The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-14 00:00:00

SUN, LON

JAMAICA.—The Jamaica Journal gives the follow-
ing account of the works on this line :—" To com-
mence at the sea, we may state that it is intended to
throw out a wharf with sheet piling, so as to form a
sea-wall, having a depth of water of eight feet ; from
this will be extended a bridge-wharf, thirty feet wide,
at the end of which there will be twenty-five feet
water, so that vessels of the largest class will be able
to load and unload at the extreme end, whilst smaller
craft will come up as far as the end of the piling.
There is already much land in the locality that has
been recently made ; and on the large space of land
to the east of the wharf, there will be erected yarious
capacious storehouses for the different descriptions of
merchandise. Proceeding across Harbour-street to the
north, we found a large workshop, the walls of which
were erected and the roof commenced; further on,
the engine and machinery used in Paynesing timber.
Upon the large area, formerly a burial-ground, will
be erected the various depots for loading and unload-
ing the trains, conveying cattle, grass, &c. The sta-
tion for passengers will be on the frontage in Bour-
don-street, near which it has been suggested a com-
modious hotel should be erected. With respect to the
work performed on the road, it is impossible for the
most casual observer not to notice, that perhaps in no
previous instance in Jamaica has so much labour been
performed in so short a period. The line runs through
a densely-wooded country, on which grow thick un-
derwood, and here and there large cotton trees and
other timbers, the size of which would astonish per-
sons who are not aware of the immense magnitude
these trees attain in the tropics. The entire line
has been cleared ; a considerable portion of the cut-
tings and embankments are finished; and more than
half of the entire road is levelled, ready for laying the
rails. The monster difficulty of the undertaking, the
embankment at Hunt's Bay, has been conquered, the
embankment being nearly finished ; this portion of
the labour, it will be remembered, was pronounced
by certain wise heads to be impracticable. The only
brick bridge on the line (at Greenwich pen) is al-
ready in a forward state, and other bridges are also
commenced. The Rio Cobre will be crossed three
times. The longest bridge, which will be 120 feet
in length, is to be erected at St. John's New Cut, near
the Caymanas. There is also a mile of the road per-
manently completed, and it is believed that within six
or seven months the road will be finished, and passen-
gers whirled to or from Spanish Town in some twenty
minutes. The utmost activity prevails—nearly 1,000
persons being employed on the work ; and for the
information of the friends of those parties who come
from Merrie England,' we may add that they are all
in the best possible health and spirits."

nesday a meeting was held in the Town-hall of New
Ross, Charles Tottenham, Esq., of Macmurrough,
J. P., in the chair, when resolutions were proposed
and spoken to by Mr. R. Heily, the Rev. Mr. Brenan,
Mr. James Galavan, Mr. E. Hay, Mr. M. Howett,
Mr. E. Carr, Mr. T. Brehan, Rev. J. Crane, Mr. H.
Costello, Mr. E. Chaprnan,!and others, to the effect that
the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Com-
pany having, by their late plans and specifications,
departed essentially from those detailed in the pros-
pectuses, the meeting do determine to give that line
every legitimate opposition in their power, fully con-
curring in the opinion expressed by the Board of
Trade—" That the line between Wexford and Carlow,
though complete in itself, is likely to be more costly
than its traffic may justify, and that the Wexford,
New Ross, and Valentia line, demands the warmest
support, as opening a direct communication from New
Ross, through thepouth-western districts, to the har-
bour of Valentia.'

ON, VUI;IINESDAY EVENING-,, MAY 14 1845.

Names. Guns. Commenced.
Te.ge ....
Fleurus.... IOO
Ulm .
DugluT-tVonin
Hanibal
Turenne
Henry rv.
Navarin
Austerlitr
Wagraat
Eylau ...., IOO
Dugueselin
Bayard . .
Donawertit
Fontenoy
Breslau -
Tilsitt
Hector .
Spectre...
Castiglione

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FRIGATES BUILDING.
Names. Guns. Commenced.
Renomnvie
Perseverente
Vengeanoe
Entrepren ante
Semiramio
Duchesse d'Orleans
Nemesis
Zenobie
Alceste
Pandore
Sibylle
Bellone
liagicienne
Amazons
Astree
Heliopolis
Jeanne d'Arc
Clorinde
Pomone
Algerie
C ORVEI-ri ES BUILDING.

Bayonnaise
Galatee . .

Artemise
SCHOONERS BUILDING.

Jonquille
Amarante
STEAM-FRIGATES BUILDING.
Names. Guns. Horse-power.
Mogador
Vauban 2O
Sane
Platon
STEAM-CORVETTES BUILDING.
Colbert
Socrato
Roland ...
Catinat
Comte d'Eu
Cassina
Caton . 6 ... 220
Chaptal
Coligny
Newton ...
STEAMERS BUILDING OF 160 HORSE-POWER AND UNDER.
Brandon
Solon
Eelaireur ....
Dauphin
Requin
Petrel
Salamander
Passe-partout
VESSELS ORDERED TO BE LAID DOWN IN 1846.
Frigates. Guns. Brigs. Guns.
Resonle
Isis
Ceres
Janus
STEAM CORVETTES.

Names. Guns. Horse-power.
Tissiphore, iron
Tanger, iron
SMALL STEAMERS.

Monet te, iron
Goeland, iron
Heron, iron

80
80
80

A recapitulation of the above tables gives the follow
ing results :
VESSELS IN COMMISSION.—Line-of-battle ships, 8 ;
Frigates, 13; viz., 3 of 60, 1 of 58, 6 of 52, 1 of 46, and
2of 40 guns. Corvettes or sloops, 15 ; viz., 7of 30, 6of
24, and 2of 20 guns. Brigs, 27 ; viz ,13 of 20, lof 16;
Bof 10, and sof 8 guns. Steam-frigates, 3 ; viz , 1 of
540 horse-power, and 2 of 450 horse-power. Steam-
corvettes, 8 ; viz., 1 of 32.) horse-power, and 7 of 220
horse-power. Other steamers, 42 ; viz., 24 of 160
horse-power, 3 of 120 horse-power, and 15 of 80 and 70
horse-power. Besides these vessels there are 33 armed
transports carrying from 20 to 10 guns each, and 38
gunboats and cutters in commission and belonging to
the French Royal Navy.
VESSELS EN COMMISSION DE RADE.—Line-of battle
ships, 5; viz. 2of 120, lof 100, and 2of 90 guns. Fri-
gates, 3 ; viz. 2of 52, and one of 46 guns. Corvettes,
lof 24 guns. Brigs, 3of 20 guns. Steamers, lof 450
horse-power. Armed transports, 1 of 380 tons. Total-
-14 vessels en commission de rade.

- -
VESSELS DE COMMISSION DE PORT.—Line-of-battle
ships, 3; viz. 1 of 90, and 2of 82 guns. Frigates, 4;
viz. 2of 60, lof 50, and lof 46 guns. Steamers, 17;
viz. 13 of 450 horao-power, and 4 of 220 horse-power.
Armed transports, 2. Total-26 vessels en commission
de port.
VESSELS DISMANTLED.—Line-of-battle ships, 7; viz.
lof 90, 3of 86, and 2of 82 guns. Frigates, 10; viz. 4
of 60, 3of 52, lof 46, and 2of 40 guns. Corvettes, 5;
viz. 2of 28, lof 20, and 2of 16 guns. Brigs, 26; viz.
7 of 20, 1 of 18, 1 of 16, 13 of 10, and 4 of 8 guns.
Armed transports, 12. Gunboats, 9. Total—GO ves3e!s
dismantled.

VESSELS BUILDING.—Line•of battle-ships, 23 ; viz.,
3of 120, 11 of 100, and 9 of 90 guns. Frigates, 20:
viz ,6 of GO, 9of 52, and sof 40 guns. Corvettes, 3of
30 guns. Cutters, 2of 6 guns. Steamers, 22; viz., 1
of 640 horse-power. 1 of 540 horse-power, 2 of 450
horse-power, 5 of 3'20 horse-power, 5 of '220 horse-
power, 6 of of 160 horse-power, 1 of 120 horse-power,
and 1 of 80 horse-power. Ten of these vessels are to be
launched this year ; viz, 2 40-gun frigates ; 2 cutters ;
1 steam frigate of 540 horse-power; 2 steam-corvettes
of 320 horse power; 1 steamer of 220, and 3 of 160
horse-power. Twelve more are likewise ordered to be
Ilunched next year, viz, 3 30-gun corvettes; 2 steam-
frigates of 450 horse-power; 3 steam corvettes of 220
horse-power; 2of 160 horse power; 1 of 120 horse-power,
and 1 of 80.
VESSELS ORDERED TO BE LAID DOWN IN 1846.
Three 40-gun frigates; four 18-gun brigs; two steam-
corvettes of 220 horse-power, and three iron steamers of
80 horse-power. These last three are to be launched fit
1846. In conclusion, it may be as well to remark that
the French Royal Navy afloat is composed of 299 vessels
of all classes.

QUICK-MARCH.

—Morning Posf.

SCOTTISH POOR-LAW.
(From the Times.)
The course taken on Wednesday night with the Bill
for amending the Scottish Poor-law may be considered
somew kit ominous. Bills are now rapidly approaching
their s-ckly season, and if those which are likely to elicit
awkward disclosures and inconvenient discussions can
only be staved off until then, they may, in the hurry
and impatience incidental to that season, slip quietly
through unnoticed. In many cases such an event would
be a matter of indifference, but this question is essen-
tially one of fact; we have the theory already. The
Lord-Advocate declared, on the first reading of his Bill,
that " the existing law made full provision for the sup-
port of the poor; and it put into the hands of those who
had the administration of the law the power of assessing
to any extent necessary for the purpose." The question
then is, how has this " power of assessing" been ex'-r-
-cised, and this " full provision" for the support of the
poor been acted on? These most essential parts of the
subject his Lordship did not find it convenient to en-
large on.
We admit, in reference to the course taken, that it
may not be reasonable to expect a high public func-
tionary to lay bare the leprous sores of his country before
the public gaze, and to exhibit in detail her cankerous
members—except where the question raised is on the
proper treatment of these very cankers, which cannot be
fairly treated in the dark, even though a jury of matrons
may have already fumbled over the case, and sagely re-
ported thereon. Such a decision not being final, and the
whole question having been transferred to another tri-
bunal, whose voice will be heard, whatever acts may be
practised to elude its vigilance or smother its indignation,
we have a right to expect as many of the facts of the
case as may be necessary for the due information of
those who are deficient in local experience.
It would, in most cases, be absurd to attempt to draw
any strong line of distinction between the prevailing
feelings of the inhabitants of the north side of the
Tweed and those of the south ; but in this particular
case the line has been drawn by the constituted autho-
rities of our northern neighbours themselves. They
have somewhat ostentatiously claimed the distinction of
managing their poor on the most approved principles of
political economy, as embodied in the concise declaration
" that a provision for the poor creates much of the
misery which it relieves, but does not relieve all the
misery which it creates." They have referred to their
own practical illustration of this doctrine as a stupendous
effort of wisdom, and it must be admitted that they have
worked out their theory with a frightful consistency, un-
appalled by those destructive consequences which would
have induced philosophers of any other school to revise
their creed.

Without keeping the foregoing prominently in view,
we may seem almost without a motive in urging on
English Members of Parliament that this, although a
local question, must mainly depend on their advocacy
and support. Not that any lack of humanity among
heritors and Kirk Sessions is to be assumed : the Lord-
Advocate tells us the contrary. He says that the exist-
ing state of things " was not owing to any absolute or
hard-hearted refusal to give relief—it was not from an
unwillingness to disburse for the maintenance of the poor
—there was no general indisposition to a charitable feel-
ing in Scotland."
Thus there is an abundant stock of humanity
among those in authority there ; but then it is the
humanity of political economists, as expounded in
Edinburgh more than seventy years since, in the follow-
ing pithy sentence by Lord Karnes, in his " Sketches
of the Progress of Man in Society :"—" If by neglect
or oversight any happen to die of want, the example
will tend more to reformation than the most
pathetic discourse from the pulpit," Here is a sound
exposition of economical humanity! and no deficiency
of such can be alleged at the present day, either in
theory or practice; it is, therefore, a question of qualltr)