The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-16 00:00:00

The Margaret steamer arrived on Friday night at
Falmouth—from Gibraltar, 4th inst. ; Cadiz, sth ; "Lis-
bon, Bth ; Oporto, 9th ; and Vigo, 10th.
Llsßori, Nov. B.—The. draught of the new Treaty,
propeseal.some time ago by this Government, and re,
jected by Lord Pahnerston,. has been sent back, -With
alterations, by Lord Aberdeen. I understand it arrived,
by the Margaret steam-packet, on the 30th ult. From
what I can learn, it appears that his Lordship consents
to give up all the remaining privileges enjoyed- by
British residents in this country, including that of -hav-
ing a Conservatorial Court for the decision -.of all judi-
cial eases in which they may be concerned, and that
no exclusive advantage to British trade over that of
Wier- :foreign nations to be stipulated for. Ile
basis of the. Treaty is to be the principle of reciprocity.
according to which .the•-trestle of each of the two coun-
. tries is, within the territories of the other, to be placed
on a perfect footing, with that of the most favoured
' nation. It is proposed that, under certain restrictions,
the British celottioS he open to" direct Pin.-
tugneselrnd e; provided 'Portugal be pilling to recipro-
Atte in the Saone way. • no, restrictions are. however,
aka nature ti, render the- concession offered by England
&little value'. • • Portuguese vessels are to be --allowed to
!convey all except illicit articles to our colonies ; but
swine-and brandy are all that Portugal can export in that
adirection, and they both come under the head of illicit
articles, inasmuch.as they cannot, by the existing Acts of
Parliament, be introduced into any of the British colonies,
(properly so called) but in British vessels—Gibraltar, to
which the rule does pot apply, being, strictly speaking.
not a 'colony, but a military station. The only benefit.
therefore, that Portuguese vessels. might derive from it
would be, by taking salt to Newfoundland and bringin&
back cargoes of .fish, and in this way certainly tlw.y
could interfere greatly to the prejudice of our shipping.
The amended draught is' at present under consi-
deration with this Government,- and will probably
be sent back with . further alterations tending. to
the greater advantage of Portugal, particularly ' as
regards the opening of the British colonies to' Porttte
guest: trade. . With the further details of the prow
treaty I am unacquainted, but I believe the•abore are its
leiding features. The English residents• here are not
much-pleased with the prospect of Insing,their feW re-
maining privileges ; and 1 really cannot see why they
should be so quietly given up, unless it be to punish tins
parties for their flagrant abuse of them, during the
Miguelite contest, when the privileges in questimi, by
screening the persons and property of the Libvr ;Ic, u~ arcs
used as a lever for the overthrow of Don_llltruel. They
arc dissatisfied, too, with the arrangements said. to here
been proposed respecting trade, us they justly consider
that, all circumstances taken into account, England has
a right to claim from Portugal, not only an -equal, -tut
a far greater degree of favour than is accorded by the
latter. to any other nation. But the omission to secures
this advantage Will become of no sort of consequence.
if once we- succeed in making a commercial treaty with
Spain, by which that country shall admit our manufac-
tures at. a rensonable scat: of duties. =Suelt a treaty
would be virtually a death- werrant -to this country, and
would soon bring upon it the down- it has richly de-
served for its churlish commercial policy. • •
We need not, in such case, trouble ourselves to ship
any goods direct to Portugal, as we shall be able to
smuggle them. in from Spain. A reflux of the contra-
hand trade,frOm the latter back to the former, will

follow of course, and' this country will not only lose the
duties on the goods, as well as the intermediate profits
'on the smuggling traffic, so long and so profitably carrieJ
on; but will be ft without anything to counteract the
drain of coin consequent upon the clandestine introduce
tion of Spanish wheat constantly goinro- on across the
border, and will moreover be inundated with English
goods to a far greatt.r extent than at. present. The
Portuguese then will see their folly when it will be
too late to remedy its evil effects. As, however, we
have rot yet a treaty with Spain, there could 'be
no harm in making !. assurance doubly sure," by se—
curing a good one with Portugal.
The Budget was ,approved of by the Deputies o%
eth, without any discussion,, by. 60 votes to 12.
No other business of-any particular inii/Ortence be
been gone throukh at the CiTtes.
lier Majesty's Steam-vessel Pluto has, just entered this
port. The report from the guard at Belem states
that she brings despatches for Lurd rioward de Walden.
She comes from Southampton,

ALLEGED MURDER OF A SOLO
DIER )3Y POISON.
(From the Sunday nmes.)
During Friday and yesterday a strong feeling of ex-
citement pervaded the neighbourhood of Kensington,
by the circulation of a report that a private, named
Harris, belonging to the eetachment of the Grenadier
Guards, quartered at the Barracks on the Palace-green,
Kensington, had been poisoned by a young female
through motives of jealousy, from the effects of which
he died in a few hour,. The deceased was stated to
be a remarkably firm young man, about 22 years of
age, and it was also asserted that the body had
been opened sitce death, when full evidence of poisoa
was obtained. The report, from the confidence with
which it was promulgated, obtaining general credenee,
the attention of the police was yesterday drawn to
the subject, when, from the inquiries mide by them, it
appears from the statement of Sergeant Davis, belong-
ing to the regiment, that the deceased had been absent
from the regiment, on furlough, for a fortnight. ID see
his relatives at High Wycombe, Biretta ; that while
there he caught cold from bleeping in n damp bed, and
came up on the inst. to the`Military Hospital.
in Rochester-row, Westminster, where he died on the
6th just., and was buried on the 9th. On the police in-
quiring of the sergeant if any inquest had been held on
the body, he replied, " Inquest bed-d •" and on
being further pressed as to whether or not the body had
been opened, he acknowledged that it had been said the
bodies of all soldiers dying in the Military Hospital
were opened after death.
From the statement of a soldier's wife, who washed
the deceased's clothes, in which the body was still
covered when the post mortem examination *se
performed, it would appear, however, that there is some
mystery in the case, and that for reasons at present
explained the facts have been perverted. Her state;-
mew, which was evidently given under great alarm at
being questioned upon the subject, was that the de-
ceased's clothes were in a most. dreadful state from the
effects of the post mortem examination, and that while
fetching them from the hospital she was told that the
deceased, instead of, according to his furlough, grain to
High Wycombe, had never been further from Kea-
singtou than Rateliffe-highway, from whence he went
to the Military Hospital, and on being admitted de-
clared he had been poisoned. She also stated she was•
told at the hospital that the deceased's inside, when
opened, was found to be nearly rotted from the effects
of the poison. She also sta.es the body not to have
been buried until Thursday last. We give the above
a-ticulars as we have received them, and we 'cannot
help thinking that whenever such reports are afloat the
best means of quieting the public mind on the subject
is by the matter being subjected to a public inquiry on
the spot.

EXTRAORDINARY MURDER By

A BOY.

On Saturday last John Smith, aged nine 5
sent by his father, a baker, residing in 11 tilatn:e„arsia,' mwas
mEidiew,arwdithli.eaarebeays,keotf
of
fhoeatfkoerds
rHoerdall,
sale( 1:i s-t
whilste-e—t -- i
about-n 'a
his r •.
years, accom-
wpaanytetdbithhientr,
(Gaesorhgee
basß arbaienre,
eagconfetseseed) to Shotford-
bridge, which crosses the river Waveney; here the boys
loitered, and Smith got upon and sat astride the pare-
pet wall thereof,Whilst in that position, Barber took
one of the cakes fromthe basket and ate it, when Smith
cried,eedeerei
Barbdpuhshee would d
him offtatthellibe
this tookbridge anti
immedi-
atelytainrdanawayt
place between tour and five o'clock, r.m.
making
The evening closing
his oppearan, gce Is parents became exceedingly
anxious about
in,h and tile child Smith not
hihme.
had nor.
wasi made for him imme-
diately ; tru'l
the river was carefully
'The
fel? at. Mr. Kearsey's,
found to bear out the supposition day
nothingand
daywa
On the latter day towardseve evening
thatbahke was drowned.brought.
by a female to the elder Sruitg,awaimetniwmadsiatelYre-
congsnized it to be the cake basket his son bid with him
areefinbgut
0 atuiday ; it had been found in a shed upwards
of two tidies distant from Shotford-bridge, near an •
unfrequented path leading to Skeet's Mere Farm,
in the parish of Needham.. information was given
on Monday that the boys bad been seen together
on Saturday afternoon, and Barber's habits being ,ery
irregular, having previously absented himself from itonit
several days together (arising, it is reported, from the
extreme negligence of his father-in-law, ltogsby), imme-
diate steps were. taken to find him, which was soon ftv.-
complished, he baring returned home that mocning.
He denied having any knowledre about the boy
Smith ; •but afterwards the parish constable )og
Fulham (Rogaby, the father-in-law, residing in
that
parish), extorted a confession from him, that he did
ac-
company the deceased to the bridge, that he pushed
him into the water, and then ran away ; that he ate the
on
remainder of the cakes, and slept in the shed S-
aturday night where the basket was found. The body
was found on Tuesday, and an inquest held there -
same day before J. Muskett, Esq., Coroner,
andon
after
the
two hours' deliberation the Jury returned a verdict of
wilful murder against George-Barber, who wa
diately committed to the Castle to take his triall iralir"
at the
next assizes.--2Voriblk Chronicle.