The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-29 00:00:00

HAMBURiIH MAIL.

STUTTG kRb, DEC. 16. His 1;:o: I.lighne.,s the
Crolim Prince has set out to-day for Vie'ona, there to
roc' ive the Emperor of Russia.

BERLIN. I)Ec. 17.—According to the latest amounts
that have been received here from Pilerrno, his MakstY
the Emperor of Russia, by the advice cf 113 physician,
will remain in that city o ly till the month of February,
and there take up his residence in a more northen city ill
Italy.

IlANovEn, Due. 16.—1 f the reports respecting the
health of the Crown Prince are exaggerated, or are in-
correct, it is only to be attributed to the mystery which
is observed respecting his illness. It is, however, no
longer affirmed, half officially, that the Prince
has got a slight cold; but authentic accounts are
still withheld. As ae hear, the operation has not given
any hope of success, but also that the phy-
sicians unit rtook it without any hope, the mist
that could be expec'ed in their opinion, was a glimmer
of light. The operation is said to have very serioudy
affected the prince, and it was feared that the brain
might suffer, which, however, has happily been pre'
vented by the constant applic?:tion of ice. The prince
is now getting better ; but who knows whether the
operation could be attempted a third time without danger
to his life

Mtmticii, DEC. 14.—We are able to announce, on un-
questionable authority, that a royal decree exempts on
persons, not Roman Catholics, belonging to the arms',
from kneeling. Henceforward there shall be no kneel-
ing, except in the procession of Corpus Christi, at which,
as well as Divine service in the church, only The Roman
Catholic soldiers are called on to attend.

BERLIN! DEC. 20.—The subject which diverts public
attention from all internal affairs, and forms almost the
exclusive theme of conversation, is the announced
change in the English Ministry. In the diplomatic
circles the hope is not given up that Sir Robert Peel and
the whole of the Conservative Ministry will, in the eat
iriumph over all its opponents. Here, as well a; on the.
spot, great reliance is placed on the support and in-
fluence of the veteran hero of Waterloo. In the com-
mercial world very different wishes are entertainedll
they fear that neither the abolition nor the modification
of the corn-laws will ever take place so long as a Toll
Administration exists ; and the moment is there
longed for when the Whigs, the Liberal or popular
party, shall come forward with their liberal views
of the intercourse with foreign countries in re
Bard to their national productions. Under these
circumstances, every unprejudiced person considers tiles*
changes as extremely important, on account of the con•
cord, and we may say the firiendly relations, which hare
hitherto prevailed b, t seen the late Ministry and foreign
countries. The news of the present state of things have
made an extramlinary impression in the hotels of tb.
English and French Ambassadors. Several Cabinet
messengers have latt If arrived at the hotel of the Es?'
of Westmoreland, atto ig them is Colonel Townley, oil°
has come back, and whose arrival is snpposed to ha"
some connexion with these important changes.—itant.
burgh Papers, Dec. 23.

DUTCH MAUL.
THE HAGUE, DEC. 21.—The Bulletin of the La''
publishes a royal decree of the 16th of this month, of t,,be
following tenor :—After drawing by lot a capital of 300.0 w
florins of bonds, at three-and-a half per cent., °tale
late Syndicate, bearing interest, shall be repaid on till
31st of December, 1845, issued by virtue of the law °
f
27th May, 1830, and conformably by the royal deereet
of the Ist of June following. In consequence a bum °f
300,000 florins must be inserted in the 13th article °f
chapter IX. of the budget for 1845.
We have received by Java journals of the 10th of Ser
tember, the following article, dated Batavia, SePt-
"On the 20th of July, between half-past one and t
ad
o' in the afternoon, some very smart shocks of
earthquake were felt at Atuboina. In the evenill
of the same day there were several
shocks, and in the evening of the 21st of Jut'
between half-peat six and seven o'clock, two serc'"
shocks. On the 22d of this month there was a sueeei.
sion of slight shocks. The Government.house at Bel
Gadja has suffered much that it must be abandon.ed,
and the military hospital has sustained some injury, pt.
not so much as to make it necessary to e‘racuste,
but
little. dwellings, on the whole, have suffered '
little. The shocks were felt to come from the Wei"
and were mostly vertical.
One of the Hague journals pub'ishas a letter from
Rotterdam, which states that fifty ships, laden with
pr.duce of our colonial possessions, are expected in fiat
the KS
city towards the month of February next. If the i 4
does not impede the arrival of these vessels, the Pr
Rotterdam will be more an, mated than it perhaps ever
was before. Most of the laws lately passed by "7,
States-General are now promulgated by the Governra. De
in the Bulletin of the Laws.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AxsTranAPI. Dgc• 23• BUIL •
Ddoney 60%
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.. • • • • • • ' • • 73,4
lsitto, 3 per Cent ••• • • • ..... •••• • • • 94 94%
Ditto, 4 per CenL ..............• 99 9914
Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent ••• • • • ••
Ditto, 3% per Cent.... ••• • • • • 161 162%
Commercial Company, 434 per Cent • • 93% 9414
East India Loan, 4 per Cent • • ..... 12 17 5
Exchange on London, at sight • ri
......
12 07
Two months. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 56 27
On Hamburgh, at sight •• • . 35
IS &
Two months. ......
On Paris
Two months.-- " " • •
—Dutch Papers, Dec. 24.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Biesw4, DSC. 22.
Bills. moue/.
St. Schuld Sch., 334 per Cent
Yruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent ••• • • •
Foreign Exchanges.. •-•
Exchange on London, LI Sterling, 2 Months. 6 24% 6 2435
Hamburgh, 300 Marks, 2 Months. 149%
797,‘
Paris, 300 fr., 2 Months
-Universal Prussian Gazette, Dec. 23.
.11.6.318URG11 BORSENISALLE,
Dac. 23.
Bills. Monsl.
•
kustrian 5 per Cents • • • • " • 1620
Bank Shares ••••'•' ' • • • • • 108% 138-
Anglo-Russian Loan ••••••• • • • • • • 10334
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certifies e• 10434
Ditto Ist series Inscription •••••• " • • • • 99
Ditto, Rope and Co., 3d and 4th serieS.•
Ditto, in Certificate.. ••••••• • " '• • • !?
• New 4 per Cent., Hops and Co. •• •• • • "
69
Ditto Stleglitz . ..... .• . ••• • • 21g 20%
Spanish New 5 per Cent.. • • • • •• • • • • • • Z 214
Ditto 3 per Cent ..... •• • • •,••
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent ••
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••• • • 60
Ditto 3 per Cent. ..... •• • • ,
Polish New 4 per Cent. Joan, 1844.... 8134
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent .. •... 86
National Bank Shares

IRELAND.
HURRICANE AND LOSS OF LIFE•

WATERFORD, DEC. 24.—0 n Monday night and yers-
terday morning this city was visited with one of SAg
severest gales we have experienced for many years. •
eleven o'clock (Monday night) it commenced blowinfee
st ff gale from the north-west, and at two o'clock it bl.„0
a perfect hurricane. The river was in awful connant%.
and the schooner Kate, of Bristol, which was lying bike
site the Custom-house, after discharging her cargo, "—the
from her moorings, and ran with wind and tide there
opposize side of the river, near Cromwell's Rock, "47,et.
she struck. The wind at the moment got under
larboard quarter and up-.et her. Fortunately, the 041,141:
and an apprentice belonging to the vessel rush
e- h°o,
Beek, and leaped overboard. The apprentice (4°.1,%
Richbald) succeeded in climbing up on the keel 01 1"4.3-
vessel, and the master swam towards the quay, and vrthe
picke up by a boat bAiniging to a vessel lying in "0
river. But, most melancholy to relate, the captain'n
together with three sailors, were drowned, they being,
asleep at the time the accident occurred. The captain
name is Collins, but we were unable to learn the maim"
of the three unfortunate men.
The Thistle was also dragged from her moorings OP;
posite the Tower, and was carr,ol as far as the Sented
quay, where her anchors again took the ground, an
kept her fast.

AGRARIAN OUTRAGES.
LIMERICK, DEC. 24.—As Mr. Connor Cog
hllt
steward to Sir Aubrey De Vere, Bart., was returning
from Askeaton on Friday to his residence at Ba11,1°:i
inGna, within a few miles of Pallaskenry, he was h!.
at from behind a ditch. Providentially the assassin
aim did not take effect; the ball passed through the
sleeve of his riding-coat, slightly grazing his left argil;
This man was attacked on two former occasions, °

which he miraculously escaped being killed.
Oti Saturday evening, about five o'clock, as a farmer of
the nsme of James Jones, from near Kilteely, was
turning from this city, he was attacked nearly opPos''''
the county gaol by three men, and knocked down by
blow of a stone, and cut in two places. They robbed
him of a gun he was taking home after repairs by Mr'
S. Whitaker, of this city. lie reported the outrage to
the Pallysimon police, who made diligent search fur the
offender:, but without effect.
A threatening notice was left on the barn gate of Ur;
Arthur Morris, of Pallaskenry, menacing any landlore,_
wh'i should demand rent fur ground in which Wiwi'
potatoes grew, or any person who should pay rent
with
such ground, or if the did they would be dealt with
according us the board of conscience may think proper.
On Sunday last the Rev. P. Quaid, P.P. of Clonleat
county Clare, addressed his flock, first at the chapel of
Oatfield,- afterwards at Ktlkisken, in consequence 01
recent outrages committed borderieg his parish. olle
pointel out the fo,llv and wickedness of the course par'
suing by those midnight legislators, and described in
such feeling terms the heartrending scer• , which he
himself had witnessed, resulting from similar proceed-
ings, that the greater portion of the congregation were
in to ars. A more forcible appeal to the feelings of all
audience, we are assured, was never delivered. This is
not the first time we were led to record the Rev. Gentle-
men's exertions to check outrage.
On Tuesday last, a threatening letter, bearing the
Ca• tleeonnel postmark, and a death's head and coffin+
was received by Cornelius Connors, a tenant to David J.
Wilson, Esq., on the lands of Coolassey, ordering him to
quit his farm within three days, or to mark the conse-
quence, if he disobeyed " Tipperary men's orders." On
the sante evening, Neagle's house, on Ballycullen, was
attacked. The same party visited the houses of Martin
M'Nainara arid M•Mahon, tenants to John Gabbett, of
Castitlake, Esq., from each of whom a gun vms taken.
Saturday night an arm, d party forced open the pound
at Bridgetown, County Clare. and turned out all the
cattle under seizure for ',mt.—Limerick Chronicle.

'I he Irish Lord Chancellor gave his usual entertain-
ments after Mit:ha liras Term to the judges of the
Irish bar, without party distinction. On Saturday I?isL.
Lordship entertained Sir Thomas Fremantle, Oiler
Jii,tce Doherty, tie Chief Baron, Baron Lefroy, Judge
Keatinge, and others of the judges, tog..ther with several
Queen's counsel, including Mr. Hatchell, Mr. G. Bennett,
Mr. Mon9.fhan, Mr. H. Moore, Mr. Holmes, &e. Sub-
sequently his Lordship entertained another large party.
including Master Henn. Sergeant Stock, Dr. littee!iff.
Q.C.. ; Dr. Gayer, Q.C.; Mr. J. J. Murphy, Q.C.; gr.
ii. 137..dwin, Q.C.; Mr. Butt, Q.C.; Mr. Napier, Q
and several others

An (,rdin;:nc t,f. the Bing of the French ()perm for
the Minister t,f Public Works a credit of 2,000,000 franc,'
for loans and grants to the Paris and &men, and Roueu and
Havre Railways.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
Nothing in the shape of betting.
The Ca-ster Cup nowinations are anxiously lo' ed
for, and are expected to be more numerous than last
Year.

Mr. Meiklam has purchased Mr. D. Cook's Derby
Colt, the Fancy Boy.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1846.
Nominations for the N•iwmarket Handicap.
Eboracum, aged—Johnny, aged—Naworth, aged—
Queen of Tyne, aged—Coranna, aged—The Roper's
uallghter, aged—Captain Flathooker, aged—St. Law-
l'enee, aged—l am-not-aware, aged—Haitoe, aged-
9.?een Mab, aged—Oakley, aged—Lothario, 6 yrs—
Vanataur, 6 yrs—Winesour, 6 yrs—Trueboy, 6 yrs—
Inheritress, 6 yrs—Wee Pet, 6 yrs—What, 6 yrs—
judex, 6 yrs—Pine apple, 6 yrs—Bourra Tomacha, 6
Pl—YoungLochiuvar, 6 yrs—Miss Burns, 6 y ,ard •
Ing School Miss, 5 yrs—Joe Lovell, 5 yrs— Eletni, 5 yrs
Z-Vol-au-Vent 1 5 yrs—Satyr, 5 yrs—ldleness, 5 yrs—
tgest Bower, 5 yrs—Little John, 5 yrs—Doctor Bus-
11'1cl, 5 yrs—b h by Velocipede, out of Fair Jane, 5
Jra---Antler, 5 yrs—Akbar, 5 yrs—Beaumont, 5 yrs—
Su. Diggory Diddle, 5 yrs—Needful, 5 yrs—Rowena,
4 Yrs—b h by Velocipede, out of Amulet, 5
511-114ickey Free, 5 yrs—Warp, 5 yrs—lonian,
yrs—Alamorle, 5 yrs—Sorella, 5 yrs-
-5 yrs—Leopard, 4 yrs—Correct Card
4 yrs Merryman, 4 yrs John Davis, 4 yrs
t-,114-.Repealer, 4 yrs—Plaudit, 4 yrs—Lyons, 4 yrs—
itzallen, 4 yrs—Clumsy, 4 yrs—Energy, 4 yrs—c by
Slane,
Out of Frill, 4 yrs—As You Like It, 4 yrs—
Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs—Deodora, 4 yrs—Wolf Dog, 4 yrs
Ruff, 4 yrs—Mongrel, 4 yrs —Rosa, 4 yrs—lEoliati,
R
Pl—Devil's Dust, 4 yrs—Kesheng, 4 yrs—Scarlet
'`nuner, 4 yrs—Petit Morceau, 4 yrs—/Egis, 4 yrs—
Arthur, 4 yrs—Jenny Wren, 4 yrs—Sister to Ma Mie,
Yrs—Weatherbit, 4 yrs—Wood Pigeon, 4 yrs—
lktbria 4 yrs—Anna Comnana, 4 yrs—Hawkesbury,
4
Yrs—Refraction, 4 yrs—c by Elis, out of Mopsa, 4 yrs
is-The Pasha, 4 yrs—Laird o' Cockpen, 4 yrs—Chertsey,
44 Yrs—King Cob, 4 yrs— My Mary, 4 yrs—Bretwalda,
-4. Pl—Venus, 4 yrs—Lady Wildair, 4 yrs—Miss Elis,
as—Stoker, 4 yrs—Fusbos, 4 yrs—Maynooth, 4 yrs
fi,ritn Con 4 yrs—Metal, 4 yrs—Dean Swift, 4 yrs—
Defence, out of Nikf, 4 yrs—Duc an Durras, 4 yrs
the Wreck, 4 yrs—The Baron, 4 yrs—Chemise,
4hi—Foremast, 4 yrs—Alarm, 4 yrs— Ould Ireland,
3Yrs—Event, 4 yrs—Connaught Ranger, 4 yrs—Killi
ritukie 3 yrs—Ohio, 3 yrs—Terrier, 3 yrs—Thrapston,
rdl.
I—Spur, 3 yrs—Punch, 3 yrs—Curiosity, 3 yrs—
.orrelius,3 yrs—Astonish ment, 3 yrs—Sharpshooter,3 yrs
isiThe Little Vulgar Boy, 3 yrs—b f by Stockport, out of
1,,, 'a,nYraede, 3 yrs—Chandelier, 3 yrs—The Hero,3 yrs—
I; by Retriever, out of Emilia, by Dexterous, 3 yrs
hg °Y Mus, out of Guava, 3_yrs—Marquis of Conyng-
a--a4), .3 yrs—Tug-Net, 3 yrs—c by Venison, out of Pet,
)11.---Sister to Robert de Gorham, 3 yrs—Symmetry,
0„Y,11-1.1kraine rs
3 y—Breastgirth, 3 yrs—f by Discord
-" of Soldier's Joy,3 yrs—Blackbird, 3 yrs.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Gnat
lids., Mon., Holt ; Tues., Steward's Hay; Thurs.,
it thtiby ;- Fri., Bunney Park-11.
tiloAtherstone hds., Mon., Overasel Village; Wed., Alias-
,lllo ; Fri., York Road; Sat., Ratliby Burrows.
ietchley Hunt, Mon., Harrington; Wed., Stanford's Hall;
g! Buttock's Booth ; Sat., Ashby St. Ledger-11.
Ab),!._ll. Sutton's lids., Mon., Corby Toll-bar; Tues, Launde
; Wed., Holywell Hall; Fri., Leesthorpe ; Sat., Ham-
'oil Bar 11
Iltid°_4ington lids., Mon., Clifton Village; Wed., Cavendish
13go ; Sat., Belton Village-10i.
tilliklaworth hds., Tues., Hampole Inn ; Thurs., Hemsworth
pe End Sat., Notton-104.
Ni:afford lids., Mon., Oxton Village; Wed., Thoresby Park;
L'iston hds., Tues., Remshaw ; Fri., Aston-104.
Til-vrd Yarborough's hds., Mon., Weelsby House; Wed.,
o
torilton Abbey ; Sat., Kingerly Wood-11.
*,tcl Henry Bentinck's hds., Mon., Saxilby ; Tues., Lang-
Bridge ; Wed., Bardnev ' • Thurs., Tile House Beck ;
ehttitelithorn ; Sa
Mot., PotterlsHill Bar 11.
tikk b eshire hds. n., Bradfield Green ; Wed., Marbury ;•
og, Saiglton ; Sat., Three Greyhounds.
it 4 W. Wynne's lids., Tues., King's Mills; Wed., Wynn-
-41; Fri., Plas Te.• ; Sat., Gallantry Bank.
)I.l,li4Phire hds., 'Mon., Kennels; Wed., Fox, Albrighton ;
1,1 lgh Hatton-104.
atrrlgoineryshire lids., Tues., Pentrenant-10.
arquharson's hds., Mon., Macomb Park ; Thurs.,
41ii:,4 Wood.
Corn v• 11., Tues., Pointington Ridge ; Fri., Mappowder
kr; brax's lids., Mon., Holnest Kennel.
lid elk Ingram's hds., Mon., Castle Hayes; Thurs., Dove-
Sat., Black Slough-104.
Bo Union Union , Tues., South Hanningfield Tye; Sat.,
Ilouselo4.
litiCt Essex hds., Tues., Gosfield; Thurs., Helions Bump-
til'eSat• Panfield
.11- and Suffolk hds, Tues., Ardleigh Crown; Fri., Had-
kinittain Candler's hds., Mon., Bishop's Wood ; Wed.,
tltii,°rd Bridge ; Sat., Lickey-104.
Feted Pack, Tues., Netherwood ; Sat., Little Seretton.
'0441"n lids., Tues., Stoke ; Thurs., Michelgrove ; Sat.,
4Jteii,leS and H▪
orsham lids, Mon., Chariwood Park ; Wed.,
bt,tlit.Lrark; Fri., Crawley Village-10.
"uton harm., Mon., Patcbam ; Wed., Race-course ;
1111,1ke-11.
-Nkside harm., Mon., Newmarket-hill ; Thurs., Tals-
.,.'s
r
4146,„ M. Stanle▪
y's hds., Mon., Burton ; Sat., Backford
A.

ItOPOSED GRAND YACHT
Jrit REVIEW BY HER MAJESTY.
(Hash Advertiser) are indebted to the courtesy of
Knight,4,,, the zealous Secretary of the Royal Southern
Clit Club, at Southampton, fur the following interest-
b co ... •
zmulunication:—
tipn brig to submit, through your columns, a proposi-
l'atiV,he Commodores and members of the Royal
011
-e
;:s-qubs of Great Britain for the display of their
kui,`te force in such a manner as, from its novelty
i 1 beauty, would, I think, eclipse all other naval
~.0
save those of fleets intended for actual conflict.
14,,,tter Majesty, by selecting the Isle of Wight for a
to the residence, and extending her patronage not only
14 • e Squadron, but to so many Yacht Clubs, has
akilltet d the especial gratitude of their gallant owners;
Pro, hat gratitude could not be, as I conceive, more ap-
Vtiately shown than in paying our Ocean Queen'
4141Pliment I will proceed to describe.
thow,would advise that a meeting, on a grand scale,
4.4-Z4 be held in London of all the members of Royal
tittlet Clubs in the kingdom, at which the oldest Com-
-4,4; the Right Hon. the Earl of Yarborough, should
tqquested to preside, to consider the most advisable
Ntlse °J. getting up a magnificent Review of all the Yacht
Mahe
le the Kingdom, to take place before her Majesty
I Yachting mouths of 1846.
would respectfully tender my opinion, in deference
liyabi judgment of such a meeting, that it would be ad-
for every Royal Yacht Club to rendezvous (say
dot •e month of August) at the desire of their Commo-
thleo, at Cowes, or its immediate vicinity, and go through
becvssary preliminary manoeuvres in divisions or
thaa,kiroes, in order to acquire the practice which would
y e the evolutions of the combined fleet, when reviewed
40th " Majesty, deserving of her approbation. I will
tpy presume to suggest any further details, but express
e‘)Pe that the idea may not be thought unworthy of
Nii;eation by the noblemen and gentlemen of the Yacht
tlo:' of Great Britain. Such a day would not only be
114-:eedented, but the display would be honourable to
By
character.
PetiVlY no other instances of magnificence in their ex-
ture, and taste in their sports, are foreigners of in-
Pitt ? uee so much struck as in the profuse expense and
lillotie feeling displayed by the members of the Yacht
S'4B, the fit-out and discipline of many of these vessels
Ttc„rettehing to those ranking in their country's service.
Ofti,"Xpenditure of the Yacht Clubs counts by hundreds
jej"elleands of pounds in building, fitting, wages, and
utilling. Ship-building, too, has greatly improved
Attf,he Patronage of the Clubs, and they employ up-
fotl of four thousand of the smartest seamen to be
e,L, in the world.
Oki 4.he Review I propose suggests feelings of the highest
I,;,`Qeation and national interest, and the assemblage of
tv-Zra on the occasion would doubtless be the greatest
viz witnessed. witnessed. I think I may venture to express con-
lyi our beloved Sovereign would be delighted
,ttlistleh an appropriate and imposing sight. Of its
4;"lficence some idea may be formed from the fact
14,,eg that there are more than eleven clubs, command-
4tZ.: force exceeding five hundred yachts, and as the
tf:lllies of such a force may be interesting to the lovers
kirloatic amusements, I will conclude by laying the
Distinction
before your readers :
'4Urietion of Clubs. No. of No. of No. of No.of Puincipally
Yachts Tons Men Guns Brass I'ds.
Z.o yacht Squadron 102 9,000 1,600 400 from 2to 9
LhaMes Yacht Club 146 4,400 540 220 from %to 6
r,western Yacht Club 74 3000 400 260 from Ito 6
_mUth,rn Yacht Club G 7 2 800 350 230 fr..m Ito 9
Royal So- victoria Yacht Club 38 3,200 420 250 from 2to 9
Harwich Yacht Club 38 900 120 40 from %to 4
Rod :: Cork Yacht Club 42 1,650 s 258 120 from Ito 6
it,q;-; Mersey Yacht Club 45 1,470 240 110 from Ito 6
IV 4 Northern Yacht Club 40 1,455 230 110 from Ito 6
114.,41Eastern Yacht Club
''IC-ingstown Yacht Club 29 1,380 230 70 from Ito 6

Deduct about 1-6th for the 621 29,250 4,380 1,810
Rau", yacht, belonging to
P
rerent Clubs, you will
a Grand Total of 530 25,000 3,900 1,500
shwa rh. seaen are exclusive of masters, cooks, and
therds which would give at least 800, in addition to
te,:Zegoing numbers.
134 he wages alone for the masters and seamen ex-
v:4 120,000/. per annum, and the intrinsic value of the
117 ch ts, with their armament complete, is more than
tee-quarters of a million of money.
v'd,„,,411 yachts (be.ale their broadside guns), are pro-
-411 L' with small arms of every description, and the crews
`4ost cases are instructed in the use of them.
eioitstirhe amount of outlay with regard to provisions,
as thand other expenses, can scarcely be guessed at,
e greatest luxuries are to be found on board, re-
isardies,
or cost.
3,4eAt the present time there are upwards of fifty
yar:lts of large tonnage in frame, at the several building
ar,d „8 °F White, Ratsey, and Hanson, of Cowes ; Rubie
,tliaktr, of Southampton ; Wanhill and Penny, of
be ; Inman, of Lymington ; Moore, of Plymouth ;
tows-e,sthe yards at London, Gravesend, Clyde, Kings-
yre- "lk, and other private yards in the kingdom of
tettl3ritain ; so that in the spring of 1846, 600 sail of
ob,A!s may e alculated to"JAMESn mission.—Your
uient servant KNIGHT,
" Sec. Royal Southern Yacht Club."
Southampton, Dec. 12, 1845."

col:J-11e Directors of the Midland Railway (says a
respo
111 ndent) have resolved that the sum of 15s. a week be
2wed to the family of the late Mr. Stubbs, policeman, of
,7(18, who lost his life in the late accident, till the youngest
until th
tnild is tett years of age; after that 105. a week to be allowed
e Paid weeklyg child reaches the age of fourteen, to be
in the Leeds pay bill.
BThe lighthouse fixed by Mr. Bush on the Goodwin
" has disappeared. The exact time of its sinking
ir e sands is not known, as the fog prevented observa-
-94 for two or Was clays.

CORN-LAW MEETING AT BURY

ST. EDMUND'S.

DEFEAT OF THE PROTECTIONISTS.

A meeting was held at the Guildhall, Bury St. Ed-
munds, on Friday last, convened by the Mayor (J. Deck,
Esq.), in compliance with the following requisition,
signed by sixty inhabitants:
" We, the undersigned inhabitants of the town of
Bury St. Edmund's, feeling impressed with the impor-
tance of the present question of a free trade in corn, more
especially as it affects this agricultural district, hereby
request you will, at an early day, convene a public
meeting of the inhabitants to afford them an opportunity
of expressing their sentiments where their trade and
prosperity are so materially concerned.
" To John Deck, Esq., Mayor."
It being known that nearly all of the signatures were
those of protectionists, the free-trade party on Wednes-
day put out the following; handbill :
" Fellow-townsmen,—The advocates of monopoly and
starvation purpose holding a meeting on Friday next,
at noon, in the Guildhall, with a view to assist in per-
petuating the existence.of the present bread-tax.
" Those of you who are of opinion that this crncl
monopoly ought to cease—that the industry of the
country should be free and unrestricted—that the people
of England ought no longer to be dictated to by a selfish
minority where they shall buy the necessaries of life, or
dispose of the fruits of their industry—that the poor man
ought no longer to be cheated out of a cheap loaf, and
compelled to buy a dear one—attend that ME eting, and
let it be seen that the public mind of this town is in
favour of free trade, and a cheap and plentiful supply of
bread to the poor.
" December 24, 1845."
At the hour appointed for meeting the ball was crowded
by tradesmen and mechanics, and several of-the agricul-
turists in the surrounding neighbourhood were also pre-
sent at the proceedings.
The Mayor having taken the chair, the following reso-
lution was proposed by Capt.HEIGHAM (a landowner, cul-
tivating his own farm), and seconded, by JOHN WORL-
LEDGE, Esq. (an owner and tenant):—
" That in the opinion of this meeting the adequate
protection of British agriculture from foreign competi-
tion is essential not only to the prosperity of the classes
more intimately connected with it, but to the welfare of
the whole population ; and this meeting, therefore, most
earnestly deprecates any diminution of the protection
now enjoyed."
Upon which Captain HUBBARD, R.N., and Mr. T. G.
WILLIAms (draper), in very argumentative addresses,
propost-d the following amendment :
" That in the opinion of this meeting it is to the in
terest of the tenant-farmer, the lab,,urer, and the land,

lord, that the e am-law question should be permanently
settled, the experience of the last thirty years having
proved that protection drives capital from the land,
narrows the home market by crippling the foreign trade,
and is injurious to all classes."
BEVAN, Esq. (banker), having spoken in support
of the original motion, he was replied to by a mectainic
named Puushon, in most truthful terms. _ _

The question was then put by the Mayor, and the
amendment was carried by a majority of at least twenty
to one.

Bury St. Edmund's being the centre of the agricul
districtof West Suffolk, this demonstration agains
protection" speaks volumes.

JUSTICE TO SCOTLAND.

Scotland is deeply interested in the issue of the
present attempt to alter our commercial system. It
must affect the means of our population for better or
worse. They have pretty generally decided in favour
of one mode of concluding the crisis; but they have
nut the means of enforcing their decision. A general
election must occur by-and-bye, and the old farce of
sending up fifty-two gentlemen to represent Scotland in
a House of Commons. to which England furnishes five
hundred members, will be re enacted. Glasgow, says
Sir James Graham, is the second city in the empire;
but Glasgow, he also says, practically, shall have no
greater influence in the Legislature than Harwich. At
the same time Sir James and his friends, like other
parties and their friends, talk of appealing to the people,
as if the distribution of the representative districts was
not the greatest practicable satire of representation.
Mr. O'Connell demands for Ireland 150 members, in-
stead of the present number, 105; and this request is
characterised by greater modesty than usually marks
his objects. Ireland, even by the test of revenue, is
fairly entitled to 150 members; but in Sc Aland we pay
taxation on the English scale, and we should be repre-
sented on the English basis.
There is a very common oversight in estimating
the proportions of revenue paid by the three divi-
visions of the empire. England from the manner in
which the customs duties are collected, has credit
for large payments to the revenue that are really
contributed by Scotland or Ireland. There can be
no fact much more evident than that the duty on
two-thirds of the tea, and one-half of the sugar
consumed in Scotland or Ireland is credited to London,
Liverpool, or Bristol. The same remark applies to
wines, to foreign spirits, and many minor articles, on
which, nevertheless, a considerable duty is paid. We
may therefore assume, that the customs returns furnish
no very obvious means of ascertaining the amount of
duty paid by each of the three kingdoms.
" The property and income-tax" does not supply any
better means of arriving at an accurate conclusion on the
subject ; fur a considerable part of that tax paid in Eng-
land is in reality supplied by Scotland and Ireland.
Many Scottish and Irish landowners pay the sums levied
from their incomes in London, although the cause of the
tax, and the means of meeting it, are alike supplied by
Scotland or Ireland. We mention these circum-
stances to meet the possible statement, that as
England furnishes the largest proportion of revenue, it
shoi.ld have a correspondingly large number of repre-
sentatives—a statement for which there is no ground in
reference to Scotland. We pay the same taxes that are
levied in England ; and it the wealth of a nation is
centred in any locality, as in London, it does not seem
very logical to charge the distant portions of the country
with ipoverty, occasioned, if it exists, by that act of
centralization. Scotland kept its liberty against
steel to fall before gold. The corrupt nobility at the
period of the Union sold their country to supply
their wants. We do not say that the Union was
an impolitic measure ; but we might have had the bar-
gain on better terms. The time that has elapsed since
the date of that measure has greatly changed the posi-
tion of the two countries. Notwithstanding many and
great disadvantages, Scotland has struggled forward in
agriculture, in manufactures, and commerce, to an
equality with the wealthier partner. The tonnage of
Scotland bears to that of England the proportion of their
respective populations. The number of persons engaged
in manufactures north of the Tweed is equal at least to
the proportion employed in that manner south of the
border waters.

When the empire was engaged in its fiercest struggles
for existence, the blood of the children of the mountain
land was fre(ly shed on many fields where life was beaten
out in anguish, to vindicate the interests and the objects
of the commonwealth or its rulers. The day of danger
—the hour of difficulty—the moment of defeat—never,
found her sons unwilling to bear their share of the trial.
In science they have achieved more than their nume •
rical share ; and in literature far more than their
proportion of the empire's works since the union was
closed. In all respects we have a right to its revisal.
It is no inviolable document. Already it has been
broken and altered in several particulars. It must
stand or fall as men find it advantageous or other-
wise. For the interests and the good of all the con-
tracting parties, it should be preserved, but then it
should be amended. We have nut vowed fealty to its
frailties. We have not given our troth to its fail-
ings. We are not bound to abide by its faults. In the
councils of the State we have a right to insist that the
voice of Scotland shall be fully heard, and its influences
be fully felt. No argument suffices to persuade us that
a composition of fifty per cent. should be accepted
when full payment can be made. England returns
five hundred members to the House of Commons,
and Scotland fift)-two. Now, either we should rise
to one hundred, or England should fall to two
hundred and fifty. The justice of the de-
mand is palpable. A statesman's wits are not
requisite to sift it. A schoolboy with the multiplication
table on his tongue could solve the whole matter. And
even if the alteration merely conferred escape from in-
dignity it should be made; but a great reform is involved
in the change—a reform equally advantageous to Eng-
land as to Scotland, and which would directly tend to
terminate Government by a class for its interests.—Glas-
gow National.

LORD MORPETH.—The sheets of the requisition to
Lord Morpeth were yesterday received in Leeds from most
of the polling districts, but from several of the districts they
had not arrived prior to our going to press. Within one
day (for on Thursday being Christmas-day, no names were
applied for) six thousand eight hundred and two electors
have signed the requisition, exclusive of these on the sheets
not yet received.—Leeds Mercury of this day.
Earl Delawarr, who has been slightly indisposed
during the last few days in Upper Grosvenor-street, is con-
valescent, and yesterday left town, accompanied by the
Countess and family, for Buckhurst-park, Sussex, for the
holidays.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT THE HANS Towx
BREWERY, CHELSEA.—Late on Wednesday evening, Mr.
T. Wakley, M. P., coroner, held an inquest at the George
public-house, Lower George-street, Sloane-square, Chel-
sea, on view of the body of James Gilpin, aged 16 years,
who was killed under the following singular circumstan-
ces. It appeared from the evidence gone into that the
deceased had been in the employ of Mr. William Druce,
of the Hans Town Brewery, Lower George-street,
Sloane-square, for nearly the last twelve months, as an
assistant in the stables. On the afternoon of Monday
last, about 5 o'clock, deceased went into the stable for the
purpose of assisting the chaff cutter, who was employed
in the loft over the stables. On entering the stables, the
deceased heard the man having charge of a mill adjoining
the stables, and from which the only entrance is, call to
the horse which was working the wheel of the mill, to go
on, and deceased went and drove the horse on, from
which time he was not again seen alive. About twenty
minutes afterwards, d-ceased was missed, and on search
being made for him in the building in which the horse
was still pursuing his labour, the deceased was found
lying on his back in the horse's track, which must have
passed over him while making every circle. Deceased
was quite dead, and his body, which presented a dread-
fully mutilated appearance, was removed to the counting
house, where the jury viewed it. It is supposed that
the deceased, after urging the horse on, followed him
round a portion of the circle and then stood still, when,
not being sufficiently out of the way of the butt end of
the beam to which the horse was attached, it struck him
violently on the face, throwing him backwards, and in-
sensible, when the horse, which makes about six circles
in a minute, must have passed over" him upwards of
a hundred times, crushing the bones of both his body
and face. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental
death.

LITERATURE.
I NARRATIVE OF A MISSION TO BOKHARA
IN THE YEARS 1844-45. By the Rev. Joseph
Wolff, D.D., LL.D.
The circumstances under which Dr. Wolff under-
took his last expedition to Bokhara, for the purpose
of ascertaining the fate of Colonel Stoddart and
Captain Conolly, have been so recently and so fre-
quently detailed that it is -unnecessary further to
allude to him. The manner in which Dr. Wolff
volunteered to undertake this dangerous adventure
was so chivalrous, his whole conduct throughout so
disinterested, that he appeared to us as not belonging
to this age, but to the olden time, to the days when
faith, and hope, and trust, and charity, and friend•
ship, were not mere names, but great facts—to be
one of those men whom Bayard would have cherished,
and whom Tess() would have commemorated. Friend-
ship, such friendship as in these self-seeking days is
sneered down as romantic, seems to have been the
impelling cause to his braving the dangers of the
desert and the wrath of the Bukhara despot.
Conolly was his friend, and for the chance
of rescuing that friend from captivity he
was content to brave every peril, and to
exhibit to the world an example of moral and
passive courage, in the presence of which the
highest efforts of mere physical courage must "pale
their ineffectual fires." This narrative is written in
a style so simple that it is at times, from its very
simplicity, sublime. It is a complete mirror not only
of the acts, but of the thoughts of the writer; he
shows how he was deceived—the characters of those
with whom he came in contact, and how, at length,
by circumstances, he was led to the detection of the
falsehoods which their craft had palmed off upon him.
His description of the manner in which he was at
first induced to trust Abdul Samut Khan, the Prime
Minister of the King of Bokhara, and of the cir-
cumstances which gradually opened his eyes as to the
true character of this hypocrite, swindler, and mur-
derer, is admirable. There can be no doubt but that
this man was the prime instigator of the deaths of
Stoddart and Conolly. He thus describes that hor-
rible tragedy in a conversation with Dr. Wolff:—
" When Colonel Stoddart arrived at Bukhara' his
Majesty sent a whole troop of soldiers to receive him;
he came to Bokhara, and to the Ark, just when Hazrat
returned from a pilgrimage to Baba Deen Nakshbande
(a holy man buried outside the town). Colonel Stoddart
was on horseback. The Shekhawl, and several other
Serkerdeha (grandee) went up to him and said, This is
his Ntijesty, you must dismount.' But he replied, I
have LO girders for doing so.' The Ameer smiled, and
said he is a mehmoon (guest). When you, Joseph
Woollf, made your salaam before the Ameer, the Shek-
bawl took slightly hold of your shoulders to make you
bow down; you submitted with your book in the hand;
but when the Shekhawl only touched Colonel Stoddart,
he laid his hand on his sword and drew it. Nothing
was said to this. The house of Toora, the same house
in which you live, was assigned to him as his quarters.
When a few days after the Rais (one of the mullahs who
watch over the people, and have power to flog any one
who does not observe strictly the Muhammedan reli-
gion) :rent one of his friends to Stoddart and asked him
whether he was an eljee (ambassador) or a sodagur
(merchant)? Stoddart replied, Eat dung!'
" His imprisonment upon this occasion the Nayeb
passed over in silence, and continued, At last from fear,
Stoddart said he would become a Mussulman, and
according to the Muhammedan religion, if a person says
he will turn Mussulman, he must either do so, or die. He
became a Musselman, and a short time after openly
avowed again the Christian religion. At last it was
agreed that he should write to England to be acknow-
ledged as the accredited agent of Great Britain at the
court of Bokhara, and that the King of Bokhara should
be the acknowledged sovereign of Turkistaun, &c.; and
Colonel Stoddart promised that in four months an answer
should arrive from the Government of England. Though
at his (Stoddart's) request, japar khanas (post-houses)
were established from Bokhara to Sarakhs, which did
not exist either at Bukhara or in the land of Turkistaun
from the time of Afrasiab, fourteen months elapsed, and
no answer arrived. During the time that Colonel Stod.
dart was at Bokhara, Captain Conolly went from
Organtsh (Khiva) to Khokand, where he stopped a con-
siderable time, exciting both countries to wage war
against the Anaeer of Bokhara. He at last arrived at
Bokhara, announcing himself as a British agent, without
having any letters from the British Government; and
whatever Colonel Stoddart had agreed to he upset,
announcing to the King of Bukhara that the British
Government would never interfere with the affairs of
Turkistaun, and all that Colonel Stoddart had agreed
to went for nothing. Thus it was clear Colonel Stod-
dart was a liar. During the stay of Conolly and Stoddart
they took every opportunity of dispatching, in the most
stealthy manner, letters to Caubul; and on this account
his Majesty became displeased, and both Captain Conolly
and Colonel Stoddart were brought, with their hands
tied, behind the Ark (palace of the King), in presence of
Makhram Saadat, when Colonel Stoddart and Captain
Conolly kissed each other, and Colonel Stoddart said to
Saadat, " Tell the Ameer that I die a disbeliever in Mu-
hammed, but a believer in Jesus—that I am a Christian, and
a Christian I die." And Conolly said, "Stoddart, we
shall see each other in Paradise (Behesht), near Jesus."
Then Saadat gave the order to cut off, first the head of
Stoddart, which was done; and in the same manner the
head of Conolly was cut off.'"
Dr. WTolff's description of his detention at Bokhara,
and of his hair-breadth escapes from what appeared
certain death, both there and on his road home, until
he reached Tabreez, is most interesting. His know-
ledge of Hebrew stood him in good stead during his
captivity, for the Jews were permitted to visit him,
and with Bibles open before ;them, they conversed
together in Hebrew, in the presence of the Bok •
hara spies, who imagined they were reading
the Scriptures ; and thus Dr. Wolff was in-
formed of the plots which were laid against
him, and was enabled to circumvent them. The
conclusion we draw from reading this work is,
that military officers are, of all others, the most un•
fitted for diplomatic employment in the East. They
are unsuited to diplomacy by their manners, their
Ir.bits, and their want of education, that is to say, of
diplomatic education. As a proof of it, we would
merely mention the fact that Stoddart and Conolly,
who went to Bokhara with every prestige in
their favour, were massacred, while Dr. Wolff,
who went alone, without authority or protection, and
with every chance against him, accomplished the
object of his mission, and returned unharmed. This
proves that the whole of our diplomatic bureauocracy
in the East stands in need of reform, and that, before
we can have that influence in the courts of Central
Asia which we ought to exercise, we must have a
body of men specially trained and educated for the
diplomatic service of' the Eastern courts. It is the
opinion of Dr. Wolff that an invasion of Bokhara
from India might be easily accomplished, and that
the people would be glad to see the Ameer, and his
Nayeb, Abdul Samut Khan, punished for their
treachery to Stoddart and Conolly. The name of Sir
Charles Napier is well known in Central Asia, and is
a name of terror to all who hear it. A Fakeer from
Sinde thus described him to the caravan with which
Dr. Wolff returned from Bokhara—
" There is now a Governor in Sinde, Lord Napier by
name, who is like lightning flame. He has beaten one
hundred thousand Pooluj with four hundred men.
The whole caravan exclaimed, " Allah, Allah, Allah !
They certainly will come here ; and if, they come, we
submit at once, for we Turkomauns will never fight
against those who have the upper hand. We serve the
most powerful, let them be Hindus, Christains, or Ml.lB-
- Those who give us keelaats (robes of honour),
and tillahs (ducats), we serve.'"
The terror of Napier's name, were he to undertake an
expedition against Bokhara, would, in the opinion of
Dr. Wolff, he sufficient to cause the inhabitants to
deliver up the Ameer, without the necessity of strik-
ing a blow: the Ameer himself, it would appear, is in
great terror of the vengeance of England. From the
Persian and Russian ambassadors Dr. Wolff received
every assistance ; indeed, but for the firmness of the
Persian ambassador to Bokhara, it is very doubtful
whether he would
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matter. These volumes are illustrated with a number
of curious portraits of the principal personages of the
Courts of Bokhara and Persia, beautifully coloured ;
and the work, taken as a whole, is the most interest.
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for years.

A WORLD OF WONDERS. By Albany Poyntz.
Among the busiest and pleasantest of the contri-
butors to Bentley's Miscellany, one Albany Poyntz
has for a considerable time past held a very promi-
nent position ; and it is agreeable to find him at
length breaking from the tutelage of periodical lite-
rature and coming before us in the shape of a sub-
stantial volume like the present. As a combination
at once of amusement and information, we know of
no other work of recent publication with which it
can be compared, forming as it does a kind of
modernised Sir Thomas Brown. Unfortunately, the
writer has selected topics which, only four years ago,
were ably treated by Charles Mackay, in his " Me-
moirs of Popular Delusions," yet Albany Poyntz has
infused into them so much of his peculiar smartness
and bon hotnmie, that although they in some measure
lack novelty, every page is sprinkled with novel facts,
given in a novel manner. Besides this very excellent
characteristic, the book embraces almost all the
" popular superstitions" that can be named, strips
them naked one by one of the mysterious veil with
which they are usually enveloped, and holds them
up to our derisio3, as mere scarecrows of idle
ingenuity. It is customary, now-a-days, to con-
gratulate ourselves upon the enlightenment of
the present generation, but our gratulations are
surely somewhat premature, when, according to our
own recollection, men are found so credulous as to
advance the old wives' story of the "dowsing rod" in