The Sun. — London, England, 1844-06-17 00:00:00

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Ctr il r the otficisl in jr a t OW Austr i ` ii° , 2e. ,110 r 01lane' ou in tea O 0 eekrt . fre sh -4 e s or u ' I .irs loch v" c; tile to d o f f T he jou , r ,ve „, de bad done i$ st d $ er. Jr) L , tu re ,erf be et' yiole ma!' t a ll fro F g t he ropi ote' le e lvi v iP a . the ` l ,Th bell's het e ra te 0°, 0 ,4'0 late ' io bt .t• too° 01 1 crop s tar the 4 lIP t he cra ble yur 1 1° 1 yegs r: 3 ° l O i l ich ho rs hof to xerts ,fret „ t the dece ur e., of Id ."', 3 ,0 0 hers TAB SUN, L01415014', MOVDAY MORNING, JTINV 17, Sil Ft A . - 7, 1 4, ri "uP , TIS and DUTCH MAIL. 4 11 N E • th e i o „ 13.—The Journals contain many de- V.,urneY of the King and Queen, and the e eoranl r e in r eFss of Saxe Cnburg. and in short, accounts frtml France, Germany, all the %%001 growir g countries, 4 rise of 7 to 12 per cent. on the price of that ' At tk „ o late f air at Br,slan (Ist June) the q *liet %. 1 / 4 " nn'"Prnui, that the win•le Yuan: ty in as sold h(•£ ire the re;.hlar of the withr , ut taking any repose, has just kS P N'&II • Vast ques , ion which it has settled to a ,Y,." - "„ hortat.t, which it is going to attempt The a , sNet , ,ry man mean the duty, on 11„,b , ris, 111 °'t serious objection, in our opinion, to Otse, at a"Y duty e.h•ltever will injure a branch -- whi c h i • 1! )1 . t ' sr s Important both to our sea ports "hteries in the interior. Our principal 6 it ;, manufactured tobac,•o is to Fran , e, ct ok , tr ge flmg , zling This, e,mtuerce ought 1 t , 4. 11 1 „ 1 '!!;"d ; but in the present state of thing , , k ti 3 tr,i n ,r._;er,vel as it is, because it may serve as a ( .' s 1 : 1 ranee one day to modify its system of t1 t .14 44 11 0 , tom s in respect to us IZer j E, ,itTNE 12.—The * Members of the First ttio,ll4Y, the States General are summoned for e ha e 20th of June. The sections of the Clt her actii th . will commence on Monday the exami iPtelitti (o LProjects of law relltive to the first book of i t l l4 't so) that it may be laid before the Cham !eoGoo y . ::eti ons r h or rnent has replied to the observation of Nl,t i , the Second Chamber respecting the pro yebt. ";;,,the redemption and conversion of the ver y he explanation given by the Government 4 , r gnat length, and appears to be highly ! 4 lftr i . t hPero r lk o ed on of Russia, during his short visit here, yoder s . 731 4 1 . 11 3' persons the insignia of various Rus• e !'of t.h , I r s , Imperial Majesty gave 400 ducats to A loel flttya v , t lague, and 300 ducats to the workmen Yard at Rotterdam. ior4.4efl t , E 12.—The Emperor of Russia and Ititi ona. ''rough this town to-day, on his return to LLOYD'S SHIPPING. 1 LONDON, JUNE 15.—Wind this day at noon, light north - ' westerly breeze, and fine. DEAL, JUNE 14.—Wind, W.N.W., moderate; P.m., W., fresh ; 9 P.M., W.N.W., light.—Arrd Corsair, Grieg, Port Adelaide ; Columbia. Bombay ; Louisa, Munro, Ceylon ; Iris, Fisher, St. Helena. Sld. Princess Alice Maude, Halifax. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 14.—Wind W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. Lion, London for Calcutta ; Westminster, London for New York. Cowas, .TUNE 14.—Arrd. Coverdale, Benson, Bahia ; Tele graph, Alder, and Arno, Havannah. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 14.—And. Kerswell, Newport for Bos ton, with loss of mainmast. GLOUCESTER, JUNE 14.—S1d. Lord Stanley, St. Jago de Cuba. FALMOUTH, JUNE 14.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Theresa, Rio for Hamburgh ; Henrietta, Surinam for Amsterdam ; Margaret Parker, Tobago ; Johann Julius, Porto Rico for Altona ; Catalina, Havannah for Antwerp ; George Stevens, New Orleans for Amsterdam ; Isaac Hicks, New Orleans for Havre; Hansa, and Mary Phillips, New York—both for Hamburgh. MILFORD, JUNE 13 —Arrd. Venilia, Sierra Leone. The Margaret, Rees, from Porthcawl to Waterford, sprang a leak and foundered in St. Bride's Bay yesterday ; crew saved. By the arrival of the steam-ship Britannia, from New York, at Liverpool, on Friday evening, we are in receipt of the subjoined intelligence : Accounts have arrived aelialifax of the loss of the ship Saladin, Captain M'Kenzie, 240 tons burthen, on the coast of the Island Harbour, situate about 90 miles to the eastward of Halifax. It took place on the morning of the 20th of May, and there seems to be little chance of much property being saving. The ship, which was built at Newcastle, in the. ear 1835, sailed from Valparaiso on the 17th of February, bound to London, having on board a quantity of guano, seventy tons of copper, and a very large amount of mo ney in dollars. 'Upon the wreck being boarded, the survivors of the crew reported that the captain, Mr. M'Kenzie, died from fever on the sth of April, and also the mate ; and that the second mate and two seamen had lost their lives by falling from the yard-arm. The remainder of the ship's company, six in number, being unable to manage the vessel, ran ashore at the place as above mentioned. Sus picions were aroused by the following circumstances transpiring : It appears that since the 14th of April no log had been kept, and on that which was kept previously being exa mined, it was found to contain not the slightest informa non respecting the captain's death, or that of the seamen. The sailors, when spoken to on the subject, maintained a strict silence, and, from their conduct throughout, it is inferred that there has been some dreadful slaughter re sorted to in order to obtain possession of the ship and specie on board. There is little doubt, from the superb description of furniture found in the cabin, and other conveni ences, but that Mrs. M Kenzie accompanied her hus band on the voyage. A likeness of her, and some portion of children's clothing have been discovered in the cabin also. Whether she has met a similar fate as that of her husband, or any of her children, it is impossible, as may he seen, to premise. The crew, since the occur rence, have been expending money very freely, and in one instance one of them offered a bag of dollars for a passage to England. Immediately on the information arriving at Halifax, the Hon. Michael Tobin, Llo) d's agent, solicited Vice- Admiral Sir Charles Adams to dispatch her Majesty's war-steamer Hermes, for the purpose of preserving the remains of the cargo and wreck, but as she could not be got ready so soon as required, Sir Charles Adams for warded the Fair Rosamond on the same message. The ship is insured in London to a very heavy amount, and the chief portion of the specie belongs to several firms in the City. A strict investigation has been instituted before this, Admiralty writs having been issued for the arrest of all the parties, ship, and cargo, and the next mail is look.d forward to with great inter.•st. DESTRUCTION OF THREE SHIPS BY ICEBERGS. T AE IRISH STATE TRIALS. REE i t n 44 TING AT LIVERPOOL. libettY evening a meeting of the friends of civil and 14 to . rt Y Was held at the Royal Amphitheatre, " to Iklth „ t ,Ins u iqeration the sbject of an address to the ti .:_e discharge from prison of Mr. O'Connell and 1. 4 0 f I; e rsers, until the writ of error be decided by the th ll4 dor th i\ T; and also to sympathise with those gentle th '" e lr late extremely severe sentence." The doors . titre I,t! the thrown open a little before half past six klthe gat thee.. capacious building began to fill rapidly. irsog at 'llness commenced the theatre was well filled, kt 4. Pl.e .r ; : j u e audience were a number of females. t ee ob. E LL, Esq., ticlled to the chair, and briefly ject of the meet ° to gentlemen them addressed the Chairman, but, Vtoeechees • Press of matter, we cannot find room for The following addresses were unanimously . 1 4 " () the lihnthbj e Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. address of the f r iends of civil and religious tbie abitants of Liverpool and its vicinity, in pub ii,z7„l4_ll_g assembled,— ,te ro le, Your Majesty we continue to cherish feelings loyalty to your Majesty's sacred person and k ptt ith •44 1,3 11 1.(4 und grief do we inform your Majesty that ikotil,o....°or Majesty's loyal subjects in Ireland are at the Vnragiceeat inmates of a prison for a constructive offence, ,`V i tith e l isa tion always deemed odious in a free State, and ki„.t r eel ,t,regard , is altogether free of moral taint. 'at e ,mat the law has been strained far beyond its !th,Y) 111 (1 1 :, ds, and as interpreted by the Judges of your of Queen's Bench in Ireland, has trenched Itj:• of o f Your Majesty's subjects to a free and fair dis- F 5, matters , and if permitted to become cur st l tend to enslave your hitherto free people. trials have generally brought the administra ‘s ce di,rete • and the late trial of our fellow • In flict d a deep' wound on it ; for although un • i t , f .„ 43 is the t as k, we are compelled, by imperative ill ithchrn4 niuns 'Mast of our opinions on the subject, we are joined by the vast majority of l'iyal subjects in England—that the trial was lr the `" on fiir and just principles—that the jury t, 14. 0 'Y of the innocent, was fraudulently dealt with,ik? ...11(liee O f the then accuse s ; an d w h en an 0PP0r ,,,,,. LeSiln g that fraud in Court, by challenge to the , )11 ered to your law officer, he declined. N I of your llajestA's Justices in pour own court, QiCen's Rem li in Ireland, where your Majesty be present, stated, or, several occasio: , s, that ,111,0,7iwith the jury panel was matter of grave suspi tiott ^? jury Crown Solicitor struck out the name of every 44,qi0! !' jury who was of the same religious belief as the ki.',..4fsiti'rlscne'r, thus wounding the feelings of your Ma kei:4 t h: 4l subjects in England, and holding up the pro sy ty religion, which is the one professed by the • d eeb , t he inhabitants of the Christian world, as per th e ",efl worthy ef credit on their oaths. tJsd Bed was given against the prisoners which one 6 1 en t ge3 o° a motion for a new trial, said ought not to ' l hdg e. „ "eired, and which the late decision of the Eng. l 'l 4 ,.Nb e : °l, ,vinekts us, your Majesty's loyal subjects, would :p,,h e , -11 0 y them submitted as evidence to a jury. 144`,Ikt o — Means has one who was deemed, and justly so, 1 4, itc,„." of his fell tr men —the man who created tr CS. y , erns Ireland, and thereby coerced the great . mea 7rNen",e'Pation to become law, and raised his fellow N' 1 411 • 1 , 4 ' . .° the station of free citizens,—one of the bright- Nt an ph lit your Majesty's dominions,—and that, too, p r i PPeal to the highest court of justice in the land,— Naj, B e th s 'ner in one of your Majesty's prisons in Ireland. t v k rti tvp4riefore approach your Majesty, praying that your • t , 41 1 be graciously pleased to discharge the prisoners 0 0 1 4,k, t 4 . ;sliment, resulting from a sentence which we, 4 4 4 4. 3 , s loyal subjects, believe to be the consequence A and that measures be adopted to secure to i , k 'ff4,,TY's subjects in Ireland the constitutional of t t ;.Y discussing political subjects, as enjoyed by the 11;t 1 eh, l .enuntry." " L 'e l4 ',lcW ri ng followed the reading of this address. 9 , L., ,?Lks BLUNDELL then proposed the following ad- Lue friends of civil and relious libert, residing r4"I I . '• • in • m eetingassembled, to ~eq Cp_ ric its vicinity, public ' - '"nnell, Esq., Thomas Matthew Ray, Esq., Thos. 1 , 11,4 44 1 , Dr. Gray, Richard Barrett, Esq., and Charles 't4l l Esq, prisoners in the Richmond Penitentiary,. 1 / 4 1. , 4(1 of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, W dt t Tnspiracy ; tp'"with l e singular and unprecedented circumstances con up Your late trial and your imprisonment, we feel it our ih. - mh• ger u our sincere sympathie . s. Whatever difference tine st •c r e may be amongst us with reference to the po toes„ which has led to the present results, we have h i : . vt it 7 e ed With deep interest, and with considerable pain, 4 4 , 11 0py,.q judicial proceedings which has terminated in ' l 9r i p:' °lo nent. We have noticed the disregard of the hitlpatioti alitie s of justice and the absence of that calm and ke tk t ile b, a ,;e exercise of judgment which should always dig is or —Roleits d 10 , nt seat, and without which lose ' 4 41' 411 4 4 ' 1 r Moral force. We have also noticed with as hy a, that when you prayed for an arrest of judgment h s ls ,l s eal could 'be made to the House of Lords that ohi oh • titt ed en resisted by the law officers of the Crown, who , I) les t b aud obtained your immediate committal and im 1. • t: 11 ; 11 46 4 these circumstances we consider the sentence p r i' e en passed upon you to be void of moral force, 4 t" b.• to be without a stigma, and yourselves ( e t b • the victims of an undue exercise of power on e• t 4 he law officers of the Crown. 4 1 ;:.1 1 ,,, 'Mot conclude this address without noticing more 11.'4{i patriotic and laudable conduct of Daniel O'Con co;lnt7e deservedly possesses the unbounded confidence t• p t 'itiseYinen, and he has shown himself deserving of rvi, l ‘tee by having used his influence and authority ';!l4,lst.e lie Peace and tranquillity under the most trying mvir eav, Which, without his interposition, would pro tli so haves, to sc eaes of bl oo d s h e d, and all the terrors of m b h sest• I ng broke up with nine enthusiatic cheers for Mr. Letters have also been received announcing the fol lowing losses :—The ship Anne Barry, bound to Ari chat, struck on the ire on the 7th of last May, and, in the course of a very brief prised, sunk ; the crew, how ever, quick;y a-cr-rtamin , 2, that tl,eir ill-fated ship had met with a mortal injury, lost no time in making their esc,pe with th , boat, Baal, after beating shout on the wide ocean for throe days, they were picked up by a fort inn v s el, twen y leagues to the eistward of Scotia, as may be conceived, in a very exhausted state. The ship Lady Colebr, , ok, 295 tons burden, and built at New Brun wick in the year 1841, was totally lost, and r somewhat similar circumstances. She sailed from Halifax for Quebec on the 6th o: o ay, and on the morn ing of the 9th she fell in with the ice, anl was com ple,ely rut in two by the mou:.tain bergs. The crew providentially saved themselves by taking to the boats, and gained the land in safety in the afternoon of the same day. The cargo is insured for 3,0001. The other ship lost is the Lotus, a large vessel, called a Quebecer, 397 tons burthen, belonging to Whitby. She sailed from Bristol on the 4th of April for Quebec. and was wrecked on the ice on the sth of May. The crew were picked up in a few days by the Swallow, of White haven, in lat. 45 40, lon. 45 30. Ship and cargo are par tially insured in England. LOSS OF A VESSEL BY FIRE. The ship Industry, belonging to Halifax, was, on the 25th of May last, completely consumed by fire. It oc • curred in the main hatchway, and so rapid was the flames, that the crew were instantly forced to take to their boats, and were ultimately preserved by the Lord Seaton ship, since arrived at the above port. The total loss of the above vessels with their cargoes, is calculated to amount to at least 40,0001. EXPORTATION OF CORN FROM NAPLES TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES. The following has been received at Lloyd's from the Sicilian Consulate-General, June 15,1844 : " NAPLES, MAY 3. " The exportation to foreign countries of wheat and all other descriptions of grain, pulse, and seed, is pro hibited in all our royal dominions until our further sovereign pleasure, from this very day, here, and from the day of the publication of the present decree in fo reign states. (Signe 1) " FERDINAND.." NOTICES TO MARINERS. REGULATION OF CHRONOMETERS BY OBSERVATIONS AT GREENWICH. A dispatch has been received at Lloyd's from the Ad , miralty, dated the 14th inst., encloing the copy of a no tice issued at Elsinore, to the effect that m order to make known the hour of midday at Greenwich to the masters of vessels in the 'sound, a ball will be dropped from the guard-ship at Elsinore. DISCOVERY of a PASSAGE THROUGH " GREAT BARRIER REEF," TORIES STRAITS. Copy of an extract of a letter lorwarded to Lloyd's, from the London, East India, and China Association : " Her Majesty's ship Fly, Port Essington, August 25, 1843. " Sir,—l beg to inform you that we have examined the Great Barrier Reef,' from Lizard Island, lat. 14 deg. 30 sec., of Captain Cook to Murray's Island, lat. 9 deg., 54 sec., of Flinders, and that along the whole of that ex tended reef, we have met with but one passage, which I could recommend for ships. " This passage is in lat. 11 deg. 35 sec. S., and is four miles wide, a safe entrance for ships having a vegetated island marked on the charts as Raines Islet, in the centre. on each side of which there is a good clear en trance, the best being however to the southward of it. (Signed) "F. P. BLACKWOOD. Captain. " His Excellency Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, CT.C.B., &c., &e." VESSELS SPOKEN 'WlTH.—Hibernia, New Orleans to Fahnouth, Ist inst. lat. 43, long. 35 ; St. George, of Jersey, 16th inst., lat. 49, long. 8, by the Margaret, Parker, off Falmouth. Barque Neptune, of North Shields, with loss of mainmast, &c. 22d inst., lat. 42, long. 53, by the Hansa. off Falmouth. Hartland, from Bideford, 4th inst., lat. 47, long. 59 (had been di:Ai:lasted, May 12th) ; Brilliant, Clyde to Montreal, same day ; Sophia, Apalachicola to Liverpool, 28th inst., lat. 39, long. 50. Ellen, Tobasco to Cork, off Gum 'Key Light ; Mount Etna, M. bile to Liverpool, same day ; GeorgelV., Liverpool to Fortune Bay, 13th ult., lat. 46, lon. 44 ; Energy,Limerick to Quebec,lsth,lat.49, lon. 47, by the Thomas, arrived at Newfoundland. Con queror, Belfast to Quebec, 18th ult., lat. 45, lon. 57, by the North America, arrived at Newfoundland. Blakely, Liverpool to Calcutta, 10th inst., by the Helen, Anderson, arrived at Swansea. James Gray, Newport to Philadelphia. 30th ult., lat. 35, lon. 28, by the Are thusa, off F&mouth. Georgio and Manteo, 16th ult., off Cape Florida; James and Christian and Washington, New Orleans to Marseilles, 17th, lat. 29, lon. 79; Laurel, for Boston, and Callao, Matanzas to St. Petersburgh,2oth, lat. 17, lon. 72 ; Olbers, of Bremen, 3d inst.,lat. 46, lon. 31; Dolphin, Gibraltar to Rio, April 4, lat. 2 S., lon. 20 W.; Louise Caesar, for Buenos Ayres, 10th, lat. 3 N., lon. 22 W., by the George Heinrich, arrived at Hamburgh. Caroni, Antigua to Dublin, 17th ult., lat 29, lon. 23 ; Legnan, Clyde to St. Vincent's, Bth inst., lat. 49, lon. 14, by the Calypso, arrived at the Clyde. Olive Branch, Halylix to Cuba, 16th ult., off Bermuda, by the Griffin, arrived at Halifax. John and Henry, Portsmouth to Mira ' michi, out 17 days, lat. 48, l on. 18, by the Isabella, arrived at Newfoundland. ..,„, ki El l4/.0 4, 4 , b l 'l'lcEs.—(From a Ce,rrespendent.)—By 9 li I•ti .'rs°llB ence•feed or emp',oyed in post-offices are ''1 k4t i 1• " ,4,3 t° d ue fe;Forinance of their duties, but this ob 111j4'41e t t'' s not ex tt nd to - retraining them from dis hy a; go that 44 a letter pa , sing through lti t'rvi.. teat those engaged, or employed, .mieht, to d t , t hia' t . l2 ; friend they could confide in, make disclosures l're ' ,Ne:P e et- Nor does the obligation extend to the ( I , ,041, - ' I Y prvitig confideeitial being admitted within a 1,,'" , t, ii k where he might, have a sight of letters. . No Itl i t dri t.,, 1 4 , "q' of these tricks were discovered, dismissal It ' had '''".', but that wind(' be poor satisfaction to those ' lth Slifi e dby d' f 1 breaches of confidence. Piki t Nt a re isgrrace u 't i L t • er es the public have good ground for corn- No h a 1. it tio, l ; harvest has . . now become very general , in is '4t i '-" " I lrho d and that ancient gentleman, " the le L e nab ° ' light a crop as , s te, fo ',ant," cannot remember so t tit 'l : l ' h a ; 4111 1 on all thy highlands, scare ly a single 111 1(1 -ti lre„ -v ' ll g fallen (in rn uch of it since the stock were qi ~,4 % t; ( „ -1 Pasture. Oh I hay continues to rise in price, Vileh ' iT i : is little in th is neighbouyhood will probably tot, Ile N I Ganibl ge Chronzcle. 4, tii. th ILITARY AND ' CE LE POLICE.—We are sorry tlaylilit Ett an ill -feeling prevails on the part of somes Sun pi, e ths,t,h7 Stationed at I :meter and the pi, t b hl r ' e (if the polic a .tiffieers was r p ud ol e i l e y e. th O ru n st u out tit, . Tra ek .. ' and - Yard, whil: .t going there to bear the band 4 , 1111 , 4 itt ', la st evening, one of the soldiers said to our W‘ L ,, e ee ' ,,."nlY let the other two troops arrive here, * "`e , / "If d soon fit ad out who were masters." — t , ti n ' I'inie s lo iti r , ; • 0, 1 la, ° CkSP F FIRATRICIDE.—On Tues . day m Plumptre, whose t : ',.. i i l Y, - i s' t ' C,harles ' B O land Child, a married man, with a his nameKlNaGp'Searesand mathe • Class, both in classics 4 4 % ,,,,qy a - , sl uiag at Middle-row, Camp Field, had oinLLthEeGFE;LstooN. .-- T r. . ' l',l 4 , ll retC e er sudden! tei minuted by the hand ‘ttf l 'ease,t r ' Jtihn Child N filo resided in Pottery Field..to the two Hebrew of his t' s p at the Oxford examination, just concluded, as well n its 'a ll , l c es ' srs. Gandell and Secretan, elected ormerly students of Scholarships in that University, were f Itt,,. e e o f' deed was certa' oily committed under e d ircu t m he t ilt a , 4 l . ' l 4 i)tP,',(ieatiori, arid whilst both parties. under e u r nna. ' 6 " l lle, fi k jit. rr H i s n g r •Y Pessioik , were engaged . in an thisNOVELCollege. PROCESSION %.1, "'lil t t "e quarrel api wars to have orinate or AGED MEN.—A meeting r,, , ' l 4 1, ghe ci t . , • took place a few tb days r si o n s e e e o , at Netherton, in the county of of entertaining some old boys of P'vee' "111 little d about ceaseci i e ifs had said respecting John seventy years and Worcester, th -At t .'e mention wt is made of it in the evidence for and e u pa wa p rds. One hundred and twelve men, , i he in give abstract below. (;,, t!,14..,s quest, of whi eh we an whose united ages . P amounted to 8,643 years, sat down to an excellent dinner, after which they were a la L k'ti Ju r . t W as held on T hursday morning last, in the impressive manner by Mr. Richard Burgess, Baptist 4 1 ?" be -3? t , l laorn at the Court House, before John th ' ,: l 'asi.4 l '' i;sq., at ' ld from the evidence it appeared that nlvillei,sr3tiurbtobfeNetherton. The lads then marched in proces presence of nearly five thousand * ectators, d ' P 9B, who th, str u , tit ,nu hi arose b etween the brothers. During headed the oldest man of the company, 1161:11:4atilefeellhi:ndliberale manner, dd. st.,d stepped ,Wv .i aside to a basket, took some- wore , a e c s r! s own on his head. The procession s t top a p ge d et Mr. J. tti'S t t't ‘ l ' e n l it ,' v ` hid' d .. t ar "ate thre e ti to. ineach m Britannia w iltinin, halfw hao, pintin theot of ale. mos Such respect for r t.!) itt t the side. The unfor i 1 creditable to the a ~', \ vo aerdi et t)f " 11 e lar a s 'llll a 4)a h l ter . ."— 'n-tantly. The jury re- old age h i t s far more becoming thands Highly b immure 3, the time-ho- C union workhouses,an g tafford Paper. l l°u inhabitants of Netherton. —.Shropshire Conservative. LOorws:;l3ll,l)REN Sur;Ot 7.: I g TED.—On Tuesday last, This relic of the immortal SHAKSPEARE S 154t 1' " Z an livin g at Cost* ssy, of the name of Ireson, bard has found its jvutGo.Gloucester, having been purch f ast r lIN ~Qhildr„ std seven o'ell ck in the merning, left her Iv ' l:4 ' te --11 in bed i n of Westgate-streewho til t t " e purpose bk•,r cottage, and having made a a F t le lll c r i s le . r Tu gu rb u er m 'i l l t l b e l :' ' s a 'sal e by M rs. Fletcher, t,auction t t i l o i ne thatd wifeuctyt city, The mitt d° a nej 1 of h ,et sting a copper of water, she . purchased it for nineteen guireas and the earthenware, about nine inches in 4 4,, k ead 14 lbou r r's. o f cream-coloured . a 1 at th es, In a sh( Si T' tit ! fire consisted of deal apples Ju g i s . . 41 , e cotta t time, a woman seeing some he horizontally subdivided, and within these the principal th e ge qu a • go. wen tin, when she . p i W,,, 4 ntity discovered that and . re represented in rather tight. It is divided longitudinally into eight compartments, of deal t I i les and dead leaves which t 043 so filled had collected t g l P ile ignited, and the house deities of the Grecian Mythology 14,414 tnalitted e.ith bard to his sister Joan, who married h a e l r v e i ff lli e a c m ts of the ofim msotrratat! ~ smoke o t h e t "t r ' vas with difficulty she tO rs 'ela , e 11,-- e•cape•Sl v a ir:. 1 ' the alarm, and severalhem through several __Le k% ~ nter e d bury, and the jug was . preserved by the coit i aye the four children were ford-upon-Avon. The Harts subsequently,dby settled in Tewkes a few years ago it passed f ''" th "ail a pp, a . ,4e, V nd . generations with religious care ar t im e, 'a:lok,, , anee, in a d Sing state from the effect ir, atid ' r w" ef the l 'ld .11 lived but a short spirited competition she has again so li. oe, L . , c ii r( the Harts, and by her out of their hands. Mrs. Fletcher' is a direct descendant , ...A - Orf (n t ile others li es in a dangerous condi- 1 brought the interesting relicntotlie possession ,,. of her family, °A Chronicle, -which had for S 9 many years preserved ik GAMBLING AND USURY. COOKE and Mr. FLIGHT ; yet we venture to say,- that any " arrangement,", as it, j i § called, of such singular modesty and forbearance,' on the part - or those gen tlemen, would never have been dreamed of whilst the wholesome restraints of the Usury Laws were yet in being. That such a bargain could be perfected is a disgrace to the age we live in, and the law under which it can be protected. It gives to the money capitalist the power of life and death, as it were, through its sanction, to such monstrous exactions, over the lives and souls, bodies, fortunes, and rela tions in life of the miserable and imprudent fools who have placed themselves within his clutches. The drama concluded with a curiously contrasted charge and defence; the former rested on mere moral and equitable considerations, independent of the legal or technical bearing of the facts ; the latter based on a merely technical objection to the answer given in, utterly irrespective of considerations, equitable or moral : We were .always of opiniott that tke old Usury Law—admitting to their fullest extent the objections so perseveringly urged against it in the House of Commons by the late Lord SYDENHAM, when Mr. POULETT THOMSON—was precipitately repealed, and worse " amen led." But Mr. SPRING RICE'S subse quent extension of the principle to the discount of bills under a certain date, was a far more questionable experiment towards a free trade in money-brokering, the consequences of which have long since ceased to be matters of merely speculative apprehension. There is said, in dialectics, to be "no rule without an ex ception." In political economy this is true of almost all general principles. That free trade in capital, as in other commodities, should be upheld and en couraged, is a postulate which few men, as this time of day, would be rash enough to contest ; yet the practical experience of every week demonstrates the necessity for its qualification to the extent of clear, definite, and even stringent, legislation for the pro tection of those who are the buyers of money from the overwhelming exactions of those who have it to sell. In commercial dealings, or transactions of or dinary barter, there is always more or less of equality between the two parties to a bargain. In the nature of things the competition, on one side, to sell goods is always greater than it is—among those who have money—to advance it. But, on the other hand, the necessities of those who deal for its advance upon simple loan, or security, are so much greater than their's who consent to relieve them ;—the importance to the rectification of the borrower's position of econo mizing time is so much more urgent than it can be to him who is to put down the pecuniary means for that purpose, that the law has hitherto wisely assumed that the borrower will be prone to pay the most extravagant and ruinous price for such advances, and for their acceleration ; and that the lender will be but too well disposed to take every advantage of his distress and of his recklessness. The restrictions, therefore, which Acts of Parliament imposed upon the rate of discount which could be legally taken for "cashing" bills of acceptance and promissory notes, and the penalties and disabilities of suit which it at tached to the infraction of its enactments as to the limitation it prescribed to the rate of interest to be taken for the use of the money, were, in the main, salutary and effective. They sometimes operated with great hardship and injustice on the lender, and encou raged collusive actions or fraudulent defences. But the balance of good, it is very generally allowed, was in their favour. Since they were repealed society has been incessantly shocked and disgusted at the heartless avarice and guilty connivance with which professed money-lenders and bill-discounting attor neys have aided thoughtless and improvident young men to anticipate, in the most wanton excesses of debauchery, or the more insidious excitement of gambling, their own patrimony or estate, or the pro perty and expectations of their families and connec tions. Ever since the money-lender has been secured impunity in taking interest for his money, within the limits only suggested by his own very expansible conscience, we have noted an appalling increase of cases of outrageous spoliation of young men, whose want of common sense and ordinary caution have been accurately proportioned to their criminality and dis sipation.. " Mr. Bethell contended that, according to Flight's version of his part in the transaction, he had made Eicke and Cooke his agents in discounting the bills, and he was therefore fixed with their knowledge of the origin of the bills. " Mr. Stuart and Mr. Wood, for Flight, contended that no equity was confessed upon the answer to support the injunction." His Honour reserved the epilogue—we beg pardon —his judgment, until he should have read the answer. In :the meantime, may we suggest to Sir JAMES GRAHAM that if he would turn his attention to put down such nefarious practices as these wholesale and legalised spoliations of the young and silly possessors of property, by means which are openly challenged in courts of justice (I !) to legalise the work of iniquity and plunder ; he would render a far nobler service to society and to his own fame, than in framing protocols of secret conferences with Police Commissioners, as to the means of a combined system of hostile operations against the irregular forces of thimbleriggers and roulette-table keepers on the downs of Epsom, or the heath of Ascot. HARBOURS OF REFUGE. No man can doubt, at this time of day, that private enterprise accomplishes, in England, nobler public works,—appropriates to their completion more liberal supplies of capital,—and in all points of design and execution exhibits a higher feeling and a more sus tained purpose, than are usually found associated with what are technically called " Government under takings." Our railroads are a magnificent exemplifi cation of this truth; and the accommodations secured in our provincial docks in many respects suggest a comparison little favourable to the improved science, or the enlightened experience, which has presided over similar works immediately under the control of officers of the Crown. Foreigners are disposed to attach the highest possible value to this principle of leaving to private capital the development of material and economic resources, and they run into the ex treme on the other hand, of doubting whether Go vernment aid would not mar, instead of accelerating, the march of such public works in all cases. But this is, like all extreme opinions, at once unjust and mischievous. Unjust, because its reception would operate to withhold from private speculation, under any circumstances, the wholesome and not unreason ably-expected encouragement of the National Trea sury. Mischievous, because its natural effect is, to suggest difficulties in the way of Government's step ping forward, even in cases where its assistance must be indispensable to the proper completion of a line of railway, a harbour, a bridge, already well begun and proceeded with—which difficulties their in dolence or their timidity is but too successful in induc ing Ministers to plead in excuse for their neglect or indifference towards it. We are sorry to perceive that this is a growing fault in our chief administrative de partments. And because it is calculated to prejudice, materially, in some very important particulars, the interests of the public, we take leave to enter our pro test against its wholesale adoption in the domestic policy of the present Government. An instance occurred, in a debate in the House of Lords on Monday last, which will exemplify its ac- An instructive specimen of these was disclosed on Wednesday last, in the Court of the Vice-Chancellor of England—" Stratford v Plight." Mr. Huai' STRATFORD STRATFORD, a young gentleman of four and-twenty, inherited a portion of the property, with out a fraction of the sagacity, of the late Master in Chancery STRATFORD, his paternal uncle. It was his misfortune to have been victimised by " gaming transactions." In June, 1842, he lost, at a game called " blind hookey," no less than 20,000/. ; but through the instrumentality of one COOKE, of Clif ford-street, an attorney, the bills which STRATFORD had given for this sum were restored to him, and the claim—so righteous as it doubtless was—was com promised for the modest sum of 5,000/. The disin terested attorney's good offices did not stop here—he became his gambling companion. After this new species of professional attendance had continued for some time, in the course of which very many gamb ling houses were visited by them, this interesting couple—the dupe and his "friend"—met, (of course by the merest accident in the world, and without any privity or collusion on the part of one of them,) a party at an inn in the country, consisting of two men named COGHLAN and EVANS, and a female, who passed as Mrs. COGHLAN. After dinner, Mrs. COGHLAN, as a lady-like diversion, proposed a game of " blind hookey ;" and Mr. STRATFORD, who even in this pro ceeding saw nothing, it would seem, in the least ex traordinary or suspicious—with a simplicity calculated for the meridian of Arcadia, in the most innocent ages of pastoral society—consented to make one at the table. This was on the sth of April, 1843. The five played until two o'clock the next morning. On the 6th, after breakfast, one of the "gentlemen" was so obliging as to make up the score which had been kept; and the results were very singular, ne doubt, but painfully disastrous for the "squeezable" Mr. STRATFORD. He had lost to COGHLAN, 10,8431. (this man loved to be particular, even to fractions) ; to his raluable, faithful, and disinterested " adviser "—the attorney, 4,0601. Why the score should have brought STRATFORD a debtor to EVANS in the paltry sum of 27/., or what, if any, were the winnings of the fe male upon a match so admirably arranged for the benefit and delectation of the man COGHLAN, and the attorney, COOKE, the report does not state. But this was the first act of the three of which this do mestic drama consisted. The second exhibited the foolish victim yielding to the—" persuasions"—the " gentle violence"—of his very good friends On the 28th of April he was in duced, poor man ! to give his acceptances for the amount of his losses. Four of these bills, for 1,0001. each, happened to be drawn by COOKE, himself—who, " ever anxious to accommodate" STRATFORD, was so good as to make them payable at his (CooKE's) own office, in Clifford-street. Presently, however, Mr. STRATFORD'S friends (friends in the better accepta tion of the term, not attorneys) discovered the whole affair, and filed two "bills" (not quite such pretty things as 1,0001. acceptances), the one against COOKE alone, the other against COOKE and COGHLAN; and the Court, on the sth of May, not being sufficiently enlightened on the equity of such transactions, was so unreasoeable as to grant an injunction restraining both practitioners—the professional and the unprofes sional—from negotiating such bills. This count closed the second of this serious farce. The third and last opened ominously. On that very day, " the critical day," as the report terms it, of this churlish injunction, something else " happened" very oddly—but the whole history is full of coinci dences. On that very day, it happened, then, that two of these four bills were endorsed to a Mr. THO MAS FLIGHT, the defendant in the suit whereof we are giving this outline. Thomas FLIGHT, who seems to be a sort of unprofessionally-profes sional discounter, subsequently brought an ac tion on these bills, and obtained a verdict; but, alas for him! a new trial was afterwards directed. FLIGHT'S defence and plea were meant to show that his conduct on the affair has been bona fide. He has denied all knowledge of the gambling. It "happened" that one EIcRE (not otherwise described), who had been in the habit of bringing him bills to discount, brought him the four 1,0001. bills to discount, about the 30th of April. FLIGHT states that he was told STRATFORD, a young man of good expectations, and about to be married to the daughter of a Baronet, was anxious to raise money for his marriage ; that COOKE, his attorney, had drawn three bills upon him to enable him to effect this object. Just the story, of course, calculated to lull the suspicions of a liberal, philanthropic, benevolent, discounting "friend to the distressed "—quite a duck of a money-lender. But hold! Was this FI.IGHT altogether such a person— so open-hearted and open-handed ? What is his own account of his own terms ? In the first instance he wanted COOKE to give a judgment for the amount to be advanced to STRATFORD ; and, on COOKE'S refusal, he declined to discount. But afterwards, in a re lenting mood, we suppose— " He agreed to discount two of them, upon an ar rangement that Stratford should pay him 80/. a year as an insurance on his life, until the bills were paid. The bills were for three months, and were discounted at 66/. per cent., and the amount, less the discount (1,7800, was on the sth of May paid Eicke on behalf of Cooke, and on the same day Cooke gave an undertaking to appear to any action which should be brought against himself and Stratford, in case the bills should not be paid when they became due." We feel, from this statement, a vast respect for Mr. of the Chester and llolyhead Railway—have been hung up, if not absolutely discarded, and the time of both Houses frivolously - occupied and consumed in hearing pleas and arguments which a little common sense would have disallowed at once, where they were palpably vexatious, and infinitely shortened where the Committees were already satisfied on the general merits of the particular Bill in support of which they were offered. We were glad to observe the disap probation expressed, in the case of the Chester and Holyhead Bill, by Lord BROUGHAM and the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, of the principle of suspending the stanling orders on private Bills; and we trust that the Select Committee, to which the measure is for the present referred, as an opposed Bill, will make a speedy report upon it. The public are deeply in terested in the ai.:tive and early completion of so great a work; and it is pleasant to see that the House of Lords are little inclined to occasion any delay in the matter. PROVINCIAL ISSUES of the BANK of ENGLAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—By the 3d and 4th William IV., c. 98, sec. 4, it is enacted, " That all promissory notes payable on demand of ' the Bank of England, which shall be issued at any place in England, out of Lon don, where the business of banking shall be car ried on for the said Bank of England, shall be made payable at the place where such promissory notes shall be issued: and it shall not be be lawful for the said Governor and Company, or any committee, agent, cashier, officer, or servant, of the said Governor and Company, to issue at any such place, out of London, any promissory note, payable on demand, which shall not be payable at the place where the same shall be issued." How is this clause to be brought into operation, and only one issue department of the Bank of England, and that one in London? In the new Bill there is no mention of " issue departments," but only " The Issue Depart ment," so that the banking part of the establishment using the notes of " the issuing department," will be no more than that of any other bank using Bank of England notes at the present time ; and any person wanting to cash a note will be refused, and referred to "the issue department" for cash—parties may refuse to take notes at the banking department, but as the issue was not made at such department, they must proceed to the issue department for cash, in case they have notes in their possession. Thus the London banking department will obtain notes from the issue department, and from thence supply all the provincial branches, and as notes paid away from the banking department will not be an issue from such department, but from another department, so will not the notes paid over the counter of a provincial branch be an issue of that branch, but an issue from " the issue department" in London. Cash will not be able to be obtained for notes in the country without some special provision be made for the purpose. According to the present Bill, the branches will be no longer banks of issue, but branches using notes of " the issue department," of the Bank of England in London—thus, these branches will be placed in the precise position of every country bank using Bank of England notes. How can the issue department be totally separated from the banking department, if the notes are made payable " at the branch in Bristol, and at the issue department in London," when the branch in Bristol forms no part of the issue department of the Bank of England in London ? Is any branch of the Bank of England to have a se parate and distinct "issue department?" At present it is illegal for an officer of a branch of the ,Bank of England to pay over the counter any Bank of England note that is not payable at such place. Every London•issued Bank of England note taken at a branch must be remitted to the pa rent branch in London. It is, as far as the legal lity of the affair, but waste paper in the provinclial branch—so, that if there be not some provision made for " the issue department" to have some connexion with the banking provincial branches, those branches cannot issue any notes of the London issue department as they will not be made payable at the various branches—and they cannot issue a note not made payable at the branch were issued. As I read the Bill, neither the London banking de partment of the Bank of England, nor any of its branches can be called upon to pay cash for Bank of England notes, and the only place where gold can be demanded will be " the issue department" of the Bank of Eng land in London. I am, Sir, yours, &c., Ilfracombe, June 12, 1844. H. W. D. tion on measures even of the most pressing exigency We have, from time to time, directed attention, in The Sun, to the proceedings of the Committee on Har bours of Refuge ; and we have especially commented on the able and interesting report of Mr. WALKER, the celebrated engineer, on the harbour of Holyhead. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE, on Tuesday, on the " order" being read relative to the Chester and Holy head Railway Bill, stated that he would postpone his motion on this Bill, until the report connected with the harbour should have been laid on the table. Other Noble Lords, who were friendly to the Bill, considered that as the harbour itself was unconnected with this Bill, the two subjects ought not to be mixed up together ; that this Bill should be allowed to be proceeded with, so that the parties to it might not incur unnecessary expense, as they must do should they be compelled to keep their witnesses in town for another week, or until the report in question could be laid on the table. The Duke of LEINSTER showed the importance of com pleting, as this Bill proposed to do, the communication between the two countries. No delay that could be possibly avoided ought to be interposed in the way of the Bill. Lord CLANRICAILDE still contended that it ought first to be known how far the Lords of the Trea sury would go in recommending a sufficient grant for the completion of Holyhead harbour, and Parliament in holding the promoters of the Bill to the-liability of building a bridge over the Menai, &c. The Earl of Datatousio, on the part of Government, said that the result of the inquiries and survey which they had caused to be instituted proved that Holyhead might be made a good packet harbour; that they were an xious to see such a measure introduced and adopted as would facilitate the intercourse between Ireland and this country to the utmost in point of safety and speed. " The Government, however, declined to make any pledge,y's Governmentthey saw what line of railroad would be adopted. When such a li ne was adopted, her MA sTwould be prepared to state what s um they would recommend Parliament to gra nt to wards the completion of Holyhead harbour." Now, in all this there is the disinclination. to take upon itself the i nitia tive , in furthering the completion sE until of works, the public convenience and, perhaps, poli tical importance whereof it is not possible to over state—of which we complain. Does it not occur to Lord DALHOUSIE, and the department to which that Noble Earl belongs, that if Government would only, at this advanced and mature stage of the undertaking, intimate its real intentions with reference thereto, that which Government desires to see, (namely, the intro duction of the best measure for carrying out the plan proposed,) would infallibly take place ? Let it be certain that Government will improve, extend, and deepen a most important harbour at one point of the line of " a " railway, which is to connect and approxi mate, by means of locomotive power, England and Ireland, and can any one believe there will be hesitation, or difficulty, or distrust, or any holding back on the part of private capitalists, touching the suggestion and the completion of "the best line" for such a purpose ? There would be nothing of the sort. But so long as the Government follows out this shilly-shally course of making a demonstration in favour here, and inti timating a tardy discouragement there—to-day ex pressing itself in terms of more than hypothetical encouragement as to a plan already submitted to it, and proceeded with ; to-morrow affecting a sublime but cold impartiality, open to all parties, influenced by none, and coquetting with the last applicant,—so long it is paralysing, not fostering, the energies that would be otherwise achieving the desired object. Such a mode of proceeding is throwing the boon of Government patronage, or support, or aid, as a wild "scramble" among mere adventurers, rather than re serving it for bona fide associations of spirited specu lators, who are content, under such auspice=, to risk their capital to the full extent of their subscriptions, and of the prospectus of the work they have embarked upon. We do not intend these remarks to apply to the case of the Chester and Holyhead Railway alone. We object to the whole of that portion of the system on which the Board of Trade in the first instance, and Parliament in its subsequent legislation, entertain Railway Bills. A false indulgence in the Board of Trade, and in Parliamentary Committees, for the con coction of new, or more or less modified, plans for one and the same railway--the excessive encouragement, in short, of "competing lines"—has been the main cause of so much remaining still to be accomplished in the completion of a general scheme of railway com munication throughout the land. Whilst hundreds of thousands of pounds have been sacrificed in successive sessions in vexatious opposition to Bills, and especially in the litigation consequent on "competing lines enterprises of the most pressing importance—like this LITERAT ETRE. AFLOAT AND ASHORE. 3 Vols. Bentley, London, 1844. With the exception of the apparently inexhaustible Mr. James, who must by this time have written as many volumes as would furnish an ordinary library, Mr. Cooper is unquestionably the most prolific no velist of his day. Once or twice a year, for the last twelve years and upwards, he has never failed to bring forth a work of fiction ; and it is surprising how little diminution there is of that spirit and freshness which characterised his earlier productions. The tale before m, which the author mentions in his pre face as being founded on fact, exhibits much of the graphic vigour of the " Last of the Mohicans," though it is infinitely less romantic in its tone, and less lavishly coloured in its scenic sketches. It is in the form of an autobiography, and professes to record the actual experiences of Miles Wallingford, by land and sea, in almost every quarter of the habitable globe. The adventures of this enterprising individual are full of variety, and are told in a homely, nervous style, without the slightest attempt at display. His account of his shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, of his subse quent visit to London, of his naval engagement with the French vessel, La Dame de Nantes, of the sudden death of his father by being entangled in the machinery of a mill-wheel of his own invention, and of the distraction of his bereaved mother ;—these various incidents are related with singular spirit in Mr. Cooper's most effective and characteristic manner. As a whole, h3wever, the tale is somewhat heavy, owing principally to the author's well-known fond ness for dwelling too much on mere unimportant matters of detail, as in his description of the paternal Ifarm of Clawbonmy, which is as minute and circum stantial as an auctioneer's catalogue. HYDE MARSTOLV 3 Vols. Colburn, London, 1844 As a considerable portion of this tale has already appeared, if we remember rightly, in the columns of one of the monthly sporting periodicals—the Sporting Magazine or Repository, we need say little more, on the present occasion, than that it is a passable story, neither better nor worse than the general run of such productions. HISTORY OF GERMANY. Chapman and Hag London, 1844. We have here a translation from the German of Professor Kolransch, executed with elegance, and we are willing to believe also, with fidelity. The work is a history of Germany from the earliest period down to the present time—a work which has been long wanted, , and which has been already received with marked approbation throughout the country whose eventful annals it records. Though the author is a staunch'Protestant, yet he exhibits no towards the rival faith, Catholicism; but maintains a scru pulous and dignified tone of impartiality, even in places where it might naturally be supposed his pre judices would be actively on the alert. His work contains an immense mass of historical information carefully digested, and put forth with much luminous ness and simplicity of manner. The Council of the Royal Society of British Artists have kindly invited the children of the St. Ann's Society's Brixten Asylum to their exhibition in Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East, on Wednesday afternoon next, at one o'clock. DEATHS BY DROWNING.—On Friday, Mr. Baker held two inquests on youths who were drowned. The first was held at the Royal Crown, Ratcliff-highway, and was on the body of Thomas Carter, aged 16, late belonging to the Milford trader, of Bristol. It appeared by the evidence of Robert Hutchinson, mate of the Her bert, of Scarborough, that on Tuesday he was aboard his vessel, when he heard an alarm of man overboard." Both vessels were in the London Docks, and looking in the direction of the cry, he saw an empty boat, and de ceased beneath the water. He jumped into the boat and held an oar out to deceased, who was too far gone to seize it. A man jumped into the water to try and save de ceased, but he failed, and became so much exhausted that he was conveyed to the London Hospital. Drags were employed, and deceased was got out in about 20 minutes' time. He was then taken to the docks' re ceiving -house, and promptly attended by Mr. Blomfield, but that gentleman failed to restore animation. De ceased was rowing from the vessel ashore when one oar slipped from the rowlock, and deceased tumbled into the water. The second inquest was held at the Waterman's Arms, Lower Shadwell, and was on the body of George Hood, aged fourteen. It appeared that he was the son of a shoemaker residing in Shakspeare-walk, and left home on Sunday afternoon to amuse himself. He went down to Shadwell Dock-stairs, and got playing on the barges moored there, when he slipped off one of them into the water. A man named IST owland tried to save him, but without success. Half an hour elapsed before the body was found, when it was taken to that house, and attended to by Mr. Archer, a surgeon, who tried in vain to resuscitate it. Verdict in both cases—" Accidentally drowned." SERIOUS STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Thursday afternoon, between three and four o'clock another painful accident happened on the river, off Greenwich, by the Waterman's steam-boat, No. 10, running down a boat, with a poor dredgerman upwards of sixty years of age. The vessel had but a few minutes left the pier, and was proceeding up the river with her usual speed, when just as she had arrived abreast of the Dreadnought hospital ship, moored off the lower part of the town, a boat was observed coming down a-head of the steamer, rowed by a very old man. The mate was on the larboard paddle box at the time. but his attention was directed to some conversation abaft the funnel. Hearing the cry, how ever, of " A boat a-head," he beckoned to the person in charge of the wheel to pert the helm, and shouted to the man in the boat to haul off, but by that period, although but a few moments had elapsed, the steamer had gained so much upon the boat that it seemed impossible for the dredgerman to get ont of the way, for in a few moments the steamer came in contact with the boat, which passed completely under the paddle-box, the paddles being in motion at the time. On running to the after part of the vessel not a vestige apparently of the boat and man could be seen, but in a minute or so the boat floated to the sur face of the water bottom upwards, and at the same mo ment the man was observed struggling for life. The steamer was then at least fifty yards from where he was noticed, and an order was instantly given to turn her astern, which was promptly attended to, and in a few moments came alongside of him. He was then secured by a boat-hook, although in a most exhausted condition, and so held until two boats came off, one from the ship Walter of Newcastle, and the other from one of her Majesty's cutters l ying at Deptford, and he was dragged into the former. The steamer then, without stopping to ascertain how far the poor man was injured (blood was issuing from his ears), his name, or what property he had lost, proceeded on her journey, leaving the boat and her contents floating down with the tide. From inquiries since instituted, we have learned that the poor fellow was ,aken on board the Dreadnought hospital ship, where he still remains. PROJECTED ENCROACHMENTS IN GREENWICH PARK, —Pursuant to public notice issued by the parish officers of Greenwich, a crowded meeting was held on 14 riday in the ves try-room of the church of St. Alphage, and by adjournynt in the National Schools, to consider the propriety of opposing the steps about being taken by the Governors of Greenwich Hos pital to inclose a certain portio n of the p ark. Precisely at seven o'clock, the rector, the Rev. W. A. Soames, took the chair. Mr. James, the vestry-clerk, having read the notice conven ing the meeting, the Rev. Rector said, that he considered the present meeting of the utmost importance, not only to the inhabitants of the immediate locality, but to the vast popu lation of the metropolis, who sought relief from the crowded city in the quiet seclusion of their ancient park. Rumours had long been circulated that the Governors of Greenwich Hos • pital had determined to inclose about an acre and - a half of the ground facing Croom's-hill, upon. which it was intended to erect two villas for the special residence of two of the officers of that establishment. Farther, a tank was to be dug out several yards wide, and six feet deep round which a mound of gravel was to be thrown up, upwards of five feet in height, by which the view would be obstructed, and the park, confessedly the most beautiful one contiguous to the metropolis, would be entirely despoiled, and the inha bitants, as well as the public at large, deprived of a source of relaxation and amusement. These en croachments did not now exist in imagination, for they were actually commenced. In the upper part of the park there was a collection of valuable and ancient relics; indeed, so valuable were they considered, that an attempt had been made to shield them from destruction by the members of the Archahological Society, who had stepped forward to pre serve the antiquated " barrows," admitted to be upwards of 1,000 years old, all of which would be swept away by the construction of the proposed reservoir. Impressed with these facts, he (the Rector) had made it his business to wait upon Mr. Sydney Herbert at the Admiralty, where he presented a memorial upon the subject. He had also forwarded a copy of the same document to Lord Haddington, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and to Lord Lincoln at the office of Woods and Forests. Thursday was fixed for an interview, and be (the Rector) attended upon that day, and attempted to reason the matter with the scientific gentlemen pr esent. To all his objections on the part of the public, resistance was made by the representatives of Governmcnt. Last night he had re ceived a letter from Lord Lincoln, to the effect that his Lordship could not consistently advise that the re.conunenda lion of the Rector should beacted upon, as the thscientific gy— n- ee reservoi tleman bad stated that the object of fixing the protection of Deptford dockya rd and Greenwich Hospital from fire—could not be effected if any other part of the park were chosen for the purpos e. To that communication he (the Rector) had replied, that he was of opinion the pa rishioners had met with contumely, and that. it was con sidered very contemptu ous treatment' of a large and re spectable community. Resolutions in accordance with the sen ti men ts of the worthy R ector, and expressive of the ut most determination to resist the encroachments proposed, were moved and seco nded b y Mr. F. Angerstein, late Mem ber for the borough, Mr. C. Millington, Mr, A. Young, one of the county magistrates, Mr. F. Barwis, solicitor, and other gentlemen ; and ultimately it was agreed without a dissen tient voice, that a petition should be prepared and presented to Parliament forthwith, to stay the encroachments, which yesterday morning were resumed, by orde r o f L or d Li nco l n , th e Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests. LADIES IN THE , STOCKS.—On Saturday, market day, at Newport, in this county, th e a tt en ti on o f h e r Majesty's lieges was attracted to the Town. hall, in con sequence of the stocks being occu pi e d - by two young ladies, Miss Ann Bullock and Miss Harris, who, with a gentleman Girdler, named Jones, alia s had the pleasure of rusticating in the above enviable position for six hours.—Shrewslzry chronicle. Tat LONDON CLOCKS.—Our Marylebone Corre spondent writes us that the church clock in the New - road , is still in a very unsatisfactory state, and the unhappy time piece is said to be going fast. The pendulum, which ought to be at sixty, is at nearly seventy, and the wind-up is despair ugly looked forward to.—Punch. That in the midst of life we are in death, was fully exemplified on Sunday last, in the death of the Rev. John Alexander Lawrence, Rector of Marnh am, who when closing his sermon in the afternoon, was taken ill, and upon being removed to the Rectory House , almost instantly expired,— Nottingham Review. EXECUTION EQUAL TO CON, CEPTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—l have hitherto grounded my observations on the plan of our Laputan Minister—(Oh for another Dean Swift !)—upon your reports of the debates, &c. Yesterday I obtained the loan of a copy of the Bill, and sat down to the examination of its sublime monstrosity, with a banker of above twenty years' experience. So exquisite was the confusion that we could not come to an agreement as to the meaning of the various clauses. My companion admitted that the words bore the sense which I attached to them, but could not believe that they were in tended to do so, inasmuch as in such case the results would be too monstrous to be credible. On one point we could not differ, viz., that while the ob vious purpose of the Act, is, to make the Bank of England the mainspring of the whole system, no penalty is indicated, in the event of the Directors of that institution coming to their senses, throwing their copy of the Bill into the fire, and acting in utter defiance of every one of its provisions. That this is a possible case is tolerably clear—for one of the paragraphs of that paragon of absurdities and obscurities, clause 2, secures the ultimate reduction of the circulation of Bank of England notes to two- thirds of its present amount. I observed, by-the-bye, that a clerical error in my letter in Monday's Sun, makes the fourteen millions one-third, the meaning intended to be conveyed being that the reduction amounted to one-third—nay, to the possible extinction of such circulation altogether. You will stare at the assertion (not perhaps being fully aware of the astounding talent for blundering of Sir Robert), but read these words—" And from and after such transfer and appropriation to the said issue department, as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for the said governor and company to issue Bank of England notes either into the banking department of the Bank of England, or to any person or persons whatso ever, save in exchange for other Bank of England notes, or for gold coin, or for gold or silver bullion, received or pur chased for the said issue department under the provisions of this Act," &c. Now, let us imagine that a great demand for gold arises—a large proportion (possibly the whole) of the Bank of England notes are brought in—how is a single five pound to be got out again? The clause says, not at all, except for gold or bullion, and who will take the trouble of carrying gold, if he has it, to the Bank of England, begging the Directors of that Institution to accept it in exchange for their paper? I believe I have before shown that, if the Bank should be emptied, the Directors cannot advance to the wealthiest merchants in the empire a single hundred pounds en the credit of their firms. Turn we to another point.—(Oh, "wilderness of sweets," when shall we exhaust thee ?) Banks whose directors may be wise enough to wish to ex change the circulation of their own notes for those of the Bank of England (tempted by the magnificent bribe of one per cent. per annum,) are to be cut down to two-thirds of their prior amount (clause 5), and, of course, must make up the deficient third with gold. Now for the results.—Suppose Messrs. Spooney and Dolt wish to make the admirable exchange, and that their present circulation is 600,0001. Their first step is to collect 200,0001. of Bank of England notes, which they send in for gold—this supplies the third they will require—they then take securities for 400,0001. to Threadneedle-street—the Directors get the proper order in Council authorising them to increase their circulation to that amount, and hand over 400,0001. of their notes to Messrs. Spooney and Dolt. So far good. Now for the effect on the paper circulation of the empire.—Supposing the prior circulation of the Bank of England to be twenty-one millions, it is clear that with that of Messrs. Spooney and Dolt there were 21,600,000 afloat. But the first step of the transaction cuts down the Old Lady in Threadneedle-street to 20,800,0001., since she is bound to ".draw in and reduce" just as much paper as she loses of gold. Messrs. S. and D. put out 400,0001. of her notes—this raises the total circulation of the Bank of England to 21,200,0001., being the substitution for 21,600,0001. previously circulating 2 Thus the paper currency of the empire is reduced 400,0001. by the operations of Messrs. Spooney, Dolt, and Peel. If the plans of our arch-blunderer be carried out to their full extent. by all the present banks of issue exchanging their circulation for Bank of England paper, what a pretty little gap we shall make in our currency !—the total paper greatly diminished—the ratio of gold in the cellars at Threadneeille-street, to the Bank engagements continually declining,* and the gold in the hands of the public, liable to be immensely reduced by payment for imported corn, &c. , in which event Sir Blunderbore will have taken care that there shall be ne possible means of filling up the vacuum. Believe me, dear Sir, ever yours, COMMON SENSE. * Suppose that when Spooney and Dolt commenced their operation the Bank of England had ten millions of gold, and a circulation of twenty-one millions, the first step cuts down the gold to 9,800,0001., the second raises the paper to 21,200,000 /. ! THE COLLIERS.—During the week we are glad to ; learn th at Messrs. Stockwell, of Grange Moor, have given the I advance of wages asked by the men.— Wakefield Journal. A QUEER FISH.—The following fact has been I communicated to us, on unquestionable authority. On Monday last a gentleman of Honiton, named Wills, was fishing ira the river Otter, near that town, and to his great astonish= lent, on throwing the line, he hooked a large rat by the leg. As it continued diving and showing some good sport, he let it have several turns up and down the river. All at one ehe felt, as he conceived, a dead weight to his tackle, ant I on landing it, saw that the rat was all but swal lowed by .a large eel, the hook and hind legs being all that were visit .le i • the contrary motion of the fisherman must have asris ted in choking the eel, which being nearly thirty inches hr. length, would otherwise have swallowed its prey, and no do übt have broken the line. The fish and the rat have both been exhibited, with the permission of Mr. Wills, to number 3 of persons in the neighbourhood, and have be come objet is of great curiosity.— Western Luminary. To LA DIES.—The great and universal celebrity which Rowland's Kalydor continues "tia maintain, as an active yet mild and soothing extirpator of all impurities of the skin, is, during the present season, most pleasingly evinced. This preparation, eminently balsamic, re storative, and invigorating, is equally celebrated for safety in: application, as for unfailing efficacy in re moving al impurities and discolourations ; and imparting a healthy Treshness and transparency to the skin and complexi on. Its universally great demand excites the cupidity of unprincipled shopkeepers, who give the title of " genuine" Kalydor to compounds of their own mans. facture, of the most deleterious character, containing mineral :astringents utterly ruinous to the complexion, and, by their repellant action, endangering health. It is, therefor e, imperative on purchasers, to see that the 1 words " Rowland's Kalydor" are on the wrapper. All I others are :fraudulent counterfeits. ~~ BRITISH AND FOREIGN T PERANCE SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS, Ste,—Having been present at the Meeting a the „ British and Foreign Temperance Society, held Music-hall; Store street, and reported in your pap M iti§tci. , , evening, which states the m e e ti ng w a s, at intervals, of a ' most uproarious character, owing to the interruption of a large body of teetotallers, who congregated in great numbers in the Hall; allow me to say that there were not 400 persons in the whole meeting, and never could an audience have sat more quiet on any occasion—not even a single murmur escaping the lips of any present, notwithstanding the Chairman's opening speech being one continual attack on the principles of teetotalism. The disturbance was caused solely by the Chairman's refusing either to read, or to allow Mr. Miller, (who had been seated on the platform from the commence ment) to move an amendment, which he had previously submitted to the chair, and which he rose to move as the Chairman was about to put the resolution, the Chairman having intimated no dissent to Mr. Miller's proposition before he rose. Mr. Miller, in reply to a question put to him, stated he had been a member of the Temperance Society from the year 1838. The ap pearance of Boatswain Smith, so far from tending to enforce order, served only to create confusion and • dis order, from the unfavourable reception he met with from all parts of the Hall. Marylebone, June 13, 1844. ~~=~~~ Xlo' J. P. DRAPER. HOW TRADE SUPERSEDES FEUDALISM. As long as war lasts, the Nobles, who must be soldiers-, rule very well. But when peace comes, the Nobles prove very whimsi mil and uncomfortable mas ters ; their frolics turn out to be very insulting and degrading to the commoner. Feudalism grew to be a bandit and brigand. Meantime trade (or the mer chant and manufacturer) had began to appear : trade, a plant which always grows wherever there is peace, as soon as there is peace, and as long as there is peace. The luxury and necessity of the Noble fostered it. And as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans, a new order of things springs up ; new ideas awake in their minds. New command takes place, new servants and new masters. Their information, their wealth, their correspondence, have made them quite other men than when left their native shore. They are nobles now, and by another patent than the king's. Feu dalism had been good, had broken the power of the kings, and had some very good traits of his own ; but it had grown mischievous, it was time for it to die, and, as they say of dying people, all their faults came out. Trade was the strong man that broke it down, and raised a new and unknown power in its place. It is a new agent in the world, and one of great function; it is a very intellectual force. This displaces physical strength, and instals computation, combination, information, science, in its room. It calls out all fCrce of a certain kind that slumbered in the former dynasties. It is now in the midst of its career. Feudalism is not ended yet. Our Government still partake largely of that element. Trade goes to make the Governments insig nificant, and to bring every kind of faculty of every individual that can in any manner serve any person, on sale. instead of a huge army and navy, and exe cutive departments, it tends to convert Government into a bureau of intelligence, an intelligence office, where every man may find what he wishes to buy, and expose what he has to sell, not only produce and manufactures, but art, skill, and intellectual and moral values.—The Young American, by R. W. Emerson. _ - UNFREQUENCY OF ACCIDENTS IN RAILWAY TEA... vimallo.—Captain Laws, R.N. in his recent vidence given before the Ledger Bridge and Bradford Parlia mentary Committee, stated, that upwards of one million and a half of passengers had been conveyed over the Oldham Branch Railway since its opening, and yet not the slightest accident had happened to a single pas senger; and this too, although the town of Oldham was entered by means of a stationary engine, with a gra dient of 1 in 27—a freedom from accidents not to be paralleled by any other mode of travelling, when the number conveyed is considered. BENEFITS OF COMMERCIAL RECIPROCITY .—At Paris, in the best appointed houses, and at dinners, which for costly materials and admirable art in their preparation could not be surpassed, the effect is always considerably lessened, and by a mode the most mortify ing—by the mere circumstance that every one at a French dinner is served on a cold plate. The reason of custom, or rather a necessity, which one would think a nation so celebrated for its gastronomical taste would repel, is really, it is believed, that the ordinary French porcelain is so very far inferior that it cannot endure the preparatory heat for dinner. The common white pot tery, for example, which is generally used, and always found at the caf64, will not bear vicinage to a brisk kit chen fire for half an hour. Now, if we only had that treaty of commerce with France NN hich had been so often on the poirq,of completion, the fabrics of our unri valled potteries, in exchange for their capital wines, would be found throughout France. The dinners of both nations would be improved; the English would gain • a delightful beverage-, and the French, for the first time in their lives, would dine off hot plates. An unanswera ble instance of the advantages of commercial reciprocity ! —Coningsby, or the New Generation. DYMCHURCH.—New discoveries are daily making at Clobsden. The immense mass of broken Samian ware, of exquisite workmanship, and the great variety of domestic utensils, as well as funeral urns, the forms of which can be easily traced and defined, even in their fragmental state, prove that Dymchurch was an im portant station in the Roman times.—Dover Chronicle. A COUNTERFEIT FRESIIMAN.—A very interesting looking person, habited at all points like an under graduate, was brought before the magistrates on Thurs day, charged with creating a disturbance. So attractive was the appearance of the handsome gownsman, that hundreds of men, women, and children, followed him in • his peregrinations the previous evening. The anxiety of the populace at length became so troublesome, "that the police interfered, and invited the youth to the station house. Their guest created an inexplicable commotion amongst officers and men ; there was a mystery not to be unravelled, until at length a sigh burst from a gentleman in blue, and the truth was told. "In one s,oft look what language lies l" No man, but a lovely woman was under their protection. They invited the lady incog. to make that house her home for the night, and they' would introduce her to the magistrates of the town in the morning. On her appearance before George Fisher and Julian Skrine, Esqrs., her name was found to be llestor Sale ; she had been induced to act this counterfeit character by some ladies in Barnwell, and she promised, if the magistrates would forgive her, that although she might wear the cap and gown again, she would eschew the breeches. With an intimation that the repetition of her frolic might lead her to the treadmill, she was discharged.— Cambridge Chronicle. BRUMMELL IN THE TENTH HUSSARS.—Brummell, though an elegant appendage to the corps, was too much about the person of the Prince to be a diligent officer. The result was, that he was often late on parade, and did not always know his own troop. However, he evaded the latter difficulty in general by a contrivance peculiarly his own. One of his men had a large blue-tinged nose. 'Whenever Brummell arrived late, he galloped between the squadrons till he saw the blue nose. There he reined up, and felt se cure. Once, however, it happened unfortunately that during his absence there was some change made in the squadrons, and the place of the blue nose was shifted. Brummell, on coming up late, as usual, galloped in search of his beacon, and having found his old friend he reined. " Mr. Brummell," cried the Colonel, " you are with the wrong troop." " No, no," . . said Brummell, confirming himself by the sight of the blue nose, and adding in a lower tone—" I know better than that; a pretty thing, indeed, if I did not know my own troop." . His promotion was rapid, for he obtained a troop within three . years, being Captain in 1796. Yet within two years he threw up his commission.—Blackwood. PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF THE RUSSIANS.—" As regards personal appearance, the hideousness of tha women, and the comparative comeliness of the men, have caused the latter to be considered as handsome by many travellers. Their dense hair, thick beard, and mous taches, white teeth, and the loose drapery of their semi- Asiatic dress, are all apt somewhat to mislead us ; but - when we see these men as soldiers, cropped, shaven, and . dressed in clothes which show the figure, the illusion utterly vanishes ; we find the face, that appeared hand some when hidden by tufts of hair, mean and inexpres sive ; the Herculean frames, when stripped of the sheep skin, sink into insignificance, and are always distorted by the great protuberance of the stomach, occasioned by the want of nutritious quality in their food, and the conse quent quantity required. The Marquis de Custine is enthusiastic in his praise of the male beauty of the Mus covites ; but it is evident that he has been misled, partly by the circumstances above-mentioned, partly from having jtidged of the race by the servants and coachmen of noblemen —but these are no fair specimens, being chosen for their beauty out of thousands of serfs ; and, lastly, from confounding with the pure Muscovites the people of • the Ukraine, which is already Cossack. The most con clusive evidence on the subject'of the personal appear ance of the Russians, is to be derived in St. Petersburgh, from the examination of the Imperial Guard—a selec tion from sixty millions. There are many thousands of men, all up to the six foot standard, and yet it would be difficult, when stripped of their padding, to find twenty men equal to the first promiscuous twenty in Queen Victoria's first or second Life Guards or Blues."—New Monthly. EARLY EDITIONS OF SHAKSPEARE.—The sale of Mr. Jolly's books which took place last week, at Sotheby and Wilkinson's Rooms, included all the collector's early edi-. tions of Shakspeare's plays and poems, and lie can have no . reason to complain that they brought low prices. The first. folio, of 1623, produced 861., with the verses of Ben Jenson merely in fac-simile and that only from the second impression , which was sold for 25/. The copy of the third folio, with the title-page 0f1663, instead of 1664, was knocked down at 17/. 108. The second edition of Richard M. brought 171.175. ; and the edition of Richard 11.,0f1605, 111.55. It is probably a mistake to suppose the edition of The Merchant of Venice, by lleyes, .the first ; that with the name of James Roberts at the bottom of the title-page seems to have better claims to the dis • unction, as that printer threw off some copies with his own name, before he'disposed of the publication to neyes ; how ever, the first sold for 141., while the last only produced 2/..125. 6d. The gem of the sale, so to speak, was a copy of Venus and Adonis, of 1594 (not '1593) when it was first printed, in a very perfect state, although considerably reduced in size. The biddings for it commenced at 50/ 1 and were car ried on to 106/., when the hammer fell. "The Sonnets of Shakspeare," an indifferent copy, was bought for 33/. The surreptitious edition of Shakspeare's Poems in 1640, was in debted to the fine portrait, and the good condition of the book, for the 10/. at which it was knocked down. What was called in the catalogue the Shakspeare Goblet," and from which Garrick is stated to have drank at the Drury lane (apt the Stratford) Jubilee, produced.3ol. It was stated that r. Jolly had given 40/. for it ; but an attempt was made in the room to depredate it, as if it were not 'genuine. I