The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-16 00:00:00

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OCIETY of ANTIQUARIES of LONDON.
SOMERSET-PLACE, Nov. 8,1842.
Notice is hereby giver., that the WEEKLY MEETINGS
of this SOCIETY will be RESUMED on Tuu RSDAY EVEN-
ING, the 17th inst., at the usual Hour.
NICHOLAS CARLISLE, Secretary.

CHILEAN LOAN.—With reference to the sr-
rangements which were adopted at a Public Meeting of
the HOLDERS of CHILEAN BONDS, held at the Lon-
don Tavern, on the 27th of May last, the undersigned Agents
for the Lean hereby give notice, that on and after Monday
the 21st inst., they will be ready to receive, for Conversion,
the existing Bonds of the Loan.
In exchange for the said Bonds, new Bonds will be issued
of 100/. each, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent. per
annum, and for the Dividends in arrear, Bonds of MO/. each,
bearing interest at the rate of three per cent. per annum, from
and after the 31st of March, 1847, will be .granted in the ratio
of 81/. for every original Bond of 1001., which shall be pre-
sented with its full complement of Coupons. For any frac-
tional parts of 100/. of dividends in arrear, certificates will be
granted, payable to bearer, which certificates, when presented
with other similar certificates, amounting in the aggregate to
100/., will be exchanged for a Bond of a 1001, of the New
Three per Cent. Stock.
The original Bonds must be left three clear days for exa-
mination, andeforwis of lists may be obtained, on application
at the Countinghouse of the Agents, No. 5, St. Mildred's-
Court. GEORGE and JAMES BROWN and Co.

Poultry, Nov. 10, 1834.
H. Each original Bond should contain 27 Arrear Cou,
pons to entitle the holder to receive Bonds of the New Three
per Cent. Stock, at the rate of 811. for every original Bond,
and a corresponding deduction will be mado for any Coupons
which may be deficient.

MATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,

FOR GRANTING
IFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &e.

No. 26. CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
.Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
DIRECTORS.
T. LAMM MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
J. Elliotson, M. D., F. R. S. John Rawson, Esq.
I
John Griffith Frith, Esq. John Riddle Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. I Clement Tabor, Esq.
• George Lungley, Esq. 1 Joseph Thompson, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. I Profesior Gl:aves,A.l3.l.F.R. S.
' • ACTUARY—W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F. ILA. S.
Elliotson, Al. D., F.V.S.
SU RGEOI,I--V. S. SyMps, Esq.
SoLscrroßs-L,Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Eweos, and Ostimanney.
smERs-,-Messrs. Glyn, Halifix, Alas, -and Co.

The MOSetational motives to Life" rissztatzei'are found in
the plan adopted by this Society ; viz. joined to a secure
provision at death for inheritors of the Assured, the Society
affords succour to the Assured himself (proportioned to pre-
vious payments) in the event of unforeseen reverses.
Annual Division of Profits.
F, FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
39, THROGMORTON-STREET, BANK.
EMPOWERED by SPECIAL ACT of PARLIAMENT,

Yarid 6 Will. IV. c. 76.

THOMAS FARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman.
WILLIAM LEAF, Es,q., Deputy Chairman.
William Banbury, Esq. Rupert Ingleby, Esq.
Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Ald.
Thomas Cam Esq. Jeremiah Filcher, sq. Sheriff
James Clift, Esq. of London and Middlesex.
The Right Hon. J. Humphery, Lewis Pocock, Esq.
M.P., Lord Mayor of London
CONSULTING ACTUARY—Professor Hall, of King's College.
Pursictort—Dr. je4ffreson, 2f Finsbury-square.
Stlacaox—W. Coulson, Esq.. 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
ADVANTAGES OF THE ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE

COMPANY.
Low Rates of Premium.

In addition to the subscribed Capital of £300,000, the As-
sured have the security of the. Company's income of £50,000
per annum, yearly increasing, and an accumulating Assurance
Fund invested in Government and other availaige securities,_
of considerably larger amount than the estimated liabilities of
the Company.
The rates of premium are reduced to the lowest scale com-
patible with the security of the Assured, and the stability of
the Company, thereby, in effect, giving to every Policy Holder
in immediate and certain Bonus without risk, in lieu of the
deferred and frequently delusive prospect of a periodical division
of Profits.

ANNUAL PREMIUM TO ASSURE £lOO.

ARNOLD MEMORIAL.
It is proposed hereby to Ct►MMEMORATE the
SERVICES of the late Dr. ARNOLD to the Cause of Edu-
cation, as Head Master of Rugby School.
First. By establishing a Scholarship, or some other Institu-
tion, for the Promotion of Sound Knowledge, to be called by
Dr. Arnold's name, either at Rugby or at Oxford—as here-
after may be deemed most expedient—to be enjoyed in the first
instance by Dr. Arnold's Sons in succession.
Secondly. By some Monumental Memorial in the Chapel at
Rugby. COMMITTEE.
His Excellency the Chevalier The Lord Delamere.
Bunsen. The Lord Wenlock.
The Archbishop of Dublin. The Lord Stanley, P.C., M.P.
The Duke of Sutherland. Sir Grey Skipwith, Bart.
The Earl of Denbigh, P.C. Mr. Justice Coleridge.
The Lord Bishop of Ripon. Rev. Provost of Oriel College.
The Lord Bishop of Norwich. The Ven. Archdeacon Hare.
Subscriptions will be' received by Messrs. Glyn and Co., or
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, Bankers, London: Par-
sons, Oxford ; Mortlock, Cambridge ; the National Bank of
Scotland, Edinburgh; Gray and Co., Dublin; Butlin and
Sons, Rugby.
It is requested that in all cases where convenient the sums
subscribed may be sent into the Banks here specified by the
end of the present year,
Circulars may be procured by application to the Secretary
of the Committee, the Rev. A. P. Stanley. University Col-
lege, Oxford.
The subscription amounts at present to 2,6001.

TirlE GENERAL' STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY'S splendid and powerful first-class STEAM
SHIPS are appointed to LEAVE for—
HAMBURG and ROTTERDAM, carrying her Majesty's
Mails—Every Wednesday and Saturday morning.
HAVRE—Every Thursday, at Eight Morning.
ANTWERP—From Brunswick-wharf, Illackwall—Every
Thursday, at Ten Morning; and Sunday, at Eleven Morning.
EDINBURGH—From Brown's Wharf, Poplar—Every Sa-
turday, and alternate Wednesday Evening, at Ten. Nov. 16,
19, 2', and 30. The Princess Royal this Evening.
From Down's Wharf for

SUNDERLAND—Every Tuesday, at Seven Evening.
NEWCASTLE—Every Wednesday :aid Saturday at Eight.
From London Bridge Wharf, for
OSTEND—Every;'%ednesday and Saturday Morning.
BOULOGNE—Every Thursday and Saturday Morning.
CALAlS—Thursda., and Sunday Morning. ,
IlUJ.J...Every Tuesday and Friday at Eight
y4,11111101711-i-Etijeif Saturday, at Six Evening. - •
Betneen BRIGHTON and fikyßE;--Every Saturday. •

To-seeure Berths, and for. the .Bills of Departnre, contaia-
ng Fires, Bc¢;, tp-"iyiat the Offices-of the Company, 69;.Lom-
bard.street ;tO7, Regentreireus,; and43s, Leadenbzll• street.

rip Cit I N E S E.
JL As great 'inn insight into the Manners, Habits, and Cus-
toms of this. most singular people, may be gained big few hotirs'
attentive investigation of the SPLENDID COLLECTION
in the SALOON at HYDE PARK •CORNER, as could be
acquired by a voyage to China.
This is now brought home to our doors at an expense of
2s. 6d.—The latter could be acquired only by an outlay of seve-
ral hundred pounds.
The arrangements in the Museum are new and easily under-
stood, and no expense has been spared to make it agreeable to
visitors. Children under 12 years Is. Open from Ten A.X.
till Ten r.m.

1110YAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION
ILA) The COLOSSAL ELECTRICAL MACHINE, ex.
hibiting the'varied and beautiful Phenomena of ELECTRIC
LIGHT, the AURORA BOREALIS, &c. &c. is shown
Daily at Three o'clock, and at Eight in the Evenings. The
Weekly List of POPULAR LECTURES delivered by Dr.
Ryan, Professor Bachhoffner, and the other Lecturers, with
the hours appointed for each, is suspended in the Hall. The
fine Exterior of SAINT Pt.TER'S at ROME, and the In-
terior of the CHAPEL of ST. HELENA at JERUSALEM,
the latter after D. Roberts, R.A. (published by Mr. Moon),
are among the latest additions t• the ENLARGED DIS-
SOLVING VIEWS. CALOTYPE PORTRAITS, the
ORRERY, DIVING BELL, DIVER, &c. &c. To the
COSMORAMIC VIEWS, shown in the Evenings, three beau-
tiful addition have just been made. Conductor of the Band,
Mr. Wallis.—Admission, ls. Schools, half-price.

MR. JOHN SOMERVILLE, DECEASED.
ALL Persons having DEMANDS on the ES-
TATE of Mr. JOHN SOMERVILLE, late of No.
90, Watling-street, and of No. 4, Church row, Newington
Butts, in the county of Surrey, who died on the 7th day of
November instant, aro requeited to forward the particulars of
their Claims unto the Executors; and all persons indebted to
the Estate are desired to pay the amount of their respective
debts to the Executors, Mr. W. S. Storer, and Mr. V. Pox,
at No. 90, Watling-street.

Age. For One Year. For Seven Years. Whole Term. SIR W. BURNETT'S PATENT PRESER-
- ----
Z 1 11 10 ----- VATIVE FOR TIMBER, CAN VAS, CORDAGE,
20 £0 17 8 .E 0 19 1 WOOLLEN, &c.
30 1 1 8 1 2 7 2 0 7 This process is a very cheap one. It effectually protects
40 15 0 16 9 214 10 even the commonest Domestic or Colonial Timber and
50 114 1 119 10 40 11 Deals from Dry Rct and other causes of premature decay, and
11) 3 2 4 317 0 6 010 trondprit +ham •n,,,1 fn sh.. h,.• P:....i...... r_____ .I__ n_,.•.,

This process is a very cheap one. It effectually protects
even the commonest Domestic or Colonial Timber and
Deals from Dry Rct and other causes of premature decay, and
trenders them equal to the best Timber from the Baltic. No
doubt can exist of its efficacy in the preservation of all the
above-named articles, after toe Official Reports from the heads
of various Government Departments, which may be seen, to-
gether with the Specimens, at the Company's Office, No. 4,
Castle-court, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, London. •

One-third of whole term premium may remain unpaid at
is per cent. compound interest, as a debt upon the policy for
life, or may be paid off at any time without notice.
In Assurances for Advances of Nlaney, as security for debts
or as a provision for a family, when the least present outlay
is desirable, the varied and comprehensive tables of the Argus
Office will be found to be particularly favourable to the As-
sured.
A Board of Directors, with the Medical Officers, attend
daily at a quarter before Two o'olork.
EDWARD BATES, Resident Director.
A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Arnts.

"ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.
34, BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS, LONDON.
Established 1823.
Empowered by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV.
LOWER RATES of PREMIUM than those of any other
Office that entitle the Assured to participate in the Profits.
The Bonus declared in 1834 amounted upon an average to
£1.6 per cent. on the premiums then paid; and in 1.39 a se-
cond Bonus was deelared,amounting on the average to £3l per
cent. on the premiums paid during the preceding five years.
Prospectuses, and other Particulars, may be obtained at the
Office between the hours of Ten and Fcur, or will be forwarded
to persons resident in the country on application.
CAMPBELL JAMES DOWNER, Secretary.

EUROPEAN LIFE
NYINSURANCE COM-
PA.

SHIP WRECKS.
On Wednesday morning, between three and four
o'clock, the ship William, Captain Houston, while on
her passage from Gloucester to this port, was totally
wrecked at Kilchattan Bay, Isle of Bute, while in the
act of wearing, during a • heavy storm. When the
vessel struck, her owner, Mr. T. Hamlin, a gentle Man
of extensive nautical experience, told the alarmed
crew to keep calm and collected, in which case there
was a fair prospect of their lives being saved, whereas,
should their terrors lead to confusion, their danger
would be greatly increased. The advicel was at-
tended to by the major part of the crew, but two of
them, in spite of every remonstrance, lowered them--
selves overboard on what seemed from the ship to be
dry rocks ; but by this step they only met the fate
they sought to shua, the boisterous surge into which
. they dropped having washed them back, and carried
them under the ship's bottom, where no assistance
could be rendered them by those- on the wreck. The
rest of the crew, after remaining on board with great
difficulty till the morning broke, the sea during the
night washing over them, and the ship rapidly going
to pieces, were enabled to land on the receding of the
tide, By the time they had left her she was a com-
plete wreck, little remaining but the deck. The mas-
ter was a good 'deal bruised, and the mate had his
hand seriously injured. Mr. Hamlin and the crew
were much exhausted by the severity of the weather,
but were, with one exception, _uninjured. One old
man vvts saved with much difficulty, as from the cold ,
he had become quite benumbed. Mr. Hamlin sneaks
in the highest terms of the kind attention he, his offi-
cers, and crew experienced from Mr. M‘Dougall, far-
mer, in the vicinity of where the wreck took place,
and of the ready aid he afforded theiu„ which was
the means especially of saving the life of the old man •
above alluded to. lie also sent his carts to save any
property of value which might come ashore. The
severity of the gale, which preved-fatal to the William;'
may be judged of- by the fact that - she Was blown,
from. Pladda te a distanCe of 21 miles, under
hare poles,. in sornewhat IeSS than two"liOurs.—Green7
grit Aclvertier:- • . •

• A NoTnen Sitriswattic.-LAbout two O'clock
on Thursday morning, the smack Eoi4r,enee,‘ of Ports
Mouth, of about 30_ tons burden, bound to Southarnp-
ton froth 1 Gurn.ley; laden with potatoes, came on
shore on pii-sd Igeach, near Portland;.in a squail of
wind from the S.S.W. It beingat the time ne:‘,. high
water, hopes are entertained that she will '„
the spring tides make. The grePtest m— got off a
mystery, and
one not likely to be solved,,i.,
to Southampton from now this vessel, bound.
Guernsey, with the wind
S.S.W., should h'.:
near Portland. We should have
thourrht,.
had been left to make her own course,
altar leaving the Caskets, she would have been nearer
the Isle of Wight, wit the wind from the same
quarter. One poor fellow, about twenty years of age
(we could not learn his name), met with a watery
grave just at the moment the vessel struck.—Sherborne
and Yeovil Mercury.
PHILADELPHIA,_ OCT. 19.—The steam-ship Mer-
chant, from New Orleans to Texas,
went ashore a few
days since in a gale ; eight persons were lost, as well
as the vessel and cargo. While in the agonies of des-
pair, a passenger named Barker, prompted by deli-
rium, shot a fellow-passenger, and then shot himself.
The brig Cuba, from Texas for New York, wentdown
with all hands. Two schooners shared a sitaar fate.
The barque Virginia was abandoned off the Florida
coast ; the brio Francis Lord, of New York, was lost
off North Carolina ; and the barque Plato ashore, with
five men lost, and several other valuable vessels arc
missing.

THE - LOSS OF THE WATERLOO, AND
ABERCROMBIE ROBINSON.
(FURTHER PARTIOVLARS)
(From the South African Commercial Advertiser,
September 7.)
"Loss BY THE WATENLOO.—List.of prisoners lost
by the wreck of the Waterloo, August 28, 1842 :
James Thelwall, James Skerratt, Abraham Mills,
John Taylor, James Jackson, Edmund Hardman,
John Goddard, Richard Howard, John North,
Richard Marsh, John Stone, Edward Newton, Daniel
Rigden, Henry Mepstead, George Thorn, Richard
Adcock, Henry Proctor, Thomas Clark, James Wil-
liams, Edward Alexander, Sydney Aldridge, Abra-
ham Scatchard, 'William Woodward, Frederick
Wightwick, John Attwood, William Saint, James
Davis, George Cunningham, George 'Lloyd, Robert
Wells, James Barnes, William Thiselton, William
Nash, Richard Hill, William Stamps,
George Garner, George Bradbury, William Low,
Alexander John-
son, Thomas Johnson, Charles Green, Henry Dawes,
Richard Edmonds, John Jones, Robert Esson, James
Elliott, Robert Fairfax, Richard Hewitt, Richard
Holy-
land, ohn Short, G. Harris, John Brown,
Taylor, Joseph Flint, William Jones, Richard
John,Bul-
more, R. Parker, Dennis Jacks, W. Hamlet, W. Moore,
Brookes, James Armitage, Charles Blyth, Isaac
Hancock, Points Howell, Daniel Stewart, Henry
Hicks, George Balaam, John Robinson, Edward
Birch, James Bamber, James Wilkes, James Carson,
Charles Workman, Thomas Parsons, Benjamin Curray,
Thomas Cowley, John Craig, Peter Winstanley, Wm.
Goulding, Henry Marriott, John Peacock, Felix
Curray, George Hetherington, George Wyles, Ed-
ward Gregory, Thomas 'Wilson, John Jones, Francis
Barnes, Angus M‘Kinnon, John Ledingham, Thomas
Smedly, John Reynolds, John Hawkins, James
Birch, John Ellis, James Duncan, Joseph Barker,
Thomas Pearman, Bertrand Edmonds, Henry .Barns-
ley, James Clark, Thomas Hill, John Wilding, Jas.
Greenharn, Hugh Campbell, James Knott, . Robert
Newton, James Joblin, John Thompson, John
Broomfield, Thomas Vose, Robert Parkinson, John
Smally, George Giles, Thomas Pownall, Henry
Morgan, 'Wm. 'Wright, John Lovatt, William Biggs,
Thomas Boswell, Thomas Kirwin, Daniel Murphy,
John Nowlan,
Robert Waltham, William Gyoury, Nathaniel Jenkins,
am, James Itewitt, James King,
George 'Williams, John Brookes, Frederick Purser,
William White, John Rosser, 'William Rosser, James
Rosser, Thomas Hewitt, 'Elijah Martin, Emanuel
Osborn, Thomas Barlow, George Jones, Jonathan
Packer, Richard Crane. •

coolness, intrepidity, and readiness of resource during
those anxious hours of responsibility, when, from
eleven o'clock on the night of the 27th to daylight on
the morning of the 28th, the lives of 700 souls de-
pended, under God, on your firmness and seamanship.
" They are qualities essential in the commander of
a ship at all times, and must be more than ever ne-
cessary when several hundred soldiers, women, and
children crowd his decks.
" They conspicuously distinguished your conduct
throughout that night, whose scenes were too full of
danger not to. have impressed every mind with the
near possibility of destruction.
" The question of life or deatb seemed often to hang
on each minute's duration • but by God's mercy your
able conduct brought us safely through a host of perils.
"On the part of the officers, non-commissioned
officers, and soldiers of the reserve battalion of the
91st Regiment, and of the detachments of the 27th
Regiment and Cape Mounted Rifles, then on board, I
beg to offer our united acknowledgments of the praise
and gratitude which your exertions so richly merited.
." I remain, my dear Sir' very truly yours,
"B. GORDON, Captain, 91st Regiment.
" Captain John Young, &c.
"The undersigned officers of the 91st Regiment on
board the Abercrombie Robinson, at the time of her
being driven ashore, on the morning of the 28th of
August, beg to subscribe their names to the above let- '
ter of thanks :

" J. WARD, Captain 91st Regiment.
" G. C. CAHILL, Paymaster Reserve Battalion,
91st Regiment.
"J. MOLT ELKES STUBBS, M.D., Assis-
tant-Surgeon 91st Regiment in charge.
" J. APINROY, Ensign 91st Regiment.
" ROBERT LAVERS, Ensign 91st Regiment."
CAPE TOWN, Ave. 31.—0 n the forenoon of Sun-
day last two large, vessels, the Abercrombie Robinson
and the waterloo,' went on shore on the south-eastern
beach at bOttorn of Table Bay.
Both vessels were engaged as transports by the
British (3overninent. The Abercrombie Robinson
had on board, bOdes her crew and several passengers,
501 'sohlie;s, with their officers, She was a large
ship, of nearly 1,500 ions burden. After grounding
near tkie shore she stood upright, and no lives have
b`:en lost', She will, 'pro,bal2ly„ or rat4er,certaliity,
a total wreck.

The Waterloo, a ship of 414 tons, bound to Van
Diemen's Land, had on board, besides her crew, 219
male convicts, Dr. Helsell, in charge, Lieut. 'Text,
Ensign Leigh, 30 men of her Majesty's 99th Regi-
ment, 5 women, and 13 children. She took the ground
between 11 and 12 o'clock in the forenoon, and in 15
or 20 minutes became a mass of rubbish. And now
ensued a most piteous 'massacre. In about two hours
and a half, amidst the crumbling heaps of their perfi-
dious prison—of men, women, and children, 194 were
crushed, disabled, and drowned.
There was no preparation for saving life made on
board or on shore. No life-buoys, no coils of ropes
lashed to casks, nor any apparatus for establishing a
communication with the shore from the ship. On the
shore there was no life-boat, no apparatus for throw-
ing ropes over stranded vessels, nor any thing, in short,
to show that the Government or people here had ever
before heard of such a thing as a shipwreck. We
stood amongst thousands on the beach within 150
yards of the dissolving fabric, looking on the agonised
faces of our fellow-creatures, as they sank in dozens,
battered, and bruised, and suffocated—useless as chil
dren, or idiots, or wild Caffres.
This ship, it appears, was built 27 years-ego at
Bristol. No longer fit to carry logs, she is patched,
up like other whited sepulchres, stuffed with- aliving
cargo by a contractor, and dispatched to the ends of
the earth—a voyage of more than 20,000 miles. No
doubt, a " survey of professional men " will " find"
that there was no fault any where ; that the Waterloo
was a sound ship, thoroughly repaired, and perfectly
seaworthy ; that she had on board all the equipments
requisite for such a voyage and such a consignment ;
that the officers of the ship did all that human strength,
directed by skill and animated by humanity, could
do ; and that the accident must be ascribed entirely to
a hurricane, a mountainous sea, and a remarkably
hard beach.

Now, as to the hurricane and the mountainous sea,.
it is enough to observe, that there were 20 other ves-
sels at anchor in the flay besides the Waterloo and the
Abercrombie Robinson, and none of them parted from
their anchors, or dragged them to any perceptible ex-
tent. The wind WAS blowing a gale, but by no means
a violent one, and it was partly off shore. The sea
was not running unusually high. Without ropes in
their hands, or any precaution, men walked into the
water up to their shoulders to drag out the bodies of
the dead and dying, without the slightest risk. This
could not have-been done had the surf been such as a
gale causes on an open beach. These are facts to
which thousands can bear witness.

IRELAND.
IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURE

No. 10, Chatham-place, Blackfriars, London.
Established January. 1819.
Ressiniarr.—Sir JAMES RIVLTT CARNAC, Batt,
Rook Cliff, Lyrnington.
Vics-PnxstnENT.—GEORGE FORBES, Esq., 9, Fitzroy-
square. With Twelve Directors.
Facilities are offered by this long-established Society to suit
the views and the means of every class of insurers. Premiums
are received yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly—or upon an in-
creasing or decreasing scale.
The insured for life participate septennially in the profits
realised.
A liberal commission is allowed to solicitors and agents.
DAVID FOGGO, Sec.
N.B.—Agents are wanted in towns where none have yet
been appointed.

WESTERN
SIO,CITETEY.ASSURANCE
Office, 49, Parliament-street, Westminster.
DIRECTORS.
HENRY EDGEWORTH BICKNELL, Esq.
WILLIAM CABELL, Esq.
THOMAS SOMERS COCKS, jun., Esq.
GEORGE HENRY DREW, Esq.
WILLIAM EVANS, Esq.
WILLIAM FREEMAN, Esq.
FRANCIS FULLER, Esq.
JANIES HUNT, Esq.
JOHN ARSCOTT LETHBRIDGE, Esq.
EDMUND LUCAS, Esq.
GEORGE HENRY POLLOCK, Esq.
JOHN BAZLEY WHITE, Esq.
J. CARTER WOOD, Esq.
HENRY WRENCH, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. COCKS, BIDDULPH, and CO., Charing-cross.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. BICKNELL and LETHBRIDGE, Abingdon-street,
Westminster.
Perfcct security combined with moderate rates.
The assurance of a CERTAIN BONUS.
The allowance of HALF the ANNUAL PREMIUM to
remain unpaid for SEVEN YEARS. and TEMPORARY
LOANS to the ASSURED on available security.
EDWARD T. RICHARDSON, Secretary.

GWILT'S ARCHITECTURE.
Published this day,
AN ENCYCLOPIEDIA of ARCHITECTURE,
HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL, and PRACTI-
CAL. By J. GWILT. Ono thick volume Svo., containing
1,100 pages, and illustrated by upwards of 1,000 Engravings
on Wood, 21. Its. 6d. cloth.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

DUBLIN, Nov. 13.—A considerable portion of the
landlords of Ireland, especially in the province of
Ulster, are engaged with zeal and earnestness in mea-
sures for the improvement of agriculture. No doubt
they have been greatly stimulated by the working
of the tariff, and by the conviction that the best
remedy for the depression which has fallen upon the
agricultural interest is to he found in the energy with
which the owners and occupiers of the soil combine in
promoting improved systems of husbandry.
A very important meeting took place in the Com-
mercial-buildings, Belfast, on Thursday, on the occasion
of the second annual assemblage of tie " Belfast So-
ciety for the promotion and improvement of the Growth
of Flax in Ireland." The meeting was very numerous,
and most influential, comprising agriculturists and
manufacturers, landlords and merchants, Liberals and
Tories--all working most cordially for the common
good.

Among those present were Lord Lurgan, Sir R.
Meson; Bart., G. Maeartney, Esq., Lissanoure
Castle; J. M'Neile, Esq., J.P. ; D. R. Ross, Esq.,
M.P. ; Colonel Blacker, Armagh ; Rev. Fletcher
Blakely, Rev. John Porter, Rev. Ross Jebb, Charles
P. Leslie, Esq., Glasslough ; J. T. Tennent, Esq.,
John Handcock, Esq., H. J. Porter, Esq., Tendra-
gee ; William S. Crawford, Esq., M.P., Crawfords-
burn ; John S. Crawford, Esq., Robert M'Kibben,
Esq., James Campbell, Esq., John Charley. Esq.,
Daniel Lindsay, Esq., Dromore ; Frederick William
Hayes, Esq., Seapatrick, Banbridge ; and C. B. Grim-
shaw, Esq.
Lord LURGIN having been moved to the Chair,
said—This Society, Gentlemen, is still in its infancy ;
but when we read the list of, landed proprietors, mer-
chants, and millowners, who have connected themselves
with this SocietY, I think ihe greatest man among
you may feel himself honoured by being. enlisted with
such an , undertaking—an undertaking so likely-. to
prove beneficial to the country.—(Hear, bear.)
,I
believe, Gentlemen, there is not a mad scheme bat has
had its supporters ; and it: was only a few days since.
that I _heard of a chairman presiding over a meeting
of an Aerial Steam' company, which expected to be
able to carry persons to the East Indies in flour days
aid a half.—(Laughter.). Gentlemen, I. would much
rather'preside over your Society than the one to which
I have just referred, for yours is a truly substantial,
sensible, and practical sort of undertaking.—(Hear,
hear.) The time is past for arguing the principles
of this Society; however, Gentlemen, with your
permission, I will say a few words as to those princi-
ples. Eighty thousand tons of flax are annually im-
ported into Great Britain, and five or six millions of
money are annually expended in purchasing flax in
other countries. Now, Gentleman, Ido not conceive
that we are in a condition to fling away such an amount
of money ; but the question is—what is to be done
What are we to do, to obtain this profitable market
for ourselves ?..L.(lfear, hear.) Our soil is quite as
good as the soil of any other country. Indeed, Mons.
Demann, the Society's agriculturist from Belgium,
has: taken the bull by the horns on this question, for
he has asserted that the worst land in Ireland (moun- •
tainous districts excepted) will have as good a crop of
flax as any other country in the world; and as for our
climate, it is as favourable for the growth of flax as
any other.—(Hear, hear.) We have, then, soil and
climate in our favour, but, from indolence and other
causes, this source of wealth is lost to the country,
and this source of employment is lost to the popula-
tion.—(Hear, hear.) This, Gentleman, is but an im-
perfect outline of the motives of the founders of this
Society, for its utility cannot be questioned by any
one.—(Hear, hear.) Our Secretary will now read
the Report of the Society's operations, and inform you
of the progress it has made since the last meeting.

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loo after she was falling to pieces, and brought off two
men, and on a second trip fastened a rope to the
wreck. After this a larger boat belonging to Messrs.
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son, and moving backwards and forwards along the
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might have been done by a life-boat used in time.
SEPT. 3.—ln speaking of the wreck of the Water-
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" The above is a correct return of prisoners drowned
a(tsitBh.leleNd v) li.
Waterloo.
H.
M.D.,. Surgeon,
" Names of men of the guard, and the R. N."
soldier's
wife, who were saved on the 28th of August, from the
wreck of the Waterloo :—Lieutenant next, 4th The
Kins,s Own Regiment, commanding the guard. 99th
Regiment , Corporals Cullum and
Armstrong,
Broadhead, Broadbent,
Ensign
Privates C.
B la.evtig nh,
Baunan, Berne, Monaghan, • Pearce, Rutherfoord,
Taylor, Ward, Yardley, and_Moore; Drummer Arm-
strong, and Mrs. Mulvaney.
" Names of those who were lost on the 28th of
August —. • Sergeant Smith, Mrs. Smith, and three
children ; Corporal Mulvaney, and one child ;
Corporal Madden ; Private _Nestor, Mrs. Nestor,
and one child; Private Greenless, Mrs. Green-
less, and three children ; Privates Ahern, Muir, Askey,
Barnacle, Byrne, Beaumont, Reynaldi, Vincent,
-Warburton, and Whitmore ; also Mrs, Armstrong
and five children. _ _ _

" All the lost belonged to the 99th Regiment.
"Total saved :-1 lieutenant, 1 ensign, 2 corporals,
1 drummer, 12 privates, and 1 woman.
"Total lost :-1 sergeant, 2 corporals, 12 privates,
4 women, and 13 children.
C
ssaveda;ptaalisno AAlrg.eJr,atchkesonnrsctheirefomf
mate
; Mr. Gunner,
2d do.; Mr. Gill, 3d do.; and fifteen of the crew.e -Waterloo, was
" The boatswain, Mr. Chiverton, was lost ; also, the
sail-maker, the carpenter, and 11 of the crew.
" CHAS. STANIPORTH HExT
" Lt., 4th ' The King's Own, R'ek.,,
" List of convicts received in the Cape • Reg
t."
pri-
son, from wrecked ship Waterloo, 2d September,
1842 :—Stephen Parker, Joeph Hernshaw, David
Jones, John Jones, William Johnson, 'William Dods-
well, John Martin, Robert Stewart, William Wil-
liams, James Brown, William Henry, Leslie Clark,
Henry Hunt, Richard Baker, Edward Moore, Joseph
Slawson, Edward Capstack, William Smith, Joseph
Darbishire, Charles Cartwright, William Carter, Wil-
liam Simpson, Frederick Hudson, Frederick Cheshire,
William Hesketh, Charles Davis,
James Harvey,
Thomas William WeetMan, William Brekhatn,-John
Harris, Edward Alexander, William Jones Thomas
Ashworth, Thomas Squires, Iven Hardwicke, Wm.
Gardner, John Winterburn, Wm. Clarke 'Wm. Sin-
den, Wm. Kinggate, Thom-is Rodgers, James Mar-
file, John Davis, John Collens, Joseph Darwen, Wm.
Watkins, Thomas Taylor, John Garner, John Clarke,
Thomas Standing, James Watkison, John Smith,
John Beaumont, Henry Sutton, James Green, John
Johnstone, John Williams, Wm. French, Daniel
Burns, Wm. Moobay, Thomas Hill, Thomas Miles,
Robert Nixon John Williams, John Clifford, Alex-
ander Smith, John Gilbert, Wm. Robertshaw, Ma-
thew Cowley, Wm. Tippin, John Roberts, John
Thomas, Wm. Collins, James Wilkes, John Astbury,
Wm. Richards."
" Main Barracks, Cape Town, August 31, 1842.

" My dear Sir—As commanding the reserve batta-
lion of the 91st Regiment a the time of the wreck of
tllifeeetlrannlyspsoeriftitAutbheorrcirseodmita,oie Robinson, in Table Bay,

Sii ROBERT BATESON rose to move the first reso-
lution :—" That the Report then read be adopted by
the meeting." He said—My Lord and Gentlemen,
this resolution is put into my hands to propose to the
meeting. I take a deep interest in the success and
welfare of this Society, and I fully concur with what
has fallen from Lord Lurgan on the subject. This is
a Society where men of all creeds and parties may
meet to promote a common object—the good of the
nation generally. I am of opinion that landlords
should encourage such a Society as this. lam of
opinion that the country might be greatly benefited
by the culture of flax ; for if we were able, in this
part of the island, to produce flax of good quality
from our poor soil and ungenial climate, what was to
be expected from the better soil of the south of Ire-
land ? And lam sure, that if we should be able to
introduce with success the cultivation of flax in the
south, there was no one in Ulster who would be
jealous of that success. It occurred to me, on visit-
ing the Netherlands, and witnessing the splendid crops
of flax which there met my eye, that that was a plant
which would admirably suit the soil and climate of the
south of Ireland. Ido not consider the soil and cli-
mate of Ulster good enough for the crop. lam glad
to have an opportunity of coming before you to-day,
and of observing the interest which is taken in your
proceedings ; and what I have seen and heard in-
spires me with a hope that the Society will go on and
prosper. It is the duty of proprietors of the soil, as
well as of large establishments, to take up the sub-
ject. You all know what could be done by machi-
nery—that in fact it was just now providing goods
too fast for the demand, for one man could at present
perform fully as much labour as ten could formerly
do. It was the duty, then, of landlords to see what
could be done for the improvement of the soil, and the
providing of labour for the unemployed population.
Sir R. I3ateson concluded by moving the adoption of
the report.
Mr. SKINNER here exhibited a well-grown sample
of hemp, from the neighbourhood of Caledon, which
was inspected by several gentlemen. The crop from
which this was selected had a splendid appearance
when on foot.

The Committee of the commercial body have insti-
tuted an inquiry into the circumstances attending this
horrible event, as well as to the loss of the Abercrom-
bie Robinson on the same occasion. The attention of
the Government and of the Admiral has also been
fixed on these two accidents ; the public and the
parties concerned may, therefore, expect that all the
facts will be properly ascertained and made known.
The loss of life by the ruin of the Waterloo is, we
learn, altogether 190, including 15 soldiers, 14 sailors,
and 18 wo.nen and children.

So great a loss of life has not happened in Table
Bay since the year 1799. On the sth of November
of that year his Majesty's ship Sceptre, Captain Ed-
wards, was driven on shore, and, like the Waterloo,
immediately went to pieces, being an accursed old
hulk on her way home to be broken up. A few
hours after she struck not a vestige of her was to be
seen, hut the fragments of the wreck scattered on the
strand, in myriads of pieces, not a single plank remain-
ing whole, nor two attached together. Captain Ed-
wards, his son, 10 other officers, and near 300 seamen
and marines perished.
On the same day several other vessels went on
shore, amongst the rest a Danish man of war of 64
guns. But their crews were all saved, as in the case
of the Abercrombie Robinson on the present occasion.
Taking advantage of the excitement caused by this
melancholy event, funds have been raised, and mea-
sures are taken for constructing life-boats, and for
having a rocket apparatus always in readiness in this
bay, for rendering assistance to vessels in distress, or
for saving life.
Of the Waterloo it is impossible to speak with mo-
deration. Deadly blame rests somewhere, and justice
will, we have no doubt, find out the parties who de-
serve it.

D. R. Ross, Esq., M.P., said he had much plea-
sure in rising to second the resolution proposed with
so much spirit and cogent reasoning by Sir Robert
Bateson. Nothing but the interest awakened in his
mind last year could have drawn him from home this
week, when every day and every hour was to him of
more than ordinary value. He felt the greatest inte-
rest in agricultural affairs, and it might, therefore, be
well imagined how great was the pleasure, mlich, he
d:,asrivaedtimfroemwhtehnisidt day's proceedings pinroceuemedbiennt
0;n fothro ifse w
thereh who lived
ever
by agriculture to give it their best attention, this was
the time, and the particular time. Prices of farm pro-
duce, as pointed out by the Report, had this season beer
greatly depressed, and it was with some diffieulty the
farmer could pay his rent—that, in fact, agricultural
distress prevailed. He agreed, to a certain extent,
with the statement of the Committee ; but he
trusted, that in some little time this distress would pass
away ; yet it was incumbent on them to boldly meet
the difficulties of the time, and triumph over them,
for it was the duty of the agriculturist to use all the
means within his reach to remedy his position.—
(Hear, hear.) There was one thing he observed to-
day with which he was much pleased—he had heard
conflicting interests reconciled—he had found the
merchant, the manufacturer; and the agriculturist
uniting for a common purpose, and acknowledging
that the interest of the one was identical with the
interest of the other—(Hear, hear.) They were so
in a more extended point of view than that which
came before them that day.—(Hear, hear.) When
Britain was engaged in a lengthened war, agriculture
and inanufactures were stimulated to an unprece-
dented extent; but at present they were goaded on
by another sort of agency—by sharp necessity—
(lkar, hear)—but instead of folding their arms, and
which
most theirf htdisastrous
,
iieifasd, ports allowing despair to weigh heavy on their minds, they
should press forward to overcome any obstacles in
their path to improvemeut.—(Hear, hear.) They
were entering upon a new era in agriculture, and if
they did not take advantage of those improvements
which from time to time came before them, they
only were to blame.—(Hear, hear.) Let them
consider. that the flax-spinning trade in Belfast
had been raised to such an eminence as that which it
now occupied, and what would be the state of things
if, from any cause, war were to break out between
us and those nations from whom we had heretofore
drawn our supply of the raw material ? Sir Robert
Bateson had stated that 80,000 tons of flax had been
imported from the Continent iti one year. Th.
quantity was brought from the Baltic, from Hollandilsvast
from Belgium, and from France ; and
swould be
any occur-
rence were to arise by
closed against us, and the supply stopped, thetrade of
Belfast would be placed in a
condi-
tion.` He -knew that this view o
be turned against himself, in'co e question.migst
nnectiOn witlf another
subject to which -he would not farther allude than to
say that in the one case
e Goother, 1
Vivas one branch of mann-
facture3 which was ben, . 7 ~,,..) where, in the

And noiv it would be proper to ask a few questions
respecting the precautions taken on board of all trans-
ports into which involuntary passengers, such as sol-
diers and convicts, are thrust by Government :-
1. Is it a rule to take the lowest tender, without
respect to the class of the vessel ?
2. Or does Government, as it ought, limit tenders
to the first-class vessels ?
3. Who are the surveyors ? How are they paid ?
Do they receive money in any shape, and how much,
from the owners of the ships they survey for this
service ?
4. Is it true that they are "hard-worked men, with
small salaries, and large families," and that a friendly
help of 15 or 20 guineas is sometimes added to the
regular charge by the benevolent shipowner ?
5. When 400, 500, or 700 souls are put on board a
transport, is care taken to have at the same time the
means of making signals in dark and 'foggy weather,
in case of danger ; or is all left to the chance of some-
body seeing the flash of small arms, when the report
of the same cannot be heard?
6. Is extra apparatus carefully placed on board for
saving life in case of wreck, such as life-buoys, in-
struments for throwing lines, and the other well-
known means of communicating with a lee shore ?
These are some of the questions that will be put,
and that must be answered at home by the authori-
ties, whoever they may be, to whose departments this
branch of the service belongs.

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he had m ai.. concluded, amid applause, by
seconding the resolution, which was put, and passed
unanimously.
Wu. S. CRAWFORD, Esq., M.P., rose to move the
second resolution. He felt happy in advocating the
claims of such a Society, because he (Mr. Crawford)
was well assured that its objects were truly praise-
worthy ;- and the Society proposed to encourage the
small farmers.—(Hear, hear.) He acted in strict
consistency with his (Mr. Crawford's) avowed prin-
ciples in supporting such a resolution, for he always
wasNna,advocate for the interests of the small farmer.
He supported the Society also, because the cultivation
of flax gave employment to many persons, and be was
on that account anxious that it should be encouraged.
The Rev. FLETCHER BLAKELY rose to second the
resolution.

The immediate business of the meeting having thus
been gone through, it was moved and agreed to, that
it is desirable that the Royal Agricultural Society
should hold their annual cattle show in Belfast next
year. Committees were also appointed to collect sub-
scriptions in the-different counties in Ulster, in order
to raise a sum (1,500/. was named) to defray the ex-
penses of the show. Lord Downshire has opened a
list, headed by his own name for 501., and Lord Hills-
borough and Lord Erne have each subscribed 25/.
JouN MWEILE, Esq., said that the Royal Agricul-
tural Society. for Ireland were prepared to expend
700/. in premiums, in Belfast and its neighbourhood,
if they were deserved.

A decent-looking woman then came forward, and
showed to the Chairman and meeting a shirt of a su-
perior kind, which she was employed in making. She
declared that it took a good hand fourteen hours to
make such a shirt, and that the price paid for making
it was only 6d.
Mr. SINDALL, a parishioner of Limehouse parish,
thought they ought to inquire into the statement re-
lative to the Guardians allowing work to be taken into
the workhouse. They ought also to inquire whether
these shirts were not made for exportation.

Mr. COLEMAN believed that there were middlemem
who, in consideration of their becoming security to
the warehouses, got a profit which ought to go to the
trader and the persons employed in making the shirts.
In answer to questions put to one of the women by
Mr. T.'Roberts, it appeared that one penny was the
price paid for making a sailor's shirt, and that it, took
a good hand to make six of those shirts in thirteen
hours; that the price paid for making the finer sort
of shirts was 6d., but that the same time was required
to make one of the finer sort as was required to make
six of the common kind ; there were about 300 females
employed in that parish, at about 6d. a day, and there
were eight or nine slop houses that employed them.
Mr. ROBERTS then said that he had no doubt a great
part of the shirts made were aported ; but still he
did not think the lowness of the wages was caused
by any competition in the making of shirts between
this and a foreign country, but that it arose from s
domestic competition—a competition of house against
house, anxious for an extension of business, but re-
gardless of the sufferings of the working people.
In answer to a question, one of the women stated
that in some shops there were middlemen employed.
but they were only employed where fin;ie
shirting was given out ; and, in considera-
tion of their becoming security, they received a half..
penny out of the sixpence paid for the making of each
fine shirt.

A resolution was then moved and carried, to the
effect that a Committee be appointed to collect fur-
ther information on the subject, to make representa-
tions to the persons engaged in the trade, and, if ne-
cessary, to call a public meeting on the subject.
Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the
meeting separated.

DISTRESSED SHIRT-MAKERS.
A meeting was held last night, at the School-room,
Totton-street, Stepney Church-yard, to take into
consideration the case of the shirt-makers of that part
of the metropolis, and the inadequate payment vrhioh
they receive for their labour.
The chair was taken by the Rev. W. Allen.
Mr. W. S. CUMMING, surgeon, then stated the ob-
ject for which this meeting had been ealled. It ap-
peared that his attention had been first called to the
subject from having attended a woman who had
taken vitriol for the purpose of destroying herself,
and, on inquiring the cause which led her to take
such a step, he learnt that her husband was a sailor,
and that she, not being able to receive any part of his
wages in his absence, had endeavoured to earn her sub-
sistence by making sailors' shirts, but finding that
though she worked from six in the morning till eleven
at night, and sometimes all night, she could not earn
enough to enable her to procure the necessaries of
life, she had been induced to pawn the work which
she had in hand. To avoid being apprehended she
had taken the vitriol, and it was from having at-
tended this woman that his attention had first
been called to the subjects He was informed that
for making a shirt the workwomen received only one,
penny, and that out of this penny they were obliged
to find thread, which reduced the sum paid for making
~.shirt to little more than three rarthings, and that it s
took a good hand fully two hours to make a shirt of
that particular-sort. ,H.e felt horrified when he found,.
that in this country -women-worked- thirteen hours a
day for about 6d., and. he Was assured that there were
many thousands employed in this manner who did not
earn more than 4d. a day each. He asked the women
present whether he had not stated the truth. He be-
lieved be was right in saying that out of the sum paid
them they had to find their own thread.—(One of the
women said, "Needles too, Sir.") As the shirts were
generallz made for sailors, he thought the trade could
easily afford to raise the price, because sailors would
never grudge the additional penny. Something ought
to be done to relieve them, and this, he thought, was
the fairest way of doing it. All that they required
was to have 2d. instead of id. for making a shirt, and
this addition would never be felt either by the pur-
chaser or by the trader. If this was not done, the
guardians of the poor ought to assist them.
A woman in the meeting here stated that the
guardians rather did them an injury, because they
took shirting into the workhouse, and, without pay-
ing anything, employed the inmates in making it into
shirts.