The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-24 00:00:00

TUE SUN', LONDON, TITURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1842.

• farmer who would stand between an altered Corn-law
' and the destitution of the people."
If such are the sentiments of the landowners,
Sir ROBERT PEEL will find no obstacle in com-
plying with the demands of the manufacturers,
and in carrying new laws coincident with the
principles of freedom and of justice.
Before concluding, we would beg our Contem-
poraries, for their own interest, to look at some
facts mentioned by Mr. R. GREG :—" The
Athenwurn at, Manchester is likely to be sold up
to pay the debts on it. The Zoological Gardens,
that innocent source of amusement for the popu-
lation of the town, were broken up. At Bolton
the public news-room was closed for want of
sufficient funds to keep it open." Now these
are places at which several newspapers were
taken, and to shut them up is to cut off sub-
scribers to the journals. Newspapers are, to a
certain extent, a luxury, and their sale is closely
connected with the public prosperity. Journals
of all political opinions must suffer by the
closing of Athen=ms, News-rooms, and Literary
Societies; and our Tory Contemporaries contend,
with great disinterestedness, against their own
interest in advocating a line of policy as to
trade which cuts up by the roots the national
prosperity.

The melancholy termination of the Niger Ex-
pedition, the last wreck of which, the Wilber-
' ftirce, has just returned to England, is a pointed
• lesson to those well-meaning philanthrophists,
who are guided more by impulse than knowledge.
At the cost of 63,0001. to the people of England,
previously pressed to the earth by taxation, that
expedition left our shores upwards of two years
ago to carry civilisation into Africa. It was to
• ascend the Niger, plant a model farm, promote
trade, and instil into the savages a love of peace,
humanity, and order. Merchants, in the habit of
trading to Africa, cautioned the philanthro-
phists that their project was impracticable
and would only impede the civilisation
which trade was promoting. They were
ridiculed and vilified for their pains, and told,
in good set terms, that they encouraged the de-
gradation of the Africans to gratify their own
thirst of gold. The merchants, however, were
right, the philanthropists wrong, and the costly
expedition has sacrificed the lives of many of our
countrymen without conferring the least benefit
on the Africans. The model farm became the
home of slavery, and the communication that was
to carry only love and kindness, seems to have
imparted moral, and received physical, conta-
gion. Never was there a greater failure, though
probably no expedition ever originated in purer
motives. To the self-conceit of philanthropy
the lesson thuS taught is most humiliating. We
wish it may generally be taken to heart by those
who believe that a stroke of the pen, a grant
by the House of Commons, or the united will
of the'Legislature, can at once alter 'the course of
events, and change the character of man. •

A great public meeting of merchants, manu-
facturers, &c., was held on Tuesday, at the
Town-hall, Manchester, on the subject of the
Corn-laws, at which the best possible spirit was
manifested, not by words only, but by deeds, for
a sum of no less than 4,0001. was raised—it may
almost be said, on the spur of the moment—for
the purpose of furthering the patriotic efforts
now making by the League, to obtain a total
repeal df the Corn-laws. When men part with
their money thus freely, it is proof "strong as
holy writ" that their whole heart is in the
cause to which they subscribe; mere declama-
tion is no voucher for their sincerity, since the
most specious and eloquent speakers are often
the most insincere; but when they once begin
to draw their purse-strings, and substitute solid
cash for sounding rhetoric, then there can be no
posAbility of doubting their earnestness. Such
is now the case with the great merchants and
manufacturers in the commercial districts. From
all quarters they are pouring in their contribu-
tions to the Anti-Corn-law League Fund, not by
dozens or scores of pounds, but by hundreds;
and this earnestness, backed by perseverance, is
destined, ere any great length of time hips
elapsed, to carry all before it. The League will
as surely carry the repeal of the Corn-laws, as
the Cutholic Association carried Emancipation, or
the Birmingham Union the Reform Bill.

Madrid papers of the 14th, with letters to the
loth, have been received. All was tranquil in
the capital. There appears no probability of the
Cortes being dissolved, but it is not impossible
that there may be some modification in the Cabi-
net. Neither the Barcelona journals, nor those
of the south, throw any further light
,on affairs
in that quarter. The Three per "Cents. were
done at 21 15-16 k at sixty days, and the Fives at,
26. j for cash, and 263- at sixty days.

The Paris papers, with the exception of those
froM which we gave extracts yesterday, and La
France, abstain from all comment on the im-
portant news from China. The latter journal
contains the following lamentation on the sub-
ject :---" The English have made peace with
China. They have obtained the commercial
ports) which they were anxious for, as well as a
large compensation for the sacrifices which the
war has cost them. The star of England, so
dimmed in India, rises quite radiant over China.
This peace is a great event, and England will
take good care to ex tract from it the natural CODSC.
qucnces, for she never stops short. The East is
in commotion, and fldls to pieces, in order to
unite again under the powerful hand of Russia.
England and Russia find new elements of force
and greatness, whilst France holds more and
more apart, and declines. What a melancholy
spectacle ! What a • humiliation for a nation
which, during two centuries, bad always been
the pivot and the sun of Europe !"
The Court of Assizes at Paris, have at last
brought to a conclusion the trial cf the five offi-
cers employed in the Prefecture of the Seine,
charged with fraud, corruption, and abstraction
in the exercise of their functions. The Jury,
which had been occupied for fourteen days in
hearing evidence, acquitted SOLET and PIIILIDOR,
and found MORIN guilty on one count only, in
a fraud of 1,515 francs on the Government by
means of Use papers, negativing eight other
counts relative to _ the abstraction of plans;
BOUFET guilty on eight counts out of sixteen, for
corruption in office; HOURDEQUIN guilty on one
count only, viz., that of attempting to extort a
sum of twenty-five thousaud francs from the
Baron nn CTRANDMAISON, to the prejudice of the
City of Paris. The President sentenced Aloatx
to three years' imprisonment; and a fine
of 100 francs; BOUTET to three years'
imprisonment; and HOURDEQUIN to four
years' imprisonment and a fine of 100
francs; the costs of the trial to be defrayed by
the three prisoners conjointly, each, however
being held responsible for the others. All the
prisoners were much affected on hearing
their
sentence, and they appeared to be suffering
months)deepl which they had undergone previously
to the long confinement (nearly nine
to their trial. HOURDEQUIN was in so weak a
state during the trial, that lie was at times almost
unable
aitd%s,hetno replyhi questions ti ons
passed
of
he eiw
asPresident,
obliged
nt ettilicee

be led out of Court between two of the mu-

nieipal guard in attendance. Before the Jury
separated they signed a letter to the Prefect of
the Seine, requesting, that as PHILIDOR had
been proved to be innocent of the charges brought
against him, he might be restored to the office
which he had hcld previously to his being

arrested.
BOURSE—PARIS, AfoNDAY, NOVEMBER 21.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price. --
French Five per Cents. 119 10... 119 15... 119 10... 119 15
1•our per Cents. 101 40... 101 50 .. 101 40... 101 50
3 per Cents 89 40... 80 45... 80 25... 80 25
Bank of France 3292 50...3292 50...5292 50.. $292 50
Latfitte Bank I,ooof 1050 ..1050 —.1050 ...1030
Belgian Bank BO2 50... 802 50... 802 50... 802 50

841 ......... 50...1057 50-1057 50...1057 50
Belgian Fives..... .... 1031 ... 10311 ... 103 i ... 104
18.1.0..... 10411 ... 104 i ... 1044 ... WO
Spanish Active ‘. 2:4 ... 2,311 ,„ 23 ... 23
Portuguese Fives 32i 32i ,„ 32 ... 32
Neapolitan
Roman, ex WT. ...... .. 10.31 ... 1031 ... 1034 ... 1034
RAILWAY SHARES,
St. Germain
835 . 835 ... 835 ... 835
Versailles, R.B 266 25... 267 50... 266 25... 267 50
Rouen
Orleans. 587 50... 588 75... 587 50... 587 50
Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 205 ... 203 75,.. 205

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDI-
NARY, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1842.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 23, 1842.
Dispatches have been this morning received, at
this Office, from Major-General Sir Henry Pottinger,
her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China, dated " Stearn
Frigate Queen," Yangtsekeang River, off Nanking,
August 30, 1842 " reporting that, on the preceding
day, he had signed, with certain Chinezie Plenipoten-
tiaries, on board her Majesty's ship " Cornwallis," a
Treaty of Peace and Friendship between her Majesty
and, the Emperor of China..

COURT CIRCULAR.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge at-
tended yesterday at the Horse Guards.
Dispatches from China and India were received yes-
terday morning at the office of Lord Stanley, her
Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies. Dispatches were also received at the Board
of Control for the Affairs of India, and at the Foreign-
office. Communications were forwarded in the fore-
noon from the Board of Control to Sir Robert Peel.
Messengers were sent o:1-' to the Queen at Walmer
Castle from the Colonial and War-offices, and also from
the Foreign-office. Mr. Faggetter, one of her Ma-
jesty's messengers, was sent with official dispatches to
the Lord Mayer, at the Mansion House. A salute
was fired in the afternoon from the Park guns, in ho-
nour of the auspicious intelligence.
Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, and
Baron Brunow, the ussian Minister, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an inter-
view with the Earl of Ripon, on Tuesday, at the office
of the Board of Trade.

A meeting of the Commissioners of Customs' Tn-
quiry, held a meeting yesterday at Gwydyr House.
There were present Lord Granville Somerset, Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. Bingham Baring, Mr.
Pringle, and Mr. Gaskell.

MONEY and COIVIM ERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
There was no increase of activity in the English
Yunds, nor did any alteration of moment occur in the
quotations. The fluctuation in Consols during the
Account, and taking the entire range, has been full 1,4
per cent. Consols for Money closed -941 to 94i, and
for the January Account, 958 to 1. The Unfunded
Debt was still dull, but India Bonds advanced to 545.
premium. In the Reduced Three per Cents., 5,0001.
were invested for the Savings' Banks. East India
Stock supported tha advance to 264 and 265 ; and
Bank Stock seems to be again getting into favour, as
the price is 1701 to 172. New Three-and-a-Half,per
Cents. were not higher than 1011 to 1011; and the
Reduced brought 1001 to 1008. -
The Foreign Bonds were a shade worse this after-
noon. The Active Spanish closed at 171 to 18, and
the Three per Cents. at 22 to 221. Belgian and
Dutch Stock were at 102 for the former, and at 1061
for the latter. Mexican Stock left off at 32 for the
Five per Cents, and the Deferred were 93 to 1. Brazil
Bonds were rather higher, being 651 to 66. Portu-
guese New Five per Cents. receded upon one' or two
sales, from 378 and 371 to 37a 4 ; and the Converted
were down to 311 for time.
A slight addition of activity took place this after-
noon in the Share -market, and firmer prices were
realised. Great Western were 1911 to 201 ; the New,
12 ; the Birminghani, New, 30 ; South Western, 19i;
and York and- North Midland; New, 171 to 18 prem.
London and Brighton were 15 ; Northern and Eastern,
81; Midland Counties, 39 ; North Midland, 38 ;
Ditto, Thirds, 1i ; and South Eastern and Dover,
261 to 26a discount. Edinburgh and Glasgow New
Shares were 'at par-.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The accounts from the Liverpool Cotton Market are
more favourable. Yesterday the sales increased to
7,000 bales, and a large busineis SITS done, comprising
700 bales of Surat, and 1,400 of American on specu-
lation. Common to middling American qualities were
per lb. higher ; 1,500 bales Surat sold at 3id. to 4d.,
and 1,100 bales Carthagena, 32d. to 4d. In Shares
there was some firmness—Paris and Rouen, Eastern
Counties, and Grand Junction, being in chief demand.
Eastern Counties, New, were 108 ; Grand Junction,
181 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Quarter, 441 ; Bir-
mingham Quarter, 49; South Western, 60; Paris
and Rouen, 231 ; and South Eastern, New, 181.
We shall not be able to state the effect our brilliant
successes in China and Affghanistan may have upon
the proVincial and Scottish markets for British mann-
ctthuer eca
ittryn
attotv: :s.radlsr
eteyc
NINo,
es
,etr oaf
gt
eNry eaeplpr,e
athough
in the City matters already wear a gayer appearance,
and the prospects for our shipping are considered better.
The increase in the reienue of the German Com-
mercial League has been from 21,000,000 florins in
1834 to 34,000,000 florins in 1841.
Our Gerrnj accounts inform us that the English
purchasers of cattle are extending their operations in
various directions, resolved apparently, to find out the
best markets. At Itzehoe several of our countrymen
had attended, and took about 24 oxen as an experi-
ment.

The amount -of Treasury bills outstanding in Hol-
land on the Ist instant was 5,606,400 florins.
Tea is very depressed, and the quotations seem
quite uncertain, while in some quarters mischief is
predicted to the large holders.
There is less doing in the Stock market, but prices
are firmly supported. Consols for present transfer
are 94/ to 94i, and for the January Account, 95 to
951; Exchequer Bills bring 56 to' 53 premium
and India Bonds 52 to 54 premium. The
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are not so good,
being 101/ to 101* ; while the Old Three-and-Half per
Cents. are Noi. The probabilities of a conversion
seem to increase. Bank Stock is 1701 ; and East
India Stock supports the rise to 264 and 265 ; Long
Annuities are 12* to 12 9-16ths ; and South Sea New
Annuities, 921 i. Some of the brokers appear to an-
ticipate sales should trade materially revive,
The Foreign market has been inactive, but a trifling
improvement may be noted in Spanish Bonds, the
Actives having risen from 177 and 17 to 18 The
Three per Cents. arc 22 to 22i. For Portuguese New
-,-, i *.
Five per Cents. the quotation is 37/ to 37-4:; and for
tLe Converted, 32, being steady. Mexican Stock has
fluctuated from 33 to 32i ; Brazilian has touched 65i-
and 66 ; ,
Two-and-a-Half:per Cents. to 53.
to 102 f ;and Dutch'
Belgian have improved
For Railway Shares the inquiry still continues
limited. Eastern Counties are 14 ; Croydon, 44 ; and
South Eastern, 26/ discount; Birmingham, 95 ; and
Paris and Rouen, 3:I-premium. London Joint-Stock
Bank Shares are 3A premium.
MANCHESTER STOCK LXCHANGE, NOY. 22.
We have had an improved market to-day, and a
good demand for stock :-----Eastern Counties, New,
10/ ; Manchester and Leeds, Half, 294. ; Soutl:
Eastern, New, 18k; Manchester and Liverpool Dis-
trict Banks, 10ii and 91; Manchester Assurance, 9.
CLOSING PRICES. •
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock - 17') India Stock . ...265 pm
3 per Cent. Red. .. ...... 94 Ditto Bonds .. .... 54 pm
3 per Cent. Cons.... 944 Ditto Old Annuities ...
.3i per Cent. Red......... M-4 Ditto New Annuities... 92i
New 3i per Cent... ...... 101$ Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 58 pm
11,,w 5 per Cen'. — Ditto 500/...... 58 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small
Jan. 1860 ... ...... I2i Bank Stock for Acct.
Oct. 1859
Jan. Is6o — Consols for Acct.
N FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto •
Prussian, 5 per cent. , .
Russian, 5 pei cent —
Ditto, 31etallie . . .
Spanish, 5 per cent...... 18
Ditto, Deferred.— .
French, 5 per cent. —f. —.7,,
Exchange
French, a percent —f. --e,
Dutch, 2i per cent. li3
Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 101

"WI riiitt2V 't4''W'S
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" Who runs may read.'

PC/REIGN.
The French King and 'Royal Family will remove
from St. Cloud to the Tuileries on the .sth of.Decem-
her. " The King will occupy his usual apartments in
the Pavillon de Fiore, and Madame Adelaide resume
the apartment next to that of her brother.
Theresa Veronica 'lecher, alias Mme. Bulle, alias
Mme. Geronniere, the supposed friend and confidante
of the Contemporaine, and depositary of the letters
falsely attributed to the King, was exposed on Satur-
day upon the pillory in the Place du Palais de Justice,
in execution of part of the sentence passed upon her in
March last for forgery and swindling.
No further intelligence has been received respecting
the disturbances in Catalonia.
Queen Christina, on the occasion of the fete of her
daughter, the young Queen of Spain, which took
place on Sattirday, received at her hotel, in the Rue
de Courcelles, the_ congratulations of the numerou
Spaniards of distinction who are at present in Paris.
Couriers.. succeed each other with rapidity on the
road. from Spain to Paris. Within the twenty-four
hours not-less than three have arrived at the Spanish
Embassy, direct front lEreelona, but no news trans-
pired.

- The Royal Academy of the Pine Arts proceeded
on Saturday to the election of a member in the place
of the late M. Cherubini. The candidates were
Messrs. Onslow, Adolphe Adam, and Batton, pre-
sented by the section of music, and M. Ambroise
Thomas, proposed by the Academy. M. Onslow was
elected by a majority of 2, 19 votes to M. Adam's
17. and was accordingly proclaimed member.
The remains of Mme. Berrver, the wife of the De-
puty and celebrated advocate, were interred on Sa-
turday at An,gerville. In testimony of admiration of
her extensive charities, every house in the place was
shut up, and nearly every inhabitant joined the.mourn-
ful procession.

punrac OPINION.
The Times thus alludes to the recent encouraging
news from India :—" Confident as .we ever were of
the valour of our troops and the character of their
leaders, Ave were not prepared for the flood of success
of which the late arrival from India has brought us
intelligence. Not only is peace restored with China
on the most advantageous terms, but Ghuznee is de-
stroyed, and its Atighan Governor routed in the field
by General Nott. Three hundred .and twenty-seven
Sepoys and a large part of the English prisoners arc
already rescued from the hands of the enemy. Akbar
Khan, with 16,000 men, is utterly defeated at Tezeen
(the scene of our own past disasters) by General Pol-
lock, and our two gallant commanders have met in
quiet occupation of Caubul. For ourselves, we can
only express our unfeigned thankfulness for the happy
issue with which all our operations appear to be
crowned, and our fervent prayers that by no cruelty,
ambition, or avarice of our own, may we again merit
or: incur that signal punishment which so lately fell
Upon. us during a similar heyday of good fortune.
Nor is it less gratifying to find in this climax of
our success, that we have -to acknowledge the
.frank and cordial co-operation of those Indian
allies from whom there has lately appeared
reason- to apprehend a less satisfisctory feeling.
" The admirable condUct" of the Sikh' army ap-
pears to have been warmly panegyrized by General
Pollock in his report to the Government, and thus
even the small and gathering Amid which appeared
to threaten our peace has been replaced in this season
of triumph by an omen of quiet and concord. We
need ,hardly say how warmly we feel that debt of
gratitude which the country owes to those whose
courage and conduct have restored her to that com-
manding position which she appeared for a moment
to have lost. It will be some time before the names
of Pollock, Nott, and Sale, •are out of the mouths of
Englishmen ; nor de we at all apprehend that they
will have reason to complain that their merits or
services are underrated. It will be observed that
fuller details have arrived concerning the movements
which led to the settlement of the Chinese war. It
is impossible to view that contest with the same ex-
citing interest which attaches to the terrible realities
of our Affghan warfare. A course of operations,
conducted in comparative safety on a line of coast
commanded exclusively by our own fleet, and de-
fended by droves of helpless and un warlike, though
not spiritless, people, with the power to choose our
time and place, to advance or recede, to treat or
bombard, how, and when, and where it seemed most
convenient to our own able Plenipotentiary, is indeed
a different matter from a mountain warfare conducted
in almost impassable defiles against the hardy and
practised Affghans ; and we have found it so."
The Chronicle says :—" If for a moment we recur
to the discussions that have hitherto taken place upon
the Chinese war, it is but to observe that the very
surprise created by the unexpected intelligence of a
peace brings before us in the strongest light the in-
justice of the only ground of complaint urged againgt
those who were accused of having wantonly involved
the country in these hostilities. The resolution of
censure rejected in 1840 rested upon the allegation
that Ministers had- by their omissions' created the
difficulties which then existed. It. was said they had
neglected to send out sufficiently precise instructions
for the guidance of the Commissioner. In vain was
urged the impossibility ofcon trolling by minute instruc-
tions the conduct of our relations with a country
more than 15,000 miles distant from us. To no pur-
pose was it pointed out that instructions sent from
England to-day might, most probably would, be
wholly inapplicable to the state of facts existing at the
period of their arrival. How conclusively, - however,
is the validity of this argument proved by the intel-
ligence which is just now creating so much gratifica-
tion through the country ! Twelve, eight, or six
months ago, if the Minister of this country, listening
only to the discouraging anticipations of the public
writers who support him, or acting upon the views
held by himself and his party befbre they became pos-
-sessed ofthe Government, had, sent out' definite instruc •
tions' to Sir H. Pottinger, would they to-day be able to
congratulate themselves upon the peace just concluded?
Not less fortunate is the successful termination of
military operations in central Asia. Fortunate,' we
say, for it is to the accident of a retreat being impos-
sible at the moment it was ordered, that we are in-
debted for one of the most brilliant chapters that will
be found in the military history of British India, and
that we are spared one of the most disgraceful chapters
that would be' found in the whole history of the Bri
fish Empire. Caubul and Ghuznee have been taken ;
the prisoners, at least a great portion of tham, have
been recovered, and the reverse of the last campaign
has been redressed, in spite of Lord Ellenborough's
order to fly, before one human being was recovered,
or a single wrong was avenged. We'have before us a
private letter from a friend in India, whose authority
is unquestionable, the writer of which says—' Yon
were right about Lord Ellenborough's order to with-
draw. Lord Ellenborough did order a retreat; he
did grant a 'reprieve, upon the representation of
• General Pollock, and it was only when commanded to
do so by the Home Government, that he has tardily •
allowed our troops to conquer Ghuznee and Caubul.'
How much more reason, then, have we to be satisfied
with the success of the operations in Affghanistan,
when we reflect upon the disgrace and disaster from
which we have so narrowly escaped."
• The following is from the Herald :—" Success has
brought peace in its train in China • let us hope that
tliese victories in Central Asia will be followed by
the like blessing there. The restoration of peace to
Asia, Lord Ellenborough declares, is the first ob-
ject of his desire;' he has the means of restoration.
in his own hands; he has retrieved and avenged
all past disasters on every score on which they were
sustained;' he has advanced the glory and esta-
blished the accustomed • superiority of the
British arms;' he has avenged the Affghan violation
of the laws of war, and he has convinced India of the
ultimate invincibility of our power.; he can then—
so soon as every prisoner is restored —evacuate
Affghanistan without danger and without dishonour ;
and, surrounded with the prestige of military success
he can afford to be magnanimous, and seek without
reproach, within the Indus, those substantial glories
which are denied even to successful warfare when the
cause of hostilities is unjust. Lord Eilenhorough now
occupies a 'vantage point, whence he can terminate a
war with satisfaction to all moderate persons—whence
he can disencumber himself of responsibility for
the crime and guilt of its originators—whence
he can throw his own policy into a most advantageous
contrast to the madness of his predecessor—whence
he can retrieve Indian financial difficulties, and whence
he can restore prosperity to the empire he governs,
and assist the welfare of the home dominion of his
Sovereign."

ItIONEV-TRADE-COIVIIVIERCE.
By an account of the duty on hops of the growth
of the year 1842, the sum realised by the' old duty
appears to amount to 169,77 G/. 6s. Old.; by the new
duty to 125,486/. 16s. 74-d.; and by the additional
duty of 5 per ceid., as by the 3(1 of Victoria, to
14,762/. 6s. 2d. ; making in the whole a total of
310,025/. Bs. WIZ
Embezzlements and forgery to the amount of 1,050/.
have recently taken place in the Richmond Savings'_
bank. Captain Bolstead, the Secretary of the Insti- •
tution, was tried upon two of the charges on Satur-
day, and fully committed for trial at the next Surrey
Sessions. He has been conveyed to Horsemonger-
lane gaol.
An important meeting of the Anti-Corn-law
League was held at Manchester on Tuesday, when the
sum of 4,000/. was subscribed for the fund.

X.AW AND P 0 LX CE
Frances Rugg, Henry Rugg, George Stephens,
Thomas Morris, and James IVlaland, alias Leeson,
alias Christopher James Bugg, were brought up at

.RMY.—The following vessels, with the 25th
Regiment on board, have arrived at Madras, viz., the
Neptune, on the 25th September, the Ocean Queen,
on 26th ditto, from the Cape of Good Hope, and the
General Kyd, on 4th October, from Gravesend.
WIGAN.—About dusk on the evening of Friday
last, a very extraordinary and lamentable accident
befel Mr. Henry Latham, agent of the Wigan Sav-
ing; Bank, which has been attended with fatal conse-
quences. We understand that the unfortunate de-
ceased, having been engaged in some business
which he usually transacted on a market day,
had drank rather too freely, and had wandered
through the gates (which are generally open)
under the Commercial Hall, and traversed the long
bottom room (probably 100 feet long) of the right
wing of the buildings, at the top of which is a door-
way about three feet:from the ground floor. He had
passed through this door-way, and thence fallen head-
long into a stream of hot-water, which flows down a
passage about four feet wide, from Tennant's mill, in
which he was found after a lapse, it is supposed, often
minutes, in a state of utter insensibility. Although
the hot water flowing at this particular place is never
known to be more than three inches deep, the de-
ceased's legs and arms, and almost the whole of his
body, were most dreadfully scalded ; showing that his
body had obstructed the stream, and thereby the
water accumulated and flowed over his person, his
head only escaping. He expired on the following
evening in great pain.—Manchester Guardian.
DESTRUCTION OF A LARGE STEAMER BY FIRE.—
Tl.e following has been received at Lloyd'sLloyd's:—
"New Orleans. October 12.—The ship Hero, Capt.
Ensor, master, which arrived here
lyesterday,ast aboutf rom
Havannah, reports that on Thursday , a
one o'clock in the morning, they were surprised at
observing the reflection of an extensive conflagration
in the horizon. They immediately made all sail in
the direction whence it proceeded, when, after going
going ten or twelve miles, they discovered it to be a
vessel on fire. Upon coming up to her, at about
that—hour had
large ship-111n-
d Thebe
fire
re veryby
severtiioon'
ques • ,
almost
overboard, and she was rapidly burning to
the water's edge. They cruised round the
wreck for an hour or two, till she went 'down,
which took place almost instantaneously. Upon first
coming up, no person appeared on board, nor was any
boat about. They,.however, saw a bark bearing away
to the westward, which it was supposed must have
received the crew and passengers. From the mark
of an anchor, which was hanging at the cathead, and
the appearance of several spars winch were overboard,
they judged the unfortunate steamer to be English."
The New Orleans Bulletin of the 12th of last month

contains a paragraph confir►natory of the above.