The Sun. — London, England, 1840-06-29 00:00:00

Ii:VENING EDITION. BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI SLAVERY CONVENTION. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN JAMES STE PHEN. ESQ., AND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CAMPBELL. (Copy.)—No. I. Downing-street, June 24, 1840. R,—ln The Sun newspa7er, of Tuesday the 23d inst., is a report of a Meeting of th , e , " British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Convention , at which you are represented to have made a speech, in the course of which the following expressions are attri buted to you : " When a slave ship was brought in, there was an allowance of 2-11. for the men and the children, until they were otherwise provided for. There was no allowance whatever for the women, and they were consequently given away to any one who chose to come and take them, the officers - of the Govern ment having the first choice. James Stephen, of the Colonial-office, and Mr. Buxton knew that as well as he did." I beg leave to inquire first, whether the expres sions I have quoted were really employed by you, and if so, what ground or authority you have for asserting that I possessed the knowledge which those expressions attribute to ine. I have the honour to be, &c., (Signed) JAS. STEPHEN. To Lieut.-Colonel Campbell. (Copy ).—No. 11. 'Whitehall, June 25, 1840. SlR,—Before I reply to the inquiry contained in your letter of the 24th inst., requesting to know whether the expressions extracted therein from The Sun newspaper of the 23d inst., were those really employed by me, I beg to know whether I am to consider your con municaticn official ? I have the honour to be, (Signed) H D. CAMPBELL. To James fitephen, Esq., Colonial-office. (Cory.)—No. 111. Downing -street, June 25, 1840. SIR,—I have had the honour to receive your note of this date ; my letter to you, of the 21th instant, was not official. It was not written by the direction, or with the knowledge of Lord John Russell ; but when I am in possession of your an swer, I purpose to lay the whole correspondence before his Lordship. I have the honour to be, &e. (Signed) JAS. STEPHEN. To Lieut.-Colonel Campbell. (Copy.)—No. IV. 5, Whitehall, June 25, 1140. SIR,—I have received your letter of this day's date, in which you state that your's of yesterday was not official ; the intention, however, you have subsequently expressed of lay ins our correspond ence before Lord John Russell, seems to me to stamp it with so strong an official character, that I must deeline offering the explanation I should have been most ready to afford you, as a private individual. I have the honour to he, &c. (Signed) H. D. CAMPBELL. To James Stephen, Esq., Colonial-office. (Copy.)—No. V. 5, Whitehall, June 26, 1840, Half -past Six, P.M. beg to acquaint you that not having re ceived any further communication since my letter to you of yesterday evening, it is my intention im mediately to publish the correspondence that has taken place. I have the honour to be, &c (Signed) H. D. CAMPBELL. To James Stephens, Esq. Colonial-office. (COPY. —No. VI. Downing -street, June 27, 1840. SIR-I l►m-e this mwneut received your note, dated on the 26th instant, half -past six P.M., in forming me that it is your intention immediately to publish the correspondence that has taken place between us. Having yesterday laid the whole of that corres pondence before Lord Joint Russell, in pursuance of the intention announced to you in my note of the 25th instant, it rests with his Lordship, and not with me, to determine whether any further communication shall be made to you on the subject. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) JAS. STEPHENS. To Lieut.-Col. Campbell. OPENING OF THE LANCASTER AND PRESTON JUNCTION RAIL WA Y. - - On Thursday last, this railway was opened through out the entire line, by the Directors, and a party of friends. The day was observed as a general holiday, the inhabitants appearing to feel that the completion of an undertaking promising such extensive and important benefits to the town and neighbourhood, ought to be observed as a day of rejoicing and congratulation. The shops were closed, and the bells of the parish church gave notice at an early hour of the interesting event. At eleven o'clock, the hour named for departure, an animated scene presented itself here. The covered way, where the carriages take up passengers, was on this occasion filled by the tables appropriated for the dejeune, andlthis part of the building being profusely and tastefully decorated by flags and artificial flowers, had a splendid appearance. Beyond this, the carriages were placed ready for their first trip. The carriages of se veral of the resident gentry were drawn up on each side, from which the starting of the trains might be seen. About halt-past eleven, the order was given to go on, at which period eleven carriages, containing about two hundred ladies and gentleman, were aftxed to the en gine. Owing to the friction of the wheels and the newness of the machinery, a start could not at first be obtained. The services of another engiae were therefore called into requisition, and the great mass was put slowly into motion, amidst the best wishes of the spectators for a set'e and successful journey. Finding that all went smoothly the engineer shortly began to " put on the steam." The Directors, however, mindful thr the safety of those who had on this occasion en 'trusted their lives to their keeping, were more desirous at first of trying their ground than of attaining a great speed. The first thing that struck us was the very great smoothness with which the carriages went over the rails. There was little or none of that violent la teral motion which makes travelling upon the North Union line so unpleasant. For the first five or six miles, while traversing that portion of the line which the Directors have taken into their own hands, we were re minded of . some of the best portions of the Grand Junction, certainly the best and most carefully executed of•any of the three lines between Preston and London. Thaexperience of a few years will justify the predie tiart that the Lancaster and Preston Railway is not , only among the most cheaply executed of any in the kingdom, but it is also one upon which passengers may may travel with the greatest comfort and ease. It may nut be out of place to mention here, that while the London and Birmingha m has cost nearer 50,0001. than 10,0001. per mile, and the North Union about 30,000/. per mile, the Grand Junction railway, executed by Mr. Locke, only cost :25,000/. per mile, and the Lancaster and Preston 20,000/. The train passed over the bridges and embankments at Gelgate in the finest possible style. The skew bridge, about which so much has been said, was crossed with perhaps less oscillation than any other part of the line. At Galgate great nuwbers of the villagers were collected, by whom handkerchiefs were waved and cheers given. This wrs also the case at the bridges and other places on the line ta7ourable for a view of the trains. The train stopprd at Cleveler, a little on this side o f Garstang, to take in water. A speed of twenty miles an hour had Been frt eutently obtained. After wards, and on approaching some portions cf the line which had Leen very recently finished, the engineer was content with a slower rate of progress. It d that at Myerscough some porti on of the line was had state not been even °petted on the previous night, the work of putting down the rails having been performed only a tew hours before the train passed over them. About sive or six miles fro.n Preston the train passed over a fine and shifting sand, which resembled a puddle from tle effect of the wet weather. Here a great deal of caution was used. The train was cheered by the rail way labourers, who are stir,' working in great numbsrs along the line. The arrival of the train at Preston excited great curiosity on the part of the residents at the north end of the town, through which it passed, who turned out n the streets and factory yards, above which the rail way passes. The bridg , s near Preston were also filled by spectators. The train arrived at Preston a little before one o'clock, having been an hour and twenty miatimes in making the distance, twenty miles. Here 11 ' ttPf lIIISICo. with fligs and banners , met the wel cp C eisitors. Th e company here left their carriages, an ireetinin Ng k place with Preston friends, who had come to congratulate. After a delay of about three quarters of an hour, the train, with the addition of an extra e 'triage or two, containing some of the Director s of the North lliiion, G- )rf J-ecti , Lr and Birmingham, and Liver -10 had attended to give eclat express in this manner their . Preston amidst the cheers of .n equally pleasant and more d at the Lancaster terminus ing Preston. The Directors cfieering on - arriving at the 7. dean. Grand Junction, London Mi4V. 6 9 PN 1 l lt . er . wh' : • • - , d to ( , eel . ~ ". : At t p left -was . 4 ffll . : 4 ; -,u i ' ' 4 s . 4 a riviten, 7 ~.,, 4,,04....•- ...,it. lear ..4 \ f i k •' . .. A u- .. , 4 ei;f::ecat 4 " —7 1 7 1 trl";%tit.p i Guai ( .-27- .... N a s SHIPWRIGHTS. We often see post:ng-bills for seamen, but it is a no velty that Government should in these days beat up for recruits among the artisans and tradesmen of mcrchants' yards, for the service of the public establishm nts—yet it is so. An experienced officer has recently bccn to Hull, and without success endeavoured to persuade the workmen to leave their present masters. The following posting-bill sets forth the advantages of the Queen's employ : " Admiralty, June 8,1840. Wanted, some good shipwrights and caulkers, for her Majesty's dockyards at Woolwich, Chatham, Ports mouth, and Shcerne-s. It will be required that they shall have served a regular apprenticeship to the trade, which must be proved by indentures, or by an affidavit that the same were lost. The men must be under 35 years of age, of good bodily health and constitution, not subject to any infirmity, and they must be willing to pass a strict examination by a surgeon, and also as to their qualifications as artificers. Pensions will be granted to such men as may have become unfit to per form a dab's work, from 20 to 35 years, 20/., from 35 and upwards, 24/. ; facilities will be afforded for joining the dockyard for which the men may have volunteered. Constant wages at 4s. per day, and half that if unable to work, through hurts in the service." This officer was subsequently to go to Whitby, Sun derland, Shields, Newcastle, Leith, Glasgow, Carlisle, and Liverpool, but did not anticipat e much success. As an answer to the advantages attempted to be held out in the above placard, we extract from a Woolwich newspaper the following comparative statement of the wages and advantages of the shipwrights in the public and private yards : In the Government Yards. In the Mtrehant Yards. The wages paid The wages paid arc 3s. Gd., 45., and are ss. 6d, 6s , 75., some few 4s. Gd. and 7s. 6d. per day, per day, averaging the mean average 4s.per day, amount- paid throughout ing for 311 working the country being days per annum to £62 4 6s. 6d. per day for The benefit dcri- good workmen— vable by medical at- however, we take tendance and su- the average at Gd. perannuation is ad- less ; thus allowing mitted, on a gene- 63, only per day rat average, to be to be the sum nearly 2s. Gd. per paid for 311 days week, amounting per annum, it per annum to 6lO amounts ..... X9B This balance is the annual amount paid less to every Government ship wright than the same class of men receive in merchant yards .-£93 6 X 93 6 In most, indeed we are told in all, the private yards, chips are allowed, which perquisite is worth 3s. a week. As a confirmation of the above, we find, on looking over some tables of the value of deferred annuities, that by the annual payment of 21. 125., or Is. a week, a man at 20 years of age may secure an annuity, to commence when he is 50, of 91. I9s. 11d. ; if to commence when he is 55 years of age, such annuity would be 151. 175.5 d. ; and if to commence when he is 60 years of age, it would be 26/. Is. Id. He has therefore only to double his payments to secure an annuity or pension of 201., or 30 guineas a-year, or a pound a•week, at the several ages above-mentioned ; and with regard to medical at tendance, sixpence per week from all the dockmen would realize 451. per week in Portsmouth Yard, which would give four taler ted men 500 guineas a-year each, and ensure attendance not only on workmen, but on their families also, and in addition fur a reserve fund for casualties. We make these observations for the purpose of drawing general attention, being appre hensive that the public yards will presently be found woefully deficient in talent and efficiency.—Hampshire Telegraph. MACAO. We have been favoured with the following extract from a letter from Macao, dated the 18th of February, received by a gentleman in this city : " About fourteen days ago, most of the British com munity, after having been on board ship for nearly five months, came across here in the expectation that they would quietly be permitted to remain until a force came from England to arrange the matters in dispute ; but, from appearances, I am afraid such will not be the case. We received no permission from the Chinese to return ; and I fully expect they will shortly take mea sures to molest and annoy us, in order that we again leave. " Macao, though a Portuguese settlement, is entire!) , dependent upon the Chinese for provisions and su7- plies of every sort. Though there is a Portuguese Governor and Senate, who govern the settlement under Portuguese laws, yet the Chinese still retain some authority over the town, having a custom-linuse, and also civil officers, under the Emperor of China. Though there are above four thousand Portuguese subjects here, yet there is not amongst them a baker, shoemaker, tailor, or tradesman of any description, nor have they a single acre of land under cultivation, ren dering them entirely under the power of the Chinese, who can at any moment stop supplies from entering the town. England having always acted towards Portugal in the kindest manner, we might have expected to have found an asylum in one of its settlements ; but from the causes enumerated above, the Portuguese, however willing, ern hardly grant us protection. The mode adopted by the Chinese, when they last expelled us, was the simple one of stopping supplies from entering the town, and as the great bulk of the Portuguese are very poor, and unable to lay in a supply of provisions for any length of time, and the then stoppage having entailed upon them considerable misery, at their re quest we retired. We were then, however, with out any maritime force, and though we have now but a weak one, we feel more independent. The Governor is an old military &leer, who fought under Wellington in the Peninsular war, and who would do his endeavours to defend and protect the English ; but the Members of the Senate. men who have seen less of the world than he has, and generally men of contracted and narrow minds, will not support him. In a very few days I expect that all our Chinese servants will again leave, and we will then be obliged to become our own cocks, servants, and coolies (in Eng lish, porters or under servants), as we were in Canton, or again retire to the shipping to spend the time which will intervene between this and the final adjustment of the question. There are a good many: forts in Macao, well manned with guns, and with 1,000 British troops, it might be held against all the power of China ; the whole force the Portuguese could muster would not exceed 250 men, and these very far inferior to European troops, and with such a force :he Portuguese are very wary in corning to a quarrel with the Chinese, and they are equally averse to come to open an d direct hostilities with the English, which would be emb race d in an order from them for us to withdraw from the settlement. They are, therefore, placed between the horns of two dilemmas, and the choice being a difficult one, they arc now engaged cogitating against which it will be the more wise to run. It they side with the Eng lish, they bring themselves immediately to loggerheads with the Chinese, which, indeed, they almost do, unless they take part against the English. The Chinese arc by no means nice in the weapons they use to gain an end, and feel no qualms of consei,nce in breaking international laws. They will probably issue an order to the Portuguese to the effect that they must drive the English from Macao, else they will stop Cie sup plies ; and such is a f orc ibl e argument to men who have five thousand mouths to feed. The terms upon which the Portuguese hold Macao are far from being honourable. They pay an annual rent for it ; they cannot build a house ivi!hout applying for Chinese permission so to do ; and in it they can hardly inculcate their own laws ; indeed, they are mere tenants at will, and they here a haughty lord to deal with. Under all the circumstances, I conceive that the English will be again compelled to evacuate the place, and again fall b ick upon the shipping, and there quietly await the time when, by the interference of the British Government, China will again have been made a place of residence and of trade to the British corn- I muoity. Many people will doubtless be found in Eng land to advocate the part of the Chinese in their en deavours to suppress or destroy the traffic in opium, which has been the root from which have sprung all the existing difficulties ; but there surely cannot be any one found to advocate the propriety of the means which they have used in endeavouring to compass this end, nor can any justification be found for the barbarous manner in ~which they have treated us, ner for the savage and inhuman edicts which from time to time they have Issued against us ; and this all proceeding, not from the People, but from a Gover nmen t at once d espot i c, cruel, and unjust. Nevir in the history of lioglish commerce, or of English relations with foreign countries, has any difference or quarrel happened of a magnitude to match the present disturbance with China, and never was a finer opportunity offered t o E ng l an d to teach the c Celestial barbarit.ns a lc , so i of th e i r own weak ness and of Britain's p ower. You will readily suppose that we look with great anxiety for news from home to I inform us in wlia . t manner Gov ernment mean to take up the question. If it does not tak e i t up i n a strong man ner, and cause the Chinese Government to treat her subjects with respect and, honour, thee will the lives of our merchants here be worse than those of slaves. Indeed no one would be found to Carry 00 the trade. In the course of a short time we shill know the deter rdnation of Governnictit, and within a few months many iutercsting scenes will be enacted hire." —Edin burgh ('unrest. ATTAR OF ROSES.—Five guineas have been paid for one ounce. The most approved mode of ascertaining its crality is to drop it on a piece of paper ; its strength is ascer tained_ ly the gniokness with which ,it evaporates, and its worth by its leaving no stains on the paper. The best otto manufactured at Constantinople.— Wellsted. THE SEJ.g, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 29, IS4O. THE PItINCBSB DE LtEGNITZ. At the moment when the death of Frederick William 111. has directed public attention to the life of that Monarch, our readers will not peruse without interest the following episode, for the en tire correctness of which we vouch : Frederick William lost his wife, the beautiful Queen of Prussia, on the 10th of July, 1811. The marriage had been an extremely happy one, and the regret which this death excited was univer sal. By the command of her Royal Consort the apartment which Queen Louisa had occupied in the little palace of Berlin was kept in the state it was in at the moment of her demise. In 1817 the late King of Prussia married his eldest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to the Grand Duke Nicholas, now Emperor of Russia. In 1822 his second daughter, Alcxandrina, married Prince Paul of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, brother of the Duchess of Orleans. At a later period the marriage of the King's third daughter, Princess Louisa, was decided upon. The old King, who had hitherto resided with his children in the same palace, was thus deprived, by the departure of his daughters, of the most cmhar ing attention, and he then sought for a new com panion to cheer his solicitude. The House of Harrach is an ancient one. The Protestant line to which the widuw of the late King belongs was poor. Every year Madame de Har rach, her mother, repaired to the waters of Top litz, in Bohemia, where the King of Prussia habi tually sojurned every bath season. The humble fortune of the Harrach family did not admit of their displaying any splendour ; the young Countess's dress was always as plain as her deportment was modest. It was that poor young person whom the King of Prussia noticed, and as he had the citizen-like habit of the German Prinaes of taking a daily walk among the crowd of visitors, and of addressing both little and great, the young Countess Augusta was one of the ladies with whom the King repeatedly conversed in the watering sea son of 1834. The King used before his return to Mrlin to pay a yearly visit to the country-house of M. de Jordan, his Minister at the Saxon Court. He in formed that gentleman that an invitation addressed to Madame de Harrach would give him pleasure. None at Toplitz, nor among those who had most assess to his Majesty, suspected the prospects that awaited Countess Augusta. The latter arrived with her mother at the country-house in one of those humble vehicles called in Bohemia " hauderer." In the evening, after tea, the King strongly urged the old Countess to stay with her daughter a day more. Madame de Harrach excused herself, alleg ing the engagement she had entered into with the owner of the hauderer, and took leave the same evening. She had scarcely taken her departure when the King, suddenly drawing aside his aide-de-camp and old friend, General Witzleben, said without any preamble, " I'm about to marry Madle. de Harrack. Go and demand her hand of her mother. Settle all with Prince de Witgenstein, who is now here." The astonishment of those two dignitaries was extreme ; but the profoundest secrecy was faithfully observed. The acquiescence of the King's chil dren, and, above all, that of the Prince Royal, now King, excited some discussion in the royal family, and was certainly reluctantly yielded. Nothing, in the mean time, transpired in public. It had been determined that Countess Augusta de Harrach should assume the title of Princess de Leignitz, and that the King should provide out of his privy purse for the expenses of the union, and for the maintenance of the new Princess ; her pin-money was not to exceed 24,000 f. a year, and, if there were any Issue of the marriage, the children were to have the title of Count or Countess de Liegnitz, without any claim to the throne. At the beginning of November, 1823, Countess Augusta arrived at Berlin with her parents, and unostentatiously alighted at an hotel of that capital. A court carriage came and fetched the Harrach family on the 9th of November, to convey them to the Castle of Charlottenberg, where the nuptial blessing was to be given in presence of a small circle of intimate friends. After the marriage the Princess proceeded to Berlin, and took up her abode in the apartments which had been prepared for her in the little palace on the garden side. The Count and Countess of Harrach, her pa rents, left Berlin shortly after, in order to afford no pretext to slander, which might have dreaded the establishment of a family influence at the Court of Berlin. The conduct of that honourable family, who were and have remained poor, was most noble and disinterested ; the Princess de Leignitz's bro ther is still a mere lieutenant or captain in the Aus trian service, and never have the Harrachs accepted any titles, favours, or pensions. The Bulletin of the Laws of the Prussian King dom was the first publication that officially an nounced the King's marriage to his subjects. Whis pers of disaffection then circulated at Berlin, and, we may saw, throughout the monarchy. Every where, and in all classes of society, the Royal de termination was censured ; everywhere the venera tion in which the memory of the late Queen Lonisa was held seemed to exclude th e id ea o f another union ; but a few voices arose to represent impar tially and under its real aspect the marriage of the King, then fifty-four years old, with Princess de Leignitz, who was only twenty-five years of age. In all quarters blame was to be heard, and appre hensions were expressed as to favouritism and in trigue following the young woman ; the Princess's character was as yet unknown, and little allowance was made for the situation of the King, who wished not to be deserted in his declining years, and who had made choice of an unaffected, gentle, and good wife, without ambition, and without any desire of shining. The Prince Royal, now King, behaved in the whole affair with much dignity ; Duke Charles of Mecklenburgh, as a courtier, and the other Princes, with a coldness which, in the first weeks after her marriage, must often have wounded the poor Prin cess's feelings. The female portion of the Berlin Court, above all, behaved in a most disdainful. manner ; at the head of the hostile party were remarked the R►n press of Russia and the Grand Duchess Alexan drina of Mecklenburg , h, the former Princess espe cially exhibiting a haughtiness for which Princess de Liegnitz returned but the utmost self abnega tion, and a continued willingness to forget the worst treatment. The King, however, soon put an end to rhis conspiracy of female self-love and oulrS pretensions, which found even an additional stimu lus in the pleasing person and manners of Prin cess de Licgnitz ; and the latter, on the other hand, gradually succeeded in making some friends and finding some zealous advocates. The Princess de Liegnitz wisely removed from her conduct all that might have had her suspected of any influence whatever. Meddling neither with the King's political or private affairs, always re fusing to back any demands or petitions, wishing to be but the companion of a King, endeared to hi s subjects, she arrogated neither interest nor any power whateve r . Sh e was constant with her woman's part, and any other ambition would have met with little encouragement either from the Ki n , or from public opinion, which now exercises at Ber lin as elsewhere an increasing influence. When the Princess de Liegnitz arrived at the Berlin Court her education was not complete ; she laboured much to obtain the knowledge becoming her rank ; her tastes have remained humble. She is neither a strong-mimded nor a learned woman, nor a blue stocking ; every day almost she devoted t h ree or four hours to reading French novels to th e King, and Paul de Kock's were not those least relished by her and her Itoyal auditor. It has been often observed that in the th orny situations of life the plain good sense of wom en , het, and a sense of duty, succeed better in securing esteem, happiness, and public sympathy, than th ose shining qualities which flash outwards with vivid brilliancy, and so often leave the soul a prey to deep sadness.—Forcign Print. TII E G it EE N PA It K.— As various inquiries have been made, as to the extent of the alterations now going for ward in the Green Park, it may be as well to state that the onl cbject is to equalise the surface, and that the earth raised in Trafalgar-square is to be used for that purpose. We are glad to hear that the hollow immediately behind the residence of Lady William Gordon is to be filled up. A characteristic anecdote is related of an out at-e:bows poet, who, by some freak of fortune, came into pos session of a five-dollar bill. He called to a lad, and said— " Johnny, my boy, take William, and get it changed." " What do you mean by calling, it William?" inquired the worth:it - 4; lad. " Why,.John,' replied the poet, "I am not sufliicienti~• familiar with it to take the liberty of calling - it ilill."— A.Urror. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS ' , nom TIIE DAILY PAPERS OF MATC/tDAY. (From the Globe.) \%e do not know with whom the Liverpool meeting to address the Queen originated, but suppose they were not Whigs ; for the I,irerpoo/ Shoat-ad thanks them, " whoever they were and says, " that nothing could be in better taste than giving the moving of the ad dress to that distinguished Christian patriot, the Rev. H. M'Neile ;" and, according to the report, every thing went on well, until the Rev. Gentleman came forward to move the third resolution, when he was assailed with cries of " No Jezabel!" accompanied with yells and hootings. This was a strange reception for an eminent. Christian patriot ; and the Standard accounts for it on the supposition that " the savages never heard a gentlemaa speak before." We do not know who moved and seconded the first and second resolutions ; but if the Liverpool Standard is right, the Committee did not put their best leg foremost on the occasion. Perhaps, know ing the bad taste of their townsmen, they thought the singular virtues and gentility of the Rev. IL M‘Neile should not be dropped a plomb among them, as being too overwhelming ; and therefore began with rather a coarse person, growing " fine by degrees," until they came to the unequalled refinement of the reverend gen tleman. Without, however, too closaly scrutinizing *he taste displayed in the arrangements of t!..e managers, the Rev. H. M'Neile did appear, and was hissed off the stage. And there would have been an end of the matter, but for the injudicious attempts of his party to convert what ought to have been a cause for humiliation into a source of triumph. (From the Courier.) A corresrondent at. Naples, upon whose information we have reason to rely, assures us that the sulphur dis pute may row be considered as teminated. The state of affairs was considered so satisfactory, that Admiral Stopford had left Naples for Malta on board the Con 6ance steamer. The Admiral had received instructions to liberate all the Neapolitan vessels detained at Malta. Of this fact there is no doubt, and as a further confirma tion, we may state that a letter from Malta, dated the I.sth inst., mentions that the Admiral had actually ar rived there. The Princess Charlotte and Belloroption had left Naples, and also the Ithadamanthus. The two former were bound for Malta, but the destination of the Rhadamanthus was not known. The Grenadier, French corvette, was at anchor in the Bay of Naples on the I:3th inst. ( From the Standard.) Of the effect of the division last night upon Ministers, it is scarcely necessary to speak. How often soccer they may be beaten, they will adhere to office, and for our selves we thank them for their tenacity. The public mind is now in an excellent course of training. No iay passes in which some pseudo Liberal theory is not exploded ; but the public have something still to learn ; and Conservatives, too, have something to learn ; l2fore they take upon them the administration of the Government. It will be useless to displace the Whig-Radicals if we are to fall to pieces among our selves iu a few months, to make way for their return to power ; but we certainly will fall to pieces if more in fluence is not allowed to the Conservative democracy than was allowed by former Tory Governments. Party bonds are good things ; but if they are to be used as fetters, binding us to the old engagements, or the old predilections, of men who have come over to u s , h ow respectable soever th ese men ma y be, it will become our duty to break them again, as we have broken them before. We allude more particularly to the great question before the House of Lords, in which there is understood to be a difficulty arising from the obstinate adherence to some supposed pledge, given by a dis tinguished Nobleman, not a member of that assem bly. We know not when the pledge was giv en ; un doubtedly it w as no t g i ven i n public, and therefore it cannot be held to bind a party ; nor will it bind a party who, as we hay' said, will not wear fetters im posed by any hand, much as they may honour it. If the pledge was given' in other times, while other connec tions existed, surely it must, be felt how disrespectfully the Conservatives arc treated when they are called upon to hold it binding. We have, we hope, said enough— and what we have sail it has been extremely painful to us to write ; but we owe a duty to the Conservative party, and it is our duty to let the leaders of that party know, that we have not for ten years been so near " a split" as at this moment. teen years old, when he was bound apprentice to Mr. Robert Davis, a quaker, who was a blacksmith in Cherry-alley, Market-street, Philadelphia. When he was nut of his time he went to sea and visited France, Spain, and the East and West Indies. He was at I3ourdeaux when Louis XVI. was beheaded, and he had a Vivid recollection of the commotion and excitement of the town. Dur'ng the first American war he was in the service of Major Barrows, of Monmouth. In 1703, being in the brig Polly of Philadelphia, and at Antigua, he was pressed into the British service by Lieut. Pinkerton, of the Berbush schooner, by whom he was sent on board the Hope, Capt. Robinson, and he remained in the British service until 1816. In that long period of British naval exertion he had undergone a great. deal. He was at the battle of Trafalgar, in the Bellerophon, Captain Cook, who was killed in that en gagement, and in the attempt to board he received a sword wound in the wrist, a muskr;t-ball in each thigh, a pike wound in the abdomen, and a bayonet wound in the loins, at the same time that he received a sword cut in the skull. He had been previously at Copenhagen with Lord Nelson, and at the taking of Flushing, and was twice taken prisoner. He escaped from a prison in France, and soon afterwards rejoined his ship. Since his discharge he had lived chiefly in Wales, where he was married about nineteen years ago to his present wife, by whom he had nine children, only one of whom, the boy who accompanied him, was alive. Some surprise was expressed at the advanced period of life at which the old man took to himself a youthful wife, to which he replied, that the Delaware tribe of Indians were extremely long lived, and that he had re ceived a letter from his father nine years ago, stating that all was well ; indeed, he should not wonder if he had brothers and sisters as young as his own little boy. They retained activity to an advanced period of life, too, as he thought he could at that moment testify. The old man then took hold of his right leg, and standing upon his left, clapped his toe in his mouth, and began to whirl himself about in a most surprising man ner. Here attention was attracted by a new object. The little boy appeared to be actually convulsed with laughter, and then, in imitation of his father, endea voured to raise his foot to his mouth, but failing in the attempt, tumbled over head and heels. Upon being asked why he had quitted Wales, Israel Furman said, that he had been compelled to join the followers of Frost, and had been examined as a wit ness against that person, in consequence of which he was obliged to leave Wales. The Magistrates of the placein which he gave his evidence had given him two pounds, with which he went to Bristol, accompanied by his wife and child, and from thence he came to Lon don, where, upon applying at Whitechapel for relief, he was sent to the toil of breaking stones. As he served the English Sovereign for such a length of time, he would have been received into Greenwich Hospital, had not Admiral Foley, the Port-Admir a l o f Plymouth, to whom he had been long known, been taken ill and died, just as that officer was about to exert himself to get Jilin admitted. Mr. Rowsell and Mr. Paul, of the City of London Union, undertook the investigation at the request of the Lord Mayor, and gave the old man some present relief. PARIS POLICE. THE DOG OF MONTARGIS. President—You are brought here to account for your absence from guard on the night of --. Jerome—Where the devil is that dog? Don't let him in here whatever you do. Keep him out, or you'll catch it. President—Answer, man, why did you not nrsunt guard on the night of ? Jerome—Ah, the dog—ah, the good dog. Let me speak. Don't let in the dog, I say, for if he finds me out I will not answer for the heels of the sentinel, or your calfs, your Honour. President—We will find means to silence your mis chievous dog. Jerome--"My dog mischimus—what 'lt story. Ho is an angel—a lamb ;he has all the virtues belonging to a dog—good father—good :husband ; but he has a singular fault ; he cannot bear a uniform, and that is the fact. Ah, keep him out—take cire of your heels, I say. _ _ President—What has all this to do with your refusing to mount guard ? _ _ Jerome—A great deal, your Honour. Just keep quiet a bit. You see, I once had a wife. She is dead, and may the earth lie easy on her chest ! She was a charming woman, but rather fond of the army. She had cousins in every regiment in the service. One day it was a dragoon, the next a lancer, then a grena dier, then a light bit. I once found that the drum major was a near relation of my wife's. President—Come to an end. Jerome—Stop a bit, I say. I felt very uneasy, both for the sake of my purse and the honour of the family, but could lot help myself, until one night I went to the play and saw the Dog of Montargis, or the Forest of Bondy. I saw, your Honour, that a dog was taught to fly at a light horseman's uniform, and so, thinks I to myself, my job is done—all's right. I went, your Honour, to a neighbour, whose mastiff bitch had just pupped. I bought the strongest and most promising puppy, and every day, in my garden, I gave him a lesson in manners which he does not forget to this day. President—What did you do? Jerome—l hung a soldier's uniform on a tree, and would not let him have his dinner until he had worried it. The consequence was, that my dog Coomr took a violent aversion to anything wearing a uniform—and as he grew big, the instant one of my wife's cousins came into the house—bang he was into the calf of his leg— or having a bite at his shoulder—or— President—And your wife ? Jerome—Oh, she died, Heaven bless her soul !--but I keep Caner in case I should marry again. President—But what has all this to do with your not mounting guard ? Jerome—Don't you see, if I put on a uniform, Caesar, who is no respecter of persons, would walk into President—You are fined ten francs. Jerome—Caesar, Caesar, Caesar ; at him good dog. CRIMINAL STATISTICS OF FRANCE. The Keeper of the Seals presented lately his compte rendu to the King on the administration of criminal justice in France, for the year 1838, carefully and ela borately drawn up, which presents some curious results, perhaps not uninteresting to the English public at the present moment, when crimes of a dark and atrocious nature are being perpetrated, and more particularly from some curious coincidences betwixt the capitals of the two countries in the increase of the crime of assas sination. In the year above mentioned the courts of assize had to judge of 5,844 accusations, of which 4,232 were crimes against property, and 1,612 against the person. Of the latter there were no less than 239 assassinations, which is the greatest number which has been known in any one year since 1825. In the Court of • Assize of the Seine alone there were 22 cases of as sassination, being 16 above the mean number, and four more than in Corsica, that island of individual revenge and cold-blooded murders, the mean fur which is 21 an nually. Of the above 5,844 accusations, 2,800 (48 per cent.) were admitted without modification ; 1,629 (28 per cent.) were rejected ; 1,425 modified by extenu ating circumstances ; and 893 were crimes of a venial nature. These accusations or charges were instituted against 8,014 individuals, of which 6,554 were males, -and 1,460 were females, giving one accused in every 4,185 of the whole population, or, taking the sexes into consideration, one female in 11,699, and one male in Q,512. There is a great disparity in the state of crime in the different departments, the highest being that of the Seine, where one accused is found in 1,218 of the inhabitants, the lowest that of the Cher, where it is only one in 17,303. The Lozere and Pyrenees Orien tales rank next in depth of criminal shade to the Seine. The Creuse is next to that .of the Cher in the paucity of delinquents. It is a curious fact that in adjoining departments there aro often found very great dif ferences. Of the females accused (1,460)383, or 23 per cent. had been living in a state of concubinage, or had had natural' children. Of 5,123 who were condemned, 44 were adjudged to suffer death, and 198 to hard labour for life. Of the former, 10 were pardoned by the king, and 34 were executed. In the case of 2,775 individuals found guilty, the Juries delivered their verdicts with the declaration of extenuating circumstances. Of these the Judges exercised their discretion In lowering the penalty two degrees in 935 ; whilst on 1,840 they only lowered it one degree, a duty which the law imposed upon in 1,312 cases out of the 1,840 ; but clearly showing that they did not coincide in many cases with the implied recommenda tion of the juries. There were 34 males acquitted out of 100, whilst of females there were 42. There were 78 individuals brought before the tri bunals for crimes connected with the press, of whom 59 were acquitted, 15 condemned to imprisonment, and four fined. The authorities had also brought before them 8,478 cases of deaths ; of which 872 were from natural causes, 5,020 were from accidental causes, and no less than 2,586 were suicides. Of the latter, the Department of the Seine alone contained 483, or about a filth of the total number. The suicides embraced all ages from under le to above 80 yeers, and they were more fre quent in the spring and summer than in autumn or win ter. The tables are classed according to the professions or occupations of the individuals ; and it is singular that cultivators of the soil and literary men should stand the highest in the list. To close the melancholy list of deaths out of the common course of nature, it must not he forgotten to mention, though with feelings painful to human nature, that :238 deaths of the above number are put down in the tables as having been caused by hunger, cold, and exhaustion, but no remarks are made or explanations offered; We have heard that Mr. Charles Kean is in treaty for Drury-latie Theatre ! Mr. Butler, it is said, is also a candidate. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, .TuNr; 27. Middlis,x Sittings at Nisi Prius.) THE. QUEEN V. WILLIAM MOWATT AND ANOTHER. Mr. PLATT, with whom was Mr. BALL, stated this was an indictment against William Mowatt and a person who hail gone by the name of " Jem," but who was in dicted in the name of " John Jern," for conspiring toge ther to defraud Dr. Browne of forty guineas. Toe fol lowing were the facts of the case :—ln December last Dr. Browne saw an advertisement in the Miles news paps .r offering for sale a bay gelding by Waterloo ; it was represented as a very superi,n- hunter. and altn7i;e ther a very valuable animal. The reference was to Wel beekmews. Dr. Browne accordingly went to the mews, and saw Jem, who pointed to Mowatt as the person who had the horse for sale ; that person then came for ward, and both he and Jena represented the horse as being a very excellent one, sound, free from vice, and had carried a lady ; that it was a very great favourite of its owner, and that it had belonged to Mr. or Mrs. Browne, of Leamington. The price would be forty guineas. Dr. Browne said he should like to try it. Mowatt said he could not try it that day, nor could be keep it for him unless he made a deposit of Si. The Doctor gave him 51.. and called the next day, whoa Mowatt said he could not try it uniel,s he paid the whole sum of fokty guineas. Tnis sum Dr. Browne then paid him, taking a receipt for it, which rec, ipt contained a warranty of the horse. Dr. Browne then got upon the horse and rode it into Hyde Park, where it pulled so hard, and plunged and kicked so much, that he was fearful it would have killed some one ; he therefore rode it back to the stables, and there he again saw Jew, who said, in answer to his complaints, that they arose from the horse being very fresh, and recommended him to try it again in the afternoon. Accordingly Dr. Browne rode it out in the afternoon, but it then was worse than it had been in the morning. He then took 't back, and iNlowatt said he should have the forty guineas, but that it was at his banker's, and he would fetch it. Jem requested, Dr. Browne to go into a box in the yard and write a Mite to his mistress, and state that he had tried the horse. Ili, did so, but, having finished it, he found Mowatt wits missing: Jun said he was gone to the banker's for the money, and would be at Dr. Browne's house with the money by the time he could get home. Dr. Browne went home, but saw nothing of Mowatt. The nes t morning he went again to the stables, but the person there denied all knowledge of the parties ; and the horse had been taken away. Sometime afterwards he perceived an advertise ment in the Times, similar to the one by which he had been tricked, offering " a bay horse, by Waterloo," for sale. Dr. Browne obtained a warrant for the appre hension of Mowatt, and went, accompanied by a police officer, to the place where the advertisement stated the horse was to be seen. He there saw Mowatt coming out of a stable ; but, as soon as he saw Dr. Browne, he turned on his heel, ran into the stable, and locked the door. The policeman, having desired him several times to open the door, broke it open, and, upon going into the loft, he found Mowatt, and took him into custody : he was afterwards committed, and tried at the Old Bailey ; but the Judges considered the offence did not amount to a felony, and therefore ordered him to be acquitted ; at the same time they directed this pro ceeding to-be instituted. He should prove these facts, and he thought they could not do otherwise than find the defendants guilty. The Learned COUNSEL then called Dr. Browne, and W. Hooker, a police officer, to prove his statements. Mr. ADOLPHUS (with whom was Mr. JAMES) was about to address the Court for the defendant, when Lord DENMAN said there was no proof of the other person being called John Jem—indeed, there was no thing to show that there was any such person in the world. The pleader, somehow or ether, frequently went too far, for in this case there were no less than eight counts, and yet the party was improperly named. Therefore the defendant must be acquitted. It was not from inclination he made the suggestion.—Verdict, Not Guilty. CLERKEN WELL SESSIONS. A Special Session was holden at the Sessions' House on Saturday before Messrs. Wilson, Carpenter, Knight, Wilkes, and other Magistrates, to decide upon the tollow ing cases of fraud, which were discovered by Mr. Childe, an Inspector of Weights and Measures, and his as sistant, Mr. Turner. The proceeding caused much in terest in a very crowded Court. Mr. IV. Davis, baker, residing in the Lower-road, Islington, was charged on an information with using false weights. Mr. Turner, having been sworn, said that the present was one of the grossest cases of fraud that had ever come under his notice, inasmuch as the defendant could by one weight only that he had seized derive a clear weekly profit of upwards of 31, 10s., by reason of this unjust weight. This weight was represented to be a four pound one, and when witness found it, it was in a scale wherein defendant pretended a 4'b loaf had a just balance ; but instead of a customer getting a loaf of that weight, he or she would have one short of that 2 ounces and . drachms! that being its exact defi ciency by the regular standard. To give the Magis trates a better idea of the extent of such deceptions, he explained that a sack of flour would make 92 loaves, and in that quantity the defendant, by such weight, would be able to withhold from the public dealing with him 131bs. and a quarter weight of flour, and that after getting a fair and reasonable profit upon his goods. The defendant WAS doing a good business, and had got the character of a fair dealer. Mr. WILSON said it certainly was a very bad case and cared for a punishment far beyond what they had the power to inflict, and he would take care that he should be well looked after in future. He asked him what he had to say ? Defendant denied that he used the weight in his bu siness.—Mr. Knight : Don't tell us that, for we cannot believe it. Why, the weight was in the scale !—Mr. Childe : And there was no other weight in the shop. Mr. WILSON : It grieves me to think that I am living in a parish where there is such a dishonest trades man. (To defendant) : Ilow long have you been in in your present shop ?—Defendant : Five or six years. - Mr. WiLsoN : And very likely you have all that time used this bad weight.—After the other Magis trates had severely censured the defendant, they fined him 60s. and costs. Joseph Bottom, a butcher, N o , 39, Chapel-street, Pentonville, was charged with having an illegal balance. Turner said that he found underneath the scale in which meat is placed, a piece of fat weighing half-an ounce.—Defendant : Said that the fat got there by accident. Mr. WILSON : It is useless to say so, for we cannot, credit it. You often sell a single chop to a poor per son, I suppose ?—Defendant : Yes, sir. Mr. WiLsoN—And in that chop you cheat them of an ounce. L's very disgraceful, and we floe you 10s. Anderton, cheesemonger, 21, Lower-street, Islington, was charged with a similar offence. In this case there was a deficiency against the pur chaser cf every article, however small in quantity, of half an ounce, ,uid a penalty of 10s. was ordered to be Henry Hyde, the keeper of a chandler's sliop, 2.0, Baltic -street, Sr. Luke's, was also complained of fur using Use weights. Turner s ►id that he scized_in_ defendant's premises one 21h. weight short of 2 drachms, another 21b. weight short of 3 drachms, a half-pound weight deficient •? drachms, and a one-ounce weight half a drachm short. He also discovered that defendant's coal-rnaf?hine was one pound and a quarter heavier on one side. than on the other. Defendant was fined 10s. and costs. James Bailey, coal-dealer, in Great Sutton -street, Clerltenw{.ll, was fined 20s. and costs, fora like fraud. William Grevillc, another coal dealer, at 30, St. John's-row, St. Luke's, was ordered to -"pay 20s. for using a false balance. Edward Taglor, a potato-dealer, was charged with having three false n eights, and fined 10s. William Smith, of 30, Wellington-street, Sr. Luke's, was fined its a similar sum for having a false weighing machine. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-lIOUSE. On Saturday, Israel who, on the Ist of Mny last, attained his 91st year. appeared before the Lord Mayor, a cc ompanied by his w i fe, an Irish woman, thirty-eight years of age. and Ins nf.int child, a boy between two and thrca years old, for the purpose of reque*ting the Lord Mayor's assistance in their distress. " I come," said the old man, " from the parish of Whitechapel, where -I have been breaking stones for the payment of a penny an hour, and where because I was absent a quarter of an hour, they docked a great prt of my day's earnings ; 1 am anxious to get home with your Lordship's assistance; at any rate I hope to be put to work somewhat easier?' The LORD MAYOR—You do not appear to be near SO old as people sty you arc.—The applicant said that he was born on the Ist of May, 1749, and, he thanked God there was work in hint still. The details ol the adventures of this ancient of day; were very interestieg-. His father was, he stated, in tines long gone a chief of th e Delaware tribe of In dians, and was called Colonel San Furman. In th e I earlier part of his career be acted in the American ser vice, but afterwards wort over to the British troops, a s many of his tribe had done. Applicant was the youngest of six boys and seven girls, and his moth,..r died after having been nine days in labour with him, and he was, as he had been Informed, taken from her by the Ca"; riot operation. He remained with his father, „Lo resided at one of - his farms in • Bushell Schuylkcll, near Philadelphia, until he was fit.- THE QUEEN V. GWILT. Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK stated that this was a criminal information that had been filed against the de fendant for an assault, which had been committed on the prosecutor (Mr. Knyvett), a person occupyinr , the rank and character of a ge n tl eman . Th e defendant did not appear to-day. either by himself or bis counsel, to offer any defence to the proceedings. It would ap pear that a gentleman of the name of Curry, residing in Berkshire, had a son at a school in Westminster, where the defendant was a tutor, and he had re quested Mr. Knyvett to pay some attention to the lad, and see that he was conducting himself properly ; and accordingly, upon one occasion, he had felt it his duty to interpose, and he spoke to the defendant, who assumed an air of great dignity, and told him he would horsewhip him, which he afterwards did in the manner that would be described by the witness. A rule was afterwards obtained' for a criminal information, and it now came before them to say whether the defendant was or was not guilty. George Henry R..• Knyvett.—l am the prosecutor ; I know Mr. Curry, who lives near Abingdon ; I was spoken to by him in reference to a boy he had at West minster school ; I talked to the boy, and I had a com munication with Mr. Curry ; the boy told me of some thing relative to the defendant. In January the de fendant came into my lodgings about a quarter to five with a horsewhip in his hand, and insisted upon know ing what I meant by saying if I could rescue the boy from his hands I should be too glad. I requested any complaint might be made on paper. He made a row, and I said I will tell you why : you have accompanied the boy to a house of ill-fame, and introduced him to a bad character, which I hold to - be disgraceful. He then in a very magnificent manner said, if he chose to spend the whole day in dissipation it was nothing to me. 1 said, if I found him leading any connection of a friend of mine into his profligacy I thought I ought to inter fere, and no threat of his would prevent my so doing. He then called me names, and said it was Sunday, but the first time he met me in the street he would assault me ; he had his hat on the whole time; he afterwards left. On Tuesday, the 14th of January, I left my lodgings about five o'clock ; I went down Bur ton-street ; I saw the defendant ; he was standing by the side of a shop, evidently waiting for me ; he had a whip in his hand ; I saw him crossing the road, and I met him half-way ;he addressed me by saying, You are Mr. Knyvett, I believe ; I said I am ; he said, I told you I should assault you ; I replied, You did ; he said, I shall do so now ; I made him a very polite bow ; he then struck me across the shoulders ; I took him by the neckcloth, and put him into the mud ; he did a very dirty trick ; he bit my thumb to the bone ; I called for as,istance, but no one interfered ; a police man came up, and I requested him to take the defend ant into custody ; but he said he could not do so, as he did not see the assault, but I must get a warrant. The defendant was flourishing a pewter pot, which he had in his hand ; he said, " 1 did assault him, and I meant it." The policeman then took him in charge. I did not appear before the Magistrate, as I was recom mended to move the Court for a criminal information. Lord DENNIAN told the Jury that the facts had been clearly proved. The Jary at once returned a verdict of Guilty. The defendant will be brought up for judgment in the course of next term. The case excited consider able interest from the circumstances which gave rise to the assault. Lord Scarborough exhibited the same non (balance in the act of killing himself as he did when he • re signed his situation as Master of the Horse. He was re proache4 in the House of Peers with taking the King's part because he had a good place at Court. "My Lords," said he, " to prove to you that my opinion is independent of my place, I resign it this moment." He afterwards found himself in a perplexing dilemma between a mistress whom he loved, but to whom he had promised nothing, and a woman whom he esteemed, and to whom he had promised marriage. Not having sufficient resolution to decida which to choose, he killed himself to escape the embarrassment.— The Anatomy of Suicide. CUTTING AND MAIMING.-A Devonshire man named John Salter, was on Wednesday brought before the county magistrates a t (.h an d os H ouse, c h arged w i th one of those brut a and too frequent offences, the suppression and punishment of which was contemplated by the Act commonly called the Marquis of Lansdowne's act. From the evidence adduced before the magistrates, it appeared that at the annual revel which took place at Weston, on Whit Tuesday, the pro secutor, John Binding, was quarrelling with his wife in the evening, when the prisoner interfered. Binding, much irri tated, ran towards him for the purpose of striking him with his fist, but fell forwards, and missed his aim. On being taken up, it was found that his head was bleeding, but though Salter was seen to have an open chip knife in his hand, it was not thought that he had struck his antagonist, and Binding was carried home by seam persons who witnessed the trans action, and who supposed the wound on his head was produced by the fall. The prisoner went home- to his lodgings, and there exhibited his knife, part of the blade being newly broken off, and left, as he then stated, a ith an express;on of levity, in Binding's head. Binding's head was subsequently examined by a surgeon, when a sleep ineiied wound b.'ing discovered on the left side, which placed his life in imminent danger. Salter was apprehended. Binding has been unable, previous to Wednesday, to attend a Court for the purpose of stating the facts of the case. The prisoner was committed to the County .essions for trial, on the charge 'of cutting with intent to do some bodily harm.—Bath Herald. BUONAPARTE ON THE COWARDICE OF SuiCIDE.—" Suicide is a crime the most revolting to my feelings ; nor does any reason present itself to my understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate cowardice. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortune ? True heroism consists in becoming superior to the ills or life, in whatever shape they may challenge him to the combat." On 'another occasion, when talking on the same subject, Buonaparte observed, '' If Marius had slain himself n the Marshes of Minturnie, he never would have stood the seventh time for consul.—zlnatonly of Suielle. DISTRESSING AND FATAL ACCIDENT.- On Saturday evening last, as a mason, gamed George Pauley, was at work on a high ladder at the gaol, Penzance, as empty gig proceeded over the hill at a rapid pace, and dashing against the ladder with great vielence, threw the poor man to the ground from a height of about thirty-five feet, injuring him so dreadfully, that he died almost immediately. The gig it appears had been driven by Messrs. Matthew Dugdale and Richard Botheras, who' are said to have been intoxicated, and to have driven furiously, in consequence of which they were thrown out. The Coroner's jury, in giving their verdi c t o f Accidental Death, severely censured the conduct of Dugdide and Botheras; . and agreed to a deodand of si. on the gig, • • E V N IN G 14.: DIT lON. SPORTING INTELIAGEINCE. MANCH ESTEIL-FICIDAY EVENING. Speculation has been so decidedly extended to ;the Newton events, we have simply to state that Deception has been made first favourite, at 10 to 1, but the same was offered to-day at Newton; 11 to 1, 'btr one, and takers of 12 to 1 about the Dey of Algiers ; 14 to 1 has been accepted on Retriever; 20 to 1 Sleight-of-Hand ; 20 to 1 Confusionee ; 20 to 1 Ratsbanc; 27 to 1 Trustee; 40 to 1 Glenlivat. The field against tiny eleven for the Liverpool Cup. For the St. Leger 3to 1 is offered either against Crucifix or Launcelot ; takers at 7 to 2. GOODWOOD CUP. 4 to 1 against llarkaway (off ). NEWTON RACES—FurnAr. The St. Helen's Purse of 501., added to a Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, for two-year-olds, 6st 71b ; and three, Bst 101 h; fillies allowed 31b. Tl , winner of the Colborne or St. Leger on Thursday, to carry 41b extra ; the owner of the second horse to have his stake returned. Colborne Course. Lord Stanley's ro c De Clifford, 3 yrs Mr. Ilawc,rth's br c by Contest, 3 yrs 2 0 Mr. Fowler's b f Lalla Rookh, 3 yrs 0 Mr. Eddison na br f Sister to the Quack, 3 yrs Mr. J. Gill's ch c Prince Albert, 3 yrs Mr. Thompson na Brother to Harpurhey, 2 yrs.... ...... ° Mr. Clayton's brc Champagne, 3 yrs Six paid. The Shrigley Cup, value 100 sovs., given by W. Turner, Esq., M.P., st!ded to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 s )vs. each, 10 ft , and 5 only if declared, Sce. The winner of the Manor Cup, or the Borough Cup this yt ar, to carry 3 b. extra. One mile and a half. The second to receive 23 sovs. from the stakes. Mr. Meiklam's b m Modosty, 6 yrs, 7st 121 h 11 r. Legh na ch m Maid of Manton, 6 yrs, Bst Sib 2 Mr. Haworth's b f Fair Louisa, 4 yrs, fist 31b 3 Mr. Price's br g Capt. Pops, 5 yrs, 7st 91b OO Hon. J. Sandiland's ch g Nubian, yrs, 7st 71b Mr. Belle's b f La Sage Femme, 4 yrs, ist 7113 Lord Miltown's b c Wirrestrew, 4 yrs, Est Sib 0 Lord Stanley's ch f Imogene, 4 yrs, Est Sib ......... Mr. Thompson's br f Fenella, 3 yrs, feather .................. 0 0 Mr. King's b c The Alderman, 3 yrs, sst 91b 18 paid the larger, and 9 the smaller forfeit. The Warrington Purse of .50/., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each. Mile and a quarter. Mr. Bell's b f La Sage Femme, 4 yrs, Bst 41bs Mr. Mciklam's bl c Bushranger, 3 yrs, 7st . Mr. Price's br f Rose of iliaclor, 3 yrs, sst 101b5..... . ....... 3 • • 4 Mr. Ogd:n's b g St. Leonard, 5 yrs, Bst Two paid. MARKET INTELLIGENCE COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Oati. Beans. Pease Per Quarter. s. to a. s. to s. a. to s. s. to a. S. ;i 3 Abingdon.— 64 76 32 44 24 35 12 50 4 4 And0ver......... 66 72 30 40 22 28 Banbury 30 40 25 32 46 Basingstoke— 64 78 29 42 24 31 4, 51 40 40 61 75 28 48 26 35 40 42 - 73 45 25 38 46 40 • ; ')aver' 68 72 38 44 24 34 30 44 i)erby 50 76 33 36 32 33 49 LO 72 24 40 41 -- Hungerford— 56 80 32 46 25 33 36 4 , i 37 43 Malton 68 76 35 38 22 33 Maidenhead.. 58 81 35 48 25 34 37 46 65 — 5 gottingham 56 '75 . 29 43 27 32 45 LO 4 0 Wantage t,B 80 30 40 22 '413 36 46 Warwick —..— 32 46 30 35 __ Worcester 70 36 29 43 -- York 40 82 32 46 22 30 Per Bushel. s.d. s. d. s.d. s d. s.d. s. d. 8. d, s, d, 1. d. 7 0 NEWCASTLE Birmingham 80 96 4 0 59 39 46 1 5 0 7 4 0 0 0 NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. Red. White. • Wheat, Northumberland.... ........... 465. —s —s - Norfolk and ..... 693. 72i 72s 745. Berwick and Scotch ......... 61s. 65s --4. 685. Foreign 66s. 70s. 735. Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 36s 38a....... —4. . Foreign 288.345....... --s. , g Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 386. 415....... Grinding and Feeding ?Os. --s. Malt, Norfolk and 5ui1b1k........ ........ 64s VS Beans, Small 4os. 485....... --S. ao. _ _.N EXCHANGE. Red. White. Wheat, Northumberland ..... ........... 4fis. Norfolk and Suffolk.... ..... 695. 72s 721 - Berwick and Scotch ......... ...... 61 . 65s --L 68 " . Foreign 66s. 70s. 73.5. Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk Foreign 2Bs. 341....... Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 3ss. 415....... Grinding and Feeding ?Os. V 5..... --s- Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk.... ........ 645 Beans, Small 40.. 485....... Tick 42s 48s. Pease, White 42s. 44L ••••••• Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 29s. 305 Feed Foreign Flour (per sack) sos. 535. -- WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. Wneat, Red, Norfolk and Sittlblk Lin. and Cam. ..••••••••••••., Yorkshire hite - Foreign, Red White • Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 6 o 651. o 5115. Lincolnshire Yorkshire Wold 467. 4_6 274 6 : 8 02 : I:: t. o —a. ttrt ot 33 (3 725.291 not fine - Yorkshire nun ! titr e : 61 9 s . 7 41.1: 1 a. Foreign Beans, New -- Old 46s. to 485. . e 5(0. Oats, Potato Poland Friesland and Small Iwzaling Shelling Malt. Rapeseed . ......... ................................................................................................................ SCOTCH MARKET _ - Wheat --- .. - tm - ' . - Barley. Oatr. Beans . oao4/ ...... ------ -- .--..- 40 kberdeen 70 to 80 29 to 34 26 to 29 —to 3170 46 Berwick 3O 45 20 26 19 21 28 33 Ai ... Coldstream . 46 50 24 26 17 18 3 .. 2 - . Cupar (Fife) 48 65 2 . 26 31 IS 22 22'''' 42 Dunbar 4B 08 26 49 23 27 40 42 40 ..., Elgin - .... Inverness - .... Kelso ......._ 34 53 24 27 19 22 32 34 "" ... Kirkaldy .... Perth .... 11„,,,, The size of the measure varies throughout the country HADIHNGFON CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Berns First 74s Od 398 Od ;is 8d 49s Od - -4 a d Second 64s lid 3tis Ed 30s Od 46s Od —8 — d Third 56; Od 34s Od 28s Od -.s Od --"' - Average .31. 4;. 3.1 0 I2ths. DALKEITH CORN MARKET. ~;no. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Pease. ;';' - o d First 74; o,i 39; Od 34 , 8d 48; Od 4°' Od Second fss Od 35s Od 3ls 4d 47, Od 478 Ott Third 443 Od a7s Od 28s 4d —, 61 --4 GLASGOW CORN Mt 7..:KET.—June 24. Wheat, per 2401 h. s. d. tos s a .d n . I io.h Oats, per 264th. s•' 1 • 1 2 4 6 4' 0 riritigh. Old DALKEITH CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. First lls Oa 39; Od I 34 , 8d 48; Od Second f 5s Od 35s Od 31s 4d 475 Od Third 443 Od k7g Od 28s 4d —, 01 GLASGOW CORN Mt 7...'KET.—June 24. A i•d• Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. Oats, per 964 1 b. s• 2 6 0 riritish, old 36 oto3B 0 Ic"b 22 ot° 26 0 25 ---- new Canada, free 0 0 Beans, per 2601 b. Irish Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish 24 0 English 29 0 30 0 Pease, Scottish ...... 23 0 Scottish 24 0 25 0 Oatmeal, per 14011).... 20 0 Irish $ 1 25 0 25 0 22 0 561 CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. 8. d. to r. d. S. d. to S. d. fruro — 0 5 P 0 4 0 Helbtone St. Austell I -0 810 I— 0 4 Bodmin 0 8 8 , 0 4 '..iskeard 8 6 9 0 3 9 4 Launceston Camelford 8 4 2 3 4 5 Penzance 8 0 8 4 0 5 - 0 3 - 0 0 - 0 3 0 '• 0 0 3 6 g 8 10 2 1.1 COTTON.—It appears from the New Yors At Price Current of the 20th ult., that the receipts of cott on the ports of the United States continued abundant for the so n si son ; amounting, at the latest dates, to 1,877,999 baloh f ,g showing a receipt of more than 52,000 bales during the i a " week. The following are the leading particulars of the expor t ' . stock, &c., to the latest dates : Bales 768,401 Export to Great Britain Taal export from the United States l ,"'''y99 Receipts at the ports, 1840 ... ... 1,877'0(11,232, „ 5 Ditto 1839 . I,bss,c• — _, Ditto 1838 Stock on hand in the ports, 1840. 572, 328. 5:,v Ditto 1839 ° 7 Ditto 1838 Vessels up for England, 1840 Ditto 1839 92 Ditto 1538 It is tolerably clear, from these facts, that we shall s-- have heavy imports of cotton. FIRE-MOUNTAINS OF CHINA.—That a moon' pp tain should emit fire, is a fact, which aears fabulous' 1)11 . that flames should come out of water, is apparent l y still 01 . 0 r: so. Nothing, however, is better proved than this double plied nomenon. There are two fire-mountains in the island . Thai-Wan (Formosa) within the district of Tchou -10- "I c- 0 One is to the north of Pan-Tsiouer, to the east of the 1, mountains called illiao-10-Tchan and Iliaq-wou-Tehan . day, columns of smoke constantly rise, and by night a brig ight.—Mirror. SECOND HAND SILVER wATcHD. Tie A variety of some dozens, may be selected from, price :11 Guineas each ; some rather more modern, Two and 3;rre, Guineas each ; and an assortment quite equal to new , Guineas each. The whole have been carefully exaMinedt a printed warranty will be given. T. COX SAVORY'S, Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill (Seven doors from Graced's" . . . street). London. N. B, Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. On the 26th inst. , at his residence, Regent-terrae.!, the lady of Captain Henry Boys, Queen's Drage nt Guard s a son, still-born. On the 14th inst., at the Old Plough Tavern, Bea uf buildings, Strand, Mrs. Barker, of a daughter. On the 25th inst., in Cumberland-str,lt, Poststan-sq u ' re' Lady Charlotte Jane Blount. of a son. On the 25th inst., at Rolrenclen, Kent, the lady of Cap taill Tweedie, of a daughter. words - On tke 22d, at Harrow, the wife of the Rev. Dr. " worth, of a daughter. On the 24th inst., at Sevenoaks, Kent, Mrs. George KelspAf of a son.ladl On the 25th inst., in Bedford-place, Russell-square, Ib . e of J. L. Wight, Esq., of a daughter. AL-IRA/ED On the 25th inst , by special license, at St. George's; g in ; over-square, John Balfour, Esq., of Balbirnie, to Lady Ge° giana Campbell, second daughter of the Earl and Countess (I Cawdor. On the 24th inst., at St. Giles's, Camberwell, Esq., of Clapham-common ( rot merit , of Sligo), surgeon; Anne Dean, youngest danghter of Samuel Bowring; E s q . ' ° Peckham. On the 24th inst., at Bathwick Church, that, Eaward lock Mortimer, Esq., to Anne Eliza, eldest daughter of Bev. Frodsham Hodson, 1).1)., Principal of l'rasenose College' and Regius Professor of y in the University of Ox f° ,, r td J. M'Donogh,,,, On the 19th ult., the Rev. Thomas Middleton, M.A., " L e- er master of the grammar school, Stockport, and morning preacu t of .zt. Michael's Church, Manchester, to Sarah Anne, -n, daughter of John Beardman, Esq., of Smedley, Cheetbarn Manchester. vA w Yet On the 23d inst., at St. Saviour's, Southwark, 8 1 Dobson, Esq., of Worcester, to Harriet, third daughter of Mills, Esq., of Southwark. r . v On the 24th inst., at St. George's, Banover-square, i• • Barnes, Esq , of St. Mary at- Hill, to Eleanor, y"1" - daughter of the late Thomas Goodwin, Esq., of PowleY -111 " ei Shepley, Herts. DIRT). OH the 21st in -t., at Liege, Belgium, Elizabeth Catherillse: eldest daughter of the late William Adair Carter, Esq. age d j o t On the 26th inst., in Upper Woburn-place, Evelina, yolliag - child of Francis Rebell°, Esq., aged 3. On the 24th inst. at Rickmansworth, Kneller, eldest eou Mr. KneDer Smart, of Camden-town and Princc's-street' Leicester-square, aged 19. On the 24th inst., Mrs. Ann Leathwick, of Brunswick place, Ball's-pond, relict of Mr. W. Lcathwick. Lendon : Printed and Published by 111 MID° Y 0 . No. I 12, Str2ral, at The Sun ()tree, No. I t , Sofia to the county of 31ithilesex.—Monday, J une. t 9, . -i„ ~' 1 T Q ~ G