The Sun. — London, England, 1840-10-19 00:00:00

- iIVENING EDITION. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (SATURDAY EVENING.) TIMES.—Much conjecture is exercised in the city as •to the effect which the late measure of the Bank in li miting; discounts to short bills only will have upon the general transactions in money. When the Bank on the last difficulty of the same kind as that which they now experience, and which is very little more than a year ago, determined on raising the rate of interest rather than restrict the length of bills, the example was not only generally followed by private capitalists, but it furnished an excuse in all cases where the pretext could be at all available of char g ing a much higher rate, and was indeed the signal for a Mast severe pressure on all those persons who were in a situation to require pecuniary accommodation. It would not necessarily follow that the measure of the Bank now under discussion ought to produce similar consequences, but unfortunately the example hav ing, been once set out, and there being no limit by law to the rate of interest on short hills, that is very likely now to be the case. Indeed, intimations are given already by some of the principal banks and private bankers that they will not discount lower than six per cent., and, consequently, a general uneasiness is spread ing, those who have money at command not being will ing to part with it, but waiting to see what turn mone tary affairs will take. There can be no doubt that the Bank (having got into the difficulty, and being desirous to counteract the exportation of bullion and the fall in the exchanges), have adopted a more legitimate expedient than that resorted to in 1839. It is a practice which has uni formly been found to answer in the transactions of the Bank of France, and, in fact, until about twenty years ago no bills were admitted to discount at the Bank of England, which had more than 65 days to rho ; the extension of the term is altogether modern in practice. There have been instances in Paris of a limit as low as 45 days, but not lower, and that plan has usually proved successful. Some persons are of opnion that the course now adopted at the Bank will not have any material effect on the rate of interest out of doors, but appearances are otherwise, and those who have long dated bills to negotiate must expect at all events to pay dearly for the accommodation. It has been stated that the payment of the dividends by the Bank, which commenced on Tuesday last, was earlier by one day than usual, and that this was done at the request of one of the principal London bankers, whose standing in credit, however, was too high to sup pose that he had any personal motive. The public ge nerally would feel probably obliged by his interference, but there seems to have been some remark upon it and objections among the other bankers. POST.--We have produced so formidable a reduc tion in the item of buliion in a short time, and the quantity of gold carted away of late by the exporting houses has evidently been upon so large a scale, as to justify the most restrictive measures on the part of the Bank. At the rate at which they were going on, a very short time would have been sufficient for the abstraction of every sovereign from its tills. Some of our Contem poraries, while they admit that a decisive check on the part of the Corporation was necessary, and acknow ledged to be so by everybody, complain, nevertheless, of the suddenness of the step taken on Thursday. From the very nature of the Bank's position with the public, the measures of the Directors must be sudden ; but the state of affairs being published to the world once a month, every man of business is enabled to judge of the probability of a change of policy from time to time, and it is no fault of the Directors if he does not choose to take warning. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT KENSINGTON. On Friday afternoon the neighbourhood of Kensing ton Gravel-p4ts was thrown into a state of considerable excitement in consequence of the circulation of a re port that a lady had been shot by her husband, under circumstances of a peculiarly painful nature, which re port, we regret to state, has proved too well founded. From the inquiries our reporter has made on the spot, the following authentic particulars have been obtained. The lady in question i 3 Mrs. Elizabeth Pearce, the wife of Mr. Arthur Legent Pearce, a highly respectable and opulent surgeon, residing at No. :23, Bedford-place, a bout half-way between Kensington Church and Gravel pits. Mrs. Pearce, who is about 36 years of age, has been married to her husband some years. For the last week or two an alteration had manifested itself in the conduct of Mr. Pearce, which has been productive of much domestic discomfort, during which he has been heard accusing his wife of unfaithfulness to him, and also with having made repeated attempts to poison him, by introducing arsenic into his food, &c. On the afternoon of Friday they were visited by a friend, who remained, with the intention of taking an early dinner with them. Between two and three o'clock, just as they had sat down to the dinner-table, Mr. Pearce suddenly rose, and complaining that the room was insufferably hot, pushed up a window behind where his wife was sitting, and, at the same instant, discharged a pistol at her. Mrs. Pearce immediately tell off her Onale on to the boor, and while the friend who was sitting with them ran towards Mr. Pearce, she contrived to creep out of the room and escape into the street, where her cries and her appearance, her hair hanging dishevelled about her ears, without shoes, and her dress (a light muslin one) on fire, soon brought several of the neighbouring residents to her assistance, when, her burning clothes having . been extinguished, she was assisted to the resi dence at Yr, Taylor, her medical attendant, in High row, Kensington Gravel-pits, where she received every attention her tuation demanded. The police having been informed of the facts of the case, a constable was sent to the house of Mr. Pearce, and took him into custody, and he was charged by Mr. Pinto, of Pall-mall East, one of Mrs. Pearce's trustees, with shooting at her, with intent to do her some bodily harm. Mrs. Pearce was taken from the house of Mr. Taylor to her awn residence, and Dr. Kerrison, of New Burlington-street, was called in to attend her. Mr. Pearce in the meantime was taken before Mr. Sutton, a resident magistrate, who adjourned the case to the Kensington police-office. Oa Saturday morning, at the sitting of the Magistrates, at their office in Kensington-square, Mr. Collison, the solicitor of Mr. Pearce, applied for as adjournment of the case for a few hours. Mr. Pilkington said he did not think the Bench would be sitting for so long a period, on which— Mr. Collison replied he must then apply for the ad journwent of the case until next week, it being essential that his c lient should have counsel. Mr. Jennings, on behalf . of Mr. Pinto, the guardian of. Mrs. Pearce, bad no objection to the postponement of the case but he could not help thinking that if the charge were entered into against Mr. Pearce the evi dence that would be adduced would benefit that gentle man rather than injure him. . _ The Magistrate; determined to hear some evidence befos,2 they adjourned the case, and Mr. Pearce was pl::ced at the bar ; he appeared greatly agitated and touch dejected, hoiding . a handkerchief before his face during the investigation. Mr. 'lades, apparently a military man, stated that he was' on a visit at the prisoner's house, wad, as they were about to sit down to dinner, Mr. Pearce complained of the sultriness of the day, and threw up the window with some violenec ; at that instant he heard the report of a pistol, and Mrs. Pearce fell to the g r o un d ; she then crawled from the rootri, and, running through the gar den, reached the street, her clothes being then in flames from the lighted wadding catching them. In his exa mination by the Bench, the witness said he did not see a pistol in the prisoner's hand at the,: time, nor did he see biro lire it oil. Mr. Taylor, the surgeon, deposed that Mrs. Pearce was wounded in the breast, but he could not say that it was by a ball ; it might have been by the wadding ; no ball was found on probing the wound ; she was much burned about the arms. This witness was very much agitated in giving his evidence, which he accounted for by stating that he had been on terms of intimacy and friend ship with the family for a very long time. He further stated that Mrs. Pearce was suffering very severely from the wound and the burns. Mr. Pilkington and the other Magistrates consulted together, and adjourned the further examination until Wednesday next ; and the prisoner was taken in a fly to the new prison, Clerkenwell. HORRABLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT.-We have to record the melancholy death of Mr. Ba n fi e ld, land lord of the Lopez lia-ad Inn, near Crewkerne, u n der cir cumstances which render it peculiarly awful and di s t ress i ng . -The deceased attended our market on Monday l as t, and did act leave until a late hour but i-1 miraculously received He had scarcely gone a the m ile when he fe ll from his horse,he no injury , and a g ain mounted h , eunlnnal ; but ere re achad anothe r mile he agaiii fell a severe bruis e on ona side of his head heavily, and rec e i ve d his ho , however, t;n w hich the blood fl owe d copiously. it was not s one ear, from so severe as to p revent his re-mounting the third and lass time, he attempted to get e and, for just as he arrive d o pp osite the house of a farmer Davis,hen a n ; l'oasernarsh, he fell with tremendous force on his head, and fractured his skull. He was carried into Davis's "house, in a senseless state, and several surgeons were loon in attendance. The poor man never once moved, looked. or spoke ; and after lingering in the same unconscious condition until Wednesday morning, death finished his careep Mr. WARBURTON AND THE DpCnTObßy S. 3Fr The following is a paragraph fro m a note writte , Warburton, the propounder of the Medical Reform Bill, to Dr. Webster, the President of the British Medical Association. When read at the meeting, it was received My with hissing a n d considerable disapprobation :-- Medical Bill will be too strong a dose for the medi cal corporations, and too weak a ono for the more sanguine medical reformers. Between the two stools, I anticipate I shall WO, througn. You will see many indica tions in the Bill how little I am d;;;:iosed to trust medical I men with the power of lezjilating in own affairs ; I would as soon confid e such po w er 'in their own matters to b u t c hers and baker s ." The Great Western Railway have offered to dertake the construction of a railway through the County o f Cornwall, if the sum of 200,00 0 1. --Cornwall Royal Gazette, be raised in the county. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIO DAY. (From the Times.) The fresh attempt to get rid of King Louis Philippe by a foul and hideous murder in open day may have shocked every human being out of France, but no man who comprehends the state of that country or of the morals of French democracy can have been in the least surprised at it. Was it without reason that we quoted on Friday last from the Journal des Debats the follow ing dreadful passages ?—" Are there in France either laws or charter, or Monarchy or Government of any description, or are we at this moment under the full sway of anarchy ?" " There is on every side the most furious excitement to insurrection—the most incredible outbreak of the most unbridled passions. Already, whoever is suspected of being favourab!e to peace is denounced as a traitor, a coward, an enemy to the country. And they are the journals of the Ministers themselves which circulate this shameful scan dal. As for the laws, they are openly set at defiance. As for the charter, the Ministerial democrats declare their contempt for it. The Crown they insult without remorse. The Chambers they threaten with the ven geance of the people. The revolution speaks as if it were the universal master. No man is permitted to have an opinion of his own. He who is not for imme diate and universal war is a partisan of Foreign Powers." And it was "as a partisan of Foreign Powers," no doubt, that the Marseillois assassin fired at the brave and enlightened King, a musket loaded to the muzzle. Said we not truly in the same number of the Times, " that the question of the East was but a hollow pretext Ibr violence in all quarters ?" Said we not on that occasion, " that there is a faction at work, which will force both King and Chambers into foreign war —into universal war—ON PAIN OF DEATH ?" Why, what was the horror aimed at by this assassin, named Darmes, but to inflict " the pain .of death" on his Sovereign, because he considered the life of ":Louis Philippe to be the only obstacle in the way of universal war ?" Then, what must be the nature and ends of that war towards the excitement of which the means amount to regicide by fierce assassination ? What must be the character of the faction which pants for such a war, and which attempts to procure it by such methods ? Among the most disgusting traits in the his tory of any faction, or of any people (apply it to which you please), is this avowed identity of the war party with the party which abets assassination. The intending murderer in the recent instance declared that his sole i object was to remove the so l e o b s t ac l e t o a war . W e ll, since it ought to be assumed that conscientious ca suists like M. Darmes are disposed to administer equal justice to all their enemies as well as friends, let us suppose for a moment that a few more " obsta cles" to war should happen to present themselves by and by —suppose that when the Chambers are assembled to decide, in concert with his Majesty, the question of peace or war, and that a majority of the Chamber of Deputies should, contrary to the expectations of the Constitutionnel, the Courrier Francais, and others of the Liberal faction, happen to vote against the said Li berals, and for the maintenance of peace, every member of that majority becomes at once what M. Darmes pro nounced his Majesty Louis Philippe, after he had shot at him--" an obstacle to a war with the allied Powers." By what parity of reasoning or equality of justice can any single member of such majority be suffered to es cape the same visitation at the hands of the war faction as would have been inflicted on Louis Philippe had not a merciful and beneficent Providence interposed ? (From the Morning Advertiser.) To escape from an attempted assassination is such a common-place occurrence with the King of the French, that even were public opinion less engrossed with other subjects than it is at present, such an event would scarcely supply material for " nine days' wonder." An account of an affair of this kind, which took place on last Thursday, appears in our paper of this day, but whether the attempt were instigated by the war par ties, who consider Louis Philippe the great obstacle to the indulgence of their belligerent propensities, or by the Government itself, as a stage trick to divert public attention from scrutinising too closely the other parts of the drama in progress of representation by the French Cabinet, we have not at present before us suf ficient information to pronounce any decided opinion. From whatever cause originating, it is not likely to cause any great sensation in Paris at the present mo ment, though if our French Contemporaries were to take example from the ingenuity and effrontery of the Tory Journals in this country, they might discover in this attempt on the life of the King of the French the ef fects of a miserable griping economy, which had not provided sufficiently for his protection, just as a part of the English press has denounced the parsimony of the Government in this country, as affording opportunity for the firing of the Talavera, which, it appears, ignited from spontaneous combustion, or of the Camperdown, which I was endangered by causes against which no vigilance could have guarded. Beyond speculations of this kind, the attempt on the life of Louis Philippe loses all its interest as soon as narrated ; and, therefore, leaving it to speak for itself, we revert to the Syrian question, which, uutil adjusted. must attract the para mount solicitude of Europe. In alluding to matters of secondary or minor interest, we must not omit to notice the ludicrous exhibition of Mr. Attwood, who pre vailed apor. M. Odillon Barrot and some dozen Mem bers from the Chamber of Deputies, to witness one of those fantastic caricatures of humanity at which angels are said to weep. Mr. Attwood commenced by asserting that the parties into which this country is divided, " were united to prevent the communication to the English people of the knowledge of that which was done, or , that which was felt in Franco. That in England there was, consequently, no knowledge that the Treaty of the 15th of July was injurious to France, and not the re motest suspicion that collision would arise out of that Treaty." It is a pity that Mr. Attwood did not here supply the knowledge which he complains of being with held from his countrymen, and point out what the com bined ingenuity of the French press has not yet been able to do—the manner in which " the Treaty of the Lath of July is injurious to France." This is an as sumption, in support of which not a tittle of evidence has been or can be adduced beyond the rabid assertion of fanatical incendiaries. In fact, so far from being in jurious to France, the Treaty of July involves not a single stipulation against which France makes the slightest objection ; her only cause, or rather pretence, of complaint is that the Treaty was signed without consulting her, though she had previously withdrawn from the negotiation without assigning any cause. (From the Morning Chronicle.) In a Second Edition of the Chronicle of Saturday we announced another horrible attempt to deprive the King of the French of his life. Though we have occasionally disapproved of the policy of Louis Philippe, and may have thought that he took a more direct part in the Government than in strictness belonged to the functions of a constitutional King, we have always been ready to do justice to his great powers of mind, his virtues, his kindness of disposition, and many excellent qualities. With regard even to his tenacity of power, which it seems difficult to reconcile with ministerial responsibility, we are aware that much may be said in his favour from the great difficulty in a country like France—con vulsed by a succession of revolutions—of establishing an approximation even to the fixed habits which in this country have been derived from the predomi nance for a century and a half of a powerful aristo cracy, or rather oligarchy, Louis Philippe, it must be recollected, has lived through all the French revolu tions, and is evidently strongly impressed, from his ex perience, with the difficulty of retracing any false step in governing a population so peculiarly liable to be car ried away by headlong impulse, as that over which he rules. If ever there was a man qualified to overcome the difficulties of the situation of King of the French, Louis Philippe is that man. Burke, in 1796, drew a picture of the severe duties and harassing toils in store for future Kings of France by no means inviting to any one to whom a throne might only be desir able for the sake of personal indulgences. But Louis Philippe has shown how well he knew the arduous nature of the duties imposed on him by his position. From the moment he ascended the throne to the present, he has never suffered himself to be thrown off his guard. His natural capacity is allowed by all who know him to be of the first order,. and his powers of mind have been carefully culti vated. But powers of mind of a high order, and ex tensive acquirements, are not always a guarantee against serious mistakes. It is the peculiarity of Louis Phi lippe that he combines many qualities of mind seldom found united in one individual. He is quick in discern ment, and yet wary, and his reliance on his own judg ment is accompanied with a vigilance which never allows him to be off his guard, or to neglect any point from which he may be assailed. It has been observed by a democratic journal of France that he is in his sixty ninth year, but though this warns us that a time is fast approaching when, by the laws of nature, his mental powers must be impaired, there is yet no indication of an an approach even to that state. He is still the intelli gent and shrewd, nay even astute Sovereign, who seized and suc cess f u ll y s t eere d t h e St a t e vess el at a period when every man who contributed to the Revolu tion of 1830 aspired to political influence, and the disappointment of multitudes surrounded him with perils, in whatever direction he moved. But Louis Philippe has other claims on the gratitude of the French besides those he derives from his powers of mind, and his extensive acquirements, the result of careful cultivation and extensive experience of all the vicissitudes of life. In him, the French have to boast of a monarch who is a bright example of a good hus band, a kind and yet considerate parent, and mild master, who, with a regard for religion, is without a vest i ge of intolerance or bigotry, and whose example ia of incalculable benefit t o a nat i on in which a revolu tion has shaken good as well as bad principles. His devotion to the improvement of income, Frane and his taste , to which he for has he fine applied a h r i t s s, im gi m ve himense private well-founded c l a i ms on the na tion. We know of no French Monarch who has better deserved the title of Father of his Country. Wh atever his failings may be, they certa i nly_ ecesaor bear little resem b lance gtinguished ant to those of his di . „ Bonaparte, which unfortunate l y harmonised INt to, well wit the national character ; for it cannot be concealed that the French are too generally smitten by the mad pas sion for extending their limits, and carry their yearnings for military glory to a reprehensible excess. Louis Philippe has, on the other hand, distinguished himself by a strong desire to make France great, through the development of her own resources. It is lamentable to think that his valuable life should have been so often attempted by political fanaticism. We have no doubt that sympathy with the assassin will be confined to very few indeed ; and that the great body of French citizens will view the attempt with reprobation. But, then, how is it to be expected that the men of the class in life to which this assassin belongs can always mode rate within legitimate limits the indignation which has been carefully instilled into them, against All who are supposed to be opposed to the mania for a general war, and especally against the King, who is pointed out as the great advocate of peace ? We would fain hope that this most appalling consequence of these incen diary exhibitions will teach lessons of moderation to the nation, and that the meditated assassination of one of the best men of our times, who, in spite of occasional mistakes, will go down to posterity as one of the greatest rulers of a great nation, will rouse all that is great and good among our neighbours to form a wall of defence round the person of their Monarch. If it be true that the assassin declared that he was actuated by a desire to rid the world of a tyrant—the tyranny consisting in the obstacles interposed by the King's love of peace to the gratification of his own insane cravings for war—a strong manifestation of the abhorrence of the nation may have a salutary effect on those who might be led to sup pose that, by raising their hand against the life of the King, they wero earning a title to the regard of their countrymen. (From the Morning Post.) Is it not monstrous that the French Minister should have the audacity in a public letter to say that the love of peace on the part of the French nation may be re lied upon ? Do we not know that the Ministerial journals of France have been exciting the populace to the wildest fury for war, and with such success that the Government finds no small difficulty in repressing the violent spirit which has taken possession of the people ? Love of peace I What a palpably false assertion ! Eagerness for war—passion for war—wild, delirious fury for war—this is what we may indeed rely upon as having possession of the French populace, and no one knows better than M. Thiers by whose arts this madness was set in motion. The Minister would be afraid to make this public assertion about " the love of peace " which is at present to be relied upon in France—he would be afraid of the indignation of the French war party, but that he knows that they are well aware of the dis honesty of the representation, and like him not a whit the worse for such dishonesty. In England you destroy a Minister in public estimation if you convict him of deli berate dishonesty of statement. In France the case is very different. They have no moral sentiment which revolts at dishonesty. They look merely to what seems most likely to effect the purpose of the Minister. It his purpose be to perplex matters and gain time, and if the assertion of what is palpably untrue seem to be the readiest means to that end, they think well of him in proportion to the cleverness and intrepidity with which he uses such means. They look merely to what is suc cessful or unsuccessful—other standard of right and wrong with respect to public matters and public men they have none. Nevertheless, this Turco-Egyptian question hav ing become, through the preparations and menaces of France, a European question, Europe must soon decide upon the " love of peace" and the " disinterestedness" of France. Europe will seek in the debates and resolu tions of the French Chambers for such rational expla nations as it seems in vain to expect from the shuffling State papers of M. Thiers. Europe, and, above all, the rational and just portion of the French nation, will pro bably try to ascertain these two things—first, what it is that the Government of France really wants, and what is the real meaning of all her warlike noise, and all her monstrous expenditure in warlike preparation ; secondly, if France merely desires to preserve to Mehe met Ali the sovereignty of Egypt, why did she not agree to the proposals of the Four Powers, which would have secured that sovereignty to Mehemet, and why she has filled Europe with pain, alarm, and dis turbance to no end whatever, but that which might have been gained with the cordial good-will and co operation of every great Power in Europe ? If it should turn out, as we think it will, that M. Thiers found he had been misled by shallow Jacobins in the British Cabinet, that he had made a great mistake, and that the only way of turning away the attention of the French Government from his blunder was by setting the nation wild about war and its insulted honour, if this shall be found to be the teal history of the career of M. Thiers for the last three months, we hope there will be enough of honest indignation left in France to enable the King to rid himself of a Minister at once so danger ous and so contemptible. FROM 17111 DAILY PAPERS OP SATURDAY. (From the Globe.) We regret sincerely to have to announce this new attempt upon the life of his Majesty Louis Philippe. the King of that 'French. It 7 .s then that the rage of unfledged heroes, with their virgin swords and prosti tute pens, and the no less rabid virulence of renegade priests—translates itself into gun-shots ! Assassina tion, like the conscription, provides substitutes, and acts by proxy. A Lamennais is a wiser man in his gene- Iration than a Clement or Itavaillae ; th e f anat i cs en chef slink behind gerans retponsables ; and as in Eng land there are go-to-prison editors, so in France. It should seem, there is an equally advanced division of labour between firebrands and assassins. The French will have the singular honour, should these accursed attempts succeed at last, of having rid themselves, twice by assassination, once by judicial murder, of three of the best monarchs to be found in their his tory. They are bringing back, with prodigious pomp, and all the posthumous glare of talse glory, the remains of the most illustrious "scourge of God" since their Louis le Grand ; and with remarkable con sistency in wrong estimation, here are shots fired at the man in France who certainly has worked hardest to re pair the thousand internal evils of the reign of Napo eon. Louis Philippe is a monarch who would have been highly respected in England ; and perfectly safe from pistol shots, excepting from madmen. He would have found in the peace-loving portion of our aristo cracy, and of our people, sufficient support to carry out his views, without incurring that odium which the French Monarch, thrown into the ferment of petty factions— not one of them strong enough to screen his person, and few honest enough to wish to screen it—has incurred by exerting his voice in the Government, in the midst of the confusion of tongues prevailing around him. We can hardly conceive a position more cruel than that of a monarch, who feels himself fit to govern, and is toll that he mus"t, not do it ; and who, when he seeks around him those on whom to devolve the functions, which he is told it is unconstitutional for him to take any part in, finds little else than overweening pretensions, and selfish ambitions, parties without party discipline or lasting cohesion ; and finally coalitions, which set even party morals at defiance. This has been the position of the King of the French ; we have called it a cruel one; if he sink under it, he will deserve to be deemed the martyr of principles, which, be they sound on all points, or not, be they liable, or not, to the charges which have so often been brought against them, have, at all events, been the result of large experience, aid sober convic tion—infinitely more solid therefore than the stock in trade of talking politicians. It France cannot bear the caution of a ruler like Louis Philippe, she may try again how she likes an Emperor, and prretorian guards. (From the Courier.) No man who has watched, however slightly, the course of events in France during the last two months, who has waded through the frantic ravings of the press, republican and revolutionary, who has waited on the accessory war fulminations of the press Ministerial, who has wonderingly accompanied the press fed by Royal bounty, and nourished in the precincts of a Court, in its inconsistent as inconsiderate career by turns of bellicose bombast or frenzied fear, can really feel or affect asto nishment about tha deplorable occurrence of which the particulars will be found in another column of Paris intelligence. The life of the King of the French has once more, and almost for the hundredth time, been attempted by the hand of the assassin—an assassin who avowed his crime, without the expression of other re gret, .'we are told, than for the failure of its consumma tion. The wretch is evidently one only of a class with which the streets of Paris abound ; whose numbers swell frightfully with every revolution, and whose dia bolical passions are stimulated to greater fury only by every unsuccessful attempt, and every suppressed eineute. The general demoralisation of the French people, in the capital at least, is an awful warning of the perilous results attendant upon organic changes in the social and political structure ; of the perpetual and in satiate appetite for change thereby generated and daily more excited the more it is administered to. The lesson ought not to be, will not we hope be, lost upon the more rational portion of Liberals and Reformers at home. The atrocity of the crime is more deeply en hanced still by the character, public and private, more still than by the quality, of the illustrious victim des tined, but so far preserved. Few have been the Monarchs who have deserved equally well of their country and their subjects as Louis Philippe. The elected of a free people's choice, the very abstract ex pression, if so we may term it, of that sovereignty of the people, whose wonder-working theory in its exaggerated interpretation has captivated no less the folly of the foolish than the wisdom of the wise, he at least has legitimatised his origin and justified his title by a reign signalised by peace abroad and prosperity at home ; by cares unceasing for the moral and material well-being of his people, by protection to property, and by justice to all. It is impossible to perambulate Paris and its environs without admiration for the munificence of the Monarch by whom they have been embellished so highly, and so much improved in the more substantial sense. (From the Standard.) The King of the French has to thank M. Thiers for this added attempt upon his life. Whether the attempt is to be repeated upon the person of the King, or the violence of the Thiers faction is to be reserved for the THE - SU.N, LONDON, MONDA Y, OCTOBER 19, lB4O. Members of the Chambers, a few weeks will tell ; but there is too much reason to fear that the fury excited by the worthless adventurer who presides over the Government of France, will not be corn po,•ed without violence and bloodshed. We trust 'o that Providence which has so often protected Louis Philippe from the arm of the assassin, that be will be spared, and we in that case trust to his firm aess to protect the other branches of the Legisloture. Still, remembering what scenes have passed in Paris, ;nd considering the present fierce temper of the po pulace in that city, we cannot look at the prospects of th e ensuing month without great anxiety and alarm. If we know our own feelings, the anxiety and alarm are wholly unmixed with any considerations affecting Eng land. Indeed, it England were the enemy of France, what better could we desire than an anarchy which would only weaken the adversary, for as now there is nothing to be plundered, there is nothing to be sold. We can not, however, without pain, regard the menaced danger of a people, standing n ex t to ourse l ves i n arts And civilisation, naturally amiable, and bound to us not only by proximity, but by every tie of commercial tnd political interest ; we cannot without pain see this people standing upon the brink of that gulf of confusion, blood, and crime, in which she was plunged in the days of her Dantons, Itobespierres, and Marats —men ruder perhaps in the manner of their guilt, but not one jot more corrupt and malignant at heart than the persons who would govern under a new revolution —not more than M. Thiers himself, if he foresaw the he did. effect of his recent proceedings, as we believe firmly ARRIVAL of the BRITISH QUEEN. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY, I' 3 o'CLocK. The British Queen steamship, Captain Roberts, R.N., arrived off Cowes, Isle of Wight, this morning, at a quarter before nine, and immediately proceeded to Southampton. Throughout the p assage s h e h as con tended with strong easterly winds, and one day encoun tered a severe gale from the northeast. She left New York on the afternoon of the Ist. The commercial advices furnished by this arrival are one day later than those we received by the Britannia, which were published by the Standard, exclusively, on Thursday afternoon. The British Queen passed the President at 25 minutes past 5, a.m. on the 10th, in lat. 49.17, long. 36.05. On the Ist last. the business done at New York was rather more than usual, in consequence of the British Queen's departure, although no very material alteration in prices had taken place. United States Bank Shares,and also those of the North American Trust Company closed at an advance of to per cent. above the day to which our former intelligence advises us, and our letters, bringing news to the latest moment, may be considered as intimating the probability of still further improvements in stocks and public securities. An important fact has transpired relative to the pros perity of the United States Bank. The Pensylvania and five other banks have agreed to accommodate the bank with a loan of upwards of $3,000,000 ; this, with the 100,0001. specie taken out by Mr. Jaudon, will most certainly enable the United States Bank to resume specie payments. The latest Exchange on England was 8-1 8, and there was great stagnation in Parisian bills ; all our ad vices represent this, and that scarcely any merchants would undertake transactions at the prices of our pre vious accounts. We have news of the blockade of Vera Cruz by the Texian squadron ; but the intelligence having only just reached New York. it was not ascertained whether such blockade would be enforced against all vessels, and from whatever port. At 5.40 P.M. of the 9th, the British Queen passed a brig water-logged, with "J.S." on her stern, could not make out her name ; deserted, with foretop-sail set, main boom unslipped, maintop-sail unbent, mizentop gallant and royals furled in one. Painted ports. The letters and papers brought by the British Queen will be delivered in London this evening ; Mr. Gunnell, the superintendent of the Southampton line, having promptly despatched a special train. (From the Commercial Advertiser of the Evening of Oct. 1.) RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 1. 10 Shares United States Bank 63-1 100 do North American Trust Co. 50 do Delaware and Hudson 150 do do do Dry Dock Bank 59 10 do Commercial Bank BO 10 do American E xc h ange B an k 95 25 do Farmer s Trust... s6O days 751 50 do N. 0. Canal and Baking Co 22 do N. American Fire Ins. Co ..... cash 80 124 do Williamburgh Fire Ins 65 25 do Mohawk Railroad 35 do Boston and Providence Railroad Co. ... 95 50 do Stonington Railroad 3l 200 do Harlem Railroad 28 do Utica and Schenectady Railroad 50 do Long Island Railroad NEW YORK FLOUR MARKET, Ocr.l. There is very little business doing in Flour this morning. 'Prices range, as they have for several days, at 4.75 to 5 dollars for good brands of Western. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET, OCT. 1. The purchases of cotton have been of late chiefly con fined to the home manufacture. A decline of 4c. per lb. has been in some instances submitted to, but holders now refuse to sell, except at former prices. We, there fore, see no reason to change our last quotations. Some new cotton has arrived here, both from New Orleans and Charleston, the quality of which was rather indif ferent.—New York Courier•. FOREIGN MAILS. FRANKFORT, OCT. 6.—lt appears now that the house of Rothschild here had the news of the taking of Beyrout a week ago, but kept it strictly pri vate, and sent orders to all the stock exchanges to sell. The actual operations of that house, in fact, contribute much to the depression of the funds. HANOVER, OCT. 11.—(From a letter.)—The prohi bition of the exportation and transit of horses has natu rally caused some sensation in the public, and great con sternation in the parties interested. BERLIN, OCT. 5.—A proof of the amicable policy of our Government towards France, and of its conviction that a war with that Power is not at present probable, may be found in the fact that it has allowed the expor tation of the horses (20,000, it is said,) purchased in this kingdom for France. We learn from the French papers that 3,000 of these horses have already passed the frontiers, and that thousands more were expected. BEssARABIA, SEPT. 27.—The division of the sth corps of the Russian army at Taganrog, is to proceed by forced marches to the eastern port of the Caucasus. It is conjectured Galatejeff has met with further reverses on the line of the Terek. An unconfirmed report states that a province of Georgia bordering on Dag liestan has likewise revolted against the Russian Go vernment. General Goloften, who marched with some thousand men against the insurgents, is said to have been repulsed with loss. In Armenia, too, it is said that much discontent and aversion to Russia prevails. The troops for which quarters were to be kept in rea diness at Odessa to the 25th September had not ar rived. Only two brigades of the artillery of the sth corps, which were ordered to the Crimea, and a brigade of the 4th corps, had arrived at Odessa ; two divisions of infantry were shortly expected. THE HAGUE, OCT. 15.—Conformably to Art. 97 of the fundamental law, the Hereditary Session of the States General will be opened in this town on Monday next. DUTCH FUNDS.—A9sTEanAm, OCT. 16 Money. Bills, 48N 4914 Actual Debt, '2Y, per Cent 94 y, 95 1 4 Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. 84 8414 Amon Syndic, 4y.', per cent Ditto, ditto, 3 1 ,4 per cent fB 68% Commercial Company, 4 , . 2 per cent • 15714 158 1 4 Ditto (1835 and (837) 5 per cent. .... ..... 1.19 U Loan 1837, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month ll 95 Two months Dutch Papers, Oct. 17. BELGIAN 1. L 1 NDS—BaussELs„ OCT. 16. Actual Debt, 21,i per Cent. Ro thschild's Loan, 5 p er n t :92 Loan of Thirty Millions, 3 per Cent 3 per Cent. Loa ....., flee n of City, 1832, 4 per Ce n t Society of Commerce, 4Y.iper Cent Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ......... National Society Exchange on London (short) --Brussels Papers, Oct. 16. AUST RIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. 6. 1021 five per Cents. Metalli ues ..... .......... 4 k 77 uloahnicrekr Se hares .. r . ........ ............................ .................................................. ... ............... .. ............................. 1557 —.Allgemeine Zeitung„ Oct. 13 OCT 13. HAMBURG BORSENHALLEs BrI Money, Austrian 5 per C ents, Bank Shares.... . 8)4 . P Cent. let acne., Inscription, Ist Setios .......... . ........... Russian 5 per Cent. Hop, ... . C ... 3d and 4th 99 DittoDDitttcSoh.ein Certificates ~ • . actual p• er • :....... ........ in ; t t: ............ ............ ............................................. -- 14 - 0 -- Polish Bonds ....... New ticket . . ............ ............ " Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 . 1)C ...... ............ . _ 6 -"i Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cont... Spanish. New . per Cents. . r'XCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, OCT. 13.-13 4..—Two months, 13:'I6• STOCKHOLM, OCT. 6.— Seventy-five days. 11, 40. BERLIN. OCT. 10. —Three months, 6. 16 34• PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BeituN,Ocr. 11 Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4b per cent. 102% 101% Prussian English L oan, 1830, 41 4 >er cent 99 Exchange on Lo ndon, three months --"" 6 16% —Prussian State Gazelle, Oct. 14. We have the most sincere pleasure in stating that very favourable a ccounts have been received in town as to the state of the Countess of Leicester. It is known that this truly estimable lady mat with a compound frac ture of-the leg whilst r;ding on horseback. The accident, we understand, occurred in this way : —Her Ladyship hap.. pened to turn suddenly round in her saddle to speak to a friend who was followi ng, h er h orse un f or tunately started_ . at the moment, and her L a d ys hi p was thrown t o the ground. LORD RoLLE.---Thi s venera bl e N o bl eman will attain his 90th yea r on F r i day next, an d on M onday his Lordship's tenants, w i t h the tradesmen an d other re.. spectable inhabitants of Exmouth and its neighbourhood 3 will celebrate the event 11 a dinner, FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY. We regret to have to announce another of those frightful and fatal accidents which have of late been so frequent on railroads, and which occurred last evening on the line of the South Western (Southampton) Rail way Company, close to the terminus at Nine Elms, Vauxhall. From the inquiries our reporter has made on the spot, we have reason to believe the following par ticulars may be relied on. The train from Southamp ton, which was what is called a fast one, and which ought to have reached the terminus about five o'ciock, did not come in until nearly a quarter to six o'clock. It is stated to have been a remarkably heavy train, and on its reaching within about three-quarters of a mile of the terminus, its speed was, as usual, slackened, until it ar rived at the spot where the engine is customarily detached from the train, which latter is then drawn forward to the terminus by means of a rope. At that spot the train arrived in perfect safety, and the engine was detached ; but before the man whose duty it was to attach the rope to the carriages could effect it, a frightful collision took place, the luggage-train from Southampton arriving on the same line full ten minutes earlier than expected, and running with the greatest violence into the hindermost carriages of the first train, several of which, by the violence of the concussion, were literally smashed. Immediately that the sound of the crash bad subsided, the scene which ensued is beyond description. The screams of the females, joined with the crying of chil dren, and the hallooing of the male passengers, were most dreadful. Several of the passengers endeavoured to get over the doors of the carriages, but fortunately were prevented by their more collected companions, or the consequences might have been still more frightful. The train was immediately got up to the terminus, when persons of both sexes were to be seen running along with their faces cut and bleeding, and otherwise in jured, several of whom, apparently half stunned by the concussion, instantly jumped into cabs, and were driven to their respective residences. About twenty of the more seriously injured were conveyed into the offices of the Company, where their wounds and injuries were examined and dressed by Messrs. Leech, Statham, and Andrews, surgeons residing in the neighbourhood, who, with their assistants,were most promptly in attendance r and exerted themselves to the utmost to afford every assistance to the unfortunate sufferers. Many of them had received most severe injuries, among whom was an elegantly dressed female, with a child, whose nose was literally smashed on her face, the hemorrhage from which had completely covered the child, which gave rise to a report that the infant had been crushed, which we are assured was not the fact. One female, of decent appearance, was picked up quite insensible, but without any appa rent marks of injury upon her. She was carried into a private room at the station, and placed upon a table, where the surgeons attempted to bleed her, but without avail, life being quite extinct, and on the body being moved blood flowed profusely from her mouth and ears, from which it would appear that death had been caused from the effects of severe-internal injuries which she had received. When the confusion which had necessarily prevailed at the moment had in some slight de gree abated, a young female, who had apparently almost escaped injury, was observed in. the front office in tears lamenting the loss of her companion, with whom she said she had come from Walton in the last carriage of the train ; and, on her being taken into the room in which the body was lying, she immediately re cognised it as that of her unfortunate and ill-fated com panion. She then stated that the name of the deceased was Elizabeth Andrews, and that of herself Sarah Co nolley. They were fellow -servants, and lived with a lady named Donoghue, residing at No. 35, Connaught terrace, Edgware-road. Their mistress had that day given them both a holiday to go to see Hampton-court Palace, and they had returned by the railway, being alone in the last carriage, little dreaming of the melan choly fate which awaited one of them. The distress of mind of the p?or creature, on seeing the lifeless body of her fellow-servant, may be better conceived than de scribed. Her only injury appeared a cut lip. It is, however, almost impossible, from the short time that had elapsed subsequent to the accident, when this account was written, to form any accurate idea of the extent of the injuries received, as many of the persons who hastened home without assistance may yet feel the effects of the accident, and that, not improbably fatally. One lady appeared to be labouring under concussionlof the brain. No correct information could be obtained last night as to the extent of damage caused to the carriages of the train, or whether the engine attached to the lug gage train was injured. The body of Elizabeth Andrews still remained at the station last night, but whether it would continue so until the Coroner's inquest is held, which will probably be on Tuesday next, had not transpired. As is usual on such occasions, a variety of reports were in circula tion respecting the accident, one of which was, that the first rope on being attached to the train broke, and the delay thereby occasioned the accident, and another, that the notice lamp had been neglected to be placed behind the last carriage of the train ; but as the whole matter must necessarily shortly undergo a judicial in vestigation, we abstain from making any remarks,pn the subject until the evidence is gone through.— Observer. (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) On inquiry at the station yesterday we found that this unfortunate occurrence had taken place under the following circumstances :—A mixed train had left Southampton at half-past one, and should have arrived at the Nine Elms station at a quarter past five. From the greatness of the load, this train although drawn for half the distance by two engines, was thirty-five mi nutes beyond its time, and did not therefore arrive at the London station until ten minutes before six. About one hundred yards from the arrival-shed at Nine elms, the engines which had drawn it were, as usual, detached from the train, and a rope by which the car riages are drawn under the arrival-shed was fast ened to them. Unhappily, as this operation was pro• ceeding, the fast train, which had left Southampton at three o'clock, and which became due at Nine Elms at six, arrived ; and owing to the hazy state of the at mosphere, and the omission of the person who had the care of the signal lamp, the driver of this train was not aware that his passage into the shed would meet with any obstruction, and a collision between the trains was the consequence. It appears that at some considerable distance from the point where the former train had stopped for the detachment of the engine, there is a signal lamp, at which a man is posted, whose particular duty it is, by turning a red or green glass over the light, in case of any obstruction at the station, to announce to the engine, or train, which may be ap proaching, that there is cause, if the light be red, to stop altogether, or, if the light be green, to approach with great caution ; and it became his duty, on the very late arrival of the train, which should have arrived at a quar ter past five, and the anticipated arrival of the fast train at six, to give notice to the latter by displaying the red light. We learn that this person was at his post, but as his conduct may become the subject of investigation hereafter, it may be better not further to notice it than to state that the lamp was not made to exhibit any signal of danger ; and the second train, its driver not being able from the state of the atmosphere to see the train before him, and having no no tice of any unusual obstruction, came in contact with the hindermost carriages of the other train. The shock was undoubtedly a severe one, although no damage ap pears to have been done to any person or property in the second train. We regret to state that the effect on the first train was more serious. A female servant, named Elizabeth Andrews, who was seated in the last carriage, was killed by the shock. She had, with a fellow servant, been down to Hampton-court, and her death was, as far as our information reached, instantaneous. Her fellow -servant, although seated beside her, sus tained little injury. Of the other sufferers we heard of one who was severely injured in the body, and had, it is believed, some ribs broken. There were, we regret to add, several other contusions and injuries of more or less severity, but we have not been able accurately to ascer tain the extent of them. The Chairman of the Directors and the principal officers of the Company were actively engaged when our reporter was at the station, in the investigation of the subject. (LATEST PARTICULARS.) Among the sufferers who were severely injured on Saturday by this lamentable accident are Mr. Winsland, the builder, of Duke-street, Bloomsbury, whose exten sive premises, it will be recollected, were recently burnt down ; and Mr. Stewart, the great land surveyor, of 94, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, who are both most severely injured in the face. A mechanic, whose name could not be learned, but who resides in Drury-lane, had his arm broken, and was otherwise severely injured in his body. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A gentleman who stated that he was solicitor to the overseers of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, appeared before Alderman Hooper, who sat during the temporary ab• sense of the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of making some observations upon a representatio n made by Mr. Smart, the vestry-clerk of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, relative to the alleged misconduct of the overseers of the former parish to the unfortunate suicide named Ab bot, as reported in the newspapers on Friday last. The ALDERMAN asked whether Mr. Smart was pre sent ? The solicitor replied in the negative. He b a a an intimation to that gentleman that it sent 7 - as his intention to appear a t t h e M ansion-hn extraordina r y naturo :se in consequence of the gentleman ~ or the representation made by that , on a subject on which the public mind .. as ext reme l y sensitive, but no notice was taken of the message. Mr. Hobler informed the Alderman that Mr. Smart had applied for an order of removal for the widow and children of the unfortunate man alluded to, from the parish of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, in which they had in which AO claim, t o t h at of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, they had a settlement, and that upon that occasion the disposition of the Overseers of the latter parish to render assistance was called in question, an imputation which it seemed was not at all relished. The Solicitor to the Overseers of St. Martin's parish said that his clients were quite astonished at seeing themselves involved in a matter with which they had no thing whatever to do. It was ascertained, also, upon inquiry, that the statements made by the Vestry Clerk of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate were quite erro neous, to describe them in the most delicate manner. The Overseers of St. Martin's had, in the first place, no business to interfere with relief to the poor. That de. partment of the parochial jurisdiction was in the hands of the Guardians, and therefore to charge the Over seers with neglect or want of feeling in this matter was wholly unjustifiable. But the Relieving Officer of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields was present to confirm, on oath, if required, the contradiction to all the leading asser tions in the statement and letter of the accuser. The family, instead of having been, as was asserted, merely helped with a few loav©s of bread, had, in fact, received oitt-of-door pecuniary relief as long as the unfortunate man required it, until he declined, with grateful thanks to the Relieving Officer, to receive any more, alleging that he was in employment, and able to support his wife and children. Mr. Hobler said it was certainly extraordinary that a man who had such assistance to resort to, should throw himself out at a window to avoid the misery of seeing his family in the workhouse. The Solicitor to the Overseers of St. Martin's-in the-Fields said, that even in the least important par ticulars, the statement was erroneous. It was not true that the man was a mechanic, and, as to the observa tion that he was a person of an unpauperised mind, the inaccuracy of that description might be presumed from the fact that he had, at several periods, received parochial relief since his marriage, thus betraying a strong propensity to the very habit which he was said to have spurned. Alderman HOOPER said that it would be better, per haps, for the Solicitor to the Overseers to meet Mr. Smart on the subject before the Lord Mayor. The Solicitor said that Mr. Smart had not paid those he accused that compliment, notwithstanding which he had been informed of the intention to deny the truth of the charge, but was not in attendance to support his allegations. Alderman HOOPER—WeII, if Mr. Smart made an ex parte statement, you are even with him, for you also have made an ex parte statement. I cannot de cide between you. Mr. Hobler informed the Alderman that, without making any allusion at all to the present case, it was the practice now for parochial authorities to treat the complaints of the starving poor with the most cruel neglect and inhumanity, end the moment any fatal co. sequences took place, to come forward with loud declarations in praise of their great compassion, and to vituperate those who dared to suppose that they were incapable of any thing that did not savour of the very milk of human kindness. The Solicitor declared that his object was to show that his clients had been erroneously charged, and to remove from them a stigma, of which they were un deserving. He thanked the Alderman for having allowed him to take the opportunity to correct the impression which had gone abroad to the prejudice of the authorities of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, who, he was ready to prove, upon the oath of the Relieving Offi cer present, were wholly blameless on the occasion. BOW-STREET. A poor working man appeared to a summons charging him with having assaulted his wife. The complainant, a stout strapping woman, stated that she had been living apart from the defendant for the last six months ; that on Friday she called upon him for the purpose of seeing her children, when he struck her with a stick, and afterwards turned her out of doors. The defendant, who had brought with him four mise rably clad young children, gave a very different version of the affair. He stated that his wife had left him with out any provocation, except that he refused to supply her with money to lay out in gin, of which she was ex tremely fond ; and that since they had been parted she had frequently visited his lodgings in his absence, and taken away different articles, his property, which she afterwards pledged to procure gin, and then sent him the duplicates. She on one occasion called while he was at his work, and completely stripped one of the children ; and having pawned the poor little creature's clothes, sent him the duplicates in a note with her compliments. (The poor fellow here exhibited about 20 duplicates, which had been sent to him by the complainant.) He said he had been unable to redeem the articles, in consequence of his having been out of work for several weeks. On the day in question the complainant called on him at his lodgings, and, throw ing him a copy of a summons from the Court of Re qvests, that had been served upon her for a debt she had recently contracted, she, in the most provoking manner, said to him, " There, my old fellow, there is another little trifle for you to settle. They talked of taking me in execution, but I told them that you had the pleasure of calling me wife, and you know, old boy, that they can't take bonnets while there's hats.— (Laughter.) Mr. TWYFORD—What did she mean by that ?—De fendant—Why, your Worship, she meant that, having a husband, she could not be taken in execution, but that I must pay her debts for her. I paid 2/. only a fortnight ago. She went away, but returned and packed up a lot of my things, and when I came home to dinner I met her on the stairs walking off with them. I told her to put them down, but she declared she would pawn them, and drink my health with the money; and I confess that this conduct on her part did so ag gravate me that I was provoked to strike her ; and I afterwards turned her out of the house, and that's what I am brought here for now. The complainant laughed while the poor fellow was telling his melancholy story, and did not attempt to deny the truth of one word of it. Mr. TWYFORD told her her conduct had been most infamous, and if her husband's story was true she de served to be severely punished ; but he would let the case stand over for the production of witnesses on both sides, and in the meantime the parish officers should be sent for, and then, perhaps, some arrangement could be made between the parties. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. C'harles Pidgeon, a young man of respectable family, was charged with embezzling money to a large amount, from Messrs. Graudin and Co., jewellers, of Frith street, Soho. Mr. Verdin, a member of the firm, stated that the prisoner had confessed to all the sums he had purloined, and as they thought the prosecution of the case might injure their business, they wished to withdraw the pro ceedings. The MAGISTRATE refused to permit this course to be adopted, and proofs were given that 141. had been received from Mr. Parker, jeweller, of Edward-street, Portman-square, and also 51. from Mr. Story, jeweller, of Regent-street, neither of which sums had been ac counted for to his employers, and both were stated to have been received and expended by him for his own use.—The prisoner was fully committed for trial. QUERN -SQUARE. Occipicnti, a shabby.genteel elderly man, who said he was an Irishman, and formerly in the artillery, was charged with breaking the windows of the Duchess of Kent's house, in Belgrave•square. A policeman of the B division, on going his rounds at ten o'clock that morning, said he saw the prisoner throw three stones through the parlour windows, and break three panes of glass. Mr. Seabroke, her Royal Highness's steward, pro duced the stones, and said the damage amounted to 11. 4s. In his defence the prisoner said he did not know the house belonged to the Duchess of Kent, but to the Duchess of Norfolk, who was always taking in peop:ie (there is no Duchess of Norfolk). The MAGISTRATE ordered the defendant to pay the amount of damage done, which he was orr. - ble to do and was sentenced to o ne mo n th' s h ar d l a b our. , HATTON-GARDEN. A fine featured young woman, named Burn, was brought up under the following romantic circumstances —A few days back the defendant was brought before Mr. Combe, by Inspector Jenkins of the E division, charged with destitution. When before the Magistrate she stated that she had left her home from a mere flight of fancy, and that she was so ashamed of her conduct that she did not like to return. The worthy Magis trate having elicited from her that her home was No. 12, North-side, Bethnal-green, dispatched a messenger with her there, and he having seen her enter thought all was right, and went about his business. This No. 12, North-side, however, turns mit to be the Guardian So. ciety's Asylum for females that have deviated from the paths of virtue, and the h onorary secretary, Thomas Natt, E sq ., of? No. 5, Gloucester-place, New road, Marylebone, this day attended with Burn to give Mr. Combe the reason why he was compelled to refuse her admission again into that Institution. He said that he believed she had been led to her present destitution through the persuasion of others, and this was his reason : —Not many weeks ago a lady moving in the first society lost from her protection an only daughter, a beautiful and accomplished girl not quite sixteen years of age, ar om a I after numerous searches she was discovered in the ing of a " gentleman" living in Fenchurch-stre jet, She was a married man an 4 the father of a large ', m a y sh e was taken fiorn him by force, every means tried l '"" l eer friends and broken-hearA e d forget her seducer and ret:.:ieve the false step. Unfortu nately, however, he mother to make her they were eventually driven to the dreadful alternative r. ear was deaf to their advice, and of confining her in the before-mentioned excellent asr- lurn, to prevent her again going astray. Directly after her admission she began to devise means to escape, but a closer nerd bein g k e pt over h er th an th e ot h er in mates', she induced the defendant, Burn, to scale the wall and fetch her a disguise, which safely reached ; she was clambering the outbuildings in it, and had wi n i g h effect e d h er escape, when an alarm was Sr;!: en and she was recaptured. Burn, it further air,,eared, was in rea- EVENING EDITION_•__ diness with a coach to convey the infatuated young crea ture to the arms of the wretch who had effected her ruin, and the design having failed, she, Burn, who had been promised by the young lady a situation under her, was compelled to wander the streets. Burn the having thus of _ misconducted herself, it was imperative by rules the Society that she should not be re-admitted. . Mr. Combe—This is altcgether a strange Affair. How do you wish me to act? Mr . Natt--To exercise your power to procure for Burn a shelter in the workhouse, for it is a pity she should be drive n into M the streets again. r. Coombe—By what interest did sbe get i n to your i n the asylum ? Mr. Natt—She was for a shor t time House of Correction, where her conduct was so e%err e plary as to attract the notice of Mr. Chesterton, tuhose, governor, and the chaplain ; and it was through t gentlemen that we had her admitted. 1, di- Mr. Combo here sent for Mr. Chesterton, w- e f rectly attended ; and spoke in the highes t terms ° Burns while she was under his care. Two days el te d r her discharge from his custody she returned to birchen ° begged of him on her knees, and in the name of God, e. t do something for her to save her returning to an be n• life ; and feeling convinced that she was sincere; he and the worthy chaplain furnished her with tho means of support until they succeeded in plac in g her' the society represented by M. N. Mr. Combo regretted that their att g ood intenti ons bad been so defeated. Mr. Natt—l still firmly be lieve that she wishes to amend her ways, and lead a 'virtu° life ; and that her feelings were worked on by the "e"' fortunate young lady to whom I have particularly ferred, I have not the slightest dubt. e- Burn said she was willing to o do anyt hi ng to be r claim M e, and once ore resd. r. d Combe obser m ved that he ecte would do what he e ° to carry out the intentions of the humane g entleill- s. who interfered on her behalf ; and he desired the m — be senger to request the attendance of Mr. Wilkes' ea relieving overseer of St. Andrew's, Holborn ; el au-"s",n' i 't# being made acquainted with the facts, instantly to ted her into that poor-house ; for which the unfortune young woman returned thanks. p as The above institution, which is but little knot"' b's established by Wilberforce, and other celebrated)Pit:9 lanthropists, thirty years ago ; and, since then, miserable creatures have been admitted within the" and reclaimed. UNION-HALL. William Blanchard, an actor at the Victoria Theatre was charged with assaulting Mr. Booth. A 00 The complainant stated that as he was w alkiag", ° f Gibson -street, on Tuesday, with a Newfoundland 11, he saw the defendant shaking it violently ; h e , h i : t c le fered to prevent this ill-usage to his dog, vibe ° '— Pendant struck him a violent blow in the eye. The defendant stated that the complainant's dog tacked his dog " Bruin," and that he se parated ,:fety and shook the dog, when Mr. Booth used a very bo, sive expression to him, and after striking .e Bruin," Vime) like his master, was a candidate for histronic be with his stick, put himself in a fighting attitude ; a t, then struck the complainant, who w as clearly the gressor. Mr. MALTBY thought Mr. Booth the aggres ser ' l l dismissed the case, giving the defendant a certificate the fact, in order to prevent further proc eedings' p ith John Maddon, and Ann, his wife, were c harge d assaulting Mr. Passey, of Newington. savr As the complainant was passing Lock's-fields be.she the male defendant kno c k the woman down, an d 5. b e e lay bleeding from the face on the ground he kicked be in the side. Disgusted at his unmanly coad e , t m ' A le seized the man and called " P o lice," when the 40 rose from the ground, and, t o hi s surprise, scratcheuvo face, and tore his cl o th es f ro m hi s back. Th e 9° d coming up, took his ferocious assailants into custel•bet The woman said that she did not Want to see poor Jack taken to the station-house. a to The MAGISTRATE fined the defendants 401. value of the clothes destroyed. THE MARKETS .M. A A. A—A IVI LA. IY 1l oil LA A. - 410.- Va EIC. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DU1j12291 , A S T --------- PO' I Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. ____......, —.--_l __ -----------• " — to S. s. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. .. to c 6 6 Carlisle - -- 41 Hexhain 5O 62 32 38 21 31 n a 33 Morpeth 4B i 0 30 32 21 .',.6 49 - ,0 3 --- 0 Penrith 59 36 -. 31 -- 46 ""' 34 Sheffield — 65 37 22 -• A 35 j Winchestt.r CO 68 32 34 26 29 42 7, 0 .4 'A 0 Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. 6 . t - 0 0 Carmarthen I/ 10 7ts 00 50 00 22 5b Z 3 • te - 0 0 Cowbridge lO 0 —0 50 56 30 40 50 A . " • i 0 Swansea I 7 6 84 b• 48 2 2 a 8 5 6 v , Per 8011. I u e 6O 11 : Barnardcastl 11 6210 8 0 93 7 4 8 6 , 11 0 3 o`l o 9 0 Durham l4 6 176 80 90 79 691001 i oi 90 A g Richmond l4 0 18 0 70 99 56 80 9 0 9 6 0 0 v Stockton l4 6176 9 0 9() 7 0 86 7 6 ~, ' WAKEFIELD CORN MARXE L ' fs 4 s . 000' Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk s. roc, to . , n , 641 .•.,, fils. ..! .AO 116 410 80 931 110 19 gi 13 i 140 180 70 9 0 14 9 0 i 0 6 9 , 14 6 17 6 9 0 90 7 6 WAKEFIELD MARga' f so. WO' 1, Norfolk and Suffhlk g.6 3e„ to ~.. fine 64 , Lin. and Cam. i 1 t Yorkshire —s. —9. t o 60eL White —s. 645. to -- finer - Foreign, tted —5 —5 to 58'' one 19'' --. White —.s. ....IP. to 61s. g o , 415. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ~ to 365. e Yr.' Lincolnshire --- Yorkshire Wold FS:: to ° ....... fine 0 . Foreign —L to 3Cs. flee ,a. Beans. New --- Old Oats, Potato —s. to 30s. fine c 9 gs. --- Poland —0 —s, to 305. O ne ' y9ls --. Vriezland and Small —s.. --s. .to _ fi n e .3 s. sto o -- lt.zaling ... ..... 12d. to ;3)4 ds Pe' 1 06 Shelling Halt Rapeseed .... l. Os 261, Os. 301. Os. pe r NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. white, Red. 0 4 II Wheat, Northumberland soi —s ....... - - s . . i . 2,. 4 Norfolk and Suffolk.. ......... 66s. 695 ....... 6 8 ' ~';,l ..--- Berwick and Scotch Ell. 65s ...... . — l . ii 7, I Foreign - (Hi. 66 5 . -... 82- " „.„..,. l Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk Foreign - . -- 4. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk —s. —5.... -4 ..... I. - Grinding and Feeding Os. 3:35. ..... -,- ' , ..... 4 . r Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk l4B 63i....... •-s• s. Beaus, Small 4os. 485....,.. - 4 . - Tick •••••,” 4 4 2 s 455.•...... .....sA_ Pease, White 445. 465. ..... •- .4 . 7 —s. --..— Gray • ... .. ...4. -- . „ .....5. Oats, Northumberland, l'otato c ..... .... 30s. rAP ....... -..... ....i. -----, Feed ...., ... -.5. -• --a.—5.,...' .. ~ ....,, 4PS. 335....... i'''., - Foreign Flour (per sack) SCOTCH AIA r AKETS. ___---<ral , Oat% Wheat. Barley. oats. ............8eanL ..... .* -.9. - 46 to 41 kbcrdeen 7O to 80 32 to 35 30 to 35 'to ~- Z i 40 ,- Berwick 36 45 18 0 4 16 26 3 . 9, :i t ) "''' r" Ooldstrearn . 46 50 24 26 17 18 -- 0 . .." ....* Cupar (Fife) 48 65 26 31 IS 22 2.2 4O .... Dunbar 4B 08 2i3 49 23 27 4O 'L . , .... .9 Elgin - Kelso ~ .... ,_ 38 30 21 0 4 PS 2 3i 4 . o* Kirkaldy - 33 4 "45 I 4 '' Perth - ' IL', The size of th e measure varies throughoutt"'" u' ' c HADDINGTON CORN MARKE:f • 13e 3 7)1 Wheat. Barley. Oats. r dag_,e• ka , 0,1 First B os Od 33 f s 0.1 28, OA I—. 4 9 ' ocl Second 63s Od 35s 6d 24s Od 1 ...-s ud .1 5* Third 36s Od 33s Od 22s Od 1 .... , i ° ` i Average 31. 6i. r.m., 6 .l2ths• n , DALKEITH CORN I , 4A•iiKET. 1 6 1 ) :0 , 1 First I s V o l:e f a u t, Barley, I 4 1 64 : iti rt , li ~,s , sec.. (his Od :i2s Od , 2. . is 4 d --, o j ''''' Third 4 , ls Od 26s 6d . I r 7, 0.1 ...... . s. o ' GLASGOW COTA s T • Wheat, yer 240th. s. d. s . if. Oats, pe riritish, old 35 oto 37 I', Iri.h .................. ••• 50 u new O4 0 92 ....... fie Canada, free ••• 0 British ........... ...,,:od., .., O. • - MI R_KET.—:l 64 t ', l l . , 4 ,' 159. d. 4 , 5: 0 Beans Pe r ''' X 2 4 0, .24., Irish Barley, par 3201 b, English ................. ‘ , B ' . _ 8 . 3 3 2 0 0 0 E re n a g s l e is , Scottish ........... ~. • >' ' ....... ".' .1 0 27 6 Oatmeal, per 1401...: 4 0 o Ir:sh . ...... chum o hp OW, ht SACRILF.nr . r‘ _ .., " 1 r--. " * • ............... ' 3 0 26 0 Flour. Scotti l l e . r . ................. ,f.. '24 El 9:1. ; English ........................... 7-7: ~.a.'4: St. Luke's, C'ac e th am uili, hurt —ACRT -LEGY -:.-011 Tuesday night the c d lif thieves, who, 'took the lead from one of the windo w ( the thus made a, passage for themselves into the budY eo ° o so** church. 11 zeir object evidently was to steal th e 0 o ral Ilion platr.,,. as they attempted to force open 8 11ir° 0 0:0" which 0-my •iupposed it was kept, but this safe tva 9 , l l oeir was forcibly eut er _ e s od by one of Chubb's patent locks, which resisted * do or effort,.,, some the only booty they obtained was a screol and some small keys. —lllanchester Chronicle. o rd Of At the last Meeting of the Nottingham "li r e th. r ivardians, it was declare almost impossible t o n . it u IP poor -rates ; ou t o f t h e l ast'rate of 12,G00L, li3O°° colLeted. —Nottingham Journal. islool 1 1 GOLD WATCHES, .£B. Bs. each. 1 , Wit:: finished H or i zonta l G old Watche . , jewelled in four ha l es , _t.its',. enamel dial, hand to mark the seconds, &c. E i g ht pse l4° ' - s . each. Th ese e l egant little IVatches will be fo un d tor* time-keepe rs , an d a printed wa rran ty is given with fuel -ea, an whi c h th ey will always r.-eei ve c...-ty attent i on regtor ot T. CCX SAVORY, ~.c iS oc° Watchmaker, Jeweller, and Silversmith, 47, Corm.• ` Doors from Gracecburch-street), Lonil'an, re. ...• N. B,_ Watchcs purchased ir . , ei'll' lll. 4 * t Sl Aco U _____ PAPIER MACHE TEA TRAYS 60 5 - -be cin .. . o of FULL SIZED GOTHIC SHAPE. guperior : I'l.-- t Table Knives, with ivory handles, 141' . n "doze rl io • r fou - ; Poles for Window Curtains, li inch dia-4,:' `.l inches, Is. Bd. per foot ; bronzed fez,/ " Catalogue s gratis, containing the pri., ''' .s ' et , fende tr r it"'r 0 o f stOV _ is hio, irons, kitchen utensils, and every • P eticle in fur" mongery.A 'Wit' ItIPPON and BURTOZA, 7 Cdor"- 4 010 ,ells- street, Establii. osserrefyssoorszefsm ze ossmop. m , hed 1820. f is (11 ° Ji be -On the 17th inst., in H IRTIL fair,t D. ;graham Johir.ton Ei f d street, ItfaY" _...........---" , ert or • ter' , e 4 l fge..5tt0,g,:54.r-; 4., of a daughter. more, Isabe l ,ta ?" ...ent, to /A me n, a, 13 416‘ On the 9th of ' . MARRIED. ,i a ce, vor to J. S. V;, - , - ; • -.1-- my daughter of G. S. u 1" ..., •.I--., o vof On 4 : fle -Mt, nse r , o f Rio de Janeiro. 94' WOO+ late CAP S el ll .et nber at Mount Vernotizifiehi, ~., Hytr, e, t• 15 th in st, at Reigate, Edward , the tai „ I p .enjamin Bp n , H. C S Captain ( - 1 to J. on the ltith i' r " - ' *Church, - n i e ce .Wof a° t. at St. James's arren, her r ' • .., __,, H. Albou ' r ./ajesty's service, to Maria AlDouY of youngest daughter 01 _ tore On the 17V ins " hert E “sr, I lac A.- e- ' 0 1 Lon -a g ere, I, , Ins t., at St. Pancras, s , , o f join Y ' (''' British er grave Matr /.." -----"*- --------- 4' Esq., a Kentish-town. rah ' Elizabeth, eldest daugnt daughte r the -----------7-: On th e D 1 RD. Alr C fi 12 t h inst . Indon, aged 57. ehelseSt Georg e w ~ at Regent-terrace, King's-road. ‘./.• 12th lAOO, g..te r of ' wt., at Sand g ate, Kent, Marr,aret 0 0 : th e the 15thil l : to Mr. Macdonald, barrack -mast, :r. the 16th : it., at Inveresk, Mr. David Chri‘tie. of Bre i cKnock On x-crer ,11,t., Sarah, the wife of John Bay, 941. ' i , „, e 4 the i the 160 ,cei;t, New Camden -town. i I e j a r h i e e r t , 4 te:l l lr. i inst. Hannah Thomas Ann lierbert, 160' ter,tin the 1 E, lth j iL s t '1...? of Doughty-street. 16 0 911 0 9 t h o o f W infant aP in ga ' na-ghetder74of IVI. g 101511.. 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