The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-26 00:00:00

r TEXAN BONDS AN .10Y-LAr-D S.
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NEW ORLEANS, J ,ULY .
maaid, particularly those held Siexlcati
Texas Treasury notes and boticia flia.ye'7not. tivaftit
Baia alacre any thing doing in (lisin at-any pritel,'':-110 • _
arc quoted thlis in New Orleans :—Red :Buck,'l3C:.
to 14e. on the dollar IntereSt Notes, 'lse. to ltie. ;'7
Bonds, 8 per cent., 19c. to, 20c. ; Bonds, 10 per
cent, 20c. to 21c. The Red Bucs uri notes fira't
issued by the Government, and they bear, no, inte-
rest ; they began to depreciate, and notes bearing
interest of ten per cent. were nett issued to prevent
depreciation, and a law was enacted allowing
holders of the first issue to fund their notes anei
take bonds drawing ten per cent. interest. The
next year the law was changed, and only eight per cent.
was allowed. The various issues of the Government
may be safely estimated at tan millions of dollars. Nor
is it true that this debt will be paid by Texas immediately
on its annexation to the United States. These promis-
sory notes and bonds are the last thing that will be paid.
There are very many individual claims which will be
promptly paid by the Government—to wit, supplies
for the army, money advanced, personal ser-
vices. &c. These stand as debts against the
Government. nor have they been liquidated by
bills or bonds. The Government will, in all pro-
bability, never pay more than ten cents on the dollar
on these bonds and bills, and that too for the reason
that the Government and people never received even
that amount for them. They are chiefly held by brokers
and speculators in New Orleans, who wrung them from
the oppressed Governu,ent and its poor people for the
amount of from three to eVit cents per dollar, and the
Government will doubtless pay what they justly owe
and no more. Is it right or just the; should ?
The brokers have tried many we's to secure their
Texas claims to the full amount on the face trf them, hut
they will never succeed. It is now a concede 6 point
that some persons were bribed by certain persons by an
offer of 30 per cent. on the amount of the debt, if they
would cause it to be stipulated in the articles of annexa-
tion that the United States should pay the Texas debt.
One treaty was drawn up for this purpose, but it was
not ratified. Persons then commenced negotiations else-
where, and thought they could lull the people cf Texas
by offering them another boon, but it would not do, the
people discovered their schemes.
In Texas a national debt is truly and practically a na-

tional blessing, and I will demonsir.tte it. About nine-
tenths of the people have not as yet received from the
General Land-office the titles to their lands. The land.
°thee expenses will amount to an average of about fifty
dollars each. These old notes and bonds are received at
par value—fifty dollars of them can be bought with seven
dollars par money—so that the person, while he is only
paying seven dollars in par money, is really paying fifty
dollars of the Government debt, but if any other cation
was to assume the debt, it would raise the money to par
value, and the citizen would have to pay fifty dollars
in par money, and, instead of the Government getting
any benefit from the remaining forty-three dollars, it
would go to brokers and bond- holders, and the Govern-
ment would get no more than if it was only ten cents
per dollar. It is not true that each dollar is good for
one acre of land—it is true that you can enter land at
two dollars per acre, but then you must pay tOC location,
surveying, &c., in good money. It is not heiti as m the
United States: here the Government pays for no sur-
veying or any other expense—all is paid by the locator.
It is true that a Bill was introduced in Congress
(and passed) by that talented, patriotic statesman, 1).
S. Kaufman, appropriating a portion of land to pay
the public debt, but it is only to pay it as it was
issued, say ten cents. per dollar. Major Kaufman has
ever been foremost in the cause of integrity and pa-
triotism, and Texas is more indebted to him for an-
nexation than to all her other politicians to-
gether, Major Kaufman is in Congress, and the
people of Texas are thereby deprived of his great talents
in the Convention. But there are some few men of fine
talents in the Convention. General Rusk, Colonel
Love, Colonel Mayfield, Volney Howard, Esq., Go-
vernor 11. G. Runnel's, General Darnel), Colonel Hegg,
Charles S. Taylor, Esq. These are the only men of
talent in the Convention, but the small fry arc nume-
rous, such as county court lawyers, j-stices of the peace,
and quondam judges.

ACCIDENT ON THE ARYPORT AND CARLISLE
RAILWAY.—On Thursday last, as the morning train from
Alaryport to Carlisle was passing along the portion of the rail-
way about five miles west of Wigton, owing to one of the
switches being wrong it was thrown completely off the line;
but, we are happy to add, without occasioning injury to any of
the passengers. A delay in the arrival of the train of about :a
hour was the consequence.—Carlisle Journal.
CRUELTY OF A SCHOOLNIASTER.— About a week
since a master of a national school, in South Devon, struck a
girl, one of his pupils, a Ho .v which knocked her down, and
then knelt on hyr, injuring her so much that the surgeon says
that, if she survives, she will never recover from the injuries
she has received. This fellow is, and has been, one of the
parsons' catechism crammers.— Western Times.
FOREIGN FRUIT AND PROVISION:'.—The BalaVier
steam-ship. from Rotterdam, brought on her last voyage.
besides cattle, 203 packages of peas, 82 packages of plums, 371
of melons, 7 of yeast, a quantity of poultry, and other articles
of Dutch produce and manufacture. The General Steam
Navigation Company's vessel Rainbow, which arrived on the
came day from Havre, brought nearly 500 packages of plums,
&c., of excellent quality. The same Company's vessels
Tourist, from Calais, and Earl of Liverpool, from Ostend,
also brought en the same day a large quantity of poultry, eugs,
and butter for consumption here. The Company's ships
which were due on that day from Rotterdam and llamburgts
did not arrive, owing to the extreme rough weather at sea.
The favourite steam-ship Antwerpen, which was due at the
St. Katharine Docks from Antwerp on the same morning, aid
not arrive for several hours afterwards, owing to the contrary
winds and rough weather. She arrived shortly after the
Batavier, with the large number of seventy-two passengers on
board, including several persons of distinction ; and the revenue
officers at the wharf stayed until a late hour at night, in order
to facilitate the delivery of their baggage and effects, and the
fruit and cattle belonging to the vessels before mentioned as
having arrived on the same day.
"EST bROMIVICII.—FATAL ACCIDENT FROM THE
FALLING OF A TIIEATItE.—An inquest vas held by George
Hinchliffe, Esq., coroner, at the Hare and Hounds, Mare's
Green, West Bromwich, on Thursday evening, on the view of
the body of Benjamin Rubery, aged twenty-four Sears, who
was killed the night before, by the gallery of a temporary theatre
having fallen upon him. It appeared from the evidence that
about 180 persons had assembled in the theatre, to witness the
performance, and in five minutes after the curtain rose the
gallery fell in with a sudden crash, amid the screams of men,
women and children. Notvt ithstandine, however, that so many
persons were thrown down in the midst of benches and the
frame work of the structure, only one person (a female) was
found to be hurt, and she escaped with a few slight bruises.
When the persons who had fallen were extricated, the deceased
was pressed down on his knees under a platform, with has
hands on the ground and his head forced between his shoulders.
It appeared afterwards that the deceased, to avoid paying for
seeing the performance, had crept under the stage in front of
the theatre, forcing his way through some of the woodwork, by
which he got under the gallery. Here, it is supposed, he
displaced some of the supports, when the whole gave way,
and the platform falling upon him, crushed him to death. It
was proved by the evidence of several witnesses, that there
was no negligence on the part of the proprietor of the theatro„
and the jury returned a verdict. of accidental death.—Birming-
ham Journal.

COST OF THE POOR IN MIDDLESEX.—An appendix
to the eleventh annual report of the
•Poor-law Commissioners
contains, among other returns, one relating to the amount of
money levied and expended for the relief and maintenance of
the poor in each union, and for parishes not united under the
Poor-law Amendment Act, in England and Wales, for the
year ended 25th March, 1844, &c. It thence appears that,
during that year, the amount levied by assessment for the
poor-rate in Middlesex (consisting of the Finsbury, Holborn,
and Tower divisions of the Ossulston Hundred, and the city
and liberty of A estminster) was 348,130/. There was, in ad-
dition to that sum, a further amount of 19,147/. received from
other sources in aid of the poor. rate ; thus making a total re—
ceived for the relief, &c., of the poor, of 367,277/. The amount
expended, during the above• mentioned period, in relief, &c.,
of the poor, was 175,7401. 19s. The sum of 3,8501. vas ex-
pended in law charges ; a further amount of 5081. was paid to
the various vaccinators, under the Vaccination Extension Acf.
The payments tuwares the County-rate amounted to.
50,846/. ; and those towards the county and local police forces
92,319/. The money expended for all other purposes amounted
to 31,250/. ; and the total parochial Wes, &c., expended, to
357,724/.

ir RIGHTFUL ACCIDENT oN BOARD A STFAMER.—
On Friday evening a youth, named James Purseil, expired is
Charing-crow Hospital, from a frightful accAent he sustained)
on Monday la,t, on board the Moonlight steam-vessel. The
deceased embarked on board the Moonlight at London-bridge,
for the purpose of proceeding• to Chelsea, on his way to Cre•
morre House, at which place his father is engaged as a waiter.
On arriving off Hungerford-market the vessel made its usual
call, for which purpose she was fostered to the pier by meats
of a rope, a portion of the other part !het eof being attached to
the vessel, whilst the remainder was lying in a coil upon the
deck. The unfortunate boy had place.i his feet in the coil,
and when the order was given to unmoor the vessel her engines
were so quickly put in motion, that before the rope was. re-
moved from its fastenings on shore the whole length thereof
was run out, and carried with it one of the poor boy's feet,
which it tore from the socket at the ankle, and which, together-
with the shoe, fell into the water. No time was lest in con-
veying the sufferer to the above hospital, whete amputation of
the limb below the knee was obliged to be had immediate re-
course to. His survival was, however, exceedingly doubtful,
as the other leg was frghtfully fractured, which was quickly
attended with mortification, and death was the consequence.
Some time since a son of Sir Henry Hardinge met with a pre-
cisely similar accident, as did also a man named Hassell, who
was at the time employed at the Hungerford-pier.
II ,I.YIIEAD AND KINGSTOWN II ARBOURS.—The
new harbour at Holyhead, about to be commenced, will be
erected outside the present one, and will be ten times its ex-
tent The government engine. rs have, we uuderatand, per-
fected their plans, and the estimated cost is 2,000,0001. The
object is to establish a great harbour, corresponding with that
of Kingstown, for communication between the two countries.
The corks upon the eastern pier at Kingstown are rapidly ad-
vancing to completion. The new light-house—a beautiful
building, quite massive in construction—is nearly finished,—
Mercantile Advertiser.
DISASTERS AT ITAVRE.—We learn by the Havre,
journals that the storm of Tuesday caused several disasters on the
coast near the mouth of the Seine. Two English vessels were forced
from their anchorage and driven ashore, and a sloop from Newcastle,
hound for Rouen, with coals, went down near Leure. The crew was
saved in the boat. An English schooner, from Caen, laden with
stones, went down in view of the town, and the crov, who had taken
refuge in the rigging, owed their safety, hi a ,;..reat to th^
exertions of M. Loatheyer, the lieutenant of the port, who, on the,
first alarm, proceeded to the jetty, turd had the life-boat launched,
proposing a reward to any ictrsons who would man it. fix English-
men at once offertd to proceed to the assistance of their countrymen,
on coud!tion that a French pilot would accompany them. A young
man, named Lefelivr:.y, immediately uttered himself, :MI the party
rowed to the wreck. They succeeded, though not without great
danger, in resetting four sailors and the captain, whom they brought
safe to hind. A little sloop, with two men on board, was capsized
near St. Adresse, and one of the nice was drowned. The other was
taken up, when nearly exhausted with swimming, by a fishing-boat.
ERROR OF THE PRESS.—"Fulham-road.—Dear
Punch,—You were facetiously' pleased to kill into in your last num-
ber. I beg you will bring 1110 to life agatn In your next. My change
of name and residence has deceived you. You evidently thonAt I
had gone .the way of all metropolitan turnpikes, but no such luck, old
fellow. You willfind me tout fifty yards down the same road,
looking all the better for the ange of air. The fact is, I could not
stand the smoke of town at this time of the year, so I have taken
this little box in the country. I shall be very happy to sec you when.
ever You are coming this way. Till then, dear Punch, I remain, on
the Fulham-road, your turnpike to commatid, Tut: SANDFORD-nnincr
GATE, late the Queen's retire.)."—)'arch.EXETEß, AUG. 22.—The weather is very fine here, and
the harvest is prooressins rapidly-.