The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-07 00:00:00

FASHIONS '6ll, AUGUST.

(From the World of Pashion Monthly Magazine.)
BONNETS.—Several i•
be
ve:rlcy, straw ones have recently
appeared, and will
nicarlitillaerblY
arc
fashionable for the sea-side.
Those of Italian straw
in favour. The most
fashionable style of trimming gtwonsists of white riband,
disposed in a nov(1 kind of
a peculiarly
round the bottom, of
the crown, and a knot of•
pkretty
single
fall-
ing on one side of the brim
white, curled ostrich feather, issuing from; theVot long,
flat upon the brim, and droops over it towards the shoul-
ders on the opposite side.
NEw MATERIALS.—The most remarkable for both
the beauty and delicacy of their patterns are the ba-
reges of all kinds, and particularly the batiste-barage,
pail de chevre, NI
..-us3groh, a.sd moire (Pete, the foulards
and Bros de Naples chines, and a Variety of '
silks
per-
lees, sablees, and quadrillees.
.SPENCERS.—Those of you de sole and other slks have
now entirely superseded those of velvet ; they are made
for the most part tight to the shape, but varior sly orna-
mented on the bosom, some with fancy silk trimming,
others with roulcaus ; we see also a-good many trimmed
with either black or white lace. Tight sleeves are very
much in vogue for silk spencers.
HALF-DRESS ROBES.—We may cite among the
mast elegant some that have recently appeared, com-
posed of foulard, with a bright gris poussiere ground,
with . brown satin stripes, lightly edged with gold,
quadrilling with others shaded in different shades
of blue. The corsages of these robes were made
tight ; very open on the bosom. Tight sleeves with
sabots, bordered with party-coloured fringe, descending
to the elbow ;
a corresponding fringe encircled the bot-
tom of the corsage, and a row of lace set on flat, and
standing up, trimmed the top ; the. border of the skirt
was finished by a single deep bias flounce, with a heading
disposed in dents de loup.
FASHIONABLE COLOURS.—Light shades of green and
blue
are most predominant.
Riding habits are all made with very tight sleeves.
The most fashionable chemisettes for that costume are of
cambric, with a plain square collar, like those worn
by young lads ; the manchettes are also of plain
cambric, and are made very deep. When the
habit is made open on the bosom, it shows the
corsage of the chemisette, Plaited and buttoned
by five or six small pearl or garnet buttons, and
the manchettes are trimmed to correspond. Riding
hats are mostly of the shape of a gentleman's hat, but
in some instances those pretty caps called casquettcs a
la Victoria, are preferred. Several new kinds of fancy
silk buttons and brandebourgs have been introduced for
trimming riding habits.
GANTELETS.—SUch is the name given to the.fashion-
able riding glovez, and it is one that suits admirably
well with their form, which is exactly that of the gaunt-
let worn by chevaliers in the days of chivalry; it rises
high upon the wrist, turning over with a lappel, but
standing out from the arm so as to show time sleeves.
These gloves are generally composed of yellow kid;
but they may be worn in other colours.

An extraordina
An individual about f rty years of age.
large knife, and threatened tie lives of
staircase of an ! adjoinhr scene
days ago in the Passage St. Guillaume, near the Palais Royal.
.‘ Lisa, Lisa,
presented itself a few
ryastl .
psuebelni c brandishing i
repeat-
edlyhi ng a
declaring that one life at least he must have. No one dared
to approach him, and in a few minutes he was rushing up the
curb he proved to he) house, taking four steps at a time.
Arrived at the third stor'; he began to call aloud'
thy'lif.", thy blood—l inti:t have thy blood !" The screams of
the mistress of the apartment brought several persons to her
assistance in spite-of the brandished knife, and the madman (for
had infLoted several dangerous wounds upon the body of the
tthrortunate porter, who had opposed his entrance to the rooms
of the lady.---,.Feench Paper.
was at length secured, but not until he
• DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday after-
noon a horse, the property of Air. Rawlings, ginger-beer manu-
facturer, which was in a cart laden with ginger-beer, in Fea-
therstone-stteet ran away with it, load. The driver had taken
otT thei-hriaiand placed the nose bag on, when the animal took
fright. The driver, at the time, teas sitting on the Shaft, and
jumped off. The horse bad not proceeded far before it knocked
down Sarah Chant, who was conveyed to Bartholomew's Hos-
pital. Yes!erday there was no hopes of her recovery. She is
twenty-one years of age. The driver was taken to Worship-
street Police Court, and held to bail.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Post.)
Thanks to the political Dissenters, the Latitudinarians
and the Nothing-arians, of the House of Commons, our
readers must by this time be perfectly au fait of the legal
proceedings affecting Thorogood. He refused to pay 55.
6d , being his proportion of a Church-tate levied by the
legally authorised functionaries. For so refusing be was
summoned before the local Magistracy, and then disputed
the validity of the rate, and intimated his determination
to bring the matter before the Ecclesiastical Court. He
kept his word by instituting proceedings there, but on being
cited to appear in Court he declined to comply, on an alle-
gation of conscientious scruples, and was, in due form of.,
law 'committed for contempt. He has now been a willing
prisoner for some months--willing, because his release
depends on his own act. There is no disposition, either
on the part of the parochial authorities or of the Ecclesias.
cal Court, to keep him in gaol, and yet Lord John Rus-
sell brings in an especial Act of Parliament to provide that
when an individual shall have been in custody for a certain
time—which by the way is left altogether uncertain—the
Court shall have power, with consent of the prosecutors,
to order his discharge, though the contempt for which he
has been imprisoned be still unattoned for. Dr. Nicholl's
Bill equally went to authorize the release of the perverse
prisoner. In this respect it was no whit behind that of
Lord John Russell in almost fastidiouz regard for the li-
berty of the subject, but it would have provided, at the
same time, that the majesty of the law should be vindicated.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The closing proceedings of the House of Commons for
the present Session have possessed an interest which was
not anticipated, in consequence of the discussions which
have arisen in that House respecting the imprisonment of
John Thorogood. The Bill for his liberation from prison
has now passed the Lower House, and only awaits the
sanction of the House of Lords to come into operation.
We cannot for a moment doubt that that sanction will at
once be given to it. With the recorded opinion of Sir
Robert Peel, Srh Edward Sugden, and several of the
other leading Conservatives in the Commons—that it is
highly expedient that the Chelmsford victim of the
Church should be released from his dungeon —we can-
' not for a moment suppose that the Bishops will have
the daring effrontery to oppose the passing of the
Bill for his liberation. They are too wise in their
generation for that ; they are too quick-sighted not to per-
ceive that to defeat the intentions of Government, the
other House of Parliament, and the unanimously-expressed
voice of the people of England cn such a point, would be
to draw down both upon themselves and the Church a
measure cf odium, from the eff.:cts of which neither could
ever expect to recover. For upwards of eighteen months
has John Thorogood been inccrcerated in a solitary dun-
gecn in Chelmsford, for refusing, from conscientious
scruples, to pay five shillings and sixpence of Church-rates.
Why, (Cr this trifling offenco, if offence it ought to be
called, has this honest and excellent man suffered as great
as, amount of punishment as if he had committed some
crime whose moral and social turpitude had outraged the
feelings of mankind, and drawn down upon him the exe-
crations of society? Surely the Church must have a most
voracious appetite for vengeance, if the amount of punish.
nt which she has already inflicted upon John Thoro-
good does not satiate het taste in that way.

'MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

THURSDAY EVENING.

HE RA LD.—Early in the morning the funds were not
merely steady, but opened with an improvement on the
closing prices of yesterday, and a decided tendency
towards a further advance. Consols for Account were
901 to but later in the day some heavy sellers typeared
in the market, and the prices rapidly gave way to 898.
I ey rallied again subsequently to 904, and at the close
left off at 90 to :,.1; for Account, and 891 to 90 for Money.
The sudden fall was succeeded and accounted for by re"-
ports of the arrival of a pigeon express bringing unfavour-
able news aed a large decline in the French funds. It
turned cut subsequently, ho ever, that all this huily-burly
in the stock house was caused by the report received of the
landing of Napoleon Louis Euenaparte at Boulogne with a
heedful of officers and a few houses. Assuming this to be
feet it would seem a hair-trained undertaking, for which
there could not be the slightest chance of success, and
w Lich has probably hem risked noon the mere speculation
that in the present irritated state of public feeling, and
warlike inclination, in France, the prestige arising from
the name of the youvg adventurer might perhaps rally a
Inge portion of the people and army around his banner.
As such an enterprise would scarcely be embarked in with-
out the previous knowledge and co-operation of parties
and partisans here and at Paris, the fact would seem to
exec:int for the violent fluctuations and fall in the Funds,
commencing first at Paris, and extending to the Stock
Market here, which, it has been more than once remarked
under this head, appeared unaccountable from the absence
of any known sufficient or adequately exciting cause.
The accounts from Manchester and the neighbourhood
in respect of monetary end banking effairs, continue unfa-
vourable. The number of whet may be called private
failures, that is of those which do not appear in the Ga-
zette, but arc arranged by compounding with creditors on
the best terms which can be effected, is reported as pro-
digious during the last few months. Same conception may
be formed of the fact from a statement derived f, om one
house alone, and that not what is understood as a first-
rate in point of extent of business, although a very re-
spectable concern. In the course of five months only
this house became a creditor and accepted compromises
from no less than fourty-four insolvent estates, exclusive
of losses incurred with such customers as went into the
Gazette, or took the benefit of the Insolvent Act. It is
true, however, that in the generality of these cases, the
debts w ere individually not ofmuch consideration, although
in the aggregate reaching- to a considerable sum. A re-
cent failure is reported in a town in the neighbourhood of
Manchester, the party in which was a person of long stand-
ieg and great respectability. The amount of debts is va-
rioursly stated, but aseu.ncd to be at least 100,0001.
Amongst the creditors the Manchester and Liverpool Dis-
trict Bank, which lately, notwithstanding previous enor-
mous losses, declared a dividend among its shareholders,
is said to be involved for about 35,0001., and two assurance
offices in this city 8,0001. The causes of failure do not
appear, but various rumours are connected with the event
not necessary to refer to at present. Such was the credit
previously enjoyed by the party in his own neighbourhood
teat sums of money were freely lent to him on his own note
at five per cent, interest. Several of these from 3,0001.
downward will have to be proved on his estate.

TIMES.—The letters and papers by the India mail
were delivered this morning, in regular course, and have
been anticipated, therefore, about thirty-six hours by the
extraordinary expresses of the Times, As conveyance by
the route of the Euphrates, resorted to on account of the
monsoon season, this mail has worked well, and is a great
improvement on the performance of last year. In the
corresponding period of last year the time occupied by the
same route to Bombay was sixty days, but on this occa-
sion it has only been forty five days. But the effect of
the present mode of communication is beginning to be
felt most beneficially in India itself. The mail from
England of the 4th of :11ay had reached Bombay
on the 20th of June, being only forty-seven days, but
th success of the English mail of the 4th of April
has been still more remarkable; it reached Madras on
the 13th, and Calcutta on the 15th of May, making,
therefore, to the former place 41 days, and to the latter 43
days, from England. The time of the April mad to 13orn-
bay was only 32 days, reaching that place on the 6:11 of
May. In the communication; between America and India
the advantages of the present system have also been con-
spicuously felt, letters from New York, by England,
Egypt, and Bombay, having reached Calcutta in 63 days.
If the present communication by way of the Persian Gulf
and the Euphrates could be taken as an average speed,
there would be much less reason for the dread which many
persons feel of embarrassment to our intercourse with
India through any political movement in• Egypt. In fact,
from this experiment there ought to remain now every as.
surance that we are no longer dependent upon the Pacha
of Egypt for a quick passage to our dominions in the -East
Indies. In the present posture of political affairs this is a
most important consideration, as it may even become an
ingredient in the preservation of peace, since there is no
potentate a better judge of his own interests than Mehemet
Ali.

By the commercial accounts from Calcutta there ap-
pears to have arisen a violent contest between the Union
and Bengal banks established there. in the earlier
stages of the Union Bank the Bengal Bank had exerted
itself unceasingly to prevent the circulation of its paper,
a bleb action the Union Bank, on acquiring greater
strength, has attempted to retaliate. The effect may
ew,ily be imagined in a place the circulation of which is
silver of low denomination, such as the rupee, north
about 2s. The news of the formation in London of the
" Bank of Asia" had reached Calcutta,,but no favourable
anticipations of its success seem to exist there. At Ma_
eras the subscriptions to the bank forming there were
going on well, and had reached 23,39,000 rupees, about
240,000/. Respecting the cultivation of tea in the Assam
district, the progress seems to be slow ; the exportations to
Europe for the season are rated at 1,200 chests.
'The money market of Calcutta was in a favourable
state. Money was easily attainable at 6 to 10 per cent.
interest, and 4to 6 discount. The Custom-house valua-
tion of imports for the month of May was 201,008 rupees.
Bullion and specie to the amount of 600,000 rupees had
been brought from China at the beginning of June, being
the proceeds of opium sold on the coast. Sovereigns
were worth 103 to 10 46 in the market. Bank of Eng-
land notes 10 2tolo 4 per pound sterling. Good bills
on England. were scarce ; the April mail had brought out
remittances. to the extent of, 3,000,000 rupees, which,
added to the large amount previously held for remittances,
forced down the exchange. The following is given as the
current rate of bills :—Private bills against shipments, with
or without security, at 6 months' sight, or 10 months'
date, at 2s. to 2s. old. per Company's rupee ; agents or
correspondents at 6 moliths 30 days, to 6 months' sight,
at Is. Ild. to 25., according to amounts, and Treasury and
Navy bills, the former at 30, and the latter at 3 days' sight,
at is. 10J. to Is. 101 d. per Company's rupees.

SUN.—An Express arrived this afternoon communi-
cating intelligence of the landing of about 100 men at
Boulogne.sur-rrier, who attempted to raise an insurree.
tion in favor of Louis Napoleon. Three or four of them
were captured, though what became of the rest we are
not told. It is strongly suspected that the account re-
ceivod respecting this affair will at least turn out to be
much exaggerated. The Stock Exchange was closed when
it arrived, Consols basing left off at 90 for money, and
90-i for time. Private bargains were then made, how.
ever, at 89k for money, and 90 for account Exche-
quer Bails were steady this afternoon at 22 to 24 prem.,
and India Bonds at 1 to 2 discount ; Bink Stock was
heavy at 173, and the Rech 31 per Cents. declined
to 991,-but Were last-markcd- 99i to -a.
The Foreign Securities were affected by the same
causes 'as our own funds, and all receded more or lets.
Spanish dropped from 251 to 25 and 24,1 ; Portu-
guese Ncvi, Five per cents , 32 to 31i, and the Three

per Cents. from 22 to 211 4. Brazilian Stock rose to
79 ; Colombian Six per Cents. declined from 251 to
25 ; Mexican 1825 Bonds, 29i- to 29, closing at 291
to 291. The Dutch Funds were not at all affected by
the intelligence received of the serions decline at Am-
sterdam, where the Two-and-a-half per Cents. fell on
Tuesday to 50 11-16, and the Five per Cents. 984,
though both closed 4 per cent. better. Here the first-
mentioned was marked 511, and the latter 101 i, with
very little doing.
The Share Market was not at all animated, and
but little alteration has occurred in prices. Great
Western Shares were 37 to 38 ; London and Birming-
ham, 90 ; New North Midland, 31 ; Blackwall, 11 to
; and South-Western, 184 to 19i prem. Brighton
Shares were 74, and South-Eastern 1.5 t discount.
Colonial Shares were 12i- to 13 ; and National Pro-
vincial Bank of England, 11- prem. Commercial Bank
of England Shares were at par.

ASSIZE IN TELLIGEN CF.

HOME CIRCUIT—GUILDFORD, Aua. 6
CIVIL SIDE.
(Before Lord ABINGER.)
BREMAN V. CLEMENTS.

This was an action upon a bill of exchange for 661.
accepted by the defendant.
Alr. PLATT was for the plaintiff, and Mr. PETERS-.
DOIIFF for the defendant.

Mr. PLATT having briefly addressed the Jury, said
that all he should have to do was to prove the accep-
tance upon the bill to be the defendant's handwriting,
and upon that he should be entitled to their verdict.
William Lockthorp, who stated that he was a bill
agent, was then examined. He proved that the defen-
dant accepted the bill in question, and that not only
the acceptance, but that portion of it, making the bill
payable at a banker's in London, was also in the dot en-
dant's handwriting.
Cross-examined—The defendant accepted the bill
for my accommodation, and I got it discounted, and the
proceeds were applied to take up some other bills that
were over due. The defendant derived no advantage
from the bill. I don't know that the plaintiff is a very
young man, but I have heard that he is worth a good
deal of money.

Mr. PETERSDORFF put it to the Jury whether the
transaction that had been spoken to, was not of a very
extraordinary character. It appeared clear that the
defendant had merely accepted the bill to accommodate
the witness who had been examined, and although, as
the acceptance was his, he was liable, yet he was pre-
pared to show that the portion of this acceptance, mak-
ing it payable at the hanker's, had been added after-
wards, and, in his opinion, this had the effect of vitiat-
ing the instrument altogether.
Two witnesses were then examined, and they swore
that they were acquainted kith the defendant's hand-
writing, and that nothing but the acceptance upon the
bill had beer. written by him, and they swore positively
that that portion of it making the bid payable at the
banker's was not the writing of the defendant.
Lord ABINGER, after having looked at the instru-
ment, said be must confess that he could not perceive
the least difference between one portion of the writing
and the other. Supposing it, however, to be as stated,
he did not see that made any itfference.
The jury then returned a verdict for the plaintiff.
(Before Baron GURNEY.)
WILKINSON V. CATTEM AND lIALLAM.

This was an action to recover compensation for an
injury done to the phaeton of the plaintiff by the neg-
ligence of the defendant's servant.

-Mr. James was for the plaintiff : Sergeant Shee and
Mr. Crasy for the defendants.

It appeared that the plaintiff was driving towards
Richmond, and at a, narrow part of the road he met
a horse and cart belonging to the defendants on the
wrong side of the road, and the driver apparently
asleep. He called out several times, and the carter
suddenly awoke, and pulled his horse in the wrong di-
rection, and drove against the phaeton and broke the
shaft, and injured it very much.
The defence was that the accident was occasioned
by the plaintiff's want of skill, and the defendant's car-
man was called, and he said that the cause of the ac-
cident was the plaintiff pulling over to his wrong side
when the cart came near him. He admitted, however,
that the plaintiff called out to Nina sever-11 times before
the accident happened.
The Jury found for the plaintiff. Damages al.,
bein4 the amount of the injury.
The criminal business was all disposed of on Wednes-
day afternoon, and Baron Gurney then proceeded to
assist in disposing of the cause list. There are several
very heavy causes still for trial.

NORFOLK
_CIRCUI7'.-_—NoßivicH, AuG. 5.

MURDER OF A WIFE.--John Randlesome was placed at
the bar, charged with the wilful murder of Mary, his wife,
by beating and throwing her into a pond of water, on the
17th of June last.
The facts of this remarkable and most barbarous mur-
der appeared by the evidence to be these :—The prisoner
and one Elizabeth Punchard had formerly been for five
ycar3 fellow-servants at a Mr. Parkinson's, at Broome, in
this county, and having saved some money, he at Michael-
mas last to:k a farm at Bungay, three miles from Broome.
About this time he became acquainted with Mary Barnaby,
the unfortunate woman whose untimely death formed the
subject of this painful inquiry. She was a young person
of mild and enduring temper, and their acquaintance soon
ripened into a warmer sentiment. She became pregnant,
and in the month of April last they were privately married
at a church in Norwich. She was at the time living with
her father, a respectable though not very extensive farmer,
whose family consisted of herself, her brother John, and a
lad named Kent. Immediately after this fatal marriage bad
taken place she returned to the house of her father, who had
no idea of her being in the family way or of her being
married until a very short time before her death.
Toe old man intending to have a housekeeper, it was set-
tled that his daughter Mary should leave his roof, for
which purpose she packed up her little property on Thurs-
day, the 18th of June last, intending to quit on the follow-
ing day. That day she never saw, for before it dawned
this world bad for ever closed upon her. At midnight
Steward and his wife (her sister) went to bed at twelve
o'clock, and in about an hour they both heard a shriek as
of a woman in the utmost agony. They started up in
their bed, and the wife, with a remarkable presentiment,
said " 1 hope nothing's the matter with our poor Mary."
The shriek was then repeated, but more faint and sub.
dued, and Steward jumped out of bed and called up his
brother-in.law, John Barnaby, and they hurried on their
clothes, and ran to the house of old Mr. Barnaby. The
first thing that attracted their notice was a candle burning
in the kitchen; they forthwith went into the house, the
door of which was ajar, and made a hurried search in
the rooms down stairs, but found nobody. John Bar-
naby then remembered that he had seen the prisoner
in the straw-house at midnight on the Tuesday pre-
viously, and he and Steward prcceederl thither. They
thought they heard a slight rustling noise within,
but upon searching they could find nobody there.
They went through the straw-house into the stack-
yard, in which stands the pool whence the family are sup-
plied with water. To their indescribable terror and con-
sternation they immediately saw the body of a woman
floating in the pond; and baying procured a long pole,
they dragged it to land, and found it to be the lifeless body
of the prisoner's wife. By the side of the pond lay a
heavy stake, which used to stand in the pond for the per-
sons who drew water from it to take hold of : this stake
they perceived had been recently torn from its accustomed
place, and there was some fresh blood upon it. A surgeon
was sent for, but his attempts to restore animation to the
corpse were unavailing. A great deal of circumstantial
evidence was adduced, which left no doubt of the prisoner's
guilt.
The Jury, after deliberating half an hour, but without
retiring from their box, found the prisoner Guilty. The
Learned Judge immediately passed sentence, without
holding out the slightest hopes of mercy.