The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON-, SATURD kY, JULY 17, 1841.

SPIRIT of the PUI3I IC
• TOURI•j.ALS.
r.crif Tiff: nAifir 0-2 tssls'EsDA.
feft tqlefple,_gttess may be formed of
the itfehgtii d til6 Tofies and io tilt del+ Parliament.
The opposition will be formidable , but Sir Itahert Val will
tkiainly hay: a much greater majority than that OIL which We
g,t ,There has been much remissness,
doiibt, on hie Pia L tqc IshieMlSistath respect to registra-
tien ; and with better arrangements fe fii4e. gained
instead of lost in the boroughs; but no care in feelsttrition
could have obtained in the English counties results materially
different from, the present returns. A dissolution on any
~ile~tlnn, In4fit4t the landowners of England deem them-
selves vitally interested, gtl'el colqur to the county
representation. Many of the most zeildui 'Whig, are
also the most determined advocates of corn doff&
ply. Lord Western, fur instance, believes, conscienti-
ously no doubt, that with a fixed duty of eight shillings a quar-
ter flit win itt, landlords in England would receive no rent, and
all the tenants would be drimt tot the workhouse. As far,
therefore, as the county representatiod coiicertMds there may
be said to be but one party. Out of 139 6.014 Metnbero,
there have been returned 22 who are not Tories ; bid We have
no doubt that some even of this small number of 22 might SAO
been thrown out by the Tories, had a contest taken place. In
England the landowners represent themselves in the counties ;
for the tenantry are merely channels through which the land
owners convey their will. In the smaller borougs in agricultu-
ral districts, the landowners and parsons, who are, in faCt, iden-
tical, have also necessarily much influence. 'f hat influence is
partly counter acted by the venality of those who are in posses-
sion of the ft anchise; for the needy voter is determined by the
weightiest bribe, and it may not always happen that the
Tory candidate can command the heaviest purse. Eng-
lishmen have been so long accustomed to sell themselves, that
bribery is almost considered a legitimate source of income. So
long as parties are equally divided, or nearly so, it must in-
crease rather than diminish. One good will result from the
present election. It did not require the evidence it has afforded
to satisfy reflecting persons that in England the landowners
have a preponderating influence in Parliament. But many well
meaning persons, nevertheless, in judging of the conduct of
Ministers, made no • allowance for this circumstance. These
persons can no longer refuse to admit that if Ministers had pro-
posed an alteration in the Corn-law, they would have thereby
handed over the Government of the country to their opponents.
So long as the landowners remain persuaded that a free trade
in Corn will affect them injuriously they will compel
any Ministry either to retain the monopoly or to resign. The
other classes have not the power, in the present stare of the
representation, to support any Ministry de:ermined to place
themselves in opposition to the landowners. So far the Char-
tists have proved themselves more accurate calculators than the
middle classes. Whether their nostrum would have mended
matters is not now the question ; but the result has shown that
they were correct in their opinion, that in the present state of
the representation it was vain to think of a repeal of the corn
monopoly. The landowners have proved, by the present elec-
tion, that they can command a majority of the House of Com-
mons in favour of monopoly. But political power in this
country, tt.ough it resides in a comparatively small class, can
only be exercised by the sufferance of the masses. Measures
grounded on false and ruinsus principles cannot, by majorities
of the House of Commons,be preVented from producing ruirrous
effects.
DIES.—No man, whateier his past services may have
been, can escape the bitterest obloquy ; no measures, whatever
ostensible character they assume, can obtain the confidence of
the people, if they bear the marks of private or party interest.
The men and measures now before the country exmplify
the truth of this principle. They are men who were borne
into power a few years back by general acclamation ; they are
measures which their authors falsely describe as a panacea for
those evils which press most heavily on the working classes.
Yet the people repudiate them with universal and unmitigated
scorn, because they know that these ate the t.icks of a party
put forward by the tools of a party. The people also know
that the great interest of the community are more carefully
looked to and more ably promoted by the statesmen who
seek .to govern the country upon fixed co. stitutional
principles than by men who will abandon all principles so they
be allowed to govern the country. In which of the two great
political camps does the odious and selfish spirit of a class ma-
nifest
itself most conspicuously ? The one consists of men
who are struggling to defend their monopoly of power, in op-
position to the great bulk of those possessing the distinctions
of honour, education, and wealth ; the other of men who de-
mand, and not in vain, that the welfare of the country
should be rescued from the experiments of a clique of place-
hunters, and consigned to the tutelary care of those who
are indissolubly connected with the best interests of the
whole community by the ties of property, by traditional in-
fluence. and by the ancient principles of the English constitu-
tion. The Whigs have made a violent effort to identify their
political existence with the interests of the nation, and they ap.
peal to the passions of the populace to support their exclusive
pretensions. The Conservative party appeal with more sue-.
cess to the reason of the electoral body to determine whether
they or their antagonists are most deeply concerned in the de-
fence of those general interests, to which their own interests as
landowners, merchants, and men of note and substance, are at
once united and subservient.
POST.—If there be any person about the present Court,
having enough of true devotedness to her Majesty, to prefer her
Majesty's interests and the permanence of her sway over a
grateful people, to the temporary advantages of the Whig-Radi-
cal faction, that person cannot but regard with some alarm and
with great indignation, the use—the insolent use—which these
Whig-Radicals make of her Majesty's name. Beaten in the
House of Commons, beaten in the House of Lords, beaten by
the people at the elections, and in England especially, beaten
by an immense majority, they yet presume to declare that the
Royal judgment and fsveur are entirely with them. Dis-
owned by every other great authority in the realm, they have the
audacity to proclaim—we mean their newspapers have, that. her
Majesty will take their side against the Parliament and the
people, and help them to recover that sway which the House of
Lords, the House of Commons. and the people have all declared
them unworthy to possess. This is, indeed, carrying factious
selfishness, and insolent disloyalty, to a pitch never before ex-
hibited in this country; by persons who professed some regard
and deference for monarchical authority. What can be more
disrespectful—what more audacious, than the attempt of these
beaten politicians to make a party tool of their Sovereign ?
What can be more disloyally selfish than their attempt to iden-
tify the Sovereign with themselves, at the very moment that
the people are showing in all directions how completely they
distrust, and how thoroughly they despise them? And yet
it is at this very time, when the people are declaring by
their votes for the overthrow of the Whig-Radical Govern-
ment, and the substitution of a Conservative Government
in its place, that these Whig-Radicals openly assert,
through their news; apers, that her Majesty the Queen is
" hostile " to that species of Government which is desired by
the two Houses of Parliament, and by the people. It has
sometimes happened in other reigns ; and inde‘ d not very
remote from the present time, that the Sovereign was supposed
by many to wish that Tory politics were in favour with the
nation, at the time that Whig or Whig- Radical Ministers
were carrying on the Government. But it never
happened under such circumstances that the Tory
newspapers boasted of the Sovereign being on their
side, and hostile to that sort of Government
which the people of England preferred. No; the Tory
journals, whatever other faults they might have, were too re-
spectful to their Sovereign to treat him as a party tool. They
were well aware that it must be injurious to the Sovereign to
hold him forth to the public as hostile to that Government
which the national determination made it necessary to employ ;
and whatever they might suspect of the Royal preference, as
an individual, they did not presume to make a public use of
that supposed preference, in order to serve the purposes of
party. This delicacy was no more than their duty. We do
not ask any praise for it ; but we do ask for the gravest indig-
nation when conduct exactly the opposite is pursued by the
beaten Whig-Radical party.
HERALD.—The expression of the public indignation still
bursts in thunder upon the devoted heads of the Whig-Radical
candidates wherever they. show themselves. A sentence of
distrust and rejection—stern, decided, and incessant, is pro-
nounced through the returning officer at almost every hustings
in the kingdom. The unfortunates seem to present them-
selves as if with no other object but to challenge arid to bide the
pitiless pelting of the storm. If, lore and there, some luckier
individuals of band of distrusted servants wearing the Whig
and Whig-Radial liveries, do happen on a sunnier spot and a
more pleasanegreeting, such "pleasant places" are thinly and re-
mutely scattered over the frowning region which the main body is
compelled to traverse, with the desperate object of attempting to
get themselves " employed," and returned to " places" in
Parliament by the several constituencies whom they have to
solicit. At the time we write this, about PI!, gains on the
gross.returcs in favour of the Conservative candidates- pro-
claim to the partisans of her Majesty's dissolving Administra-
tion, tidings which herald nothing to them but the vanity of
their protracted struggle, the certainty of the r approaching
dismissal from the grateful cares of patronage and office. In
the meantime they manifest the most desperate activity in
the efforts they make to avert or to delay their sen-
tence. They well know that the most lenient mood
into which the public can be no* propitiated by all
their arts will scarcely sentence them to a less term of trans-
portation—from power—than twenty-one years, or the term of
their natural lives. But with that tenacity of office which has
always been their most distinctive characteristic, they still
labour as hard, and as unscrupulously to misinform and deceive
the public as if they had a lease of their seats,—which many
of them have yet to win,—of theirappointments, to which ma•iy
arc destined never to return. No matter.—They impute to their
successful competitors for the prize of public favour and confi-
dence, views the most absurd in themselves, the most unfounded
in fact. They attribute to their policy, and their measures all
the blunders and disasters which have been displayed in the
I government of the empire during the last half century ! And,
(strange to say !) in every case where the evidence of all expe-
rience,—the practical proofs of public incompetency and minis-
terial misrule—are most conclusive and permanent against the ,
Whigs, they charge the catastrophe with unhesitating assur-
ance on the Tories :—(for we adopt their own generic terms
for all the varieties of political opinions that can be classed under
one general loofession of party faith).
ADVERTISER.—As the period is so near at hand, which
will witness the transfer of the Liberal party from the Minis-
terial benches to those on the opposite side of the House, it is
desirable that the course which they intend to pursue in their
new character of an opposition, should be distinctly chalked
out and understood without a moment's delay. The rock on
which Ministers have made shipwreck of themselves as a Go-
vernment, while blasting the fondly-cherished hopes of an over-
confiding, because too generous people, is that of a practical ,
adoption of Lord John Russell's principle of finality. lf, in-
stead of declaring in words, and showing by their actions, that
they were determined to arrest the further progress of Reform,
and to pursue—if there be not an absurdity in the expression—
a stationary policy, they had kept pace with the progress of pub-
lic opinion, and embodied in their measures the spirit of the
age, the overwhelming majority of two hundred which carried
with a resistless moral, as well as numerical force, all the lead-
ing measures of the Reform Government of 1832, would never
have diminished at all, far less would it have decreased to amino-
rity of one, as it did at the closing scene of the last Par-
liament. In common with most of our Liberal Conternpora-
ries we have again and again, in a great measure, ascribed
the disastrous Jesuits of the recent elections to the defective
state of the Liberal registries. But the question then comes
to be—Why this defective state of the registries? The an- I
swer is obvious. The Ministry had deceived—we do not' like
to say betr iyed—the people. They had practically falsified
all the professions they had made of a determination to adopt
a decidedly Liberal course of policy, on the faith of which
the people of England had borne them triumphantly on their
shoulders into office. The result was precisely what might
have been expected.
GLOBE.—If we are to believe the Conservative press,
nothing could possibly Le more popular just now than the
emablishment of a Conservative Ministry. It is declared
that the Whigs have forfeited the favour of the people,
and that the Tories have obtained it to a degree which
renders their advent to power the most delightful anti-
cipation in which the nation can indulge. The allega-
tion that Sir Robert Peel is the Minister for the people
requires all the reiteration his journals bestow upon it,
before the ear gets accustomed to the strangeness of the.
sound. Like the sign-painter, who thought it necessary.
to write conspicuously beneath a figure he- had daubed,
" This is the Red Lion," so, on looking at the political
features of Sir Robert, the Conservative practitioners of
the daubing art feel the expediency of letting the world
know—that of which it would otherwise never dream—
that their pet subject is designed for " a popular Minister."
Now it is tolerably dear that if the Whig Goverment

has lost some of its friends, the loss has ar:s ,n from its
inability to do all that it has desired to accomplish
against the opposition of its enemies. If the Whigs have
lost popularity by not haying done enough in the way of
reform, how are the Tories to gain popularity by
lloing nothing ? Perhaps Sir Robert Peel—whose
partiality for the " sliding scale " induces him to
use it not only to guide the price of corn, but
to regulate his principles--may endeavour to outbid
The Whigs in their own coin, and thus attempt to pur-
chase favour by the exhibition of the false glit-
ter of liberality, an article of which, it will, however,
soon be found, on inspection, that he possesses' only the
counterfeit. Besides, he will not be able to maintain
his balance ; for the moment he shows the smallest in-
clination to lean towards the Liberal scale, there
will
be a falling-out on the other side, whose weight, being
diminished by disunion, will cause his own party to
kick the beam and throw him over. Sir Robert has de-
clared in his Tamworth speech that he shall begin by ask-
ing a vote of confidence. It will certainly be more likely
to be accorded to him before his Ministerial career has
commenced, than after he has once embarked in it. There
is 7,0 harm in his asking for a round of applause before he
begLis, though he may be hissed off the stage in the midst
of his pert,,-
stand
has been by some, the o;:
stand that he ha..
iven
.loudly called for. Perhaps he
. nee. His friends would give us to under-
of
principles, who have put- :11111-• redoubledaenndertgye
at a time when the apathy of some .tvl2formesrrtsue.t
forh
disappointment of Others presented an opp,- i-sYcend-
fim inveterate enemies of Li-
effecting at least a temporary restitution of Tory
ancy. There is, however, no positive reaction in
nation, as when the real sense of the nation comes to be
ascertained will be perfectly obvious.
• STANDARD.—The twentieth is near at handt
three days remain to confirm the ascendancy of COtt=
servative principles for many years to come. Let not
an hour of the brief interval be lost. The great con-
test now approaching to its close has made Conserva-
tives acquainted with each other, . and informed them
of their strength when united. Let them, while the
memory of that •contest is recent, and its impression
strong, render the union permanent. Wherever a
Conservative Association does not already exist let
one be formed upon the instant.,
and let the existing
associations redouble their energy. The faithful men
of Waterford have shown what may
be done in
even less than three days, and if our advice be taken,
if the four or five Conservatives who shall first read
these lines everywhere proceed at once to form an
association, and to act prudently and perseveringly for
a very few days, the Conservative victory that has
been won will be a victory for ever, and the great
interests of the nation, religious, political, and
Commercial, placed for ever beYond the reach of
danger. We know the value of an Englishman's
time ; we know how reluctantly the men of this
country withdraw themselves from the domestic
pleasures: which they enjoy in a degree above any
other men on earth, and from that honourable industry
in which they distance all mankind ; we are, therefore,
always slow to summon them to political activity. But
they owe something to the Protestant religion and to
their country, and nobly have they already, in part, dis-
charged the debt. Now is the time to complete its
liquidation. . Now they can, without any permanent
expense of time, by the exertion of a very few days only,
render secure their great triumph, which, if the oppor-
tunity be neglected, must be left to some extent preca-
rious. Again we say, let a Conservative society be
formed instantly wherever it is wanted—four or five
members will serve for a beginning—and let the existing
societies resume their work with vigour—" strike the iron
while it is hot."

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM TEE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIM ES.—There was a report some time ago that the Bank
of Marylebone, in Cavendish-square, a joint-stock establish-
ment, had stopped payment, but this does not seem to be ex-
actly correct, although the directors have determined to wind
up the concern. It-is said, that parties having accounts with
the bank have the option of I eceiring the balances in cash, or
of transferring them to the London and Westminster Bank.
The winding up of this bank will not produce army sensation, as
it was aconcern of no magnitude whatever, and would scarcely
have been observed in the City at all had not the rumour of its
stoppage been spread at the time of several other faiiures, so
that it contributed, though hut in a slight degree, to spread a
gloom over the Money Market.
The Bombay Chamber of Commerce published, just be-
fore the departure bf the last overland mail, a circular bearing
on the subject of the expedition to China. to settle our dis-
putes with that nation, and the vacillating policy adopted by
our Government officials out there. It takes a comprehensive
view of the whole affair, but, as the facts enumerated have been
freely canvassed among the City merchants and others in the
same spirit, it is not necessary to notice it at any length. It
may be observed, that the Bombay merchants are fully con-
vinced of the great mistake Captain Elliott made in withdraw.
ing his force from the vicinity of Pekin before any negotia-
tion was concluded to secure something like an effective ar-
rangement. They state that their trade has suffered much
throngh the delay which attends the settlement of these diffi-
culties, and that produce and exchanges have fluctuated exten-
sively, not only producing evil effects there, but also in the
leading markets at home and elsewhere.
CHRONICLE.—The continued unfavourable state of the
weather creates some uneasiness respecting the harvest, and
though all parties agree that no damage has yet occurred, still
the speculators in corn have commenced operations, and orders
have been sent to the continent for the purchase of grain at
" limited" prices. 'rhe high price, however, of grain abroad
renders it not very likely that these purchases will be made,
unaccompanied as the orders are by any shipments of specie.
Unless, therefore the present unfavourable weather should con-
tinue, we do not anticipate any derangement of, or interference
with, the currency on this mount.
We refer our readers to that portion of our Correspondent's
letter from Philadelphia, signed " Publicus," wherein it will
be perceived, that the important measure respecting the dis-
tribution of the public lands among the States has a powerful
advocate in slr. Clay. Should this measure pass, it mouse
have a favourable effect on State Stocks, thereby placing those
capitalists in Europe, who are so deeply interested in American
State Securities, in a comparatively
easy position.
POST. —As the Committee of Spanish Bondholders have
been blamed for the lukewarm spirit in which they are repre-
sented to have re-rived the offer of the Madrid Government of
the national properties of Spain, in exchange for coupons, on
the pr, poser: capitalisation of dividends at three per cent., we
think it right to lay before the public a letter from Lord Pal-
merston in answer to one addressed to him in 1836, relative to
the probable security of purchasers holding confiscated domains
in Portugal under a similar arrangement :
" Foreign-office, April 16, 1836.
"Sia—lam directed by Viscount Palmerston to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your letter, dated the let instant, in
which you state that you are about to invest a considerable
sum of money in the purchase of natitnal property. in Pot
tugal, and that you are anxious to know whether, to case of
any change in the dynasty of that kingdom which might lead
to the promulgation of laws annulling the sales and purchases
in question, the British Government will secure to their
subjects a protection from the effect of any such laws. Lord
Palmerston directs me to acquaint you in reply, that he must
decline giving any opinion upon this subject. It is a matter
upon which you must exercise your own judgment, and act
upon your own responsibility.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient, bumble servant,
" To —, Esq , Lisbon." J. BACK HOUSE.
A declaration has been signed by Baron Biome, on the part
of the Danish Government, and Lord Palmerston on the part
of this country, to the effect, that having examined the tariff
of duties not enumerated in the tariff of. Ch
of 1645, which has been drawn up band. APGregur,
her Majesty's Consul at Elsineur, MM. Wessel
and Olrik, Translator and Controller of the Danish
Custom House at the Oresound, the rates of duty specified
in that tariff shall be adopted for the space of ten
years to come, eommencing from June 15, 1841,
and, further, until the end of twelve months after
either of the respective Governments shall have
given notice to the other of its intention no
longer to abide by the agreement. The tariff provides for the
pa% ment at the Sound in rix dollars specie, equal to two six
dollars in paper, of duties at rates corresponding to one per
cent. ad valorem tinder a special arrangement of quantities
and of values. Barilla, for instance, which has heretofore paid
an impost of six givers per 3001b5., valued at five rix dollars,
will, in future, pay three stivers ; coffee and cocoa, wilich have
paid 24 stivers the 1001bs.gvalued at 12 rix dollars, will pay
six stivers ; cotton stockings, which have paid 30 stivers per
50 pair, valued at 12i rix &Dais, will pay six stivers,
half (or children's) rating at 101) pair to the same
valuation ; raw sugar, which has paid nine stivers per
100Ibs., valued at 10 rix dollars will pay five slivers.
Further particularisation is needless, the general charge
being founded, as we have stated, upon the uniform prin-
ciple of one per cent. ad valorem on a modern estimate
of value. The rate leviable on some half dozen ar-
ticles of minor consideration remains the same. The coin in
which the said dues, light-money, fees, and other charges at
the Sound are collocted, is the rix-dollar specie, of which 9i
constitute, and will for the future, he held equal to, one mare
fine silver, Cologne weight. It is understood between the.
centracting authorities, that the rates of duty determined
upon, subject to ratification shall also be levied,in the Belts.
It is calculated that this adaptation of the old rate of one per
cent. ad valorem to the greatly reduced price of merchandise,
which had, however, become unavoidable, will diminish the
public revenue of Denmark by about fifty thousand pounds per
annum, an object of some importance to so poor a country.

WOOD-PAVING.
ly
Chartered Gas Works, Horseferry-road,
Ju 14, 1841.
I hSaidg;—heOopnploarytiunngittylle of new gas main in Whitehall, this week,
closely examining the wood-paving
laid by the Metropolitan Patent Wood-Paving Company, and
have the pleasure to inform you that every block as
found to
be in excellent preservation ; and, although the paving had
been down nearly two years, the wear and tear has had seem-
ingly little or no effect upon it.
I am, Sir, your most obevlient servant,
THOMAS FARTHING, Surveyor of Mains.
To Wm. Prosser, Jun. Esq., Secretary
Metropolitan Patent Wood-Paving °keg,
Grosvenor Wharf, Millbank.

GOSPORT RAILWAY, THURSDAY EVENING,
JULY 15.--Thia morning, between four and five o'clock, a I
part of the tunnel at Fareham, on the unopened railroad from
Gosport to Bishopstoke, fell in. The length destroyed is from
forty to fifty yards. It was occasioned not by the direct weight
of the superincumbent earth, but by a side pressure created
by a mass of earth slipping off on the side of the tunnel. It
was contemplated to open this to the public almost imme-
diately, and Sir Frederic Smith:was on his road toiospect it. on
behalf of the Board of Trade. It is:teared that thit aitcident will
retard the opening for a considerable tirne—pr*aps two
months. It is very consola'ory to know that no life was lost,
nor any injury sustained by any of the numerous worlasen em-
ployed, who have been working day and night for several
months to insure the speedy completion of the work.
DR. GRANVILLES" MIDLAND AND SOUTH-
ERN SPAS OF ENGLAND."—At this time, when the excite•
meet of the elections being passed, all the world is about. to
seek relaxation in country excursions, these volumes present
themselves most opportunely, and wit' answer the purpose of
a very agreeable guide and medical monitor. They form a
sequel to the " Northern Spas," and are devoted, one to the
phe
Southern, and the other to the Midland division. They
abound in useful information corrected with our English
watering-places, which have, perhaps, been too much ne-
glected for the Spas of Germany and other continental resorts
of, invalids. The present work throws such an interest over
so many curious and
ourn osv etwn
accurate
t hyredmaetteasrivli
isnt watering-places,
connected-aic
ie
importance
p oa
rntv
with
intschuept
wleihisr ich they did not before various localities, as to
i
possess. For this reason the volumes recommend themselves
for the fund of ljght reading they embody, independently of
the valuable radical information and suggestions contained to
them.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. July 15.
(Before Sir C. F. WILLIAMS.)
THOMAS SAUNDERS CAVE'S BANKRUPTCY—THE CORNWALL

AIINING SPECULATIONS.
This was a fiat which was originally directed against the
bankrupt to be taken before the local Commissioners at Wal-
mer, near Dover, hut was. upon a petition presented to the
Court of Review, referred to the London Courts for investiga-
tion. The sitting to •day was fur the choice of new assignees.
The bankrupt is described as a " merchant," but his dealings
were principally in Cornwall mining shares, and it appears he
was connected with the mines called Trevarthen Downs, Wheal
Fortune, Rospeath, Wheal Friendship, Owen Vean, and Wheal
Prosper.
The first subject brought under the consideration of the
Court was the taking of the proofs of parties who had advanced
moneys to the bankrupt to carry on his mining operations.
Sir. Romilly appeared as counsel on behalf of the Rev.
James Ellice to prove for 15,0001. upon a bond for moneys
advanced to the bankrupt.
After a short inquiry the proof was then allowed.
The claim of Colonel Rushbrooke, M.P., for nearly
36,00 t/., was then brought forward by Mr. Romilly. He
said he also understood that this was to be opposed on the
same grounds as the other proof ; but he thought ho should
state such a clear ease to the Court, that there could not be a
doubt as to the right of the gal.ant Colonel to prove for the
sum stated. To show how the connexion arose between Cul.
Rushbrooke and the bankrupt he read a letter, the precise
date of which was not named, but it was within the year
1838. It began by the bankrupt addressing the Colonel as
" My dear Colonel," and proceeded to state that each of his
mines was a distinct, separate interest, that their productive-
ness could net fail to ensure large profits to the shareholders,
and that it was with a view to benefit his immediate friends
't he kept the shares within a " select circle," and out of
T till;
re, :11 of all stock-jobbing adventurers. It also stated that
` -bus fact that the product of copper never equalled
it was a cur,.
the demmd ovt: suppose in allusion to some of the mines),
" that it ought also to be borne in
sinsi concluded by stet:
enriching themselves out of the
mind that while they wet,.
ti:ey were by the exercise of
bowels of mother earth,"
-bloyment, to thousands of
Irik.
their capital and works giving vise be in the greatest
their fellow-creatures, who would other,.
possible distress and wretchedness.
(This letter excited a great deal of laughter., .
uted that
Mr. Anderton said he believed that it was not
the bankrupt had acted dishonestly or fraudulently, t that,he
on the contrary, he could give an account of every penny
had received in respect to these transaction'. His views as to
the results had unfortunately proved erroneous.
Sir C. F. WILLIAsts did not know how it would turn. All
he could say was, it appeared that the bankrupt had raised
366,000/. through these mines.
Mr. Romilly, in continuation, said that Col. Rushbrooke
did not seek to prove for 40,000/. in respect of shares which
he held, but confined his proof to three sums, which were ad-
vanced fur the bankrupt, and composed the 36,0001. before
stated. Each of these sums were advanced for a particular
purpose, and might be briefly stated as follows the
first case, the demands which the Reverend Mr. Ellice made
upon the bankrupt to repay part of his advances were stated
by the bankrupt to Colonel Rushbrooke to have thrown him
into temporary difficulties, and he asked the Colonel to
enter into a bond jointly and severally to pay Mr. Ellice
10,000/., which he (the Colonel) did, and which he
had subsequently to pay ; that was the first sum.
The second was for another 10,0001., and arose out of
these circumstances :—The bankrupt's private bankers were
Messrs. Stone, Martin, and Stone, of Lombard-street, and he
owed them about this time a balance of 13,000/., which they
required him to pay. He could not do it, and Colonel Rus-
brooke gave a bond to Messrs. Stone and Martin, to pay the
sum of upwards of 10,0001., which he did. The third sum was
composed of four bills of exchange, which Colonel Rushbrooke
• had accepted for the bankrupt, one of which was not at pre-
sent in court, but would be forthcoming when required; two
were for '2,5001. each, and two for 5,0001. each. These the
Colonel had to take up, the bankrupt forfeiting his word, that
he would be ready to meet them when they came due. These
facts were, he (Mr. Romilly) thought, sufficiently clear to
entitle Colonel Rushbrooke to prove.
Sir C. F. WILLIAMS thought so too.
Proof was admitted for principal and interest.
Mr. Anderton said, lie was sorry to hear that one of the
best of the mines, in consequences of the little confidence of
the shareholders, had been sold for a few thousands, and was
now worth eight or ten times that sum.
Sir C. F. \V ILLIAMS said, it had certainly gone from the
creditors. It was the " Godolphin" mine. There was, how.
ever, to be a private sitting to investigate that affair, not that
it was to be supposed that it was such a mine of wealth that
the proceeds would pay off the national debt. With respect to
mines in general, he had had a good deal of experience on
the western circuit, and he was told that if the whole mines of
Cornwall were consolidated they would not pay 5 per cent.
Mr. Anderton said, that there was unfortunately a great deal
lost in them, but some of them " turned up trumps." He
knew a highly respectable physician who placed confidence in
these undertakings.
Sir C. F. WILLIAMS said, some paid a profit for a time, but
the shareholders were ultimately involved.
A bill of exchange for 5,000/. was then tendered for procf
by two parties who had discounted it for 4,500/. It was ac.
cepted by the bankrupt and a person named M`Donald, and
endorsed by a Mr. Hassey. The proof was admitted.
The debts proved, besides those enumerated, were not ferany
:e amount.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT, Hertford. July 16.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Air. Sergeant TAnny.)
"illiam Stratford, aged '2l, sas indicted for a rape on

Ann Jarvis.
Mr. Ryland, by direction of the Court, examined the
witnesses in behalf of the prosecutrix, and Mr. Wordsworth
defended the prisoner.
The prosecutrix, who gave her evidence and conducted
herself in the witness-box with great propriety, stated that
she resided with her father and mother at Tring. In the
evening of Tuesday, the 29th of September last, she went to
Wilston feast, accompanied by a female of the name of Eliza
Turner. They went to a public-house called the Moon
and Stars, where they met with the prisoner, and a
man of the name of Owen. They left to return
home at 25 minutes past eleven o'clock, but before they quit-
ted the house, they partook of a small quantity of gin at the
request of the prisoner. As soon as they had left the house
they were followed by the prisoner and Owen. They walked
together as far as Tring Ford, where she (witness) turned off
to go home. Previous to reaching that spot, the prisoner and
Owen tried to separate her and her companion, but they would
not part. At length the prisoner laid hold of her by the waist,
and Owen seized her friend and parted them. Witness tried
to get away, but could not succeed. As soon as Owen and
Turner were out of sight, the prisoner threw her down in a
ditch. (The witness here described what took place, and
which could leave no doubt of a capital offence having
been committed.) She called out " El,za Turner,"
and " Murder," several times, and endeavoured to
get away, but could not. She then got up, but was in a very
faint state. The prisoner then pushed her about with his
hands in a very rough and improper manner, and again threw
her down. She again called for Eliza, and she came to her.
At that time the prisoner was upon her, and Eliza either
kicked or pushed him off. Eliza remained with her about a
minute, and then went to call for assistance. Owen was stand-
ing near at the time, and the prisoner said to him, " Go and
call the b-- back " Eliza Turner did not return, and the
prisoner soon after left her ; but, as soon as hehad gone, Owen
laid hold of her, threw her down, and then effected his pur-
pose. She was then getting towards her home as fast as she
could, when the prisoner came from behind some trees,
and wished her to allow him to go home with
her, but she refused. She afterwards met Eliza
Turner, who was waiting for her on the bridge, and
they went home together. Her father and her mother were at
h)me. They were in bed. She did not tell them what had
occurred. She went to bed, but could not get any rest. She
was very uncomfortable, and finding that she could not get '
any rest for several nights,she thought it better to tell herfather
what had occurred, and she accordingly told him on the fol-
lowing Friday. Her father then took her to Mr. Faithful, a
solicitor, and afterwards to a Magistrate. Some time ago she
was acquainted with a young man, who paid his addresses to
her for two years ; and she once permitted him a freedom,
which she never allowed to any other person.
Cross-examined—Never had conversation with any other
person, except on that one occasion, till the occurrence with
the prisoner. She was employed at a silk factory at Tring.
Eliza Turner also worked at the same place. When they
were at the feast, she did not ask the prisoner to give her some
gin— he voluntarily offered it, and she took but a very small
quantity. The prisoner was not drunk, though he was rather
fresh. Saw several persons whom she knew in the room, but
would positively swear that she never said to any of them that
she went there for the purpose of getting a man, and that a
man she would have before she went home. Never asked a
person of the name of Tripp to go home with her. James
Davis and her brother were at the feast. Did not ask him to
go home with her that night. Prisoner asked her to allow
him to go home with her, but she refused ; he also asked her
to permit him to have connexion with her, and upon her re-
fusing, he said he would, whether she liked it or not. (The
witness underwent a most severe and searchirg tross-examina-
tion, but her evidence was noeshaken.)
Eliza Turner confirmed the testimony of the prosecutrix,
and added that after she heard the cries of " Murder," she
went to the spot, as soon as she could get away from Owen,
who for some time held her fast. She then saw the prisoner
throw the prosecutrix down in the ditch, and whilst so down
she screamed very much. As soon as the prisoner left her
Owen went to her, threw her down, and treated her in a si-
milar manner. Witness then ran to a house not far off and
knocked up the inmates. A man presented himself at the
v indow, and she begged of him to go and protect a female
who was being ill-treated by two men. That person, how-
ever, mused to interfere, stating that as there were two men
he was afraid to go. Owen wished to have connection with
her. but she refused him.
Cross-examined.—Did not mention the circumstance to'an,

person after she got home, as She considered the prosecutrix
was the proper person to mention it. Never heard the prose-
cutrix say that she would have a man that night.
Joseph Wells, a labourer, residing at Tring Ford, stated that
he recollected the last witness calling him up in the course of ,
the night of the 29th of September. She asked him to get up
and assist a female whom two men were ill-using. He de-
clined to interfere, as, it being feast-time, he did not like to go
out alone. He did not go out, and he heard nothing mere of the
matter.
Henry Coulter, a police-constable, stated that he was pre-
sent at the Magistrate's office, on the 2d of October, when
the prosecutrix made a complaint. A warrant was granted for
the apprehension of the prisoner. He did all in his power to
apprehend him, but could not succeed till the 13th of May last.
Mr. Peter 11. Dewsbury, a surgeon, residing at '(ring,
stated, that on Friday, the 2il October, he was called upon to
examine the prosecutrix. He found her much bruised and
swollen, and also a slight wound, evidently made with the finger

nail.
Cross-examined—The wound and bruises he had no doubt
were caused by a hand.
Mr. Sergeant Lunn' said the evidence of the surgeon en-
tirely put an end to the case. It was quite clear the offence
imputed to the prisoner had not been committed.
Mr. L.% Nn begged to call his Lordship's attention to the
evidence of the prosecutrix herself, who, in the most d:stinct
and positive manner, had sworn to the offence having been
' fully completed.
Mr. Sergeant TADDY thought that fact was negatived by
the evidence of Mr. Dewsbury.
Mr. 11v LAND considered the statement of the surgeon per-
' fectly consistent with the evidence of the prosecutrix. Mr.
Dewsbury could not pretend to say that the offence had rn.t
been committed. All he said was that the bruises were caused
and the prosecutrix stated that after the offence
by a hand ;
was committed, and whilst almost in a fainting state, the pri-
soner pulled her about in a very rough manner. If there was
any doubt, he would beg permission to recal the prosecutrix,
and examine her as to that point.
Mr. Sergeant TAMA' thought it would be unnecessary.
Mr. RYLAND said that as he was merely examining the
witnesses on behalf of the Court, he would make no further
observations. He considered it his duty to press the point, as
he thought his Lordship might have been labouring under
some misapprehension.
I Mr.: Sergeant TARDY told the Jury they must acquit the
prisoner.
Mr. ItyLAND suggested that, at all events, a common as-
mult had been proved: