The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-08 00:00:00

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.

The Board of Trade returns for the month ending the
sth of July, issued this morning, continue to furnish
results sufficient to explain the increasing demand for
money, as well as the inconsiderate independence of the
working classes now manifesting itself by strikes in all
parts of the country. As compared with the corres-
ponding month of last year, the declared value of ex-
portations again shows an enormous increase, the diffe-
rence being 1,003,637/. This augmentation is still
satisfactorily spread over every branch of production, the
only item in which there is a falling off of the slightest
importance being wool, which, as on former occasions,
has simply been retained at home because the extraordi-
nary demand of our own manufacturers prevents us from
sparing any for shipment. It is also to be remarked, that
although as regards the extent to which the totals of each
month are now influenced by the rise in prices of raw ma-
terial some considerable allowance is to be made, the
fact that cotton, the most important of the whole, re-
mains at last year's quotations diminishes greatly the
weight of this consideration. At the same time, however,
that the prosperity exhibited has evidently been shared by
all departments of trade, the heads under which the
greatest increase is observable are such as to denote that
the attractions of the Australian market have superseded
all others. Hence, notwithstanding the character of the
last accounts, there will be reason for great anxiety as
to the ultimate fate of the aggregate consignments to
that quarter, effected, as they have been, at a cost for
labour that would render their sacrifice on the spot at
low prices, or their reshipment to other countries, alto-
gether ruinous. Meanwhile, whatever may be the pros-
pect pending the next arrivals, which will probably
bring intelligence of the effect of the supply of goods
taken out by the numerous vessels that left England at
the end of 1852, and were so long windbound in the
Channel, enough is shown to explain the state that must
naturally prevail in the money-market during the time
that this trade, with its peculiarity of long-deferred re-
turns, shall remain unchecked, and to confirm the anti-,
cipationg expressed at the commencement of the year,
that the bullion in the Bank of England might, from
circumstances of the kind, be subject to unusual alter-
nations.
The
25 g rpere g a
t nsix months of the year has been 41,866,6571., against
33,549,3921., showing an increase of 8,317,1651., or
order : hc h ourh s exports during the first
occurred in the following
February 5 .a.• ... £1,410,060
March 5 ... ••• •• • 919,097
exactlya gcent., value
of
April 5 .• • •• • •• • ••• 1 486,
818
May 5 ... .•• .. 2,309,995
June ..• •• • •• • ... 1,187,558
July 5 • • •• • ••• •• • 1,003,637
As compared with the same period of 1851, there has
been an increase of 7,772,7041.
As regards the articles of food taken into consump-
tion, the increase has been remarkable, and affords an-
other indication of the rate of immediate expenditure
that is going on while we are waiting for the proceeds
of the trade by which our outlay is justified. Provisions
coffee, sugar, tea, rice, spirits, wines,
spices, have all been used in unusual
quantities. Wheat likewise shows a large increase,
and although there h
of every
tobacco,
as been a diminution in flour
its aggregate importation duringkind,fruit,cocoa,
n one-third i the first six
h i
monthslex
of this year has been more th
t
taken has been near y wice as much,
the amount having been 2,06
wheat the total
expenditure that would be con-
sequentinad
large
18d5e2g
r, we
e,
beene of e
of the quantity in the same pe s
upon a bad harvest as,
met.
importation of other articles of
With respect to the
b • names, hides,
l import, the returns show an active
The imports and exports of raw material show a large
increase in flax and wool.
genera
those which exhibit the greatest re-
being among
lative augmentation.
leather manufactures, oils, timber, saltpetre, and quick-
silver

REDUCTION IN TELEGRAPH CHARGES.—The Submarine
and European Telegraph Company have announced their
opening to Birmingham at a great reduction in the scale
of charges. Messages of 20 words are to be conveyed
for a shilling, and it is to be hoped the experiment will
commence a reform to redeem England from the reproach
of being totally behind America in this system of com-
munication.
THE SMOKE NUISANCE IN THE METROPOLIS.-011
Saturday the bill of Lord Palmerston on the smoke nui-
sance, as altered, was printed, Since it was last no-
ticed it has been materially altered. From the Ist of
August, 1854, furnaces in the metropolis are to consume
their own smoke. Steam-vessels on the Thames between
London-bridge and Richmond-bridge from the same day
are to consume their own smoke. No person is to be
liable to any penalty in respect of the use of any furnace
or steam-engine where coke or other fuel not emitting
smoke is only used therein. Constables may not be
empowdered to enter and inspect furnaces and steam-
engines.

The execution of the opera on Saturday night was in
every way worthy of the house ; and we were scarcely
prepared for so successful a delivery of a work which has
'but little in common with the ofdinarY rontine of Italian
vocalism. Mine. Angiolina Bosio was the represenCative
of Jessonda, and Mme. Castellan of her sister Amazil,
both highly interesting personations, the latter parti-
cularly so. The two duets, which may be pronounced
the gems of the opera, were beautifully rendered bythese
ladies, who sang them with a delicacy and taste to which
we are bound to render every praise. Madame Bosio
was encored in the delicious movement in the first act,
in which she dwells with fond remembrance on the hap-
piness of bygone days. She might, however, have
thrown both into her deportment and singing a greater
amount of dramatic fire. She sang sweetly and cor-
rectly, and with a refinement which we have already
panegyrised ; but Spohr, in reality, was left to make his
own impression. This he did ; nevertheless, the tame-
ness of the artist was a drawback which she may reason-
ably
the other bet;elal7d,
her
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delivery of the music was as interesting as it was
cohuannsde,llesdangtowaitmhetnhde.
faultless. Signor Lucchesi, as Nadori, came out of
the ordeal with unexpected ability, and a very useful
utMmaodstatefeervoCua:
singer was discovered in a member of the troupe who has
hitherto had but a limited opportunity of distinguishing
himself. The air of the impressionable novice, in which
he throws off the moral bondage of the temple, demands
both skill and power ; and Signor Lucchesi, notwith-
standing certain coarsenesses and redundancies of style,
displayed both. Belletti, who sustained the part of the
Portuguese general, won an encore by his neat and
spirited interpretation of the Spanish air in the second
act ; and the grave and definite sonority of the voice
of Formes, in the solos of the high priest was
invaluable. The chorus singers were not uniformly
good, occasional uncertainties in the first finale betray-
ing an imperfect state of discipline. But nothing could
exceed the excellence of the orchestra. The well-known
overture was not only finely played, but the accompani-
ments throughout were given with a precision, richness,
and colour which adequately sustained the reputation of
the Royal Italian body of instrumentalists. It is in
operas of this recondite texture that the worth of these
accomplished players is really and unmistakeably felt.
The executive ensemble was well supported by the
scenic adjuncts. Mr. William Beverly has painted a
very beautiful landscape for the second act, delineating
the encampment of the Portuguese invaders, backed by
a line of distant mountains, bathed in a warm trans-
parent atmosphere. The decorations are not altogether
new, but they have been selected with care, and the
general coup d'ceil is costly and appropriate.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert honoured the performances with their presence.
The Queen and the Prince were accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred.
The Royal suite consisted of the Marquis of Ormonde, the
Hon. Mary Seymour, the Hon. Matilda Paget, Capt. the
Hon. Dudley De Ros, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Gibbs.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge also honoured
the theatre with his presence. Major the Hon. James
Macdonald was in attendance upon his Royal Highness.
Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward
of Saxe Weimar were also present. Among the fashion-
able company in the boxes and stalls we remarked the
Prince Doria, his Excellency Count Creptowitch, Russian
Minister at Brussels ; the Marquis of Breadalbane, the
Marchioness of Blandford, the Marquis of Bath, the
Marchioness of Hastings and Lady Bertha Hastings and
Captain Yelverton, R.N., the Marchioness of Ailesbury,
the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina
Villiers, the Earl of Bessborough, the Earl Bruce, the
Earl of Gifford, the Countess Dowager of Essex and
Miss Johnston, the Countess of Harrington and Lady
Geraldine Stanhope, the Earl of Wilton, the Coun-
tess of Glengall and Lady Margaret Butler, the
Earl Granville, the Countess Paulett and Miss Dor-
mer, Viscountess Goderich, Viscount Sydney, Vis-
count Clifden, Viscount Enfield, Count Louis Corte,
Viscount Canterbury, Lord William Powlett, M.P. ;
Lord Elphinstone, Lord Adolphus Vane, Lord Milford,
Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord Wodehouse, Lord
Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., Lady Suffield, and Lady
Caroline Cust and Lady Augusta Cadogan, Lord Arthur
Hay, Lord Grey de Wilton and Lady Elizabeth Grey
Egerton, Lord and Lady Foley and the Hon. Adelaide
Foley, Lady Augusta Gordon and the Misses Kennedy
Erskine, Hon. C. Hardinge, M.P., Hon. Mrs. G.
Anson and Miss Anson, Hon. C. Hanbury, M.P. ;
Hon. Henry Curzon, Hon. Strange Jocelyn, Hon.
Mr. Grey Egerton, Lady Janet Waldron and Miss
Waldron, Lord Ernest Bruce, Honourable Mrs. Eger-
ton, Honourable John Fortescue, Honourable F. Cal-
thorpe, Right Honourable C. A. Villiers, M.P. ; Baron
de Steinberg, Lady Burghersh, Hon. G. A. Browne and
Miss Blacker, Hon. Otway Toler, Hon. Jacob A stley,
Hon. Mrs. Ives, Lady Howard and Miss Ponsonby,
Lady Molesworth, Sir William and Lady De Bathe,
and Mrs. Villiers Hatton, and the Hon. Misses
Boyle, Sir Henry Webb, Sir George Armytage,
Lady Macfarlane, Sir John Lister Kaye, Lady
Ashworth and Miss Ashworth, Sir C. Marshall, Sir H.
Vivian, Admiral Ryder Burton and the Hon. Mr.
Ryder Burton, Colonel Lockyer Freestun, M.P., and
Mrs. Lockyer Freestun, Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P.,
Colonel Rose, Colonel Steele, Colonel Blane, Colonel
Tyrwhitt, Major Gage, Major Fludgate, Captain
Lumley, Captain Meyrick, Captain Darner, Captain
Duff and Mrs. Duff, Captain Pakenham, Mr. Monta-
gue Gore, Mr. Webster, Mr. Uzielli, Mr. Knightley,
Mr. W. Rose, Mr. Augustus Lumley, Mr. and Mrs.
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Thistlethwayte, Mr. Vansittart, Mr. Valentine Browne,
M.P., Mr. Leslie, M.P., Mr. Jervoise Smith, &c.

ATROCIOUS MURDER.—The neighbourhood of Hatfield
has been painfully excited for the last two or three days
by the commission of a most brutal murder by a disso-
lute wretched-looking tramp, who described himself to
be a Spaniard, named Miguel Eschiero. The unfortu-
tunate victim was a well-conducted boy, aged 14, of the
name of Scales, son of the shepherd of Colonel F. Gre-
ville, of North Mimms. The coroner's inquest was held
on Friday, and, from what was elicited, there is little
doubt that the prisoner has taken part in many des-
perate burglaries which have recently been committed
in the district. It appears that in the course of
Thursday, Webb, a gamekeeper on the estate, had
his attention drawn to a suspicious-looking character
in an adjacent barley-field, who apparently was setting
snares. As soon as the fellow saw the keeper he ran
away, and Webb sent a dog after him, which caught
him by the boot. On Webb coming up to the man, he
made a desperate struggle, in which the keeper received
a fearful blow on the back of the head from a bludgeon
which the accused had in his hand. At length he was
secured, and, with assistance, he ;was brought to the po-
lice station. The police observed his hands, fingers, and
nails, and parts of his trousers were stained with blood,
and, upon some questions being put to him, he muttered
something to the effect that he had murdered Webb's
companion (the poor boy was employed to watch the
plantation). Inspector English, the officer who had the
case in hand, then returned to the barley field, and he
discovered a part of the crop to be trodden, as if by
some person
oa
o r so m said
illegal
he wasur
pose, and, being disturbed by the e
prisoner
blood.pers on
in severelythe
officer struggling,and
proceedingt the e grounda little sp o
further,ttedwith
he found the lifeless body of the unfortunate lad ; the
head was shockingly mutilated, as if beaten in
by some heavy instrument. It was evident that
the poor boy had been murdered, and on the prisoner
beingob l ige dtodn w
taxed
e withot
deceased, he instantly
attacked him and effected his murder. On the spot was
found a napkin, which contained some bread and cheese.
The napkin was identified as part of some
stolen from the residence of the hon. Mrs. S. rtroperty
at Brocklin, which was entered a few nights athurst,
was also found wearing a shoe which was since.
He
stolen from an
adjacent farm, which was broken into
night. The other shoe was picked on the previous
up near the scene of
the murder. The jury returned
a verdict of
murder" against the accused, he " Wilful
county gaol at Hertford, to await
tas lodged in the
hi
next assizes. He is between thirty and
trial at the
age,. and states himself to be a y forty years of
Spun. e of Arragon
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