliament.

Meeting of the dissolved
Chamber.
Flight and abdication of the Flight and abdication of the
King. King.
Expulsion of him and his Expulsion of him and his
family. family.
They take refuge in France. They take refuge in England.
And, finally, both revolutions arrived at the same identical
result—the calling to the vacant throne the late King's
cousin, being the next male heir after the abdicating family.
These leading coincidences, and some collateral ones too
complicated for a synopsis, are very curious, and at first
sight surprising ; but they are not unnatural nor even acci-
dental ; they only prove, when closely
.examined, that the
rule of like causes producing like effects is almost as certain
in the moral and political as in the physical world. But
there were in France stronger incentives to the change of dy-
nasty than existed in England. The English rebellion had
not essentially disturbed the great foundations of society—
and the English Restoration endangered no private rights,
and rather satisfied than alarmed public principle. But
in France everything had been subverted—bouleverse
—not merely the face of things, but the things, them-
selves—property, above all, had changed hands, and that,
too, under the operation of such cruel and unjustifiable
illegalities as could not but render the new possessors very
sensitive as to their titles. The usurping Government of
France had been, moreover, of longer duration, and had, of
course, spread deeper roots, and it had created an extensive
nobility and gentry of its own ;—now all those interests and
feelings were offended, and pretended to be alarmed,
by the return of those whom they affected to fear
as claimants of their properties, and whom they really hated
as antagonists of their principles, and rivals to their new-
fangled aristocracy. Many even of those who most wished
for peace and quiet under the shelter of a monarchy were not
sorry to have a monarch—the son of a regicide—whose own
revolutionary title to the Crown should be a guarantee for
all the interests that had grown out of the revolution.—
Herald.

FUNERAL OF THE BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS.—
The remains of the late Bishop of Bath and Wells (Dr. Law)
were interred on Tuesday afternoon in the family vault at
the cathedral, Wells. The funeral procession arrived from
Bauwell soon after one o'clock. The Rev. James Thomas
Law, Chancellor of Lichfield, was chief mourner. Amongst
the other mourners were the Venerable Henry Law, Archdea-
con of Wells, and the Rev. R. V. Law (son of thedeceased),
Alexander Powell, Esq., Rev. J. Slade, Hon. E. C. Law,
M.P., Recorder of London, Hon. and Rev. William T. Law,
Chancellor of the Diocese of
The Bath Earl and
of El Wells, Hon. Henry
Law, and Colonel Sinling. lenborough
absent owing to a severe accident by a fall from his horse.
A large body of the clergy of the diocese attended the cere-
mony without invitation, being anxious to testify respect to
the memory of their esteemed diocesan. The remains of the
venerable Prelate were committed to the vault under the
south aisle of the Lady Chapel, where those of his Lordship's
wife, and other members of the family, are deposited. The
whole of the funeral obsequies were characterised by appro-
priate solemnity, devoid of ostentatious parade. It is gene-
rally rumoured that the Rev. Dr. Jelf, Principal of King's
College, will be appointed to the vacant see.

LITERATURE.

THE PHARMACEUTICAL LATIN GRAM-

MAR. By Arnold James Cooley.
" This little book," says the author, iu his preface,
" was written some time ago, at the earnest solicitation
of a friend whose education had been neglected in his
youth, and who was extremely desirous of :instructing
himself in the rudiments of medical Latin." Within
the course of the next fortnight some hundreds of
medical students, situated precisely as was the friend at
whose solicitation this work was undertaken, will arrive
in the metropolis. To all such we would recommend
Cooley's " Pharmaceutical Latin Grammar" as an ex-
cellent and perfectly legitimate help for their preliminary
classical examination at the Hall. The author has
managed to condense an immense mass of instruction
into a very small space. The rules aro short and clear,
and the examples are all given in medical Latin. There
are two appendixes, the first containing a great variety
of prescriptions parsed ; the other, all the usual con-
tractions used in
.prescriptions. The medical student
who is not well up in his Latin should lose no time in
procuring this little work.

REMARKS on the PRESENT STATE of the
LAW of DEBTOR and CREDITOR ; with
Suggestions for its Improvement. By T. T. a Nechett,
Attorney at• Law. Second Edition. . .

We cannot say that this pamphlet presents us with
any new or striking view of the important subject to
which it is addressed ; but we are amused by the touch-
ing simplicity with which the author, after favouring us
with a copy of his letter to Lord Brougham on his Lord-
ship's original " Insolvent Debtors' Amendment Act,"
apprises us of the fact that, " not satisfied with address-
ing Lord Brougham alone, he sent a copy of his letter
to the Solicitor-General but from neither the one nor
the other did his communication receive any notice what-
ever." Very strange. But surely the experiences alluded
to at p. 40 might have moderated his egotism. " While,
however, the country at large" (he writes) " was under
this delusion with respect to the real character of the
Bill in question, I perceived in it all the mischief which
it subsequently produced ; and before it became law I
strained every nerve to avert the calamity which would
befal the country were it allowed to come into opera-
tion with the powers with which it was proposed to in-
vest it. I sent letters to the press, which, coming from
an attorney, were doubtless considered as nothing more
than the scream of the vulture at seeing his prey snatched
from his beak." This is a capital figure--it is so very true.
But what induced Mr. T. a Beckett to assume that
Lord Brougham or Mr. Solicitor would be less saga,
cious or more complying than the, editors whom he
had addressed? Mr. a Beckett would have done better
to have devoted his legal acumen to a searching exposi-
tion and denunciation of the " Small Debts Act," as it
was finally extorted from the Lords in the last agonies
of last session—a statute which is certainly the most
scandalous, unconstitutional, and oppressive in its enact-
ments that has been promulgated by the Legislature for
some years past. We are glad, however, to find some of
the opinions we published, pending its progress through
the Lower House, corroborated by Mr. a Beckett in the
following remarks:—
" One of the most formidable objections to the Act as it at
present stands, is the power given to the judge to decide
arbitrarily, all the cases to which the jurisdiction is to be ex-
tended to meet—a power possessed by no judge of the supe-
rior courts of common law, and too great a one to be in-
trusted to any individual, especially when it is remembered
that against it there is no appeal. By a strange anomaly the
judge does not possess the exclusive power of deciding on
matters at present within the jurisdiction of the court, the
Commissioners in these cases having a voice in the matter.
" One word as to the persons who are likely to be charged
with this extraordinary privilege, or rather, responsibility.
The judges are to be chosen by the Commissioners themselves,
and the appointments will be sufficiently valuable to cause
great exertion to be made to obtain them by those who, al-
though legally qualified to hold them, may possess nothing but
a local influence and this legal qualification to justify their ap-
plication. If the former be great,.they may be placed in a
most important post without being in the smallest degree
practically qualified to peform its duties. It may be that the
choice proves a fortunate one to the public ; but whether this
be so or no, when once made it cannot be recalled. It there-
fore becomes a positive duty imposed upon the Legislature at
a future session, to place some check upon the exclusive
power at present vested in the judge, not only for the satis-
faction of the suitors, but on the general principles by which
all well-regulated states profess to be influenced."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The Eclair steam-sloop
left the Motherbank in the night for the Quarantine
station at Stangate Creek. At the last report from her
yesterday only 18 white men were well on board; 23
were lying sick of the deadly malady.
The Government is loudly censured for not having
adopted prompt measures to check the disease prevail-
ing on board the Eclair after they were made cognizant
of the melancholy circumstances, instead of allowing the
vessel to remain helpless at the Motherbank for nearly
three days after she made her appearance and signalled
her awful condition.
Naval medical men consider that a couple of bulks
ought to have been sent without delay to the distressed
vessel, and the sick put into one and the able into the
other, and the steamer left for the time deserted. Such
measures would at once have checked the progress of the
disease, whereas the neglect of such caution has already
proved fatal to three or four since her arrival, and many
more may, we fear, be sacrificed to this want of proper
caution by
.the Government authorities.
We are informed that when the engines of the Eclair
were fitted, the surgeon, who was afterwards appointed
to her, Mr. J. Maconchy, wrote to the Admiralty, and
told them that in consequence of the very inefficient ven-
tilation, the vessel was likely to be very unhealthy, and
particularly so upon the station on which she was about
to be sent. That opinion, if given, was never acted
upon, and the officer who is alleged to have tendered it
has fallen a victim himself; fearfully proving the correct-
ness of his foreboding.
The Vindictive, 50, Captain Seymour, flag of Vice-
Admiral Sir Francis W. Austin, Commander•in-Chief
in the West Indies, was at Halifax (all well) on the 16th
ult. On the Ist of October the Admiral intended to pro-
ceed on a cruise of inspection to the various islands under
his command.
The Vulture steam-frigate, Captain M'Dougal, was
at Rio on the 30th of July.
The Philomel, 6, surveying-vessel, Commander Suli-
van, arrived at Buenos Ayres, from Monte Video, on the
23d of July.
The spider, 6, Lieut.-Commander Pym was at Rio on
the 30th of July.
The Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane, sailed from St.
Helena, for the Coast, on the 30th July.
The Albatross, 16, Commander Yorke, sailed from
St. Helena on Aug. 1, foe the Island of Ascension.
The Dolphin, 3, Commander Livigne, arrived at
Buenos Ayres, from Rio on the 4th July.
The Firebrand, 8, steam-frigate, Capt. Hope, arrived
at Buenos Ayres, from Monte Video, on July 19.
The Racer, 16, Commander Reed, arrived at Buenos
Ayres, from Monte Video, on July 19. She had been
aground on the Chico Bank, and the Firebrand went to
render assistance on the morning of the 19th, but she
had got off when the latter arrived.
The Comus, 18, Commander Thompson, left Buenos
Ayres for Monte Video on July 6.
The Acorn, 16, Commander Bingham, sailed from
Buenos Ayres for Colonia on July 10, and returned on
the 23d.
The Gorgon steam-sloop, Captain Hotham, was at
Buenos Ayres on the 24th of July.
The Pantaloon, 10, Commander Wilson, in June last
fell in with a pirate. The Pantaloon gave chase, and
after some hours' pursuit the enemy tacked and crossed
her bows. The Pantaloon then hoisted the British en-
sign ; the enemy, however, would not show colours, and
the Pantaloon tired a gun, which the enemy returned
with a long 18 loaded with grape at the bows of the
Pantaloon, who then heat to quarters and fired a broad-
side, which fell short of the pirate, who, perceiving the
advantage she had over the Pantaloon, fired twice more
but without effect, and then made off under all sail, and
was soon out of sight. The pirate is supposed t be the
famous, or rather infamous, " Third of June," armed
with a long 18 amidships and four small guns. A pri-
vate letter from the Pantaloon dated Ascension, Aug. 1,
says—" We sail to-morrow for the Bight of Benin. Be-
fore our arrival here we drove ashore a large brig with
700 slaves on board. The Commodore has hurried us
off, as he has received intelligence that several large
slavers aro expected in the Bight from Bahia. The
Penelope, 22, with the Commodore on board ; the
Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Duffil ; the Prome-
theus steam-sloop, Commander Hay ; the Lily, 16,
Commander Newton ; and the Sealark, 10, Commander
Gooch, are here. The Styx steam-sloop, Commander
Hornby, is ordered here."
The Grecian, 16, Commander Montgomery, and the
Seagull, 6, Commander Dicken, were at Rio on the 30th
of July.
The Osprey, 12, Commander Patten, was at Malacca
on the Ist of July about to sail for New Zealand.
She had transferred her specie which she took out from
England to the Wolf, 16, which had sailed with it for
Hong-Kong.
The Conway, 26, Captain Kelly, which arrived in the
Mauritius from Bourbon on the 17th of July, we regret
to state, had been attackedlwith fever while at Mada-
gascar, which had carried off many of her crew. Mr.
Stretton, the purser, we are sorry to state, was one of
,
the victims.
taher where she
DEVONPORT.—Tho Growler steam- sloop, Commander
C. 11. M. Buckle, arrived from the coast of
Africa on Monday evening. She left Ascension on
the 18th of August, arrived at Sierra Leone on the
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on board the vessel were the Kroomen, the greater por-
tion of the white men being either dead or disabled by
sickness. Commander Buckle ordered the Eclair to
roceed to Madeira, where she arrived on the evening
before the Growler (Aug. 21). The Growler reports
that Dr. M'Clurc, who was coming home in the Growler,
having been promoted to the rank of surgeon on the
station, on hearing of the death of the surgeon and assis-
tant-surgeon of the Eclair, volunteered to go on board
and attend the sick home, but within five days he was a
corpse, a martyr to his zeal and benevolence. Com-
mander Buckle, on arriving at Madeira, finding Dr.
M'Cl are and several of time men in a dying star-
, ordered
the vessel to England (as stated in Time S-an of Wed-
nesday).
The Heroine, 6, Commander Edmunds, is expected to
be ready to sail for the coast of Africa in a day or two.
The .Nimrod, 20, is ordered home with African teak-
wood.
The Druid, 44, is ordered to be fitted as a coal depot.
The Scylla, 16, Commander Sharp, will be paid off
into ordinary this day.
The Creole, 26, on the design of Messrs. Chatfield,
Reid, and Cruize, the Committee of the School of Naval
Architecture, was launched yesterday. Miss Pyle,
grand-daughter of the Commander-in-Chief of the experi-
mental squadron, named the vessel.
It is proposed to erect a beacon on the eastern end of

the Breakwater. Drawings are before the Board of
Admiralty for approval.

THE RETIREMENT.

The Commanders at this port held a preliminary
meeting on Friday, to consider the propriety of pre-
senting a memorial to the First Lord of the Admiralty,
to take their particular case into his consideration. It
resolved that a correspondence should be opened with
the Committee appointed in London and at Portsmouth,
and a subsequent meeting held for the adoption of the
memorial.

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 30.—The average price of wheat, in
the week ending on the 27th of September, was 23f. 22c.,
and that of rye 15f. 53c.
At a moment when the attention of the Government,
and of all those who concern themselves about the
public interest, is fixed on the question of affording
subsistence to the labouring classes during the winter
season, the Governor of Hainault has recourse to those
persons who sem to be able to indicate the measures
which are calcu'ated to prevent the evils which may
arise from the scarcity and high price of provisions.
With this view, he has appointed a Commission in the
capital of the province, the first meeting of which is fixed
for the 30th of September.
Potatoes were sold in the market of Brussels, yester-
day, at 13f. to 15f. per sack of 100 kilogrammes.
'I he Journal of .Antwerp says, " We are assured that
the 10th Regiment of the line paid, in the camp at Be-
verloo, for the kilogramme of excellent potatoes, only
6ic., and Ic. at the line. It consumed 1,500 kilogrammes
daily. The contractor was ready to supply them, at that
price, for the rest of the year."
We have accounts of the arrival of considerable sup-
plies from Scotland, and other parts. We find, too, that
in Holland, people are recovering from the panic terror
with which they were seized, so that potatoes had been
sold in the market of Amsterdam, for 6.25 florins
per maund, which, at the beginning of the week were
sold at 10 florins.—Brussels l'apers,Oct. 1.
HEIDELBERG, SEPT. 27.—Yesterday evening, shortly
after the arrival of Bongo and his fellow-travellers, the
chiefs of the German Catholics in this city were sum-
moned to appear before M. Bohme, the chief magistrate,
who intimated that a re3cript of the Minister of the
Interior prohibited Bongo from celebrating divine wor-
ship here, or from delivering any public discourse. At
the same time, they were informed, that unless they
would pledge themselves to the observance of this re-
script, Bongo would be immediately obliged to quit the
city. They accordingly gave the pledge required of
them.—Journal de Frankfol t, Sept. 30.
THE HAGUE, SHPT. 29.—His Majesty, by a resolution of
Sept. 27, has ordered the ex-propriation for the public good
of such property as may be required for the iron railway be-
tween the Hague and Rotterdam.
We learn that several merchants have agreed to make pur-
chase of provisions in foreign countries, in order, when they
arrive here, that they may sell them without any profit, for
what they have cost.
A letter from Arnheim, of Sept. 26, says," that the Estates
of the province have resolved on contracting a loan in shares
of 100 forms each, on account of the province, the proceeds
of which are to be employed exclusively in making advances
to those communes in which the local resources are not
sufficient to afford to the poor the relief that may be re-
quired in the ensuing winter."
The Chamber of Commerce of Gwolle has induced some
merchants to import two or three thousaiid merids of po-
tatoes from Scotland. If this should answer both in quality
and price, others will be purchased. Similar measures for
the relief of the poorer classes are adopted in other parts of
the kingdom.
The officers of justice have to-day made a domiciliary visit
to the house of E. Meeter, I. Dumee, and P. Mingelen, the
first editor, and the two other publishers of the journal the
Poyevaar, the Hague Miniatum or Nieuwsbode, and the Out-
waaklen Leeuw, of which last paper only one or two num-
bers have been published.
These three persons have been arrested and confined in the
civil and military prisons. Their papers, together with the
copies of the second Number of the Outwaaklen Leeuw, which
was published to-day, and of which only a few copies have
been issued, were seized.
Of the twenty-one persons against whom legal measures
were taken on the occasion of the disturbances that lately
took place here, seventeen are dismissed. Two of the ring-
leaders in the troubles at Delft have been arrested here.
BRUSSELS, SErr. 29.—A correspondent of the Courtier de
Anvers is justly surprised that potatoes find purchasers at
14f. or 15f. per sack, since it is now certain that at that price
more wholesome and substantial food may be had. It is
proved by experiments that a kilogramme (2lbs.) of bread,
or three-quarters of a kilogramme of meat, or of beans, con-
tain more nutritious matter than three kilogrammes of pota-
toes. We cannot, therefore, too earnestly impress on the
people the advantage of considerably reducing their con-
sumption of potatoes, for the sake both of their health and
their pockets.
ANTWERP, SEPT. 27.—Large supplies of corn, especially
rice and wheat, continue to arrive by sea; so great a quan-
tity of the latter has arrived that the granaries are insufficient
to contain it.
Yesterday, 1,773 hectolitres of peas arrived from Hull.
A vessel from London has brought 41 sacks of potatoes,
and another a cargo of peas. Several cargoes of wheat and
rice have also arrived.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 29.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 21% per Cent.. • • • • • 60% 611,E
hitt°, 3 per Cent .. . .
Ditto, 4 per Cent. • 971,1 98
Amort Syndic, 4114 per Cent •
Ditto, 31r1 per Cent... ••• • • • ... 90% 911,E
Commercia Company, 414 per Cent •• 1611/ 16214
East India Loan, 4 per Cent.• •• • ..... 971/2 971,1
Exchange on London, at sight ...• • ... 12 27
Two months... • • • • • • 12 20
On Hamburgh, at sight .... 36
Two months.• • • • • • • • • • • • 35 565,E
On Paris ••••• • • • • • • • • 57 37
Two months. •.••••• • • • • • • • 57
—Dutch Papers, Sept. 30.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussms, SEPT. 30.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent • • •. —
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •••• • • • •
Loan of Thirty millions. Four per Cent •. . •
Ditto Three per Cent.... .. ..
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto •
Ditto, ditto, 1840 .. • ..
Ditto, ditto, 1842
Ditto of the City, 1844
Ditto, 1843 . • • • • • • • • • • . • • • •
Bank of Belgium •• • • • • • ••• • . „ 736
Brussels Papers. Sept. 30.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. 24
5 per Cent. Metalliques• • • • • • • • •• •• • • • • • • 112%
4 per Cont. ditto.... •• • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • 101%
3 per Cent. ditto• • .• •• • • • • • • • ..• • 77 M
Loan, 1834 • •• • ••
Ditto, 1839 . • • • •• • • •••• • • • •
Bank Shares •• • •
Esterhazy's Loan •• • • •• .• . •
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand ....
Vienna—Milan .• •.••••••. • •• • • •• • • •• 131%

.... 101%

•• •• •• •• -
•• •••• lOO%

1501 -
- "
120%
• • • ••• ••••
~ 115%
.......
...

Gloggnitz
Leghorn .. •• •
—Allgemeine Zeittmg. Sept. 27.

NEW ZEALAND.

The ketch Thistle had come into Sydney on the 28th
of May, bringing news from New Zealand to the 3d.
Another collision had taken place at the Bay of Islands
between the natives and the troops, in which fifty of the
latter are reported to have been killed; but Pomare, one
of the most mischievous of the chiefs, had been captured,
and was confined on board the Hazard, his entrench-

ments having been destroyed. A body of volunteers
had been dispatched to the bay, and when the Thistle
passed by it on the 12th of May the report of fire-
arms was distinctly heard. A squadron, composed
of the Hazard and North Star, men•of-war,
and the Aurora, Slainscastle, and Velocity, mer-
chantmen \ were engaged in blockading Korora-
rika. The schooner I Don't Know, which our readers
will recollect as having, according to our last advices,
ran into the bay with ammunition and been lightened
of it by the American war-steamer in the harbour, has
been seized by the Government and removed to Auck-
land, where its owner, Mr. Waitford, is committed to
take his trial for high treason, (in suspicion of colleagu-
ing with the natives. At Wellington the natives were
perfectly quiet, but it was understood that Rauperaha
had gone in that direction with .500 men, for what pur-
pose is not known. The Legislative Council at Auck-
land closed its session on the 22d April, with the fol-
lowing speech from Governor Fitzroy, by which it will
be seen. that ho had no anticipation of the steps taken
by the Colonial Office to reverse his policy. The speech
runs thus—

" Gentlemen,—l am now enabled to adjourn this fifth
session of the Legislative Council—and to relieve you
for some time from such tedious and irksoriae duties as
those which you have so cheerfully and regularly exe-
cuted.

" I am fully sensible of the sacrifices which the non
official members have made in giving up their time to
public affairs, and exposing themselves tl personal ob-
loquy, the certain consequence of political exertion in
whatever manner.
"It must be satisfactory to the Council to reflect that
by their zealous endeavours very great reductions have
been effected in the current expenditure, and that the es-
timate for 1845-6 is 10,0001. (or one-fourth) less than
that for 1844.5, although the estimate for that year was
20,0001. less than for 1843.
" The estimated expenditure for this year is only
26,0001., notwithstanding that several distinct settle-
ments, so distant from each other, cause so much expense
on account of their separate establishments.
"In proposing that we should revert to the system of
raising a revenue by means of duties of Customs, I felt
extreme reluctance ; but there was no choice. Six
months' trial has shown that a revenue nearly sufficient
for the most economical expenditure on the public ac-
count could not, under the peculiar circumstances of this
colony, be raised by direct taxation.
" To have continued the trial longer would have made
the difficulties under which we are labouring still greater.
Having failed to prevent insurrection by removing the
restrictions of Customs, regulations, the chief motive
for their abolition ceased ; and, as the less of two evils,
their re-establishment became imperative.
" At the commencement of this season I had no an-
ticipation of such a disaster as that which befel Koro-
rarika. I considered that place sufficiently defendea,
and I looked cheerfully at the prospects elsewhere. But
the fall of Kororarika has taught all a lesson ; and I
trust that improvement will be the consequence, after a
season of bitterness and inevitable warfare.
" British authority must be vindicated—but with jus•
tice and mercy."
The Van Diemen's Land papers are generally un;

teresting as far as we have been able to glance over
them. Clerical disputes seems to be their staple. Wheat
is from .S. Bti. to 4s. the bushel, manifesting an improve-
ment..—Cakutta Star, August 12.

HARVEST.—Our accounts, generally, are very
satisfactory, and in regard to potatoes, much less unfavour-
able than had been apprehended. The disease in this coun-
try is much more partial, and far less injurious than in
England. At our Corn-Exchange to-day wheat again de-
clined. At the opening there were some sales at Tuesday's
prices, but these were not long maintained; a decline of
from I.s. to ls.t d. per barrel was submitted to.—Dublin Even-
ing Post.
SWEARING-TY OF THE NEW SHERIFFS.—OH Sa-
turday the newly-elected Sheriffs, Messrs. Chaplin and
Laurie, were worn u 1 at Guildhall, with the usual forms and
ceremonies.

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.
Oa Thursday night the monthly meeting of the
above Club was held at the British Cotree-home, Cock-
spur-street, which was very numerously attended. H.
H. Harrison, Esq., the Commodore, presided, faced by
Lord A. Paget. the Vice-Commodore, and supported
by Lord W. Lennox, &c.
The minutes of the last meeting having been read and
confirmed,

Capt. ItELEELER (treasurer) read the financial report,
which showed that, after defraying the expenses (there
being no existing claim against the Club), a balance of
3431. 4s. 9d. remained in the hands of the treasurer,
being much larger than that of any previous year.
The COMMODORE, in bringing forward the long-pend-
ing motion relative to the well-merited increase of salary
to Capt. Frederick H. Durand,:the secretary, read a letter
from that gentleman, pointing out his heavy and onerous
duties, and showing that the average annual sum he had
received during six years was about 341. ; and further,
that he had frequently negotiated for the sale of yachts
without receiving any remuneration whatever. The
Gallant Commodore then proposed that a fixed salary of
GU per annum be paid to the secretary for his services,
commencing from Midsummer last ; and that he further
receive one shilling for each guinea he may collect.
Mr. MORGAN, after a warm and appropriate eulogy on
Capt. Durand, seconded the motion, which was carried
by acclamation.
Mr. BUCKNALL gave notice of a motion to the effect—
" That in future at the sale of every yacht, in which the
secretary may be applied to, he shall receive IL
The motions relative to the establishment of a new
club-house, and for altering the mode of ballot were post-
poned through the unavoidable absence of Messrs. Rey-
nell and Green.
The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected:
—W. Breynton, Esq., Temple ; E. Downs, Esq., Rich-
mond; E. J.; Maude, Esq , York; G. Richmond, Esq., Mill-
bank; R. Moseley, Esq., Maids. Vale.
On the motion of Lord A. PAGET, it was unanimously
resolved that a trip of the yachts and members to Mrs.
Milton's, at Erith, take place on Saturday next.
After thanks to the Commodore, Vice-Commcdore,
&c., the meeting broke up.

MELANCHOLY DEATHS OF A

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Yesterday ➢ir. Baker held an inquest at the King's
Arms, Prospect-place, Bethnal• green, on the body of
Mr. Charles Anderson, aged 53 years. It appeared
by the evidence of several witnesses that deceased

head formerly carried on the business of a master
baker, in the parish of Hackney. He subsequently
sold the shop and trade for 1,0001, and with his pre-
viously acquired gains retired into private life. After
enjoying himself for two or three years, deceased became
restless, and desirous of seeing foreign countries. He
accordingly engaged with the captain of the Thames,
East Indianian, to accompany him to India and China,
in the character of ship-steward. He proceeded thither,
leaving his wife at home with an annual allowance. He
returned to England about two years ago, having, by
some untoward means, expended the greater portion
of his little fortune, with the remnant of which he
again entered into business, at Bexley, in Kent.
Here misfortune completed what extravagance
had begun, and, by an unlimited credit to his
poorer customer:, he was reduced to beggary. On
quitting Bexley he became an inmate of the Hackney
union-workhouse, where he continued until he procured
a situation as journeyman, at Mr. Beale's, West-street,
Hackney. Whilst there he commenced a system of
inebriety, which a short time since led to his dis-
charge from Mr. Beale's service, in whose house he lived
at the time. Tuesday se'nnight his wife died suddenly,
and it being allqed that her death had been occa•
sioned through his ill-treatment, an inquest was held
on Friday last only on her body, when, there being no
evidence to substantiate such a statement, the jury re-
turned a verdict of " Natural Death." This circum-
stance had preyed much upon deceased's mind, and since
that day he has indulged unusually in intoxicating
drink. On Monday morning last he called upon a Mrs.
Buncker, at Stepney-green, to whom he stated that he
had not the means to defray the expenses of his wife's
funeral, and that his landlord, although he held
possession of his goods, had refused to advance him a
sum sufficient for the purpose ; and said he should
in despair either " hang or drown himself." She
remonstrated with him upon the subject, and advanced
him 12s. to pay for the church-ground. He then left
her, and heard no of him until she was informed that his
lifeless body had been discovered floating in the Re-
gent's Canal on Wednesday morning, near the Bethnal-
green workhouse. Mrs. Buncker said she had no doubt
lie had committed suicide whilst under mental excite-
ment. James Spring, a bargeman, deposed to finding
the body; deceased was quite dead, but warm. There
being no evidence to show how he came into the water,
the jury, under the Coroner's direction, returned a ver-
dict of " Found drowned."

DETERMINED SUICIDE BY A
FOREIGNER.

On Thursday Mr. G. L Mills held an inquest at the
Load of llay, Ilampstead, on the body of a foreigner,
name unknown, about twenty-five years of age, who
committed a most determined act of self-destruction, as
detailed in the subjoined evidence.
Sarah Preston, a charwoman, deposed that as she was
passing through Park-fields, Haverstock-hill, which was
adjoining that in which the late Mr. Delarue was mur-
dered, she saw the deceased with his feet in the ditch,
and his head leaning on the bank. Blood was oozing
from his mouth. She instantly called to a gentleman
who was reading a book, who proved to be Mr. Gundy,
surgeon, Gower-place, Euston-square,: who pronounced
him dead, and desired her to fetch a constable, which
she did.
Constable John Baker, 284 S, was called by the last
witness to the spot where deceased lay. In his left hand
he grasped a pistol which he had recently discharged in
his mouth, and his right hand rested upon a second
pistol, charged with two bullets. Blood was flowing
from his mouth and he was warm, but he had been dead
some minutes.
The Inspector produced the pistols, which were of Pa-
risian make, and had brass barrels and percussion caps.
The stocks were branded with the date of 1553, and
were initialed A. F. E. L. G.
Frederick Matthews, a tailor, residing at No. 7, John-
strr et, Somers-town, stated] that, about one o'clock last
Tuesday, he met deceased walking along the fields, and
addressing him, said it was a fine morning, to which de-
ceased, with difficulty, and in a foreign accent, replied
"Yes." He accompanied him, without speaking more,
to the field where he was found dead. Shortly after
leaving him he heard the report of a pistol.
Mr. Frazer, a juror, said that on the morning of Tues-
day he was standing in the shop of Mr. Whitbread, a
baker, at the corner of Chalk road, when deceased came
in and bought a bun, for which he gave in payment a
franc piece. Having received the change, he left the
shop laughing, because, in consequence of his not know-
ing English, he could make his wants known to Mr.
Whitbread by signs only.
The jury, who expressed it to be their belief that de-
ceased had been a military man, returned a verdict—
" That he had destroyed himself, but that there was no
evidence of his state of mind when he did so."

LAUNCH OF THE BULL-DOG STEAM-FEIGATE AT
CHATHAM.—This steam frigate was launched yesterday
at Chatham Dockyard. She has been constructed
with great care, and is built with Honduras maho-
gany, African teak, and well-seasoned oak. The en-
gines for this vessel, manufactured by Messrs. Rennie
and Company, are two of 250. horse power each.
The length of the engine-room is 47 feet, and the width
is 33 feet 8 inches, depth 21 feet, and the diameter
of the paddle-wheels 26 feet 6 inches. Her tonnage of
• coals room is 408.16. Registered tonnage, 461.77.
Her armament consists of two 42-pounders, 84 cwt.,
10 feet in length ; and two 68-pounders, 64 cwt., 9
feet in length ; and two carronades 42 pounders, 22
cwt. each. About live minutes before one o'clock the
vessel went beautifully off the stocks, amidst the hearty
greetings of the spectators ; on each quarter of the
slip booths had been erected for the visitors, and were
occupied by many ladies and gentlemen, among them the
Right Hon. the Earl of Dundonald, Captain Superinten-
dent Shirreff; with many families of the town and neigh-
bourhood. Mrs. Angela Brown, wife of Colonel Brown.
RE., and who is grandson of Admiral Lord Rodney,
named the vessel. The band of the Royal Marines was
in attendance, and as the ship glided off the slope struck
up the National Anthem. A great number of civilians
an I military availed themselves of permission to be
launched in the ship.
TIIE LATE LIEUT. J. A. SETON.—We are just in-
formed that this officer (late of the 11th Hussars?, who
lingered for some time after the fatal wound he received in
the duel near Portsmouth, did, two days previous to his
death, and in the preience of his physician and a legal
friend execute his will, and sign the same in a firm hand,
by which he left to his wife, for her life, the whole of
the receipts of his estates, providing for his daughter's
use when required, and with the consent of her mother
and other guardians and the executers, a sum of 2,0001.;
and at the decease of her mother the estates absolutely.
" The harvest home" at Shillinglee Park, the seat
of the Earl of Winterton, was celebrated on Tuesday
last with its usual festivities. The tables laid out in
the park groaned with the weight of plum-pudding, beef,
mutton, &c. Between 200 and 300 of his Lordship's la-
bourers, with their wives and children, sat down to them.
The Earl and Countess and children, and the Countess
Dowager of Winterton, were on the ground, and it was
pleasing to behold the youthful scions of a noble house
running about to see that every ono wan amply served,
and learning to take delight in ministering to the honest
pleasures of the labouring classes. „,
TIIE ...MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT HOUNSLOW
BARR ACKS.-110UNSLOW, THURSDAY EVENING.--.1.-iie
great reserve maintained by all the barrack
,a,titthoriitz,
ever since the distressing occurrence On
RS to the state of Quartermaster Thomast rlle)tenn; has
been this day most fully carried out, and'
all that has
been allowed to transpire is the fact that the wounded
man is not so well to-day as he was on Wednesday.
INCREASE OF WORKMEN IN THE WEST INDIA DOCKS.
—'The increase of shipping in the West India Docks has
created a demand for labourers within the last fort-
night unparalleled since the year 1821. Within that
short period upwards of one hundred and ten homeward-
bound vessels have entered the docks. All is bustle and
activity, and it is calculated that the number of men who
procured employment in the docks on Thurs .ay consi-
derably exceeded six thousand.
OLYMPIC, THEATRE.—This little temple of the
drama opens for the season on Monday next, under the
guidance of Miss Kate Howard, aided by that popular son of
111omus George Wild. The lessee states that she will use her
utmost endeavours to restore the theatre to the high position
it once held in general estimation. An excellcut company
has been engaged, and pieces from popular writers are
promised, so that there is every prospect of a successful
KUM '*

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS.

Both Houses of iarlia,meni met yesterday pro forma,
at a quarter-past two o'clock.
The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Aberdeen, and the
Earl of Shaftesbury, the Lords Commissioners, having
taken their seats in front of the Throne, the Noble and
Learned Lord directed Mr. Pulman, Yeoman Usher of
the Black Rod, to summon the House of Commons to
hear the Royal Commission for the further prorogration
of Parliament read.

In a few minutes afterwards Mr. Ley, and other
officers of the Commons, appeared at the bar, when
the Commission hating been read by the clerk at the
table,

The LORD CHANCELLOR, in her Majesty's name,
declared that the present Parliament was further pro-
rogued until Thursday, the 27th of November next.
There was no Member of the House of Commons pre-
sent—that body was represented by the clerks and prin-
cipal officers of the House.