The Sun. — 1842-11-03 (London, England)

REIDUCTION OF RENTS.—The rents must be reduced, but generally the landlords will hold out to the last moment. However, there are some proprietors already setting an example, as you will see by the following paragraphs from the provincial yapers :—"Major-General Dickson has most considerately set the example of an abatement of 25 per cent. in the rents of his tenants at Clounlahard, in this county—a district comprising 6,000 acres—and instructed his agent Daniel Dickson Power, Esq., to purchase bed covering, &c., for necessitous objects on his e.state."—Limerick Chronicle. " Wm..Beamish, Esq., of Beaumont, near this city, last week visited his estate near Borrisoleigh, county Tipperary, and remitted 25 per cent. on his rents, besides giving 31. an acre for the purchase of lime, with other sums for materials for building slated houses, and premiums for the neatest cottages and best crops—in all, a sum amounting to upwards of 500/."—Corh Examiner. The Marquis of Waterford has about 40,000 acres of land in the county of Derry, on which there are about 800 tenants, but until this season there had not been anything done by them, in the way of draining their land on any regular system. By advice and encouragement, however, held out to them by Mr. Beresford, agent to the Marquis, upwards of sixty of the tenants have been and are thorough draining on Mr. Smith of Deanston's system, and have already completed upwards of 16,000 perches of drains, filled with broken stones.—Cork Reporter. The works for raising the Telemaque from the ground, where she has so long lain, off Quillebceuf, are, according to the Journal du Havre, going on slowly, but surely. Her hull is within three feet of the surface at low water, and is kept ready in that position. As the river at this spot is only about 29 feet deep, and the vessel measures in her own depth 21 feet 6 inches, she must have been raised already above four feet from the bottom. A man has walked on her side, as she lies, from one end of her to the other, having the water no higher than his waist. All the tackle holds strong and steady. At the date of the last accounts Mr. Taylor was engaged in arranging the apparatus, so as to act with greater force, and is said to have declared that, in four days, the Tele maque would be above water. On the 24th inst., as a corporal of gendarmerie of Vio, in the Upper Pyrenees, was returning to the village of Artaguan with one of his men, the latter raised his carbine and shot him. The assassin fled to shorta , distance, where, after divesting himself of his cloak, sword, and hat, and deliberately tying them up in a bundle, he blew out his brains with a pistol. As the corporal was within 300 yards of Artaguan, persons soon came to his aid, but he survived only two hours, declaring with his last breath that he knew not to what cause to attribute his murder. It is supposed however, that the murderer was actuated by vengeance, as he had undergone a slight punishment on the report of the corporal. Mr. Higgs held an inquest yesterday evening upon the body of Thomas limber, aged 48, formerly tailor and draper, but latterly a commercial agent, in Tottenham-court-road. Thomas Jones Rowe, 55 Thames Police, said that he found the deceased yesterday morning, about half-past three o'clock, lying athwart the chain of the police barge Investigator, which is moored between Strand-lane and Arundel stairs. He towed the deceased ashore to the latter place, and, on examination, found only a pocket-book, some loose papers, a comb, and some tobacco upon him. From the addresses upon the papers the deceased's friends and relatives were traced. Mr. Burrows, of 15, Fludyer-street, Westminster, said that deceased and himself had been drinking till a few minutes before twelve the preceding evening, in the Hampshire Hog, Charles street, and he accompanied him as far as Whitehall, when he left him, after making an appoint meat to see him early in the morning. He (deceased) was then a little tipsy, but not much so. Deceased appeared in good spirits. Mr. Fox, of the Hampshire Hog, confirmed the preceding witness. The Jury, after a • lengthened consultation, returned a verdict, " Found drowned, but how he came into the water, there is no evidence to show."