The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-03 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDERS BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE GO-

VERNOH-SENZRAL IN COUNCIL.

Fort William, May 5, 1929.
1. In obedience to orders from the Honourable the
Court of Directors, the following reductions will be carried
into effect, simultaneously, at the three Presidencies, on
the sth of June, proximo.

2. Two troops of each regiment of Light Cavalry, and
two companies of each regiment of Native Infantry of the
Line, with two Lieutenants and one Cornet or Ensign in
each.

3. The European and Native Non-commissioned Officers
and privates, extra to the new establishment, to serve in
their respective ranks and regiments as Supernumeraries,
until absorbed by casualties. The established strength of
troops of Light Cavalry to be seventy privates, and of
companies of Native Infantry, eighty privates each, from
the above date.

4. A proportionate reduction of Officers, namely—two
Lieutenants, and one Second Lieutenant or Ensign, to be
likewise made in each battalion of Engineers or Artillery,
and in each European regiment Of Infantry ; these Super-
numerary Officers will be absorbed in the same manner as
directed for those in the Cavalry and Native Infantry in
the foregoing paragraph.
5. The revised establishment of European Officers for
each regiment of Cavalry and Infantry, and for each batta-
lion of Engineers and Artillery of the three Presidencies,
will consist of-3 Colonels, 1 Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 Major,
5 Captains, 8 Lieutenants, 4 Second Lieutenants, Cor-
nets, or Ensigns.

6. The additional Major of Engineers, granted to Ma-
dras and Bombay by the foregoing regulation, to complete
the Officers of that corps to two battalions at each Presi-
dency, will have effect from the sth proximo.
The Right Hon. the Commander-in-Chief will be
pleased to issue such subsidiary orders as may be necessary
for giving effect to the foregoing reductions in the Army
under the Presidency of Bengal.
(Signed) WM. CASEMENT, Lieut.-Colonel,
See, to Govt. Mily. Department.

TOM CRIBB'S Dwarf died on Friday after-
noon last, at the Union Anus, Panton-street, Haymarket,
aged 38. He had latterly got very fat, and of very lethar-
gic habits ; his death was, however, occasioned by the
rupture of a blood-vessel. He was about three feet five
inches in height, and used to wait upon the customers in
the parlour, who were generally very kind to him.

DROWNING OF A SMUGGLER.—A few days
since a melancholy result attended an affair which at once
shows the hazard and ingenuity of the English smug-
glers in the furtherance of their traffic. A man named
EDWARD PRESCOTT, a native of Dover, well known from
having, by the accidental bursting of a gun, lost one hand
some time since, was discovered lying dead on the sand in
the upper part of Calais harbour on Wednesday morning :
two pieces (S cot k were affixed, one on his chest, the
other on his back, and some small casks and packets con-
taining cotton and thread, with lashing, floating near him.
It is conjectured that, in order to evade the officers of
Douane in introducing this prohibited article into France,
he had committed himself and cargo to the water, from
some craft at the entrance of Calais harbour, in the night,
when the tide was running in, and had floated up with his
head just above water more than half a mile; that be-
coming exhausted and overcome with cold, and probably
entangled among the pillars of a wooden bridge across
the harbour, from which having but one hand, he was un-
able to extricate himself, he consequently perished. It is
supposed he had a partner in the business, whose opera-
tions upon a like plan were successful. PRESCOTT has
left a wife and several children.

BARNSLEY, THURSDAY NIGHT. This
once-flourishing manufacturing market-town is now as
quiet as a country village. I have just returned from a
meeting of the unemployed weavers, held on Barebones;
and although it is now about twenty weeks since they have
had any employment, they appear as determined as ever to
stand out, should they, their wives, and families, perish
with hunger. At the meeting, this afternoon, the 2d of
June list was exhibited, on which three cheers were given,
and they all decided that they would forfeit their existence
sooner than work for any prices less than those. One of
the weavers, named JAMES NEWTON, addressed the meet-
ing at considerable length. A resolution was passed that
no journeyman was to work with any " black sheep," and
that all strangers coming to the town should be urged to
pursue the same course. They declared, that if they 'were
to be taken to York Castle, they were prepared to go there
cheerfully. After 'being exhorted to keep the peace, the
meeting adjourned ter the fallowing day.... York Berabi,

We find with much pleasure that the opiniong
we have expressed of an actual improvement, in
the woollea trade have been publicly confirmed
by a gentleman whose authority no one will di,-
pute---,namely, Mr. Gervase Walker, the well-
known trustee of the Leeds Cloth flails. Mr.
Walker stated, at the dinner on opening the
Leeds Commercial Buildings, on Wednesdays
that an improvement had already taken place in
the trade, and that. he expected a still further

improvement. The candour and openness of
this intelligent manufacturer are highly honour-
able to him. There is a too general proneness
in mercantile men, when their trade is labouring
under difficulties, to give way to feelings of des-
pondency; they feel their embarrassments so
acutely, that they lose hope, and imagine every
thing is going to ruin. They are even impatient
with those- who recognise and proclaim the early
symptoms of improvement, and think those the
most honest and trust-worthy persons whose
complaints are the most loud and unmeasured.
They are in precisely the same situation as a
man labouring under a.nervous disorder, who,
thqugh really ill, imagines himself still worse than
he is---who, as the complaint has seized upon
his nerves and spirits, fancies every thing that is
distressing and dreadful—who will not be per-
suaded that there is no danger, and only needs
time antl!care to re-invigorate his constitution,
and is clownright
.tulgry..vvith all who show him
the unrtageriableness of his fears--whose

ness of spirits, though at first an effect of indis-
position, becomes a positive disorder in itself,
and the cause of-increased illness—and who, if
he could but be persuaded to take heart and
hope, would find himself already half cured.
We are very far from denying or concealing
the oppressive difficulties under which trade has
been, and still is to a great degree labouring.
The depreciation of all commodities within the
last ten months has been ♦ery great, and must
have severely .tried the merchants and dealers,
who had considerable stocks of goods. Those
who have continued to manufacture or to sell

have done it to little or no profit, and often to
heavy loss. Foreign markets have been glutted,
and the home market has been dull and insecure.
Money has been extremely scarce, and bad debts
fearfully abundant. No acknowledged improve-
ment has vet taken place in prices or wages.
We have watched this state of things with
anxious attention, and whilst in our capacity of
Editors, whose duty it is to inform the public
accurately, we have always communicated the
results which very extensive means of informa-
tion have made us acquainted with, we have been
most desirous of witnessing some change for the
better. In all our communications concerning
the state of trade, we have represented what we
believed to be the simple truth. We could have
no motive but the public good. And if' we per.
ceived and proclaimed the first dawnings of im-
provement andbeforeent
mtheerycahn'etrie elfet?olthd. we can now
appeal ima;
nufacturing
appeal to notorious facts, and to the evidence of
practical men like Mr—Walker, acquainted with
the trade of the whole district, in confirmation of
the accuracy of our statements. _

We utterly deny that there is any wisdom,
propriety, or patriotism in representing things as
worse than they are, or in any way disguising the
plain truth. When trade declines, it is the duty
of a journalist to say so ; when it revives, it is as
obviously his duty to proclaim the fact. To
conceal or misrepresent facts may sometimes an-
swer a sinister purpose, but it can promise no
honest interest. It is bad to cherish false hopes ;
it is, if possible, worse to increase a panic, and
to aggravate despondency into despair. We
have always, therefore, made known to the people
of the Riding, and of the country at large, the
real state of trade, according to. the best of our
knowledge and belief; and we shall continue to
do so.

At present it is our pleasing duty to endea-
your to persuade the mercantile int( rests that
there is a real improvement in trade, and to en-
courage them to raise their drooping heads.
For this purpose we point to the state of the
Leeds, Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford mar-
kets, where, for several weeks past, a very great
quantity of goods has been sold, and, we hope
and believe, though with small profit, yet not at
a loss. In Leeds most of the mills are fully
employed, and the opinion of the trustee of the
Cloth Hall must be received as unquestionable
evidence of the improvement experienced by the
domestic manufacturers bl the surrounding vil-
lages. An obvious impulse has been received
by the trade, and we sincerely hope that the
course of improvement thus begun will continue,
till the trade of this important district becomes
once snore not only brisk, but profitable and
flourishing.

SIIOCKING CASE.—Yesterday MARY MOR-
GAN, a girl only five years of age, was carried into the
Police-office in a most beastly state of intoxication, and to
all appearance dead, her extremities cold, and pulsation
ceased. The stomach pump was however applied with
excellent effect, and the wretched child is now in a fair
way of recovery. This it the fourth case of children whose
lives have been saved by the same application within the
last month.— Culedonian Mercury.

One of the navigators employed on the Sea
Wallachlressing a lad who was carrying a boat-4 announc-
ing some entertainment, asked him " how much he got a
week ?" " Three shillings," replied the boy. " And
your board r rejoined the other, pointing to the placard.
The younker, not comprehending his interrogator, respo,-
ded wi.h a sigh, " Ah, I wish I did."—Cork Constitutiore.

COUNTY MEETING.—At a general meeting
of the county of Perth, held in the Justiciary Hall, the
27th October, ROXIRT SMYTH, Esq., of Methven,
in the chair, a committee was appointed to correspond and
co-operate with the committees of the other counties of
Scotland, for accelerating the mails, and especially for im-
proving the road betwixt London and Edinburgh, consist-
ing of the Right Hon. Lerd NAIRNX, the Hon. Baron Sir
PATRICK MURRAY, Bart., the Hun. Baron Clerk RAT-
TRAY, Sir JOHN HAT, Bart., Mr. Sheriff 31'1CP-it, and
several otker gentlemen of the county residing in Edin-
burgh. Mr. SANDXMAN, of Springfield, Governor. It
is acknowledged that very great improvements have of
late years been effected in these great national objects, and
the exertions of the official gentlemen of the post-office
have been most praise-worthy. Still some acceleration is
practicable ; and assuredly, shortening the road betwixt
London And Edinburgh is most important. We have the
authority of that eminent engineer, Mr. TILFORD, for
saying that about 19 miles can be obtained in one direc-
tion ; 10 miles in another ; besides smaller abbreviations,
in all not less than 36 miles, or nearly a tenth part of the
whole distance, which will eventually shorten the corres-
pondence one day betwixt London and Perth.—Perth
Advertiser. -

In the Queen's County, on Sunday last, fire
policemen, conveying two rioters to a place of cenfinment
in the village of Ballyroan, were attacked Lv a mob, and
severely beaten. Two of the men were stabile)! with their
own bayonets, and the guns of the tvhola party were
broken, chiefly upon their own heads.—...4inttrick! Caron.
RXSIGNATIOX.--A widow wcrtitn of ttlfit
neighbourhood, why had hi en induced to beccuitibzeaAa'
Bible for the payment of five hundred.. pounds Maks)
who, on the following day, abscoudea, upetkvitift
that he was insolvent, and that _she mast plik, the monen:
replied, " Thank God I shall still have ens *Tired psinds-:Y
Itmt."...—Dtrenptctrt Telog ray&

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