The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-13 00:00:00

INFANTRY.

7th Royal Fusiliers, Depot, Naas—Lieutenants Venner and
Whitehead have arrived at Spike Island, Cove of Cork, on
board of a steam-vessel, to join the draft consisting of Capt.
Cockr;ne, Lieut. Porter, 1 sergeant, and 40 rank and file, and
6 boys, under orders for embarkation for Barbadoes, on board
of the Princess Royal transport, shortly expected at Cove
from Deptford.
19th (Ist York North Riding), Depot, Carlow—A re-
cruiting party has marched from head-quarters for Dublin,
to embark per steam vessel for Liverpool, en route for York,
there to be stationed. Captains Sir M. A. Taite, Bart., and
Calley, and Lieutenant Ellarman, arc ordered to embark at
Cork for conveyance to the West Indies, to join their ser-
vice companies. Two companies are stationed at Castle
Corner. _

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24th (2d Warwickshire) Regiment, Limerick—Officers
on leave of absence :—Major C. IL Doyle, to the 15th Nov. ;
Captains Paynter and Brown, to the 31st December; Ensigns
Payne to the 31st December, Thelwall to the 15th December,
and the Hon. R. Ilandcock to the 14th December; Assistant
Surgeon Donald to the 20th December. Recruiting-6 ser-
geant , and 12 rank and file. A sergeant, corporal, and 15
privates, invalids, in charge of an officer, are en route to
Dublin, to arrive by 12th November, to appear before a
medical board. Lieutenant-Colonel H. D. Townsend is com-
manding.
26th (Cameronian) Regiment, Belfast—Officers on leave :
Mountain, C. 8.. to Nov. 30; Captain Layard, to
Dee: 61 < Lieutenant Wallace, to Nov. 30 ; Roberts, to March
30, 1846; Ensign Mountain, to April 14, 1846. Recruiting-
-3 sergeants and 6 rank and file; at Carrickfergus Castle
Fort, 1 company. consisting of Captain Edgar, Ensign Pres-
WI! 3 sergeants, i drummer, and 60 rank and file. Major
Ilogarat it tommanding.
30th (Cambridge) Regiment, Castiehar— Officers on leave
of absence:—Lieutenant-Colonel Singleton, on appointment;
Brevet Majors Geddes and Gregory; Captain Holy, to
Dec. 26 ; Lieutenants Shinn, to Jan. 31, 1646 ; Tongue, to
Dee. 21 ; Bayley, to Dec. SI ; Ensign Rose, to March 20,
1846; Quartermaster Ward, to Nov. 30. Recruiting-3
sergeants, and 8 tank and file. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Ormand is commanding. Two companies stationed at Gal-
way. Detachments are stationed at Loughrea, Outerard,
Westport, and Balinrolie. Recruiting parties are at Can-
bridge, Bristol, Exeter, Aberdeen, and Honiton.
32d (Cornwall) Begin ent, Athlone—Captain Kyrie and
Lieut. King, 2 sergeants, 1 drummer, and 51 rank and file.
A company occupy barracks at Longford. Recruiting-3
sergeants, and 3 rank and file.
33d (Ist York West Riding), Depot, Clonmel—Lieut. the'
Hon. J. Arbuthnot Keane is on leave to the 31st December;
Lieut. Quale to the 31st of January, 1816. Major Galloway
is commanding.
34th (Cumberland) Regiment, Depot, Ferinoy—Five pri-
vates (invalids), in charge of a non- commissidned officer,
have marched from head-quarters from Cork, there to' embark
per steam vessel for Dublin, to appear before a medical
board, and to appear by the Ist of November. Officers pre-
sent at head quarters :—Major Deedes; Captains Heathcot,.
Talbot, and Hervey, Lieuts. Robertson and Still, Depot
Paymaster, Agnew, Depot Adjutant, and Randolph ; Ensigns
Robinson, Palmer, and Farnet. Recruiting-5 sergeants and
16 rank and file. Officers on leave of absence :—Captaitt
Schreiber, to the 15th of November; Ensign Fyfe, to the
31st of December; Assistant-Surgeon Eaton, on appoint-
ment; Lieut. Brisbane is on leave of absence to the 28th of
March, 1846, at Largo House, Fife, the seat of his relation
Gen. Sir Thomas Brisbane, G.C.B. and G.C.H, colonel of the
regiment, which is on the passage to Corfu.
35th (Sussex) Regiment, Depot, Charles Fort, Kinsale.—
Captain Moore and Ensign O'Callaghan are on leave to the
19th of December. Recruiting-2 sergeants and 10 rank
and file. Major Deedes is commanding.
40th (2d Somersetshire) Regiment—Yesterday morning
the fourth company depot of the 40th regiment marched
from Chatham en route for Dover, under command of Lieut.-
Col. George Hibbert, C.B. The strength of the depot con-
sists of 16 sergeants, 16 corporals, 1 drummer, and 347
_pri-
vates, with the following officers—Captain John Gray, Cap-
tain Fred. Wm. Webber Smith, Captain T. J. Valiant, and
Captain J. M. B. Neill ; Lieuts. Wm. Thomas, Robert Carey,
A. Abercromby Nelson, Samuel Snelling, J. A. Macgowan ;
Ensigns Richard Snowden Payne, H. Thomas Fell `White;
Paymaster Charles Scartin Naylor, and Assistant-Surgeon
H. Mapleton, M.D. The depot has recruiting in different
districts, 10 sergeants, 5 corporals, and 29 privates; 1 ser
geant and 1 corporal on furlough. The depot will remain
at Dover until the regiment arrives from India, which is ex-
pected in March next, it having embarked at Calcutta in
the beginning of last month for England-
40th (South Devon) Regiment, Depot, Armagh—Major
Campbell left Armagh on the 7th instant for Dublin, there-
to embark for the West Indies, to join the service com-
panies, and relieve Major Maclean, ordered home to take
charge of the depot. Brevet Major Martin has taken the
command. Two companies are stationed at Charlemont
and Monaghan, which were relieved on the 7th instant front
head-quarters.
48th (Northampton) Regiment, Depot, Kilkenny—A re-
cruiting party has marched from head-quarters for Dublin,
there to embark per steam-vessel for Liverpool, eu route to
Sudbury, in Suffolk, to be stationed. Captain Emmett is on
leave of absence to Nov. 30 ; Lieut. Henry, ditto, to Dec.3l ;
and Ensign O'Sullivan, ditto, to Jan. 31, 1846.
41st (Welsh) Regiment, Royal Barracks, Dublin—Officers
on leave of absence :—Capt. Donaldson and Captain Downes,
to Dec. 31; Lieutenants Rawlins, Wells, Wetherel, and Taylor,
to Dec. 31 ; Lieut. Arkwright to Nov. 30; Lieut. Steward, to
Dec. 25. Brevet Major Dempster is in command of a com-
pany stationed at Portobello Barracks, with Lieut. Great-
head. Ensigns Lennox and Rawlinson, and Surgeon Wilkins,
are on leave to Nov. 30. Recruiting-1 sergeant and 12 rank
and file. Lieut.. Col. Gore Brown, C. 8., is commanding.
49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales) Regiment, Athlone--
Officers on leave of absence :—Capt. Hart, to Jan. 31, 1846 ;
Lieut. Ogilvy, to Nov. 15. Recruiting-4 sergeants and tf
rank and file. Capt. Montgomery's company, consisting of
Ensigns Page and King, 2 sergeants, 1 drummer, and 40
rank and file, joined head-quarters on sth November, having
been relieved by a company of the same corps. Lieut.. Col.
Adams, C. 8., is commanding.
66th (Berkshire), Depot, Clare Castle—One sergeant and
8 privates (invalids), have marched from head-quarters for
Dublin Beggar's Bush recruiting depot, to arrive by 12th
November, to appear before the medical board. Lieut.
Smythe is on leave of absence till gazetted on half-pay, as
staff-officer to pay pensioners. Ensign Bell is on leave is
30th November. Recruiting-3 sergeants and 8 rank and file.
Brevet Lieut. Goldie is commanding at head-quarters. Cap-
tain Devonport is stationed at Killaloe, in command of a
company.
CHATHAM Ganrusost —The following number of troops'
available for duty at this garrison, according to the last re-
turns, are upwards of 2,000 men. The present effective
strength of the provisional battalion comprises 1,420 men, and
the 65th 402 men; the remainder for duty are made up by
the Royal Marine corps, out of which 40 men are required
for the garrison of lipnor Castle, and a guard of 13 at Fort
Clarence. There are, besides, in hospital, 499 soldiers sick,
including the invalids in the general hospital. A number of
recruits arc daily arriving from the several recruiting districts,
to join the depots of those regiments serving in India.
ROYAL ARTILLBRY.—On Monday Lord Bloomfield inspected
the two companies of Captain Mee and Major Locke, which
returned to Woolwich, from Canada, on Friday last, in
heavy marching order, on the grand mounting parade. His
Lordship was pleased to express his approbation of the state
of both companies.

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAINMENTS.—This far-
famed Vocalist gave two of his entertainments in the Neu-
burgh-rooms, in Brighton, on Friday evening and Saturday
morning, when he was welcomed by crowded audiences. Mr.
Wilson's visits to Brighton are neither "few nor far be-
tween," and notwithstanding the number of " Concerts,"
and " Entertainments" which have been given in that
fashionable locality this season, yet the attraetions of the
"Scottish Minstrel' remain there, as everywhere else, undi-
minished. Scotland, Scottish History, and Scottish song,
abonnd with pleasing associations to everyone; and the truth-
fulness of character, and felicity of expression given by Mr.
Wilson to the songs of his country are sure to enhance his
well-earned popularity. The host of imitators of Wilson
who some time ago sprang up with entertainments, entitled
" Hours," " Varied Hours,' " Mornings," " Evenings,"
" Nichts," &c., &c., are now fast disappearing ; however, in
some of the more sequestered parts of England, the name
of Wilson has again been assumed with a view of gulling
the public. When the Mr. Wilson was lately in Shrop-
shire, a report got abroad that he himself was the impostor,
and on his arrival in one of the towns where he had an-
nounced an entertainment, a gentleman who had a portrait
of the real Wilson, brought it to compare with the original,
when to his satisfaction he recognised the minstrel.
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA —We regret
to learn that the latest advices from Canada give a most un-
favourable account of the state of Lord Metcalfe's health.
Indeed we have seen a private letter, from a gentleman
whose official duties give him daily opportunities for
m wichhehas
change.
obser-
vation, which represents the distinguished person in ques-
tion as so worn down by suffering as to make it utterly im-
possible that human nature can much longer bear up, unless
the cruel diseasert
long been a ma
Lord Metcalfe had, up to the last possible moment, perse-
vered in his personal attention to the duties of his important
office • but on the day on which the letter to which we have
vr should (cancer
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faocset) to
unexpectedh
alluded was written, he was for the first time unable to bear
the pain and fatigue of removal to the council-room, and the
indispensable business was necessarily transacted in his ab-
sence.—Britannia.
PRICE OF.BREAD.—In consequence of a fall in
the average price of wheat in the Edinburgh market, the
four pound loaf is reduced one halfpenny, being now sold
at eightpence halfpenny, ready meney, or if paid within a
month; and ninepence, credit. Flour 3s. per stone.—Cale.
donran Mercury.
RAILWAY SURVEYlNG.—Engineers and surveyors
are scouring the country around Lincoln in every direction,
and white and red flags are almost as plentiful as trees. The
demand for surveyors is so great, and the prices paid so enor-
mous, that it is quite common now for the managers of one
line to buy off or kidnap the surveyors of a rival line, with
the view of preventing their enemy from lodging the required
plans prior to going before Parliament. The other day one
of the surveyors of the Lincoln and Retford line decamped,
and instead of being hard at work with his brother surveyor,
was discovered surveying a roast duck in the neighbourhood
of Horucastle.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.
FARINGDON.—RAILWAY MEETING.-- A large
meeting was held at the Crown Inn, on Tuesday, in pursuance
of a notice that a deputation from the Committee of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railway Com-
pany, would attend to explain their intentions and the ob-
jects to be gained by such railway. Sir Robert Throgmorton
took the chair. The projected line, and its probable advan-
tages to the district, were explained by Mr. Westmacott, of
London, after which the Rev. Mr. Evanson, of Inglesham,
and Dr. Mantel' proposed and seconded a resolution expres-
sive of the opinion of the meeting in favour of the line, and
Medley,
Esq.,Barker, Esq., of Fairferd, and H. St. John
Esq., proposed and seconded a resolution to petition Parlia-
ment on the subject, and a requisition to the county Members
to support the same. P. Pusey, Esq , M.P., expressed his
readiness and pleasure to de so; after which Mr. Barker
offered to the meeting a resolution in favour of an extensioa
line to Cirencester and Stroud, which Mr. Smith, of South-
ross,
- having seconded, the meeting affirmed.— Wilts Inde-
pendent.
THE HERRING FlSllERY.—Providence is still
blessing this part of the western coast with unexampled suc-
cess in the herring fishery. On Thursday night :the
largest take yet had was made near Mutton Island, within a
mile of the harbour, and the joy of the poor fishermen is ex.
treme. We know not if other pottions of the coast have
been equally favoured ; but the finest field is open at present
for the purchase of herrings in the market.—Galway Via.
dicator.

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MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
, CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.

TIMES.,-The premium on gold at Paris is 11 per I
mile, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s.
.10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of
25 44 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being
25 57k, it follows that gold is 0.53 per cent. dearer in London
than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 4304
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s.
101jd. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange
of 13 84; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at
short being 13 91, it follows that gold is 0.35 per cent.
dearer in London than in Hamburgh.
One of the leading features of railway enterprise, which is
manifesting itself at this moment with an extraordinary de-
gree of activity, is the employment of the vast numbers of
persons who have any pretension to be called members of the
survey ins; and engineering professions in the preparations
for the 30th instant, when the plans, sections, and
books of reference must be ready for deposit with the
clerk of the peace. All of them receive the most liberal or
extravagant pay, and the merest novices receive engage-
ments, for which they throw up, with or without the consent
of their principals, their regular employment, and nearly all
ordinary and routine business is at a stand. Of the extent of
occupation which has devolved upon these professioes in coc-
sequence of the prevailing excitement, some idea may he oh 7
tained from the useful statistical tables publiehed in the
Railway Ably:black for 1846 ; and, as really eminent men are
not numerous in those departments of professional skill, it
necessarily follows that the whole work is in comparatively
few hands. From these tables it appears that one engineer
is engaged on 11 of the new lines, another on 14, a third on
16, a fourth on 17, and a fifth on 21 lines. The
same may be, and no doubt are, engaged on other
lines ; for many of those on the list have no en-
gineer's name attached to them, and it may be
safely assumed that the execution in a proper
manner of such a quantity of work is beyond human
power. This is not labour, it should be observed, which will
admit of careless or itnserfect execution. The fate of the .
Cambridge and Lincoln line last session, the Bill for which
was lost in consequence of a mere clerical error connected
with the surveys, shows how important it is to the success of
a new line that they should be made with the utmost care
and accuracy. Men of honour will, doubtless, in many cases
throw up their engagements, under such a total impossi-
bility of execution, and this to many of the new companies
will -furnish at the same time a decent excuse for withdraw-
ing altogether, when they could not otherwise have devised
one. Letters from the northern counties, received in the
City this morning, describe the activity and excitement as
universal, with regard to the engineering and mapping move-
ment; and notice is especially taken of the class of persons
who are so employed, ene letter remarking that "lads
who have only just left school are permitted to take
particulars which require experience in some of the
nicest questions of real property." It may easily be antici-
pated what a figure some of them will make when the time
for the great ordeal arrives. The death of Mr. Irving is an
event which belongs to the history of the commerce of Lon-
don, and it has formed to-day one of the principal topics
on 'Change. Fur honourable conduct, strict fidelity to his
engagements under the most adverse circumstances, and for
a kind disposition to those who have had their way to make
in the world, he has had few equals in mercantile life. The
importance of the house of which he has been so many years
a partner is well known. Their transactions have extended
to all parts of the world, though they have lain more par-
ticularly in the West Indies. Mr. Irving was a stanch sup-
porter of the colonial interests, and took the lead in forming
the Colonial Bank and Royal Steam-packet Companies.
More than once he received the thanks of the inhabitants
of M mritius for his attention to their welfare. For nearly
forty years he was a Member of the House of Commons,
where he sat for the last two Parliaments as representative
of the county of Antrim. In politics he was a steady and
consistent Conservative. His loss is as much regretted by
his private friends as it is by those who, during a long
course of years, have had business to transact with him.
HERALD.—The approach of the period for the with-
drawal of the fractional notes for 255. and 305., now in cir-
ceiation in Ireland, is likely to be attended with some unto-
ward consequences, which could not have been anticipated
by the framers of the measure to abolish notes of these de-
nominations. The circumstances strikingly illustrate the
state of society in many parts of that benighted county.
The poorer class of occupiers, who are the principal holden;
of the fractional notes, have become alarmed, under the im-
pression that they will be of r.o value after the 6th of De-
cember next, when the new banking law comes into opera-
tion. In the eolith and west of the kingdom these frac-
tional notes have been presented at the banks for payment
in considerable quanties, and a smart rue has been felt,
principally for silver, and even the bank of the great Agi-
tator has not .escaped the effect of the popular delusion on
the subject. All persons acquainted with the character
of the Irish peasantry are aware how easily they are
misled in matters connected with the paper circula-
tion, nod will readily comprehend how they have come
under the influence of a panic without any just ground. From
what we have learned, the Irish press has been negligent in
not setting the people right on the subject without a moment's
delay, and the more especially at a time like the present.
when the reports about the potato disease will have rendered
the people more than usually susceptible to bad impressions.
The commercial letters received by the West India mail
were delivered this morning, but they contain few details of
much interest in addition to the extracts which appeared in
the Herald this morning. All parties writing to their con-
signees dwell chiefly on the subject of railways, and no doubt
seemed to be entertained, even by the most sceptical, but
that, if judiciously constructed, they will afford a remune-
rating return on the capital invested, as well as be of incal-
culable benefit to the colonies by promoting improvement.
The merchants connected with Mexico are at length gra-
tified with the account of the settlement of the tariff, which
they consider will give no inconsiderable stimulus to trade,
if the executive Government has sufficient strength and
energy to carry it out in good faith. Much, however, re-
quires to he done to check the oppressions and peculations of
• the subordinate officers of the Customs, who were thoroughly
corrupted under Santa Anna's regime.
The official account of the Committee of South American
bondholders states that the receipts by the packet, on account
of the Mexican dividend, amount to 80,895 dollars. The in-
tentions of the present Government are undoubtedly honour-
able, and all that appears requisite is that they be supported
by the country. There are, however, still latent fears that
the partisans of Santa Anna are intriguing to excite dis-
turbance.

TUESDA Y NIGHT'S GAZETTE

BANKRUPTS.

James Challen, brewer, Odiam. Southampton, to surrender,
Nov. 28, at one, and Dec. 23, at half-past twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Old Jewry ; Lind-
say and Mason, Gresham-street, City.
*John Kirkby, fancy manufacturer, Kirkheaton, Yorkshire,
Nov. 25, and Dec. 16. at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Sudlow and Co., Chancery-
lane, London ; Leadbeatter, Huddersfield ; Cariss, Leeds.
Thomas Miller, oilman, Mansell-street, Goodman's-fields,
Nov. 18, at eleven, and Dec. 20, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Hen-
derson, Mansell-street.
Samuel Stocker, senior, hydraulic engineer, St. John-
street, Clerkenwell, Nov. 18, and Dec. 16, at half-past eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee,
Old Jewry Chambers; Robinson, Ironmonger-lane.
Charles Henry White, linendraper, Gravesend, Nov. 28,
at half.;- ust eleven, and Dec. 23, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place,
Old Jewry; Brisley, Pancras-lane; Sole and Turner, Alder-
manbury.
George Hastings Watton, tobacconist, New Bond-street,
Nov. 18 and Dec. 17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Blake,
Blackfriars-road.
William Ward, farmer, Belton, Rutlanshire, Nov. 28, and
Dec. 23, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom,
official assignee, i\bchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Clarke,
?dedcalf, and Gray, Lincoln's Inn-field..
Godfrey Abrals am, watchmaker, Great Prescott-street,
Goadman's- fields, Nov. 19, ar half-past one, and Dec. 17, at
half-past twelve, at the Count of Bankruptcy. Bell, official
assipsee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Laurance and Plews,
Bucklersbury. - -

William Richard Parsons, baker, St. Anne's, Limehouse,
Nov. 18, at eleven, and Dec. 16, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankr ti ey. Johnson, official assignee, Basingliall- street.;
Nil I ler, Camomile-street.
DIVIDENDS.

Dec. 4. R. Kimble, Great Marvlebone-street, boot and shoe
maker, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, London—Deo.
10. G. W. Strcke, Norwich, linen draper, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy, London—Dec. 3. E. Baldwin and R.
Garrett, Henfield, Sussex, linen drapers, at half past eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy, London—Dec. 3. J. Rowe, Bland
ford-street, Marylebone, ironmonger, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy, London—Dec. 10. W. J. Taylor, High-street,
Camden-town, grocer, at half past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy, London—Dec. 5. R. Brown, Kingston-upon-
Hull, joiner and builder, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Leeds—Dec. 3. J. Bourne, Benunersley, Staffordshire,
printer, at eleven. at the Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham
—Dec. 3. 'l'. H. Wetmore, Worcester, grocer, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham—Dec. 12. J. Curtis,
Li,,keard, Cornwall, linen and woollen draper, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy, Exeter—Dec. 12. J. Pift, Ply-
mouth, grocer, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Exeter
—Dec. 19. G. Cox, Plymouth, victualler, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy, Exeter—Dec. 9. R. P. and S. Prat, Glaston-
bury, Somersetahire, scriveners, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy, Bristol—Dec. 4. W. W. Spence, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, woollen draper, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
CERTIFICATES.

Dec. 2. J. W. Collier, Newgate-street, victualler, at the
Court of Review—Dec. 2. IL Williams, Farringdon, Berk-
shire, grocer, at the Court of Review—Dec. 2. J. Ban-
ning, Liverpool, stationer, at the Court of Review—Dec. 2.
F. Loraine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, bookseller, at the Court of
Review—Dec. 2. J. Redden, Cambridge, coachbuilder, at the
Court of Review—Dec. 2. J. Taylor, Bromley, Middlesex,
master, at the Court of Review—bec. 2. T. C. Smith, Hen-
rietta-street, Covent-garden, hotel-keeper, at the Court of
Review.