The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-25 00:00:00

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The Kin.' of the French came to Paris on Tuesday, and visited the b Museum. After remaining there for two hours his Majesty returned to Neuilly. In the evening their Ma jesties received General and Madame de Cubieres, General Baron Deponthon, the Marquis de Pange, the Count d'Elehegoy-n, Bar on Lel nue d'ldeville, and the Duchess de Talleyrand. The Prince de Joinville left Paris on Wednesday for Compiegne. Baron de Krudener, the Russian Ambassador in Switzer land, has arrived in Paris from Berlin. The funeral obsequies of Vice-Admiral Lalande were cele brated on Wednesday at the church of St. Louis d'Antin. After thereligious ceremony in the church the body was taken for interment to the cemetery of Pere La Chaise. General Lalande, the brother of the deceased, acted as chief mourner, and was immediately followed by the grand deputation of the. Chamber of Deputies, numerous friends of the deceased, amongst whom were M Thiers, M. de Cuhieres, &c., and se veral naval officers of different ranks. The G)urrier Francais states, that eight railroad bills are at present submitted to the consideration of the Chamber of Deputies. Several companies are formed for the supply of Abe rails and materiel. Shares have been subscribed for, and are even now selling at a premium. Presidents, directors, agclealrainistrators, are appointed, and are well remunerated. ready but the 700,000,000 or 800,000,000 to he furnished by the Treasury. M. Humann, with his Alsacian v L ooks of the railroad bill as a great electoral juggle. nTlie ext e aplagne is more discreet. of Quevi of Saxony is expected at Munich in the course w ee., on a visit to the Queen of Bavaria, after which 110 M a j e sty intends repairing to Berlin, to pay a visit to the wYmel,aillily of Prussia. are e "ear that his Majesty th e Ring of Saxony and suite roue petted en rto pass thr ou gh Brussels on Monday next, an ito t the evening of the 17th, a fishing-smack, belonging to s h Tr , in the commune of Adinkerke (Belgium), was upset that squall, about 150 metres from the sea dike, near linfOrt a a g e ' 4 11 Six out of eight men, composing the crew, hold ofasatslY to The master contrived, by laying tb e ~x e' r tr l oar, to keep himself above water until rescued by ; W hose ti ve m ,„ 3 " some people from the shore. .An old man, t t r h ° A letter s Synod of rthiroul " . ' llB Were on board the boat, on hearing . of the.ca ,pbre, fell down de-ad ; one of his sons escaped immediate taken up in a very alarming state. Athens states, that the members of the Holy th e oa , at city had, in the first instance, refused to take p resd Lo to the Constitution; but that M. Mavrocordato_ , the they l ' ent of the Council of. Ministers, having declared that did not take the oath within the space of twenty-four eL tirs ,he would dissolve time Synod andproceed to a new 41 1 the bishops obeyed the injunction. elec x..a.vr AND POLICE. Parish Court Court of Common Pleas Messrs. Ellis and Hicks, „ of officers of Clerkenwell, obtained a rule for a new trial lule case in which a verdict was given against them with 1 ; 4 7 damages, for confining for a short time the person of a r• Elliott, an attorney and a lunatic. The grounds of the that were, that the verdict was against evidence, and 1 114 . t the damages were excessive. s „st he Lord Mayor held a conference at the Mansion House th Mr. Goldham, the clerk of Billingsgate market, on the O millans of preventing the fearful overcrowding of passengers 41 board the Greenwich steamers that may be expected ;L . ring the coming fair. There is every reason to fear some oerrihkleucatastrophe, accompanied with great loss of life, in ence of the enormous traffic on the River, and the "ererowded state of the boats, into which the public rush With a heedl ess di sregard of their own safety, amounting e al most to insanity. Cautionary lacard to the masters f boat s are to bed tributed, butte s power of the civi o c "'ll:Sorities to repress the evil is very imperfect. A s i r Reeve, a pawnbroker, in Redcross-street, Cripplegate, e harged at Guildhall with having taken threepence ef rrt for the loan of three shillings for four months, instead h e „swaPeneeshalfpenny, the proper interest, if the calculation d a ,ade not month by month, but for the whole number of ; and not to the nearest farthing, or fourths of a penny, by to ,017.. The the tenth of a penny, a nicety required to be observed ia_PaWnbrokers, according to a legal decision of Lord Den complaint was lodged by a common informer, inure evidence was found so unworthy of belief, that the Court, us WAS dismissed, and he himself turned out of the w e i i, in Need, gold-lapper, of St. John's-square, Clerkens /a 0.,, w t as charged at Clerkenwell police-office, by Martin and 13 his son, a fine-looking, intelligent boy, between 12 Parith -Y se ea rs; of age, with having cruelly assaulted him. The tit s ~.,( 4. l c ors of Clerkenwell were in attendance to prosecute di e tr„ • • The evidence disclosed a shocking course of yin- O b ,Le and causeless brutality on the part of the father. Mr. ktidrood committed the prisoner to take his trial at the for 1 1 ,. tae Sessions, intimating that he would aceept bail appearance, himself in 100/., and two sureties in . each. v - hi s n r e 'iing man of very respectable appearance, who gave tid ed - ale Daniel Wright, but refused to state where he re °"a together with a showily llressed female, nam "4 for Cox, charged at Marylebene with having, by means te bed cheque, uttered by him, obtained 590/. from the arki7,l_g"houseof Sir Claude Scott and Co.,CaYenclis -squ _ f a ,Cle latter on suspicion of being an accessory after the Carl Wright was remanded, but the female was 'discharged. mat Christoph Kipp second cabin steward of the Batavier taati o er i appeared at Lilmbeth-street, to answer to an infor buf4 enarging him with smuggling 221bs. of foreign ma loot. ilred tobacco, for which he was liable to a penalty of bt Ile was convicted in the full penalty, and ordered to "r w l /ri r soned till it should be paid. fartai ash ionahly-dressed men, named Daniel Rodrigu st ez, Wa rr I?sers, said to be a Portuguese Jew, and Charles e sltisi'ea eotchinan, were charged at Worship-street with bur- Jeas o l i a slY breaking into the premises of Mr. Peter Hay, a er sierYin eu watchmaker, in Leith-street, Edinburgh, and 1 4 Ore M g Off plate, jewellery, and watches, of the value of l lensi e - , 411 1 ,5001 A rewar d h a d b een o ff ere d f or th e appre eastsai" lithe the parties committing the robbery, and the Ma foraee weeksatisfied as to their being the men, remanded At •u s . 0 017RT—TASIIZONAZZ.D. th e t Incisor the hells of the Royal Chapel of St. George and 1411 141% 4 church rung merry peals in honour of the Que!n's aitil„. - Y St intervals, from an early hour in the morning ;ue close of the day. At one o'clock a royal salute was itt the the borough ordnance. There was a public dinner "ti t ; n'al Adelaide Hotel, and in the evening the houses TliYal tradesmen were illuminated. 1 41: L'ilke and Duchess of Argyll and Lady Eintia Camp expected to arrive in Connaught-place W est, early Th e i : 3Buin g month, from Naples. ker n . uke of Devonshire left Devonshire House on Friday fk re "V, for Bolton Abbe - the Noble Duke's seat in York la; Rig Grace r t s 3 tO town after the holidays. 6,l4arquis Con e yn u g ru ham, the Earl of Tyrconnel, Capt. C. W . ll' arcle r l ams, Mr. Smith Pigot, Mr. Meiklarn, &c., have weed their respective yachts to be got ready for sea at tiveda'a;whera many of the yacht squadron have already ar- L the station. krobLeountess de St. Aulaire, we hear, quits the French thiPrZY aarlv in June for Paris, in order to pass some months to - e n ce ,* His Excellency does not contemplate leaving Co hn — ZY on temporary absence before August. err . gam and Ladies Augusta and Honoria Cado ss ai s i Z`eu at the family residence, in Piccadilly, late on ._"*e e,, O „„Y, night from Italy. The Noble Earl, shortly before "in,dp„-Zess sold daughters left Rome, departed for Naples, ;sotitet 4-irtaareidofmakinga hasty tour through Sicily. He is ex- Th orne in the course of next week. Lichfield, who has been again suffering from at Graefenherg, is convalescent. . Os 1 ., UMW ZI.LANEOUS. soaic`day forenoon a numerous meeting of the copyholders „ 1 1 the Fenn gentry of the manor of Hampstead took place benasisare.ehial Committee• rooms, New End, for the purpose N - " el lng the provisions of a Bill recently introducted into ae l aent tor lord} 1 4 „, , of purpose of enabling Sir Thomas Maryon st 'as, t' t he e lord of the manor to effect the sale of certain „'Osur s n 7. „ r estilt of which would be the destruction and in tms the e 3; l , a rapstead-h th Mr. S. Hoare, the banker, was s - " a Atisr . l, ll. . _After some e' brief observations . from Mr. Hoare, tr o nst th:r.,,,,gurgh, and others, a petition to Parliament was adopted, and a Committee was appointed s i th i lt Lee tneasure in every stage. %Ole b : Wa ger - Countess of 'Essex has enlivened the beau 3.4 series of dramatic entertainments, at her Lady :4ellilthe'el)Blrdeeli.iiee, in, Belgrave-square. On Thursday last, and Oc em . 0118 Thursday, there was a representation, on i lDe s t o lon about 100 fashionables assembling to witness la rnlances. tact atcZlination of candidates for South Lancashire took ; a Part "r e s „wten on Friday, when a poll was demanded on ° 1 air. Brown. The poll will commence on Monday 'the reins' a nd close on Tuesday afternoon. P a l3 rte eilnl,,before Parliament (brought in by . Mr. Stafford off el e Mr. Beckett Denison) for prohibiting the hold t:t be h rie a in parish churches, provides that yestries shall eia , the na tned enurches, but in . some other convenient place, v oi ari s h . 7 a vestry meeting, to be hired or ented by All Proceedings contrary to this to be r m ull and th o lt a PPet to Le s ,lllos e , from a Parliamentary return just printed that aing o „ -- ',,_of duty on patent medicines, in the ten years - " e 4)0 0, sth January, 1844 was on an average nearly um e ,tae oi4 Passed . commencement of last winter, scarcely a week . I raze.% Without the commission of one or more incendiary °4 of 14 Suffolk. °Per p r Many have been attended with serious of ate so , and all, from the derangement of husbandry s etv Aitt . y. th a i es nl e ukst lessen . the demand for labour. In the . month t eo .Nl "Orrible crimes seem to be on the increase. tit % of :ssleiations are in the course of formation for the pro . vrope • „ Atu--„,,N AL BENEFIT SOCIETY and zi t • u INSURANCE INSTITUTION FOR stocks new M c I P D LE CLASSES. effect Conip a j r _ elle7 measure and the Bill for future Joint ntot: of eh ook ‘,ri while they will have the highly desirable . .. th o sound :f Mushroom projects and projectors, will pro '•• th o g° o d oss,"".rionest undertakings for the public good, or an.,eo,usse of classes, the Institution which is now in I:AG i ee erat t ,r,(,)rtriation, under the title of "The Tradesman's thatTiisfwtosi:oiejef.ll,tual Life Insurance Institution, and National of__ieet greirtideappears from the prospectus to he calculated _stderatum for the middle classes. We have rn a PPlie t t to '3' the principle of benefit societies has not of n. Th _pe?:sons and families, a step above mere work irso,7f.evils whichsickness,its all flesh is heir," has been, in spite of s ta o ° ..enti ttues aeks, eminently advantageous, is proved by sy at l e i g th e 0-perpularity and almost universal application to the unavailablerendereaatrre arte in how many cases is that eedseinfecn, positively pernicious, owing ue st ss' s Present 11. 110 . d u rti fe i r ot t_ rsa chi? According to the plan now sug annand others of limited means, there can '°'" muss, as there will be neither weekly, monthly, PaYr n ' a of th e fun s f re a ; and a ds, th or shamming Abraham" to get the tta. ats are to e Party can only cheat himself, for all e made out of his own particular invest tal, oiffinct.the Insurance department, as this is to he a B t ' no person can he profited save the members 11),er, shares, with vsof diviii(ie ires—thre a no hungry Shareholders to seize annual t tl ee u f d; " t en mitre .the very capital, so as to raise the hich they part, leaving the ultimate Nin o(' and the on assured, swindled and, perhaps, t} 4l Ak e. .42,140inttockl7gether this appears to be a sound and men," as • st aea,lu'es. howe v ( e " P al .' 3 " (for it is one) of modern times. Irlltt.i.ieenadereir!_agsosalpv,ttrhosonluisetll w as ith L s o e r m d e B se a l c i o e n ited sa e y t s e , require ;sonavenisated with this national undertaking. It 'r Will be found fr e an be no as decoy ducks, inasmuch as ave heard, we entertain no doubt that 441 1 2 1 wh a t eler—bonesty and energy will do all ; „„ . p . ' I P 1 , , wanting. rton est4nsaeted business " and Mr. Milner Gibson, t i ro I , I Y at the Home -office. with Mr. Manners Sutton 144-4141- u l a e i tl at ar t l : e l e ia l t io u r ° l ht tli ea ce iti ve d . leaves town this day for his COURT CIRCULAR, Yesterday was her Majesty's birth-day, which was observed at Claremont. The Band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards arrived at Esher on Thursday evening, and went to Claremont at an early hour yester day morning, to perform a Serenade, under her Ma jesty's window. Precisely at seven o'clock the performance commenced the band being conducted by Mr. Godfrey. The following is the programme : Reveille, Morning Hymn," God of Israel," Mehul Romance, H. R. H. Prince Albert. Glee, " Blow gentle gales," Madrigal, " Awake music's measure," Valse, " Princess Royal," 11. R. H. Duchess of Kent. " The Prince of Wales's March," Costa. National Hymn, " God save the Queen. The Serenade occupied three quarters of an hour in its performance. _ _ The Royal standard was displayed yesterday morning from Eton Church. Flags were also displayed at dif ferent places in the vicinity of Claremont, in honour of the day. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken out 'on a pony in the fore noon. Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice was also taken an airing in Claremont Park. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode cut on horse back in the morning, attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. The I'rince returned to Claremont at half-past two o'clock to lunch. The Earl Delawarr, the Earl of Liverpool, and the Earl of. Jersey, arrived at Claremont, in the afternoon, to pay their congratulations to her Majesty. The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing in a pony carriage, in the afternoon. The following had the honour of joining the Royal circle at Claremont, at dinner, yesterday evening:— The Earl of Liverpool, the Earl Delawarr, the Earl of .Jersey, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Sir Henry Wheatley, the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay, Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner, the Misses Gardiner, Colonel Berkeley Drummond, and Captain Francis Seymour. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance at Claremont yesterday evening. The band, conducted by Mr. Anderson, performed during the evening the fol lowing pieces : Overture, "Leonora, No. 2." Beethoven. Minuetto, "Iphigenie" Schonbrunner Waltzer Adagio and Allegro a la Russe Reissiger. Grand Triumphal March Ries. Neuer Immergrunn Galop Labitzky. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal, arrived at Claremont at a quarter before five o'clock on' Thursday afternoon, in a carriage and four, from town. The Prince of Wale', the Princess Alice, the Viscountess Canning, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Devereux, Lord Byron, Colonel Arbuthnot and Colonel Wylde followed in three Royal carriages and four. The Hon. C. A. Murray arrived at Claremont on Thursday afternoon from town. Her Aajesty the Queen Dowager visited her Royal highness the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at Cam bridge House. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured the Duke of Wellington with his company last evening, at the grand ball given by his Grace at Xpsley House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester vi sited the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. The Marquis of Downshiro, the Earl of Devon, Lord Adare, and a deputation respecting the Ordnance Me moir of Ireland, had an interview with Sir It. Peel yes terday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Commissioners of Metropolitan Improvements had a meeting on Wednesday at the office in Whitehall place. The Commissioners present were the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Colborne, Sir It. H. Inglis, Sir Charles Lemon, Mr. H. Gaily Knight, Mr. Alderman Hum phery, Mr. A. Milne, Hon. Charles Gore, and Sir Ro bert Smirke. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yesterday. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meeting yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitehall place. There were present the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Rochester, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Besborough, and the Right Hon. 11. Hobhouse. The Archbishop of Canterbury had a dinner party on Thursday at Lambeth Palace. The company included his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Earl of Harewood, the Lord Mayor. Sir George Carroll, Sir Claudius Hunter, Mr. Sheriff Moon, Mr. Sheriff Mus grove, and Baron Knesebeck. Sir Robert Peel, accompanied by Lady Peel, honoured Mr. Burford's Panorama of Hong-Kong, with a visit yesterday. The Right Hon. Baronet entered with great interest into the various details of the picture, of which he kindly expressed his warmest admiration. The Duke of Buckingham had a party yesterday even ing at his residence in Pall mall. The American Dwarf, General Tom Thumb, accompanied by his guar dian, Mr. Barnum, had the honour of attending in the evening. THE NELSON PILLAR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stu,—l am greatly pleased by your observations to day, upon the Nelson testimonial. Ido hope that your appeal will not be in vain, and that the national dis grace (for it is nothing less) will be wiped out by a second subscription completing the sum required, at least as far as the relievos for the base of the column itself are concernel. Don't let us allow that to be profaned by a Parliamentary grant. Your obedient servant, Friday Evening. L. COURSE OF EXCHAI Amsterdam CF. 12 4 Ditto, at sight l2 2 Rotterdam 2U. 12 4* Antwerp 25 80 flamburgh M.B. 13 114 Altona l3 15 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 50 Ditto, 3 months 25 70 Marseilles Bourdeaux — Frankfort on Maine l2Ol Petersburgh, 3Us — TGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 274 Genoa 25 80 Milan Venice......... Naples 394 2, Palermo, per os llB Lisbon 544 Oporto 544 Rio Janeiro Bahia Buenos Arres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia - PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars. f 3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 0 0 0 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 9i Silver in tars 0 4 114 Berlin - Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 950 Trieste, ditto Madrid 37i Cadiz Bilbao 3 6. Barcelona 36 Seville — BANK OF ENGLAND. Quarterly Average of the "Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of England, from the 24th day of February, 1844, to the 18th day of May, 1844, both inclusive, published pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 . Will. IV., cap. 98. LIABILITIES. Circulation .£21,393,000 Securities ...X21,786,000 Deposits ... 13,345,000 Bullion ASSETS. £34,738,000 I 11, Downing-street, May 24, £37,796,000 c 1844, LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY BILL. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAT 23. LORD BROUGHAM'S AMENDMENT. MAJORITY. MARQUISES. Clanricarde Headfort Normanby Winchester EARLS. BISHOPS. Mountcashel De Manley Radnor Foley: Scarborough Kinnaird Shaftesbury Lovet BARONS. Lurgan Bolton Monteagle Boston Stafford Camoys Sudeley Campbell! Suffield Colborne Teynham Cottenham Vivian Dunalley Wenlock EARLS. Besborough Burlington Cathcart Clarendon Lonsdale Lovelace Morley MINORITY. EARLS. Lord Chancellor DUKES. Buccleuch Essex BISHOPS. Exeter, Bishop Gloucester, Bishop Cleveland Galloway Wellington Glasgow - MARQUIAES. Norton Downshire Powis Salisbury Tankerville EARLS. VISCOUNT. Bathurst Beresford Brownlow Gage Da RONV. Abinger Brougham Delamere Forester Itedesdale Ravenswort Rolle Templemore Tenterden Dalhousie Delawarr Ha - warden Melbourne PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Vote* and Proceedurgs of the House q/ Contwomu.) FRIDAY, MAY 24. SUPPLY.—(IN THE COMMITTEE.) Motion made, and Question put, " That a sum not ex ceeding 16,6001. be granted to her Majesty, to defray, in the year 1844, the expense incurred in Canada for Militia and Volunteers :" The Committee divided : MAJORITY-AYES, 73. MINORITY-NOES, 7. Collett, John Forster, Matthew Granger, Thomas C. Morris, David Napier, Sir Charles Plumridge, Captain Wakley, Thomas TELLERS. Hume, Joseph Williams, William Count Maltzahn, brother to Lady Beauvale, em barked early this morning on board the General Steam Na vigation Company's mail packet Neptune for Hamburgh. MR. C. MANGOLD'S CONCERT.—The annual even ing concert of Mr. C. Mangold took place on Tuesday even ing at the Hanover-square rooms. We have been prevented from noticing it till to-day, but feel bound to state that it was deserving the highest encomium, both as regards the fine se lection and the performers, vocal and instrumental. These embraced Madame Dorus Gras, and Miss Dolby, together with Staudigl, Buff, and, John Parry. The instrumentalists were Alvars (harp), Case (concertina), Hancock ( v i o li n _ cello), Clinton (flute), Boote (clarionet), Grattan Cooke. (oboe), &c. Mr. Mangold is a professor of the pianoforte, and presided on the occasion ; his touch is firm and crisp ; his style expressive and graceful ; and h• displays an entire command of the instrument under his manipulation. He performed Onslow's Sestetto, and Hummel's Septetto, with full accompaniments, as well as a MS. solo of his own corn position in a brilliant manner. In the first two compositions he properly confined himself to the scores before him ; his rondo is spirited—it was well executed, and warmly ap plauded. Dorus Gras sang with infinite taste, and Staudigl sang two or three of his well known songs from the works of Mozart, Spohr, and Netzer. RISING WITH THE SUN.—" Come, Sambo, get up my good boy ; it is after sunrise." " What ob dat, mosso. ; what if be after sun yise ? 'Spose if sun yise two hours fore day' poor Sambo must git üb, because suu 'yise; eh? Don't come dat game over dis WWI', no how." THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1844. SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION. THE NOMINATION. NEWTON, FRIDAY EVENING.—The usually quiet little vil lage of Newton was this morning the scene of great bustle and excitement, in consequence of an announcement that candidates would be nominated to fill the vacancy in the re presentation of the southern division of Lancashire caused by the death of the Hon. R. B. Wilbraham. The weather was beautifully fine, and before ten o'clock nearly five thou sand persons had assembled to take part in the proceedings. The supporters of Mr. Entwisle, on the hustings, were J. W. Patten, M.P., J. C. Legh, M.P., J. Blackburne, M.P., Colonel Tempest, W. F. Hutton, Esq., Sir Thomas Brancker, P. Greenall, Esq., Sir Henry Houghton, Bart., Rev. T. Black burne, Edward Lodge, jun., Esq., John Clare, Esq., S. Holme, Esq., &c. &c. Mr. Brown's supporters were Sir Thomas Potter, Mr. Cob den, M.P., Mr. G. Wilson (chairman of the League), Mr. Robert Gardner, &c., &c. The High Sheriff, addressing the electors, asked if any free holder had a candidate to propose, Mr. ROBERT GARDNER (of Manchester) begged leave to nominate a gentleman to fill the vacant seat. His duty upon this occasion was an agreeable, but at the same time to him a novel one, inasnsuch as lie was about to vote and act against friends with whom he was in the habit of coinciding in opinion.(Cries of " Oh," cheers, and hisses.) But the course, however, he intended to pursue was an honest and conscientious one.—(Groans and cheering.) He begged to propose as a candidate William Brown, Esq., a gentleman who had for thirty years been at the head of one of the first mercantile establishments in the country, and who well understood its commercial relations.—(Cheers from the free traders, and groans from the Conservatives.) It had been charged against Mr. Brown that he was a Socinian ; but that charge was unfounded, or they would not have found him on that day nominating him. Mr. Brown had always been a sound Churchman, and was so still. Another charge against him was, that he was a foreigner—an American; and that charge was equally unfounded with the former, unless they called an Irishman a foreigner, for his friend was from the north of Irelaud.—(Cheers.) A third charge against Mr. Brown was, that he was directly opposed to her Majesty's present Government.—(Hear, hear, cries of "So he is," and groans). Now he (Mr. Gardner) firmly believed that Mr. Brown would do more to aid their Government than would his opponent—(Cheers, hisses, and great uproar). He (Mr. Gardner) believed that the late and the present corn-law was the most wicked, injurious, and de structive law that ever disgraced the statute book of this country.—(No, no, and hear, hear.) He would be glad to see the law repealed ; but he would not advocate that being done at once. He would like to see a moderate fixed duty placed on corn, and that duty lowered by degrees until it was en tirely done away with. Mr. JOSEPH EWART seconded Mr. Brown's nomination. Colonel TEMPEST then came forward, and stated that it was his intention to ask the suffrages of the electors on behalf of a gentlemen who was eminently qualified to become Mr. .Wilbraham's successor.—(Cheers and hisses.) It appeared that this contest was to be carried on upon the principle whether or not British industry should be protected ; but he apprehended that there were few men who were not anxious to preserve their native independence.—(Cheers.) .Noth:.ng we could get from the adoption of the principle of free trade could compensate for the utter ruin it would inflict upon the home trader's best and healthiest customers—(Hear, cheers, and " No")—and no men would feel that ruin more than the retail dealers, and the manufacturers who supplied the home market.—(Hear, hear.) The manufacturers com plained that their trade was declining ; that theirs was a losing speculation under the present system of import duties; but how could that be, when they boasted at some of their League meetings that they could easily buy up all the land owners of the kingdom—(Loud cheering)—thus proving by their own mouths that they had been immensely prosperous under the existing corn-laws?—(Loud cheers.) Why then ought they to complain ?—(Hear, hear.) Their cry of " cheap bread" meant nothing less than " enable us to lower wages."—(Cheers ' and cries of " No" from the Leaguers.) No doubt the League had been joined by noblemen of the highest rank and gentlemen of the greatest respectability ; but if these noblemen and gentlemen would only look back to the events of the French Revolution, they would find that a hasty hostile feeling on the part of the lords who were opposed to the Monarch, raised a feeling amongst the people which they could not afterwards control, and the result was their properties became their crimes, and the feeling was con tinned until they were swept away by the very hurricane which they themselves raised.—(Cheers.) Sir THOMAS BRANCKER seconded Mr. Entwisle's nomina tion. • Mr. Brows then presented himself to address the electors, and was received with a storm of mingled cheers and groaning, which continued for some time. He was an advocate for freedom of trade all over the world, believing as he did that unrestricted intercourse be tween nations with respect to commerce tended not only to the pecuniary advantage and the prosperity of all classes, but also to preserve peace, which was a great desideratum. And in that character he was only desirous of carrying out the principle which the present Pre mier told them he was anxious should be adopted—namely, that of buying in the cheapest market and selling in the dearest.—(Cheers.) If it was their pleasure that he should be their representative, he pledged himself that he never would offer a factious opposition to any good measure that might be propounded in Parliament, whether it originated with Whig or Tory, Radical or Conservative.—(Cheers.) The Gallant Colonel had alluded to the rate of labourers' wages under the present system, and what it would be if the corn-laws were repealed. Let them look to the situation of Ireland at this moment, where provisions brought nearly as high a price as in the markets of Manchester, and would it be told to him that the high prices of provi sions in Ireland had caused advance of wages to the la bourers in that country?—(Hear.) Why, in the south and west, 2,000,000 of men could be had at a moment's notice, who would be glad to work for six-pence a day. Look, then, to the United States, where food was cheap, and they would find that many of their operative fel low countrymen received from 3s. to 4s. a day for their labour.—(A voice, " What makes them all come back again ?"—(Great laughter.) He denied that free trade would interfere with the interests of the landed aristocracy of the country ; if he thought it would, he would not appear be fore them as he then did—an advocate of unrestricted com merce, as he was both a landed proprietor and a merchant.— (Cheers and hisses.) He was an uncompromising advocate of free trade, and in the principle of that advocacy he was supported by Adam Smith; by the late illustrious Lord Chatham, whose government luid so long ruled the destinies of the word ; by his no less illustrious son, William Pitt ; and by George Canning, who was a Liberal at heart, but pre vented from carrying out his principles by the party with whom he was compelled to act.—(Cheers, and Oh, ob.) How did Mr. Canning treat the people of Liverpool? It would doubtless be in their remembrance that he had recommended as his own pupil in commercial knowledge and principle the late lamented Mr. Huskisson to their notice.—(Hear , hear.) Mr. Huskisson's doctrines were those of free trade, and yet had he ever, in his pl ace i n P ar li amen t, con t r ibuted to the de terioration of the interests of the country ?—(Hear.) He (Mr. Brown) was convinced that the repeal of the corn laws would not, by any means, interfere with the rent-rolls of the landlords, and he was borne out in that conviction by the opinions of many of the largest landed proprietors in the country. He then proceeded to say, that his friend who bad proposed him stated that he was an advocate for a moderate fixed duty, to be gradually reduced until the whole was done away with. Now he (Mr. Brown) must confess he did not agree with his friend in that principle. What he said on that subject was, " Ikt not the matter be one of doubt; let there be no uncertainty; keep not the landlords and farmers in an unsettled state; if anything is to be done, let it be done at once."—(Cheers.) Mr. EaTWISLE next came forward, and was received with cheers from his friends and hisses from the Leaguers. He said that it was mentioned that Mr. Brown would give his support to her Majesty's present Ministers, and that fact was put forward as a claim upon the notice of the district ; and he (Mr. Entwisle) said, if there could be one argument more strong than another in favour of an administration, it was the claims that were made upon the electors on this occasion by both parties, on the faith that they would give their sup port to the existing Government.—(Cheers.) But he was not surprised that the matter had taken this turn when he saw the prosperity that had resulted from their efforts. — (Renewed cheering.) When, in 1841, they came into office, trade was in an unparalleled state of distress—we were en gaged in several wars, and the revenue was considerably de ficient. He was not surprised, therefore, that great confi dence should be attached to those Ministers who had re stored peace to the country, under whose government trade had been extended, and the revenue placed in a situation to be more than sufficient to meet the expenditure. (A Voice—" The income-tax.") He was not there to discuss by what means all this had been done, but if they wished to know his opinion upon the matter, he would distinctly state that the income-tax was a good tax, and that the levy ing of it was unfortunately called for b 7 the circumstances of the country.—(Cheers, and cries of" IN o, no.") It seemed that the great cry in this case was to be raised upon the ques tion of free trade, but even that appeared to be narrowed into the repealing of the corn-laws.—(No, no, and hear.) He asked was it so or not ?—(Renewed cries of " No, no," from the free traders.) It was suggested that a trial of free trade should be made; but it was because he objected to trials of that kind he was there to protest against the prin ciple. The system of making experiments upon important matters was one which every great nation ought to dread, inasmuch as it led to wild innovations and laws.—(Hear.) England had during the last three years been in a most prosperous condition, but nothing short of repealing the im port duties would appease or satisfy that patriotic body, the Anti-Corn-law League.—( Laughter.) The question at issue in the present contest was, he believed, pretty well under stood by the electors of this district; but he should like to know upon what authority his opponents asserted that the Government wished for the return of Mr. Brown rather than that of the other candidate? Perhaps the person who got the information was engaged in asking for an office under the Government; or it might be he would have been better occupied in defending his own seat than in canvassing South Lancashire.—(Hear, cheers, and laughter.) Mr. COBDEN, M.P., next rose amidst considerable uproar to propose Sir Thomas Potter, as a fit and proper person to represent the southern division of Lancashire in Parliament. 'The nomination of Sir Thomas was not seconded, and The HIGII SHERIFF called for a show of hands on the part of the two candidates who were in the first instance nominated, and which he declared to be in favour of Mr. Entwisle. A poll was demanded by Mr. GARDNER for Mr. Brown, and it was appointed to take place on Monday and Tuesday next. FILTRATION.—It appears that Mr. Stuckey, the inventor of the economical plan for filtering vast bodies of water, is now in Paris, to exhibit his filters in operation on the Seine, induced by a note which has been received from the Secretary of the Cabinet of the King. It would be sin gular were this valuable invention to be adopted by the French Government or Louis Philippe, before the Committee on the health of large towns made their report regarding it, and other remedies for this country. CURIOUS FACT.—A short distance from Wellin - ton, the Bristol and Exeter Railway is carried through the White Ball-hill by means of a tunnel, five-eighths of a mile in length, and completely bricked throughout. Above this great bore, before its commencement and almost over its centre, there was a deep well of capital water with a never failing spring, which supplied the house near it on the top of the hill. In the contract entered into with the landowner a special agreement was made, that if the water was taken away by the boring for the tunnel, a sum of money in com pensation should be paid in addition to the purchase-money for the land—and as a natural consequence such was almost to be expected ; but as yet there is not even the slightest diminution of the pure liquid stream, which, strange enough, is as full as ever, though this great drain is made under it.— Sherborne Journal. THE NOMINATION, AT NEWTON.—We understand that so great has been the desire to be present at the nomination at Newton, this day, that the Railway Com pany were unable to provide carriages at all sufficient in number to supply the demand for seats. The disap pointment to the public has, therefore, been very g , a t but it was unavoidable.—Liverpool Mercury of Friday. The patent constituting the new Board of Admi ralty was yesterday read at the Board, when Bear. Admiral Bowles took his - seat, Tice Sir G. Seymour. EPSOM ItACES. It has been constantly remarked that the weather, on days of foes or festivals in which her Majesty is personally concerned, is invariably . fine and pro pitious. Yesterday was the anniversary of her Majesty's birth, and, as usual, it was ushered in by a brilliant day. It was also the anniversary of the Oaks, a prize for which our fleetest fillies con tend, and the winning of which confers as,durable an immortality as can be earned by the efforts of flesh and flood. The morning was cloudy and cold, but early in the forenoon the sun broke forth, and shone clearly and steadily throughout the whole of the day. Its rays would have caused inconvenient heat, had it not been for a revigerating north-east wind, that blew steadily, and without intermission. Having been subjected to a longer duration of drought than was ever, at least to the present generation, known, the roads were deep with dust, which, being stirred up by carriage wheels and horses' hoofs, was swept by the wind across the course, covering it with a thick yet bright haze. Compared with the multi tude that thronged the course on Wednesday, the assemblage, yesterday, was small indeed; the early trains that brought down hundreds, were limited to scores, and at one o'clock there were not more than 3,000 persons on the course. The gambling booths had disappeared in toto, and the fifty or sixty refresh ment booths that remained were driving but a very scant trade. The police, many of them mounted and armed with sabres, still mustered in strong force, but there was really very little for them to do. There were not 150 carriages by the ropes on either side of the course, but there was a tolerably fair mus ter of them, between 200 and 300, on the side of the hill nearly opposite to the Grand Stand. The bet ting ring was crowded, and there appeared at one time to be as many congregated in that locality as in the vicinity of the Grand(Stand, which just before the race contained about hilf the number of specta tors it did on Wednesday.` It is very difficult to count a multitude spread irregularly over an irregular broken piece of ground; the eye of an old general might do it, but we do not think our selves exaggerating or extenuating in stating that , ton thousand persons did not witness the swift strides of the Princess yesterday to bear away the Oaken crown. There are strange and pleasant coin cidences in this world—particularly agreeable to those happily tinged with a little fanciful superstition. The Princess was foremost in the Olympic game cele brated on the day the greatest Queen in the world completed her fifth lustre. Taking all things into account, and particularly the absence of some thou sands, caused by the quietus given to their principal attraction—gambling—the Oaks had a fair average attendance. The most fastidious could not complain of scenes of confusion and vulgarity, and the races passed off as quietly as the most contemplative Com missioner could desire. We have to apologise to that übiquitous caterer for the creature-comforts of the sporting world, Mr. Careless, for our carelessness in not mentioning his merits before. By him the proper portion of the Grand Stand was converted into a restaurant, which would have done credit to a Ude or a Careme. Having said this much by way of brief preface we will now describe the business events of the day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. Goldham, the clerk of Billingsgate-market having, at the desire of the Lord Mayor, attended at the justice room, to report as to any regulations which it might be necessary to make with respect to the boats on the river, for the protection of the public, especially during Green wich Fair, which was to commence on Monday next, that experienced officer waited upon his Lordship is the course of the day. The LORD MAYOR—There have been several appli cations made to me within the last few days, requesting my iaterferenee to prevent the embarkation of greater numbers on board the steam-boats on the Thames than can be safely accommodated in them, and I am anxious to hear whether you, Mr. Goldham, have any sugges tions to make, by the adoption of which greater security can be calculated,upon for the lives of passengers. Mr. Goldham said that, in all probability, if his Lord ship did not, in some way or other, interpose his autho rity, some dreadful accident, compared with which, in extent, those which had lately occurred would be but insignificant, would occur on the days of the approach ing Greenwich Fair. Instead of the loss of six or seven lives, the loss of six hundred or seven hundred might be deplored, if the steam-boats were allowed to receive such multitudes. He had always fears of some dreadful accident at this time of the year during such weather, and more especially as several old tug-boats ventured to carry hundreds of people. These tug-boats were, many of them, made of very indifferent materials, and, being narrow, were extremely liable to turn over if their engines happened to come in contact with other vessels in the river. If such a thing were to take place, the passengers would stick together like a swarm of bees, and but few of the multitude would, in all probability, be saved. The LORD MAYOR said that he should, as far as he possibly could, prevent any catastrophe such as Mr. Goldham had described, and seemed to apprehend. The power of the Court of Aldermen was, he knew, very limited as regarded the regulation of these boats, and he really believed that, until the public sympathy was roused by some awful accident, involving the destruction of hundreds, no effectual measure would be adopted. Some representative of the people would then, no doubt, come forward to deplore the event, and to say that it was high time to put a stop to the evil. A relative of his came to London yesterday from Gravesend:in:a steam vessel, which, in consequence of the gross negligence of the commander, carried away the paddle-box of another vessel in passing Blackwall. Mr. Goldham stated, that if that commander had come across a crazy old tug steamer, crowded with people, the consequence might have been dreadful. The crowded state of the river, arising from the vast traffic, added considerably to the danger. He had had a very long experience of the Thames, and his astonishment was how the loss of life happened to be, comparatively with the danger, so small. The LORD MAYOR said, that he should consult his brother Magistrates upon the subject of applying to Par liament for greater powers than they already possessed to abate an evil of so formidable a character. But in order to meet the almost immediate danger, he should cause placards to be sent to all the wharfs used by steam vessels, cautioning those who had authority on board against the practice of receiving such numbers of pas sengers. The distribution of the placards should be very general, and he should, in like manner, appeal to the public themselves, and to the Directors of the seve ral companies, to aid him on an occasion of such mo ment. His Lordship then gave several orders to Mr. Goldam, as to the details of the plan he resolved to adopt during Greenwich Fair. CLERKENWELL. _ Mr. Murk Noed, a gold cutter, residing at 10, St John's-square, Clerkenwell, was brought up on an im mediate warrant, charged with flogging and otherwise maltreating Mark Noed, his illegitimate son, a boy aged about 14 years. Bingham, the warrant officer, produced the instrument with which the boy had been flogged, a clumsy stick two feet long, with six knotted India rubber cords fastened to the end of it. Mr. GREENWOOD directed the boy to remove the dress from the upper part of his person. The boy did so, and a spectacle truly shocking was presented to the Court. The whole of the back, from the neck to the hips, was literally covered with stripes and coagulated blood. The whole of the left side was contused, there were two or three marks of the lash and iknots on the lower part of the abdomen. The marks of the knots were perfectly visible in several other places, and a murmur of horror and indignation ran through the spectators assembled in the body of the court. The boy having been sworn, made the following state ment:—l have been living with my father for the last two years. My mother lives with my grandmother, at 31, Charles-street, Hatton-garden, and supports herself by needlework. Early on Sunday morning I went out to walk with Johnny;Newman to Lea-bridge. Newman left me there, and I went astray, and did not get back to Hatton-garden until one o'clock. Being afraid to re turn home, I went to my mother's in Charles-street, and remained there until Tuesday evening, when my father came for me and took me home, at ten o'clock at night. He brought me into the bed-room, and made me strip off all my clothes, except my trousers. I did as he di rected me. He then took a handkerchief and bound it round my head, so as to cover my mouth and prevent me from screaming. He made me stand up, and beat me with the cat-o'-nine-tails produced for five minutes. He then took a jack-towel from a nail and bound it round my head, fastening it under my chin. Prisoner—l did so, that he might not alarm a woman who lodged in the house by his screams. Mr. GREENWOOD—The wonder is that you did not suffocate the child ; and if you had, you would have been probably tried for your life. The boy, in answer to further interrogatories from the Magistrate, went on to state :—My father then began to beat me again. I put my hands behind to ward off the strokes, but he struck me on the hands and wrists (they were likewise striped). The handkerchief on my nose hbel then bled a hurt me, and I strove to push it off, and he said be would hands if I consequence.di d blowon th e f not keep A y themhands nose, d o w w e n r e covered which — with blood from the stripes. I believe my back bled a great deal. When be had done beating me he locked struckbeal great c na d i n e ye al a in violent me up in the room, saying, `• You shall have nothing but bread and water for a fortnight." There was no bed in the room, only a chair , but my body was so sore that I could not sit down. I felt so much pain that I could not sleep any all night. On Wednesday morning he gave me some bread and water. He then fastened some paper across the lower part of the window with sealing wax, so that nobody in the street could se e me. He said he was going to the Derby race, and that if I should touch the paper on the window he would break my head. I was locked up all day in the room alone. At eight o'clock he came home from the races, and made me brush my trowsers. He gave me no food, but put me into another room, in which there was no bed, and he locked me up there all night alone. He gave me nothing to eat. At eleven o'clock in the morning he came to me and made me clean his boots. I was sore all over. He eat a beef-steak in my presence, but did not give me any thing at all to eat except the bread and water. In the middle of the day I shot back the bolt of the door with a fork, and escaped to the police station. The police took me to the Clerkenwell workhouse, where I slept last night. Mr. GREENWOOD asked the defendant what reply he could make to the charge ? Defendant—What he says is perfectly true ; but, m my opinion, he deserves all he got. Mr. GREENWOOD—I cannot trust my own feelings to say what I think on this matter. I never recollect in all my experience a case of greater cruelty, except one, where the victim was starved to death. The boy further stated that his father had often beaten him with the cat, which had been made for the purpose. He had not his clothes off since Monday night. He still felt great pain. Dr. Taylor, the parochial physician, deposed that the boy's back was waled from the shoulders to the bottom of the back ; his arms and hands were likewise striped. The flesh was much discoloured in several places from the injuries inflicted. Mr. Wilson, the overseer of Clerkenwell, said he never was so much shocked as on seeing the condition of the boy. He felt confident the parish would prosecute in the ease ; but if not, he would certainly prosecute at his own expense. The - prisoner was fully committed for trial in default of being able to obtain two sureties in 60/. each, to an swer for his appearance there. _ . The boy was removed to the workhouse. Sarti, the poor Italian boy, whose case was mentioned in our paper of yesterday, was again brought before the Magistrate, and Mr. Hicks, the overseer of Islington, being in attendance, promised to take such steps as would rescue the boy from his present deplorable con dition. Mr. Wakeling, a solicitor, said that it appeared from the statement in some of the morning papers that the Magistrate had authorised the detention of the boy's organ by the police. He applied for a summons against the police for detaining it, on behalf of the owner of the organ. Air. GREENWOOD said he made no such statement. If the police did not give up the organ to the owner he would certainly grant the summons. MARYLEBONE. FORGERY.—Yesterday afternoon, a young man of very respectable appearance, who gave his name Dank! Wrigia, but refused to state whero he resided, was, together with a showily dressed female, named Sarah Cox, placed at the bar beforo the sitting Ma gistrate, Mr. C. Long, the former prisoner charged with having, by means of a forged cheque, uttered by him, obtained 390/. from the banking house of Sir Claude Scott and Co., Cavendish-square, and the latter on suspicion of being an accessory after the fact. The prisoners were brought up by officers of the Detective Police. George Taylor, clerk to Sir Claude Scott and Co., deposed that on 3d instant, Wright, of whom he had no previous knowledge, presented to him ) a cheque for 3901. purporting to be drawn by William 1 ulsford, upon the Bank of England, and payable to Mr. G. Bedmayne, or bearer, (the cheque was here produced, and handed to the Magistrate); at the period of his presenting it, he said that he bad brought it from Mr. Redmay ne , w h o would be obliged by having it cashed, and witness gave him six 50/. notes, and four 201. ditto, together with 10 sovereigns ; he signed his name to the said cheque in acknowledgment of the receipt of the amount, and then went away. Mr. LONG — Did he say who he was, or make any other remark than what you have stated? Witness— He di4 not, Sir. Mr. Redmayne, who resides in New Bond-street, keeps an account with us, and as we are in the habit of giving cash to him for cheques, I did not hesitate to do so in the present instance. The checque -bore an , indorsement, purp ort i ng to b e that of Mr. Red mayne s clerk, for and on behalf of his employer. Mr. Claude Edward Scott, one of the partnere in the banking firm, stated, that on the morning of the 4th in stant, the cheque produced to the Court was brought to him by a clerk belonging to the Bank of England, who pronounced it to be a forgery, an d on t h e same afternoon Mr. Pulsford called upon him, and upon examining the cheque, he said that the signature bearing his name was not his; information of the transaction was then given to the police. Jonathan Whicker (Detective) stated, that he had been employed in the case, and among places which he had gone to in pursuit of Wright was Birmingham, where, upon his arrival he ascertained that he ("Wright) had been in that town, but that he quitted it about ten days ago, for London. On the same morning (yesterday) witness, accompanied by Inspector Haines and Thomson of the Detective, repaired to the 'Victoria Hotel, near the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway, Eus ton-square, and in one of the parlours of that establish ment he found the prisoners sitting together at breakfast. Mr. Lose—What took place when you entered the room? Witness—l asked him what his name was, and he said it was Day. I had told him who I was, and as I had before satisfied myself with regard to purchases made by him, with some of the notes received from Sir Claude Scott's, I asked him if he knew where he got the 501 note from, with which he purchased a gold watch at Whistler's in the Strand; to this he made no reply. I told him he must consider himself in my custody on suspicion of uttering a forged cheque on the 3d inst., at Sir Claude Scott and Co's.; he said it was a bad job, but he must put up with the consequences ; and he asked me several times if I thought he would be transported. I searched him, and found in his pocket 5/. 4s. 6d., and in a writing-case belonging to him, 70 sovereigns, as also a valuable gold watch and chain, and other articles of jewellery ; on the female were three gold rings, and she had a great deal of new and fashion able wearing apparel. The watch, money, and the rest of the property dis covered was here produced by the witness. Mr. Lose —Do you recollect anything more that took place between either of the prisoners and you ? Wit ness—Wright said he was in difficulty, and that it was through women that he had been led into it. Witness produced another cheque fora large amount which he found on the prisoner, who had attempted to tear it up ; it was of a similar character to that by which Sir Claude Scott and Co. were defrauded. Inspector Haines said that during the short stay of the prisoners at the Victoria Hotel, a bill had been run up there to the amount of 361. The witness Whicker further stated that the male pri soner had, as he had every reason to believe, not given his real name, and that his parents were highly respec table people, living in Conduit-street, llanover-square. Mr. LONG (to Wright)—l shall be obliged to re mand you upon this charge, do you wish to say anything or not ? Wright—l can say nothing in denial of what has been stated against me by the wit nesses ; but this young woman is quite innocent. She knew nothing about what I had done until this morning, when the officers took me into custody, The female prisoner, who also asserted her innocence, was discharged ; aad Wright was, in order to afford time for the attendance of a clerk from the Bank of Eng land, and other persons to whom he (Wright) had passed some of the notes, in payment for jewellery, &c., remanded till Friday next. GRAVESEND STEAM-BOATS. DIAMOND COMPANY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Ste,—On Wednesday last I was a cabin passenger to Gravesend, by one of the Diamond Company's boats from London-bridge. My only luggage was a basket containing articles from my house in town, for the use of my family, at present occupying a house in Graves end. It was not bulky, and was under 701bs. in weight. The Company give notice, that it will not be account able for passengers' luggage, unless booked and paid for. At Gravesend carriage was demanded for my basket, and I was compelled to pay it. I was told that by luggage wearing apparel only was meant, and that everything else must pay freight. By coach, by rail way, by every public conveyance with which I am ac quainted, passengers' luggage has never yet, to my , knowledge, been . reduced to mere weari ng a p pare l . Weight may be a fair limitation as to lu ggage ; b ut if passengers' luggage is to mean only passengers' clothes on board the Diamond Company's boats, the Director s ought to state so publicly. I view the demand of freight for my basket as an imposition, and one which, if gene rally practised, will do the Company n o goo d. I paid snipe k • nee r this extortion. For the last m ont h I h ave for paid the Company cabin fare up and down nearly every day. I preferred the Diamond Company' s boats, s i nce they appealed to the public against the Blackwell Com pany's charge of 2d. for each passenger, whilst other boats only paid ld. I :shall now go by the Star Com pany, the Thames, or the Railway boats, in preference to the Diamond. During the next week they will thus lose I 2s. by the change. If the public would only mark their sense of imposi tion by withdrawing themselves from all who resort to it, complaints would soon be put an end to, and a word from you, Sir, will d o more g o od than you imagine. I am, Sir, your very obedient, 24th May, 1844. A LONDONER. [We have no occasion to add a word, the facts stated by our Correspondent speak for themselve?.] KENT HOP INTELLIGENCE. CANTERBURY.—We have been visited with some very cold weather this week, and its effect has been very prejudicial to the hops. It has been more like March than May weather. MAIDSTONE.—There appears to be a sprinkling of fly generally through the plantations i❑ this neighbourhood; in some sheltered situations two to four on a leaf may be found; the bine in some few grounds is rather weakly from the attack of fly, but upon the whole it may be considered good. BRENCHLEY.—We have more fly to be found daily. IGHTII2I24.—The hops have not grown so much the last week, owing to the cold nights, which have changed the bino rather yellow, and we have a slight in crease of fly. YALDING.—The late cold winds have very much changed the appearance of the bine here, which looks very yellow, and fly, to the number of one or two on a leaf, is quite general. SIGHT AND HEARING TESTIMONIALS, 39, AIME.- MARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY.—Major -General Sir Ho ward Elphinstone begs to say that the Spectacles he has now had some time in use, have fully redeemed the assurance of the Messrs. S. and B. 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Address, Adlington Hall, Lancashire.—lmproved Achro matic Telescopes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, &c., &c., of the same kind of Lenses, to surpass any ever yet in vonted.—The Messrs. S. and B. Solomons' Invisible Operative Voice Conductor Sound Magnifiers, for deaf persons, give immediate relief to old s t an di ng extreme cases of deafness.—Caution.--Messrs. S. and B. Solo mons, Opticians and Aurists, are not in any way eon nected with a person of the same name in their imme diate neighbourhood, nor in any part of the country. To prevent mistakes be cautious, and observe—Only to be had at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. Several of the light-fingered gentry were yesterday detected• practising their skill on the pockets of the visitors to the Exposition, and conducted to the Prefecture to improve their morals. The Pafrie mentions a report that one of them made free with the pocket handkerchief and eyeglass of his Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours, while the Prince was engaged in examining sme of the machinery.—Paris Print of Tuesday. SUICIDE OP A LUNATIC IN BETIILEM.—Last even ing an inquiry took place before Mr. Joseph Payne, the Deputy Coroner, at Bethlem, St. George's-field, South wark, concerning the death of James Forster, aged 40, a criminal lunatic. Thomas Ilooper, attendant at the " criminal wing" of the institution, said that the de ceased first came under his charge in 1841, having been acquitted upon his trial for some crime on the ground of insanity. Witness saw him last alive on Tuesday evening, at eight o'clock, when all the lunatics in that part of the building retired for the night. At six o'clock on Wednesday morning witness opened the door ofdeceased's dormitory, that being the hour at which the patients rise from bed, when he saw him suspended to the roof by a black silk handkerchief. Deceased was then quite dead; but, upon examining him more closely, witness saw a wound on his throat, and another on his wrist, from both of which blood was still slowly issuing. Witness searched the room, and found nothing with which the wounds could have been inflicted bu a piece of an old iron hoop. Such a thing was not kept on the premises, and it was witness's opinion that it had been thrown into the yard by some boys playing outside, and that deceased had picked it up, and kept it in secret ever since. There were a ttendants employed to keep watch in the gallery from which deceased's room led, all night, but nothing in particular was heard. Deceased was a very ingenious man, and was in the habit of amusing himself by read ing and drawing, and sometimes by making butterflies a nd baskets out of silk. H strong Ile had som e very de lusions, and net long ago told wit ness th at h e wasG me the Fourth and Napoleon Buo na p arte. I le said, artl;e same time, that he was going to be excommunicated from the Church. Mr. John Thomas, the resident surgeon, said that he was in immediate attendance upon the de ceased, but his s erv i ces were useless. Deceased, he had no doubt, died from strangulation. The jury returned a verdict of " Insanity.' AN IRISII WAGER.—Two natives of the Emerald Isle, who were travelling together, finding their means run short, and being in want of a " dhrop of the cra thur," devised the ways and means for raisin a supply. Catching a frog in a ditch, one of them went on with it in advance of his companion, and stopping at the first public-house he came to, asked the landlord if he could tell what sort of an ani mal that was. " What sort of an animal !" exclaimed Boniface,` " why, you booby, it's a fin., to be sure." " Booby here, booby there," said Pat ; "it sthrikes me you're mistaken, for as 'cute as you think yourself. I'll bet you the price of a pinto' whisky it's a mouse; and I'll lave it to the first traveller that comes up to decide betune us." "Agreed," said the landlord. Pat's confederate soon arrived ; and being required to say what sort of animal it was, after much examination and deliberation, declared it to be a mouse, and thus the landlord, in spite of the evidence of his senses, had to pay the wager. THE CURRENCY MONSTROSITY TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—lt seems that the circulation of banks is to remain in stain quo. if the A I; bank now (on an avin.age of two years) issues 100,000 L, it is to continue to do so, ad infinitum. Of coarse, an additional Act of Parliament will be passed, en acting that the trade of each locality shall remain stationary —otherwise, some impertinent town may start up, and though now doing but 10,000/, of business, may, ten years hence, do 200,0001., yet its banks would not be allowed to issue one single nos more than they now do ! Again, the Premier kindly takes care of the interests of bankers, which they, poor ignorant dolts, cannot look after themselves. lie finds out that they lose money by having so many branches, therefore he determines to make new branches more profitable, by compelling the bankers to pay 30/. for every one they open But these are mere specks in the sun. The grand unsur passable, unspeakable, never-to-be-enough-lauded discovery, which this profound Minister makes is, that at certain times the Bank of England had a diminished quantity of gold, and, therefore, " it was clear," that the "country banks ought to have diminished their circulation !" To say nothing of the exquisite idea, that when one esta blishment diminishes its circulation, another, convenient or not convenient, must do the same, I would venture, with the most profound humility, to hint, that if a gap be made in one moiety (the metallic) of our currency, that is precisely the reason why the other moiety should be increased to make up the deficiency. Let me venture to breathe into the ear of our never-in the-next-five-thousand-years -to-be-equalled-Premier what is clearly a profound secret to him, viz., that while he ima gines our bank notes and sovereigns constitute our whole currency, and that the importation of some thirty millions of gold would suffice to banish paper wholly, and give us his darling " metallic currency," the truth is, that our main circulation is in bills of exchange ; and that, to supply their place we should need—not thirty, but three hundred millions of gold ! Moreover, that the whole of Europe could not snpp'y us ith the amount, if we were idiots enough to desire it. One of the greatest curses attendant on Peel's Govern ment is, that he conceals his plans until no time is left to consider and discuss them.—Yours, &c. THE OAKS STAKES Of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs old fillies, Bst 71b each. The owner of the second horse to receive 50 sovs. out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards the police regu lations of the Course. Last mile and a half. (118 Subs.) Colonel Anson's The Princess (F. Butler) 1 Lord Exeter's Merope ............ (W. Boyce) 2 Mr. Gregory's Barricade (Marson) 3 Lord Albemarle's Robinia 0 Lord G. Bentinck's All-round-my -hat (Rogers) 0 Mr. Lichtwald's Julia (Barbara fi11y)......(8e11) 0 Colonel Anson's Buzz ......... . (Holmes) 0 Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Coal Black Rose (Darling) 0 Lord Chesterfield's The Bee . (Nat) 0 Lord Chesterfield's Joan of Arc ..... (Simpson) 0 Mr. Denham's Fair Charlotte .........(J. Howlett) 0 Mr. Dixon's Arethusa ............. (Lye) 0 Lord Exeter's Pergularia .......... (Mann) 0 Mr. Gratwicke's Cestus filly .. Mr. Standish's Susan (Francis) 0 Mr. Osbaldeston's Sis. to Martingale ..(Robinson) 0 Colonel Peel's Zenobia.. .... (Chapple) 0 Mr. Rawlinson's Charmitg Kate. (Calloway) 0 Mr. J. Robinson's April Noddy .(Marlow) 0 Baron Rothschild's Emerald . . (J. Day, jun.) 9 Ld. Stradbroke's Boarding-school Miss (Edwards) 0 Mr. Thornhill's Example. (Chifney) 0 Lord Westminster's Fanny Eden...(Templeman) 0 Mr. J. Rogers's Moor-hen fi11y.... (Bartholomew) 0 Major Yarburgh's Miss York ...(E. Edwards) 0 BETTING. 7 to 2 agst Sis. to Martin. gale 5 to 1 agst ThePrincesa—t 7 to 1 agst Julia 7 to 1 egg Barricade 10 to 1 agst All-round-my hat 12 to I agst The Bee THE RACE. Charming Kate, somewhat against the inclination of her jockey, took the lead, followed by Barricade, Emerald, All-round-my -Hat, and Fair Charlotte, Merope and the Princess next, and the ruck, thanks to the badness of the pace, closely laid up. At the Craven starting-post, Charming Kate retired, and the running was taken up by Emerald, Barricade, All round-my-Hat, and Fair Charlotte, lying in her wake. They ran thus to the turn, where the Princess moved into the third place, in which she continued to the road, and then, on Emeralds retirement, she went in front, and increasing her lead at the distance, won in a canter by two lengths. Merope, then, on the whip hand, made an effort about a dozen strides from home, and got up within a length, but crossed in the rear of the Princess a few yards from the chair, and finished next the lower rails ; she defeated Barricade about a length. Julia, Coal Black Rose, and Pergularia, ran in together a couple of lengths from the first three ; nothing was within four or five lengths of the second ruck. The favourite was beaten all the way. The pace throughout was very slow. Julia ran under protest from Colonel Anson, Mr. Gregory, and Mr. Osbaldeston, on the ground that she was not of the Proper age. The Members' Plate of 50 sous., for three years old, 6st 71b ; four, Bst 91b ; five, Bst 131 b ; six and aged, 9st 21b; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 200 sous. Heats; two miles. Mr. Dawson's br c Lord Saltoun Mr. Osborne's bl c Boniface Baron Rothschild's Defence ... 3 3 Mr. Verrall's Rondo The following also ran but were not placed : Mr. A. Prescott's Paradise, aged—Mr. Vane's Blus terer, 3 yrs—Mr. Stirling's The Pocket Viper, 4 yrs, and Mr. Hardy's Obelisk, aged. The first heat was won easily by two lengths, and the second cleverly by a length. 14 to 1 agst Metope 20 to 1 sgst Buzz 25 to 1 agst April Noddy 25 to 1 agst Charming Kate 30 to 1 agst Joan of Arc 30 to 1 agst Stomacher—t. 40 to 1 agst Boarding school Miss. The Derby and Oaks Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 40 added ; three yrs old, 7st 41b ; four, Bst 21b ; five, 9st; six an d age d, 9 s t 21b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Horses having started once at this meeting and been beaten, allowed 31b ; twice, 51b. The winner to be sold for 120 sovs., but if entered as to be sold for 80 sovs. allowed 71h over and above all other allowances; the second horse to receive back his stake. Heats ; one mile. (14 Subs.) • Mr. Death's Misdeal, 5 yrs (Nat) 1 1 Mr. Prescott's Bosphorus, aged .. 2 2 Mr. Arundale's Jamie Falshaw, 4 yrs Mr. Little's Dahlia, aged Mr. Shelley's Nizza, 4 yrs 0 5 Mr. Booth's Camelino, aged Mr. A. Johnstone's Broadholm, 4 yrs The first heat was won after a fine race, oy a neck only, Dahlia a bad third ; Camelino broke down at the distance. Second heat-2 to lon Mis deal, who won in a canter, and was claimed. Nothing further has transpired with regard to the Running Rein case, but we understand that a com munication has been received by the Stewards from Colonel Peel, which fully substantiates our statement that it will be forthwith carried into a court of law. Sir Robert and Lady reel leave town this day ,for their seat at Tamworth. LITERARY INSTITUTE, WESTAIINSTEL—Last night Mr. Day, the inventor of the Archimedean screw, as applied to ventilation, gave a lecture here upon this im portant subject, illustrated by models and other apparatus for the purpose of showing, not only how large build ings or small apartments could be effectively ventilated, but the reasons that failure had been attendant upon the efforts of some of the most scientific men who had ap plied their energies to such purpose. The theatre was well attended, and Mr. Day was listened to throughout by an audience who exhibited great interest in all the important details most ably e x pl a i ne d b y the lecturer. Perhaps the most useful invention by Mr. Day, and dwelt upon by him, is a wind -guard, which may be ap plied to the largest and the smallest chimney, and by reason of its construction, let the wind blow from whatever quarter it may, a vacuum is produced by the slightest gust or draft, and thus a chimney "smoking" is placed beyond possibility. Mr. Day is evidently a man of no mean attainments, and those who are concerned in build ing would profit much by taking advantage of the expe rience most liberally extended by this lecturer. KIRKIIT.—Mr. John o eroft, a respectable stone mason of this village, whose family came with the Danes when they invaded England, and have been settled at Kirkby ever since, found in his garden a small copper coin of Constantine, in a remarkably fine state of preservation, a Saxon silver penny, coined at Bristol, and a brass coin of what is called " the dark money," which was coined in convents. Mr. Oscroft, being a tenant of the Duke of Portland, communicated the fact of his finding the above, and that he considered his Grace entitled to them. The Saxon coin is considered valuable on account of its scarcity.—Nottingham Review. COMMON SENSE. DREADFUL MURDERS NEAR NOTTINGHAM. NOTTINGHAM, THURSDAY NIGHT.—This afternoon the town and its environs were alarmed by the discovery of a murder, which, for atrocity, has perhaps never been sur passed. The victims in this massacre—for the term is scarcely too strong—are a poor woman named Ann Saville and her three children (two girls and a boy), of the several ages of seven, live, and four years, who were found with their throats cut from ear to ear in a small " spinny" in the parish of Coln-irk, a beautiful suburban village, about three miles from Nottingham. What is worse, there is a strong chain of evidence to prove that it was a h us b an d w h o took the life of her that was, in the emphatic. words of Scripture, " the wife of his bosom"—a father who shed the Wood of his children, and that, too, when from their tender years it was utterly im possible that they could have forfeited a parent's love by any misconduct of theirs. It will be proper to state the following particulars to enable your readers better to und ers t an d th e d eta il s o f t hi s dreadful inisiness. Mrs. Saville and her children, after having been in the union workhouse, at Nottingham, for the last three months, came out at the request of her sister (a Mrs. Brown sword), on Monday last, and went in search of her husband, a framework knitter, employed at Mr. Sutton's shop, at Radford. On her finding him he came hack with her to the town. and left her to sleep at the house of Samuel Wardle, in Wood street, Meadow-platts ; next morning, after breakfast, he fetched his wife and children away, and set off with them to visit her sister, at Carlton. He afterwards returned on the same day to Wardle's, and as his wife and her children were not there he professed to be much alarmed. It seems that Le was paying his addresses to a young woman, at Radford, named Tait, and on that evening he actually went to her and offered to marry her ; the girl told him that she understood he was already married, and refused to have anything to do with him. Saville replied, " She's sot my wife ; she has never troubled you, and never will ; she's safe, and the children provided for." The next day 'he went again to Wardle's, and his wife not being there, lie said he thought she must have drowned herself. Afterwards he made some other statements of a contradictory nature, which gave rise to a suspicion that he knew more of her than ho was desirous to have understood. This having got abroad, an immense mob collected round the house, and if the man had not been taken into custody, he would probably have re ceived rough treatment at the hands of the populace, who believed that he had drowned his wife and children in the Trent at Colwick Weir. This afternoon the prisoner underwent an examination be fore the Mayor and Alderman Heard. The prisoner having been properly cautioned, entered into a long account of how he had spent his time since last Monday. lie said that he was taking his wife to Sarah liarestaff's (his sister) in Earl street, and that when on the way she began to cry, and told him she would go no further ; since then be had not seen or heard anything of her. While this was going on, a note was delivered to the Mayor, stating that the bodies had been found. It appears that a bird-fancier named Swinscoe, of Carlton, was takingg a walk with his son, and discovered them in the spinny. The children lay together, but the mother, with her throat shock ingly mangled, was at some distance. A razor was in her left hand, but it was held in such a manner as to render it evident that it had been put there since her death. The un fortunate woman does not appear to have struggled much, and her hands were uncut; there were also traces of her having been dragged along the grass. The bodies were quite cold and stiff, and the blood was congealed. The razor can be identified as one that the prisoner was in the habit of using; and when the prisoner's box was searched his razor case proved to be empty. Spots of blood were also found upon his trousers. The bodies were removed to Mr. Parr's barn, whither the inhabitants of the districts surrounding have flocked in thousands to satisfy their curiosity by gazing upon the bloody corpses. An inquest will be held to-morrow (Friday) I.t Mr. Parr's house, before Mr. Swan, the Coroner for the county. The spinny where the horrible transaction took place is situate on the top of a high hill between Carlton and Col wick, and is crossed by a footpath between the two villages. It possesses many natural beauties, the prospect being re markably fine. " EI''RY DUTTON SHALL RAVE lIIS MUTTON."--. (From a Correspondent.)—This is a legend of the County Palatine of Chester in relation to the family of Dutton, now Lord Sherborn, upon which historical tact (concern ing the gallantry of Ralph de Dutton, ride Atkins's His tory of Gloucester, page 644), a theatrical piece has been dramatised by Mrs. Hallet, authoress of " Women's Whims," " Timorous Gentleman," and other successful productions, generally styled as La M o li ere A ng l a i se . 1 1 his legendary drama is entitled Chester Fair; or, the Prophecy, and, by the theatrical announcements, is to be represented for the first time at the Queen's Theatre on Whit-Monday next. The ancient Irish fiddler of Bally ragett is to be personated by Mr. G. Hodson, of Covent garden Theatre, who, since the lamented loss of "Power;' stands alone in this style of character. Mr. Parry, the manager, sustains the part of Sir Roger Dutton, of the Wen times. Sir Henry Ilardinge, Governor-General of India, had a long interview yesterday with Sir James Gra ham, at the Home-office. Both Right Hon. Baronets afterwards visited Sir Robert Peel at the official resi dence of the Premier in Downing-street. MR. GLADSTONE, SEN.—It is stated in a local paper, that Mr. Gladstone, of Fasque (father of Mr. Gladstone, of the Board of Trade), has subscribed not less than 25,0001., towards the Edinburgh and Northern Railway, of the provisional committee of which he is chairman.—Doncaster Gazette. WHITSUNTIDE IioLIDAYs.--The Directors of the London, Folkestone, and Dover Railway ; the Brighton, Southampton and Gosport, and the Eastern Counties to Chelmsford, Colchester, Hertford, Newmarket, Norwich, and Cambridge, have announced their intention of giving a plea sant trip to the different interesting points on the above lines, and back, at a very reduced charge. The South-East ern Counties will commence their trip this morning from London-bridge terminus to Boulogne-sur-Mer and back, via Folkestone, allowing three hours at Boulogne. The other carriages will commence running to-morrow, Monday, Tues day, and Wednesday. The steam-boats to Gravesend have reduced the price to Bd. TUE Nevr.—A return of the names of all officers who have been wounded in the naval service during the last war (between the years 1802 and 1815) has been laid before the House of Commons, on the motion of the Hon. and Gal lant Member for the borough of llarylebone, Sir Charles Napier. It appears that there are—l commodore, 23 cap tains, 18 commanders, 64 lieutenants, and 6 ma s t ers, all o f whom have had pensions granted to them, varying from 2s. 6d. a day to 500/. a year ; 8 captains, I, lieutenants, 4 masters, and 2 pursers, have been gran ted gratuities only, their wounds not having been found eq ual to the loss of a limb. These gratuities vary from 49/. to 301/. Lastly, there ' appear on the list 8 captains and 10 lieutenants who hav e been refused pensions for wounds, but the cause of such re fusal is not stated. ADROIT R O BBERY.—A Correspondent begs that we will grant him space for the insertion of the following cau tion to the public_ A man called at his house, and requested to look at the apartments, there being a bill in the window of "apartments to be let, unfurnished." Upon seeing them he expressed his satisfaction, gave a reference, and said he would leave 2s. 6d. as a small deposit. lle thereupon ten dered a ss. piece, and a half-crown was gi ven i n exc h ange, upon which he immediately said, " I supp ose you w ill f urn i s h than nicely ? ' and upon his being told (as of course he already knew front the bill) that th e a p ar t ments were unfurnished, be said they would not do, and returned a bad half-crown in lieu of the one he had received, took his ss. piece, and imme diately left the house. --- ANOTHER MATCH AT OSTEND.—We are informed that another rowing match, between the Flemish four-oared crew and Robert Newell, the London waterman, is to be rowed on the 27th instant for 401. aside, and that on this occa sion the start will take place at Bruges, and row to Ostend, It appears that the Flemish boatmen and their backers being much chagrined at the defeat of the former by one man in a sculler's boat, determined on another trial, and their chal lenge was instantly accepted. The Flemishers have, at con siderable expense, procured a first-rate galley from London, and four new oars have been made expressly for them. They are already in daily practice, and seem determined to spans no exertions to insure a victory this time, if possible. Newell and Coombes were to leave London in the Earl of Liverpool on Saturday.—Kent Herald. EXTENSIVE SEIZURE Or FALSE WEIGHTS ARID MEAsunF.s.—Yesterday morning Mr. Reynolds, the inspector for weight and measures for the eastern district ( lfb, t p h uh e r in 7 . tropolis, made some extensive seizures in the neighbourhood q of the Eagle Tavern, Eagle-street, and Westmorland place; also in Britannia-street, and parts a d j acent. Mr. Reynoldsobserved, that in the whole course of h is experience he had never met with cases so abominable. o p u a r in o s w o n in N ( ' l O n t FREE TRADE ELECTORS !--llRStell to the poll on es i ll n ro fa n N d o a n y r n a i t o t r n n a in f g ree n . t e r x a t ,ia c hi a a n ‘ d • your friends and acquaintanc es, b y reason and ar g ument, t o i i n d g ate re , c s ° p r a d r e e d no `s do the same. Devote the whole of Monday and Tuesday next to the cause of your country. Let every man of yon act as if the triumph of this great cause depended on his own exertions, and success is certain.—Lirerpo o l T M ercury . SERIOUS ROBBERY. LIVERPOOL, HURSDAY EVENING.--The out-door clerk of the Royal Bank of Liver pool was robbed, in the course of to-day, of notes to the amount of 1,5001., which he had just obtained from the Branch Bank of England, and it is supposed that he had been watched from there. The usual steps have been taken. THE PLYMOUTH BREAKWATER LIGHTHOUSE.— The lighthouse i is completed, an d th e li g ht s w ill b e exhi bited on Saturday evening,the Ist of June, when the float ing light-vessel will be taken away. The light will be at an elevation of 63 feet above the level of high water spring tides, and will appear red in all directions seaward, and white within the line of the breakwater. A bell is attached to the lighthouse, which will be rung at intervals in foggy weather. —West Briton, 1