The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-14 00:00:00

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MIDDLESEX.

Messrs. COVENTRY and TADILYN held adjourned Courts
yesterday at the King's Head, Enfield, for the purpose of
revising the lists of Tottenham and Edmonton, which stood
over from the former day. No case of any interest occurred
in either Court.

The overseers, out of 39 objections, sustained 34 ; the
Reformers made 47, ang sustained 13 ; the Tories objected
to 18 names, and succeeded in 3 cases only.

EAST SURREY.

The revising barristers sat at the Court-house, Kingston,
yesterday.
No case presenting any novel feature occurred.

The objections in Kingston parish are as follow :—Over-
seers' objections, 13 ; sustained, 1,3. Conservative objec-
tions, 14 ; sustained, 5. Liberal objections, 35 ; sustained,
6 ; failed, 16. There are some of the Liberal objections to
be considered this day.

EAST KENT.
PARISH OP HYTIIE.

William Marsh was unsuccessfully opposed by the Con-
servatives, first, on the ground that though he was ten
years in possession of the property for which he quali-
fied, and had paid a valuable consideration for it, yet that
the deed of conveyance was on a wrong stamp ; secondly,
that it had been purchased by him subject to a mortgage of
601., the interest on which had not been demanded or paid
for the last ten years, and that it was not now worth the
mortgage and interest ; and thirdly, that he had entered
into an agreement for the sale of it, that the deeds for this
purpose were drawn up, but that he had delayed signing
until his name should have been first inserted on the list of
voters.

John Elkins was also unsuccessfully opposed by Mr
Watts, on the part of the Conservatives.

Neither of the eases was interesting.

MURDER OF THE GOVERNOR OF
PRESTWICH WORKHOUSE BY ONE OF THE
PAUPERS.

PRESTWICH, THURSDAY.—On the 4th of September
last a most unprovoked and brutal assault was committed
upon Mr. Jonathan Fielding, an elderly man, the Governor
of the Workhouse, situate in the township of Prestwich,
near Manchester, by Joseph Dennerley, one of the paupers
resident in the workhouse. It appeared that about nine
months ago, Dennerley, with his wife and three children,
were received as paupers into the workhouse. Since that
time, Dennerley, who is a man of violent temper, disliking
the restraint under which by the rules of the establishment
he was placed, has set at defiance the authority of the Go-
vernor, and frequently took the liberty of leaving and return-
ing to the house whenever he thought proper. On other
occasions, whilst in the workhouse, his conduct has been of so
riotous and disorderly a nature, that Mr. F. has been reluc-
tantly constrained, in order to enforce his authority as gover-
nor of the house and insure obedience of the rules, to send
Dennerley to the New Bailey Court-Louse, Salford, where
he has been brought before the Magistrates arid punished by
imprisonment. He had frequently threatened that he
would be revenged upon the Governor for having caused
him to be taken before the Magistrates, but little notice
was taken of his threats. On the 4th of September, Den-
nerley, having only just suffered an imprisonment of three
weeks in the New Bailey, was employed at the workhouse
in weaving. In the course of preparing the warp for
weaving it is necessary that the threads should be rubhei
with a sort of paste made of flour, and called in weaver's
phraseology " the sow ;" after which the threads are dried
by means of an iron heated for the ptirpose. On the day
in question, Mr. Fielding, the governor, together with two
women, named Taylor and Schofield, were in one of the
rooms used by the paupers as a day-room. He was attend-
ing to some " sow" which was boiling on the fire, when
Dennerley came up to the fire-place, and taking his drying-
iron from the fire, turned with the iron round upon Mr.
Fielding, and struck him two most savage blows upon his
head. The poor old man instantly fell to the flour, and the
women screamed out for assistance, whilst Dennerley coolly
exclaimed, " I have killed him." He instantly left the
place and ran off, intending to escape. He was, however,
pursued, and captured by a man named Samuel Biacklev,
by whom he was taken back to the workhouse. Whilst in
the kitchen he seized a table knife and cat his throat in a
frightful though not dangerous manner, and he was secured
against making any further attempts upon his life by being
placed in safe custody.
An inquest on the body of the deceased took place yes-
terday, at the workhouse, when, after evidence had been
heard, the Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder
against Joseph Dennerley," and the Coroner committed the
prisoner to take his trial at the next South Lancashire
Assizes, at Kirkdale.

The prisoner is a middle-sized, thin man, apparently
about forty years of age, and of a passionate and unfor-
giving temper.

THE AMERICAN MARKETS.

It affords me pleasure to be able to announce that a de-
cided improvement has taken place in the Money Market
since my last. The discounts and issues of the banks have
greatly diminished, while those institutions are every day
becoming in a better condition for the resumption of specie
payments. They will, no doubt, be ready to resume the
moment a period may be designated for that purpose. Their
amount of specie on band in Philadelphia, New York, Bos-
ton, Baltimore, and New Orleans is liberal, while their
amount of circulation has been greatly curtailed since the
suspension. I have said that the Money Market is much
easier ; and nothing more clearly illustrates this fact than
the rate at which Treasury drafts are now selling, viz., 11
per cent. above par. Specie also, it will be observed, has
fallen to five per cent. and four and a half premium ; while
I am assured, by those who have paid considerable atten-
tion to the subject, that the exports of this article have,
notwithstanding all the noise that has been made, not very
materially exceeded the imports. Stocks, too, have ad-
vanced a shade ; and thus the general aspect of affairs is
better and brighter. Business is still exceedingly dull when
compared with former seasons, but the clouds are breaking
away, and by the spring at least the sunshine of prosperity
will once more beam down upon this country.

United States Bank Stock is up to 1181, 119, with a
rising prospect ; and all other favourite Stocks exhibit a
similar advance and promise. A new course of policy, it
is rumoured, will be pursued by the United States Bank,
the exact nature of which has not yet transpired. It is
certain, however, that Mr. Jaudon, the cashier, has been
appointed " agent, to reside in London," and that Mr.
Cowperthwait will fill his late situation. It is also re-
ported, but, remember, only reported as yet, that this
colossal Bank will soon resume specie payments. I have
before informed you that several of the New Orleans
Banks are paying specie. Two of the New York Banks
are doing so to a certain extent, and there is every reason
to believe that a general resumption will take place, at
furthest, in the spring of 1838. The issue of 9,000,000
dollars or 12,000,000 dols. of Treasury notes cannot fail to
hare a good effect upon the currency, as specie to that pre-
cise amount will be kept among the people at large, instead
of being absorbed by the Government and its agents.
Exchange on England may now be quoted at 119.
Sovereigns are down to 5 dols. 15c. to 5 dols. 14c. Other
gold and silver in proportion.
The last advices from Liverpool announcing a rise of
to s on cotton, have had a cheering effect upon the market
for that staple in every part of the Union ; and of course a
corresponding advance has been produced. Indeed, as cot-
ton becomes more than ever a favourite article for shipment
for remittances, the advance has been a shade higher in
proportion. Total imports into New York from the Ist
September to the 14th, 4,152 bales ; exports, 2,032, with
large quantities engaged for ships about to sail, freight
to ; 12 to 12i per cents. for good qualties of Upland and
New Orleans were given on Saturday. Total exports from
the United States since October last, 1,141,874 ; ditto,
ditto, same time last year, 1,103,481.
The prices of sugar, coffee, foreign grain, and indeed all
other imported articles, as quoted in my last, are fully sus-
tained. In ashes, pots have risen 12i cents ; 5,124 bushels
of corn were exported from New York, between the Ist
and 14th September. Molasses is the only article looking
downward.