The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-14 00:00:00

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We extract the following from an article he the Constitu-
tiqiia4, en the state of the linen trade in France
a the Wariniity 4,4 linen yarn imported into France in 1831
was 14,532 kilograillflid§p /thigh in 1837 had increased to
3,1v5,t,7e kilogramtes. fire IMpOfte of linen cloths in 1831
were 83,930 Ittlogrertimee. The value of the yarn in 1837
wet 14,400,000 fr: ;: of tite liutbs, 2,700,0001 r., giving a
total of i7,19'0,00'01r. Out of this Sign the value of the flax,
as the raw material, rr1!..7 b'e put at the outside at six
mil-
the surplus, therefore; of eleven millions, additional
value ifilpt+el the raw: materiai L'y manufacturing pro-
cesses, represents the sftn that might be sprelld tiver the de-
partments where this mantifact,erii it Carried on if tbo Peale
of duties did not leave so wide a do* fur the entry of Eng-
lish linens. The duties imposed in England on foreign
linens vary from fourpence to eighteenpenee per square yard,
according to quality; or arc replaced by the ad eatte-eni duty
of 40 per cent. Taking, however, the unit of the Customs'
scale in France, viz., 100 kilogrammes, or 2001bs , and cal-
cul sting the number of square yards that, according to the
different qualities of the cloth, would be required to make up
th's weight, it is found that the propottions of the French
duties to the English vary from I to 4 33 to 1 to 4.76, show-
ing that, according to the English tariff the English work-
man enjoys a protection four times greater than the French
workman under the French tariff. This applies only to
unbleached linens. Those that. are bleached are charge-
able with double duty ; but enormous quantities are im-
ported into France under the denomination of unbleached
linens once washed, while they are in reality white
enough to allow of their being sold as bleached linens when
they are once put in circulation in this country. In damasks
the French duty is 160 f. per 100 kilogrammes; whence a
dozen of napkins, weighing 2.30 kilogrammes, and worth 57f.,
would pay, on importation into France, sf. 60c. The Eng-
lish duty is 2s. per square yard ; each napkin, therefore, mea-
suring a square yard (the usual size in France), the same
dozen of napkins would pay, on entering England, 245. or
30f. ; that is, more than eight times the duty they would be
liable in France. As long as the spinning and weaving of
flax was carried on by hand France had the advantage over
England, because she could manufacture in this way both bet-
ter and cheaper ; but since the application of machinery to
this branch of industry the advantage of England over France
is incontestible. Even in the former case the prohibitory duty
of 40 per cent. hindered all competition on the side of tit"
latter country. It is only fair, therefore, for the French Go-
vernment either to give the French workman the same protec-
tion that the English manufacturer enjoys by raising the tariff,
or else to obtain an equivalent diminution of duties on the side
of England."

THE MURDER IN TIPPERARY.—The account
we gave on Saturday of the barbarous murder of Mr. Cooper
and the attempt on the life of Mr. Weyland has been fully
corroborated by the statements of the local journals, which one
and all attribute its perpetration to the cause to which we as-
cribed it. It appears that the unfortunate victim was agent to
several estates, and among them to the lands of the Archbishop
of Cashel, and that in that capacity, he was forced some time
since to eject a number of defaulting tenants and cast them on
the world without a house to shelter them, or the means to
procure subsistence without levying it on their neighbours.
Those persons, or at least some of them, we have been told,
frequently remonstrated with the agent. They sent no-
tices to him, we are informed, at different periods, either to
give up the ground which they had tilled and cultivated and
on which they and their forefathers lived, or abide the conse-
quence—an intimation well understood by poor Mr. Cooper,
as he never went abroad without serious apprehension—a fact
proved by the circumstance of his never venturing beyond the
precincts of his residence without being well armed. What-
ever his feelings of commiseration were for the ejected ten-
ants he would not obey their mandate—he was accordingly
made the martyr of a system to which more bloodshed and
butchery can be traced than even to its twin.; sister—the
Tithe system. We are happy to say that the perpetrators, or
some of them, of this shocking murder have been taken.
Waterford Chronicle.
MELANCHOLY CAsE.—On Monday Euphemia
Tait or Pride, the wife of a collier residing at Bo ;head Windhiil,
near the village of Pathead, a few miles south of this city, at-
tempted to put an end to the existence of her own child, by
throwing it over a window about thirty feet high. She was
brought into Edinburgh on the same day, and lodged in the
Police-office, where the case is at present undergoing exami-
nation. The poor woman is evidently deranged in her mind,
and would appear to be utterly unconscious of what has oc-
curred ; for she is frequently speaking in incoherent terms of
her " loving baby." The child, which is about a year old, is
much injured, and is not expected to live.—Scotsman.
CURIOUS FACTS.—The Maiden, an instrument by
which criminals were beheaded in Scotland, was introduced
into that country by Earl Morton, and he was the first person
who suffered by it ; M. Guillotine, a French surgeon, who
gave his name to an improvement of the maiden, died also by
his own invention ; and Deacon Brodie, who was executed
many years ago for robbing the Excise Office in Edinburgh,
invented the drop by which all criminals now suffer in Britain ;
and, strange to say, was the first man who was hanged on his
own commodious gallows.
GALWAY.—The bills of indictment against John
Andrew Kirwan, Esq., J. P. for the county of Galway, drawn
up on the finding of a coroner's inquest, which returned a
verdict of " wilful murder 1" against that gentleman, have
been unanimously ignored by the grand jury of the county.
The case—involving the homicide of two persons shot in a
riot during the late election at Tuam, by the constabulary, in
absolute self-defence—is too recent to require recapitulation.
Suffice it to say, that the Grand Jury, composed of Whigs,
Radicals, and Conservatives, in ignoring the bills, declared
that much as they wished to give Mr. Kirwan the consum-
mate triumph of a trial at bar, they found it impossible to find
a bill in any shape, consistently with the oaths they had
taken; and they highly complimented him for his impartial
and spirited conduct as a magistrate on the occasion.
Dublin Mail.

GEORGE IV.'S VISIT TO WATERLOO.—" Na-
mur, Oct. 1, 1821.—Early this morning we quitted Brussels
for this place. We reached the little village of Waterloo
about twelve o'clock, accompanied by Prince Frederick of
Holland, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Clancarty, and a
number of persons of minor distinction. The King went into
the little church of the village. examined all the tablets of in-
scription upon the walls, then visited the willow tree under
which was buried the shattered limb of Lord Anglesey, and
seemed greatly impressed with all around him. The day was
very unfavourable—it rained torrents ; but notwithstanding this
the King went to the plains of Waterloo, accompanied by the
Duke, and examined every part of the various positions occu-
pied by the army in that dreadful battle. When I saw the
verdure of this plain in full and luxuriant vegetation, I could
n t help dwelling on many of the extraordinary thoughts which
Lord Byron has advanced in his poem when speaking of this
tremendous engagement. The blades of grass on which we
tread might be a part of some warrior's frame who had died
on this plain—some friend, perhaps, whom we had known and
admired. "—Sir William Knighton's Memoirs.
On Wednesday morning a young man named Fran-
cis Hynes was found dead in his bed at his lodgings, in Mr.
Thompson's, Hampshire Hog-yard, Bloomsbury. It appears
the deceased had been for some weeks in a most distressed
state, having had no food unless now and then a cup of coffee,
which one of his fellow lodgers gave him. The appearance of
his body, when removed by the E division of police to the work-
house (where it now awaits a Coroner's inquest), was most
appalling, being literally skin and bone.
On Thursday evening one of the firemen, named
Daniel M'Harvey, belonging to the engines on the Liverpool
and Manchester Railway, came to a melancholy end just as he
arrived at the Manchester station. He incautiously stepped
from the engine whilst it was in progress, and falling on the
rails, the wheels passed over one of his legs and one arm. He
was taken up, and conveyed without delay to the Infirmary,
where he died within a quarter of an hour after his arrival.—
Liverpool Telegraph.
MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—ShortIy before
eleven on Saturday night, the inmates of the Benedictine
Convent, King-street, Hammersmith, were much alarmed by
a loud knocking and ringing at the entrance-gate, which, on
the porter opening, was found to proceed from a beautiful
and elegantly-dressed young female, about eighteen, who
claimed protection for herself and sisters. The principal,
on being made acquainted with the application, questioned
her as to her name and connections, when she stated her
name to be Hortense Mailliard, that she was a native of Ar-
tois, in France, where her father resides, but that she had for
some time been governess in the family of a gentleman at
Datchet, near Windsor, which she had that evening clandes-
tinely left. It being against the rule of the establishment to
admit her without previous inquiry, a bed was kindly pro-
cured for her at the Sussex Arms in the Broadway, whither
she was taken. She had not been there long, however,
before she became dreadfully excited ; and after disturb-
ing the whole house, by some means or other, at present a
mystery, contrived to leave it, and found her way back to the
nunnery, where her application for admittance attracted the
attention of a policeman of the T division, who, on questioning
conveyed her
her actions very unsatisfactory and incoherent,
her to the station-house at Brook-green. While
there Inspector Morgan elicited from her that she had two
sisters in England, one residing in Spital-square, the other at
Walworth, respecting whom she had recently nightly had
such horrid dreams, fancying one had been murdered while at
confessional, and the other assassinated in the public streets,
that they had so operated on her mind as to render her totally
unconscious of what she was doing. Every attention her dis-
tressing state required was paid her during the remainder of
the night at the station-house, and on Sunday, having become
-Snore tranquil, she was sent, accompanied by a policeman in
private clothes, to Spiral-square, where she was delivered into
the care of her sister.

In America the trade of a chimney-sweeper is un-
known. There are whole States, including some of the
largest towns, where such a creature was never heard of. To
supply this defect, every man sets fire to the soot in his chim-
ney, by way of clearing—a practice often productive of serious
conflagrationp.

On Wednesday evening an inquest was held at the
sign of the Elephant, Kingsland, before Mr. Baker, the coro-
ner, and a respectable jury, on the remains of Thomas Staggs,
who committed a most determined act of suicide. From the
evidence adduced it seemed that the deceased, who was by
business a brick-maker, had been for some days labouring un-
der an attack of brain fever. On Saturday he requested his
daughter would bring him a pen-knife, that he might pare his
toe• nails with it. She complied with his request, and being
left alone for a few minutes, he cut his throat h. a most shock-
ing manner, and died very shortly afterwards. The jury re-
turned a verdict of " Temporary insanity...

FIRE SAFES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRIPHTON GAZETTE. AND LEWES 08...

SERVEti.
Sin—The present prevalence of fires., with the awful loss of.
life and property, exhibit a sad proof of the backwardness of
science, as applied to practical purposes.
In the present high state of civilization of the British empire,
a premium offered by our Liberal Government for the best
method of preventing accidents from the ignited flue, for fa-
cilitating the escape of persons from the upper storks of a
half. consumed house, and many other things that would tend
to improve the condition and safety of the subject, would be
likely to bring more real good to the " homes of England,"
and to the moral stamina of British glory, than anything they
have yet done.
I have lately devoted my thoughts to these things, and I
send yo:: the following attempt at the construction of a fire-
rroo` bookcase, that, if you should think it capable of being
iniproved by public;t:f, or call forth a more complete plan,
you may use it acoordingly. l beg also to state my opinion of
the present safes ; namely, that no safe yet constructed will
pres-rve anything whatever within it, when red-hot through ;
and I have heard of an article of the kind Which had its top
meltc.d in.
Suppose an iron frame, or case, something like the common
long family clock-case, say 15 feet long and 21 feet wide, by
feet from back to front, with an iron press or bookcams
made to slide up and down in it, after the manner of a sash
window, with weights and iron chains ; it might he raised by
a small winch. and lowered the same way. This safe is to be
fitted up with drawers and tin boxes according to circum-
stances, completely waterproof ; and the frame so fixed that
the bottom of it shall rest either in a vault or under ground,
according to the nature of the premises and the wish of the
owner. When wound up to the top, the front of the frame
being open, it becomes accessible in the c.
counting-bou,s;
when lowered to its keep (like the sash of a carriage) 3t
completely out of the reach of fire, and an upper shelving cor-
nice to the frame would render it almost equally safe front
water. The method of securing it is obviously to let it down
at night ; or, indeed, it might be always down, when not in
immediate requisition.
The plan may be deemed very crude, yet still worth soma
consideration ; for which purpose it is humbly submitted by,
Yours, &c., ZOAR.

ENGLISH PATRONAGE of FOREIG:

ART.

(From the Illechanics' Magazine.)
Our readers may remember that in our recent analysis of
the Parliamentary report on the Royal Mint, some space was
devoted to a notice of a certain Signor Pistrucci, who enjoys
a suite of apartments and a snug salary at the expense of the
British public, without condescending to render any quiff Pro
quo in the shape of services. We are happy now to annottuca
that the signor is at last, after a repose of fourteen yowl°
about to favour John Bull with a specimen of his abilities as a
medalist. The coronation medal of our young Queen has beets
entrusted to his hands, and (which is something more to the
purpose) Signor Pistrucci has undertaken to execute it; s°
that, both parties being agreed, it is to be hoped somethingmay be done, and that, too, in rather less time than the gran,
medal in hanger of the British army, which the signor has ha°
in active preparation since shortly after the battle of aterlq
W
which is still unfinished, and likely enough to continue so
the end of the next war.
It has excited some surprise in many quarters that the coat'
mission should have been conferred on Signor Pistrucci, wllil,a
the native artist who executed the coronation medal of Wir,
Liam IV., Mr. William Wyon, stood ready to receive it. ir
first sight, indeed, it may seem perfectly proper that, as tZ:
Signor receives his salary in quality of " Chief Medalist," t".;
task should fall to his share, it being taken for granted thaS,l:
would form part and parcel of his official duties. N.,
however a mistaken notion ; Signor Pistrucci conceives tha
he pockets his salary only that the barbarous English mi,ll„/
have the satisfaction of saying that they have an actual Ita"1-,
artist for " Chief Medallist," and holds accordingly that
aid,
no duties to perform at all. He is therefore to be pato!
and to paid handsomely, for Queen Victoria's coronation
medal, his paltry fee at the Mint going on as usual, and he, I
usual, doing absolutely nothing for it. It should seem, i"deheed
to be owing only to the rage for economy which distingoia"
the commencement of the last reign that a British eagravet
was then employed. Signor Pistrucci was applied to on th.r
a
occasion, but the sum offered he considered beneath the not2ceo
of a foreign artist of his pretensions, and Mr. Wyon
was
favoured with the commission at the reduced pittance. Na
an
that a more liberal remuneration is resolved upon, the Italia
steps in again, and the Englishman is left to his awn retie!'"
tions on the patronage his countrymen award to native talenato
Signor Pistrucci appears not to be without his
among the periodical press ; or, if not, it is rather strangewth_,
just at the present juncture the newspapers should
merits of
paragraphs speaking in a depreciating strain of .the nier'c'se
the new coinage, now on the eve of making its aPPearl,n.
a course the very reverse of that most usually pur „
which will soon be seen, the new coin be really so tastail:ald
design and rude in execution as these paragraphs would ,
ar
us to believe, the circumstance will assuredly be most re
one
able ; since it is a well-known fact that the coinage has ghat
on regularly improving under the hands of Mr. Wyon, 50 t•
the recent specimens leave those produced under the sup
erin
tendence of Signor Pistrucci far, far behind. The public may,
partiz.
at
perhaps, when the proper time comes, demur a little to the
verdict of the unknown paragraphist who is so eager to fore.-
stall their judgment on the matter; meanwhile of one thing
we may be pretty certain, that Mr. Wyon has not displayed
bad taste enough to place his own name at full length in the
most conspicuous situations on both sides of the coin !

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S MONUMENT.—On Fri-
day, the Committee on Sir Walter Scott's Monument Met at
Edinburgh, pursuant to adjournment, to consider the Report
made to them by the Sub-Committee recommending that the
architectural design by Mr. Kemp, combined with the statlo
by Mr. Stecll, should be adopted. The Lord Provost Loyd
the chair. After considerable discussion, in which ~
'Melville, Dr. Hope, the Duke of Buccleugh, the Lord Chief
quesurotil
Justice Clerk, and other gentlemen took part, the
was put, Sir John Hope's motion, approving of the RePl,(3fr'
recommending Mr. Kemp's design, in combination with '•
Steell's group ; or Lord Meadowbank's amendment, motion-
proving of the same—when twenty-one voted for the inotioni
and ten for the amendment—majority for Messrs. hemp
and
Steell's designs, eleven. An addition to the motion prope'e,.
by Sir William Rae was then put, and unanimously
• Sir John Robinson, seconded by the Lord Justice Clerk, Prl,o
posed that the subscription list be re-opened, which was: minted
unanimously agreed to. The following were then aPP"'n.
a Committee to superintend the execution of the buildinglifr,
Sir \Villiam Rae, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Dr. HePe' '.
T. Thomson, mid Mr. \Villiam Burn. It was remitted to thet
same Committee to consider of a proper site for the monernettbe;
and to report to the general meeting. The thanks of t
meeting were voted to the Sub-Committee, who had drawn uP
the Report of the first day of meeting of the General C°l4,;
mittce. Thanks having been voted to the Lord Provost/ iu
his conduct in the chair, the meeting separated.
Bouland, a rich farmer and Mayor of Saint'
carrie,ci
ville, Seine-et-Oise, was returning a few ays since frhißi
9rll
Magny by the wood of Arthies, when a person shot at
and wounded him in the thigh, a little above the knee. The
femoral artery was cut by the balls, and he bled to death,
while his horse coming home alone, covered with blood, led t°
the discovery of the murder.

T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, Coolly
London ( Seven Doors fromGracechurch-street), informs the Pub lie
that he offers DESSERT FRUIT KNIVES and FORKS, Wiee
plain ivory handles, sillier ferrules, plated on steel blades, at Virgo
Guineas per dozen pair, or with solid silver blades, at Eight Guiu'l
and a Half per dozen pair.
N. B. Carved ivory handles at 13s. 6d. extra per dozes pair'

B IR T.H S.
On the Bth inst., in Hunter-street, Brunswick.square, the 13(1
of the Hon. R. V. Powys, of a son.
On the 10th inst., at Clapham.rise, the lady of IL H. Dette°ll'
Esq., of a son. of
On the 9th inst., at Dulwich, the lady of E. Chapman, Esq''
theOnn g
Iner Temple, of a dauhter.
the 9th inst., at Howroyde, Yorkshire, the lady of Lieut...
Colonel Horton, of a son.
On the 30th ult., at Stockholm, Mrs. J. Paten, of a son.
we,
On the 10th inst., at Chelsea, the wife of the RCY. J.
°
of a son.
On the 11th inst., at Nelson-house, Kingsland, the lady of Ge°'
Gabain, Esq., of a son. Richard
On the 12th inst., at Chatham-place, Blackfriars, Mrs.
Marshall, of a daughter.

MARRIED. gents
On the 10th inst., at the parish church, Halifax, gr. Thom
Clerk, of Upper Clapton, to Anne, youngest daughter of Tb°
Miln o
e,
st. 10th i Esq., f Cliff-hill, near Haax, Yorkshi.
On the n, at Kensington, lif
Thos.Wilkie,re Esq., of Vicarage'
place, to Margaret, daughter of R. Forbes, Esq., Kensingten;rhos.
On the 10th inst., at St. Martin's Church, Westminster, jn
the
Rickard, Esq., of Montpelier House, Brighton, to Mary An",
eldest daughter of W. Bourn, Esq., of Gainsboroughincolti•

DIED. e.enerill
On the 10th inst., at the residence of A. Godby, Esq., v.,410W
Post Office, Dublin, after only three days' illness, Frances,';
the late Colonel Godby, of the Royal Artillery. Steven-
On the 10th inst., in Woburn square, Jane, wife of W. -
son, Esq., barrister-at-law. him of
On the sth inst., at Kensington, aged 12, Mary Louisa, c
E.
On Leathes, Esq., of Hopland Hall, Suffolk.
the 6th inst., Eliza,
Andover I,,Pc
. ' tori-
Jane, the wife of John Owen, of St. Andrew's-hill,
commons, aged 41. wife of Mr. E. 13. Hawkins,linendraper'
On the 9th irist

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On the ,„..
lii s 52 the
On tllth ult., at Malta, Captain Pigott, of the 4btli Be'
ment, second son of John Pigott, Esq., late Lieut.-Colonel 11°Y3
Bucks Militia.
On the 1 lth inst., aged 10, Catherine Mary, only child of /4'
Edwards, Esq., of Crawfurd-street. of
On the 10th inst., Eliza, eldest daughter of P. Button, Esq„
Winnington, Essex.
On the 10th inst., at Ealing-green, Ann, relict of the late Peter
Barlow, Esq.
On the Bth inst.. at Dovecot, near Liverpool, Adam Dugalle'
Esq., la of Manc
On the 11th inst. in Dorset-square, Wm. Plunkett, Esq., De-
puty Chairman of the hester.
Board of Excise, aged 67.
On the loth inst., at Moulton Vicarage, Lincolnshire, Frances,
daughter of the late E. Latter, Esq., of Bromley, Kent, solicitor,
aged 26.
On the 11th inst., at Manor-place, Walworth, aged 21, Mr.
Francis Townes, grandson of Mr. Thos. Townes, Cheapside.
On the 10th inst., Mr. Edw. Young, of Broad-street, Ratcliffe.

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