The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-03 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY

DIAL, JULY 2. —Light airs from S. E.—Arrived the
the Little Queen, Marks, from Youghal. Sailed the Re-
novation, Metcalfe, for Quebec

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 2. —Wind W.—Sailed tha Mary;
for the South Seas.

PLYMOUTH, JULY I.—Wind, variable.
FALMOUTH, JULY I.—Light breezes from the North-
ward.—Sailed the Tagus (steamer), M'Leod, for Vigo.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 2.—Wind N. W. moderate.—Arrived
the St. Lawrence, Brown, from New York; Huron,
Boardman, New Orleans; Plymouth, Kendrick, Mobile ;
John Traughton, Jordon, Charleston. Off port, the Mar-
garet Helen, from Newfoundland; Edgecombe, ditto.
Sailed the Great Britain, French. for New York; Mary,
Roworth, Honduras; Caledonia, Huxtable, Quebec.

The Tories- mean to divide to-morrow in great
force on the Franchise Clause of the Irish Corporation
Bill. Every Liberal will be present to defeat them.
GENERAL DE LACY EVANS.—A malicious
report was circulated this morning at the west end that Sir
De Lacy Evans had died suddenly. We are happy to state
the Gallant Officer is in excellent health. The fabri-
cators of such lies ought to be exposed and punished.
LORD HOWDEN.—The answer to inquiries in
Hereford-street yestercly was, that his Lordship had
passed a quiet night, and remained much in the same state
as for some days past.

We are glad to learn that a Morning Concert is
announced at 'Willis's Rooms, to-morrow (Thursday), for
the benefit cf Miss Chambers, the Banker's daughter,
whose unmerited misfortunes have attracted no small share
of public sympathy. As the vocal and instrumental per-
formances announced for this occasion are of a high order
of excellence, we have no doubt there will be a full and
fashionable attendance.
THE CANADIAN PRISONERS.—It having been
found impracticable to put the Canadian prisoners upon
their trial in England, in conformity with the suggestion
in the judgment of the Court of Exchequer, the Govern_
ment has notified to them that, upon entering into personal
securities not to return to Canada, they will be released.

MASTER BASSLE.—On Friday morning at
Willis's Hooms an extraordinary mnemonic performance
was gone through by this young gentleman, who is only
thirteen years of age. Five large sheets of paper, closely
printed with tables of dates, specific gravities, velocities,
planetary distances, &c., were distributed among the
visitors at their entrance, and every one was allowed to
ask Master Bassle a question relating to these tables,
to which he received a correct answer. He would
also name the day of the week on which any day of
any month had fallen in any particular year. He could
repeat long series of numbers backwards and forwards,
and point out the place of any number in the series ;
and to prove that his powers were not merely con-
fined to the rows of numbers in the printed tables, he
allowed the whole company to form a long series, by
contributing each two or three digits in the order in
which they sit, and then, after studying this series for
a few minutes to commit it to memory, repeated it en-
tire, both backwards and forwards, from the beginning
to the end. What rendered this exhibition peculiarly in-
teresting was, that, the performances of Master Bessie
were stated not to be the result of any natural mnemonic
powers, but of a method acquirable by any person. The
exhibition is merely given to prove to the public the effi-
cacy of the method, which it is designed is to be taught to
pupils in a course of twelve lessons. Whatever this me-
thod may be, we can affirm that, after a close watching,
and many endeavours to discover a weak point, there was a
total absence of humbug in the whole proceeding, and
that we have no doubt that the phenomena were really
produced by an ingenious system. This was chiefly proved
by an error made by the youth in a long series ; he men-
tioned a five by mistake for an eight, and when interro-
gated by a gentleman as to which was the 40th figure,
he again answered five. This showed that his error was
merely the result of a misapprehension in the first in-
stance, and that there was method in his powers ; for,
had he merely trusted to memory, his answer would pro-
bably have been right in one instance, and wrong in ano-
ther. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex was to
have attended, but he sent a gentleman to announce the
impossibility of his presence. The Prince of Oude was
among the visitors. —Ti /nes.
ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN ANGERSTEIN.—On
Monday morning, between owe and two o'clock Captain
Angerstein, who had been driving a carriage and four a
short distance out of town, accompanied by some noblemen
and gentlemen,his friends, drew up at the door of Limmer's
Hotel, Conduit-street, where the party alighted, and after
staying some time in the houses resumed their seats on the
carriage, when Captain Angerstein having turned the
horses round desired a man, who was placed on the dickey
with his key bugle to strike up the air of "Jim Crow."
The man had not played many notes when the animals
started off atla tremendous tate in spite of every effort made
to restrain them, and at the corner of Bond-street dashed
the carriage with fearful violence against a lamp-post. By
the concussion the Captain was precipitated head-foremost
from the box to the ground, where he lay for
nearly two minutes under the legs of the horses,
which kept kicking and plunging. He would inevita-
bly have been killed on the spot but for the assistance
of a police constable. The Captain was promptly visited
by Sir Astley Cooper and Dr. Jones, who in examina-
ing him found that nearly the whole of his teeth had been
knocked out by the fall, and that he had also sustained a
severe fracture of the skull, in addition to other injuries of
a serious nature. The rest of the party, who had for-
tunately perceived the danger they were in, jumped off
without receiving any hurt, with the exception of the bugle
player, whose arm was considerably bruised. The horses
having at length by continued plunging, &c., disengaged
themselves, proceeded at full gallop with the whole of the
harness hanging about them (the carriage remaining in a
shattered state with the wheel locked in the lamp post)
into Berkeley-square, where they ran against tLe iron
railings, and injured themselves to such an extent as to
render them almost valueless. The amount of damage to
them and the carriage is estimated at nearly 5001. Capt.
Angerstein was up to Monday evening considered to be in
such a state as to leave but faint hopes of his recovery.
COUNTY OF KILDARE MEETING.—In the
Dublin Pilot of Monday last there is an ample report of
the proceedings at the meeting of the county Kildare, held
in Naas, on Saturday last, to evince the affection which
the people of that independent county entertain towards
their beloved Queen, and their gratitude for the deter-
mined resistance which she made to the insolent interfe-
rence of Toryism with her private domestic affairs.
THE PRINCES-STREET MURDER,—The state-
ment made by a soldier implicating himself in this horrid
and mysterious affair, as ❑oticed in The Sub of yesterday,
turns out to be, as was suspected, a drunken hoax.