The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-29 00:00:00

UVENINC4 _EDITION COURT CINCULLVR. T he Queen and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg- Gotha rode in the Parks yesterday afternoon, in a pony Her Majesty and his Serene Highness visited I th e Duch ess of Kent, at Ingestrie House, Belgrave. Neste. u His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the re. Charles A. Murray, and Colonel Bouverie, rode on 2_!'s.ehack in the Parks yesterday. His Royal Highness Pala a visit to the Duchess of Kent. V iscount Melbo urne an d L or d Hill had audiences Eve. • ter daY of her M a j es ty. H er Majesty and Prince bert accompanied by the Hereditary Prince of Saxe. Co g Gotha, honoured the Italian Opera with their pre- Are last evening. The Royal Suite included the Hon. I G ' 1 Pitt, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Lord Byron, Baron de Jobe!), Sir Frederick Stovin. Colonel Bouverie. The tie"r• Colonel Grey was the Equerry in Waiting on the (9, in the ro om o f th e Hon. Colonel Cavendish erk arshal), who was prevented by the death of the "on es of Burlington from attending her Majesty. IP: Duchess of Kent took a carriage drive yesterday. Hi ller Majesty the Queen Dowager and her Serene . 'Finaess the Duchess Ida of Saxe- Weimar, paid a Weill to the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Ingestrie House, h a; ave-squa re , an d t h e D uc h ess o f Cambridge at Cam ge House. Th e Duchess of Kent visited the Princess Augusta on wonday, at Clarence House, St. James's. r i L Tl e t o Princess Augusta took an airing yesterday in a car ' 14°41 Hill b a d an i n t erv i ew w ith Viscount Melbourne y Tetley in Downieg-street. re ,"Patches from the Governor of the Mauritius were 4 Ni yesterday at the Colonial Office. SIIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. T obo nr d Macdonald, at Mivart's Hotel ; Lord and Lady bora td e M a l a bi de; the Earl an d C ountess o f Hill s - C o u gh; Mr. Parnther, in Grafton-street; Earl and Nantes& Bruce ; the Countess of Werulam and Lady ary Grimston ; Lord Claude Hamilton ; Viscount and e° untess Palmerston • the Earl of Clare ; Earl Fitz- Wi l 2rn ; Lora WharnCliffe the Earl and Countess of of " e :"Olv, arid the Ladies Ho ward; the Earl and Countess b nosebe ry ; the Earl and Countess of Lichfield ; Vis- Sandon, M. P, ; Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence; Mr. Itlntore the Earl of Lucan; the Right Hon. J. Planta, t h .P . ; the Bishop of Ripon; Lord and Lady Poltimore; b: Archbish o p o f Y or k ; B aron V o n G e rsdor ff ; the 12:ter Lady Rendlesham and the Hon. Misses Thel ri: Mr. H o p e , M.P. ; the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. b en rY Mont agu; M r . an d L a d y M ar y L ong ; Viscount L u heanaon ; the Right Honourable Henry and Mrs. La 7uchere; Lord and Lady Sydney; Col. Sir Horatio Town d;' the M arqu i s o f W inc h es t e r ; Col. Cowper, R. N. ; ; . 1. • Attwo o d ; C apt . Bidd u l p h an d H on . C a pt. Macdonald; • Charles and the Hon. Mrs. Drummond, Mr. and r s• George Drummond, Mr. Spencer Drummond, Mr. 4 4 1 d the Hon. Mrs. Brampton Gordon, the Dowager Lady P r i a rtlil t° l3 , Major Hope, the Hon. Misses King, Sir w a l l u cis and Lady Burdett, Miss Coutts Burdett, Lord f a ,,,7 4 ' 11 Bere.iford, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor and 1,7" Y, Lord and Lady Dillon, at the Clarendon Hotel; Willoughby d'Eresby and the Hon. Miss Drummond p r i g"ghby ' Mrs. and the Misses Shaw Lefevre, Lady O n 's Hope, Lord Harewood, Sir F. Trench, the N i c4 ger Lady Clarendon, Lord Prudhoe, Lady Greville, sr?' and Mrs. Dering, in Chapel-street, Grosvenor -Pare, from Ayolt St. Lawrence, Herts. DEPARTURES. A C ; 2 l °uel Chaloner, for Portnal Park ; Lord and Lady i t r ,%tliert, for Berkshire ; Captain Sir Edward Chetham, f 11 !, for Portsmouth; Sir Robert and Miss Dallas, see 841 thill ; Lady Clayton East, for Hall-place, Berks Divd D , unn, for Portsmouth; the Countess of Love- I ci e Vor Ockham Park ; the Dowager Countess of Mans li„"' for Richmond-hill ; Lady and Miss Napier, for - "Puede ; Admiral Sir Jos as Rowley, for Cheltenham. Th e 11 4 Queen and Prince Albert, agreeably to an the t e x u4 orn, with a select party of the Nobility, will honour hbition of Paintings with their presence on Friday next. eaYesterday his Royal Highness the Duke of of n r4bri .dge, attended 'by Colonel Jones, honoured the Society rstish krt;sts by visiting their exhibition in Suffolk-street. The,.. Duke and Duchess of Cleveland will enter ....tiSato Dowager Countess ef Cork and a select party at dinner t7rirrday, in St. James's-square. His Grace is fast re "leg from his late attack of rheumatic gout. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort entertained Letalx t 3 elect ci rc l e to di nner on M on d a y even i n g, at Beaufort . The Duke and Duchess have a grand dinner on Friday 'e / HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. — The op era of i` t , uritasti was reputed last nig ht at her Majesty's Theatre " as much success as attended it on Saturday , three or four ieeau x being most vehemently encored, and the execution i iearing throughout to give general satisfact ion. No demon rations in favour of Tamburini took place at the entree of ‘'elletti, who was much applauded in the first piece that he t ia i l l3 g, and encored with Lablache in " Sunni la Tromba." On (1 ,.e fall of the curtain however, when he came forward with ei Ts l Rubini, and Lablache, ' a few cries of " Laporte " were -- . 4 ei from some parts of the house, the loudest and most per 4,eting proceeding from a box on the upper tier. They ta w : e ; +however met with little support and encouragement, the d ' °r itY of the audience appearing to take no part in these ... ftno nstrations, which subsided long before the curtain rose rill for the ballet. The opera was very fully attended, and 14, 63 : 4 Pany included a large proportion of fashion. Her Sai:k accompanied by Prince Albert and Prince Ernest of IV, ns-üburg-Gotha, graced the theatre with her presence. brid" ti ced likewise their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cam- Re and Princess Augusta of Cambridge. ina,Da .VENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Love in a k ge was last night performed at this theatre, the characters Paring in the costume of the period when it was written. b e,aetta an& Lucinda were undertaken by Miss Rainforth and Zlis Wilkinson, and Hawthorn and Young Meadows by Mr. „7 1 rrison and Mr. Frazer. Farren, always droll and laughter ,..Tving. was particularly so in a new reading of the letter i' L l'ich he receives from Sir William Meadows, which convulsed '" /louse with laughter; and the way in which Keeley, when r r ftised a wedding dinner for taking Madge, extemporised a L'PIY that - hehad `' no appetite," provoked a grin from the per.. i; o r reers themselves on the stage, as well as the audience. The s tt 'e was fell from the commencement, a proof that there is -.° lack of En gl ish encouragement for English music, when t ß('°d*, an - d it islerying evil(as was the cas . e to a certain ex ;lirt last night) to misdirect it. The Sleeping Beauty in the b. °°4 Was the afterpiece, no part of whose attractions appear to - °, 1, 1 1 the wane, for, before we left, the theatre seas crammed.. 4 RE EAR' 1, OF STAIR.—We recently noticed tae v lei tro t ring l i ,,f at s ar! agriculturalsPn ee t t o in ge i m n most in liberal sh and ire tt.riotic sentiments. tal S r i g n a c v e, at e p a meeting of a number of the 3 13 , i e b r e i r a a n I ci e , lec E t s o ci rs ., of Stranraer, held on Tuesday evening, Charles Provost of Stranraer, in the Chair, it was Pirn'usly agreed that his Lordship should be invited to a d r , i it dinner in Strsnraer, and a letter was accordingly ad tis:sed to his Lordship by the Provost. To this letter Lord honir replied, stating his reasons for declining the proposed vi ew °llr ; "As I differ (writes his Lordship) in my political sei, e s m iroln most of the gentry round me, I feel that were I to Po e . e very earliest occasion offere me to make that differ „„.'',annecessarily apparent, it might] ead many to misunder to7, the Spirit in which I had come among them ; and a bar whi i future friendly intercourse might thus be established, ii' I should not wish to be the first to raise up. ris,d ° ROUGIf OF CAMBRIDGE.—We are autho „;l to contradict the statement of an evening paper that %d r .' W igram_, one of the Queen's Counsel, will be the new m o _ n td . ate for the vacant seat in the Conservative interest.- 1 z n9 Post , • tira, EXT RAORDINARY MEMORY.—There is in ye a - e t e ml Wesleyan Sunday school a little girl, under eight aoti: age, who can commit to memory, within a few hours' 4, 1 2, any chapter in the Old or New Testament. Last week th, l `," l to one of the teachers the whole book of Hebrews and Sh e ' i ll chapter of St. John, containing together 350 verses. Derbyhire 'ruplated the whole within an hoar and twenty minutes. 4 ohl e Courier. Hi s Excellency Baron Brunow, with all the atteridnlen and gentlemen connected with the Russian Embassy, stm t "I Divine service at the Russian Chapel in Welbeck- G reet ! on Sunday last, the Easter Sunday, agreeably to the I 4 4,, hi : rt e lb hurch. His Excellency gave a grand breakfas at Soltik off, a gin n e o e u s l e . i t e o v e a n l a rt e ri Lar e ts iean am . o s n o g ut w zo h , om w u e n r t e is l T ' e r s i s n e c i ! re) Count Strogonoff, ' Count Kondriaoffsky, M. de Berg, ~,ir Alexander Crighton, Sir James Leighton, M. tie Frouloff, 4 , I . de Lesmikoff, M. do Beukhausen, M. de Roussel], &c. i lio Excellency had a dinner party in the evening. The Hon. Chas. A. Murray, Master of the lionseiold, has sold the valuable hunter ridden by Prince Albert at the Royal Hunt, called Old Johnny, to Lord Kin naird, Master of the Buck-hounds. The horse was purchased by Mr. Murray of the Earl of Erroll, on his Lordship being appointed Lord Steward. His Excellency Viscount Ebrington has sub scribed 1001., and Viscount Alorpeth 801., to the fund now being raised to erect a monument to the late Mr. Secretary Drummond. We regret to state . that the Earl of Ranfurly 'lied at hi s residence,' No. 22, Place Vendome, Paris, on Sun t4Y, .26th of April, in his eighty-sixth ycar. 111 .., SPORTING IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND "f o are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marl jr ,° l l:Nh-street, has this day published "The Sportsman in ri ce and Scotland," in 2 vols. post Bvo, with illustrations, hfee ls,-. bound, which can now be had of all booksellers. ...:,. Colhuma has aloes just published the following new works : a c ," Wore a n and her Master, by Lady Morgan, 2 vols. post t '- , i ,' i 2 . 11111:16;rs'of the Princess Daschkaw, Lady of Honour 8 1 , 4 ;'e Emp ress e i stherine U. written by Herself, in 2 vo - is, ,hat •, with Porti-ai.'s and Autographs ; and 3. Lights and Ch" of Military I L I. '" Napier, K C.D., . , L' s ATAI[, ACCIDENT Life ke. e , di 2 te v d ois b . y Major-General Sir post Bvo. TO THE EARL of WU ,,:31e5 COACHMA x.--This morning, between nine and ten t rocit, as William Bristow' and James Worley (the former 1, 1 , t , coachman, aid the latter second coachman,. to the Earl of b e . Ll , OO, 1 6, drosvenor-square) , '`%K round the R e gen ts Park, Yaltbible Par oi f one, took fright, and f„ ilds, upsetting the driving in a one-horse the animal, a very spirited and were broke over the fence into Chalk break and pr ostrating the riders with arid violence into the road. The unfortnnate man Worley t"talued such severe inuries that he expired shortly after v. ll l lfconveyed to .University College Hospital : he has . left a ; and a large family. Bristow was also very seriously I,'lred. I; 'ATAL SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT. —Yesterd7 li f i tertwon an inquest was held before Mr. Riggs, at St. Georg a e ll. s ogpital; on the body of William Wilson, aged fi fty . It tired from the evidence that on Monday, the 15th i nstant, the - V -"4 "d wa. , engaged in plastering some new ” houses . at l N u, 1 ',44-hill, and, whilst " striking the scaffold, slipped t iro ~,‘, lboards and 1:11 into the area, a depth of 10 feet. He was ' Ou ght to the hosvital, and died on the 25th instant. . On , a Post otortem examination his spine was found fractured in two places. The deceased hid met with a similar accident a month befor e by falling into the ' same area and severely hurting his ch est. Verdict ''' Accidental death." . . JEWISH CONVERT.—A very interesting cere ,loo,- took place at the Presbyterian Chapel, North Shields, on tindaj• last. It was the baptism of a Jew who has embraced t he Christian Faith, we believe from a firm conviction that 'uch is the only true wy to Heaven. The Rev. Charles Tho mp , m officiited, an d a is sesle,a powerful and eloquent address. The name of the individat i f Joseph Mozart, a native of Ber lin, where he serve d his apprenticeship As a brazier. He is 22 I ;ears of a ge , an d h as b een in Eng:slid Mee months. He has a 'Miter and mother, one brother, And four sistars, all of the Je,sish persuasion, and who live near Berlin. The name he now bears is Joseph Thompson Mozart, Several Jews were present during the ceremony. FREEMASONRY AT LIVERPOOL liITIATION OF JOSEPH WALM6LEY, ESQ., THE MAYOR. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) On Monday evening last, one of the most brilliant meetings of the ancient Order of Freemasonry was held at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, on the occasion of initiating into the mysteries of freemasonry our highly respected Chief Magistrate, Joshua Walmsley, Esq. Since the provincial grand meeting which took place in December last at Liverpool, at which Lord Comberm,Te attended, it has been our pleasing task to record the initiation of the son of that nobleman in an adjoining county, and it is now our duty to add a name to the list of the Brethren, which we are fully persuaded will sustain in unsullied purity those beau tiful principles and precepts which masonry, as a human institution, can alone inspire. It is a matter of con• siderable interest among the craft generally, that there is no known instance of a Chief Magistrate, during his Mayoralty, having joined the Masonic body, and it is not a little grateful to the feelings of every Mason in this district, that Mr. Walmsley in that ca pacity has attached himself to a " party" in which politics and polemics are never the subject of discussion and strife, but where union and friendly regard form the principal and permanent bond, united with, a higher and holier feeling of daily adoration and worship to wards the Great Architect of the Universe, in which the heavens declare his glory, and where the firmament showeth his handywork. Having briefly stated the object of the meeting, we cannot lead our readers further ; the official business must remain unchronicled, and we proceed, therefore, to notice, THE BANQUET. Upwards of fifty of the Brethren, in Masonic clothing, sat down to a most sumptuous repast prepared by Brother Radleigh, to whose skill in these matters very many have frequently testified. Among the brethren present we observed the Worshipful Master, Joseph Hess, who was supported by the R. W. D. P. G. M. John Drinkwater, Esq., the Mayor of Liverpool ; P. G. S. James Morris, Esq., the V. W. P. G. T. ; Lewis Samuel, Esq. ; and Brethren Henderson, Wood ward, Rampling, Statham, Eckersley, Blanch, Moly neux, Megeli, Hess, Butler, Ashcroft, Owen, Lewis Samuel, &c. The repast, consisting of the choicest de licacies, having been discussed and removed, " Non nobis" was sung in excellent style by Brethren Blanch, Molyneux, Norris, and Dodd. The WORSHIPFUL MASTER then gave "The Queen," and successively " The Queen Dowager and the rest of the Royal Family. " The Duke of Sussex." " Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie, Esq , Provincial Grand Mas ter of the Lancashire District." Many very appropriate glees were sung between the toasts by several brethren. The WORSHIPFUL MASTER then gave " The R. W. D. P. G. M., John Diinkwater, Esq.." In proposing this toast, he observed, it was not usual to couple the name of a brother with that of his official capacity, except upon extraordinary events; and ob serving several old members of the craft present, be conceived the occasion would now justify it. Brother DRINKWATER acknowledged the toast in a neat and impressive speech. Brother HESS then rose and said, that he had the honour to initiate into the mysteries of Freemasonry that day two gentlemen, one of whom was known as their worthy Chief Magistrate.—(Loud cheers.) He rejoiced that the name had been received with the eclat which it deserved. They all recognised Brother Walmsley as a very worthy man, and he must neces sarily be a good Mason.—(Cheers.) Brother JOSHUA WALMSLEY, Esq., returned thanks in an excellent and appropriate speech. He observed that the honour which had been conferred upon him should be appreciated so long as he lived. It had long been his desire to become a member of the masonic body, but it was never too late to do well ; and he should endeavour to carry out those principles of fel lowship which he had seen happily illustrated that even ing. It was not to himself, but to the members present, to whom all the honour and praise was due. After some further observations, Mr. Walmsley concluded amidst the most enthusiastic cheering. Several other toasts were proposed and responded to, and the meeting soon after separated. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ---- a SIR,—As Lord Stanley, and his Irish Bill, are so much before the public at the present moment, allow me to re-. mind you of his animated description of his then new allies during the sitting of the late House of Commons, (upon what subject I now forget,) when he said, .1 They would never yield to clamour that which they had always denied to justice I" What a true picture of Toryism! What a sen tence for a Senator, and would-be Statesman, to utter 1 It ought to be engraven on every man's heart, and never to be forgotton. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, ANTI-SCORPION. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The ludicrous failure of the attempt to get up a public meeting to denounce the war with China as " an opium war," affords but a poor augury of success for Mr. G. Palmer's motion on Thursday. The few insignificant individuals who figured at that lame and impotent affair, seemed quite as much at a loss for reasons to justify the resolutions they were prepared to pass, as the Tories who voted in favour of Sir James Graham's motion. The fact is, the common sense of the nation has proved too strong for the sophistries of faction, and the well-meaning but exaggerated views of mistaken philanthropy. The facts of the case are now sufficiently known to exclude mistake and misrepresenta tion, and it is apparent to every one, that instead of England going to war with China to support a gang of smugglers in forcing their poisonous drugs on an injured and innocent population, China has in point of fact chosen to go to war with England, to confiscate British property, imprison British subjects, and attack the British flag. The British Government never maintained the cause of the opium smugglers ; on the contrary, it solemnly declared that if British subjects, engaged in that illicit traffic, were caught, convicted and punished by the Chinese Govern ment, it would not interfere for their protection. Is it to be accused of opium smuggling because it does not under take to do what the Chinese ought to do for themselves ? What more can we do than to abandon to the Chinese the repression of smuggling and the punishment/of smugglers? (From the Times. ) The humbug phantom which for some years has figured .n this country under the imposing name of Reform is evi dently on its last legs. Observant and reflecting people are now ashamed that its swaggering pretensions should have gulled them so long; nor, after the sickening dis appointment it has occasioned to all parties, can we wonder that the daily humiliations which it sustains in the House of Commons are ratified and responded to by the general voice of the nation. To say nothing of the emphatic manner in which a large metropolitan meeting of Liberals and Dissenters have just concurred with Sir James Graham's motion in chastising the Reformed Government's opium war in China, we find that wherever Parliamentary vacancies have latterly been filled up by independent constituencies, superior to the feudal influence exercised in the counties of Rutland and Suther land, the force of public opinion in opposition to the Whigs bas either deterred Ministerial candidates from coming forward, or has repulsed them with ignominious defeat. Thus Lord Cantilupe took possession of Lewes without a contest. Mr. Basset succeeded his Lordship at Helatone in the same easy way. No Ministerialist has dared to show himself either in Inverness-shire or in the county of Elgin ; while in Perthshire and the borough a Totnes, where desperate struggles were made by the Liberal Government, Conservative Members have been returned. (From the Morning Post.) Again we take leave to call upon honest men of all par ties to beware of the falsehood with which the O'Connellite faction arc striving to hide the real object of Lord Stan ley's Bill. The Bill is not, as they with desperate effron tery continue to describe it, a all for restricting the elective franchise in Ireland. The Bill is to correct the monstrous abuses in the registration of the franchise, which to the shame of all justice and of common decency have obtained in Ireland. No man who honestly possesses the franchise can be dispossessed of it by Lord Stanley's Bill. But they who dishonestly have pretended to pos. sets the franchise, and have supported this dishonest pre tence by continued fraud and repeated perjury, they in deed will be dispossessed of that which they have criminally obtained. Hence the bitter outcry against Lord - Stanley's Bill. It is a Bill for the furtherance of honesty and the defeat of fraud; hence if it pass it will be exceedingly detrimental to the:qause of O'Connell, who thrives by fraud and hates hontsty, as thieves do the police. (From the Morning Advertiser.) To little purpose would Mr. O'Connell " hurrah I for the repeal of the Union l" if the malignant enemies of Ireland did not constantly supply him with fresh grounds of accusation against the Imperial Legislature. It is not Mr. O'Connell, but such men as Lords Lyndhurst and Stanley, Lorton and Roden, and their supporters, who excite the people of Ireland to struggle for a domestic Parliament. Lord Lyndhurst, by his denunciation of the people of Ireland as "aliens," Lord Stanley by his Bill for the dismemberment of the Irish constituencies, and Lords Lorton and Roden by their bigotry and fanatical persecution, have individually aroused the people of Ire land to battle for their rights, more than could Mr. O'Con- I nell, without such aid, have done by a whole life of bustling agitation. Old Astley, who piqued himself extremely on suffering no imposition of any kind to be practised on the public at his theatres, having ordered a drop scene to be painted, re presenting a temple, he was, on examining the performance, scandalised by observing that his artist had shortened the pil lars in the back-ground—in fact, that the pillar was so much the shorter as it was farther removed from the eye of the spec tator. Having called the painter to account for this, in his strange irregularity, and being assured th a t th e judgment,r ulesofprspective required it, he indignantly replied, " Don't talk to me, Sir, of perspective—l know nothing of the rules of perspective, but 1 know the foot rule, and I know by it that these pillars are net all of a length, as pillars in temples, or what is the same thing, churches, always are ; and I won't have the public imposed on or defrauded of full measure of their p illars. They pay their money at the door to see pillars in my drop scene, and they shall have good measure for their money. or my name is not Astley. Make them all of a size, Sir, as I bid yon, or I will find some one else that will." The painter did as he was commanded. A NEW COIsIEDY.—Mr. Leigh Hunt has been for some time past occupied in writing a comedy for Covent ! Garden Theatre, which he has nearly completed. It is ex- I peeled to be produced by the middle of next month. X" coURT OF ALDERMEN. OMNOUS ILIGULATIONS. Yesterday a Court was held for the transaction of public business. The thanks of the Court were, upon the motion of Alderman KELLY, voted to the Bishop of Llandaff, the Rev. Dr. Hook, and the Rev. Mr. Davis (the Chaplain to the Lord Mayor), for the excellent sermons preached by them on Easter Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. THE INTOLERABLE NUISANCE OF COMMON INFORMERS. Alderman Col ELAND presented a memorial from f.:lr proprietors of 2i 2 omnibuses, which daily passed through London, praying that the Court would sanction certain regulations to which they had unanimously agreed, fer the purpose of preventing obstructions in the streets of the city, and putting an end to the continual pe nalties to which memorialists and their servants had been lately exposed. The Alderman observed that, under existinc , circumstances, th e mu ltit u d e of sum monses issued against omnibus proprietors for violations of the law, was great beyond ali idea formed by the public. He had been pre sent when fifty were heard. On tile succeeding Sa turday, one hundred summonses were appointed to be beard ; and he believed the number which stood over for decision on the 2d of May, Mr. Wire, the solicitor to the proprietors, having applied for postponements from time to time, in order to prepare regulations, amounted to nearly five hundred. Nov, that such a state of things with regard to public carriages in the City of London, should exist, was a most serious evil ; but no doubt at all existed that it was impossible to comply with the Act of Parliament in the immensely crowded thoroughiares. It therefore was necessary to adopt some arrangements to meet the exigency, and the memorialists appeared to him to have made, under the judicious advice of Mr. Wire, regulations calculated to meet the difficulties which had so long presented them selves.—( Hear, hear.) 'rile Alderman then moved that the memorial should be sent to the Public Com mittee, who should be instructed to examine evidence on the question, and report to the Court.—(Hear.) Mr. WIRE said that, as the Court were determined to send the memorial to the Committee, lie should post pone the observations he had to make until the memo rialists were called to give evidence. He, however, begged to assure the Court that the memorialists were determined to do every thing to prevent the possibility of causing public inconvenience, and that they had already published and acted upon regulations which showed the sincerity of their intentions.—(Hear.) The memorial was accordingly referred to the Com mittee. Sir PETER LAURIE said that he had to call the atten tion of the Court to a memorial of considerable im portance from a very large and respectable body of the citizens of London. It was principally signed - by the residents of the Ward of Farringdon Without, and related to the harrassing annoyance to which the citizens were subjected. The names of the members of the Common Council of that ward, and about 160 of the other inhabitants, were attached to the docu ment, which he knew would receive due attention from the Court.--(Hear, hear.) It would be recollected that there was a time when he thought informers were of public utility. His experience in the borough of Southwark, however, convinced him that he had formed an erroneous judgment. He had ascertained that shopkeepers were harrassed and inconvenienced by the informers, and that the pub lic received no benefit at all, for those offences against the law which was really calculated to operate pre judicially, and compromised and winked at by the ver min to whom he alluded, while little errors and omis sions were followed up with the most pertinacious ven geance when the persons informed a g ai nst o b jected to the alternative of bribery.--(Hear, hear.) The Clerk then read the memorial, which was as follows TO THE COURT or LORD MAYOR AND ALDERMEN. The humble memorial of the undersigned inhabitant householders, in the City of London, on behalf of themselves, and the retail shopkeepers generally, ' of the said City. Humbly showeth,—That many of your Memorialists and other householders of this City, have suffered much annoyance, inconvenience, and expense, for some months past, by having been subjected to harassing mulcts or convictions founded on the frivolous and vexatious in formations and complaints of common informers, which proceedings have been the more severely felt, as until lately the common informers have, from having been discouraged by the Magistracy of the City, confined themselves almost exclusively to districts without the City. That that order and regularity with which the citi zens were wont to carry on their trades and businesses has not in any degree been relaxed, and had it been so, the excellent City Police regulations which have been established would have been amply sufficient to have corrected any such evil, and, therefore, your Memorial ists can attribute the present influx of informers within the City boundaries to no other cause than the regula tions made by the Secretary of State for the Home De partment, by which they were almost wholly deprived of the wages of their merciless and harrassing proceed ings in this country. That by the 31st section of the statute, commonly called the Police Courts Act, 2d and 3d Vic., chap. 71, the Magistrate had power to award costs to either party, and by the 32d section to award amends to the party summoned in certain cases, and by the 33d sec tion to inflict penalties on common informers for com pounding informations, and by the 34th section to de prive the informers of the whole or any part of the penalty though given him by the statute ; and by the 35th section to mitigate any fixed penalty or term of imprisonment, or summary conviction, in such manner as he may think fit. That although the New City Police Act is assimila ted to the Metropolitan, so far as regards most of the new restrictive and coercive clauses, yet almost all the discretionary and mitigatory clauses above referred to are left out of it, and confined alone to the Act called the Police Courts Act, the consequence of which is, that in all cases of conviction for alleged offences within Temple-bar, the penalties directed by the statute are en forced to their full extent. The informers get their full moiety, and they run no risk by laying vexatious informations, whereas the reverse of those evils happen with respect to cases in the county ; and in order that the Metropolitan Police Magistrates might have every warrant which the statute gives them for discouraging common informers, your Memorialists have been in formed that a circular was lately addressed to them by the Marquis of Normanby, directing full effect to be given to the discouraging clauses above referred to, whereby informers are now scarcely ever seen at any of the Police Courts of the metropolis. Your Memorialists humbly pray your Honour able Court to originate, by petition, to Par liament, or otherwise, as to your Honour able Court shall seem meet, such proceedings as may relieve the citizens of London from the scourge of common informers, and give to the Magistracy the same lawful means of discouraging them, as well as the same powers of mitigation, and relief as are given to the Metropolitan Police Magistrates. And your Memo rialists will ever, &c. Slr PETER LAURIE said that he considered himself bound to speak in the highest terms of the conduct of Mr. Humphreys, the Common Councilman, who ap peared at the bar with the Memorialists to advocate their cause, although, by enabling them to accomplish their object, that gentleman must lose professionally to the amount of 2001. or 3001. a year.—(Hear, hear.) The evil appeared to be easily remediable, according to the suggestion iu the memorial, which he should move be referred to the Police Committee. He knew that at the Town-hall some of his brother Magistrates did not as peremptorily dismiss informers as he did. The moment he learned that an informer had been con victed, he refused to communicate at all with such a person. Guildhall must not become such a place as the Town-hall was.—(Hear, hear.) Alderman LUCAS could not see why, if the regula tions and directions sent by Lord Normanby to the Metropolitan Police Magistrate were useful, they should not be extended to the citizens of London, who had as good a claim as others to the privilege of being pro tected.—( Hear, hear.) The RECORDER suggested the propriety of transmit ting a copy of the memorial through the Remembrancer to Mr. Fox Maule and Lord Normanby.—(Hear.) Mr. HUMPHREYS having been called upon to address the Court, said that the memorial itself so fully ex plained the object of the inhabitants, that it was unne cessary for him to say a word about the annoyances arising from the system to which they were exposed. He should, however, allude to the rel.ef to which the memorial pointed. There was now in Parliament a Bill for better defining the powers of Justices within the Metropolitan Police District. In that Bill two clauses, the benefits [of which extended to the City of . London, and indeed to all parts of the country, would be most important to the community. They were as follows :—" And be it enacted, that ex cept the constables belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force, and the persons employed by the Com missioners of her Majesty's Custom or Excise, Stamps, or Taxes respectively, it shall not be lawful for any person to lodge any information before any Police Magistrate, or before any Justice or Justices of the Peace, within the Metropolitan Police District, for any misdeameanour, punishable on summary conviction, by which the informer was not personally aggrieved ;"" and be it enacted , that every common informer who shall obtain any sum of. money or other reward from any in habitant of the Metropolitan Police District by threat ing directly or indirectly to lodge any information or make any complaint before any such Magistrate, Justice, or Justices for any misdeameanour, or as an induce ment for forbearing to lay such information or make such complaint, shall, on conviction of the offence be fore one of the Police Magistrates, or before two Jug• tices of the Peace, either by his own confession or by the oath of any credible witness, be liable to a penalty of not more than ten pounds."—(Hear, hear.) Alderman COPELAND, at the same time :that he most heartily assented to the memorial, doubted very much the expediency of including the City of London in the Bill just alluded to. He should greatly prefer a separate Bill for the City of London itself. Of the evils of the system so justly denounced by the Memo. rialists he had ample experience,and he pursued a . course when be sat at the Town Hall which made the informers very shy of appearing before him. He assured the Memorialists that in his seat in Parliament he should do all he could to procure a remedy for so serous an evil as they complained of, but it would not be by associat ing the City in the Bill which had been drawn up with an exclusive object.—(Hear, hear.) The matter was then referred to the Police Com mittee, and a copy of the memorial was ordered to be transmitted to the Secretary of State. Sir P. LAURIE, after the reference had been made, said the CitylSolicitor had called his attention to a very great public inconvenience which would re sult from the passing of the proposed Bill in its pre sent form. The object of the Legislature undoubtedly was to protect the public from those pests of society, common informers, but it appeared that by the mode in which the clause for that purpose was worded, the Navigation Committee, the Trinity House, and the Harbour Master would be restrained from lodging in formations to prevent obstructions in the river. The officers of the Commissioners of Sewers, and parochial authorities, as well as the servants of gas companies, dock and railroad companies, and other public bodies, would likewise be prevented from proceeding by intnr mation, to prevent malicious injuries to their property by summary process, because the officers making the complaint could not be said to be "personally aggrieved," as mentioned in that clause of the Bill.--( Hear.) The CITY SOLICITOR was heard in support of this view of the case, and observed, " that it must have been an oversight on the part of those who drew the Bill, or the officers of public bodies would have been protected in the discharge of their duties, as was the case in the Bill with the officers of Customs, Excise, and other Government departments. The RECORDER acquiesced in the opinion just deli. vered by Sir Peter Laurie and the City Solicitor, an d the Remernbrancer and the City Solicitor were ordered to take the necessary steps to bring the subject under the consideration of the Secretary of State. THE PRACTICE OF SEARCHING FEMALES IN STATION HOUSES. Alderman HUMPHERY called the attention of the Court to the practice of searching females who were taken up by the police, and lodged in the station-houses. He found by the statement of a female who had been brought before him at Guildhall police-office on the pre ceding day, that she had been most grossly insulted in one of those places, which were intended rather for pro tection than offence. It appeared that fire supernume raries took the female and two men who were with her to the station-house, and there, under pretence of searching, most disgutingly insulted her. _ _ . _ After several observatio'ne from Members of the Court, the subject was referred to the Police Committee. The Court then adjourned. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE It will be recollected by our readers that a few weeks ago some particulars were given of the death by starva tion of an eccentric character, whose name was sup posed to be James Foote, and who was found in an emaciated and dying condition in a celebrated cave near Farnham, formerly the residence of a noted witch named " Mother Ludlam," and which was known in this part of the country as Mother Ludlam's Cave. This unfortunate man was stated to be of good family, but from the loss of a beloved wife his reason became impaired, and he was impressed with an idea that he should live the rest of his life in a cave, and he went away from all his connections and travelled about differ ent parts of the country until he arrived at Farnham, where he took up his abode in one of the inns, and made particular inquiry about the cave, and he at length em ployed a man to carry his portmanteau for him to a spot a short distance from the cave, and he then told the man that he should not require his assistance any further, and he paid him and went off with his portmanteau, and from that time nothing more was heard of him for a pe riod of six weeks, when he was found near the cave in a dying state. He was removed to the Union work house at Farnham, where every attention was paid to him, but the wretched man was beyond all hope of human relief—he was unable to articulate more th an t h e words, " the cave, the cave," and he gradually sunk and expired in a few hours. Upon a search being made in the cave, it was evident that the unhappy man had resided there ever since the time that he was last seen. In one corner lay a hear of fern that had served as his bed, and his portmanteau was in another part of the cave. This was opened, and was found to contain a great quantity of valuable clothing and linen, a gold watch, and other articles. During the interval that elapsed between the death of the deceased, and the holding of the inquest, a gentleman, a efranger to the neighbourhcod, came to the Union House and re quested to see the body of the deceased, and he recog nised it as being that of a relation, and said that he had left London, which was his place of residence, several months before, and that none of his friends had the least idea where he had gone to. Frosn this gentle man, some of the particulars above-mentioned were obtained, and he also expressed his intention to attend the inquiry that was to take place before the Coroner, and give some farther information respecting the deceased. When the Coroner's inquest, however, took place, this person did not make his a ppearance, neither did any one come forward to make any state ment or give the least information respecting the de ceased. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from starvation ; and as none of the deceased's relations came forward, he was interred in Farnham churchyard, an immense number of persons from the vicinity, who were attracted by the extraordinary cha racter of the deceased, being present at the ceremony. From this time the remembrance of the occurrence died away, but within the last few days it has become revived, owing to a rumour that was very generally spread about that the grave of the deceased had been disturbed, and a general impression prevailed that the body had been removed. These rumours at length prevailed to such an extent, and caused so much ex citement, that it was considered prudent that some steps should be taken to ascertain whether they had any foundation, and application was made to the minis ter of Farnham, for his permiasion that the grave should be opened ; and, upon his consenting, the grave was accordingly dug up, and it was then found that the rumour was well founded, and that both the body and the coffin had disappeared. The object of this violation of the sanctity of the grave will for ever probably remain a mystery ; but the general belief is, that it was a proceeding adopted at the instance of the deceased's relatives to obtain possession of the body, not wishing, for sonic reason or other, to come forward and claim it publicly when the deceased was first found. There are various other rumours, but this one would appear to be the most probable. IMF SUN, LONDON. WIRDNRSDAY, APRIL 29,_1840. THE RUPTURE 'WITH CHIN*A.- EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDING. On Saturday morning, in consequence of instructions from the Horne-office, which directed that the prisoners should not be subjected to any further restraint than was necessary for their safe custody, orders were given by the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police to the crew of a Thames-police galley to board the ship Diana, from Snga pore, on her way up the river, and accordingly Mr. R White, an inspector of Thames-police, and three river constables, went on board near Woolwich, and took into custody James Spittal, Joseph Taylor, Henry Lawrence, John Madden, and Thomas Rainford, charged with bein g ; concerned in a disturbance which took pl ace among some American and British seamen on one side, and a number of Chinese on the other, at a village near Hong-kong Bay. It will be recollected, that a Chinaman was killed during this affray, which ori ginated in some disorderly and violent acts committed by the American seamen, but was charged on the British, and led as well, as the opium smuggling, to a stoppage of the trade. The five prisoners were conveyed to the Thames Police Court, where their chests and hammocks were deposited, but instead of being taken before Mr. Ballantine, the presiding Magistrate, as was expected, according to the usual practice, they were rowed to the Investigator, Thames-police Station-ship, off Surrey street, Strand. Here they were put below, and pro vided with proper refreshments by Mr. Fortey, the in spector in charge of the vessel. A report of their capture was made soon afterwards to the Commissioners of Police, and by them to the Home-office. A consultation was held as to what could he done with the prisoners, and the opi nion of the law officers of the Crown taken as to whether they could be legally detained. It was decided that they could not, and at five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Fortey received an order to disch.-.rge them, and they were accordingly set at liberty. It appears that Spittal, Tay lor, Lawrence, and Madden, belonged to the ship Car. natic, which left the London Docks in the autumn of 1838, for the Cape, Bombay, and China. Spittal and Lawrence shipped on board in London, the former as second mate, the other as boatswain. Madden signed articles, and entered at the Cape, and Taylor at Bombay. Rainford belonged to the Mangalore, of Liverpool, at the time of the disturbance. After the affray in which the Chinaman was killed, Lawrence was sent on board the Charlotte, a vessel, we understand, which was purchased by Captain Douglas, of the Cambridge East Indiaman, then in the neighbourhood of Macao. After remaining in irons for 17 days, Lawrence and his companions, who had been con-, fined in other ships, were tried by a Cuddy court-martial, at which Captain Douglas, Captain Elliot, the Superin tendent of British trade, and other commanders of British vessels, were present. They were found guilty of some offence, which the men declare they never heard specified, and two of them were sentenced to three months' impri sonment, and a fine of 151. each ; and the others to six months' imp: isoninent, and a fine of 20/. each. After their trial and sentence they were transferred to the Sultana, bound to Singapore, where they were confined in a prison, ashore for twenty-one days. At the expiration of that time they were shipped on board the Diana, Captain Dod man, bound to London, and sent home as prisoners. The five men, who are fine looking seamen, and behaved with great decorum while in custody of the Thames police, complained much of the ill-treatment they had met with, and all of them attributed the disturbances to the American seamen. The account given by the sailors, and with every appearance of truth, is as follows:—On the 4th of July last, the anniversary of American independence, several American seamen went ashore to a small village, where they got drunk and quarrelled with the Chinese. After committing many acts of disorder they left the place, and in doing so tell in with some British seamen, to whom, however, they behaved in a very Hendly manner, with the exception of one man, known as Baltimore Tom, who boasts of his pugilistie powers, and challenged to fight any seaman on board a British ship, accompanying his challenge with some insulting remarks. The British seamen did not offer to molest Baltimore Tom on that occasion, but a week afterwards, learning that he had gone ashoi e, several Enghil and Scotch sailors went after him with a determination, foe the honour of their common country, to fight him if he would accept of one of them as an adversary. When they got upon the beach at a village abreast of Lin Tin, the British seamen met the Americans coming towards their boats without the boasting " Baltimore Tom." The Americans had their hats decorated with gold leaves, which they said they had taken from the Chinese, whom they had fought and beaten. They also stated that they had broken open a " josshouse," or Chinese place of wor ship, and knocked the wooden gods and idols about. The British seamen proceeded to th village, which they had no sooner entered than the Chinese, believing them to belong to the party of Americans who had just committed the outrage, attacked them with sticks and stones in a most brutal manner. The British seamen retaliated, and, after a desperate conflict, succeeded in de feating the Chinamen, cleared the village, and caused them to fly in all directions. Many persons on both sides were injured during this affray. A seaman had his head cut open by a blow from one of the Chinese, and was carried by his shipmates to the boat, bleeding profusely. A Chinaman, who received several blows, died of his wounds next morning, and his body was exposed by the people on the beach, in sight of the British fleet, and an English seaman was demanded to expiate the loss of a Chinese subjuct—a demand which could not, of course, be complied with, as the Chinese were the aggressors, and it was not known who had in flicted the injuries which caused his death. The five seamen brought home on Saturday declare that many of the unfortunate differences which have happened between the Chinese and the English have originated through the . . violence and disorder of the American seamen, who ge nerally manage, through their Consul and captains, to fix the blame on the British. When the five seamen were takes on board the Charlotte they were threatened with the cat-o'-nine-tails and all manner of punishments; and Captain Douglas had the gratings rigged, and swore he would give one man three dozen, but he did not carry his threat into execution. BROAD.STREET WARD CHA- RITY SCHOOLS. CITY IMPROVEMENTS. Yesterday morning an excellent and impressive ser mon in aid of the funds of the above charitable Institu tions, was preached for the last time, in tho Parish Church of St. Bartholomew, Exchange, previous to the pulling down of that ancient structure, by the venerable and Rev. Watts Wilkinson, A. 8., lecturer of St. Mary, Aldermary, and Tuesday morning lecturer of St. Bartholomew, whose text was taken from the 15th chapter of St. John's Gospel, 39th verse, " Search the Scriptures, for in them ye have eternal life." The Rev. Gentleman, notwithstanding his great age (eighty five), delivered his address, which was admired for its elegance of diction, with a firm and audible voice, and was listened to with the most profound attention. The collection amounted to 581. and much more is expected from Noblemen and Gentlemen who have hitherto been great supporters of the Institution. The Boys' School was established in 1709, since which time have been admitted therein Of which have been apprenticed .. 502 To sea service To service, taken out by friends, or otherwise pro _ _ _ . v:ded for 986 Now in the School .. 5O The Boys are taught reading, writing, and arithmetic. The Girls' School was established in 1714, since which time have been admitted therein 970 Of which have been apprenticed l3O To service, to Subscribers, &c., or otherwise pro vided for . Now in the school 812 28 Total girls _ 960 The girls are taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, marking and plain work. The children upon leaving school are furnished with a suit of clothes, a bible, and a prayer-book. The above is the last sermon which will be preached at St. Bartholomew's, as workmen will be forthwith em ployed in it. The whole must be pulled down on or be before the 7EII of May next, to make way for the exten sive improvements which are in progress in this part of the City. Several individuals have expressed their de sire that the relics of Miles Coverdale, the first English translator of the Bible, which lie under the Communion Table of the Church, should net be re-interred in a mausoleum which is being erected in the consecrated ground adjoining for the reception of those who have been interred therein, and the Bishop of Exeter is desi rous that they should be removed to the Cathedral of that City, where he once officiated• The parish of St. Bartholomew is to be added to that of St. Margaret. Lothbury. SIR JAMES GRAHAM.—A Correspondent, who writes from Tenby on the 23d inst., says---" This town was thrown into no small state of excitement last evening by the arrival of Sir J. Graham, Bart., the Representative of these united boroughs, by the IThcenix steam-packet, from Bristol, accompanied by his brother, Capt. Graham. This morning the Hon. Member, with his usual foresight and prudence in providing against any unforeseen contingencies which may arise, commenced an active canvass of this borough, and after wards partook of a cold collation at the White Lion Inn, which h's friends had provided for him. Ile then left the town with the late Member, Col. Owen, for the purpose of canvassing the other berooghs. Tae Liberal Candidate, J. 31. Childs, Esq., seems to rest in security, as he only partially canvassed this town at the time of publishing his address to the electors, stating his determination to come forward at the next vacancy—that vacancy not being expected by him to take place as soon as wished for by the present Member.— Cambrian. OTTER CAUGHT.—A few clays ago, as some sporting gentlemen were busily engaged in trout fishing, in Kelvin river, near Kirkintilloch, they observed a:fine otter, to which they immediately gave chase, and after great exertions, caught it. He is a male, and though young, measures from ' the point of the snout to the tip of the tail three feet six 1 inches. He is now in the poness!on of Mr. Robert Kerr, Fox Tavern, Cross, Paisley. Though somewhat cross at first, he is now Woming tame, and yesterday, for dinner, partook of fish, beef-steak, loaf bread , an d milk, with evident r. lish. It is a very rare circumstance for an otter to be seen so far up the HIGHWAY ROBBERIES. No less than three daring highway robberies have been committed in the near vicinity of Edinburgh within the last eight days, and there is good reason to beliete that each of them was perpetrated by the same two in dividuals. Monday night last, between ten and eleven, Mr. Walker, of Crossmyloof, near Glasgow, was vio lently assaulted near the Whitehouse toll-bar, by two young men, who took from him his watch, cloak, and a small bundle. They pulled out his watch at a jerk, and tried to search his person ; but Mr. Walker, who is a powerful man, after knocking down one of the ruffi ans, went towards a hedge to search for a stick, when the two sprang over a wall and ran through a field towards the road to Gorgie, by Dairy. There, it would appear, they immediately after attacked a nd severely maltreated John Hunter, Esq., W. S., War riston-crescent., who was walking into town, and robbed him of 181. in bank-notes, some silver, and a valuable deed, which he had been preparing for a gentleman a short distance out. Mr. Hunter also made a stout resistance, and shouted out for help, as Mr. Walker had also done. On both occasions one of the robbers called to the other to cut his throat, and he would tell no tales. However, after g etting at their booty, an d cutting Mr. Hunter severely, they made off. It is some what singular, that Mr. Hunter and Mr. Walker met at the west-end of Maitland-street, and came in to gether to the police-office to g iveinformation of their .loss. Their description of the two young men who robbed them exactly tanks. One of them . was short and stout made, dress ed in a fustian pact and trousers, and a bonnet ; the other was taller, and wore also a bonnet, with blue jacket and moleskin trousers. On the Thursday preceding, and on the Dairy-road, Mr. Bell, carrier to Hamilton, was robbed of his watch by two men, by whom he was so barbarously hurt that he was unable to describe them farther than that they wore, as he thought, dark clothes. Mr. Bell, from the injuries he received, has not since been able to resume his duties. —Edinburgh Courant. HORRIBLE DEATH THROUGH DRUNKEN- Iq ES-S.-Yesterday morning, about half-past two o'clock, as police constable Armen, No. 93, of t he M division, was on duty in Kent-street, Borough, he was informed th . at a fire had t a k e n place in the house, No. 5, Woolpack-yard, in that neighbour.. hood. Having repaired thither the officer found the cause o f alarm to have proceeded from the bed -r oo m of a single woman, named Philips, aged twenty five, residing on the first floor, who, it a pp ears , had some time previous to the discovery of th e fire, r e ti re d t o b e d in a state of intoxication, having first ob tained a candle to light her to bed. The officer, with some of the inmates, removed her to St. Thomas s Hospital, while others exti ngu i s h e d the fire, but not u ntil th e greater portion of the c on t en t s o f the house was destroyed. Phillips having river. been removed to the hospital every attention was paid to her 1 REFORM IN PARLIAMENT.—The refusal of injuries, but s h e w as so dreadfully burned about the face, a rms , the body called by cou rtes y , or rather calling themselves, the and neck, that s he died in the most excruciating agony about re p re sentatives of the people , to do anything to relieve the dis four hours after she had been admitted. 'f he cause of thi s t resses or extend or secure the liberties of the people ; the con dreadful catastrophe appeared, from subsequent i nqu i ry, to tempt w ith which they have spurned the multitudinous peti_ have originated from the deceased la y in g herself on the bed in tions t h a t have loaded the tables of the House , refusing even to her cloth es , an d i m prudently placing the lighted candle on Ike inquire into the subjectof complaint, have produc e d th e e ff ect chair by the bed side, instead of the table in the room. The iwe had anticipated. The country is beginning to see, not on ly Southwark-bridge-road engine and firornen promptly a tt en d e d, that no real reform is to be hoped for from a Legislatu re e l ecte d and thus sav e d the contents of the adjoining hous es . ' like our present one, but that the first step to improvement of Upwards of two hundred twopenny loaves will any kind m ust be a reform in the representation —a co m pl et i on , be sold for one penny each on Durdham Down, as last year, at at in fact of the Reform Bill.—Somerset Gazette. nine o'clock in the morning on the first Wednesday in may:— A pension of 3,5001. per annum reverts to the Bristol Journal. Irish Civil List by the death of Lord Guillamore of Rockbarton. / L2 )6 EVENING EDITION. .~ -" y GRAND MILITARY FUNERAL. In consequence of the announcement that the funeral of the late Major-General Alexander Dickson, of the Royal Engineers, was to take place at Woolwich yesterday, and probably also in consequence of the fineness of the day, by an early hour in the morning, thousands of the inhabitants of London were hastening towards London Bridge for the purpose of being conveyed to Woolwich. The boats usually plying upon that station were unable to accommodate the vast numbers of passen gers who offered, and many of the Greenwich boats were put in requisition. On nearing Wool wich we found all Government and other vessels with their ensigns flying half-mast high, and on entering the town, we were pleased to see that al most, without exception, the shopkeepers paid their tribute of respect to the deceased by closing their shops, and keeping them shut till after the funeral procession had left the town. _ _ The whole of the troops in the garrison, with the exception of those necessary for the various guards, formed in the Barrack Square at 11 o'clock, the officers wearing crape upon their left arms and over their sword-hilts and ornaments ; the colours were in crape, as were also the musical instruments of the various bands. At 12 o'clock, the minute gun having given the signal that the hearse containing the body (which was brought from London) was in sight, the troops formed into line—the Horse Artillery on the right, next them the Foot Artillery, the Royal Sappers and Miners, the 29th Foot, and the Royal Marines, each corps attended by their band. As soon as the hearse reached the Barracks' Common, the coffin containing the body was placed on a gun carriage, which was covered with an ensign. Over the coffin was thrown a pall, and upon it were placed the hat, sword, decorations, &c., belonging to the de ceased. The car was drawn by eight horses, each led by a dismounted horse artilleryman. The car was followed by the horse of the deceased, led by ' regimemal groom ; then followed three mourn ing coaches, each drawn by four horses, and eight private carriages . On the arrival of the car in the centre of the column of troops, it halted, the bands struck up solemn music, and the arms were reversed. The procession was then formed, the Marines being at the head of the column, following a party of Horse Artillery, who cleared the way. The procession was, as before stated, only reversed in order, with the addition of the Gentlemen Ca t dets, and a great number of officers of various ranks, both army and navy, who walked next to the car. The car was followed by a numerous band of the civil servants of the Ordnance Department, and many of the tradesmen of the, twin. It was preceded by the two Garrison Chaplains and the Rev. Rector of Wool wich, and was followed by Sir H. Vivian, G.C.8., the Master-General of the Ordnance, Captain D. Dundas, Clerk to the Ordnance, Lord Bloomfield, Colonel Commandant, and a large bevy of officers, on horse and foot. The procession proceeded to Pluinstead Church, the various bands playing psalm and hymn tunes daring its progress. Having arrived there, the various corps stationed themselves in the lanes around ; the body was carried into the church, where the service was read in a most impressive manner, by the officiating clergyman, to a most re spectable and attentive audience,which crowded every corner of the sacred edifice. That portion of the service having been concluded, the coffin was brought into the yard and carried to the vault, and upon a signal, when the clergyman came to that part of the service " Dust to dust," the troops fired a salute of three rounds of small arms, and eleven of six-pounder guns belonging to the Horse Artillery, being the compliment paid to the rank of the deceased. From all we heard, both from the men who served under the deceased and the town people, the words used by the Master-General in his General Order are strictly true—" That in Sir Alexander Dickson the officers of the Royal Artil lery had lost a brother, the men a father and a friend, the corps one of its brightest ornaments, and her Majesty one of her ablest and bravest soldiers." The ceremony altogether occupied about four hours and a half. The troops, as usual upon such occasions, retired marching to lively tunes. The ground throughout the line was admirably kept by a strong body of the K division of police, and although the crowd was very great, every one seemed impressed with the solemnity of the occa sion ; so that, in fact, there was little need for the extreme care of Superintendent Mallalieu. HORRIBLE ATTEMPT AT MURDER. FALMOUTH, SATURDAY.— The Sprightly, schooner, Captain James Newton, was on Tuesday evening last necessitated to put into Falmouth from the following horrible details, relative to which the magistrates of that town had been in continued deli beration until Friday. From all that has transpired in the Court from evidence, and from other informa tion, it is learnt that, on March 25th, two men, Robert Reed and Bill Johns, alias Samuel Bailey, were delivered up to the authorities at St. Michael's, by Captain Thomas Steer, of the schooner Ellen Gilman, of Dartmouth, on a charge of desertion from the royal navy, on their own confession, stated to have been made by them on the voyage out from London, they having been shipped at Gravesend. The Consul, Thomas Carew Hunt, Esq., com manded Captain James Newton, of the schooner Sprightly, to receive them on board on the 29th, be being then about to sail for England, and, by written instructions to deliver them up to the first British naval commander the Sprightly, on her voyage, might meet with, or to the first magistrate, on his arrival in England, on the charge of " deser tion from some of her Majesty's ships, from infor mation he had received." The information was laid by Captaie Steer, be cause of their violent conduct on one occasion to wards himself during the voyage. The deserters, Bailey and Johns, were sent on board out of irons, and the Captain had none on board, so that he was necessitated to give them perfect liberty, and, in fact, to share in common with the crew, the provi sion as well as the duties of the vessel. Reed was in the mate's watch, and Bailey in the Captain's. The schooner on Monday night made Scilly lights, and Captain Newton, the cook (who was helms man in the Captain's watch), a youngster, a native of Heligoland, were on deck, the latter being sta tioned on the bowsprit foot, looking out for land, as was the Captain on the starboard quarter ; the man Bailey was also on deck. At eight o'clock, Bai ley asked the cook what he had done with the hatchet, with which he had been chopping up wood in the morning ; he told him " under the wind lass." Bailey went for it, and placed it in the gal ley, forward. He then came aft, to where the Cap tain was, and entered into a long conversation with him, first about the lights on the coast, and after wards he detailed the ships he had sailed in, which occupied till 10 o'clock, when the Captain went below in the cabin for about three minutes, and Bailey went down the forecastle, and continued there for ten minutes ; in an instnnt he struck the captain with the axe on his head, and the next instant the helms man met the same fate ; he also tried to cut the man's throat with a knife he had just abstracted from the chest of one of the crew who was below sleeping. The mate came up from the cabin on hearing the repeated cries of murder from the cap. taro and from the cook, when he shared the same fate, being violently struck with the axe on the head, and afterwards stabbed twice under the c hi n , the knife entering his mouth. The mate grappled with the villain, when he was nearly canted over the schooner's side, hut ultimately succeeded in throwing down his assailant, and he was then helped by the captain and cook to Lind his hands and feet ; in which position he remained until dal - light. The mate, who though seriously, was not so shockingly mangled as the others, examined the forecastle, and found that a nail had been driven in the hasp to keep two men of the crew and his fel low deserter down ; not knowing how far one or the other of them was concerned in the tra,eical affair he let them remain until the morning. ✓ About eight o'clock a Penzance pilot went along side, when the captain, to obtain medical assistance as early as possible, went on shore to Penzance ; and our pilot remained on board to bring the vessel to Falmouth. Three investigations have taken place, Bailey being seized on arriving here, and yes terday he was committed to the Central Criminal Court to take his trial at the ensuing Assizes on the charge'of wilfully cutting and maiming J ames Bowles, mate, and William Ceombes, cook, of the Sprightly, with intent to murder. He will be de tained at Falmouth until the fate of Captain New- ton is ascertained. 'By the last account, then r. little hopes of his recovery. The only re2. , L assigned as probable, which induced the commit such a complication of crime, is, that ;it. intended to murder the captain, mate, cook, and boy, with the axe, and then to scuttle the vessel, thus causing the whole crew to perish, to allow of his escaping by means of the boat, to avoid getting the punishment of his desertion from the navy. SICILY. The following proclamation, without "a name, was extensively circulated in the first news of a probable rupture between England and Naples : "PROCLAMATION. " Sicilians !--The hour of liberty and indepen dence of Sicily has already arrived. The strength of our efforts of 1836 would not have been frus- trated to recover our national independence, had not the effects of the ravages of the cholera almost destroyed our population. Much Sicilian blood tinged at that unhappy period the servile hands of the Neapolitans. The generous shades of those patriotic martyrs cry from their tombs for vengeance. Their blood will be the prolific seed of our liberty and political emancipation. 'We swear it. Not long ago, the brave Belgians were oppressed under the yoke of Holland. Such was the fiat of the infamous Congress of Vienna, which deprived of our privileges and our nationality. But V ile Belgians, imitating the enthusiastic heroism of a great nation, threw off the chains of depenence. They rose in mass and conquered ; for the united will of the people is victory personified. England allied with France compelled the absolute Mo narchs of Eur Ope to recognize the independence of Belgium, and a constitutional King was, placed at the head of the Government. France, Spain, Portugal, and Greece, have, by ttie determined will of their people, changed their institutions and their Princes 'within the short interval of ten years. The despots of Europe hays looked on and have been silent. " We, who were the first to give to the world, by one unanimous movement, the unheard-of ez- ample of the complete destruction of our oppres sors—we still know how to deserve and regain in dependence. _ _ " Sicilians, to arms I England is still indignant at the recollection of the violated faith—of the fla grant treachery—committed in abolition of the con stitution proclaimed by Lord 'William Bentinck in our island as a pledge of gratitude from the power ful British nation. We were faithful to England throughout the duration of a long-continued war. We fought for her, and in concert with her. Our lives and our property were for many years wil lingly placed at her disposal. We have not a mere reliance, but a right to reckon on the gratitude of Great Britain. The time for recompense has its destined term. That period is now at hand. Our hopes and our just expectations will be realized. " Our independence having just been declared, we will nominate a constitutional King, and we will choose him even out of the Bourbon family, for we make war not against individuals, but against principles. " Prince Charles of Capua is born amongst us. He is a Sicilian, oppressed and unfortunate, and like us he is the victim of caprice and absolutism. Exiled from Naples because he would not bow the neck to the rancid maxims of a blind despotism and absurd etiquette, he was obliged to seek an asylum in England. He has now resided four years ;, n London, where the liberality of his sentimentr,, as well as the propriety of his conduct, have ',von for him the love, the esteem, and the sympat'av of the British people. We know the great 'interest he takes in our political situation, and tl - , e partial af fection with which he is animated torsards us. He shall be our constitutional King. The Princess Penelope of Capua, his consort, is connected by re lationship with the first families of England, who will doubtless procure important aid from their ge nerous and opulent fellow-citizens. Palermo, on becoming the seat of a brilliant Court, will con stantly attract multitudes of foreigners, who will stimulate and augment the circulation of money amongst us. Our new Government, founded on the adamantine basis of a popular Constitution, will afford the best possible guarantee for the preserva tion of public order, liberty, equality of rights, independence. " And you, 0 industrious strangers, who, at tracted by the natural richness of our fertile soil, are come with your capitals to establish yourselves amongst us, and Alio have endeavoured to lay open the commerce of every part of the globe to our numerous products, you need no longer fear any violation of public faith. As long as you may think fit to remain with us, your security and your property shall be as sacred as our own. Hence forth we will form with you only one family—one sole interest shall animate us all. We have one object in common--the welfare and independence of Sicily. " Our future constitutional King, taught in mis jortune's school, and often an admirinr 4 auditor of the English Parliamentary debates, w'Al religiously respect whatever treaties of alliance and commerce we may, on the principle of reciprocal advantage, contract with foreign nations. " Sicilians, to arms I Let us drive from our isle the Neapolitans, who absotbe all our resources, and who, looking upon us as slaves, or adscripti glebee, have reduc e d thi s b eaut if u l an d fertile land, once , the cradle of civilization and the granary of Italy, to receive from abroad the first element of life. "To arms, Sicilians I to arms I, The hour of our political emancipation is at }rand. The first signal of our glorious enterpri&e, the powerful British fleet stationed at Malta, will surround our extensive coast, and protect our Forts from the die einbarLation of the mercenary hordes who are enrolled under the degraded harmers of the imbecile and presumptuous:ruler of Naples. Meanwhile we will convoke our ancielit Parliament; we will form volunteer corps ;we vill establish in every part of the island a national guard, and, if our op pressors do not fly with precipitation at the first sight of our national standzad, let them tremble while they recollect the Sicilian Vespers. " Viva the independence of Sicily. " Viva the Constitution I " Viva King Charles ! " Viva England I " Sicily, 1840." ROYAL GEO , 'GRAPHICA L SOCIETY. At the ordinafy meeti n g held on Monday evening, G. B. Greenhough, E sq., F.R.S., President, in the chair, Captain Washin gton, the secretary, road the official report of Mesiers. Deese and Simpson on their recent Arctic discove.:ies, which was communicated by the Hudson's Bay 'company. The -substance of the paper has been, already made public, but the route was very well illustrated by a chart, exeeeted by Mr. Ar rowsmith. On the thanks of the meeting being pre sented to the Company, Governor Peily stated that the desires of Mr. Simpson would be met to their ful lest extent, and that the Company had accepted kis services to complete the samvey of the coast of Boothia. A letter was next maid from Dr. Richardson, an Arc!:ic 'traveller, congvatulating the Society on the solution of a problem, which had been considered a national object for three hundred and forty-three years. It was a singular fact that the first expedition av_eat out from Bristol in 1497, in the reign of Henry the Seventh, at the risk and enterprise of the merchants or that city, and that now the object should be com 'pleted by a mercantile, company. Sir Woodbine Pa rich stated that he cousidered both the Company and the adventurers deserved the highest honours which the Society could Ireste.w, and congratulated Sir John Barrow, as the first instigator of these enterprises, on the result. The latter stated that this line of discovery of the northern coasts; must lead to the object he had long had at heart, that of a north-west passage, and he entertained but little doubt that through this channel a ready medium of toerninunication w ould f e o o4l ltu rnu d li c a tion was next rea be tween the Atlantic :and Pacific Oce ans. A ji from Dr. Robinson, Professor of Theology at New York, contradicting many of the statements made by the Compte de Bertu, and pub. fished in the Society's Transactions, relative to the Gulf of Achabar, and the linos of waters from the Red to the Dead Seas. The meeting was W4ll attended. THE VALUE OF AN EASY COAT.—Mondity morning, so early as six o ' c l oc k , one of those scenes *hick people who lie in bed never see, was witneried near Westrnin• ster Abbey. An individual was passing towards the lower part of Westminster ; his appearance and character, if there he faitl in Lavatcr, was such that he was very likely to be suspected any society : a policeman, ac a matter of business, spoke him—collared him. The individual in question went quiet for a tew yards, wriggled a little, mei ran away. The police man had the shell, but rrinus tl:e body. The offence was con sidered to be so serious that an alarm was given and four pe licemen pertinaciously pursued ! But it was of no service— two logs in a march were proved to be better than eight. TI: policeman not being able to take the man to the station-li?u,se conveyed his coat thither, and found some very suspicious looking lead in the pockets. . It is generally believed that ti gentleman will forget where :,is coat IS. / / 9 /_