The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-02 00:00:00

Total 863 ... 492 ... 25 ... 87 .. 5
Corresponding
week in 1848 853

502 ... - ... 139

Difference ... 490 less. 10 less. 25 more. 52 less. sm,
The arrivals at the outports have been very small and
of secondary quality. By sea, from Ireland, 104 Oxen
and 80 Lambs have arrived for this market, in tolerably
good condition. The supply of Foreign Stock in to-
day's market was very limited; yet the demand for it
was exceedingly heavy, at drooping prices. For
the time of year, the arrivals of Beasts from our
sing districts fresh up this horning were
again extensive, aril of excellent quality. The
weather being somewhat unfavourable for slaughtering,
and the dead markets e..tensively supplit d, the Beef
trade ruled excessively heavy, at a decline in the prices
of Monday last of quite 2d per Blbs. A few very su-
perior lots found buyers at 3s 6d pt r 81bs, but the general
quotation for Beef did not exceed 3s 4d per 81Ls. At
the close of the market a large number of Beasts were
unsold. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cam-
bridgeshire we received 1,800 Scots and Short-
horns; from the western and midland couaties 800 Here-
fords, Devons, &c.; from other parts of England
600 of various breeds, and from Scotland 320 horned
and polled Scots. There was a further increase in the
supply of Sheep, owing to which the demand for that
kind of stock was in a very sluggish state. Prime old
Downs were mostly disposed of at last week's prices,
vim , from 4s to 4s 4d per 81bs in the wool, but all other
breeds ruled 2d per 81bs lower. at which a clearance was
not effected. Lambs were in fair request, at from 5s 4d
to 63 6d per 811)3. Erem the We of Wight 30 IMO

1845.

1846.

1849.

Stock this day .... •• i
Price of Y. C. •• .. i

22,414 I 14,653
383 3d 42s Gd
'to 38s 60 to 43s Od
Delivery last week: •• 788 j 1,4 i 6
Ditto from June 1.... 75,944 ' 79,712
Ar, ivals last week . 1,765 517
Ditto from June 1 ... 79,367 75,561
415 44s 6d

12,284
49s 9d
to 50s

6,633
152 s 9d to

27,473
395 6d
to 39s
1,369
$6,13‘7

479
72,790
1,772
74,451
53s Od

Os Od
1,401
89,64 i
1,095
58,181

1,903
106,812
433

Price •f Town ......

THE STANFIELD-HALL
MURDERS.

TRIAL OF RUSH.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)
NORWICH, THREE O'CLOCK.
Mr. Baron Rolfe sat at a quarter to nine. The Court
was crowded.
The first witness was Point, who took Rush into
custody. He proved finding a wet pair of boots, two
loaded double-barrelled guns; that the clock at Potash
was a quarter of an hour taster than that at Stanfield Hall;
that it took him 40 minutes to walk between the two;
that Rush made use of the remarkable expression,
"you say that the murder was committed at eight
o'clock, did not you," and that Mortar, a con-
stable, replied, " Nobody named the time." In
going from the Bridew ell to Stanfield Hall Rush
asked who was it at Potash that named the time of the
murder ? In reply to Rush the witness said at that
time his impression was that it had been mentioned, but
he found subsequently that it had not.
Baron ROUTE said the witness might commit minor
discrepancies, but the prisoner's cross••examination had
led him to confirm ten thousand more important ones.
Rush said the witness had perjured himself.
Thompson, another constable, corroborated the
material portion of the above.
Mortar proved finding the cloak on the prisoner's
bed, and that he asked him interrogatively if it took
place a little after eight o'clock, did it not?
No one had named the time in his (witness's) presence.
The prisoner said he heard so. Under the mattrass he

found a dagger.
Amoy, another constable, corroborated the above re-
markable expression, and the finding the powder flasks
and a dark lantern.
Osborne, also a constable, swore that Rush said when
arrested, and before he was told the cause, " Good God,
I hope they don't suspect me. It is a very serious
charge ; that fellow Clarke, a solicitor, has caused me
to be suspected, but Savory, the lai, and Emily Sand-
ford can clear me. lam innocent."
Superintendent Hubberty produced the cloak and cap.
Savory, who proved the laying of the straw along
the wet soil on the day of the murder, is under ex-
amination.

Rush may commence his defence this afternoon.
I shall communicate more at six o'clock.

ANOTIIER MURDER.
A fish merchant named Prince mortally stabbed a man
last night at Ditchingham, from motives of revenge.

IRELAND.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
DUBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING.-'1 he Peel manifesto for
the regeneration of Ireland orms the all-engrossing
topic of conversation here; nothing else is spoken or
thought of. Even thus early it may be safely predicted
that the gigantic project will be favourably received
by a majority of the Irish people.
Four baronies in the county of Cork are suddenly left
without a high constable to collect the rates. The offices
hare been thrown up in utter despair, and no one car► be
found willing to undertake a duty which is felt to be
worse than useless.

The county of Cork Grand Jury have petitioned Par-
liament in favour of a ss. duty on foreign corn, the re-
venue to be applied to the support of the poor in Ireland
whenever the rate shall exceed 3a. in the pound.
The cholera has nearly disappeared in Limerick, and
confidence is being quickly restored.
The petitim in favour of the non-proae•cution of Mr.
Gavan Duffy was exposed for signature to-day at all the
Roman Catholic chapels in this city. Thousands of
names were affixed to the memorial.

AMERICA.—Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.--ACCOUnts
from New York of the 9th ult., via Glasgow, have been
received. Their contents are unimportant. Exchange
on England was quoted at 1071 to 108.
CORY, MARCH 31. The weather for the last
twenty four hours has been severe, wind variable, blow-
ing very strong last night from the southward, and
this morning from the east, with heavy rain occa
sionally.
DEPARTURE or THE QUEEN or THE BELGIANS.—
Her Mak sty the Queen of the Belgians reached the
Bricklayers' Arms Station, from Claremont, shortly
before 11 o'clock on Saturday morning, accompanied by
the Duke de Nemours, and attended by the Countess
dllulat and Major de Moerkerke. His Excellency the
Belgian Minister, M. Van de Weyer, and Madame Van
do Weyer, M. Drouet (secretary to the Legation), and
Sir Edward Cust, were in attendance on her Majesty at
the railway. Mr. Renshaw, deputy-chairman, and Mr.
Smale, director of the South-Eastern Railway, received
the Queen at the station, and attended her Majesty,
with the royal suite, to Dover. On the arrival ot the
special train at Dover, salutes were fired from the
heights, and a guard of honour conducted the Queen to
her Britannic Majesty's steamer the Vivid, in which the
royal party embarked for Ostend.
THE REVENUE.—We are happy to be able to state
that the receipts of the Customs, the most important
criterion of trade, will exhibit an increase of not less
than a million on the year, as compared with the ac-
counts published in April, 1848. An increase will also
appear in the Excise, which will be more than counter-
balanced by the tailing
off in the Stamps, which, we
regret to say, has not yet been checked, and which is
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that the stamp duties levied upon the transactions of
commerce, and on the transfer of property, have very
seriously declined. The department of taxes will ex-
hibit no great difference from the estimates of last year.
The property-tax also will be much the same, and the
Post-office will show no materLi alteration. In, the
miscellaneous there will be a truing increase. Upon the
whole the amount of revenue for the year will more
than amply realise the estimate of the Government,
aiid Riii show the satisfactory ba!ance of an excess of
income above the expenditure of the year.—Observer.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons had his last Pulliam, ntary dinner this session
on Saturday, at hi, official residence in E in square.
CAPE or Goon nom—The Graham's Town
Journal states that the Queen has been graciousl) pleased
to giant to Lady Smith, in consideration ot Sir Harry
Smith's gallant suppression of the insurrection at Butm
Pleats, au allowance from the Civil List of 5004 a year.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The I,,)rd Chant( slur did not sit to-day.

VICE-CHANCERY.--KTHIS DAY.)
Neither Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce nor Vice-
Charletlior Wigram ,at to-::ay.

MARLIIII.O%SI'itEiT—( THIS DAY).
Ann Savage, a well dressed young woman, in the s.:;r-
vice of Mr. Joseph Collard, superintendent of the Gccat
Western Railway police, 32, Castle street, Cavendish-
square, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with
having stolen a gold watch, value 161, the property of
her master. She was also charged with stealing a silver
watch, the property of Frederick Thomas Collard.
Frederick Thomas Collard stated that he resided with
his lather at 32. Cable street, Cavendish-square. The
prisoner was servant there. On Saturday bight he was
winding up his watch, when he accidentally broke the
glass. lie placed the watch on the mantel shelf in the
kitchen, and proceeded up stairs to bed. When he en-
tered the kitchen on Sunday morning he looked for his
watch, but coMd not find it. lie then asked the pri-
soner if she had seen it. She said the had not, nor e:id
she knew an)thing about it. He then made inquiries
of his sisttrs, who searched the house over, but
the watch could not be found. During the search the
prisoner left the house, and on witness going into the
parlour he missed his father's watch from the watch-
stand on the chimney-piece, where it had been left but
a few minutes previous. Neither of the watches had
been seen since.
Mary Collard, aunt to the last witness, said, on Sun-
day morning, about ten o'clock, she left her brother's
house for the purpo! e of ordering in some brandy from
the public- hou,e opposite. On crossing over the street
she suet the prisoner coming up the street in an opposite
direction. Witness asked her where she had been,
when she replied that she had merely ran out to bring
witness her slippers, which she had left behind. Witness
then returned to the house, where she was told of the
robbery. Witness had seen the gold watch previous to
her leaving the house to order the brandy. The
prisoner shortly after came in at d was given in charge.
Wilkinson, 74 C, proved that the prisoner had been
in custody for a similar offence on the 23d of January
last, but was discharged for want of sufficient evidence.
The prisoner denied the charge; and was remanded
until Thursday next.

TO THE SECRETAR Y OF THE
METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Wednesday the 28th the Insolvent
Members Bill as altered was considered. The ten-
dency and aim of the Bill becomes plainer every time.
As was stated by a Member of the legal profession
in the debate, the Bill makes no proposal for enabling
the law to take its ordinary course upon a Member
of the Rouse of Commons by removal of his present
privilege but applies itself entirely to what is the
real object of the Bill, the giving a power beyond the
law, by means of the dangerous application of expul-
sion from the House.

It is all very well for sanctimonious and purse-
proud men to set up imaginary cases in which it
may be clear the House would be better without the
presence of the insolvent debtor. But what moderate
men, and above all things men jealous of the right of
constituencies to determine who shall or shall not re-
present them, should look to, is the danger of what
may be done in cases which are not so clear. For
example, in the actual question, there is no substan-
tial doubt, or more properly it is well and accu-
rately known, that one immediate effect from the
propo.ed Bill, is to be the freeing of a wealthy Liberal
or his connexion, from the unpleasant rivalry at a
county election, of a candidate supposed likely to be
acted on by the Bill.

For reasons which were not very plain, the mover
was advised to withdraw his Bill ; and then was
allowed on the spot to bring inanother with the same
title, saving the addition, probably fortuitous, of the
word " certain" before " Persons having privilege of
Parliament."

I may be allowed here to correct an error implied
in a former statement. It is not the fact, that after a
legal decision on a debt, the ordinary process of law is
open against a Member of Parlirment. He is still
privileged, during the sitting of Parliament. And this
it is which straightforward men would propose to
alter. But something else is the object in view.
On Thursday motion was made for a Select Com-
mittee to inquire into the circumstances connected
with the failure of a Savings' Bank in Dublin, to
which it was further moved to add three other places
in Ireland and Scotland. The facts are strange and
frightful ; and likely to continue so. Every man in
his conscience and conviction knows, that the indus-
trious and poor were urged by those who profess to
care lor them, to lodge their savings in Savings'
Banks. Every man knows that the Government of the
day took credit for engaging in the patriotic work, and
that there would have been as much use in suggesting
suspicions against Mrs. Hannah More's " exemplary
clergyman," as in intimating that the poor might not
be safe in entrusting their money as proposed. And
now it turns out, that anybody may run away with
the money that likes, and there is no remedy. The
Government is magnanimous in declaring that there
is no remedy, that it was never intended there
should be any remedy, and that special care was
taken there should be no remedy ; out of all which
it works up the conclusion, that there is at
all events no remedy against them. They
specially plead, that the trustees of Savings' Banks
were left tree to make themselves responsible for de-
falcations among their agents, or not to do it; after
which it is unnecessary to point to the fact that they
let the thing alone. And now, agents have run
away witn the money, to the amount it appears of
fifty thousand pounds in Dublin only, and there is no
responsibility. The poor are to be robbed of their
savings by anybody that pleases, because the Govern-
ment, or some Government, chose to send a ship to
sea with a hole in the bottom, and invite the poor to
embark their savings in this hull.
The question that arises on this is, whether the case
is not one where, without quarrelling about what
particular Government the blame of the past should
light on, the first operation of the community through
such Government as it may have, should be to replace
what deficiency may remain after all due efforts to
recover. That there was a moral contract with the
working classes, is as clear as that there is
a moral contract that a ship shall not have
a hole in the bottom. In a somewhat parallel
case relating to Exchequer-bills, the Govern-
ment, to prevent greater evil, refunded. And
they must refund now, or the question must be tried.
And the decision will depend very much on the spirit
the working classes shall show. It they sit down
sleepily under the damage because it has not come
to their own doors, it may come to their own doors
next. Those who may have particular reasons for
thinking themselves safe, must take their own risk.
But the general principle on which a friend of the
working classes ought to act, is to give them
notice that the security for anything lodged
in the Savings' Banks is worse than nothing,
and that their true policy is to "Go for gold,
"bile there is anything to get. If they will do
this, they will quicken the movements of the Go-
vernment, and instead of making a whip to defeat
inquiry as it was within three of doing on Thursday
night, it will set about two things—first, the providing
for replacing the money as was done in the case of the
Exchequer bills, and secondly, the placing the money
in the Savings' Banks avowedly under the security
of Government. If it says there will be trouble
and expense in this, let it take payment for it, as it
does for other things. Who asked the Government to
leave things at sixes and sevens, on the score that
setting them to rights must be paid tor ? Is there a
soul among the contributors to the Savings' Banks ao
stupid as to say, let every body be free to run away with
my money, only let me not be charged with the
expense of altering it ?
A. better thing for the working classes to employ
their leisure hours on, than most they have engaged
in lately, would be to look after the salvation of their
money in the Savings' Banks. If they do not do it
themselves, nobody intends to do it for them. The
present is the time for a constitutional demonstration,
if they have it in them. At all events do not let them
say their watchmen were all dumb dogs that cannot
bark. I should have been glad to have given mouth
myself to as much as is here ; but the Irishmen after
spending five hours in weary speeches (except their
lawyers), were anxious not to delay going to a division.
The appointment of a Committee was finally carried
by 51 to 48. But a Committee will be nothing, un-
less the thing is followed up.
On Friday the House was occupied all the night by
debate on the Rate in Aid (Ireland) Bill, which was
finally adjourned till Monday.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, April 2, 1849.
C.

,OMMISSIONERSIIIP OF nig lONIAN IsLies.—Mr.
Ward, the Secretary of the Admiralty, will not enter
upon his new appointment until after the navy estimates
have been passed. The present Lord High Commis-
sioner of the lonian Islands, Lord Seaton, receives
salary of 5,000/. per antlum, besides 1,200/. a year as
Licut. Colonel of the 15th Dragoons. We hear that
Mr. Ward has accepted the office with the reduction
from its present e.nolurnents of 1,000/. The future
Lord High Commis‘ioner of the lonian Is:ands, there-
fore, will receive no more than 4,0001. a year.

DIED.
On Friday, the 30th ult., at Keydell, near Horndean,
Hampshire, the residence of her on, Charles Kean, Mary
Kean, relict of the late Edmund Kean.
On the 28th inst., at Middleham, Yorkshire, aged 72, L.
Topham, Esq., clerk of the peace for the North Riding of
that county.
On the 29th. tilt , at Brighton, Edgar Cripps, youngest son
of the late W. Cripps, Esq., I'LP. for Cirencester.
On the 28th ult., at Newark-upon-Trent, Elizabeth, relict
of E. S. Godfrey, Esq., aged 78.
On the 29th ult., F. N. Muller, Esq., of Hamburgh.
On the ;?Bth ult., at Doctors'-commons, London, S. B.
Burnaby, Esq., D.C.', aged 77.

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