The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. POST.—The position of Ministers at the present mo ment is anything but an enviable one. In addition to the painiul consciousness that they are doomed to a speedy expulsion from the offices they love so well, they suffer from several minor causes of affliction and embarrassment. They begin at last, we are credibly in formed, to repent the unprincipled tenacity of office which prevented their resignation when the House of Cormeons had declared that they were unfit to govern the country, and which again forbade them to resign when fee people of the United Kingdom had de clared that in this instance, if in no other, the House Of 'Commons bad spoken truly and acted well. It cannot, indeed, excite much surprise that Mi &eters should look forward to Tuesday next with anxiety and alarm ; and still less can the embarrass ment and distress in which they have laboured so diligently and successfully to involve themselves excite any cummisseration or sympathy in the minds of honourable men. We see honest and straightforward men of all classes of society and in every quarter of the town rubbing their hands with infinite glee while they ask each other, " What are Ministers to say in the Queen's Speech, which the Queen will not speak for them, on Tuesday ?" The conjectural replies to this question are various and even opposite. But however they may differ in other respects, every reply that can be given to the question is equally an indication and presage of the weakness, confusion, and disgrace to which Ministers are irrevocably doomed—self rienmed. Will they make the Corn-law queition, upon w deli they have just appealed to the country, a prominent topic of the Queen's Speech ?or will they not ? Weak ness, confusion, and disgrace must result from either de termination. In the former case they will swell the ma jority against them on the address by the votes of all those Members who, though disposed to yield to Minis ters their general support, have been returned to Parlia ment upon the faith that they will maintain without flinching the interests of British agriculture. In the lat ter they will excite the disgust and incur the contempt of the whole body of their free-trade partisans, who will very naturally and justly accuse them of betraying and sacrificing the cause by so pusillanimous and treacherous a display of the white feather. Here is one stumbling block in the path of Ministers, and we have some reason to surmise that up to this moment the Cabinet is very far from unanimous as to the manner in which they shall ettempt to overcome it. lIERALD.—Where men begin to despair of making head against a successful adversary, but are afraid to avow, pnblicly, the fact of their despair—they are pretty sure to give out that his forces are distracted by internal divisions. They attempt to disparage the repu tation of his success by ascribing to him a thousand ac cidental advantages—hich he really never possessed ; —and to console themselves for the shame of present defeat, by anticipations of future discomfiture to their rivals through divided councile, and the factious preten sions of their members. The language which is held by the organs of our Whig-Radical Government has, for some time past, afforded amusing indications of this very ancient and somewhat clumsy policy. The whole stock in trade of their hopes and prospects of a return to power consists of reiterated speculations on the difficulties which it is assumed must necessarily beset Sir Robert Peel in his attempts to reconcile the conflicting claims and views of his various sup porters. One of these organs—a cackling ben, which . sits upon every mare's -nest, entertains that primitive race of persons who are really its "readers, with a daily elaboration of this fond absurdity. A great deal of allowance, of course, is to be made for the habitual ins pressions on these subjects which the thorough-going hack in the service of Whiggery " all over the world," must have acquired in the course of so long a period of equivocal services as it has now devoted to the cause of the most sordid and selfish party to whose hands the destinies of this empire were ever confided. The whole of that party seem to treat the notion of a great public leader attempting to govern this country upon uny certain and defined bases of an enlarged and pub lic-spirited policy—without being deterred from the prosecution of his generous, object, by inability to provide place, office, emolument, or pension for all the needy relatives and greedy dependents of a party in possession of power—as a height of romantic virtue on which it would be mere idiotcy to speculate. We are told by one of these organs that " in sober earnestness there is at the very threshold of power a most serious division in the Conservatioe ranks." And what (do the public imagine) is this assumption founded upon ? Upon, truly, a most portentous, a most formidable con • junction of circumstances. It seems that the Morning Post has actually fallen out with the Times! Nay, more—that the Times has intimated some hesitation and doubt whether it may feel disposed to extend its patron age and support to the new Government !—the Times eondemning the existing Corn-laws, and intimating its hope, rather than its expectation, that the first official act of Sir Robert Peel will be to put them down ; and the Post,—on its own " assurance"—of " enjoying the full confidence of the leaders" of the Conservative party—pledging itself with as much aliegy as may be supposed to enter into its eompositioll*" that Sir :Robert Peel entertains no such views as the Times has rashly imputed to him." It is time that this sort of delusion should cease. Sir Robert Peel is at the head of a party, the principles of which the Whig-Radi cals never will be taught to appreciate. The true in terests of the public service, the course which may best consist with the public honour, the policy which may best consolidate the public safety, will be the great ob jects of all Conservative Government—no matter under what leader. The same disinterestedness which they have already displayed in opposition, the same steady evotion to the welfare of the empire,—not to the per sonal aggrandisement of the Members of their own priety,—will be their characteristic qualifications for offi cial power. their irresitible claims on public confidence. The inherent distinction between the principles of the Whig-Radicale and those of the Conservatives, will acouire, from day to day, increased development ; and a grateful country will learn to render due honour to public men whose first care for the public service ,will be—to provide efficient and trustworthy servants for the discharge of all its various duties, and the main tenance o.` their establishments on a footing. of perma nent vigour and activity. Such, in short; is the just authority or influence, among the Conservatives, of the nrinciples for the udication of which they have so suc ices:V.-ally combined all the various classes of a party (" of the same name, but 'of a different nature " as the Government Journal phrases it)—that the leader of that party must respond to them. He will no more ven ture, be he who he may, to depart from them, on any essential points or leading questions, even to retain the " confidence" of the Morning Post (!) or to propitiate the sanction of the Times, than the party itself will ever - eenture to forfeit its popularity and authority with the enentry by imitating the shameless nepotism of the Whijs, in swamping the public departments and the higher classes of office with their troublesome depen dents or needy relatives,—whenever the long line of Elliots and Cowpers and Russells and Greys and Foxes which have been provided for, by the especial champions of Parliamentary Reform, shall have left any vacancies for other Ministers tts supply ! TIMES.—The fastest friends of the present Corn laws, in effect, if not in intention, are the Jacobin blas phemers, who, with a profaneness too glaring to be called hypocrisy-, daily pollute the most sacred names and subjects for the purposes of faction. We say, for the purposes of faction ; because, although we think it by no means a mark of fiction to argue against the Corn- Jaws, we look upon it as perfectly clear that the mass of folly, falsehood, and wickedness, which disfigures a cer tain portion of the Ministerial press, is not, eve by those who use it, imagined to be argument at all. It is the m isshapen offspring, on the one hand, of the selfishness of certa i n class-enterests, whose motive for agitating this qu estion is the desire - of gain, whi c h th e y wou ld wil lingly secure to themeelves by any amount of public or private mischief, and who look upon the excitement of popular passions and the dissemination of popular fallacies as the nearest road to their end. On the other hand, it is taken up b y a p oli tical party, always unscrupulous enough, but now in a rabid state, and gnashing its teeth under the paygs ofmotto rec e nt () defeat. Any Anything to inflame the people is their cast about for the materials of sedition with the energy of men whose existence is at stake. If an opportunity offers at the same time to degrade and dishonour the name of religion, it is eagerly seized, as being quite in the way of their trade. In fact, when they take religion into into their loathsome embrace, and still more, whe p they orevail upon any of the outward professors of religion become accompie . ces in this prostitution o`' sacred they probablya . ppear to themselves to be answer ing a double purpose, and killing two birds with one stone. But in this, as many other things, they are .gross self-deceivers. They cannot succeed in bringing religion into contempt, because England is a religious country, and they are universally known to be 1101 - low impostors, scorners of everything like real reli gious principle. Still less can they palm upon the people at large (whatever they may do with weak and vain and not entirely disinterested men like Mr. Baptist Noel) the belief that their uncharitable blasphemies are either honestly meant, or true in fact. Every candid op ponent of the Corn-laws feels indignation at the at tempt to represent what (as the Wesleyan Conference accurately stated) is " primarily a question of political economy," as a religious question ; and shudders at the Jacobinism which stigmatizes all who think differ ently as tyrants who " cannot with a clear conscience ask for their daily bread." Such arguments will help no cause ; they carry their own condemnation palpably - written upon the face of them ; they dishearten and dis gust intelligent and honourable friends, inspire enemies with a confidence, both moral a n d intellectue!, in their own views, and convince neutrals that measures which need to be so supported must be rotten even to the core. GLOBE.--The dislike which the Tories, as a party, cherish towards the Queen is a matter of notoriety. They have taken no pains to conceal its existence, but have manifested it in every possible way upon every oc casion. They may, therefore, be said to glory in their shame. It is, however, no less the dots- of those who profess to be governed by another disposition, and con sider that affectionate and loyal respect is due from every subject to the Sovereign, without reference to party pre dilections, to disabuse the decent part of the nation of an opinion they might otherwise entertain, that the changed position of the Tories might possibly have lyre ught a change in their disposition and language towards the Illustrious Lady who occupies the Throne. Seeing they are now likely to attain the objects fur whi,ch they consented to become the maligners of Royalty, it might certainly be expected that they would, at !least, mod era t e their dislike, and from policy, in th e absence of principle, conceal the mortification with w h n they burn, on finding , that the Queen remains unsiaakPn in her attachment to the constitutiunal prin ciples to which she has manifested a preference from the terme meat the 14.0epstrechof • h ands. government was committed to 11 ' 'grin to pay o T t py are not satisfied alltling. 'They have an arrear of they will do so with interest. Obtaining the Government un- • MORNING SUN less they can also induce the Sovereign to be the mere in strument of their will, and thus seal the triumph they have achieved, by fraud and force, at the hustings. It is not enough for them that the Queen is prepared to act toward the Ministers who may be forced upon her by the Parlia ment, with the most perfect integrity as a Constitutional Scvereign; these rapacious cormorants of power demand that the prerogatives of the Sovereign, and even her per sonal predilections, shall be merged in those of the ex pectant Tory Ministry immediately it is formed; or she must be prepared, as the alternative, to be aspersed and insulted. A fresh ebullition of this low-minded and des picable malignity has reached us this morning. The Tories of Cheltenham appear to have, in the Cheltenham Looker-on, a journal which is neither re strained by a sense of decorum nor influenced by appre hensions of forfeiting the countenance and support of its fashionable patrons by any violations of courtesy or even of decency when referring to the Queen. Hence its considerable popularity with that party, who have in it an organ after their own heart, The following ebul lition of indecency forms the commencement of its last leading article. If, taken in connection with the nume- rous attacks of a similar character and tendency with which many of their Journals have been filled, it do no convince the most incredulous of the kind of treatment which our beloved Queen will receive from the Tories, when delivered by the force of circumstances into their hands, we know not what will effect their conviction : " The denouement of the great political struggle being now so close at hand, every day almost will present some feature of interest. It will be as will, THEN, just by the way of preparation, to make a note of the present aspect of affairs—before the game really opens—in order the better to understand its progress. " First and foremost, then, the Queen does not open Parliament in person, for the first time since her acces sion. Her Majesty does not intend to come to town at all. Her Majesty means to make the future Prime Mi nister run backwards and forwards to Windsor, every time it may be necessary to obtain her gracious approba tion to any of the measures of his Government. To such an extent is this to be carried, that it is even a mat ter of doubt whether the Address of the House of Com mons will not have to go down to Windsor, by a deputa tion, though it may be expected that the present holders of office will influence have enough to prevent such an affront being offered to the chosen of her people.' The leading Conservative papers choose to put their own colour upon this, and say that her Majesty won't come because she won't speak the Speech written by Minis ters. Others say her Majesty won't come because of her interesting situation. Why, every matron in Engl Ind must know this to be fudge; and as for the other, why in the worli should there be any affectation about it? The Queen is annoyed and mortified at the result of the elec tions, and chooses to manifest her opinion, and intends to show all the coldness and repugnance possible towards the Administration which will come into power." It would be indecent in a public Journal to indulge in speculations such as these with reference to the conduct of any lady in similar circumstances, so far as the con duct of a subject would admit of comparison with that of the Queen. But for such ribaldr) to be published of the Sovereign, is insufferable; and would provoke in dignation, did not its ignorance and vulgarity prevent the feelings of the reader from rising higher than contempt. STANDARD.—Conjecture is active in anticipation of the topics of the Royal Speech to be delivered to-morrow, and of the line which the Conservative majority shall pursue with respect to it. As to the Speech, the com position must be - a task of no small difficulty. The cir cumstances under which Parliament is called together at this unusual season, and under circumstances so peculiar, must be explained ; but no explanation can be offered which shall not refer to the Budget of May, and to the dissolution ; and any allusion to these topics, or, indeed, a total neglect of them—which would be more emphatical than the most distinct reference—would challenge from the Conservative majority an amendment reiterating the condemnation of the Budget propositions, and repeating, with augmented force, the non-confidence vote of the 4th of June. Such an amendment would be triumphantly carried. How then can Ministers act? Will they persevere in retaining office in defiance of a vote of the House of Commons twice repeated, and now re inforced by a vote of the House of Lords ? Probably re ferring strongly to the violation of the Constitution al ready committed, this would be to afford broader and firmer grounds for an impeachment than was ever offered by a British Ministry. But can they resign? Lord John Russell, in his address to the electors of London, has pledged the Cabinet to retain office until it shall have formally and distinctly presented its Budget to the new Parliament. This plainly means to retain office until each of the three propositions shall be pro posed and debated in succession—a month's work at the very least. But then to retain office a month, or even a day, after the adoption by the two Houses of such an amendment as we may expect to see to-mor row, would be rather too serious an experiment upon the patience of the country. Still we do not see how Ministers are to get out of the difficulty. They are in the condition of men who, having embarked in a criminal course,- must persevere in it to the end, as any pause would be a confession of their crime. If they ought to resign when defeated, as they will be, on the Address, they ought to have resigned on the sth of June, on the 19th of May, or, still earlier, upon the defeat of Lord Morpeth's Irish Registration Bill ; and if they are bound to resign when defeated upon th Address, Lord John Russell was guilty of wilful and deliberate fraud, in promising for them, that, as as Ministers, they would again bring for ward their Budget, because he must have been aware at the time, indeed his letter confesses as much, that de feated on the Address they would be. COLTIIIER.—The Manchester Conference of reveren dissimi, if not illustrissimi, signori is no more. From the smoko preceding its entry into functions some fire might havebeen suspected in the background, but nothing of the sort ; the smoke has evaporated into thin air, like the empty mist of morning, and track of flame is there none. Mr. Thompson, the original projector, ap propriately wound up his own scheme with a funeral dis course on the merits of the defect ; and Lord Ducie, a Nobleman delighting in strange ways, and with man sion and grounds corresponding styled Strangeways, close upon Manchester, assisted as one of the pall bearers and chief mourners on the solemnly sad occasion. The Rev. Thomas Spencer, of Hinton Charter-house, near Bath, read the service for the dead or dying, a novel in terpolation, in which was the sober and serious announce ment,. that " he was sorry to say there was a gin-drink ing public opinion that wanted to throw out Lord John Russell." This reverend person, by station, is a divine of the Church of England; from this specimen of the proprieties of speech he might, but for this advertence, be mistaken for a high priest of Socialism. MONEY MARKET anti CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—To-day's accounts from Manchester mention a better tendency in [the manufacturing market, conse quent upon the very improved state of the weather, and the more staple appearance of the cotton market at Li verpool. The news from China brought by the New York papers is generally credited in the City, but, at present, it does not in the slightest degree corroborate that lately received by way of Marseilles and Paris. On the con trary, so far as it goes, it is at variance with it, as none of the facts, some of which are of an official character, and by no means unimportant, are at all adverted to, though the date of the " news" through France was stated to be much later. However, it is unnecessary to pursue the subject further at present, as the arrival of the next mail, which may be shortly looked for, will set the whole matter at rest. The feeling of the trade was strongly shown to-day, as, although Saturday is not a day of much business in tea, the decline in value was full 2d. per lb. , CHRONICLE.—The quarterly returns of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of .England, just pub lished, when compared with the preceding returns, show an increase in the circulation of 407,0001.; in the de posits an increase of 210,0001.; in the securities an in crease of 737,0001. and in the bullion a decrease of 64,0001.; the stuck on hand of the latter being 5,206,000/. There is an increase in the " rest" of 56,0001.. The in crease in the circulation may lx attributed to the pay ment of the July dividends, which always create a tem porary " flush" in the Money Market. But the increase in the securities shows that the Bank Directors had also been increasing their discounts when they relaxed the rule of confining their negotiations to bills not having over sixty days to run. The impression, however, pro duced by a cons id erat i on o f t h ese returns is not particu larly agreeable, for we see symptoms of the bad old viz.. an i ncrease o f t h e c i rculation simultaneous svi:emistltta, decreas e in the bullion. It was owing to this pernicious course of policy that the Directors found it necessary for self-preservation to apply the " screw" with such convulsiv e and disastrousil force in 1839. We trust they will avoid s li tt i ng on the same rock in 1842. HERALD.--ft is hardly • worth while to revert to the peevish assaults of the City Times, of which another for lorn hope is pushed forward to-day, about the Macao , letter of April 27 , the sin after all of which is that Herald had it, and th e Time s the h ad it not, but it may b e well to remark that, although the Canton news agre ceived in New York by th e s h ip Akbar may not be con sidered as Perfectly authentic so far as it rests upon the sole authority of Captain Du maresq, the commander of the vessel, yet, exclusive of the additional fact that pri vate letters of the 16th of April are referred to as having been seen by the editor of the New Yorh Mercantile Price Current, which in their tenor render the probabilities of the Macao letter stronger, it should be remembered that extracts from Canton papers are actually given to the 11th of April, showing the apprehension s of an unfa vourable turn in affairs, which it will hardly be sup posed were forged by the captain or, editor, or b ot h jointly, any more than Capt. Senlio use_s letter of the 7th light of April. which stands in the of an official docu ment. And what object—cui Bono—could these Ame ricans have to falsify news or forge newspaper extract s ? avo bh The statements impartially given , the both Tifura and unfavourable side resulted in lowering the prices of the Chinese produce brought by the Akbar, which it should have been the policy of Capt. Dumares . q . at least tc have endeavoured to raise. As to the ludicrotT , in crimination of the Tium about being " tale-bearers, for such is the stigma cast for inserting certai n news from Galignani's Messenger received by extraordinary express atconsiderable expense, it is only'neeessary to say that the " tale-bearer" at second-hand, as the Times was on the same occasion, must be by far the most culpable party (if blame there was) for having sinned with its eyes.open after 24 hours' reflection. Arc to the " tale-makers,' that is an account :which must be left to be settled by the Times with its own correspondent of the Semaphore at Marseilles, with whom the tale originated, and by whom invented, if invented it was. - POST.—L fitters from Lancashire mention tliat a num ber of irregularities have occurred in that part of the country and elsewhere in the north in the treatment of I bills of exchange. Bills representing bona fide transac tions have,_ in innumerable instances, been refused pay ment by the acceptors, who have nevertheless maintained. and do so still, a respectable standing in the conpercial THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA Y, AUGUST 24, 1841. world. The only kind of settlement that could he effected has been in the payment of a small proportion of the amount drawn for in cash, or an order on London, with a renewal of the remainder at four or six months ; and this notwithstanding that the bills have in most cases the indorsements of firms esteemed safe in Liverpool, Glasgow, and other leading places of business. In the instances referred to there have been no outward stop pages, but, to attempt any other mcde cf arrangement than that which we have pointed out, has been found useless, the more general plea offered by parties for a departure from the usual routine being, that sales of goods are impracticable, and that the banks are affording so little or no accumulation. A system of gambling in corn is going on upon a large scale, and it will appear a novel one to the majority of our readers. A speculator engages to give so many shillings per quarter for the " call" of wheat for the month of November, and so on, upon the same principle that a "put and call" may be obtained in the Consol Market. This desperate game bids fair to result in seri ous disaster to the Bulls, or parties going for the rise. ADVERTISER.—We have reason to believe that affairs in Canada are going on better than the journals of America would represent, for the opposition to the exist ing Government was no greater than ever, if we are not misinformed. The interesting intelligence received from China, via the United States, has been most anxiously commented upon, especially by the merchants and others connected with the East India and China trades. Credit is given to the information in its more important details, and had the public sales of tea, which commenced yesterday, been continued to-day, no doubt prices would have ranged differently. By private contract on 'Change this after noon, there was not a great deal of bona fide business transacted, but prices ruled much lower than they did yesterday. Company's congou was quoted at 2s. 5-fd. per lb. It must however be remarked, that news re ceived from China, by way of America, has always been, and is still looked upon with some suspicion by our own merchants. It appears by an official intimation that has just been issued, that the East India Company have altered the rate of exchange. The Directors now intimate, that they will receive cash for bills on Bengal at Is. 11d. the Com pany's rupee, and upon Madras and Bombay, at Is. Hid. the Company's rupee. ibr Painted Glass. Offered by Mr. Alderman Cope land, M.P. 6. To Mr. George Thompson, 51. ss.—for a specimen of Arabesque - Painting. Given by' Henry Thomas Hope, Esq. 7. To Mr. John Evans, Si. ss.—for the best design for Mousseline de Laine. Given by J. Thomson, Esq. 8. To Mr. William Cheseling Wild, 3/. 3s.—for the best design of a Drawing-room Paper. Given by J. Thomson, Esq. 9. To Mr. Henry Durant, 31. 3s.—for the best plaster model of Leaves and Flowers from Nature. Given by the Council. King and Dyer are boys not more than 12 or 13 years of age, and Mr. Wyld, who has gained a prize each year since the commencement of the school, has great natural difficulties to contend with, having been born destitute of the hand and leg of the left side ! Four teen young students received prizes of books from the bands of the Prince as rewards of good conduct, regu larity, and attention to students. . . _ _ _ Mr. LABOUCHERE then said, he was sure it would re quire few words, on his part, to insure a ready concur. rence in the proposal which he was about to make, — namely, that the meeting should return thanks to his Royal Highness for having condescended to preside on that occasion.—(Applause and cheering.) He need not dwell upon the importance of encouraging a taste for the Fine Arts in that part of the community which was engaged in manufactures. It had long been the reproach of this country, that we had allowed our rivals in manufactures to outstrip us in matters of taste. It was, however, gratifying to perceive that we did not shut our eyes to our own deficiency, but con scious of its existence, had set about to remedy it. Since the time of Louis XIV. France had schools of de sign, and it was not to be expected that our manufac turers, not having such instruction, could equal them in taste. In Prussia, also, the artistical education of the manufacturers was equally attended to. From what had been said by Mr. Carlisle, and from the patriotic zeal with which the Council devoted themselve to the good of the school, there could be no doubt of its producing the most important and beneficial results. In this school there were at present 135 pupils, and in the school esta blished last year in Spitalfields, there were already sixty pupils.—(Applause.) Communications had been opened with the manufacturing towns of the United Kingdom, for the purpose of extend ing branch schools to them, and with the most encouraging prospects of success.—(Applause.) The Right Hon. Gentleman, after a warm eulogy upon his Royal Highness, concluded by moving the warmest and most respectful thanks for his honouring the Insti tution by his especial patronage. Sir R. INcus in a short, but very eulogetic speech, seconded the motion. It w•as carried amidst enthusiastic and repeated cheer ing and applause. His ROYAL HIGHNESS said, I thank you for your kind ness. It gives me g reat pleasure to see the prosperity of this institution, and I hope that prosperity will be always increasing. _ _ _ Having examined the works to which prizes had been awarded, and which all merited the high approbation with which he seemed to view them, the Prince withdrew amidst the acclamations of the company and the loud cheering of the crowd assembled in the street. SOUND DUES. DECLARATION. The undersigned, her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and his Danish Majesty's Envoy EXtraordinary and Minister Plenipote ntiary at the Court of St. James's, having examined the Tariff of Duties on Articles not enumerated in the Tariff of Christianople of the year 1645, which has been drawn up on the part of Great Britain by Mr. McGregor, her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Elsinore, and' on the part of Denmark by MM. C. G. Wessel, and H. H. Olrik, Translator, and Comptroller of the Royal Danish Custom-house at the Oresound, have, in the name and on the behalf of their respective Governments, agreed that the rates of duty specified in that Tariff shall be adopted for the space of ten years to come, commencing from the 15th day of the present month ; and, further, until the end of twelve months after either of the respective Governments shall have given notice to the other of •its intention no longer to abide by this agreement. _ _ _ — ln witness whereof, the undersigned have signed the present declaration, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at London, the 4th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1841. (L.S.) PALMERSTON. (L.S.) ADOLPH BLOME. Tariff of Articlei, the Rates of which, corresponding with One per Cent. ad,valorena, upon the undermentioned valuations have this day been agreed upon between Mr McGregor, her Britannic Majesty's Consul for the Oresound, on the one part, and Messrs. Wessel and Olrik, officers belonging to his Danish Majesty's Oresound Customs on the other part, subject to the approval of their respective Governments, and with the understanding that the said rates are to be levied and paid at the Sound in rix-dollars specie, equal to two rix bank dollars in paper, and during the period of ten years, to commence on the Ist June, 1841. REMARK.—Thc coin in which the Sound Duty, Light Money, Fees, and other charges at the Sound, are charged and paid, is the rix-dollar specie, of which 94, say nine and a quarter rix-dollars specie constitute, and shall for the future be held equal to, one mark fine silver, Cologn weight. The rix-dollar is divided into 48, say forty-eight parts, denominated stivers. It is understood that the said rates of duty are also to be levied in the Belts. SCHOOL of DESIGN. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday at the third annual distribution of prizes to the pupils of the Government School of Design, which took place at Somerset House, in tht presence of a numerous au dience, amongst whom were many of the most distin guished artists and patrons of art in this country. Before the arrival of his Royal Highness we observed amongst the company Mr. Haydon, Sir Augustus Cal cott, Mr. Cockerill, Mr. Papworth, and Mr. Etty, the eminent artists ; the Hon. Fox Maule, the Bishop of Norwich, Mr. Eviart, M.P., Mr. Labouchere, President of the Board of Trade ; Mr. Williams, M.P., Mr. Glad stone, Mr. Hodgson, Lord Colborne, Mr. Gillon, Mr. Wyse, Mr. B. 'Wall, Mr. Gaily Knight, Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. Basil Montague, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Samuel Rogers, &c. Soon after twelve o'clock his Royal Highness was con ducted to the Chair by Mr. Labouchere and Lord Dun • cannon. He was greeted in the most enthusiastic man ner, and acknowledged the warmth of the reception by repeated bows. When the clapping of hands and cheer ing subsided, _ The Director, ...Mr. DICE, then read the following Report : "I have been requested by the Council to commence the business of this day, by stating the result of their deliberations on the comparative merits of the drawings and models submitted by the students competitors for the prizes. " But before doing so, it may be necessary to offer some few words explanatory of the principle on which the selection of subjects for competition has been made ; not only to remove any impression that the designs generally give an adequate notion of the extent and ver sitality of talent passessed by all the competitors ; but to account for a deficiency of skill that may be observed in some of the drawings to which prizes have been awarded. At each of the three competitions which have hitherto taken place, the selection of subjects, with one or two exceptions has been varied. " On the first occasion, about a year after the founda tion of the school, prizes were offered for designs for certain important branches of industry depen dent on taste, without much reference to the capa bilities of the students, and not so much in the hope that, considering the very short period during which they have been engaged in preparatory study a great amount of skill would be displayed, as to obtain a reasonable 'ground for anticipating the future success and efficiency of the School. " Two years were then suffered to elapse before the Council thought it again advisable to offer rewards for design ; and, during this period, the condition of the school had considerably changed. " On the first opening of the establishment, a certain amount of skill in drawing was required to qualify a student for admission to the advantages of tuition, be cause it was thought that a restriction of this kind would tend to maintain the superior character which it was proposed the central establishment should possess. " Experience, however, soon showed, that the almost absolute want of elementary education in art among the classes likely to avail themselves of instruction in the School of Design, would be an insuperable obstacle to its efficiency, unless this restriction was removed, and it proceeded to deal with its pupils as mere beginners. " The removal of the restriction, it is hardly necessary to state, had the effect of converting the institution for a time into a mere elementary drawing school. " When the distribution of prizes took place last year the great majority of students were engaged in learning the very first rudiments of art, and very few indeed were really capable of producing designs kir manufacture ; and those had either attended the school since its commencement or had been previ ously engaged in branches of industrial design, by whijh they were enabled without difficulty to turn their study in the school to account. The subjects of compe tition lastyear,r.ccordingly, were selected with immediate reference to the talents and capabilities of a few more ad ' vanced students • while, on the other hand, numerous rewards were bestowed without competition on the pupils in the elementary classes. " This year a new selection of subjects for competition has naturally arisen out of the progress that has been made since the last' distribution. A considerable num ber of those who on the last occasion were mere be ginners have now advanced to the higher elementary exercises, and are capable to a certain extent of com mencing the practice of design. It was desirable, there fore to endeavour to stimulate their talents by offering rewards either for specimens of original design of the simpler sorts, or for the kind of work which, though not ranking as original design, constitutes the step imme diately preparatory to it. " Of the nineprizes now to be awarded, four are of this description : one being for the best painting of flowers or fruit from Nature ; one for the best model in plaster from flowers or leaves • and the other two for original designs in outline merely. " Of the remaining five prizes, two are intended to en courage the right preparation of patterns for branches of industry which it must always be the business of the school more or less to attend to ; namely, calico printing an'? paper-staining. Two for decorative design, have been selected with reference to the growing public taste for a revival of the ancient arts of glass-staining, and the painting of arabesques ; and one for specimens of litho graphy, to reward the zeal, assiduity, and talent of the pupils who are preparing themselves to assist in the exe cution of the elementary drawing-book for schools, which is now about 'to be published under the sanction of the Council. " It only remainss to be added, as one of the most favourable symptoms of the progress of the school, that the number of competitors is much greater this year than on the former occasion ; and that if the instances of remarkable excellence are less numerous, it is due to the fact that the prizes have been intended for the most part rather to elicit the rising talent of the younger stu dents than to afford scope for the skill of those who are more advanced ; and consequently that the majority of the specimens are really the productions of beginners" Mr. COCKERELL, architect, then addressed his Roya Highness. He begged, as an artist and a member of the Council, to bear testimony to the care with which the designs had been selectected as deserving of reward. Every care had been taken to do justice, and he could say that many of the designs which had been unsuccess ful this year, would last year have been deemed worthy of the prize. In making the selection, every thing that was essential to the art was taken into considera tion : first, the design ; secondly, the execution ; and, thirdly, that quality, without which there could be no real success—that is, deligence.—(Applause.) At the same time, he had to offer his congratulations to the President upon the great success of the Institution within the four years since it had been estab lished.—(Applause.) It had been long the disgrace of this commercial and manufacturing country that the art of design was neglected, and that no such Institution as this was in existence. Thus it was that privacy pre vailed so much in our manufactures. In fact our artists had been ; living on the genius of past times, and lately upon that in the reign of Louis the Fourteenth. If we went back to the age of Pericles, and descended to the Medici, to Louis XI V. and the present King of Bava ria, we should see what could be done by the education of our manufacturers incorrect principles of art. It might he hoped that by means of the present school and its branches they would be no longer behind the age or country of any of these great patrons of the arts. The artists who were members of the Council had devoted the best efforts with the most ardent zeal to promote the interests of this noble Institution ; but they must look to the great authorities of the country, to the manufecturers, aid to the public for co-operation and patronage. They had received considerable support from the Government and from Parliament, which last session granted the liberal sum of ten thousand pounds to and the school and its branches. It was hoped that a female branch would be established, as there were at least three departments of the arts which females could exer- vise• He concluded by assuring his Royal Highness and the c , mpany, that whatever powers the members of the Council possessed, should be earnestly, ardently, Fid constantly devoted to promote the success of the Institu tion.—(Applause.) His Royal Highness then distributed the following prizes in the most gracious manner. The successful students were warmly applauded by the company as they came forward to receive their several rewards. 1. To Mr. George Frederick Latnbart, 5/. ss.—for the best Lithograph -from Nature. Given by the Right Hon. the President of the Board of Trade. g, To Mr. John Patterson, 5/. ss.—for the best Painting of a Group of Flowers from Nature. Given by the Right Hon. the President of the Board of Trade. 3. To Master Charles King, 31. 33.—for the best Design for a Salver. Given by J. G. Bridge, Esq. 4 To Master George Dyer, 21. 2s.—tbr the best Design for a Silver Tankard. Given by J. G. Bridge, Esq. 5, To Mr, Octavius Hudson , .F4.--Syr a large Design .., .3.4 ...., t: ,e, d a O . O. 5 I'. -ci Denomination : .t. •4 a '' ' •,4 o f -St -e, 0E S'd x • -o ...: Articles. E. .4 N ... - - ** .." 7 ... 1) 0, In English. 1:1 5 -,,i 5 .- ,-. 8 cc >gS x. 9, Z stivers. rix-dol stivers. Annotta or Rcucou 9 100 lb 20 9 Ohl val. Argo' or Tartar 6 50016 12L, 6 Old val. 4 Arsenic Auripigmentum I 9 100 lb 12 6 Barilla I 6 300 lb 5 3 Camel's Hair I 30 301 b 23 12 Canella Alba 36 100 lb 12 6 Cardamoms' 36 ',loolb 35 18 Cassia Fistula 36 100 lb 25 12 Cassia Lignea.. 9 Cement Cocoa Coffee Coney Wool otton—Manufac-1 tures of, with the ' 1 ; exception or v, hite I .0 various common Calicoes ,' ,'; ... 1 per cent ad val. and those articles I ''' herein specified ') Cotton Stockings, mens' & womens' 30 50 pair 124 6 „ ditto, half, or childrens' Cubebs Isinglass I 6 100 lb 121 6 Old val. Juniper Berries I 36 800 lb 13' 6 Lead Shot I 4 100 lb 4 2 Manna Groats 9 100 lb. 4 2 Ochre 9 2001 b 2 1 Oranges and Le mons, fresh 2 1 box 2 1 Pimento Rhapontick root '36 1001 b 75 36 Old val. Rhubarb 36 100113 75 36 Old val. Rice in the husk, or Paddy 15 4001 b I 1 6 Sarsaparilla 36 10015 35 18 Spices, not further enumerated er I per teat described 36 100 lb , ad val. Sugar, raw 9 100 lb 10 5 Turmerick Verdigris 9 100 lb 20 9 Old val. Wood for Dyeing : , „ Sapan 1 „ Sandal 30 IMO lb 15 8 „ Province „ Cam & Bar wood ~ Caliatour I „ Campeachy IV Honduras..! 36 1000 lb 15 8 . Logwoed.... I-1 . ... „ Galicia „ Nicaragua or! Peach „ Sta. Martha 36 100016 „ Rio de la (24 I 12 Hackie p' 10001 b „ Stockfish „ Fustick of all 371. wood 30 8001 b sorts 36 100016 15 8 „ Ficet- wood . „ not further 30 10001 b ... I per cent enumerated ad val. or described Yarn, viz. : ~ Cotton or Twist 36 10016 32 16 I ~ Knitting Cotton ... 18 501 b }3O 15 „ Sewing ditto 5016 ~ Turkey red. .30 „ Embroidery „ Mohair ...... 30 50 lb 37 18 Zinck, or Speller: „ from the North Sea 8 100 lb 1 3 2 ~ from the Baltic 3 100 lb s I IVitness our hands and seals in London, the 13th May, 1841. (LS.) FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, her. Britannic Majesty's Consul for Denmark and the Oresound. • • (LS.) C. G , -WESSEL, Roval Second Translator at the Oresound Custom-house. (L.S.) 11. 11. OLRIK, Royal Comptroller at the Ore sound Custom-hcuse. THE 'RATHER. --NOON, AUGUST 23 . ROYAL GALLERY OF S CIENCE , A DELATDE-STREET. Barometer 29.90 In. Thermometer... 65 ( Highest 67 P Lowest ...... 49 Wind W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. Lord Morpeth, the Hon. H. Fortescue, and Mr. Geale, arc the trustees to the marriage settlement of the Countess Fortescue • and the sum settled on her Ladyship by his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, is 2,0001. per annum. The Commerce contains accounts from Odessa announcing that several commercial l.ouses thero had suspended their payments, amongst others that of Eslr.- ger and Co. for 400,000 rubles, anti Isais for 200,000. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. The Sessions at the Old Bailey commenced this morn ing before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Recorder, Sheriffs, and other civil authorities. It was ten o'clock before the Recorder entered the Court, but more than an hour elapsed before the whop of the Grand Jury were sworn. The names of the Grand Jury having been called over, The RECORDER delivered his charge to the following effect :—The interval that had occurred between the last and the present session had caused the calendar to be, in point of number, unusually large ; but the cases in ge neral were of an ordinary description. There were, however, some exceptions. There was a charge of rape under peculiar circumstances, a charge of the serious crime of murder, and a charge of unnatural offence. There were also cases in the calendar of stabbing and cutting, in two of which he thought the facts would be satisfactorily proved. There was also a charge not of frequent occurrence, viz.:— that of child-stealing, and he would call their attention to the statute and its provisions regarding these cases. If it was proved that the object was to withdraw the child permanently from its parents, that is sufficient to constitute a larceny. The Act which the present charge came under, and under which they must proceed. was the 9th George IV., c. 31, s. 31. The Learned Re corder then read that section of the Act, which stated that if any person should detain a child under the age of ten years, with intent to deprive the parent or parents or any other person having the care of such child, or with intent to steal any article from such child, such a party should be deemed guilty of a felony, and be sub ject to be transported fur the term of seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years. He (the Recorder) thought it right to draw their atten tion to the form of the statute, because the evidence in this case proved that the party withdrew the child from the protection of its parents, with a view to stealing a portion of the apparel, as a portion of it was found to be missing when the child was found. He (the Recorder) had al luded to the charge of rape, and the most important case of this description was a case in which it was alleged that a child under the age of ten years had been carnally known. In the course of the last year the atten tion of the Legislature had been drawn to offences of this description, and it had been deemed expedient to make other provisions with respect to the punishment for offences of this sort. The alteration made in the punishment was not that the Legislature conceived the punishment of death exceeded the offence, but it had been considered that a punishment short of death might probably lead to _punishment being applied in proper cases, and thereby further the purposes of justice as regarded conviction. Therefore, to obtain the object, it was deemed advisable to withdraw the capital punishment. The Learned Re corder then read the Act as amended by the 4th and sth of Victoria. Regarding the punishment of death, it was also enacted that this Act should commence and take effect on the Ist of October, 1841, therefore it was not at present in operation. At the same time he had noticed, that in the Circuits where cases of this de scription had occurred, this Ac: had been taken advan tage of as regarded the sentence of death. He thought it ri.rlit to explain to them that, although this Act was not in operation at present, yet it seemed that it had been acted upon by the constituted authorities. He had alluded to the cases of manslaughter, and to cases of cutting and stabbing. In many of the cases of manslaughter death had been caused by a single blow, and it was to be hoped a chance blow. In two instances there was some previous provocation. With respect to the charge of cutting and stabbing, it appeared that the parties had been engaged in a squabble, and one of them havincr possessed himself of a knife, attacked a person who had e taken no part in the transaction, and wounded him with the knife. The other was a case of an unfortunate fe male—unfortunate in this case—who had been incited to this act by jealousy. The circumstance might naturally lead them to suppose that the act was com mitted in a fit of passion.. But it was his duty to tell them that these circumstances were not to be considered by them. They would have to consider whether the act was committed with an intent to commit murder, or some injury short of destruction. There was one charge of murder itself— whether it would be presented to them in that shape he did not know. It appeared to him to be a case of two drunken persons, a man and his wife, where the female was of violent temper and given to intoxication, resorting to personal violence when under the influence of intoxi cation. These circumstances would naturally lead them to the inference that this was the state of the parties when the blow was struck. However that might influence their judgment, he would leave it to them to say whether they thought it only a case of man slaughter, or the higher crime. It did not appear to be necessary to occupy their time with many general obser vations on the nature of the duties they were called upon to perform. They were conversant with the scenes of life • probably some of them were a lready acqua int e d with their duties. He was happy to say that there was nut matter to involve difficulty in point of law or fact, but such as their judgments would readily get over. It was fitting that he should intimate to them that in coming to a conclusion they must be careful that the majority should not fall below the number of twelve, as the law considered that a presentment could not be made, unless the majority exceeded that number. The pro aeedings in the inquiry laid before them were necessarily ex parte, as they heard but one side, and they had only to consider whether the case should be considered by the common jury. With these general observations he would remit them to the discharge of their important duties. They would be detained some days, but they would have the satisfaction of rendering their valuable services to the public. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE (LLOYDS. Losnow, Aro. 23.—Wind this day at noon N.W. • DEAL, Auc. 21.—Wind S.W. 22a. S.W.—Arrived the Anna Siebedina, and Arrow. from Rotterdam ; Jacobus. Rotterdam for Batavia ; Paramaribo, Amsterdam for Surinam ; Zenobia, Uwen, Calcutta ; Delme, Oporto ; Flirt, Bordeaux ; Emerald, Hamburgh ; Walter, from Westward. Arrived from the River the Emerald Isle, for-Sydney; Springfield, Welsford, and Gilmore, Quebec; Medora, Cape Coast Castle ; Zante , Trieste ; Paramatta, Valparaiso ; Pauline Houghton, Mauritius; Ceylon and Ralph Bernal, Jamaica ; Caledonia, Norfolk ; and Julia, River Gambia. STANGATE CREEK, AUG. 21.—Arrived the Marmora, from Constantinople. RAMSGATE, Auc. 22.—Arrived the Surinam, from Amsterdam, for Surinam, with cutwater damaged, hav ing been in contact with a vessel off Beachy Head ; Plea sant, Sunderland, leaky. LivEnpooL, Auc. 22.—Wind S.—Arrived the Reis Effendi, Williams ; John Ormerod, and Rosa, from Monte Video ; Sandback, Demerara ; Susannah, Cumming, Savannah ; Fenella, St. Andrews ; Clara and Anna, Montreal ; Elizabeth and Herald, Quebec - Sea-bird, ditto ; Branches, White, St. John's, New Bruns wick ; Haidoe ' Newfoundland ; Wilberforce, Mon treal ; Bombay Packet, Bonny, sailed June 5, and Fernando Po, 7th ; Amelia, Menzies, St. Mi chael's ; Isabel, Leghorn ; John Lilley, Barkey, Africa ; Clifton, New Orleans ; Europe, Mitchell, New York North Star, Charleston ; Mazeppa, Malta. Sailed the Adelaide, for Newfoundland ; Iris, Fisher, Calcutta; Mexi can, Vera Cruz; Victoria, Berbice ; Chatham, Havannah; Vermont, Philadelphia; Alexander, Baltimore; Senator, Mattakesset; Medford and Oceanus Boston; Emma, Leghorn ; Cent a ur and Bl ac k Dog, Gibraltar; Bride of Abydos, Mediterranean; Thomas Lee, Barbadoes. The Levant was aground on the S.W. Bar of the Mississippi on the 29th ult. The Malcolm, hence to Glasgow, foundered yesterday off Lytham—crew saved. Put back the Rapid, for Galveston. OFF THE WIGHT, AUG. 19.—Arrived the Warsaw, from New York, for Amsterdam ; Diana, New Orleans, for Bremen ; Dolphin, Rio Janeiro, for Hamburgh. OFF DARTMOUTH, AUG. 21.—Arrived the Martin Lu ther, from Singapore, sailed 24th March. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 22.—Wind W.S.W. to S.—Ar rived the Sultana, from London for Sydney ; Sylvia and Pontefract, Quebec. Sailed the Mary Ann, for Madras. COWES, Auc. 22.—Arrived the Salm ' from London for Port Phillip ; Catharina. Anderson, Buenos Ayres ; Hope, Collins, New Orleans ; Granger, Quebec. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, AUG. 21.—Arrived Mazeppa, from London for Algoa Bay. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 22.—Arrived the Royal Tar steamer, from Gibraltar, left the 12th, Cadiz 13th, Lis bon 16th, Oporto 17th, and Vigo 18th instant. Sailed the Tagus steamer, for Gibraltar ; Pilot, Quebec. PLYMOUTH, Auc. 20.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived the William Jardine, from London, for Sydney ; Alexander, ditto-for Port Philip. Arrived off; Sally Bayes, Ancona; CARLISLE, Auc. 2.—The Samuel, from Quebec, which capsized on the Red Sands on the 18th, was towed into Port Carlisle the following day leaky and with loss of topmasts, bulwarks, &c. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Zenobia, Owen, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed April 8, St Helena July 5 ' • Martin Luther, Swan, from Singapore, off Dartmouth, sailed March 25, St. Helena, June 30. Arrivals at St. Helena—Panurge, July 3, Sabine, and Memnon, all from Bourbon ; Lancaster, Jefferson, from Bombay, and sailed the sth, to Liverpool ; Arab, Hedges, 3d, from Bombay, for London ; Henry Tanner, Bissett, 4th, from Bengal, and sailed sth, to London. Departures from St. Helena—Johanna Maria, July 3, Walvisets, Boning der Nederlanden, Olivier van Noordt, and Jonge Adriana, all for Holland ; Eugene, for Bos ton ; Apprentice, 4th, to Rio Janeiro. Vessels spoken with by the Zenobia, arrived in the Downs :-15th April, lat. 12 46 N., lon. 90 E., Henry Davidson, M`Donnell, and Glen Huntly, both from Calcutta to London ; May 10, lat. 9 31 S., lon. 90 45 E., Champion, Bombay to Liverpool ; May 11, lat. 11 10 S., lon. 91 E., Niagara, Calcutta to London ; May 14, lat. 13 18 5.,10n. 89 27 g., Broxborncburg, Burnett, Calcutta to .ondon ; June 13, lat. 35 22 S., ton. 24 30 E., Lord Lowther, Pattenson, Calcutta to London, on the night 13th June, in a very heavy gale, 'ost her foretopmast and main and mizen top-gallant masts, bound into Simon's Bay; June 19, lat. 35 34 S., lon. 22 8 E., Argyleshire, Calcutta to London •, June 22, lat. 35 14 S., lon. 18 38 E., Dutch bark Rabenhanft, No. 426, of Groningen, from Batavia, going into the Cape, out sixty days ; July 19, lat. 7 54 N., lon. 22 9 W., Dutch ship Isis' bound to Batavia; July 22, lat. 11 23. N., lon. 24 1 W., Schooner Spartan, of and from Water ford, to Mauritius, out twenty-two days ; Aug. 13, lat. 42 7 N., lon. 28 11 W., English brig Alert, bound to the westward. BRUSSELS, AUG. 21.—1 t is reported at Leige that Mr. Hoffman has just been chosen by the Go vernment for a mission to Spain, the object of which .s said to be to induce the Spanish Government to asan ion the augmentation of the duty on linens„ sal to (orm new commercial rel ttions. The General Steam Navigation Company's packet the Ocean, J. Fife, from Rottgrdem, arrived off the Custom-house on Sunday with the Dutch mail. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN ClRCUlT—Bristol, August 21. (Before Mr. Baron NIAuLI:). lIREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.-FRENCII HATCH. Counsel for the plaintiff Mr. Sergeant Bonip . as, and Mr. Stone ; for the defendant, Mr. Co: cburn and Mr. Carrow. Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS stated the case. He said the plaintiff was a milliner and dressm sker, carrying on a re spectable business in Bristol, and was about twenty-five years of age. She had been acquainted with the defer dant during the whole of her life, but about October, 1839, their acquaintance ripened into an intimacy, when the defendant being well acquainted with the circumstances of the pl ain tiff, d eterm i ne d on making her his wife. From this time the de fendant continued to pay her the strictest attention ; he was about 40 years of age, and had formerly been a shoemaker, but had retired from business on a handsome competency, considering his station in life, so that the friends of the plaintiff considered it would be a desirable match for her. He (the Learned Sergeant)- should be able to satisfy the Jury that the defendant fully intended to make the plaintiff his wife, and it could not b supposed that a person who had reached his age had done so without duly considering all the circumstances. The marriage was accordingly fixed to take place in the spring of 1840. Early in that year, however, without the slightest apparent cause, the defen dant conducted himself in such a way as to lead Miss French to suppose that he did not intend to fulfil his en gagement, and a formal communication was consequently made to him by the attorney in the present cause, to ac count for his conduct. On that occasion, however, the defendant excused his conduct, on the ground that he had been very much harassed by his friends, and from other causes ; but he said it was his full intention to keep his engagement with the plaintiff. In pursuance of this intention he did everything in his pewer to allay the feelings of the lady, and to convince her of his determi nation to act in the must honourable manner. Subse quently all the arrangements were completed, the banns were published, the bridesmaid chosen, and the 21st of June was the day fixed for the marriage. But, strange to say, after making all these arrangements, and without any reason, the defendant again appeared determined not to fulfil his engagement, as would appear from the following letter, dated June 5, 1840 : "My dear Miss French,—l suppose you will be sur prised at receiving this from me ; but I was so very weak and low last night, , that I could not muster courage to mention the subject to you, and I have therefore adopted this mode of writing to you. lam in such . an ill state of health that lam afraid I shall go in a bad way. I have consulted my man, aid he tells me to keep 'my mind free from anxiety and care. I have been much harassed in my mind of late, and I am afraid, if I cannot get rid of my present uncomfortable state of mind, that Ishall come to an untimely end. My object in sending you this letter is to beg you to release me from my engagement, and any reasonable compensation I shall be happy to make you." L In reply to this, the plaintiff wrote, expressing her sorrow that the defendant should have renewed his en gagement with no other intention than to deceive her, and she hoped that, after having gone so far as to pub lish the banns, he would not break his doubly-pledged promise, and expressing a wish that he would give her an interview. The defendant again wrote to the plain tiff as follows : " Miss Mary French—ln answer to your note, it is not convenient for me to keep my engagement. lam too unwell to marry, and it is not convenient for you to call on me. " After this Miss French felt that she had but one course to pursue, and the present action was accordingly com menced. Martha French, sister of the plaintiff, was called to prove the terms of intimacy upon which the parties were. The witness was engaged to be bridesmaid. Mr. Cockburn addressed the Jury for the defendant in a very able speech. The Jury then retired for a short time, and returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 50/. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THAMES-OFFICE. DREADFUL MURDER AT SEA.—Richard Henry Lang ley, a tall and gentlemanly-looking man, late second mate of the ship Leopoldina Rosa, on her voyage from Monte Video to Havre de Grace, was brought before Mr. Brode rip, charged with being accessory to the wilful murder of James Dixon, an English seaman, on the 16th of May last, on the high seas, within the jurisdiction of the Ad miralty of England. The circumstances relating to the murder of Dixon have excited great interest both .at Havre and London, and it is ii melancholy fact that the princ'p tl and one of the accessories are not in custody, anu are likely to escape punishment altogether, the authorities at Havre refusing to take any cognizance of the transac tion. This is the more extraordinary as the ship is reported to have sailed from Monte Video under the protection of the ,French flag, and was com manded by a Frenchman. One of the accessories was an American, named William Sundus, the chief-mate of the ship, and the authorities at Havre refused to detain him, but allowed the British Consul to send Langley, the second mate, also charged as an accessory, to London, he being a British subject. The prisoner arrived in the Thames by the City of Londonderry steamer, on Friday evening, and was cfoliverii‘d into the custody of the new police. Twelve witnesses came over in the same stea)hz,r, by direction of the British Consul. The prisoner was ' brought over to England in the custody of Francois Nicolas Donne,brigadier de police du navre, accompanied by Fitlel.l de Warlincourt, appariteur de police. The presence of th , 3 two agents of the French police in their military um forms, swords and accoutrements, created much curiosity. and it was some time before the people, who crowded the Court and the avenues leading to it, could believe they were police-officers. so much did they appear like regular troops of the line. .They are two remarkably well-behaved and intelligent men, and were present during the whole investigation. Their expenses are guaranteed by the British Consul at Havre, who in this instance, we understand, has spared neither pains nor expense to bring all the parties concerned in the murder to justice. At twelve o'clock, after the disposal of the night charges, the prisoner was placed at the bar, and Mr. Pelham, the solicitor, attended as his professional adviser. James Hunter was the first witness called, and he stated that he was a seaman on board the Leopoldina Rosa, and she belonged to the State of Monte Video ; Dixon was an able seaman on board. On the 16th of May, south of the line, on the passage from Monte Video to Havre, the second mate gave unnecessary work to do, and Dixon complained about it. The second mate used a great dear of abusive language, and he called Dixon, who was in the head of the ship, to his work. Dixon asked the Captain if it was by his orders he was worked up so, but he did not hear that himself. He did not hear what paSsed between the Captain and Dixon, and went below into the forecastle. Shortly af terwards Dixon came down, and he was standing with his hands on one of the beams, and resting his head upon it, when the Captain came below with a drawn sword in his hand, and asked where that d—d scoundrel Dixon was ? The Captain spoke English very well, and he was quite sure he used the word d—n. Dixon tried to get away from him round the forebits ; but before he could get round, the. Captain passed the sword right through his body. lie got out of bed and lifted the deceased on to the forecastle deck. The Captain left the forecastle directly after he had run the sword through Dixon's body, and the second mate sung out from above to bring the scoundrel (meaning Dixon) upon deck. He and others sung out that they were not able to send him up, as his entrails were coming out. The second mate called out, Put a tackle on the forestay, and hoist him up ; up with him." He was not hoisted up in that way, but presently afterwards two or three of his ship • mates carried him upon deck. He saw Dixon again be fore he died on the half-deck, but did not see the Captain again till they were going to bury Dixon. The man died some time between nine at night and fourin the morning, and was buried at the latter hour. Thomas Evans, a seaman, after confirming part of the foregoing evidence, said Dixon was in the same watch as witness, and when he was relieved at the wheel he went to the head, and the second mate told him directly he left there to clap on a' fall. Dixon came from the head fastening his trowsers, and the mate again said " bear a hand, clap on a fall." Dixon said h would go to the Captain and ask him if he was to be humbugged in that sort of manner. Dixon went off to the Cap tain, who was lying down on the hen-coops, and spoke to him, and the Captain replied, " You must obey my officers the same as myself, and pushed him from the skylight Over the cabin to the mainmast, and struck him. Dixon returned the blow, and as soon as ever the second mate saw that, he took up a capstan bar and hit one of the two, but which he could not say. The captain went down into his cabin, and came up in a few minutes with two pistols and a sword by his side. He saw the captain go to the hencoop, pull off his slippers and cock the two pistols, after which he ran forward without anything on his feet but his socks. The first and second mate followed the captain, who exclaimed as he went forward, " Where's Dixon, you d—d b—r come on deck." He saw no more till Dixon was brought on deck by three men, bleeding, and his bowels coming out to the extent of five or six inches. .He saw Dixon undressed and laid down in the half-deck. The doctor was then with him ; and the second mate, who was standing over the hatchway, said the doctor should do nothing for him, and sung out " he shall die like a dog." All hands were called down into the cabin to see the captain's wound, and he said it was done with a knife. He looked at the captain's head, and saw he had a Wound on the forehead, which did not appear to have been done with a knife, but with some blunt in strument. William Brown deposed to the Captain stabbing Dixon pri son s , : two or three times, and to the conduct of the who would not give witness time to bind up the but urged them to send him up. They got the went to man on deck with great difficulty, and as they. ng hi di pro • the half deck with him, and while he was --etcain struck fusely and his bowels coming out, the Cap. of the sword, him three or four times with the fiat any one who wounded wou while the two mates threatened to to attend not let him do spoke a word. The doctor was aboutshooatttend on Dixon. but the captain and second mate wo uld anything for him. main — Dixon carried a Cross-examined by Mr. re Dixon's head with aupsheath knife, but he did not have it with him that night. The second mate did not prop u blanket, and would not allow t he boy to take him d own a blanket. The second ma t e signed the ships articles as ' an American, but he told the English Consul at Havre ho was an Englishman. Mouseand Hinaca,Spanish seaman, a mined through the me dium of an interpret er , an d con firmed the evidence of the rest of the watch. Mr. BRODERIP said he felt it to be his duty to remand the prisoner. H e was charged as an accessory, and stood above at the forecastle hatchway while the captain was killing the man below. Though not actually pre :;ent the fatal wounds wt'!re in;iicted, he could be charged us an accessory. Tin? worthy Magistrate then referred to several cases in the 'books, and particularly to Captain Coodyer's case, as analogous to this. Mr. Pelham said the question was whether the Magis trate could interfere at all. He would_ just explain how things stood :—The ship belonged to two per sons of Monte Video, citizens of the " Oriental Re public," and was chartered by them for a voyage to Havre, with hides, hoofs, horns, &c. The vessel dis charged her cargo at Havre, and was chartered to pro ' ceed to Bayonne, there to take in passengers, and proceed back to Monte Video. The Captain, Charles Frugale, of Bordeaitx, was a Frenchman ; the chief mate, William Sandus, was an American ; and the second mate, now a prisoner, named Richard Henry Langley, repre sentel to be a British subject, was also an American, and he was not amenable to our laws. Mr. BaonEnte-- . -Do you mean to contend he is not a British subject ? Mr. Pelham—Most certainly I do. Mr. BRODERIP th ought otherwise, and said he should not part with the prisoner yet. He should treat the pri soner as a British subject at present, at all events, and remand him to prison, for further examination, until Wednesday. THE MARKETS.-YESTERDAY. CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals were good of most grai n; an d the fres h supply was moderate of wheat, and small of other corn. The recent rain caused the factors to hold wheat firmly at last week's prices, at which superfine samples found sale, but other qualities were 2s. per quarter lower. Several samples Of new wheat, chiefly of middling quality were offered, which sold at 60s. to 725. per quarter. Barley, Beans, and Peas 0 last reported. Oats firm at previous prices. The millers ad. hered to:681. as the top pike of Flour. New Boiling Peas sold at 40s ter quarter. XRRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING I,AST WEEK' Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour English 6,458 irs. 1,361 qrs. 5,240 qrs. 9,6 3 WA° Irish - -- 20,b30 -- Foreign 23,440 '2,090 6,630 1,183 rILICES OK BOARD or SPIP. Wheat,Red (old) -s. ..-s Beans, Small (new) „,405.41 0 . ..--..... White (old) -a. -s. (old). .... ....-- "" L ...--. Red 1840) 56a. CO: -- Tick (new) 35 375. •---- Fine (2;, (ills. (old) (old) _..-s. ----- Superfine 70d. 711 s. --- Harrow (new)......3: 4 • 39 °. ..---- White (184() C6s. Ns. --- Fine 665. 70s. Brank ...--s•-‘ 46. Superfine "4s. 62s Oats, __ Feed .......5. .-----Foreign free 59d 81.4. -- New 184.235. Rye 391. 40s. - Poland Barley .255. H. New 2•2.,. :.?.5 s:. - Grinding , 4s 325, -- Potatoe -s.--s - Malting :325. 355, Malt sl;s. tios. - Scotch 26,.::9a. .--- Fine New Us 63s - Irish ............ 16s. ... Ltr .. Pease, Grey, New 'Vs. Sys. Flour Town (per sack)...." - "" - S ,_ White - Maple New . 40s. 425 • -.. Seconds ......... t,(4.-Ss. - White .345. 3 1 :s, --.... N.)rth ColiTs . try.... s °' 55" ......... Boilers . 375. 40.:. Bran as o os. SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply of Cattle, Sheep, Lambs, and Pigs, was good ; of Calves moderate ; the dem a nd for Reef was by no means btisk, and the quotations were with difficulty- realised. Mutton , and Lamb met a brisk trade, with prices rather higher. Th e trade for Veal and Pork was brisk. Beasts, 2,9(13; Sheet' and Lambs, 28,290 ; Pigs, 615 ; Calves, 155. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s 10d. ; Mutton, 4s. to ss. ; Veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. ; Lamb, 4s. Bd. to ss. 4d. TEA MARKET. There was little business done, and holders were disposed to realise. Company's Cong3u moved off slowly at 2s. 50. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices were supported. but the market was quiet. and 495. 3d. was the value of P. Y. Candle on the spot, and 49e for delivery in last three months. • . PROVISION MARKET. The prices of both Irish and Foreign Butter were tolerablt steady, but not much business doing in either descriptions; fine qualities go off the most readily, Irish at 90s. to 955.. 04 Fo.eign at 98s. to 100 s. per cwt. In the Bacon Market heaviness prevails; the present value of primesizeableWaterfor i was 625. to 645. per cµ t, landed. Lard in slow reqtrest,b o firm at 70s. to 745. landed. HOP MARKET. The Market was quiet, and prices on the (Wino; the ea' counts are favouralde from the plantations. The duty is ' estimated at 160,000/. COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market day, EL i if. • a. d.l SO 9 Ad dr ' s . l5 6 Walls End Haswell • ...... ... ~ 6 O d's Reelhugh Original Windsor's Pontop 1 i 6 Walls End Lamiston .......•• 0 , $ lanll,ld Moor T..wnley... • We,t Hartley ............ 16 9lWalls End Kelloc ............. „... 3 Wry lam Wall; E.l i , ewie ea o d C Walls EndClennell . )9 Walls End Heaton l9 3i Walls End South Durha m . 0 0 Walls End Hilda • ••. 1,1 r i V‘alla End Seymour Tees... :,','. 6 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth ••• i 9 0 Walls End West detton ... $ Li Walls End Newmarch...... 17 9 Blythe ld I) W. E. BraddylPsHetton ... 2tl 9 Howard's Netherton Main Walls Endßelmont COUNT Wheat. Per Quarter.) s. to s. Carlisle 76 liexham 6i 84 Morpeth 4.6 84 Penruh.. Sheffield — Windiest r 64 SO Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. Carmarthen 6 7S i Cowbri,uge 7 9 8 0 Swansea 7 6 8 4 Per Boil. Bar:larded3U 17,0 1 :0 0 iJurham 'l7 0 20 0 Richmond IS 0 22 6 Stockton l3 0 2) 01 RY CORN MARKETS. Barley. 3. to s, 36 39 3J 36 23 33 s. d. s. d. 00 40 00 4e 40 44 Oats. s. to 1. Id 24 21 15 24 •26 20 214 s. d. s. d. 00 23 00 3 _6 30 64 76 59 6 9 6 0 10 I 60 70 Beans. I. to a. 46 -- :17 40 40 41 s.d. s.d. 5 0 0 50 S al 50 GO, 90 1.'6 00 106 St 0 1.2 0 9 0 11 61 peiso, s. to li. 46 .... - 40 31 42 35 3 1 s d • U 0 v ; 0 56 ° " 10 0 10 () 1 0 0 10 0 !ORN M • WAKEFIELD C .ARKS! —is. fills. to 10i. fine 745. Waeat, Red, Noriolk ar.d Stillifik -- Lin. and Cain Yorkshire —a. CO.. to tine. fine 70.. Mite —s. 67.. to 71s. qne 7tis. Foreign, tied —s ft2s. to 6.5 g. fine nit. ---.. Barley, N.4rfolk an.l Sutl.lk 3O, to lls. tine :As. Lincolnshire Yorkshire %Vold . Os. to 31s. tine : ,- ‘2s. Foreign Beans, New ... 4o.i. to --s. fine -141. -- Old Oats, Potato —a. to 25.. fine 30s. --. Poland —s. —s. to `..q5, fine do,, --.. Vrierland and Small —a. —I. to tills. tine 23... -- h. eating Sh‘lling Malt Rapeseed —l.os. 341.05. 364 Os. per Last NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. Red. White. Wheat, Northumberland 7os. 715. 72s. 78..1 —,, Norfolk arid Suffo l k 7.15. 795.•....• Us. 82.. 1 - 11 --- Berwick and Scotch 625. 705....... —5. 76,. Foreign 72s. 76....„.. 735. 794 Rye, Norfolk mid Suffolk .-- Foreign 295.365 —s. —L Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suilblk... —s. —5 —.s. —.i. Grinding and Feeding His. 385. -5. —E. L Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 53. 60: —s. --.5. r _ . Beans, Small 3ris. 40s. —s. —4. -- Tick ....... 40s. 445. —s. —s. Pease, White 4os. 425..... --11. •-•.1. -- limy eats, Northumberland, l'otatoe 2 s. Uds il • —s. ..........................................• Feed Foreign Flour (per sack) s4s. s:s. —s. .—+. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 60 to 70 50 55 $7 30 48 65 54 65 5i 60 8 to 43 5.1 54 6ti 60 67 ize of the 1 - 1 A DIM W heat. First sqs Ocl Second Third :us Oct DALKE: berdeen Bet wick Zoldatream Cupar (Fife) Dunbar Elgin Inverness Kelso Kirkaldy Perth 1r Thu 24 to 2i t 1 '25 E 0 to 10 20 17 19 18 22 21 24 :22 25 21 24 17 20 20 25 25 33 ries throuj )RN MAI Oats, 30: 01 27s 01 25A OJ Beans. Outa to 30 33 t 8 30 22 23 37 33 4R 50 32 33 30 :2 45 98 41 44 hout the ci K ET. Beals 473 0d 44s Od 41s Od :16 31 113 26 27 23 23 21 27 29 35 39 40 measure vi GrON CI Barley. 34s 0,1 35s 0,1 30, lid • 3/. 1 Is. 0.1.5.12th5. 33 Co 3 EIS .... .m 0 am* .a.t. MO 43 '" iuntry• peas_ ~ .... e• 40i Oa, , Od Wheat. First 73 Its Second 7l)s Ost Third n s Ott ITII CORN MARKET. Barley. Oats. .J 01 I :O. Od Od I :5s Cd EO• Od Od .. I Nage. Besn c 4 3 ' Od 43s Od 42 Od 42) 04 4's 64 41 64 DENT'S LECTURES ON WATCHES , AND OTHER TIME-KEEPERS.—An Illustrated Abstract from TWO LECTURES on the Construction and Manage ment of Chronometers, Watches, and Clocks, delivered by Mr. DENT, in May, 1841, before the Members of the United Ser. vice Institution has been arranged for the information of general readers. The Abstract contains a statement of the relative merits of English and foreign workmanship, and an explanation of the different Escapements, with instructions for the choices regulation, and management of all kinds of Time=keepers. The Pamphlet is published, by the Auth r, at No. 82, Strand, price One Shilling, but gratis to customers on application. MUSICAL BOXES of high quality, the mecha nism beautifully finished, conveying the idea of the Com p oser with surprising perfection and accuracy. A Catalogue of the various Airs, Overture! , &c., the prices of the Boxes is now published , an d ma y be hitd gratis, or will be forwarded, post free , in answer to a pod paid application. &c., and T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith and Silversmith, 47, Ceinhill (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street), London. TO FAMILIES FURNISHING.--ININIE"E , ni i v )e es r , to SAVING.—RIPPON and BURTON'S new CAT A • LOGUE, to be had gratis (post tree), contains the pric b el la w nc i engravings, of everylßONtil:sNp.oGonE,R, Si ;arctrieuleet fnreacineess3a,r2y2sto; the furnishing of a house of any size, 25 per cent. under any fire Irons , from 4s ; any article e • x • other old estallished house They subjoin a few prices as ex _ ample :—Nickle silver (so like silver as o.)ly to bo told from it by the stamp, and as durable) table spoons and forks, 12 s. dozen; dessert ditto, lOs ; per balance, 1 candlesticksimr dozen; from d l e O s s se ; rt warrantedditto, 1 3 % , , 0. c t a a r b v l e e r k s bronzed • chn ed fenders , that is n pair, 5. treet Oxford-street No. 12 Nye 1 1!: • Established 1820. f o r t orfl appro v e d 93 of NiORNING SUN BIRTHS. 12th inst., at Findrassie House, North Britain, the Foster, Esq., of a daughter. lady a • th inst., at Southampton, the lady of the Rev. 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On the 10th inst., at Leamington, Thomas Brabazon mer, Esq., eldest son of Colonel Aylmer, to Amelia Octaviao 6th daughter of the late Charles Streynsham Collinson, ESQ., of the Chantry, Suffolk. On the 18th inst.; at Lewisham, Lieutenent-Colonel Andre w Brown, of the 79th Highlanders, to Caroline, youngest daugh ter of the late Richard Shute, Esq., of Sydenham, Kent. D . E At Connaught-place, George Frederick, second son of S i Robert Fitz-Wygram, Bart., aged 23. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, cf No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand. 4' the county of Middlesex, Tuesday, August 23 1841• CO in 1 gus _ %kJ leas AI pre tor tei ath CM. eial for Po tri , 01 V Cu S fc