The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-11 00:00:00

MANSION HOUSE.

A young man, named Thomas Ware, was charged, be-
fore Alderman Pirie, with having stolen a pocket-book.
containing two Bank of England notes, the one for 201.,
the other for 101., the property of Mr. Richard Morton;
a merchant, of the Old Swan-stairs, in Thames-street
_ _

Mr. Thorton stated, that on the 7th of April, he came
from Gravesend to London, in the Mercury steam-vessel,
in the Company of which he had 200 shares. Soon after
landing he missed his pocket-book, in which his name
and address were inscribed, and in which were a 20/. note,
No. 96,162, date 9th of January, 1841, and a 101. note,
No. 35,352, date 11th of January, 1841. He subsequently
went into the boat and mentioned his loss, stating, at
the same time, that 101 should be given as a reward jupon
the restoration of the book. He went again to the boat
to inquire whether the property had been found, but
could obtain no information about it. To the best of his
belief the prisoner was in the cabin at the time he offered
the reward. He stopped the notes at the Bank, and after-
wards traced the 10/. note to Messrs. Whitbread, whose
collecting clerk had taken it from a customer.
Wilkinson, the mate of the Mercury, stated that he re-
collected -Mr. Thornton's mention of the loss, and offer
of the 101. for its recovery, and that the prisoner was pre-
sent at the time.

A young woman, who was barmaid to Mrs. Duke, of
the Francis Rodney's Head, in the Westminster-road,
stated that the prisoner brought the 101. note produced,
which corresponded with that which the pocket-book
had contained, to her mistress's house to be changed,
and that the note was accordingly changed. Witness
had known the prisoner for some time as a person in
the habit of frequenting the house.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
A lad was brought up for having attempted to obtain
money for a forged check from Mr. Wilson, butcher
Mason's-alley, Basinghall-street.
Mr. Wilson stated that the prisoner said that he came
from Mr. Stores, in Cheapside, and produced a note,
which asked, with Mr. Storr's compliments, for change.
A trick was suspected immediately, and it was found
that the boy, who was respectable, had been sent by a
person who met him in the street, and who, no doubt,
calculated from his appearance of simplicity, that ha
could be easily imposed upon to deliver the message.
The ALDERMAN discharged the prisoner, with the assu-
rance that he went from the bar without the slightest
stain upon his character. He mentioned that intimation
had been made to him that several tradespeople had been
imposed upon by persons who, in a hurry, brought to
them checks from tradesmen they knew, accompanied
with letters requesting cash, as the time was beyond
banking hours. The deception succeeded, as the checks
belonged to old check books of the bankers to whom
they wereaddressed.

Daniel Fortester (the officer), begged to be allowed to
inform the Alderman, that a lad had lately been sen-
tenced to transportation for fifteen years, for having pre-
sented a forged check, and he had every reason to be-
lieve that the unfortunate young fellow was quite inno-
cent of criminal knowledge.
Alderman PIRIE asked what had become of the boy ?
Daniel Forrester said that upon the representation
that the lad was believed to be the dupe of others, he
had been removed from the vessel in which he was
about to sail for Botany Bay, by order of the Secretary
of State, until the necessary investigation should take
place. He (Daniel Forrester) was perfectly convinced
of the innocence of the convicted person.

RE _IL VER MINES.--We derive the fol-
lowing information from a respectable source at Guernsey
—The existence of a silver mine, likely to be productive,
in
:
the Island of Sark, appears to be no longer smatter of dotbt.
In addition to the high opinion entertained by every expe-
rienced person who has inspected the Sark Mines, we have
with much pleasure read the report of W. J. Bellwood,
Esq., F. R. S.,and her Majesty's underground mine sur-
veyor in the uchy of Cornwall, in which he gives a most
satisfactory and encouraging account of the undertaking,
and which has since been confirmed by the discovery of
silver ore in the forty fathom level (the greatest depth yet
attained), producing 639 us. of fine silver to the ton of ore.
It appears the ore improves both in quality and quantity as
the works descend, and although the greatest depth at pre-
sent attained compared to other mines is but very trifling,
upwards of 15,000 oz. of silver have been raised, besides
many tons of lead. There is a silver mine now working in Brit-
tany which has been producing a profit of 50,0001. per an-
num for some time past, the characters of which are knownt
to resemble that of Sark ; and from the direction it bears is
not unlikely to be a continuation of the same vein, asinine-
ral veins have been traced to a much greater distance than
that between Sark and Brittany. Mr. Henwood, also
speaks favourably of the Herm Copper Mines, an under.'
taking which we understand is about to be carried on vtith
increased vigour. As the prosperity of both these under-
takings will be of great importance to the Channel Is-
lands, as well as to the proprietors, we hope the opera-
tions will continue to be crowned with success.—Jersey
Times. ( Specimens of the rich ore from the forty fathom
level may be seen on application to the Secretary of the
Royal Gallery of Practical Science, Adelaide-street,
Strand.)
The chain-pier that Lord Cadogan is erecting
in Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, is in that forward state that his
Lordship
Will open it in person on Whit-Monday.

COLOURED POPULATION OF
THE UNITED STATES.

REPORT OF TEE MANAGEMENT OF THE STATE COLONIZA-
TION FUND FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE FREE PEOPLE

OF COLOCR.

Colonization Rooms, Baltimore, Jan. 20, 1841.
To his Excellency William Grason, Governor of Maryland.
The report of the undersigned, Managers of the State
Colonization Fund, under the Act of 1831, eh. 281,
respectfully states that during the last year they have
drawn from the Treaaury the sum of $lO,OOO, being the
amount limited by the Act of the Legislature of the last
Session : a part of which has been appropriated through
the agency of the Maryland State Colonization Society in
the payment of the expenses incurred in the transportation
of emigrants to Africa heretofore, and in maintaining them
there, as authorised by the Act above-mentioned; and a
part is the dissemination of information through the State,
as also authorised by the same Act. The number of ma-
numissions during during the past year has been 128,
making the whole number since the passage of the Act
2,300. During the past year no emigrants have been sent
from the State to Africa ; the current of feeling among
the free coloured population having turned their attention
to the British West India Islands, and diverted it wholly
for the present for other quarters. The undersigned be-
lieve, from the events of the last twelve months, that the
feeling is increasing among the free coloured people that
this is not their appropriate home, and that sooner or later
emigration to other lands will be to their happiness end
well-being. Hitherto they have remained in the United
States with the belief that by preserving here their num-
bers undiminished, they would ultimately obtain social
and political equality with the whites. This has been the
abolition doctrine that has spread among them, and by
which they have been influenced heretofore. It is be-
lieved now, however, to have lost its weight in a great
measure, and there is a restlessness among the thinking
and prudent of the free coloured people which indicates a
thorough change in their feelings with reference to re-
moval. That emigration to the British West Indies will long
continue in favour, the undersigned cannot believe, for the
persons wanted there are labourers for the sugar crops
—a species of toil to which the negroes from Maryland
are unaccustomed, and in which they must be brought
into competition with the emancipated slaves of the island,
whenever these last choose to return to the habits of labour
from which their emancipation has released them. The
undersigned mention this in no hostility to emigration of
the free coloured people to Trinidad and Guiana, but as indi-
cating a probable result which, under any circumstances, it
would be prudent to provide for, and which has been most
fully provided for in the establishment of the colony of
Maryland in Liberia, whose prosperity and success thus
far is believed to be without a parallel in the whole history
of colonization. This colony is now capable of receiving
all the persons that may choose to emigrate to it ; and
when the restless feeling among the coloured population
already alluded to, becomes disappointed in the results of
the West India scheme, will furnish an alternative by
which it can be gratified, in a manner promotive, not only
of their best interests, but of the best interests of the
people of Maryland from whom they will go forth.
In the year 1720 there were 8,043 free negroes in
Maryland; the late census shows that there are 17,980 in
the city of Baltimore alone, and 61,937 in the State of
Maryland. This population, which is among us, but not
of us—which has no interest in common with us—which is
debarred political and social rights, and which can antici-
pate no change for the better, may be well dissatisfied with
their position, and look abroad for a more congenial home.
It is the part of a wise policy to provide one. This has
been done ; and, however the free coloured people may for
a while vacillate in the selection of their permanent abiding
place, there is little doubt that they will ultimately prefer
removing to a place where the coloured man fills all the
offices in the government rather than to a place where
their removal still leaves them under the predominant in-
fluences of a white population, in which the coloured man
is trusted with power not as his right, but as a favour.
The condition of the coloured population is of great in-
terest, and the undersigned see nothing yet to induce them
to doubt the policy of the State in relation to it.
The undersigned transmit bereaith a copy of the Ninth
Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Marylana
State Colonization Society, being the last they have issued,
which is fully explanatory of their plans and policy ; and
have the honour to be, most respectfully,__

C. HOWARD.
W. R. STUART.
F. ANDERSON.

• BREACH OF PROMISE.—Among the rumours
floating here, it is said that the public will be highly
amused at the next assizes, by some singular disclosures
and the reading of the love epistles between a faithless
swain and his " true love," in an action for a breach of
promise of marriage between a lady residing not far from
one of our celebrated watering places, and a worthy
" brother batch " of this city.—Exeter Flying Post.
EXTRAORDINARY.—The Cutter Fanny, when
on her passage from Port illacquarrie to Sidney, last trip,
had a severe encounter with a tiger shark, who laid hold
of her mizen boom, and held on for some time with his
teeth, until he was frightened off by some of the men at-
tacking him. Part of his teeth may yet be seen in the
boom by any person desirous of inspecting it.—Sydney
Paper. _

SLEEP.—The duration of sleep is various
Youth and young adults will habitually sleep soundly
and uninterruptedly for eight or nine hours. Infants and
old people sleep for shorter periods. Some persons are
constitutionally sound and long sleepers ; others light
and short sleepers. Infants sleep far more in
the twenty-four hours than adults ; when very young,
having but recently come, into the waking state
from the womb, they are awake for but short pe-
riods ; and for very many months require to go to sleep
several times, and for the first two or three years more
than once, in the twenty-four hours. Old people sleep
lightly and frequently ; and altogether but little, unless
lethargic disease comes upon them, which is very com-
mon. I heard Baxter, the coachmaker, declare he never
took more than three hours sleep during the most active
period of his life. "The celebrated General Elliot"—
' never slept more than four hours out of the twenty-
four ; and his food consisted wholly of bread, water, and
vegetables." Sir John Sinclair mentions a James Mac-
kay, " a remarkably robust and healthy man," " who died
in Strathnaver in 1797, aged ninety-one, and only slept, on
an average, four hours in the twenty-four hour." "Fre-
deric the Great," as he is called, and the truly great John
Hunter, "slept only five hours in the same period." Dr.
Maenish, to whom I am indebted for these instances,
says, " I know a lady who never sleeps above half an
hour at a time, and the whole period of whose sleep does
not exceed three or four hours in the twenty-four, and
yet she is in the enjoyment of excellent health." Sir
Gilbert Blanc states that General Pichegru informed him
that, "in the course of his active campaigns, he had for
a whole year not more than one hour of sleep, on an ave-
rage, in twenty-four hours." Sleep varies so much in
intensity that a dead sleep of an hour may be an equal
repose to any ordinary sleep of many hours. The cele-
brated De Moivre slept twenty hours out the twenty-
four ; and Thomas Parr latterly slept away by far the
greater part of his existence.—Eiliotson's Human Phy-
siology.
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BRUTAL FIGHT, AND DEATH OF ONE
THE COMBATANTS.—On Saturday night last, about ten
o'clock, a lot of fellows met together at. the White Horse beer-
shop, at Chelsea New Town, near Leighton Buzzard, and,
after drinking for a considerable period, they went into the
fields and got up a fight between John Butcher, a shoemaker,
and James Webster, a bricklayer, of Leighton Buzzard. The
disgracful scene was carried on till two o'clock on Sunday
morning, when Butcher hit his antagonist a fatal blow,*ich
caused his death. The whole neighbourhood was in ,the
greatest excitement, and on Tuesday a Coroner's Jury were
sworn. The first witness, John Webster, cousin of the
deceased, went to the beer-shop in question. There were se-
veral men there and a woman. Between ten and eleven o'clock
they left the house and had a row in the road, and afterwards
in a close, where two fellows, George Fryer and James Paviott:e
fought. After the fight, deceased came up and stood talk-
ing with witness, when Butcher came up and said he w d
fight any in the close a few rounds, just to keep his hands
in. Deceased said he would fight him ; and asked his brother,
William Webster, to see him righted. They then fought for
nearly three quarters of an hour. In the last round Butcher
struck deceased several times about the head, and he fell from
one of the blows. Witness and William Webster picked him
up, but he could not stand ; he fell backwards and his hands
dropped. He was then carried away upon a gate insensible.
There was another fight going on.—William Robinson, of
Linslade, came to the fight. They went down on fighting,
and when deceased was down on his back, Butcher set his foot
on his stomach on purpose. After this fight was over witness
went to see the third that was going on. The Jury returned
a verdict of " Manslaughter against John Butcher, as princi-
pal, and against Joseph Hodges and William Webster for aid-
ing, abetting, and assisting." The prisoners were imme-
diately conveyed to Bedford gaol.—Hereford Reformer.
ELEVENTH HUSSARS. The head-quarters
are at Hounslow, under the command of the Earl of Cardigan ;
a detachment is stationed at Hampton Court. The Noble
Earl is reported to have slept very unsoundly since the issue of
the General Order forbidding the infliction of corporal punish-
ment on the Sabbath. The abolition of such an innocent and
laudable amusement as that of lacerating men's backs with the
cat-o'•nine-tails on the most sacred day of the week, is highly
reprehensible and vexatious. We do not, therefore, wonder at
his Lordship feeling uncomfortable and restless in his nightly
slumbers. It is true that Lord Rosslyn, Lord Greenock, Lord
Sandys, Lord F. Fitz-Clarence, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lord
Sussex Lennox, and several other noblemen who have been in
command of regiments, never had recourse to such pious and
princely Sunday pastimes as those indulged by the Noble Earl ;
but then those noblemen are what is vulgarly called " slow
coaches" in comparison to Lord Cardigan, and have no con-
ception of those elegant fancies in which he of the " bottle"
delighteth to revel. Surgeon Sandam leaves the regiment and
retires to half-pay.— United Service Gazette.
RESIGNATION OF THE GOWN OF BASSI-
snAw BY ALDERMAN WHITE.—On Saturday a good deal of
bustle was caused in the Guildhall by the reported resignation
of the aldermanic gown of the ward of Bassishaw. Alderman
White, having stopped payment, determined on Friday to re-
sign his gown, and accordingly wrote to the authorities on the
subject. A Court of Aldermen will be held, it is believed, on
Tuesday, for the purpose of accepting the resignation, and
issuing a precept fur the election of an Alderman for the ward.
The friends of Mr. Thomas Farncombe, one of the Sheriffs,
who is most highly respected in the city, got up a requisition
to that gentleman yesterday, signed by the first people in the
ward, and it is generally believed that he will accept the invi-
tation. Mr. Evans, of the house of Seager arid Evans, was
also spoken of as a person likely to be a candidate, but he de-
clined when lie understood that Mr. Farncombe was in the
Illr. Tegg, the bookseller, who opposed Mr. White at
Ale last elOtion, has, it is believed, altogether given up the
:-”lttApieh.diP,4lvif: honours as inferior to the " otium cum dig-
, mrate!' Isesis enjoying with his family at Norwood. The
ot4l4diiidCttrirentioned as the probable opponent of Mr.
Firiteembe;:. Wait; Mr. David Salomans, who contested the
gfiwn.o:f;-Aldgfte ward with such energy. Mr. Farncombe is
a geslid!faa,ti, of very large fortune.
DIZA,S OF MRS. JENNER, OF LIVERPOOL.—
About 'a fortnight since Mr. Jenner, of Everton, near Liver-
pool, shot his wife and son immediately after breakfast ; the
boy died immediately, but his unfortunate wife lingered in great
agony up to Saturday last, when she expired. The ball lodged
in Mrs. Jenner's head, where it remained up to the time of her
death.

Mr. Jackson, the late Under Sheriff of the City
of London, has started as a candidate for the City Comptrol-
lership, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Hooky.

THE LIBERALITY OF LORD
WALDEGRAVE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—A paragraph is going the round of the Papers,
which states that his Lordship is permitted to promenade
with his Lady between the gates, as her Ladyship was
so much annoyed by the gaze of the prisoners on her
first visit to his Lordship, that she had determined not to
enter the prison again.
Can you inform me, Sir, whether myself and fellow-
prisoners are not as much entitled to promenade outside
the gates as his Lordship ? And if so, with whom does
the authority rest of granting permission ? I should
like to be placed on the same footing as his Lordship in
respect to locomotion, and I cannot see why every pri-
soner's wife might not urge the same reason as Lady
Waldegrave that she should be allowed to promenade
outside the gates with her husband.
The paragraph also states that his Lordship has been
" very liberal to the poor prisoners." As I know many of
them are extremely distressed, and, in fact, often in
want of a dinner, it gave me great gratification to hear
that his Lordship had kindly administered to their ne-
cessities. It appears, however, that the person appointed
by his Lordship to dispense his bounty to the poor pri-
soners has neglected his duty, as, upon inquiry, I can-
not find one recipient of his Lordship's or of her Lady-
ship's bounty, except that a gentleman in her suite
dropped 2s. 6d. into the poor-box on her Ladyship's
departure, when she first visited the prison.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
HENRY HETHERINGTON.
Queen's Bench, May 10, 1841.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, May 10.
ROYAL COMMISSION.

The Royal Assent was given by Commission this day,
at Four o'clock, to the South Australia Bill, the In-
demnity Bill, the Metropolis Improvements Bill, the
Wishaw and Coltness Railway Bill, the London and
Blackwall (Commercial) Railway Bill, the North Mid-
land Railway Bill, the Eastern Counties Railway Bill,
the Chard Canal Bill, the Chelsea Poor, &c. Bill, the
Annan Fisheries Bill, the Derby Gas Bill, the Harro-
gate Improvement Bill, the Britannia Life Assurance
Company Bill, the Ihninster Roads Bill, the Sturapeross
Roads Bill, the Barnstaple Roads Bill, the Christchurch
and Lyndhurst Road Bill, the Wimborne and Piddletown
Road Bill, the Eccleshill Inclosure (No. 2) Bill, the Do-
venby and Papcastle Inclosure Bill, and Burgett's Natu-
ralization Bill.

The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the
Earl of Clarendon, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.

The House then adjourned during pleasure.
Their Lordships re-assembled at Five o'Clock.
The Bishop of DURHAM presented a petition from
Durham against Sunday travelling on railways and
canals.

The Bishop of CARLISLE presented a petition from
his diocese for a better regulation of tithe composition.
Lord HATHERTON presented six petitions from
merchants, carriers, and boatmen connected with the
Birmingham, the Severn, and other canals, against Sun-
day traffic on canals and railways.
CORN-LAWS.

The Duke of BUCKINGHAM presented petitions
from a great number of places in various counties against
alteration of the Corn-laws. _

Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from North-
ampton against any alteration of the Corn-laws.
Lord HATHERTON presented a petition from inha-
bitants of Newington-causeway, Surrey, for the extinc-
tion of tolls on the metropolitan bridges.
Messengers from the Commons brought up a number
of Bills, which were severally read a first time, but
their designations were not heard in the gallery.
CHURCH-RATES.

The Earl FITZWILLIAM presented a petition from
a place in Essex for the abolition of Church-rates and
of Ecclesiastical Courts. _

The Bishop of LLANDAFF presented a petition from
a place in his diocese against the abolition of Church-
rates.

Lord KING presented a number of petitions in favour
of the Jews' Declaration Bill, and for the abolition of
Church-rates.

The Duke of BUCCLETJCH presented petitions from
Melrose, Gordon, and other parishes in Scotland, against
alteration of the Corn-laws. _ _ _

----.--
The Earl of RIPON presented a petition from the
New-cut, Lambeth, for the abolition of the metropolitan
bridges tolls.
The Earl of MORLEY presented petitions from Dart-
ford for the repeal of the Corn-laws, and the abolition of
Church-rates.

The Earl of ALBEIVIARLE presented a petition from
the performers engaged at the Lyceum Theatre praying
praying for the extinction of the metropolitan bridge
tolls, which they said were a great injury to their theatre.
SIR ROBERT STOPFORD.

The LORD CHANCELLOR reported to their Lord-
ships that he had received a letter from Sir Robert
Stopford, acknowledging the communication which he
had received from his Lordship informing him of the vote
of thanks which had been passed to himself, and the officers
and men under his command, in which he states that he
had communicated the contents of that letter to the offi-
cers and men, and that they were equally grateful with
himself for the distinguished honour which had been con-
ferred upon them.