The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-11 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COTTON ➢IARKET, JUNE 9

There is still plenty of Cotton offering, and we have no change to re.
port from the business of yesterday. The total business consists of
3,000 bags :-300 Laguayra, 7d. to lid. ; 300 Surat, 4d. ; 50 Pernam,
9d.; 2,100 American, 64d. to 71d.; and Sid. for Orleans.

MINING INTELLIGINCE. Tons. Cwt. Ors
Quantity of Cr,ppei Ore sold 3334 21 0
Quantity of fine Copper O3! 0 0
Average Produce ln,
Amount of Sale, 21,333 I Is, ed.—Average Standard,llol. 13s. Od.

The Earl Brownlow's grand dinner, given on Satur-
day evening to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, was
attended by—Prince George of Cambridge, Duke and Duchess of
Bucc!ouch, Duke of Rutland, Duke of Dorset, Earl and Countess of
Jersey, Lord and Lady Sydney, Lord Emlyn, Lady Adeliza Manners,
Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence,
Lady Caroline Legge, Baron Gersdorff Hon. William Bagot, and
Mademoiselle d'Este.

In a letter from Hanover of the 27th ult. we find

the following:—" The birthday of the Crown Prince was kept to-day
with much festivity. At noon the Prince received in the Pa'ace the
Ministers, foreign Ambassadors, officers of the garrison, and Members of
the Assembly of the Estates. The latter were presented to his Royal
Highness by the Hereditary MarAal, who delivered a congratulatory
address."

MAXIM OF THE KING OF SAXONY.—It was

the King of Saxony whom I first heard utter a phrase, which has since
often bee❑ quoted, and which will portray the moral feeling of the
man, viz.:—" Probity and truth arc the best finesses in politics."
The Emperor Napoleon, who revered the King of Saxony as a father,
often repeated the above words, without perhaps pl.:cing faith in them,
but a tribute of admiration to a beautiful and noble idea.—ilecollections
of Caulincourt, Duke of Vicenza.

SCENE AT THE TUILERIES ON THE RETURN
FROM ELBA.—It was a curious thing to find in the saloons of the
Tuileries the greater number of those persons who had deserted the
saloons at Fontainebleau. Almost all the old ministers, almost all the
marshals, thronged around the Emperor. Apart I reflected that in
many circumstances impudence supplies the place of an impossible justi-
fication. I looked at the countenance of Napoleon; there was a cloud
of disdain in its expression, yet his tongue uttered nothing but kind
words. His theme had been prepared—he had forgotten that which he
could not pardon.--Recollections of Caulinc. urt, Duke of Vicenza.
SIIOCKING ACCIDENT.—A farrier, who had been
shot ing a horse, was on Tuesday morning, between seven and eight
o'clock, taking the animal home, when in passing along Little Russell.
street, Covent-garden, it proved restive, and ran with great violence
a;ainst the lamp-post at the corner of the street, opposite the Shako-
peare's Head public house ; the man was thrown off, and received a
very severe end dangerous fracture of the temporal bone; the horse
then fell on the unfortunate mats, and he was almost crushed to death.
In this dreadful condition he was taken to the house of Mr. Lane, sur_
germ, of Drury-lan,, and from thence to the hospital, where he lics
without hope of recovery.

GEORGE 111 AND LORD ELDoN.—One day
when the King had given an audience to the Chancellor, and the latter
was about to retire, his Majesty said, " Give my remembrance to Lady
Eldon." The Chancellor acknowledged the compliment, and intimated
that he was ignorant of Lady Eldon's claims to such a notice. " Yes,
yes," answered the King, " I know how much I owe to Lady Eldon ; I
know that you would have made yourself a country curate, :-.nd that
she has made you my Lord Chancellor."—lf ilberforce's Life.
BITING A MAN'S THUMB OFF.—Au assault
unequalled for beastly ferocity, was committed at Clunton, in the parish
of Llanvair Waterdine, in this county last week. Two men, named
Mantle and Cadwallader, having a dispute, agreed to decide their dif.
ference by a battle, and had fought several rounds, when suddenly
Mantle seized the thumb of his antagonist in his mouth, and bit it
completely off, close to the hand ! The poor sufferer was brought to our
Infirmary ; and Mantle is committed to Gaol for trial—Shrewsbuty
Chronicle.

HONESTY REWARDED.-Oil Wednesday after-
noon a gentleman, who had just arrived from Boulogne, came to
Bow-street office for assistance, to enable him to recover a large sum of
money which he had left in a purse on the seat of a hackney-coach, with
the number of which he was wholly unacquiCnted. The gentleman
said he hired a coach that day to convey a lady and himself from Port-
man.stroet, Oxford-street, to Camden-town, and having been set down
at the latter place, he discharged the coach, and did not recollect
until some time after that he had taken out his purse while in the
coach, and left it on the scat when he got out. The purse con.
tained 270/. in Bank of England notes and eight sovereigns. He
procured the assistance of Goddard, the officer, to whom, however, he
cou'd afford no other information than a general description of the
coach and driver. The officer proceeded, acoompanied by the gentle-
man, to the turnpike through which the coach had passed on its way to
Camden_town, and it fortunate!y happened that the man in charge o
the gate remembered the coach as it went through, and had taken
the number (1,105), in order to charge a second toll, should it
return with another fare. Goddard next proceeded to several coach-
stands in search of the vehicle in question, but without effect; and it
was not until three o'clock in the morning that a waterrean at the stand
near Trafalgar-square, who knew the coach No. 1,125, said that the
owner lived somewhire in the Edgeware-road, to which place the officer
and gentleman proceeded without delay, and after a long search they
succeeded in tracing both the coach and its driver, when the latter,
upon being questioned respecting the purse and money, declared at
once that he found them in the coach atter he had set down the lady
and gentleman at Camden-town, adding, that it was his intention to de-
posit the money at the office in Somerset House on the following (lay,
in order that it might be restored to the owner. He then produced the
purse, containing the exact sum which the gentleman had placed in it ;
and the latter, to show the sense which he entertained of the man's
honesty, presented him with 25/., in addition to which he gave 51. to the
owner of the coach, for the willin_ness which he showed to assist the in-
quiries of the officer.

- I'RANCIS, EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA.—He was
not so unintellectual a man as he had been represented. In ordinary
times the Emperor Francis would have been ,one of those Sovereigns
whose subjects would have invoked blessings on their memory. In the
critical circumstances in which he was placed, saarrounded as it were by
a general conflagration, he had not sufficient courage to make himself
responsible for the consequences which might result to his country by
the maintenance of his family compact with Napoleon. Francis was
amiable, kind-hearted, and benevolent; but there was not in his nature
one spark of courage, energy, or heroism. The great Maria Theresa is
to the House of Austria what Henry IV. is to the "'louse of France—a
splendid tradition. The blood of these great Monarchs does not flow in
theveins of their descendants. There is a remarkable degeneration in
Royal families. lam aware that this opinion will be pronounced by cer-
tain persons to be a democratic bontade ; but t hat will not disprove the
fact.—Recollections of Caulincourt, Duke of Yikenza.
ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICI.I.—A Committee
of distinguished officers of artillery, consisting of Colonel Sir John
May, Major Hardinge, Major Chalmers, and ethers, was appointed by
the Board of Ordnance to examine Mr. Pearson's Patent Retarder, in
order to ascertain its applicability to artillery carriages. :Sir. Pearson
waited on the Committee on Friday, according to, order, at the arsenal,
accompanied by Mr. Joseph Crouchcr, John Arueerson, Esq., and other
gentlemen, who received from them the most marked urbanity, conde.
scension, and kindness. The Committee were pleased to express their
admiration of the invention, as applicable to the mails, stages, mid other
carriages. The official report we shall not anticipae4; but wait its official
course to Mr. Pearson. On Mr. Pearson's retwrot from Woolwich a
good deal of curiosity was excited at the manner M. which the vehicle
to which the Retarder was attached descended the steep hill from the
Green Man, Blackheath, to the Clock-house in Deptford. To gratify
the public, Mr. Pearson returned to the Green Man, and with his coach
loaded with nearly fifty persons, descended the hill without horses, hav-
ing no other power to regulate the speed than the Retarder, which
brought them down in perfect safety. The experiment was repeated a
second time with equal success, amidst the congratulations of several
coach proprietors and Mr. Passmore, who twice descended the hill on
the coach. We cannot conceive why the Government mail-coach de.
partment should hesitate to adopt this useful invention, as it is clear to
our minds that time, safety, decrease of expense, is secured to every
public vehicle by its adoption. When Mr. Pearson receives the Ord-
nance Report, we shall have much satisfaction in again giving publicity
to the merits of so valuable an invention for the public.
ELIZA FENNlNG.—Yesterday was the anniversary
of the birth of Eliza Fenning, who was born June 10, 1793, in the Island
of Dominica, and departed this life by the hands of the executioner,
July 1815, a lamented victim of legal tyranny. Eliza ',dining's
I name still shall live, although she be numbered with the dead.

INTERESTING TO SIIIPOWNERS.-A maritime
gentleman in a company the other day lamenting the leaky state of his
vessel on his last voyage, and saying that the crew were almost inces-
santly employed at the pumps during the whole passage home, was
asked, with much shnp'icity, by a country friend present, if he did not
think it would be a good pi' to "tile.drain her!"