The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-18 00:00:00

THE NEW BEER BILL.

ABSTRACT of a BILL to alter and amend the
LAWS relating to the SALE of BEER.
This Bill enacts that a person applying for a licence
must produce a certificate that the house is of the value
of 101. per annum, and is rated at that sum at least,
and been in the applicant's occupation for twelve months.
Any Overseer neglecting to give such certificate, shall
forfeit 51.

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Any person making or using a false certificate, shall
forfeit 101. ; and licenses obtained by such shall be void.
That, after the 10th of October, 1840, the present
duty payable on Excise licenses for retail of beer to be
drunk on the premises, shall cease, and that the sum of
.5/. ss. shall be levied upon such house, in lieu thereof.

Houses in London or Westminster, or in or within a
mile of any city, town, or polling-place for elections,
for which licenses ',are required, must be of the annual
value of 151., and have been in the applicant's occupa-
tion for twelve months previous.

BILLS OF EXCHANGE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—Perhaps you will think the following statement of
facts worthy a place in the columns of ;your widely circu-
lated journal;—
A. B. is the drawer of a bill, at three months' date, upon
C. D., who accepts it, and makes it payable at some
bankers in London, say B irciay and Co., for instance,
amount 501. Some person or persons simulate another
bill exactly like it in names, date, and amount. The bill
falls due, say the 4th March. Immediately on Bareay
and Co. opening their bank doors on the day it falls
due, the simulated or forged bill is presented for pay-
ment, and it having been duly advised of such a
bill, it is forthwith paid. During the day, however,
the real bill is presented at the Clearing house ; but
as is usual, enquiry being made at the Bank before the
hour of settlement at the Clearing•houso, it is ascertained
that a bill of the same tenor and date had already been
paid. The fienuine bill, therefore, was not paid at the
Clearing-house, and it was in due course protested and re-
turned. A. 8., on its return, demanded payment on C. D.,
who refused to pay it, alleging that he had duly advised of
the bill, and paid the amount to his banker at the time of
giving the aivice. A. B. and C. D. then proceeded to the
Bank, when A B found that C D had duly advised, as well
as the country barker, his London one ; in this dilemma it
was recommended that the bill should be presented a
second time, when it was represented that it would, as a
matter of course, be paid. The London banker was also
specially advised on the subject—who in reply sends down
the forged bill—adding, that in the transaction they had
only followed their instructions. Under thc3e circum-
stances A. B. arrests C. D. for the amount, which C. D.
refuses at present to pay. Query—Who is to be made
accountable for this mistake, or whatever name it deserves?
Perhaps some of your numerous commercial readers will
solve the question through the medium of the columns of
The Sun.

The heavy falls of snow on Thursday last have
been a source of great inconvenience to the inhabitants of
this town and ncighbourhcod. In many of the outskirts of
the town the wind drifted the snow so that it was upwards
of three feet in depth, and the coaches were detained a
considerable time. The driver of the mail-cart from this
town to Newmarket was unable to proceed in his vehicle
arty farther than Qua--church, from which spot he conveyed
the bags to Newmarket on horseback.—Cambridge Chron.

INCHCOLM.—It is an interesting spot ; the little
island is not half a mile in length, and scarce a hundred
and fifty paces broad ; the ruins of the monastery are •x-
-tensive, and it is easy to conjure up the figures of the
monks, counting their beads amidst the dashing of the
waves, and within sound of the bells of Edinburgh on a
calm evening. The island half realizes the poet's descrip-
tion of Arqua-7___

Which seem'd made
For those who their mortality had felt,
And sought a refuge from their hopes decay'd.
It shows a distant prospect far away
Of busy cities, now in vain display'd,
For they can lure no further; and the ray
Of a bright sun can make sufficient holiday.
John Kemble, the tragedian, and Crabbe, the poet, con-
founded Inchcolm with Icolmkill. The blunder did not
say much for their geography, but the names sound some-
thing like each other, and both owed their celebrity to the
same patron saint, Comb or Columb. One stormy day in
the year 1128, Alexander 1., King of Scotland, was cross-
ing with his retinue over at the Queen's ferry, and was
driven for refuge into this island. They found one in-
habitant in it, a hermit of the Order of St. Columb,
who supported himself with a cow and such shell-fish
as he could pick up. The King and his retinue
were forced to remain three days, partaking of the
hermit's simple far• ; and the Monarch, grateful
for his escape, vowed to erect a monastery in the
island. Thus Incheolm became the seat of monks, and was
enriched with some of the best lands of Fifeshire. It was
often plundered and burned,—but still rose again from its
ashes,—and here old Walter Bowmaker, the abbot, who
died in 1449, wrote his Chronicle of Scottish history, in
continuation of Fordun. The light in his study would, no
doubt, be familiar to the seamen on the Frith, and some of
them would occasionally beg or buy his prayers, for a soft
wind or a favouring gale, as they set out on their voyage; but
what would the old abbot say if he were now to " re-visit the
glimpses of the moon," and lift up his eyes from his precious
vellum leaves on the steam-boats careering around the island
—the crowd of going and returning vessels—and the new
spires and palaces of Edinburgh glittering in the distance !
The tower of the monastery, the cloisters, the chapter-
house, and part of the buildings remain to attest their
former grandeur; and these, seen from the sea, are not
unlike the ruins of lona. The monks would seem to have
been skilled in herbs : for many rare plants still abound
here. The holy men were kept in constant employment,
and we arc told of one monk who repeated the whole
Psalter once each day, standing in a fountain of clear
water near his hermitage—lnverness Cuurier.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE 131111%11NC/lAm.
Intelligence was received in town on Friday morning at the
different Fire-offices of a most disastrous fire which oc-
curred on Monday evening last at the Zoological Gardens
at Birmingham. A large monkey-house, together with a
most valuable collection of monkeys was destroyed, and
several other houses fer the reception of animals shared the
same fate. It originated through the over-heating of
some stoves. The loss is extensive, and the premises *ere
not insured.

STATE OP TRADE.—There was but a mode-
rate d: mend rOr yarn yesterday, and the buyers showed
very little inclination to follow up the recent advance in
cotton. The businesa done was consequently limited.
The gccds' market was also quiet, and prices rather in
favour of the buyers, though it eoeld hatdly be said that a
decline was established) at compared with the current rates
of last week. As we announced on Saturday, several of
the principal spinners and rhanefecterers at Stalybridge
began to work silt hours a day on Monday last; and we
understand their example will be followed by the whole of
the trade there—some beginning to-morrow} and others at
the commencement of next week: Prom the extent to
which the working of short time has proceeded, and the
general substitution of light for heavier fabrics, ie almost
every description of Matiuracttlre, there must be a very
considerable diminution in the consumption of cotton. We
heard yesterday of one very large spinner and manufee-
turer, who, without stopping or retartPug a Single loom or
spindle, had diminished tt:e *-"eekly consumption of .cotton
to the extent Of 14 per cent. ; and the same kind of ilitee-
action, to a greater or sibalter eitte'tt, is very general
throughout the tiade, tohsequence of the high price of
cotton 1-enil.,2tin6 heavy fabrics comparatively dear and un-
prottable.—Manchester Guardian.
DEAL.—This town and pat are abdut to be
greatly benefited by the immediate erection of a Strong
wooden pier close to the Royal Hotel, to extend teed feet
into the sea, so that vessels of a deatight from eight to ten
feet of water may, at half-tide, come alongside to embark
Or disembark goods or passengers. Ships in the Downs
will derive great assistance from this piee) as anehers,
cables, and stores may be tarried out to them from the
square head In rough Weather, and when no boat could
otherwise be got afloat through the suef on the betteht
The accommodation which will also be afforded to passen-
gers in landing or embarking, by means of the pier, will be
of the greatest advantage ; at the same time the interests
of the town will be promoted, and an intercourse with the
opposite coast carried on to a certain extent by this route
from London. A contract has, it appears, been made fer
completionthoenfiddtosroh
i of the
Rennie,
e ent!re •ork, and its superintendence
fromcv whose pier
s
is to be constructed, and forwhich purpose designposea th
an Acte was
obtained in the last Session of Parliament. The improve-
ment consequent upon the erection of the pier, will doubt•
less lead to other beneficial results to Deal and its beauti.
ful environs. The weather has been very cold and unge-
nial all along this coast during the last fortnight, but the
wind having yesterday veered round to S. S. E. and S.,
the weather has become surprisingly mild and agreeable.
—Morning Herald.
A COLLOQUY ON PIGS.—" Friend," said a
Quaker, to a man who was driving a drove of swine into
Penobscot, " haat thee any hogs with large bones in this
drove ?"_u Yes," replied the drover, " they've all got big
bones." " Hest thee any with long heads and sharp noses ?"
—" Yes, they're all of them long-heads and sharp-snouts."
" Hast thee any with broad flap ears, like the ears of ele-
phants, slouching down over their eyes?"—" Stranger,
every pig of 'em is that ere, and no mistake; they'll suit
you exactly." " I rather think they will not suit me,
friend, if they be such as thee describest. Thee may'st
drive on."

The weather prophet, Murphy, has discovered,
to his no small rrofit, that gulls, which used to be seen
only in verb• col,l or stonily we,:ther, arc nor; to be found
in this country all the year through.

DISTRESS WARRANTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sat.—A letter appeared in your Paper some time since
from Mr. 'l'. Goode, of this parish, relative to certain pro•
cecdings taken by the Church authorities in this parish. I
have had taken from my house by warrant of distress,
signed by Messrs. Burbage, Weston, and Johnson, three
mahogany chairs for eightpence farthing, Minister's rate,
fur which I was summoned before the above-named Magis-
trates, who refused to hear the objections I had to the rate.
I tendered to the collector, in presence of the Magistrates,
the rate, but refused to pay the shilling charged for the
summons, and one of the Magistrates directed the collector
cot to take it, and have thus aided in depriving a poor
man, who finds it very difficult to pay the just demands
on him, of part of his furniture to support a Minister,
from whose Ministerial labours he has never derived
the least benefit. I addressed a letter, about a month
since, to two of the Magistrates, stating that the collector
had committed various frauds in the collection of the Mi-
nister's rate, by charging a larger sum than the rate au-
thorised. From Mr. Johnson I received an answer, stat-
ing that inquiries should be made, and redress given if
fraud had been committed, but I believe the energies of
their Worships have been confined to punishing me, rot
the collector.--I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

W. B. TAYLOR.

[Three mahogany chairs for 80. is pretty well 1 Our
worshipful worthies tare, we find, teal-I;4T from their
spiritual pastors and masters how to temper justice with
mercy.]

CULTIVATION OF BEI-4-T-ItOOT
IN GARDENS, FOR SUGAR OR SYRUP.

The seed of white beet-root should be placed in boles,
about half an inch deep, distant from each other sive-n
inches : for regularity in placing the seed, a line should be
stretched, as in photting out young cabbages, the roes or
course to be kept sixteen inches apart, the earth should he
heaped conically over each seed, so that the rain may run
freely off: w. hen the leaves of the root appear two inches
above the ground, the earth should again b, heaped round
them with a hoe, and this operation of hoeing will be r,-
quired as frequently as the root rises ah;:)ve ground. When
the roots arrive at maturity in October, they should be dux;
up, acid the leaves cut close off, taking care not to injure
the rind, the roots must be then heaped in a dry place, with
whatever dirt may a,here to them, this dirt having become
dry, is easily removed with a hard brush ; the roots having
been so cleansed, should be macerated, either in an apple
press or by manual labour, and the juice strained from them
caught, adding to nine pints of the juice one pint of lime
water, the whole to be boiled down to a syrup, which, if
intended to be kept, should be run into bottles and the air
excluded, or it may be immediately used to preserve fruit,
or other domestic purposes.
One gallon of this syrup, added to three bushels of
bruised barley or oats, the mixture to be afterwards treated
as malt, will make excellent beer. An acre of beet win!
yield 150 gallons of syrup, about the consistency of ordinary
treacle and water trix_e in cqu.-1 parts. After the syrup
has been pressed from the roots, the pulp should be boiled
in salt and water, (a pound of salt and four pints of water)
and being rut into bags, should be preJ-7sed into cakes smi-
lox to oil cake ; the beet root cakes so pressed, will keep
twelve months, and are excellent food for cattle.

The leaves cut from the roots may either be left upon the
ground to be dug in, or they may be collected in a heap to
rot for m: here.

FRENCH BANKS.

An account has recently been published of the ope-
rations and circulation of those French Barbs or branches
which enjoy the privilege of issuing notes payable at
sight, and to bearer, for the year 1338. This document
is of some interest, as affording the means of comparison
with the Bank paper of a similar description issued by the
Provincial Banks, the Bank of England, and its branches
in this country. Thus, the average circulation of the
Bank of France is stated at 210,000,000 f., and of its four
branches at Rheims, St. Etienne, St. Quentin, and Mont-
pelier, 1,932,0001., which together may be taken as
the total mean circulation of Bank of France paper.
The Bank of Bordeaux, one of those privileged by
charter, has an average circulation of 12,755,0001.,
the Bank of Lyons 8,288,0001., the Bank of Marseilles
5.873,5001., the Bank of Rouen 5,483,1100 f., and the
three smaller Banks of Havre, Nantes, and Lille from
785,001. to 2.443,0001. each. The whole amount of the
bank-note circulation of France, of the sort corresponding
to that of this country, is therefore 118,968,000 f., or
something less than 10,000,0001. It must be understood,
however, that this account does not extend to the paper
issues of the Li.ffitte and ether joint-stock banks, which aro
not empowered to issue notes payable on demand and to
bearer, although, as has been noticed on various occasions,
they have contrived to evade the letter of the law by
creating a considerable paper circulation, which in all
essential points is the same, the mere difference being that
the paper so issued professes to be drawn like bills of ex-
change at three or more days' sight, although really circu-
lating and meant to remain in circulation, notwithstanding
the date at which payable, like other bank-note paper
payable on demand. For an exact appreciation of the total
paper money circulating in France, therefore, it would be
requisite to take into account the amounts formerly given
of the joint-stock issues.
The average discounts of the Bank of France are given
at 801,000,000 francs, and of its four branches at about
83,000,0001. The average discounts of the Bank of Bor-
deaux are stated at 126..722,0001., and those of the six
other banks at about 225,000,0001. The average dis-
counts of the whole are stated at 1.235,777,000 f. The
average amount of the assets, or porteferiille, for the same
term, are thus noted :—For the Bank of France,
117,000,0001. ; for its four branches, amounts varying
from about 2,500,0001. to 4,500,0001. ; for the Bank of
Bordeaux, 8,440,0001.; and for the five other banks,
accounts ranging respectively from about 2,500,0001. to
7,300,0001. The total average of all the banks amounts,
as stated, to 163,323,000 f. assn',, against nearly
249,000,0001. of note circulation.—Times.

MARTYRS OF TILE PRESS.-011 the lStil of
September, 1797, the French Directory issued the follow.
ing proclamation :—" Orders are hereby given to the
executors of the mandates of justice to arrest and conduct
to the prison of La Force the editors and printers of (here
the papers are named, twenty-nine in number) all guilty of
having conspired against the internal and external repose
of the Republic.' All the Presidents of the National
Convention were, with one or two exceptions, Journalists.
Of the sixty-three who attained that honour eighteen
were guillotined, three committed suicide, eight were
transported, six imprisoned for life, four became
mad, and died at Bicetre, twenty-two were declared out-
laws, and there were only two who escaped without a cas-
tigation of some kind. If we extend this synoptical tableau
to the entire press, we shall find its proportions pretty
exact. There perished from 1789 till 1797 at least one
half of the political writers of Paris.—Monthly Chronicle.
ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTHAMPTON RAIL-
WAY. —On Sunday morning, about half-past six o'clock,
the Tartar engine started from Walton with water, to
bring up to Vauxhall, but had scarcely started before a
serious accident happened to one of the firemen, a fine
youth, about 18 years of age, named Jacob Langford, who
was in the act of getting down to throw some coke on the
fire, when hie right foot slipped between the plate and the
tender, crushing it in a shocking manner. No time was
lost in-cozveying him td London by the sante engine; but,
on arriving near the terminus at Vauxhall, another acci-
dent occurred, which was nearly proving fatal to several
persons. The Tartar, which had hitherto been travelling
at full speed, slackened, but had scarcely done so before
another engine was heard coming at ful speed in en oppo-
site direction: The whistle eras instantly sounded, but- the
next motheet (owing to its being foggy) the two engines
came in collision with a dreadful crash, by which the poor
lad was knocked off the fender on to the foot place, but
o ndate
the
f
most miraculously eaciped, as did the whole of the men of
both engines, without any further injury;buttt. e
amputateh Thomas's
fenders
both the Tartar and the Orion were literally smashed to
pieces.
whereeps.aLattgro it was foundrditasuitima necessarytelyeonveyed to to
St.
first and second tore.
Olelei WOiel:ee'le.—.4 singular advertisement ap-
pears in the York Courant, from which it would appear
that some.females have commenced What they call " Odd
Wornens' Lodges." As a Platter of dolirSe a very pretty
Ina:74ll'as grown imp ariongst them, and (so far as print
lacesesuteheasnt h6eol. other
goes) they are pulling one another's Cape famously. The
lodges, it seems,
city, a
and
or downright rob hhetlye tgoliitilti danmdoijulinet orifarntoY
gotAlooGseOiOnDtheLcEaAeaFl,r—y Paririaeckday
tardlaistinwiebeisk
amused himself by leaping over a caet-liorse, one of a team
which were standing across the road. —Canteibery Paper.
We understand one of the large Milloi'vners in
the neiireliboui.liorect hei gien notice to his workmen of his
intention to go upon short time, if not to stop his works
entirely until more favourable. circumstances arise,
Glasgow ChrOniel. -
14,E*ANni-I, VEfi. IG, AND CAIRO,, VEii.
10.-eeThe return of Mehemet Ali from Sennaar is indefi.
nitClY Postponed; at all eeents, he is to. remain there
during
Egyptian arms have triumphed in Arabia; Kursschid
the rainy season, Which begins iii May. The
Paella has taken Derraich; the capital of ;the Redachid,
LAMENTABLE-eriei Ze
situtiltiqp
.
WRECK
.—We regret to
tied sent the Prince,,,- with his Whole family; pi•isnneri to
0,1-ro. -:
learn that on„ Thiersday night last an kngliSti brig went on
Arlie on the rrench coast, about tWo miles to the eastward
of Calais, and went to pieces, when all on board were
unfortunately drowned. —Dover Chronicle.
Doutitl etistitig ds to whether do.Enalisli Mas-
ter In Chancery can sit in Parliament, Mr Duckworth finally
r,llthe Lord Advccste,
retires from Leicester. Its former representative, Mr.
Wynn
with every prospect or success, as all classes of Reformers
Ellis, will be the Petveandidate en the Liberal side
support him.
Member,
„ —"ring is spoken of as likely to be a can-
gin, Mr. W
can-
didate it,l* Leith, in the (anticipated) event of its present
INTEMPERANCE. - Atliei'agn 'wrest held last
week, in St. Pancras, before Mr. Wakley, on the body of a
widow, aged 75, raiiTed to rite Bench.
who accelerated her death by drinking
GlY'e Ileepital,Ywho drank. a• quart of gin per day for five
weeks before her death, and when she was opened there
Ale said he knew an old woman, who died in
was not a sound vessel in her body, wed her stomach was
cdornaswidneuripngto a less size than a common tumbler. .
the river t
THE WEATHER.—During a few days prior to
sad at the commencement of het week, we have been
visited with weather of almost unprecedented severity,
may have Irwelllii vi.se.aassopnirotfiatiblye
frozen
overon Satunidivaynvsmoßrraiiiiniza,
and nearly all the ponds in the neighbourhood of the town
were sufficiently frozen to bear skaters, neither of which is
a common occurrence near the middle of March. What
we have e
rot been able to learn. Dr. Dalton's thermo-
meter,
by the iichn—igeln.e:heeeirieliact temperature in exposed situations,
in Falkner- street, marked 26 degrees at eight in the
morning ; but in that situation it would ee greatly affeeted
must have been considerabbulylldloinweCl —"ldliahLL'tlerteaaerlltatine. i

THE MURDER AT TEWIN.

The unfortunate young man, Taylor, who was exe-
cuted at Hertford, on Wednesday, made the following con-
fession on the night before his execution :

" On the morning of the 26th of October, 1837, between
ten and eleven o'clock, I met Fletcher in the market place,
Hertford, who asked me if I would go.up to Trennery's
beer-shop and have some beer? I said I would. On our
arrival there I saw Sams and Roach. Fletcher the t said that
they all, viz., himself, Roach, and Sams were going to a
fair about 12 miles off, and asked me if I would accompany
them. I said I would. We staid there drinking till be-
tween two and three o'cleek—Fletcher then says, It is
too late now to go the fair, let us take a walk somewhere
else.' ,Upon this we all went out and went to the Cold
Bath public-house. We went into the Cold Bath, and
had a pint of beer. Found Bennett there. Roach
asked Bennett if he would toss fur a pint of ale ?
He said No; I would sooner give you a pint ' Roach
asked him if it was pension day—he said Yes.' After
this we all four left the house, and walked towards Mr.
Francis's nursery-ground. We all joined company in the
nursery round. Sams then proposed that we should rob
Bennett, To this we all agreed. We determined to rob
him in Mr. Thornton's word. Sims went on first, to see
if any one was coming. We all followed till we reached
the wood where we found Sams waiting for us We waited
there till Bennett arrived. We let hen pass bv—he was
accompanied by the boy Watson. After he had proceeded
a few pules, ne all but S:TrI3 follonacl him. Roach ,ne
Fletcher were the first to overtake hire. %Viten I came
up they were knocking,- him about. He said Retch, I
know you.' I then began to beet him that he mini;:
leave go of Ro ;ch, of whom he had hold. We then
knocked him down, and I held hi, hands whilst the other
two emptied his pockets. He (Bennett) pulled Reach
down; Roach got up again aid kicked him. As we were
leaving him he attempted to rise, whan I kicked him, bur,
I don't know in what part, whether his head or body.
We then left him, leapt over the hedge, and ran through
the wood, across the fields towards Hertford. Roach and
Fhteher sdcl they had taken 3/. 18s. 6d. from him. I
asked them if they had taken his watch—they said ' No '
Roach then gave me a sovereign, and said it was more than
came to my share. When we came to the corner of the
wood, we found Sams waiting for us. Roach and Fletcher
then went into the wood to fetch, their clothes (which they
had taken off before they went in pursuit of Bennett). I
then ha,tened off by myself to Hertford. I changed the
sovereign at Wickham's beer-shop, and went on to Hod-
deaden. I slept at Hoddesdon in Mrs. Byott's barn. The
next morning I had some breakfast, and then went to
work at the gravel-pits. On Thursday night I met Banks;
he called me out from Byott's tap-room, and said he
wished to speak with me. He asked me whether I
had anything to do with that job at Ilettford? I told
him that I had. He said a policeman was in
Hoddesdon with a warrrant to take me, and says,—
' You had better go away—if you don't, they will hang
you if they take you.' We then bad a pint of beer to-
gether, and I absconded. He asked me where I meant to
go to, and I said I thought I should go to Lincolnshire.
I went to the town of Huntingdon, and met a recruiting
sergeant about two miles from thence. He asked me if I
would enlist ? I said I did not know. He overtook me
on the road and again urged me to enlist, which I did. I
staid there (at Iluetingdon) from Monday till Saturday,
and then went to Stamford—staid there a weak end went
to Coventry. Staid there three weeks and went on to
Liverpool. Staid there one night and embarked for Ire-
land. Remained there six or seven months. From thence
I came to Devonport, with the depot of the Regiment,
where I was apprehended by Duncan, the policeman.
He brought me by coach to Hertford. By the way he
told me that Sams was in gaol. I asked him what Sams?
He said I knew—' he that comes from Tewin.' He
lodged me in the station-house."
( Signed ) THOMAS TAYLOR X his mark.

/ JOHN MONK.
" "IC" - JAMES WALLACE his mark.
• •

This deposition was taken by n:e, on the -voluntary con-
fession of the prisoner, Taylor, in the presence of the
above-mentioned witnesses, in Taylor's cell.
Hertford Gaol. H. DEMAIN.

ROYAL MUSTACHIOS.—MUNICH, FEB, 17.
In August last, the King of Bavaria issued an Ordinance
prohibiting all individuals not belonging to the military ser-
vice from wearing mustachios, and enjoining the authorities
to apprehend all such as should sport the forbidden ornament.
The decree was obeyed with extraordinary submission—mus-
tachios dropped from every unwarlike lip, and not one instance
of rebellion was recorded. Lest weck, however, a party
of gendarmes met on a road so.ne carriages filled with tra-
vAlers, one of whom wore huge mustachios of a greyish
hue. He was required to exhibit his passport, which
proved en reyle ; but as the bearer of it was Count d'Au,
he was asked whether he was in the military service. On
his replying in the negative, the gendarmes declared him
their prisoner, and ordered him to follow them, adding,
that as soon as lie should be shaved at his own expence, he
should recover his freedom. The Count's travelling com-
panion protested against such severity, hinting that his
captors might have cause to repent. The gendarmes were
inexorable, they insisted upon having the mustachios, or
evidence of the wearer being a warrior, and were about to
drag him to the nearest barber's, when, to their great awe,
the annoyed traveller avowed himself to be only the Gene-
ral Primo of the Blvarian army, Lewis Charles Augusta:,
King of Bavaria, who was journeying to Italy, under the
into;,. of C tun d'Au.

At an early hour on Saturday morning, as Messrs.
Hillier and May's wagon, loaded with bay and corn, was
being driven by their wagoner between Thatcham turnpike-
gate and the Rising Sun, Woolhampton, on the Bath road,
the poor man was violently assaulted and robbed by a party
of tramping Irishmen. The wagon was seen approaching
the Rising Sun without the driver, who was discovered in
a senseless state in the basket behind. It was ascertained
that he had been robbed of 133., his whip and hat, and
thrown into the basket. —Bath Paper.

I MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.—PARIS,
Mama 3.—lf we believe what is rumoured at the Tuile-
ries, the elections and Belgian question are not the only
sources of uneasiness at the Pavillon de Fiore. A new
fear has just arisen on the occasion of a dinner given in
London by Count d'Orsay to Prince Louis Napoleon
Buonaparte. The banquet, which brought together very
heterogeneous guests, has much alarmed• Count Mole, and
it would appear that the report forwarded from London by
Count Sebastiani has been a subject of grave considera-
tion. The chances and interests of the Strasburg pri-
soner, to whom our Ministers have so awkwardly given the
importance of a Pretender, were discussed with a freedom
quite English ; the toasts conveyed abundant meaning,
although the guests were far from representing the same
political opinions, since Lord Durham sat by the side of
the bard of Eloa, and one of the foremost Tories by the
Radical novelist, Bulwer. The most piquant circum-
stance is, that the dinner was the result of a bet made at
Lady Blessing ton's. The conversation dwelt in her
Ladyship's drawing-room upon the perpetual panic of the
Tuileries Cabinet, when Count d'Orsay offered the Mar-
quis of S a bet of a hundred guineas that a mere
dinner which he should give to a few friends would become
the object of a diplomatic note. He was right. Lord
Palmerston, who had been a witness to the wager, declared
some days after to Count d'Orsay that he had won the
hundred guineas.
A PARTICULAR DIRECTION.—A letter was
received last week at the Gmeral Post-office, from Ireland,
on which the following address is written —" Mrs. Leary
Dukes Court No. 9 London to be forwa-ded to Catherine
Herrington Jerrys daughter in clad.
BAIL CASES.—In the Insolvent Debtors'
Court on Wednesday, a new point was raised in an applica-
tion for ball: Mr. Commissioner Law decided that a judg-
ment creditor could appear and appose the sureties. In fact,
he said all creditors who heard of the Matter could appear.
In another case the Court held that it was necessary that
sureties should justify in the amount of the judgment debts
as well as the detainers. It has been the practice to require
bail in only double the artiottrit of the detainers, but he
( CommitsiOner Law) would go furthq,
. .

Mr. Charles Kemble is on the Continent with
Iris daughter. The lease of his house is expieed, and his
tiend George Itobins Will officiate for him by selling his
moveables on Friday, in Park-plaiie.
The long-pending dispute between the Duke of
Beaufort and Mr. Horlock, relative to the Badminton
Hunt, has been ainicably adjusted,
20oLoGICAL GARDENS.—The interest of the
establishment at the Regent's Park is ' now considerably
increased from the probability of a broad froth the female
giraffe, which is expected to take place next month. So
little are naturalists acquainted with the history of this
animal that the period of their gestation is unknown. The
two males and the female are in remarkably fine condition,
and ag this is the third %tinter that they have been in the
Society's possession, it speaks Well for their judicious ma-
nagement in the same room with these is tiM female
ouran outang, and the chimpanzee, which from its great
resemblance to the human form is an object of great attrac-
tion: It displays all the sagacity of the former individual
of thi3 t)ebieg that visas in the colketion, and is at present
in very good and healthy condition. The vtihole of the
animals have been in good condition throughout the
winter, with the exception of the carnivore, of which
within the past Month there have been lost avaluable tiger
aid tigreta
M YST?
ildnitlßLE AL( ,NRYOUS MURDEff.-
On Friday last, Edward Hardy, steward or girimitetper I
to that excellent and popular country gentleman, Mr.
Alcoeke of Wilton, departed from his house at Kilgibbin,
for the feiteof Eneiscorthy, which town lie left about eight
o'clock in the evening, for the ptiipoie ihtiiriiing to that
house he was never more destiaed to behold. On the fol-
lowing morning, about six o'clock, Ralph Townsend, stew-
ard to Itite Oethirnts, whilst proceeding to his work, dis-
covered the remains °tithe unfortunate roan besmeared with
blood, in a pool of water, by the road-side contiguous to his
own house, On examination of the body it was found that the
vital spark had coffipletely flown, the scalp was torn from
the head, a hole which penetrated to the brain appeared
over the temporal artery, and the eyes and nose were
much swollen and discoloured, as if he had received a
violent blow of some heavy weapon thereon; deceased's
hat, with a shilling on the tn.° en of it, and a large
walking stick having knots, one of which was much
battered and bloody, lay at some distance fi om the body.
These facts having been communicated to Mr. Hawk-
shaw, our active and intelligent county Coroner, that
gentleman proceeded without delay to the scene of
this deplorable catastrophe, to hold an inquest.
Three persons have been arrested on suspicion, in
consequence of its having been known in the neigh-
bourhood that some misunderstanding existed be-
tween said persons and deceased. The authorities, the
most active of whom is the Hon. Captain flay, aided by
the inhabitants of the district, are using the most strenuous
exertions to find out and bring the murderers to justice.
The Wexford Independent, from which the above is taken,
contains a long account of the evidence at the inquest. A.
man named Furlong, and two persons named Kelly, were
arrested on suspicion. The jury, on Monday evening, re-
turned the following verdict o—" We find that Edwar 1
Hanly was wilfully murdered by some person or persons at
present unknown." A large reward is in progress. Mr.
Alcock has put down hi; name for 1001.

TURNPIKES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—My object in addressing you is, to draw the
attention of the public to the arbitrary powers delegated
to Turnpike Trustees, with a view to an amendment of
the Turnpike law.
The powers to which I more especially refer, are the
powers. of erecting additional toll gates, of making
diversions, and of stopping up the old roads. The power
vested in Trustees of erecting toll-gates, and advancing
or reducing the tolls, gives them a most despotic power
of taxation. I know a recent instance in which the tolls
of a turnpike, besides keeping the road in repair, and
paying all other outgoings, produced a surplus revntue of
between 2,000/. and 3,0001. a y-•-ar, the Trustees of which
erected en additional toil-gate so as to catch the inhabi-
tants of a particular township on their way to rnark.,t ;
-whereki the) ;aA a tax of about fifty pounds a year on
i that township, n opposition to strong remonstrances,
and at a time when their duty to the public loudly
demanded a reduction of the toils on the
whole line of road included in their trust. What their
reason for this proceeding was is not for me to say. I
dm sure it we: not to pay off the debts of the trust, for
those the Trustees are more inclined to increase than
diminish. Possibly it. might be to make p irtial and
extravagant diver,ions of the road, to the serious
detrine nt of other men's interests ; or pc,haps the
Tru.,tees had a mind to tax the inhabitants of
that viiticular township. How this nii;_;ht be I
cannot tell, but that the inhabitants of that to ..nship
were tax,ll by a most unjust and tyrannical exercise of
power is cer:ain.

The p:wer which Turnpike Trustees poss,ss of d ivert-
tug the road is also liab:c to great atiuse. It is not au iltl•
common occurrence for Trustees to divert roads, after
persons depending on the traffic,.have erected buildings
and established shops on the road, in which case
the diversion ruins the tr.Ad of all of them, and
frequently reduces their bnildings to one-half their for-
mer value, and sometimes leas. And that is not all,
for the old road from which the traffic is diverted may
be stopped up and sold, and that which was an accom-
modaiion may be converted into a nuisance.
This is enough to show that a check upon these
powers ought to exist somewhere. In the case of high-
ways no stoppage can take place without a Magistrate's
order, against which parties aggrieved have a right to
appeal, and soma controulling power ought to be con-
stituted, to which parties aggrieved by Turnpike Trus-
tees can appeal. Not that I think the Highway Law
is perfect.' I do not.. I would have the interposition
of a Jury in all these cases which the Highway Law
does not afford, but still it is infinitely superior to the
Turnpike Law, whereby most things are referred to the
discretion of the Trttstees,which unfortunately often leads
to very improper results.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant.
OBSERVER.

TPEASURY MINUTE RELATIVE
TO THE REBUILDING OF THE ROYAL
EXCHANGE.

The following has been received by the City Remem-
brancer

" Treasury Chambers, March 9.
" Sire—l have laid before the Lords Commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury your letter of the sth instant, and
the accompanying resolution of the Royal Exchange and
Gresham Trusts Committee, which they passed after they
had taken into their consideration the resolution of the
Select Committee of the House of Commons, on Metro-
polis Improvements, of the 26th ult., and the statement of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer thereunto annexed; and
I have received their Lordships' commands to return to you
the plan and estimate of the site and approaches to the pro-
posed Royal Exchange, with their Lordships' approval
thereof, signed in conformity with the provisions of the
Act Ist and 2d Victoria, cap. 100; and, at the same time
to transmit to you, for the information of the Committee
and of the Corporation, a copy of their Lordships' minute
of this day on the subject.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" The City Remembrencer. " F. T. BARING."
" My Lords tender the resolutions of the Joint or
Grand Committee for Gresham affairs, agreed to on the
Ist of March, 1839, and laid before the Board by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. My Lords send also the
resolutions unanimously agreed to by the Royal Exchange
and Gresham Trusts Committee bearing the same date."
" The Chancellor of the Exchequer informs the Board
that he attended the Select Committee of the House of
Commons for Metropolitan Improvements, which took into
its consideration the correspondence between this Board,
the Royal Exchange Committee, and other persons, on the
subject of rebuilding the Royal Exchange. The Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer states that he had explained to the
Select Committee that in the exercise of the power entrusted
to them in respect to the plans of the site and approaches
of the Royal Exchange, my Lords had felt it to be their
imperative duty to look to the intention of the Select
Committee of the last Session, as expressed in their first
Report, and from which it appeared to my Lords that the
plats and estimates for the future building, as well as the
plans and estimates for the site and approaches, should re-
ceive the sanction of this Board before any part of this
work was undertaken. He also stated to the Committee
that this construction of the Report was rejected by the
City authorities, who informed my Lords That the
Select Committee of 1838, confirmed their recommendation
to the enlargement of the site and the improvement of the
avenues, and that there was nothing in such report which
can bo construed to imply that the sanction of the Treasury
should be given to the plena and estimates for rebuilding
the Royal Exchange.' My Lords had felt it their duty
to lay the whole correspondence before Parliament, in order
that the opinion of the Select Committee should be taken
in respect to the future progress of these works.
" The Chancellor of the Exchequer also informs the
Board, that he read to the Select Committee the several
letters from the Right Hon. Sir J. C. Herries, and Sir R.
H. Inglis, and Sir B. Hall, expressing their opinion that
it had been the intention of the Committee of 1838, that
the plans and estimates of the new buildings %hould be
submitted to the Treasury for sanction and approval.
" The Chancellor of the Exchequer also submitted to
the Board the following resolution, unanimously adopted by
the Select Committee of the Huuse,of Commons, Feb.
26, 1839:
"' Resolved—' That it is the opinion of this Committee-
that as, in addition to the funds provided by the Gresham
Committee for the erection of the building itself of the
Royal Exchange, the completion of the works thereof, and
of the approaches thereto, involves a large expenditure of
public money, the plans and estimates of the said building,
and of the approaches thereto, as prepared by the Trustees
and the Corporation, ought so to be submitted and approved
by the Lords of the Treasury, before any of the said works
shall be undertaken.'
" He further states, that by the desire of the Commit-
tee he had informed Mr. Jones, the Chairman of the Com-
mittee for City improvements, that the opinion expressed
in the letter from the City Remembrancer to the Treasurer,
with respect to the First Report of the Select Committee,
had been founded on misapprehension. He has also added,
that it was the desire of the Treasury so to execute their
functions as not to produce any excess of expenditure be-
yond the sum of 150,0001., which the Gresham Trustees
had agreed to lay out, and that no power was claimed to
compel the Corporation or Gresham Trustees to adopt any
plan which they had not previously approved.
" ' My Lords refer to the former Minutes on this subject
(27th November, 1838). My Lords stated it to be their
desire to exercise the discretionary functions created by the
Acts Ist and 3d Victoria, c. 100, according to the intention
of the Select Committee, upon whose Report than Act was
founded.
" ' My Lords also expressed their conviction, that it
was the intention of that Committee, that the plans' and
estimates of the intended buildings should be previously
approveil and sanctioned by my Lords.
" their Minutes of the 20th December, 1638, my
Lords proposed that the plans of site and approaches should
be approved of forthwith, provided the further question
re!ipeting the plans and estimates of the new buildings
was reserved for the consideration of the House of Com-

mons.
" In their Minutes of the 29th January, my Lords gave
directions that the papers should be laid before Polliament,
and expressed their determination to abide by the decision
which should be pronounced.
" My Lads have now before them in this resolution.
unanimously adopted by the Select Committee, that Par-
liamentary decision by which they have stated their det,r-
mination to be directed. The Committee have expressed
their opinion that the plans and estimates of the building
ought to be submitted to and approved of by the Treasury ;
and as this resolution has been adopted and acquiesced in
by the two City Committees, my Lords arc much gratified
in being able to give their sanction to the plans and esti-
mates of the site and of the approaches.
My Lords entirely concur in the explanation given
by the Chancellor of the Exche,-per in respect to the
made In which these functions, under the let and 2d Vic-
toria, c. 100, are tt/ be tierfotiened, that explanation, it; fact,
stating the principles upon Whieh it hes ever been their
determination to act.
"' My Lords feel assured that all the partie4 stitea are
concerned itt the rebuilding of the Royal Exchange, rnfl
p:rform their rcgpeetite duties bi such a spirit of c >rifidenee
as may promote the success of a work in which the trade of
London and the inhabitants of the metropolis are so much
interested.' "

We perceive 'by the. Manchester papers received in
town this morning, measures have beet taken by the spinners
and manufacturers in some parts of Lancashifc for breaking
up the Liverpool cotton monopoly, the reason assigned for
this proceeding being exactly that which might be ex •
peeled from the class of persons in question, namely, " that
they derive no benefit from it." A general meeting of the
spinners and manufacturers of Staley bridge and the neigh-
bourhood was, it appears, held Lest Wednesday, when it
was resaved that the respective firms composing "the asso-
ciation" should, on the followieg Monday (this day) corn-
mem c working three days a week only, the prohibition to
continue for the space of six months, unless a change of
circumstances should arise. It was understood that a
similar step would be taken by all the spinners at Ashton-
un'ler -Line, so that, because the masters can get
nothing out of the monopoly among the holders of
the raw material, the poor workmen and their families
are, all on a sudden, to be stripped of half their weekly
wages for six months out of the twelve. We consider the
combination of cotton speculators and bankers a most in-
tolerable evil, and shall be very glad to learn that it has
been put an end to ; but if such a result is to be brou,,,rht
about only by the wholesale ruin of the operatives, we shall
be inclined to consider the remedy worse than the disease.
—Morning Post.
TuE MARCH.—At a shop N 0.9, Queen-street,
Seven Dial',a large canvas blind is exhibited, on which is
" One koZfpcney !:,er pound is give beer for any
thirty old rags. —N.B. foiltors shop boards cleared at
2d. per pound.