The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-04 00:00:00

INFANTRY.

6th Royal.—Head-quarters and four companies, with the
band and colours, staff, &c., under the command of Lieutenant
Colonel Michel, marched from Richmond Barracks, Dublin, to
Great Ship-street Barracks, on the 25th July. Four compa-
nies, under Major Crofton, marched on the same day to Ald-
borough House Barracks ; and two companies marched to
Beggar's Bush Barracks. Relieving head-quarters of the 41st
Regiment, and the detachments at the stations, the 6th Royal
will shortly march for Mulltngar to relieve the 54th Regiment.
11th Regiment (Chatham).—On Friday next the Ilth Re-
giment, consisting of 10 sergeants and 240 rank and file, with
30 women and 40 children, will embark at Gravesend on board
the ship Ramilies, for Van Diemen's Land, under the com-
mand of Major J. Singleton Captain E. L. Blosse, Captain
W. Kenning, Lieut. '
John R. H. Parker, Ensign Stewart,
Ensign Quantrill, Ensign M'Lean, Ensign M. S. Creker, and
Assistant Surgeon Marshall. The following drafts from the
Provisional Battalion embark with the above :-14 privates,
55th Regiment ; 32 privates, 96th ; and 4 privates, 99,h Re-
giment. It is expected that a demi-battery of Royal Artil-
lery, from Woolwich, will proceed with the above.
22d Regiment.—Lieutenant Mayeoek, will embark this day
at Gravesend, on board the ship Owen Glendower, for Bombay,
to join his regiment there.

ilst (Welsh) Regiment.—Four companies head-quarters,
with the band, colours, and staff, under the command of Lieu.
tenant-Colonel Browne, C. 8., marched from Great Ship-street
Barracks, Dublin, to the Royal Barracks, on the 25th July ;
the detachment of 4 companies, under Brevet Lieutenant-Co.
lonel Simmons, C. 8., Aldborough House Barracks, and 2
companies under Major Carpenter, moved from Beggars Bush
Barrack to the Royal Barracks same day.
54th Regiment, Mullingar, will shortly march on Dublin,
the service companies to embark by steam-vessels for Cork,
there to await further conveyance to Gibraltar. Col. Mildmay
False is commanding.

60th ( Royal Rifle Corps).—The depot of the 60th Rifles
arrived in Chatham garrison on the 27th instant. Strength
as follows :—Captain Poyws, Lieut. Fielden, Lieut, Travers,
11 serjeants, 6 corporals, 1 bugler, 72 privates, 35 women. and
46 children ; 1 pay-serjeant, 3 privates, and also 9 men sick in
hospital were left behind. The depot of this regiment at
Paisley was reviewed on Wednesday last, in the Barrack-
square, Paisley, by Major General Sir Neil Douglas, com-
mander of the Queens forces in Scotland. He arrived shortly
after twelve o'clock, accompanied by Lord Jocelyn, his aide de
camp. The general was received with all the honours by
Major Cromhie, the soldiers presenting arms, the band playing
a salute. The general, after inspecting the front and rear
ranks, took his station on the south side of the square, and the
whole were formed into four companies, and marched past him
in slow and quick time, formed in line, and went through the
manual and platoon exercise, and fired a round from flank to
centre. They next marched across the square in echelon, drew
up in line and fired a volley ; then formed into two squares,
those in front kneeling, with fixed swords on their rifles, and
those in the centre discharging their rifles as if attacked by
cavalry. The whole body then formed into one solid square,
and repeated the previous beautiful tactic. The whole of the
manoeuvres, under the command of Major Crombie, were ex-
ecuted with a precision that would have done honour to a
cores of veterans. The general complimented the major
highly on the soldier-like appearance of the corps, and their
high state of discipline. The general afterwards visited the
barracks and the soldiers' mess-rooms.

61st Depot arrived at Chatham from Cork, on the 27th inst.
The strength is 12 sergeants, 6 corporals, 1 drummer, and 123
rank and file, under the command of Captain William Ward.
with Lieut. T. P. H. Fitzmayer, Lieut. W. Maycock, and
Ensign Charles Lennox Maher; 63 women and children came
with the troops. The depot leaves behind at Cork 3 sergeants
and 21 privates.
64th (2d Staffordshire) Regiment, under the command of
Lieut.-Colonel Severns William Lynam Stretten, arrived at
the North-hall, Dublin, on the 26th July, on board of the Bir-
mingham, Mersey, and Leeds steam-vessels, from Liverpool,
were disembarked, with their baggage, women, and children,
and marched to Richmond Barracks, to relieve the 6th" Royal
Regiment. Lieut. Kilvington is recruiting at London, as su-
perintending officer of the 2d Infantry, sub-division.
65th Regiment.—On Monday the head quarters, comprising
the Grenadiers and the Ist, 3d, add 6th company, numbering
22 sergeants and 292 rank and file, under the command of
Lieut.-Colonel Henry Senior, with Major James Fatience.
Captain J. Lewis Smith, Lieuts. Peter Wolfe, J. W. Marshall,
Chas. G. Trafford, D. Bazalgette, T. R. Al‘Coy, F. Barnard,
and Lieut. George Mayler ; Ensign Stephen Blake, and
Assistant Surgeon James G. P. Moore, arrived at Chatham,
from Dublin. The other divisions of this regiment are
expected.

76th Regiment (China).—Ninety-six persons of this regi-
ment, from Chatham, will embark on board the ship Owen
Glendower, at Gravesend, this day, for Bombay.

THE CONVICT SLAVERS.
(From the Western 7 lines.)
The conv:ets. immediately on their condemnation, appeared
to be moved by indignant feelings rather than apprehensions
:Or their fate. Alajaval, the Spaniard. exclaimed that he had
not had a fair trial ; he had been silent during the whole time;
but if he had thought that he should have had such justice as
this, he would have taken a very different course. He said
that before such a fellow as Cuqueira would have been
permitted to give evidence in his country, the people would
have torn him to pieces. He drew his hand across his thro t
with an action that could not be mistaken ; and the
revengeful feeling which it indicated being rebuked, he
said that the people would have killed him ; he did
not mean that he would have done it himself. The
idea of bloodshed seemed to be familiar to his mind.
He begged to be allowed to write to the Queen of Spain.
He complained that he had written to his Government, wlien
first taken into custody, and had received no reply, and had no
notice taken of his letter. His whole bearing indicated anger
rather than terror. Serva, the captain, maintained his wonted
tranquillity, but his frame relaxed on hearing the verdict, from
the iron tension to which it had been screwed up. Alves, the
blood-drinker, has a high and expansive brow; there is less of
the fiend in his countenance than in that of his right-hand
man, Serva, who stood by his side during the trial. His
demeanour was quiet, grave, and thoughtful, and valid thoughts,
one would have supposed, held firm possession of his quiet
breast. Yet this man was the first to rush upon deck, in
reply to the bloody command of Serva, "kill, kill ;" he was
he first who received the knock-down blow of the quarter-
master, and being pitched into the sea by that heroic English-
man, regaining the yes-el after the latter was killed, and not
having had his revenge—drank his blood ! Such is the evi-
dence. Murderer and savage as he was by the evidence, he
stood in the dock, repelling, by his placid demeanour, and his
mild and thoughtful face, the bloody reputation which the
evidence cast upon him. When the verdict was pronounced,
he, for the first time, appeared anxious. The torture of
them all, when brought up to know the issue, NM visible ;
for there was a formal placing of them in the dock, the
counting of the jury. and the customary challenge to the
foreman as to the unanimity of their agreement in the verdict
they were about to deliver. All this, if done in any
ordinary matter, would pass unnoticed. But when life or
death are in the issue, the moments hang like a weight on
the soul ; and even to the spectator the suspense
is intolerable. Majeval east a glance timidly round
at the jury ' • but he quickly withdrew it, as if
be felt that he had a part to play, and that it
ill became him to express apprehension, or anxiety. But
though his mind was sealed within his breast, his sufferings
we:e manifest to the close observer. A restless movement in
the half closed right hand showed the intense effort which it
required in that awful moment, to assume the bearing of repose
and indifference. Serve's arms fell placid by his side, and his
whole frame became listless—it was but momentary—but it
showed that his mind was struck with the agony of the moment.
Alves was calm tiX the sentence was delivered. Profuse per-
spiration then overspread his brow, and he wiped his forehead
with a small bit of rag, which he had been rubbing to and fro in
his unconscious fingers. In earnest, but gentle accents, he
sought t 3 speak, but through the clamorous gesticulations of
the Spanirds, he received no attention, and redoubled agony
cams over him, as he had to speak an unknown tongue to an
audience and judge ignorant of his language. His look of
wild despair reminded one of a man struggling in sleep with
some desperate phantom from which there is no hope of escape.
They were all taken back to prison, and placed in the con-
demned cells, with guards over them day and night.
Janees Majaval is not the nephew of Espart.ero ( Duke of
Victoria), as reported, but the second cousin of the Duchess
of Victoria. Majaval's grandmother, and the grandmother
of the Duchess were sisters.

The prisoners have not been ironed. They are kept in
separate cells, and eat and drink heartily. They are allowed
tobacco to chew, and snuff. They take their meals with as
much nonchalance as if there was no sentence of death im-
pending over them, and "they eat their full allowance."
They all take exercise daily, except Serva, vrhe keeps his bed,
being afflicted with a bad leg, and Alves, who spends much
of his time in reading. Majaval, immediately after condemna-
tion, applied for writing materials, and would not listen to any
spiritual advice until he had penned a narrative (as he says) of
the whole transaction for the information of his Government.of
diligence. Those of them who ca
The materials were supplieJ, and lnierseeatd ahtuet
bietenwistuhpgprleieadt
the
mhitswie,,
swiditerh atiloeuasttbeonotkiOn.by the priest, and they read them with con-
Theßtheev.unTfhoortsu. Costello,natep
ser-
vices to Tiverton, ohna,d
volunteered
attended
theß ev.ofDariarLgiema,arespectable
when on Tuesday last,
Por-
tuguese priest, who has charge
rionoferTs
congregation at Strat-
ford, Essex, was directed by the Catholic Bishop, Dr. :Griffiths,
to come down and afford them every spiritual assistance. lie is
indefatigable in his attentions, and the good effects of his visit
are very manifest. They have all been much tranquillized since
his appearance, most of them having " made a clean breast of
it." All, except Serva, have been wrought upon by the coun-
sels of the reverend father ; but he remains obdurate. What
he has," he says, " is in his own heart." He'll confess nothing.
This man was the terror of the coast—daring and unscrupulous,.
pursuing his bloody traffic with a fearless and ferocious spirit—
,t neither fearing God nor Devil." Ile held human life toe
cheap to be unprepared for this alternative, it is to be pre-
sumed; and he bears himself with a degree of stoical indiffer-
ence, which was unshaken by the three days' trial.
A petition against the execution of the prisoners has been got
up in this city ; and it is reported that Sir Thorns, Wilde intends

to brieg the subject before Parham-at—but nothing ti yet art,.
tain. They remain at present under sentence of death. But
the general opinion of the lawyers being strongly in favor of
Str-geant Manning's law, Baron Platt deter mined to consult
his Learned Brother, Mr. Just ce Erle, as to the propriety of
reserving the points of law for the decision of the twelve
judges. The Under Sheriff, Mark Kennaway, Esq., was to
meet the Learned Judges to. day, on their return from Corn-
wall. Should they dec;tle against the appeal, the prisoners will
be left for execution.

HON. RICHARD RUSH ON
OREGON.
(From the iVtw York Tribune).
Mr. Rush has done the public a timely service in this
publication. A part of it, indeed, is rather agrveable
than important—accounts of great men visited, good (In-
ners eaten, &c., while there is evinced throughout an
anxious desire and study to exhibit the author in a fa-
vourab!e light, as a vigilant, sagacious, and devoted
champion of his country's rights and interets. Natural
as this is. we think it might base been efft c'ed leis ob-
trusively. Yet the book is a good one for all times, anti
esneeially for this time. Mr. Rush was lung on terms tif
intimacy and mutual regard with many of the g, eat nun
of the la-t generation—among them, with Cas•l,re,gh,
Canning, w:.ll7n,rton, end thtoir comp, trots, who hal
just carried England triumphantly through the mightie t
struggle in which any nation had ever het.n cryogen.
Mr. Rush shows tht_A the Tory ministry of the day was
ardently desirous of preserving End inttretsing friendly
rela: ions between their country anti our.;, out th,tt (11
one ecasiun (the hanging of Arbuthn it and Arnhrister
by General Jackson), when tl.e ministry opposed and
defeated a motion by the Marquis of Lansdowne, look-
ing to belligerent action on the subject, Lord Castlerogh
privately assured him (Mr. li.) that, such WAS the urn
per of parliament and such the feeling of the country,
that war might have been produced by holding: up a
finger, and he thought an address to the Crown recom-
mending one might have been carried by nearly a anon'.
mous vote.

Ana now of Oregon. Five years bad passed, and with
them Lord Castlereagh, to whose place as Secretary to
Foreign Affairs George Canning had succeeded. Mr.
Rush had instructions from our administration (Mr.
Monroe's) to press the se'tlement of several oeen
questions, among them that of our boon lary westward
of the Rocky Mountains. Mr. Canning invited him ta
a personal interview, expressly on this subject. Mr.
Rush went at the appointed time, and found Mr. Canning
confined to his bed by an attack of the gout, but still
ready and anxious to proceed to business. He desired
first to be put in possession of the American claim, and
the grounds on which it. was based. Mr. Riot (htteitlg
been five years minister at London, and fully instructed
on the subject by our Go', ernment) stated °tic claim, and
traced on a map of America, laid on the bed, the
boundary we required. Mr. Canning, hardy able to
follow the delineation, only remarked that " our claim
seemed much beyond any that England had anticieated."
Mr. Rush answered that he hoped to be able to show a
good foundation- for it. After some further but general
conversation, Mr. Rush took leave, having at Mr. Cart-
ning's request submitted " a brief informal statement. or
memorandum of our claim in writing." Mr. Cenekg
sent a similar note in the everieg, expressiter, serp,e,e
at that portion of Mr. Rush's eee.(bee
suggested an interdict of British sealeaeles ee •
coast north of 55 deg., which led to rxplenet; ; •Ht.
all this is immaterial. Our business is here with he
main question.
Now, will not our people who have Oren tol,; in the
resolutions of reckless, shameless party caucuses, that
" our right to the whole of Oregon [that is, to 54 aeg.
40 min. north] is clear and unquestionable," be astonished
to hear that we did not even claim so far, by 200 mules,
twenty years ago ? Yet such is the te letnn, officially
demonstrated fact. Mr. Rush was not asked to prip-se
a compromise, or to say how little we se mild take. Ele
was asked to set forth familiarly the extent of our chilli
to territory west of the Rocky Mountains, and he (act-
ing under ample instructions from Mr. Munro,'s Cabi-
net) only claimed to the 51st degree of north latitude.
When the negotiation was opened, he came down to the
49th degree, but even this was deemed inadmissible by
the British Ministry, who propesed the middle of the
Columbia river as the boundary, the navigation of sa':.cl
river to be at all times free and open to both pares.
This was in turn rejected on our part, and finally (ISe7)
Great Britain offered to concede in addiColi a *mall de-
tached district on the Strait of Fuca, so es to give us a
good harbour on the Pacific, there being no harbours
deemed safe and easy of access for large vessels, eitler
at the mouth of Columbia, or in Oregon south of it.
This is the nearest approach to an agreement which has
jet been made. The tract really in dispute, lying, be-
tween lat. 49 deg. and the Columbia river, has very little
intrinsic value, but the navigation of the river is a mat-
ter of prospective importance. Suck is substantially the
case as it stands.

Now we ask every candid, intelligent being, in vi: w
of these undeniable facts, to judge whether the ass, r •
tion that "our right to the whole of Oregon is clear aril
unquestionable " is not a flagitious, monstrous false-
hood ? If there had been a colour of truth to sustain
it, would our Government have commenced the negotia-
tion by claiming only to 51 deg., and from this have
speedily offered to compromise at 49 deg. ?
In one case, indeed, in reply to remonstrances against
Mr. Monroe's famous declaration that this continent
was to be regarded as no more subject to European co-
lonisation, Mr. Rush intimtted (as we find in his report
to his own Government) that our claims extended as
far north as the 60th degree, but we find nothing an-
swering to this in the pretensions which astonished Mr.
Canning. On the other hand, Mr. Canning very forcibly
urged, in resisting our claim up to the 51st degree, that
Great Britain had been obliged to resist this very claim
of exclusive jurisdiction when preferred by Spain her-
self, and attempted to be enforced against Mearbs at
Nootka. Having thus resisted and compelled a relin-
quishment of this claim when set up by its original
author, she could not recede from the around then esta-
blished and admitted at the demand of a purchaser or
legatee. And it is deserving of remark that, this Nootka
treaty of 1790 was first appealed to as evidence by Mr.
Rush on our part—not proffered on that of Great Bri-
tain. But neither party dreamed of questioning the
validity, subsisting and active, of that treaty or cenven-
don. Both sides clearly regarded it as we have ever
regarded it, and as all who consider the nature of that
treaty and the acknowledged principles of the law of
nations, must regard it. The contrary assumption ,-.fords
a striking evidence that " Necessity is the mother of in-
vention."
And now consider under what circumstances our Go
vernment is urged to take military and formal p :sses-
sion of the whole territory. including many British
trading posts of 10 to 30 years' standing. We com-
menced by claiming 51 deg., otier.Nl to be ,ittlistii.d with
49 deg., were refused that, and are now urged to take
the whole at one dash, without negotiation or compro-
mise, and, it was even urged, without giving the year's
notice which we have solemnly stipulated by treaty.
Would not any formal taking possession of Oregon,
without the year's notice, be a flagrant violation of
national faith ? Would not the taleieg forcible posses-
sion of all Oregon, after having formally offered to be
content with halt of it, be an act of the clearest egres-
sion and hostility, sure to be resisted as such ? To these
questions there can be but one honest, intelligent answer.
He who urges our Government to take possession of all
Oregon urges the commencement of a distant, expensive,
and bloody war, with one of the great powers of the
earth, for so much of that territory as lies north of the
Columbia River. Now, if the American people choose to
begin such a war, they will do it ; but they shall not be
led into it blindfold.

We do not doubt that it is profitable rather to hurrah
our people on to unjustifiable and unfour.ded pretensions
than to undeceive and warn them. Let a stranger ccme
along, telling each family that a great estate had just
fallen to it by inheritance, and he would be welcomed
and feasted though his news might be doubted ; but he
who came after to disabuse the general credulity would
hardly be thanked, even thong h he could not be dis-
believed. Thus, we have just received two papers, the
Ohio St ,tesman and the Buffalo Mt. which r. peat the
parrot slang about "taking the British side,"
without offering one particle of evidenc e to invalidate
our positions. Th. Pilot is mean enough to talk of our
" mentA vassalage to English teaching and opinions,"
our "contracted trade views from the importing atmo-
sphere you breathe," &c. The editor, however male-
volent, is not ignorant that the importing interest has
never supported or been supported by the Tribune, and
that the journals of our city, which are subservient to
that interest, are all hot for taking Oregon.
And the Ohio Statesman says, we "show the cloven
foot" in the ground we take on this question, and that
"since the first organisation of this Government, in all
its difficulties with foreign nations, Federalism has shown
its consistency by invariably taking sides against tha
Unied States."

If we hare read history aright it was not the Federal
party that opposed the course of our Government in our
difficulties with France in 1798-99 ; neither was it the
party the Statesman calls Federal which took the part
of Great Britain in the Went India trade controversy of
1826-7. How was this, Statesman ? But for our part,
we hold it the part of a good citizen first, to keep his
country in the right, and warn her when demagogues
would put her in the wrong to subserve their own selfish
ends. This duty we shall fearlessly discharge, at what-
ever cost. We stand for justice and peace ; whoever
would tempt our country to do wrong is her.
illusive deadliest
enemy, though thoughtless millions huzza
at
Success in wrong is a guilty and triiimph, surd
to re,ult in direct calamities. Woe to that people whicl,
dreams of aggrandizing itself by encroaching ou and de-
spoiling others.

Mg. HORACE SMITIL—The distinguished author
of .‘ Brambletye House," and a host of other works which
have placed his name in the front rank of our living novelists
is about to put forth a new work of fiction, bra ing the cu• ions
yS
thatm Smith's
h' se penhad hasbef
rc achieved
title of " Love. and Mesmerism." From this designation we
may conceive that we are to have one of those lively stories of
notte dayeve
even
y exceeded which :I rb.reputation
the
field
of historical romance,. or the more sparkling realms of wit.
,cqu acquired e da
" Mesmerism" is now an all-engrossing topic, and a better
hand than that of the author of " Rejected Addresses"
hardly be found to treat so rich a subject.
HOLY IsLA.ND.—Dur'ng the past week some dis-
coveries have been suede upon the island which are likely to be
interesting to the antiquary. The wo:kmen employed in
forming a road-way from the lime-kilns to the place or ship-
ment came upon the foundations of some buildings, and as
neither tradition nor history assign any habitation or structure
to that part of the island, the workmen's curiosity was very
much excited; and along what is called the Snook, on the north
side of the island, they traced a line of foundations which oc-
cupy in extent about an acre and a half. In the course of their
operations they found two coins of the reign of Ethelred, and,
supposing that to have been the period when these foundations
were formed, they must have existed for upwards of a thousand
years. • The cathedral was built in the reign of William Rufus,
200 years after Ethelred. The coins have been shown us,
and are certainly a great prize to the antiquary. We were in-
formed they are Saxon sticas; they are in wonderful preserva-
tion, the superscription being unmutilated. The coin is made
of a composition apparently, being neither silver nor brats. A
stica, we understand, was worth about 2d. or lid.