The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-09 00:00:00

EVENING SUN. SECOND EDITION THE FUNDS-(CL BRITISH Bulk Stock 169 3 per Cent Red 9O 3 per Cent Cons. • 89a 3fr per Cent Red........ 99 New 3i per Cent 9BB New 5 per Cent Long Annuities to e apire Jan. 1860 ... 12 15-16 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860. FOREIGN .osING PRICES.) FUNDS. India 5t0ck...... ...248 Ditto Bonds pm Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 16 pm Ditto 5001 l6 pm Ditto Bank Stock for Acct — 11ndia Stock for Opg — Consols for Acct B9i 1 FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent (Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent lDitto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.... — , Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent IRussian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent...... 62 Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish; 5 per cent 2O Ditto, 1824. ... ..... Ditto, Deferred .. Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent.ll6f. —c. Greek, 18:6, 5 per cent Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 52 Peruvian, I 825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent 1021 SHARES Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) • 71 Great Western Railway (65 paid) ..... ...... 84 Ditto New Shares (50 paid 5B Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 431 London and Blackwall Railway ('..5 paid)... 14 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) -- Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) London and South Western Loudon and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 124 AMERICAN NEWS. " IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE. SUPPOSED RESCUE OF M`LEOD BY THE CANADIANS. DREADFUL EXCITEMENT AT LOCKPORT. New York, July 18, 1841, Five o'Clock, a.m. • " Mr. John Connally, of _Barclay-street, has kindly furnished us with the following most important letter re ceived by him two hours ago, per the Albany boat, from Captain Eustace, of Lockport. The express that brought he letter had arrived at Albany but a few. minutes be fore the boat started—the rumour, however, of the rescue, Was begiFining to spread in all directions, and the eXcite ment was intense. None of the passengers by the Albany steam-boat could give any particulars further than these contained in the letter; but they all agree that some alarming demonstration must have been made by the Ca , nadian " ' Lockport, Saturday, Four, a.m. " Dear J—, - —We arc sure of a war at last. Half an hour since, onr gaol, which lies a little way out of town, was surrounded by three or four hundred Cana dians—for the purpose, of course, of rescuing lll'Leod— anfl doubtless they have effected their purpose before this. I say doubtless, because as yet we know, nothing for certain—only the arrival of the mob, the surround ing of gates, and the forcing of the guard ; and it will be impossible to ascertain all particulars before day-break. Meanwhile we are in the midst of s uch a din of confusion and alarm as I never heard. All the public bells are ringing —the people have turned out en masse, every pistol, dirk, sword, club, musket, &c., in the village, is being put in requisition, and hoarse voices in all directions are shout ing—' To arms, to arms.' The express rider who will carry this from here is preparing to set out to alarm the towns along the river, to the end I believe of mustering a force of retaliation, to dash right over and take instant vengeance on the Canadians. The fellows, it is thought, came by way of Lake Ontario—Hark, they are firing at the gaol. I fear we may have bloody work of it.—Your's, in haste; &c., "' WM. EUSTACE. P.S. By the way, it is thought poor Theller, from New York . , is kidnapped, as he is not to be found at his boarding-house. Rumour is also rife about the abstrac tion of Mackenzie. God only knows what wily be the end of it. w. E.' SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM TILE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The Post of this morning has arraigned the Government upon a new charge, and accuses its members of meditating self-destrUction, actuated proba bly by despair at the approaching loss of their offices. The Whigs arc gravely impeached by our Contempo rary on the ground of their being engaged in an at tempt to excite a revolt against the Queen's Govern ment ; and since we as yet know of no other Govern ment but that of which Lord Melbourne is at the head, we can only, presume that the Post accuses the, Liberal Administration of an attempt at suicide. The' patronising, but authoritative, way i n w hi c h th e T ory organ - interferes to prevent the desperate act is ex ceedingly entertaining ; but we beg to assure the Post that matters are by no means so gloomy in the eyes of those who are still in power, as to induce them to t a k e a flying leap from th e i r o fficial elevation, or give with their own hands the finishing blow to • " the Queen's Goverument." Perhaps we may be told that it is the Go vernment in perspective against which the Whigs are directing their hostility ; but though it is quite true that the coming event has already begun to cast its shadows before, it is not with the shadows that the Liberals mean to contend, and the substance is-too remote, or at all events much too impalpable, to be at present grappled with. To talk of attacking Sir Robert Peel's Government would just now be as absurd as to propose an onslaught ori a cloud of dust which a gust of wind may have car ried forward in advance of an enemy supposed to be coming after it. In the first place, the foe may never venture to come to close quarters ;.and in the next place, the dust may be occasioned not by their march against us, but by a scuffle among themselves ; and it is quite certain that internal differences in the Tory ranks are the cause of the present obscurity in which all the Tory movements are enveloped. The curtain must be kept down, or the public would perceive that the Conservative drama never can be gone through with while there is nothing taking place but perpetual differences between the performers and the managers. -It is clear that Sir Robert Peel cannot make a move in any one direction without spoiling the position he at present occupies. He has got into one of those "situa tions," as the actors call them, which are highly effective, but which arc no less difficult to be got out of than to be got into. Lik e th e i mpos i ng ta bl eau in the' Critic, where the uncles could not move because of the nieces, While the nieces were at a dead stand-stilt because of the lovers, and the lovers were unable to advance or re tire because of the uncles' daggers, Sir Robert Peel can neither go to the right nor to the left because of his party on the one hand, and the nation on the other ; the one threatening to desert him, the other to give hi m hi s deserts, according as he may approach or recede from a Liberal policy. STANDARD.—The carefully organised system of .‘ enormous lying," by which the Whig-Radical sup porters of the Government are endeavouring to agitate the country, has been visited with so many, and such overwhelming exposures, that it seems hardly worth while to contradict any statement, however false and -flagitious, that may hereafter be propagated by such authorities for the purpose of pre judicing the Conservative party in the estima tion of the country. The grave announce ment of the Morning Chronicle that the Tory aris tocracy were about to form " a volunteer auxiliary army," which was to " be ready to start into existence the moment Sir Robert Peel should come into power," professing to be founded on the fact that Lord Francis Egerton had " taken the initiative in raising a body of cavalry," has received a still further contradiction from the pen of Lord Francis Egerton himself, and turns out to he destitute of even the slender thread of truth on which it was supposed to rest. His Lordship has fa voured us with a letter, which proves that the statement in question is from beginnir , to end a malicious and gratuitous falsehood. His Lordship has taken no such step Its that which has been imputed to him ; and if he had, he would have done no more than every nobleman and gentleman, of whatever political opinions, has done be fore him, under similar circumstances. The lie, how ever, remains -still uncorrected by the journals with which it originated, and, associated with their exaggerated ac counts of the "alarming state of the manufacturing dis tricts," is still on its tour through that portion of the pro vincial press which devotes itself to the promulgation of their slanders. What the nature and extent of thei r next fabrication may be it is difficult to conjecture. The failure of the harvest, or, " at least, a very .late crop," has. been already anticipated by them with no little exultation, but with no more tangible pretext than their apprehensions on the subject of the " volunt eer auxiliary army. ;" whilst every petty failure that has taken place in Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, or Birmingham, has been magnified by them into an alarming additional proof of the approaching ruin of the town in which it h as occurre d. The industry with which they multiply these consoling c onseqUences of Whig misrule is only equ a ll e d by the pertinacity with which they persist in referring them to every cause but the right one. - - THE EGERTON YEONIA NRY.—Lord Francis Egerton has written to the Editor of the Standard to correct the alleged misrepresentations respecting his raising a yeomanry troop. His Lordship states, that on his acceptance of commissions to the corps for himself and his eldest son, some 40 or 50 of his neighbours and tenants, unsolicited by him, expressed their desire to form themselves into a troop, in the hope that his son might obtain the command of it. His Lordship there fore submits that he has neither raised a troop of yeo manry nor taken any - positive step toward the raising of one, though he admits tha force of his present corps to be very small in comparison with the force in other dis tricts, and he should have little scruple in proposing its numerical increase to the Government, had not the Home office already made its estimates ofthe service for the year! ASSOCIATION OF MASTER PRINTERS.— On Wednesday last a numerous and highly respectable body of Master Printers dined together at tne Crown and Sceptre, Blackwall, Mr. Spottiswood e in the chair. It is many years since the printers have met together as a body, although a curious do cument handed about the tables proved the association of printers was formed ninety-one years ago, and that their place of meeting at that period was in Paternoster Tow. Amongst the com pany were Messrs. Cloves, Nicholl s Clay, Gilb er t, C ox , Taylor, M‘Dowall, Harrison, Brettel, Shaw, Saville, and _ _ DEATH OF MR.• SAMUEL WRIGHT, OF NEw ORLEANS.--11e fell in a duel with Mr. S. W. Oakey, of the firm of Oakey, Payne, and Hawkins, on the 2d ult. They fought with rifles, at the distance of forty yards, and, at the second fire, Mr. Wright fell, and expired in a few minutes. Mr. Wright was a native of the county of Down, Ireland, and had been a merchant in this country for upwards of twenty-five years, a large portion of which time he lived, we believe, in Savannah. --Vicksburgli. Sentinel. COMIN G TO THE POINT.—The following is a verbatim copy of a Uicerouian epistle recently sen t t o a parish clerk :—" Can wa ban P d to morro w m ourners at *Nan o ' c l ock ? mara riaso to sand maa wud." THE POSITION OF THE LIBERAL PARTY. (From the Spectator.) " The bark was still there, but the waters were gone." MOORE. The principles of the movement—the principles, in reality, of social progression—are founded in nature ; their esbatual advance is quite irrespective of any indi vidual or any party. But their immediate advance is dependent, like other things, upon various circumstances, which sometimes hasten, sometimes retard them, and call respectively for various modes of treatment. The theory may be advocated, and very properly advocated, " in season and out of season," by those who feel a vo cation that way. In practice—in arranging an imme diate business lying before us in daily life—a different principle of action comes into play, and things must be considered with a view to what it is possible to obtain. Absolute free trade, for example, is necessary to insure industry free play, and full reward, and to guard all mo netary and commercial systems from constant derange ments. We blame no one—quite the contrail--for ad vocating free trade, even though the time may be unpro pitious, and the thing impossible of immediate attainment; for whatever there is of truth in such labours will have an influence in proportion to its merit, though the results may not be immediate. But ho is, in our opinion, quite as true a friend to free trade, and perhaps a more judi cious one, who endeavours to obtain all that is at pre sent practicable. If he should even fail, he has the other course to fall back upon, with a stronger argument and a more willing audience. It may be said that this is granting more to the Con servatives than to the Whigs ; but if it be, the remark does not apply to us, who throughout the Session of 1835 and 1836 discouraged the attempt to " test the Mi nistry," as it was called, by bringing forward questions only to elicit opinions upon abstract points ; and who inculcated the prudence of first taking everything in which the Whigs agreed with the Radicals, trusting to discussion for the gradual advance of those questions whereon they differed. But in reality there is no ana logy between the case of Whigs and Conservatives. Every Whig measure since 1836 has confessedly been " prepared for rejection." Whatever measures Sir R. Peel proposes, will be real measures bronght forward to be carried ; he is now entitled to have them 'exaMined upon their own 'merits, and if they tire good in them selves, and as liberal as can fairly be ,expected, the country is justified in accepting them. Be it also remem bered, that the Movement party has no claim upon Sir Peel. Ile never deceived or betrayed them ; he never pro mised an Appropriation Bill, declared himself bound in " honour and conscience" to carry it, and then made it an easy sacrifice, gilded with n million of money, as a peace-offering to the Irish Church ; he never held out turgid threats to the Lords, to catch votes and trick followers intci acquiescence, and then succumbed to the Peers ; he never, according to the purpose in hand, encouraged hopes of " Further Reform," or, taking his stand upon " Finality," sneered at the Liberals as little better than crazy enthusiasts, who would set up an unworkable Government ; and, though not distinguished for consistency, he never made such strong declarations as those of Lord Melbourne against an alteration in the Corn-laws, and then, as an experiment for preserving place, proposed an alteration without the slightest chance of carrying it. We be lieve there is no disposition in the practical part of the community to offer any factious opposition to Sir Robert Peel merely because he is a Minister ; and we think the community right, for there is nothing else to be done. As soon as he is in responsible office, he will be a fair 1 subject of criticism, both for what he does and what he neglects : at present, criticism has nothing to criticize. This course of waiting, and watching, and getting all that can be gotten, may be unpalatable : but, ex cepting the always open course of appealing to the reason of mankind by abstract argument, it is the only course left for the Movement party at pre sent. For practical purposes the Liberals are disor ganized, and without a line of action. The Whigs and " wise Reformers" have not merely ended by " let ting in the Tories," but have left the game alto gether in their hands. Matters have reached the crisis we predicted three years since : " When the characters of the Ministers are irretrievably ruined, the Liberal party divided into sections, some opposed to the others, without admitted leaders, party organization, or binding objects, and all, save the masses beyond the pale and a few of the extreme section of the Radicals, , are crying out for a government on any terms—then will be the time for the Tories." This is a state of things which Sir R. Peel can put an end to if he pleases, but it is not in the power of the Liberals. If the Conservatives attempt to evade the difficulties which they come into office to meet, and think they will be permitted to " rub on " in matters of practical improvement, if they try to govern after the Tory fashion of other times, or if they sacrifice the views of Liberal Conservatism to the crotchets anti prejudices of some of their extreme followers, then indeed an ad vance may be made by the Liberal party : this result, however, is not in their hands, but in the bands of their opponents. On the contrary, if Sir Robert Peel, while standing on Lord John Russell's "finality," shall carry into effect those measures of practical amelioration, par ticularly in the economical well-being of the masses, which the people were taught to look to as the conse-' quences of the Reform Bill, and which were the cause of their earnest exertions to carry it, then the Conser vatives are likely to remain in power for years to come, —barring accidents. We make the proviso, because, with our dense population, and our peculiar systems of currency, credit, and commerce, a series of untoward events might produce a very sudden crisis. But acci dents of the kind we speak of are more likely to throw Chartism uppermost than to favour any other party. All this, it may be said, is a mere dictum or opinion. Well : let those whom it dissatisfies try to shape a course of conduct for themselves : not - after the fashion of Lear, when his reason is failing— " I will do such things!— What they are, yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth !" but such a practical line of action as will be supported by the country and carried out in Parliament. To discover the most likely means of rousing the people to action, the late election is the readiest test ; and, looking either to the general result or to the topics urged in the course of the contest, we find that organic changes were lost sight of altogether, or ranked as secondary matters. The in ference therefore, is, (we are speaking of facts, not prais ing them), that organic changes are slumbering in the national mind—unless it be the principles 'of Chartism. Let those who are for instant action next survey the Par liamentary forces ; for it is in Parliament that any im mediate practical result may be obtained, or the measure ment of any tangible advance be tested. He will first find a Conservative majority of about 80; which would perhaps be increased on any attempt to turn out the To ries merely to put in the Whigs again. THE TORY - VOLUNTARY PRIN- CIPLE. Lord Francis Egerton is raising a regiment of cavalry to guard against any outbreak of the starving manufac turers in his neighbourhood. The example will doubt less be followed, and, instead of playing at sailors at Cowes, it will be the fashion for Tories to play nt soldiers on their estates. Sowing the dragon's teeth will be the appropriate accompaniment of the maintenance of the Corn-laws, and for the husbandry of Cadmus the drill plough will be the'suitable instrument. - Objection has heen made tchLordFrancis Egerton's levy of troops ; and it is asked whether the landlords are to be permitted to raise an army of their own ? To us it appears that there is much to be said for the equity of such an arrangement. As the landlords impose fifty millions of taxes on the food of the nation, is it not but fair that they should pay for the means of keeping down the people, who may be driven to despair, and to revolt, by the effects of the Corn-laws ? Why should the na tion be charged with the expense of supporting troops to coerce the mi s ery an d di sa ff ec ti on p ro d uce d by the landlords' monopoly ? To us Lord Francis Egerton's levy appears at least an equitable and frank proceeding. It declares in effect, "If our Corn-laws make rebels, we are ready to pay for the sabring of them. Let the Legislature give us laws to keep up our rents, and we will find swords to keep down the famished people." There is a further consistency and equity in this step. The Queen's Councils aro opposed to the monopolies, and it would be rather hard to employ her Majesty's troops in cutting- down the poor wretches whom the mo nopolies have helped to drive to desperation. The land lords, following the example of Lord Francis Egerton, will , ta o k lu e n t his Office of their own making on their own hands. Give them their law and they will provide exe cutioners. to the call to r h kr e ee r eg e m will ttosh,fetichoeu formersr s e b e nno i difficultyiieagerly people. Their inspiring inrerasip the o si n n d I r var re_ e n r t y s , a w nd ith to w k h e i e e p h down the will rush to the charge, Land lords' Mono 3° will be, High Rents and th e Land be the mott( l ,fo Y r .To fight f or th e i r ren t s an d t axes w ill What will be their t banners. The Janiss ar i es had emblem of the Landlords' Legion ? kettles (the origin, wea symb o l o f great frankness—their for' which I;c'lieve ' ofkettle-drums), which signified all served, all for which the y fought, all for which they spoons, too, as a part ofeyth cared.. They wore their their accoutrements (as our officers wear their gorgets), kettle. When they refuseda t s he tl i ie co -relative type to the terrible extremity of discontent an r soup ' it indicated some dis solution of all the bonds of di sc i p d threatened the of the landlords should have some such The Janissaries type. The spoo n w ould be an awkward emblem for the_ poor farm ers , as i t w ould be understood in too direct a slang sense ; a bread basket in gold, with a very small loaf in it, would bo better ; but, perhaps, best of all would b , e the figure of each volunteer farmer's rent in br ass . The extension of the voluntary principle • at this time is very remarkable. A'project for raising Bishops for the Colonies is followed by one f or raising soldiers at home,which shows the falsity of the proverb, that charity begins at home. Of course the voluntary principle will have further applications, it will not stop with an army and a set of Bishops independent of the Crown. if the Tories find it needful, should they not set up a Queen of their own on the voluntary principle ? An army of their own, a navy of their own, and Bishop s o f their own, independent of the Crown, would be incom plete without a court of their own, independent of the Crown too. The voluntary principle may be as good in monarchy as in prelacy and soldiery. And be it remem bered that not very long ago the Tories were actual!) , endeavouring to set up an opposition Court, and that • Queen Adelaide was very , ostentatiously treated as the Queen of their choice,.their respect, and their affections. The Dowager Queen, " neat as imported," is still , available for the voluntary loyalty, and, with a little change of pronunciation, the name of Queen Addaload would have great charms for the monopolists coming into power to increase the burdens of the people.—Examtner Accounts front Sydney, of the sth of July, an• nounce the loss of four vessels. The Lady Grant, laden with opium, from China, was lost'with all her crew, as Well as another vessel laden with stores.. The French ship Magicienne was also lost in the same typhoon, but the crew were saved. SALE. OF SLAVES IN VIRGINIA. The following advertisement and account of a sale of slaves are noticed in a late Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society:— " Monday next, at nine a.m., at public sale, the slaves whose names follow, all negroes of the first quality:— Namely, Betsy, a negro woman, 23 years of age, with her child Caesar; three years old—an excellent cook, washer, and ironer; warranted healthy. Julia, a mulatto girl, aged thirteen, robust and active, a good field labourer; with the exception of a slight defect in the left eye she is without fault. " Let us proceed, gentlemen,'cried the seller of human flesh, in a stentorian voice, let us proceed. A woman for sale ! An excellent woman—not a.fault—and a little boy in the bargain I How much for the mother and child ?- 250 dollars. Very well, Sir-250 to begin. Some one has bid 250. Truly, gentlemen, they sell cattle for a larger price; 250? look at these eyes, examine these limbs ; shall I say 260? Thanks, gentlemen, some one has bid 260. It seem to me that I heard 275; go on, 'gentle men ; I have never sold such a bargain. How ! 280 for the best cook, the best washer, and the best dressmaker in Virginia ? Must I sell her for the miserable price of 280 ? 300 ; two gentlemen have said 300. Very well, gentlemen ; I am happy to see you begin to warm a little. Some one bid 310 ; 310, going-330-335--340 —340 ; going. Upon my honour, gentlemen, it is in deed a sacrifice to lose so good a cook ; a great bargain for 340 dollars. Reflect upon it a little, and do not for get there is a little boy in the bargain.' " Here our auctioneer was interrupted in his harangue by one of his customers, a man whose appearance had inspired me, from the first moment, with a feeling of horror, and who, with the indifference and sang froid of an assassin, made to him the following observation As to the negro child, it is good for nothing ; it is not worth a day's nourishment ; and if I have the mother I will give away the child very quick ; the first bidder will be able to have it at a cheap bargain.' " I glanced at the unfortunate mother, anxious to see what effect this barbarous proposal would have upon her. She did riot speak, but a profound sadness was impressed on her countenance. The little innocent which she held in her arms fixed his large eyes on' her, as if saying, Mamma, why do you weep?' Then he turned towards the Witnesses of this heart-rending scene with an expres sion that seemed to 'ask—what they had done to his mother to make her weep so bitterly? Nos never will this moment escape' my. memory. It has conlrmed me for all my life in the horror that I already felt at this horrible traffic. The auction continued, and finally th e crier, striking a heavy blow with a hammer, pronounced the award to Mr. for 360 dollars. The victim de scended from the table, and was led away by the pur chaser. The other slaves were sold in the same manner as poor Betsy. Julia was sold at 326 dollars, and Au gustus at 105. They both fell to the same individual who had purchased the former lot." In what a mean position in the scale of civilised na tions do the Americans place themselves by tolerating and legalising such barbarities ? STEAM NAVIGATION.. We are reminded by a document which has been laid before us, that the Brazils and Argentine States are the only countries of any commercial importance that do not enjoy the advantages of steam communication with Great Britain, although scarcely surpassed by the United States in the extent of their traffic, the annual value being computed at six millions sterling. The West Indies, North America, and the Mediterranean, have received the assistance of our Government in the esta blishment of lines of steam-vessels, and similar en couragement is now claimed on behalf of South America. The Brazil mails at present are carried by the Government sailing packets, the voyage out to Rio and home occupying, on the average, by Post-office calculation, twenty weeks, which, were steam to be substituted, would be more regularly performed in eleven weeks, including the additional trip- to Buenos lyres. The Brazil packet service is supposed to cost England, under the existing system, from 50,0001. to 60,000/. annually, and yet so uncertain is the degree of despateh, that a large proportion of the mercantile correspondence passes through private chan nels, the French with their quick sailers participating nut a little in the benefits accruing from the intercourse. What additional outlay the country would be subject to in the adoption of steam communication with these por tions of the great western continent we are not prepared to say ; but parties interested in the question consider that it would not greatly exceed the expenditure in curred upon the defective principle now in operation, and this only in the first instanct% Vessels of large ton nage have received the sanction of the public as the safer and more commodious class of passenger ships. These, therefore, are recommended, the more particu larly as they will be readily convertible to war purposes, if required. Alive to the superiority of steam navi gation, and anxious for its introduction in connection with Europe, the Government of Brazil have entered into a contract with a Mr. William Morgan, acting for parties in this country, as an inducement to him to carry out the object, granting to such company as he may or ganise, the sameprivileges and advantages as are now en joyed by the Royal vessels of war. The attention of the British authorities is, under the circumstances, especially called to the matter, the greater urgency being used on the ground that a speedy determination must be come to, as the time allowed by the Brazilian contract for carrying the scheme into effect was no more than sufficient. Mr. Morgan's plan is said to have the full approbation of the heads of our Post-office. He proposes that steamers should depart at stated intervals from a British port to land and receive mails, both outwards and homewards, at Madeira, the Canaries, the Cape de Verd Islands, Per nambuco,, Bahia, Rio Janeiro, Santa Catharina, Monte Video, and Buenos Ayres ; the mails for Ma ranham, Para, and other ports on th e coas t t o b e de livered by the Brazilian steamers now on the spot ; the Peninsular mails to be conveyed from Gibraltar and Lis bon to Madeira, and vice versa ; mails to the several set tlements on the coast of Africa; and for her Majesty's cruizers, to be forwarded to St. Vincent's, in the Cape de Verds, and return mails taken from thence ; that six large steamers be built solely for this purpose, which would give a monthly mail, reserving one boat in ordi nary for emergencies. The French Governmentihave, according to the late estimates, an intention of oecUpying this line, for which some vessels are already in pieparation. The reason for the non-adoption of Mr. Morgan's proposition by our own Government is believed to be based on economical rounds, and those alone. If such be the fact, the manu facturers have surely much greater cause to complain of the long course of financial misrule' pursed bjr the Whigs i than of the 'protection afforded by the Legis lature to native agriculture. The extra expense of a few thousands a year in the acceleration of our commercial intercourse with friendly nations of the vast capabilities of Brazil and Buenos Ayres ought not to 'be grudged, if the advan tages derivable from it are likely to be such as to afford employment and the necessaries of life to additional millions of industrious persons ; not that, in saying this, we would commit ourselves to the expression of any po sitive opinion as to the merits of the project under consi deration, however rational it may look on paper. The right claimed by Brazil to send by the proposed Company's packets goods, stores, &c., from one part of the empire to another gratuitously, though with certain limitations, and persons to Europe to be instructed in the sciences, or for any other object, at half the charge of other passengers, seems to us to be unreasonable, The pi esence of ten half-passage money students or apprentices, the' privilege in favour of whom would be at all times availed of to its fullest extent, will be objec tionable to the better class of travellers, and too profit able a drawback oil the independence and profits of the Company. The grasping demands of Brazil in these particulars, and in several others, are not to be tolerated; and it is surprising that they should have been for an instant entertained. Appreciating, in a more grateful spirit, the incalculable benefit derivable to the Republic from the establishment of steam on the shores of the Pacific, the Chilian Government never thought of impos ing like burdens on the Company organised by Mr. Wheelwright. On the contrary, every practicable faci lity and protection appear to have been throughout ex tended to it. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, Itl4l. DRAMATIC INTELLIGENCE. What we stated a week or two ago, respecting the re appearance of a' septiagenarian actor" on our sta g e, is borne out by subsequent information. We referred, of course, to Mr. Charles KeM 'lle has already hail, as we formerly remarked, 'taro retirements. He has had farewell dinners given to him—he has had pieces of plate presented to him, and yet for a third time he is now compelled by circumstances to come forward, at a very advanced period of life, as a candidate for public favour. Of course, this is not a matter into which we can enter ; he must know best the state of his own affairs, but it is not long since ho was Able to give a place worth about cOO/. to one son ; he had another son provided for in the army ; he has a daughter married to a very wealthy na tive of America (now, with his wife, in this country), and he has another daughter who, it is stated, has been running a very successful and profitable career on the Continent, and who is reported to be fully capable of maintaining herself by her vocal abilities. This is not taking into account any money Mr. C. Kemble may have made in America (stated at the time ata very large sum), nor any property he may yet retain in Covent-garden Theatre, which has for some seasons been let at a rent of 7,0001. per annum. We should have thought him ra ther rich than otherwise, and we own our surprise and regret at hearing that he is not so. It is generally asserted in theatrical circles that Ma dame Vestris commences her next season even before the middle of September. The town will be full at the end of August, owing to the meeting of Parliament, and she can have no important rival in the field until shortly before Christmas, when Macready will open at Drury - lane ; thus she will have about three months to herself, and (as recent experience establishes, contrary to the old persuasion) the most profitable part of her seasons has been prior to February. The scene of the new* serious play preparing . for repre sentation at the Haymarket Theatre, is laid in Spain— the incidents are numerous and striking. The catastrophe has been wrought up and brought about with ingenuity, and will, it is calculated, be most effective. The author, Mr. Sheridan Knowles, has taken great pains with the composition, and to-morrow (Monday) the whole play, or tragedy (to be determined on hereafter), will be sub mitted to the critical test of all the ladies and gentlemen to be engaged in it, by its being read in the green-room. The part s w ill then be distributed to the actors and ac tresses engaged i n i t ; an d the whole machinery incident to the getti ng up a full ' play will be put in active motion with a view to its speedy production. The principal characters will be sustained by Mr. Charles Kean and. Miss Ellen Tree, both of whom will most probably re tire into the country for the purpose of effecting a quick and safe study, much of the responsibility - of its success ru'n their exert i ons. — O b server. • • being dependent u The Northern and Eastern Railway will be opened to Harlow to-day: THE PRICE OF WAGES AND THE PRICE . . OF BREAD. (From. the Wiltshire Independent.) The popular argument that has been made use of by the bread-taxers ; in support of their monopoly, is, that cheap bread would be of no avail to those who had no money to buy with ; and that, wages rising and falling with the price of food, the labouring man must be better off with high wages and dear bread, than with low wages and cheap bread. Now we do not intend to dis pute the first position ; it is a truism, but not applicable to the question at issue. The second is a fallacy, which has been s 0 ' often and so thoroughly 'dis posed of that we do not intend to waste time or space in its refutation. •We will, however, simply point the attention of those who are most vitally concerned in the operation of the Corn-laws—the labourers—to the relative position which the price of wages bears to the price of bread at the present time, and to the relative position which they bore to each other only a month . ago, .and ,then. ask them whether the whole clique of bread-taxers have not proved themselves, if not blind leaders, something much worse, namely, wilful deluders and deceivers, men unscrupulous enough to fill their pockets by starving the poor, and mean enough to justify their nefarious conduct by resorting to the false hood of telling their victims th a t it i s d one for their par ticular and especial benefit. A month ago the general rate of wages 'in this neigh bourhood for the best able-bodied labourers was 9s. a-week, and the price of the 81b: loaf was 13d. Now the 81b. loaf is charged 17d., but no increase has taken place in wages ; nay, on the contrary, in some instances the 9s. have been reduced to Bs. Where, then, is the proof that wages rise with the price of food ? Where, indeed I Let the labourers ask their masters. But who is benefited by the advance which is now taking place in the price of wheat ! Not the labourer, truly, for if his wages were really dependent on the price of wheat, and if those gentlemen who,, at their convivial meetings, de clare that his welfare is the object they seek in uphold ing the Corn-laws, were sincere, he would • now bo re ceiving twelve shillings a-week instead of nine, and even then if he had a largo family he would be worse off than he was a month ago with wages at nine shillings and bread at 13d. We have stated the general rate of wages in this neighbourhood to be nine shillings a week ; in the South ern division it would see fl they are not so high, for in Tory paper, published at Salisbury on Saturday last, we find the following : " SOUTH WILTS PETTY SESSIONS. " Present—W. Wyndham, Esq. M.P., J. H. Jacob, G. Fort, H. Hetley, and E. Hinman, Esqrs. " CAUTION TO FARM SERVANTS.—J. Small, under carter, was charged by his master, Mr. Read, of Charl ton, with having left his employment contrary to agree ment, he being engaged until Michaelmas next. The agreement being proved, the Bench ordered Small to pay his master the amount of one week's wages, 65., with the expenses, and return to his work." Again, in another number of the same paper, published on the 17th ult., we read thus : " SOUTH WILTS PETTY SESSIONS. "Present—Wadham Wyndham, Esq. M.P., G. Mat cham, J. H. Jacob, G. Lawrence, and H. Hetley, Essrs. " CAUTION TO FARM LABOURERS.—Thomas Blake was summoned by Mr. J. Lush for leaving his service on Saturday, July 10th. Mr. Lush deposed that he agreed with defendant, from 'Michaelmas last, at ss. 6d. per week, and 525. at the end of the year, and that on Saturday last he left his employ, and had not returned to work since. Blake said Mr. Lush agreed to find him lodgings, and he had never done so ; and he did not like to sleep in the hay loft, without pulling his clothes off, which he had been compelled to do. Mr. Lush said he gave him 6d. per week more than he agreed for, be cause he would not have anything to do with his lodg ings. The Bench ordered Blake to return to Mr. Lush's service, and fulfil his agreement." Talk of the Polish serf, indeed t Here is a pretty specimen of the Corn-law-protected English labourer 6s. 6.. t. a week including harvest, and the privilege' of sleeping in a hay loft with his clothes on week after week, for 52 mortal weeks ! How this man must suffer from a repeal of the Corn-laws ! MONTHLY CORN CIRCULAR. The following is an extract from the Monthly Corn Circular, issued by the Messrs. Sturge of Birming ham :-- " Birmingham, Bth month, 4th. " We had rain more or less on twenty-four days of the past month. Nevertheless, the crops have made more progress towards maturity, although it has also been very cold, than could, under the circumstances, have been expected ; and should the weather prove favourable, a good deal of wheat' and barley will be cut next week. In some places the wheat is ripening a good colour, but the greater part is dark, and more or less blighted. The quantity of straw being larger than in either of the past three years, will in some measure make up for the deficiency which, from the quantity of wet, and lateness of the season, will be found in the yield. " Our prices have advanced during the month about 4s. per quarter, and there is now every probability of the duty receding to near its lowest point, even if the weather should become fine.! Prices have risen in the Baltic from ss. to 10s. per quarter, but no advices have yet been received of any material (rise in the Black Sea or Medi terranean ports... Our present rates are for English red and white wheat, 9s. lo 9s. 2d. per 621bs. here. There is no foreign. left. Odessa soft would bring Bs. 3d. to Bs. 6d. ; hard, Bs. to Bs. 3d. ; Dantzic, 9s. to 9s. 6d. per 601bs. at Gloucester. " The barley crop is large ; at least the quantity of straw is great, but a good deal is much beaten down, and even that which stands up is reported to have filled badly. Some winter-sown has appeared at market, and sold at 40s. per quarter. Grinding and malting parcels are both scarce, the former 28s. to 325. per 392 lbs., and the latter at 38s. to 40s. per imperial quarter. " The stocks of oats are nearly cleared off at Glouces ter. They have advanced fully Is. per quarter, and what remained are held for a further rise of Is. to Is. 6d. per quarter. The growing-crop of this grain is still favourably spoken of, and we believe the quantity re maining in Ireland is still greater than at the same season for many years back. Black Welsh and Irish are worth 225. ; white, 225. to 245. per 312 lbs. at Gloucester. " Beans are only about Is. per quarter dearer than at the lowest point ; there are, however, few English offer ing. The reports of the coming crop are conflicting, and we expect it will vary much in different places. English sell at 16s. to 16s. 9d, and Egyptian, 15s. 6d. to 16s. per 196 lbs., at Birmingham.. " Most of the white peas are cut, and some secured, and these are reported to be near an average ; but the grey are late, and likely to prgve unproductive. There are no free foreign in first hands, having been cleared off at 16s. per 196 lbs. here." TUB BEST PAID • GLASS OF WATER IN THE WORLD.—The water of the Neva, at St. Peters burgh, is, in the opinion of the Russians, the clearest and the best water that can anywhere be obtained. For six months in the year, this highly-prized water is con cealed by a thick covering of ice and snow, but when, towards the beginning of April, the atmosphere has acquired sufficient warmth to loosen the wintry fetters of the stream, the inhabitants look forward with eager expectation to the. moment when their beloved 'Neva will burst her bonds, and move again free and ma jestically between her serf-tenanted banks. As soon as the icy moos has got into motion, the glad tidings are an nounced to the expectant capital by the artillery of the citadel, a fortress of considerable strength, situated imme diately opposite to the Emperor's Palace. This citadel, by the bye, standing in the very centre of the city, could be of no earthly value in case of a hostile attack ; but it might be found serviceable should the St. Petersburghers ever be tempted to venture on a July revolution. The very moment, be it day or night, that an open interval occurs between the floating masses of ice, the Governor of the citadel 'Crosses in a boat to the Emperor's Palace, and presents his Majesty with a crystal goblet full of Neva water, as the first offering of the returning spring, and this goblet the Empe ror drinks off to the health and prosperity of his beloved capital. It was customary,: till within the last few years, for the Emperor to fill the empty goblet with gold, and re turn it to the Governor; but it was noticed that the gob let grew larger and larger every year, so that the task of emptying tiq glass became yearly more difficult of accom plishment, While on the other hand it required every year greater number of ducats-to fill it as high with go ld as it had before been filled with water. By way of retrench ment, his Majesty has of late reduced the customary present to the Governor, who now receives 200 ducats in return for his uninebriating beverage. This sum, though less than his predecessors have frequently received, is still, perhaps, a larger price than is paid for a glass of water in any other part of the world. NEW WORE EDITDD BY BOZ.—We are re quested to state that the new Ifork announced under the title of " The Pic Nic Papers, by Various Hands," in 3 vols. post Bvo, edited by Charles Dickens, Esq. (Boz), author of " Nicholas Nickleby," " Pickwick," &c., with illustrations by George Cruikshank and Phiz, will certainly be published to-morrow by Mr. Colburn of Great Marlborough-street. Immediate orders should be given to prevent disappointment on the day of pub lication. Agents : for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Brad fute, Edinburgh ; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dub lin. To be had also of all respectable booksellers, and at all the libraries throughout the kingdom. NORMANDY.—Now that so many persons are tempted to visit this most interesting part of France, by reason of the surpassingly cheap fares from Southampton to Havre, the present moment certainly seems most op portune for the appearance of the promised " Excursions in:Nortnandy," under the editorship of F. Schoberl, Esq., the popular and we ll kn own e di tor o f t h e " Forget-me- Not. This work will, it is understood, give a most accurate and authentic description of this part of France, its state' of society,commerce, manufactures, &c., from the Journal of a Recent Traveller, us well as lively sketches of its inhabitants, their manners, customs, &c., render ing it altogether a most acceptable book for the tourist, in search either of pleasure, or of channels for commer cial intercourse: The adjoining provinces having been recently well described in Trollope's "Summer in Brit tany," Tol"rey's " Sportsman in France," and Trollop's "Western France," the English public may now congra tulate themselves on possessing such agreeable and in. structive companions over a very extensive and hitherto little known tract of the French territories: THE PUNISHMENT OF GREEDINESS.—SOMe years ago an opulent farmer at Kingston, in Surrey, had a great quantity of wheat ; his friends and neighbours advised him to send i t to market an d se ll i t , b ut h e al ways objected to it, saying the price was not high enough. At last he determi ne d to sell it ; b ut h ow great was hi s disappointMent . when h e f ou n d a great num be r o f rats had devoured the grain, and nothing bit.; the husks left! It had such an effc2t on his avaricious mind, that he went and hangedliniselt. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Aug. 7. BOWER V HARRIS. This appeal was argued in July. In 1805 a Mr. Dent lent money on bond to Thomas Marris, a banker, at Boston, in Lincolnshire.• Marris became bankrnpt in 1812, and Dent proved, under the commission, for a sum of 13,6001., principal and interest, then due on the bond, and carried in a charge to that amount in the Master's office, under the authority of a decree made in 1816. Since that time various dividends have been paid to the amount of twenty shillings in the pound on the original debt. In 1840 the Master made his report, and in applying the dividends dui to Mr. Dent, he first calculated the sum due for interest, and then appropriated the surplus to the reduction of the principal. Exceptions were taken to this report, and the Vice-Chancellor allowed them, declaring that the ac count had not been taken in the usual manner, because, by the mode in which the appropriations were made, there was a sum now due equal to the original debt, although twenty s hilli ngs i n t h e poun d had been paid, while, if another mode of calculation had been adopted, the debt would have been extinguished. The LORD CHANCELLOR now gave judgment, and ob served that if the existence of a surplus in a bankrupt estate, after the payment of twenty shillings in the pound, was not a thing of very rare occurrence, the case before him would be a very important one. The appropriation of a surplus in such cases was regulated by the statute 6 Geo. IV., c. 16, sec. 132, and in his Lordship's opinion, there was sufficient in that to regulate the case without any other authority. It had been contended, however, that the practice which was laid down by Lord Hard wicke,in the case of Bromley v. Goddere, 1 Atk. 75, had been modi fied by what was done in exparte Higginbotham, 2 G. and J. 123. His Lordship said he had directed in quiries to be made on the subject of the practice, but the cases where a surplus arose were of such rare occurrence that the inquiry produced no satisfactory result. It had been contended that the practice was also altered by what took place in "Devaynes v. Noble," but his Lordship thdught that case made no alteration. Lord Ilardwicke, in the case referred to, held that the interest was referable to the original debt, so long as that remained undisehar . But the . principle itself was older than the time of Lord Hardwicke, and derived from the civil law. There was, therefore, nothing to support a con trary opiaion, except the case of ex parte Higginbotham, and his Lordship was of opinion, both on principle and authority, that the mode of computation adopted by the master was the proper one, and that the order of the Vice- Chancellor, allowing the exceptions, must be overruled. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD ClRCUlT—Gloucester, August 6. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CoLTmAx.) Moses Harwood and James Andrews were indicted for burglariously breaking open the dwelling-house of muel Yowl.. Griffith, at Cheltenham, on the night of the 12th of July, and stealing therefrom a writing desk con taining 57 sovereigns, a 5/. bank note, a grand cross of the Bath, with stair and badge, a grand cross of the Doo ranee Empire, a commander's order of the Guelph of Hanover, and various other articles, the property of Ma jor -General Sir Wiloughby Cotton. Mr. C. Phillips and Mr. Greaves conducted the prose cution ;• Mr. W. J.. Alexander defended the prisoner. This case occupied the attention of the Court for nearly six hours, and excited much interest, from the value of the property stolen and the daring nature of the robbery. It appeared from the evidence of Sir Wil loughby Cotton that he way staying at the Queen's Ho tel at Cheltenham, of which Mr. Griffith, who formerly kept the angel at Oxford, is the landlord. On the 12th of July Sir Willoughby retired to his bed-room at about half-past nine .at night, leaving in his sitting room, ad joining his bed room on the first floor of the hotel, a de spatch-box, containing the property mentioned in the in dictment. The following morning this box was gone, and also a hat belonging to the General. Barrows, the porter of the Qu een ' s h o t e l, state d t h at a b out two o'clock on the morning of the robbery, he heard, as he fancied, the sound of footsteps coming down stairs, and a door open, and whisperings in a small room, No. 85, on the ground floor. Upon entering the room he saw the forms of two men escaping through the window into the gar den of the hotel. He followed them across the grass, but could not overtake them. They dropped, on their way in the garden, a military cloak and three hats. The evidence to connect the prisoners with the robbery was circumstantial. Harwood had formerly been for some years in the service of Mr. Griffith as porter at the Queen's Hotel. Andrews is a shoemaker, and was in the habit of frequenting the tap of the Queen's Hotel, and of mending the shoes there. The two prisoners were in company on the night preceding the robbery, and had supped together at the tap, which Andrews left at half -past eleven, and Harwood an hour afterwards. Both prisoners were apprehended the following morning, and their shoes corresponded with the footmarks in the garden. It was also sworn by several witnesses that one of the hats found in the garden belonged to the prispner Harwood. The evidence was made perfectly conclusive against Andrews, by his own confession, after his appre hension. He directed the Governor of the gaol to go to his house, No. 11, Union-street, Bath-road, and in a box in the back kitchen were discovered the missing orders. - They were produced .in Court, and were identified by Sir Willoughby Cotton. They appeared of considerable" value and great beauty. Mr. W. J. ALEXANDER, for the prisoners, objected that Sir Willoughby Cotton was improperly described in the indictment as " Knight" only, whereas he shoulj . have been describ e d b y hi s proper t i t l e, as K n i ght Grand , Cross of the Bath, who take precedence of other Knights. He urged that a Peer of the realm could not be described as simply Lord, but . must have his title, as Bar on , Viscount, or Earl, appended to his name. Mr. Justice COLTMAN over-ruled the objection, and Mr. ALEXANDER then addressed the Jury, contend ing that the evidence connecting Harwood with the rob bery was wholly insufficient, and that there was no proof of the burglary. Mr. Justice COLTMAN summed up the evidence, and the Jury found both the prisoners guilty of stealing the articles in question, but not guilty of the burglary. • His*Lordship sentenced Harwood to fifteen years, and Andrews to ten years' transportation. In the Civil Court, Mr. Justice Coleridge disposed of all the cases in the list, excepting two, soon after 12 o'clock, and • then proceeded to assist Mr. Justice Colt man in the trial of prisoners. No other case of general interest occurred in the course of the day. AUGUST 7. The following appointments have been this morning made by Mr. Justice Coleridge, of Revising Barristers for the counties upon this circuit :—Berkshire, Messrs. J. G. Phillimore and C. A. Wood ; Oxfordshire, Messrs. J. W: Smith and Beadon ; Worcestershire East, Messrs. Curwood and Selfe ; Worcestershire West, Messrs. Thomp . - son and Chichester ; Staffordshire North, Messrs. Church hill and Peake ; Staffordshire South, Messrs. Bros and Whitmore ; Shropshire North, Messrs. Seaker and E. G. White ; Shropshire South, Messrs. Ellison and T. J. Phillips ; Herefordshire, Mr. Corbett ; Monmouth shire, Mr. Kynnersley ; Gloucestershire East, Messr3. Tyrwhitt and Keating ; Gloucestershire West, Messrs. Kempson and G. K. Rickards. CHESTER AND NORTH WALES CIRCUIT. Chester, Aug. 6. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ERSKINE.) FRAUDULENT VOTING. Charles Oldham, aged 48, was placed at the bar on a charge of having wilfully given false answers to th e questions put to him when tendering his vote at the late election for North Cheshire. The Attorney-General and Mr. Trafford appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Townsend for the defence. It appeared from the evidence that the defen dant was registered for freehold houses, Green Mount, and that he voted for Egerton and Legh, Con servative candidates, at the last election, after answering the questions which were demanded on behalf of the Hon. E. J. Stanley, by Mr. Hibbert, the agent. In December, 1839, Oldham executed a deed of assignment, for the benefit of his creditors, and shortly afterwards a fiat of bankruptcy was issued against him, and assignees chosen. He, however, still remained in possession of a public- house, and collected the rents of the houses, which he paid over to the assignees. The Judge haying summed up the case, the Jury found the defendant guilty, and he was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. TAE ELECTION RIOT AT 'NANTWICII. Michael Byrne was found guilty of a riot and assault aC:Natftwieh, on' the 13th of July, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. TI-- ELECTION RIOT AT CONGLETON. George Acton, Henry Lees, Edward Edwards, John S'pinh,:Thomas Gregory, William Egerton, and James Goldstraw, indicted for a riot and assault at the Congle ton election-booth, were found Guilty, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment each ; Lees to the same term, with hard labour, he having assaulted one of the constables. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A NEW MODE OF EXTORTING MONEY.-Mr. Ash urst, solicitor, of Cheapside, appeared before the LORD MAYOR and Sir P. LAURIE, for the purpose of making a representation of a new way of raising the wind. He was apprehensive, he said, that he could not be supplied by the Magistrates with an immediate remedy for the evil of which lie had to complain Upon the part of his clients, Messrs. Tarsey and Milgate, wholesale warehousemen in the city. The publicity, however, which he knew would be given to the particulars would in all pr9bability enable others in trade to protect themselves as well as to punish the aggressors. The LORD MAYOR and Sir P. LAURIE said it would give them very great satisfaction to render service to their fellow-citizens in every possible way. Mr. Ashurst then said that on Friday night a man, whose name was unknown, walked into the counting house of his clients and asked whether any one of the principals of the firm was within. The reply was that Mr: Tarsey was to be seen, and the man was forthwith introduced to that gentleman in his office. " Have I the honour," said the visitor, " to aadreSs Mr. Tarsey ?" Upon being informed in the affirmative he continued, " Are you aware Mr: Tarsey. that you have made your self liable tr) heavy penalties by giving receipts in seve ral instances on unstamped paper ?" "'No," replied Mr. Tarsey, " I am not aware of anything of the. kind." The visitor, who had a l arge b un dl e of • papers in his hand, then stated that Mr. Tarsey laboured under a mistake, for in the mass of papers which met the eye, and which consisted of unstamped receipts, were five of Mr. Tarsey's, one of which purported to be the receipt of Mr. Edward Roberts, a linendraper, for 201., which had been: settled without a regularly sanctioned and legal re ceipt; and'as it would be probably more agreeable to the firm to pay 10/. than 501. or 60/., to which the penalties • of the infraction of the Act would amount, why the mat ter could be arranged. Mr. Tarsey said he would pay no such money; but being anxious to get one of the receipts into his hands . for the purpose of enabling him to expose.. Or pkoseeute, if necessary, he conse4tcd to accept the offer of one of them for the sum of 21., which he ac cordingly paid, and was put in possession of the receipt. The LORD MAYOR—And did he not give the fellow into custody ? Mr. Ashurst replied that Mr. Tarsey did not suppose there were sufficient grounds for accusation, and allowed the individual to escape for the time. The Loan MAYOR—I hope that such an extortioner Will niit'he peimitted to do these things with impunity. He ought to have been brought before me at once. Here is a clear case of extortion. Sir PETER—Most decidedly. We should have very little hesitation in dealing with such a person, and I hope we shall see him here. Mr. Tarsey urged him to give his name, but he said " No, no ; you shall have no name." The LORD - MAYOR—But it was very easy to call in a policeman, and give the fellow and all his receipts into custody. Mr. Ashurst said it was ascertained that the same person called with a similar story at the warehouse'of Messrs. Leaf; Smith, and Jones, who refused to make any purchaSe of the receipts which he said he possessed of that firm, or to have anything at all to do with him ; and it appeared that Mr. E. Roberts ought to hare handed over the possession of all these papers to his trustees. He (Mr. Ashurst), however, did not say that Mr. Edwards Roberts joined the stranger in making a base use of the documents. It was quite impossible to say by what means he, who carried about with him the -papers for such a purpose, obtained possession of them, and Mr. Tarsey considered it to be better in the hands of Govern ment than in those of a gang of extortioners. In all pro bability the fellow would continue to take his rounds amongst the London tradesmen until he should see the account of the application first made. The LORD MAYOR—Did he use any threats to the se cond house he endeavoured to impose upon ? Mr. Ashurit said, that upon finding his proposition unsuccessful at Messrs. Lea, Smith, and Jones, he assured them that if they did not pay into the hands of Mr. Monckton, of Surrey-street, a certain sum of money, the case should be put into th e h an d s o f h er Majesty's At totney-General, who would sue for all the penalties. He Ashurst) had been informed that several advertise. ments had appeared in the Times newspaper of late, on the subject of unstamped receipts, calling the attention of any person who may be possessed of any to the fact that they could be turned to the advantage of the holders. Sir P. LAURIE asked whether it was the custom:of; the house which Mr. Ashurst repreit - mted to give receipts of the kind described ? Mr. Tarsey said that his house always gave receipts when accounts were closed, and it was quite impossible for any but men in business to con jecture what great inconvenience resulted from the obli gation to give receipts for small sums in the infinity of transactions which took place in an extensive business. Sir P. LAURIE—Then you ought to have had these papers back ? Mr. Tarsey—Most certainly. Mr. Ro berts ought to have given them up. Sir P. LAURIE—I pay my coachman and groom, and enter the sums in a book, which I dare say might be used by a fellow of this description as unstamped re ceipts. -Mr. Ashurst—Exactly so. It is frequently the case that the retail dealers would prefer memorandums of this kind to numberless receipts. The Government cannot be aware of the insignificance of the productive ness of such a source of revenue compared with the in convenience to which it subjects men of business. The LORD MAYOR said it would give him great plea sure indeed to adjudicate in such a cage as Mr. Ashurst had detailed. However, as the extortioner was not in custody, all that could be done would be through the medium of the public press to stop his progress, and he trusted that some warehouseman, upon whom an attempt to plunder might be made, would seize upon the impos tor, and all his papers and books, and introduce him to to the Justice-room. Two young men, named George Thompson and Robert Hill, the latter of whom is a mere boy, were brought up charged upon suspicion of having been concerned with a gang of thieves, whose practice it is to send the younger branches of the professi on i n t o p rem i ses w ith b ags , t o be used in secreting any portable property that might be lying about. Mr. Hobler, jun., who attended for the prosecution, stated that on Friday the premises of Messrs. Caldecot, of Cheapside, were robbed of some pieces of linen, no doubt through the means of a boy and a bag ; and this morning in walked Hill with a bag, while Thompson remained outside evidently watching for the boy. The shopmen were of course observing the movements of both, and as they accounted in a very lame manner for themselves, they were given into the custody of the po lice.—They were remanded till Monday.' BOW-STREET. THE POOR-LAWS.—Sir Edmund Head, assistant Poor law Commissioner, waited on Mr. Twyford, and drew his attention to the case of Emma Watson, who some weeks back was found in "Westminster, in a state of destitution, and on being taken to the workhouse of St. Margaret's, was refused admission and relief. In consequence of what transpired at Bow-street on that occasion, the Commissioners had considered it requisite to adopt such rules and regulations as the law empowered them to do for the future guidance of the Magistrates in such cases, and a copy of which he now desired to lay before him. The followed are the rules and regulations referred to. " Parish of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster. To the Churchwardens, Overseers, Vestrymen, Go vernors, Directors, &c., of the parish of St. Mar garet and St. John—We, the Poor-law Commis sioners, under the power and authority •of an. Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty King William IV., intituled—' An Act for the amend ment and better administration of the laws relating to 'the poor of England and Wales,' do hereby order and direct that any person in a state of destitution who may apply for relief under circumstances of sudden and urgent necessity, at any workhouse belonging to the parishes of St. John and St. Margaret, Westminster, shall immediately on such application be rolieVed by ad mission into the workhouse, and by the supply of food, clothes, medicine, or other articles of absolute necessity, as the urgency of the case may require, until some lawful order touching the relief of such person - be made by thos e duly authorised, and we do hereby order and direct the master, matron, and porter of the said workhouse to admit any such persons so destitute as aforesaid into the said workhouses, and so, for each of them respect ively, is empowered to supply, or procure to be supplied, .such relief in food, clothes, medicine, &c., as aforesaid, until such lawful order be given in respect to any such person by those duly authorised in their .behalf. Given under our hands and seal of office this Gth day of August, 1841. (Signed) " J. G. SHAW LEFEVRE." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYDS. VESSELS SPOKEN WITII.—The Pomona, from Sligo, sth ult., off Cape Race, by the Combatant, arrived at Dover. Pearl, Tarragona to Valparaiso, June 29, off Cape de Gatt, by the - Alexander, arrived at Falmouth. Palestine, Sydney to London, June 3, lat. 27 S.; lon. 24; Cheshire Witch, June 19, on the Equator; Northumber land, Madras to Calcutta, June 24, lat. 8 N., lon. 24 ; Mary, of Leith, for Mauritius, June 29, lat. 12, lon. 26 ; Corinthian, Gibraltar to Newfoundland, 18th ult., lat. 40, lon. 34 ; Switzerland, Gibraltar to Newfoundland, 20th ult., lat. 43, lon. 21 ; William Shand, Sierra Leone to Cork, 23d ult., lat. 44, lon. 26; Monongahela, Liver pool to Philadelphia, 25th ult. lat. 44, lon. 25; Antelope, Rio Grande to Hamburgh, 27 thult., lat. 46, lon. 23, by the Thomas Fielden, arrived at Liverpool. Thistle, Water ford to Quebe, Ist inst., lat. 46, lon. 15, by the Emma, arrived at Liverpool. Henry IVolley, Barbadoes to Ja maica, June 26; South America, Liverpool to New York; Ontario, Liverpool to Wiscaset, June 30 , lat. 46, lon. 19; Athens, Liverpool to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1:-:t ult., lat. 48, lon. 15; Workington and Arethusa, sth ult., off Tuskar, by the Jamaica, arrived at Liverpool. Ocean, Malta to Liverpool, 4th ult., lat. 49, lon. 8, by the Thames, arrived at Southampton. Heywood, Liverpool to Africa, Ist ult., lat. 11, lon. 47, by the Faith, arrived at Torbay. Eliza, Bristol to New York, 27th ult., lat.. 48, lon. 24, by the Marmaduke, arrived in Mumble Roads. Thalia, Marseilles to Bourbon, Juno 17, lat. 10 N., lon. 21 W., by the 'William, arrived in the Clyde ; Ann, Limerick to Miramichi, lath ult., off St. Paul's ; William Reid, 20th ult., on the banks.of Newfoundland, by the Harriet, arrived in the Clyde. It is with regret we state that the continuance of wet weather threatens to be injurious to the wheat crop. We have this week seen many fields covered with abundance, under the influence of mildew, to a Coneider able extent. The harvest is partially (very partially) be gun around this city. Peas, oats, wheat, and barley, in small quantities, have been cut, but even next week there can probably be no continuous work, though the weather improve. The barley exhibits nearly everywhere two growths, which must both retard and in jure the crop; otherwise very larg e an d fine. The wheat has scarcely in any part of Norfolk that we have seen at tained the rich golden hue that declares its perfect matu rity, and in most places it retains its transition colour in the ear and the green in the stalk. We need not de scribe the consequence of " fickle harvest "=--btit at pre sent the rain, the cloudy atmosphere, and the absence of solar heat, bear but too strong an analogy to the inaus picious season of 1816. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT DEVONPORT I I)OCK.YARP.—WEDNESDAY, AUG. 4.—This.afternoon, as a number of persons were examining the machinery in the engine -room. Mrs. Hancock, .the wife of a superan nuated quarterman, incautiously stood too near the per • pendicular revolving shaft, when the light portions of her shawl were caught by the shaft (through the dried oil on it), and the remainder of her clothing .beinc , soon entangled by the same means, she was taken up by the shaft, and flung round with frightful rapidity. One of the engine -men, in his anxiety, unfortUnately turned off the machinery from being worked by the power, and this, of course, allowed the shaft to work with still greater swiftness. - It was three minutes before the en gine was stopped. Both Mrs. Hanc;ek's thighs were broken, one leg, and one arm. She was carried to the surgery in the yard, and from - thence biome, where she expired. Mrs. Quintral,, her sister-in-law, very nearly shared her fate, in her endeavours to save Mrs. Hancock. She was also taken up by the shaft, and flung round, but escaped with a sew bruises. The machinery is used for various purposes, such as drilling holes, grinding, turn ing, &c., and is very powerful. The shaft is about 20 feet high, and about six inches diameter, and ought to have been long since protected by a guard of some kind. BRIDGE OF BOATS.—At Lyons, among other exhibitions for the celebration of the fetes of July, was one by the corps of Pontonniers, quartered in•that town, who threw a bridge of 38 boats across the Rhone in less than an hour. The civil and military authorities passed over this bridge, constructed entirely without nails, and within lialf an hour the whole was dismotinted again' and stowed away. A large] concourse of spectators wit nessed this manoeuvre. The King of Hanover has forwarded, throuh Sir B. Watsen, 100/. towards th e f un d s 9 Ithq Queen's Free School in the parish of lew. EVENING SUN. 2',, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, (From the Ilanipshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 7.—The Cornwall transport sailed on Tuesday for the eastward The Melville, 72, Hon. Capt. R. S. Dundas, arrived this afternoon from China. She brings no news, as we knew of her having.quitted for England, by the overland mail. • The Sa.marang, 28, Captain Seott, is also on her way home ; she arrived at Mauritius on the 29th June, and would leave in a few days . . . The Oriental steam-ship, Capt. soy, arrived here late Wednesday last, from Alexandria. She has made a very quick passage, being Only 14 - days from Alexandr ia to Falmouth, where she landed the India and Malta mails on Tuesday afternoon, and then proceeded to this place to perform her quarantine. The plague is fast subsiding in the city " of Alexandria, and a case but occasionally occurring ; she has but thirteen passengers—viz., 12 from Alexandria, and one from Malta. Names of the passengers arc—Mr. and Mrs. Waghorn, Mr. Innis, Capt. Yule, Mr. Dudgeon, Captain Morris, Mr. Wilbraham, Mr. Eggue; Major Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Greene, Mr. Bird, and Mr. Nigroponte. Sailed from Alexandria 20th July, Malta 9 4th, and Gibraltar 29th. We cannot help , remarking that the above ship was at the Motherbank 24 hours before her mail com menced delivering in this town. We say commenced, for from want of sufficient strength in the Falmouth Post-office, or from some detention on the road, the de" livery in these towns occupied three days. This ought not to be. By the, arrival of the Crane packet, from the Wes t Indies, we learn that Captain Leith, of the SeringaPa tam, was at Barbadoes on June 17, expecting orders to leave Carlisle Bay to take command of the Jamaica station, Commodore Douglas having -sailed on June 30 for Halifax, in her Majesty's brig Pilot, Captain Ram" say, taking with him also the officers and ship's com pany, late of the Skipjaelc schooner, to inquire into the recent loss of that vessel on the Caymanas, where she was left by the Hornet a perfect wreck. The officer s and crew of the Hecla steamer, continued to be e t. '" tremely afflicted ; in June the clerk in charge died. T h e Rover, Capt. Keele, sailed from Carlisle Bay, July 3, for Para, to spend the hurricane months. The leading topic of conversation in the way of news, is, the .0" isting dreadful disease among the troops at Jamaica, by which a considerable number of our soldiers are perish ing daily. A correspondent writes, The sickness Fort Augusta, we regret to 'say, , c ontinues. ° II Sunday'no less than five burials took place. An order • for the ranoval of the detaCh men t ar rive d during th e day, but an officer was the only person who could coat ply, all the rest of the detachment being already in the hospital." The Thunderer and Jaseur were at': Gibraltar on th e 22d ult. The Espoir arrived at Lisbon on the 25th . th e Jascur sailed thence for a cruise on the 20th. 25th; American frigate Brandywine arrived at Lisbon on w e _ . 24th, in 24 di's from New York. The Illustrious, 72, will be commi3sioned at this 11' on Monday, for Sir Charles Adam's Flag. Captain E. Erskine will command her, Lieut. W. Houston, it R. T. Bedford, mate, and Mr. Henry Boys, midshiPin an ' are appointed to her. The Indus, 78, Captain Sir James Stirling, sailed op Wednesday for the Mediterranean. The Vernon, frigate, was at Cadiz on the 28th 111 , having arrived there in eight days from this port. The Lily, 16, was at Mauritius on the 28th May. it The Lizard steamer was- at Gibraltar on the 17th lu • The Heron, yacht, Captain Ponsonby, was also there. The Hindostan, 78, was launched from Pippo° Dock-yard on Monday lait. Rear-Admiral Sir John Ommanney will hoist his fl,g in the Powerful, as she is fitted for a flag, and the Bo tannia will come to England forthwith. There s eem but but little doubt that Admiral Sir George Cockburn be entrusted with the Mediterranean command. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. PROMOTIONS.—Th© following' Mates to the ran k l it Lieutenant.—F. H. Stevens (1830, Medea) ; Alston (1835) ; C. Clavell (1836, Winchester) ; lv • " Hall (1837, Benbow). APPOlNTMENTS.—Captains—Alexander Ellice, to the Packet Station at Falmouth ; David Pring, to the Power ful ; F. T. Mitchell, to the Inconstant ; R. L. Warren , t ° the Magicienne. Commanders—J. Fulford..to Benbow ; John Russ ell ' to Ardent. Lieutenants—Philip Hag,. to Benbow ; J. E. Cabburli to Ocean ; W. Stanbury, to be Chief Officer on the Col'? Guard ; E. H. Alston, to the Cambridge. Mates—E. Lacey, to the . Hastings. Second Master—James Laffer, to the Calcutta. Clerk-in-Charge—J. J. Winsom, to the Spy brig. Clerks—F. P. Pearce, supernumerary, to tho Dublin R. Landwell, additional Clerk's Assistant, to the Dublin Thomas Hockings, to the Vanguard. Gunner—Edward Sawyer, to the Thunder. " Engineers—John Saunders, to 'Tecate ; Win. - to Alecto. Royal Marine Artillery—Second Lieutenant Laurence' to Gorgon. Mr. Charles Bromley (late Princess Charlotte), an N. Sharp (late Wolverine), passed for Lieutenants, nn the 4th instant, on board the Queen ; and Mr. J•ll3Y ward, on the same day, for Purser. ow gr' Copy of a Letter from the late HW C Y • P vrho it re. Esq., of Tewen-waters, Herts., to Mr. W. F. Franw'. siding at 22, Spring.gardens. "Tewen-waters, 1840. - Sir, In justice to the Messrs. Solomon' about the time tloned In the extrnet of the acivertiierrientrhicb you have sent _ t s me, I beg to inform you that I certainly end rite to them to th effect; before I possessed the Voice Conductor Sound Magniller i I had been stone deaf. lam within two months of my 87th It's f ' and can still feet the comfort and benefit of the Sound Magnifier. Invisible Voice Conductors. I am, Sir,' your obedient .IPiP vent, Henry Cowper."—Messrs. S. sad B. So lo moas, 3/ 21 Albemarle.strect, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, 1 " -- 76, King William-street, City, state that ' sta rch 1 + -retrthr not. invented Invisible Voice Conductor Sound Magnifiers e nables Prl; sous at an advanced age, and of forty and fi fty years' standint u ' e extreme deafness, to join in general conversation, and to catch sound of a distant low speaker at a public assembly. 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