The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-31 00:00:00

COLONIAL MARKETS.

B.Y. Sugar in tolerably fair demand at fully former prices ; lowest 535.,
find 65s , and middling :, IS. (1. to 5Ss. Refined Sugar is quoted at
34toi pass 71s. fid. To-day we have public salesof
6'48
~,us Sugar, 150 casks 50 brls. and 000 bags B. P.
Coffee;
Pimento, and 145 brls. Jamaica and Barbadoes Ginger.
7s. 6,1 b., bags of
and
Laos Lumps
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t
r
The Coff.ee market is without animation, and prices have a tendency to
decline. The Sugar market for Mauritius was firm,
raid showed no signs
of giving way. Spices went much as before.
Rice is in good demand privately, and prices looking up. Tea—not
much to anticipated arrivals ; prices, how.•
ever, not lower. thCeotatrotlic:se'ig
invdilemand for export, and prices of East
India descriptions are rather better. The imports of all kinds are now
light, rather than otherwise. The sales for to-morrow are small parcels
or B.P. and Ceylon Coffee, 1,578 bags Bengal Sugar, 200 bags Grenada
ger, 230 Mids. new Barbadocs Sugar, and
Cocoa, o
ba,ag2soscalittspetre.- Jamaica Gin

- LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAI* 30.
A large quantity of Cotton Was sold at this day's market,. and our last
quotations were steadily maintained. The entire business consists of
purchased by speculators ; 300 Bahia, Bd.
a 6,810 bags, ipnce'rtii,ralining,
,1:100a0
90. ;
200 Egyptian, Sid. a 12d.; 100 Tri-
nidad, 71,d. ; 100 Maranhain, 7id. a 9d. ; 5,000 American, 51d. a Bd,

The Right Hon. the-Earl of Chichester, and the
Countcs; of Chichester and suite, arrived at the Green Park Hotel,
Piccadilly, from Stant-I-ler Park, Sus.iex.
A considerable sensation was created in town an
Thursday last by the discovery on a dunghill of a human band. Ru.
mour, with her hundred tongues, soon co F.a.gnified the matter that
before night numbers believed that a Creenacre murdr • had been com-
mitted at Greenock. The ha-ad was a surgical preparation, which the
owner, it he did not Wish to keep, ought certainly to have btlried.--.
}7recvsk Adyertitcr,

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A.O L 14,1 -WHEE S

EXPLOD.EI).

The Great Western performed the voyage to and from
the United States in fourteen days—yet steam navigation
is in its inrancy. The art of propelling vessels by Oe
.
wind acting on sails has been practised for upwards of
two thousand years ; the art of propelling them by mach"-
nary, acting on the water, put in motion by steam, has
scarcely been forty years in existence. The improvement
that may yet be effected in it is, therefore, altogt-ther
incalculable, and it already seems highly probable that
a continuous speed of twenty miles per hour, under favour-
able circumstances, may he obtained. Happily fbr the
world this new art has hitherto escaped the trammels of the
well-intentioned but mistaken Legislator ; and free, emula.-
tivc competition, in every part of the civilised world, but
particularly here and in the United States, is every day
bringing improvements under our notice, all tending to re-
alise the most ardent expectations. The latest of these, Is
called the patent Propeller, and is intended to supersede
the use of paddles and paddle-boxes, the unsightly ap-
pearance of which is not greater than their practical e
They are much in the way, and impede the vessel's pro-
gress by the resistance they offer both to the wind and wa-
ter. Notwithstanding, all the improvements made in thew,
it has not yet been found practicable to prevent their causing:
great agitation in the water, nor to work them so as not to.
waste much of the steam power. The propeller has all
the utility and force of the paddle, with none of its disad-
vantages. It conssts, according to the description of the
patentee—

Of an Archimedean Screw, and is fixed in the dead woa,
or run of the vessel. The vessel is shaped acd rigged like other
sailing vessels, so that the propeller may be used singly, or in conjunc-
tion with sails, or not at all, without impeding the sailing, as the No'
peiier may bent:shipped at pleasure. Hence the vessel is not solely de-
pendent either on wind or fuel, and long voyages:nay be performed witty
great saving, and as the strain of the vessel (so destructive to common,
steamers) from the engines is much less, so is the wear and tear also. Itt
armed steamers come into use, its appkeation must be invaluable.-
The arrangement of the engines being fore z ml aft, gives space cn Use
sides for live introduction of materials for their protection, and the Pm'
peller is, from its position, free from gun-shot. In rivers is creates
swell, so frequently productive of lass of property and life. In. c3n.r°
its application would cause no injury to the banks, and the stowage—
room is increased by greater breadth of beam. To prove this, an expe-
rimental schooner of thirty-four feet has been already built, and fair',
tried, both en the river Thames and the sea with astonishing suceeF.s.
Hundreds have witnessed it, and the pilots of Gravesend and Folkstucte
can bear testimony to its excellence.

The Lords of the Admiralty and several scientific gen"
tlemen have witnessed the performance of this little boat•
and have expressed their admiration. She is only 34 l'e4
long, 6 feet 6 incl.'s broad, and measures 6 tons. She io
so small that her topmasts passed with ease under the
paddle-boxes of the British Queen, under one of which she
could lie with ease. Yet this tiny vessel--the very
smallest steamer, perhaps, in use in the world—towed t 1,61
great ship up the river, and into the City Canal, to the
astonishment, as the papers of the day remarked, of thou-
sands of spectators. If this useful invention realiz,t all
which the patentee promises—and we see no reason to
mistrust his theory or doubt his experiment—it will 6e a 5
great an improvement in navigation as the first moving of
vessels with paddire-wheels.

IRELAND.

(FROM OUR PRIVATF: CORRESPONDENT.

DUBLIN: MAY 29.
Tue CONTROVERSIAL DISCUSSION.—The anxiously expected o:,leuS.
sien between Mr. Gregg and the celebrated Father Maguire cor„,nencet!
to-day. It took place at the Rotunda, where the public were admitted'
by tickets at 3s. 6d. each, of which a vast number were ;,,posed,
1 hew
Rev. Mr. Nangle was Chairman upon the part of Mr. Gregg, and the
Rev. Mr. Macnamara upon the part of Mr. Maguire. Mr. Gregg w3i
the assailant, and he commenced by a rather
lengthy introdaction•
which, however, he followed by the exhibition of some tough facts. Mr,.
Maguire rushed at once in medias rer, tAi';,g up the last assertion Ofi4
assailant, and dealing with it most logic-,:fly. From eleven o'clock
too they spent their separate half houxs in attack and defence, disPl3%
ing consummate championship. 1., would be premature and unfair r
anticipate the result, but it is expected with great anxiety by cur sc°'o
citizens. Upon Saturday, by mutual agreement, all females arc t°
excluded, and of course all The world will be there.
TITR ES.--7 he Waterford Chronicle states thaz a great Tithe b:cetysE
is about to take place at Kilmacthomas, in that county, to petition
the total and unqualitieil abolition of Tithes. This is evidence that
Ministerial Bill is not popular with the party upon whom the CabiS,44
depends for support : the numerous protests of the Protestant ClertY
prove sufficiently that the Tories are not satiscied with it, and to thrie
there is this day added the petition of the Archdeacon and Clergy a the
diocese of Ferns.

Ttte
MACISTRAcY.—The Northern Whig states that in the revised Use
of Magistrates for the county of Down, but one clergyman is permitted
to hold the Commission of the Peace. This is a reform which, if ex-.
landed to the rest of the kingdom, would give the most unbounded
satisfactson.

MR. COOPER'S TENANTS.—The Sligo Champion by the wny of efne•-•/
tually refuting: the denial of Mr. Cooper, that he had turned out Ms,
tenants from political or religious prejudices, supplies a lout; list a
families, of the head of each of which the name is given, that were'
turned upon the world for no other imaginable reason, but their pro-
fession of the Catholic religion.

THE CORPORATION.—Sergeant Greene shewed cause yesterday in the.
Queen's Bench, on the part of George Cowan, why the conditional
order of the 23d of April, obtained by Mr. O'Connell, should not De
madeabsolute. This was the case of the Quo Warrant() sought for, to
examine into the rights of the freemen of the Corporation, and come-
quctitly to disfranchise the fictitious one,. The judgment will be given,
to-morrow, but it is not anticipated that the order will be made ab-
solute.

UNGERFORD MA RKET.—Yesterday a half-Fua
general meeting of the proprietors was held at their office, L-r
street ; the Earl of Devon in the chair. The Secretary read the report*
which was very encouraging. He stated that dwellings for the aceo'n-,
modation of the tenants were in the course of erection; that sleree,
last meeting a portion of the debenture debt had been paid oft; th3t-
the surplus revenue for the present half year was cons:deraisle.
Directors and auditors who went out by rotation were unanimously
elected. The Chairman gave a variety of explanations its answer to Cie
inquiries of proprietors, and the meeting separated highly satisfied 11114'
the prospects of the undertaking.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—About half-past s'
o'clock on Tuesday evening, the following frightful and inelanchclr
accident occurred at Kensington. As a man named Richard D6wne,""
residing in Jennings-buildings, High-street, Kensington,
ing along the High-road, near the entrance to Kensington Palace,
foot accidentally slipped, and he fell off the payment into the read, •
the moment that a waggon belonging to Mr. Dalton, a coal-melehanr: ••
at Millbank, heavily loaded with coals, was passing by, wirer, Irtel3l"o„..'
choly to relate, before the horses could be stopped, the wlyeels of
weighty vehicle passed over him, and injured bins in a retest frightt,:c..
manner. He was immediately picked up, and conveyed in a sta'e,,,,ie;'
insensibility to the shop of Mr. Morris, a chemist, close ',,y, from wile"-,g -
he was promptly taken; on a stretcher, by the police, to St. George;
Hospital, when on examination it was found that his head was "1:03,
dreadfully injured, the flesh on the left cheek being nearly tern oil ;
was prod
left arm was broken, and his hands crushed in a dreadful manner.
unfortunate man had also sustained other injuries, from the (*tee.
of which scarcely the slightest hopes are entertained of his ultimate
recovery.
Yesterday mornincr, between ten and eleven o'cboert
Teesdale, an eminent °statuary, residing in the New...enact, cut 1-'
throat with a penknife, and from the nature of the wound, it is doubtful
if he will ever recover. During the last few days hrelrad been Di
desponding state, but his manner had not been of that description whirh.
was at all calculated to lead to a supposition that he meditated se
rt
destruction. lie was removed on a shutter tre the North Lond°-
Hospital, where he lies in a very alarming state;
THE MURDER IN NEWMAN'S. AIEWS.—At ir
past nine o'clock on Tuesday
evening, Pursuant to the warrant. of IN"-
Stirling, the Coroner, Williams, the beadle, accompanied by four men.
and a shell, which he had procured from the workhouse, procoethtle
the house which has been the scene of the above tragical affair, Ibr`„,c
purpose of conveying the body of Joseph Parker for interment ;
10
although the proceeding was endeavoured to be conducted
with
greatest privacy, a report of the circumstance got extensive Cir—f
lotion throughout the neighbourhood, and a vast concau";
O
people assembled around the premises. The body was depo,ite`.
the shell precisely in the condition and dress it was viewed l" br
the Juty, and on being brought into the street, the greatest. _
rest and excitement prevailed amongst the multitudes 114)°e•
lowed, wider the expectation of seeing the bady buried in one f ttrh
cross.rueds, with the usual by-gone ceremony of driving a stke 11)%,use
the body, but owing to the excellent management of the officear ,
who repeatedly assured the assembled crowd that the body was oulY,co •
conveyed to the workhouse, this assertion ultimately had t" u, Oleo
effect in the dispersion of the mob, and the mournful cavale3",:pj.
proceeded without further molestation to the burial-ground attac"-',gs •
St. John's Wood Chapel, where it arrived about a quarter before
the
o'clock, and a grave of considerable depth having been prefir.cf.4, ran.
body of the unfortunate though guilty being was consigned the eldis_
in the presence of the churchwarden, and several gentlemen of
trick, without, of course, the rites of Christian-burial. The friend
of the unfortunate female, Sabina Conway, it is undersennd, have
take
arrangements for a respectable funeral, and which is appointed t`i
place on Friday.
-eid
~•
On Wednesday last, John Childe of Her tR -
,
Place, Haggorston, the son of the Secretary of the Clarence re3tiw ay
00-,
Company, left his home for the purpese of visiting the City of
Theatre, since which time no tidings whatever have been obtaillee",,, inter
specting him. He is fourteen years of age, about five feet in la,
with dark hair and eyes. On the Priday following, fin
boy six years of age, the son of respectable parents, in 11recclesu'fc`
W
street, City-road, was allowed to play outside of the house a• in
companions, but he soon afterwards disappeared, arid all the anxie.`l4,,,,
quiries of his Ether respecting him have proved unsuccessful.
parents of boils boys are in a state of great mental distress in cons
quence their mysterious absence. John Bott,
Tile last accounts from Constantina state a taste
violent shock of an earthquake had been recently felt there. The
happened in 1836 A Kab, le of the mountains accounted for
he
phenomenon by an oriental tradition of the earth being supported
On
one rof the horns of an immense ox, who, when tired, shifts I
st
burthen on to the othssr horn, and thus causes the sensation of 33
earthquake.

the lands which formerly belonged to the celebrated Hofer,
Tile Vienna Gazelle contains an official notice that
of the 'Tyrol,
are to be constituted as a fief under his name, and that hi: descendants,
l of some of the debates, a considerable amount of business,
ii;vested with this fief, are to enjoy the right of sitting in the States of
tl.e Tyrol, as members of the nobility.
GENF;IIA_T- ASSEMBLY,.--The General Assembly
C;P:zN their regular proceedings last Monday night, but from the ex=creme ength
Will remain to be takenup by the Commission. The Edinburgh Advcr-,
riser, a prejudice.l Tory paper, says—,, The Radical party in the Hous,e,
who have One every thing in their power to persecute and oppress 114./.
Young, have been foiled in their object, after wasting nearly three days
in wranglings and divisions, such as that Venerable Court, we tru9t,
wilt never again be doomed to witness."