The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-05 00:00:00

ALDERMAN HUMP HER Y.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
S'Outhwark, July 31, 1841.
Sta—l am one of the electors of the borough of South-
wark, devoted to the Liberal cause, and as such greatly
deplore that the least dishonest, or even ungentlemanly
imputation should be cast upon one of our Members.
It was asserted by the Directors of the Blackwell
Railway Compalty, at 4 late meeting of the Proprietors,
that Mr. HumAry, when invested with the trust and
responsibility of otlice, had betrayed such trust in the
selling of the Company's shares not belonging to him,
fof his own private benefit to the great injury of the
ProprietOfs.
Mr. Humpltcry, in his reply to this startling accusa-
tion, given in a letter from him, published in a late
number of your Journa4unhesitatingly denies it : but I
co. fens his explanation is not such as to insure him my
vote, which otherwise he could have relied upon, at the
next election for this borough.
Mr. Humphery says, on the last occasion when he
was requested to join the Direction, then having no
shares, that he purchased twenty, and subsequently
,twenty more. How then could Mr. Humphery, being
por4eised only of these forty, dispose of one hundred,
which ho admits in his communication to you he sold
just prior to hie retirement from the Company ?
As many of my fellow Liberal electors are no doubt
equally perplexed with myself on this subject, it is only
fair to Mr. Humphery to request he will (as I have lime
doubt he can) set us right in the matter.
The critical state of our lately disgraced unfortunate
country requires that the Liberal cause should be sup-
ported by men of the highest standing, ennobled as well
the virtue and probity, as by the patriotism of their
characters. To this end, trusting you will give .our
hitherto approved and respected Member an opportunity
of satisfying; his political friends,
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A LIBERAL ELECTOR OF SOUTHWARK.

ANTI-CORN-LA 'Y MOVEMENT.
It is gratifying to observe the success which attends
the eirtitt* made by the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law As-
sociation to enlighten the inhabitants of the districts
surrounding the metropolis, on the advantages which
they cannot but reap from a repeal of the bread-tax. Mr.
Sidney Smith lectured upon Tuesday evening at Merton,
in Stiffen to a most crowded audience. It was at first
intended to have held the meeting in the open air, but
from the very unfavourable state of the weather this was
abandoned, and the large room of the Nelson Arms
crammed to suffocation. Indeed many were obliged to
go nwny from inability to find room. And such was the
ear;erness of the people for further information upon
the 'object, that Mr. S. Smith was obliged to promise
that he rfattld shortly deliver another lecture in the hall
of the Victory, Knowledge of the widely-spread evil
effects of the Corn-laws is only wanted among the people
to render ti outcry fur their abolition too imperious to
be long resisted;

MAIL.
DUTC.I4
',le of the Royal
HAGUE. AUG. I.—The
family, except Prince Henry, is again au2ng
ri he
ncess,
King and the Queen, Prince Alexander, and
Sophia returned from their excursion to Friesland
Groningen on the 30th and 31st of July. The Prince
and Princess of Orange, who have passed some time at
Em 3, returned to the Hague yesterday. The Groningen
Journals give further particulars of their Majesties visit
to that city. It is reported that the King will shortly
honour Delft with a visit.
The MTh der Vryheid states that on the 29th of July,
while the King was at Groningen, one of his Majesty's
Aides-dc-Camp was sent to the wife of J. 11. Belt with
the joyful intelligence that his Majesty had been pleased
to remit the punishment to which her husband was sen-
tenced.
It is now confidently said that his Excellency General
List is appointed Governor-General of our possessions
in India, and his Excellency General Nepveu as his suc-
cessor to the post of Director-General of the War De-
partment. It is affirmed that the Government is occu-
pied with projects of a constitution for the Grand
Duchy of Luxemburg, and with the best means of pro-
tecting commerce and manufactures in the Grand
Duchy. M. Van Schasff is appointed Charge d'Affaires
at Frankfort, in the room of Count Van Grunne.
The Princess of Orange on her return from Germany
was accompanied by her sister the Countess of Nieppey,
who has apartments in the Palace of the Prince of
Orange. It is said that her Majesty the Queen of Wir-
temburg is expected shortly in this town.
NIMEGUEN, JULY 30.—The Prussian Custom-house
Officers are strict in enforcing the Tariff ; travellers
not sufficiently acquainted with this matter, not imagining
that they have any prohibited articles among their ef-
fects, make a declaration to that effect; and if the
slightest irregularity is discovered it is inevitably pu-
nished. Thus, a traveller had lately an old pack of cards
in his trunk, for which, being prohibited in Prussia, he was
fined 10 dollars. Yesterday a lady from Rotterdam being
asked if she had anything liable to duty, declared some
articles of silk, and said that the other articles in her
trunk were necessaries for her use in travelling, but the
Custom-house officers found twelve new muslin handker-
chiefs, seized them, and the lady with some difficulty got
them back on paying a fine of seven dollars.
DUTCH. FUN M.—Minimum, Ace. 2
Money. Olds.
Actual Debt, '2% per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 pet cent.
Amon Syndic 4% per cent 96% 91%
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent 74% 5
Commercial Company, 4,4 rer cent 15514 15431
Ditto ( lg:15 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... 10154 102
Loan 1837, 5 per cent............
Exchange on London, One month l2 05
Two months .... 11 95
Hamburgh, One month.. 37 t6)4
Two months 36 50
Dutch Papers, Aug. 3.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JULY 26
Five per Cants. Metalliques ..... 105%
Four per Cents. ..... • • 98%
Three psi. Cents. .................
Hank 5harp5..:..«.».»....».«.«.».«.»....«»........:510
Aligemeine Zettung;' July Z)

MARRIED.—On the 3d instant, by the Rev.
Frederick Fisher, at Chetwynd, Shropshire, John
APCutcheon, Esq., of Harley-street, Cavendish-square,
to Harriet Fleming. Fisher, daughter of Robert Fisher,

HAMBURGU AND THE GERMAN !
CUSTOMS' UNION, JULY 30.
The question of the accession of this city to the Prus-
sian Customs' Union continues to occupy the attention of
those whose minds are at e ork to prepare for coming
events. In a former letter, in which I detailed the cir-
cumstances of the separation of Brunswick from the
north-western union, I adverted to the improbability of
Hanover continuing for any long period detached from
the Prussian system. It has since transpired, that nego-
ciations between 'Prussia and Mecklenburg have com-
menced, which may possibly result in the addition of the
latter to the number of the united States. The time,
therefore, seems to approach, when the junction of the
Hans Towns must force itself upon the consideration of
Germany; and it may not be premature to offer some ob-
servations with respect to the probability of that event
Three works bearing on the subject, and of which not
more than one is likely to be yet known in England, are
now before me. The first, entitled " Der Handel Ham-
burgs, durch'dessen anschluss an den Deutschen Zollve-
rein gefordert " [the commerce of Hamburgh augmented
by means of its accession to the customs' union], is attri-
buted to M. Klefeiker, a merchant of this city,and argues
strongly in favour of a junction with the Prussian union.
M. Klefeiker recommends the introduction of the bonding
system, by which he considers that Hamburgh may pre-
serve its present advantages of free transit under the new
regime, paying duty only on goods retained for home
consumption. He endeavours to show, by reference to
the actual state of trade, that Hamburgh would lose
neither financially nor commercially by the adoption of
the new order of things, in which he includes a system
of navigation laws to be established for protection of the
shipping of the customs' union. By means of such arti-
ficial encouragement, the author anticipates that Ham-
, burgh would secure to herself the greater part of the
carrying trade now in the hands of Great Britain and
other powers ; and for such a privilege she must
obviously look to the aid of Prussia and the other States,
of which Hamburgh would remain the principal shipping
port.
The next work is a pamphlet of Dr. C. F. Wurm, who
has collected, under the title " Zur Geschichte des
Deuteches Zoll-vercins," a series of essays, originally
contribute 1 by him to the Leipsic Allgemeine Zeitung.
Dr. Wurm criticises judiciously the absurd theories of
Mr. Cargill, and other writers, who attribute the exist-
ence of the Zoll-verein to the machinations of Russia.
Whereas, those who know any thing of Germany, know
also that the customs' union is popular, because it realizes
the idea of German nationality, which is not done by the
Confederation, or in any other way. It is the moral
force of German feeling which carries Prussia forward
with this masterpiece of her policy. Dr. Wurm has ex-
plained this very well •, and, although he does not say so
expressly, he leaves the impression of being favourably
inclined to an extension of the union, in which Hamburgh
would be included.
The third of the publications under notice is a prize
essay, which has lately appeared in Paris, entitled,
" L'Association des Douanes Allemandes," by MM. de
la Nourais et Beres. This work, though containing little
new information, is a lucid and useful sketch of the his-
tory and principles of the Zoll-verein, and advocates its
merits so decidedly, as to propose the formation of other
unions on a similar plan. Austria, with Moldavia,
;:rallachia, a large portion of Turkey, and even Greece,
i.". is supposed, form a fitting combination to this
would, same way, the Italian States, &c. &c.
end, and, in ~l',
.:
..e Hans Towns, the:authors are in
With respect to I:
under a system of navigation
favour of their accesSion,
Bugg. by M. Klefeiker.
laws, to the same effect as
:Hilicy of navigation
I will not now enter upon the
tation of such
laws, further than to remark that the ag.2
a system for German shipping is a sign or' the times,
which Great Britain ought by no means to dis:egard•
i
It is in vain to tell the Germans that England ;."
grown great, not by means but in spite of those laws.
They reply, then why not repeal them, and let us have
a share in the trade is ith the British possessions on an
equal footing ? They see a prospect of immediate gain
by conferring a monopoly upon ships of the Zoll-verein,
and they offer to Hamburgh a bounty in this respect
which she cannot otherwise obtain. But, coming more
directly to the question of the accession of Hamburgh to
the Union, the case appears to stand briefly as follows:—
Let us suppose Hanover, Mecklenburg, and Holstein,
included in the 1011-verein, Hamburgh becomes a little
isolated spot, surrounded on all sides by toll-barricades,
and retaining its free intercourse with the sea and the
interior only by means of the right of free navigation of
the Elbe. Its population are deprived of the benefits of
unrestricted intercourse with the whole of Northern and
Central Germany, and the manufacturing interests—
such as the sugar refiners, the tobacco works,
&c.--would suffer seriously, if not be entirely ruined,
by foreign competition. The experience of other
countries, it would be said, has shown that a
high tariff is not incompatible with the pro-
sperity of sea-ports (witness London; Liverpool, Havre,
Bordeaux, &c.) ; and, at all events, the tariff of the
League must affect the commerce of Hamburgh exactly
in the same way, whether the last-mentioned place be
excluded, or ineludew within the limits of the union.
Any pressure of duties upon the inhabitants of Hamburgh
might be obviated by a systbm of bonded warehouses ;
and, at all events, no injury could be anticipated that
would counterbalance the benefits resdlting to Hamburgh
from the navigation laws which the States of the union
would establish, and from the increase generally of the
commerce of Northern and Central Germany, of which
Hamburgh would be the principal and favoured shipping
port.
Such is the line of argument by which the accession of
Hamburgh to the League would be advocated; and it mush
be admitted, that, if it were practicable to introduce die
bonding system with that of navigation laws, Hamburgh
might possibly be rather a gainer than loser by the
change. But, in the first place, bonding warehouses must
be built at a heavy expense, for the present warehouses
arc wholly unfitted to receive goods under the Govern-
ment locks. Then comes the loss that would be sustained
by the owners of warehouses now used under the transit
system—a loss which alone would raise up powerful ene-
mies to any change; and add to this, the difficulty of in-
ducing merchants to turn their commercial practice into
any new channel.
Supposing bonding impracticable, the revenue of the
State of Hamburgh would be positively diminished ; for
the proportion which. this State would receive of the
tolls of the whole Customs' Union, would not merely be
equal to its actual revenue derived from its very mode-
rate transit and import duty. Further, the citizens of
Hamburgh would be subjected to heavy taxation on all
foreign articles, not produced within the Union, and im-
ported into Hamburgh—such as French wines, fruits,
rice, sugar, coffee, and many other articles of consump-
tion, now cheaper in Hamburgh than in Prussia, or any
State of the Union. And as regards the sugar-refiners
and other manufacturers, their interests are very unim-
portant, as compared with those of the foreign commerce
of Hamburgh in general, and they would themselves be
sufferers bey the increased price of the raw material.—
Morning Chronicle.

Esq., of Chetwynd Lodge.
THE NURSES AT ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S
HOSPITAL.—On Tuesday a Special Court of Almoners
of the Hospital was held, which was attended by Mr.
Alderman Lucas, the President, and a number of Go-
vernors, to investigate the charge of grossly improper
treatment towards a child who was a patient, which was
made against the sister and two nurses of the ward, at an
inquest holden at the Hospital a few days since. The
inquiry. occupied a considerable time, and the Court were
of opinion that no blame was imputable to the house-
surgeon, but that the sister and two nurses were unfit
for their situation, and they were accordingly dismissed. '
The nurses urged that they felt they were doing wrong ;
but could not help obeying the directions of their supe-
rior, the sister. They were told they were not bound
to do' what they felt to be wrong, fix they might have
appealed to the matron, or the steward, or the clerk, who
all reside in the Hospital, and would listen to any com-
plaints.
AN ANECDOTE ABOUT SEA FISHING.-Sir
Hussey Vivian, accompanied by his son, Major Vivian,
were crossing the English Channel in a sailing vessel,
and amusing themselves at the same time in fishing for
mackerel ; but being unprovided with fish bait, a six-
pence was used instead, which, indeed, is a very common
plan. Major Vivian, as understood, was the first who
succeeded in hooking a fish, when, hauling away too
eagerly, his tackle broke, and away went fish, hook, six-
pence and all ; but, strange to say, having shortly after
baited another hook with a piece of mackerel, he actually
hooked the same fish, which this time he had the fortune
to secure, and thus recovered back his lost hook and six-
pence.—The Sportsman.
13- '4l OF ST. ANNE

WESTMINSTER --

ARIS. •)
.4ast evening a large meeting of the electors of the above
-,ld( , Li Wardour-street

T•IlE CORN-LAWS AND THE FACTORY
BILL.—We understand that Lord Ashley, whose labours
in reference to the Ten-hours' Bill, are tolerably well
known to most of our readers, is now in this neighbour-
hood, ostensibly with the view of acquiring information
as to the actual condition of the labouring population ;
but, if we are not mistaken, his real object is to try to
draw the attention of the working-classes from a repeal
of the Corn-laws, by a revival of the agitation in favour
of his old scheme, the Ten-hours' Bill. His Lordship, we
understand, has had conferences, in this town, with
Doherty, and other parties, formerly engaged in pro-
moting his views ; he has also visited Bolton (where he
was yesterday), and the neighbourhood of Ash ton -under-
Lyne. On leaving Lancashire, he intends, we believe, to
proceed to Huddersfield, and other places in the manufac-
turing districts of Yorkshire. No doubt, Lord Ashley,
and those engaged with him in this scheme, consider it
a tolerably skilful move, at the present moment ; but we
---wf‘r their

shall be surprised if it is found to answer their expects,
tions. The working classes of Lancashire and York

parish was holden at the Golden Lion, . ~
Soho, to meet Mr.G. "'Liggett, the Secretary to the West- shire are, we fear, liftel to have their hours of labour
y
minster Reform Society, who attended for the purpose of shortened per force, to an extent far beyond the opera.
supplying claims to all persons who were improperly tion of a Ten-hours' Bill ; and likely, at the same time,
omitted from the register last time, and of giving infor- to have the price of bread too high to make it easy for
mation to all persons who might require it, on matters Lord Ashley, or any other man, to divert their attention
connected with the registration. Several of the inhabi- from the Corn-laws—the great cause of both the evils
tants came forward and made inquiries regarding their to which they are likely to be subjected. If we are not
claims, which in many instances were declared to en- misinformed, Lord Ashley has already met with indi_
title them to vote, although they had never been on the viduals amongst the working classes who have told him
register. Meetings of this kind are being held in all their minds very freely on these points.—Manchester
parts of the Borough, at which Mr. Iluggett attends, and Guardian.
the system cannot be too highly recommended. If gen-
STATE OF TRADE.—Some excitement was
tlemen of talent were appointed by the different Reform created in this town on Monday morning, by the
Societies to meet the householders, the next election nouncemcnt of the failure of the long-established
ablisahnedc
saannond-
would no doubt give a very different result to the last one.. well-known house of Messrs. Samuel s
SILKwoRMS. Most kinds of CallerpillarS manufacturers and merchants, of Heaton Mersey and of
b r ;
spin the silken thread from an orifice just below the this town, against whom, we believe, a fiat of bankruptcy
mouth, in which, in the pupa state, they envelope them- has been issued. Messrs. Stocks and Son were, a fe W
selves. The insect, on breaking the shell, before it has years ago, cotton-spinners as well
touched food, will throw out silk. The colour of silk but their spinning mill having
been a s
de
,s manufacturers
-rs-
depends partly on kind, and partly on food and health. they had ceased to spin, and purchased yarn for they fie
sup'
'Wild silkworms, which usually feed in the open air, pify of their looms. They were also extensive purchasers
arc of man) varieties, each feeding on its suitable leaf. o manufactured goods for export. We understand that
In China, one feeds on the pepper-tree, one on the ash, the amount of their engagements is something under
and another on the oak. One of these spins a silk 80,000/. The necessary effect of this failure was to
which, when woven, will not crease, although folded and throw a very serious damp upon the market yesterday ;
pressed. The Indian tussah spins a cocoon, hanging and the effect. was increased by the unpromising appear-
upon the jujube tree (upon the leaves of which it feeds) ranee of the weather, which, after two tolerably tine
ley a silken cord, so as to swing in security for ten days, showed manifest symptoms of deterioration. Under
mont4, till the tenant within forces itself out as a moth. these circumstances, it was not surprising that the market
They are attended by day and night in the jungle, to should be, as in fact it was, one of the worst, if not the
keep off birds, while they eat and spin. The produce very worst, of the present year. For manufactured
is immense, and so cheap, that, when spun, cloth made goods, indeed, there was literally no demand ; and the
from it, heavy and durable for thirty years, is sold at few sales made were at a serious reduction of prices.
6d. a yard ! The arindy feeds on palma Christi leaves, For yarn, the market was not quite so unfavourable ;
producing a cloth which, if washed in cold water, will and some business was done, though with difficulty, and
wear from 50 to 100 years but if subjected to the ac- at gradually declining rates.
fete rc glad to state, how-
tion of hot water, will tear like blotting paper. The ever that, with the exception o o small concerns at
efforts which are making to place this production in the Blac'kburn, no additional failures were announced ; and
hands of the negroes of the West Indies are likely to a mischievous rumour of that nature, which was ciFcu-
prove successful. fated through the town in the morning, was ascertained
THE LOTUS BIRD.—The white tents thrown to be entirely unfounded.—Manchester Guardian.
out in strong relief on the dark foliage of the forest, AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATHs.u—d
were pitched on a piece of open green sward, gently On Tuesday morning the following awful instance of • -
sloping towards a small but clear and deep sheet of den death occurred to Thomas Aitcheson., 45 years of
water, in whose placid bosom was reflected the tranquil age. The deceased was, and had been for many years,
scene around, but broken here lind there by a partial in the employ of Messrs. Nixon and I,layward, the ex-
carpeting of the broad-leafed lotus-"salon whose whose wavy tensive builders, in Palace New-road, Stangate. About_
surface skimmed with fairy flight, the beautifuli, biri seven o'clock in the morning, the
._deceas_e,d wasi in the
which bears its name. So graceful is the flower of this workshops, about to begin h's daily work, a id, whilst
his bead . was orbs.erved to and
plant, that the Hindoois make it give birth to Camdes, seated on a stool,
the god of love. But ..-?t us return to the bird ;in shape on some of his fellow-workmen going to droop, gave
it is a pheasant in miniature, but, if possible, with much one gasp and instantly expired. The deceased gave
it Moyers, and on the body being
more splendid plumage, which changes to every tint of much respected by his ernPscus) 111 r. Nixon, with much
the rainbow as it lightly runs along the surface of the removed from the
~Thererenu is the last of an old and
broad lotus leaf, and the bright feathers catch the re- emotion, exclaimed,
fleeted rays of the .sun. It is enabled to support its light faithful servant."
weight on this frail tenure by the rapidity of its motions SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT EDGWARE.—On
and peculiar shape of the feet, which, although not Monday a very shocking accident happened at the Bald-
webbed, have toes of such unusual length, that the
it y faced Stag, Edgware. A young man named John
cover a very largo space, and,
like a skilful skater, Clarke, who is in the employ of the landlord of the
glides with ease over a surface apparently inadequate to house, was with others forming a hay rick, when he
its support.-Bc6tes and Sports of Foreign Lands, by fell from the top, having at the same time hi his hand a
Afajor Napier. pitchfork, which in his descent te the ground perforated