The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND.

The latest New Zealand papers received, which are
of the 24th of April, refer with some dissatisfaction to
the apathy exhibited by the representative of her Ma-
jesty with respect to Port Nicholson, and the settlements
already made are not so prosperous as interested parties
'would make us belieVe. The emigrants who had ar-
rived out there were not located with any advantage, and
in some of the papers it is said that Governor Hobson
had taken the best of the mechanics for his own employ-
ment. Altogether the feeling between those who have
become proprietors of land out there, and who appear, in
some manner to have influence, and the local Govern-
ment, is not such as would instil confidence as to the cor-
dial co-operation of these parties. At one of the settle-
ments called Wanganui the settlers, in the absence of
better occupation, had relapsed into habits of idleness
and debauchery, and to such an extent was this carried
that the appointment of Magistrates was thought neces-
sary to repress it. It was a bad example to the natives,
who had already commenced a system of depredation
upon the shopkeepers, and even extended it to the gar-
dens of the settlers. To overawe the natives it was
suggested that a short history of England should be
translated and published, to show the resistless power
9f the English, and what they had achieved in former
time. It was reported that good coal had been disco-
vered at Evans's Bay, which, if it proved true, would, it
is said, be of the utmost consequence to Port Nicholson;
for the discovery would, if the article were good and
abundant, make that place the head-quarters for steam
navigation between New Zealand and Sydney, and the
latter and the numerous islands to the west of New Zea-
land. Flour was 301. to 35/. per ton ; beef, Is. to ls. 3d.
per lb. ; butter (Irish), is. 9d. to 2s. per lb.; ditto, fresh,
ss. per lb. ; cheese, ls. 3d. to is. 10d. per lb. ; candles,
10d. to 3s. per lb. ; fowls, 10s. to 18s. per pair ; eggs,
Gs. per dozen ; and ducks, ss. per pair. Now compare
the high price of wages, as it is termed, with these
prices :—mechanics, 21. 14s. to 31. Gs. per week ; la-
bourers, 1/. 10s. to 21. 2s. This gives a fine answer to
the pretended advantages of emigration.

SLAVE TRADE IN BRAZIL.
The Delight packet brings advises from Rio de Janeiro
of the 16th June. The barefaced effrontery with which
the slave trade had recently been prosecuted off the
coast of Brazil, in direct contravention of existing
treaties, had induced the Government at Rio de Janeiro
to take steps for checking the growing evil, and accord-
ingly they dispatched a sloop of war to cruise off the port
of Ilho Grande. The commander, Lieutenant Reys,
upon going ashore, was seized by the slave traders, sent
to prison on a charge of piracy, and, under the
iniquitous and shameful pretext of justice, removed
in irons, like a felon, from gaol to gaol, being still
in confinement at the date of our accounts. The
proceeding did not end here, however, for the Bri-
tish brig of war Clio, on the 12th of May last, having
made an unsuccessful attempt to capture a slaver on the
coast north of Campos, by putting out two armed boats
to pursue her, she was run aground on the Ruma island,
where the slaves were all landed, the British having been
prevented from getting the vessel off, by the firing of
two or three bodies of men who came to the assistance of
the slaver's crew. This happened, as we have said, on
the 12th, and on the 29th the Clio sent a boat on shore
with the English pennant flying, and which landed two
officers and 13 sailors. Under the pretence of being un-
provided with passports they were arrested and confined
for several days, although known to belong to the brig
of war cruising off the river; such was the influence of
the atrocious slave traffickers in this part of the Bra-
zilian territory. It is stated that Lieutenant Reys
was not likely to be liberated for some time, though his
treatment was rather better. The Portuguese slave-
holders show a very determined front in this part of the
world, and have succeeded, it seems, in exciting a bad
feeling against the English ; for we are informed that
the people are outrageous against the British navy, and
that, besides several very unbecoming allusions made to
our Government by both the leading parties in the Le-
gislature, a circular had been issued by the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, ordering all foreigners to be repelled by
force that might land armed on any part of the coast..
The news from Rio Grande is far from favourable.
Joas Paulo, the Commander-in-Chief named by the An-
drada Ministry, a veritable Don Furioso Bombasto, who,
about a year ago, threatened to destroy the whole British
fleet from the tort at the entrance of the port, was, with
all his army, about 7,000 men, in the worst possible
plight at l'amirotin, without a single horse, and sur-
rounded by a host of rebels well mounted. In the last
reports from him, via Monte Video, for the direct inter-
course with the coast was interrupted, he complained pi-
tifully of the cold weather and rain, and of the dysentery
amongst his army, owing to the entire want of flour Of
any kind, and also of sufficient clothing.

PUNISHMENT of CORN JOBBERS,
(From the Cambridge Advertiser.)
The following advertisement is copied from the Gen-
tleman's Magazine, for June, 1758 :
. " Cambridge.
" Whereas I, William Margetts, the younger, was,
at the last assizes for the county of Cambridge, con-
victed upon an indictment for an attempt to raise the
price of corn in Ely'market, upon the 24th day of Sep-
tember, 1757, by offering the sum of Gs. a bushel for
wheat for which no more than ss. 9d. was demanded :
And whereas on the earnest solicitation and request of
myself and my friends, the prosecutor has been prevailed
upon to forbear any further prosecution against me, on
my submitting to make the following satisfaction, viz.,
on my paying the sum of 50/. to be distributed by the
ministers and churchwardens of the several parishes in
the said town of Ely, and the further sum of 501. to the
poor inhabitants of the town of Cambridge, to be distri-
buted by the ministers and churchwardens of the several
parishes in the said town, and the full costs of the prose-
cution; and upon me reading this acknowledgment of my
offence publicly, and with a loud voice, in the presence of
a ki.agistrate, constable, or other peace-officer of the said
town of Ely, at the market-place there, between the
hours o: twelve and one o'clock on a public market-day,
and likewise subscribing and publishing the same in
three of the evening papers printed in London, and in
the Cambridge ,kurnal on four different days, and I have
accordingly paid the said two sums of 501. and costs, and
do hereby confess mys,qlf to have been guilty of the said
offence, and testify my. sincere and hearty sorrow in
having committed a crime which, in its consequences,
tended so much to increase the distress of the poor in
the late calamitous scarcity. And I do hereby most
humbly acknowledge the lenity of the prosecutor, and
beg pardon of the public in general, and of the town of
Ely in particular.
" This paper was read by me at the public market-
place at Ely, in the presence of Thaws Aungier, gen-
tleman, chief constable, on the 2d day of June, 1758,
being a public market-day there, and is now, as a further
proof of the just sense I have of the heinousness of my
crime, subscribed and published by me,
" WILLIAM MARGETTS.
" Witness—JAMES DAY,
"Under-Sheriff of Cumbridgeshire."

EXTRAORDINARY FELONY AND ATTEMPT-
ED ARSON.—Monday, a respectably clad female, appa-
rently from 25 to 27 years of age, named Isabella Madge,
was placed at the bar of the Police Court, Liverpool, un-
der the following extraordinary charge, the circumstances
of which were briefly introduced by Mr. Dowling :—lt
appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, who is re-
spectably connected, was on her way to the United States,
and had taken up her lodgings, pending the stay of the
packet-ship by which she had taken her passage, at a
Mr. Sumner's, Stewart. street. Two other females also
lodged there, who slept in a separate bed, but in the
same room. A few nights ago, while they were in bed,
they smelt a suffocating smoke, and on rising saw the
prisoner with her night-dress sparkling as if from the
ignited materials in which lucifer-matches are dipped.
They put out the fire, and, as she made some plausible
excuse, they would have again gone to rest, but the
smoke and smell of burning being still strong, they roused
the landlady, and informed her they apprehended fire.
She came into the room, threw up the window, and ex-
pressed a mistaken opinion that the smoke came from
the outside. The smoke soon dispersed, and the matter
subsided. Next day one of the females in the house
missed a handkerchief, and complained of the circum-
stance to Mrs. Conolly, who had some connexion with
the house. She (Mrs. C.) expressed surprise that it
could not be found, and at last, on searching a chest of
drawers in the room, missed a cloak, a dress, a remnant
of cloth, and some other articles of her own. She also
found two other handkerchiefs of her own partly burnt,
and so placed as to form a sort of train to two packets of
gunpowder, together of about four ounces weight, each in
a separate drawer, which had happily not ignited, other-
wise the drawers would have been blown to pieces, and
some of these present much injured or killed. The- pro-
perty missed, including the handkerehiefs and some other
articles, were afterwards found, partly at a pawnbroker's
and partly amongst the luggage which the prisoner had
sent to the packet-ship. The articles were identified, as
also the prisoner, as having pawned some of them. The
prisoner also admitted to one of the witnesses that she
had taken them, and that she had bought the powder
and ignited the handkerchiefs extending to It. It would
appear that she was not aware of the probable immediate
danger or effects of the gunpowder, and that her object
was to cover her delinquencies by setting fire to the
• house. She was committed for trial on the felony only.
The prisoner is from Wakefield.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 11.—The average price of
Wheat last week was 23f. 34c., and that of Rye 12f. 73c.
IWheat is thus far exempt from import duty, that on
Rye remains at 21f. 50c. for 1,000 kilogrammes. The
t oxport duty on both is only 25c. for I,OQO kilogrammes.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAH:WAY.
The Half-yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders
of the above Railway was holden yesterday, pursuant to
notice, at the Station of the Company, Shoreditch.
CHARLES BOSANQUET, Esq., in the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN stated he had no intention of address-
ing the Proprietors at any length. This was the tenth
meeting they had held, and lie was afraid he should be
guilty of tautology if he at all enlarged upon the nature
of the undertaking. Since the last meeting he was happy
to inform the Proprietors that the whole of the contracts
between this and Colchester were now let, and that the
works were progressing with great rapidity, and there
was no doubt that the line would be opened all the way
to Colchester, fifty-two miles from London, in September
of the ensuing year. Independently of other difficulties,
this railway, though it traversed a rich and fertile coun-
try, though it passed through many towns of great agri-
cultural and manufacturing importance, had not met
with much support from the owners of property through
the country which it traversed; now, however, that a
portion of the line (171 miles) had been opened, these
gentlemen were coming round, and that favourable opi-
nion was now vouchsafed to this undertaking, which it so
eminently deserved. There was only one other point to
which he would allude ; the Directors had been charged
with bringing forth deceptive accounts of the state of the
line; they had taken an opportunity of denying this on
their oaths before the public, and they now asserted on
their honour, before this meeting, the correctnessof those
accounts. On the etimate of Messrs. Braithwaite and
Locke, the whole of the line from beginning to end, would
be completed at an average expense of 45,0001. per mile;
that expense included the London viaduct, which had
been a very great expense. Owing to the large sum paid
for the purchase of land, excluding the London viaduct,
the average cost would be 34,000/. per mile; the whole
cost of the line from beginning to end would be 2,300,0001.
After this, let no man say money bad been extravagantly
expended in this undertaking; there was not the slight-
est doubt that this railway would amply remunerate the
shareholders for the expense and trouble they had under-
gone; it would redound to their credit and private good,
and, as far as they were concerned, be one of the most
lucrative proceedings of their lives.—(Loud cheers.)
The Report was then read, from which it appeared, in
addition to the statements of the Chairman, that there
was now in the hands of the Treasurer a clear balance
of 14,444/., affording a dividend of ss. per share; but
that this dividend would net be'payable till after the next
meeting in February. -
W. LAURENCE HEYWORTH, Esq., moved the adop-
tion of the Report; he wished, however, to have no
reserved fund; he would like to have the balance at once
divided amongst the shareholders. He considered the
formation of a reserved fund was but the keeping back
of the money of the present, for the future shareholders.
After some further discussion the Report was unani-
mously adopted.
Mr. SWIFT proposed that the sum of 1001. be given
by the Company for the promotion of religious instruc-
tion amongst the labourers on the line.
Messrs. RA.THBONE, GIBBES, ESDAILE, and others,
seconded the motion.
Mr. LAURENCE HEYWORTH, Mr. COPELAND, and
others, opposed it.
A good deal of discussion ensued; and the motion was
ultimately amended by the addition of " any proprietor
objecting to this outlay, and giving notice to that effect
within a month, shall be allowed to withdraw his portion
of the amount;" which amendment was carried by a ma-
jority of one.

MESMERISM BY DE LAFON-
TAINE.
(THIRD NOTICE.)

We yesterday attended, amongsi a company of be-
tween three and four hundred persons, consisting prin-
cipally of distinguished members of the medical profes-
sion, and the elite of that portion of the fashionable
world which can afford to be in town in this season,
at an exhibition of Mesmeric experiments, which, after
more than three hours patient observance, was almost
unanimously pronounced to be a failure. The Professor
having totally failed to produce any result by which he
could hope to satisfy the least sceptical of his visitors,
readily assented to a proposition that the experiment
should be renewed to-morrow (this day) at the same
theatre, the Queen's Rooms, Hanover-square, and that
all those who had subscribed on this occasion should be
admitted without further payment. With this under-
standing the company separated, after a tedious and un-
interesting attendance of more than three hours.

DUBLIN CITY REGISTRY.
SATURDAY.

Registered. Stand. Rejected.
Liberals 2O ... 10 ...
Tories 5 ... 1 ... 1

The Liberal claimants cases stand over on the most
frivolous objections. Any case where a claimant appears
to register out of a shop, although in many instances
paying over 201., the agents for the Tories require the
case to stand over to give them an opportunity- to dis-
prove the value ; yet,. in nine cases out of ten, they are
obliged to admit the value, after having an opportunity
of their hired valuators inspecting the premises.

MONDAY.

Registered. Stand. Rejected.
Liberals 2O 2 . 3
Tories ... 2 ... 4 ... 1
Gross majority for Liberals, 83.