The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-01 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

REGENT'S CANAL.

TO THE EDITOR OR THE SUN.

SIR,--At the late meeting of Proprietors of the Regent's
Canal, a partial disclosure took place, which demands
further explanation, as the letters which passed between
the Secretary, the Auditors, and the Deputy-Chair-
man proves ; and it is to be hoped the Directors will
candidly offer that information to the adjourned meet-
ing. If they de not they ought to resign,
_far they
contravene the Act of Parliament,- which requires that
books shall be kept, wherein shall be entered minutes
of all matters and transactions brought before them ;
which book or bc.eks shall be open, at all reasonable
times, to every Share:aolder. This was obviously in-
tended to prevent fraud ; and an omission in this instance,
coupled with a refusal to snake known the facts, autho-
rises
a suspicion that frau.' has been committed.
There are other things which the Committee ought
to explain and alter ; for instance, when an officer is
accused he is not brought face to face before that Com-
mittee with the accused. Why .also is a tax still kept
on, which is working great injury to the shareholders,
when it has been proved that it was recommended by
an officer who stated to the trade that it was imposed by
the Committee, contrary to his opinion and advice?
It is feared that there is much more wrong than the
shareholders are aware of, or why refuse the Commit-
tee. which was asked for, to fully investigate the affairs
of the Company, in connection with the revenue and ex-
penditure ?
It is to be hoped a large number of Shareholders will
attend, at two o'clock, Wednesday, July I (this day)
I am, -Ste.,
A BROTHER SHAREHOLDER.

COURVOISIER.

We are.requested, upon the authority of the She.
riffs, to state that the report circulated that Courvoisier
mentioned to them that he had about his person at the
time the police searched him ten sovereigns, which lie
subsequently concealed in the flooring of the cell in
34s-street, is without foundatio 1. No such commu-
nication was made by him to them, and upon being
questioned by Sheriff Evans on the subject yesterday,
he positively denied ever having made any such state-
ment. The report that the murderer communicated
such information to the Sheriff *has, in all probability,
arisen from the fact, that he mentioned to Mr. Cope,
the Governor of Newgate,in a very recent conversation,
that he had about him at the time he was in the Bow-
street cell ten sovereigns, which he had deposited be- •
tween double stockings which he wore when he was
locked up in that place of confinement, and that he had
taken an opportunity to throw them down the privy
attached to the cell. The Governor, upon being in-
formed of the circumstance, considered it to be his
duty to go to Bow-street Office. The cell was ex-
amined minutely at his request. The privy, howeier,
in consequence of some difficulty, has not been searched.
Indeed, the statement is considered to be as false as
many other assertions made by the murderer. Sheriff.
Evans, in fact, gives credit to nothing that has been
said by the wretch, except the brief acknowledgment
that lie had committed the murder with the knife, and
that he had contemplated it a week before the perpetra-
tion. Curvoisier has contradicted himself a vast num-
ber of times in speaking of the details.
The Sheriff requested that the public should be in-
formed that he could not possibly write answers to a
twentieth part of the number of applications to him for
admission to see Courvoisier and Oxford, and that they
must be satisfied to receive an assurance through the
press, that no one request of the kind could by any pos-
sibility be conceded.

A fashionable pickpocket was arrested lately in
front of Tortoni's, just as he abstracted a watch from the poc-
ket of a young Russian diplomatist. The mode of proceeding
adopted by this industriel, who was always dressed in the first
style of fashion, was to tread on the toes of his victim, beg his
pardon amid a thousand salutations and excuses, and, at the
same time, to relieve him of his superfluous cash or jewellery.
On search being made at the man's lodgings there were found
articles enough to stock a shop.
THE SHIP " InoNsIDE."---This iron sailing
ship, commanded by Captain Mitchell, completed her third
voyage across the Atlar.tic (to South America, and lait to
Texas) and back, on the 17th instant, and with such success
as to establish the fact of the applicability of the sterner metal
as a substitute for timber in the construction of ocean-going
vessels. The Ironside brought a cargo of cotton from Galves-
ton Bay, consisting of 665 bales, of which 65 were on deck,
and she landed all in good order. The ship did not make any
water during the voyage, and, while her bottom remained clean,
made good occasionally from nine to nine and a half knots an
hour. It is remarkable that she had no ballast in, yet was quite
stiff, notwithstanding her deck load. Wooden vessels gene-
rally require about one-third of their cargo to be in ballast or
heavy goods. The Ir-onside has made, weather considered,
fair average passages. She is a remarkably fine vessel, and has
tended to establish in ships as in warfare great faith in " cold
iron."—Liverpool Standard.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF THE LION KING.
—Mr. Carter, the Lion King, had a most miraculous escape at
Astley's Theatre, under the following circumstances :—ln the
course of his performance Mr. Carter drives his lion in a car
across a very high platform. (intended to represent. a rocky
mountain) and, on reaching the middle, the whole fell over one
to the stage, with a most tremendous crash. The performers
flew in every direction, while the audience were no less terri-
fied. Mr. Carter, in his descent, with an extraordinary pre-
sence of mind, sprang out of the car, and very fortunately suc-
ceeded in securing the lion, mho, it is said, is very severely
injured. The accident occurred from the want of a barrier
being placed at each side of the platform. Mr. Carter is not
much hurt. It was rumoured throughout the metropolis, yes-
terday, that the lion escaped from the car, and jumped into
the pit; but the above is the true state of fact:. The ques-
tion of the propriety of exhibiting wild beasts at all in a theatre
has often been the subject of conversation, and the truly provi-
dential escape of Mr. Carter,.the performer, an the audience,
on Saturday night, will, it is hoped, be a caution for the future.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—As Mr. M. Davis,
the junior partner of the firm of Davis, Brothers, opticians•
No. 33, New Bond-street, was proceeding to town in his gig,
when passing Camden-road villas, the horse began to kick and
became obstreporous, and threw him out. Two gentlemen, in
a very humane manner, residing on the spot, Messrs. Atkins
and Brignable, conveyed him to a surgeon, were his wounds
were dressed, and from there proceeded with him in a carriage
to his private-residence at Islington. We are glad to learn
that it will not prove fatal.

GOLD WATCHES.—A variety of excellent and
carefully finished Second-hand Gold Watches, many-of them in
accordance with the latest taste, with. Gold Dials, Jewelled,
&c., are offered for selection, price Eight Guiceas each,
printed warranty will be given.
At T. COi 3AVORY'S,

Watchmaker, Gold and iqlvermith, 47, Cernhill (Seven
doors from Graco_hd:ch-street), London.
N.B.Second-band Watches purchased in exchange.

IRTHS.
On the 19th ult., at Mount Vernon, Hampstead, the lady of
Thomas Hog, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 26th ult., at Esher, the lady of George Hayes, Esq.,
barrister, of a daughter.
On the 29th ult., in Curzon-street, the Lady Ernest Bruce,
of a son.
On the 27t h ult., at Woolwich-common, the lady of the Re"
Capel Molyneux, of a daughter.
tOn the 30th ult., at Fowkes-buildings, Great Tower-street
Mrs. Sidney J. Phillips, of a son.
On the 30th ult., Mrs. John Bailey, of Woburn-square, of *
de ughter.
On the 28th ult., at Upper Seymour-street, Portman-squaree
the lady of Captain H. Wilson, of a son.