The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-04 00:00:00

DISBURSEMENTS.

•
Stationary and printing for the office
during the year £23 2 5
Hall-keeper, for cleaning the Court and
office, and lighting fires therein
Candles, wood, &c .•• •• 1 6 6
Herbs, strewings, &c., and newspapers
for the Lord Mayor and Magistrates,
at the several Quarter Sessions .... 1 14 1
E:‹oenses incurred and paid by the
Bailiffat the election for Members of
Parliament for Southwark, in June,
1841, beyond the amount received
from the candidates
Clerks in office, and several assistants
during the year . . 153 0 0
Expenses of the Leet Juries in their
views in the several manors, and for
clerks and persons attending them
with weights and scales, and making
out their presentments 2B 12 6
Bill of Messrs. Smith and Co., scale-
- makers, for making a new .561 b. brass
standard weight, and a new standard
gallon measure, for adjusting the old
weights and measures, and attending
at the Exchequer, obtaining stamps
and warrant far the same, and fees
paid tljereon' and also for the use of
sealer for the Leet Juries l9 7 4
Parish Clerks, for giving notice in the
several parishes within the manors of
the days appointed for holding the
Courts Leet, and to Officer for de-
livering the same, .• •• 22 0
Parish Beadles, serving notices on
persons nominated to serve offices
within the manors. 1 10 0
to the Recorder of London, as
tet
' of the manors, and his clerk
gavaltu several Courts Leet...
yelea4tildiceldiehtit tofheco.
Leet, for copy
flecf and Crier's account ..:•••
word proportion for Leet
tii Wi thin the manors
Coach 1/0•04 add &prises of the Bailiff
attending tile iiesiie'si and at the
second Q,narter Sessions at Guildford,
Reigate, Kingston, and Croydon
Fee to the Clerk of COmnio Council
~, on presenting to the said Cauri
memorial of the Bailiff respecting the
occupation of the Town-hall
Paid for schedules and stamps at the
Town Remernbrancer's office, and
poundage to the Sheriff; on receipt of
session fines

6 16 6

1 1 0

12 4 0

13 10 a

I g

1 8 8

£274 6 0

It is necessary to remark that the Corporation
entered into an arrangement with Mr. Holmes some
years ago, in the event of a deficiency in the receipt
of emoluments of the office, by which they became
leers than $OOl. per annum to supply that deficiency,
wildtver it might amount to, so that the Corporation
had to pay him the sum of 5031. 2s. ad. upon his last
account.

On Saturday night, shortly after ten o'clock, a fatal
fire broke out in the dwelling-house of Mrs. Montague,
situate in Brompton-square, Brompton. It appears
that about ten o clock the servant put the youngest
.child o: Mrs. Montague to bed in the .front attic,
leaving a candle burning on a chest of drawers. Soon
afterw i
ards an alarm was given of the house being on
fire, when upon Mrs. Montague 's mother gong to
the apartment she discovered the interior enveloped in
flames. lArith great courage she rushed through
return them
and seized the infant from the bed, but in g
both of them were frightfully burnt, in fact to such
an extent that the child died in an hour or so after-
wards. The grandmother remains in a most deplorable
condition, and is con3idered in imminent danger.
The fire was not extinguished until the whole of the
furniture in the room was consumed.

The iirooman who leaves his own country in search
of employment, will always return home at the end of
three or four years with the goods, the produce of his
labour, which he has collected during his absence.
Parts of the property thus acquired he presents to the
King or headman of the town or district to which he
belongs, and with the remainder he builds a house,
procures a wife, clears a farm, and supports himself
for about a year or eighteen months. His holiday
being over, he leaves his house, farm, and property to
be attended to by his wife and his relations, and. ab-
sents himself from home for another term of three or
four years, at the expiration of which time he again
returns with the fruits of his exertion to make a new
present to his chief, to obtain another wife, and to add
to the dimensions of his farm. This process is re-
peated several times, until the wanderer has acquired
what is by him considered competent wealth, when
he settles in his own country for the remainder of his
life.

The Kroomen are too valuable a class of labourers
to be lightly thrown out of the scheme of emigration.
If means of transport are provided, their numbers in
the West Indies may eventually be kept up to several
thousands. In that case the requirement respecting
women must be dispensed with in their favour, and
they must be assured that, at least, one opportunity
will be afforded to them during every year of return-
ing to their own country.
The Kroo coast, on which these people live, begins
at the river Cestros, the place known as St. George's,
and with which merchants and others are acquainted
as the spot where Mr. Spence established a factory
some years since, but which has recently been aban-
doned. The Kroomen occupy only five towns
upon the coast, at different places between the
river Cestros and the Grand Cestros. To the
northward of that the Bassa people lie in-
termixed with the Fishmen ; and occupying all the
coast to the south 'yard of the Grand Cestros are the
Fishmen, a different people from the Kroomen; they
are often confounded, but there exists a great dis-
tinction between them. Intermixed with the five
Kroo towns, are many Fish places. The Kroomen
occupy the interior of the country more than the
Fishmen, the Fishmen are entirely upon the coast.
The Kroomen are exempt from becoming slaves, but
are ready to help in the traffic and procurement of
them. They are in the habit of sacrificing their ene-
mies taken in war to the Fetish tree. About 1,000
to 1,200 of them are at present employed at Sierra
Leone. Agricultural labour, for the most part, they
appear to dislike ; but they excel in heavy manual
labour, such as cutting timber and rafting it, and
work of that species, which they are competent to do,
and skilful in doing it. In their own country, never-
theless, they grow rice, cassada, sugar-cane, plain-
tains, yams, and palm oil. Abroad they live toge-
ther, chiefly on rice, wheti they can get it. They
are very docile, and willing of character.
Such is a statement, as well as we can collectively
gather, of the people to whose emigration to our
British colonies much importance seems to be attached.
They are undoubtedly a superior race, and their
labour is in great request wherever it is offered.
What measures the Committee will suggest, under
the difficulties above stated, or bow to counteract
them, is yet to appear.

DRATII OF LORD TRYNIIAM.—This event took
place at Upper Bagot-street, Dublin,, on the 23d inst.
His Lordship was in his 54th year, and had only sur-
vived his father six months and 17 days. The title de-
volves on his brother, the Hon. George Roper Curzon.
:•• deceased Nobleman had been recently making a
t_ • -;ts in the west of Ireland. The patent of the
tour or.. v.-. ".to 1616, and the family claims descent
peerage bears at.,.. a. om s More.
from the g,feat Set...
MUSHROOMS.---Thq
memory which was so vab2n is beyond the streatschthoe
plemiful.,s , ~f
‘br mushrooms
theys
orn
r have
present. In some of the northern co.- i:
be.:n unusually abundant, and most snriPrrt-,...... over,
have be,n anthered. Indeed, the harv,f,t o.7kfud anb.
- quantities
week tney
numbers oflai;purers have earned, some 21•' 41. ' ,
man as far as 5i kfor collecting them.
k —Leeds I n-
were sold is Leeds as low as I4d. per pee •
lelli(pncer. —Because
they are numlicred,—;Punethast,
Why are poliCemen like
at seven o'clock, tha
On Thursday eveir:pain S. Bushell, from Bon-
_the days of man ?
Britannia steamer,t
French
Post-office packet, arrived off
logne, and the Fre,.
Dover ; but the IN in
they
theywere unable to enter the bar-
' d being then blowing a gale, With
aho • obliged
Consequently, were to put about
and retrace their course to the French coast, under
swell on,
heavy
the lee of which they remained all night. They re-
turned
here at seven o'clock, when they were enabled
to enter our port, and land their "weary and worn "
passengers. The English Government Post-office
packets, though unquestionably capital sea-worthy
vessels, have, during. the. week, been on two occasions
unable to enter Calais harbour by reason of the tem-
pest ; and, consequently, they ha-d
to bear away for
Boulogne,and there land the mails. On Thursday
the only steamers that reached Margate from London
were the Isle of Thanet and the Red Rover..---Dover
Chronicle.
A lad named Skipper, 17 or 18 years of age, has
been committed to Norwich gaol on a charge of setting
tire'to a stack of straw, which stood near the wall of St.
Faith's Union-house. The boy a;cknowledged that he
set it on fire, hoping that it would burn down the work-
house, that he might be no longer fed on bread and water.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(Fsom ova, OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
OCT. L—The match between the Corsair, of
84 tons, and Talisman, of 87 tons, for 1,000/.. was
decided this morning in favour of the Corsair.
She passed• the starting vessel at nine minutes
past seven; the Talisman, closely following her,
passed at thirteen minutes past seven, being but
tour .minutes difference in nearly forty hours'
sailing, in a gale of wind, a distance exceeding
300 miles. They started.at twenty minutes before
four on Thursday afternoon, both vessels under
storm trysail, small jib, and reefed square sail,
the Corsair taking the lead, and keeping it to
the Start point; at this period the vessels were
ilaced in most difficult situations. The Talisman,
n the height of the gale, running, the Corsair,
came up close astern of her, the waves running
so high that the men on board the Corsair were
tearful the Talisman would run them down, as
site came up on the top of the sea, they lying
in the hollow. They all rushed astern, and
hailed her to alter her course, which she
lind,they come in contact, 'tis more than pro-
bable both would have sunk and every soul
perished. there being DO sail in sight. The Cor-
,
sairjibbi fir; carried away the jaws of her gaff, wht,ii
the Talisman passed. and kept the lead to the
Eddystone, which she passed at three A.M. MI
Friday ; in that time having gained nearly eleven
minutes on the Corsair. Both rounded the Eddy-
stone under reefed trysail, reefed ibrelmil,• and
storm jib. At five a.m. the two vessels were
close to each other. The wale-tiler moderating
about nine o'clock, both vessels set larger jibs,
and the Corsair a mizen; the Talisman always
increasing sail first, being the most powerful
vessel, and the pilots of the Corsair being fearful
of their mast, which was a weak stick. After
rounding the Start point the Corsair took the
lead; the Talisman then down with her trysail,
and set her mainsail with two reefs in it, and
soon after passed the Corsair. The Corsair then
set her mainsail similarly reefed; the Talisman
put out a larger jib, and kept . the lead till off
Sidmouth, when the Corsair went under the
Talisman's stern and spoke her (about seven P.M.)
At twelve o'clock they rounded Portland, both
vessels together; at three A.M. on Saturday the
Corsair was half a mile dead in the wind a-head
of the Talisman, and eventually lost sight of her.
The Corsair tacked to the northward, took in B.
reef in the mainsail. Five a.m. saw the Talisman
half a mile to leeward, under a press of sail,
which compelled the Corsair to shake the reefs
out, in doing which she carried away the boom
rating, which brought the Talisman close up
aside her lee. The damage being repaired, the
whole sail was set, when she went a-head again,
and beat by four minutes. The Talisman was
sailed by Captain John Long, assisted by Robert
Newman, John Denton, Mathew Fletcher, and
J. Willis, and twenty seamen. Mr. Jos. White,
the builder, was also on board. The Corsair was
sailed ..by Captain Daniel Brown, assisted b y
Daniel and Edward Corke (the well-known
pilots
of the Water Witch in her match round the
Eddystone with the Galatea), and twenty-two
men. This match is an extraordinary one, front
.
the vessels sailing for so large a cunt under the
smallest sails they could set, the gale raking with
such violence. The
Corsair had the. assistance of
a mizen when the Talisman 'talisman shifted her jibs,
which were at tell titheslarger than the Corsair's.

Tim WI:ATM:R.—Oa Saturday afternoon, about
half-past one o'clock, we experitiiced
an appalli
thunder storm, ,accompanied w rani, w
ith heavy • TT
him
continued to pour down in tremendous volumes for
upwards of half an hour, making our
streets and
lanes to run in torrents to the depth of g .
everat inches,
while the thunder immediately -
over-head burst
louder and more fearfully on the ear e ear than the dis-
charges of the heaviest artillery.
two the elements were hushed, ' t About half-past
be. sky suddenly
cleared up, and the sun shone
out in all his glory,
leaving scarce a trace of the terrific war tq' elements
that had raged so terrifically
Towards evening • we
had but a few minutes before.
occasional showers; and
during the whole of the week we have been visited
with rainy and
boisterous weather ; so much so, in-
deed, that the steam navigation between here and
toizilon has been considerably interrupted.—Dover
Chninicie. .

Feelin►g interested in all matters likely to improve
and benefit Ireland,' we are happy to 'learn from the
Leinster Expreo, that a deputation of the Directors
of the London and Dublin Bank bad arrived at
Morrison's Hotel in the lattercity, for the purpose of'
establishing branches of the bank in the several coin-
, mereial towns of the sister island. The members of
' the Board of Directors who arrived in Dublin are
Colonel Acton, M.P., C. Barry Baldwin, Esq. MT.,
Captain Hatton, R.N., M.P., William Medley, Esq.,
Octavius Ommaney, Esq., and John M'Kenzie, Esq.,
with the London Solicitors of.the Company, Messrs.
Farrar. They have been joined there by
.Rohert,
Gninness, Esq., Alderman Keshan, and their Soli-
citors for Ireland, Messrs. Symes and Keller.
L N
AKES OF CUMWERLAD.—The facilities now in
• operation for the conveyance of passenger tourists.
and their concomitant advantages, have nowhere been
more beneficially experienced than during the last
three weeks, in the good town of Ulverston, especially
among the innkeepers, the principal part of whom
have had their establishments, nightiv filled with
tourists to and from the Lake district, the chief part
!of whom came by way of Fleetwood. Tourists
should not omit visiting the Bay of Morcomhe, whic
they•are now enabled to do with facility, by means of
the steamer from Fleetwood.-„.Kendal Mercury.

:UGH ‘V a TER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
v., ,nin;!... 23 minutes after 1 1 Evening ..... 45 minutes after 1.