The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-09 00:00:00

MONTHLY CORN CIRCULAR.

The following is an extract from the Monthly Corn
Circular, issued by the Messrs. Sturge of Birming-
ham :--

" Birmingham, Bth month, 4th.
" We had rain more or less on twenty-four days of
the past month. Nevertheless, the crops have made
more progress towards maturity, although it has also
been very cold, than could, under the circumstances,
have been expected ; and should the weather prove
favourable, a good deal of wheat' and barley will be cut
next week. In some places the wheat is ripening a good
colour, but the greater part is dark, and more or less
blighted. The quantity of straw being larger than in
either of the past three years, will in some measure make
up for the deficiency which, from the quantity of wet,
and lateness of the season, will be found in the yield.
" Our prices have advanced during the month about
4s. per quarter, and there is now every probability of the
duty receding to near its lowest point, even if the weather
should become fine.! Prices have risen in the Baltic
from ss. to 10s. per quarter, but no advices have yet been
received of any material (rise in the Black Sea or Medi-
terranean ports... Our present rates are for English red
and white wheat, 9s. lo 9s. 2d. per 621bs. here. There
is no foreign. left. Odessa soft would bring Bs. 3d. to
Bs. 6d. ; hard, Bs. to Bs. 3d. ; Dantzic, 9s. to 9s. 6d. per
601bs. at Gloucester.

" The barley crop is large ; at least the quantity of
straw is great, but a good deal is much beaten down, and
even that which stands up is reported to have filled
badly. Some winter-sown has appeared at market, and
sold at 40s. per quarter. Grinding and malting parcels
are both scarce, the former 28s. to 325. per 392 lbs., and
the latter at 38s. to 40s. per imperial quarter.
" The stocks of oats are nearly cleared off at Glouces-
ter. They have advanced fully Is. per quarter, and
what remained are held for a further rise of Is. to Is. 6d.
per quarter. The growing-crop of this grain is still
favourably spoken of, and we believe the quantity re-
maining in Ireland is still greater than at the same
season for many years back. Black Welsh and Irish
are worth 225. ; white, 225. to 245. per 312 lbs. at
Gloucester.

" Beans are only about Is. per quarter dearer than at
the lowest point ; there are, however, few English offer-
ing. The reports of the coming crop are conflicting,
and we expect it will vary much in different places.
English sell at 16s. to 16s. 9d, and Egyptian, 15s. 6d. to
16s. per 196 lbs., at Birmingham..
" Most of the white peas are cut, and some secured,
and these are reported to be near an average ; but the
grey are late, and likely to prgve unproductive. There
are no free foreign in first hands, having been cleared off
at 16s. per 196 lbs. here."

TUB BEST PAID • GLASS OF WATER IN
THE WORLD.—The water of the Neva, at St. Peters-
burgh, is, in the opinion of the Russians, the clearest and
the best water that can anywhere be obtained. For six
months in the year, this highly-prized water is con-
cealed by a thick covering of ice and snow, but when,
towards the beginning of April, the atmosphere
has acquired sufficient warmth to loosen the wintry
fetters of the stream, the inhabitants look forward with
eager expectation to the. moment when their beloved
'Neva will burst her bonds, and move again free and ma-
jestically between her serf-tenanted banks. As soon as the
icy moos has got into motion, the glad tidings are an-
nounced to the expectant capital by the artillery of the
citadel, a fortress of considerable strength, situated imme-
diately opposite to the Emperor's Palace. This citadel, by
the bye, standing in the very centre of the city, could be
of no earthly value in case of a hostile attack ; but it
might be found serviceable should the St. Petersburghers
ever be tempted to venture on a July revolution. The
very moment, be it day or night, that an open interval
occurs between the floating masses of ice, the Governor
of the citadel 'Crosses in a boat to the Emperor's
Palace, and presents his Majesty with a crystal
goblet full of Neva water, as the first offering of
the returning spring, and this goblet the Empe-
ror drinks off to the health and prosperity of his beloved
capital. It was customary,: till within the last few years,
for the Emperor to fill the empty goblet with gold, and re-
turn it to the Governor; but it was noticed that the gob-
let grew larger and larger every year, so that the task of
emptying tiq glass became yearly more difficult of accom-
plishment, While on the other hand it required every year
greater number of ducats-to fill it as high with gold as it
had before been filled with water. By way of retrench-
ment, his Majesty has of late reduced the customary
present to the Governor, who now receives 200 ducats in
return for his uninebriating beverage. This sum, though
less than his predecessors have frequently received, is
still, perhaps, a larger price than is paid for a glass of
water in any other part of the world.
NEW WORE EDITDD BY BOZ.—We are re-
quested to state that the new Ifork announced under the
title of " The Pic Nic Papers, by Various Hands,"
in 3 vols. post Bvo, edited by Charles Dickens, Esq.
(Boz), author of " Nicholas Nickleby," " Pickwick,"
&c., with illustrations by George Cruikshank and Phiz,
will certainly be published to-morrow by Mr. Colburn
of Great Marlborough-street. Immediate orders should
be given to prevent disappointment on the day of pub-
lication. Agents : for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Brad-
fute, Edinburgh ; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dub-
lin. To be had also of all respectable booksellers, and
at all the libraries throughout the kingdom.
NORMANDY.—Now that so many persons are
tempted to visit this most interesting part of France, by
reason of the surpassingly cheap fares from Southampton
to Havre, the present moment certainly seems most op-
portune for the appearance of the promised " Excursions
in:Nortnandy," under the editorship of F. Schoberl, Esq.,
the popular and well known editor of the " Forget-me-
Not. This work will, it is understood, give a most
accurate and authentic description of this part of France,
its state' of society,commerce, manufactures, &c., from the
Journal of a Recent Traveller, us well as lively sketches
of its inhabitants, their manners, customs, &c., render-
ing it altogether a most acceptable book for the tourist,
in search either of pleasure, or of channels for commer-
cial intercourse: The adjoining provinces having been
recently well described in Trollope's "Summer in Brit-
tany," Tol"rey's " Sportsman in France," and Trollop's
"Western France," the English public may now congra-
tulate themselves on possessing such agreeable and in.
structive companions over a very extensive and hitherto
little known tract of the French territories:

THE PUNISHMENT OF GREEDINESS.—SOMe
years ago an opulent farmer at Kingston, in Surrey, had
a great quantity of wheat ; his friends and neighbours
advised him to send it to market and sell it, but he al-
ways objected to it, saying the price was not high enough.
At last he determined to sell it ; but how great was his
disappointMent. when he found a great number of rats
had devoured the grain, and nothing bit.; the husks left!
It had such an effc2t on his avaricious mind, that he
went and hangedliniselt.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Aug. 7.
BOWER V HARRIS.

This appeal was argued in July. In 1805 a Mr. Dent
lent money on bond to Thomas Marris, a banker, at
Boston, in Lincolnshire.• Marris became bankrnpt in
1812, and Dent proved, under the commission, for a sum
of 13,6001., principal and interest, then due on
the bond, and carried in a charge to that amount in
the Master's office, under the authority of a decree
made in 1816. Since that time various dividends
have been paid to the amount of twenty shillings
in the pound on the original debt. In 1840 the Master
made his report, and in applying the dividends dui to
Mr. Dent, he first calculated the sum due for interest, and
then appropriated the surplus to the reduction of the
principal. Exceptions were taken to this report, and the
Vice-Chancellor allowed them, declaring that the ac-
count had not been taken in the usual manner, because,
by the mode in which the appropriations were made,
there was a sum now due equal to the original debt,
although twenty shillings in the pound had been paid,
while, if another mode of calculation had been adopted,
the debt would have been extinguished.
The LORD CHANCELLOR now gave judgment, and ob-
served that if the existence of a surplus in a bankrupt
estate, after the payment of twenty shillings in the pound,
was not a thing of very rare occurrence, the case before
him would be a very important one. The appropriation
of a surplus in such cases was regulated by the statute
6 Geo. IV., c. 16, sec. 132, and in his Lordship's opinion,
there was sufficient in that to regulate the case without
any other authority. It had been contended, however, that
the practice which was laid down by Lord Hard wicke,in the
case of Bromley v. Goddere, 1 Atk. 75, had been modi-
fied by what was done in exparte Higginbotham, 2 G.
and J. 123. His Lordship said he had directed in-
quiries to be made on the subject of the practice, but
the cases where a surplus arose were of such rare
occurrence that the inquiry produced no satisfactory
result. It had been contended that the practice was also
altered by what took place in "Devaynes v. Noble," but
his Lordship thdught that case made no alteration. Lord
Ilardwicke, in the case referred to, held that the interest
was referable to the original debt, so long as that remained
undisehar . But the
.principle itself was older than
the time of Lord Hardwicke, and derived from the civil
law. There was, therefore, nothing to support a con-
trary opiaion, except the case of ex parte Higginbotham,
and his Lordship was of opinion, both on principle and
authority, that the mode of computation adopted by the
master was the proper one, and that the order of the Vice-
Chancellor, allowing the exceptions, must be overruled.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT—Gloucester, August 6.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CoLTmAx.)
Moses Harwood and James Andrews were indicted for
burglariously breaking open the dwelling-house of
muel Yowl.. Griffith, at Cheltenham, on the night of the
12th of July, and stealing therefrom a writing desk con-
taining 57 sovereigns, a 5/. bank note, a grand cross of
the Bath, with stair and badge, a grand cross of the Doo-
ranee Empire, a commander's order of the Guelph of
Hanover, and various other articles, the property of Ma-
jor-General Sir Wiloughby Cotton.
Mr. C. Phillips and Mr. Greaves conducted the prose-
cution ;• Mr. W. J.. Alexander defended the prisoner.
This case occupied the attention of the Court for
nearly six hours, and excited much interest, from the
value of the property stolen and the daring nature of
the robbery. It appeared from the evidence of Sir Wil-
loughby Cotton that he way staying at the Queen's Ho-
tel at Cheltenham, of which Mr. Griffith, who formerly
kept the angel at Oxford, is the landlord. On the 12th
of July Sir Willoughby retired to his bed-room at about
half-past nine .at night, leaving in his sitting room, ad-
joining his bed room on the first floor of the hotel, a de-
spatch-box, containing the property mentioned in the in-
dictment. The following morning this box was gone,
and also a hat belonging to the General. Barrows, the
porter of the Queen's hotel, stated that about two o'clock
on the morning of the robbery, he heard, as he fancied,
the sound of footsteps coming down stairs, and a door
open, and whisperings in a small room, No. 85, on the
ground floor. Upon entering the room he saw the forms
of two men escaping through the window into the gar-
den of the hotel. He followed them across the grass,
but could not overtake them. They dropped, on their
way in the garden, a military cloak and three hats. The
evidence to connect the prisoners with the robbery
was circumstantial. Harwood had formerly been
for some years in the service of Mr. Griffith as porter at
the Queen's Hotel. Andrews is a shoemaker, and was
in the habit of frequenting the tap of the Queen's Hotel,
and of mending the shoes there. The two prisoners
were in company on the night preceding the robbery,
and had supped together at the tap, which Andrews left
at half-past eleven, and Harwood an hour afterwards.
Both prisoners were apprehended the following morning,
and their shoes corresponded with the footmarks in the
garden. It was also sworn by several witnesses that one
of the hats found in the garden belonged to the prispner
Harwood. The evidence was made perfectly conclusive
against Andrews, by his own confession, after his appre
hension. He directed the Governor of the gaol to go to
his house, No. 11, Union-street, Bath-road, and in a box
in the back kitchen were discovered the missing orders.-
They were produced .in Court, and were identified by
Sir Willoughby Cotton. They appeared of considerable"
value and great beauty.
Mr. W. J. ALEXANDER, for the prisoners, objected
that Sir Willoughby Cotton was improperly described in
the indictment as " Knight" only, whereas he shoulj.
have been described by his proper title, as Knight Grand,
Cross of the Bath, who take precedence of other Knights.
He urged that a Peer of the realm could not be described
as simply Lord, but . must have his title, as Baron,
Viscount, or Earl, appended to his name.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN over-ruled the objection, and
Mr. ALEXANDER then addressed the Jury, contend-
ing that the evidence connecting Harwood with the rob-
bery was wholly insufficient, and that there was no proof
of the burglary.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN summed up the evidence, and
the Jury found both the prisoners guilty of stealing the
articles in question, but not guilty of the burglary. •
His*Lordship sentenced Harwood to fifteen years, and
Andrews to ten years' transportation.
In the Civil Court, Mr. Justice Coleridge disposed
of all the cases in the list, excepting two, soon after 12
o'clock, and • then proceeded to assist Mr. Justice Colt-
man in the trial of prisoners. No other case of general
interest occurred in the course of the day.