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

THE NEW LORD MAYOR. NORWICH, SATURDAY. EXPENSES OF REGIMENTAL
Now that the celebration of the Lord Mayor's day is 1 ELECTION OF MAYOR-
-1 MESSES.
over, we think it right to explain to our very numerous I 'l
(risme A CORRESPONDENT.) 1 The following general order has been issued by
correspondents who hate written to us during the past The Torn Council met this day at vs elve o'clock, the order of the Commander-in-Chief:—
week on the merit of the Right Hon. Gentleman who fills Mayor, William Freeman, Esq., in the chair, who in- " Iloree Guards, Oct. 28, 1844.
the civic chair, the reasons why we did not avail our- formed the meeting that the first business was the eke-
" Complaints having reached the Commander-in-
selves of their communications. If, in compliance with tion of mayor for the ensuing year.
Chief of the great expense attending the regimental
their wishes, we had kept up from day to day a running [ J. 0. SPRINGFIELD, Esq., rose, and expressed the .
fire of paper pellets againet Mr. Alderman Gibbs, we ' high gratification he felt iu proposirg to the notice of messes of the officers of the several regiments, awl
might have been suspect, d of having some other than a 1 the Council Sir William Foster, Bart., the mention of i the Commander-in-Chief being sensible of the great
public object in view. we certainly were anxious that , whose name was received with the most rapturous shouts I inconvenience and injury to a numerous class of most
a man of unimpeached integrity should be first magis- of applause, both by the Council and a most respectable meritorious officers, who cannot afford to incur such
trate of the City of London ; but the citizens were inert and crowded audience. expenses, from his recollection of the long ex-
when they ought to have been active, and the conse- EDWARD WILLETT, Esq., briefly seconded the nemi-
quence has been that they have now got Mr. Alderman nation. perience he acquired by the exercise of the com-
mand of a regiment for many years in garri-
Gibbs as Lord Mayor, and we sincerely hope that the A. A. H. BECKWITH, Esq., the late Tory Town Clerk,
good will be far greater than the credit they will derive rose also to second it, and to express his most perfect '
sons, cantonments,and the field; and advert-
from such a choice. But we are perhaps wrong in using concurrence in the election of the worthy Baronet, ing, moreover, to the gracious consideration of
the word " choice ;" for we have heard that the show of which was carried unanimously, amid loud and repeated a late Sovereign, and to the handsome pro-
hands en Michaemas-day excluded Alderman Gibbs plandits. vision made by Parliament to supply with wine the
from the return to be made to the Court of Aldermen, SAMUEL S. BEARE, Esq., proposed as a fit and proper officers of the army, and to enable them to consume
and that if the Comman-hall had been then polled, that person to fill the office of sheriff, John Betts, Esq., which that article without pecuniary inconvenience, it is his
fact would have been established beyond all dispute. But being seconded by ARTHUR DALRYSIPLE, Esq., was duty to draw the attention to the subject of the gene-
it is something to have a friend who will go " thorough " also unanimously carried. ral officers of the army, and of the commanding
on the hustings, and who is capable of converting, by a The next business was the election of eight gentlemen officers of regiments.
partial glance and a decisive tone, a minority into a ma- to fill the office of aldermen. The following, who went "Ilia Grace accordingly
jority ; and such e friend to Alderman Gibbs the return- oat by rotation, were re-elected :—Jeremiah Butcher, officers desires that commanding
of regiments, battalions,--
and depots, will call
ing officer is confidently said to have been on the day in James De Vear, Jeremiah Colman, Charles Jecks, the attention of the mess committee of officers, in
question. His beldness took the citizens by surprise, Joseph Torris, and Henry Woodcock, Esqs. John
each, to the necessity of forming an estimate, at the
and prevented them from giving that resistance which Pyman and Henry' Tillett, Esqs., were elected in the
room of William Gordon Edwards and George Edward commencement of every three months—viz., January,
ought to have been offered to his decision.
We further deem it right to say a few words in Simpson, Esqs., who retire April, July, and October —of the expense of keeping
answer to a charge made by one of our morning Contem- The further business of the Council was adjourned to the mess table for the officers at the station, including
poraries, in reference to a paragraph from one of our Tuesday next, at twelve o'clock. therein attendance, maintenance of table linen, the
correspondents, and an advertisement which appeared The Town Council now consists of 16 Aldermen, all expense of wine, beer, and provisions of all sorts.
in the T.rnes of Wednesday last. We are charged with Liberals; 27 Liberal Councillors, and 21 Tory Council- " That the fourth of the allowance paid by the
"Egging on the ruffians and blackguards of the metro- lors, being a majarity of 22 in favour of the Liberals, public for wine shall be carried to account against
polls, and with a determination that nothing should be the amount of this estimate.
wanting to complete the ovation of Mr. Alderman This has been a proud day for Norwich. The a cept-
Gibbs ;" and " that under nopossible circumstances
ance of the office of mayor by Sir William Fosterc has " That the allowance of wine supposed to be con-
could the brutal persecution threatened in the disgraceful created universal joy among all classes of Liberals, and, sumed by each individual member of the mess shall
as a matter of course, the contrary among the Tories. be fixed, and the balance of the expense shall be
paragraph quoted be justified."
To Sir William the great majority of the city look to divided among the number of members of the mess
With regard to the paragraph from our Portsmouth
rescue them from the present disgraceful representation present; and the commanding officer will, with that
correspondent, we have no doubt that it was founded on
e in the House of Commons. No individual is so well information before him, fix the weekly amount for the
fact, and that, if necessary, we should be able to prov
qualified from his rank, wealth, liberal principles, gen-
the truth of it. As to the advertisement, we have only
to say that it was received and paid for, in the usual tlemanly and courteous bearing, and great influence, as
messing, including the stated allowance of wine or f
each officer; and it must be clearly understood that
place and is the usual way, that it attracted no attention, Sir William Foster; and should he be induced to accept no officer can be called upon to defray a larger expense
and that it appeared in the Tunes of Wednesday last the representation in conjunction with our present ex- than that thus required to defray the charge of this
together with 1,174 other advertisements. That, so far cellent Member, Mr. B. Smith, the Noble Marquis who
estimate.
from its being intended by us as any attack upon Alder- misrepresents us need not trouble himself to come than that thus required to defray the charge of this
man Gibbs, we did not know that any such advertise- amongst us, for most assuredly would he
be defeated. " The Commander-in-Chief does not take upon
himself to specify what wines the officers of the army
ment had appeared until we were ourselves attacked
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. shall drink, of what quality, or in what quantity;
upon the subject in the columns of our Contemporary ;
and we must confess that we now strongly suspect that (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) but that on which he does insist is, that none shall
this same advertisement so much complained of was a RYE, Nov. 7.—Not observing any account of the elec- be required to defray the expense of such wines ex-
ruse de guerre on the part of some of Alderman Gibbs's tion of town councillors for this borough in your excel- cepting those who choose it. Those who have dined
friends, for the purpose of enabling the writer of the lent paper, I beg to hand you the following as the result at the table of the messes of officers, know that there
article in question to publish his virtuous indignation, of the election. The town council and aldermen are all are well-understood means of informing the officers of
and thereby endeavour to get up a spurious sympathy iu of the Liberal school of politics, and the mayor is also of a regiment of the moment at which the allowance
favour of the object of his protection. the same stamp this year. Four of the councillors went of the day has been consumed ; and those who do
In our opinion, however, there is already before the out by rotation. The polling commenced and went on not choose to incur further expense should then be
public sufficient to justify the reception the Lord Mayor as usual on these occasions, none but the Liberals taking
I) art.
expected to depart.
has met with, without the need of any additional incite- any interest in the election, when, to our utter surprise, „Office
rs may choose to invite one or more
friends to dine with them, for whom, and the expense
ment. There is no doubt of the fact that he was or is about a quarter to four o'clock, up comes a lawyer's
still churchwarden of St. Stephen, Walbrook, and that clerk with about thirty votes, and takes the lead of the
of their entertainment, the inviter alone must be re-
he has held that office for about twenty years—that till lowest number of the Liberals on the poll. The Liberals,
lately no account has been given by him of the moneys enraged at this mean and discreditable trick (every way sponsible.
The corps of officers may think proper to invite
though such accounts were repeatedly demanded. There fore half of them could get the voting papers, the clock to dine an individual, or another corps of officers,
is no doubt that the church of St. Stephen has been suf- struck four, and the poll closed, leaving numbers unable and to give upon such occasion a more expensive
fered by the churchwarden to fall into such a state of to record their votes against the little knot of disappointed dinner, or to have more expensive wines, than at
dilapidation as to render it positively dangerous for the expectant Tories, struggling in this town, many of them the usual mess dinner ; but all the expense upon
public to pass under its walls. That the rector, Dr. old freemen of the once rotten borough, thus leaving the
such occasions, beyond the usual estimated charge,
Croly, described it on the 19th of September last as "in lawyer's clerk, who, it appears since, with the assistance
whether on account of dinner, attendance, or
a disgraceful state, that he had seen the rain trickling of his master, had been privately canvassing the whole
wine, must be defrayed exclusively by those
down behind the aisle, that a stream of water might at night before, and laying their plans with the little nest
who may think proper to affix their names to a
that moment be seen close to the pulpit, and that a per- of Tories, how to gain the election by a ruse, for to
er
tion of the tower had fallen in. We have the same attempt it openly, they knew, would be morally impos- pap, notifying the intention of some to give
d the Commander-in.-Chief
authority for stating, that two years' income was then sible, having some few years back attempted it, but re_ such entertainment; an
due to Dr. Croly as lecturer, that five quarters' salary ceiving such a sound lesson that they were then satisfied desires that it may be clearly understood by command-
was then due to the organist, and six quarters' salary it would never do again. The following is the state of ing officers of regiments, battalions, and depots, that
due to the sextoness. These facts were openly stated at the poll : his Grace requires them to give their special counte-
a vestry meeting of the united parishes held on the 19th Mr. W. Honeywnod (L.)
of September last, and no contradiction has been given Mr. T. F. Plomley (L.)
to them. If these imputations are true, Lord Mayor Mr. F. W. Thorpe (L.) 52 "It has long been the practice of the army for of-
Gibbs has been mercifully dealt with. If they are not Mr. H. Paine (T.)
true, why has he suffered them to remain uncontra- Mr. W. H. Chatterton (L.)
dieted 7—Tames. and it is positively required in page 125. of the Ge-
neral Regulations, that no part of the wine money
shall be applied to this purpose • but it is to be clearly
understood that, excepting the limited subscription
above referred to, no officer can be called
upon to pay more on account of mess expenses, than
the weekly amount fixed to defray the balance of the
three-monthly estimate of the expense of keeping the
mess table, as hereby ordered.
" The general officers who will inspect regiments
are particularly requested to attend to, and report
upon, the execution of the provisions of this general
order, and they will mention in their respective re-
ports the amount of the weekly charge of the mess of
each officer.
" By command of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wel-
ington, Commander-in-Chief,
"JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-Gen."

AN AMERICAN PORTRAIT.

THE ELECTIONEERING SKELETON !
The Americans are indeed a funny sort of people.
The following is one of the many specimens of the
numerous plans adopted by the several newspapers
opposed to the election of Henryi Clay to the Presi-
dential Chair, and intended n ridicule of him. There
is a cut in the paper from which we copy it, repre-
senting Mr. Clay's coat of arms, with the words
" shoot lower" across it, and " war, pestilence, and
famine ;" at one corner four or five playing cards, and
at the opposite end a cocked pistol. At the head he
is represented firing at his opponent, and a bottle in
the centre of his assailant, marked "brandy."

THE " EMBODYMENT."

" Henry
Clay, the liv-
ing personification
and embodyment of
Whig principles."
Whig address.
IN 1777
born; In
1805 quarrelled
With Col. Davis, of Ken-
tucky, which led to his first duel :
In 1808 he challenged Humphrey Mar-
shall, and fired three times at his heart :
In 1825 he challenged the great Jo hn
Ran dolph, and fired once at his he art
andU R I
a) E 11
but without effpct : 1838 he plan ned
the CHILLEY DUEL, by which
A tra-
ted,ma-
ni ac : In 1841, en
6 5 years old, and gr e y
h e a ded, is under 5000
wifew"madPeearPe
dol-
lars BONDS to KEEP T lIE
EACE ! At the age of 29
h e PERJURED himself t 0
8 ecure a Seat in the Unite
S tates Senate. In 1824 he mad
a n infamous bargain with John Quin c
Adams, by which he SOLD OUT
for a 1,200/. a-year OFFICE. He
is also well Ica own as a GAM-
BLER, and SA BBATII BREA.
HEIL p OLITICS
are precisely and exactly
those of the Hartford con
vention fed eraliat : op-
posed to e qual rights,
equal law
and in favour
of mono polizing
laws a n d
char tered
privile-
ges. Also
h o sus
tai
the
roci
Alge
in their
BLOOD AND

fe-
ous
rives
deeds of
DE u it. D E it.

AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.
TWO MEN SHOT.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, FRIDAY.—A dreadful en•
counter took place last night between a party of watchers
and some poachers on the Ravensworth estate, in which
two of the keepers were dreadfully wounded, and now
lie in a precarious state. It appears, from the statement
of the head keeper, Henry Wallace, who has been only
about six months in the service of Lord Ravensworth,
that having been told that some of the under keepers
had heard the report of a gun in the preserves at Hagg's
wood, on Wednesday night, he determined on placing a
strong watch there on the following night. Accordingly
he went himself, with three others, named respectively
George Grundy, Peter Johnson, and George Ironside, to
the south side of the wood, and sat down under a hedge.
After remaining there about an hour, two men came
down the wood, but the watchers did not observe them
till they had approached to within a short distance of
where the watchers were sitting. Wallace, on ob-
serving the men, shouted, " Hallao, ye blackguard
fellows, what are ye doing there?" He then got on
his feet, and went towards them, when one of them ex•
claimed, " Stand back, ye b-," and fired immediately,
the shot taking effect near the left shoulder, the aim, in
the dark, being evidently at the heart. Grundy had
made an advance immediately after Wallace ; and the
other poacher, without saying a word, levelled his piece
and fired almost instantly after the first shot. Grundy
was wounded in the groin and thighs. The other two
watchers had fallen back into the wood, and were not
near enough to render assistance. When the poachers
had disappeared, the whole proceeding having occupied
little more than a minute or two, Ironside, who lives at
Eibblesworth, a small village in the immediate neigh-
bourhood, went and got a cart, in which the two wounded
men were conveyed to their homes. It was about nine
o'clock at night, and exceedingly dark. The poachers
could only have been a few yards from the keepers when
they fired. Medical aid was procured as soon as pos-
sible, and a great number of the shots have been ex-
tracted ; but the men continue in a very precarious
state. The police are scouring the district, endeavouring
to find out the perpetrators of the diabolical act, they
being supposed to be pitmen ; but there is little chance
of their succeeding, for the night was so dark it would
be impossible to identify them.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
(Abridged from the Plymouth Herald.)
It becomes our duty to state the particulars of an
alarming conflagration, which took place on the
morning of Friday, the Bth inst., on the premises of
C. Tanner, Esq., Tavistock-road, and which has
occasioned the destruction of much valuable property.
Mr. Tanner carries on a large manufactory,
employing a number of persons, and has always
on his premises a very extensive and valuable stock
of wool, leather, bark, and other materials; and, con-
sequently, when it was known that a fire had broken
out in his establishment, the greatest consternation
was felt.

The fire (the situation of the premises being in a
high part of the town) was observed at an early pe-
riod in the citadel by the sentinels, and with an ear-
nestness which cannot be too highly valued, that gal-
lant corps, the depot of the 7th Fusileers, was called
to duty. The citadel engine was got ready, and
the soldiers, commanded by Major Yea, and assisted
by the other officers, succeeded in bringing their en-
gine first on the ground. The West of Eng-
land followed in a few minutes, dashing up in
fine style, quickly succeeded by the County, the
Royal Marine, and the Dockyard engines. The agents
of the various establishments, and a large body of
Royal Marines, commanded by Colonel Mitchell, and
a division from the 44th Regiment, were also present.
The alarm was given about one o'clock, the engines
were in full play before half-past, and all danger of
the flames extending to the other buildings was over
by two o'clock The whole of the damage was con-
fined to the stack of buildings in which the fire ori-
ginated. It is considered that the fire commenced
in the engine-house, but the immediate cause is not
known.

THE GLASGOW MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.—Not a
syllable does the Guardian say about the anniversary of
the gunpowder plot last Tuesday. Changed times! Not
a syllable does it say either about our municipal elec-
tions on Tuesday, on which it was wont to distant at
great length, and with considerable gusto,—if on the
winning side. The Guardian was in high feather when
the H. Dunlops, Bains, and Browns, and other kindred
Non-Intrusiouists, were " lords paramount" in the coun-
cil. Now they are all out of it. There is scarcely the
ghost of a Non-Intrusionist, or a Non-Erastian, pro-
perly so called, to be seen in the Council! But in
their room and stead we have a clear and decided
majority—yes, a positive and decided majority—of good
and consistent supporters of the Church of Scotland. So
frail and fickle were the " Free"—so conscious were they
of their own impotency or weakness, that they put up
no candidate on the principles of the Guardian in any
one of the wards of the city, although a few weeks ago
the Guardian had almost seized the poker and the tongs
for a real free battle. They withdrew their own pet
favourite, Mr. Fleming, the ironmonger, in the fourth
ward—they allowed him to retire sub sikntio. So much
for the progress of free fanaticism in this city. Good
bye to it ! Sic transit gloria mundi.—Scotch Reformer's
Gazette.
WRECK OF THE EDGAR.—The operations for the
recovery of the wreck of the Edgar frigate, which was
wrecked at Spithead in 1711, were discontinued on the
31st of October, and the party of Royal Sappers and
Miners engaged in submarine operations with Sergeant
Linsey, under Lieut. Barlow, of the Royal Engineers,
arrived at Woolwich, their head-quarters, last week.
Corporal Richard Jones is stated to have got up nineteen
iron guns during the season, besides other articles; and,
when the rough and generally unfavourable state of the
weather which prevailed during the greater part of the
operations is taken into account, it is surprising that
that
he
recovered so many. It is, at the same time, pr
he must have exerted himself with exemplary activity
and industry. The corporal has the reputation of being
the most skilful diver in England. Corporal Girvan also
was very successful in the laborious services of diving,
while health permitted him to continue at it, but he was
prevented from rendering any particular assistance for
some weeks previous to the close of the operations,
owing to an accident to the safety valve of the helmet,
which occasioned his serious indisposition ; he is now
perfectly restored to health.
ABERDEEN RAILWAY.—The connexion of the an-
cient and flourishing town of Aberdeen with Edinburgh
and Glasgow, and all the proposed and present railways
in the South, promises to be one of the best lines yet
projected, and an indispensable auxiliary to the agricul-
ture of the extensive district through which it will have
to pass. The development of the resources of Scotland
by steam navigation, which brought them within reach
of the great markets of England and its metropolis, was
an era in her agricultural prosperity, and likewise an
immense benefit to the Londoners, whose food and pro-
visions were cheapened by the abundant supplies thus
obtained. What steam navigation did on a small scale,
railway transport will now do on a comparatively greater
one. No town of the size and importance of Aberdeen
can long remain excluded from the general highways of
the nation ; and we are certain, by its position, it will
soon take a start in prosperity that will place it in a
commercial point of view on a par with Dundee and
Leith, if not with Glasgow itself. The projected line
will connect Aberdeen with all the principal towns of
Scotland, such as Arbroath, Dundee, Forfar, Perth, and
Stirling, where its vivifying influence will soon be felt.
We may say, as a general rule, that the success of all
railroads which have two large cities as their termini,
and pass through numerous other towns, is perfectly
certain, because a large passenger traffic, which
anteed tis always
the most remunerative, is, as it were, guaro
them. The company will be easily able to prove, from
undoubted official returns and statistical evidence, that
the traffic will yield a return of 8 per cent. to the share-
holders. Our personal knowledge of the district sur-
veyed by Mr. Cubitt inclines us to place implicit confi-
dence in the fairness of the estimate and the practica-
bility of his linc—Atlas.
THE WINTER ASSIZES.—We are informed that an
intimation has been received by the authorities that Mr.
Justice Coleridge (who is to preside at the winter assizes
at York and Durham) will take the Yorkshire a. sines
first. Although he has not yet positively concluded the
arrangements, it is his present intention to open the
commission for Yorkshire on Thursday, the 28th inst.—
Yorkshire Gazette.
Commander Wm. Crispin is appointed to the Vic-
toria and Albert.

CALAMITOUS FlRE.—Yesterday morning, shortly
before 4 o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises belong-
ing to Mr. Calloway, draper. three doors from Astley's
Amphitheatre. The first discovery was made by the
shop-boy, who was sleeping in the kitchen, and who was
awoke, in consequence of hearing a loud cracking noise,
proceeding from the shop ; he immediately jumped out
of bed, and tried to alarm his master. Finding, how-
ever, that he was unable to accomplish that object, he
rushed up stairs, and broke a square of glass in the first
floor front, and then shouted " Fire," which brought the
police and some of the neighbours to the spot. The fe-
male servant and the lad were taken from the first floor
down a ladder, and thereby escaped uninjured. Mr.
Calloway, however, was not so fortunate, for thinking he
could subdue the flames with the aid of a bucket of

water, he ran down stairs to procure one, but he was
met by a huge sheet of flame and smoke, which forced
him backwards, destroying the hair on his head, and
sadly burning him about the face, neck, and ears. He
managed, after considerable difficulty, to reach the
kitchen area, nearly suffocated ; and, before be could be
rescued, the iron grating over the same was compelled to
be forced. In the meantime, the flames had broken
through the roof, and were extending in the direction
of the theatre. The valuable stud, consisting of 63
horses, were let loose, and turned into Amphitheatre-
row, when some of the animal; commenced kicking and
plunging in a most fearful manner. Some mules that
were in the stables, upon perceiving the fire, could not
by any possibility be made to stir ; and, had the flames
reached their stables, they must have perished. The
flames were extinguished by 6 o'clock ; but not until the
buildings and the stock-in-trade, furniture, &c., were
nearly destroyed. The damage is very considerable, and
will fall upon the Sun and Imperial offices.
IRON COLLIER.—Some curiosity has been excited
by the arrival in the Thames of a Newcastle collier, a
fine looking vessel, built of iron, and fitted with a screw
propeller, worked with an engine of twenty-horse
power. She is 139 feet long, 27 feet 6 inches wide, and,
when loaded with 340 tons of coals, her draught is only
11 feet 9 inches aft, and 10 feet 3 inches forward ; her
hold is divided into separate chambers, after the prin-
ciple of C. W. William's water-tight bulkheads, herme-
tically closed false floor, into which the water can be ad-
mitted by large taps, for ballast, and when not required
is pumped out again by the engine. Her bows are
sharp and wedge-like, and her stern unusually project-
ing; though low, her counters are so flat that she lifts
with every swell, and it is nearly impossible for a wave
to break over her taffrail.
LEEDS AND LONDON MAILS.—An entire day has
been gained by the merchants of Leeds in their commu-
nications to and from London, by an arrangement which
came into effect on Tuesday last, the sth instant, when a
mail-cart commenced running to Wakefield, to meet the
up-day mail from Newcastle. The mail leaves Leeds at
eleven at night ; the London letters being delivered in
Leeds, at eight P.M., allows three hours to reply; and the
Leeds letters by this mail being delivered in London in
the afternoon, time is allowed to send a reply the same
evening. In this way a whole day is saved in the ob-
, taming of an answer.—Doncaster Gazette.
PREVENTION OF HYDROPIIOBIA.—The Frankfort
Gazette says :—" A gentleman of Saratorf has disco-
vered that the most efficacious remedy for the bite of
rabid animals is the insect called tentania aurata, reduced
to powder, and given to the patient. Dr. Wagner has
tested the remedy, and met with most satisfactory re-
sults."

The property destroyed belonging to Mr. Tanner is
estimated, we hear, about 1,5001., and we understand
that the whole of the premises and stock are insured
in the West of England office.
We should not close our account without stating
that the inhabitants of these towns cannot too highly
appreciate the valuable assistance which they receive,
on occasions of this description, from the military.
We should also fail in our duty, if we did not no-
tice the zeal displayed at all times by the officers and
men of those public establishments—the Royal Naval
Hospital and Dockyard, their engines with a sufficient
force are always in attendance in cases of fire, and the
service they render is invaluable.

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DUTCH MAIL. \,,A,,';',''''' i 77'.%
ROTTERDAM, NOY. s.—Private letters from -- ~ i, 4
dated 21st of August, received to-day by the o4iiihun tizl'""-6
mail, announce the death of his Excellency Baron P.
Merkus, the Governor-General. His mortal rtmains
were interred, a wetk before the date of th,- fitter, at
Soorabaya, with all thu honours due to his rank.
We look with grief and anxiety for some particulars
of the illness which has so prematurely removed from
his high office this worthy man, who was still in the
prime of life. Everybody here nn ho had the pleasure of
knowing him is deeply afflicted at the unexpt•cttd new s
of his death.

THE HAGUE, Nov. 7.—Preceding accounts from Ba-
tavia announced that the deceased Governor was in a
weak state of health. In hopes that the se a air might
have a favourable effect, he set out in the month
of July, on board his Majesty's stsatner, the
Brorno, to make a voyage along the coast of
Java. On his arrival at Soorabaya, he d,
intending to pass some time on shore. This had at first
a favourable effect, so that at the latter end of July he
made an excursion for two days into the interior, which
did not seem to fatigue him more than those alio accom-
panied him. lie now resolved to proceed in the Bromo
to visit Banjoeaarge ; but on this excursion the symp-
toms of his disorder suddenly assumed such an alarm-
ing appearance, that it was judged advisable to return
with all speed to Soorabaya, allele he died on the 2tl of
August, in the house of M. Pietermaier, the tesident.
His end was perfectly calm, and he re tained all his
faculties to the last, so that an hour and a half before he
expired he dictated a farewell letter to hi.i nearest re la-
ti*es. His loss is universally deplored in Java, which
is no wonder, since, with the exception of a two years
leave of absence, the deceased has passed twenty-eight
years in India.
M. J. G. Reynst, Vice-President of the Council of
India, had, on the sth of August, a sumed the Govern-
ment as Governor-General pro tempore, in expectation
of his Majesty's pleasure.
THE IleouE, Nov. B.—The sections of the Second
Chamber were engaged yesterday in deliberating on the
communications sent from the First Chamber respecting
the address in reply to his Majesty's speech. The central
section has met to-day for the purpose. It is expected
that it will shortly make its report, which will be taken
into consideration without delay.
The Stoats Courant of this day publishes a royal
decree of Nov. 6, which opens a voluntary exchange of
.inscriptions of the national debt at five per cent. into
inscriptions at four per cent. to the amount of ten mil-
ions of florins.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsTenosei, Nov. 8.
atone,. 11111 a.
A equal Debt. '2.4 per 6234 623
Ditto, ditto, 3 per Cent.
Dlito, ditto, 4 per Cent.
ditto 5 pet ce,it.
nmwttSvndic,434 per cent '9 0)34
Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent ..... 8954 904
Commercial Company, 4t, per cent 140% 14134
Loan 1837, 434 per cent...
Exchange on London, Onemonth 1234
Two months l2 6734
Hamburgh, One mxnth
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Dutch Papers, Nov. 9.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Battux, Nov. 5.
Bi'ls. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 3% per cent
Prussian English Bonds, 1830, I per cent
Exchange on London....
Prussian State Gazette. Nov. 6.

CASTING OF ONE THOUSAND
32-POUNDERS, AT LOW MOOR IRON
WORKS.
The fact having come to our knowledge that in-
structions had been forwarded to Low Moor for the
execution of the enormous number of one thousind
pieces of ordnance, of large calibre, we determined to
learn the particulars on the spot. Accordingly, on
making known our business, on Monday last, we
were received with the greatest courteousness, and '
were fortunate enough to be present at the actual
casting of some of the guns—a process fraught with
the utmost interest to those who ever saw the like be-
fore, and one which can hardly be viewed with indif-
ference, no matter how often it be witnessed. We
ascertained that the guns are all iron 32-pounders,
technically "longs" and "shorts,' though the inex-
perienced eye would fail to detect any difference in
their lengths, and the actual difference, we believe, is
only a few inches. There is a very material dif-
ference, however, in their formation, as compared
with the guns hitherto in use, the weight of the
metal being infinitely greater in the new than the
old, and varying also considerably in the new, ac-
cording to the drawings to which they are cast.
Formerly, 32 -pounder iron cannon were cast as low
as 24 cwt. each ; but these now being cast weigh
twice, and in some instances almost three times as
much, namely, from 43 cwt. to 56 cwt., and even to
62 cwt. each. This immense increase of metal
affords, of course, a proportionate increase of strength
to the guns, the bursting of one of which, after it
has undergone the Woolwich test, may now be re-
garded almost as an impossibility. The principal
portion of this additional metal is placed in the
breech, though it much varies in some of the guns as
to its distance from, or proximity to, the trunnions,
as those pivots are called by which the gun rests ors
the carriage. Much difference of professional opinion
seems to prevail as to the relative advantage and dis-
advantage of having the chief weight of the metal.
in each piece disposed in this or that particular spot.
We believe, however, that all authorities on the doc-
trine of projectiles are unanimous in pronouncing
guns cast on this principle that is, immensely
heavy in and about the breech—to be capable of
throwing a ball infinitely further than the old light
guns, and with a proportionate economy in the ex-
penditure of powder.
Each gun is cast perfectly solid, in a clay mould,
suspended perpendicularly in a metal casting, anti
such is the bulk of iron employed, and so great is its
power of retaining the heat, that each piece takes nearly
a week to cool before it can be further meddled with :
—for instance, on Monday evening last we could not
bear to place the hand on the outer clay covering of a
gun cast on the previous Saturday morning, and
several days must elapse before the metal itself could
be touched with impunity. The guns are drilled out
with powerful machinery, and if the bore, which is
guaged with the nicest possible precision, is found to
vary a hair's breadth, it is at once sent to the fur-
nace and melted over again. If, however, the bore is
found to be mathematically true, it is polished, also
by machinery, till it is as smooth as glass and as
glittering as silver. The crown and royal initials
are then chiselled out just above the touch-hole, and
after receiving a final scrutinising inspection, the gun
is sent by the Manchester and Leeds Railway to
Hull, and thence transported in coasters to Wool-
wich. Here it is subjected to the ordnance test. If
it carry its range truly, and without exhibiting any
symptom of inferiority of material, and corresponds
in all respects with the drawing, it receives the Go-
vernment impress; and being freed from the rust
which it has most likely acquired in its transit, is
pronounced fit for service, and placed in the stores
accordingly. If, on the contrary, it should, in the
minutest particular, fall below the ordinary standard,
one of the trunnions is struck off, so as to render the
gun utterly useless, and it is then returned at the
cost of the maker.
We learn that not one of the guns included in the
present order to the Low Moor Company has, so far,
though a large number of them have been executed,
failed in the Woolwich test. Sometimes guns are
ordered for the purpose of being burst at Woolwich
—that is, for the purpose of trying experiments until
they burst. Lately, two 56-pounders were made
here, nine feet in length, and weighing 98 cwt. each;
and, although Colonel Dundas, the Inspector-General
of Ordnance, by whose directions all orders of this
nature are executed, has been conducting a prolonged
series of experiments with them at Woolwich, he has
not yet applied a force greater than their powers of
resistance, and will probably be some time before he
does so. As fast as these new 32-pounders are being
made—namely, at about the rate of twenty-four a
week—the old 32-pounders are called in and melted
down, their average weight being something under
30 cwt. each ; so that instead of saying that Govern-
-1 ment are having 1,000 new 32-pounders made, it
would perhaps be more proper to state that they are
having that number of old ones replaced by those of
an improved construction. Liverpool Journal of
Saturday.

OPERATION FOR SQUINTING PERFORMED UNDER
MESMERISM.—On Tuesday last a novel but successful
operation was performed upon a child ten, years old,
named Martha Clarke, for removing that unpleasant
visual imperfection called squinting. The child was
taken to Mr. Toswill, surgeon, on the 30th ult., to be
operated upon for this defect, but from the difficulty of
inducing so young a person to sit quiet during so painful
and delicate an operation, it was proposed that mes •
merism should be resorted to. The first time this was
attempted the mesmeric state was produced in sixteen
minutes, and her arms rendered completely rigid. At
the time she had no knowledge about mesmerism, nor
that anything of the kind was about to be tried upon her.
So unconscious was she, indeed, of the existence of
mesmerism, or that she had been in such a state, that
afterwards she said to her mother, " I am so sorry I
went to sleep ; but I could not help it ; Mr. Toswill
looked at me so." Subsequent to this, she was mes-
merised several times previous to Tuesday, when
Mr. Toswill ventured on the operation. On the
occasion there were present, beside Mr. Toswill,
Messrs. Spencer and Downing, surgeons, Mr.
Joseph Biggs, Captain Jackson, and Mr. Atkinson,
from London, who is a friend of Dr. Elliotson's, all
of whom, with the exception of Mr. Spencer, signed
a document, stating their firm conviction of the
absence of all consciousness or pain in the little pa-
tient during the operation. Mr. Spencer dissented from
the general opinion, believing that she manifested signs
of feeling pain. The time in which the operation was
performed was two minutes and a half, during which the
other eye remained perfectly closed and motionless,
without any bandage being placed over it, which is usual
in such cases. The arms, which had been fixed in an
horizontal position, gradually relaxed ; that nearest the
eye operated on sinking down to her side. When de-
mesmerised, and told that the operation had been per-
formed, she looked up, and with childlike simplicity and
surprise exclaimed, " Has it!" In answer to questions
put to her by those who were spectators, she said that she
had no knowledge of what took place, nor felt any pain,
but she had dreamed that she was at Hannah Colton's
house, blowing the fire to make the paa boil. In what
way this dream could be induced by the circumstances in
question, is a phenomenon which we shall not here
attempt to solve. As all our readers are not aware of
the mode of the operation in question, we may state that
it is briefly as follows :—The lid being held open, the
eye to be operated upon is forced to a straight position ;
a piece of the white of the ball is then laid hold of by a
small pair of forceps, pulled up, and out ; this being done,
a hook is introduced, and being passed round to the back
part, the muscle is secured, brought forward, anti
divided by the scissors of the operator.—Leicestershil e
Mercury.
On Monday last, a numerously attended meeting
was held at the house of Mr. James Phipps, the sign of
the Horse and Jockey, Arnold, for the purpose of form-
ing an association for the legal protection of foot roads
within the parish, when a considerable number enrolled
themselves as members, out of which a committee was
chosen to manage the business, and the meeting was
then adjourned to next Monday evening.—Nettingham
Review,

BATH AND SALISBURY RAILWAY.—We under-
stand, a Company, who will be prepared with the neces-
sary details for an application to Parliament during the
next session, for a line from Bath, via Bradford and
Trowbridge, to Salisbury, with a branch to Tringley, is
about to be formed. We hear the projectors have every
reason to believe it will have the upproval of Govern-
ment.— Wiltshire Independent.
The effects of Lord Brougha:n's Bill, for the abo-
lition of arrest for debts contracted under 201, have
already been felt in the provinces. Mr. Commissioner
Harris has bad to adjudicate only upon nine petitions in
Norfolk ; neither was there a single petition to be heard
at Lynn or Bury. In many instances, both in the me.
tropolis and the counties, insolvents who have been re-
manded by the Court for various terms of imprisonment,
have been released upon proper application to the Court
of Bankruptcy, while on the other band many bankrupts.
remanded for various reasons, have been liberated by
availing themselves of the Insolvent Court.—/Vorwiell
Mercury.
A white whale was lately found stranded in Ans-
kerry, measuring about twenty feet in length. It had
no teeth, and it is possible it is one of the Aodon variety
—a small toothless whale—some of which came ashore
in Orkney a few years ago.
FATAL ACCIDENT DURING THE PROCESSION Or THE
LORD MAYOR BY WATER.—On Saturday afternoon a
coal porter, named Thomas Baldwin, aged twenty-nine.
met with his death under the following circumstances:—
While the procession of the Lord Mayor was passing up
the river, the deceased was standing on the edge of one
of his employer's barges, when his attention became so
riveted to the proceedings, that ho missed his footing and
fell into the water. About twenty-five minutes elapsed
before his body was found, when e‘ cry means were used
to resuscitate him, but without effect. The deceased has
left a wife and family.
We have observed with pleasure the great activiti
which prevails in the export trade in apples from the
island of Jersey. Large apples fetch 12f. a quarter, and
those of mederate size 10f.—Le Pilate (Guernsey paper)