The Sun. — London, England, 1832-04-04 00:00:00

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. - PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Rod ....... shut 3 per Cent. Cons. f33%% 3%4 per Cent... Ditto Red New 3%per Cent 90%, 91 3 per Cent Ann. 1726 4 per Cent. 160 i flank Long Ann to exptre Jan 5, 186: , - Oct. 10, 1ik.59 .•' Joni 6;186n 16 13-16 Jan. 5, 1840 April 5, 1&90 Jan. 5. MO PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Scrip par Ditto Account 0 % 14 pm. Brazilian Bonds 43% New S per Cent. i lndia Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock 9 2 341:3 Old Annuities New Ditto... ...... -- 1 per Cent. Ann. 1751 - Ex Bills, .Zl,OOO I I 14 on . Ditt0...... n 14 pm. Ditto Small • l2 14 or . Ditto Conithettial Ditto Advertised — pm. Bank for Accoun! India for Account Cons April 1 I Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds... V.O Ditto Atcottn , i.“ Chaim tiThas Ditto Account •Columbian Bonds Ditto Accoun► Ditto Bonds, 1824 Danish Bonds 66 Ditto Account Greek Bonds ........ 234- Ditto Bonds, 1 815 281.4 9 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Account Ditto, fi per cent 31% Ditto Accounts 31 1 4 Neapolitan...... THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds lO Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account Regency Scrip dis. Ditto Accomit PrUssian Bonds 101 14 Ditto A tctrunt.., Ditto Bonds, 100 Russian Ponds, 1822 97 Ditto Account New Loan 91% . _ 1 - - Ditto Account — Spanish Bonds, IS2I 1334 1 Ditto Account . _7! bitto Bonds, 1423 1 2 14 French Rentes, sp. c. —f —c. Exchange —f. —c. n per cent —f —c. Exchange —f —c. Dutch Scrip Ditto Account 41% (Prench Scrip FEICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) XlOO 11 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O 36 l • Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes . British Iron Mining Company £5O 71/ Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) 47;4 3g English Mining Company 1214 22 General Mining Association £1 214 Real dcl Monte Mining C 0...., .. United Mex Min. Co (iss. at 2/. inn.) 40 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp. ...... Protector Insurance Comp. Canada Company ...... 17 General Steam Navigation Co. l3 Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Co l2 £1 8 0 42% PRICKS OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 31. Bank Stock 204 St. Patnck Insur.(pei Share Consols, 3 Der cent. Gov. S tock, 3% per cent. 90% National Ditto 25 Ditto, New 90% Patriotic Ditto l% 4 per Cent. — Hibernian Bank — Goy. Deb. 3% percent... 84% Provincial Ditto Royal lanai Stock Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Stock ..... ... Imperial Mine City Deb. 4 per cent.... Mining Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. --'Commercial Buildings WOE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 47% Genoa 25 85 Venice 47 Malta 46 Naples . 404 Palermo per oz. 119 Lisbon Oporto 48 Rio Janeiro Bahia 29 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight l% Cork l% BULLION, PIER OZ. £. s. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 slew Dollars Silver bars, standard 0 4 11 COURSE OF EXCH . - - - Amsterdam C.F 12 21 Ditto, at sight 11 191 Rotterdam 2 U 12 21 Antwerp 12 8 Hamburg M.B. 14 C Alton% l4 0i Paris, 3 days' sight 25 80 Ditto '' U 26 5 Bordeaux "6 10 Berlin Frank fort on Maine, Ex. M. 355 Petersburg'', ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective fl. '2 51. 10 10 Trieste d 0...... lO 11 Madrid 36 Cadiz 36 Bilboa 36 Barcelona 3 Seville 3 Gibraltar 47M -------- Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 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In 3 vols. post Svo. THE C O N T R A S T, By the Author of " Matilda" and " Yes and No." In 3 vols. post Svo. ARLIN G T O N. By the Author of " Granby" and " Herbert Lacy." THE FAIR OF MAY FAIR. In 3 vols. post Svo. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. role glen LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING. APRIL 4, 1832. At about half.past one o'clock, this day, his MAJESTY arrived at St. James's Palace, escorted by a party of the 9th Lancers. Shortly after his MAJESTY held a Levee. No Privy Council was held, and the KING left for Windsor. An extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet Ministers was called at nine o'clock, last night, at the Foreign-office, which was attended by the LORD CHANCELLOR, Earl GREY, Lord GODERICH, Lord MELBOURNE, Lord HOL. LAND, the Duke of RICHMOND, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and Mr. STANLEY. The Ministers were in deliberation till two o'clock this morning, when the meeting broke up. Colonel DA VIES repeated his motion last night for an Inquiry into the State of the Glove Trade. As the pulse of both Houses had been felt upon the subject, the gallant Member could not have had the slightest hope of any possibility of success ; and we regret, therefore, that he should have added his weight to the Anti , Reformers in their system of annoying Ministers , by useless motions. The Anti-Reform petition from the Univer sity of Oxford was presented to the House of , Lords last night by Earl BATHURST. Feuds and schism s in a cloister are proverbially venom ous ; and we understand that broils of ludicrous acrimony sprung out of the difficulty of selecting a person fit to do justice to such a petition. . One Doctor of the cowl preferred Lord BEx- LEY, another Lord ELDON, a third Lord SIDMOUTH: the hero of the Rolliad was named; id a very satrap among the doctors, declared that none but a Bishop was fit for such a duty Factious objections were made to all such no minations. One Nobleman was pronounced silly, another never had been wise, a third was sneered at as a dissenter, and a fourth was set down as corrupt, whilst a learned Professor confessed that nothing could now be esteemed which ema nated from a Bishop, and to trust such a petition to a Prelate would be to hang the jewel in a --'s snout. The metaphor was orthodox, but it was trite and not well applied. The choice at length fell on Earl BATHURST. The oracles of the Delta-hat (for even the Bishops have dis carded the wig) often put a journalist in serious dilemmas; and we must confess ourselves foiled in our attempt to Pronounce whether the virtue and sagacity of Oxford be most dis played in the petition or in the selection of Earl BATHURST to present it. A sacrifice of con venience and interest to principle is always estimable, and all men must praise these petitioners who, to use their own language, have left " the sanctuary of academic seclusion," to instil into a stubborn and stiff-necked generation that wis dom which has been cast off by all persons above the age of the pinafore. There may be a few people in seclusion not altogether academic in whom the Oxford petition will inspire a joy adequate at least to the dissipation of the cholera. We can fancy some aged maiden sister, or venerable widow of a petty curate long in his grave, reading the Oxford petition under the porch of an alms-house. To the mind's eye the spectacles are dimmed with tears, and to the mind's ear, the old lady is now saying, " Charming just for all the world what my good old man used to say ! how overjoyed he would be, could he rise once more and read such wisdom from his own Uni versity !" The intellects of the desceuvre class of the University are, in one sense at least, not of this world, although in another they are very worldly. The classic lore of these wise petitioners has taught them that the Capitol was once saved by the cackling of the geese ; but we must confess that our learn ing supplies us with no precedent of an empire being benefited by the humming of the drones. In a recent number of The Sun, we analysed the Parliamentary return of Colonial Pensions, with a view to solve a problem of all others the most useful to be solved by the English people —the extent to which fraud and impu dence can be carried by a Tory Government. We little imagined that the Parliamentary return of pensions at home would display a cor ruption equal to that which triumphs with im punity in the colonies. We thought that the incessant vigilance of such men as Mr. HUME and Sir HENRY PARNELL, with the terrors of the Press, would have deterred even the most corrupt of our departments—the Treasury— from very flagrant grants ; but in this we have been egregiously mistaken. Opening what are termed the Miscellaneous Services, the first pension is that of a Mr. GEORGE HARRISON, who retires upon 2,2001. a year, having enjoyed a place of 3,800/. a year, with a patronage which had enabled him to provide for all his relations, and even to give thousands a year (for we believe we may speak in the plural) to the son of a domestic. This Mr. GEORGE HAR RISON has provided for one relation in the Treasury, a brother he has converted into a Commissioner of Excise, a sister's husband into a Consul at Madeira ; and another sister having married a Mr. BULLOCK, we find that the second pension in the miscella neous estimates to be 1,2001. a year to a Mr. E. C. BULLOCK, whether a relation we cannot say. In the language of the Ame ricans, we should have pronounced a place of . 3,8001. a year, with a power of providing for all kith and kin out of the taxes, to be " a very pretty considerable nation good sort of a thing we guess," and too good a thing to require a retiring pension of 2,2001. per annum. The Treasury contin gent account is a sort of sacred documen , which political antagonists, from delicacy, never pry into ; and yet we are old enough to re member when 'Mr. TIERNEY, a man pretty well hardened to jobs, considered that the Treasury had so over-stepped the modesty of hallowed customs, that he was no longer re strained from exposing the contingent account in the House of Commons. His chief objec tions were to a gift of 5 0001. to this Mr. LIAR nisoN, for his faithful services, and to a gift of about 5001. to a clerk for doing the duty of Mr. HARRISON during his repeated absence from service. We next find a pension of 1001. a year in this department to a Mr. HESLOP, whose father for a very long period possessed the richest living in England—the parish of Marylebone, divided at Dr. HESLOP'S death into five extremely rich district parishes. A little further on we find a pension set down to a young gentleman, v,ho has always been reputed the natural son of a Royal Duke, not the most liberal or popular of the sons of GEORGE the Third, of pious memory. Next we come to Mr. GRAN. PENN, who, after doing the State some service for only four and a halt years, at 1,000/. a-year, retires upon an annual pension of 550/. A few names lower in the list we find Mr. RICHARD PENN, with a pee. sion of 7501. per annum. This we suppose is the " poor Richard," of proverbial economy and hard working prudence so celebrated by Dr.FR A NK LI N, of Pennsylvania. In page 8, we find four gentle men who enjoyed 1,850/. or 1,5001. a year each, and after only eight years of service, they retire, two upon 750/., one on 6001., and one on 500/ a year, " as long as he shall be unprovided for." We think these gentlemen very well provided for. This reminds us of the last will and testament of an old Peer, who was replete with the wisdom of the North. The late Earl of GALLOWAY left all his sons c hargeable upon their eldest brother, the present Earl, until he should provide for them by places under Go T. A. RAYNSFORD, Deputy Registrar. THE MARKETS -(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. This week the arrivals of all kinds of Grain are unusually small; but the weather appears so very genial, that our buyers manifested very little spirit in making purchases. More money is asked for most descriptions of Gain, but are is so little doing that we cannot note :any improvement in prices. Flour is un. altered. ♦RRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Englifh 1,353 qis. 432 qrs. - Foreign Oats. Flour. 67 qrs. 65 isacks. brie. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S DEAL, APRIL 3.—Wind S.W —Arrived and sailed for the river the Arab and Recovery tranTorts. KINSALE, APRIL 2. Arrived the Mary 13rade, Gleaves, from Pernamhueo. DOVER, APRIL 3.—Arrived off port the Corsair, Wea therhead, from the Cape of Good Hope. BRISTOL, Amt. 3.—Arrived the King George, Ward- Law, from St. Michael's. HOLYHEAD, APRIL 2.—Arrived the Huskisson, Nl'Leod, from Liverpool, with loss of bowsprit, &c., main-mast sprung, and hull much damaged, having been in contact with an American ship, name unknown, hound to Charleston. LivEarooL, ArRIL 2.—Arrived the Philetus, and Lexington, Covert, from New Orleans; Eizabeth, Callender, and Brenda, Bradford, from Ch irleston ; and Lochiel, Lopez, from Charente. Off port the Cordelia, from Bengal ; Hermitage, L •wis, and Sarah and Caro line, Woodberry, from New Orleans ; Oilethorpe, Sos tere, from Savannah ; and Ai iel, from La Guayra. Arrived at the Cape of Good Hope the Diligent, Arvoy, from Bordeaux ; and Lady Gordon, Harrall, from Singa pore. Ai rived at Charleston the Retrench, Cooper, from Liverpool. vernment to the amount of 1000/. a year each . This was an amiable bond of family affection, and the present Earl had the singular felicity of relieving his estate by acts of fraternal kindness. In page 12 of the Estimates, we find that Baron LANGspoxF, the Hessian Minister, has a pen• sion of 100/. a year. When the newspapers announce that the Hessian Minister, Baron Von LANGSDORFF, yesterday had an audience with the First Lord of the Treasury, at the Treasury Chambers, and infer from it some important negotiations or State intrigues, the worthy Baron may have gone merely to receive his quarter's pension of 251. The Russian Prime Minister, Pozzo DI BORGO, has a pension of 400/. a year, hut he receives it at the house of the Duchess of ST. ALBA N's. A little below the pension of his Excellency the Hessian Minister, stands a pension of 1,000/. a year to Mr. Ser geant PRAED, the father of the Tory Member for St. Germains. Nothing could be more pro per than that the boroughmongers should fish for a young recruit against the Reform Bill among the sons of an old borough pensioner. Mr. PRAED, and all of his class, have an interest at stake in maintaining, as Colonel SIBTHORPE says, " the institutions of our glorious Constitu- tion." If we mistake not, the Pension Act prohibits the granting of any pension for less than a certain period of service, and it regulates the amount of pension by the length of service. We have seen that Mr. PENN enjoys his pension after only four years and a half of service ; and in page 8 of the Estimates we find ten consecutive pensions, several of them large, a►►d with the column of services left blank—Nil.— The manner in which different things are tacked together to eke out a period to bring Mr. Ser geant PRAED within the legality of a large pen sion, is a curious specimen of Tory contrivances. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. COURT OF CHANCERY. An ACCOUNT of the Number of CAUSES, EXCEPTIONS, FURTHER DIRECTIONS, PETITIONS (distinguishing Bankrupt Petitions), and MOTIONS not of course heard by the VICE-CHANCELLOR, from the Ist day of January to the 31st day of December, 1831 ; and also, of the Number of CAUSES, EXCEPTIONS, FURTHER DIRECTIONS and PETITIONS, ready for hearing, before the VICE-CHAN CELLOR, on the 19th day of March, 182'2. ~; re, . F. Heard from Ist January to T. 17 78 7, 1 2 -- 07, 31st Dec. 1831 Hearing onl , lth Ready for . March, 1832 Set down for Hearing in Easter Term THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have the following by the United States papers, re• ceived this morning, to March 9 : The Nassau papers, to the 20th of February, state that George Briggs, editor of the Bahama .Argus, was put upon his t ial for a libel upon his ExeelTetley the Governor of the Bahama•. The jury retired, and the Court con • tinued in Session, from day to day, until the Sth, before the jury could agree, when they brought in a verdict of Guilty. The Court sentenced Mr. B. to pay a fine to the King of 1501. and to be imprisoned for three calendar months. Lower Canada papers, to the 26th of February, state that in consequence of the Civil List riot having been vot,d, his Excellency informed the Parliament, in his clo,ing speech, that in obedience to the instructions hehad r sei el, 14 should reserve the Supply Bill voted for the expen-es of the year, until the signification of his Ma jesty's pleasure. The Montreal Herald says that, aroused by the very extraordinary proceedings of the House of Assembly, in regard to Mr. Christie, the Alember for Give, (so frequently expelled), a petition has at length been presented to the Legislative Council, praying that nody to withhold its consent from all bills of a local neure, in tending to he binding upon the county of Caspe, until the freeholders are duly represented in the Legislature. MExlco.—The New Orleans Pipers state from Vera Cruz that private letters from the city of Mexico say that it was ascertained from a majority of the States that they would support the General Government with all their strength. Santa Anna had promised his followers to be in the capital by the middle of M ach. THE FUNDS. Up to the present hour we have no arrivals of impor tance. The Funds are in a stagnant state, there being scarcely a bargain doing. Consols, which left off yesterday at 83i 4- for the Ac count, opened at the same price. This being the day for the arrival of an express from Paris, the speculators are anxiously waiting for the prices of the French Rt.ntes. The Foreign Market is in the same state as the British —nothing doing as yet. HALF-PAST ONE. We repeat our conviction that the ratification of all the Powers will be exchanged in a few days ; and should the King of Holland, after that, still refuse to become a party to that arrangement, means kill be found to compel him, without having recourse to armed force. Consols have continued steady the whole of the morn ing, with little doing. In the early part of the morning there were buyers at 83i for the Account, but afterwards they turned sellers at the above price, and continue the lame at present, for next time 831. A commercial express from Paris has arrived ; the contents are not as yet made public, but they are looked on as not being of any importance. THREE O' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account 831-. FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES Consols ...... 83 Ditto for Account 83t- Brazilian Bonds 43 Buenos Ayres... Danieh 66 Greek, 1825 29 Alexican, 1825 3l Peruvian ...... ...•• -- Chilian Ditto.... I Russian Columbian 1824 I Spanish LITVRATURE. STANDARD NOVELS, No. XI V. The present:Number contains Cooper's bes' American tale, " The Pioneers," carefully re• wised, corrected,' and furnished with an expla natory introduction by the author. Those who have read the novel—and what novel reader has not ?—will be glad to peruse it a second time ; for it is one of the very few works of fiction, which, from its variety of character, the freshness and vivacity of its incidents, and the extraordi nary energy of some of its scenic descriptions. will hear the test of the most rigid critical scrutiny. The quaint, old backwoodsman, Natty Bumpo, as striking a character as novelist ever yet depicted. figures on the stage here more prominently and to greater advantage than even in the " Last of the Mohicans," or the Prairie," in which latter tale the disconsolate, friendless, doting old man appears gliding like a shadow among scenes en deared to him by a thousand fond associations. In the work before us he is in his full vigour of mind and body, consequently his character is more strongly defined, and takes a deeper hold of the imagination. The volume is tastefully embellished with two choice engraving's by Rolls. ACCOUNT ofthe BEULAH SALINE SPA. LONDON, 1832. We are indebted to this account of a most thriving place of Summer resort, and whose newly discovered Spa is pronounced. by compe tent authorities, to possess qualities of a highly salubrious medicinal character, to Dr. Weather head who, it seems, hasanalysed the waters of the spring, and reported a favourable opinion thereon, which he has here communicated to the world- So long as the worthy Doctor confines himself to plain matter-of-fact statements, his opi nions are entitled to respect ; but the instant he leaves the broad high-way of common► sense to trespass upon the flowery paths of fine-writing, he becomes not merely tire some, but ridiculous, and deserves to be sen tenced by the critic as an arrant poacher on other people's domains. What, for instance, can be more absurd than the following bombast ? Wishing simply to inform us that Norwood was once the favourite resort of gipsy fortune tellers, the pompous M.D. communicates the novel intelligence in this inflated style : " Norwood was, in the memory of several of the in habitants still living, an entire forest of oaks, and the well known resort of the swarthy remnant of those vagrant Egyptians who way-I,y the path of the too credulous maiden, to bid her hope or fear evens, which often guide the future tenor of her life, realizing in dreams fortunes as unsubstantial and visionary as the flattering and decep tive vehicle that, for a happy while, depicts their ideal ex istence on the alumberi , g itnaginition." " This is not poetry, but prose run mad." We recommend Dr. Weatherhead to cancel it in a future edition. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EDUC.A. TION—No. 6. LONDON, 1832. The design of this work is excellent, and its execution no less entitled to praise. Consum mate tact is shown in the selection of the topics discussed, and very superior diligence in the way in which they are worked up. The details re specting the Spanish Universities have all the zest of novelty, being fuller and completer than any we have yet seen. There are also many in genious hints suggested in the article entitled— " On some Methods employed for the Instruc tion of the Deaf and Dumb." The reviews, chiefly of a practical and scientific character, are marked by a spirit of candour and discrimination. LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLOP.X,DIA, No. XXIX. LONDON, 1832, Comprises the first volume of a " History of Spain and Portugal," penned in an easy, yet ani mated style, and with a scrupulous adherence to facts. Such a history was much wanted ; for though we have accounts in abundance of cer tain romantic periods in the annals of the Spanish and Portuguerie Peninsula, yet we have, till now, been sadly deficient in one continuous history of it. The present work is an attempt to supply this desideratum, and we feel justified in asserting, that it is a highly successful one. BRITISH MAGAZINE. A work dedicated wholly to the interests of the clergy, more especially of the High Church party. The very frontispiece is clerical, being a likeness of a dull, uninteresting ruin, " Alder ington Church, near Brighton." The articles are ably written, it must he confessed, hut full of prejudice, and, here and there, of intemper ance. The literary notices are shrewd and candid. MONTHLY REVIEW, A review which, if itseldom possessany brilliant, or pungent article in the shape of criticism, is always remarkable for the calm, steady good sense, and sobriety of thought that characterise its various critical essays. The present number is full of such notices; we more particularly al lude to the observations on Miss Kemble's Francis the First, which hits the happy mean between the two extremes of severity and adu lation. LONDON SESSIONS.-(THIS DAV.) These Sessions commenced this morning before the Lord Mayor, Recorder, Sheriffs, and Aldermen Lucas, Win chester, Smith, and Copeland. The RECORDER, i❑ addressing the Grand Jury, con gratulated them upon the lightness of the Cab.ndar, which was even lighter than usually appeared at the April Ses sions. There was one case, that of perjury, which would come before them. As every person's life and property were subject to the oath of another in a Court of Justice, the crime of false swearing was one of the greatest enormity, and merited the severest punish ment; but as the oath of one person was to be presumed as good as that of another, the Grand July should be satis fied by the testimony of more than one witness before they put the accused upon his bid. Eleanor Conolly was indicted for assaulting Mary Green, The parties are both natives of Ireland, residing in Field-lane. A quarrel ensued between them on the 18th February, arising out of jealousy on the part of the pro secutrix, between whose husband and the defendant there was a very close intimacy, and the defendant taking off one of her shoes, a heavy one, well studded with nails, belaboured the prosecutrix about the head with it. The Jury found her Guilty. The keeper of the Compter stated that the defendant had already been six weeks in custody. The RECORDER said she had well deserved her impri sonment ; but as it met the justice of her offence, ordered her to pay a fine of ls. and be discharged. A few days ago a Hereford cow, belonging to Mr. W. }Layer, of Longdon, Worcestershire, produced a calf which had tw o heads (bull and heifer), four fore-legs, and two complete bodies down to the loins, where they united.—Giast. rester Jolt mai. t; • 1 • " hor: ti 1 11 C' IV lgt ..EB. A . :E dug !t3t Districts. C..) *ECG • . -cl O ; 4 6' z t 41 ei gcdE"' 4 : F. ' g \g„. t E= ta o o eu ... 0 4.1 - City 1 0 1 0 i 0 1 I. 16 7 Afloat on the River Limehouse Bromley Ratliff 4 1 0 1 4 18 8 Poplar 2 0 1 0 1 21 11 Rot herhithe Bermondsey l6 4 1 2 17 162 77 Deptford 4 0 0 1 3 18 11 Southwark Newington Butts Lambeth Christchrch Westminster 7 1 0 0 811 56 3O Chelsea Brompton 1 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 PAdington Canal.... Marylebone St. Pancras 1 0 0 0 1 14 12 St. Giles's Whitechapel 7 2 1 1 7 73 46 St George's East 9 3 4 1 7 40 23 Wapping St. Botolph Aldgate St. Luke's 2 1 1 1 1 23 14 Bethnal Green 8 3 3 0 8 23 11 Spitalflelds I 0 0 0 1 6 3 Wandsworth 2 0 0 0 2 10 4 St. Martin's 0 0 0 0 111 3 2 St. George's, lianover.sq 1 1 11 0 0 0 0 1 4 10 Total 1215 158' 30 38 1 205 1 2019 1055 Cases from places before reported 1 61 1 46 (Signed) 2019 11055 61 i 46 2360 11101 ,EAN, Secretary. THE PR ES s.—We have repeatedly been astonished at the extraordinary despatch shown by the editor of The Sun London newspaper, in publishing reports of public meetings and parliamentry proceedings a conside: able time be. fore any other journal. A remarkable instance of this occurred during the last week, namely, on Monday, the '26th of March. The debate on the Reform Bill being read a first time, com menced at quarter after five o'clock that evening, and finished at half-past six o'clock ; seven o'clock a full report of it ap peared in a second edition of The Sun . it was forwarded by that night's mail to all parts of the country. We read it in Newcastle on Wednesday morning, 12 hours before the morn. ing papers or any other papers were received in this town with the same intelligence. We state this to the credit of the con ductor of The Sun, entirely of our own accord, without the slightest request or solicitation, because we think it is a tribute due to his superior enterprise and management, and entitles him to liberal support on the part of the public.— Tyne Mercury. LONDON it URALITY. —Two centuries and a half ago, Charing-cross was within bow-shot of the open country, all the way to Hampstead and Highgate. North of the Cross there were only a few houses in front of the Mews, where the King's falcons were kept. The Haymarket was a country road, with hedges on each side, running between pas tures. St. Martin's-lane was bounded on the west side by the high walls of the Mews, and on the other side by a few houses and by old St. Martin's church, where the present church stands. From these buildings it was a quiet country lane, leading to St. Giles's, then a pleasant village, situated among fine trees. Hol born was a mere road between open meadow land, with a green hedge on the north side. In the Strand, opposite to St. Martin's. lane, stood the hospital and gardens of St. Mary Rouncival, a religious establishment founded and endowed by William, Earl of Pmbroke, in the reign of Henry 111. In the middle of the road leading to the Abbey, and opposite to Charing-cross, stood a hermitage and chapel dedicated to St. Catherine.—The Penny Magazine. A CAPITAL Ft T.—Last week, a tailor, named Cook, while returning from work to his house at Wetherby, was joined by a fellow near Walshford, Yorkshire, who robbed him of his money, and made a desperate lunge at the tailor with his knife. The blow, however, took effect on a sleeve-board which Cook had under his coat ; and being sub ject to fits, the fright brought on one, which saved Cook's life, as the villain went off, but was taken, and committed to York Castle The prisoner's name is Johnson ;he lived at Hopperton, and was lately married.—Esser Herald. - , NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. —The annual meeting of the shareholders in this undertaking was held here on Wednesday last, James Losh, Esq., in the chair. A very fa;ourable report was read from Mr. Giles, the engineer, as to the progress of the work. In reference to the first part. from Ityton to Hexham, he observes, " There are 6 32 miles of roadway formed, the great wall at Wylam Scars is built, the bridges of Stanley-burn, Stocksfield-burn, Riding_ burn, and Devil's-water, besides many culverts, both large and small, are completed, and the cost of all these works to this time is 13,3001. 13s. 6d. paid to contractors, and 4,6691. 12s. 9cl. for iron bars and waggons, that will be used for the remainder of the work, which affords a strong assurance that the remain der of the works between Newcastle and Hexham will be com pleted within the original estimates of Mr. Thompson and my_ self, and I have no doubt that the railway between these points can be completed and made fit for use by the end of nest year." Mr. Giles is no less sanguine as to the speedy completion of the west end of the railway. Thus in speaking of the works be tween Blenkinsop-colliery and Carlisle, he says:—" There are seven miles of roadway formed, the great culvert at Hell-beck built, about one-third of the Corby and Wetherel bridges built, three large bridges and several culverts between Wetherel and Corby are also built. The cost of all these works to the pre sent time is 20,9401. paid to contractors and for ordinary mate rial, and 3,4004 more for iron bars and waggons, which will be used on other parts of the work : this expenditure also affords a strong assurance that the remainder of the works upon the line between Blenkinsop and Carlisle, will be completed within the original estimates, and I have reason to think that with due exertion this district may he completed by the end of next year." This must be alike satisfactory to the shareholders and the community at large. It is clearly the most prudent course for the proprietors to finish the railway as speedily as possible at each end, as they will thus be in the receipt of a considerable revenue, while they afford a great and important accommoda tion to the public. It is, we know, resolved to carry on the works with increased vigour, in order to hasten their comple. tion. The same gentlemen who were Directors were re elected for the ensuing year, with the exception that the Rev. R. H. Brandling was chosen in the room of the late N. Clayton, Esq.—Tyne Mercury. DARING ASSASSINATION.—Between seven and eight o'clock on Saturday evening, as a man named Anthony Harman was passing through South Great George's_ street, he was fired at, and shot in the back, so close to the spine, that there is no expectation of his recovery entertained. Upon receiving the shot the unfortunate man fell. The outrage occurred so suddenly, that, though the street was crowded, it was impossible to fix upon the assassin. Two soldiers of the Rifles, one of whom was standing at the barrack gate, and the other in the window, saw the person who fired the shot rush from the spot down Exchequer street, and there all trace of him was lost. I❑ the mean time, the poor man, Anthony Harman, was removed to Mercer's Hospital; and as he declared he did not know who the person was who shot him, nor had he any suspicion who could be induced to commit such ass offence, it was thought that the assassin would eventually escape public justice. It happened, however, that immediately behind the assassin a gentleman was walking, and he saw the assassin step off the flags into the street-way, and take deliberate aim at Harman, fire, and immediately run down Exchequer street. The gentleman stopped for an instant to see if Harman fell, and then pursued the intended murderer down Exchequer_ street, but there lost sight of him. The gentleman, how ever, hastened immediately to College street Police-office, an is and gave an a mec: c orbf c , apsout peace-officer aht a , ;co t e,. eh, e s o persono, l:ffitea an hour description rsphoenbmoaoyuresar whomt after fhe recognised r i s e s oronetf relations h tr e o : d a ausnr completelyteahasaria, appearance, nde (e),aagreedaesrtnand dtdi com mitted. amongste d og . me manner tea l hr n t s w ing a h that left at the office, of the man who fired, that he imme. diately arrested him, and had him conveyed to the police-office. This man, who is named Fagan, was identified yesterday by the gentleman who gave a description of him as the person who fired at Harman. Fagan, it appears, is from the neighbourhoou of Baltinglass, from which, he says, he only came on Saturday morning. He is a relation to Harman, and betwean the latter individual and the rest of his family there has been for a long time past a dispute about his father's wit . Fagan stands com mitted by the Magistra es tot 1 •!r* h:'r ex..rnination.— Thad& MornOsg Register. ROYAL AS 4ENT. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) Maras, 3° die Aprilis, 1832. Mr. Speaker reported the Royal Assent to Suer Duties 811 London Bridge Apprtaches Bill, Turton and Entwisle Reset voir Bill, Preston Waterworks Bill, Clarence (Durham) Rail way Bill, Islington Church Rates Bill, Buckingham and Hari well Road Bill, Barton Bridge and Manchester Road Bd , Cockermouth and Workington Road Bill, Odiham Road Bill Berwickshire Roads Bill, Mansfield and Tibshelf Road Bill, Air iningbam and Stonebridge Road Bill, Caversham (Oxford) In_ closure . ill, Smith's Divorce Bill, Aletre's Naturalization Bill. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. CENTRAL COUNCIL OFFICE, DAILY REP) BOARD OF HEALTH. ', WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.) )RT of CHOLERA CASES. Y V zg d E O 61 E E I 3 g Places and Dates. Cambr. April 3 Portobello, April I Edinburgh, April 1 Water of Leith, April 1 Stockbridge, April Bormington, April 1 Greenock, April I Glasgow, &c. April 1 Paisley, April 1 Busby, April 1 Larbcrt, April 1 Bothkinner, April Perth, April 1 Total I Total from places where I and from which no reti received disea have LONDON.-APRIL 3, FIVE :THE ARMY. Yesterday morning Major-General Lord Fitzroy Shmer -t held a levee at the Hone-Gasrds. There were present...: lajnr-General King, Sir H. 'Wat.n , i, Lieut.- C.,1. White, .ord Colville, Sir W. 1 3 ; acuck, and ah,ut tarty other dis inguiahed officers. Lord Hill will hold a levee at tilt. Horse-Guards to— 3rrow. Yesterday the under-mentioned detachamits proceeded ; . r..in Westminster to join th,•ir respective regiownts sod '4.lc , rvo companies —The 12th Foot to Bristol, to Drog. eda ; .2(1 ditto to Bristol, for Waterford; 97th dig° In ilri4tol, for Clontnel ; 14th ditto. for Portsmouth; 331 , itto for Gosport; 9atl ditto for Guernsey. Tie first divisi , m of the reserve compuies of the 33d lZegiment marched into Want on Friday, on route from Dod!ey to Gosport. The secound div.sion heal. qua, !era, under the command of Major Grote, was to follow on q , turday. The service co.npanies of this regiment are lady expected home from Jamaica, after serving there up wards of ten years. The 82d Regiment left Albany Barracks, Lie of Wight, r Leith, on Wednesday last. (From the Limerick Chronicle.) Major Thorpe, late of the 390, liar arrived, and joined le 27th Regiment, in this garrison. A squadron of the 12th Lancers is to arrive hereon the 6th of April, to replace the 17th Lancers, ordered to eat. hark at Dublin, for Manchester. Next month the 921 Highlanders will send out detach. merits to relieve the 27th Regiment in country quarters, on which occasion the 92d will move to the Castle, and the 27th to the New BArracks. A detachment from the 79th depot is ordered to join the service companies in Canada, with Lieut.-Col. Macdougal. Lieut. Weir, and 30 tmn of the 321 Regim nt, are or dered from Tralee, to embark f..r Canada, to juin the ser vice companies. Lieut.• Col. Warre, Assistant-Quarter-Master-General, from the Portsmouth 4istrie, will he stationed at Cork. The 43d Light Infantry, and 60th Rif in Dublin, have broken op their full hands, retaining, tiorvi.v.r, trio trumrts and bugles, and adding them to their brass bands, which now consist of from 27 to 30 instruments. This r,gu!ation is general as respects light infantry ana rise regiments. As the Brigade Majors of Yeomanry in Ireland are to be struck off, their duties will be performed by the Field- Officers of regiments stationed in the respec ive di•triets. Letters receive , ' at our tliee yesterday from C”lon left the 58th, 61st, 78th, and 97th Regiments in good health and spirits—the two first at Candy. GLOCESTER ASSIZES, APRIL 2. William Burrows, a very strange looking man, and apparently labouring under an aberration of mind, was indicted for having, on the 24th of July la.zt, stabbed Thomas Price, wiih an intent to maim or do him some grievous bodily harm. Thomas Puce was a plasterer, iesidivig at Chel tenham. On the 24th of January last, about one o'clock on that day, he was passing opposite the public office, in High -street : the prisoner came up to him, and said," D—n your eyes, you stopped me from going to my wife." Witness told him to go about his business, as he did not want to have any thing to do with him. Prisoner then struck witness with his left hand, and he returned it. He received more blows than one. The witness felt a blow upon his temple very sharp. Prisoner the , ' closed upon him, and rut his left urm round his neck, and kept str►king at him with his right band. Some person called out that prisoner had got a knif,'. He immediately seized his hand, and found :bar he bad. The blade was broken. He bled greatly :so much so, that the Mood fl:►wed from kis t e mpl e s over to the opposire shop-windows. A man of the name of West came up to his assisraNce. Two years ago, prisoner's wife rented a room in his house. Prisoner was in the habi► of cnininv. backward and forward. Previous to her leaving his house, there was great violence used by the prisoner towards his wife. He was obliged to send for a constable, and give him in charge. On the subsequent e.enimz, after they had left, prisoner c:ime to his house, and created a riot. Witness gave him a good thrashing. He fri•gnent'.y met prisoner in the street, who u•ed to shake his head at witness and say, " I'll do for you yet." Cross-examined—He had known prisoner twenty years. Never considered him as sane as other people, particularly if he got any drink ; he was then mad; he considers him a very dangerous man, and not fit to be at large. Thom►s West corroborated the evidence of the last witness. After about fifteen minute•' consultation, the Jury brought in a verdict of guilty, with a recom mendation of mercy, on the grcund ..f Mr. Justice TAUNTON refused the verdict, and said lie could not receive it, as an insane person could not be tried. The Jury then returned a verdict of acquittal. Thomas Lade, aged 19, was indicted for having, on the night of the 6th of September last, broken and entered the dwelling-house of Benjamin Turn bull, at Cheltenham, and stolen therefrom 40 gold seals, 50 gold rings, and several brooches, a silver watch, four smelling bottles wi:h gold tops, and nu merous other articles; and Sarah Lane was in dicted for feloniously receiving the said goods,know ing them to have been stolen. The jury found Thomas Lane Guil:y, and Ac quitted his mother, Sarah Lane. Sentence of Death was recorded. TAUNTON ASSIZES, APRIL 2. Nathaniel Watts was indicted for shooting at Christian Watts, nis wife, with intent to murder her, and, in a subsequent part of the indictment, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. Sarah Yarbeiry.—On the 10th of August last, I went to lodge at the prison er't house at Flame. Pri soner was absen•. Three or four days after I went there, the prisoner came home. He ..lept in anothtt room, which was over ours. lie always appeared stupid from drinking beer. He came home about six o'clock on Thursday evening, the 25th of August. Mrs. Watts, her son, and myself, went to bed a little after nine o'clock, leaving prisoner down stairs. After I had been in bed about three mi nutes, the prisoner came into our bed-room. He said to his wife, who was sitting up in bed, " Will you be peaceable with me Before she had time to answer, I heard a shot. On looking I saw a pistol in the prisoner's hand. Mrs. Watts was hold ing her hand up before her face, apparently to keep off the shot. I said, " Mr. Watts, why did you do that ?" He said, " I have done nothing; it is only a squib." The prisoner then went down stairs. We followed as soon as we could. I saw some gunpowder on the table. Ann Lester, the mother-in-law of the prisonct deposed that he had been a very industrious mat until the last twelve months, since he began to talcs u chinking. Since that time he had always been intoxicated and stupid. Witne , s then corroborated •he testimony of the last witness, as to firing the pistol. Coss-examined—Plisoner was a quiet good man when he went without hit. beer. He had his skull :rac , ured some time ago at the riots at vrome. The jut y returned a verdict of Guilty. His LORDSHIP thought it was such a case that he ought to leave the prism-I for t 'CCM! , 1011 ; but he would not pass any sentence, utpil he had consi lered of it. The prisoner begged for mercy. The Leatned Judge told him he h4d had no mercy on his wife. He was then removed. William Chaniiinp, who was: left for execution at the Dorchester Assizes, for a most abominable assault on a little girl under eight. years old, at Sherborne, underwent the the gaol at Dorchester, on gw S ha a ld tur b el t a e y n . 3 1 , 3 4 16. 8 awful sentence of the law, over the entrance - lodge in front of rye, tcany and he was in the r u il,ii : tit f t o lte r e e dm, b of ee roer n tthh c a h en a c r at g ; ed .iotay w le i a t r h ai offences of a similar description. .In n ia erhas twice . offence, te ophflilvideehttlisccihhsah‘reug ed e w h a e 4 f w o a u s i t i a d g guilty a h ' a n° . t the late assizes, and for which he has now paid the forfeiture of ea,llliisnmhoetrhet,er, dwhoonhia.sribedae; w r e e i si k a , in a g n a d t t N h l e i nmteerinden,chwoal melancholy the Dianne eslnPt of a pen:.l7triuevilaric.toietno,d,noinfihn:wruh-ehmincid.chhdl.cifiemhelirmn.s......trioanianuffirmt mermen,.