The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-14 00:00:00

SIR WILLIAM NOTT.

It may not be generlly known out of Carmarthen.
that the father of the gallant General, the fame of
whose glorious achievements in India will occupy as
bright and distinguished a page in our military annals,
was a very respectable innkeeper in this town,
(Carmarthen). The hostelrie of Nott, mine host of
the Ivy Bush here, was a well-accustomed one; and
Mr. Nott, brought up well his three sin, :Me* ungest
of whom, William Nott, is tho so,clior Dor uneg
on whom her Majesty, a few days since, bestowed
the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. A sur-
viving elder brother of General Nott is now residing
at Carmarthen. General Nott, when a lad, assisted
in husbandry operations, ploughing and harrowing
with his own hands ; so it may be said, in this case
literally, that the ploughshare was exchanged for
the hero's sword. Carmarthen is justly proud of
having given birth to so great a General, who is also
believed to be a very amiable man. A corre-
spondent supplies the following anecdote :—" Soon
after the landing of the French at Fishguard, last war
it will be -remembered, almost all the inhabitants 0
the different towns in Great Britain formed them-
selves into volunteer corps. There was one at Cow-
bridge, commanded by a Major Bevan. The present
General Sir Wm. Nott was at that time at school
there, under the tuition of Mr. Thomas Williams,
master of the mathematical academy at that town.
The boys, on field days, generally got a holiday;
and it happened on one occasion, when the corps
was out firing ball-cartridge at a mark, that some
of the boys asked permission of Major Bevan
to be permitted to try their skill also. The
Major good-naturedly complied, and desired
some of the men to load a few muskets for the
lads. When the boys began to fire away, up comes s,
Mr. Thomas, of the Cross, an attorney; he endeavoured
to take a musket from one of the young gentlernept;
which Nott perceiving, he immediately went to th
assistance of his schoolfellow, and wrested the Piet*
from the attorney. High words ensued, and young
s
Nott took off his coat to fight, though the man
a sort of elephant, as big again as himself, but Wta
the.
officers interfered and stopped the fight. Nott Noswe'
ways considered high-spirited, and in this case it as
the general opinion that he would have thrashed
his
man had he been permitted. Young Nott was inssidered as_the hero of the school, and the junior
took shelter under his wing in all their little difficlav
ties."—The Welshman.

REDUCTION OF THE SUGAR DUTIES.---T" T 114"
WITH BRAZIL —For some time the West India inter-
est have been labouring to secure as good terms as
possible for themselves in that change of the sug.
duties, which has now becOme inevitable, and, acorn.
ing to the account given by the Manchelter Guarflgi.
of the future rates of duty on plantation and Brazilian
sugar, they have succeeded even beyond their bores'
so far as their own produce is concerned, whatever WI
may have done with regard to Brazilian. The future
...
duty on plantation sugar, it is stated, is, to be r
16s, Per
cwt., which is less than what the West Indians Wel,`l
willing to have bargained for, namely, 2d. per lb ; an
that on Brazilian is to be 30s. The former is a re:
duction of Bs. on the existing duty (which is 245. P!:`,
cwt.), and also on the duty under the Bill propos7.
by the Whigs; and it will cause an immediate ins'
of upwards of a million and a quarter to the re
venue. The expected duty on Brazilian suge.
is a reduction of 6s. per cwt. beyond what wa
proposed by the Whigs ; but as it will open a neo y;
f
branch of trade, and reduce the selling Price ;0
sugar to about 50s. per cwt., it will probably
such a stimulus to 'consumption as will very see_.
make up for the loss in the duty on plantation sugar.
The substitution of a duty of 30s. per cwt. on Brazi-
lian sugar will doubtless be a great improvement
01l
the present prohibitory system, though even that rat
of duty is much too high, as it will compel eve %
person who buys a hundred weight of sugar to paldi_
premium of 14s. to the West India planter, in an of
tion to the 16s. which he pays for the parpesese
revenue, and the 18s. or 20g. which he pays too
thetf
grower and importer of the article. So fully d
West India planters reckon on an important alters
i;
tion being made in the sugar duties in the next session
of Parliament, that at the opening of the Jamaica
Legislature last month a Committee was
endeavour to obtain a suitable differential dutYdil:
favour of British plantation sugar. They will hi° oit
have the conscience to ask more than Governme,
appears to disposed to give, which is a differential thnli,
of no less than 14s. on a duty of 165., that is, 87 Pe
appointed
cent.—Leeds Mercury. held
SUICIDE.—Mr. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, the
an inquest at half-past one yesterday afternoon, at of
York Hotel, Waterloo-bridge-road, on the body
Louisa Caroline Smith, a fine girl of 16, who It ter°
nated her existence on Friday, night last. ePt:
peared, from the evidence of her mother, a resPe,
able widow, residing at 16, Charles-street, Osic'B•7l;
street, that the deceased had, for sometime past/ begehe
serving in the house of an invalid lady, whence
had been discllarged for some acts of petty theft; -0,
spending the money thus got, by pledging the Pr t
perty, 111 theatres and other places of amtlselle:
She had been attached to a respectable young '—nd
the son of a master tailor, in the Waterloo-road, sri
they had for a considerable time been keeping cornP"):;
Latterly, however, he dropped her society, and thl
treatment preyed very much upon her
kept her always desponding. She frequently,
Tinfic:rns.
sequence, threatened to destroy herself. Las!, business,
day afternoon witness went out after sonle."00 her
leaving deceased at home with the children' Louisa had
Loin
return, the elder child told her that riot
spirits, anc.i.
She did 11
gone out, and taken 2s. sd. with her.
next dal'
return home that evening, but she was seen in the
by a person in the New Cut, Lambeth, andWest-
evening of the same day by another party nearn
in
minster Abbey. Next morning, a young' rate' rloo-
dre-dging machine, at the south side of a
„Ince,
bridge, picked up her body, and, from the app eBl
statethe
it could not have been more than five or six hours i
river. Verdict—" Committed suicide while in a "
of temporary derangement." jYe
FATAL ACCIDENT AT CARN BREA.
Cllr'
have very great pain in havingto announce the.ou.,loss
rence of an accident at these mines, attended
oft to one of the miners, and very serious n°
t ection
injuries to a great many others; besides a deS.',,r. to
of property variously estimated at from Bv,v,l_,
1,0001., the principal part of which loss all falivisits
understand, upon the labouring men. There bange
large shed on the mine, in which the men ci, and
ground' their clothes previous to going under
again when they leave work. The apartmen:,:is;
about 150 feet long and 12 feet wide, within the ,")40
but as there was a row of lockers, or cupborrwas
each side of about two feet in depth, the sne°,,.,of
narrowed to eight feet. There were nearly. 4r up
these cupboards, in which the miners lonkeuvider,
their wearing apparel, tools, candles, and I.° fifty
On Wednesday morning, about forty ni oder
men were in ' the place, preparing for going John •
ground, when a young man of the name of door,
Waters, whose locker was very near
was pouring out gunpowder from a palter of sePorri •
dred cask into a small canister, which he WaS
under ground, his candle which he had gal,
unnorn
the iron pipe above him, fell, or dropped a spark
the powder, and produced a terrible explosio.
,"..,hen
appears to have been shattered so much, th3v "
the ce
his remains were collected it was only frornth t
tainty that no other person was missing ad been
could be known to be his. His father, who dbaby the
standing near him, was also so much injured live to
explosion, that it was doubtful if he w°uN, here he
reach his home in Crowan Church-town: van ars
explosion
was immediately removed. The
to have set the lockers on both sides of the explosion
nscong
stantly in a blaze ; and as there was distributed samvery
them upwards of 10 cwt. of gunpowder,
large quantity of candles, the flames spreads
occasioning a constant succession of explosiosen
yera. Of
might be heard for several miles around. ~) mu'
the men in endeavouring to escape were tool' ,
tilated.— West Briton.

On the 9th inst., at the Grove, Highgate, BIRTHS.
r
Smi, of a son.
th
Mrs.
the 10th inst., at Guildhall, J. Temple, of a sorb
On the 10th inst., at Orsett House, Mrs. George Iliac°.
nachie, of a son. t J.
On the 11th inst., at Coptfold Hall, Essex, the lady °-
A. Hardcastle Eh' insq., of
at a daughter.
I
On the 11tst., Heath Lodge, Iver, Mrs. A' .Ed-
wards, of a son.
On the 11th inst., at Greenwich, the lady Lemuel rock
of
bank, Esq., of a son.
On theOn inst., at Clapton, Mrs. Franc l2th Ms. George K.
Francis Toulmin, ° a
daughter.
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MARRIED.
On the 20th of September, at Trincomalee, Edmund Ole;
Esq., Royal Engineers, to Catherine Beverley, third daughte
of Henry St. Hill, Esq., Ordnance Store-keeper, of that
place.
On the 13th inst., at Christchurch, St. Marylebones C atlas
Brooke Bidwell, Esq., Registrar to the Mixed Commission
Courts at Sierra Leone, to Amelia Isabel, third daughter di.
Finden, Esq., of Dorset-place, Regent's-pa

DIED.
On the 30th ult. at St. Omer, Eliza, eldest daughter of J.
Clements, Esq.
On the 3d inst., at Whitehead's.grOve, Chelsea, the infant
daughter of Mrs. R. Bevan.
On the 7th inst., the Rev. W. Waldegrave Park, of Ince
Hall, Cheshire, youngest son of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Park.
On the 9th inst., at Birmingham, the Rev. R. Kell, aged 82
On the 10th inst., at Reading, C. R. King, second son of
the Rev. Isaac King, Rector of Bradenham, Bucks.
On the 10th inst., at Brighton, Margaret, widow of Alex-
ander Macleod, of View-field.
On the 11th inst., Caroline, youngest daughter of J.
Tremayne, Esq., Heligan, Cornwall.
On the 11th inst., at Gravesend, Jeremiah Dennett, Esq.
On the 13th inst , Mr. Robert Carrick, of St. Ann, Black-
friars, aged 86.
On the 13th inst., at Hitchin, Hertford, William Curling*
Esq., aged 81.
on the 9th inst., at Rouen, Lieutenant Philip Charles Mur-
ray, of the 36th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry, third son o
the late James Wolfe Murray, of Cringletie,

London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of
No. 112 .Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Stra"'`n
the County of Middlesex, Wednesday, December 14, 1542.