The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-13 00:00:00

ore the tra ,sed the the this awl let. ' I , .• 0 r Ir ,1,; e 0 ' .9, .1 '' ` ~ .l • T 4. Fr •V, r", , 1 - .!- E r , fi t r. .4-b " Who^ yfew!: .17tr,:tz,val\T„ The French Chamber of Deputies on Saturday afternoon, closed its Session. There were about eighty Members pre sent. The Alinisters for Foreign Affairs, Interior, and Public Works were on the Ministerial Benches. M. Duchatel read the Royal Ordonnance closing the Session of 1842. The same cere n'i ny took place in the Peers. The decree of disseltuicm will appear in this day's Moniteur, convoking the Electoral Colleges for the 9th of July, A telegraphic despatch from Bayonne of the 10th, punished lta Saturday's Moniteur, has the annexed intelligence front adrid : On the 6th General Rocil a..cepted the Ministry of War, with the mission of forming a Cabinet, of which he will be the President. An attempt has been made at Burgos to Pruelaim the Constitution of 1812. General Hoyos has been a!iit, from Madrid with troops to put down this attempt. '1 he Government has published energetic circulars against all at tempts of this nature." Another telegraphic despatch from Madrid, received by the rreneh Government yesterday (Sunday), states that on the Bth Wit. General Rodil had failed to foi an a Cabinet. The P ortuguese Government has not yet ratified the Slavery a 4‘rll„.4.Cotermaiercial treaties. What shuffiers these Portuguese inisrs are ! tieTtleloliwcia n r g d of Directors of the Belgian railroads has adopted additional means of security on the north line. i i i Maists of a species of tower placed on the lender, rising ur the chimney of the engine, on which is seated a watch :" who, from his elev a t e d s t a ti on , can see t h e w h o l e roa d t o c l great dist ance. He carries a horn, with which he can imme diately Warn the engine-man to stop the motion, should he Perceive any obstacle in the way, or any accident likely to Weuri. A letter from Amsterdam, June sth, says Harmony has been entirely restored between the ex-King t , the reigning family. Yesterday the Count and Countess of ,`,ittssatt visited the Queen at Ler country residence at Soestdyk. .t_ao-Countess was received by her Majesty as the wife of the 4,,,er-in-law. It is said that the Queen expressed hers ncere 17nowledgments for the great kindness and attention paid by Countess to the Count de Nas,au during his recent illness. Thi s re conc ili ation will give grreat pleasure to the nation. " lierlin is about to be enriched with a collection of 845 Indian Za ll ttscripts, a l most a ll i n t h e S ouse . i t, an d conta i n i ng the sir of the Vedas, which AI. Bunsen, the Privy Councillor of B. ° ~' fltbassy at London, has purchased from the heirs of the la e R . n ,. Chambers. The Vedas are in no library either in Lon t__r Paris, and the Bodleian collection at Oxford has oh agre—wod: this work only within a few weeks, by Professor Wilson's e ,i;'ng to cede his precious collection. The copy of the v - ""'s Purchased for Bel lin, alone cost 1,000/ in India, and the t ed as comrise 120 numbers. The whole collection cost M. • Il ' e tn 1, 25 r 0 . tiel; le„ PUBLIC OPINION. L :e'euorning Herald thus alludes to the Affghanistan (pies * •"'“ The most popular fllacy rela•ive to the Affghan f i tr i lea fallacy on which alone , any • hum . an being attempts to our perseverance in the policy which is now again marching L„ i t 'unties across the Indus—is, that it is nece , sary to re- Itt alib in Affghattistan in order thet Blitish India may be i t - t ed from internal danger. How the tranquillity of India into be preserved by sending one-fourth of the Indian army -Centrl Asia, without increasing the force within the n us, i;ea.'itteetion far beyond the ken of ordinary solution. If thee. o le ." a ager in India, we need every soldier we possess within kr----(Avn territories ; if there be not present danger in India, e tee not more . likely to create . hazard by diminishing our 412.1,11,4aq strength in that empire, than by keeping it at home ? Air cherished excuse, that we must prosecute the . war in 1 .5 411 41 mi to support our position in India—that it is nemy- ta be succes s f u l w h ere we h ave b een d e f eate d , i n or d er to eelent disturbance in India, is in every aspect in which it can ''s Pitt e .ted, most poor, most worthless. The excuse—we will se ike " i tnify it with the appellation of rea:on—is a gross and TratL , libel on the British Government of India." es%tat '‘e Advertiser has the following remarks upon the present s - iss e et : public affairs in the country The best part of the ai lie - 1 4 is over, and it were certailily as well to inquire in wh . at ti apst t i tcle is the country? In this we broach a substantive to the only real one with which legislation has Iti , e ',,•E'rom this time last Sear have we advanced a step? „ "Lie agricultural, manufacturing, or general interests of the b 4 a - „,, t i7 improved one jot ? Are we lightened of our onerons o at d e ns rif taxation ? Our commerce—is it enlarged? The 1 °nal happiness —is it augmented ? Nearly a year has p e t 11.1 ed. since the Peel-power came into operation. In that p ro here are manifest - evidences that art, that science has sib ,: e d--that the luxuries of the rich have aceu has -- ee e m ; on the other hand, we now ask, what eraie'"iovernment done ?—what has it effected in ad ens i tbe circumst a nces of th e p eop l e ? F or an Alse bv ' +et Us lo o k t o it s measures . I ts fi rst act was iis eom re newal of the hateful sliding scale ; its second an ; hs th:rd a mock profession of commercial enfran- Oot• -.ea t. Under the renewed sliding-scale the people will Pl..eat b read cheaper than hitherto ; under the income-tax a 4,tiwivie bearing down of the means of all classes will be the es. l et as r s alt; under the new tariff commerce will scarcely be Rop e it ra .al what it was. In the meantime the population has a ;Z a --- toi d " t er he e asing—the profits on commerce gone on decreas ,v, wages of the people constantly adjusted by the they ca . ."e4r employers, at that last term lower than which Il eer4 ." ga , Oh, for the coming winter ! Added to this,. a the bo tt Z t te i teitted in that affluence of barbarity, which denies a distueb e Y , l 4 f eigns to proffer ; and, as if this were not enough, Very pia Tif urr eneY, by which men are to be robbed of the is the co nr i. i . rY retain in their hands. Without any fiction this The Clir ee , l° !` tee are in at the present moment." P ro posal sssp e l e ele tin eonarnent s as follows on Lord ‘. John Russell's eepress our entir R.bribery at elections : We are bound to d Billssent from all that part of . Lord John Rus 04beiehjtroif Proposed ehit provides for au inquiry to be carried Committeebcoarnoui,gny. of Peers and Commoners. .The 14 Z t °,1 tb l e s be the disfranchisement or other punish- With respect to the seat, the . House of akey we ''s 1)0 pretext for interfering, and its assistance is not in 'lfex'Y required. Nor is it wanted to aid in the mere work iLPostre ; a Committee of the House of Commons is per triPetent to get all the information requisite to satisfy esti h e ie:Mind. The only case in which such a Committee .. tits by any use is where it is proposed to follow up its inqui levity disfranchisement, or any other such measures of 111 le as i l against the particular borough as require an Act Nt hi , ipanlent to carry them into effect. In such a case, as r i , " _ t alse affects to require evidence taken before itself as "ri e Nrid of any penal legislation, it weuld certainly be . as litetzttlrei4l24ve one . common tribunal, to which both Houses might If there is to be such a tribunal, Lord John Wise i li q y' a well frame it according to a plan of which the ,of Lords has already approved. We were sorry, how -" lied hirn saire- that, with the exception of the mon- S s e tPorovision of having a Common-law Judge to play the ,:•esses tau - Jug of Peers and Commons, he meant to take the Nee sent down bth House of Lords in 1834 ; ron look etitisere;%hnoe clauses we e find them as ill-drawn as it ie pessibie este," tO tt ob,erve s , in an article on the subject of light coin tiite. T he Gov ernment p l a i n ly h as no ot h er power i n the th e_ete ; e-ort,that of punishing the cli pers when it can catch u s e plo s if" it is at least eq-aally plain, p so it seem . s to us, that it, gio b ait . and the p u bli c on l y, h ave, an d have always had, No althou g h it now appears they have not exercised 11"Rht ati is bound to take a sovereign not of the legal 14 4E 3 . 4 N man is pi-melted from using whatever meanshe of sh eessary to ascertain that a sovereign tendered to him e lse e l ee 741 n. gal weight. We are old enough to remember . the 1. 41 4 . a lin house int o vrhich there was much chance of a guinea e lt : W ay was without an apparatus for ascertaining the guinea. For a considerable period we have been i wsie ge Y the admitted and notorious excellence of our gold e e .elne s ' ir ftt this trouble. But it was easy to foresee that the ,Zith et t arrive when we should be exempt from it no longer, ceerrsftiLthenever it did come some loss and much temporary t i ttiS4 lo ;%, r iee would have to be endui ed. The re-awakened tli e t "oag e ?.' t he public will henceforth, no doubt, supply what s ean supply, an adequate check to the Operations I,ll P tee s 4 14 4 and filing gentry, in whose interest the 1% hig 1 14 it to so zealously exerting themselves, unless what they 4., d s i °, l ) ee regarded as utter nonsense. The evil now expe- Oe 2,i" , we are persuaded, be of short duration." p s e ttitie, 4t e ss , B , ?peaking of Lord John Russell's . Bribery at t b ,' -t thy 'MI, sap He has introduced a Bill in every way 4 0 11, Ito author—a measure of such profession and pre lee'e -"cautionary like the Reform Bill, arbitrary and des e the N p l a empirical like both of them, and f a; _ eve oor.. w, s Whi s k (if adopted) to originate more serious evils than ts ice t t Proposes to cure, es hile its tendency to give an et I le, le,esle. to bribery is (at best) most problematical. For ~skkahib htle yielding to none in our desire to see bribery se P ie t k i lse ef . e d i end deploring as a national misfortune the great ii s , 4l " b e , l 'e s tlgns, we feel bound to declare that the worst pf 'well , would be lees intolerable than such a ma tt.,-• ht ,,,pati o hunte r , public and private, as Lord pd~eb may would 10vIllably create. Some of our oti iti e ! j e Imagined from . tone of Sir Robert . Peel's i ete t ted C": a aY, and from the open. - ^g a te to to b ri e cordial sup urt to the Noble words, in which he ex 9 in the orTS motion for - , i11, 1) that the measure, of 7ble i hwe ' 1 .-el esYs Pre " °lir disapprobation, has been approve, by her this,obe.losernment. This, however, ' is far from the egg> lio sep e ld a n eel' s speech, though expressing agreement in the esfekeet stated te be in view was throughout a quiet ex ststi! te e t he folli es of Lord J hn , Russell's Bill." sobjece of the present o distress, the Leeds Times hi t t: l 4oo is now obvious that the great bulk of the people of ikti g kith ) ; tu le in a state of deep suffering and distress, out of tio t al sutierl ahnrt of a general and combined effort on the itktia"rillitsid„ean extricate them, without involving in the tlth kit e sae settled " institutions" of the country. After et kiti:P ts to palliate and deny the existence of distress ele4overbrganturing districts, it is at length fully admitted by It Pelpi t e . b t , and even proclaimed by authority from every IDs lies! In th e ki , d „ R 4 lees! t he foll • n"nn. !t'Pe 'ery. i !'wtsig from the Scotsman law to put . r„,toasih is lid i ntimidation effectually if indeed such a Jaw o~wNate ' Mild he an intolerable ty;anny. It would de . s liberty with of dealing with 'Whomsoever he plea it d ses, wiekfere his private and social intercourse, and i nter `, NV " ' a nd penalties the very expression of his counte lite! of ie ,bail Lord John Russell s measure as a remedy for lk ."kolas `it •`"e More not ser clamant abuses which prevail at elections; ' 4Pi by far the as *substitute for secret voting, which we e most likely means of ensuring honest re isaablin ;ti t eeitenp, Post says :—" After all, the Mail at, %Var. right —and th-t, , rrent teu Lord De Grey goes, after wihrerely, hand on the Government of Ireland. And 4 i44 , 114 4 itig tub s there a more bungling apprentice. We . te ti with orii,esenay, w e do believe, that he came to this 7n"est -intentions. But, he did not •ee his dif fletii4ol"ass.c;rdi?t know the people into whose arms he would 4 14 ea lti a or le 4 .he could not, perhaps, appreciate the 4 7e , s orti e l e et ; . l . l s tsotiety, q e sugar duties, the Somerset County Ga oft' ‘t, RR ' du • r. Labouchere's motion for the reduction tt 'Pe was neeativ et WA I e ees i e , „ e eby a large majority; but the er,, to ..ail!,..by shoeing the country the extent 4,it e et. 1%44 . subjectest by this most barefaced c :l s te 4 4 ;l l tell t:i ti i, ee de l as t i lt l- e,olu ac t i t i c., s, that tne West India interest is too and, therefore, it has ecaped the mea t:tile zlttoolull dowii th eir ° ; t i ' g r e r n re t c " n Ort: I i ( e " : 4 • " Let the latter 0. 4 4, % le' -• s • ~1 4ht th e ba s n lis yet discovered is meet ta t irliiies of Mr. oti • rtsp, late keeper of the ' Gloucester Hotel, • 1101_ is about 9 701. of debts. 7"1,, about ts k fe w Whirh i 3 at present dull, is expected to im tlOtie47 weeks. Manchester 1 tinpr ,vement Navin sas much depreesed again, vem•hed. At Rochdale the I,4llites has inereaeed v 414: be ss i nm, ,but Bradfoi d, Huddersfield, and Tb~es2stationary. h u eKlay) is fixed for the production of Messrs. .11 -41a neeesh is P su P:e .. _r b,a.. deficiency' of " ° , fr( r ) o m m s(),0001. to is o expected eet, at Briehton f which it ti, s ner ed, 8 1 :1T itt9i that considerable property remains yet Nty ie with 4 vi "u 9ne of the (assignees has been over to Gr oia,t.lel7o-tra,:ingi. eaoes. ursday's trains to Ascot carried no less than V N' MIVETS. ofltk `4%, h ave ee tor the erecti en of a new colossal music -hall . `•Lan ehUr tired a h site i n Ki ng Wi lliam -street, at the ELECTIONEEZINC-. The election for the c tin - y of Meath, took place at Trim on Friday, when l'Or. Corbally was elected without opposition. LX2"'1711.72;2" Mr. 'Halla,r, whose literary reputation is European, arrived on Friday in PariF. The tomb of Pierre Giiles, the father of natural history in France, who died at Rome in 1550, has been lately re •beautified at the church of St. Marcello there. Tll`zalirk CAM, Miss Adelaide Kemble, with Miss Itainforth, Halle, and others, will commence a provincial tour early in July for two months. The first lady will perform at Covent-garden from the commencement of the ensnine season until Christmas, when she will retire from the profession. Ruhini has consented to appear once more, after which he quits the stage for ever. His appearance will be in the Son nantlula to..morrownight. Aidlle. Leitzer, the - celebrated German singer, commonly called at Vienna, the " Nightingale," arrived last night from Hamburgh, and will make her appearance at Covent-garden on Wednesday, in Robert the Devil, with Alde. Heinefetter. Leitzer will perform the part of Isabella. 527 - 011TraVG. The Hampton Races commence on Wednesday, and close on the succeeding Saturday. CO a a T—IVISIVIONABLE. The Earl and Countess of Hai dwicke have returned to Wim pole Hall, Cambridgeshire, from town. They leave this country shortly for Berlin, on a visit to the King of Prussia. A The Earl of lorley and C a ptai n C. Buliteley have been elected Commodore and Vice• Commodore of the Royal Western Yacht Club. The Earl of Ya-borough returned on Thursday last from Brocklesby Hall, Lincolnshire. The Marquis of Normanby left town on Saturday last for Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire. • Lady Peel left Whitehall-gardens on Saturday for Drayton Manor. Lord Middleton has disposed of his estates ;n the county 01 Waterford. They brought nearly 20,0001. The Duke of Devonshire received a select circle to dinner at his ♦illa at Chiswick on Saturday last. The Earl of Durham arrived at Lambton Castle on Wednes. day from London. Count and Countess Baptiste Illetaxa will give a grand d.nner, on Friday, 17th inst., in Bryanston-square, and the Countess a musical party i n the evening. ISCELLIINEOTTS. The Emperor of Austria has given 100,000 francs, and the King of Bavaria 30,000 francs, towards the relief of the suf ferers at Hamburg. The " French" cambric pocket handkerchiefs, so generally worn in England, are nearly all the produce of Irish looms. 'I he Horticultural Society held their second fete fur the season last Saturday on their grounds at Turnham-green. No less than 20,000 persons in the course of the day passed through the gate, and the nobility and people of fashion present were without number. LA W INTELLIGENCE HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present were Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lo:d Campbell. GORDON V. CAMPBELL. Their Lordships mere engaged the whole of the morning with the arguments in this appeal, which came before the House upon a question of costs only. CHANCERY .-(THIS I)AY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's-inn Hall to-day, it be. ing the last day of Trinity Term. WILKINSON V. PAGE.-JUDGMENT. His LoRnsHIP gave judgment today in this case, which came before the Court, upon appeal, from the decision of Vice- Chancellor Wigram. The question mooted in the case wiu as to the validity of an award made by an arbitrator, appointed to settle all matters in difference en the termination of the partnership of Messrs. Pearson and Wilkinson. There being one point in the reference not awarded upon, Vice- Chancellor Wigram declared the award invalid, and from that decision the parties appealed. The Lord Chancellor was clearly of opinion that the judgment of the Court below was correct, and dismissed the appeal. The Court then proceeded to hear appeal motions. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) This being the last day of term, the petitions remaining un heard were called on, but the absence of Mr. Pemberton, who was engaged in the greater portion of them, prevented the Court proceeding with any of importance or interest. Lord Langdale was, in consequence, engaged throughout the day with consent petitions. VICE-UHANUERY—(THIS DAY.) This being the la , t day of Trinity Term, his Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England took motions, none of which pos.• sessed any interest. (Before Vice-Chancellor BRUCE.) IN RE ST. KATHARINE'S DOCK COMPANY. His Boxoua gave judgment in this case. The case came before the Court on a petition and cross-petitions. Certain property included in the marriage settlement of Mr. and Mrs. Pinner having been taken by the St. Katharine's Dock Com pany, under the powers of the Act of Parliament, the purchase money was paid into the Court of Exchequer conformably to that Act, and laid out in stock. After paying some costs the clear residue of the stock amounted to I ,355/. Afterwards, in Mrs. Pinner's lifetime, an order was made by the Court of Exchequer on the 27th c•f June, 1837, on Mrs. Pinne.'s petition, on which occasion the only parties respon dent were the Dock Company, and the two trustees of the settlement. That order directed the sale of sufficient stock to pay the costs of the petitioner and of the two trustees, and the transfer of the residue into the names of the trustees. Little argument had been used at the bar against this order, nor did either of the petitions seek to discharge or vary it; but upon the terms of the Act of Parliament he was not satisfied that it was right. One of the trustees having died, the earlier of the petitions asked simply that the transfer ordered to be made to them might be made to the survivors. This had been opposed in the other petition on behalf of some of the cestrique trusts. It was not denied that Mr. Rigby was the surviving trustee, but it was said that or: certain alleged grounds he was unfit to he entrusted with the funds. His Honour s id, the utmost he could do at that moment was to dechne to allow Mr. Rigby to possess the fund until further orders, giving the parties an opportunity of obtaining an order restraining him from further interference. There being, how ever, a writ pending at the Rolls, the object of which was to administer the whole funds of the - settlement, the fund under discussion might be included in that suit. He proposed, therefore, to order that the stock which was the subject of these petitions, and the dividends due, and to accrue due, might, if the Master of the Rolls should think fit, be carried over to the cause as part of the funds to be administered in the cause, this order to be without prejud,ce to any question, wheth.r the Exchequer order ought or ought not to have been made, or ought to be discharged or varied. He could not give the costs of either petition. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY) This being the last day of term, the Court, at its sitting, called upon the junior Counsel behind the bar to move, ac cordivg to the usual practice. QUEEN V. GREEN. In this case Mr. COLE had obtained a rule calling upon the defendant to show cause why a quo warrauto should not issue, calling upon him to show by what right he claimed to be upon the burgess roll of the city and borough of Lichfield. In con sequence of a recent judgment of the Court deciding the point at issue, Mr. COLE now moved that the rule should be discharged. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL trusteol the rule would be dis charged with costs against the attorney tor the relator. The relator himself being a pauper, and the attorney being in fact the relator. Mr. COLE trusted that as that rule had been applied for before the judgment of the. Court in the other case, the Court would permit him to discharge the rule without costs. The relator had been on the burgess-list for four years. The COURT discharged the rule, with costs, against Mr. Simpson, the attorney. BAIL COURT--(THIS DAY.) The Court was engaged in disposing of motions involving points of practice. No case of interest occurred. EXCII EQUER.-(r hIS DAY.) The Court was occupied during the morning in hearing some cases of no public importance ; most of them relating to the taxation of costs. In the absence of Counsel, a few cases remained altogether unheard. The Court rose at a few minutes alter one o'cluck ; and the term was concluded. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The business of the Central Criminal Court commenced this morning, it being the 92d session, and the Bth - of the present Mayoralty. The Judges for the p r es e nt s ess io n are Chi e f Justice Tindal, Mr. Justice Matteson, and Baron Gurney. The calender is a heavy one, containing one prisoner on trial for high treason (Francis), one for murder, fifteen Admiralty pri soners for piracy on the high seas, and a list of other offence , many of a serious character, to the number of 269. The prs boners now on remand at the different police offices, and thosie out, en bail, will increase the number to MO before the end of the week. The Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Alderman Kc,ly, and Alder man Sir J. Duke, took their seats before ten o'clock, and pro ceeded to swear in the Grand Jury. THE CHARGE. The RECORDER then delivered his charge. He said the ca lendar before him comprehended, he regretted to say, a list of names approaching to 300 prisoners, and among the crimes specified were charges of almost every description and eiegree of crime known to the law—charges of cutting and wounding, of forgery, piracy, rape, and robbery; and also a charge of the highest crime known to the law, a charge of high treason. Although the calendar comprehended Offences of these several p descriptions, and although the investigation of them would e cake some demand on their anxious and painful attention, yet ote a perusal of the depositions, it appeared to him that they woulat not have a very difficult task in applying the known laws of the lane': to the different circumstancesof those cases, as they would be detailed in evidence. There was nothing in those cases that would make them require the assistance of the Court in ex • plaining the law as it applied to them. But one case—the charge or high treason—it being, happily not one of f requent occurrence, they would perhaps requireof him some n o tifi cat i on of the law as applicable to the case of the particular individual committed for the offence. The charge, as far as h e cou ld . collect from the' deposition of the facts, would be founded upon the ancient statute of the 25th of Edward 111., and also on the Act of the 36th of George 111., chap. 71. The statute of Edward 111. made A declaration of what offences should be judged to be high treason, and it declared that any one " compassing or imagining the death of our Lord the King," was guilty of treason. It at once appears that, under the description of the Soverign authority con tained in the term " Our Lord the King," was compre • hauled every Queen regnant, as the Queens Mary, Elizabeth, alio'. Victoria. It had been expressly laid down by Coke and Sir Al. Hale, that the Queen regnant is King within the statute, and in the first year of Queen Mary an Act was parsed declar ing that, all the incidents of sovereignty were to be attributed t o the Queen in the same manner as though the sovereign person had been male. There could be no doubt, therefore, of the term, " Our Lord the King," which had uniformly obtained under the statute of Edward 111. and the Act of Queen Mary. The Jury would have noticed that the few words he had read from the statute of Edward 111 , specified the crime of high treason in this manner; " compassing and imagining the death of our Lord the King." The words "compassing and imagining," observes Judge Hale, are of great latitude ; they first refer to the purpose and design of the will, though the purpose bad not been carried into effect; but though the intention might be happily abortive, yet still the offence was the same. Now the intention, as long as it was not not manifested, could fall under 1 the cognizance of God alone, and the statute, therefore. required such an overt act as could be subjected to trial, and sentenced by human laws. In this statute of Edward the Third, after specifying the several kinds of treasons, are these conciuding words :•—" And thereof there shall be sufficient proof that the person may be attainted of some open deed." The intention was the treason, the over t act being the proof • of such intention. By an Act of the 7th of William the Third. and the 7th of Anne, such overt act was required to be proved by the evidence of two credible witnesses, and by the sth section, persons accused of treason were entitled to have copies of the indictment a seecified number of days before the trial, and were to be defended by counsel, in some eases to be assigned him by the Court. By a more recent Act, that of the 39th and 40th of George the Third, chap. 93d, it we,. enacted that in all cases of high treason, for compassing and imagining the death of the King, anti where the overt aei alleged in the indictment shall be the assassination or killing the King, or any direct attack against his life, whereby his his 'may be prelate ered, or his person suffer bodily harm, the per son charged with such offence shall and may be indicted in the same manner, and according to the same course and order of trial in every respect, and upon like evidence, as if such per son stood charged with murder, and that the 7th of Anne shall not extend to high treason, where the overt act of such trea son should be an attack on the King's hie. That being th* case, the Acts of William the Third and Anne were dispensed with. Without troubling them with the reasons why a certain course was taken with regard to charges of treason which were directly stamped with a political character, lie would state that where there was a distinct motion towards the destruction o: -the Sovereign's li le, those safeguards of the accused person wet e dispensed with. Those provisions did not apply to the case to which he had now to call their attention. He• was not entirely free from difficulty in doing so; he could- have no authentic source of information except the depositions, and in any observations he might make, he must be, understood as putting a probable case of facts, to which the Jury would have ter apply the law. He should endeavour to take a similar course to that of Chief Justice Abbott, on the trial of Arthur Thistle wood, in which he informed the Jury that he should confine himself to an outline of the case. Having read that portion of the Judge's charge, the Recorder proceeded to state the details of the late attempt, as they have been Lid before the public, in thy accounts of the oecurrence and the publication of the depositions. He apprehended that there could be no doubt as. to the identity of the indi vidual, but it was important to ascertain whether the pistol was discharged with a deliberate aim or not. They would bear in mind that it was the intention that was the crime, and that it was the evidence of the overt act that must manifest the intention. Whether, from hanging fire, or any other cause, the pistol might appear to any of the witnesses to be discharged mote at the wheel of the carriage than at the person of her Majesty, made no difference as to that intention. And it was also important to ascer tain whether the party accused was on the spot accidentally or by chance, or was waiting there for an express purpose ; if they found it established that on the previous day the same individual had been seen at no great distance from her Majesty's carriage in the act of holding out a pistol in the direction of the carriage, though the weapon was not discharged, and if the failure of the attempt drew forth any complaint or observation from the individual, this would form a strong con firmation as to the premeditation of the event. The main point for their consideration would be the intention with which the pistol was discharged, and then their inquiries must be directed as to in what manner the pistol was loaded. That it was loaded there could be no doubt ; then how were they judge, when the contents were not found, whe ther it -was loaded with ball or not? From the position in which the party accused was standing on Constitution-hill, the contents of the pistol must have been carried to a consi- derable distance over the open ground opposite, and if so, the finding so small an object as a ball was quite out of the question. There were persons conversant with fire. arms, able to judge from any difference in the report of a p stol loaded with ball, and one without, whether the weapon con tained a ball or not. That was a matter for their grave consideration also. He would not presume to anticipate that opinion, but address himself entirely to the importance of it. Unphappily about two years since a case, in many of its circumstances similar to the one that formed the subject of their investigation, was brought, under the attention of the Grand Jury, and he could infer from the course of proceeding on that occasion what would be the probable course on the present one. The Learned Recorder then read over portions of the indictment nrid proceedings in the case of Oxford, and proceeded to state that on the particular form of the charge the evidence would be the same as would be advanced to prove a charge of an attempt on the life of any other person. As in a charge of attempted murder, they would look at the time chosen, the weapon employed, the declarations made by the party, and under all these circumstances it would be for them to dt cide whether they could reasonably infer that the individual was in a position to effect the mischief apparently in tended. lf anything approaching to what he had referred to as likely to be a matter of evidence should be proved, it would be their bounden duty to place such a charge in the course for further inquiry. There could be no case which more strongly de manded the anxious and particular attention of the grand inquest than the charge of an attempt to destroy the life of the Sovereign—a life in which all that was dear to them, •in their liberties, the protection of property, the preservation of the laws, and government of the State was involved. On the other hand,. it was not be cause the charge was so serious that they should be the more eager to entertain it; for in proportion to its importance, it followed that the evidence should be clear and distinct that was brought to support it. But that they would put the case in course of further inquiry, he could not, looking at the present evidence, entertain any doubt. With these remarks he should now dismiss them to their important duties. The Court then proceeded to the trial of the cases on the paper for the day, and was proceeding with them up to the time of our going to press. Should the case of Francis not be traversed to the next ses sions, he will probably be tried on Thursday or Friday. ?MACE INTELLIGENCE, BO W-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.— A woman, named Elizabeth Brown, was charged with attempting to drown herself in St. James's Park on Saturday night. Denney Farrow, one of the Park-constables, deposed that when on duty on Saturday night, about seven o'clock, in the inclosure of St. James's-park, his attention was attracted to a large crowd of persons standing at the edge of the water ; he proceeded to the spot, when he found the prisoner in charge of a man named Wood, who stated that he found her about two feet in the water, whence she was just going to make a spring, when he seized her and pulled her out. She was the worse for liquor at the time. • Mr: HALL very justly remarked, that if they had let her give herself a good ducking, and then have pulled her out, it would have been the best thing for her perhaps. • The witness said he asked the prisoner if she would go home if he would allow her to do so, but she said if he did not take her to the station-house she would go to Hyde-park and do it. The prisoner stated that she was a laundress and a married woman. She was very sorry, and would not do it again if allowed to escape this time, but she was drunk when she made the attempt. Mr. HALL said, his only surprise was that she should ap proach water at all ; if it had been a large sheet of gin he should not have wondered. He had a great mind to commit her for trial. The woman's husband, a respectable looking labouring man, begged the Magistrate to let her go; he was sure she would not do so again, if she were allowed to go now. Mr. HALL then gave her up to her husband, with a caution that if she were brought before him again for a like offence, he should most certainly commit her to Newgate. MONEY and uOMMEIiciAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The whole of the Markets to-day are exceedingly flat, with scarcely anything done. The prices of the English Funds have been firmly maintained, Consols remaining at 91 3 % for the opening ex. div. ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 91i 92 ; Three and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 ; Reduced Three-and-a -Half p er Cents., 100 a 100 a ; ank Stock, 166 ; India Bonds, 22 ; Ex chequer Bills, 48 50 pi em. No transactions in Foreign Securities ; prices, however, are nominally as on Saturday. Mexican is quoted 36k. In Shares, Great Western have been sold at 89a ; Brighton, 35i 351 ; the Loan Notes, a prem. ; South Western, 62i ; South Eastern, Scrip, 6a. The Bonds quoted to-day are Columbian, 26i ; Spanish Five per Cents., 22k ; and the Three per Cents., 234—a1l be low the opening rates this morning. Letters received this morning from the manufacturing dis tricts give a very gloomy account of the state of trade. Great expectations had been formed that the last Overland Mail would have brought some extensive orders, and operations had been entered into in anticipation of such an event. The contrary, however, was unfortunately the case, and the i e-action has been more than proportionate to the rise; prices have declined below what they were some veeks since. It is to be hoped that the heavy stocks lately on hand in most of the foreign ports will shonly be re duced to a point which will allow of a renewed demand, since. it is said that if not, increased and very serious distress may arise. The orders from America during the present year have been far below an average ; this, however, may be attributed to the deranged state of their finances, and not to permanent cessation of demand, so that it is considered that at the fall of the present, or the commencement of the ensuing year, some relief may be expected from that quarter. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New London ant'. Brighton ......... 50 . 3sii to London and South Western — 621 to South Eastern and Dever. ....... 50 ..... . to Ditto Scrip LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 11.—Only a very moderate quantity of cotton was sold to-day, the entire sales merely comprising 3,000 bales. Prices were steady. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 11, closed languidly, with a poor inquiry for Railway Stock -in general. The sales were, Eastern Counties, Debentures, 10/. 12s. 11d. ; Edinburgh and Glatgosv, New, 11; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, New, bi ; Grand Junction, 187 ; New Quarters, 26 ; London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 59} ; London and South Wes tern, 62}; Paris and Rouen, tsi. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 11.—Our Market presents a firmer appearance, anal we have had rather more inquiry forillailways generally. Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quar ters, 2i. 3s. 6d. prem. ; Manchester sad Leeds, 83 83a; Ditto, Half-shares, 36i 36a; Manchester and Birmingham, 26 26a ; Rochdale Canal, 56,k, CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock l6B 'lndia Stock —pm 3 per Cent: Red. ...... 911 Ditto Bonds 3 per Ceut. Cons — Ditto Old Annuities 3i per Cent. Red... 1004 Ditto New Annuities... New 3f, per Cent — Ex. Bills, 1,0001....2d. 49 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001— .50 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 48 pm Jan. 1660 .....•... 12i Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 Jan. 1800 Consols for Opg. ...... 91i ; FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent..,,,, Ditto, Metallic ...... . Spanish, 5 per cent — Ditto, Deferred.... . French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Exchange —f —c. French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, per cent . (Ditto, 5 per cent. 101 i SHARES. Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid),,.... 51 Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid.... London and Brighton (50 paid) itto Loan Notes (7i paid) ..... London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4d id) Ditto Preference, or Privilege London and South Western (431 153 odpd) 62i Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 26i FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian 80nd,... Buenos Ayres 6 per cent Chinon, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent — Di:to, 16'24 l4i Danish, 3 per cent Gieek, 1823, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 36} I duo, 6 per cent. 1637 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. 7 The Royal Court of Appeal will decide on Satur day, the 11th inst., nn the appeal of Messrs. Carrel and Coste, Directors ( Gerans) of the Journal Le Temps, against the sentence, condemning them jointly to a fine of 83,000 f ra n cs , fur having and ngpu M. Coste blisihedthejournal witho u t t h e s i gna t ure o f t h e manager, to a fine of 10,000 francs, for a false declaration of the property of the security (cautionnement) of the Journal.— Commere. THE MARKETS. -(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals of all Grain were moderate, and the fresh supplies vere inconsiderable. Wheat hardly supported the last terms. Barley Is. per quarter d-ater. Beans and Peas obtained their former value. Oats further advanced Is. Per quarter•. with a slow sale. The Flour trade was dull, at former quotations. ARRIVALS 01. UN AIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. 1 Wheat. liarl,y. oath. ; Flour. English Irish - --- ~ , , 110 - Foreign PRICES OM BOARD Or srIP Wheat,Red (old) s. -s. I Beans, Small (new) 37, 3 , 5. -.White (01d)......--s. --8. ------_---- (old) 42 465. -- Red 184 i) .50*. 545. --- Tick (new) 27 IX*, Fine 5.53. COS. .................. (old) 38,405. Superfine 6125. 645. - Harrow (new) 91;.33 F• ............. ‘V bite (1641) ss. 51s. l'ine - (old).. ..... 38s. 4::s. --...-. nk Superfine .6Cs. 70s. Oats F eed -s -- s ..-....-Foreiguf ree 52 a 725. - Icr•% 16,215. lyt 365. 40s. -- Poland itarley. 26s 31 -________New f23. C 6 - Grinding •6* 20,, --- Potatoe Malting fos. 32, -.. ,s 14,w 2t. V3s. Malt sos. 60s -. scot c h '27, 2fis. --- Fine New ... 625. IA& -.... Irish 155.... 18, 249. Pease, (rey, New 'o,, 3.25. Flour Town (per, tack).- 54i 57, - Maple New. Slt. 345. ---- secon .l; Ws. :4, - White .345. 314. ---. lc,,rth Country .... 48. 50i. Boilers .36s . 384. B ran Si os. SMITHFIELD . The supply of Cattle, Calves, and Pigs was moderate, of Sheep and Lambs large, with a heavy demand for every thing. Mutton, 2d. to 4d. per stone lower ; Veal, 4d. higher; Beef, Lamb, and Pork, without alteration. Beasts, 2,314; Sheep and Lambs, 29.600; Pigs, 371 ; Calves, 117. Beef, 2s. h/d. to 4s. 6d. ; Mutton, 3 3 . t o 4 s . 4d. ; Veal, 3s. 2d. to ss. ; Pork, 2s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; La m b, 5 3. to 6s. TEA MARKE T. The market was firm, and a f a i r business was transacted. Company's Congou, Is. Bd. to Is Bid. cash. TALLOW MARKET. A fair business was done at 48s. 3d. on the spot, and 49 , :. 3d. to 495. 6d. for delivery in the last three months of the year. PRO VISIONS. Butter sold slowly at declining prices. Bacon is heavy of sale, at 475. to 495. per cwt. Lard is neglected. For Hams there were few buyers. ____ FRUIT MARKET. In Currants a fair business was done at 525. to 60s. par cwt. Figs scarce and wanted. HEMP. Jute secured a fair sale at 171 , but other sorts of Hemp were dull of sale. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WEIGHTS FOR THE GOODWOOD CUP. st. lb.l st. lb. Charles XII., 6 yrs lO 0 Attila, 3 yrs 712 Lanercost, aged ... ...... 9 11 Marius, 4 yrs ... Bee's-wing, aged... Mus, aged... . ... .. ..... 9 7 Monada. 6 yrs... Warctan, 5 yrs... Sleight-of- Hand, 6 yrs 9 2i 6 yrs... 9 OiCh g by St. Nicholas, 7 5 Y Retriever, 6 rs Satirist, 4 yrs Confusione e , 6 y rs Galaor, 4 yrs St Lawrence, 5 yrs 8 I 1 11eteor, 3 yrs ....... .... 7 4 The Squire, 4 yrs Van Am burgh, 4 yrs ... 8 10 Ballinkeele, 3 yrs 6 13 Prince Caradoc, 4 yrs... 8 lolJack, 3 yrs. 6 13 Tubalcain, 6 yrs .. 8 9 Pharold. 3 yrs... Thistle Whipper, 4 yrs 8 5 Nautilus, 3 yrs 6 12 Nlustapha Altiley, 4 yrs 8 5 Eaglet-field, 3 yrs 6lO Fieschi, aged . 8 3 Policy, 3yrs 6 10 Nliddleham, 4 yr 5.....,.,, 8 3 The Golden Rule, 3 yrs 6 10 Zelmyra, 5 yrs 8 3 Belcceur, 3 yrs . .. Arnagill, 4 yrs Muley Hamet, 4 yrs Galen, 5 yrs... .. .8 0 The Oneida Chief, 3yrs 6 10 Bulwark, 6 yrs 7 12 Yorkshire Lady, 3 yrs 6 6 li. by Priam— Seamew, Fireaway, 3 yrs ... 6 6 6 yrs Alarshal Soult, 4 yrs .... 7 n Alartyr, 3 yrs.... ...... The above are subject to alteration every week SOVEREIGNS DEFICIENT IN WEIGHT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN: Slit,—Great loss, independent of much hindrance of busi ness, was experienced, particularly yesterday, from the prohi bition of passing light sovereigns. This has been a rich h••r vest to money-changers and bullion-dealers, and a most ini quitous one it has been. The current weight of a sovereign is 5 dwis. 214 grains, or 122 1 1 grains; of the half sovereign, a mere trifle less in proportion, 2 dwts. 13% grains, or 6IA grains; and at these weights respectively, of standing weight, they are to be received, and when tendered of less weight per sons are authorised by law to break them. Yesterday I had an opportunity of weighing many, stated to be light, some of them were not so, others were standing weight, and a great number from one-eighth to one-fourth of a grain under the proper weight. New, Sir, the ounce of gold coin, of 4SO grains, or 12 dwts., is at present valued at 3/. 17a 100., n:aking the grain of gold coin 7 farthings and 63-80ths of a tar thing, nearly twopence ; yet the dealers made the holders 'a critiee 6d. upon the sovereign of standing weight, 1221 grains, and 9d. when there was the slighteft adverse turn of the scale. This isas extremely unjust, hut enormous sums a!together • were yesterday exchanged upon these terms. •The coin most deficient in weight is that of 1621, which has undergone in some instances severe ‘. sweating." There should he an office somewhet e established, where as few as four sovereignkmight be changed at their intrinsic value, at,d persons will then get that quantity exchanged for, most frequently, from one penny to fourt.ence. When our gold coin (which was the case till within the last 15 years) was alloyed with silver, 11 parts gold and 1 silver, it resisted wear much better ; now it has 1 part of copper to 11 of gold. Every one much accustomed to the gold and silver coin of foreign countries must be struck with the great loss our coin suffers from attrition ; that of foreign countries not being ,re duced from detrition one-half the quantity in double the time. I believe the great cause of this to be the asperities of our pieces. The milling now practised I believe to be very inju rious, by friction of the pieces one against another ' • and I con sider the lettering, both on the face an d reverse (and even if there be a legend on the edges), should be stink, not promi nent. No die that ever was struck has been so well calcu lated to prevent wear as that of the penny copper piece of the year 1797; it has a raised border, about the eighth of an inch, which protects both the face and reverse, and all the letters and figures are sunk and not prominent. June 12, 1842. NUMISMATIST. We have heard, from good authority, that Govern ment are in possession of information from Jellalabad, three days later than what has been given to the public, by whi, the gratifying fact is known, that General Pollock had effected a junction with Sir R. Sale, and that the united force would be competent for offensive operatio ns.— Liampshire Telegraph. DOVER, JUNE 12, 1842.—Arrived the Britannia steamer from Boulogne, with his Excellency Aaly Effendi, Ambassadc.r from the Sublime Porte to this country, with his suite. GRAY'S INN, JUNE 1 1 ..--,Tweph Pollock, Esq., was this day called to the degree of Barrister-at -law, by the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn. SUICIDE AT 13RIGHTON.---13RIGHTON, SUNDAY, JUNE I2.—Last night a distressing suicide was committed by a lady of weak intellect, who had been residing for the benefit of her health, at 14, Crescent. place, Brighton. It appears that the unfortunate lady was Mrs. Mary Cumberland, the mother of six children, and the wife of Mr. Ri c h ard Cumberland, a gen tleman said to hold a high official situation in the Tower of Lon • don. For some time past she had been left in the care of the land lady of the house, and according to custom for protection slept between two females. Last night they retired to rest soon after ten, and about eleven o'clock Ann Leifer, one of the ser vants, was surprised to hear the outer door violently closed; s ie. immediately proceeded up stairs to ascertain the cause, and found the unfortunate lady had left the bed, her two attendants being fast asleep. The police were alarmed and a search com menced without effect, until about two o'clock this morning, when two of the coast guardsmen, named Joseph Grist and Thomas Robertson, perceiving something white washed up on the beach, went to the spot and found it to be the body of the unfortunate lady quite dead. The cause assigned for con,- mitting the rash act was an idea she had entertained for some time past, that she was about being removed to a lunatic asylum. Mr. Wilson, before his departure from town to fulfil some provincial engagements, will give but three more evenings' entertainments at the Music Hall in Store-street— viz., this evening, and on Mondays next and following, the 20th and 27th inst. Of his sch'eral performances there is none more popular than what is called his "Charlie nights," wherein are comprised the principal songs written in espousal of the cause of an exiled prince, who sought to restore the fallen fortunes of his family, which will come off to-night. What are to be the subjects of his two following nights' entertainments has not at present transpired. The King of Song, the inimitable Eub:ni, is again with us. He makes his re-entree to-morrow night in the Snyznambuta. He appears only for a few nights, when betakes leave of the stage. It is strongly rumoured that her Majesty and Prince Albert intend to honour the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos with a visit at his magnificent mansion at Stowe. Forty London tradesmen are coming down to make prepara tions for these illustrious visitants. The Royal Bucks Yeo manry are to be almost entirely new equipped for the occa sion, which will, we believe, take place in the month of August. —Aylesbury News. FATAL ACCIDENT.—This morning (Monday) a youth of the name of Charles Lock lost his life under the fol lowing distressing circumstances :—lt appears that the unfor tunate lad was bathingin the Thames opposite Messrs. Goding's brewery, about half-past twelve o'clock, with seve ra l ot h er perons, when all of a sudden he was observed to sink i n t h e water. An alarm was raised, the drags procu re d, an d the river searched, but we regret to state with out his parents avail, as the body was nowhere to be found. O n the first alarm being raised, a g entleman, wh o was passing near the spot, plunged into the water , and ne ar ly lost his own life, for he was instantly seized with cramp in th e chest, and was obliged to be pulled out of the water b another rperso n. reside at No. 92, w The e deceased :bbe w r- a r s ow on , l ß y la l c l kf y r e j a a r r. s s The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel, The Giraffe, from Rotterdam, arrived off t he Custom House of age ; at eleven o'clock yesterday, with the Dutchmails. AWFUL VISITATION.—This morning, about one o'clock, Mr. Robert Wright, of the Harrow public-house, Pronrose.hill, Salisbury-square, F ect-street, suddenly expired at his residence, under the fo lowing melancholy circum stances:—lt appears that yesterday Mr. Wright took an excur sion to Richmond, from whence he returned home at about twelve o'clock last night, apparently in full health and cheer ful spirits, and having superintended the closing of the house, he .at down and eat a very hearty suem-r ,-, ; after whi c h, he discovered that the ale was tt oft, ' and after ex pressing his disapprobation to his ,life of the circumstance, cent himself into the cellar for:the purpose of performing what was requisite, but being absent a longer time than was necessary he was called to, but no answer being returned, the waiter was sent to tLe cellar, when the unfortunate man was discovered lying upon his back and life quite extinct Medical aid was procured with all possible dispatch, but without avail. The deceased has left a wife but no family. PAISLEY, JUNE B.—SINGULAR CASE OF SUICID E ._ A Mr. Wilson, who kept a hat shop in High-street here, put a period to his existence in the following extraordinary manner. :ieing in embarrassed circumstances with regard to business, a meeting of his creditors had been called, which took place on Monday last, at which, as a matter of course, his attendance was requisite. At some particular stage of the meeting h e was requested to retire to the door for a short time, and ; A that the unfortunate mail had walked thence stra:ght to the canal, and deliberately plunged himself in, near the West Re lief Church. About two hours afterwards the body was dis covered, and carritd to his home. The amount of his debt, it is reported, is scarcely 701., upon which he had offered a com pensation of 13s. in the pound. The alum works established on the Marquis of Normanby's estate are now in full operation, and a discovery has been made in the compound of an article which is likely to supersede the use of indigo in dying cloth and other fabrics, which promises to be a source of considerable wealth to the Noble Marquis. I fliE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EiTENING, JUNE 13, 1842. PORTUGAL.. FALMOUTH, JUNE 11 The steamer Braganza arrived thi morning with the Perilhsular mails and the following paiscn• gers :—Messrs. Smith, Davenport, Parselleir, Williams an, child, Delcampo, Hulston. Thup, J. Ade Agreda aid two sons Stewart, St. Clair, Garland, Vidal, Plummer, Hyland Murphy and servant, Felix Slurtor, A. Alves, Graham an daughter, Gelerat, and D. .1. Chase ; Captain May, sth regi ment ; Miss Duinford, Miss Noble, and Miss Harris ; ant Captain Tesdall. The dates are—Gibraltar, 2d inst. ; Cadiz 3d inst. ; Lisbon, 6th inst. ; Oporto. 7th inst. ; and Vigo, attl inst. The Penguin packet, Lieut. Leslie, sailed yesterday with the Brazil mails. Passengers—St. Mein) da Silva, with de spatches, said to be respecting the approaching marriage of the Emperor of Brazil with the daughter of the King of Naples; St. Sodre, and AI. Theremin, Prussian Consul. LISBON, JUNE 6.—1 regret to say that at the last moment when it was understood that by the decision, both of the Council of State and of the Aiinistry, every difficulty had been overruled, and nothing remained but to copy out the treaties. sign them, and transmit them home for ratification, an, ob stacle to the prat-apt conclusion of the business has been raised by the Duke of Pamella, who, it is stated, now requires some distinct admission of the principle of a future revision of the slave-trade treaty, which Lord Howard's instructions do nor allow him to accede to, and which, therefore, necessitates an other reference home. It is greatly to be regretted than these repeated delays are allowed to take place. I have the strongest reason to believe that the Government here is sincerely anxious to settle both Treaties. The difficulty presented by the piracy question had been over come— the Government resolving- to take upon itself the responsibility of issuing a oecree drawn up way to meet our views. The guarantees sought b 1 us against the abuses that might result from the abolition of the Conservatorial Court, and of the other British privileges, would have been afforded by special laws to be introduced by the Government in the Cortes, em powering a mixed commission to levy the assessed taxes On British subjects, with an appeal to the tribunal of the Treasury. A Jury of half British and half Portuguese was to be formed fur trial in criminal cases, and British subjects here were also to have the same rights as to bail, &c., which Portuguese sub jects have in England ; so that all the security that could be given, consistently with the abolition of exclusive privileges would have been given, and until the bills had passed the Cortes and been sanctioned by the Crown, the present privi leges would have continued. With respect to the tariff, also, it is said that the Commissioners have presented a Report recommending great reduction on many articles. This ques tion would, however, necessarily require some time to discuss, yet as the home Government is understood to have signified its willingness to take off 2s. 9d. a gallon from wine, thus reducing it irourss. 9d. to 35., and to reduce the duty on brandy to 15s. per gallon, provided a sufficient compensation were given in return, the question might have been immediate]) and advantageously entered upon. But now three week• more must elapse before the Slave-trade Treaty can be signed, and until that be signed the other treaty will not be. The time, however, will not be entirely lost, as information, and arrangements respecting the tariff may go on, so as t, bring the whole business to a speedy conclusion after the a, swer from home shall have arrived. Still the delay is calcu• fated to be mischievous, and can set ve no good purpose. In a former letter I exonerated the Duke of Palmella from causing delay, and did not do so on light grounds; but it appears that my information, however confidently given, af r o backe.l by evidence that at the time seemed indisputahlt'. was too favourable to the Duke. It is shrewdly surmisee that the object of the latter is to get the negotiations trans ferred to England, and himself appointed on a special mis sion to negotiate both treaties. A residence at the Court of London is a very pleasant thing to a man with the large fortune the Duke has now at his disposal; and should tit delay lead not immediately to the transfer of the negotia• tions, but to the present Government being broken up, no doubt the Duke of Palmella is a person of sufficient import ance to induce any Ministry likely to be formed, to be willina to conciliate him by the offer of the London mission, which 1: known to be the object of his desire. The elections commenced yesterday. It is difficult to sa' how they will go on in Lisbon itself, which will probably be closer run than at any other place. The Aliguelite interest i, very strong in the outskirts of Lisbon, and, added to the Sep tembrists, will doubtless give the coalition a majority in some of the town parishes, but as not only Lisbon and neighbour hood, but the whole province of Estramadura, including the districts of Santarem and Leiria, are included in the same elm'. Loral circle, which returns twenty four Deputies, the Govern ment, there is little doubt, will carry the day. The present elections are of one to two or more Delegates, returned by the votes of the qualified parishioners, and who, added to those to Santarem, Leiria, &c., will have to elect the Deputies. A great struggle is going on, and each party puts forth its most conspicuous characters."' The Diario claims to have carrier the election of Delegates in 18 parochial districts in Lisbon and acknowledges having lost in 10. The Nacional claims ls to.: the Opposition against 10 cat ried by the Government, the rest being still doubtful. The Correio publishes particulars 12 parochial districts in which the Government candidates have the majority, and of 8 in which the Opposition candidates hav, the lead. It has generally been a very bard run here. The Alban, Government steamer, is here, and leaves for England to-morrow; and I shall probably be able to give you the ac count of the Lisbon returns by that vessel. The funeral of J. M. Oneill, Esq., took place on Tuesla) last, and was very numerously and respectably attended. The body was laid in the Encanaeo Church, where the funeral ser vice was performed ; it was subsequently conveyed for inter ment to the cemetery of Prazeres, near Comtto d'Ourique, The pall was borne by the Danish Minister (Count Luckner) Al. Dietz (the King's Secretary), and Mr. Smith (the British Consul), on one side ; and on the other by Conde de Villa Real, and Senhors J. 1)a Silva Carvalho and R. F. Magalhaes. The Duke de Terceira and many members of the diplomatic and Consular body attended the funeral. Senor Aguilar, the Spanish Minister, has been summoned to Madrid, to take part, it is understood, in the formation of the new administration there. He was to leave Lisbon to-day. The French war steamer Pluton, arrived this morning ; is be lieved to be sent to take home Al. de Varennes, the French Minister. It had previously transpired that M. de Varennes was about to leave, the reason assigned being the dangerous state of his father's health; bow far this may be correct or not I cannot say. The Indus still continues here with the Lynx ; the Alban, Government steamer, arrived from Plymouth on Thursday, bringing 250 sailors, who were transferred to the Indus, which is ordered to the Mediterranean to relieve the Calcutta, which was to proceed home to be paid off, but will be immediatel) recommissioned, and probably be stationed here. The Alalabar, Captain Sarterius, is expected here in the meantime, but not to make a long stay, being destined for South America. The Poatuguese frigate, Donna Maria 11., is about leaving for Angola, Goa, Macao, and Timor, taking a new Governor• for tee latter place, 130 prisoners under sentence of trans portation to Angola, and also a cargo of wine, &c., from Lisbon to Goa and other parts. The Queen and Court will move from the Necessidades to the Palace at Cintra at the end of this week. '1 bus, on the Government side, the Duke of Terceira i eandidate for the district of the Cathedral, and had received 202 votes against 99; Viscount Laborim, for that of Lapa, 165 against 128. The coalition had carried the election at St. Paul's district, where Baron de Villa Nova de Foscoa had re ceived 140 votes against 97. J. A. de Alagalhaes and Limed Tavares, had also been chosen in the same interest; numbers not given. BOULOGNE CIVIL TRIBUNAL. SITTING OF JUNE 10.-JUDGMENT OF THE COURT. THE MORNING CHRONICLE, THE MORNING POST, AND TILE MORNING HERALD P. THE FRENCH POST-OFFICE, The Tribunal this day gave the following judgment in the action brought by Mr. Barry, as the agent of the three above named papers, againq M. Blanquart, Director of the French Post-office at Boulogne : " Considering that from the facts and discussion in the cause, a letter addressed to Mr. Barry, bearing the Paris postmark of April 2, arrived at Boulogne the next day, was only deli vered to the said Mr. Barry on the 4th inst., as seen by the postmark of arrival of the 4th ; " Considering that Mr. Barry, affirming that the delay in the delivery of the said letter has occasioned him a serious da mage, has brought an action against M. Blanquart, Director of the Boulogne Post-office, for compensation ; " Considering that the Director-General of the Post-office has come forward to take upon the Central Department the responsibility, and has demanded exoneration for M. Blan quart ; " Considering that Mr. Barry does not oppose this interven tion ; " Considerinc, that the Post-office ple a d s th a t B arry may b e declared not to be justified in his demands and conclusions. and to sustain this plea relies on Art. 14 of the Law of 5 Nivose, year 5; "Considering that, according to this law, the Post-office was not to incur any responsibility for the loss of a letter not en tered; that this disposition of the law is sufficiently justified when it is considered that it is difficult to know positively the cause of the loss of a letter, and even the ce r t a i n ty o f it s h av i ng been thro wn i n th e b ox ; that however this exemption from re sponsibility-, exceptional as it is, ought to be confined strictly to the terms prescribed by the law ; "Considering that the delay in the delivery of a letter can in no case be assimilated with the loss of a letter, inasmuch as , the ultimate delivery of a letter is ample proof of its having been duly posted ; " Considering that considerable injury may result from delay in the delivery of a letter confided to the Post-o f fice. and that the law prescribes that the person who by fault or negligence inflicts an injury on an individual is compelled to repair it; . • " Considering, nevertheless, that there mus t b e a rea l damage to be app rec i a t e d , in order to apply Articles 1,382 and 1,383 of the Civil Code ; " Considering that Barry has not proved that he sustained personal injury of any importance by the delay in the delivery of the letter of the 2.1 of April, and that by a fact, to which he was no party, the confide:ce in him had not been shaken." The Court, after having deliberated according to the law. and judging in premiere instante, admits the intervention of the Director-General of the Post-office, and exempts M. Blanquart from the action ; declares M. Barry's demand ill founded and not receivable in his facts and conclusions, and condemns him in the costs. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM TUE MORNING PAPERS OF TIII9 DAY. TIMES.—It is understood in the city, that the loss on light sovereigns was over-estimated when stated at (id. in the pound, and that the recent trials of the coin at the Bank of England show• that the loss does not really exceed 2id. This average, it is said, was taken upon upwards of 35,000 sovereigns sent into the Bank yesterday. One inconvenience connected with the matter has been much felt, and that is that there are no official scales to be purchased which will actually decide what coin is the full value, and what is not. It is thought, there fore, that the Proclamation might as well have been attended with some means of really testing the weight of the sovereigns. A circular has been issued by Mr. S. Briggs, the object of which is to state that the temporary suspension of payments by Messrs. Briggs, Thurburn, and Co., of London and Liver pool, will in no degr, e affect the house of Briggs and Co., of Alexandria, and that with respect t o the draughts of this latter firm arrangements have been made with Messrs. Heath, Furse, and Co., to pay them when due. The Committee of Spanish American bondholders have ap plied to L , rd Aberdeen respecting the publication in the Gazette of the blockade of the :xlexican ports by Texas, and have received an explicit answer that such blockade was in no manner recognized by the publication in the Gazette. It does not appear that the United States Government have taken any notice of the proclamation, and it is said that a Spanish 50-gun ship has been sent from Havanrah to protect the Spanish flag in the Gulf of Mexico. It was not, indeed, lixely that Spain would permit any interference with her flag, ' as she does not recognise the independence of Texas. A disturbance took place, a few nights ago, at the theatre of Nantes, in consequence of the theatrical grant by the municipality havieg been withdrawn, whereby the theatre was prevented from giving operas. The authorities were obliged to call in the assistance of the military. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. —On Wednesday, the Ist inst., as Mr. Charles Pinney, shoemaker, of Stamford, was proceeding from Lincoln to Gainshorough on foot, when near the village of Lea. at about ten o'clock at night, three men suddenly seized him, two of whom pinioned his arms, while a third presented a pistol to his head, and rifled his pockets of 971, in gold, and some silver IRELAND. SANGUINARY PROCEEDINGS IN CLARE-VER- Dicr OF THE JURY-COMMITTAL OF THE POLICE. Subjoined is an abridged report of the conclusion of the evi dence taken at the inquest, together with the subsequent pro ceedings, as they are furnished by the Limerick Reporter. WEDNESDAY, JUNE B.—On the Court being opened this morning, a tremendous rush took place, and a popular out burst of indignation was raieed against the police, who were stationed at the several passages. Their officers ordered then; to retire to the barracks. Mr. C. O'Connell to the Coroner. —I am here concerned for the frit nds of the deceased. Ido not mean to doubt your im partiality, but the first thing I call upon you for, is the names of the police and officers who were on duty that night. The list was now handed to Mr. O'Connell ; the number of names on it was 42. Mr. Carrick suggested that as Captain de Ruvynes was about being implicated in this matter, it was right he should have an opportunity of being present. Mr. O'Connell objected, and said that being the professions' adviser of the deceased's friends, he was determined to accuse him of wilful murder.—( Great cheering. ) Captain De Ruvynes—lt is just now I have come into C urt ; I do not know the proceedings that have been gone un with. Mr. O'Connell—The only proceeding is, that I am under the painful necessity of charging you with murder. Captain De Ruvynes—So help me God I never ordered the police to fire! I swear lam not guilty of the charge, and I trust that I shall be able to rebut it. Mr. O'Connell—l hold in my hand the depositions of a man who is in cxtremis. I would suggest that some Magistrate should go with the Rev. Mr. Hennessy to the infirmary to hays the informations taken by him. Mr. H. Bridgeman left the Court with the Rev. Mr. Hen nessy, to proceed to the county infirmary. Mr. O'Connell—Mr. Coroner and Gentlemen of the Jury-- You will bear with me a while in performing a duty which de volves on me of putting before you the facts of the case. On Monday night last a most wanton massacre took place, of which you are all aware. I shall bring before you persons who will prove to your satisfaction that the firing was not regular, but what I may term platoon firing. You will hear witnesses whe cannot be doubted that the police took deliberate aim at the people.—( Here Mr. O'CGnneil went en to recapitulate the circumstances of the ease as they afterwards appeared in evi dence.) Mr. O'Connell continued—lf there was a regular volley there might be some excuse for it, owing to the excite ment of the moment ; but no, it was a regular platoon fire they kept up on the unfortunate victims. Giacious God ! if Ibe rigntly instructed, a more barbarous murder was never perils • :rated en an unoffending people. I will not move your passions —you saw the bloody wounds that called aloud for vengeance and demand to investigate the case coolly and deliberately, and find a verdict according to the evidence produced. Mr. O'Con nell called on the Coroner to know would the police he brought up in custody, or were they in the barracks ? Coroner—lt is discretionary for them to come in if thee please; my duty will rest on the verdict that will hereafter be found. Mr. Browne, County Inspector, then said—l beg to tres pass on you for a short period. I feel the painful task I have to perform, owing to the way in which Mr. O'Connell has ad dressed vete. I have discharged my duty without malice er envy. I will abide by what I did, as I did nothing to call for veur ill-will. If I gave the police orders to fire it would be effectually, and not by slatoon, as stated by Mr. O'Connell. I appeal to your feelings; no man deplores it more than Ido ; ii was done without my sanction or approbation, and, therefore, I am determined to abide by the consequences. Mr. Smith then said—From the observations that have fallen from Mr. Browne, I feel called on to rise. I regret ex ceedingly he should introduce my name. It would appear by what he stated, that my absence was the cause of the occur rence that took place, although he had another Magistrate with him who came out determined to act independently of me.—( Cheers.) It was not my intention to be invidious. I on dragged forward to defend myself. I went to Mr. Banns, tyre's store. I placed the men in a position to protect his property. • The police were not struck, but the people were loud in their exclamations. I desired Mr. Browne to be cool, as he appeared not to be so, and to keep the men quiet. I went through the crowd, addressed them, and in duced them to go home with me, and promised, if they should do so, to go about the next morning to collect subscriptions to purchase potatoes for their use.—( Hear. ) I induced them to retire, and went back with them about 30 yards, when I heard several shots fired. I then turned bark and saw flashes from five or six pans. I was amazed, and in as much danger as any ove else. It could not, however, be ex pected that I could face them with arms presented, or make any effort to stop them then. The crowd then rushed forward and forced me with them into Mill-street. I then heard cries of I'm shot, I'm shot." Several women came up, and attempted to tear me, and they said I gave orders to fire. Some men ,hen came up and said they would protect me, and they forced me with them to Dean O'Shaughtuessy's. In a short time after I left his house accompanied by Mr M'Mahon, and searched .he town for the police, and was surprised I could not fled theist. W e then went round by the bridge towards the mills, and met the police between the hospital aid the bridge. When I came up to them, Mr. Browne asked me where I had been. I said he anew where I had been, engaged in taking the people away, and I said, " Who gave orders to fire ?" Mr. 13rowne sail, " Nobody." I then turned round to Mr. Fitzsimon, who was leaning on me, and said, " this is strange, and places you in a very awkward position." I have stated all those particulars to the Government, and have called for an investigation, which I tm confident will be granted. After Mr. Smith concluded, Mr. Browne asked him if, Shen he made the reply to him, that nobody gave orders, he did not add, " 1 know gave no orders." Mr. Smith said he believed he did. He had no doubt but he did make the observation. Mr. O'Connell then proceeded to call witnesses. The first called was Pat Garrahy, who deposed as follows :—I live in Ennis. I recollect Monday evening last. I was alongside the police on the store road, about six yards from Mr. Arthur's gate, nearer to Mill-street. I cannot state positively how many police were present, but think there were about 40. I saw Mr. Browne at she right of the police, and Captain De Ruvynes at their left on the footpath, both remaining at their respective sides. I heard Captain De Ruvynes say " Fire," and Mr. Browne " Not to fire." I heard Mr. Browne a second time say, "Do not fire, boys." The word was given by Captain 1)u Ruvynes before Mr. Browne desired them not to fire. About two minutes after the word was given the fire commenced. Tne front rank of the police was in a kneeling position, the rear rank were standing up when they fi re d. There was 'about two or th ree shunts fired by the front rank. /the_ they fired Mr. Browne said " Boys, don't fire." There was about two or three minutes between the firing of the front and rear rank, and it was after both that Mr. Browne said, for the second time, " Boys, do not fire." I heard only about,. three shots, when I ran away. When I got to the Corn me . :- ket-gat e, on the Store-road, I saw the deceased woman brought away between people, and she bleeding. I saw M'Naraara bleeding. I saw also the blind man, Fitzgibbon, walkine; down the road, and he bleeding. Was standing for about tee minutes near the police before they fired. I saw the people that, were between the police and Mill-street. I am sure eve 'inc of the people could be dispersed without the police 'having recourse to firing. Michael Haire deposed as follows :—I saw Captain De Ru vynes and Mr. Browne standing side by side when the police halted, the greater part of the crowd had diseersed before the police charged. About five minutes after I got into the ruin. I heard Captain De Ruvynes say, " Ready, present, fire Mr. Browne repeated the same words after the Captain, a.ntl the men fired. I hearth about 40 shots fired ; there wet e about 15 minutes between the firing of the first and last she 1 did not go home till morning ; after the firing was over Mr. Browne ordered the men up towards the mill, it "was about one o'clock then. Dr. George O'Brien being sworn, was examined by !Mr. O'Connell—l examined the wounds in the deceased Cat' aerine Sheehan. She came by her death from a gun-shot. Martin M'Guane sworn—l live in Ennis. I was, at the tiring. It commenced on the road. I was standing . near the store when Mr. Hennessy walked on with the neob. L re mained with the police. I heard Captain De rAuvynes way, he got a blow of a stone on the mouth. There were ov• sr 20 policemen present. The policemen had their bayonets scr owed upon their carbines at this time, and in a charging posi tiwn. Mr. Browne called out to Captain De Ruvynes, and imp tired what was he to do? This was five minutes after the 'Cap tain complained of being struck in the mouth. He (the I L'ap tain) said he could do nothing, as Mr. Smith was not there. Mr. Browne replied, I now give you the authority, and you may do as you please. Captain De Ruvynes then said that the men must fire ; then Mr. Browne desired the me n to tire ; the word was scarcely out of his mouth when the nwen fired. Before the word was given I heard Mr. Fitzsierton say, " In the honour of God, do not fire, but charge up I n the mob, and close them up, and they will make way." 1 le tweet' these words and the firing three minute s did no t s l a p se. It was after Mr. Fitzsimon spoke that Captain De Ruvy nes said, the men must fire, and Mr. Browne gave the word in stantly. The police might have put five times the numbed of Jerson.; present away without firing, if the advice of I the Fitzsimon was taken. To Mr. O'Connell—Captain De Ruvynes read no pa per before the order was given, neither did Mr. Browne. If st;,,y thing had been read, I must have heard it. There wets no light to read without getting a candle. To the Coroner—l heard the captain give no word of c sant mand. I saw no stone thrown immediately previous to the firing. The police were in no danger at the time. I got estiy self a blow on the head, but it neither hurt nor cut me. 'The police fired first towards Mill-street, and then turned back - :and tired on the opposite side. When I was hit there were- no other stones thrown. While the people were running aw ay, the police continued firing at them. The police walked form and after the people every shot they fired. The police came a ;ht or nine steps from where they were placed, and then tun led back and fired in the opposite direction. I did not see ltlr. Smith after until the bodies were carried to the infirn tart'. The mob did not return. The Rev. P. Hennessy sworn—l recollect the night in q rues tion, when Mr. Smith and I were stationed near the st :ore. I found him addressing the people, advising them to re tire, and promising, that in the course of the week he w ould solicit subscriptions from the more opulent inhabitants to pro cure cheap provisions for those who were in want of them. I joined in the same appeal, and in the promise. He brought forward a large body of the people, and I :fol lowed with another, until we came to the height of the stn act, we repeating our promises, they expressing their confidence in us, anti he pressing on them the necessity of keeping tl teir words. We came round by Gaol-street, lest the people she mid follow us. When we came up we found different per ens straggling by the wall. Mr. Browne said that the people iv ere throwing stones. I drew a large number of the crowd w ith me When the shots commenced I cried out, "We shall: all be shot ;" and I was dreadfully annoyed to find that shots sh ould be fired promiscuously, while I was co-operating with the au eho rities for the preservation of the peace, thus endangering the lives of myself and other innocent persons. lam confiident that there were no stones thrown in the directions from saisich the shots proceeded. To the best of my judgment lam quite clear that the crowd might have been dispersed without the police firing a shot or even screwing on a bayonet. In point tof fact, we were all running away when the police commen cod firing, and during the run they (the police) continued finite . Mr. L. Smith, resident Magistrate, sworn—From my ee pe rience as a Magistrate, I am quite persuaded that if the pc lice remained stationary as I directed, I could have taken away every man in the crowd by my single exertions. On retie big after sending off one batch, I returned and saw the flashing of several carbines, when I, of course, retired in dread of my life. If they had not proceeded to fire, lam confident I would have arranged all in half an hour. On my return I fou nil Mr. Browne addressing the people in an indiscreet manner I did not approve of. I was forced along the road down /IEII - ; he told them to stand back or he would be obligee] to fire upon th em. W hen I heard that, s aid, "Be cool heard r steady, and I w ill contrive to disperse them myse lf." I h hint give no orders. 1 went accordingly, and did as 1 before statestated.l had no further conversation with it was all o ver . Mr. Browne until Captain De Ruvynes—Gentlemen , I have already declaration o f my i nnocence —l leave my case in you r m h a an ie ds a . I went out among my f e ll o w-townsmen, not as a Magistrate, oath but as a p r i va t e individual. Iwasallviae'sanigxiiohut lid n s fo d rthe o ir welfare, and I no w give my that on that i direct the police to fire. Mr. O'Connell said that he had closed, and inquired if the gentlemen concerned intended to produce any witnesses ? Captain De Ruvyncs—Conscious of my innocence, I will enter on no defence. Mr. Browne—l am placed in so difficult a position that I really know not how to act. If I were only personally con (Trued I should not hesitate, but I am so totally ignorant of Ii gal knowledge that I know not how I shall proceed ; but there are those of whom I have the superintendence who are respectable men, and therefore without legal assistance I cannot •ay what I shill do. 'The Coroner then declared the Court adjourned to ten o'clock, next day. Tiluasna y, JUNE 9.—The Coroner took his seat this day at ten o'clock. Mr. O'Connell addressed the Jury for the prosecution, when they retired for nearly an hour, and then returned with the fol lowing verdict : " We find that the deceased, Catherine Sheehan, came by her death in consequence of a gun-shot wound inflicted by one of a party of police on duty in the town of Ennis, on the niAt of Monday, the 6th of June, or morning of Tuesday, the 7th of June instant, called out to protect the property of Mr. Ban natyne. and that that party, by the return made to us, by Mr. Fitzsjmon, sub-inspector of police, consisted of the following persons—[ Here the list of the police on duty was inserted] ; and we, the Jurors aforesaid, further find that that party of police did not receive sufficient provocation from the people, who were ttimultuou4y as: ambled, to warrant them in at all firing upon the people ; and we further find that those /Jelong ing to the police force, as previously named, fired ru,t alone without orders from any Magistrate or any officers, but in cppos sition to the positive orders of their officers." Ten o'clock, p.m.—Since the finding of the verdict the town is in a state of great e x c it ement, so much so that it was considered necessary to have th e Drag,oons called out ; triumph h e h st e i r ll e p t a h t risolleinvegatihnag_3streB policemen streets. The were march e d toe people h a d a great prison, strongly guarded by soldiers (cavalry and infantry), amidst the groans and execrations of the populace. The town is now perfectly quiet. Mr. T. B. C. Smith arrived here to day on the part of the Government, and opens an inquiry into the matter at ten o'clock to-morrow morning, I have great pleasure in saying that last night the poor saf Ennis were greatly cheered by the a-rival in town of sixteren cart-loads of meal, fi r warded from Limerick, by Mr. J. N. Wes sell. Such a timely relief at this particular moment of excite ment and distress will be duly appreciated by the inhabitants, and will be disposed of at an unusually low rate. The meal was at first intended for another localty, but Mr. Russell bear ing of the privation here immediately ordered it for this town. It is needless to say it arrived in perfect safety, although guarded neither by soldiers nor policemen, but escorted by a joyous concourse, who testified their emotions by long sad loud huzzas, while the horses and cars were decorated with green boughs, and music displayed its magic influence in the van. If all were to act. like Mr. Russell the impoverished al this to wn would have little to complain of ; unity would dwell, property be safe, and peace undisturbed. CORONER'S INQUESTS. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Saturday a long investira• thin took place before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, at the City of Paris, Banner's-fields, Bethnal green, on the body of George Duck, aged 48, who comm i tte d su i c i de, by drowning himself in the Rgent's Canal, under the melancholy circumstame-e: subjoined:— Philip Woodland, of 1, Arthur-street, Hackney, said he knew the deceased, who for many years carried on an exten sive business as a mathematical• instrument maker in White-. chapel, employing between 60 and 70 men ; but reverses, business caused him to become a bankrupt to the amount of several thousand pounds. He saw hint last alive on Thurs day, w hen he appeared much distressed, and asked witness for a penny to shave with, which he gave him. He complat peal. that he could get no work, and was nearly out of his mind, for • his family were crying for bread, and he had no food to g them ; and the deceased also sited tears. He said, also, that Ise expected to get his family into Bishopsgatc workhouse, but le had great repugnance to go in himself, and could not find it; in his heart to apply. His goals had been distrained on for ft nt. Robert Russell, lock-keeper of the Banner's Hall Lock, de posed to finding the body about three o'clock on Friday mu en tug under the bridge. which he got out of the water by the drags. His hat was n-ar and full of gravel, amongst which he found three dupli -ates for vat iuus instruments, for I Bs., and. an the band of the hat was found a letter, as follows : "My name is George Duck, age 48, of Mite-end New town. lam obliged to Mr. Holmes, of lialimoon-stretet, Bishopsgate-street, ..vho has kindly sent 111 V poor wife : aid children to the workhouse. I have sold all had to pay tiny debts, and I pawned two beds and one bolster for 21. 9s. 6d. I can do no more for my pour family, for I have not a pe any in the world." The Jury ultimately returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity." Exenaoentearte CASE.—An inquest, which has b eon twice adjourned, was on Saturday re,unied, and conch, led before Mr. Payne, the City coroner, at the Rose and Cro , tn, Whitefriars, on the body of a gentlemanly dressed man, rtn kriown, who was found in the Thames, on the 20th ult. The evidence given on the first and second meetings of the J cry was merely as to findia_g the body. The first witness calk.' was Joseph Nash, hiving at No. 19, Buxton-street, Clerkenwell,‘ rho said ihat on reading the description of a person found in ixe river in the newspapers, he naturally concluded it was a tia-st cousin of his, he having been missing upwards of a month. :and front whom he received the following letter on the 9th of May "My dear Cousins,—l am sorry to inform you that by the time you receive it'll; letter I shah be no more. I know not What. to do, and cannot brave the hOWIIS of the world. Th'scrigs are worse than I can bear, so I cannot live. My dear coo tins, for your kindness to me I wish you well, and hope that dear girt Elizabeth may be a comfort to you through life. My th which will do for you, are at Nu. 20, Chapel-street, Co ,um street. My box, containing my shirts, are at No. 4, Rir'fing house-lane. My dear cousins, if you see Esther, give'her a good talking to, not because she has been the cause of thiat, but because she has not used me well. May God have mercy on my soul, and receive my spirit. I have much more to say, but it is too late to say it now, so adieu. My body will be is the Serpentine near the bridge. " Your distressed cousin, " JOSEPH KING." The witness, imtontinuation, said that his cousin had been a gentleman's sir cant, but had had nothing to do f..r 18 months. The Serpentine had been searched, but no body found. Hist. cousin was about 5 feet 8 inches high, had large black whiskers under his. chin, and about 36 years of age. He was also in thm habit ~ of mendin ,, his clothes, and car r i e d nee dl es an d t h ree d about with him lOr that. purpose. This exactly corresponds d wiAt the body found, a needle being found in one of bis pockets. Witness had seen the clothes ; could not identity them. He had never seen his cousin wear cloth bouts like those the deceased had on. Mr. Joseph Wiggett, of Cross-street, Islington, said that a friend of his had been missing about eight weeks, and having read the description of the body found in the river in the Sunday papers, he was positive it was his friend, whose name was Thomas White, alias Kempster. This person ga'v a de• scription exactly corresponding with the body fount. He had been missing eight weeks, and a reward was offered for his apprehension, he having stolen a horse and chaise. .He was much given to gambling, anti be had no doubt he committed suicide in consequence. This witness also said it was not unlikely his friend had a needle in his pocket, as lie also was in the habit of mending his clothes. Tha clothes he hard seen were very similar to what Kempster was in the habit of wearing. The CORONER, having remarked on the singularity of the case, said he would again adjourn, if the Jury thought necessary. l• They, however, thought there was no occasion, and returned a verdict—" That a man unknown was found drowned." UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JUNE 11.—It has been unanimously agreed in Convocation to affix the University Seal to an humble and dutiful Address to the Queen on her Majesty's providential preservation from the late treasonable attempt upon her lite. The Rev. Richard Harington, late Fellow of 13rasennose ' College, has been elected Principal of that College, in the room of the Lord Bishop of Chichester. W. Kay, Esq., Fellow of Lincoln College, has been elec'cell to fill the Pusey and Ellcrton Hebrew Scholarships. Tiles e Scholarships are tenable for three years, on certain condition's, and are worth 301. per annum. The Rev. R. Coulthard, Fellow of Queen's College, has 13( ' en admitted a Pro-Proctor for the present academical year, in the room of the Rev. T. Dand, resigned. The degree of Bachelor of Medicine was on Thursday con ferred on A. D. Campbell, Esq., of St. John's College, and that of Master of Arts on the Rev. W. D. Jackson, of the same College; Rev. J. Compton, of Merton College, instead of B. Compton, as before stated. The Rev. W. R. K. Walter, late of Exeter College, has ( been instituted to the Rectory of Rockbeare, Devonshire. CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 11. —At. a Congregation held this day-, the following degrees were conferred : I Bachelors of Divinity —The V enera bl e A rc hd eacon Thorp, M.A., fellow and tutor. Trinity College; Rev James Dalziel Simpson, M. A., fellow, Sidney College. :Masters of Arts—Rev. Alfred Tolver Paget, Caius College,. Charles Thomas Osbourne, Sidney College. Bachelors of Medicine—William Henry Drozier, Caius Col— lege ; Arthur David White, Pembroke College. Bachelors of Arts—Robert Palk Carew, Downing College William Balderston, St. John's College; Francis Henry Laing,. Queen's Colle g e ; Henry Lee Warner, St. John's College. Barnaby Lecturers.—The following were this day elected : —Mr. Austed, Mathematics; Mr. Edleston, Philosophy; Mr.. Birkett, Rhetoric ; Mr. Buston, Logic. King's College.—On Wednesday last, the Bth instant, Wil liam Tatman was elected a foundation fellow of this society. Sir W. Brown's Medal.—The prize for Sir W. Browne's Latin ode, in imitation of Horace, subject, "Nevis ornata atritic armata in aquam deducitur," was yesterday adjudged to Henry James Sumner ;11aine, scholar of Pembroke College. Mr. Maine ,as recently announced, also obtained the Chancel. lor's and the Camden models. THE. CHURCH. The following appointments have taken place : The Rev. George Archdall, D.D., Master of Emrrs'arrnof-. College, and Vice-Chancellor of this University, to a a of the Cathedr a l Ch urc h o f Norwich..nonry The Rev. John Horner, M.A., formerly Fellow of Clare Hall, Rector of Wells, Somersetshire, to a preberstlal stall in the Cathedral Church of Wills. The Rev. T. Mosley, of Trinity College, Curate of Trinity 0 Church, Ipswich, to the living of Rotherham, in Yorkshire. The Rev. John Fairfax Franklin, M.A., formerly Fellow o f Clare Hall, and Perpetual Curate of New Buckingham, Nor folk, to the rectory of West Newton, in that county. The Rev. W. S. Salman, M. A., of St. John's College, ar d Perpetual Curate of Shire Oaks, to the vicarage of Elmtoi a, Derbyshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Francis Foxlow r. ORDINATIONS TO BE HOLDEN.—Sunday, June 19, by t; as Bishop of Chichester, at Chichester; July 10, Bishop of Du r barn, at Durham ; July 10, Bishop of Winchester, at Flu al ham ; July 10, Bishop of Worcester, at Worcester ; July : H, Bishop of Ripon, at Ripon, Aug. 7, Bishop of Norwich, at Norwich ; Sept. 2:5, Bishop of Salisbury, at Salisbury ;St •pt. 9 5 ' Bishop of Lincoln, at Lincoln ; Dec. 18, Bishop of Oxli )rd, at Oxford. BRUSSELS, .JUNE 11.—The Report on Primary struction is to be laid on the table of the Chamber of ttei sentatives to-day. If we are rightly informed, the Gov. ment has got the Central Sections to adopt a resolution f or , establishment of two national schools at the public expen se , of ' • for the French, and the other for the Flemish part o f kingdom. The Minister of the Interior persists in desiring agt this law may be passed during the present s ess i on discussion (.4 the Budget of Public Wo r k s , the Champ; i ,: , theled them m na ") Ministere management to observerailways, the Brea possible ,- This com mendation has been attended t o ; 1 36 earnestly economyre eor f l superitumei' officers were dismissed on the Ist of this month. Th e R : h o w steamer, which arrived at Antwerp ) yesterda morn; had 65 passengers, among whom Were the Earl of Oxford Captain Osborne, R.N. MAD DOGS.—CAUTION. Ti • i, f.IIoNN mg notice been issued by the Lord Mayer ;_<< Pirie, May or . Th e I Mayoyorr having received various lett ers , comp l a i n i ng of the ro ber of dogs which are permitted to range about the stree the City, to the great alarm and dange r o f th e i n h a bi tants, quests that thos e w h o k c 'ei) dogs withi n th e Ci ty w ill not pet them to be a t l arge, wit} tout being muzzled, or otherwise. ; and ( l ot h hereby give notice th a t th e u t most sevor i t the law will b e enforce"' g Precaution. B y order ofotnhealLi o p r e d rsont, who neglect th e a l Mayor. Francis Hobl The interest] 0. drains founded on Bloorni fie t rs,l,k of The Miller's M t- poetical•nown r tale s 9 eallc announced for to-night and . during he week, at Miss Ks Theatre in Dean -street, Soho. The deep rathos of belly's '- performance of Phoebe, the heroine of this little dr cannot fail, we should imagine .to attract crowded audit to her very pretty theatre.