The Sun. — London, England, 1834-07-12 00:00:00

MAHQMET. it svonlii be. ^n extfOttitii,jus' tice to persist in npftitnr; and not as a reformer, tin; mail %.ho ur z4 ed a whole nation onwards in the most important of all steps in the knowledge of truth ; who led it from . an absurd and degrading idolatry, from a priestly slavery which compromised morality and opened a market for the redemption of every vice by expiations, to the knowledge of an omnipotent, om nipresent, and supremely good B . einff—of the true God, in short ; for since his attributes are the same, and he is acknowledged the sole object of worship, the God of the Mussulmans is the God of the Christians. The profession of faith which Mohammed taught to his disciples, and which has been preserved unaltered to this day, . is, that there is but one God, and that Mohammed is his prophet. Was he an im postor because he called himself a prophet ? Even on this head, a melancholy experience of human weakness—of that mixture of enthusiasm and artifice which in all- ages has characterised leaders of sects, and which we might perhaps find in our own time, and at no great distance from us, in men whose per suasion is undoubtedly sincere, and whose zeal ardent, yet who assert or insinuate a claim to super natural gifts which they do not possesi—ought to teach us indulgence. An intense persuasion is easily con founded with an internal revelation ; the dreams of an excited imagination become sensible appearances; faith in a future event seems to us like a prophecy ; we hesitate to remove an error which has arisen spontaneously within the mind of a true believer, when we think it favourable to his salvation ; after sparing his allusions, the next thing is to encourage them, and thus we arrive at pious frauds, which we fancy justified by their end, and by their effect. We easily persuade ourselves of what we have persuaded others ; and we believe in ourselves when those we love believe in us. Mo hammed never pi etended to the gift of miracles ; we need not go far to find preachers of our own days, who have founded no empires and yet are not so modest.—Sismondi's Empire. IZilli APPREHENSION OF MONEY MAKERS. We have this week to report another capture of coiners with all the apparatus for the manufacture of base money, and as this was the only establishment in which counter feited shillings were made on the new principle, by casting in moulds, and afterwards covered with sheet silver, great credit is due to the parties through whose persevering exer tions the police were enabled to effect a caption and seizure. In consequence of information having been forwarded to the Mint, a search-warrant was placed in the hands of Mr. Redfern, so far back as the 14th of June, for the apprehension of the parties therein concerned, charged with the above offence. Accordingly, on Friday afternoon last, about three o'clock, it having been previously ascertained that the proper time had arrived for a successful search, Mr. Redfern, with Palmer,the police-officer, proceeded into the Garrison-lane, to a house standing alone in a garden, occu pied by a man and his wife, named Thomas and Mary Hart. On the approach of the officer they distinctly heard one or more persons run up stairs ; upon which Palmer imme diately forced open the door, which was not only locked but had a chain bolt attached to it. On entering the kitchen they found a few counterfeit shillings, some of which were hot, as if having been just cast, a spoon, dish, broken metal, and other materials, all more or less warm, which soon convinced the officers that the search warrant had not been granted in vain. Palmer immediately went up stairs, where he found Hart and his wife ; he there picked up two counterfeit shillings, and perceiving that the woman had something in her hand which she wished to conceal, he endeavoured to wrest it from her, and in the mean time the man proceeded to a vice in the room, and there attempted to break a mould of plaster of Paris which had been used for casting the shil lings.—While seizing the man, he heard the woman drop something behind her, which he afterwards ascertained to be some counterfeit shillings ; on proceeding further with the search, they found a quantity of silver shell for covering the coin, a soldering iron, a quantity of lead, plaster of Paris moulds, clocks, &c. under the bed ; and, upon a further search, a leathern bag containing sovereigns, a banker's bill for 101., and other monies, to the amount of about .501., also a rent book, from which it appeared that the party had not occupied the house more than a fortnight. The two Parties, with all the apparatus, and good and counterfeit coin, were then conveyed to the prison in Moor-street.— Birmingham Advertiser. DREADFUL CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA. We present our readers with a statement of the melan choly case of hydrophobia which has naturally excited so much dread and alarm in Leamington and its vicinity dur ing the past week : the relation of so distressing, and hi therto so fatal a disease, cannot but be highly interesting to all. The subject of this case was a young man of the name of Ledbrooke, aged twenty, assistant to W. Edwards, butcher, Regent-street, who, six weeks ago, was bitten by a dog belonging to W. Butler, of Springfield-street. The ani mal had previously bitten his master and two children. Led brooke took no precaution for two clays after the infliction of the injury. It was in consequence of a general cry that the dog was mad, that he applied to Mr. Jones, surgeon, who immediately excised the wound, and, to ensure the greater security of the patient, caustic was intro duced to the part, which caused copious inflammation, and then it soon healed. During the interval it was evi dent that he inwardly felt a dread of the consequences that might ensue from the bite, for when any of his neighbours asked him how he felt, he invariably evinced a disposition to evade the answer. Last Sunday morning he went to Emscote to visit some of his friends ; on his return home to Regent-street, he felt considerable numbness and pain in the head and arm of the affected side ; in the evening of that day, about five o'clock, he experienced great con striction about the throat, uneasiness in the region of the stomach, general restlessness, and considerable fever. At this time Dr. Jephson and Mr. Jones were called in, who immediately made use of bleeding, anodynes, &c., without any effect. His disease increased from this time to the time of his death, having those peculiar symptoms of hydrophobia more and more developed— such as horror on the approach of strangers, spas modic actions of the throat and stomach, dread of water, &c. &c. In this state he continued until twelve o'clock on Monday, when he suddenly expired. Respecting the treatment of this unfortunate case, we would remark that through the combined exertions of the medical men, no thing that could in any way afford the slightest chance of allaying the symptoms, or that the experience of others had suggested, were omitted. The post nzortcm examina tion took place at the Hospital late in the evening on Monday. It was conducted in the presence of several of the medical men of the town and neighbourhood. The following appearances were exhibited :—Most extreme in flammation of the lower part of the brain and upper portion of the spinal marrow, effusion of blood under the vertebral canal, inflammation of the gullet, trachea, and root of the tongue.—Warwick Advertiser. SINGULAR CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER. For several days the• City of York has been in great ex citement in consequence of the death of Mr. Richard Ri chardson, aged about 20 years, who had been ill of the small-pox, and who it was very strongly reported, had had his death considerably accelerated by taking Morison's Pills. On Saturday week an inquest was held over the remains of the unfortunate young man. The first witness, S. Rob son, said, he and the deceased were fellow-apprentices, with Mr. Sowray, draper. He was taken ill on the 16th of June ; I fetched a ss. 6d. packet of pills of Mr. Webb, who attended him during his illness ; the pills he took purged him violently ; he was also sick, and complained of great pain in the stomach ; one day he took three doses of ten, fifteen, and twenty each time. Several other witnesses corroborated this statement. The deceased never came down stairs but once from the 16th to the 27th, when he died. Mr. Joseph Spence, druggist, said he had examined the pills, No. 2, and believed them to consist of about equal proportions of gamboge and aloes. Three pills of No. 1, weigh nearly seven grains. Mr. James Allen, surgeon, and B. Wake, M.D. g ave it as their opinion that the number of pills described by the witness to have been taken by the diseased, in the short period of his illness, were sufficient to cause his death independent of the disease under which he aboured. The inquest was adjourned till Tuesday, when 04r. Sowray, Richardson's employer, and with whom he .ived, said the deceased had gre a t con fid ence i n t h e p ill s , in consequence of having been cured o f th e c h o l era by them, and believed if any thing could cure him they would. Mr. Webb supplied the pills, and recommendedhim to take them constantly. Webb attended him eleven days. Ho took three boxes of pills at 3s. 9d. a box and one box of powders. Never heard that deceased took three doses a day of 10, 15, and 20. Dr. Wake, on being further examined; deposed, that if the strongest man in York was to take thirty . grains of gamboge per day, w hi c h h e k new Morison's pills to con tain, it would make him ex t reme ly ill, without having any other disease. Each pill, as far as could be ascertained, contained about one grain of gamboge, and one grain of aloes, so that taking thirty pills per day, would take thirty grains of each drug. The pr o p ort i on o f t h e ot h er ingre dientsin the pills was too small to neutralize the deleterious effects of the gamboge and aloes. —Th e procee di ngs were again adjourned till Wednesday, when the Coroner, Mr. John Wood, summed up, after which the jury retired. After an absence of an hour and a half, they returned to have the evidence of the medical men again read, when they remained locked rp fbr some time longer ; after 7 - bir:h they again came before the Coroner, and said that they . were all c.,:Tre , A on their .verdict excent one , . Tie Coroner sai( tW(4' )t.tlio.!a were agreed he could takotheir_verdiet.l would prefer having it unanimous, and after hearing the evidence of Dr. Belcombe, they once more retired, but the refractory member declaring he would not give way, at very near eleven o'clock they came before the Coroner, and re turned a verdict of Manslaughter against Joseph Webb, at the same time stating it as their opinion that Mr. Webb administered the pills not knowing that they contained any deleterious drug.—York Courant. MURDER AT NOTTINGHAM. Soon after one o'clock on Thursday afternoon, the inha bitants at the bottom of Beck-lane, Nottingham, were alarmed by cries of" murder," and a report was soon spread that a man had perpetrated that horrible crime upon the body of his wife, at the house of Mr. Peck, two doors from the sign of the Plough, in Beck-lane. A. concourse of peo ple immediately collected, and soon afterwards a man dressed in a fustian jacket, light striped waistcoat, cordu roy trowsers, with a white shirt open at the collar, and the whole saturated with blood, was brought out of the house in custody ; he appeared much agitated, and was conveyed to the House of Correction. The prisoner's name isW.Hinkley, whose father resides at No. 4 Court, Bold-lane, Derby. He was married eleven years ago, to the unfortunate woman whom he has driven thus untimely into the presence of her Maker. They had lived very unhappily together, and six years ago she left him, and came to Not tingham, and cohabited with a man named William Bull, who, we are informed, was acquainted with her previous to her marriage. About Christmas last the deceased returned to her husband, at Derby, and the latter set up a small eating-house ; but on Monday last the unhappy woman again quitted him, after taking all the money and various articles, and returned to Bull, who lodged on the first floor in Mr. Peck's house, in Beck-lane. The husband, deeply irritated by this double defalcation, came over to Notting ham by the coach, and went into a house opposite that where his wife then was, and bitterly complained of her conduct. He then went over to Peck's house, and walked up stairs. Soon after one o'clock, as Mr. Peck sat down to dinner, he heard a heavy fall upon the floor above, which was instantly followed by shrieks of murder. He directly hastened up, and saw Hinkley with a clasp knife in his hand, cutting at his wife's throat. Ongoing up stairs, as we have stated, Hinkley and his wife were down upon the floor, near to the door, and the former had hold of the woman's neck with his left hand, and was cutting her throat with his right hand. Peck (who is an elderly man and well known in our market as a seller of confectionary), immediately grasped him by the collar, and in his efforts to disengage him, dragged them both towards the window, but so determined and desperate was the infuriated man, that he would not quit his bold, but kept stabbing and mangling the throat of his victim till she ceased to exist. Mr. Burrows, a constable, came in and struck him several times on the arm, and at last stunned him by a blow on the head, before he would relinquish the knife. He was then secured and sent to the house of correc tion, as we have stated. At six o'clock in the evening, a highly respectable jury was empanelled, at the house of Mr. Woolley (the - Plough), before Mr. Dunn, coroner, who was soon afterwards joined by Mr. Enfield. The jury, after having gone to view the body, returned to the Plough, and had the prisoner brought in. He appears to be about thirty-four years of age (the deceased was about thirty), strong and muscular. He betrayed no signs of levity, but was cool, calm, and collected ; and during the examination paid great attention to the evidence, frequently correcting the witnesses, and putting questions with the utmost deliberation. Evidence having been adduced, a verdict of Wilful Murder was returned. The prisoner heard the verdict with but little emotion, and was then conveyed to the back door of the Plough, nodding to several persons as he passed along, and was put into a fly, which conveyed him to the town gaol, when he was delivered up. His behaviour was firm till Mr. Jackson was about to quit him, and then he seemed to give way a little. He has been twice in the House of Correction before, about five years since, for want of sureties to keep the peace towards his wife. The last time he was in prison six months.—Nottinghant Journal. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, -JULY 12, 1834. Our contemporaries who assert that Lord MEL BOURNE has been employed in forming an Admini stration, are in error. No one has received such authority. Lord MELBOURNE, as his MAJE,sTY's Secretary of State, has been commanded to communi cate with various persons who were not of the late Cabinet, and ascertain whether they are disposed to join in a coalition Administration. It is understood, that in obedience to his MAJESTY'S commands, his Lordship made that communication yesterday. If any answer has been returned, it has not tran spired. In our opinion it is an impracticable attempt. We venture to assert that none of the late Ministry would join in it ; and we believe that even the Tories would reject the proposition. One Gen tleman, who is not a Tory, but who has lately sepa rated from his political friends, on a question of vital importance, is said to have declared that he would be no party to such a coalition. We have little doubt of the result. The Administration must either be purely Tory, or entirely Liberal. If an attempt to form a coalition Ministry were to succeed, it would end in the loss of character and public confidence to all those that embarked in it. Coalitions are never popular and seldom in the end successful. That of Mr. Fox and Lord GRENVILLE, though the least exceptionable of any that has occurred in modern times, was in its consequences injurious to both ; and the impression it made destroyed for many years all confidence in public men. Better even that' Tories should undertake the Government than that both parties should lose their character. Confidence once lost is not easily regained. In times of jealousy like the present, no one should allow his principles or honour to become for an instant the object of suspicion. We hear that the Conservatives have had a meet- . ing, and that the Right Hon. the SPEA KER of the House of Commons is of opinion, that a Tory Govern ment may be formed if his MAJESTY should desire it. A declaration, is, however, now under signature at BROOKES'S, and which has, we understand, already received the signature of Mr. HUME, Mr. O'CON NELL, and a vast many others, which is calculated to appal even Mr. MANNERS SUTTON. The House of Commons is no longer under the control of Peers and a few wealthy commoners, but (certainly no thanks to the Tories) it is now the great security against misgovernment of any kind. No administra tion could last a week which had not the confidence of the House of Commons ; and a dissolution ,of the pre sent assembly, at a crisis like the present, would be absolutely fatal to either a Tory or a coalition govern ment, not only now, but for ever. There might be some distant chance of a successful attempt on the part of the Liberal Members of the late Government to form a junction with Sir ROBERT PEEL, provided the Right Hon. Gentleman can make up his mind to accord in liberal measures, but Mr. STANLEY is just now utterly out of the question. Sir ROBERT PEEL has not pledged himself like the latter —he has some estimable qualities as a Statesman—he has much practical knowledge—is a skilful and ready speaker—possesses, to a considerable extent, the confidence of the Commons, and, above all, is not so vain as to allow his own individual opinion to stand in the way of the peace and security of the country. THE. SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 13.1. His yielding on the Catholic question was creditabl? to his judgment, and may be taken as an earnest, that in other points, on which the public are not less anxious, he might show the- same disposition. In order, how ever to make such a coalition beneficial, he must ad vance just as much as he would have to re cede if he joined with Mr. 'STANLEY. But the junction of Mr. STANLEY with either party at present appears utterly impracticable. He would be a dead weight upon any Administration that could be formed. He deserted his colleagues on a point en which the great body of the people of Eng land, Scotland, and Ireland have made up their minds; and if the House of Commons were pliant enough to give up that question for the session, they could not more grievously offend their constituents. It is im possible, however, for them to give it up. They are tacitly pledged to Mr. WARD'S motion, and on the very first opportunity after the formation of a Ministry, Mr. WARD or Mr. HUME will put them to the test, and the great question as to the disposal of surplus Church property will be decided once for all. Out of evil often cometh good, and this is one good which will arise from the dissolution of the Ministry. The question otherwise would not have been decided this session. It would have been retarded for nearly a twelve month—it will now be placed on record, and the people of England will have a pledge, that when the abuses of the Irish Church are redressed, the English Church shall be the next to undergo the ordeal for purifica tion. Mr. STANLEY left the Cabinet on this very question ; he cannot now change his opinion ; and if he did, the House of Commons would not trust him. Any attempts to bring him into a Cabinet are vain. He has raised a barrier which it will require years to remove. He cannot work with a liberal Administration ; and with the Tories, he would only add to their unpopula rity. Both he and they count too much on his readiness in debate, his quickness in reply, and his "thimble rig" speeches. These might occasionally gain a few votes on one division, but they would be lost the next. The House of Commons now look to matter, not manner, and are no longer to be diverted from their purpose by the plausibility of Sir R. PEEL, the acrimonious dog matism of STANLEY, or the sarcastic wit of CROKER. No leader of a House of Commons ever had fewer of such qualities than Lord ALTHORP. Yet PITT with all his eloquence, and all his Borough-mongers at his back, never had more influence over the members— and why ? Because they knew Lord ALTHORP'S unbending integrity, because he was guided by the good of his country and not by factious motives ; and because he had never falsified any one great prin ciple on which he had entered public life. We should consider Mr. STANLEY'S accession to office at present, one of the greatest calamities that could befal the country. It would throw Ireland into the most violent commotion ; and to put it down, he would have only the alternative of resignation, or bloodshed, and unmitigated hostility. The people of England would not support him in any such crusade, and he and the Irish Protestant Church would go together. Great distrust, however, always attends coalitions, and we therefore confidently hope that the Whigs will either form a purely liberal Administra tion, or none at all. , The following appeared in our Second Edition last night :,-- We have just heard, and heard with the deepest regret, that some insidious enemy to the liberal and enlightened party who carried Parliamentary Reform, has been base enough to counsel his MAJESTY to inquire, through one of his confidential servants, whe ther Mr. STANLEY, and some of the leading Tories, are willing to join other parties in the formation of that, which the people of England never approved, and now actually hate the idea of a Coalition Ministry. We need hardly say, that the great and good men who are yet in the Go vernment, and who have a character to lose, will never be induced to ally themselves with those, who, either by resistance to:Parliamentary Reform, or by a treacherous attempt to prevent Church and Corpora tion Reform, have shown themselves to be adverse to th e rights, liberties, and improvement of the people of England. Let the Tories try what they can do to enslave the free men of a free country, but they will have no help from just, enlightened, and generous persons. The Parliament ought instantly to carry its opinion to his MAJESTY ; and the Reformers of England should meet without an hour's delay, and inform their repre sentatives, that they will not consent to be cheated out of the benefits of that Reform Bill which was carried after many a hard, painful, and noble struggle. The social salvation of the country depends in a great degree on the speedy passing of the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill ; and we are glad to be able to state, from the conversation which took place in the House of Lords last night, on the motion of Earl GREY for the second reading, that the majority of the Peers are strongly in favour of the measure. Even the most hos tile opponents of the Government in the Upper House acknowledged the obligation which they were under to those who advised and brought forward a Bill of such immeise importance to the country. The Duke of WELLINGTON, Lords ELLENBOROUGH, WIN CHILSEA, and HAREWOOD, all advocated the prin ciple of the Bill, and expressed their conviction of the danger of allowing it to stand over to the next session. The sentiments of these Noble Lords, are not only those of the majority of their own House, but of the country ; nor can we at this moment conceive anything more calamitous to the labouring population of England and Wales, than that the present measure of pauper relief, framed on the suggestions of the Poor Law Commissioners, should no‘be carried into immediate effect. But we have the . fullest confidence in the wisdom of their Lordships. We are quite sure they will despise the insidious suggestions of a Morning Contemporary, who advises the sending of the Bill to a Committee above stairs, in order to delay the passing of it, at least, for the present session. Knowing, as their Lordships must, the present wretched state of the labouring population in the agricultu'ral districts, — a ware, as they likewise are, of the danger to all pro perty consequent upon the presence of a mass of un employed poor, lost to all sense of shame from the operation of a demoralizing, degrading system of parish relief—we feel assured that they will not hesitate in giving their earliest attention to a measure, which if properly administered, will ameliorate the condition, and elevate the moral character of the poor themselves, while giving security to the property of the country. Earl GREY agreed to postpone the second reading till Friday next, as there is not yet a responsible Minister ; it being unusual to press forward important ! bills during an interregnum of the Cabinet. This neee.s- i sary delay will allow those Pecr.-; who rompla.in of a I want of time, an opportunity of judging for themselves by looking to the Bill itself, instead of hearkening to the clamour of the enemies of the Government. ORIGIN OF THE QUADRIPARTITE TREATY. A letter from Madrid, dated 29th June, inserted in the Renovateur, gives some curious information respecting the origin of the treaty of the quadruple alliance " M. Martinez de la Rosa, being convinced of the impos sibility of putting down the insurrection in the Biscayan provinces, and fearing besides every day the entrance of Don Carlos into Spain, went one morning to M. de Ray neval, and in a pretty decisive tone made him the following declaration : "' I come to inform you, Sir, that we are positively de termined to enter Portugal with a body of troops, in order to drive Don Carlos from the frontiers, where he keeps one of our armies in check. This movement is arranged with Don Pedro, whom we shall afterwards aid in pursuing and expelling Don Miguel.'—' But,' replied M. de Ray neval, it is a violation of territory.'—' We know it,' continued M. Martinez de la Rosa, but if we do not venture it, I shall be hanged, and the Queen will pass the re mainder of her days in a convent, which we are neither of us disposed to do." But,' resumed M. de Rayneval, if the Cabinets of London and Paris oppose your resolution?' They will not hinder it,' said M. Martinez de la Rosa, for our troops will enter Portugal before they have time to oppose it. Do, therefore, what you please, but we shall not recede from our determination, for the safety of the Queen is at stake, and mine also.' " M. de Rayneval, like a skilful diplomatist, seeing that there was no means to oppose the intervention of Spain, conceived, with Mr. Villiers, the. English ambassador at Madrid, the project of acceding to the treaty concluded between Spain and Portugal, in order not to lose all influ ence in the affairs of the Peninsula. A plan of a treaty was immediately drawn up at Madrid, and sent to the Ca binets of London and Paris, which were but too happy to sign it immediately. Don Pedro alone delayed the ratifi cation for a time, in consequence of his personal apprehen sions of the English influence in Portugal. Events, however, followed the impulse which had been given them, for it was independent of the treaty of quadru ple alliance, which, notwithstanding the activity of M. de Rayneval, was not yet ratified at Paris, when its execution had already been accomplished in Portugal. Such was the origin and the conclusion of this quadru ple alliance, the merit of which has been given to M. de Talleyrand, but of which, as you see, he is wholly innocent. M. de Rayneval has all the merit, for in these times it is a great merit in statesmen to to yield to circumstances.. He has had the address, with his English colleagues, to set a price on the accession of London and Paris, by getting secret clauses inserted, which stipulate that the persons of Don Carlos and Don Miguel shall be respected ; that they shall be permitted to retire on board English men-of-war, and that a pecuniary indemnity shall be granted them by the Governments of Madrid and Lisbon. A LARGE FLEECE OF WOOL.—Mr. Bliss, of the Bull's Head, Oakley, Bucks, lately sheared a long-wooled theave, which had not had a lamb this season, and was of the pure Leicester breed, yielding the extraordinary weight of fourteen pounds and three-quarters of wool. EXPLOSION OF ONE OF THE MAIN WATER PIPES IN OXFORD-STREET.—Last night, between nine and ten "'clock, one of the extensive main water-pipes which run along Oxford-street, belonging to the West Middlesex Water works, suddenly burst, and the water instantly poured forth in torrents. Immediate information of the accident was commu nicated to Mr. Miller, the superintendent- of the turncocks, who also were instantly sent for. A numerous body of la bourers were set to work, and, by all their united exertions, did not succeed in suppressing the immense loss of water until past twelve o'clock. and that by turning it off at the various districts. Had a fire broken out in the vicinity of that part of Oxford-street, the consequences (from the accident of the pipe bursting) would have been truly distressing. The loss of water to the Company must have amounted to many thousands of hogsheads. The utmost praise is due to Mr. Miller and the men under his directions for their unceasing exertions in sub duing it. " You are not going to stop payment already," said a London buyer to a Greenock draper, who refused to settle his account, and who bad lately commenced business on his own account. " Not at all," was the reply, "I am not going to begin them."— Western Independent. NOTHING.—A man who had lost all his money at play was seen by his comrade shedding tears. He asked him what he had to weep for. " Nothing," replied the gamester. " Why then do you weep ?" said the other. " Simply be cause I have nothing," replied his friend. GLUTTONY.—Habitual gluttons may be reckoned among the monsters of nature, and even punishable, for en deavouring to bring a famine into the places where they live. King James 1., when a man was presented to him, who could eat a whole sheep at one wal asked " What work could he do more than another man ?" And being answered he could not do so much, said, " hang him then" for it is unfit that a man should live, that eats as much as twenty men and cannot do so much as one." CLEARNESS OF VISION.—On a fine sunshiny forenoon lately, two Irishmen were standing on the Steam boat Quay, with their eyes directed towards Dumbarton Castle. The one observed to the other, that from the clearness of his eye-sight he could perceive a midge sitting on a projecting point of the rock ; the other remarked that he was right, for, by the powers, he saw it winking I—Greenock Advertiser. - - STRAW PAPER.--Some very successful attempts, it is said, have lately been made at the Mills at Anderghem, near Brussels, in the manufacture of paper from straw. Ex periments of this kind have been frequent in England, though we believe no article, from the material in question, has yet been produced, of a sufficiently fine texture for even the ordi nary purposes of printing. CLIMATE OF ENGLAND AND NAPLES.—By comparison of the true mean dates with those in England, we find that near Naples the elm is earlier about nine weeks, the beech six weeks, the lime three weeks, the oak nearly four weeks, and the birch only one week, than with us.— London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine. MODE OF MAKING GOLD LEAF.—In the pre paration of gold leaf, the metal is first reduced into long thin strips or ribands by means of steel rollers ; it is then cut into into little pieces, which are beaten on the anvil and afterwards annealed. * * Two ounces and two pennyweights of gold are delivered by the master to the workman, who, if very skil ful, returns 2,000 leaves, together with an ounce and six pen nyweights of waste cuttings. Hence the contents of one book weigh 4•8 grains ; and as the leaves measure 3•3 inches the thickness of an inch is 1,282,000dth p ar t o f an inch.—Zard ner's Cyclopedia. An American paper (the Mercantile Journal), which gives an account of a public meeting at Philadel. phia, remarks—" This meeting was honoured with the pre sence of our clerical friends from England, Rev. Messrs. Reed of London, and Matheson of Durham, who favoured the audience with remarks. They were very happily introduced by the Rev. Mr. Codman of Dorchester, and commended to the -, hospitality and christian courtesies of New England. Their manner was simple, solemn and impressive ; they stated that they came here as a deputation to visit our country, and examine our benevolent, literary and religious associations— they were glad to press the dust consecrated by the pilgrim fathers, their countrymen and others—much representation was abroad concerning this nation—they had come from their father-land and ours, to look for the harvest of that which was planted by the pilgrims." MODE OF MANAGING AN UNRULY LEADER.— On Wednesday last the new Tally-ho coach, on its way from Manchester to Chesterfield, broke down in the neighbourhood of this town, in consequence of the axle-tree breaking. After some delay a fresh coach was procured, and the passengers, &c., proceeded on their journey. Soon after leaving Buxton one of the wheelers and the leader commenced kicking, and the coachman appeared unable to manage them. In this di lemma a soldier, belonging to a Huzzar Regiment, who was a passenger, and who happened to have his spurs on, jumped off the coach, mounted the leader, clapped his spurs into the horse's sides, and dashed along " Tally-ho" at a rapid pace to Bakewell, amidst the cheers of the passengers of several coaches which they passed on the road. The leader which the Dragoon rode, it appeared, had been an old trooper.— Stockport Advertiser. FACTION FIGHT.—The Lawlors and Cooleens, clans which have been at feud for half a century, met at the races of Ballyheagh, near Tralee, in Kerry, on Tuesd a y week, and fought a pitched and long-appointed battle with sticks and stones. One thousand men were enaged, and the officers and soldiers of the 69th regiment, who were ordered out, felt their efforts to keep the peace utterly vain. The Riot Act was read, but not listened to ; men came many miles for the pleasure of the fight, and that against persons whom they had never before seen. The women gathered the mis siles in their aprons, and made battle music with their cries, " More germanorum." The Lawlors were victorious, and many of the Cooleens were drowned in attempting to escape across the river. Twelve bodies have been taken thence, and eight or ten died of the pelting and beating. COURT OF REQUESTS.—James Brenan, and se veral other Irish emigrants who had taken their passages in the ship Tropic, for New York, appeared before the Commis sioners of this Court, to support their claim against Becket and Co. for maintenance from the 16th inst., when this ship ought to have sailed fro m Li verpoo l. Th e defendants did not attend, either in person or by deputy, to dispute the de mand ; consequently an award was issued against them for the amount due to each passenger, at the rate of one shil ling per day for adults, and sixpence for child, en, from the 16th of June to any period that the vessel may be detained, in fulfilment of the agreement entered into by the man a gers of the T rop i c with those persons. The Court, on the sug gestion of Lieutenant Low, the Governmont emigration agent, ' directed that no fees should be taken from the emigrants for the award in their favour.—Liverpool Paper. THE EMIGRANT TAX. The 10s. and ss. levied on emigrants arrived at Quebec last year, are not at present levied ; the bill passed by both branches of the Colonial Legislature having been reserved for the Royal assent. The practice of ship-masters in the preceding years was to add this tax to the fare of the pas sage ; and, as they could not know of the change this sea son before sailing, they have done so as usual. There can be no doubt that the tax is ultimately paid by the emigrant in most part, in one shape or the other, whether by a spe cial arrangement or not, the fare being so much less or more than it would otherwise be. It must be the emigrant that pays the tax, or at least the greater portion of it, though the ship-owner, in ',consequence of competition among the vessels to this port, and those sailing for the United States may be forced to make a service of a portion of the tax out of his charge. Generally speaking, however, at least two-thirds of the tax would have been saved to the emigrant, had it been known that it was not levied when he saile. Where a special arrangement was made for the payment of the tax over and above the passage fare, now that it is not paid, it is at once the property of the emi grant, and the shipowner, his agent, or the captain, ought to be compelled to refund it. Whore no special arrangement has been made, the case may be somewhat different ; but still it is clear that the emigrant would have paid less for his passage by nearly the amount of the tax. Under these circum stances, we understand that serious difficulties have arisen be tween the emigrants and some of the ship captains and con signees. Mr. Buchanan, the chief resident emigrant agent, has actively promoted the claims of the emigrants, and on Friday and Saturday, more than 700 of them from Corn and Belfast, got the tax repaid at his office. To-day many others have got back the money they advanced the ship eaptains. No means ought to be spared to have a fair set tlement of all similar claims at present due. All are inte rested in getting justice done to both parties, and where there is any trick to avoid a settlement, or an unnecessary delay, by which the emigrant who is proceeding upwards may be induced to sacrifice his claim, security ought to be taken. We are afraid, however, that a considerable por tion of the tax will be lost to the emigrants, if some sum mary proceeding is not established for the settlement of claims.—Quebec Paper. MOTHER TO THE GIPSIES.--Died last week, in Loughton-lane, near Gainsbro', Merriley Buckley, in her one hundred and second year, well known throughout most of the midland counties as the mother of a tribe of gipsies who have for years perambulated that district. Perhaps few persons have had an opportunity of witnessing greater changes in the appearance of the country than this old woman. In the early part of her life the inclosing of waste lands had little more than commenced, the cross roads were in a most lamentable state, barely passable in the summer months, and consequently there was but little communication even between neighbouring towns, and the villages remained pretty nearly in the same state in which they had been perhaps for 200 years previously. But in the latter-years of her life she witnessed a wonderful change : every spot of land, where a blade would grow, was brought into use and cultivation—smiling villages have grown where formerly there was little else than desert—the roads have been so much improved that at all seasons communication is easy and frequent, and villages have almost become towns, and towns cities. Indeed it is probable, that in no country in the world has there been a greater change than in England, during the last 100 years. Her funeral, which took place in Gainsbro' church-yard on Sunday last, attracted an immense concourse of people, and was conducted with much propriety. —Doncaster Gazette. CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA.--Although it is now 300 years since the Catholic missionaries of the different orders entered China, with the view of making proselytes to the tenets of their respective creeds, there probably is not, at this time, throughout the whole of that extensive empire, a single native Chinese, with the exception of some ten or a dozen educated at the Propaganda at Naples, that has the least knowledge of the Christian religion, or of the language, the civil institutions, or the moral condition of any one nation of •Europe ; so little have their labours succeeded. GIFT TO THE NEGROES.—The committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society have resolved, " That a copy of the New Testament, accompanied by the Book of Psalms, in a large type, and substantially bound, be tendered to every person receiving the gift of freedom on the approach ing Ist of August, who can read; or who, though not able to read, is the head of a family in which there are readers, or children learning to read ; such parties receiving a recom mendation from a minister, teacher, or employer." THREE INCENDIARY FIRES. —About ball-past eleven o'clock on Tuesday night last, the parish of Speen was thrown into great alarm by the discovery of three la rge fi res , evidently the work of incendiaries, and all the property of R. Townsend, Esq., of Speen Farm. The first observed was an oat rick, containing about 30 quarters, situate in a l arge field at Stockcross ; and within five minutes afterwa r d s a second fire was seen to burst forth, being about a quarter of a mile distant from the first, also situate at Stockcross, contain ing a c l over r i c k o f a b out 16 tons , an d a seed rick ; and a few minutes after the second a third fire burst forth, situate at Dane Wood, half a mile further northward, containing a bar ley rick of about 25 quarters, and two seed ricks. The ap pearance of the north-western part of the element at this time was awfully grand, and had it not been for the active exertions of a few labourers present at the last fire, a large wood of several acres must have b een d estroye d, as th e h e d ge and p ar t o f the plantation were on fire, which was prevented from spreading by cutting off the communication. The property was insured to the full amount.—Reading Mercury PRICES OF STOCKS WI Bank s.?xk 3 Titer Cent. Peel. QI - :3 per Cent. Con p,•r Ccnt _ . ~", Dit;',l 1:(13. die: 3 Y Peer (:( fit. As,entod 4 per rent. f oisented 101 U Bank Long Annuities to expire Jan. 3, 1860 l7!,‘ 5 16 Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 PRICE* OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 10:34 2i4 Be - gian Bonds - 03 1 4 Ditto Account OS Brazilian Bonds WV, Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds 33.4 3 Ditto Account 33 Milian Bonds ft274 Ditto Account 3214 Columbian Bonds 29 ~c Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 15:24 31 14 Ditto Account 3114 Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1823 33,4 Ditto Account -- Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 3.1% Ditto Account 34,4 Ditto, 6 per cent 434 , 4 ? Ditto Account 434 4 Neapolitan 94% PRICES OF IRISH STOi 3 per Cent. Consols ... 921 . D:tto Reduced 334 per Cent. Stock 9 9% Ditto New, 1830 99 34 per Cent. Debentures 1)1% Bank Stock 2194 Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock -- DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK . 7.`,V 5 perCen* ,liaStock Old _Annuities ew Div° ...... - • 2.64 . . _ ft per Cent. Aniuitie3, 1151... Bills, X1,000......49 50 49 pm. Ditto 500 49 s') 49 pm Ditto Small .. 50 49 pm. Ditto Commercial — Pm Ditto Advertised — Pm Bank Stock for Account 21 7 1,4 India Stock for Account... '270!4 Consols for Account 92!4 __— DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Alten Mining Company £9 ' 1214 Bolanes Mining Company l5O 117% Brazilian Mining Company £s lb Ditto Imperial (issued at 5/. pm.) 2) 36;4 Ditto Macaubas Cocaes 2O 20% Ditto Scrip lO 121( Ditto St. John del Rey .. lO 7 Cata Branca Mining Company British Iron Company 5O 31% British Copper Comp :ny Hibernian Mining Company lO 3'4 3 4 Mexican Mining Company i 5% 6 Red del Monte Mining Co., Registered 63/. ICo. Cd. Ditto Unregistered United Mexican (issued at ta. pm.) Ditto Subscription Ditto New Scrip . London and Birmingham Railway C London and Greenwich Railway Con Australasia Bank Canada Company... , General Steam Navigation Company , National Provincial Bank of England Provincial Bank of Ireland Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Col THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. I Peruvian Bonds Q Dito Account .......... PoLtuguese Bonds Diti - o Account es Ditto New Bonds 86 3 4 7 6 5% Ditto Account 87 IA 6 5!4 Prussian Bonds lt 1 y 4 Ditto Bonds, 182.2 lOl Russian Bonds, IS. , Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds .....425¢ 33l 254 I% Ditto Account ...43 2 3 4 4030. 1% Ditto Bonds, lBs3 375 Ditto A ccount 37% French, 5 per cent. —f. --c. 4 per cent. .—f. —c. 3 per cent. f —c. Exchange f. —c. Dutch, '24 per cent. Ditto Account 51% Ditto, 5 per cent. ON Ditto Account 97 ~',. PRICES OF SHARES THI COURSE OF EXCH Amsterdam C.F. 12 6 Ditto, at sight .. 12 4 2 ' 5 9% 1 4 >mpany l5 15 'pally 7 1 414 .• IS 5014 13 16M 15 25 mpany lO 13% 44 10 , CKS, DUBLIN, JULY 9. Grand Canal Deb, 6 per cent. - Ditto, 4 per cent Hibernian Bank City of Dublin Steam Co. National Insurance Company - City Debentures, 4 per cent 8034 Ballast Office Debentures, 4 per cent. NGE, YESTERDAY. l 8 Genoa 25 76 Milan..„•. 9l Venice 47 Waples 40% Palermo per oz. 122 Lisbon 53 Oporto 52a4 Rio Janeiro 3B Bahia 3l Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight 1 Cork 1 Rotterdam - 2U. 12 6 Antwerp _.. 19 .5g Hambuig 31.11 13131 Altona l3 13yi Paris, 3 days' sight 23 55 Ditto ') Us 25 80 Bordeaux 25 85 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M 15214 Petersburgh, ruble .3 Us. 104 Vienna, effective fl o M. 10 2 Trieste ditto lO 3 Madrid 37 Cadiz •l'44 Bilboa Barcelona Seville 3614 Gibraltar 47 PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin £0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 3 IS 9 New Dollars Silvers bars, standard 0 5 IN MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived - Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 1 France 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 0 0 Guern.&Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 1 Hamburg ..... ... 0 0 Mexico 0 0 Carthagetia...... 0 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 49 minutes after 6. I Evening 17 minutes after 7. We now present THE SUN to our readers in the enlarged form which we promised at the beginning of the Session. The delay arose entirely from unavoid able circumstances which we could no; ontemplate, and the disappointment of the public cannot have been greater than our own. From the additional facilities which the increased size of the paper affords, together with new type and superior machinery, we hope to render THE SUN still more worthy of general support, for we appeal not to any party, but to the public at large. It is our intention, as opportunity permits, to devote a fair share of the paper to Literary and Scientific, as well as to other purposes ; but as " doings" are better than "sayings," we shall leave it to the public to judge THE SUN according to its future deserts. ~OR.sh 4 -0 464.,vate 4 ' fe SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY) (rTZO . I LLOYDS.)' JULY 11.—Wind S.W.--ArAved the- Brwat, from Calcutta Wootitrafftein. T: I r=l, ife d n.a.ica; and 'Harold, Grenft;ll, from liata‘ia. ; 34 the Hero of Maloun, Smith, for Bombay; Ferguson, Young, for Bengal; Arabi an , M'Gild oway , f rom t h e ri ver, for Po deaux and the Mauritius. POR'FSMOUTII, JULY S. W.—Arrived his Ma:, jesty's ship Asia, from Li s b on ; sa il e d 25t h u lt. ; (transport) also from Lisbon ; his Majesty's steamer 4 ,1.6 :`' n ger, from Milford, and sail e d f or Ch at h am; Pera,_ Press from Marsala ; and Marq u i s o f H as ti ngs , Clarkson, from Lo,l don for Bombay. Alfred ' PLYMOUTH, JULY 10.—Wind' S. W.—Arrived the from Fernando P o; R ewar d, G oss , f rom L eg h or n , and RoY a Oak, Phipps, from Figueira. FALMOUTH, JULY 10.—Wi n d S.W. t o fresh•, r,la breezes and squally.—Ar r i v ed th e N ew Ti m es, Pratt" "- Galipoli. LIVERPOOL, JULY 10.—Arrived the Hero, from Barbadooers; Fulmar, from Armsbourg ; Carouge, Bryson, &Om No v ui p ; leans ; Arcadia, Anderson ; an d T us ki na , P or t, from M°' Nautilus, M'Donald, Der m a, and Clyde,. Brown, from Quo bec ; Canton, Tate, from Miramichi ; Corsair,- :.Cumm in g , Crescent, from Smyrna ; and A nn Paley, Rolstone , Lisbon. Off port the Kin gs t on , f rom Africa ; Keiri, from from New Orleans ' • St. John, from St. J o hn's,- New Br un t ,. wick ; Hankenson, from Odessa ; Mary Ann, ,from Pa,l erm : n i and Amethyst, A s t r id ge . S a il e d t h e C ervantet , Hughes' - Hinda, Lowther, for the Cape , of Good Hope.. . MILFORD, J UNE 10.—A rrive d t h e B owes, J o hnson, ' lll 11 Quebec. -a m a ales MARGATE, J ULY 11.—A rr i ve d off port the Avoca, - from Singapore; and the Beaufort, Neagle, from Qu ebec r i e r, DOVER, JULY 11.—_Arrived off port the Robert S kin from Montserrat. HASTINGS, JULY 11.—Arrived off port the Hardy, Gibbon* from Cadiz. DARTMOUTH, JULY 10.—Arrived the Lord Nelson, 'r ifest ' from Vigo. GREENOCK, JULY 9.—Arrived the Canada, • Alla n ' 4.0 4 0 Favourite, Burns, from Queb e c ; the Miss LusensburYt St. John's New Brunswick • Amer, Grant, and Ende avn g from Mirimi c hi ; Acadia, Auld, from Charleston; an d millus, Mc'Niven, from New York. _ - DUBLIN, JULY 10.—Arrived the Earl Grey, Hutton, m f : 3l , St. Andrews, Ne w B runsw i c k ; an d the. Perseverance, resh, from Cadiz. WATERFORD, JUL Y 9.—A rr i ve d t h e Picton, ;. froll3 Mirimichi. frOn i ABERDEEN, J ULY 9.—A rr i ve d t h e Albi on, •L es lio, Miramichi. SHIELDS, JULY 10.—Arrived the •Drydens, Taylor , Four Sisters, Clay, from Miramichi. DOWNS, JULY U.—Arrived the C ar ldi n e Grey, ftco Quebec. MARYPORT, J ULY 10 .— A rr i ye d the Britannia, HolidaY, f ro° Miramichi. Off port the Mary, Forrest, from Memel; Mon te CORK, JULY 9.—Arrived the Sarah Maria frora.r.,"der, Video, Amity, Jefferson, from L agu i ra , an d I n dus, 1 !t o r, Pugwash. Off port the Sarah, Back, and Pacific, P- from Charleston. DEAL, Arrived off the Wight the Amity Hall, Ford, from .11 Extract of a letter from the agent to Lloyd's, at Gi bren'' dated Then 19 : a th' Board of Health h ere h ave thi s d ay : me lee . tie d following n o t e t o b e ma d e on a ll bill s of health to be henceforward : a co' Not withstanding the h ea lth o f t hi s popu l a ti o n ha ret to firmed unusually good for the season of the year, ;we:Alto b e state that withi n th e last '4 8 years, some ca se s suspect cholera have appeared in the garrison.' " 00' 0 In consequence o f th e appearance of a suspic i ou s 0 0 Alguiras, the comm un i ca ti on b ot h b y land and sea t os this place and the n e i g hb our h oo d h as b een mutual)" el 4 since the 16th. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 4 -/ OP' Our arrivals this morning are of a very meagre descrioo We have only two foreign ma il s , F renc h an d Hamburg) typos do not contain any news of importance, with the el ce ,r o scil of accounts from Madrid of an unfavourable kind, the aPP'b o ve of the cholera, which cause s th e greatest a l arm i n the ¢(t capital ; about 9,000 persons have asked for pal:sports' ~t off' also stated that th e mee ti ng o f t h e C ortes has been 1)" Disorder and great misery prevails. The express from Paris is only, sinteresting in regard 7 0 9 1 :: counts from Bayonne, statin g th a t the Carlist Chief i t ar loi carreguy has been appointed G enera l-i n -Chi ef by D o n since his arrival in E ng l an d ; a l so , t h at the cholera was "P raging with fury in Andalusia. French funds 77f. 65c. ; Sp an i s h are rat h er lower, 3,.9:00 We are credibly informed th at D on Carlos has lef t country, on board th e U n i te d Ki ng d om steamer; b e is posed to have gone to join the Carlists in Biscay. Nothing is known as yet respecting the new Ministry. THE FUNDS. ' /Cf S t We have again, thi s morn i ng , a pan i c i n Spanish , which left off yesterday a t 43i and opened at 4 3 1 ;of° within five minutes it receded t o 42, 41k, an d 42, a f a ll r C per cent. The decline is attributed to the-Q ue en - bavi o B,te fused the proposals of th e C ortes B on dh o l ders, as we ll 1 / 4 the unfavourable state of the Spanish capital, and the L' off the meeting of the Cortes. r os l Portuguese Stock h as a l so rece d ed from 87i to 86 ; 1 3 1 00 at present be quoted at 87. Thi s is attributed to one I m id of Portuguese Bonds, belonging to the former Loa* brought' to market. for till Consols, which left off a t 92+ I, are at present 921-; '- Account for August 92} i t. HALF-PAST 49 01 The general and c re dit e d report o f t h e depart-am°, so" Carlos for Spain has ca use d a grea t sensat i on i n t h s j'eltgo4i more particularly among the speculators in the Spar tir,h 4 .o .A which has had the effect to lower it from 4.31 to 41. • a t E, may be quoted 411 to ; P or t uguese S toc k h as a ' fso to 851 86. , Consols are at present 921 s for the Account. tro In the abs ence o f official information res p ec t' f r g t he s f A i Ministry, it is stat e d th a t M r . P ee l and Manners Sutt°„,' rtr be appointed to f orm th e new Mi n i stry. This is c tnlf r e r present. THREE 0' (:: IL - Consols for Account, 921 s. 4C Y , ' GLASGOW AND PAISLEY STEAM COCRI/I'" OP' —The publi c w ill l earn w i t h p l easure t h at the su , ccess oa s spirited undertaking is no longer doubtful. Tilt 'cc carteilej have been running daily since Wednesday, all el hem C ! *0 :0 0 " with passengers. The time occupied by the re' bides l' l , o o ning between the Tontine, Paisley, to Trades .on, Gigs' varies from 28 to 50 m i nu t es , an d many parts of the roa d a t present newly gravelled.—Scotsman. v .„1 5 15 OXFORD, JULY 11.—The R ev . T.. 1 ~, Cart ri go# M.A. of University C o ll ege , h as b een i nst i ti a e d by the John Garbett, M. A., Commissary of the Bisla op of Pict ird and Coventry, to the Rectory of Boylst o n e , :r; /erbYsh' t ;ilP l Rev. Thomas Butler, of Shrewsbury, ha s b er inatittleoar the Archbishop of York to the Rectory of L an g ar, t"" „ , of Nottingham, on the presentation of th e C i Y awn. CONVENTION OF RO YAL BURGH:' The Sp OP and tone of the Convention is entirely chant; id this nail few Tories of the old breed are in it, but I )• icy are 9 i e nles their beams, and fi n d th emse l ves sa d ly out irif their bor , Several important questions are before it. That as t° e for"o jails is an example of an abuse which calls loudly for C ed e d The claims of justices of peace in quarter essions O l i c eo o , the decisions of burgh magistrates as to publicans' I . e ls,J also deserves attention. The proposition f:rom Annal er icli to a point which concerned all the burghs . A town c' been appointed for five years or some such 1. irtai tcd term ;_ ; ,eii contends in spite o f thi s i n t en d e d restriction, far is atitbul o po o f established usag e t o re t a i n t h e o ffi ce f or lif b . H e i 4 te r the right; for the tend enc y o f l ega l prece d e ats i n this j o bro has hitherto been, to convert every public of fice into e a ss or) the individuals holding it. The motion b: f 1 the ass sir,' Glasgow, to abolish the Convention entir. aly, shoul d s 9 ce i Ti lie over till another year, when th e collar imoners armed with special instructions from their constitueu t l g h°,4l think the convention may be usef u l i n vine Beating thei r 001 the burghs when assailed, and promoting measures 1 5 11°` common benefit ; but there can be no doubt,. t 1 tat an e t 14 11 5 ?, be put to the absurd practice of t ax i ng the l a rge i'Lis#' build piers and repair harbours for the small isa e i t o CAPTAIN DAVID THOMPSON.-- We ' V ol ;r! received intelligenc e o f th e d ecease at th e I Slauritius; well-known comp u t er an d author of the L, unar . Tables, and inventor of the Longitude Seale, in ect g r ,eee l ' e i , of severe inju r i es rece i ved dur i ng the hurricai e devastated that colony. The work which has broug 15 1 Thompson's name into note among men of scieuc e t ' o cej, solution of th e pro bl em, o f c l ear i ng t h e app /went crsofifi the moon f rom ot h er ce l est i a l b o di es , f rom th a e ff ec ts, el lax and refracti on — one o f the most usef u l h. nallti • Z t re nomy; and he received from the late cel e l rated t bii Zech, high commendation for his skill and success vestigation, and from the late Board of ' Loug l Tab yt tardy acknowledgment of the high merit of bi B op E ri All methods which solve this problem.: by_ Av e, mative formulae being in some particular ca ses tiefeeP p ip i e rain Thompson undertook the arduous task of r oc o ct o o spherical triangle, for every case whi c h can oc cur I ,DJ The correction to one of the approximative for Intea 3 case' / adopted, was thus obtained, in e ver y indiviidnal °Ad', these single results were c l asse d i n a ta bl e of triple t e t 50 4 1 bracing all the cases whi c h can poss ib ly occur. in "01l takes out from the T a bl e the number required for" D ' with great ease, and adds it to the calculated -num . "; " of the approximative formulae the defect of whi c' 0 1 /' al Thompson's Tabl e i s intended to supply, and he tl u li e d a s i - d; a perfectly correct so l ut i on. C aptain T. also inven - O ti jo fl adapted t o th e so l ut i on o f t h e same problem, w hi t use of by many mariners.—Athenceum. O f '3' s'dri; DEATH OF CANNON, THE POLICE CL ,, — h e —This morning, at an early hour, death terminated l ibe Hoty ful sufferings of Cannon, a police constable soc i o i pt" to the V division, who was so barbarously stabbed, itt, at, c:i' wise ill used, by some robbers on Wednesday Ear. 0. 30 0.,; tersea, whom the unfortunate man so nobly attack ,', e d et r i vented them from committing robberies. The de' ' 1 ; 10/ 5 0 je!' previous to being exchanged int o th e V di v i s ion, r i ti tt ~1 5 1 the D's,where he was p ar ti cu l ar l y lik e d b y hi s sup !„d (Mr. Lazenby), and all the inspectors. The drAO . " the prime of life. w . It is rive fro excelle 'ng our minas, science. follo;ir underst litY to to nosh write, p And to o l s vi count And su 1 11 all t] Y a co It is t=i the fall Priety 1 eatastrl f Section eVel fight rig,orou holing to any , Th classes, than in certain severed irornedi their e seeurit ) Pavm en !tered d jugs, tL oine of aided a seized N f ree Cu] " TI SeqUO l ; End p o i all th e and tatisfi e , bu lived b