The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-13 00:00:00

INQUEST ON THE BODY.

Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, a Jury, con-
sisting of merchants and tradesmen of opulence, was
impanelled before Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, at the
Swan Tavern, Fish-street-hill, London-bridge, to pur-
sue an inquiry into the circumstances that led to the
death of Miss Margaret Moyes, aged 22, daughter of
Mr. James Moyes (formerly one of the Churchwardens
of the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, of which
he has been an inhabitant, most highly respected, for
many years), who committed self-destruction by leaping
from the top of the Monument on Wednesday morning.
In consequence of the intense sensation which the
frightful calamity has occasioned, the inquest-room was
densely crowded throughout the inquiry. The Jury
(there being 21 jurors) having been sworn, proceeded
with the Coroner to view the mangled remains of the
unfortunate young woman, which lay in a shell at the
bone-house of the parish of St. Magnus, under the first
arch of London bridge, in Lower Thames-street.

The evidence which was first given, was that of Thos.
Jenkins, who gave a statement similar in effect to the
narrative of the transaction which appeared in the papers
of yesterday.
Thomas Crawley, Monument-yard, stated that he saw
the deceased when she was about two feet from the top.
She turned over twice.

By a Juror—l saw no one else in the gallery. Her
shawl was attached to the chimney.
Mr. Charles Croft, surgeon, Fish-street-hill, stated
that he had examined the body of the deceased and
found that she had received a compound fracture of the
skull. The spine was fractured, as was also the left
thigh, and the left arm was snapped in two just below the
shoulder.

By the CORONER—The immediate cause of death
was the fracture of the spine, though I am of opinion
that she was dead before she reached the ground, as
there was so little blood. There was no external ap-
pearance that she was enciente. I have not made a
post mortem examination internally.
The CORONER having inquired if there were any
friend or relative of the deceased present ?
Mr. James Bowell, Panton-street, said that he has
known the family with which the deceased was con-
nected 22 years. Mr. Moyes, the father, has been con-
fined to his bed many months. There were six chil-
dren (all daughters), the deceased being the second
eldest. The mother has been dead two years. In con-
sequence of the protracted illness of the father, it was
found necessary that some arrangement should be made
for the daughters to go out in the view of obtaining
their living. It was agreed that the deceased should
seek some situation. Since that time her conduct has
been very different, and she often appeared to witness
not to be in the possession of her reasoning faculties.
CORONER—HOW long is it since you observed an
alteration ?

Witness—Probably about six weeks ago. I saw her
a few days ago, she then seemed quite out of spirits.
CORONER—Do you know anything of a paper found
at her father's house ?
Witness—Yes. It was found on the mantel-shelf.
(The witness here produced the paper, which was in
the following words, " You need not expect to
see me back again, for I have made up my mind
to make away with"—there she had finished her
sentence and subscribed her name " Margaret
Moyes" on the reverse side of the paper.
She left her home about eight o'clock in the morn-
ing. She stated that she was going to her brother's
to breakfast.

By the JURY.--She lived on good terms with all the
family. They were always most happy together. She
was always of a quiet and inoffensive disposition. The
previous evening she spent the evening with a sister.
Witness is informed by her that she was then very me-
lancholy. On parting from each other deceased kissed
her sister three times, and more affectionately than

the evening, and the
Juror—When they found that she did not return
was there not some alarm ?
Witness—She stated that she would not return till
middle of the day. I never heard that insanity has
prevailed in the family. paper was not found till the
By the CORONER—I know of no other cause for the
distressing act, than that which has been alluded to.
The CORONER here observed that he had no doubt
but that it would be most painful to the feelings of the
sister to be called before them to give evi dente. Per-
haps the jury would be satisfied with the evidence they
had heard.

The Jury, however, expressed a wish to obtain
further information as to the state of the deceased's
mind, and requested to have the sister examined.
Miss Christiana lqoyes was then called in. She ap-
peared in deep affliction, and was accommodated with a
chair. Her testimony went to prove that for some
time past the deceased had been in great distress of
mind on account of her father's illness, and the diffi-
culties they were placed in. She saw deceased the pre-
vious morning, when she left. She then stated that
sh• would be out all day. She was not in correspon-
dence with any suitor.
The Jury then said that they ought to have had
Captain Bevan and the sister who was married, with
whom the deceased was the preceding evening.
The Foreman after this consulted with his brother

jurors, upon which he communicated their wish for the
postponement of the inquiry to have further evidence,
namely, that of Captain Bevan and the sister, who was
married.

The inquest was accordingly adjourned till three
o'clock this day.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

EXTRAORDINARY TREATMENT OF A NEW-BORN
INFANT.—On Wednesday afternoon an inquest was
held at the Three Jolly Bakers, Little Chesterfield-
street, Marylebone, before Mr. WAKLEY, touching the
death of a new-born infant, which took place under such
circumstances as to cause an extraordinary degree of
excitement throughout the neighbourhood.
George Hurst, a cab-driver, between nine and ten
o'clock on Saturday night, had occasion to go to the
shop of Mrs. Darby, No. 3, in the same street, to buy
some nuts for his squirrel, when his attention was at-
tracted by a faint " squeak," and on turning round he
saw an apparently new-born infant lying on a table near
the window, amongst apples, greens, and other articles
which the woman dealt in. After he had stood there
some minutes, Mrs. Darby came staggering in from an
adjacent public-house. She was very drunk, and upon
witness remonstrating with her upon the impropriety of
treating so tender an infant in such a way, she replied,
hiccuping, " Poh, nonsense ; it's no consequence—the
doctor says it will not live longer than one o'clock." In
answer to questions which he put to her about the in-
fant, she said that it was some lord's illegitimate child,
and had been brought to her to nurse by three doctors.
Police-constable Anderson, 35, D, in consequence of
the information he received from the last witness, pro-
ceeded to Mrs. Darby's shop, and found the child lying
as described, There was no fire in the place, and the
woman was drunk and abusive. With some difficulty he
learned from her that the mother of the infant lived as
cook in the family of Mr. Robert Jones, 26, Fit zroy-
square. The child, which was only born the same after-
noon, she had fetched away herself to nurse, that the cir-
cumstance might be concealed from the family, who
were out of town, but expeeted home every day. Early
on Tuesday morning he heard that it was dead.
• Mr. Clarke had been regularly engaged by the
mother of the infant, whose name was Mary Hall. The
birth, which was premature, was an extremely difficult
one, lasting from seven o'clock on Saturday morning till
three in the afternoon. The mother, being much agi-
tated and alarmed for fear the family should return
and discover what had happened, prevailed upon him
to procure a nurse to take care of the child, and he
procured for her the woman Darby, alluded to, whom
he believed to be a sober, steady, and trustworthy
woman.

The Jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death,"
accompanied by the following written expression of their
opinion :—" We (the Jury) regret that the medical gen-
tleman should have allowed the removal of the deceased
infant in its weak state from the natural protection of
its mother, and we think that its death was accelerated
by the culpable conduct of Mrs. Darby, whose conduct
is deserving of the highest censure, and we request she
may be accordingly reprimanded by the Coroner."

Ann Williams, the late servant of Dr. Porter,
who is charged with robbing that gentleman of a large
amount of property, attempted to commit suicide in Bride-
well, after her removal from the police-office on Friday.
She had been carefully searched, and deprived, as it was
supposed, of everything that could assist her in destroying
herself. She was left to herself, and in a short time one
of the inmates of Bridewell having occasion to go into the
room in which she was confined, pushed against her, sup-
posing she was standing. It was then discovered that she
had suspended herself by the lining which she had taken
out of her gown and twisted into a rope. Mr. Williams
was promptly on the spot and cut her down. Medical
assistance having been procured, she very shortly recovered,
and then made a vain effort to strangle herself with her
cap-strings. She had eaten nothing since the previous
evening, and expressed her determination to take no more
sustenance.—Bristol Standard [lt will be recollected
that the prisoner was apprehended in London, and taken
before Sir Peter Laurie, who sent her down to Bristol for
trial.]

The Administration of the Hospitals (and hos-
pices) of Paris has published a report to the Council-
General of the working of those establishments, by which
it appears that it admits, and consequently supports, in the
almshouses, 12,000 old and infirm persons of both sexes,
and receives annually into the hospitals 16,000 sick. It
moreover provides yearly for 4,600 foundlings, supports
16,000 in the country, places 400 as apprentices, and re-
lieves 30,000 indigent families. The expenditure of this
administration has been fixed by the Council-General,
for 1840, at 12,077,781 f. (nearly 500,0001 ) The private
propt.rty and resources of the hospitals, &c.. producing
only 6 275.011 f , the city will have to furnish out of the
proceeds of the octroi (customs)an allowance of 5,802,769 f.,
or one-fifth of the whole amount of those proceeds, which
average about 29,000,000 f. annually.

DOVER, SEPT. 2.—Yesterday, at half-past four
in the afternoon, the spectators on the pier heads observed
a huge black substance .floating past the harbour, and a
boat put off the bay and succeeded in towing it on shore.
It turned out to be a fir tree, which it is supposed was torn
up by a hurricane of wind by the root, fell into the sea, and
has crossed the Atlantic. The log is about forty feet long,
and every part of it is covered with millions of barnacles,
some of them were of an immense size. The boatmen are
exhibiting it at a certai❑ price per head.—Kentich Gaz.
THE VlSTULA.—Extract of a letter from War-
saw, of the 30th ult. Colonel Barnett, the English
Consul, has returned here from Cracow. The Vistula, in
consequence of the late excessive rains, has overflowed its
banks and done great damage, parti, ularly at Warsaw and
Cracow. Fears are entertained of a renewal of the disas-
ters of 1813, the waters having already risen at Warsaw to
21A feet, being even higher than in 1813. The damage
already done is incalculable. Many of the inhabitants
along the banks of the river have been obliged to abandon
their dwellings with all their contents. The Lubienski
Palace has been assigned to them as a refuge, and the
citizens of Warsaw, though themselves suffering, render
them every assistance in their power."
VILLANY AND DEATH.—Sometime since a
person of the name of Chisholm, a sawyer by profession,
aged upwards of fifty, and who is tolerably well acquainted
with our police-office and bridewell, having been thrice
convicted and punished for theft, took up his residence in
Linlithgow, in the house of a respectable female, named
Mary Hamilton. To her he represented himself as an
unmarried man (although he has a wife and family in Edin-
burgh), and managed so to ingratiate himself into Mary's
favour that she agreed to marry him. He came to Edinburgh
where he said he had a house, and after the lapse of a few
days returned, and informed the unsuspecting Mary that
she was now a bride,—got her to entrust him with most of
her property, even to her body clothes, to take to his
house in Edinburgh, and ho was to be back next day to
bring her to his home also. Not appearing at the time
appointed she came to Edinburgh, and there ascertained
how she had been duped—that her pretended lover was
a married man, who had sold or pledged the whole of
her property, including a watch, which he had taken
without her knowledge. She gave information at the po-
lice-office ; Chisholm was apprehended, and a large por-
tion of her property recovered. On Friday, when in the
police office, Mary appeared dejected and low-spit ited, and
on Saturday morning she was found dead in her lodgings,
and close by her lay a phial, which had contained laudanum,
probably to the extent of two ounces.—Edinburgh Ob-
server.

STUDY IN THE FRENCH ARMY.—The follow-
ing facts (says the Nouvelliste) show that the taste for
study is becoming very general in the army. In 1836, 327
cfficers and 96 non-commisioned officers, of 38 regiments
of infantry and cavalry, executed topographical works ; in
1837, 812 officers and 475 non• commissioned officers, of
75 regiments, took part in such occupations; and in 1838,
the number so engaged was 1,101 officers and 659 non-
commissioned officets, belonging to 94 regiments.
A curious scene occurred a few evenings since in
the pit of the Theatre Francais. Two friends were con-
versing upon the science of physiognomy, and one of them,
a great enthusiast, pretended to be able to read in the
facial angle the profession of every person present. " For
instance," said he. "look at the person who is asleep with
his arm on the back of the orchestra 1"—" Well, what of
him?"—" He is a concierge."—" I bet you a breakfast to
the contrary."—" Done 1" and thereupon the former ap-
proached the sleeper, and exclaimed close to his ear, in
a stentorian voce—" Le cordon, s'il vous plait!" The
sleeper jumped up immedately, and putting forth his hand,
as if in sea,ch of the rope, laid hold of the pigtail of a gen-
tleman in the pit, which he pulled lustily. "Do not be
alarmed," said the wag who had won the wager to the
gentleman, whose wig had fallen off under the tug of the
concierge, "it was only a physiognomical experiment,
which, thanks to you, has thoroughly succeeded.— Galig-
nani's Messenger.

EXTRACTION OF A NEEDLE FROM A MAN'S
ABM.—On Monday last as a person named Briant, a re-
spectable lighterman, residing in Warren-square, Wap.
ping, was in the act of washing himself, he suddenly felt
an acute twitch of pain in the fleshy part of his left arm.
He took no notice of it at the time, thinking it was merely
a touchof rheumatism. He suffered very severely during
the night, and upon rising in the morning found that his
arm was very much swelled. He immediately resolved
upon having medical advice, and accordingly applied to
Mr. F. oulger, a surgeon, in Ratcliff-highway, who, after
examining the swelling, made a small incision, and was
suprised to find the point of a large stocking needle pro-
truding, and immediately drew it out. It was very much
corroded and quite black. The only way Mr. Briant can
account for this extraordinary occurrence is, that about
four months ago he fell down upon a quantity of old iron,
when the needle in all probability entered his hand, and
must have worked itself up the arm. He states that he
did not experience any pain until the day previous to tho
extraction of the needle, when he suffered very severely.
POISONOUS MUSHROOMS.—ScarceIy a day
passes lily at this season of the year but we hear of some
ill, and, in some instances, fatal effects experienced from
an indiscriminate use of the above fungi. Children are for
the most part engaged in gathering mushrooms ; and al-
though the " tubeo castum," or virgin mushroom, may be
readily distinguished from all other varieties by the delicate
pink hue which pervades the interior membraneous surface,
yet do children gather indiscriminately other kinds of a
larger and coarser quality, and which answer exceedingly
well for making ketchup. The latter kinds, if eaten, prove
very indigestible ; they are apt to swell in the stomach,
creating nausea, violent vomiting, and most painful spasms.
The fungi family are not poisonous in their natur their
ill effects are to be ascribed wholly to theirindigestible
properties. Large doses of castor oil, united with a few
drops of spirits of camphor, have in many instances proved
a 'safe and efficacious antidote to the dangerous conse-
quences attendant on eating these hybrid fungi.

METROPOLITAN POLI TIC &I,

SUMMARY.

The Courier of last evening makes the following re-
marks on the assertions of the Tories respecting the late
Cambridge election :—" The Tories harp daily on that
one plesant string—their success in carrying the Cam-
bridge election. But from the one string they elicit twe
notes ; the first expressing their happy conviction that
the election was won in virtue of the -re-action that
has taken place in Cambridge ; and the other,
expressive of their joy that the Reform can-
didate was defeated by the sheer force of the dis-
gust and abhorrence in which his (alleged) apos-
tacy was held by the Cambridge constituency. Now,
one of these assertions must be false. If there be
re-action in Cambridge, that re-action placed Mr.
Sutton at the head of the poll, and the defeat of Reform
is in no wise attributable to any imputed detestation
of Mr. Gibson's change of opinions. If, on the other
hand, the honest and honourable conduct of that
gentleman had been so misrepresented and misunder-
stood, as to stand as the fairly assignable cause of his
rejection by the Cambridge constituency, it follows that
the grounds of defeat were those of personal prejudice
and antipathy, and that although Mr. Gibson failed,
some other Reformer would have triumphantly occupied
Mr. Sutton's place upon the poll. Let the Tories
make choice of one of these two assertions, and adhere
to it with what pertinacity they may ; but they cannot
persist in repeating both, without multiplying contra-
dictions of their own deliberate statements."

The Globe comments in the following terms on Lord
Lorton's late " wholesale ejectment" proceedings at
Ballinamuck :—" We were not aware, until we read the
invaluable Report of the Committee on Irish Crime,
that it is considered by the Tories to be one of the
duties of a good government—and, therefore, need we
say, a duty not attended to by the present Govern-
ment ?—to help the landlords to transport their outcast
tenantry. This we gather from Lord Lorton's descrip-
tion of the act of wholesale justice which he performed
some months since at B dlinamuck ; we must not
call it a wholesale ejectment,' for Lord- Glengail
solemnly denies under his noble hand that there
has been any such thing in any part of Ireland. Be
that as it may, however, his Lordship of Lorton demo-
lished forty mud cabins, and turned the inmates adrift,
on one day ; and he complains that the Government
would not lend a hand to transport the unfortunate
wretches, and get them altogether out of the country.'
Transport them !—The phrase is his Lordship's
own, and we think it a very appropriate one.
Forced emigration, under any circumstances, is ba-
nishment ; but to root out a population from the
place of their birth, with the proclaimed intention
of bringing in and establishing in greater comfort
another race in their stead, and to expatriate them
without any care or provision about their settlement in
a foreign land, or the least concern on their account,
but with a very natural desire on his own, to have them
removed far away, and for ever, out of sight, is in our
opinion much worse than transportation to a penal co-
lony. This, we think, Lord Lorton admits that he was
anxious to do."

The Standard, alluding to Mr. O'Connell's recent
mention of the spread of Popery in England, says—
= The Queen is surrounded by Papists, the Govern-
ment of the country is maintained in its position wholly
by the force of Popish and alien' (if they will so
have it) votes. The education of the rising generation of
the three kingdoms is henceforward to be subjected to
Popish superversion. What marvel, therefore, thatPopery
should be rapidly on the increase in these realms ; or
what possible argument can be drawn from that fact in its
favour ? The theology of Joanna Southcote could
hardly have failed to have advanced in a similar
ratio, had it been the object of the countenance
which has lately been bestowed upon Popery and its
professors by the Government and the Court ; and
now that Popery has become a passport to the highest
honours of the State, there will no doubt be many new
converts to its doctrines. The Protestants of Great
Britain have endured much, and 'may possibly be called
upon to endure as much again: But there is a limit at
which the pro-Popery Government of Lord Melbourne
must stop, if they would not 'jeopardy interests of far
greater importance than their own truckling tenure of
office." •
The Times of this morning Observes, with reference
to Mr. O'Counell's last letter on the subject of the
spread of Popery in England :-" We gave Mr. O'Con-
nell's last appearance as a letter writer on Tueiday ;
but we'thought- it less-woathy 4f-eotice than any of his
antecedent exhibitions of the same sort. It had refe-
rence to religion, and its object was to convert us all to
Popery. No one could suppose him serious. The de-
votion he professed for Popery, and the description he
gave of Protestantism, were alike palpably false, and
evidently intended' only to swell his annual rent.'
He thought it the best mode of stirring up the priests
to belabour the peasantry still more unmercifully out of
their pence. How could-any one have supposed even
this vain old mendicant to be in earnest, when, he pre-
tended to think that „he could, induce the whole. Pro-
testant world to take shelter under the red 'petticoats
of the Romish representative of the old lady of Babylon
of foul repute ? How could it enter into any man's
conception that even the dullest atheist, or the most
obtuse heathen, would accept a description of the Pro-
testant religion from O'Connell, who has been so fre-
quently convicted and branded as a liar, as well in, as
out of, the House of Commons, that his closest friends
never believe a word he utters ?"

The Horning Herald thus comments on the Mar-
quis of Londonderry's answer to the letter of remon-
strance of the Clergy of Ripon, on the subject of his
duel with Mr. H. Grattan :—" The answer which the
Marquis of Londonderry has addressed to the Clergy
of Ripon, who, our readers will recollect, remonstrated
with him on the subject of his late duel with the alleged
voucher of O'Connell's " poison plot," Mr. Henry Grat-
tan, is one that must give pain to every true Conserva-
tive—inasmuch as it deliberately attempts to justify a
gross violation of the Christian religion, and the law of
the land, which Conservatives are bound to hold in ,
re-
spect and veneration. Independently of the morals,'
or alleged morals of the camp,' which Lord London-
derry sets up as a defence of a violation of the law of
God and the laws of his country, there is a tone of not
very courteous rebuke to the Clergy of Ripon for inter-
fering with the practice of his pistol code of honour—Li
code, be it observed, against which the Almighty has
set his everlasting canon—a code which is also stamped
with the brand of felon infamy by the Legislature, of
which Lord Londonderry is an hereditary member."
The Morning Chronicle contains a leading article on
the subject of Lord Londonderry's reply to the Clergy
of Ripon, on the subject of' his duel o ith Mr. Grattan,
in the course of which our Contemporary s iys :--" The
great scandal given by the Marquis of Londonderry is
not the fighting a duel, but the justifying his conduct.
It might be prudent or imprudent in the clergy of Ripon
to call the Noble Marquis to account as a sinner ; and,
indeed, it may be doubted whether any clergyman is
strictly justified in making the conduct of individuals the
subject of public animadversion. There is a well-known
case tried before the Supreme Court of' Scotland, where
a clergyman, in what he conceived the exercise of his
duty, inveigned in the pulpit against two of his parish-
ioners by name. The Court conceived that this was
exceeding the just limits of his duty, and he was sub-
jected to a heavy fine. It was the duty of his chaplain
or the clergyman under whose ministration the Noble
Marquis might be for the time, on learning that he had
fought a duel, to admonish him, and on discovering signs
of impenitence and hardness of heart, to endeavour to
bring hint to a right wry of thinking ; and we are
bound to presume that this duty has not been discharged,
from the very confused notions which the Noble Mar-
quis evidently has of the grounds on which alone a sinner
can hope for mercy."
The Morning Post alludes in the following pert,
chambermaid-style, to the important question of the
Corn-laws :--" It is already announced by the Metro-
politan Radical press that s the battle between the
Corn-law monopolists and the rest of the nation is
about to recommence.' Be it so. We own that we do
not see that any good is to be derived from this battling,
and it may give rise to much discontent and ;
but, if the enemies of British agriculture will 4 agitate'
this question, we are ready to do our part in meeting
them, and we doubt not that we shall also have our
share in beating them, as we have had before. By the
way, would it not be important for the Ministerial
Corn-law agitators to see what the opinion of the Ladies
of the Bedchamber may be upon this great question ?
Doubtless their authority, which is now set up as some-
thing more than equivalent to that of Parliament, might
have great weight in determining whether the Corn-law
should stand or fall. The Ministerialists who advo-
cate Corn-law repeal cannot but know very well that
large majorities of both Houses of Parliament are de-
cidedly adverse to the repeal. But this, perhaps, only
quickens the zeal of these Ministrial agitators."
The Morning Advertiser, speaking of the recent suc-
cess of' the Christino cause in Spain, observes as fol-
lows :—" When our enemies are dissatisfied,' says
Voltaire,' we may be assured that we have some good
ground for satisfaction. When the main organ of
Toryism yesterday morning raised a yell of disappointed
fury ogainst the resul!ofthtahte
ReformSpanishanciointtheset,piotpmulaayr
be, prima facie, inferred
cause have gained some advantage disagreeable and
painful to the Tory and Absolutist party. Such is, in
reality, the case. A memorable triumph has just been
accomplished for the righteous cause of universal politi-
cal improvement. Setting aside th s view of the ques-
tion, one would think that any man would rejoice at the
termination of a sanguinary civil war. nut the Tories,
it appears, have no such compunctious visitations of
nature:"

It appears from an Ayr paper that the subscrip-
tions for a piece of plate to the Earl of Eglinton already
amount to nearly 2,0001.
The great body of the police are reported to be
much dissatisfied with " the Superannuatad Fund," re-
cently established, which came into operation on Wetiees-
day for the first time,
The Editor of the New Orleans Courier is said
to be worth a million and a half of dollars. He'd be a
curiosity to look at.

EVENING EDITION.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'§.-YESTERDAY.

The last public betting took place in the afternoon, and, as
on Monday, was tolerably brisk towards the close. Charles
the Twelfth's friends were quite as sanguine as ever, and, by
taking 7to 4 as long as it could be got, widened the space be-
tween him and Bloomsbury; not that the latter lacked support,
for 3 to 1 was taken, and offers made repeatedly to go on at the
same odds to a large amount ; one bet of 500 to 200 was taken,
but no attempt was made by the backer to increase his stake at
that figure. Euclid was backed at precisely the same average
as on Monday, nor was any change observable in The Provost
or Bolus. The Hyllus party was on the qui vive ; 30 to 1 was
taken freely, and he rose five points in consequence. Towards
the finish, however, 28 to 1 was laid two or three times, his
closing price being 25 to 1. A little money was laid out on
The Corsair, first at 50 and afterwards at 30 to 1, and on
Fitzambo at 50 and 45 to 1. Hetman Platoff as before, and
any odds against The Commodore, Sleight-of-Hand, or Meunier.
Closing prices :-
7 to 4 agst Charles the Twelfth—taken freely
5 to 2 agst Bloomsbury—taken and afterwards offered
12 to 1 agst Euclid—taken
20 to 1 agst The Provost—offered
25 to 1 agst Hyllus—offered
25 to 1 agst Easingwold—offered
30 to 1 agst The Corsair—taken
30 to 1 agst Bolus—taken
40 to 1 agst Hetman Platoff—taken.
45 to 1 agst Fitzambo—taken
50 to 1 agst the Dey of Algiers—taken
9 to 4 on two agst the field—taken
300 to 200 on Charles the Twelfth agst Bloomsbury
THE DERBY.
28 to 1 agst Maroon—taken

ASHFORD RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Town Plate of 501. Heats, two miles and a dis. The

winner to be sold for 130!., &c.
Mr. Fauleoner's b m Slender, 4 yrs, 9st2lb (Butler) 0 1 1
Mr. Turner's gr g Jim Crow, 5 yrs, 9st 61b..... 1 4 2
Mr. Monek's ch g Nominee, 3 yrs, 7st 71b 2 2 dr
Mr. Dockeray's b c Lyster, 3 yrs, 7st 71b 0 3 dr
Mr. Bacon's b m Maid of Kent, 4 yrs, 9st 21b 0 5 dr
Mr. Munro's b g Bravo, 6 yrs, 9st 31b 3 dr
Capt. Pearson's b g Colverstown, aged, 9st 71b 0 dr
First won by a head; the second and third won easy. Slen-
der was claimed.

The Riptnn Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 35 added from the
fund. Heats, two miles and a dis. Five subs.
Mr. Balchin's b m Slang, aged, 9st 31b.......( Hornsby) 1 1
Mr. 51 unro's b g Bravo, 6 yrs, 9st 31b
Mr. Monck's ch g Nominee, 3 yrs, 7st 71b 3 dr
Capt. Pearson's b g Colverstown, aged, 9st 71b 4 dr

Won easy
A Purse for Horses not thorough-bred, &c. ; lOst each ;
heats, one mile and a dis. ; winner to be sold for 40/. ; was
won by Mr. W. Scott's br g (Hornby), beating five others.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS•

TIMES—Among the complaints of stagnant busi-
ness are at length included those of the discount brokers
themselves, who find themselves comparatively in a
worse state now than when the rate of interest was low
and bills abundant. A single bill, it is true, will yield
them a much higher profit ; but, then, there is the risk
of a bad debt, which excessive interest always carries
along with it, and the quality of bills is so limited that
a great proportion of their available means remains un-
employed. Capitalists seem to give way very reluc-
tantly in such a reduction of the rate of interest as these
circumstances naturally urge them to, and their cau-
tion has been increased, without doubt, by the con-
sideration that some premium for the risk incurred
in the discount bills, after the general pressure which
has lately been incurred, is absolutely indispensable.
They hold out, too, as long as they can for the rate
which has been fixed by the Bank, but the Money
Market is in such a state that if any relaxation were to
be made by the Bank, the reduction would be eagerly
followed, if not carried further still by the private capi-
talists. Setting aside all opinion on the propriety or
otherwise of such a step, it would be the immediate
signal for renewed activity in trade, which is waiting the
event in order to move at ali. It is perfectly obvious
that there will be in that case an abundance of new bills
soon created ; that business will revert to its ordinary
state, and that confidence will be restored. What
podcy the Bank are likely to adopt in this emergeneY
is a mistery to all, and without some knowledge of their
situation at this moment utterly impossible to divine.
They are so constantly forced to do what the Directors
themselves pronounce to be improper, by the dread of
worse consequences, that it would be a very rash con-
clusion to come to from any external appearances that
they are in a safe position.
There is a rumour afloat, which has prompted the
above remark, that they have recently been placed in the'
awkward and painful predicament of affording very, es,'
tensive assistance hi a-quarter to which their most
ous notice has constantly been directed,_ to "Alia' they
have hitherto refused all support, and done every thing.
in their power to damage and depreciate, though smith
assistance tended at the same time to counteract the
measures they had in progress for the contraction of the
circulation, and all through the fear of what might
happen if such assistance were refused.
d the
has not yet, at least, been experienced much beYea
The comparative easiness of money above described
circle of the higher class of commercial interests.
Among the smaller description of traders both in town
and country, want of accommodation is still much
felt.
•Considering the proportionably less amount of small
bills in circulation than at the same period
,of former
years, arising from the depression of trade, a much larger
number than usual has been returned since the begin-
ning of this month, protested for nob-payment,- and to
a great extent, it is said, consisting of bills with the,
endorsements on them of country joint-stock banks,
One London banking firm alone is mentioned as baying
had 300 of this sort of bills protested. The notaries,
it is believed, have been fully occupied.

POSTS—Money continues to be obtained on good
bills at the same rate of 6 per cent. per annum for the
use of the mercantile interest, while for stock jobbing
purposes the easier charge of from 4i to 5 per cent. is
current. It is thought that the late dealings in the
Foreign Market, and the heavy differences that may be
expected to arise upon the ensuing Account, will pro'
bably cause- a renewal of the pressure in that branch
of the Stock Exchange. The settlement is fixed for
Monday.

CHRONICLE.—In consequence of the improved
state of things in the City, and the comparative ease
experienced in the Money Market, owing chiefly to the
large shipments of specie to this country from variV.°
quarters, which have been going on lately, it was 0001'
pated by many persons that there would have been El
notice from the Brink of England reducing the rate of
interest, or extending the mode of accommodation ; but
nothing of the sort appeared, and every thing therefore
remains in the same state. Some extensive purchases
were made in Consols, chiefly for bone fide investment ;
and they appear gradually to improve, but the prices
are not greatly altered.

HE RALD.—The sudden change which has taken
place in the value of money, both for commercial pur'
poses and upon the Stock Exchange, appears likely to
lay the foundation of an amazing deal of speculation:
not only in the public securities of Great Britain and
Foreign States, but also in some portion of the manufac-
ture and produce markets.
The present improvement in the Money Market of
the country, is to a degree most certainly gratifying tjc)
its well-wishers ; it however remains to be prove"'
whether this sudden change is founded upon a reanY
healthy action of the currency system ; for, if the or
trary should turn out to be the case, the present calm
may be converted into a tempest before the deluded We'
cu:ators, who are acting on the faith of its continuance,
are aware of it.
We have not noticed so great an amount of general
speculation in the two principal departments of the
Stock Exchange as there has been to•day for a long
time past ; indeed if w(may judge from what has bee°
done in the concern, Capel-court, as the old women
say, has taken a new lease of its existence. Consider-
able business has been done in the Consol Market
to-day.

GOLD SIGNET RINGS.—A great Variety of
these Useful and Fashionable RINGS, arc kept for Seige
tion, with Cornelian, Amethyst, Topaz, and other Real
b,
Stones, suitable for engraving. Armorial bearings trial
referred to, or found, gratis, and can be engraved bJ an
Artist of great talent, at T. COX SAVORY'S,Loyd°
smith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornbill,
( Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street),

SHEFFIELD PLATED WINE COOLEI°'
A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing Silverstotths;
14, Cornhill,Loodon (opposite the Bank of England), have for
choice in their warerooms a Selection of PLAIN and ORL:
A.
MENTAL ICE PA ILS, to which they wish to direct attentiov•
The price of the Plain Tub.pail (now much in use), 111' I,(re
the pair ; the Classic Vase (very neat), 101. Bs. the pair; 'he
Victoria Pattern, 151. the pair • the Dresden Cooler, 191' td
pair, tk.c., all of whic.. are strongly mounted with Silver, an
s.
have Silver Shields for Engraving the Crest or Coat of Arm d
A pamphlet is published, with drawiags of the above ~.t.
other articles of plate generally, which may be had on appue
tion, free of cost.

BIRTHS. On the II th inst., at the Vicarage Aldborough, the lady of
the Rev. Henry 1. Dowler, of a daughter.' rslll •
On the I th inst., in Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, -
Brooke Turner, of a son.
On the 7th inst., the lady of William Edward Knobs', Esq"
of Upper Baker-street, of a son.

MARRIED. 1
On Tuesday last, Sept. 10. at St. Luke's Church, Liver ro
Charles Clifford, Esq., of Edgbaston, Birmingham, to Eliza'
eldest daughter of John Smith, Esq., of Liverpool, Lecturer
on Education.
On the 11th inst., at Upminster, John B. Bonham, EK'i
Captain 50th Regiment, second son of General Bonham,. °
Warley-place, Essex, to Matilda Frances, only surviva d•
daughter of the late Colonel Bulkeley, of Huntley-hall, Stafford
On the 12th inst., at St. Giles's-in-the-Piolds' Eder
Lake, Esq., Lieutenant, R.N., second son of the late Sir Jam.?
Lake, Bart., of Ramsgate, to Clara, third daughter of Six Wil-
liam Johnston, Bart., of Hilltown,

DIED.
On the 7th inst., at Brighton, Solomon Aloof, Esq., °E
Leman-street, Gooman's-field', aged 76.
On the 9th inst., at the Triangle, Hackney, Miss Ta
ylor,
aged 80.
On the 10th inst., at Carshalten Reett-,rY' Surrey, Elea Cum
Elizabeth. the wife of the Rev' w.
Vernon, Rector Eye ar.
shalton, aged 42.%
iirynglas, near Newport, Monmouthshire, Lydia, oraY
daughter of J. J, Cordes, Esq., aged 19.

London: Printed and Published by AIURDO YOUNG, of
No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in
the county of Middlesex.--Friday, September IS, 183!•