The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-12 00:00:00

ONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 12.

SULTAN would enable _hi to lof his accession to the throne signed pardons, commute
MEI' ALI, And re-estabiisn the pOw'ef. iit iti%l , tllns; or diminutions of punishment to 719 persons con-
to, depose MEHB-
demned to imprisotiaielit l's. torioos offenses. Tins ;s
Ottoman sceptre over Syria and EaYPt.
lay : wisely and well done. By clemency titiW will tlie.
Combined English and French fleet might lazy KING. regain the ground he has lost in the all..cCon of
Aleiiandiia in tiiiiis and kindle a 'vat of eßtertni,
. ~,... lns suhoet3. The Duke and Duchess of OLILEANS
hatioli in 3} rig ; but every person iniist be aWife have 81A tint du s tour
.that such a proceeding would utterly extirpate the : Duke will visit Africa before his return to Paris, it is
seeds of the civilization which the Viceroy is so said his Royal Highness pants to " cover himself with
laudably employed in planting in his dominions ; glory," and therefore has gone to break a lance with
and that, over and above its injustice, Turkey would ARD-EL-KADER.
be prevented from profiting by it, in consequence BOURSE.—Pams, SATURDAY, AUG 10.
?int Highest Lowest Last
of the exhausted state of her internal resources. Price Price. Price Price
French 5 per Cents l:2 50 ... 112 55 ... 112 45 ... 1 2 45
Thus, whether there be peace or war, the in- 4 per Cents lOO ... 106 ... 1.6 ... 100
dependence of Turkey is seriously m naced,
e 4 per Cents
3 per Cents lO3 ... 1.3 ... las ... 103
89 50 ... SO 50 ... 80 45 ... 8 i 45
and the solution of the main question rendered Rank of trance
Laflitte Bank LOOK sh lO6O ...lON ...1060 ...069
a matter of the greatest difficulty. The Journal 5,000 f. Sh 5220 -.5225 ...NV) ...5213
des Debats does not hesitate to avow the con- 13teelfaann spert Cents ion4 „. 10z!,4 ... 10a% ... 100"
772 50 ... 772 50 ... 772 50 ... 77/ N
viction that the proper settlement of the ques- :14,Anish Passive 414 ... 414 ... .“,i ... 4%
4eapolitan
tion would be to set aside ABD-UL-MEDJID, ' RAILWAY SH'ARES•
and elevate MEHEMET ALI to the Ottoman St. Germain
Versailles ,N. B 642 50 ... 642 50 ... 640 ... 640
Throne. We are precisely of the same op
i- LB :340 ... 340 ... :137 50 ...:'4O
980 ... 981 ... 1:80 ... 980
nion, were such a settlement possible ; but then Havretrasu rg to Bate 327 50 .. 327 50 ... 327 50
would France and England unite in a war with '
Slontpellier to Cette ' 39032 50
::.'39 4) ... 390 ... 39•' ;,0
MEHENIET ALI against Russia? MEIIEMET
ALI is the only man capable of resuscitating the
Ottoman Empire ; he alone is able to cope with the
Cabinet of St. Petersburgh ; but it would be neces-
sary in the first place to prevent Russia from over-
whelming him before lie could establish his autho-
rity on the shores of the Bosphorus. How is this
to be done ? Moreover, Austria would join
Russia in attacking, and probably wrest-
ing from Turkey most of her remaining• pro-
vinces in Europe, and hence the project of the
Debats—excellent in itself, and no great violation
of a principle in a country where the sword for
time immemorial has regulated the succession—is
rendered, by the presence and the designs of Russia
and Austria, utterly impracticable. `tic fear too
that there does not exist between the Governments
of France and England that mutual confidence
which would ensure them a decided and undisputed
preponderance in the East. The footing which
France has already gained in Africa renders much
of her solicitude about Egypt liable to strong sus-
picion. This is a further drawback, and must have
the effect of greatly weakening the combined action
of the Cabinets of St. James's and the Tuileries.
It is useless now, however, either to remonstrate
or to suggest. We must confine ourselves to
calmly watching the development of events big with
consequences affecting the welfare of three quarters
of the globe.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

CHARGE OF THE RECORDER -THE ALLEGED MURDER AT

UXBRIDGE.
The Session re•opened this morning before the Right
lion. the Lord Mayor, Alderman Copeland, the Recorder,
Mr. Sergeant Arabin, and the usual civic authorities.
The Recorder, in charging the Grand Jury, said he did
not think it necessary to advert at length to many parti-
cular cases, for though not a few were of a very serious
nature, the major portion of them were not so intricate in
practice, or so difficult in law, that they might not be left
to their ordinary experience. There were two cases only
on which he deemed it right to offer any particular ob-
servations, these were the charge of murder, at Uxbridge,
on the inquisition before the Coroner, and a charge of
killing by poison. As to the latter case, in which a hus-
band was accused. of having poisoned his wife, if there
was sufficient evidence to show that he wilfully administered
that which he might reasonably suppose would endanger
life, the offence amounted to murder. If, on the other
hand, he administered, ignorantly, something injurious,
and which exposed life to peril, it might then become a
question whether there was not such a degree of negligence
as would in law amount to criminality and render him re-
sponsible, though not for murder. Ile (the Recorder) did
not, however, apprehend that, in this case the Grand Jury
would return a bill for manslaughter. The great question
was whether it would be made out to their satisfaction that
the wife died by poison administered by the husband,
though it might not be the poison at first imagined, viz.,
arsenic. There was satisfactory evidence that he admi-
nistered a large dose of cream of tartar, the effect of which
would depend much on the quantity administered and the
state of the woman, she being then pregnant. There were
all the usual indications of the presence of arsenic ;
but the surgeons had not been able by their tests to discover
any actual quantity of that poison. Under these circumstances
if it were found that the husband had administered the
' cream of tartar and that moreover there were the indica-

Letters and papers from Madrid of the 3d inst. have
been received. On the 31st ult. the army of the north
consisted of 84 battalions of infantry, 28 squadrons of
e cavalry, and 45 corps of volunteers, in all 98,958 men,
together with 4,403 horses, 533 piecs of cannon, 114
howitzers, and 43 mortars. The Carlist army opposed
to it was composed of only 40 battalions, 8 squadrons,
and 28 volunteer corps, in all 32,060 men, with 890
horses, 36 pieces of artillery, 9 howitzers, and 7 mortars.
In Arragnn and Catalonia the QUEEN'S troops bore
the same proportion to the Carlist forces. And EsPAR.-
TERO has not advanced a furlong for the last three
weeks ! The success of the Exaltado candidates has
rendered a dissolution or a change of Ministers im-
perative.

tions of arsenic, it would bethe duty of the Grand Jury to
put the case in a train of further investigation, by return.
ing a bill for murder. The other case was that of a boy
15 years of age, committed by the Coroner for the murder
of a youth by whom he had been struck in a quarrel
respecting the purchase of some fish. The deceased had
weighed some fish for the boy, who refused to pay at the
price proposed, and he received from the deceased more
than a single blow ; retreating, and appearing to be much
irritated, he dared the deceased to repeat his blow, inti-
mating that if he did, he would get something in return.
After serving another customer, the deceased came
up to prisoner, pursued him, as though to strike
him ; having seized him by the collar, a scuffle
ensued, in which it seemed that the prisoner,
with a knife, struck the deceased the wound of which
he shortly after expired. Now, before the petty Jury, there
were several questions which might arise. First, whether
the blow was struck in a transport of passion, while smart-
ing from the blow which the deceased had given ; or
whether there were signs of the prisoner's having made a
slight provocation the pretence for using a deadly weapon.
The law did not so far indulge the infirmity of human
nature, as to allow a person having received a slight assault
—especially when it was the ordinary case of boys fighting
—as a reason to justify the use of a deadly weapon. In this
case it would seem, that after the prisoner had received
one or two blows, and retreated, he dared the deceased to
' strike him, telling him that he would get something if he
attacked him again. These words were equivocal, and the
Grand Jury would perhaps feel inclined to affix to them
the milder interpretation. They might merely signify
that the prisoner's blood was up, and that, whether a
match for deceased or not, he would stand up against him.
On the other hand, they might imply, that he then had
meditated the use of the deadly instrument. The Grand
Jury would bear in mind that when in cases of this nature
witnesses differed somewhat in their accounts of the trans-
action it did not always follow that that was any substan-
tial contradiction, but only that the attention of different
persons was more particularly called to different parts of
the affair. Thus, in the present case, one of the witnesses
stated that the prisoner had received three blows before
he struck the fatal wound. This was important in the pri-
soner's favour, as increasing the provocation he had received.
In ordinary circumstances of a quarrel the use of a knife was
not justified, except by a very serious blow. He (the Recor-
der) might probably, without trespassing on the province
of the Grand Jury, express his opinion that under the cir-
cumstances (whatever might be the result on the trial be-
fore the Petty Jury), it would be best for them to put the
matter in a way for further inquiry, by returning the bill
for murder. At the trial the case would roceie, under
the direction of one of her Majesty's Learned Judges, the
most sifting investigation. Although, however, thus inti-
mating his (the Recorder's) opinion that it would be the
safest course for this more minute inquiry, the Grand Jury
were at liberty to use their own free and unbiassed judg-
ment on the question.
The Court then proceeded to swear in Common Juries.

A petition of the Brandy Traders of the Depart-
ments of the Gironde, the Charente, and the Charente
Infericure, to the Chamber of Deputies, praying the
Government to take some steps to obtain a reduction
of the import duty on French brandy in England, is
the subject of various politico-economical strictures in
the French Journals of Friday and Saturday. The
petition did not arrive in Paris in time for presentation
before the prorogation of the Chambers ; but Marshal
SOULT, to whose care it was addressed, was pleased to
forward the following communication to the petitioners,
in the name of the French Government :
PARIS, JULY 20, 1839.

Gentlemen,—The facts and considerations set forth in
the petitions of the manufacturers and exporters of Cognac
brandy, which you had been commissioned to lay before
the Chamber of Deputies, and which I had the honour to
receive through your communication, have served to con-
firm the opinion I previously formed of the importance of
those interests on behalf of which you require a reduc-
tion of the excessive duties imposed by England on our
brandies.
His Majesty's Government, anticipating your wishes on
this subject, has proposed to the English Government to
renew the negociations which had been opened in Paris at
the commencement of the present year, between the Com-
missioners appointed by both countries, with the view of
ascertaining what changes might be introduced into the
Custom-house tariff, so as to give a progressive develop-
ment to the intercourse, both as to commerce and naviga-
tion between France and England. I have no reason to
suppose that the British Government would refuse to take
these proposals into consideration, and you may rest assured
that we shall continue to make energetic remonstrances
in that quarter, in order to obtain a considerable re-
duction of the duties upon brandy imported for British
consumption, as the chief recompense for the favours
which we in our turn will grant with respect to English
produce; for it is scarcely necessary for me to observe
that this question cannot be viewed in an isolated form.
Whatever difficulties may arise in the adjustment of na-
tional interests which may be affected by any arrangement
between France and Great Britain, be assured that those
you represent will be considered by the King's Government
as entitled to the highest degree of solicitude and attention.
(Signed) MARSHAL SOULT,
Duke of Dalmatia.

The Courrier Francaiahas some very just strictures
on the tenacity with which every class of traders in
France cling to monopolies, which, in their short-sight-
edness, they fancy of. benefit to themselves, while, with
the inconsistency of injustice, they perpetually urge the
Government to break down such as seem to promise an
equal protection to others. " The agriculturists in the
centre and north of France," says that journal, " set
their faces against the importation of foreign corn ;
those of the west declare against the admission of the
cattle
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Switzerland,xiu Gs m
ton y, and Belgium ; those of
the
sell their wines, but will not
sao Germany,
allow the introduction of wines from Spain or Italy, on pay-
ment of a moderate duty. Our iron-founders derive
enormous profits under the existing system, and demand
the maintenance of a protecting duty of 100 per cent.
The manufacturers of cloth and cotton goods, who are
so proud of the progress they have made, have not the
courage to affront foreign competition even with the
advantage of a duty of from 25 to 30 per cent. ; no-
thing but prohibition will satisfy them." It is only
when ruin stares them in the face that monopolists can
be made to perceive the fallaciousness of their system.
And even then, their ignorance or their selfishness is
such that they petition barely for such a modification
of the system as promises to give relief to the branch of
trade in which they are directly interested. All the
brandy-growers care about is the consumption of
brandy ; and the corn monopolist is regardless whether
the country flourishes or declines, provided he can com-
pel the people to starve or eat dear bread.
From the East no additional news was received in
Paris up to post hour on Saturday, except the following
extract from a Toulon letter of the Bth inst. :
" Admiral de la Susse has arrived, and will hoist his flag
on board the Montebello, which will immediately sail for
the Levant. The Santi Petri is busily employed in taking
in large stores of provisions and water, and will also sail
shortly. The Alger is fitting out with all possible expe-
dition. Admiral Lalande has received orders to join Ad-
miral Stopford in preventing the Egyptian and Turkish
fleets from entering the Dardanelles, and to place their
own fleets before Constantinople, in case Russia sends her
fleet from the Black Sea into the Bosphorus. There is
little fear of the ships now in the port of Alexandria
quitting their moorings, but all letters from the officers of
Admiral Lalande's fleet concur in expressing a conviction
that the Russian fleet will pass the Bosphorus, and in a few
days be at anchor in the Sea of Marmora. Several ships
of war of the smaller classes are being equipped as cruisers,
and will be sent to the coast of Catalonia. The Etna
steamer has been sent off with urgent despatches for Ad-
mirals Roussin and Lalande."
The Commerce has a letter from Jassy (Moldavia)
of the 20th ult., from which we take
the following ac-
count of the disposal of the Russian army in that

quarter :
The Russian army has taken its position near our fron-
tiers, and is stationed in the following order:—The
Kischnew, Ismail,
6th corps, commanded by General Lieders, and composed
of two divisions of infantry and one oas av
f calry, with a
proportionate supply of artillery, h its quarters at
and Kilia ; ten Cossack regiments,
under theiorders of Ataman Wasilewski, arc can-
toned at Skulany, and along the Pruth ; a division of
infantry of the 3d corps of the army
is at Dubassary; eight
regiments of Lancers, under the command
quarteredßaron Ac
and Bender ; and three divisions of infantry and one of ca-
valry, with the reserve artillery, commanded by General
Baron Rudiger, are stationed between Kiew and Kami-

enick- Podolski.
The pontoons are lying at Ismail, one-half of :athee.,mhaavree
i
be taken to the island of Sulina ; so that the divsion of
the army under General Lieders may effect a junction and
cross the Danube in 24 hours alter the recpt of orders.
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flotilla, composed of light vessels, has anchored at the mouth
of the Danube. Great events are fast approachince Sngtourdza
.
The Russian Consul has already advised Pri
and the Boyars of Moldavia to address a memorial to the
Emperor Nicholas, for the purpose of showing the alarm-
ing state of the Ottoman Empire, and of
.soliciting the
immediate protection of Russia; but Prince Stourdza
rejected this proposition, alleging that such a step would
wound the susceptibility of the Sultan, who is the Sove-
reign of Moldavia and Wallachia. From this you will
judge of the efforts Russia is making to obtain the protec-
torate of the two principalities, no doubt with the view of
seizing on them, in case of any break up in the Turkish
empire.
This includes all that appears to us of any interest in
the French Journals. The Moniteur contains several
Royal Ordinances, giving effect to various laws passed
during the late Parliamentary Session. The same
Journal announces that the KING, on the anniversary