The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-20 00:00:00

SAILORS' HOME, AND DESTI TUTE SAILORS' ASYLUM, AND EPISCOPAL FLOATING CHURCH. The Annual General Meeting of the Members and Supporters of these Charitable Institutions, which have for their object the providing of an asylum and re ligious instruction for healthy, destitute sailors when on shore, was held yesterday, at the Hanover-square Rooms. The Rooms were not nearly filled, and by far the greater part of those present were ladies. Amongst the gentlemen on the platform we observed—Admiral Lord Radstock, Lord Mandeville, R. N., General Orde, the Rev. Sir W illiam Dunbar, Bart., Captain Elliot, R. N., Captain J. W. Bazalgette, R. N., Cap tain Chapman, R. N., &c., &c. On the motion of Lord Radstock, Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.8., was unanimously voted to the Chair. The Rev. Sir, WILLIAM DUNBAR opened the pro ceedings with prayer. The CHAIRMAN then rose • he said, that every word which the Rev. Clergyman had expressed in the very excellent prayer which he had just read, pointed out most clearly how small beginnings, grounded in ge nuine Christianity and true philanthropy, in spite of any obstacles and objections, numerous as they had been on this occasion, ultimately succeeded when faithfully persevered in. This Institution, amongst the many others in this favoured part of the globe, was one which deserved their particular support. When he daily saw from his windows at Greenwich the finest ships in the world passing up and down the river, he could not but look forward" to the ulti mate support and maintenance of those noble men, the seamen of this country, who navigated those splendid ships. They must all be aware of the many unavoidable accidents to which our seamen were liable. They had many in stitutions, however, for the reception of those who were overtaken by these unavoidable calamities ; but this Institution was one established for the reception of men in perfect health, to keep them so, and to snatch them from those roads of ruin which were ready with open jaws to swallow • up their hard earned gains. This Institution afforded a safe and comfortable residence for seamen during the time they remained on shore, in the intervals between the termination of one engagement and the com mencement of another—knowing as he did, during the experience of half a, century, that sailors would run into extremes, after having been deprived during a long voyage of the comforts of shore, he did think it desirable that an instituiion should be established for affording them shore comforts, without ruin resulting to their minds and bodies.(Hear, hear.) He would now proceed to the business of the day, with many thanks to the respectable and numerous company before him ; and he hoped they would do all in their power to promote the objects of that Institntion. Captain R. J. ELLIOT, R.N., and Captain PIERCE, R.N., the Secretaries, read the Report and Balance sheet of the Sailor's Home, from which it appeared that the numbers of men received into the Sailor's Home from the Ist February, 1841, tothe 30th April, 1842, were, new Boarders 2,885, old Boarders 744, sent by the Shipwreck Society 204, making a total of 3,833, including 210 apprentices. The greatest number of in • mates at one time was 208, and the daily average throughout the year was 126 ; being a very consider able increase over the numbers received last year ; and the total number received into the House since its commencement in May, 1835, was 12,953. The total sum received by the Institution, in donations and subscriptions since May, 1841, was 1,6391., and the money paid into the account of the Institution for board by the seamen was 4,3931., making the whole receipts 6,032/. ; the total expenditure during the year was 5,668/., leaving a balance of 6441. in the hands of the Treasurer. The Report also spoke in very high terms of the general conduct of the sailors in the asylum. The Reports andfmancial statements of the other Institutions were also read, whence it appeared that more funds and renewed exertions were necessary to the carrying on of the institutions with proper vigour and activity. They were not otherwise interesting. Lord RADSTOCK said he deeply regretted that th's meeting had taken place on that peculiar day, which had been set apart far the commemoration of her Ma jesty's birth-day.—(Cheers.) There was one thing in which he rejoiced, and that was at seeing th: , distinguished officer there that day who presided over them.—(Cheers.) This was the second tim., that the annual meeting had been held on the anniversary of her 'Majesty's birth-day. This meeting, however, was a happy- mode of commemo rating the birth-ay of her Ma esty. ller Majesty was greatly attached to the seamen of the country, and they were greatly attached to her, and if there was another reason why they should feel j oy, it was in having the distinguished officer amongst them, who then filled the chair, who had reaped so many laurels and con ferred so many benefits on the country, and whose name he (Lord Radstock) was sure woud be handed down to the latest posterity. With regard to the resolution he had to propose, he was sure that it would pass un nimously ; it was, " That the Reports just read b 0 printed, and circulated under the direction of the Directors of the Sailors Home." In the prayer at the outset, it said, " unless the Lord worketh, the labour of the workmen was in vain." The labour in this cause had not been in vain, for God had worked with them. When this Society was first established, many thought the plan was futile ; and he himself joined with them in that idea, for he thought that sailors would never be induced to come to gether in the way they had done in this Institution, but he was truly glad to find that they had bean deceived in their misgivings. As to the result of this Institu tion, one of the largest shipowners in London, had, he was happy to say, established an institution for desti seamen. This did honour to that gentleman's heart. He (Lord Radstock) had heard that such institutions were gaining ground in other countries, and he hoped soon to see them very general.—(Hear, hear.) He could not help regretting that the three Societies had not been incorporated in one. He begged to con clude by moving the resolution. The Rev. E. SYDNEY rose to second the resolution. This little ship set an example to the whole fleet. It had upon its flag this beautiful motto—" Owe no thing; be in unity with all." He had himself fre quently witnessed the operation of this Institution. He had often had the happiness of doing duty for his reverend friend Sir Wm. Dunbar, and he (Mr. Sydney) never witnessed so pleasing a sight. Last Sunday he had been rowed on board that ship by one of the lascars, to whom reference had been made. He asked him, if he would like to .go back to his own country, and he naturally replied that he should ; but he said "No money, no ship." He (Mr. Sydney) called on them, then, to come forward with their sub scriptions, or, like this poor lascar, they would have no money, no ship. He had received many letters from seamen, all expressing their gratitude to this Institution. They all expressed their great. gratitude to Captain Elliott. There was another feature in this Institution, which was, that there was every endea vour, at the Sailor's llome, to instruct the sailors while on shore. If they went in they would find the tables covered with books, and they would almost fancy that they were in a literary institution. He hoped to God they would still progress and prosper. They could not better commemorate her Majesty's birth-day, than in assembling there that day for the purpose of advancing this Institution. The resolution was then put and carried nnani- mously. Captain A. CHAPMAN moved the reappointment of the following gentlemen as Directors :—The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Mandeville, R.N., the Hon. Granville D. Rider R.N., the Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, Captain Sir W. E. Parry, R.N.,. Admiral gir Jahleel Brenton, Bart., K.C.8., Admiral Rdwker, Captain J. W. Bazalgette, R.N., Captain E. Saurin, R.N., Mr. James Nisbet, Colonel Le Blanc, the Hon. Captain F. Maude, R.N., Captain F. Madan, 11. S. Graeme, Esq., William Aston, Esq., Captain Alfred Chapman, William Phillipps, Esq., Captain Charles Mortlock, Lieutenant R. Justice, R.N., Cap tain George Hope, R.N., Captain Vernon Harcourt R.N., Mr. W. .Barnard, Lieutenant T. B. May nard, R.N., Captain J. W. Roberts, R.N., Captain H. Hop B. Hyndman, e, C. 8., General Latter, Henry Blanshard, Es , .T. Esq., J. D. F ow l es , E sq ., q. J. M. Sunley, Esq., Captain W. E. Ferrer, aid Captain Robert Scott. In moving this resolution he hoped that Admiral Sir Robert Sto p ford would allow his name to be added to the list of Directors. Without offering any compliment, he rejoiced greatly , in seeing the Gallant Admiral in the Chair that day. He was also truly glad to see the flatterin ro • o only pects expressed in the Report. this Institution. may God continue his blessing to th e i Captain Lord MANDEVILLE seconded the resolution. The resolution was put and carried. General Om), R.M., proposed the next resolution, that the members, supporters, and friends of the Sailors' Home, the Destitute Sailors' Asylum, and the Floating Church, rejoice to hear that the Institu tions go on in prosperity. They desire to offer their sincere and humble thanks to God for his blessing given to these institutions during the year that is past, and they desire earnesly to offer up their prayers for that Almighty protection which has hitherto, they believe, so constantly attended it. The Rev. Daxim. MOORE, in an eloquent and touching speech, seconded the resolution, which W.,i c: rried unanimously. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and having replied, the meeting separated. A fatal affray took place at a public-house called the Five-sail Mill, at Terrington, on the 6th hut. A man entered the kitchen, and, without any ceremony, took up a glass of beer which a-as on the chimney-piece, and drank it off. On being spoken to by the landlord be became insolent, and was turned out of the house • he so on after returned , when high words ensued, and the landlord, a much smaller man, took him in his arms and threw him out. His head falling on a stone caused a concussion of the brain, of which he died the following day. The landlord has absconded.—Bury Post. COMPLETE SUFFRAGE. A meeting of the friends of Complete Suffrage was held on Wednesday night, at Thornton's Coffee-house, Knightsbridge. Mr. DENSHAW Wag called to the Chair. Mr. NEESOM, one of the Delegates to the late Bir mingham Conference, addressed the meeting at great length, on the necessity of union between the middle and working classes ; and was followed by Mr. CHARLES WESTERTON, another Delegate, who contended that Complete Suffrage Unions, similar to that proposed by the Conference, were eminently cal culated to effect the purpose so strongly contended for by Mr. Neesom. He attributed the power of the aristocracy and its results to the disunion of the people. Messrs. Smith, of Old Brompton, Elms and Gif ford, of Hammersmith, and other gentlemen addressed the meeting, and the following resolution was carried unanimously :—" That, as soon as sufficient names were procured, Mr. Westerton should be authorised to write to Birmingham for the requisite number of cards of Membership." The meeting then adjourned to next Wednesday evening, when the subject will be taken into further consideration. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—We are, it seems, to have a Tory Op position to Ministers, and a Whig Coalition with them ! Such is the prediction of the Post, in an article which we extract elsewhere. "The end of the matter is," says that most consistent organ of acrid Toryism, " that after all their exer tions last summer, the representatives of the producing interests [the Post always treats the own ers of wheat-lands as the only producers, whereas, the truth is, they produce less, relatively to their means, than any other capitalists] are not in a better position than they were before the struggle began. We think it probable," adds the Post, " that the most serious results upon the position of parties in the House of Commons will, ere long, be produced by, the unanimity of the present leaders on the subject of free-trade philosophy. They who remember what the Whigs did, in April, 1827, will not be sur prised if, ere long, they should see Mr. Hawes sit ting with his knees in Sir Robert Peel's back." As the Post, in its present malcontent mood, thinks fit to revive the memory of what the Whigs did in 1827, we can have no possible objection to reciprocate these reminiscences. What the Tories did in 1827 (we mean the political Tories who have brains in their heads, and not their animal herd in the counties, who have no faculty but to butt and ruminate—to butt at their fancied foes, and ruminate afterwards on the fraud of their false friends)—what the Tories did in 1827, was just, ,nutatis mutandis, what they did again, last year. The Post need not be so very resentful of the gene ral imputation of unintellectual character which is thrown on its party, when it seems, from its own showing, that its party is doomed everlastingly to be duped. It is generally supposed that people must really be rather stupid, when that experience, which teaches fools, seems insufficient to teach them any thing. Cannot you see, but marry boys," says Sir Hugh Evans to Master Slender. " Cannot you remember, but trust Peel," might we say to the Church-Corn-law-and- Chandos Tories. The part which the Tories and Whigs played in 1827-28 was essentially the same :as they have been playing in the past year and the present. In 1827, the leading Tories deserted Canning, on the pretext of Pro-Catholic principles, but, in reality, because Wel lington and Peel did not choose Canning to },e Minister. The truth was, Mr. Peel could not play first fiddle, and would not play second fiddle. While Canning lived, therefore, Mr. Peel entrenched him self in the last ditch of High Church, and continued the faithful child and champion of Oxford, always without prejudice of his usual reservations, and his right to leave Oxford in the lurch, when it suited him. It suited him the very next year. Canning was dead, and Peel leader in the Commons. Last year Sir Robert Peel availed himself of the Pro-Commerce principles of the Whigs to turn them out, just as he split from Canning for Pro-Catholicism. We do not mean to say that the cases are perfectly parellel ; but they throw a very . similar light on the character of the statesman. They show that there is, at all times, a certain large portion of his public professions which he puts forth simply to enhance his importance, or sithserve his ambition—to keep him at the head of the stand-still party, so long as he cannot place himself at the head of the progressive party in the conduct of Government. STANDARD.—We cannot help thinking that some of our contemporaries take an inaccurate view of the effect of the Ministerial propositions, when they complain of the clauses of the tariff affecting the in troduction of live cattle. The exmple of the importa tion from Ireland—an importation tenfold greater than can be anticipated from the Continent—proves very clearly that no diminution in prices need to be apprehended ; and as to the chance of an advance upon present prices, it is altogether hopeless, except from an improvement in the condition of all classes of the people. The power of consumption has, like the power of tax ation, its limits. These limits are coincident in those which bound the power of indirect taxation ; and it has been proved, by the failure of the five per cent. duties in 1841, that we have reached the limits of indirect taxation. This is a serious warning of something wrong in the social state--ra solemn admonition of statesmen to retrace some part of our later policy. It is not, however, with a view to this consideration, all important as it is, that we now refer to the fact that the power of consumption has reached, its limits, and that it is still receding further within those limits. If the consumption of animal food of domestic produce be in danger of diminution from foreign competition, it is only one danger substituted for another ; for no less is the danger of diminution from compulsory habits of economy. We might refer to whole classes, who were once accustomed to the use of animal food, who are now strangers to it—such was the wisdom of the Malthusian landowners and farmers who sup ported the New Poor-law, as many of them as there were. We might, we say, refer to whole classes whom the Somerset House regimen has taught to discontinue the use of animal food, but it is not necessary to descend to them, though the working classes are always the greatest con sumers. We can confidently refer to the house books of the gentry and nobility for proof that, even in the largest establishments, the consumption of animal food has greatly diminished—probably dimi nished to the extent of one-half, in most houses, within the last 25 years ; and this diminuation will be pro gressive, in any case, as we proceed—more rapidly progressive, should higher prices be demanded, as less than higher prices will not remunerate, if a further domestic supplyshould be brought into the market. FIRE AT HAMBURGIL THE HAGUE, MAY 10.—The Stoats Courant of this date contains a Royal ordinance, prescribing a general collection in all the towns and communes of the king dom, for the relief of the sufferers by the fire at Ham- burgh, to be made before the 10th of June next ensuing. ADISTERDA 31, MAY 17.—We have received from Han; burgh the following accounts, dated May 13, which are of the highest importance to the mercantile world Among the 1,760 houses reduced to ashes, are 19 sugar-houses, of which 13 refined only colonial sugar. The Assurance Companies have began to advance money to those sufferers by the fire who are in the most immediate need of assistance. What may be considered as most wonderful, pay ment has not been refused of any bill of exchange—not even by houses that are totally ruined by the fire. Confiience is visibly returning, though discounts on good bills does not exceed four per cent. Since the day of the fire, above 300 ships have come up the Elbe ' • 15 were consigned to one house alone, which never before had so many consignments at once. The imports, of one clay, were 10,00 chests of Ha vannah sugar, and 20,000 bales of coffee. The loss might have been threefold greater had not the continued prevalance of the east wind, for 35 days, prevented all arrivals. Magazines and warehouses were not to be had—the rent has risen ten-fold, and the wages of the workmen in the manufactories are tripled. Baron Renjers, Member of the Household to King William Frederick, has just arrived from Berlin. His Majesty was daily recovering his strength. At the last sitting of the Court of Assize of the Vaucluse, a man named Louis Montjalard was con demned to death for murder, under the following cir cumstances :—Montjalard and Eugenie Saignon were_ both domestics in the service of M. de Ponson, Mayor of ltustrel, in the Vaucluse. A too close intimacy took place between them, and Eupenie became enciente. Louis, alhamed of such an intercourse with a girl who was plain in her person, and who had been. previously guilty of a similar weakness with another and also fearing the resentment of an aunt f rom whom he had expecta tions, earnestly entreated Eugenie to conceal her condi tion. About ten o'clock in the night of September 19, Louis induced Eugenie to walk out with him, under the pretence of getting her some grapes ; but, leading her to, the brink of awell some littl e di stance f rom th e house, lie suddenly pushed her in. She fell to the bottom, but, rising again to the surface of the water, caught by a projection, and sustained herself. Believing, it to be an accident, she calledtoLluoruisd a ha to help ev y her stone ou down t ; upon but, insteadSoi; he hurled sed it its object. Th e de term i ne " h er , went back into the h ouse , an d her. of doing This m man then left brought a loaded carbine , which he disc harged at the poor . girl, who was thereby wounded in the shoulder, but still had strength enough to keep her held. Finding no other means of killing her in the well, he help e d h er out, and immediately put an end t o her life, by beating her brains out with the butt-end of the gun. Returning once more - to the house, he dressed himself and fled, but met an acquaintance, to whom he confessed what he had done. Being arrested, he made an explicit declaration of all the circumstances to the examining magistrate, and was committed for trial. The Princess Louise of Baden, eldest daughter of the Dowager Grand Duchess Stephanie, and wife of Prince Gustavus Vasa, died lately at Nice, in her 31st year. A FEMALE SWINDLER. A woman named Bulle, who was an associate of the celebrated female, known as La Contemporaine, made har appearance, on Friday and Saturday, before the Court of Assizes upon a double charge, first, of having been guilty of fraud and robbery by means of forged bills and notes, and, secondly,tas an accom plice with another loose woman, named Bourdeau, who was confined with her at the same time in the prison of St. Lazare, in attempting to set fire to that ' establishment. This last accusation, however failed en tirely, from want of sufficient evidence, and both the prisoners were fully acquitted by the Jury. From the indictment, so far as it regarded Bulle exclusively, but which was by far too long for us to attempt to reproduce it at the same length, it appeared that Bulle had for many years led a life of disorder, licentiousness, and fraud. She hasrbeen married, but within a fortnight after the ceremony, she eloped from her husband, and termed numerous successive temporary connexions, re peatedly changing her name and abode. In 1820 she lived with a student, named Albert, whose means she ex hausted, and who was at length obliged to fly his country, and has since been seen in London, although she assumed herself to be his widow, and as such car ried on her frauds. In 1835-1836, she lived with a person named Boucher, and so also called herself. Boucher, having involved himself by negotiating ac commodation bills, was imprisoned for debt. The prisoner then formed a similar intimacy with a per son named Gautier, but who assumed that of Fran cois Julien de la Geraudiere, which name Mme. Bulle also assumed. They entered into an exten sive business with no real means, but obtaining cre dit to a large amount on fictitious bills, and Gautier being obliged to abscond to Belgium, he made an act of :procuration, whereby he :appointed the woman Bulle, under the name of Gautier, to be his representative. By this power she contrived to paralyse the proceedings against Gautier till she could join him in Belgium, whence they went toge ther to England. At London, Gautier paid his rent by a bill on the widow Albert, of Paris, for the sum of 3,000 f. This piece of paper was remitted to the house of Laffitte and Co., to obtain payment, but when presented was at once discovered to be fraudu lent. After a time the prisoner returned to Paris, and renewed her disreputable mode of life. She was, however, soon recognised and arrested, under an accu sation of having committed forgery. On her interro gation by the President, she admitted many of the facts above stated, but endeavoured either to justify or palliate them. She acknoWledged that at one time she had assumed the name of Larochefoucault, which , she said was given to her by an elderly lady of that family, who took a great interest in her. She admitted also that she had declared her expectations of millions of francs from a Mr. Book, of Calcutta, who, she said afterwards, had arrived and died at Liverpool. Ac cording to the evidence, inquiries had been made, but no traces of any such person could be found. She had likewise stated that she was in the regular receipt of 1,500 f. a-year. This she declared to the Court was true, and that the payment was made to her up to the time she was arrested and sent to prison. When taken into custody, there were found in her possession two bills of exchange for 20,000 f. each, drawn by her upon Boucher. These were, she said, for moneys advanced by her to Boucher, and lent by him to third persons, among whom was the son of General Mallet. The witnesses on this count of the indict ment having been examined, the Jury found them selves warranted in delivering a verdict of guilty of forging commercial bills, upon which the Court con demned her to imprisonment with labour for eight years, and _to be exposed on the pillory. LORD ASHBURTON'S DINNER AT WASIIINGTON.-AMUSING DESCRIP TION. (From a New York Paper.) Lord Ashburton's first official dinner came off April '23, at 6 p.m. This functionary is a very plain, gentlemanly looking man, with a face somewhat careworn, and a complexion which belongs to those who have lived long and well. His suite are tine young men, generally bald, but with intellectual heads, though not very remarkable countenances. The private secretary of his Lordship is said to 1)2 the cleverest of the legation. In manners, they are all self-possessed, somewhat stiff in the movements of their bodies, and few or no gestures escape them while speaking. How different from the oilers of the foreign Ministers here ! Why, a lively Frenchman will gesticulate more in one minute with the pha langes of his dexter hand, than Mr. Mildmay could in the whole course of his natural life. The dinner was served up soon after the hour of dining arrived. Late hours are, of course, in fashion everywhere among the diplomatic givers and eaters of dinners, and this one was to take place at six. The table was of the longitidinal character, and there were present about 16 guests. Among them were the foreign Ministers generally, the heads of departments, and some of our leading men in Congress. There was no ceremony in entering the dining-room. The guests " stood not upon the order of their going, but went at once." Lord Ashburton took the centre of the table. On his right was John Quincy Adams,. on his left John C. Calhoun, oppo site him sat General Scott. Mr. Fox was not present It has been rumoured that Mr. Fox feels a little sore at this mission extra ordinary. He, perhaps, supposes the business might have been better entrusted to him. But while we think very well of Mr. Fox's abilities, we imagine that the length of time he has been in public life has some what case-hardened him—that he takes no interest in public affairs beyond what his instructions require of him—in short, that he has more head than heart, and that a negotiation controlling the destinies of two great nations, affecting every cottage in remote Eng land, and every log-hut beyond our mountains, is no more to Mr. Fox than any other negotiation, and that he would conduct it on the same cold, skilful, and gentlemanly manner which he would a game of ecarte ' and in no other way. Lord Ashburton is rather a man of the people—is identified with the prosperity of the commercial classes —would be unhappy, truly unhappy, to see mother and daughter at variance ; and he would rather sacri fice the 25 townships he owns in the State of Maine, but to which he has scarcely given a thought for many years, and of which now, for the first time, he learns the real value, than involve us in a war, the scourge of nations and the desolation of mankind. The table was beautifully laid out, but as all his Lordship's plate has not arrived, there was no plateau in the centre, and no vases elaborate in art, and per fuming the saloon with the choicest cullings of the conservatory ; but it was still very elegant, and dis played the skill of an accomplished major-domo. There are 21 servants in the house, and the reader may well imagine what a god's-send a score of beef eaters must be to the cattle graziers in this city. Indeed, the out-go of his Lordship's establishment I will be so large, and the profits so immense to the retailers here, that we should not be surprised if they proposed, in the course of a few months, to pur , chase the claim of England to the disputed territory, and present it, as a mark of their gratitude, to the people of Maine, for being so much the cause of the present mission. As his Lordship has three cooks of the utmost talent, artists whom Ude himself would not have blushed to take by the hand, the dinner was not only superb, but magnificent. The meats were all nicely carved, and handed round, as is now the fashion ; and the game, of which there was a great variety, was all cut up and divided by the cooks before it was served up ; then reinstated in form and figure, ready to drop apart at the touch of the first fork. Course after course succeeded, delicious to the palate and agree able to the eye ; the wines were rich and soft, and high flavoured, having the body and strength which belong to the English cellar. Champagne was passed freely round, but no other wines of France, and none from the Rhineland, met our eyes. If diplomacy expresses its feelings at the dinner table by its preferences for meats and drinks, then we say to Germany and France, England likes not the Zoll Verein, nor the backing out from the Quintuple Treaty for the right of search. No ! no ! hard cider and Monongahela, which stoutly represent the apples. and the corn-stalks of Brother Jonathan, shall find favour on the festive board of John Bull when Chateau Margeaux and Vin de Grave shall be forgotten. ale conversation it would be improper to divulge. We do not believe it right, though it may be fashion able, to retail conversations and steal correspon dences. We will only say, that the remarks were all of a friendly spirit, now and then approaching the confines of rigid propriety, when they related to the quality of our steam-ships and the differences of our discipline. The dessert, among other things, exhibited'a large number of the choicest fruits of England, beautifully preserved, fair to the eye, and delightful to the taste. They were much admired by the guests, and pro duced a round of encomiums on the garden from which they were brought. In due time coffee succeeded, and then the guests departed, much pleased with this first of a series of entertainments with which the new Envoy commences his mission. For some years " the meteor-flag" of England has not floated very gaily in Washington. Mr. Fox is a man of retired habits, somewhat pe culiar, and does not care for popularity " with the na tives. A new system of operation is commenced. The boundary-line is to be adjusted on the dinner table in streams of sherry, the right of visitation is to be exercised in diplomatic hospitalities, and the loss of the Creole is to be made up in black and white. In taking our leave we did not forget that the fourteen servants in livery—blue coats, black velvet shorts, and striped waistcoats—had done their best to fill our plates with the dainties of his Lordship's table. In consequence of Mr. Roebuck having gained the appointment of his Committee, Mr. Boothby, the barris ter, is come down to Nottingham to obtain evidence. — Derbyshire Chronicle. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1842. INDIA. (From the Glasgow Courier.) The tbilowing is iite copy of a letter from the commander of the Satellite steamer on the . lncins, to his brother in Glasgovv:--- , " H. C. V. Satellite, Sukhur, March, 1842. " My dear Brother,—This country is in a very unsettled state. Ten days ago reports came in that 15,000 men were marching on Sukhur to attack it. The Planet steamer was lying in Sukhur at the time, and with her gun-boats was made ready for the fight. Everyindividual was on guard the whole of that night. All the ladies went into the fort for protection, as a bloody affair was anticipated. The night passed off quietly. Next morning it was reported that the Comet steamer had been attacked, and the cap tain and crew all murdered. My turn came next. It was confidently rumoured, and as im plicitly believed, that the Satellite had been boarded at night, the whole of us cut to pieces, and the treasure we were carrying up, to the amount of 60,0001. taken and conveyed to the mountaineers. This report was so current that letters were dispatched to Bombay announcing it; and it is in case the Bombay Times may in sert it that I now write to keep yonr mind easy. The cause of the rumour arose from the follow ing circumstances :—On my passage up, about one hundred miles below this place, I sent my steward and a native on shore to procure sheep and other supplies for the ship. They came on board in a terrible fright, and said that they had been attacked, and their money and swords taken from them. I did not know for a short time what to do, as I knew the politicals were' very anxious that we of the steamers should, if possible, avoid collision with the natives. How ever, it was such a glaring thing that I could not resist going and showing the blackguards that they could not do such things with impunity; so, accordingly, I started for the place where they were, with six European sailors and four native marines, leaving the steamer well armed and manned, as we had such a quantity of treasure ) on boaid. Aboutmidnight we arrived at the place —it was in the midst of a thick jungle—and found about 150 of as rascally-looking cut-throats as you could well conceive, all armed to the teeth with matchlock, svtord, shield, and dagger. When I witnessed such a force, and contrasted it 'ivith my mere handful, I was satisfied it was all over with me; but a show of fear being next to death, I boldly stepped up, and asked where were the persons who had beaten and robbed my men ? They replied that they did not know. I then asked for their kurdan, or headman; and when he came forward I handed him over to the tars, who immediately disarmed him. I also took other ten prisoners, anfl instructed the nia rifles, the moment they saw me attacked, to put a bullet through the head of the kurdan. Thus I made the kurdan to understand, that if they killed me, his life would at least be the forfeit. Off we marched with our eleven prisoners (more prisoners than I had men to guard them), fol lowed by the whole mob, who, as we retreated, appeared to increase in numbers, but they showed no fight until we were near the steamer, when they opened a straggling fire from their match locks. Providentially none of our men were hit, although we heard the bullets whistling over our heads. The steamer immediately sent up a rocket and fired a large gun, and in about fifteen minutes more we were all snug on board with our prisoners. I put them in irons, and took them to Sukhur, where they were tried by the authorities, and sent over to the Ameers of Kir poor, where probably they will lose their hands or noses, as this is the punishment generally in flicted on such characters. Will write next mail, if spared.—Your affectionate brother, " R. C. MILLER." DISCOVERY OF A BAND OF MUR DERERS AT NUREMBURG. In December last the limbs of a body, sup posed to be that of a rich widow named Bayer, who had suddenly disappeared from her habi tation, were found in the streets of Niiremburg. The police made the greatest efforts to discover the circumstances which had brought the unfor tunate deceased to her frightful end. They could only succeed, however, in discovering the most vague information; and the public had begun to think that the crime must remain unpunished, for two other persons had been assassinated in a mysterious manner without the criminals ever having been detected. The police still kept a close watch upon a young woman who had been in the habit of working for one of the murdered persons, and at length they succeeded in procuring some very important testimony, and they proceeded 'to arrest a woman named Romstatt, who, however, denied all knowledge of the matter, and indeed nothing was found at her residence of a suspi cious nature ' • but a search at the house of her daughter, who lived not far from Pegnitz, was attended . with different results, for in a drain they found the intestines of a human being, and shortly afterwards the contlis sion of the mother led to the discovery of the head of Madame Bayer in the drain of the Hotel de Ville. All the part that the woman Rom statt acknowledged to have in the transaction was that of taking the portions of the body to different parts of the city; but she pointed out certain persons as the assassins, who were imme diately apprehended and imprisoned; and proofs were soon established of the existence of a band of murderers, who had doubtless committed the murders we have alluded to, and probably many others which have never come to light. As soon as these circumstances became known, the irritable character of the citizens of Nurern burg became greatly incensed against the authors of these diabolical outrages ; and it became ne cessary that the police should take extraordinary measures to prevent the populace froth inflicting summary justice upon the criminals on their way to prison. It appears from the later details of this hort4- ble affair, that the woman Romstatt has stated that Madame Bayer was murdered on St. Tho mas's-day, a winter fete which annually brings thousands of strangers to Nuremburg. She says that the assassins having contrived to entice her into a secluded house, seven of them imme diately fell upon her with razors and poni ards, and that having killed her they prO ceeded to cut up the body, Romstatt being employed to get rid of the remains by_disposing of them in the drains or sewers in different and distant parts of the city. With regard to the fate of one of the murdered persons, a book keeper, for whom she had worked as a daily servant or laundress, she pretends utter igno• ranee. She was, however, beard.to say, that .a woman named Bezold, who was found in bed with her throat cut, had been murdered by ;a barber, who formed one of the gang, and who has been apprehended. Nuremburg being situated on the great Euro pean route, and being consequently the constan t rendezvous of foreigners, it is supposed that the band of demons had imagined that their devilish practices would be less likely to be detected, froin the fact that foreigners would notbe readily missed. BANKS. Coutts's bank was made by himself; it sprung from a very small beginning, and was raised to its present height by the frugality and perseverance of a very humble individual; a man of no education beyond that of common arithmetic, and of no manner of talents beyond those of personal frugality, steady in dustry, and never losing sight of what he deemed the main chance. The house still continues what he ori ginally mad* it : a bank of deposit, little discount, and no accommodation, except upon ample security. Coutts's h as f o r years been the bank of the moneyed portion of th e no bility; of persons whose deposits vary from 10,0001. to 100,00 0 /. ; it is the bank of the Royal F am il y , an d en ormous balances are thus accu mulated. T wo p eere sses, the Duchess of St. Albans and Lady two firms o f C ou tt s ' s a nd Child's. The late Duchess, Jersey, were respe ctivel y the heads of the a bustlin g woman , use d frequently to go and look into her ow n Child's o nce a year, w hen the partners all meet in an upper roo m , concerns ; Lady Jersey still att ends at and the account s ar e balanced a nd p rofits struck. O n thi s occas ion the parties dine together at the bank, and the Countess, as the principal partner, takes the h ea d o f the table. Old Mr. Fuller, the father of another member of the House of Commons, the late Jack Fuller, as he was familiarly called, of Rose Hill, Surrey, used to manage the matter in a different way. H e was the founder of the eminent bank in Moorgate -street, and when the clerks used to tell him on a certain day, in every year, that it was his birth-day, and they hoped they should have the pleasure of drinking his health; " To be sure, lads," he would say, "to be sure, very proper, but stop a minute." Ie would then leave the bank, go to the it teaorn the vaults,v est\ i c n o eunter,say, "There it, is for you ; b u t a nd buy a single bottle of wine, with which h e wo uld return to the bank, and placing mind you be steady, and no excess. i A very fine specimen of that rare fish the " lump sucker," the " Cyclopterus Lanipus" of Linnaeus. was last week drawn on shore in a net, by some fishermen, on Portland beach. The grotesque shape of thi s fish, with respect both as to depth and thickness in reference to its length, renders it quite a natural curiosity ; it is very seldom seen on our coast, but is plentiful north ward. Pennant says, that on placing a fish of this spe cies, just caught, into a pail of water, it fixed itself so firmly to the bottom that, on taking it by the tail, the whole pail by that means was lifted, though it held some gallons, and that without removing the fish from its hold.—Somerset County Gazette, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A lad named Thoma.s Baker, betweea 16 and 17 years of age, was charged upon suspicion of having robbed the house of Mr. Bentham, who resides near Abchurch yard. The prisoner had been in the employment of Mr. Ben tham, whose house was entered by thieves last month, and plundered of some cheeses and other property. It was evident, from the description given of the manner in which the entry had been effected, as well as from other circumstances, that a person who well knew the house must have been concerned in the robbery. Two servant girls of the family stated that at half-past twelve on the night of the robbery all was safe, and that at an early hour on the next morning it was found that the wood work of the area door had begin broken away, and that the bell, which had been fixed-near the bolt so as to give alarm upon being disturbed, had been skilfully . removed. They also found a pair of shoes upon the premises which they knew to be the prisoner's from the peculiar marks his feet made in treading in them. A sharp dog, too, which was kept in the house failed to give notice of the presence of any unwelcome visitor, in consequence, it was presumed, of having known one at least of the thieves. . Alderman Gums asked whether any suspicion had been entertained of the prisoner's honesty before this time. The girls replied, that several things had been missed while he was in the service of Mr. Bentham, which it was suspected he had taken. After one robbery he dis appeared altogether, although, if he bad remained till the end of the quarter, wages would have been due to him. The prisoner, upon being asked what account he could give of himself, said he knew nothing of the robbery or the shoes, and that having no home he slept under the arches of the various bridges, which afforded ac?.ommo dation to many other persons similarly circumstanced. He was remanded for further examination. A young fellow, named John Tarbutt, was charged with having lurked about a shop in Threadneedle-street, for the purpose of committing a robbery. One of the men employed in the shop had been robbed of a workman's diamond, some time ago, by a boy, whom he believed to be the prisoner, having ob served the prisoner watching about the neighbourhood for some time before he missed his property. A few days ago he saw the prisoner looking in at him, and watching him narrowly every time he laid the diamond out of his hand. At last he went out and collared the prisoner, who was forthwith conveyed to the Compter, where he Was recognised as an experienced offender. The prisoner—Well; if a person is to be taken into custody for looking at a print in a window, things are cone to a pretty pass. Alderman GIBBS—How often have you been in the Compter? Boy—Often ! never since I was born, before this time. Alderman Ginns—Why, I have been told the turn keys know you well ? Boy—Know me I never saw any of them before ; upon my soul, it is a fact. lam a harding working industrious lad, willing to put my hand to anything for an honest penny. Gooch (the turnkey of the Compter)—He has been frequently in the Compter, and half a dozen times in Bridewell. He is one of the worst characters in the City. Boy—l'll be on my oath that I never was in Bridewell, and that I was never in the Compter before. You mis take me for some thief I have the misfortune to resem ble.—(A laugh.) Gooch—His poor father is here, and will tell the truth. Boy—Yes, my father is here ; he can give me a cha racter. (Here the father appeared.) Now, father, an't I a good, hardworking fellow ? The Father—Yes, sometimes • but you'd rather keep holidays than work. Boy—Well, but these people say I was in prison many times. The Father—Why so you have been. Haven't you? Boy—You mean that I was was away from you. But you don't know that I was in Bridewell. The Father -0 yes, I do know it. Alderman Gums—What have you to say to that ? Boy—Say • S'elp me God I never was in a prison before in all my life. Alderman Gums—Then your father tells a falsehood ? Boy—No, I don't say that ; but he is mistaken, as well as other people. Gooch—He always denies his knowledge of a prison in this manner. a Boy—But yen know nothing about me, man. The prosecutor—He kept watching me half an hour, determined, I am sure, to slip into the shop if I happened to turn my head aside, and to whip away the diamond. I lost all patience, and caught hold of him at last. Boy—Aye, and you had no more right to seize me than I had to seize you. Why, I could pull you up by the law.—(A laugh.) Alderman Gimis said it was evident the prisoner was incorrigible, and remanded him for further examination. A woman, named Matilda Thatford, was charged with having broken eleven panes of glass in the lower win dow of the Mansion-house. A policeman said that the prisoner had been com mitted to Bridewell for a month from the Justice Room, for smashing windows in her drunkenness, and she told the Magistrates that the moment she came out of Bride well she should visit the windows of the Mansion House with her fists for a little bit of revenge. She accordingly began on the preceding day to demolish the glass, and before the policeman could secure her she succeeded in smashing eleven panes. Alderman GlBBs—She has been frequently in Bride well, I suppose ? Defendant—Oh dear, yes I very often indeed. Alderman Ginus—Why do you persevere in a course by which you are sure of going back to the place of punishment ? Defendant—Because I was committed for merely getting drunk. I suffered so much in Bride well that I determined to give the Lord Mayor a treat when I came out. Mr. Hobler—You have got nothing by it but cut fingers. Defendant—l don't care about that a pin. Alderman GIBBS—You shall have a little more of Bridewell now. I fine you 31., or three months in Bridcwell. Defendant—You do, do you ? Oh, very well I have no money ; of course it is the other thing. Committed to Bridewell for three months. EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE. Letters from Athens of the 28th ult. state, that several violent shocks of an earthquake were felt in various parts of the Peloponnesus ; on the 18th, at Sparta, the shocks lasted from 25 to 30 seconds each. The inhabitants ran terrified out of their houses. On the same day, and in the course of the night, four or five other slighter shocks were experienced. Beyond the Eurotas an immense rock fell from Mount Menelas, near the village of Drou chas. An old tower situate in the town of Magoules was thrown to the ground. At Mistra the soil trembled with more violence than at Sparta, and a portion of the Hellenic College and several houses were destroyed. The water of the springs and wells became turbid, and an enormous rock, having detached itself from the sum mit of old Mount Mistra, rolled with terrific noise into the town. At Calamea the first shock, felt at half-past nine o'clock, lasted between 40 and 50 seconds, and there were ten others, from that hour until midnight, at in tervals of three-quarters of an hour. Most of the houses were damaged, and several in the neighbourhood actu ally gave way. Upwards of 50 dwellings were thrown down at Areopolis, and 15 towers crumbled at Stylus. Mtiny persons were buried under the ruins of their houses in the province of Maina. At Androusa several churches fell in. On the 25th ult., at four o'clock A.M., another shock was felt at Patras, which lasted a minute and a half. The Courrier Grec announces that a red rain had fallen at Tripolitza and elsewhere, and that the Minister of the Interior had collected information re specting that phenomenon, which would ibe submitted to the examination of the Medical Board. PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY, ST. GEORGE'S FIELDS. —The Anniversary Festival of this Institution took place yesterday, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street ; the Right Hon. H. Goulburn in the chair. Among the gentlemen present we observed Sir C. Clarke, Bart., Dr. Warburton, Rev. Dr. Croly, Sir Claudius Hunter, Mr. Kemble, M.P., Mr. Anderton, Rev. Dr. Major, H. Loydd, Esq., &c. After the usual loyal toasts had been duly honoured, the Report for the last year was read by the Secretary. From this document it would appear that, during the past year, upwards of eighty-five addi tional names had been added to the subscribers and life-governors of the institution. During the period to which the Report referred, 118 criminal children, and 71 boys and 65 girls, the children of convicted parents, had been admitted to the benefits of the charity. The Report went on to detail several individual inktances of the beneficial operations of the Society. After the read ing of the Report Mr. Goulburn proposed the toast of the evening—" Prosperity to the Philanthropic Society," prefacing the toast with a high eulogium upon the objects and operations of the Society. The toast was duly honoured. A number of toasts were then disposed of, and the party broke up at a late hour. During the evening the following, among many other, donations we re announced by the Secretary : — Lord Chief Justice Tindal, 101. los.; P. B. Duncan, Esq., 251.; Lord Rad stock, 10/. 10s. ; J. Chaterhouse Smith ; Esq., 21/. lOs.i Bank of England, 105/. ; H. Kemble, Esq., 21/. ; Right Hon. Mr, Goulburn, 10L 10s. ; J. Labouchere, Esq., 101. 10s.; the Marquis of Bristol, 50Z ; Baron Gurney, 201.; Lord Grosvenor, 101. ; John Curtis, Esq., 12/.125.; Rev. Dr. Rice, 10L 10s.; Alderman Lucas, 5L 55., &c. The total amount of subscriptions was nearly 2,000/. CHURCH-RATES.--A parochial meeting was held yesterday in the Parish Church, to which the Church wardens submitted a statement of the expenses of the current year for the salaries of the officers and repairs of the buildings, which amounted to 52L 17s. 4d. To cover this charge a rate of one-halfpenny in the pound on the rental of the parish was proposed and seconded ; an amendment that no rate be granted was likewise pro posed, and, on a division, the amendment was carried by an immense majority.—Berwick Advertiser. Tan NEW POOR-LAW. -- It terise in too strong terms the base and infamous du plicity of the Tory party at the election, in reference to this very question. None were .found readier than they, at that period, to ensnare the people by a professed sym pathy with their wounded feelings and aggravated suf ferings,—and for what purpose ? Only to raise them selves to power, that they might the m o r e e ff ec t ua lly i trample them deeper n the dust.. The New Poor-law of the Whigs was then denounced by th em as one o f th e blackest acts of legislative demons ; yet no sooner have they succeeded to power and place, than they bring in an almost exact copy of that very Whig measure, which they then branded as a base and brutal law. Surely, never was there a band of political reprobates such as these, collected ,before. Returned to Parliament to lighten the burdens of the country, they saddle it with an Income-tax. Chosen on the faith that they would repeal the New Poor-law, they are the first to confirm it. But all this is an exact embodiment of the spirit of Toryism. It has deceived, oppressed, and plundered the people from the beginning ; and it will continue to do so to the end.—Leeds Times, THE BOA CONSTRICTOR The conjecture concerning the extraordinary appear ance of the boa constrictor, lately killed in the wood at Wellvove, turns out to be correct, the snake having on the night previously to its destruction made its escape from a travelling collection of wild beasts, &c., which had been exhibiting at Carnfield, upwards of two miles from the spot where the reptile was killed. On Tuesday the owner of the exhibition made his appearance at Wellgrove, and was somewhat indignant at the slaughter of his protege, for which he said he would not have taken 20 guineas. He claimed the skin of the defunct snake, which was of course given up to him. It appears that the snake, in its gambols, had forced out a part of the partition of its cage, and then crawled into an adjoining cage, which being empty the door had been left ma fastened. From thence it made its way to the open space in the caravan, and effected its escape through an open window. The owner of the exhibition declares that there is no doubt but the reptile made an attempt to seizi the lamb, as mentioned in a former account, having been near its usual feeding time, and its gastronomical powers were such that it has been known to gorge dogs of con siderably larger dimensions than is usual with lambs at this season of the year, after having crushed the animals within its deathly folds, and duly prepared them for the process. The following rather laughable incident con nected with the appearance of the snake, will show that the rambles of the reptile had not been altogether un observed by another individual, a farmer of the neigh bourhood, somewhat notorious for his devotion to the " jolly god," who, having been spending the best part of the night with some kindred devotees, happened to be wending his way homeward shortly after daybreak on the Monday, when, in passing along a lane skirting the " fells," he was startled by observing a dark-looking object waving to and fro, open mouthed, amongst the bushes of a hedge by the road side. The sight of this singular object, it appears, partly brought the farmer to his senses, for he rushed apparently in great alarm into his dwelling, exclaiming, much to the gratification of his cara sposa, vulgo, " old woman," " that he'd be domm'd if he did na gie up the cursed licker altogether, for that he had seen the devil in the shape of a fiery serpent, wiggling waggling his head at him most awful." • BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, MAY 15.—A letter from Ostend says— " From the 17th of this month a steam-boat, belonging to the Antwerp Company will leave Ostend every Tues day for London, and, vice versa. The steamer to be employed on this line is the Bruges, which will take pas sengers, &c. , on the same terms as the General Steam Navigation Company. " This latter Company has, however, given notice that the passage-money on board its vessels, which will leave this port for London on the 17th of this month, which was in general fixed at 1/. 10s. in the first cabin and 1/. ss. in the second, is reduCed to ss. in the first and to 4s. in the second cabin. BRUSSELS, MAY 12.—The Augsburg Gazette says, that Count Velain has been appointed Envoy for Belgium to the German Confederation, but this news requires con firmation. M. Kindt, who has hitherto attended the commercial negotiations with the French Government for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce, has returned, from Paris without having obtained any result. The appeal of General Vandermeers, and the other persons condemned to death for the conspiracy, comes :before the Court of Cassation this morning. On the applica tion of their counsel it was adjourned for three weeks, because he had not had sufficient time to make himself acquainted with the voluminous papers relating to the affair. DUTCH FUNDS.—Amerzarsam, MIN 15. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, C% per Cent 00000 52% 52% Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amen t Svndic,4% percent ...... 93% 7 95% Ditto, ditto, 3% per ..... 77% it% Commercial Company, 4L, percent 154% 154% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per Exchange on London, One month l2 12% Two months 12 024 Hamburgh, One month 35 43% Two months 35 18% Dutch Papers, May 16. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VnturrA, Mak 7. fire per Ccuts.Metalliques ......" 109% Four per 0000000 00000000 100 Three pa Cents. sank Shares 00000000 000000000000 1673 UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MAY 18.—This being the first day of Tri nity, or Act Term, a congregation was holden, at which the following degrees were conferred : Bachelor in Divinity.—Rev. John Foley, Fellow of Wadham College. Masters of Arts.—J. Fraser, Oriel College ; *R. T. Kent, Wadham ditto ; *Rev. 1). Hunter, Exeter ditto ; Rev. T. B. Adair, ditto ; Rev. J. B. Sweet, Balliol ditto ; Rev. J. W. L. Schreiber, ditto ; Woolley, Lincoln ditto ; Rev. Wilcocks, ditto ; Rev. W. L. Darell, Christ Church ; W. Currer, ditto ; Rev. J. Fletcher, St. Mary Hall ; Rev. R. Tomlins, ditto ; W. Knight, Worcester College ; R. Joynes, Corpus Christi ditto •, Foulkes, Jesus ditto ; W. C. Morland, Christ Church. Bachelors of Arts.—C. J. Parke, Oriel College ; R. G. Swayne, Wadham ditto ; G. W. Paul, ditto • G. Meynell, Brasennose dit.o ; R. Stanton, ditto ; W. G. Bradley, ditto ; W. Jackson, Queen's ditto ; J. Merry. ditto ; 'l'. Lucas, ditto ; W. L. Collett, ditto ; F. Temple, Balliol ditto ; J. Clapcott, Lincoln ditto ; *C. F. Wyatt, Christ Church ' • H. Goodwin, ditto ; A. Barrett, Wor cester College ; A. A. Aylward, ditto ; T. C. B. Stretch, ditto ; C. W. Gordon, Magdalen Hall ; F. W. Vaux, ditto ; R. Watts, ditto ; J. Coventry, ditto : C. F. Cook, ditto • C. E. Brewin, St. Mary ditto ; F. E. Cole, ditto ; R. Weatherell, ditto ; H. Robinson, St. Alban, ditto ; H. G. J. Parsons, Magdalen College. *Grand Compounders. THE ROMANCE OF LIFE.--Some short time ago, in one of the villages on the Firth of Forth, lived a lady whose husband had long before gone to sea, and never having heard from him for some years, she believed him to have been dead. At the time her husband went to sea, Mrs. S. lived in a town in England ;, but, after giving up hopes of his return, she removed, with her only daughter, to her native country, Scotland. In the course of years a probationer of the Church of Scotland came to officiate as a missionary in the parish, and formed an attachment for Miss S. Seeing no immediate prospect of obtaining a church at home, he resolved on trans ferring himself to one of our American colonies, and re ceived an appointment there from a colonial Missionary Society. Having been united to Miss S., he took his departure, leaving his wifik and mother-in-law to follow as soon as he should have prepared for their comfortable reception. They accordingly left this country some time afterwards for America. In the meantime, among the settlers over whom the young divine's charge extended, was a comfortable farmer, also named S., who made in quiries after the history of the minister's wife and mother, and expressed an anxious desire to see them on their arrival. They did arrive safe, and on reaching the minister's habitation, Mr. S. was sent for to be intro duced. Judge of the surprise of all, when, on the entry of Mr. S., the newly-arrived females found in him the long-lost husband and father ! Having been unable to trace his family in England, after a protracted absence, he had returned to America, where, by a singular coin cidence, both he and they found those they had given up as lost. The parties, we are glad to , say, are now living comfortably and happily in the New World.—Edinburgh Paper. STEAM NAVIGATION. A beautiful new iron steamer, called the Eagle, will leave the Thames in a day or two for Marseilles, destined to navigate the Rhone. She is built by Messrs. Ditchbtum and Mace, and reflects great credit upon that respectable firm. Her measurement is about 280 tons ; length 185 feet. She is fitted with a pair of very superior engines of 110-horse power, made by the eminent house of Miller, Ravenhill, and Co., of Blackwall. Notwithstanding her size, and the power of her machinery, her draught of water is only one foot ten inches. This is an important point, as re spects the navigation of the Rhone, which is not only a very rapid river, but is in many places not more than three feet deep. To Mr. Miller belongs the merit of having first overcome so formidable an obstacle to the navigation of the Rhine by steam, and the engines in question are the 25th pair that his house have made for that purpose. In order to put her exquisite machinery to the test of trial, and prove its capability for the long and rather difficult voyage she is about to venture upon, by the Bay of Biscay, the Straits of Gibraltar, and the Mediterranean, to Marseilles, the Eagle made an experimental trip down the river on Tuesday, with a numerous party on board, including several scientific and nautical men, who expressed their warm admiration of her performance in every respect. During the excursion the company, which also included several ladies, sat down in the splen did cabin to a very elegant collation, furnished by the spirited engineers, and spent a most convirial afternoon. The responsible duty of taking the Eagle to her desti nation has been confided to C aptain Farmer, sen., whose high reputation as an able, experienced, and careful steam-commander, affords a sure guarantee for her safe conveyance, even through seas with the storminess of which she was never designed to combat. Great difficulty is often experienced in calculating the number of stamps which should be placed on heavy letters. The best way to do this is to ascertain the highest number of ounces aletter exceeds, and then dou ble the next higher figure above that number, which will give the number of pence which is charged for the pre • paid postage of that letter. Thus a letter weighing above four ounces, and under five ounces ; by doubling the five it gives the correct amount of postage, 10d., which is chargeable on such a letter. The postage on letters not weighing more than a half-ounce is one penny ; not weighingounce, mote than an 2d. The postage on letters above an ounce advances 2d. in arith metical progression. No sum is charged for postao-e that is expressed by an odd number above Id. Thus there is no such postage as three, five, seven, or nine pe,'ny, &c , postage, as many suppose. The Seguisian Mercury, of St. Etienne, says, it has been assured that large orders for muskets have been received by the manufacturers of that town from the East India Company. This is, however, exceed ingly improbable. With so many hands unemployed at Birmingham and elsewhere, the East India Company needs not either as regards cheapness, expedition, or good workmanship, send their orders out of the country. A letter from Athens, of the 27th ult., states that the shocks of earthquake, which were felt there on the 18th, were experienced also in various parts of Greece, in some of which the effects were serious. At Kalamata all the houses were more or less injured ; at Androusa some churches were thrown down ; and in some villages of the province of Maina many peasants were killed by the falling of their houses. Another shock of earth quake was felt at Patras on the 25th, but it was not pro ductive of any serious injury. GOOD NEWS FOR SPORTSMEN.—In a field a few miles west from Edinburgh, a partridge was found on the last day of April, sitting on 23 eggs ; a circum stance, we believe, unprecedented at that period of the season, SIR CHARLES BELL. The death of Sir Charles Bell, eminent as a scholar and first-rate anatomist and lecturer, 111:3 blank in the literary world which will no: readi4 be supplied. Of the preliminary education, upon the founded?n of which Sir Charles started on his career into n world., we have the evidence of his own words. have been educated to anatomy," says he, in h i ' cellent work upon Operative Surgery, " with a strie , g ratefil . ness and severity for which I am now United in study with a brother whom the general sense of the profession ranks,c el i i high—longh is assistant, and then his partner-140 still dissatisfied, until I had . a wider knowledge 01 profession." The literary labours of Sir Charles Bell were lI t c : less voluminous than recondite, and no less accur.3_ than remarkable for their clear and excellent 'n il : (Mr. John Bell), vention in all matters that regarded his peculia r f ri • of science. These labours spread over many The first works of any note which we have h efbre. ii were two, published as early as 1802, at Edinburgh; they . consist chiefly of descriptions of illustra tive _,, gravmgs upon the great nervous system of the frame, and brought at once their author into re P ll , In 1806 Sir Charles produced his excellent P says on the Anatomy of Expression in Paiiitin,go.f Engaged, by his professional duties, in the stud and the anatomical structure, as regarded the practice thor inquiries of the physician and the surgeon, the a l ! et now attempted to deduce fr o m this study the O ro , and most pleasing results. Standing, as a l4 , t , ° r of does, related to the arts of d es i gn , as the gramt that language in which th e y address Ili, Sir Cl'a now took into consideration th e ex p r essions, et ° t he and movements of the human figure, which are 05 of characters of this languag e , an d show the wurb -11 ):11ii human passion in its infinitude of s hapes. 0 0 series of lectures abounded in amusing, no le ss ter instructive topics. Among some of his (1' 13 " criticisms, wherein he strays into classic find him noticing the acuteness of the satiric Pen, t ly Persius, and his confrere, Horace, who fret tr il* strike off the expressive characteristic of thell"'d-- as indicative of emotion, in the slight touelL es s ,"-- - " Rides, ait, et nimis uncis, naribus indw nt ion, " Minus aptis acutis naribus," &c. His inv ert the too, attempts to find a new denomination ' ° „" r igili snarling muscles of animals, which take thethe from the margin of the orbit of the eye, and for other upper jaw ;—these he called "ringentes”- - tn l itel long muscles, employed at feeding-time, h e design " depascent ft , in Sir Charles's work on the " Anatomy of the ft, has been pronounced to be the best adapted to ill list o quarterso, the anatomy of the ercaphalon since the same Vicq D'Azyr's splendid work on the same sor, - ;0' In the year 1813 Sir Charles delivered 0 , cellent course of lectures at Kensington, mai, ll `4 3 be° then strenuously the pri nc ipl es o f th e E n glish ' -c f tY of Physiology, and exp os i ng th e f u tilities ° f T ine French philosophers and physiologists, wh° se ,lto trines, representing life as the . mere physical r es- t hell certain combinations and actions of parts, b Y', $ Ol termed organization, did so much to demoraliz-ted injure the minds of thousands. Sir Charles e, 11 ,,,iel the lists against these writers, and stoutly de' e. both religion and science. Sir His sedulous attention to anatomy alone, , si de Bell almost in after years regretted, as he eon 51 ,0 0 , that it had made him negligent of those acquir e ';" which he thought might have more highly be n- heef l him. This regret, however, must surely 11 " ve xo' but transient, when it is c ons id ere d th a t it was, 'a solely his anatomical acquirem e nt s which 'tie, a' Bridgewater Committee to nominate him to t-- a t J charge of one of the chief of their treatises, g?,thio form part of those engaged in working 011 ,, t oo great argument" of the " Power, Wisdom, al lu 0 0" ness of God," according to the will and testau le 'the noble and high-minded Peer. 01 0 1 It is almost surplusage to mention Sir ip• Bell's Essay on Animal Mechanics, which l ite; Brougham, then Chancellor, r eq uested him t°, l : l , nor his further labouring, in conjunction lv"," 0 ' Lordship, in illustratin g the " Natural TheologitiO Dr. Paley, an important work, in which thesewof powerful and masculine minds threw new ' L W around the labours of th e i r so lid-thi n ki ng prede e c - 1# Sir Charles Bell was el ec t e d t o th e S ur gical - 0 0° iu the University of Edinburgh, in 1835, i n the ' of Dr. Turner. A Montpellier journal, the Courrier du fur mentions the arrest of five Spanish refugees , Ic 'd 0, 1 them officers of rank, on a charge of having il te Gp3ifr, junta to raise r ecruits for a counter-revolution g c l They were removed from Montpellier on the 3 i Calais, which is to be their residence, unless til eo vernment should think its necessary to compel th proceed to TENACITY England. A OF SCOTCH IRON.--Aaxe., very 0 117 proof of the great t enac ity o f S co t c h made bar yo 1 1 3 , this week, b een ex hibi te d i n t h e .Abercorn founn:,o iron under operation was the produce of Mr. 411 1 e4) works, Glasgow, and formed the tire of a railsof o ic In turninn , the wheel, Messrs. Barr and M‘No b W a, a ribbon of' iron about a quarter of an inch hre a g er about the thickness of thin pasteboard, which 113 ,S fort! in length 67 feet. This was its length in the sPi r 7, o l, ol " If stretched to its full-length, it would measu re 300 feet.—Leeds Journal. zal The Messagor announces that the Naii o) re ao seized on Monday at the Post-office, and in the bu n co 0; of that journal, and that a pr osecu tion has he e 0 00 er menced against the responsible editor, for solo e d d r , rited imputations upon th e P ro c ureu r du Rei Magistrates, with reference to the late railwaY cov f These proceedings have been instituted on l i l a c! t ' plaint of two of the public functionaries atta ck the National. FAIL AccmENT.—On Friday last, Cap new, of the sloop Friends, Jame s Agnew, a Ylo g one of the hands in the same vessel, Captain P. '• o f of the sloop Rob Roy, and James M•Creadi e, oc ee' 3 ` sloop Catherine, all belonging to Stranraer, pr„w, in a boat to Larne (from which place their ves se th el ) :"4 moored at a distance of about three miles), fo r e a 6 poie of getting their sails repaired, and were r o ol::,6 about seven o'clock in the evening, when the b j J upset off Isle Magee. Captain Torrance 011 44 Agnew not having been able to reach the boat , ( i 1 41 fortunately drowned. Captain Agnew 411 1 11 0 P M'Creadie clung to the boat, and were saved NO r a difficulty, by a man from Isle Magee, who ile a . tt t d cries, and hastened to their assistance with a bodies were found on Wednesday evening. -- „o f Register. ,„d ° A PATERNAL MAGISTRATE.--A Fren‘ ~h— elluo' publishes the following poli ce regu l a ti ons , issb reV,fo Mayor of Lorris, near Montargis Police f yro, tions relative to public balls.—We, Mayor O? having considered the improprieties which pre l : u. public ball-room, have ordained, and do orda in . lows :—Art. 1. Having considered the ac cideelav have occurred from the mann e r i n w hi c h do bc o lfi been conducted for some time past, it is ezPr e „, th bidden from this day forward to dance the ga,„"lion 4 , a penalty of from 5E to 10f., to be paid by the • - ye 4) ;` ) who shall play such a dance. 2. Having reraa r re c many young females fall whilst dancing the figopf„ partourelle, and not having it in our power te , e lV the aforesaid figure, it is forbidden to turn so VP , ir jump, or to strike with the two feet.—Bou TAP 1 ,6 A second list of b an k ers, merc h ants, and etiliergit;f4; scribing to th e re li e f o f t h e sufferers at liate`pree been publish e d. A mongst t h e names are thos e ° 607 , Jacques Lafitte, and Co., for 2,000 f. ; Me - stiestrr Odier, Janes Odi er , J. Lefevre and Co., P 4 V ; J. E. Larrieu, A. Dassier, Allege, H.Luttel?`;:r o 6: mann and Son, F. Hartmann, P. A. Selliere , I° ;f4 5 each ; and many others for smaller sums of 3,rif.,,,o r ir down to 2f. The amount of this list is 19, 5 ° 50 17,0, ing the total already subscribed 81,521 f. Th is a teo;li` tion is independent of one opened by a eoniel',l - of Marshal Gerard, Duke de Vainly, s" dt persons of high rank. 140 e`' The Governor-General of Algeria has Vl' f r oiV order, dated Oran, April 28, announcing to t ! o ti o Ist inst., a regular Post-office communication : 0 01 place weekly between Oran and Tlemcen, )- 1 co Mostaganem. Mostaganem. The mail is to be under the detachment of of the neighbou r i ng t r ib es. 1 1 l a f /It COPY OF AN O LD RECEIPT .—"ffeb : t h U io - grj and Eighty two Received of Will: Knight they be shillings in full for hake a years duty tbr two f' c r i in his house i n K ent i s b orw due and end * if : last past. I say received by —Fol 71 L. flu_-. ~.,05re Collector." In th e or i g i na l t h e wor d s i n 'Pipe o f writing, the rest in print. It appears that v, fi re is they were obliged to pay a ta x f or lighting, u "" houses.— Western Luminary. - ll BIRTHS. tbe On the 14th inst., at Over -court, Glr,ucesters hire , el l of R. Cann Lippincott, Esq., of a daughter. AVAl ler' Jb On the 18th inst., at T av i s t oc k- square, Mrs. • kJ' daughter. e ot64' P' On the 18th inst., a t E ng l an d' s- l ane , vs'c tt Hampstead, Mt s. Jackso n , o f a d aug h ter . ( Sa l On the 18th inst., a t N orwoo d, t h e lady V Colvin, Esq., of a son . a , MARRIED. tif , 4 0 0) On the 19th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsba, 2 *„;seq,, , l'' fourth son of the late George Trower, Esq., of R .: 6 1 . 1 to Helen, the eldest daughter of William SeY'' - a nd jlr Montague-place. On the 19th inst., at St. Mary's. Maryleboye t he w e ( Vidal, of Cornborough, near Bidef or d, a nd .°? tls°' o Temple, Esq., barristar.at-law, to E mma Harriet° rvjte Walpole Eyre, Esq., of Bryanston-s quare .' I>rltit er On the 19th inst., at Trinity Church, io Forster, of Halborn-hill, to Matilda, y oun gest u s t late Thomas Wilson, Esq., of Rickmanswortb, ti er g. ---"--' ' -':-:-----' , ' 41 DLE D. v . hs• i # On the Bth of March, at Sh o l apore. Cornet ' .lc Wi l t of the Ist Regiment of Madras Light Cavalry_,- a iellf,,,o o ,i On the 13th inst., at Heigham , s r Po r ' Aeg fr Courtenay Cruttenden, Esq. former) y li o e f the I ' s ' l ' 4 Ws r Foot sth inst., aged nasgt.e B :l s. M2rs.. f 11r. On the 18th inst., Mary Ann, d aug hter o* ' f t'lle° Finsbury. o n t e c ircus, l On the 19th inst., erey-st reet, Bedfo r d' el de st "'to' the son of Dr. M'Lean, 11th Hussars. be e lde oP" On the 19th inst., Edmund St. George, t- west James St. George Burke , E P k s treet , sq.„ of el - in pW. Thomson, ofiter:q6utoreree,,l,lidi 0 I .•••,,,,•-!--' - 4 5. ,I) London : ----------- Printed and Pub'ished by MIIRD 0 SO Na l: 3 !, No. 112, Strand , at The, Sun Office, .1..- a l ox. the County of Middlese7k, Friday. 3 12 Y ' '1 R; J A ar of \ 1 tb C b~ is • be; to* th e , 4 Ne ti IS t, • _ll,