The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

COURT-FASHIONABLE.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have arrived at Staf-
ford House, from Trentham Hall.
The Earl of Harrowby has arrived in town from Brighton.
the Earl and Countes, of Harrington have gone to Elves-
ton Castle, Derbyshire.
I [Lord Stanley arrived in St. James's-square, sn Wednesday.
Sir R. Peel reached Whitehall on Wednesday.

THEALTatIc
season at her Majesty's Theatre ended on
TuTeshdeayopraneiglitti.c

MISCELL.A.s.
Freedom of thought seems to be greatly encouraged in that
land of independence and equality, America, for a few weeks
since, the Editor of the Philadelphia Censor, who had been
indulging in some free remarks on black-lea, was 66 beaten the head with a brickbat until he was senseless !" It
must he a pleasant thing to be the editor of a Philadelphia
newspaper.
The other day a tame sea-gull, born and educated on the
Flamborough Cliffs, Durham, walked into a gentleman's kit-
chen, at Driffield, and not finding anything better to make a
meal of, bolted a fine young kitten ! The mother resented
this indignity, but the gull drove her away, while he digested
The fetes at Boulogne on Tuesday consisted chiefly of a
banquet given by the National Guards to their brethrenas i inreacrime arms
of the
from Calais, St. Omer, and Arra.. There w
at Wimereau, and a ball at the theatre at night,
disturbance took place, in consequence, as supposed, t'wo rhiec-ho
National Guards not being all invited.
Air. Campbell, M.P., on the 12th inst. bagged 145 brace of
his
grouse and seven mountain hares on moors at Alonzie.

BOURSE—PARIS. TUESDAY. AUGT'ST 17.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prier. Price
French 5 per Cents ll6 50 ... 116 50 ... 116 35 ... 116 40
105 50 . 105 50 ... 105 50 ... 105 50
4% per Cents
4 per Cents
3 per Cents. ez. die .! 03 0i 33 ... 77 45 ... 77 50
LaBantnkur
Barnraknci.eooo.7 .....
.....V4900 ......31114900 ......V349.0!
5,000 E Saares 5115 ...5115 ...51 ty
...51, 5
%Amen Bank
... 765 .. 765
Belgian 5 per Cents.
New Loan l'3% ••• 1' 3% ... 103% ... Itia%
ipanish Active.... ....
Neapolitan .....„.„.„....„•„•• 104 10 ... 104 10
Roman "" 1°24 ••• 102% ... 102% •»102%
RAILWAY sHARR.b.
St. Germain
Versailles. L.B 207 50 ... 207 50 ~. 206 25 ... 206 25
K. B 332 50 ... 232 50 ...:31 2.5 ... 331 25
Rouen 452 50 ... 452 50 „. 452 si) ... 452 50
Orleans ......... .......
Montpellier to Cette .....
'ittscroure to Bale ...
CRICKET MATCH.—A match of this manly
game will come off at Garrett's grounds, Copenhagen-Gelds,
on Wednesday, the 25th inst., between Eleven Gentlemen of
the Islington Albion Club and Eleven of the Montpellier.
Wickets pitched at ten o'clock.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
110:1IE CIRCUIT—Croydon, August 19.
(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL and a Common Jury.)
JEROME C. THE THAMES TUNNEL. COMPANY.
This was on action brought against the defendants, for the
purpose of obtaining compensation for injury done to the
plaintiff, in consequence of the negligence of the defendants in
leaving a hole in the Tunnel, into which the plaintiff fell, and
hurt himself severely.
Mr. Thesiger conducted the plaintiff's case ; and Mr. Platt
and Mr. Meisel' Gurney appeared for the Company.
Mr. Tnestnen. stated that the plaintiff was a respectable
tradesman, residinglin London, audhe sought fr.en the defendants
compensation for serious injury that he hattsustained through the
negligence of their si rvants in not protecting a hole in the
Tunnel, that had been made in the progress of the works.
The defendants had admitted they were in fault, and had
tendered a sum of money to the plaintiff, but as he considered
it was not sufficient compensation for the injury he had suffered,
be was compelled to apply to a jury.
Witnesses were called, and the Chief-Justice (who teemed
to think the plaintiff also guilty of negligence) summed up,
when the Jury returned a verdict for the defendants.

ITAMBURGH MAIL.
THE HAGUE, AUG. 17.—1 n the sittings of the Second
Chamber of the States General to-day, the Budget for the
years 1 842 and 1843, and other financial laws, were presented
by his Excellency the Minister of Finance, who, in a prelimi-
nary address, said that the Government would present the
Budget with the more confidence, as the total amount of the
expenditure will be covered by the total amount of receipts,
without the introduction of any new tax, or the augmentation
of old ones, and without having resource to any new loan.
The total estimated amount of the expenditure in florins is
71,388,103 65, and of receipt 71,353,551 92. The expenditure
and receipts for 1843 are nearly the same as for 1842.

EXPENDITURE IN 1842, ---•.
1. The Royal Household.... 1,250,000
2. The principal Colleges 604,732
3. The Foreign Department ... 580,000
4. Justice
4. Interior
6. The Reformed Church ... 1,434,141
7. Roman Church ... 520,000
8. The Navy
9. Colonies 61,226
10. Finances
11. War Department ..
* Of which the Netherlands Debt is 33,481,340.
The budget is accompanied by other projects of law and
explanatory statements, the whole filling twenty-one columns
of the official journal.
His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden has arrived
at the Hague.
FnusiiiNG, AUG. 15.—The statue of De Ruyter will be un-
covered on the 25th of this month in the presence of the King..
Numbers of persons are expected to be present at the ce-
remony.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAIt, Aua. 17
Money. Bills.
Actual Daht, `.,.'34 per Cent ..... 51% 52
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. ........... 101% Int
A HMI t Srnslic, 44 per cent 91% 91%
Ditto, ditto, :4‘, per cent. ........... 75% 75
Commercial Company, 414 per cent...«
Ditto (IQS and 1837) 5 per cent. 101% 102
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.. ..... ....... 97 973 j
Exchange on London, (Inc 12 05
Two months
Hamburg)), One month... 35 81%
Two months 35 564
Dutch Papers, Aug. 18.
BELGIAN U NDS—BAUSIMLI, Auc. 17.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
59
Hothachild's Loan, S per TOll4
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.......... 93
• 3per Cent. •........
......... 7/ %
(1840) lOl%
Lo in of City, 1:32, 4 per Cent 9l
Society et Cornmyrce, 93%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 73%
National Switty ...,,«....
Exchange on London (short)
Brussels Papers, Aug. 17.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Au 0.14.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
101
Bank Shares
AniAo.ltussian Loan — 1580
10414 108
itussian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Sesies lO2 101%
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series...... « 913 97%
Ditto in Certificates ...... 97% New 4 per Cent. (1840) .......
864 i Dutch Actual Debt, 24 per Cent LO% 86%
5034
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bond.
147
New Picket
A nglo. D 157anish Loan, 3 per Cent 75% 7531;
Nl•iwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Csrat. lli‘% 101%
Spanish, New 5 per Cents
16

Thirty.sevel

THE REGISTRATION.—It should not be for-
gotten that Wednesday, August 25, will be the last
day for leaving with the overseers objections to county
electors. The Tories bestow much attention on those
matters ; and the friends of Reform should not suffer
themselves to be surpassed by their political adversaries.
AN AIR ENGINE OF THIRTY HORSE POWER.
—An engineer of Dundee has succeeded in constructing an
air engine that promises to be of great value. The malner
in which it is constructed is at present a secret, as the Inven-
tion is not yet secured by patent, but the engine itself, not
merely a working model,. has been constructed, and is ern,
ployed in his workshops in performing the duty which previ-
ously required a steam engine of thirty horse power. This
effect, we are informed, is produced by the consumption of only
one sack of coals per day.
NEW PROPELLER.—SeveraI engineers and
other scientific mek met on board the Swiftsure steam-boat,
on Wednesday last, to witness experiments with a newly in-
vented submarine propeller, patented by Mr. Blaxland. It is
an improvement upon the Archimedian screw. The trials of
the submarine propeller have been made in a small boat of
three tons burthen, and with an engine of three-quarter horse
power, and they have hitherto been perfectly successful. The
Swiftsure has been bought by the patentees, and will be fitted
up with the patent moving power. The most sanguine expecta-
tions are entertained as to the result.
THE HARVEST.—ISLE OF WlGHT.—Thouglt
we have not exactly harvest weather, the work is going on steadily
and satisfactorily, indeed there is every appearance at present of a
bountiful crop being well secured; barometer 29 75, wind fresh
from the south-west. The corn on the land at East Cowes is being
hurried to the riek..yard, and by next season we expect to see the
land covered by elegant villas, as preparations are already being
made to commence building. About forty lots having been dis-
posed of.

At the Mansion-house yesterday Somerville, v, ho
was accused of having appropriated the instalments due upon
the certificates of Scott, of the Spanish Auxiliary Legion, and
detained the certificates, waited upon the Lord Mayor to state:
that he had paid Scott the amount of the instalments, and that
he should procure the certificates for the complainant as soon as
passible. He had, he begged to say, acted in the manner
described, in consequence of the total negative given to the
charge of forgery made against him, and be should pay every
man whose instalments he had received, provided no false
charge of the kind was brought against him. The Lord Mayor
expressed his gratification at the result of the investigation.

FORTHCOMING BENEFIT OF MR. CAMP-
BELL, AT THE EAGLE TAVERN, CITT-ROAD.-With great
pleasure we observe that Mr. Campbell, the talented Managing
Wednesday evening, August the 25th. Mr.
Director of the Grecian Saloon, will take his Benefit at the
b
appearst to have used his best art towards rendering
rai e ntacinrnexents brilliant and attractive. Nearly forty per-
formers are to form the orchestra. Two bands are to accom-
pany the choir, and the songs and madrigals selected for the
occasion are the choicest of our musical composers. After
this harmonious display in the grounds, various vaudevilles,
extravaganzas, and theatrical amusements will be represented in
the saloon, and the pleasures of the evening are to be crowned
with a superb display of fireworks, which, at this place of en-
tertainment, always call for great admiration, together with
sets of the Musard and Irish quadrilles. Air. Campbell's
benefit promises a brilliant fete night, and will, no doubt,
attract hundreds.

" STORMER, A TALE OF MESMERISMs"---•
It is not more than once in a century, that so fertile and mag-
nificent a subject as Animal Magnetism arises for a story of
mystery. Of all others, this is the best adapted for romance,
inasmu,:h as its agency is inscrutable, and its effects are mar-
vellous. By it new sources of passion are explored—incidents,
hitherto undreamed of, brought before the wondering eyes of
man—and a train of spirit-stirring phenomena revealed. Mrs.
Shelley's tale of the monster " Frankenstein," is hardly more
startling to our human faculties than the strange disclo,ures
of Mesmerism. The work of fiction which has just appeared,
called " Sturmer," will more powerfully excite the breathless
attention of the reader, than perhaps any romance of mo-
dern times.
Copy of a Letter from the late Henry Cowper,
Esq., of Tewen-waters, Herts., to Mr. W. F. France, who is re-
siding at 22, Spring.gardens. "Tewen-waters, Herts., March 21,
1840. Sir, In justice to the Messrs. Solomons about the time men-
tioned in the extract of the advertisement which you have sent
me, I beg to inform you that I certainly did write to them to that
effect; before I possessed the Voice Conductor Sound Magnifiers
I bad been stone deaf. lam within two months of my 87th year,
and can still feel the comfort and benefit of the Sound Magnifiers
Invisible Voice Conductors. i am, Sir, your obedient ser-
vant, Henry Cowper."—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, 39,
Albemarle.street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and
76, King William-street, City, state that their newly..
invented Invisible Voice Conductor Sound Magnifiers enables per-
sons at an advanced age, and of forty and fifty years' standing of
extreme deafness, to join in general conversation, and to catch the
sound of a distant low speaker at a public assembly. They are the
size of a very small gold seven-shilling piece, and when in the
cavityoft
thheeaanrs,htahveiyng a small
are not theplieeasee of fine t percenpetitioeo norl in itsmo plareucz
comfortable
Messrs. Solomons' newly-invented Spectacles, immediately they are
placed before imperfect vision, that mist and dullness which appear&
before the eyes is at once removed, every object becoming clear and
distinct, so that the most aged defective e3e-sight becomes bright
and brilliant, and is brot ght to its youthful, natural, and mi.
ginal state.

WINDSOR, THIIRSDA Y.—The Queen and Prince AlLert
walked out as usual in the forenmat, end her Royal Highness
the Princess Royal was tkken her accustomed airings.
In the afternoon her Majesty and the Prince rode out in a
poney phwton : his Royal Highness driving. The Duchess of
Bedford, Lady Caroline Somers Cocks, and Colonel Buckley
followed in another carriage, and Colonel \Vylde attended on
horseback.

Viscount Melbourne arrived this afternoon at the Castle,
and the Earl of Morley is expected.
Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal left in the morning, and
Colonel Wernvss and Mr. Selwyn, Q.C., also took their de-
parture to dai.

is Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex honoured Mr.
Hayter yesterday by sitting for the picture of her Majesty's
marriage.
The Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday morning
from Kew. His Royal Highness, attended by Lieut.-Colonel
Jones, returned to Kew in the afternoon. Their Royal High-
nesses Prince George and the Princess Augusta of,Cambridge
returned to Kew in the afternoon.
His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal re-
turned to Bushy House, Bushy Park, yesterday, from a visit to
her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Viscount Melbourne left his official residence in Downing-
street yesterday afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor
Castle.

The la.e American papers brought by the Po-ton steamer,
announce with deep regret the sudden death of Colonel Isaac
Co!es of Virginia, one ot the distinguished men of the State, and
the brother of Mrs. Stevenson, the Lady of the American
Minister at this Court.

A deputation fr,m North Shields, consisting of Messrs.
Cuthbert Law, George Rippon, Alexander Bartheman, John
Robson, W. 11. Nlorris ( Agent), and Williams, had an inter-
view with the Marquis of Normanby, yesterday, at the Home-
office. A deputation from South Shields, consisting of Messrs.
Barnard, J. J. Wright, Shortridge, Anderson, and Swinburne,
had also an interview with the Noble Marquis, at the Home-
office.
Sir Howard Dunglas had an interview with Lord John Rus-
sell yesterday, at the Colonial-office.