The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-09 00:00:00

INDIA.

We have received the Bombay Price Current, of the 20th
May, from which we extract the following :
BOMBAY, MAY 20.—Since our last, prices of almost every
description of goods have given way—even those in comparative
demand and scarcity ; this general deprivation is in a great
degree to be attributed to an enhancement of the standard of
value, occasioned by the extreme scarcity of money
now prevailing, which again is to be referred to the
suspension, or (as it may turn out) annihilation of
the opium trade, the diminshed supplies of the pre-
cious metals in" China, and the distrust in the Bazaar of
parties known to have had dealings in the drug. The importance
of this branch of the Bombay trade, and the injury to the general
commerce of the port to be apprehended from its destruction,
will be best exhibited by a comparison of its value with that of
the entire trade with Great Britain for the last three years,
from which it will be seen that during the twelve months, end-
ing the 30th ult., the value of opium exported to China was more
than double that of the whole exports to the United Kingdoms
during the same period, and that it forms a very considerable
item in the external commerce of the port:-
1836-1837.

Imports from Great Britain:
Exports to Great Britain

Rs. 1,32,41,910
1,35,29,317

Total 2,67,71,227

Opium exported to China
Value of all Exports from Bombay

In 1837 and 1838.
Import,. from Great Britain
Exports in Great Britain

Total 1,98,23,389

Opium exported to China
Value of all exports from Bombay ,

~ 1,09,77,565
. 4,26,64,161

In 1838 and 1839
Imports from Great Britain
Exports to Great Britain ... ...........

~ 1,11,77,650
16,36,694

T0ta1......... 1,88,14,344

Opium exported to China
.............
....
..
.......
41:587:34:73,:116000
Value of all exports from Bombay.••
From the Papers of the 16th May, a letter received from
Amarapoora of `l3d March, gives an account of an awful
earthquake that had occurred there a day or two previous
to the above date, the houses had rocked so Violently
that chairs rolled about the rooms, and the next morn-
ing they found the country- under water and the earth forced
open in several places;every brick house had been thrown
down and many lives hail been lost. The palace of the King at
Ava had shared the same fate, burying _
many persons under its
ruins.

CLERICAL MAGISTRATE Tong the par-
ties for trial at the recent County Sessions was a child of
seven years of age, collimated by the Rev. J. P. Newby,
on suspicion of stealing five stockings, we say on suspicion,
for the case was so slight that the grand jury threw out the
bill. What will these clerical Magistrates do next ?
Leicestershire Mercury.
The Northern Star announces on the " best
authority, the intelligence that Mr. Attwood has signified
hisintention of resigning his seat in Parliament and join-
ing the Convention for the accomplishment of Universal
Suffrage." The Star suggests that the Hon. Gentleman
should retain his seat in Parliament and joitt the Con-
vention too.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY, HALF-PAST 3 P.M.
Although no actual outbreak has as yet taken place, the
authorities or the public mind are far from supposing that
tranquillity is established; on the contraay, they are ex-
ceedingly apprehensive of some serious rioting this night,
and have accordingly adopted precautionary measures.
All yesterday the town was comparatively quiet, nothinE
of an exciting nature having occurred, beyond the usual
Sunday morning assemblage at Holloway Head, which was
yesterday swelled to a very large number. Ia the course
of the day a few dragoons not on duty came in eontact with
the people, and one of them was very severely handled.
It appears that they were intoxicated, and were themselves
to blame for the occurrence.
It is reported that some of the inhabitants intend pro-
testing against the metropolitan police being continued
here. Thos. Clarkson, the policeman wounded in the
abdomen, is doing as well as can be expected ; but Reeson,
who was stabbed in the thigh, has suffered a collapse.
The streets are again being crowded, and the Bull... Ting
and its vicinity presents almost as dense an assemblage as
on Thursday night. Torrents of people are pouring out
from all the districts to Wedgbury, where a public meet-
ing will be held this day (Monday). The Chartists
tend holding a meeting in the Town Hall this night. The
Rifles are still doing duty in the streets.

A report having readied the Convention Hall yesterday
evening, that twenty-seven warrants had been issued
against its members, and that the police were stationed
at the railway station and the coach offices to pre-
vent their departure, at a late hour last night a
great number of Delegates took coaches and maned
for Coventry. On the wall of the house where they met
the following notice was posted:—" The Convention ad-
journed to Monday." Still there are several Delegates here.
It is expected that bail will be perfected for Messrs. Col-
lins and Lovett, and that they will be liberated this night.
Instead of two sureties of £250 each, they will take seve.
ral persons as bail, so as to deride the amount. It was
reported this morning that persons had attempted to bore
to the powder-magazine at Weedon. It was also reported
that a rising had taken place in Manchester, and that seve-
ral lives had been lost. I made every inquiry, and am
authorised to state that the latter is quite groundless.
COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY.
The following address has been issued this evening to
the Trades :

" Tradesmen of Birmingham—Englishmen—The laws
of your country have been broken, end blood-thirlty Ma-
gistrates and murderous policemen have spilled the blood
of your people. Something must be done. The pro •
ducrs our wealth must exhibit their power, and take
that grct; andirsportant state *hien-their enemies have
so long denied them.

A- Committee must be appointed to guard over the
public safety. Each trade must elect a member to repre-
sent itself. This must be done immediately. Decision
and energy must be the order of the day, unless you desire
to be bludgeoned by a slave-driving police, and see your
country bunted back to the barbarous curfew bell of the
Norman invader, and have your children debarred from
looking on the even sky of a fine country. Be men fo,
once—be Englishmen now. The union o, the producing
Trades can never be defeated ; and remember that all delays
are dangerous. Every information will he given at the
Convention, Golden Lion, Ashton-steep."
The Trades of Birmingham are this day bringing, in
subscriptions to the National Rent, and will this evening
fiorn themsleves into Societies.

The Magistrates are this day engaged in examining
rioters taken up since Saturday.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

-
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.
PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, JULY 4.—The CoThwallis, 72,
was paid off on Tuesday, and will be docked the next spring
tides. The officers of this ship gave a sumptuous dinner
on the occasion, to their respected Captor', Sir Richard
Grant, at Elliot's Hotel, when mutual kind feelings were
warmly expressed. The Belleisle, 72, Captain Nicholas,
K. H., went into the Sound on Thuisdav, on which day
the Commander-in- Chief inspected the Childers, 16, Com-
mander Halsted, previous to sailing on Monday next, for
the Cape and West Indies. The Druid, 42, Captain Lord
J. Churchill, which was towed out of harbour on Monday,
is to return to Barnpool to be fitted for the reception of
Captain Hobson (and family), who will proceed in this ship
to New Zealand, to the G overnment of which new settlement
he is appointed. From New Zealand the Druid will repair to
the East Indies. The Malabar, 72, is ordered to be prepared
for commission. Seamen enter very slowly here. On Friday
morning last, the messengers attached to the Pay-office, in
the Dock-yard, on:going, to their duty, found that the lock of
the lower door, leading to the flight of stairs commu-
nicating with the interior of the building, had beer,
forced open, during the night, by a crow-bar or some such
instrument, and that an attempt had also been trade to
force the door of one of the offices, but fortunat,,,ly without
success. It is supposed that the villains, for doubt there
was more than one engaged in the businc-,s, were distuPaY-rjince, eseciall aboutdisturbedin their operations. Large sums of
t!-,e knowledge of this circum-
stance are sometimes
promoted this daring attempt.
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Sound—Hercules, Druid, Childers..
NAVAL PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. PROMO-
TIONS.— Illates, —F. W. Pleydell Bouverie, F. Chirnrno,
and F. W. Horton (of the Talbot), to the rank of Lieutes-
nant. APP2INTMENTS.—CbapIain.—Rev. J. Falls, to the
Britannia. Lieutenants.—Richard Combauld, Richard
Adams Nicholson, and Edward Lake, to the Coast Guard.
Purser.—Hobert Lewer, to the Gorgon steam frigate.
Mates.— Harry Thos. Veitch, to the Hastings; John M.
Cool:e, and Chas. C. Wilkie, to the Uly • ft. S. Smith,
to the Crocodile; Edward Lacy, and A. damming, to the
Excellent. Acting Master—W. H. Langley, to the Clio,
vice Miller, superseded, en account of ill health. Clerk—
Charles Walker (additional) to the Winchester. Gunner.
—lsaac Taylor, to the Apollo, vice Underhill, superseded
on account of ill health.
Within the last three months the following shins have
been added to the Navy List (being ordered tor-be'built)
—At Plymouth, Albion and Aboukir, of 90 guns each ; at
Chatham, the Mgjestic and Mars, of t 0 guns each ; Alecto
and Polyphemus steamers; at Pembroke, Centurion and
Colds us, of 80 guns each, Helena, 16, Mariner and Martin,
10, Medina steamer ; at Liverpool, Dover steamer ; at
Woolwich, Heroine and Hound, 10 each, 'Siren, 16, Li-
zard and Locust steamers ; at Sheer.a.sss, Prometheus
steamer.

THE LION, A TALE OF THE COTERIES.—
This work seems not only likely to create a great excite-
ment in the literary coteries, by its amusing personalities,
but to elicit a more than usual share of <ttention from the
novel-readitig public, on account of its merits as an excit-
ing fiction. " The style in which this book is written,"
observes the Athenccum, "is remarkable for its ease, gra-
phic by means of great simplicity, painting vividly,
without an attempt at the use of gorgeous coheirs. The
description of the Picture Gallery, with which the work
opens, and which introduces the incidents c.nd personages
of the story, lets one at once into the secret of the author's
manner, and reveals one of the charme which run through
its after pages. The three persona, there intioluced to
the reader are the prominent ac:cors in the subsequent
scenes, and the several characters by which they are dis-
tinguished, are drawn with care and considerable skill.
The exhibition of tlir moral natures contains the striking
and characteristic portion of the volumes, mixed up, as that
exhibition is, with scenes of deep pathos and occasional
humour. The story is divided into three parts—the first
depicting the struggles of the enthusiastic boy (the hero),
amid the rebukes and meannesses of his early life ; the
second exhibiting him as the Lion of the Coteries, and
presenting the most amusing, but extravagant portion of
the volumes ; and the third describing the re-action and
fall from a position so wholly strained and artificial. The
satire against the Coteries is well deserved e.nd well meant."
ADVENTURES DURING THE LATE WAR.—
Captain O'Brien's extraordinary an exciting narrative,
or rather, his series of narratives, juet published under the
above title, present, perhaps, one
interesting works of the kind that were ever given to the
(f the most curious and
world. They relate, in the most simple yet forcible and
effective style, a series of escapes and perils which, in
point of varied suffering and spirited perseverance in bear.
s
ing Red overcoming it, have scarcely a parallel in nar
ratives of this nature. Three successive escapes from
French prisons (in two of which the author was baffled
just as he had touched on the very point of ultimate suc-
cess) form part only of this extraordinary narrative,
while shipwreck, captivity, daring feats of arms, and every
other sort of " perilous accidents by flood and field,"
make up the abounding incidents of these singularly at..
tractive volumes.

THE LATE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT
SOITN SHIELDS.—The inquest was appointed to be held
on Saturday evening. The coroner and jury proceeded
to view the body of George Walker, one of the unfortunate
sufferers, after which they returned to the inquest room,
and the coroner said that it was almost unnecessary to
enter upon the evidence that night; he should give his
orders for the interment of the bodies, and adjourn the fur-
ther investigation until Monday. The bodies of those who
have paid the last debt of nature were interred at different
churches on the afternoon of Sunday the 30th ult. The
crowds attending, besides relatives and frituds of
the deceased, were very numerous, and theie demean:
our marked with that propriety becoming the occa-
sion. Twenty-five of the bodies were interred in the
church-yard of the parish church of St. HAlda, fifteen in
the yard of Trinity Church, five at Nort'n Shields, and
five at Jarrow. very great crowds att:fndd, oinin in the solemn procession to witness the funeral obsjequiesg of
these unfortunate individuals whose span has been cut
short in a manner so awfully sudden and unexpected. The
adjourned inquest was held on Menday, and after a patient
investigation, the jury consulted for half an hour, and
found their verdict as follows :—" Accidental death, with
a special recommendation from the jury that the practice
of working coal mines with candles be abandoned, and
lamps be adopted in their stead, as from the evidence taken
at this inquest, it evidently appears that the explosion has
been caused by the incaution of one of the men going with
a lighted candle into what is called the tenth board of the
mine, which had been foul.—Tyne Mercury.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—Last week, as
some labourers were engaged in digging the foundation of
a thrashing mill, about to be erected at Ballindalloch, and
when about fifteen feet under the surface, they
acnadmiaini.n
contact with a large sandstone. In the course of their
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Elgin Courant.
Mr. T. Devear has written a letter stating that
the electors of Westminster' are greatly and justly dissatis-
fied with their present representatives, and that at next
election, whenever it may occur, candidates will be pro-
posed, who are unconnected with party, remote from ex-
tremes, and such as iere calculated to restore Westminster
to the high station she once occupied."