The Sun. — London, England, 1841-06-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. ItEPRESENTATION OF MARYLE- BONE. The contradiction given by Mr. Cabbell in one of the papers of Saturday morning to the widely-circulated report in which he was used of expressing his ha tred of the Reformers in no very polite or Christian terms, has created a very great sensation in this borough. Ww have seen an elector who was present at the meet ing, and he assures us that the statement was perfectly true ; and several respectable inhabitant householders a.se ready to come forward and corroborate it, if neces xry, by their oaths. How far the positive disavowal of the unbecoming (if not impious) language attributed to him will, under these circumstances, set Mr. Cabbell right in the estimation of the respectable and religious pact of his friends is considered very doubtful. The learned, pious, and charitable gentleman does not put Ms candle under a bushel, or neglect to seek a reward for his alms-giving. The following is a copy of a cir cular addressed to each of the Licensed Victuallers in Marylebone. It was received on Saturday morning by one of the most respectable and liberal publicans in the borough : JUNE, 1841. Sis—Allow me to beg the favour of you to post up owe of the accompanying bills in each of your most public rooms. You will notice amongst the ' Schools" and " Benevolent Institutions" the following :—Licensed Victuallers' Schools, 10 Guineas ; Hotel and Tavern Keepers' Benevolent Institution, 20 Guineas ; Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, 10 Guineas. Perhaps you will think my finding such donations among Mr. Cabbell's other charitable gifts some excuse Cr my presuming to ask the favour. I am, Sir, your humble servant, JOHN WORD,ELL, 28, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square. THE SANKEYITES. We have learned that Commodore Napier and Sir a Hall have had an interview with the small body of estranged Reformers who, since the retirement of Mr. Young, have been persuaded to put forward Mr. I,nkey, for the purpose " of breaking - up," as it was said, " the power of the Whigs in Marylebono," without directly voting for the Tories. On the entrance of the Liberal candidates into the room they were cordially cheered, and after a long ex planation it was admitted by the leaders of the meeting that those gentlemen deserved support, the only objec -1:.on to vote for them being that they were put forward by a party. Sir B. HALL exposed the folly and injustice of op posing a man who had served them faithfully, because wane of his supporters were personally obnoxious to them. In the conclusion several of the followers of Mr. Douglas, who has hitherto led the disunionists, cordially promised the Liberals their support, and even Mr. i)ouglas, we understand, expressed his regret that he did not now feel himself at liberty to do the same. We may add here that we have heard of several instances of direct and audacious intimidation similar to that ment'oned by Mr. Stockton, in the letter which ap peared in Saturday's Morning Edition of The Sun. It is a fact which cannot be gainsaid, that so hard are the " Blues" run at last, that on Saturday morning two wentlemen were despatched from the head-quarters of *bbell and Hamilton, the Colosseum public-house, Port land-road, the one to Brighton and the other to Lincoln zo obtain promises from two supposed friends, who are rusticating in those places. GREAT MEETING OF ELECTORS. On Saturday evening a very numerous meeting of electors of Marylebone, resident in the district of Kentish !own, was held at the Assembly House, Mr. Johnson in :he chair. Sir Benjamin Hall and Sir Charles Napier, who were r:!ceived with the same enthusiasm which has greetorl Th.eui at every other meeting to which they have pre -sented themselves in the borough, gave similar exposi tions of their public conduct and political opinions to :bow which we have already reported, and which are now and Satisfactorily known to every elector in this im - ).:>rtant, intelligent, and influential division of the metro Sir JAMES WILLIAMS, the venerable Magistrate of the county, came forward, amidst the loudest cheering, to esove a resotution to the effect that the electors present !sighly approved of 'ha Parliamentary conduct of their s leets/n:3d Representative Sir Benjamin Hall ; and that, approving also of the sentiments expressed by Commo dore Sir C. Napier, they pledged themselves to use every esertion to secure the return of the Gallant Commodore and the Honourable Baronet to represent them in the next Parliament. The venerable Baronet (Sir J. Williams) said that his address must be very short, as his strength and age would not allow him to make much evertiou. He ruldresscd the assembled electors as a seighbour, who had lied in the village for thirty-live ears.—(Cheers, an I cries of " Yes, and loved by every tmdy, young and cld ") But during all that time he Ae.ver did, that he multi now recollect, attend a public uss.eting in the village.—(Hear, hear.) Ile had, how ever, been all his lifetime nurtured in the cause of free dom, as had been all his ancestors, as far as he could eeesee.—(Cimers.) But he had never engaged in discus asions which might disturb the peace of his neighbours, osid he had always avoided t.) appear le 'ore the public eas apartisan.---Slelea.r, hear.) Nor could anything bring :.‘itn here to-night, except the importance of the occasion. --(Cheers.) The question which lad ea ised the disso lution of Parliament, was the most important that had aver been submitted to the considei ation of a free and enlightened people.—(Cheers.) He must a ;knowledge, at the same time, that for several years he could not, by his own unaided judgment, see his way charly through the disputed question of the Corn-laws; but after hearing ail that he could hear from both sides, and reading much of what had been weitten on both sides, giving his best and unbiassed attention to all the facts and all the arguments, he had come to the conclusion, that if any a)bject was important enough to agitate the minds of the people of this great and wise nation, it was the question, Shall we have cheap bread?"—(Tremendous cheering.) Ho would not find fault with men who thought diffe ready. because he once, with perfect sincerity and true fe?nse encs, thought differently himself.—(Cheers.) And ha felt that it was not always in any man's power to think rightly.—(Renewed - cheers.) Every man was bound to speak honestly and frankly his real opinions, however much others might differ from him, and it was the duty of his neighbours to hear his honest avowal of sentiments, however opposite to theirs, with courtesy and respect.—(Repeated cheers.) He remembered that a staunch old Tory, the late Sir William Curtis, once tap ping him on the shoulder when he had opposed that party on a public occasion, said, " Sir James, you are a good fellow, and stand true to your colours." He (Sir J. W.) would now take the liberty of tapping the gallant Commodore beside him, and say, " Sir Charles, you are a stood fellow, and there is no doubt you will stand to your oolours."—(Great cheering and laughter.) On the sub ject of the Corn-laws, he would say to the rich and affluent, " God has given bread as the staff of life, and remember, that if it is of less importance to you who can lowa meat and luxuries besides, it is everything to the poor, who have nothing else."—(Cheers.) If he thought that a large portion of the agricultural body would be in jured by bettering the condition of the manufacturers, he would falter a great deal, as the distress would only change hands.—(Hear.) But from all the examination he had given to the subject, he was convinced that even the farmers themselves would be benefited, and the power, wealtl, and prosperity of all Britain would be magnified by the happy change which was about to take pace.—( Vehement and reiterated cheers.) He need now say but little for the Hon. Candidates who had spoken so well for themselves. They all knew Sir Benjamin Hall. They knew how well and faithfully he had served them ; and it was not necessary to tell them that they could not do better then re-elect the Honourable Baronet.—(Loud and continued cheers.) - The Gallant Commodore had told them who he was, but the whole world knew that already.—(Cheers and laughter.) He told them on what side of politics he foisted his flag, and did they ever know a British seamen who disgraceerhis cause or went over to the e nemy i n t h e day o f action 2—(Enthusiastic cheering and repeated applause.) The worthy Baronet concluded by moving the resolution, and sat down amidst the loudest and most eerdial demonstrations- of respect and attachment from the numerous body of his neighbours by whom he was surrounded. Mr. WILCOX in an eloquent speech, which was much applauded, seconded the resolution. It was carried , enaaimously and by acclamation. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Dr. C. Taylor and Mr. Townsend, the former whom was volatatously applauded throughout his of eloquent and powerfal address. Sir BENJAMIN HALL requested the g entlemen present tis remind their neighbours that the POLLING WOULD LAST BUT ONE DAY—that it would commence at EIGIIT o'ceocie in the morning of Thursday, and close at Foust in the afternoon. It was absolutely essential that all who proposed to support his gallant friend and himself, should come down at the earliest hour possible and tender their votes.—(Hear, hear.) On that account, it had been resolved by his Gallant Friend and himself, that they should meet and address the electors at each extremity of the borough at seven o'clock in the morning of that day (Thursday), one of them (either Commo dore Napier or himself) at Paddington, and the other at Camden-town.—(Cheers, and cries of "We'll be with you.") Thanks were then voted (with applause) to the Chairman, and after three times three cheers for the Liberal candidates and the Queen, the meeting separated. It ,ill be in the recollection of our readers that an indictment was laid against Moxon for the publica tion of Shelley's poems, which were brought out in num bers with many standard works. This has been really a severe hardship upon Mr. Moxon ; the trial must ne cessarily have cost above 200/. In the case of Hether ngton it is well known that the prosecutor was insti gated by a well known radical barrister to lay the in dictment. Others are now talked of against Murray for publishing Gibbon. Hetherington was imprisoned for his offence, and all these schemes are put in practice for the express purpose of endeavouring to excite a feeling in the country against our present law regarding the publication of blasphemous works. Moxon cannot now be brought up for judgment before next term, whch takes place in November, but if-we may judge from the words of Lord Denman, no very severe judgment can be ex pected against Mr. Moxon. Lord Denman said, "If we look to the mere tendency of prosecutions of this sort, the queition of how far they are prudent with a view to ro t down such publications, may be matter of considera -11 for those whO undertake to prosecute them ; but, in my Opinion, the best plan of dealing with these works is answsr, to refut e them, and to show that they are not f atakd in t rut h, .:I,r better tha n to a n in the interests of human nature. o associate that whi7l, them into c ourts o f j us ti ce , an d a : li are in th e h a bi t o f a d or i ng with a feeli ng of perse - cution."— Observer. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—Most unwarrantable use having bee made of the name of the Duke of Bedford by the Comm ttee of Captain Rous, founded upon a letter of the most private and familiar character, the Duke of Bedford has ad dressed to Captain Rous the following letter, w ich will set at rest all doubt, either as to the Duke of Bedford's politics, or as to his conduct to his tenants. That a land lord should not coerce his tenants to make them follow his own political course, is to a Tory inconceivable " Friday Evening, June 25. " Dear Rous,—Since I saw you to-day, I have learnt that the most unfair and unwarrantable advantages have been taken of my letter to you, and the grossest misre presentation founded Upon it. I must again request of you not to lose any time in stating to your Committee, that if I take no part in the Westminster Election, it is on the principle of not interfering with my tenants and tradesmen, and that I am only following the course which has been pursued by my father and myself in other recent elections for Westminster. " You know that my political confidence has long been given to the present Government.—Your's truly, (Signed) " BEDFORD." In proportion to their diminishing hopes, the Tories put forth Increasingly confident assurances of certain triumph. Their Journals this morning with most susyi cious unanimity, affirm that the results of the pending contest will place their party in a proud majority. We do not for a moment imagine that those who allow them selves to be made the channels of communication between , the parties specially interested in the results of the con tests, and the public whom they seek to delude, place any reliance on the statements they are induced to put forth. In some of the instances we know they possess the means of arriving at the truth ; and would readily publish it—if it were convenient to do so. A few days will dissipate the delusions of those who place any con fidence in such prognostications. The truth will burst upon their astonished senses with appalling certainty. The City of London election is, according to the Post, virtually decided :—" The Election Committees of both parties in the City of London made up their canvassing books yesterday. We are happy to be able to state that even the most sanguine Conservative could scarcely have expected a more favourable result than that which the canvassing books of the party indicate ' • and we believe we may safely say that very great care has been taken to put down no votes as certain, but those which have been actually and positively promised." The Times, with its usual slap-dash daring, exclaims—" The main interest, however, will undoubtedly centre in London. Should Lord John Russell be rejected by the metropolis, as we confidently expect he will, and Lord Morpeth by York shire, a defeat which is also said to be nearly inevitable, with what face will the Whigs present themselves to the new House of Commons ?" To which may fairly be re plied, should Lord J. Russell be elected by the metropolis, and Lord Morpeth byYorkshire,what becomes of the Times' reputation for foresight, or common acquaintance with notorious facts • and with what face will the monopolists present themselves in the new House of Commons ? The Herald adds its testimony to the common stock. The obscurity of the phraseology is, we presume, designed to give weight to the authority on which the revelation is made :—" If,in the matter of elections, it were safe for any reasonable man to trust, after planting one foot on the ground, to the usual succession of the other, we should hear the footfall clvictory to the Conservatives re-echoedfrom the Guildhall of London to the Chamber of Commerce at Glasgow." If the Ly-all Committee have really authorised the statements we have quoted, it is in perfect keeping with the lying Contents of the placards they have put forth for the purpose of calumniating Lord John Russell, against whom the puny artillery of their groundless hate is principally directed. His great talents, conse crated from an early period of his life to the cause of civil and religious liberty, which he defended and ad vanced when its enemies were numerous, powerful, and determined—the wise and Liberal policy of the Admi nistration of which he is a principal member, which has invariably sought, and still seeks, in the face of a powerful combination of monopolies, to relieve the dis tresses of the people, by releasing trade and commerce from the restrictions which prevent its successful exten sion—these public claims, joined with the acknowledged purity of his personal character, have justly rendered him extensively valued and beloved. His Lordship is the candidate who is more especially identified with the measures which propose to extend the commerce of the country, and thus to supply employment to the unem ployed and suffering thousands of our manufacturing population. STANDARD.—As there arc some persons whose fa culty of vision extends but a very little way before thorn, though extremely accurate within its limited range, so there are others with very exact powers of observation, but wholly incapable of reasoning upon what they ob serve. The first may be confidently trusted to describe the ground under their feet, but would be the worst guides in the world to tell the direction of the road ; and the second, no less competent to testify to the truth of premises, are as little to be trusted in whatever' concerns a conclusion. The Earl of Radnor is one of the intellec tually near-sighted persons of whom we speak. His Lordship has caused to be printed in the Wilts Indpen dent a letter, from which we make the following extracts : " If by protection is meant exclusion of wheat of foreign growth, it is clear that that sort of protection is not af forded by the present law. By Parliamentary Paper (House of Lords, 1841, No. 164), it appears that in the last ten years there have been entered for home consumption a far greater quantity of wheat than in any former peliod of the same length, the annual average for ten years ending 1820 being 422,076 quarters ; for ten years ending 1830, 534,762 quarters ; and for the last ten years, 908,118 quarters. Indeed, in this respect the protection afforded by the present law is less than that afforded by the Act of 1815, for by Parliamentary Paper (House of Lords, 1841, No. 151) it appears that the annual average quantity of wheat entered for, home consumption from 1813 to 1828 (both inclusive) was 389,442 quarters, whereas the annual average of the 12 years from 1829 to 1840 (both inclusive), during which the present law has been in operation, has been 1,025,250 quar ters. "If by protection is meant high price, in this respect also the present Act is less efficacious than that of 1815, in asmuch as the average price for the whole -of the first period was 645. Id., and for the latter, 58s. 4d. This is extremely valuable information, and fully verifies the prediction of Lord Brougham, that the ef fect of the Corn-laws must be to render corn ultimately cheaper, and by a necessary logical consequence that the repeal of those laws would render corn ultimately dearer. Know this, you clamour ers for cheap bread. Lord Radnor, however, goes too fast when he assumes, upon the fact cited, that the Corn laws do not operate as a protection to agriculture. The very reverse is the fact. We might leave the question to the judgment of landowners and farmers, who will, we ex pect, pronounce very distinctly upon it at the approaching elections ; but it is not necessary to wait so long. The bare fact that, with a vast increase of the population since 1820, an increase, say of six millions in England and Wales alone, the average increase of importation into the whole United Kingdom has been but 600,000 quarters, or 10,000 quarters for each million of increase in England and Wales—this single fact demonstrates that agriculture has been protected, and has prospered gloriously under the protection. DEAR BEEF 1N FRANCE. (From Galignani's Missenger.) The Debats has an article on the scarcity of butcher's meat in this country, which places some points of the ' subject in a new light, and which is particularly of inte rest at a moment when there is a demand for the com paratively free introduction of another necessary of life into a neighbouring country. The Debats says :- 1 " It is absolutely essential that the Legislature of 1842 should, at the very commencement of the session, take ' up a question which cannot perhaps be postponed without danger. Many things may be put off, but hunger admits of no postponement, and we must of necessity listen to its claims. This fact admitted, we must, however, observe that the question of the du ties on foreign cattle, important as it may be, is not the essential point to be considered in this affair. We will re fer to a period when the duties were almost nominal—the year 1820, for instance, at which time each head of cattle paid only 3f. to 4f., and show how many oxen, &c., then entered France. The number of oxen and bulls was 15,000, and that of cows and calves, 28,00 C—total 43,000. And now, with the much larger duties of 50, 25,_ and 15 f., which, by the way, have failed in pro ducing the object for which they were imposed. viz. the protection of the breeder in France, and the develop ment of the bovine race, what is the number im ported Zde 2 r 8 5000 ? ec Oxen o and bulls, 10,000, and cows and calves, ,o t o h o e , say old t t o ar ta i l ff 3 . s,oo lf o, w w e hwicehries to reduce d l u e e s e s than the present d u ty o f 50E to 20f., or even 10E — if we we wereuffie even to an increase as bring back to the low duty of 1820, would this would ut e to the market from abroad such ofimportance compared with the annual cons u mption of France, which amounts te 3,400,000 head of cattle, such i,i withoutthe reckoning six or seven millions of sheep ? this country ; we will not sp. eak eof theannual consumption in po pulation, for, alas ! of this nu m b er there 34 millions ie a full of third who know not what it is to eat butcher's i :l - leat, and who, rhivcedh our Poi o ie of the most ical Reformers pa m ay on li g tt o le th a e t r te c n i t v i i o c n r , ig a h to w are deprived dep i es sential, viz., that of recruiting physical strength how far h by te of h things, sub stantial and generous f oo d. in order to the duty on foreign cattle produces this sta . 1 for which a r emed y must be found, it is only necessary to state that the duty on foreign cattle imported into France, under whatever tariff, has never exceeded 1 to li per cent. The Debats does not, when alluding to the fallinc, o ff in the augmen tation of duties, take into acco un t the' in crease in the population of France, which would make the 8,000 equal, perhaps, to 15,000 or 16,000. The par celling out of lands in France is prejudicial to the breed ing of cattle on a large scale, small farmers having neither the amount of capital nor the extent of lard which are requisite for this essential branch of siricu;ture. The want of water in the south of France is meniioned by the Debuts as one of the great obstacles to the lareeding of cattle, and to remove this it recommends the fhrma tion of canals of irrigation, and mentions, as an instance of what may be effected, that the Agricultural Comparri' of Arcachon has succ2eded in converting nearly 30,0( I acres of unproductive land into rich fields of pasturcl To convey from different sources abundance t t water to dry lands, and to drain those which ar marshy, are measures which are within the means o the nation ; but for which capital • necessary, and hitherto there has been but little enterprise in the way We remember that one of the favourite projects of M Casimir Perier was to fertilize the waste lands of Bri tany, but that he was unable to form a Company for that purpose, although he offered to devote a large portion of his own fortune to the scheme, and invited the co-opera tion of foreign capitalists. The Debuts concludes as follows: " To *duce the price of butchers' meat would be ad . , vtaat i neous to agriculturists, to breeders, and to the oa ners of the soil, for if the latter have remained safe in the midst of our political movements, they must not forget that their interest is to conciliate the affection of the mass. Cheap meat, like cheap bread, is one of the most precious elements of national strength, of the con tentment of the people, and of public security. It is a better guarantee to the owners of the soil for the pro tection of their property, than all the protecting tariffs that could be made." MURDER AT SHAD WELL . --- A brutal murder was committed on Friday evening in a street called Blue-gate-fields, High-street, Shadwell, by two women of the town, named Mary Long, alias Owen, and Hannah Covington, on a gentleman, aged 60, named Thomas Briggs, who had for many years resided at No. 18, Norfolk.street, Turner-street, Commercial-road, and was the owner of many houses in the neighbourhood of St. George's-in-the-East and Shadwell. It appears that the mother of Long had been a tenant of the deceased, who, a few months ago, distressed upon her for rent, after she had removed from his house. The daughter had frequently declared she would be revenged, and on Friday evening she and Covington attacked him, when leaving the house of one of his tenants, with such fero city that he died in a few minutes afterwards. Both pri soners have been known to the police for a considerable time, and have repeatedly been in custody for outrages and disorderly conduct. The deceased formerly car ried on business in High-street, Shadwell, and was a remarkably stout heavy man ; he had not even spoken to the women before they attacked him, so that the offence was as brutal as it was unprovoked. When the prisoners were placed at the bar before the Magistrate on Saturday at the Lambeth-street police office. Thomas Hill stated that he saw Mary Long come out of a house in Blue-gate-fields, seize an old gentleman who wore spectacles and shake him violently ; she then beat him, exclaimincr—" You are the murderer of my mother ;" he tried to get away but she followed him up and struck him several severe blows with her fist on the nose and mouth. Covington then came running towards the gentleman and also struck him, then took his stick from him and with one blow felled him to the ground. Both prisoners afterwards - kicked him on the body, and he cried murder ; witness went to his assistance and picked him up, but was driven off by the two women. Finally Long by a blow of the fist drove the deceased against the house of a woman named Harvey. Both prisoners used horrible language to the deceased during the whole time. Mary Ann Harvey, of No. 9, Blue-gate-fields, stated that deceased was her landlord, and had been for his rent ; he had not left above five minutes when she heard a noise in the street, and looking out to ascer tain, saw Mr. Briggs bleeding dreadfully, and in a very exhausted condition ; the prisoners were close to him ; she took him into the house, saw that he was becoming black and blue, and thinking he was dying, sent for Mr. Bird, surgeon, of Ratcliffe-highway, but before that gentleman's arrival, the deceased dropped out of the chair and expired. Sarah Burgess, widow, deposed that she lived at No. 10, Blue-gate-fields, and heard the noise ; she looked out and saw the old gentleman bleeding dreadfully from the nose and mouth ; Covington hit him on the head with a stick, and said with a horrid oath—" If that won't do I'll give you another ;" the blow seemed to stagger him ; Long also struck the deceased on the face • both prison erJ used very bad language, and appeared very deter mined in their manner. The deceased was unable to offer any resistance. George Malin, a police constable, stated that he was called by the boy Thomas Hill (the first wit ness), and went to Blue-gate-fields, where he found Mr. Briggs quite dead. He afterwards appre hended Long, saying he wanted her for ill-using a gentleman and causing his death. The prisoner exclaimed, "Ma ! I know nothing about it." He found marks of blood on her hand and clothes, which she accounted for by saying she had been dressing a mackerel. John Geary said he heard his sister call out, so he went into the house and found Mr. Briggs on the fluor quite dead. Thomas Squires, a policeman, produced the deceased's spectacles and stick, which he found in Blue-gate-fields ; he took Covington into custody for the murder ; she said she did not do it ; that Long did it, and that she would not be blamed for it. On her way from the station-house to the police-office a woman spoke to her, and Covington said—" What are you snivelling about ? I have only given the old man a slap on the face." Samuel Burgess.stated that he saw Long go up to the old gentleman and give him a terrible blow on the face. Covington then came up and struck him ; he was imme diately covered with blood, and died within four minutes. Mr. John William Bird, surgeon, of 104, Ratcliffe highway, was called in to see the deceased, who appeared to have been dead about 15 or 20 minutes. He examined the body, in company with another medical man ; and. on removing the scalp, a great quantity of extravasated blood was discharged ; on opening the head he found more extravasated blood than in any head he had ever seen. The brain was in a very unhealthy state, the blood-vessels . gorged, and every appearance indicative of a predisposition to apoplexy. There were marks of violence on the deceased's person ; the bridge of the nose was broken, and there had been a severe blow on the eye. He considered that a sudden concussion of the brain, in the deceased's full habit, had caused the vessels to give way, and produce immediate death. The prispn(rs, when asked if they had anything to say, sobbed loudly, and made no reply. The Magistrate said he should commit them for trial for the murder of Mr. Briggs, but would remand them for the present, as an inquest would necessarily be held on the body. WILFUL ATTEMPT TO DESTROY THE PICTURES AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) An infamous and wanton attempt to destroy several of the pictures in the present exhibition, at the Royal Academy, in Trafalgar-square, was discovered on Friday night last. It would appear that it is the custom of the officers of this Institution, to visit all the rooms after the company have retired. In doing so on Friday night, one of the porters remarked that a picture of Mr. Simpson's, " Mary Queen of Scots going hawking," had a suspicious appearance, and upon a closer inspection, discovered that the eyes in every one of the figures por trayed upon the canvas had been removed by a penknife, or some other sharp instrument. The detection of this rascally act naturally caused an alarm for the safety of the other pictures in the collec tion, and a diligent scrutiny was at once instituted. The result, we regret to say, was, in ascertaining th It the " Italian Peasants," by Mr. Whines, and a " Por trait of a Baronet," upon panel, by Mr. Corbett, had been also injured. Mr. M'Clise's picture of " Hunting the Slipper" has been injured in like manner ; but this, together with " the Italian Peasants " and " Mary Queen of Scots," are not beyond repair, but it is feared that the work of art by Mr. Corbett is too much injured to permit of restoration. These outrages have caused much excitement both out of doors and in the Council of the Royal Academy, and it has been at once determined to institute the strictest watchfulness, and to cause to be punished with all the severity that the law will permit, any person detected in an act which re flects the greatest disgrace upon the country. A rail should be placed around each apartment, which would not only assist to protect the works entrusted for exhibi tion, but be a focal point for the view of the visitors. A WOMAN BURIED ALIVE.—On Tuesday last a young woman, a servant in a highly respectable family, was seized by an apopletic fit, and, as was sup posed, died. On being, a few hours after, carried to the Greek Church for interment, she was observed to be, warm, and on a medical man being sent for, was pro nounced to be yet living. She is now, according to some reports, doing well, others say she is since dead. This is by no means, during a few years' residence in Smyrna, the first time that we have heard of a similar accident having happened. How indeed can it be otherwise, when corpses, of Greeks especially, are hurried to interment in less than twelve hours after death is supposed to take place ? Some strong measures should be adopted to prevent so horrible a circumstance from ever occurring, by not allowing a body to be carried out till at least 24 hours have elapsed after death.—Smyrna Observer of May 21. HORRID MURDER AT KNARESBOROUGH.— It is our painful duty, as journalists, this week to record one of the most atrocious and cold-blooded murders which has ever disgraced our criminal annals, com mitted early on the morning of Saturday last, in this town. The unfortunate victim is Mr. Joseph Cocker, a respectable and inoffensive old man, land lord of the White Hart, near to the Market-Place, who of late has resided alone, managing his own honsehold affairs, with the exception of a char woman once or twice a-week. On the night of Friday, three young men named John Benn;son, Henry Nutter, and Charles Gill, apparently from previous arrangement, went to the house of Mr. Cocker, with an intention to r ob and murder him • they stayed some time, and had som e refreshment, and as it was very late, the poor old man treated them with some ale, in order that they might go away peaceably ; but, awful to relate, it was now the time when the tragic scene was to be accomplished. One of the pa.zty locked the door, and Bennison com mitted the diabolical deed by beating out the brains of his victim with a hammer taken for the purpose ; they then left the house, but thinking they had not perfectly finished their bloody design, returned, and again beat the deceased in a dreadfullmanner with a poker and theweapon before alluded to. Providentially, at this crisis, a woman munel Snow, the wife of a shoemaker who lives near the place, hear ing a moan, thought the deceased might have been taken ill, and had the curiosity to go and look through a window, when she was horror stricken to behold Mr. Cocker lying in his gore at the feet of his assailants, pre senting a shocking spectacle ; an alarm was instantly given, and the fiends decamped, taking with them the hammer and some silver they had m obbed the house of. They took the Harrogate road, and threw the hammer into the Nidd, near to the High Bridge, but finally agreed to return into the town, where they were appre hended shortly afterwards, and admitted their guilt. An inquest was held on the following afternoon, when the Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder" against John Bennison as principal, and Henry Nutter and .r.;iaarles Gill as accessories in aiding and a betting. The prisoners were conveyed to York Castle at four o'clock on Suuzlay morning.—York Courant. Macclesfield is upon its trial. Mr. Samuel Stock's, actuated, we believe, solely by a sense of public duty, h• coffered himself as a candidate, and we express ourselv es conscientiously when We say that he deserves the con. ldence of the constituency. We call upon the electors to give him their zealous sur ort. ."0 especi ally call i 'F on the friends of Mr. Bro,klehurst, if they value a character for consistency, to give Mr. Stocks Cieir hearty - aid, If a single professed Reformer vot es for Grimse Act; he ought to branded as a traitor.—Man chester Tin, vs. THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS AND • TORYISM. ELECTION TACTICS OF LORD JOHN MANNERS. i In their present desperate attempt to clutch at the spoils of office, the Tories are driven to the employment of every shift hat they think likely to be, in the smallest degree, useful to their case. We last week exposed at some length the disingenuous tactics, and the beautiful disregard for truth, of their old and hardened leader, Sir Robert Peel. We have now to occupy ourselves with the shifting and crafty behaviour of one of the callow birdlings of the same black and voracious brood. Looking about on every side for the means of snatch ing their prey, the Tory leaders have inveigled a young lord, by name and title Lord John Manners, and brought him as a raw but hopeful recruit, to swell out the ranks of their candidates. Having caught him, they send him down to Newark, to succeed Sir Thomas Wilde, and to reap the fruits of that infernal system of corruption and intimidation against which the Solici tor-General has struggled so long and so manfully. Not content with this, finding their young recruit apt and useful to their hands, they resolve to turn him to yet better account. They accordingly clap a few tawdry la bands in his hat, transform him into a regular recruit ing sergeant, and send him down amongst the Papists, to beat up for fools and knaves to drink Sir Robert's health in the bounty-money which that crafty chief, un able to pay his troops after they have enlisted, dispenses so liberally, to entice them before they have enlisted. The pamphlet to which we alluded last week, we take to be a proof that the Noble Lord needs a few Catholic voters in and round Newark to insure his return ; that the iron visage of the Duke of Newcastle's tyranny in that ill-fated. borough needs to be decked out with a few flowers of artifice and delusion, to make its attractions complete ; and, lastly, that some hopes are entertained of its being possible to kill two birds with one stone, by catching a few foolish stray Catholic votes elsewhere with the same artifice which is intended to serve its first turn at Newark. Lord John Manners we imagine to be one of that party whom the world calls Puseyit,es. We have so often professed our respect for the motives and intentions of some of this party, and our cordial good-will to them all, so far as they are sincere, that we shall not be sus pected of any unfriendliness towards them if we reso lutely and promptly protest against the propriety of any person--even though he be an inexperienced and "rather soft" Tory lordling—abusing our generosity and for bearance so far as to make it subserve a very unfair, and rather vulgar electioneering stratagem. The request to Lord Edward Howard to vote against himself, is amusing and characteristic enough ; but the same exhortation, addressed to the whole Catholic body, is still more amusing ; it is positively funny. It is im possible to •hit upon a more astounding absurdity than that of trying to persuade the Catholics of Great Britain, on the ground of some mongrel principle, to take part against their own self-preservation ; against religious freedom for their poor ; against the religious and ortho dox education of all of them ; against the salvation of our Irish brethren from—it may be massacre—is cer tain to be the most brutal and loathsome injustice ; in a word, against a great struggle to prevent either the re-enactment of the penal laws throughout the empire, or the administration of the laws now existing in the spirit of the penal laws. This is certainly one of the most modest specimens of assurance that it has ever fallen to our lot to encounter ; and as these propositions are—though in some sort verbally disclaimed, yet in reality—urged by the young man* with a vast degree of lofty dignity, and a most coxcombical assumption of superiority, backed even by offers of favour and good will if we should be so fortunate as to please him, we will venture to use the greatest plainness in explaining to the Catholics of Newark why we think it their bound en duty not to be gulled by the honeyed language of the noble candidate, but to poll every Catholic elector against him at the Newark poll-books. His Lordship desires us to adopt the suicidal policy we have just decribed, on the ground of its being impe ratively demanded of us by a certain principle. And what, let us ask, is this imperative principle ? Oh, it is to " stand upon the old ways ; " to " keep up the old English aristocracy ; " to " preserve what little re mains (I speak not now of endeavouring the res toration of aught that has been lost or neglected) of old-fashioned charity and social intercourse between the higher and the lower classes ; " to withdraw from the fellowship of the Atheist, the Democrat, the Dissenter, and the Leveller ; " to " unite ourselves to no party ;" but to " act upon our principles unfettered by any ties ;" and, finally, to simport a Tory candidate as readily as a Whig candidate, provided the Tory candi date will promise —(and we can believe his promise—for Tory candidates are a false and perfidious race upon the hustings)—to secure for our priests " permission to ad minister the rights of our religion in workhouses and prisons ;" and we suppose, though this is not mentioned, full and impartial justice in all respects for all Catholics in every part of the empire. If we had done this in past years, says his Lordship, if the English Catholics " had spoken out," " the piratical expedition from the Isle of Dogs might have been averted ;" and along with it " the failure of Charles the Fifth" of Spain, which our cha ritable author " lays at the door of the English Roman Catholics." His Lordship's call upon us to separate from atheists is indeed a call to separate from all parties. The Tories have as large a share in atheism as any other party that ever breathed, and they have had it for a longer time ; nay, the atheism which has been let loose in these latter days, and has spread such frightful devasta tion over Europe, first issued from the kennel of the Tory pack. The first cry of atheism in England was a Tory cry. All through the last century the main upholders of Tory principles in England were atheists or sceptics. All through the last century the Act-of-Parliament-begotten establishment was defended by Tory atheists and sceptics. Lord Herbert of Cher bury, Hobbes, Bolingbroke, Hume, and Gibbon—the line stretches out from the days of James the First to the threshold of the present century. From these Tory philosophers it was that Voltaire, Rousseau, and their later followers, drank that pernicious and damnable in spiration, the frighful effects of which have for a time frightened the atheists whom the establishment encloses within its gates, or numbers among its well-wishers, from an open avowal of their profligate and degrading tenets. We never heard of the Tories proclaiming their aversion to an alliance with atheism, until their gentle manly atheism had given birth to a democratic atheism of an honester breed, which impartially toppled down earthly kings as well as the Heavenly ; Prelates as well as the God of whom they are the Ministers. Even now, at this very moment, we are in doubt whether, if we were to join the Tory party, we should not be joining as many secret and hypocritical atheists, as in joining the Liberal party we should have to j'*in bold-faced and avowed atheists. It is so hard to have to choose between atheism pure and atheism and hypocrisy conjoined, that we quite approve of his Lord ship's advice to form an independent party, and to yield ourselves up unreservedly to neither of the two factions in this Protestant country. As to forsaking the company of levellers and democrats, as his Lordship wisely advises, we have the same difficulty as before ; or rather, we have the same reason to applaud his exhorta tions to us to be independent. We have as great an aversion to levelling as his Lordship ; we have quite as warm a love of " old-fashioned charity and social inter course between the higher and the lower classes ;" and we have done the little that lies in our power to shame the unchristian aristocracy of this country out of their shameful violation of these old English principles ; nay, we have gone even further than his Lordship, who, it seems, would be content with the preservation of the small remains of Christian feeling which now form the last link between the noble and the ignoble, while we aim at " the restoration of all that has been lost or ne glected," as the only means of warding off the most fear ful convulsions. But then, on the other side, we know full well that if we were to join with the Tories, we should form no junction whatever with old English feel ings and principles. It is precisely because we love to stand upon the old ways that we hate and loathe from our inmost souls the pestilential novelties of Toryism. It is precisely because we venerate—as a whole—our old English aristocracy, and the majestic and compre hensive Constitution, which with their aid, the Church founded,—conservative as it was of all the natural forces and powers of society, of democracy as well as of aristocracy, of the people as well as of the King ; pro tecting all, but restraining all within their proper limits—it is precisely because we venerate the old Catholic monarchy, the old Catholic aristocracy, the old Catholic democracy, the old Catholic priesthood, the old Catholic Constitution which loved all these, and trusted them all, and bound them up into one coherent and harmonious system, that we abhor and detest the monstrosity of that modern Toryism which had its birth (in the days when the foundations of anarchy and Protestantism were being laid) in the adoration that, in defiance of gospel and law, authority and reason, was offired up to the bloated sen sualist and tyrant whose execrable offences formed the basis upon which the Protestant Establishment was built. Levelling we dislike; democracy, as an exclusive system, we dislike; aristocracy and monarchy, as exclusive sys tems, we dislike also. But we take leave to tell his Lord ship, that we consider Toryism and Level-ism (if we may coin a word) as merely different and opposite symptoms of the same moral pestilence, to the putrifying influences of which our modern sects and parties have all owed the misfortune of their birth. As it is impossible, then, for a Catholic who really loves and understands the good old times to love Levelling so it is equally impossible for , him, and for tho same reas ons, to love Toryism.—Tablet. * We have never been so happy as to hear the name of Lord John Manners mentioned before the last fortnight, and there fore we must crave pardon, if we are in error in supposing that the present delinquent is the John James Robert Man ners, who, according to the peerage, was born in Dec. 1818, and, therefore, at the present moment, wants just half a year of being 23 years of age. --- COLONEL OIBTHORP AND THE ODD FEL- LoWs.—Colonel Sibthorp, on Monday night last was pro posed as a member of the City of Lincoln Lodge of Odd Fellows. The ceremony of initiation proceeded unin terruptedly until the gallant gentleman was required to give the pledge, " I will never wrong a brother, nor see a brother wronged, but in all cases will apprise him of approaching danger." To this he refused to respond, declaring that lie could not bind himself down to the principles of the lodge ; and, with many professions of loyalty to the Sovereign, he took his hat and retreated, leaving the btethren in =ant - neat at the sudden change in his determination, particularly as the fulfilment of the pledge demands nothing repugnant to morality or right feeling, to which the Colonel is so keenly sensitive. Many affect to wonder at the matter. Why should they ? The Colonel most likely deemed that he was to be permitted to insinuate himself into the body and Toryise it ; but finding a bar to his purposes, he could not leap it ; his conscielice would not allow him to vow not to injure a brother 1 when he knew that exclusive dealing, and every other practicable species of vindic tiveness, were the elements of Tory " principles !" Lincoln Mercury, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEIrS BENCH, June 26. DOE DEM. HENRY C. STURT 7.7..WLLL1A3.1 MORES. This case was partly heard on Friday, and the defence was opened at the sittin. , of the Court to-day. It was an ejectment to recover certain lands, &c. in the manor of Hoxton, of considerable value, which had been in the possession of the Sturt family for upwards of fifty years. In the year 1839, however, the present defendant, having served an ejectment on the tenant in possession of the name of Matthews, by collusion with that person ob tained possession, which he has since held up to the pe riod of bringing the present action. The case excited much interest from the high station and wealth of one of the one party, and the mean condition and poverty of the other; a topic which the Learned Counsel for the de fence did not neglect to make a fair use of. Mr. Strrt, the member for Dorsetshire, a man of old family, high connections, and great wealth; William Mobbs, the de fendant, a man born in a workhouse, and without any visible means of subsistence, whose father was said by the witnesses to be a man of " irregular habits," which were explained to mean " playing at skittles at a public house adjoining his residence, and being brought home drunk from thence every other night in the week." By this course of dissipation, it was said on the part of the defence, he had dissipated a large fortune, consisting of property in Hoxton which he had acquired through his first wife, and reduced himself to that state that he was obliged to spend the last years'ef his life, with his second wife and her two children, James Mobbs. an elder brother of the defendant (since dead), and the defendant, in the parish workhouse. The chief evidence in support of the defendant's claim was a will signed by John Mobbs, his father, a year before his death (in 1791), and whilst in the workhouse ; by which he devised in the most untechnical and un grammatical terms, " estates," " plate," and " funded pro perty," in a manner that seemed incomprehensible on the part of one who, though having or thinking he had a claim to the first, had certainly none whatever to the two last species of property. This will came out of the cus tody of the Barbers' Company, in whose muniment room it was said to be discovered by the brother of the defen dant, since dead, who had made a previous search some time before without success. Great doubt was thrown on this part of the evidence. There were also produced two receipts for rent in 1774, signed John Mobbs, and other evidences which were open to exception. On the part of the plaintiff it was shown that he de duced title from his grandfather, who was seised in fee of the manor of Hoxton ; that the rents had been ever since 1793 paid to him and his family ; and that old in habitants, one of whom had lived for fifty-seven years opposite to the house in which defendant's father, John Mobbs, was said to have resided, had never heard of such a person, or of such a claim being made as the one now set up. Lord DENMAN summed up, and the Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, June 26. BELL V. GARDINER. This was an action on a promissory note for 3001. Mr. Sergeant Channell and Mr. Whitehurst appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and another Learned Gentleman for the defendant. This was an action commenced by the plaintiff as the public officer of the Provincial Bank of England, who were the holders of the promissory note in question, against the defendant, a schoolmaster, who had given the note by way of taking up a bill, for the payment of which he had been applied to as indorsee. It appeared that the bill, which the defendant had indorsed, had subse quently to that indorsement been altered both as to the date of the bill and the day at which it was stated to be come due ; and the defence was that that alteration hav ing been made without the defendant's knowledge or consent, his liability ceased, and that consequently the present plaintiff, to whom the second security had been given, could not recover upon it. The questions in fact raised upon that plea were, whether the defendant had knowledge of that alteration in the bill when the pro missory note was given. On one side letters and con versations were given in evidence for the purpose of lead ing to the inference that the defendant was not aware of the alteration ; whilst on the other side it was sworn that the former bill was produced and handed to the de fendant when the promissory note was given. After the summing up of the Learned JUDGE, the Jury found a verdict for the defendant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HATTON-GARDEN. On Saturday Mr. Sibert, master-tailor, of Fleet-street, attended by numerous other respectable tradesmen, ap plied to Mr. Combe for his advice and assistance, under the following circumstances Mr. Sibert stated that a man of respectable appear ance and good address, and blind, whose name was dis-, covered to be Rigby, and who was connected with a gang of swindlers, had with his associates been practising the most extensive acts of swindling in the neighbourhood of the Strand, Fleet-street, Holborn, and the west end of the town, and scarcely a respectable tradesman resid ing in the trand and Fleet-street had escaped being cheated. In some instances they had obtained goods to the amount of 1001., 2001., and 300/. Rigby, who was the principal against whom they applied, represented him self as an independent man; he Was generally accompa nied by a groom, who was connected with him in his swindling transactions, and the plausibility of his man ners lulled suspicion•, and after giving large orders for goods, he directed them to be sent to a house in the neighbourhood of Bedford-row, Holborn, which being done, and the money subsequently applied for, they found that the house was besieged by defrauded trades men, who were laughed at, and refused payment for their goods. Mr. COMBE inquired whether any of the applicants could bring forward any case to substantiate a false pre tence, for the purpose of obtaining the goods, and to warrant an apprehension ? Mr. Siberi' replied, that they certainly parted with their goods in such a way that it might be construed legally into a matter of debtor and creditor, but it was evident they were the unsuspecting dupes of swindlers. He, however, mentioned one case, in which something, he thought, bordering upon a false pretence, was adopted. They (the applicants) did not like, singly or individually, to take the responsibility upon themselves of giving the party into custody until they applied for ad vice upon the subject. _ Mr. ComnE could not assist them : they might, if they thought proper, give the party into custody upon their own responsibility, and endeavour to make out a case. Mr. Sibert said, that it was a lamentable thing that respectable tradesmen should be liable to such gross im positions by designing persons, and said, if the law could not catch hold of them, it would be a caution to the public, and check such vagabonds, if the press would give publicity to the case. _ llr. Comi3E suggested that, as he could not assist them, the best thing they could do would be to consult with some respectable attorney on the subject, to in struct them how to proceed to catch hold of the party so as to fix them with one false pretence. The appli cants gave a description of the blind man, who had been the principal in the transaction, and it corresponded in every respect with that of a person who held a promi nent situation at the bar of this court between one and two years ago, when he was charged with being con cerned with another party, who advertised in the news papers that he could procure a clerkship on the London and Birmingham Railway for a douceur of 501., and committed for trial. They were placed at the bar of the Old Bailey, when the former pleaded guilty, and the latter took his trial. They were convicted, and sen tenced to a year's imprisonment in the House of Cor rection. The former, who at the time of his appre hension lived at Newington, Surrey, as a broker, was afilcted in his sight, and after being confined in tho House of Correction for a very short period lost his sight altogether, and he was eventually pardoned and set at liberty . (as we understand), in consequence of his heavy affliction, by Lord Normanby. The applicants thanked his Worship for his attention, and left the court, saying they would consult with an attorney, according to his advice. MARYLEBONE. John Sacks, driver of the cab No. 474, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Long, charged with the double of fence of attempted rape and robbery. Ann Ormond, a delicate-looking young woman, about 19 years of age, stated that on the previous evening she rode in the priso ner's vehicle to Portman-square, and after setting down a gentleman who accompanied her she gave directions that she should be driven to the City-road. The priso ner then got inside, passing the reins through the front window, and had not proceeded many yards when he behaved with the greatest indecency, and otherwise con ducted himself towards her in such a manner as to con vince her that his object was to violate her person. She made a violent resistance, and while struggling with tho prisoner he tore from her side a pocket, containing two shillings in silver and some papers. Police-constable 157 D said that hearing some one cry out for assistance, he hastened to the spot and found the prosecutrix, who had alighted from the cab, standing in the road. The prisoner was upon the box, and when he saw witness he jumped down, exclaiming that he had lost his whip. He (witness) saw him go round to the back of the vehicle and pick up something, which he threw away into an area, and on taxing him with the robbery he said " I snatched the pocket off, and you'll find the two shillings in the bottom of the cab ; don't be a fool, but let me go, and I'll give you a crown for your self." Witness then took the prisoner into custody, and subsequently discovered the two shillings in the bottomn of the vehicle as before stated ; the pocket, with the pa pers in it, were also picked up in the area. The prisoner. who it was stated was not a licensed driver, and that he had no right whatever to have been in possession of the cab, was committed. • A great singing festival has just been held at Ludwigsburg (Louisburg), at which 74 singing societies, comprising 2,300 singers, from the towns and villages of the neighbourhood, assembled. The North Germans will also be astir next month, for the Hamburg Festival, at which, among other attractions, M. Liszt has been en gaged to appear. But the greatest piece of foreign mu sical news during the week, figures in the Belgian jour nals, which announce the invention, by M. Sax, of a steam organ—a monster-instrumer t, with vibrating plates (huge steel bars to which immense paessure alone can commu nicate vibration),—capuble of being heard ooer a whole pro vince !—Athenawn. • COUNTY or CARLOW.—NO contest in the empire excites a deeper interest than the approaching struggle in this county. The reports are most gratify ing, and leave no doubt whatever of the triumph of the Reformers. During the present campaign, Mr. O'Con nell has proved that his powers of assailment against the Orange faction were never greater than at this mo ment, and that he never employed them with better will than against the . Carlow Exterminators.—Dublin Evening Post, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From tke Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH JUNE 26.—Report already asserts chat Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam prefers the West India and North America commands to that in the Mediter ranean, as being more lucrative, and that he will cer tainly. succeed the lamented Sir T. Harvey ; Sir Wm. Gage is spoken of as likely to go to the Mediterranean ; Capt. Boxer, it is said, succeeds Commodore Douglas at Jamaica, and Capt. Alexander Ellice obtains the command of the Pique, 36. Arrived this morning her Majesty's brigantine Griffon, flieutenant-Commander D'Urban, 24 days from Bermuda, and 37 from Barbadoes, having been nearly five years in commission ; she brings home Sir T. Harvey's son, with despatches. The Comman der-in-Chief died suddenly at Bermuda on the 28th of May, and was buried at Ireland. The Griffon left the Winchester and Pilot at Bermuda. The Pilot was to sail for Jamaica with despatches for Commander Douglas, as soon as the packet arrived from Halifax ; and the Winchester was to sail for Halifax on the 18th of June. The Ringdove had left Bermuda for Halifax ; the Seringapatam was at Barbadoes on the 19th of May. The Griffon had only lest three men by death on the West India station, though fever has been on board her three times ; but the number of men invalided from the effects of fever and rheumatism, at different times, has been so great that she has had nearer three ships' companies than two ; the Commander is the only officer now on board who went out in her, and about fifteen of the men. The last fever was caught at Demerara. The Driver steam-vessel is ordered to be fitted tor service. • The Pelican, 18, Commander Napier, arrived at Lisbon on the Bth instant The Alban steamer sailed on Tuesday to Lisbon, with the depot of the 82d Regiment. The Electra, :16, Commander Mainwaring, was paid off on Tuesday and re-commissioned, and Commander Gostling is appointed to command her. The other officers remain in her. The Confiance steamer arrived on Wednesday from the Mediterranean, and sailed the following day for Woolwich, to be paid off. The Jaseur, 18, Commander Boultbee, has returned from Plymouth to the Gibraltar station. The Rapid, 10, Lieut. Tryon, arrived yesterday from a cruise off Brighton and Hastings, for the protection of the Fishery. The Salamander, steam-vessel, arrived on Thursday from Sheerness, and proceeded to Plymouth. The Avon, steamer, arrived on Thursday from Ply mouth. She returned yesterday- with supernumerary seamen for the Cornwallis, 72, which was to sail to-day for China, to receive the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Parker. All gunners are in future to be borne on the books of the Excellent. A new 36-gun frigate, the Cambrian, is to be launched at Pembroke Dockyard, on the 3d July. The Seringapatam and Essex, Indiamen, are at Spit head, taking in supplies and passengers for the Eastern world. APPOINTMENTS.—Captain Pring, from the Inconstant to the Powerful. Commander—Philip Gostling, to the Electra. Lieutenants—John Allan Wright, to command the Skylark ; Charles John Walton, to the Princess Char lotte ; Edmund Heathcote, re-appointed to the Electra. Master—John Kellock, late Acting, confirmed to the Electra. Pursers—John Milner, late Acting, confirmed to the Electra ; James Pinhorn, of the Edinburgh, to be Secre tary to Rear-Admiral. Thomas.. Surgeon—G. Gammon to the Monarch. Mate—W. D. Carroll, to the Royal George. Second Master—Henry Hill, additional, to the Victory. Acting Assistant Surgeons—J. Simpson and Dr. H. Richardson, from the Queen to the Cornwallis. Midshipman—F. W. Gough, to the Dublin. Gunners—W. Richards to the Dublin ; James Mitchell to the Electra. Acting Carpenter—W. Kingdom, to the Electra. COAST-GUARD.—Lieutenants—Ross Connor (1807), and Augustus Bolton (1825), to be Chief Officers. Mr. Geo. A. Hollinworth, of the Cornwallis, and Mr. G. T. Graham, of the Electra, passed for Lieutenants at the Naval College, on Friday. THE g , HAUNTED" HOUSE AT CLEWER, NEAR WINDSOR. The extraordinary knocking (supposed to be against the door of the water-closet) having still continued with even increased violence, an intelligent man, belonging to the Windsor police, has been stationed on the premises during the week, and notwithstanding he has frequently been. within two or three yards of the spot from whence the sound proceeded, at the very time, he has not been able to make the least discovery of its, apparently, mys terious origin. A scientific gentleman, from London, having seen in the papers on account of the noise heard in the house, has visited the premises three times during the last ten days (the last time was on Monday, at the request of the tenant), and tried various experiments to endeavour to discover the cause, but without the least success. The boards of the floor, both inside and around the closet, have been all taken up, and excavations made to the depth of several feet. The drain has been opened and closely examined, and the party has even gone so far with lats experiments as to have the water in an adjoining ditch analysed. Mr. Manley, the parish sexton, attended with the grave-digger's sounding iron, and sounded the ground within and without, to the depth of upwards of five feet, but no clew was obtained, and the knocking still con tinued, at intervals, as before. On Monday last, the noises were more frequent and violent than ever. The policeman, who was on the alert during the whole day, counted, within 12 hours, 13 distinct knockings, of the safne character as have been before described. On the following day (Tuesday) at two o'clock, the family removed from the house, taking with them the whole of their furniture. Previously to their leaving, the knocking came on at half-past seven o'clock that morning, the policeman being there. As an extraordinary sensation was created throughout the neighbourhood on the subject, as well as certain sus picions excited, four respectable gentlemen of Windsor were determined to endeavour to ascertain if the noise had been caused by means of trickery (which was strongly suspected) or not. They, therefore, by permis sion of the agent of the party to whom the property be longs, agreed to go to the house that evening, and re main there during the whole of the night. They did so, accompanied by the policeman, and two other persons who resided in the neighbourhood. From nine o'clock, the hour at which they arrived, until eight o'clock the following morning, when they left, " not a sound was heard," nor did either the candles or the fire burn blue! The policeman has been in the house ever since, and not the slightest noise has been heard. It does, certainly, appear exceedingly strange that these " mysterious," and by some called supernatural noises," should have ceased from the time of the family leaving the house. If it were a trick, of which there can now be but little doubt, it was an exceedingly clever, although a very mischievous and wanton one. It appears to be a second edition of the Cock-lane ghost. ELECTION FOR LONDON. For the first time in our history we have a Govern ment which is seeking to increase the revenue by " un chaining the industry of the community," and " light ening its burdens." The Queen has taken up her position where the mo narch of a free nation in such a struggle as this ought always to be found—with the people, and has emphati cally asked their decision in " matters which so deeply concern their welfare." The great majority of the electors of the ward of Cripplegate Without will, it is confidently believed, manifest by their suffrages on the morning of Tuesday next, and not less by the zeal and promptitude with which they tender them, that they are not insensible to the appeal which, on behalf of their starving fellow-country men, her Majesty has made to them, nor unmindful of their own interests, as dependent on the trade and com merce of the united kingdom. Never has a canvass in this ward afforded brighter promise, and the committee rejoice in th e con fid ence , that whatever inconvenience there may be to sustain, difficulties to encounter, or apparent sacrifices to make on. the part of individual voters, it will be found that high principle, always consistent (but especially so in this case) with the soundest policy, will triumph over all, and that the promises given to the Four Reform and Free Trade Candidates will be all, without exception, realized. —Address of the Cripplegate Without District Committee, signed by John Dillon, Chair Man. COMPRESSED AIR LOCOMOTIVES.—We last week gave an account of a French projeCt for driving locomotives on railways and common roads by -means of reservoirs of compressed air. We have been since in formed by a friend that the same thing has been tried with locomotives on common roads, and failed from a singular but very natural circumstance. Compressed airs, if allowed to expand, absorb from all the surround ing bodies a quantity of heat, in proportion to their pre vious-compression.. This has been found to act so power fully on the machinery, as to freeze and destroy all the lubricating materials, and of course considerably to inter fere with the performance, wear and tear, and efficient properties •f the locomotives.—Railway Times. The Institute of Missions in Berlin has received tidings of the celebrated German Missionary, Gutilaff, dated from Pekin, the 20th of November last. At that period he was aided in his apostolic labours by seventeen Chinese (to whom six others were shortly about to be added), who, having learned Christianity from him, and embraced its tenets, were serving their noviciate as mis sionaries. Two of his pupils, of Japan origin, were teach ing Christianity to their fellow-countrymen and to the Chinese, at Macao; and his two nieces, resident also in the latter place, had converted upwards of 140 Chinese women, all belonging to the higher classes. Here Gutzl.aff has addressed to the Missionaries' Institute 38 volumes in the Chinese tongue, containing works relatin to the Christian worship, printed at Pekin, Canton, and other cities of China:—and the Royal Library of ";serlin has re ceived from him manuscript copies of nin e very rare Chi nese works, giving the description of a great number of monuments anciently existing in 0., 0 Celestial Empire, but of which few or no traces novi remain.—Athena um. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester has been for some time suffering under the effects of a severe hereditary and dropsical affliction, which formerly placed this amiable lady in an alarming position. We are happy to perceive that her Royal Highness, since Wednesday, is so far improved, that she has been able to pay carriage visits. The inquiries at Gloucester House, Park-lane, in the early part of the week, were I numerous.—Observer. SALUBRITY AND LONGEVITY.—There are now living in the parish of Bishop's Hull, near Taun ton, thirty persons, whose united ages amount to 2,473 years, giving an average of 82 years and upwards to each cram SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. KNIGHTON RACES (CoNcrATEr q).-SEnNT.so tr. The Craigdon Stakes of 5 sous. each, with ').6 added, &''' bea • Once round, and the long lengths, were won in thre: heats by Mr. George's '1 ippoo, 5 yrs, 9st 131 b (Jone 3) ing four othe s. The Town Purse and a sweepstakes of 3 sots. each, ;,),,„1e round rnd the long length, were won in two heats )lr. 1' liams's Anvil, beating two others. GOODWOOD CUP, 1841. The following weights were made up to Saturday' iiight :•-• St. Francis, 6 yrs, 9st 121b—Lanercost, 6 yrs, 9st 10I—Beg: garman, 6 yrs, 9st 91b—Craven, aged, 9st 711.1—Corsair, Yr" 9st 41b—Bloomsbury, 5 yrs, 9st 41b—Sleight of Hand, 5 1114 9st 41b—Black Beck, 4 yrs, 9st llb— Hyllus,. 5 yrs, Bst 131 b--- Little Wonder, 4 yrs, Bst 121b—Domino, 5 Charles the Twelfth, 5 yrs, Bst 131b--Zohrab,aged,Bst 1211,-- Wardan, 4 yrs, Bst 101b—Kingston Robin, 4 111!„,....„'" 101b—Maroon, 4 yrs, Bst 101b—Deception, 5 yrs, Sat 74 ' _ the Potentate, agedBst 21b—Dottor Caine, 4 yrs, Sat 81D---, Buln ark, 5 yrs, Set 71b—Calypso, 4 yrs, Bst 61b—Confeders!, 4 yrs, Bst 51b—Ferryman, 5 yrs, Bst 51b—Cobvick, g:. Bst 31b—St. Andrew, 6 yrs, Bst 31b—The Ruler, 4 yrs, 81"Iter, Pathfinder, 4 yrs, Bst Ilb Caution, 4 yrs, Bst 11b—Z0"as 5 yrs, 7st 131b—The Recorder, I yrs. 7st 121b—Gaen, 4 Yrs' ist 121b—Pocahontas, 4 yrs, 7st 111b--Broadwatb, 4LIC.. 7st 101b—Vapour, 4 yrs, 7st 141b—Lantata, 5 yrs, 7st 1 b, Roquencourt, 5 yrs, 7st 51b—Belgrade, 3 yrs ist 41b—i"°.1 yrs, Bst 1111)4 rek, 3 yrs, 7st 41b—Anatole, 4 yrs,7st Ilb--111iss Stilton, 3vr.Z. 7st—E. 0., 3 yrs, Est 131b—Oakstick, 6 yrs, Est 121 b— e", dredi, 6 yrs, 6st 121b—Nautilus 6 yrs, 6st 121b.—TesrasrbiT 3 yrs, 6st 111b—Mustapha Muley, 3 yrs, 6st 101b--sfilstsP r, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Arundel, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Cesarewitc, S Y'-' 6st 101b—Marius, 3 yrs, 6st 61b—Palmyra, 3 yrs, 6st 61b. Antilles reached Newmarket on Friday. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS, LA/ Li 1.1 I LI. X IA/11.174 iti tkl - ...... - - pose , Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. 1 ____..•-• . • ------ ..--------", s-T, ii, Per Quarter. s. to s. a. to s. s. to s. s• to i ' 46 .... Carlisle - £0 - , - . , 4 - 46 1 - lexham 52 f 6 28 3l 20 21' Morpeth 56 65 27 6 8 23 Y 4 34 .4. - Penrith - 08 - 32 - 21 •-- *" Sheffield - 66 - 31 1 3 , 35 -. 34 . Winchestvr 55 64 26 • 9 20 26 40 4 = d, .„I 1. 0 ;, Per Bushel. 8. d. s.d. s . d. ;d. s. d. s.d. s.d. sA u n 00 °‘'," Carmarthen 9t, 74 00 39 00 23 5 6 '-' :: a .., t 'n Cowbridge., 79 80 00 4e 00 30 5 0 53 . 6 0 - iwansea 7B 8 4 4 0 4 4 0 8 30 56 60 0 Per 8011. 10 0 .a 0 . Barnardcastl 14 0 17 0 8 0 9 3 6 4 7 6 9 • 10 ••1 7, 0 10 ~ Durham ;14 0 17 0 80 90 56 66 00 10 I, ~' 0 PI s Richmond ,!16 0 18 0 70 86 56 S 0 96 12 01 „, 100 Stockton 115 0166 9 0 90 5 0 C. 68010 ol 7 " WAKEFIELD CORN P.l A RhEr 6 .,401. Wneat, Red, Norfolk and Suablk ..... .... --s. 645. to 65 , . , 03i. -- Lin. and Cant. -s 6is. to 673. e rs . - Yorkshire Zi: 66 - 1, lo ( 7 60 i. , 611 „ nne .1 7 01• 41. White - Foreign, Red ...... _s, to 5 a s . - White .-s. 61s. to 6's• 4" . 0 .365. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ..... A• to i• an . 3% - Lincolnshire - Yorkshire Wold . • 6s, to ~..,-• - to 503. one , -- Foreign Beans, New -- Old . ' 441. to oi. 61064' Oats, Potato -s. to 2Ss• ' .303. ---..- Poland -1. --s. to 281. Ti e ot to 2.05. ••° ors - vriezland and Small -S. ""'' ,et S' ° - /t.ealing - Shelling 2l3s. to 303. ed...„ 1- , 1 030 Malt -s. 5 9 3 , fine 420. 1. , ' Last - Rapeseed ....- NEWCASTLE . C . O - R - N L E thI iC 3 H 2I A I•7O34I3I.. .`,' ,l ate.ier Red. no • 6 . 20 Wheat, Northumberland 54. _5...... ,-',,' -0,. --- Norfolk and Suflolk..„ ....... 623. els••••••• `-'' '''.• ....1 i' l - Berwick and Scotch 6ls. 65,.....• , 6 6,, - Foreign 623.065...-..• ''' ....6. ms s. i I • Rye, Norfolk end Suffolk 3Bs 415......• -- •‘! c. ~ - Foreign 293.333. ...... .....s. 00.,, Barley, Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 3ss. -0....... -. .._1, 1.4 - Grinding and Feeding 23s. 30s..•••• -- , tr Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk s2s 585.....•• --:.......... is Beans, Small 36s. 40 3 ..•...• ---„r. 2. •--- - Tick ........ 40s. 4`23....... --s• ,: ...... Pease, White 4os. 42 3 . • ..• ""'. ~,... -- Gray ... 4 . Oats, Northumberland, P0tat0e......... 253. 265 ....... --s' - ~ ----- Feed f oreign -" ' ......, ... Flour (per sack) ‘2 46 " s. .2450:... ........ -- ... :::.' -- RKET: Beam. olon , *; so 1 -5 b t' :5 _ .... * 57 ~.. ITCH M. Wheat. 19 to 22 17 21 I'7 18 18 22 21 24 f 0 24 2t 15 18 Barley. kberdeen Berwick Coldstream Cupar (Vile) Dunbar Flgin Inverness Kelso ~ Oat*. 24 to 26 is 24 26 26 31 25 2'i 26 ‘..7 23 :26 18 22 to -- 0 4 no 3 . 7 33 IP V, 45 4$ 41 44 ;bout Llig K ET. lie • 0 43. thi 424 Od, 40 01 " 6.l2tts. 50 to 60 88 45 4 50 48 65 59 65 55 56 48 CO 411 50 6-2 67 60 (i 7 30 40 125 35 I.zc of the measure varies throug IA ADDINGTON CORN MAR Wheat. Barley. Oats. 74s 08 37s (Id 29s 01 ilid Od 34s Od 27s Gd 60s Od 32s lid 25s 08 verage 3l, 64 41 DALKEITH CORN MARE Wheat. Barley. I Oats. 716 Cu 38s Cu I 283 4d (83 08 35s 9d I 25s 8d . 58s 01 29s Od 211 48 GLASGOW CORN Mi R: Wheat, per 2401 b. a. d. s.d. Oat; rfritisli, old 22 014334 6 Irish new _0(1 310 British Csnada, free ..... ..... 0 0 Beans., p er . '''''''''''''' 6 .."4 CO Irish _.. ..... , , Kirkahly Path Thn first Second Third First Second Third Barley, per :3201b English 27 0 2110 Scottish 24 0 26 0 Irish ;u - otrl. ro i l i od o n -.4 v ET. [' ea se. od -415 ‘ki I :5, 6 35, 6 0 s.‘• ET. 4. 1 96 , e r ;14 1 .b. 6to 00 ........ j 3 Sco - tt?sh ................. Pease, Scottish ••• Oatmeal, per I !911 , •••• Flour, per 2601,, 0° ;0 00 igo 40 [ADVERTISEMENT.] Kee lb, 1 ! STRUCTURE OF THE TEETH.--The b" is well known to physiologists, are composel ° o f structure, which is covered with a coating of e t t s trik e ' substance of a fibrous nature, and so hard a 5 r drie , * fire with a steel. Notwithstanding its apparen tll f s io) ollr the enamel is, however, extremely susc eptible . 0 yilultr and it thus becomes highly important to ascert ai rt ot preparations are best adapted t o p reserve so ir-lf" 9 -sce substance in its pristine integrity and beantY v • v lant' : : not hesitate therefore to r ecommen d " Odonto, or Pearl Dentifrice," as the mist val utt '" -e th 1111- of purifying, embellishin g , and presr.,rving the ~,e gums yet offered to the public. lag s ! nun }lO VAUXHALL GARDENS.---This 1.1 111- 1 -ea " of summer fashionable resort Las been rest° t- vall utmost splendour. Entertaiwnents of a novel 11 ; 1 `,,iii b e character have been prepared, and Vauxhall g erie t thrown open to the public, for the last time, form,,tl julYi of six summer fetes, coramencing on FridaY n' cer e 2, at the termination of which this delightful s us ri i ue amusement for a century past, honoured at var i° b ilitY by the presence of royalty and the highest v 1 1 1 ° ; ° ta g the land, and with, the associations of i n e s ed pleasantest recollections are mixed up, will beL;ibed ' o f ever. Some gentlemen of property have s" b: evi ent iii , render these galp.s more attractive, the in 3lll 'd its t " r• which has beer. undertaken by Mr. Bunn ; nu tion efe o , will be the Fast opportunity the present geTh ° ' to can have t.f seeing this charmiag spot, we show all the town will flock there. sa lfoo 3 A.N ELECTION ORDER.—A butche r In Al haq the f o ll ow i ng or d er sent hi m th e other dtt ) t r e . ,lts, week of lamb, a leg of mutton, three or four ter roc' little suet, and a vote for Mr. G arne tt." — Manch e GOLD WATCHES, LONDON -I '7 Core ° , s A. B. SAVORY an d SONS, Watchmakers, N o. , London, opposite the Bank of England, submit for .; ibo lu e l very large STOCK of GOLD WATCHES, th e c tisil e . which aro made and fi n i s h e d un d er the careful in experienced w or k me n on th e i r own p re mises, uud each ranted for correct performance. SIZE FOR LADIES. u 6 Fine Vertical Wat c h es , j ewe ll e d, i n en gine-turn ed x g ig gold cases and gold dials, warranted ......... -• Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with double - ~, 0 backed engine -turned gold cases and gold dia ls, ol' warranted ....................................... Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in f our A 0 holes, with double-ba c k e d go ld cases and ifsla 14,14 .................. dials, warranted SIZE FOR GENTLEMEN . Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled is foot 0 holes, seco n d s , an d d ou bl e -b ac k e d gold ease f f' 12 1 3 warranted ......... . ................• ................ Patent detached L ever W a t c h es ,. capped, Jewe'.t.-- ~ in six. holes, seconds, deuble.bacited gold co° 17 and enamel dials, warranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, je welled 0, 1 in six hole s , seconds, double-backed gold els° gl and gold dials, warranted ......................... ba d iP g a pl Either of the G en tl emen ' s W atc h es rilal e seco a-D hunting case; f or 31. 3 s . eac h extra . N. Watches purchased in excheoge. $S tb° doo PAPIER MACHE TEA TRAYSf ar ler I„'' 55 of FULL SIZED GOTHIC SHAPE. °urr oy ee ftift; Table Knives, with ivory handles, 14s. per_ u s d, per Poles for Window Curtains, inch diameter , li• t s ego 'A r e , 2 inehes, ls. per foot ; bronzed fenders, 4 fee w dets , , ro r Ca talog,ues gratis, containing the prices of stoves! n L ij oieg irons, Kitchen utentils,and every article in flu et• Inan,ry. 7.ford' ul RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, 0 Established IBM tba BIRTHS. On the 24th inst., at Connaught-terrace , hlYde-Pal ' ,p• lady of D. E. Colombine, Esq., of a daughter. South On On the 25th inst., at Sarisbury Parsonag e, near .011, ton, t he 6t e h lad 2 yo h f t i h n. e st R , eivn Russell-square, . G u eer e g i e l_s Morris, quare 3 0f ir l s° J : a l n On l of a son. 13e l On the 25th inst., at Stamford-hill, Mrs. John 1 - of a son. Edgard I." On the 27th i ns t., i n D oug ht y - s t r eet, Mrs. lope, of a d aug ht er .' „po t 4 MARRIED. p a re- w r O'j the 6th inst., at St. P anc ras Church, nowt, t aol os a, , Liverpool, solicit or , t o F an ny Maria, Yg o n e : Ner‘ - of Moses Abraham, Esq., of Liverpool- London. ,„ On the 19th inst. at Neumuhlen, near Al r rto Melladew, Esq., of ' Park Village, Regent'Or i „ daughter of H. F. Lawaetz. Esq., of the forjleroPcpc, .Willis to On the 24th inst., at St. Paul's, Certnit•gs Rigby, jun., Esq., of 1-lolway, near HrAywell,r'ondon.,...s. Sarah, niece of J o h n D a y, Esq., of Water-lan e, 'role (1 ;, 1 of On the 24. th inst., at Norval, the Rev. Gerald,_ c a re4 o youngest Pon of the late Right Hon. Reginald tite r of Jobs Antony, Cornwall, to Harriet Eliza, eldest doug ri ot, Buller, Esq. of Morval, in the same county. • ,u• la te 0 . ,1 the 26th inst., at St. Pard's, Deptford , 31° Ct n''e o - f t be of 'Bromley, Kent, to Elizalwth, eldest &ugh Mr. Thomas Bisbee, of New-cross. 0 ant v ex „.- 0 0 nil, the e e 2 2 1 s l t s t i n i s n t s t , . i ,n Paris, llThomassthEeD' Rev. eminent market. ardency and k er at Peckhal% of C. a "w"P Thomas Gil ber ' ton Hall, Stafford, • Csl/ 11 ' 1# the 22d inst., at St. Mary's Church, I°ll'l6l' On Dean, R.N. cher, Esq., of G ' eacl O ni n t, t t h h e e CYI' I ls° „ i t. i On the 22d inst., at George-street, Eilinborgio,,ito •„,..1, I enry Hanson, only child of Captain Bridge. sSt e t par t r" On thr, 23d ivist ,at Brighton, the wife of 11 °! ) . er :t of chant late Rev. J. Wolf, formerl minisier of the Ger °- :4 4 th th i 'l ri pl. s su t tc .. e , formerly minister 'aveY, Strand, aged 88. Gloucester-Glace, min,;(crehlti.crch, A gsq. J. fist ,of Aberdeen, aged 57. A. ly,to • l e On the 22d inst., .51rs. Harbroe, relict of the , s ett 'jigs. brce, Esq., of Leigh and Groombridge-place, I‘ sl. i v dseg" in Regent-street, W. Rea- , - On the 2c'd inst., at Camden-town, 31aria, fly •0' of Mr. Samuel Gt ierson, aged 16. YOU?' 6 ,l' il 3 London : Printed and Published byMU strao-' Nu. 112, Strand, at The Sun O ffi ce, 7 1 ' o. I L cA t 'i. the county oflUiddlesex. —Monday, J 1414 28, ~'T ~.Y . pea th a to t att.( far, tho - tu a )3or tlut. maxi fer e ~$c welt , lice, the •tuff ATV a abol rte litio vr.ll 14c; k r E, it EVENING SUN. THE SUNK LONDON, MOND AY, JUNE 28, 1841: EVE You: CA ".tia taro of Cla thi v6r and, I; 66 ;;,,, f -~~ l ax , Sir 1 an 4 4ei _ relic to b wict J 1 J 1 JO I Ede ( Y tio4 of T vw _ on t: T pity May the no th ] e 1 fan J, 0 * Vet tp tr I Q cq• t . r, itrid , , C AA c u t~c~ i td ith Per, tt l i IN tc b , FI 11 z ,