The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-30 00:00:00

stlte that it waA fon

nd impossible to bring her befoic
the Court ant 1 this morning.
In answer L.; Mr. TYiIIVIIITT, she stated that she h
been in a good situation mar Russell-squire, and had
been led to commit suicide in c9nsequence of an.)ther
servant inducing her, t'vo nights since, to go out with
her for a walk, and on returning Inter ;han she had in-
tended to the house, she found the doors locked, and she
was in consequence compelled to walk the streets. Feel-
ing the disgrace of !raving stopped out all night she had
determined to put an end to her existence.
The prisoner's sister here stepped forward and said
she had hitherto borne an unimpeachable character,
having been in the situation which she bad just lett for
the last five years. With the magistrate's permission,
she and her husband would undertake to look after her
for the future.

Mr. TYRWHITT, in a most kind and feeling manner,
commented upon the rash net which she had attempted
to commit, and said it was as great a sin ti commit
suicide as it was to commit murder. lie hoped that her
master would take her back again and restore her to her
former situation. Her friends having promised to 10, k
after her, he should,. under the circumszanccs, hand her
over to then', hoping that aLe would not do the like
again.

THE TAX ON ADVERTISEMENTS.
The Association for Promoting the Repeal of the
Taxes on Knowledge have issued an address to the
advertisers of Great Britain, in which they sey—
" We would point out to you the injurious aft cts of
the duty upon advertisements, in the hope that we
shall have the advantage of your subscription and in-
fluence to aid our association in bringing to a success-
ful termination our efforts to obtain the repeal of all
taxes on knowledge, They amounted, during the
year 1849, to—The excise on paper, 867,1211. 11s.
; the duty of le. 6d. each on advertisements,
158,1641. 16e. ; the penny stamp on newspapers,
350,2891. 9'. 4d.—all three taxes directly tend to
swell the costs of advertising, not so much by the
amount of the duty, as by the impediment they offer
to circulation. An advertiser may be considered in
the light of a steward to the public, spending a large
sum, which is ulrimately to be repaid in the price
of the article; therefore any saving in the cost of
advertising is a general and public benefit, as
effecting a reduction in the cost of the article
itself. The inequality and partiality of the duty
consists in its being levied only on announcements
in periodicals (leaving untaxed posting bills, cir-
culars, placards in omnibuses, or rail carriages,
and all other announcements), and in the
charge being without discrimination, either of the
value of the thing advertised, the length (whether
one or 100 lines), or of the number of impressions
printed. The tables printed in the report of the Par-
liamentary Committee (which sat last session), show-
ing the number of newspaper stamps issued during
thirteen years to the various papers in Great Britain,
form a valuable guide as to how your money may be
judiciously invested when circulation alone is con-
sidered. From them may be gathered; that of an
advertisement inserted in the seven best selling papers
350,000 impressions are circulated at a cost for duty (at
Is. 6d. each) of 103.64. ; and that the duty for the same
number of impressions obtained from the average
selling papers of Great Britain (taken at 1,500 each)
would amount to 17/. 103. This disproportion is
increased by bad debts, and must remain as long as
the tax is levied in the present mode, and forms
a serious impediment to advertisers who would
avail themselves of the local and class papers,
which papers are those deliberately read by
country gentlemen and men of leisure, and
those which penetrate to the family interior.
The aggregate of a six months' sale would,
of course, compensate for the smaller indi-
vidual editions, and this invaluable medium might be
secured by a standing advertisement were it not
that the duty is re-imposed at each change of date,
preventing such an arrangement for price as would
be equally advantageous to the advertiser, the news-
Paper proprietor, and the public. To show this
disproportion more evidently, suppose an advertise-
ment in a paper circulating 36,000 shall cost 75.,
which sum represents—share of paper, printing, com-
position, ss. 6d., and duty once, ls. 6d., Is. The same
Put into a country newspaper circulating 1,500 would
require its insertion twenty-four times to get 36,000,
costing the newspaper proprietor as before for paper,
printing, and composition, ss. 6d., but he would have
to pay duty 365.-21. ls. 6d. The labours of our as-
sociation have been carried on hitherto, mainly by the
contributions, in time and money, of a few earnest
friends to education who desired to remove the evils
of the taxes on knowledge. The present time offers
every probability of effecting their final removal, if an
energetic protest be made to the Government."

LORD CO WLE Y.
tin The appointment of Lord Cowley to succeed the
•-rcluls of Normanby in Paris is a choice that will
pret
we believe, very general satisfaction. The first
rkequisite for such a choice was that the object of it
bad taken no part in those struggles of parties and
preference of persons which have agitated Paris. It
would have been unwise to name any diplomatist,
known as an Orleanist, or inclining to Bonapartism.
Thri, alone would set aside a number of able men
Ifrom the post of English ambassador in Paris. Tile
crquis of Clanricarde was spoken of; but he is of
e known opiniun of Lord Palmerston. Lord
Clarendon was mentioned, but he who is said to have
refused the seals of the Foreign -office was not likely
to embark in such a troublous sea of diplomacy
at Paris. Lord Canning was thought of ; but his
Lordship has identified himself of late years with the
foreign.
which nothing could be more illiberal or reactionary.
Lord Cowley has been out of the turmoil of English
and, French politics. Though come of a Tory stock,
he took a decidedly liberal view of German politics.
-
Those opinions were fearlessly professed, though not
carried out in any way that was intermeddling or
offensives. We are glad to see a politician so liberal,
at least so little bound by Tory or aristocratic tradition,
aPPointed to watch over British interests in a country
every way so anomalous and new as France has become
slcoe the accession of Louis Napoleon to unlimited
Power. The Marquis of Normanby has shown himself
"rY susceptible of newspaper reports_ We do not
mean offence, nor fear denial, however, when we
state that Lord Normanby was, however innocently,
the cause of Lord Palmerston's resignation or dis.
int,lBB4l. Lord Palmerston, it is well known, expressed
himself in London to Count Walewski in terms which .
not harmonise with Lord Normanby's language
In Paris. The President of the French Republic
flientioned, and showed proofs of this discrepancy to
Lord Normanby, who appealed to the Government at
hotne• These circumstances led to Lord Palmerston's
Withdrawal from Downing-street, and Lord Nor-
manby's retirement from Paris. This mere outline
of_. facts will be useful for the appreciation and under-
standing of debates that must ensue, as well as for
affording a clear view of the relative position of the
two Governments.—Daily News.

, • '
1501:MIME& IMPROVEMENTS.—The Board of Ord•
rhi
nonce hoavepelacedat the disposal of Lord Frederick Fitzcla-
Wa
pplidca tion of Major Harvey, A.D.C.) a mortar,
Which Lord Frederick
intends to be placed on a handsome
stone pedestal with a suitable inscription, we believe in the
Ciliate of the Governor's field, in comniemmoration of the
Iroble Duke's landing here after the late war.—Portsmouth
Guardian.
Cunious DiscovEur.—A.
manufactoryfe days ago,
weref Messrs. Banks Son,
the workmen in the as some of
and Co., Gretna Pencil Works, e
nergtticdt inwillanaldhaagrda
log of cedar, the large saw came in
which, on
foreign substance near the centre of then
bolades of a
harifice ex-
examination, was discovered to b 3 one of n:liero,
•vee
ofbetre
pair of, scissors about four inches in length.
isted in, the timber around it, so that it must
thrust into that position at an early period in the a
tree, which subsequently, in the course of its natural growth,
completely encompassed it. The depth of the timber, from
the outer extremity of the scissor blade to the bark of tho
tree, which must have been of subsequent growth, was io
great as to demonstrate that about 70 years must have
elapsed sines it was deposited there, most probably by
thrusting it into the tree. It was in perfect preservation,
and was remarkably well finished for the period indicated by
the circumstance we have stated. The timber is believed to
have grown in the vicinity of New Orleans, and according to
the above calculation, the article was placed in the position
described during the height of the American War of Inde-
pendence.

TIIB LATE Ma. ROBERT BURNS.—It has been
generally stated by the press that this young man, who was
recently murdered by the Bornean pirates, was a grandson
5 the Scottish bard. He is no relation whatever. The un-
lortunate Mr. Burns was a native of the north of Ireland,
DLatrool .
ul catne to Glasgow a feiv y
draper oears ago, as assistant to his
er-in-law, a respectable n the south side of the
river, Being of an enterprising disposition, however, he
skied from the Clyde for Singapore in the summer of 1846;
and finally formed a connexion as a trader on the eastern
ilas, in which vocation he was employed when murdered by
pirates. He was about twenty-seven years of age.—
urtalgow Herald.
'RA CONVICT PARDONED.-Mr. Therneroft (the se-
nt overseer) mentioned to the magistrates at the bench,
ten ili°nday, that a person named John Bellamy, who was
asktenced last August, at the Central Criminal Court, to
Leoveri Years' transportation, for administering drugs to one
11_18a Meredith. for a criminal purpose, had very recently
Tei!eived a free pardon under the following circumstances
(Mr. Thorncroft) haened, a few weeks ago, to have
Co 'nof the jury, who found Bellamy guilty, staying at his
3‘). The subject of the trial came up, and the assistant
theerseer felt satisfied in his own mind, from the character of
pari r.°4lart she having been twice committed from this
ki on charges for deserting her child, that Bellamy was
t(`;‘,suilty, and he consequently mentioned the circumstance
Scott
Rontagu Scott, who was then 011 the bench. -
cular requested the assistant overseer to draw up the parti-
-4,_.5, su far as he knew them, and he promised to com
`nt3 with the Secretary of State on the subject The
inut,rl3Y magistrate did an
;•Itnted, and the result a free for Bellamy.-
4artgliton Gazette. pardon
was inquiry by Government was
,rickern or HABIT.--Mr. Stumps, the celebt7ra d
.er of the Ztogari Club, dining lately at a house where
tuka children were brought down to
a to roll an orange down the('
etassbelret'fowras
Matti,
:""*. Stumps “ delivered " the or
to !teed
I!. bowled over the claret jug at taCe Master requested
j ac ebyy.
with such address that
..4e port and sherry, and flooded
of apologising for his end of the table, between
millt s a],lego with the wine.
a_signt of his cricketin enthusiasm P, Ir. Stumps, in the
84119froid SAW 901 •g and with characteristic
914 `hat urn pire?",—rhe itrontia.