The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-13 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Vutatt eptuton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
Itln the French Chamber of Deputies, on Saturday, a Bill
? passed for restoring historical monuments.
"I. Ledru Born t d etition, signed by 25 000
Rollin presented e
ts;:7.Bsesa3 mg for an inquiry into the condition of the work-
.
the Inotioti for the reduction of the octroi duties, made by
Trarqiiia de la Grange, was negatived.
Abilealth of Guizot continued to improve.
retivf:nts from Lucerne state that all the captives, not na-
th the cantr,n, had been released. Those belonging to
e canto
n amount to 584, but nothing is said about their

„At ft. -, 744 W
API”)
P"l".Sexton, alias
riatb 0-1\ ew Court, Old Bailey, Mary Ann
27,
forsdtcted a well-dressed married woman, aged was in-
nlasrilastektlees.r. ealing a necklace, two printedbooks, and divers
A,Ttioable linen, the property of Barber Tuck, her
Was in-,."ele were two other Indictments againsthetre.
be fr''' -o guilty on two indictments, and sentenced
Lettil•ported for seven years.
bellede &et, who stands charged with a misdemeanour, was.
trial. ii" appear at the opening of
.the session to take his
eetreatin
'Wee '''e Was called on his recognisance, but did not rul-
er, 1.4-6 A ,
°Ner was madeby o 4to g the recognisances. C mmissioner Bullock for
Plasedrge Bracey, James Fisher, and William Tomlin, were
Baal at the bar before Mr. Rawlinson, atlllarylbonpeinfnor.
curet,' eta the
The first two charged with having
'tree' Te house of Captain Carnac, R.N., 46, Devonshire-
ti l. , rortland-place of a large quantity of plate, and the
the
kith", twith receiving a' portion of the property, knowing
trial. ° have been stolen. They were fully committed for
At Q
sad tkru.een-square Thomas Wayland, a man between twenty
tali.._, Y Years of age, was charged with having fraudulently
414;21 into several regiments. He did not deny the charge,
fortaZgollimitted for three months to hard labour, and.
einn:
listkCrY the superintending officer that if he again
be
rtelai'me wolild be prosecuted for the offence, and would
to transportation for seven years.
11".14
* COURT--FASHIONABLE.
the patronage to
tilt A._ apiaity has been pleased to grant
latlirclation established at Edinburgh for the revival of
tkil •I'luaic. The Queen and her Royal onsort have
,L.4?htted
7.clation. handsome donations towards the funds of the
--urd and
Orel, d ,Lady Francis Egerton are entertaining. a select
uveer ang the recess, at Hatchford, his Lordship's seat
14 -"zull• The 'Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the
4e..:1111is and Marchioness of Lom, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Percy,
,_Tharst°l,°l4g the guests of the Noble Lord and her Ladyship.l-
-"'"lgar "" and Countess of Warwick have arrived at Car
The ttl,s, from Warwick Castle, for the season.
George t'.l°,°l4 of Durham has contributed 500/, and the Rev.
raeat,,,`,l,e'dirig the incumbent, 100/., towards the enlarge-
et• An ''s Chapel Bishop Auckland.
airtiveCarquis o*Headfo'rt and the Ladies Taylour have
Vis,„„l° ehesham-place from Ireland. . . have
Itrrived-'nt,ess Ashbrook and the Hon. Miss Flower
Yu, -","Thetnarle-street, from Paris.
tiffft to-T.,' and Viscountess Guillamore have arrivbeednonnenn.
Don li 't -I•°ll,filip'suncle, B. Walter, Esq., at S
°rise /....,
, Laud.
R.4te'ardin „buscEzz.a.Nmous.
tith Shield:
iCtollartre. in
leiffi:V.e Newcastle Journal, a letter received in
nx,; "4 Week, from Sydney, states that Frost, the
on; tiel:t -4%1e in comfortable circumstances there, beitulg
Tb °f leave and the manager of a large mercantile
A stlbs !writer ;tides he looks healthy and happy.
of erectincrlPtion has been opened in Belfast, for the purposen
e'lltbf tbf isbust of Sir Henry Pottinger, to be placed i
A p„,,_ , Public rooms of that town.
lisot'raer
irk or Drumao perpetrated last Saturday in the neighboure-
ue ta,conra • the victim was a man named Clark .
p-mii-",, „pia that fruitful source of crime in this coun-
'44 ad: -ming of land. The deceased man and his brother
kent of about a field, when a labourer in the employ-
er h;. brother his other killed him with a spade, in the presence
ver
The homicide has escaped from justice.
tl4 k e was a decided improvement in the price of cattle at
141,141:3' r
td 21. of Ballinasloe held on Wednesday. Bullocks
. The 7'; per head on the' prices of last October.
I,turaefflPshire Chronicle states that guano is being mann-
LlonQ 'n immense quantities in Liverpool, from sand,
t(hits rublr.aste, sulphate of ammonia, and a brown substance.
e:Ple atinsh, costing a mere trifle, is sold to careless country
u. 4/. r t
`o ~i• per ton, while the genuine guano is worth
Th-e 7" and 8/.
°Nit. tooemasons of North and South Shields are on the
l strikin ,
to 11 i, for an advance of wages. Their demand is
The tm•le• per week.
Llbolit Duke of Cleveland has given 100/. to the schools
.erca4l'"e attached to the collegiate church, Wolverhamp-
P'the ,oteorne a subscriber of 20/. per annum.
ie hareslte of Sutherland has given permission to destroy
1,.114410;
iisra:lAbeY farms
emina jeufrihouisstteon.atbnetsmi.nthe parish of Trent-
"•ecle 'I",(Y the sale of drawings made by the late Sir A.
rsoks, ott was concluded at Messrs. Christie and Blanson'ss
~Ne. aOf ,Xing. street, St. James's. The number of lots di :
'led b uoring the four days was 594, and the amount re few .p y them Was u • ds of 1 500/ The following are al' L those
ItZirlt'" 11 col which fetched large' pric'es:—A " View of the
is. oured drawing, sold at 581. 16s. ; seven small
4n. iZ 4od English compositions in one frame sidd for
tkcs''; an English landwape, with a village in the dis-
tilthil azld cows watering in the foreground so.ldr f_o_r_tshiarst.ye.-
tigint.gTneas• Various other drawings sold t° sums
guine,as
*eree°Trt five '
he, Sir %.,`". Bciauirraelalf,
do ° liar to 25/. the ur_chLana-
s
aser
t
s‘isco.rthampton,Amonhe Marquis of

FATAL . lEAND.
Au'4431..1vi ACCIDENT TO COLONEL SHELTON,
-.IIIANDING THE 44T11 REGIMENT.
h,,, eonta_
the
We are deeply concerned to. .have
hc, fears tornunicate the particulars of an awful, and it is to
4-I`._ fatal, accident to the Gallant Colonel of the
_lt 4egiment, which occurred yesterday evening in the
%ne Richmond Barracks. The regiment had been
ordered for an evening• CutOnel Shelton txpressPedarhadisei
and at t.wo o'cl at four ' 4 ck, at which
ock went out to ride: toin°llAoodctibouetianngt present,Philips
his own, not being
horser
extensive,
one of the squares of tihne
the horse shied '
lbstgli
iithjough an. arch-way, are very
barracks, which.
good health. On going
too_lo.ne.l
pilot which is also, and ran away, and on pass-
lFo°t,
st ruck
quarteredthe cook
re-house
enof thethe
;as thrown, and the horse fell heavily upon him.
4,;l44rg.raised up the Colonel was found to be badly
I,° ed in the back of tho head and over the. temples.
'4e ass quite insensible,
Zse.,4i.ate Medical assistanceano of the 44th,
detnhoetwauithestoannsding the im-
IZ_itstitio the 6th, the sufferer has neverrg recovered con-
va.".l_l.net!s. since. At three o'clock this day he was in a
),-,4,,d_ellitated state, and his dissolution was hourly ap-
dtqaed-7-all hope of recovery being entirely aban-
diksetottel Shelton was with the 44th all through the
*,14114/14 eamPaign in Affghanistan, and was one of the
vitaier ettPties. lie was at the battles of Roleis,
Able tilt and Corunna, and several of the mist remark-
_ 1t844- .gagernents in the Peninsula ; lse served in the
wviti,73:l. in Ca.nada in 1814, and was afterwards up-
101146„twenty years in India, where he was distin-
_ eli.','_
et?r valour and high military attainments.
4. t;IT ..I.Shelton lost his right arm at the capture of 17'4;7 ",Bn-
et°ek--Colonel Shelton is dead.
ziL .raa DipnanFt IN THE COUNTY MEATH.
ft noun` heda Al pis of yesterday contains the follow-
& thtt „ of a murder committed within a few miles
-4. d. ~oy,„
24,,, -ay i 4 ,_-- ----A murder was perpetrated last . Sa-
-a man'toe neighbourhood of Druinconra—the victim
4et ny. amed Clarke—the cause was that fruitful
Ittelta,d etzlne in this country, the taking of land. The
Vt'll a
_b
purer
and his brother had a dispute about a field,
0 Iyitcourer in the employment of his brother killed
itltticid4BPade in the presence of his brother. The
'''llsed _as QBeaped from justice. The remains of the
were interred last Tuesday.
,_.. 4.llEtt BRUTAL ATTEMPT
4„,
AT MURDER.
!if 4 el/4
kte ,B,,,ny..atiritß, SATURDAY.—Yesterday the neighbourhood
aft. greatentettGreat Ancoats, in this town, was thrown
N:r. bn possible state of alarm by the discove of
fae7tr4toit,l 4,i1(1 premeditated attempt at murder. [he
4114tbt itir t9'e deed—for in evtry sense of the word, as
1%4' " thee
~ Iltion of the murder was concerned, it was a
-rat, - Willi deepest dye—is a man about 26 years of age,
4 e.th, ~.. an' brooks This morning he was brought up
tg°Yile,g,'"gistrate by Mr. Superintendent Sawley, of the
latt • Itilarged with cutting the throat of Mary Ann
-r and appeared from the evidence produced that the
1141,rf0.r
some victim 'victim had lived together as man and
N 041:1,, ille liv",,tune, but had recently been separated.
'er•lirid.e‘i at e+
house of ill- fame in Henry-street,
-1.4t1-`l,llVinaY in°raing 13rooks came to the house to see 'knit ; •4111 w: learned that she was there in bed, he N' tirl atY nt. stairs to her room, where he foundher
_
~I)s.i.te' Aoki: thci tillil.,e name of Taylor. The latter left the
ttelo. nelled Isener after some time expressed a wish to
eIA 'lon ,h to the Young woman. In the course of con-
lte It;ialThtretup.o4...3lc.ed him to round
her a
ClreZ, 'orliet4"„" he put his arm round her neck
.o
~.
"thei' 4 ray, "r she was without. Whilst in this position
t feneelckas-
Nikt long. ,?,•,!Icross her neck, and inflicted a wound several
ON,, %t .411,ne poor girl staggered out of the room, am
.etiy going
illurde!!', and
tarad %karat P stairs she threw herself into her arms per-
on one of the inmates of the
ttrr e 4 rltl.theedllvvoith blood. Medical aid was. instantly pro-
-0,44 the Ro Id sewed up, after which she was con-
' to pewee —34 Infirmary in a state of insensibility.
. ANN Ile wen uLternpted to escape, but on being charged
IWitr,t4(l hilt"' said " Yes, I have done the deed ; I have
litki b op hilirY Ann, and can now die in peace." The pri-
' tk IC,' atte"arnination, manifested perfect indifference,
~,E1,41-Ziles(4l)t4d to deny the charge. He was remanded
Itl v,;:141 Nivir till the fate of his victim was known.
704,,,,z kffe4l;-- On inquiry at the Infirmary the poor
WrecAnVerY severely, but still alive, with a slight
~,•t,r, rY'
ot illet-.14,„__
RidNi kYT .-'''4"AL ON THE OFFICERS AND CREW OF
Mths—frZ,lCZA court-martial was held yesterday, on
e,,,1-"'lle,serl"P St. 'Vincent in pi t mouth Harbour. It
,kotiii'llteilder4)f the following'office;rs sviz.:—Rear Admiral
itte)*. of the/13'de Parker Cll P'resident ; Captain G.
Aile Lo Victor •c't. "
lb,, t.
Ado r Adai„h.,.._.apCorry of tbe Superb
tZte Capt. 1,'„1._ Fitzclarence, of the Victoria and
ret 111 .Icate Air'l.r, Thomas Hastings, of the Excellent ;
1. atelrer Gear • kneatharn, Esq. ; to try Lieutenant-
-11-8%1, 4ejesty,egit Alorris, the officers and ship's company
bat 4 hall'iihe detai;'ete brig Skylark, for the loss of the sai,cl
t.k to44e -een ,e_ d account of her loss on St. Alban a
"'tit. . reBlr7snteici .
%Lean uently before the üblic It appeared tbat,
.141tvi,_.ndmater
Orgyth aod eof the P. • •
illness of Lieut. Morris, the whole
kstk Vte4,l 8 oility of the navigation and conduction
hou.l'ilr. Willianvi gHenry Crane (acting)
inharltVlce p , earing all the evidence, and a short but
nerane, the Court, after a short trle aHi no P n that due precaution had 1:1;t;he Skylark, particularly in Mr-
tlZki4B:4(i?„,:ll,7ll'elr'nevgig4ahYtatd tha lead constantly going; they,
I 14141 • erieed If
114 nab, ~ u hire to be dismissed her Majesty's service,
tea.ligr!,
t-s-t„,ae. • Morris and ship's company. Mr. Crane
~Itir;l:td aaievtenis unfortunate occurrence, to have been
:t b , (°llB / r and correct officer.
5q;1441.....1,1-Lictss 0E (3, - SIR GEORGE
ilni°l;teke
deoe'kliosoNrvriitihi Nincele reEk,,reELllNNA'eLhaveto state that
'^tti. e,i'llfia Tice, St;a,,e_s seriously, we fear dangerously ill,
wi.ths !. to his -6anagh Castle, near Bray. He has
ikvze ak tittle iii bt,,roorri for nearly a month—the greater
•ht bed We believe that Sir George is one, '.41 ht the British =v.—Dublin Likening

TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD

ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.
My dear Lord,—lt was natural that the House of
Commons should hear with admiration, not uniningled
with surprise, your clear and able statement u,)on cur
Scottish poor-laws. That tho former feeling should be
general was no more than all your friends anticipated
when they learned by whom the subject was to be pre •
sented to the House ; and the latter was the equally na-
tural result of the ignorance which too widely prevails in
the Legislature regarding the institutions of a country
which, pursuing the peaceful career of industry and im-
provement, has not, by agitating and perplexing men's
minds, compelled, as it were, every citizen of the State
to a more accurate and unavoidable acquaintance with
them.

An obvious disadvantage, however, attends this good
reputation, and it has been frequently visible in the
little attention which has been given to the discussion in
Parliament of Scottish questions ; and, so strongly 'im-
pressed am I with this fact, that in a matter of such
mportaace, great and inconvenient as are the evils of
delay, it were far better, as I th'nk, that any measure on
this subject should be well considered in this session,
with a view to its being passed in the next, rather than
that, in the short interval of two months, it should at
once become the law of the land.

In addressing to you some thoughts upon the Bill
which you have brought in, I am well aware that I
do so under every disadvantage, especially when I state
objections to any part of it.
The current of popular feeling is, at the present mo-
ment, against any one who may do so, and my language
may be attributed to feelings of self-interest, to which I
do not pretend to be insensible, but which Ido not in
the least fear your assigning to me to any undue extent;
while, I entertain a hope that a long residence in the
north of Scotland, and I know not why I should not say
it, a devotion of at least an average contribution to the
claims of poverty and sickness, may, where I am known,
procure for me a similar acquittal.
Premising, then, that in what I have to advance, I
speak solely with refi rence to rural and landward pa-
rishes, and chiefly, though by no means exclusively, to
those in the Highlands.
1. I fear that it is not by many very clearly seen,
what may be the effect in such districts of the new law ;
and that a result ruinous to the landholders, and, conse-
quently, to other classes, will arise from the endeavour
to raise its superstructure too exactly upon the Hide
and straggling, and, as now considered, the uncer-
tain base of the old one ; and the difficult endea-
vour to make one enactment serve alike for north and
south, for town and country. I take at once, as a
fair instance, a parish near this, and presenting no very
peculiar features.
In this parish, it has been the practice of the Kirk-
session to endeavour to give aid to as great a number
as possible of those who appeared to require it, and
though the sums given are not large, there will, in these
twelve months, have been so relieved, about 180 persons
or families.
I may here observe, that should it be said that all
these cannot possibly be bona fide paupers, I reply that
it has not been the usage of Kirk-sessions in the High-
lands to be guided by the most rigid rules
.as to this.
In truth, they are not without excuse ; for it has so long
been held, and by no mean authorities, that parochial
relief in Scotland is given rather as an aid than for
maintenance ; that it_ is not wonderful, that small as
these funds frequently are, they are often very widely
diffused ; and I will not assert, that possibly an English
Poor-law Commissioner might not say, on examination
of this list, " I find of these 180, not more, according to
the Scots law, than 40 real paupers—of these 10 should
have out-door relief ; 30 should go to the workhouse ;
and as for the other 140, they may be poor, but they are
not paupers." He might, however, come to a very dif-
ferent conclusion, and, at all events, the numbers re-
lieved in the parish are as I have stated.
Of course, there are diversities of condition among
these ; but I take it there are few of them who could
not make out a board of gentlemen sitting in Edinburgh,
a case of poverty. The distinction between the regular
poors' roll and that of the occasional poor, it may be
remarked , has in practice never been much attended to
in the Highlands, the poor being rather disposed in
classes, according to the amount paid to them, than
divided into two distinct sections ; and under these cir-
cumstances, there is not one of these recipients who, in
the present day at least, would not call himself a pauper,
or be so called by the agent who might take him by pe-
tition to the Supreme Court.
If; then, with the numbers of the poor thus deter-
mined under the whole law, you proceed under the new
law to adjust their rates of allowance, let us see what
will be the result in this parish.
Five guineas is, I believe, a fair quotation of the eve •
rage annual sum which the promoters of these changes
demand from each individual or family.

This gives 9451. and the expense of management, me-
dical attendance, and education of poor children being
added, it is clear that 1,0001. will not be an over-esti-
mate. The nett land rental of the parish, or rather the
rental after. paying Kirk, King, assessments for prisons,
roads, &c., ordinary management, and unavoidable re-
pairs, may be stated at 2,700/. Ido not deduct mort-
gages incurred in improving the productiveness of the
soil, legal provisions to widows and children, bad debts,
or any of those ordinary drawbacks which a liberal pro-
prietor may well consider unavoidable ; but, taking the
nett rental as I have stated it, the charge for the poor
will b^ 37 pr cent. I am, of course, aware that part of
this is payable by the tenantry nominally, but, it is very
obvious, really by the landlords—and as for what is ex-
igible from feuars and the like, it will not in many in-
stances be worth collecting.
These, in varying proportions and degrees, I know to
be the circumstances, not of one, but of fifty parishes,
or, possibly, many more ; and I desire to assure you,
that I am unconscious of exaggeration in my statement.
Its correctness is well known to hundreds, who, how-
ever, are, unfortunately, not legislators, and will only
be attempted to be denied or explained away by those
who, being acquainted with none but more wealthy
countries, are ignorant of it ; or by others who may be
seeking no more than a ()heap reputation for philan-
Lb ropy.
I may be told that lam more alarmed than is neces-
sary ; that things will not be so very bad ' • that we
may have implicit faith in the board, and so forth. It
may be so ; but this assurance will hardly have much
value till the figures I have given are disproved ; and,
as to the proposed board, several of whom are my
valued friends, while I beg to say of one and all of
those who as yet compose it, that Ido not think it
possible to select, in the kingdom, the same number of
individuals, better fitted by character and ability, for
this or any similar duty ; nevertheless, as I cannot tell
how long we may have their services, and am equally
ign irant of the rules by which they or their successors
may he guided, I must be permitted to express my be-
lief, that few will be content to hold their estates under
any such doubtful tenure.
But, if such be the state of matters in parishes like
the one I have referred to, what will be the fate of many
who possess estates in the north-west Highlands and
Islands ? I firmly believe, that in many of these the
nett rental will not give to the whole of those whom the
kirk session would wish to relieve, any thing approach-
ing to the allowance which is contended for ; and, if
this be so, there can be but one result. Such of these
nufortunate proprietors as have no other source of in-
come, must follow the footsteps of those whom the an-
nihilation, by legislation, of the kelp manufacture, drove
to Australia and elsewhere, of whom several occur to
my memory, at this moment, and will, as readily, to
yours.
The owner of ten thousand a-year may contrive to
surrender 37 per cent. ; the owner of one thousand can
hardly do so ; and the natural unwillingness of all men
to descend, in their own neighbourhood, from the top to
the bottom of the social scale, will cause their estates to
to be handed over to their creditors, who will become
known to the residents or them, only through the medium
of an agent, whose more stringent management may per-
haps induce them to doubt if they have, after all, been
gainers by the change—while the undrained, neglected,
and wood-stripped soil, and ruined mansion, will remind
sober and patriotic observers how possible it is in legis-
lation for zeal to outrun discretion.

2. When giving evidence before the Royal Commis-
sioners in 1843, I stated it as my opinion, that paupers
in the Highlands, especially able bodied ones, would ge-
nerally refuse to go into poor-houses or work-houses. I
am still inclined to think so as to some cases. _

More recent inquiries, however, have induced me very
much to modify this opinion, and I have lately heard a
greater willingness to do so expressed by poor persons
in my immediate neighbourhood, than I had anticipated.
If this be so, there can be no doubt that a means of
keeping the expenditure within something like endu-
rable bounds may thus be attained, while it is universally
admitted that there are many classes of the poor, the
solitary, the infirm, the idle, and the dissolute, for
whom such relitf is the most efficient.
Should such houses be encouraged, I trust, however,
that the Board of Supervision will find some mode of
sparing parishes the heavy charges for architect's bills,
in which the counties are mulcted in the erection of
prisons ; and that the Board, having procured such
variety of plans as may suit all parts of the country,
parishes may be allowed to remain unacquainted with
the architects who drew them ; and permitted or
directed, by the Board itself, to build new, or improve
old, houses to the form and scale presented to them.
3. I have long been of opinion that a valuable and
useful test of pauperism exists, which does not appear to
have excited sufficient observation, and which may be

turned to good account.
I allude to the possession of land. I do not wish to
enter into a discussion on what is called the allotment
system, nor of many topics connected with it; but I
think that the possession at a fair rent, the limit of
which may easily be specified, of a certain portion of
land—l leave to others to say how much—should be
held to disqualify the individual, or any of his family,
who holds it, from claiming parochial relief, and that
the receipt of such relief should at once put an end to
his holding.
Such an enactment would, on the one hand, much
relieve the landlord, who has land to give, and not
money ; while, on the other, it would be a protection to
the pt or from those cjectmcnts of which we have heard
s-..; much it, Ireland, and even in Scotland.
To close these remarks, I beg leave to make the fol-
lowing suggestions—:
1. That it be expressly enacted, that the receipt of
relief; under the existing law, shall, in itself, constitute
no claim whatever under the new one ; but that the
local Board, or the paid inspector, be directed, as the
first act of their administration, to make a new survey,
and submit, to the general Board, their opinion as to
those who come, in le.w, strictly under the denomination
of paupers ; dividing these into two classes, viz., those
to whom out of-door relief is more suitable, and may
safely be given, and those to whom a Puer-house is a
more fitting asylum.
2. That in all parishes, without exception, a poor-
house be permitted, and that unions of parishes, for this
=fie, be also allowed, without limitation as to popu-
•; .0411 Oilitinbttildiup may bs paniporanty