The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

11,107VEY-TRADE-COMI E72CE.

The Lord Mayor has received a requisition from the
Members of the Common Council to convene an early
meeting of the Court, to consider the question of the
abolition of the Corn •duties.

At Greenock on Friday, 110 men and lads went
round the town collecting money to procure funds for
the unemployed ; at night the sum produced gave
fourpence a-head to each individual in the procession.
Smuggling to a considerable extent is now carried
on upon the coast of Wigtolvhshire.
When China had to pay 6,000,000 dollars for the
ransom of Canton, that Government imposed a duty
o five taels per pound upon the 50,000,000 lb. of tea
annually exported, and of which 40,000,000 lb. are
taken by Englishmen ; by this means the Chinese
reimbursed themselves in rather more than two years.
In the same manner, by imposing an additional duty
of five taels, the Government of China will be cash in
hand before the time is expired (four years) for pay-
ing the 21,000,000 dollars.

NAVAL AND IVIILITAIR.Y.
The late Lieutenant-General Sir John Waters,
K.C.8., who died on Tuesday was rewarded
with the order of St. Anne, of the second
class, for his bravery at Waterloo. He was present
at the storming of Badajos, and at Salamanca, Vittoria,
Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse. The
Colonelcy of the 81st Regiment becomes vacant by
his death.

COUILT-PALSIIXONABLE.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge at-
tended on Wednesday at the Horse Guards.
The Dowager Duchess of Bedford and Lady
Rachel Russell, were to leave the Doune on Wed-
nesday, for Edinburgh.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, and Lord
Stanhope, left Chesterfield House on Wednesday after-
noon, for Dover; thence to Calais, Paris, Genoa, and
Rome. The Noble Earl and Countess intend to re-
main abroad during six or eight months. Lady Eve-
line Stanhope, their only daughter, will remain in
this country.
Lord Lovaine, on his return from Scotland, passed
some time at Ainwick Castle, on a visit to the Duke
and Duchess of Northumberland.

The Hon. Charles Forester has joined the 12th
Lancers at Dublin.

The Earl of Beverley returned to the Palace at
Richmond, on Wednesday, from Portman-square.
NIZSCZZI.IINEOus.
The number of unemployed in Paisley has risen
this past week from 7,022 to 7,372.

REMARKABLE TENACITY OF LIFE. —On Wednesday
morning as the workmen were digging up the rub-
bish caused by the late fire on the premises occupied
ly Messrs. W. S. Rumsey and Co., 154, Upper
hames-street, they heard the mewing of a cat un-
derneath some portions of a cask, which had fallen
across her body, and rested against the wall. On re-
moving these poor Grimalkin issued from her hiding
"place, having been incarcerated for nineteen days,
during which period she could not by any possibility
have tasted food. She was immediately supplied with
milk, and, though thin, appears likely to recover.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Wednesday, a few mi-
nutes before twelve, just as the down train of the
Great Western Railway was about to start, two young
men, who had engaged their places byit, very respect-
ably dressed as sailors, went into the Dudley Arms,
for some refreshment, which they partook of at the
bar. From their conversation, they appeared to be
brothers ; and soon after they were in the house, one
of them retired to the back part of the premises. His
absence being such as likely to endanger the loss of
their places, the other spoke to Mr. Young, the land-
lord, who immediately went into the yard, and found
the man in the water-closet, suspended by his necker-
chief, which he had fastened round his neck, and
attached the other end to a beam ; he was black in the
face, and apparently quite dead. Mr. Young called
for assistance, and he was cut down. A surgeon at-
tended and bled him, when he was removed, in a very
dangerous state, to the hospital. No reason could be
ascertained for the attempt on his life.
LATER FROM THE UNITED STATES.-13y the Oxford,
which arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday, we have
received a New York paper of the Ist instant, being
one day later than our last arrival; but it contains no
news of any importance.
THE CENTRIFUGAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.— On Sa-
turday an accident happened at this exhibition, which,
fortunately, did not terminate fatally as might have
been expected. A gentleman entered the car, in the
indulgence of his curiosity to experience the peculiar
motion, when, from some unexplained cause, the car,
at the moment when it had reached the zenith of the
vertical circle, was, with its occupant, pitched out of
the rails on the ground. Had the car, which weighs
2001 b., fallen on the individual, he oust inevitably
have been killed, but he fortunately escaped with a
few bruises. The fact of such an accident having oc-
curred may operate as a caution to others.
Immediately after the receipt of the glorious newsfrom
Affghanistan on Wednesday, Major Howden, of the
Madras Army, had the pleasure of communicating the
same to the son of General Sir Robert Sale, a fine
spirited youth about 15 years of age, at school in Ed-
monton. Nothing can describe the youth's feelings to
hear of the gallantry of his father, and the prospect of
the release from captivity of his dear and noble-spi-
rited mother.

STREET ROBBERY.—Wednesday evening about:five
o'clock, a truck, on which was a basket full of bottled
whisky, was stolen from the door of 147, New Bond-
street, whilst the porter was inside the house deliver-
ing an order.

DEATH IN TEE PENITENTIARY: Mr. Higgs, the
Coroner for Westminster heldan inquest in the
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that the deceased had been tried at the Southampton
Sessions, in October,lB4l, on a charge of felony, and
sentenced to one calendar month's imprisonment, and
transportation for ten years. • The sentence of
transportation was commuted ; she was, therefore, re-
moved from the convict-ship Royal Admiral, and re-
ceived into the Penitentiary on the 18th of April,
1842. Her term would have been up in 1845. Wm.
Bailey, M.D., surgeon to the establishment, said that
the deceased was admitted to the infirmary on the
30th of August, labouring under dysentery ; she was,
as he thought, recovering, but again relapsed, and
died on Wednesday last.. A post mortem examina-
tion was made of the body, and the bowels were
found much inflamed, with ulceration in several parts.
Deceased was very healthy when admitted. Dr.
Bailey further added that he had lately been trying
to investigate the cause of the present great morta-
lity in the prison, and his impression that it was solely
caused by the very bad site, was, he believed, a cor-
rect one. The grounds about the prison were fre-
quently inundated at high tides, but he believed some-
thing was going to be done to remedy this evil. Mr.
Higgs read a statistical report, from which it appeared
that for a series of years preceding 1841 the deaths
averaged six each year, but in 1841 these had in-
creased to fourteen ; and, already, this year, the uum-
ber was eighteen. Since the opening of the prison, in
1817, there have been 304 deaths, three •fourths. of
which have been from dysentery and diarrhw.—
Irprdict—" Died by the Visitgion of God."