The Sun. — London, England, 1840-05-25 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. LONDON LIBRARY. We are happy to assist in making known an ex cellent proposal for the establishment of a large ...General Public Library, from which books may be taken out to be read at home. It is needless to tell (what every one knows) how much the usefulness of the Library of the British Museum is circum e-eribed. by the absence of the privilege of taking mit books. The only library with which we are acq uainted, where this privilege exists, is that of the Russell Institution ; but this library is exceed. ingly scanty and ill-chosen, and inferior to many circulating libraries. Circulating libraries are at present the chief resource of all who are unable to go to the British INluseum, or some similar li brar) (as that of Sion College) during the day, and who at the same time need the assistance of more books than they can afford to buy. Now, .admitting that many of these circulating libra ries contain valuable books, and reflect much 4redit on the sense and spirit of their proprietors, we must yet observe, that the list of them will necessarily be inferior to what a public library in London should be, and easily may be. Designed, even under the artist favourable circumstances, for limited circle of readers, the circulating library must always hare a partial character. And it is not likely that a private speculator can offer such great advantages at so reasonable a rate of subscrip tion, as a body of gentlemen having only a public object in view, and addressing themselves to the whole metropolis. The terms of subscription proposed for the Library of which we now speak are thus mode rate :—Five Pounds by way of entrance, and two Pounds annually. The annual subscription may •at any time be commuted by a payment of twenty pounds. Thus moderate in their demands, the Committee ought to meet with most extensive sup port; and it should be borne in mind by all whom this scheme concerns, and for whose convenience it has been proposed, that the more extensive the support, the greater will be the usefulness of the Library. We observe, that the Committee require a thou sand names before they begin!to !educe the scheme to practice. This number of names should be easily obtained. _ _ _ Persons wishing to subscribe may write down their names and addresses, at the houses of the fol lowing booksellers :—Messrs. Longman and Co., Paternoster-row ; Mr. Moxon, Dover-street ; Mr. Ridgway, Piccadilly ; Mr. Fraser, Regent-street ; Messrs. Rivington and Co., St. Paul's Church yard ; Mr. Hatchard, Piccadilly ; Messrs. Taylor and Walton, Gower-street ; Mr. Hooper, Pail Malt East ; Mr. Rodwell, Bond-street ; and Messrs. Black and Armstrong, Wellington-street. The following is the list of the Committee from which the proposal emanates :—Sir E. L. Bul wer, Bart., M. P. ; H. D. Christie, Esq. ; the Earl of Clarendon ; G. L. Craik, Esq. ; Charles Dickens, Esq: ; William Empson, Esq. , John Forster, Esq. ; Arthur Helps, Esq. ; Sir Walter James, Bart., M. P.; Professor Key ; G. Come wall Lewis, Esq. ; the Lord Lytaeton ; Professor Malden; I. S. Mansfield, Esq. ; Rev. H. H. Mil man ; R. M. Milnes, Esq., M. P.; the Viscount Morpeth, M. P. ; P. Pusey, Esq., M. P.; James Spedding, Esq.; G. S. Venables, Esq.; K. Ma caulay, Esq. In the list of subscribers we find the following names Austin ; Mr. C. Buller, M. P. ; Sir Augustus Clifford; Lord De Lisle ; Mr. Fcotor, M. P.; Mr. Goldsmid ; Mr. Knight (the publisher) ; Mr. Shaw Lefevre ; Mr. Macready ; Mr. Maclise ; Miss Martineau ; Lord Monteagle ; Lord Northampton ; the Bishop of Salisbury ; Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, M. P. ; Mr. Emerson Tennent, M. P.; M. Van de Weyer, (the Belgian Minister) ; and Mr. Justice 'Williams. We heartily wish success to the scheme, and shall watch anxiously its future progress. GENERAL REPRIEVE FOR CA SEY AND HARTNETT, CONVICTED OF THE MUI.DER, OF POLICE SERGEANT LAWLOR. (FROM OUB COBRESPONDENT.) CORK, MAY 20, 1840. The case of the unfortunate men, Casey and Hart nett, for the murder of police-sergeant Lawlor, has not ass yet been decided upon by the Government. Subse quent to my last communication relative to the attempt to escape from prison by Casey, a respite was received, with an order that the execution should be stayed until this day ; and on yesterday evening a general reprieve arrived, directing it to be delayed for further orelers. This delay has been the result of an investigation by the Judges on some points reserved by the prisoners' professional agent, Mr. Philip O'Connell, who, it is stated, was furnished with them by a gentleman named Martin. One of them was the mistake, by the Judge who sentenced the convicted parties, of the name of the dry on which the date of the month fell ; and the other, that it was not stated their bodies should be buried " within the precincts of the gaol," which words, it appears, were necessary to the legal completion of the sentence. Upon these points their Lordships, after two days' deliberation, decided, by a majority of six to four, that the points reserved were in favour of the con vies. The Pilot, which conveyed this intelligence, concluded the paragraph by stating—" Thus these wretched men (whose death was otherwise certain) are saved from death." The Paper which declares the feeling :of the people here, the Cork Southern Re porter, has espoused the cause of mercy, and draws a line of distinction between the animus, or in centive, which induced the murder of Lord William Russell, and the homicide committed by these convicts, in fact, in their own defence. That Journal does not at all mean to qualify or palliate the enormity of their offence, aggravated by their previous lawless mode of life ; but taking into consideration all Ate circumstances of the act, estimating the general feeling as leaning to the side of mercy, and being made acquainted by experience with the ineffectual results, in the repression of crime, of the corrective of capital punishment, trusts that the Government will mitigate the penalty to perpetual banishment. In the course of my inquiries, I heard what perhaps may be conceived strong evidence for those opposed to the shedding of blood as a retribution. The sister of the deceased, a few days past, whilst conversing with some of her asso ciates, ono of whom was my informant, said, after be wailing his untimely fate, which present circumstances bad brought more forcibly to her mind," If he lived, I'd be better off ; but now that it comes to it, I don't wish them to be hanged ; for sure, it would not bring him Eck again to me." The police, who, in this country, partake too much of a military character, have been gene rally heard to express themselves opposed to any commu tation of the awful sentence ot the law. It is natural, from their association with the deceased, and the fact of his being a member of their corps, to view the transaction in a bad light ; and I am convinced, that had the cir cumstance occurred some years ago, when this force were of so amenable to public opinion, or civil restraint, as diey happily are now under a good Government, discon tent would have been more loud at the course pursued by the Executive. The local community arc favourable to a coMmotation, and it is to be hoped, that the decision as Yo the fate of these wretched and degraded men will be with the majority. The distribution of the reward offered by Government for their prosecution was made in the following manner :—Roche, the npprover, 100/. ; Mantcy, in whose house Casey took shelter, 501. ; Corkery, watchman, 50/. ; Mary Thempson 501. • Constabul ar y F un d, 8 0/. ; Haves M`Carthy, ' and te ..two Longs, (51. each) 201. It is now confidently expected, that the convicts will be transported for life. THE HALIFAX RENEGADE. TO TAE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Si ti,--Your leading article in last eveni ng ' s Sun has very much pleased a large majority of the electors of the borough of Halifax, a n d you may (if you think proper) inform Mr. Charles Wood, that the sooner he looks out for a Tory consti tuency the better, as I am very certain that the electors of Halifax would sooner support an out and-out Tcry than vote for Mr. Wood, after the aid he has afforded to Lord Stanley, whose Bill, shoftld it pass into a law, will disfranchise one-half of the Irish constituency ; and how Mr. Vv ood can reconcile the v o t e h e h as g i ven u p on L o rd Stanley' s Bill, with his often-repeated profession of carrying out the Reform Bill, is for him to explain. At all agents he has done with Halifax, at the end of the present Parliament ; indeed it is currently reported that a very large body of the electors are desirous that a requi s i t i on s h ould be presented to Mr. Wood, cslling upon him to resign his seat, I hope a good Reformer will be found to represent our borough in due time. I am, & c ., AN ELECTOR OF THE BOROUGH OF HALIFAX. fialifax, May 22. - - A most daring robbery was committed on Mon day eveq,ing last, or early , on Tuesday morning, of nearly 300/. worth drapery goods from the show room of Mr. William Wooley, of North CoHingham. The property was carried away, it is supposed, in a light cart, in the direction of Sheffield, as traces of a gig or light cart were perceptible, 4 reward o f orty pounds is offered.—Doncaster Gazette. THE JEWS AT DAMASCUS. Messrs. Solomons and Simpson, Elders of the Con gregation of Jews resident in Portsea, on the 4th inst., applied to Lord Palmerston for information relative to the treatment of their brethren at Damascus ; and his Lordship with the utmost promptitude transmitted the following reply : Foreign Office, May 6th, 1840. Gentlemen—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to acquaint you, in reply to your letter of the 4th instant, that his Lordship has already instructed her Majesty's Ambas sador at Constantinople, and her Majesty's Agent and Con sul-General in Egypt severally to make representations to the Porte and Mehemet Ali, respecting the persecutions which the Jews of Rhodes and of Damascus arc stated recently to hare been subjected to. I am, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant, LEVISON. Messrs. Solomon and Simpson, Portsea. CORN.LAWS. MR. ACLAND'S SECOND VISIT TO SAXNILIND. HAM. Undaunted by the brutal conduct of certain Tory farmers, Mr. Acland, the Anti-Corn-law Lecturer, paid a second visit to Saxmundham, on Thursday last, and, notwithstanding the frequent showers, numbers of agricultural labourers were seen entering the town from all quarters, and repairing to the tnarket-place, wher e , however, the space occupied a fortnight previously by Mr. Acland, was covered by sheep-folds and their fleecy tenants. This being the first time the ground had been so used, the conclusion that the sheep were brought there in prevention of the lecture, or as an annoyance to the lecturer, was a very natural one. The market continuing until about half-past seven, that hour had been fixed upon for the commencement of the proceed . nags ; and when temporary hustings were erected on a new site in the marketplace, the assembled hundreds collected around it—very many of them being provided with good sticks, and not a few declaring that on this occasion foul play should not be tolerated. As soon as the Lecturer's locality became known, half-a-dozen po licemen took their places in front of the hustings for the purpose of keeping an open space, and about fifty others of the force were shortly afterwards marched into the neighbourhood, and were formed in military style, until, precisely at half-past seven, Mr. Acland took his elevated standing in the centre of enthusiastic and de termined friends, when the main body of police, under the command of an Inspector and Superintendent, en tered the crowd, and formed two deep within the circle around the hustings. Mr. ACKLAND, without in any way adverting to the disgraceful affair of the 7th instant, began by informing the assembled multitude that he appeared before them to invite their peaceful, yet earnest consideration of the great question of Corn-law repeal ; to give them such information on the subject as might the better enable them to form correct conclusions, and aid in the effort now making throughout the country to obtain justice. He then entered on the question whether it was right that a Christian people, in a Christian country, and under a Christian Government, should be restricted to a short supply of food. There were more people in the country than the agriculturists could provide food for, from the soil under cultivation : there were but two loaves among three persons, and the landowners being the law-makers, they enacted a Corn-law to prevent the third loaf being brought i❑to the country, and which law operated as a Bread Tax upon every consumer of that chief necessary of life. The Christian was taught to pray to God that all men might receive their needful daily supply of food, end our Christian Legislature, after so praying, shut their prayer-book and opened the statute-book, whereon they inscribed a law precluding the possibility of the poor man getting by his honest labour the sustenance essentially necessary to his strengtbful and healthful existence. Here a respectable farmer (Mr. John Rouse Cooper of Westleton,) who had entered the circle, observed that such was not the case with their labourers, who were well paid and well fed. Mr. ACLAND denied that it was so. He would not enter on the question of v% hat wages they received, for there might be a difference of opinion as to the average but he would ask the gentleman how much beef and mutton the farming labourers got with their bread ? Mr. COOPER admitted that they got ❑one ; but it was said that pork was cheap enough. Mr. ACLAND replied he knew that fact, and could account for it. The poor peasants unable to keep their pigs for their own support, and being under the necessity of selling them, pork was cheap ; the condition of the agricultural labourers would always be ascer tained by the price of pork in the market. It was matter of notoriety to those who heard him that the people were at this moment in a miserable condition ; what was its cause ? There were more men than the farmers could profitably employ. This was proved by the insufficiency of their wages ; and how could their condition be improved, save, by an in creased demand for their industry ? Such demand could not be expected from the agricultural employer, who was restricted by the limited extent of the soil, and who was therefore unable to help those who were nevertheless taught to rely wholly upon the broken reed of agricultural employment. Happily the commercial enterprise of this commercial country, although crippled by landowners' laws, was elastic— and the means of providing employment for the in dustrious labourer equally so. The produce of this country, was at a discount everywhere else ; that of manufacturing industry at a premium, the wide world over. It was thus manifest that there was no help for the farm labourer, but from such an increasing demand for our manufactures as should absorb the surplus labour of agricultural districts ; yet the Corn-law said in effect to our industrious operatives, " you shall not sell your labour to any but Englishmen—though the foreigners should bid a price for it above that which you can otherwise obtain ;" and it further said, "you shall not buy your food of any but Englishmen— though foreigners should offer it at a price below that which you must otherwise give for it." Hero Mr. Cooper asked several questions in suc cession, which Mr. Acland answered in their order—a course which, most desirable as it was, gave the re mainder of the proceedings more the appearance of a discussion than a lecture. We can only shortly advert to one or two points. Mr. COOPR supposed that manufacturers only wanted the farm-labourers when it suited their conve nience ; to return them to their parishes when they had no further use for them. Mr: ACLAND observed, that of the many thousands of farm labourers removed under the Poor-law Amend ment Act, to the manufacturing districts, every one of them had first been pauperised by their agricultural friends, now so extremely anxious for their welfare. When trade was destroyed by the Corn-law, (as now,) what right had the parishes to grumble if those they sent away as paupers came back to them as paupers ? But the fact was that even now, in all their distress, those poor fellows preferred to remain in our towns without employ—almost wi:hout food—and in the hope of better times, rather than return to their parishes ; and, as they expressed it, to certain and perpetual pauperism. He stated this fact on his personal knowledge ; and he could add, that these poor fellows found their earnings in the manufacturing districts double and treble the amount of their previous receipts. Mr. COOPER objected that much land would go out of grain cultivation if the Corn-law were repealed. Mr. ACLAND replied that land brought into cultiva tion, and kept in cultivation for the benefit of the land owner, at the expense of the bread-eater, could not too soon go out of cultivation. It was from the tax on the poor man's loaf that the costly manures thrown upon our poor soils, to fit them for grai❑ cultivation, were pur chased. Just as it became dusk, a stone was thrown from the outside of the crowd at the Lecturer, and struck his hat. There being some consternation, Mr. Acland observed— " I don't mind such trifles as that,"and resumed his argu ments, which we regret we cannot give at greater length. We can only add, that at the conclusion, Mr. Acland announced a second lecture for last evening, in the same place, commencing at seven o'clock. With the solitary exception stated, the most admi rable order was maintained throughout, the multitude were delighted, and the rationalism of mind was made gloriously triumphant over the irrationalism of brute for ce.—Stifolk Chronicle. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) BRISTOL, MAY 22.—Arrivcd the John Brown, Agliss, from Odessa. Sai!ed the Mary White, Lorrimer, for Quebec; Lotus, —, for ditto ; George Ramsay, Wor dal, Miramichi. TORBAY, NIAY 21.—Off port, tho Quiver, Pundt, from Madeira, sailed 12th inst. TUSKAk.—Off port, the Horatio, —, from Barbadoes. CORK, MAY 20.—Off port, the Nerva, M'Kellar, from Trinidad. LRkwicK, MAY 18.—Sailed the Corinthian, Davidson, for Quebec. BRIDLINGTON, MAY 2l.—h has blown a gale from the North-Eastwa r d all yesterday and to-day.—The Astrma, Richardson, from Newcastle to London, came into the Bay this morning, with loss of topmasts. SHIELDS, MAY 20.—The Daridow, Patterson, from Sunderland to the Baltic, put in here yesterday with loss of topmasts. VESSELS SPOKEN wrrn.--Earl Durham, Liverpool to Halifax, N. S., sth ult., let. 44, ion, 39, with loss of top masts and head of mainmast ; Columbus, Soderburgh, Cctte to Rio Janeiro, loth ult.,lat. 4 N.,10n. 21; Ythan, of Newcastle,for Pictou, 17th inst., l at . 49, l on. 10, by the Princess Victoriai, arrived in the Downs. St. Vincent, Dawson, London to Sydney, N.S.W., 6th ult., lat. 0, io W. and had been dodged for two days by a sus _ pieni 23, slooking hermaphrodite schooner, in lat. 4, lon. 22. From a return just presented to Parliament, it appears that the expense of the trial, for forgery, o f th e person claiming the title of the Earl of Stirling, amounts to 2,56,v, The thermometer in this town, on Wednesday night last, stcod within two degree s of the fre e zin g p oint—. viz, 34 degrees. The latter end of last month it stood at 74 de g rees ; making a difference i 0 degrees.—Manchester Guardian. THE IMPROVEMENTS AT BLACK FRIARS BRIDGE. At the Court of Common Council, held on Thurs day, a report was brought up, from which we extract the following paragraphs with regard to the improve ments at Blackfriars-bridge, which is about to be closed for a time, in order to be completed. " Your Committee continue to lament the unsuc cessful result of tho proposed measure for widening the bridge, agreeably to the design of which a model is deposited in the Guildhall Library, and by which, for the sum of thirty-two thousand pounds, and with out extending the foundation, the piers would have been rendered as wide and commodious as the New London-bridge. " That with respect to the lowering of the foot and carriage way of the bridge, and the lessening of the acclivities thereof, mentioned in our report presented as far back as the 7th day of August, 1835, and agreed to and sanctioned by the Court on the 24th day of Sep tember, 1835, and subsequently on the 27th day of July, 18:37, upon a further report being presented by us, and the contract for the performance which, with other work, having been sealed with the City seal on the 20th day of January, 1836, the same has been proceeded in ; and the trustees of the Surrey-road having readily assented to co-operate with us so far as the same may be within their limits, we have great satisfaction in being enabled to state that notwithstanding the difficulties and obstructions which we, your Committee, as well as the engineer and con tractor, have had to encounter in the progress of such a work, the whole will be completed, with the repaving of the carriage way of the bridge, for which a contract has been entered into, and the bridge entirely thrown open and appropriated to the public use before the ex piration of the present summer. " We beg leave farther to certify that although an ad ditional coffer-dam was constructed and a new close pa rapet, in lieu of the repair of the open balustrade, at a cost of 15,0001., the whole of the works comprehended in the contract will be executed under the original esti mate of Messrs. Walker and Burges, who were employed for that purpose, and that the same with the alterations in the approaches, the improvement at the mouth of the River Fleet, and the raising of the landing-place, a plat form on the East side of the bridge, as also the repairing of the carriage-way over the bridge, will he completed at an expense considerably below the sum authorised by the Act of Parliament to be raised for the substantial repair of Blackfriars Bridge." The Committee individually and collectively deny in the strongest terms that there has been the slightest ground for the rumours of delay or negligence towards the public accommodation. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1849. WOOLWICH PETTY SESSIONS. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BURGLARY.—Oa Satur day Thomas Harding, a private in the Royal Horse Artillery, was brought up in custody on a charge of burglary, under the following extraordinary circum stances :—From the evidence brought forward it ap speared that between the hours of three and four o'clock on Friday morning, the family of Mr. Lacy, wine and spirit merchant, Red Lion Tavern, Woolwich, were aroused from their slumbers by a loud groaning, proceeding apparently from some person in extremity. Mrs. Lacy, who first heard the sounds, awoke her hus band, and they got up. Apparently the cries were those of a dying person on the top of the house ; the servants were rung up, and they proceeded to examine the house. At first it was supposed that the place w as on fire, for the interior was filled with smoke. On going to the bar, Mr. Lacy perceived the fire-grate therein filled with burning soot, and at the same time heard a voice from the chimney—" Oh God ! help me out ! oh, help me out !" The alarm was raised, and shortly assistance arrived, when. after great difficulty, the prisoner was dragged forth from the flue in a most deplorable plight, and apparently dead. He was laid in the air and medical assistance was sent for, but it was some time before he recovered, when, on being asked how he came in the chi mne y, h e d ec l are d that it was his intention to have robbed the house. It further appeared that, on the top of the house, a crow bar was found, and also other housebreaking imple ments, and that the prisoner ascen d e d t h e roo f b y scaling the adjoining house, and then got down the chimney. The prisoner, who appeared in Court in the same state as when drawn from the chimney, in defence said that the statement about his intention to rob the prosecutor's house was false. He had been in the constant habit of ascending to the roof of the pro secutor's house, and enjoying his pipe of tobacco at night time upon the chimney-pot. On the present occasion he had gone up as usual, and was looking at the lights across the river, when he suddenly slipped down the chimney ; and the more he tried to get up the further he went down.—(Roars of laughter.) Mr. Lacy said that the prisoner was nearly dead when drawn out. He was tightly wedged in the chim ney, and it was impossible for him to extricate himself. The Magistrates, unwilling to credit the prisoner's statement, committed him to Newgate for trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court, on the capital charge. The case created considerable interest, and the Court was densely crowded. The prisoner is a married man, and has been sixteen years in the Royal Artillery. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday a gentleman came to the Justice-room to inform the Lord Mayor that he had received a letter from a friend in Devonshire, in which the following ac count of an impostor in London was given : " Some time since, I saw, both in a Cornish news paper and in the Devonport Conservative, an advertise ment of three illustrated maps of England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, each map to be thirty-eight inches by twenty-six, full-coloured, on a French polished ma hogany roller, to be published on the 15th of April, for two guineas the sot, but to those who should become subscribers before the 6th of April, and forward the amount of their subscriptions, they were warranted to be sent to their destination carriage -free, on the day of publication, for thirty shillings. As they are maps which I really want, I did not hesitate, as the sum was not a very large one, to give my name as a subscriber (though I confess I did not altogether admire the prin ciple of being required to pay the money beforehand), and accordingly sent a Post-office order to the party, namely, Christopher Webster, 17, Angel-street, St. Martin's-le-Grand, at the end of March. As the maps were not forthcominr , at the time appointed,land there had been no acknowledgment of the money, I wrote, a fortnight since, to Mr. Webster, to say that if the pub lication of the maps was postponed, I considered the subscribers ought to he apprised of it, or that at least the receipt of the money ought to have been acknowledged, and which I requested, there fore, might be done immediately, but have hi therto received no account of either. As I have, therefore, just reason to suspect that all is not quite right, and it may possibly be a swindling affair, I think it well to write to ask if you will have the good ness at your leisure to make inquiry on the subject. I would add that, as an additional inducement to sub scribers a beautiful print of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert was to accompany the maps gratis, or to those who might besubscribers, to single maps at ten shil lings each, a similar one of the Duke of Wellington." The communicant stated, that in compliance with the request of the writer of the above letter, he applied at No. 17, Angel-street, where he learned that Mr. Chris topher \Vebster took lodgings at seven shillings a-week, which he left three or four weeks since without paying any rent, and subsequently, he wrote a letter in the name of Gould, stating that he had broke his leg in going to Chester, and begged that his letters might be forwarded to Manchester, and his lodgings let. A let ter was addressed to him at Manchester, which had a few mornings ago been returned by the Post-office, the party not being known there. - The LORD SIAYOR said, he did not know of any pro ceeding so likely to put an end to the prosperous career of fellows like him whom the letter described, as expo sure in those papers to which the public were upon all occasions se much indebted for protection. HATT ON- GARDEN. Martha Elizabeth Menzies, a fine woman, about 45 years of age, was charged %iith forging and uttering a number of bills of exchange, and having obtained goods to a great amount under false and fraudulent pretences. Mr. Edwin Ives, an upholsterer, residing at 124, High Holborn, said, that on the 28th of April last the prisoner called on him, and after examining somo fur niture, inquired if he gave credit. He told her that he did not, unless he had security, or the recommendation of one of his regular customers. The accused then stated that her husband was a professional man, and was employed by Mr. Clennell, Mare-street, 'Hackney, from whom he was in the habit of receiving bills of ex change for the amount due to him from time to time, and she requested witness to call on Mr. Smith, grocer, of Sidmouth-street, Gray's Inn-road, who would satisfy him as to her respectability, he having been in the ha bit of receiving from her quarterly accounts. In con sequence of this representation he visited Mr. Smith, whose report of the prisoner being favourable, he called on her at her residence, No. 45, Regent-square, and informed her that she might have goods from him to any amount, and she at once ordered a set of mahogany chairs, two feather beds, and several other articles, to the amount of 211. A few days after this she called on witness again, and gave a bill of ex change for 221. 7s. 9d., at three months, purport ing to have been drawn by J. Menzies upon, and accepted by, J. Clennell, of Mare-street, Hackney ; and at the same time she selected other goods, amount ing to 251. On the day following the latter transaction, witness's suspicions as to the genuiness of the bill were excited, and on the same day they were confirmed by Mr. Goode, upholsterer, of King-street, Bloomsbury, who asked him if he had had any dealings with a per son named Menzies ; and learning that he had, he made known to witness that she had been putting off divers forged bills. This intelligence induced witness to go to the prisoner, and on telling her what he had heard, she dropped on her knees, and implored him, for God's sake to forgive her. Having given her to understand that ha should make further inquiries, and would see her again, he left her begging and praying him not to take any notice of the matter. In the investigation which then followed, witness ascertained that the pri soner was deeply involved in fraudulent transactions, and upon deliberation, deeming it prudent to see her again before he took any further steps, he did so, and she again on her knees urged him to pardon her. He, however, held her out no hopes of mercy, but ordered her to say what had become of his p ro p er ty. Sh e sa id it was in a room up stairs, but the door was locked and she could not find the key. On telling her that a smith would readily open it, she said her servant. was out, but she would fetch a man to pick the lock as soon as she came in. After waiting some time witness called in a locksmith, on seeing whom the pri soner invited witness into a back parlour, where a third time she dropped on her knees, praying his forgiveness, and calling her husband, who was in the house. Mr. Menzies soon entered the apartment, and observing his wife in that posture, he asked her what was the matter. On being told, he said that he was aware his wife had been forging Mr. Clennell's signa ture, hut he knew nothing of the circumstances. After frequently desiring to be informed how his goods had been disposed of; the prisoner produced and gave to him pawnbrokers' duplicates of the whole of them, with the exception of some stair-carpeting and brass rods, which the accused, as well as her husband, promised should be restored to him the next day, which they attended to. Subsequently witness consulted with a Magistrate, who advised the apprehension of the pri soner. Mr. Goode gave evidence of having been swindled of nearly 50/. worth of property. He produced a 281. 17s. forged bill, which he had taken of her. Mr. Smith, the grocer, exhibited a 201. bill, which was proved to be a forgery. The husband of the prisoner, who cried very much, and was exceedingly agitated . admitted th a t th e bill s were in the handwriting of his wife. Sergeant Thornton, of the E division, said he found in the prisoner's house a number of bills of exchange and other documents, and also 230 pawnsrokers' dupli cates, referring to pianos, guitars, furniture of all sorts, &c., pledged to the extent of 5061., the whole of which was the produce of the swindling. Some of the bills were forgeries on Mr. A. Cowie, of Box Villa, St. John's Wood. The prisoner was remanded. More than 100 charges, it is expected, will be brought against her at the next hearing, and several others will be implicated. WORSHIP-STREET. ROBBERY OF A RETURNED TIL Ann Frost, was placed at the bar upon a charge of rob bing John Rowe, of 12 sovereigns. The complainant, it appeared, now 27 years of age, was, in 1831, convicted capitally, but transported for life, and sent to Bermuda, where he was employed upon ' the Government works for several years, during which time his conduct was so exemplary that he was at length pardoned, and sent back to England. At Portsmouth, he received 19/. as "reserve money," which he had ac cumulated out of the trifling allowance made for him while at work as a convict, and he lately came to Lon don and procured employment at his trade as a brick layer. On Friday night, however, he had been in company and got rather intoxicated, and being too late for the house where he lived, he foolishly went home with the prisoner, and another female who laid hold of him in the street. On retiring to bed he put his purse of money under his head to preserve it, and the prisoner then said she would have some of it, but he thought she was only joking. In the morning, however, the prisoner and his money were gone, and a policeman afterwards picked up the prisoner lying drunk in the street, but without the gold. A document in proof of the com plainant's emancipation, was produced, and also a letter from Mr. Smith, chief engineer at Bermuda, recom mending him in very strong terms as an exceeding clever and ingenious workman, and a man of good character.— Mr. Broughton regretted that he should have conducted himself so foolishly in the present instance, and entreated him to keep steady and sober, for the future.—The prisoner was remanded. UNION-HALL. John Bond Ratelo.;, , , the lessee of the Victoria Theatre, was charged with abusing and threatening to assault J. W. Monnery, a hosier in Blackman -street, Southwark. The complainant stated that between two and three o'clock that morning, as he was returning home from Westminster, in passing along William-street in the Wa terloo-road, he was attracted :to a part of the street where the defendant and two other persons were lark ing with each other. When he went up they com menced " chaffing" him, and when he retorted upon them, the defendant approached Itim, and in a menacing manner, threatened to punch his head ; being fearful that he would carry his %threats into effect, the com plainant called police, and even then was not desirous of making any charge, but the defendant continuing to abuse him, calling him sundry disagreeable names, he gave him into custody, and even at the station-house he again repeated the threat to punch his b—y head. Pepper, the policeman, said that when he went up, on hearing a wrangle between the parties, he endea voured to make peace between them, but they would not listen to reason. In the course of the dispute they taunted each other with " not being gentlemen ;" and no sooner had this phrase been applied, than they both pulled out their card-cases, and each thrust a card of address into the witness's hand, in order to prove whether or not they were justified in using such lan guage towards each other. The parties, however, stil persisting in quarrelling, and fearful that it might end in a meeting at Chalk Farm or the Red House, he (the police man) recommended a visit to the station-house, where all might be amicably settled, and thither they all pro ceeded. At the station-house the complainant evinced every disposition to let the affair drop ; but not so the lessee, who frequently applied the epithets "fo o l" an d " monkey" to his opponent, besides threatening to punch his head again in the hearing of the inspector on duty. The policeman added that both the parties were under the influence of liquor, and as the complainant said that he apprehended he went in personal danger owing, to the threats held out by the defendant, the latter was de tained until he procured bail. Mr. Ratcliffe declared that he was not the aggressor on the occasion, and that it all arose in consequence of the interference of the complainant with him and his friends when they were proceeding home. He added, that although he admitted being a little " by the head,' yet that his antagonist, the hosier, was much more so,' for that person was really what might be termed glori ously drunk. Mr. Monnery, on the contrary, urged that he was sober, and that his threatened assailant was as drunk as a lord. The Magistrate decided the case by adjudginz the defendant to enter into his own recognizance in '2Ol. to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for the next three months. THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND THE LABOURER.—In a report of the proceedings of the Aylesbury Petty Session on Saturday last, it is stated that the Governor of Aylesbury Union Poor-house observed, in reply to an ob servation of some of the magistrates that Bs. a week was a shameful rate of wages, that " a young man came into the workhouse on the previous day, who had been hoeing beans for the Duke of Buckingham, and who earned but 4s. a week; who had been living on bread and lard, with only half a pound of meat a week; and who was so reduced that he had the ap pearance of an old man, although he was not more than nine teen years of age ! !" At this statement, says our reporter, the Magistrates appeared thnnderstruck—and well they might.— Aycsbury News. THE LADIES.—At a festival given by the kremen of Detroit city, an engineer, Pierce Yeblet, gave the e following toast :—" The ladies, the onl incend iaries who In a letter to fiind T le H fl E am i e t s E w v. h l ie v h A tc r ate A r T wil K l not iL s e y xt T in H gutsh. the Rev. Dr. Willis, the Moderator of the Glasgow Presbytery, the Rev. Mr. Burns, of Kilsyth, thus describes the result of the late attempt to effect a revival of religion in the parish:— " I have not the slightest hesitation in saying that the remark able outpouring of the Divine Spirit, with which we werelately so graciously favoured, has for some time back appeared to have entirely ceased. The general interest in the public mind on divine things has now in great measure disappeared, Multi tudes, once impressed with concern about their souls, but never having reached the point of decided conversion, having relapsed into their former indifference ; several of whom good hopes were once entertained, have returned more or less decidedly to their former ways ; prayer-mectings have in many instances fallen off, both in numbers and in fervour ; the house of God does not continue to be thronged on week days and on Sundays as heretofore ; and in general the administration of divine ordi nances seems now to be attended with little more than an or dinary blessing." MOST INTERESTING DISCOVERY OF ANGLO SAXON COINS.—On Friday last a large collection of most valuable and interesting Anglo- Saxon coins, and other reli ques of olden time, was discovered close to the river Ribble, at Cuerdale, near Preston. We understand that some workmen were employed in removing some ground on the banks of the river, which had become undermined by the action of the water, when they turned up an old leaden chest, containing about 10,000 of the coins alluded to, several silver bracelets, and and a quantity of ingots or bars of silver. The coins are of silver, and weigh about twenty grains each. Mr. Assheton, of Downham Hall, near Clitheroe, is the owner of the pro perty on which the di scover y was made ; and the chest and its contents have been removed to the Old Bank, Preston, until Mr. Assheton, who is now at Rome, can be communicated with, and give instructions as to their disposal.—Blackburn Standard. HYTHE.—At a meeting held in this borough on the 30th ult , it having been stated that the present Mem ber, Lord Mclgund, would not offer himself at the next general election, the electors present unanimously resolved to invite their old Member, Mr. Stewart Marjoribanks again into their service. A NNIVER SARY DINNER O F THE CAL ANNIVERSARY JURY.—A numerous meeting of the Milton street Committee took place on Wednesday last, at the Ja cob's WAI, Milton-street, to celebrate the above verdict. Mr. APKenzie in the Chair. After several patriotic toasts were given, the Chairman proposed the health of the gentlemen who composed that Jury, which was responded to with three times three; after which Mr. Stockton, in a neat and appropriate speech, returned thanks, and concluded by proposing the health of the Editor of the Morning Advertiser, and prosperity to that journal for its able advocacy of popular rights. CHURCH-RATES. This being the season of the year for such unholy contests--we tike from the Huntingdon Gazette, the following, case of clerical invention in order to secure the triumph of Church despotism, through the artful and artificial ascendency of a❑ ambitious country Curate— over the lay rate-payers _ " GREAT STAUGHTON.—This parish, in the county of Huntingdon, containing, exclusive of its roads, 5,875 acres, and about 1,300 inhabitants, is a vicarage in the gift of St. John's College, Oxford, and is in the diocese of Ely. The present Vicar, the Rev. Thomas Mead, having always resided upon other preferment, at Stud ham, hear Dunstable, appointed for his permanent Curate the Rev. C. Ridley, who, being the most righteous representative of the Church-militant, thinks, no doubt, that a permanent Curate should be dignified and dis tinguished by the possession of permanent power, has resorted to the following scheme to sustain it :—Of the total 5,875 acres, 288 were, at the inclosuro, ap portioned to the Vicar ; out of these 288 acres he and his Curate have selected 40a. 2r. 16p. to be let out in poor allotments, making,in the rate-book 87 assessments, and 75 votes, of which assessments for the poor-rate the highest is Bd., the lowest ;d., and the average, taken upon the assessments, 3/d. For a road -rate, the high est is 4d., the lowest 4d., the average 11d.; add to the above 40i acres of Vicar's allotment, 12} of school land, there are 53a. Ir. 14p. divided into 100 assessments, which places 87 votes at the entire and absolute disposal of the Vicar, Mr. Mead, and his Reverend Curate, Mr. Ridley. For what purpose, it may be asked, is all this intricate and perplexed arrangement made, and, consequently, all this unnecessary and vexatious duty imposed upon the unpaid parish officers, who must, in their proper turn, serve as overseers and surveyors of this extensive parish ? Be it observed, too, that in January, 1839, information of these facts was sent to the absent Vicar the Rev. Mr. Mead, with a carefully respectful re quest that he would, as he could, relieve the then overseer and his parish front this state of things ; but the Reverend Vicar declined to comply with so just and reasonable a proposal, thereby confirming the means and manner which his Curate had contrived and adopted to uphold their joint parser, by compelling the collection of pence and halfpenny votes, in order to prop the perilous position of the Curate in his office of Guardian, to appoint all or any of the parish officers, and above all, to carry the disputed question of Church rates, in a parish rapidly filling with Dissenters, some of whom have just purchased a site for a ❑ew chapel, undaunted, undismayed, and for ever indignant, as men must be, at this, and the exercise of that re vengeful priestly power which turned out of their farms two most respectable men, for having voted against a Church-rate—turned out, as we know, solely and entirely through the Curate's representations to their non-resident landlords, as well as with the previous and timely knowledge of the non-resident Vicar himself, the Rev. Mr. Mead, who was written to on the 11th of February, 1839, and requested to interfere with his un doubted power to prevent it. Thus is a parish of 5,875 acres, borne down and swamped by 53 acres cut up and collected into 87 vexatious vicarial votes ; votes too, manufactured out of land, which, as Vicar's land, is exempt from the payment of Church-rates ; where, then, we would ask, is the charity of these Christian Churchmen—where is the justice of these Right Rev. rulers in using this exempted land for the purpose of making votes to force Church taxation upon others ? Great Staughton, April 22, 1840." TEMPLETON THE MURDERER. The following letter has been received from the Home Office, in answer to an application for the extension of the Royal mercy to Thomas Templeton, accompanied by the recommendation of the Jury : Whitehall, 16th May, 1840. Stn,—The Marquis of Normanby having carefully considered your application in behalf of Thos. Temple ton, I am directed to express to you his Lordship's re gret, that there is no sufficient ground to justify him, consistent with his public duty. in advising her Majesty to coruply with the prayer thereof.—l am, Sir, your most obedient, humble servant, S. M, PHILLIPS. James Ritchie, Esq., 129, Ingram-street, Glasgow. We understand that the petition to the Queen from the citizens in behalf of Thomas Templeton, now under sentence of death, was sent off on Wednesday night, with upwards of 11,500 signatures attached.—Scots Times. GRAND DINNER AT THE MAN- SION HOUSE TO THE JUDGES. On Saturday the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress gave a very elegant entertainment to the Judges, according to annual custom at the Man sion-House. There were amongst the company, Lord Chief Justice Tindal, Lord Abinger, Mr. Justice Lit ticdale, Mr. Justice Williamz, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, Mr. Justice Coltman, Mr. Justice Erskine, Baron Gurney, Count Hartiz, Governor of Lombardy, Mr. W. Fielding, M. P., Sergeant Halcomb, Sergeant Channel, Archdeacon Wilberforce, Dr. Burrows, Mr. Frederick Salmon, Mr. S. Prior, Mr. Deane, Mr. Tilson, Mr. Bentley, Mr. Jeffery, Mr. Cheshire, Aldermen Sir C. Hunter, Sir W. Heygate, Lucas, Thompson, Sir Peter Laurie, Sir J. Cowan, Harmer, Lainson, Humphery, Maguay, Gibbs, J. Johnson, Sir G. Carroll, &c. After the customary loyal toasts were drunk, The LORD MAYOR rose to propose the health of her Majesty's Judges. He could not in adequate terms express the sense he entertained of the distinguished honour conferred upon him by the presence of so many of the Judges at the festive board of the Mansion house ; and he rejoiced at the substitution of an ordi nary day for the Sunday, on which it was the practice for Chief Magistrates to invite the great ornaments of the legal profession to be their guests.—(Cheers.) Lord Chief Justice TIN DAL returned thanks in a few words expressive of the very great pleasure and honour which he and his brethren felt at the manner in which the toast had been received, and proposed the health of the Lord Mayor, after having warmly noticed the judicious manner in which his Lordship performed the duties of his office, and the very elegant hospitality with which he and his Learned Brethren had been re ceived. The LORD MAYOR next proposed the venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce and the Church. The Church had, his Lordship said, been given before, in conjunction with her Majesty, but he could not resist the temptation to propose it again, and unite it with the name of so distinguished an ornament. The name of Wilberforce, which was made for time, was nobly supported by the son of the distinguished advocate of Slave Emancipation.—(Cheers.) Archdeacon WILBERFORCE returned thanks in ap propriate terms. - The LORD MAYOR next proposed the health of the Governor of Lombardy, and stated that he felt great pleasure in showing to foreign individuals of eminence the hospitality of the Mansion-house. Subsequently his Lordship noticed his other guests, and particularly alluded to Mr. Salmon, the founder and the surgeon of the Charterhousc-square Hospital, for the cure of fistulous diseases. by whose great exertions multitudes were daily relieved from the most poignant misery.' The party separated at an early hour, after having expressed high gratification at the entertainment. The Lady Mayoress was, we are glad to see, well enough to remain with her Ladyship's guests for some time. CULTIVATION OF WHITE MOSS.-A por tion of this wild and hitherto unproductive tract is now in the progress of cultivation, and will this year, it is fully expected, turn out some fine crops of the corn and vegetable, which have been sown upon it. The tract consists of seventy acres.—Man • ckcster Guardian. REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE.— A singular occurrence, or rather a combination of occurrences, took place in a cottage at Panfield last week. On Friday, the 15th inst., one of the inmates was married; the following morning the bride became a mother; a few hours after a sister of the bride died ; and thus a marriage, a birth, and a death took place within twenty-four hours in the same family, and in the same house. On Thursday night, the 14th inst., the heaviest load of m erchandise that perhaps has ever been collected into a single train, was transported from Liverpool to Manchester, by two engines, the Elephant and the Hercules. The train con sisted of one hundred and six waggons, laden with cotton, sugar, and various other articles of produce, occupying an entire length of about one quarter of a mile. The weight of this mass of matter would, no doubt, exceed 600 tons ; the average weight of the waggons, merchandise in cluded, being nearly 5i tons, the two engines 2i tons, and their tenders 16 tons. On arriving at the foot of the Whiston Plane, the engines were, of course stopped, to permit the division of the train into the requisite number of manageable portions, and the whole load, in three or four successive trips, was soon transferred to the summit, proceeding to the Sutton Incline ; a detention occurred in the descent, in consequence of the breaking of a chain which coupled two of the waggons; but, alter this interruption, no accident took place, and the train arrived in safety at the end of its journey. —Manchester Guardian. EXPORT OF IRON BOATS.—The ship Can ton, which sailed from Liverpool on Tuesday last for Demerara, took on her deck a number of iron flat-bottomed boats or punts, to he us e d f or th e conveyance o f su gars and oth er com modities in the rivers and shallow waters of that colony. Each of these boats is in two pieces, for the convenience of carriage. The pieces are made to fit amid-ships, and have but to be ri veted together to be fit for use.—Manchester Guardian. HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.--Ve have great pleasure in stating, that, after an unexampled depression in the silk-s .icking trade for the last three years, which almost seemed to denote its utter extinction, an increased demand has arisen, particularly at Derby, for that manufacture ; tha num ber of frames employed in that place being reduced to less than a third of the number in 1836. A great number of workmen having left, hands have become so scarce, that one of the mas ters has been under the necessity of coming to Nottingham to seek for workmen. There is some hope that the stoekingers may yet see better days, as long stockings are coming gradually into fashion ; the full dress of the higher classes i s i nvar i ably long ho se , w i t h e l ast i c k n ee-bands. Should this become the reigning fa s hi on , t o wear full-fashioned hose, and c u t- ups for under wear be no longer required , the frames now in existence could not supply the demand, and stockings (as was the case in Sheffield in the hardware manufactures) would be at a pre mium•—Nottiagham Journal. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO A CLERGYMAN. The inhabitants of Ncwchurch, in the Forest of Rossen dale, in the county of Lancaster, have presented their late Curate, the Rev. Thomas Sewell, with an elegant pocket Communion Service of silver, and a purse of gold contain ing thirty sovereigns and a half. This handsome compli ment was paid to Mr. Sewell on Friday last at Hasling den (three miles distant from the scenes of his former labours+) to which place his e:erical services were trans ferred about a month ago, under an engagement to the Rev, William Gray, the incumbent, and where a deputa tion, headed by George Hargreaves, Esq., waited upon the Rev. Gentleman for the purpose of the presentation. The address of Mr. Hargreaves, and the acknowledgment of Mr. Sewell, accompanied with the evidently deep sym pathetic interest of all the gentlemen present on the occa sion, showed that what was done was indeed more than ceremony, and afforded unequivocal indications of the pre valence of a state of feeling of nu ordinary character. The paten bears the following inscription :—" Presented (with a purse of gold) to the Rev. Thomas Sewell by the inhabitants of Newchurch and the neighbourhood, as a small token of respect and gratitude for his efficient services during his residence there as Assistant Alinister.—May, 1810." FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, MAY 22.—The average price of wheat last week was 23f. 23c., and that of rye 15f. 22e. The importation of both, therefore, is duty tree, and the exportation prohibited. The Commission appointed for an inquiry into the state of the commerce of the country met on the 19th of this month. It chose for its President M. Def.:- maisieres, and for its Vice-President M. do Focre. His Excellency the Baron Van Zuylen Van Nye veldt, Minister of State of the King of Holland, and his representative at the London Conference during the protracted negotiations which led to the treaty of 19th April, 1839, arrived at Brussels on Tuesday evening. Several Commissioners, instituted by the Govern ment, are now proceeding to value the several scienti fic collections which the city of Brussels is on the point of selling to the State, in order to assist in paying its debts, and particularly to enable it to pay the sums due in consequence of the dis turbances iu 1830 and 1834. It appears that the original valuations made by the appraisers of the city will undergo very great curtailments. Thus the cabi netsof Natural History, which the city appraisers valued at 800,000 francs, are valued by the special commission at 200,000. It is said also that the library of the city of Brussels contains in reality no more at the most than half the volumes which it has till now been supposed to possess. The Senate met to-day and appointed two Commit tees to examine the budget of the Ministers of War am of Justice. FRONTIERS OF TURKEY, APRIL 7.—A serious in surrection has taken place in Servia against the new order of things, and especially against the appointment connected with it, of the new Counsellors of the Prince. Since the national assembly on the accession of Prince Michael there have been in several parts of the country, at first secretly, and since openly, meetings of the peo ple, and public voice has everywhere pronounced against the Counsellors and against the restriction of the Prince's power by them, and accompanied by a wish that the seat of Government may be transferred to Kragujewatz, and that bounds may be set to the gene rally believed squandering of the public money. It was said that only Wuesitsch and Petroniewitch, the two Counsellors, and some Members and Senators, were averse to the removal of the seat of Government, and that of 13,000,000 piastres which were in the Treasury on the resignation of Prince Milosch, only 5,000,000 are left and, therefore, 8,000,000 have been expended without any satisfactory account of them. The Govern ment sent Protitsch, the Minister of the Interior, and Golub, the President of the Court of Appeal, to the places which were most threatened, and to purify the people ; but they seem to have had little success, for yesterday some thousands of armed men, some of them persons of distinction, unexpectedly appeared before Bel grade to obtain a hearing for the wishes and complaints of the people. The Prince himself; accompanied by the Metropolitan. the Russian Consul, and the Kiaja of the Turkish Pasha hastened on the first informa tion as far as Toptschitere, about a league from Bel grade, to meet the people, where he exhorted them in the most earnest manner to return peaceably to their homes, and to make him acquainted with their wishes in a legal manner through the medium of the autho rities. He was, however, obliged to content himself with the promise of the insurgents to advance no fur ther, and expressly not to attempt to enter the city of Belgrade. On the other hand, they demanded that the Counsellors should be dismissed and given up, as well as Stojan Simitsch, Vice President of the Senate, who is chiefly accused of having dissipated the public money ; lastly, they required the transfer of the seat of Government from Belgrade to Kragujewatz. Several persons said plainly, if Prince Michael wants a Counsellor, who can be more proper for such an office than his father ? He assisted to gain our freedom, he governed us well, we lived happily under him,—why should he not now assist our Prince, his son ? Amidst such expressions, Prince Michael left the rebels, if they deserve to be called so, and returned to Bel grade, where the greatest anxiety is felt for the conse quence. Great fears are entertained for the tranquility of the city. Patroles traverse the streets in all direc tions, to procure order ; the two Counsellors, Wuesitsch and Pctromcivitsch, have taken refuge in the Turkish citadel ; the Metropolitan has sought an asylum at the Austrian Consul's. It is not known what has become of Stojan Simitsch, the Vice-President of the Senate. His brother Alexo, the Minister of Finance, is at Pesti], in Hungary. The Turkish Pacha has called the whole Turkish population under arms to protect their houses ; the regular troops arc confined to the citadel, and he threatens, on the first at tempt of the insurgents to penetrate into the city, to fire on them with cannon. God knows how this crisis will end. It is just reported that the two above men tioned Counsellors (who with Simitsch, were the chief agents in the overthrow of Prince Milosch) have for the present voluntary resigned. The Russian Consul and the Turkish Pacha have sent couriers to Constantinople. VIENNA, MAY 13.—We learn from Presburg that their Imperial Majesties were received with the greatest demonstrations of joy. There was so much business to be clone that the Diet could not be closed yesterday, as it first intended, but it will be to-day. The sittings have lately continued without interruption, and the bu siness was peformed with great rapidity. It is generally reported among the Greeks here that Prince MiloLch of Servia, will shortly visit Vienna. THE HAGUE, MAY 19.—The sections of the Second Chamber met to-day to consider the project of law on the responsibility of Ministers. We hear that there was a great diversity of opinion among the members. Some were vehemently opposed to the insertion of such con stitutional securities into the fundamental law, while others thought the proposed law insufficient. AMSTERDAM, MAY 22.—The //andc/s/dad says, "We have learned, with the utmost astonishment, a change which the Government has proposed in the eighth chapter of the fundamental law. It effaces the most important enactments, and takes away guarantees for the future, which are esential to it. It proposes to substitute for the eighth chapter, consisting of twelve articles, six others. This eighth chapter relates to the army. DUTCH FUNDS.—ASISTERDASI, MAY 22. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto;ditto 5 per cent. Anion Svadic,4% per cent 92 12% Ditto, ditto, 3 per cent 76% 76% Commercial Company, 4!, per cent lBO 18814 Ditto (li' 33 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. lOO% 101% Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 98% 99 Exchange on London, One month ll 92% Two months ...... —Dutch Papers, May 22. BELGIAN 1. UNDS—BitusexLs, MAY 23. Actual Debt, 2V, per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 112% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 957k 3 per Cent. 75 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent — Society of Commerce, 4 N,per Cent llO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............ National Society . — Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, May 23. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY 15 Five per Cents. Metalliques Font - per Cents. lOl% Three ;ir Cents. -2X, Bank Shares 1846 —Allgemeine &Ming, May 20 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-BERLIN, MAY 19. hills. -- Money, St. Schuld. Sch., 4 1 , per cent. - 10334 102% Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 103% Exchange on London, three months ... 6 19Si —Prussian State Gazette, - May 28. CONSOLATIONS OF RELIGION.—A day or two ago the Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors' Court or dered an insolvent to be sworn, preparatory to his discharge. The insolvent, who was said to be a Methodist, then turned to the reporters' bix, and exel:imed " I am not ashamed of it, and I wish it to go forth to the world that the text of last Sunday was, Cast thy care on the Lord, and the Lord careth for thee.' " An affray took place on the 13th inst. between a party of rural police and the workmen employed on the South ampton railway, between this city and Basingstoke. The po lice, in attempting to take one of the party into custody, were beaten off, but returning in sufficient force, they succeeded in capturing some of the most violent of their assailants; four of whom were committed by the Magistrates on the next day for two months to the House of Correction.--Hampshire Telegraph. HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—We have great pleasure in stating, that, after an unexampled depression in the silk-stocking trace for the last three years, which almost seemed to denote its utter extinction, an increased demand has arisen, particularly at Derby, for that manufacture; the num ber of frames employed in that place being reduced to less than a third of the number in 1836. A great number of workmen having left, hands have become so scarce, that one of the mas ters has been under the necessity of coming to Nottingham to. seek for workmen. There is some hope that the stockinges may yet see better day,=, as long stockings are gradually c omipg . into fashion ; the full-dress of the higher classes isbeicnovianreiallye long hose, with elastic knee-bands. Should this reigning fashion, to wear full-fashioned hose,zdincut under wear be no longer required, the frames,: was the case in could not supply the demand, and stockings „be at a pre. ' existence fr Sheffield in the hardware manufactures) would inium..-.Noltinpham Journal. EVENING EDITION NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the limuiTshire Tcleo . aph.) PonErsmount, llav 23.—The Dolphin, 3, Lieutenant Littlehales, sailed on Thursday to St. Helena, with do:. patches from the Colonial-office relative to the translaticil of the remains of Napoleon Buonaparte to France. The Magicienne, 23, Captain Mitchell, will sail in a few days to the Mediterranean, calling at Lisbon. The Lizard steamer arrived to-day from Woolwich, and sailed again for the Irish Channel on surveriue, duties. The Fearless steamer arrived on Sunday fromWoolwich,and sailed on Monday for Southampton, Guernsey, and Brett. The Numa transport proceeded on the same day to Deptford. The Vesuvius steamer arrived on Wednesday from Cork, with the Depot companies of the 60th Regiment, which have taken up their quarters at Haslar Barracks ; she pro ceeded to-day to Leith to bring round the depot of the 72d Regiment, for service in this garrison. PROMOTlON—Lieutenant Joseph Elias to be Retired Commander. APFOINTMENTS—Lieutenants.—F. Scott, to the Roe ney ; C. Bambcr, to the Vanguard ; Thomas Smith (c), to the Victory, vice Grant. Surgeon—Dr. S. Sinclair, to the Rodney. Assistant-Surgeons—NV. P. Rogers, to the Southamp ton; A. J. Pilmore, and F. S. Aitind, to Rodney. Mates—J. F. B. Wainwright, Louis C. Tonge, and Charles S. Dunbar, to the Excellent; Chambers, to the Cambridge. Second Masters—C. J. Hodges, to the Nautilus; J• Jago, to the Carron steamer. Acting Second Masters—H. D. Burney, to Plymouth Buoy Boat, and John Parrey, to the Devon tender. Vol. Ist Class—A. B.:Warre, to the Vanguard. Second Engineer—Wm. Bain (additional) to the Vic tory, from the Echo. Master's Assistant—S. W. K. Freeman, to the Jupiter. Boatswains—John Sheens, to the Howe, vice Hule, to the Sheer-hulk at Chatham ; G. Newbury, to the Rodney. Carpenter—W. Cooke, to the Rodney. Rol AL MARlNES.—Captain Hearle, with his companYt 150, embarked on board the receiving ship for the Rodney, on Tuesday ; Captain Thos. Waring, recruiting service, at Exeter, vice Captain Charles Clarke. PLYMOUTH, MAY 22.—0 n Friday last, the Mary Ann freight ship arrived from the eastward, on her way to South Australia, and started again for that colony on the follow ing Monday. The Rodney, 92, Captain R. Maunsell, was taken into dock on Saturday ; she is in host excellent order, and Will be ready to go out again the next springs. Captain Hearle, Lieutenants Burney and Dyer, with a detach ment of Royal Marines, embarked on Tuesday for duty on board. The Emma Eugenia freight ship, arrived from Dept' ford on Monday; Ensign E. Dickson, and 42 privates, from the 75th depot, were embarked on board to join the Service Companies at the Cape of Good Hope; s he sailed again on Wednesday for that colony. The crews of the Thundcrer and Inconstant have been mustered, by Admiral Sir Graham Moote, this week, and are daily expecting their orders for sea. The Ferret, a new 10-g un b r i g , w ill b e l au ched from this dockyard on the Ist of June. In the Harbour—San Josef, Impregnable, Nautilus brig, and C arron steamer . In the Sound—Th e Thundcrer, Cambridge, and in ' constant. Rodney, (From the Woolwich Gazette.) Captain Hewes and First-Lieutenant James Woods wi th two sergeants, ;two corporals, one fifer, and 53 Pr" vates, embarked yesterday on board H. M. steamer Echo , for a passage to join H. M. S. Southampton, at Sheerness. Private Joseph Parfitt will be tried by a General Court martial, this day, for desertion, making away with his necessaries, breaking out of the guard-room, and for strik ing Lance-Serg ean t Q u i g l ey , w hil st i n t h e e xecution 01 his duty. THE MARKETS COUNTRY CORN MARKETS, • • Per Quarter. 8. to s. s. C O s. 8. to s. CO '4 Abingdon.....—.. 64 78 32 44 24 35 42 50 44 And0ver.......... 66 72 30 40 22 28 Banbury -- 34) 40 25 32 46 Basingstoke— 63 80 29 42 2 4 31 4) 51 40 :irencester 64 75 28 48 '26 35 40 42 -- Coventry.-- 73 45 05 SS 46 '" 30 Oav en) 63 73 38 44 28 34 30 44 •-• Derby-- 68 76 33 40 30 34 51 5 5 .Howden-- 73 24 40 42 .77, 43 Hungerforil— 56 80 32 46 25 33 36 4o 0 , Malton --. 68 76 35 Maidenhead— 58 81 35 48 .5 34 37 46 -- Nottingham 56 77 29 43 27 32 45 5 0 40 Wastage CS SO 30 41s 22 23 36 46 Warwick— 32 46 30 35 40 Wor;ester 70 36 29 43 York 40 80 32 40 22 30 Per Bushel. 8.11. s. d . s. d. s . d. s . d, s. d, s,d, s, d, 0 !" A ,; d. Birmingham 0 96 40 59 39 46 50 74 b WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. Wheat, _Red, No and Cam. rfolkand 6 5uff01k......... 646.. to 68 s. to7 l l. g n a ; Lin. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. Norfolk and Suffolk ...... —s. 665. to 71s. " e r 4l n g , . Lin. and Cam. Yorkshire —s. 48s. to .`,fils. fine 1 2 „ " White Foreign, Red —s. 645. to 681. fine 7 1111 ' White —s. —s. to 725. nne 76 1, Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk --.5. to ICI. fine 455. Lincolnshire ' Os. to s. fine 31 , . Yorkshire Wold Foreign fine 471. — 4 4 6 3 :s .. . t r o o 481. 1. P fine R n 53, 7 25 . j . Beans, New Old Oats, Potato -----. Poland s —s. to 1301. ti ne ',, ni. Friesland and Small Ilizaling ..... Sholling ...._, .. ...... .. ..... ... _. 3 18 41 44. . dt . .0f i t 4 0n0 ci6 a.448) d d .... per Stone. S v, t o oa Rapeseed .... : Malt ..1. 08. 251. 08. 261. Os, per Last. NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE, Red. White. Wheat, Northumberland ..... ........... ... 520 59s 3Ba. 88s.' Norfolk and Suffolk 7os. 72s 734. 78,. Berwick and Scotch file. (i:is —s. 683. - Foreign 6ss. 715...... 695. 735. Rya, Norfolk and Suffolk Foreign 2Bs. 34i —s. .—a. e Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... 355. 43s --6. —I. i ' 5 Grinding and Feeding Pk 325. ~ ' • 0 Malt, Norfolk and Suff o lk Els 735 ....... —s• --- .7. Beans, Small Tick 4os. 42e....... —4 —.• _ ---s s: 4 425. 48s. ...... . --a. ... 4 * ?ease, White 42s. 4 41 - • •" s. --s. Gray . -. — a . _.-s ..... . _. .. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ...... ... 295. 305.....•• -- a ------------ Feed ii --! •....„. Foreign Flour (par sack) sls. 551 ......• —' . SCOTCH MARKETS, Wheat. Barley. Aberdeen Berwick i:oltlstrcam Cupar (Fite) Dunbar 70 to 80 50 43 46 50 48 65 48 68 63 64 60 72 31) 50 62 67 60 ^4 aze of the H ADM/ Wheat. 76s Od Elgin Inverness Kelso Kirkaldy Perth I*. Tha 25)t031 18 2.6 24 26 26 31 26 49 35 3 35 58 24 27 First Second Third First Second Third s's Od I Zi Os Od ,v erage ...., DALKI 1 Wheat. 7?e Oa 60s Od 42s Od 130 401 measure vai 'GfON CC Barley. 38s fid 345 6d 315 Od ITH CO Barley. 36s 6d :3!s 6d 2 - Is 6d Oats. 25 to 27 18 21 17 18 is 22 23 27 22 24 24 2,4 19 22 :33 25 35 Beans. 23 - 30 30 112 2el 40 42 48 59 32 33 32 34 45 48 41 44 ales throughout the )RN MARKET. Oats. Pease. 316 Od 44s Od 28s 6d 22s Od 27s 6d 40s Od .21. 18s. Id. 1 12th. IN MARKET. Oats. Vs 8d 22s 8d Pease. 47s Od 44, Od 38s 61 Oatmeal! CORNWALL MARKS (Calculated at 24 gallons to the hi 39 to 40 40 43 40 48 ... ..- _, -- .... .... 43 " ;TS. oho.) I . puntry. Beans; 3ps OU .....4 Oti ....II Od Beans. 47s 2 1 ! 44 , Os 6d Wheat. Barley. Oats. s. to • `. 8. 0. to s. d , S. d. to s. d. s n 9 fruro 0 8 o 0 40 0 - s 0 Helstonc St. Austell 0 810 0 4t: 0 3 t, Bodmin 0 8 8 0 4 4 , 0 :laskeard 8 G 9 0 3 9 43 0 3 0 Launceston - 0 3 9 Camelford 8 4 • 2 3 4 5 , 2 ,° 3 4 Penzance. 8 0 8 4 0 5 4 2 h A remarkable instance of the utility of railw a Y s occurred in connexion with the fire at York 31inst er. express was sent to Leeds for engines; four were inamediatel got in readiness and despatched to the scene of devastation. The distance to be traversed was 48 miles. This was aeon': p!iihed, and the engines playing upon the fire, in the sow space of an hour and forty minutes. • IBA UNPLEASANT S URPRISE.—One eVeffilig week, on a lady, residing in a most fashionable part of Exeier' placteg . opening a closet in her b e d-ro o m, for tho purpose o f a cap in it, to her a s toni s hment she found a man thehrsen The scene that followed may be more easily conceived t t of described, but it was at length discovered tbat it w as an 2".91r. gallantry with one of the maid servants, and that beii' ans prised, this closet had seemed to present the most ready 01 of concealment. FLAT GOLD WATCHES, Gold pc::ID Ten Guineas each. Highly-finished HORIZONTAL,GdiaIs, WATCHES, with engraved or engine-turned Gold eir • jewelled in four holes, and Qither engine-turned or eie ^ graved cases arc offered, price Ten Guineas each. Theseetv, ;ant little Watches will be found to perform very c,_ °l. r h e thel and a printed warranty is given with fixed terms, fan Wn` c will always receive any attention required. T. COX SAVORY foul Watchmaker, Jewell er , &c., 47, Cornhill ,(Seven s eeo London. ------- _ B. In On the 20th inst. All ,at ean IRTHS , Ferthshire, the lady of NV' Urwin, Esq., of a son. T. °' On the 20th inst., at Chelsea, the lady of tbe Zouch, of a son. • terrace, On the 21st inst., in Robert-street, Adelpfli lady of J. Weston, Esq., jun., of a daughter. Token , On the 21st inst., at Hendon, the lady of P. C. of a daughter. Captain On the 19th inst., at/li N A/r/ d ED. T n ay an , Su f fo lk , • • Fenn, Eq'' surgeon, of Rushall Cottage, Wilts, to Maria, youngest daughter of the late G. Alston, Esq., of the former i;lace. i You. On the 21st inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth,- Mr. J. of Bread-street, to Louisa, youngest daughter of Mr. . Jeff On ree of Lambeth. t ' .he 21st inst., at St. Pancras Church, F. Laekerstein, Esq., of Calcutta, to Elizabeth Vitzmaurte only daughter of W. Stack, Esq., of Listowhil, Kerry. .. 1.. On the 2lst inst., at Long Ditton, Mr. E. Harman. of M a don, Surrey, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. T. White, wine-merchant, Leighton Buzzard, _... Marylebone,. e: DIED. On the 18th inst., at Renville House, Galway', Ireland , P. L. Athy, Esq., aged 61. ed 1 On 0' n the 7th inst., at Carshilton, Mrs. S. Abot, 2g the 19th inst., at Willo w -walk, Kentish-town,t W . B ail Esq., aged 62. On the 19th inst., at Whitkirk Vicarage, E. O'Brien, E. 511" O of Dublin, barrister - at -law, third son of the late Sir E. 'Brien, I3art., of romelnd, Clare, Croy do ed 33. On the D 20th inst., at aged 33. dow of On the 20th inst., at Croydon, Mrs. E. Burbidge, widow of E. Buridge, lte of Aldersge-street. On the 21st. a , inst., at P at ark Villa, Twickenham, Caroline, wife of F. Dermitte, Esq. On the 17th inst., in Albany-street, Regent's-park, W. 11 ' Keating, Esq., of Philadelphia, United States. On the 18th inst., at Turnhamgreen, S. Barnett, Esq. On the 18th inst., Elizabeth, ti wifeie of 111 • James ixon, D of Wardour-street, Suho. On the 18th inst., Captain G. Steel, late of the Bengal En' gineers. London: Printed and Publi s hed by IVIIIRDO YOUNG, or No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strail 6l/1 the county of Middlesex. —Monday, May 2.5, 1840. i i I 1 1 I 1 t x A ti M I K t