The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-09 00:00:00

THE MINISTRY.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL roseand said—l am
anxious, with regard to the notice which I have given
for Monday next, to state that it is nay intention then
to move the following resolution :—" That it is the
opinion of this House, that it is expedient to persevere
in those principles which have guided the Executive
Government in Ireland of late years, and which have
produced the effectual administration of the law, and
the general improvement of that part of the United
Kingdom."—(Cheers from the Alinisterialists, and
laughter from the Opposit;on.)
RAILWAYS.

Mr. FINCH gave notice of a motion for a return
of all sums which had been borrowed by Railway
Companies.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL gave notice that
he would on Thursday move for leave to bring in a Bill
to amend the Imprisonment for Debt Act, passed last
Session, in so far as regarded compelling Proprietors
of Newspapers to insert advertisements, of whatever
length, for three shillings.—(Hear, hear, from both
sides of the House.)
Sir F. BURDETT gave notice that be would call
the attention of the House to the case of a Mr. Dillon,
whose petition he had presented before Easter.
RAILWAYS.

Mr. P. THOMSON gave notice that be would, on
as early a day as possible, move that the consideration of
all Railway Bills before the House be postponed till the
23d April.

On the motion of Mr. C. WOOD the Marine Mu-
tiny Bill passed through Committee.
On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL the
District Prisons' Bill was read a second time and or-
dered to bo committed.

Sir R. PEEL wished to put a question to the Noble
Lord with respect to the order of proceeding on Mon-
day next. The Noble, Lord had given his notice not
for a motion, but for an Order-day. He (Sir R. Peel)
presumed that he intended to bring .t forward
as a substantive motion—(Hear)—not as an amend-
ment on an order, but as a substantive motion.
Lord J. RUSSELL replied that the course he meant
to pursue was this : on Friday he should move to post-
pone all the Orders of the Day, so that the notice of
motion might stand first, if possible and he should re-
quest other Hon. Members also to Postpone their mo-
tions, so that the one of which he had given notice might
be brought on as a substantive motion.
On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the
Prisons Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed.

Mr. BERNAL brought up the Report of the Corn-
, mittee of Supply on the Ordnance Estimates.
On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the
Ecclesiastical Appointments Suspension Bill, and the
Borough Courts' Bill, were postponed till to-morrow.
REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS' BILL.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL had hoped
that this Bill would have been allowed to pass through
the House quite smoothly, but as he was given to un-
derstand that some of his Learned Friends who were
now on Circuit, had some opposition to offer to it he
would postpone it till Wednesday week. ,
The second reading of the Election Petitions Trial
Bill was postponed till the 26th inst.
On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, the
Bankrupts' Estate Scotland Bill, went through Com-
mittee, and was reported without amendment.
On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE leave
was given to bring in a Bill to facilitate the conveyance
of heritable estates and infeftment thereon, in Scotland.
—Read a first time.
NORTH AMERICAN BOUNDARY.
Sir W. MOLES WORTH begged to ask the Noble
Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whe-
ther any instructions had been sent out to their Mi-
nister, Mr. Fox, in compliance with the terms of a note of
the American Minister, Mr. Forsyth, for the purpose of
forming a joint Commission of exploration of the dis JJ
-
puted territory. He wished also to know whether there
was any objection to produce the correspondence on
the subject ?

Lord PALMERSTON said there was every dis•

position on the part of both Governments to form a
Joint Commission, for the purpose of placing the boun-
dary as it had been settled by the treaty of 1785. The
appointment of the Commissioners, however, would rest
with her Majesty's Government.—(Hear, and a laugh.)

• CORN-LAWS.
Mr. E WART begged to ask the Noble Lord whether
it was intended to lay before the House the correspon-
dence that had taken place with foreign countries with
respect to the Corn trade ?
Lord PALMERSTON said it would be necessary
to refer to two or three thousand volumes of corres-
pondence to p:oduce the documents asked for, but he
hoped to be able to comply with the spirit, if not with
the letter of the motion, by obtaining copies of the
documents on that subject which were in possession of
the Board of Trade. He hoped these papers would be
sufficient to satisfy the Hon. Member.
IRISH REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN postponed the considera-
tion of the Irish Registration of Voters Bills to Wed-
nesday week.
Sir ROBERT PEEL asked the HonourAle Member
if it was his intention to bring forward the Bill on the
day for which he had given notice ?
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN was understood to say that
he had not yet decided on the subject.
THE CHARTISTS.-
Colonel ST BTH ORP said that he understood the ma-
nufacture of pikes was going on to a considerable extent
in some parts of the country, and the people were arming
themselves ; he wished to ask the Noble Lord the Se-
cretary of State for the Home Department if he was
aware of the fact ; and also if the Government had
taken any measures in consequence ?
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that a correspondence
had taken place on the subject with certain Lords Lieute-
nant of Counties, and that his Hon. Friend the
Under Secretary of State had moved for the production
of those letters, and they would be forthwith laid before
the House.

The other Orders of the Day where then disposed
of, and the House adjourned at a QUARTEIL TO SIX
O'CLOCK.

SCOTLAND.

GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.—ADDREIS TO HER
MAJESTY.—We understand that the. Address to her
Majesty, in favour of the system of Government hitherto
pursued in Ireland, has, in the course of two days, re-
ceived upwards of four thousand signatures. It has not
yet had an opportunity of being fully advertised, and
many, whn were aware of its existence, have observed
that they found difficulty in discovering where it might
be found. We feel little doubt that it will show such
an array of names, as will effectually prove that the
majority of our citizens who can write, are in favour of
its spirit. Our readers will find the various places in
which the Address is left for signature, in our adver-
tising columns.—Scotsman.

FIRE-ARM SOCIETY.—We understand that a Fire-
Arm Society has lately been instituted in this city. The
members are of course Universal Suffrage men, who
contribute small sums weekly, with which guns and
pikes are purchased whenever the contributions reach a
certain amount, The arms arc then distributed by lot.
—lbid.

THE WEATHER.—During the past week severe
frosts and cold easterly winds have prevailed. Vegc-.
tation has consequently been greatly retarded. Tile
Cheviot hills are covered with snow.—lbid.
DESTITUTION IN SHETLAND.—The subscription for
the relief of the destitute inhabitants of Shetland is still
open.

FALL OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE.---WONIAN KILLED.
—Between five and six o'clock on Wednesday after-
noon, the railway bridge which crosses Gilmour-street,
gave way, and the whole mass of brickwork of two of
the three arches, namely, the centre and eastermost
ones, came to the ground with a dreadful crash. It was
not supposed at the time that any person was beneath,
but as a woman was that night missed, who it was known
had occasion to pass that way, a search was made
next morning, when her body was found beneath the
rubbish, dreadfully crushed. 'Workmen had been em-
ployed during the day removing the supports that bore
up the coombs, but it would seem that this had been
done too soon, before the lime had taken proper band.
The opinion is very prevalent, indeed, that the arch
ought not to have been of brick at all, it being much
too elliptical for brick to make a trust-worthy job.
EARL OF STIRLING.—On Wednesday, in the High
Court of Justiciary, in Edinburgh, thn gentleman claim-
ing to be Earl of Stirling pleaded "Not Guilty" to the
charge of forging certain documents to establish his
claim, and his trial was further deferred, at his own
request, until April 29, to allow certain of his witnesses
to come from France.

CHuncn OF SCOTLAND.—A soiree is to be held en
the evening of Tuesday the 9th inst. in the Assembly
Rooms, under the direction of the same Association
which got up the soiree in November last.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET.
...

A few words will suffice on the termination of the
Craven Meeting—dull as to sport, dull as to the
weather, dull in everything but the result and return
to town. The event of the last day (Friday) that
astonished all was the Port. Don John, of notoriety,
to be beat for the first time in his life, and in a
canter, by Grey Momus—certes the most fortunate of
his species. That the Don was thought fit to run is
proved by the money that was laid out upon him, and
at the enormous odds of 3 to 1 and .5 to 2. The
Lord Chesterfield arrived from Northamptonshire the
evening before solely to see him win ! Some foreigners
(of distinction, no doubt) arrived the Fame morninc,
expressly to buy him ! He had been see❑ in his gal-
lops actually running away from Epirus, and by the
side of Grey Momus it did not seem as if he could
gallop. He was beaten at the ditch, and that's the
fact. The only way of explaining so contrary a " come
off" to general expectation is, that the Grey always
was, and is still, an improving horse, and that Don
John is not improved at all—is no batter now than ever
he was. That this will have some influence on the
betting about Scott's horses is beyond a doubt, although
it has been said that Don John was almost too good for
a trial horse. All fears on this subject may now fortu-
nately be set aside. Lord Exeter's Alemdar brought
up the rear, and it occurs to me just now that the
sporting Marquis will very soon obtain as great celebrity
for running third as Lord Suffiald enjoyed for being
always second.
Flambeau has made his last appearance in the Derby
quotations in consequence of being beat by a head by a
cult of the Duke of Portland's, after one of the finest
races ever seen ; as in the case 'of Tros, strange mis-
takes are occasionally made in trials. " Give me public
running, and hang all trials," is an old and favourite
saying of a very good judge. Mr. Thornhill's Euclid
disposed of another Derby one (Montreal), which by a
chosen few bad been much fancied, thus reducing the
field with railroad rapidity ; 4 to 1 against one, 8 to 1
against another ; bar these two, 25 to 1. I would not
recommend any one to begin a book just now ; if they
do, and get round, I will say they are ingenious.
The run to town immediately after the races was
great ; about thirty-five pair of horses being in demand,
exclusive of those reserved for Lord George Bentinck.
Nothing can have been more unpropitious than the
weather ; a violent snow-storm fell at and around Ep-
ping on Friday, while, certainly, at Newmarket, it was
so good as only to rain very fast and wetting.
I have been considering the position of Lord Jersey's
horse in the betting, and I have decided that he is too
great a favourite for his performance. He won easy
enough, it is true, but, alas ! for those he defeated—
Tros and Darrynane. Mr. Thornhill's horse again beat
Montreal, but nothing can be much worse than the
public running of the latter, a moderate third being
the best place ever allotted to him. If I could dis-
cover anything good in any one horse that has yielded
to Euclid; then I should say, take 3 to 1 about Caesar,
but with winds, weather, his engagements, and other
chances, I should be inclined to wait ; if, however,
well on the day, with Jem Robinson on his back, the
horse that beats him will be one I have never seen.
By an error of the type I am made to say in my last,
" Ilderim, it is said, will not start again for the Derby,"
it should have been before, which must have been suffi-
ciently obvious to render this correction almost unne-
cessary.—Correspondent of the Post.

It is reported that twenty small brigs are to be
brought forwlrd to put down the Portuguese slave trade.
Our attention has been directed to the arbitrary
roceedings of Lord Mansfield, in stopping the path over
" Downshire-bill," by which for a full mile on either side,
all direct communication between Hampstead and Highgate
is er,tirely cut off. This appears to us certainly to be most
tyrannous and unjustifiable, but the point which has in the
first place to be considered is, whether Lord Mansfield has a
eight—a legal right—to make the inclosere in question. Is
the path over Downshire.hill public or private? Was it
ever, within the memory of man, a free path ? We have
not at hand the means of deciding this point, but it certainly
is one which must be considered before any effective steps
can be taken. If Lord Mansfield has no legal right to in-
close this path he should at once be compelled to re-open it ;
but if, on the other hand, he has, he can only be denounced
for thus exercising that right to the serious inconvenience
and injury of so many, without such inconvenience anfdaidn..
jury being even in the slightest degree p
vantage to himself. This proceeding of Lord Mansfield
demands immediate investigation. He ought at once to be
called upon to prove, not only that the path in question
was never a free path, but also that he has a right to inclose
it. Let the inhabitants of Hampstead and Highgate_
whose interests are to a serious extent involved in the ques-
tion—bestir themselves boldly, and at once. Let them
call upon him to show that he is legally justified in acting as
he his done, and if he cannot show this, they must have
ample means at their command of causing the path to he
re-opened. A small society to prevent encroachments on
the public paths in this vicinity is much needed.— Meld
Dispatch.

General Terrat has this week presented a cart
load of coals to each of the fishermen employed on his
waters on the Tweed ; he has also caused to be distributed
among the families of his workmen a quantity of tea,
°read, and other articles, for the purpo,-,e, of a m?rry.tr,2lti,r.
on the occabion of the marriage of his son.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(LLOYD'S.)

DEAL, APRIL 6.--Wind moderate N.E.. —Came down
from the river and proceeded, the Dash, Barber, Cape of
Good Hope; Pekin, Pye,Quebec ; Cottenham, Short, do.;
New Brunswick, do. ; Princess Mary, Legg, do. ; Lord
Goderich, Mainland, do. ; and several others names un-
known. 7.—E. N.E. moderate.—Came down from the
river and proceeded, the James Hartis, Wright, Mira-
michi; Hercules, Quebec; Elutheria, Wheatley, do. ;
John Purling, do. ; St. Ann's, do. ; Thetis, Baker, do;
John Esdale, Wright, do. ; Alonzo, do. ; Albion, Smith,
do. ; Britannia, do. ; Stately, Ncagle, do. ; Sea Bird,
Cape Coast Castle ; St. Croix, Bradley, Jamaica ; Ma-
breister, Carter, Leghorn; Aimwell, Cape of Good Hope;
Guardian, Smith, Trieste ; Alice, Boston ; Warblington,
Benson, Gibraltar ; Grant, Norie, Antigua ; Ethobert,
Moore, Bathurst; Norfolk, HavanLah.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 6, —Wind E. N. E. 7.--E. to S. E.
—Arrived the Hibernia, Bartlett, from Guernsey, with loss
foreyard and sails split; Gazelle, Tomlios,n, London.
Off port, an Austrian brig from Trieste for Hull.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7.--Wind E.N. E.—Arrived the
Hartley, from Van Diemen's Land, with less of anchor and
cable; Arab, Coysh, Paraiba, with loss of maintopmast
and sails, &c. ; Providence, Duke, St. Michael, loss of
mainboom, &c. ; Arachne, Fowler, Trieste, with loss of
sails, &c. ; Deux, Sorello, Ancona; Tiro, Smith, Mar-
seiles ; Sally, Bowin, Cork, loss of anchor and cable ;
Patriot, Liverpool. Sailed Marshal Blucher, Johns,
for Hamburgh ; Navarino, Clevesley, Quebec; Cato,
Do. Off Port, the Warrior, Brown, Mauritius ; Aurora,
Vaudin, St. Michael's.

FALMOUTH. APRIL s.—Wind N.N. W. to S.E., 6.
E. S E. to. S. S. E., fresh breezes.—Arrived the Fritboi ffe,
Pederson, from Longsound ; Nicholas Benjamin Aal,
Pederson, Longsound; Ranger packet, Rio Janeiro;
sailed, 17th February, Neptune, Chatteslain, —; Jane
May, May, St. Croix; Elbe, Robson, Constantinople ;
La Gievannie, Gallipoli; her Majesty's steamer Meteor
on a cruise; Pheasant, Dyer, steamer, with loss of
anchor and cable; Royal Tar, Brookes, Gibraltar, left
29th ult. Cadiz 30th, Lisbon, 2nd inst., Oporto and
Vigo 3d ; Clyde, Kertch ; Archimides, Castellano,
Gallipoli.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 6 AND 7.—Wind S. E., fresh breezes.
—Arrived the Denniston, Jones, from Antigua; Colum-
bine, Lisbon ; Lowell, Whittle, Mobile ; Tamerlane, Sa-
vannah. Sailed the Toply, Mallony, for Canton • Marga-
ret, Prowse, Valparaiso ; Resolution, Gallilee, Rio Janei-
ro ; Bella Portina, Pyot, Monte Video ; Deslands, Per-
nambuco ; Girard, Humana, Po, to Rico ' - Chatham,
Richardson, Boston ; John, Booth, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick ; Caledonia, Masicot, New Orleans ; Sarah, Hiter,
Newfoundland ; Amanda, Simpson, Halifax ; Combatant,
Pearson, Quebec; Corinthian, Davidson, ditto; Sir Waltcr
Scott, Young, ditto; Province, Guadaloupe ; Themistocks,
Ballow, Genoa ; Penelope, Cafficro, Naples ; Manilla,
Pearson, Canton. Off port, the Earl Powis, from the
Mauritius ; Rival, Maranham ; Bowditch, N.nw Orleans ;
Manchester, Mobile; Francis, Barbadoes ; Medora,
Charleston ; Susannah Collings, Constantinople; King of
Tyre, Lisbon ; Donna Maria, Oporto ; Lydia Abey, Leer ;
Nyverheid, Ostend; Joseph, ditto; Ceres, ditto; Pauline,
ditto.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITII.—The Symmetry, London to St.
Michael's, 27th ult., lat. 42., long. 18., by the Sterling, Bur-
nett, arrived off Torbay ; Allandale, bound to Bombay, 20th
ult., lat. 36. long. 15., by the Lord Redesdale, arrived in th
Creek ; William Reed and William Forrest, lat. 48., long. 7.,
loy the Clyde, arrived at Falmouth; Thomas Blyth, London to
the Mauritius, Feb. 20, lat. 1. S., long. 22. W. ; Elizabeth,
Newfoundla, d to Oporto, 23d ult., lat. 42., long. 32., with
about one-third of the cargo thrown overboard; Elizabeth
(brig), with a signal of distress, 3,1 inst., off Oporto, by the
Royal Tar, arrived at Falmouth ; Isabella, of Peterhead, from
Cephalonia, with loss of both masts and bowsprit, lat. 36.,
long. 72., by the Collina, arrived at Cork; Caledonia, Harvey,
from Newcastle, 21st., lat. 37., long. 9., by the Convivial, ar-
rived at Gibraltar.

LAW INTELLIGENCE

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Arm", 8.

IN RE ISAAC ➢IEDEX.

This insolvent was before the Court on Friday, when
he applied to be liberated on bail unl his hearing, the
24th instant. The sureties were Mr. Levy, a clothes
salesman in the New-cut, and Mr. Emanuel, cf,ffee-
house-keeper, residing in Duke-street, Aldgato. The
proposed sureties objected to sign the reeognis:u (lur-
ing the Passover of the Jews, and the insolvent was
kept three days in prison.
The parties now attended, and executed the required
document.

Henry Unu'in was opposed on the part of Messrs,
Cox and Co., wholesale hosiers. The insolvent,
who was before the Court on a former day, now ap-
peared for judgment. He bad been a general shop-
keeper at Barfield, in Essex, and the complaint against
him was that he had fraudulently incurred debts, and
incurred others without reasonable expectations of pay-
ment. He had defended the action brought by Messrs.
C-,x, and independent of their debt, had put them to an
expense of upwards of 20/. When some of his creditors
applied for money he informed them by letter that he
had taken the " benefit." This was a ruse, and he also
told them he had made an assignment ; he lied made an
assignment two years ago which was before the debts
were incurred? with the opposing creditors. He was
now detained at the suit of Messrs. Cox.
Mr. Commissioner LAW remarked on the fraudulent
conduct of the insolvent, and remanded hint from his
petition for a period of twelve calendar months.
CALLING NAMES.—William Hale, an insolvent, ap-
peared to be heard. A solicitor applied on the part of
the detaining creditor, that a copy of a will should be
filed. The insolvent " waxed wrath," designated the
creditor a " swindler," and put himself into a passion.
Mr. Commissioner LAW sent him to prison for a
fortnight to cool himself, telling him he would, when
he again appeared, if he could not behave himself, be
again remanded.

THE RAILROAD MANlA.—Tlzontas Cottcrill, whose
case appeared before the Court on a former day, came
up for adjudication.

The insolvent, who was opposed on the part of Mr.
Hannan, a wine and spirit merchant, had kept the
Angel Tap, Saint Clements. That once bustling place
was now deserted. The coaches had ceased their rattle in
the yard, and the grass was growing in the place.
The railroads had occasioned this " revolution." The
insolvent, after struggling to get a living, sold the pre-
mises, and the disposition of the money-was the com-
plaint against him. He had not paid his creditors, and
the money had gone in the support of his famAy.
Mr. Commissioner LAW told him he would be dis-
charged when he had been in prison six months from
his petition.

CRIMINAL CO URT.--(MOND A Y.)

The sessions opened this morning with the usual form.

The RECORDER, in addressing the Grand Jury, said the
calendar, which already numbered 276 cases, would pro-
bably be shortly increased to 300. 3ut there was only
one case which required any particular observation—that
of Mr. Medhurst (charged with the unfortunate death at
Hayes). The Learned Recorder then entered at some
length into the facts, and &tailcd thr' law on the case,
leaving it for the Grand Jury to sry whether there was
ground for the charge of murder—and if not, they would
return it manslaughter.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

QUEEN-SQUARE.

ROBBERY AT THE OPERA-HOUSE.--In the course of
the buslness yesterday a person, who represented him-
self as valet to a merchant ia the city, handed a letter
to Mr. Gregorie from his master. The contents of that
letter were in relation to the robbery which occurred at
the Italian Opera-house on Thursday night last, and
which was fully reported in our Paper of Saturday. The
writer stated that he went to the pit of the Italian
Opera-house on that night, and on Friday morning was
much surprised by his valet coming into his dressing-
room and informing him that he had found a gold watch
in his great coat pocket, which he had worn the night
previous. The writer was extremely puzzled at the
discovery, but seeing an account in the next morning's
Papers of a robbery at the Opera-house, in which a gold
watch was lost, he compared the one found with the de-
scription of the stolen one, and found them to corres-
pond. He had therefore now no doubt but that the
thief, finding that he could not escape with the pro-
perty, had adopted the above singular way of disposing
of it.

The valet informed the Magistrates that he had the
watch with him, but Mr. White, the Magistrate who
had heard the case, said he would take no steps in the
matter until Tuesday (this day), when the prisoner
would be again brought up for examination, and he should
then wish for the gentleman on whose person the pro-
perty was concealed to come forward and give evidence.
Mr. GREGORIE said that the above circumstance
called to his recollection one of a similar nature last
year. A member of the swell mob was charged with
stealing a purse of money from Colonel Greenwood at
the Opera, and in his fob was found 13 sovereigns. The
next day Sergeant Marjoribanks gave information that
he bad found an empty purse in his coat pocket, and Sir
Charles Williams, Bart., that he had lost 13 sovereigns.
The purse was shown to Sir Charles, and he directly
identified it as his. So that the thief had just picked
Sir Charles's pocket, emptied the purse of its con-
tents, and, as it was not desirable for him to return the
latter, had made Sergeant Majoribanks' pocket its
receptacle.