The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-11 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals at Kedgeree, Bengal.—The Lord Elphin-
stone, Simmons, March 22, from Moulmein ; Euphrasia,
Langlois, 27th, from Pondicherry; Arethusa, Chaplin,
28th, from Monsoorcottas ; Trident, Gower, from Havre
and Bourbon ; David Malcolm, Malcolm, 29th, from
Moulmein; Hermina, Lemon, 29th, from Batavia; Cathe-
rine, Willie, 30th, from Rangoon ; Victoria, Smith, from
Singapore and Penang ; Rose, Bayles, from the Mau-
ritius ; Hamilton Ross, Robb, April 2, from the Cape ;
Lord Amherst, Hopkins, sth, from Sydney; Janet, Childs,
Gth, from Rangoon ; Hooghly, Bayley, 7th, from the
Mauritius ; Her Majesty's ship Conway, Bethune, from
the Nicobar Islands; John Ilepburne, Robertson, 9th,
from Moulmein and Rangoon ; Clown, Stace, 11th, from
Singapore ; Miranda, Thompson, put back leaky, bound
to Liverpool ; Hon. Company's steamer Enterprise, West,
12th, from Singapore, Malacca, and Penang; Ammud-
chunder, Poole, 14th, from Singapore and Penang ; Mau-
Helen, Leurie, from Bourbon; Anna Robertson, Munro,
15th, from Singapore.; Sironde, Pacilly, and Amiable
Creole, Pechaud, 17th, both from Bourbon; Mary
Imrie, Boyd, from the Mauritius ; Tkeodosia, Cushing,
from Calcutta.

Departures from Calcutta—The John Calvin, Aber-
crombie, March 24 (from Saugur, April 13), for London;
Europe, I3rodie, 24th, for the Mauritius ; Ernaad, Hill,
26th, Defiance, Evatt,' Rahomany, Landerv, Indian Oak,
Rayne, Edmonstone, M'Dowall—all for China ; Prince
George, Cbilcott, Columbine, Major, 31st (Saugur, April
9), Victoria, Potter, April 1 ( Saugur, 4th)—all for Sin-
gapore ; Lady of the Lake, Etties, 2d, for Liverpool ;
A lcide, Jude, 4th ( Saugur, 13th ), for Bourbon ; Mahomed,
Shaw, Ovenstone, Bth, Sulimang, M'Farlane, nth ( Sau-
gur, 15th), Blundell, Traill, Bth (Saugur, 15th)—all for
Singapore; Hindoo, Mawson, 9ch ( Saugur, 13th) for
Liverpool ; Elizabeth, Halliday, 9th, Hallerton, Chatter-
ton, 16th, for the Mauritius; Mermaid, Scdgwick, for
Singapore.
Departures from Saugur—The Therence, April 3, for
—; Frederick, Warrren, 3d, Medusa, Purdie, 4th,
Ranger to India 13th, Glenswilly, M'Neill, 13th, for
London; Her Majesty's Ship, Algerine, 15th; Repulse,
Bickford, 15th for London ; Orion, Susan Crisp, Fleming,
and Louisa.

Arrivals at China, previous to February 29.—L' Alex-
andre, Poncaillet, from Batavia, Ann, from Manilla ;
Cawasjeo Family, Dunbar, 22d, from Calcutta and Singa-
pore.

Departures from China.—Carnatic, Laird, for Green-
ock ; Castle Huntley, Johnstone, for Manilla ; Jean,
M'Cutcheon, for New South Wales; Lady Grant, Rundle,
and Earl of Clare, Scott, for Bombay ; Charles Grant,
for London; Orwell, Hewes, for Sydney. Under De-
spatch, Caledonia and Charles Forbes, for Bombay ; Earl
of Balcarras, for London.
Arrivals at Manilla.—Duncan, Wardle, Feb. 9, from
New South Wales ; Bombay Castle, Baxter, 13th, from
Tongkoo Surat, 17th, from Boston.
Departures from Manilla.-13uen, Suceso, February 13.
for China; Lady Nugent, Holton, I tsth, for London ;
Letitia, for Now South Wales.

Arrivals at Suez.—West Indian, Lodge, April 29, from
Llanelly ; Zenobia (steamer), from Bombay.
Arrivals at Bombay.—Kusrovie, Nov. 25, from Siam
and Singapore; Spawaldum, Evans, from Calcutta; Mof-
fatt, Gilbert, from South Australia and Batavia, and to
!old for London ' • Lady Grant, Ruydlc, 27th, from China
and Singapore; Soobrow, from Sumatra; William Shar-
pies, Jones, 25th, from Liverpool; John Bull, Ormond,
29th, from Port Philip ; Bucephalus, Small, from Gree-
nock ; Hon. Company's steamer Cleopatra, Sanders, from
London ; Eleanor Lancaster, CcAiley, from Liverpool.
Departures from Bombay.—Mary, M'Auley, April 25,
for Liverpool; her Majesty's ship Childers ; and Park-
field , Whiteside, for London; George, Cuvier, for Bor-
deaux ; Hon. Company's steamer Atalanta, Rogers, 2Sth,
for Singapore ; Buckinghamshire, Moore, 28th, for Lon-
don ; City of Poohuh, Wilson, for Liverpool ; Emerald
Ide, Peale, for Glasgow ; Berkshire, for London, to sail
30th April, Neptune, for London, 4th May ; Magistrate,
tor Livorpool, lith May.

THE TURN-OUT A r STocKpoRT.—A very
numerous meeting of the weavers was held on a vacant plot of
land in Greek-street, Stockport, on Monday last, when they
expressed their determination to resist the offered reduction,
and refused to accept any compromise whatever with the mas-
ters ; and, on a person proposing to the meeting that a depu.
tation should be appointed to wait upon the manufacturers, not
one hand, except that Of the proposer, was held up for the
motion. Several of the mills are still closed, and no consi-
derable number have yet returned to work. The picqueting is
continued opposite several of the mills, and numerous persons
have been apprehended. The general result of the turn-out
is, that there are 1,130 horses' power standing idle, 4500/.
per
,•week paid less in wages. There are at the present time
.075 cottage houses, besides nine public-houses and 120 shoin,
untenasted in the borough of Stockport.—Mandoster Guar-
dian. _

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THE BANKrrt LOAD.—It is seldom that the
tfi,,trl::st of asa t'lliet:tv snv‘l‘(ll,i;U:(,ll
ngiaecnieertahlieni:luviersy
Banker Lord."
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nletult:
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ecalilat,o„miarlisdohbalafnakderozei
banker Knights in every quarter of the t •
low n ; but a banker
Lord de facto is a novelty in our comme ' rcoia system. May not
the " Banker Lord" of the novel be the ci-devant
" Ilonourables" who have honoured our citizens with their
aristocratic presence, pending their problematicllzns succession to
the title of their house ? Such a " subject— a
to conformhimself, a'
himself, fur the time hein, to the habitsaristocrat forced
and man-
ners of city life, offers a fine pendant,
t, and an entirely
original
one, to the many frequent pictures of wealthy
our fashionable novelists have given us.
(‘ The Stage, both Before anti , PI ' -)e 'lnd the Cur-
tain," by Mr. Bunn, the late Lessee of Drury-lace I heatre,
will be immediately published. Indepen
malenity of the strange
revelations connected with theatrical
work will contain, a large series of oriduinnaal;aenTee:liottwilichllthis
embodied in it of personages in aristocratical lifeesm7le alit;
female, of literary then, artists, and musicians, of s'vits' abouts‘n( ,'
town, of foreign singers and dancers, and of English actors. 1
actresses. It has long been a notorious fact, that to and
become
the Manager of a Theatre is to start on the road t ' ' 0 ruin ; but
why it should be so has hitherto been ani-
known. Mr. Bunn's
Book will solve the mystery.
CORONER'S IN QuEsT._Yesterday an inquest
was held at the Red Lion, Bromrton, on James Blencoe, the
sun of Mr. Renew, tailor, of Brompton-row.—lt appeared
that on Sunday last the father and mother went to Acton-
green, leaving the deceased (34. years) and a child of seven
years of age at home. The deceased was seen about a quarter
of an hour before the accident by Mrs. Jennings, the next door
neighbour, who heard the screams of a child in the shop of the
next house,belongirg to MI% Symonds, the Librarian, in whose
house Mr. Merle° resided. She (Mrs. Jennings) immediately
ran aeross the road to Mr. Symonds' residence for the key, and
having obtained it opened the shop, and found the decease
en
d
lying down upon the floor, surrounded by pieces of brok
glass. The child was quite insensible, and survived but an
hour, and never spoLe. It appeared on examination of the
premises that the child in coming down the stairs of the third
story, placed its hand upon the window, which sli
des do
hildwn-
ward, and it being without lines fell suddenly, when the c
fell out, and through a skylight below. It further appeared
in evidence that frequent applications had been made to the
landlord to repair the windows, &c., had which been done the
accident would not have laappened. The Jury returned a ver-
dict of accidental death, but passed! a vote of severe censure on
the landlord for his negligence in not having repaired the house.
HERRING TRA D E.—it gives us unmingled
pleasure to be enabled to state that our annual and welcome
visitors, the herrings, have made their appearance off the Bay
of Wick, and that, too, in considerable abundance. As yet
the take has been confined to the hook, in consequence of
the small size of the fish ; but :so numerous are they, that
several hundreds have been caught in this way by all the
boats out, while one had as bight as a cran. The fish aro
of good quality, considering the early period of the season.
Many of our fishermen augur well from present appearances.
Our Thurso Correspondent, under date 3d instant, makes us
the following communication ;—" The boats here were only
at sea two nights during last week. 'The first of these the
highest boat brought on shore 13 craft', but on the second
only a few hundreds. Yesterday morning, the highest boat
had 10 crans, and to-day 16 crane. 'There were few boats
out from the stations west of this on Monday night. The
highest. boat haul six crans. lam without any account of
the
" " 'cc of the boats to the west last night. Owing to a
strong gale of wind from the north, there will be no putting to
sea
to-night.'._ joh„ , Grout J /
-o -mai:a
A certain man went to the Khalif of Bagdad,
saying:: lam prophet." He said, ~What miracle cost thou
wTbek or ? The man replied, ~ Any one which thou desirest.,,
Khalif said, " Cause that melon-seed in my sight to grow
up immediately, and bear a flower, and produce a melon whi I
days dela
may be cooked." The man said, " Give me four el
y.'
He said,will • " I give no delay." The pretender replied, ~ 0
,
thou unjust
one! to God, who is omnipotent, thou grantest a
delay of four months."—Arab Proverb.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPEP.S OF THIS DAY.
(From the Mornimy Chronicle.)
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE HER MAJESTY
AND PRINCE ALBERT.
Her Majesty's loyal subjects will learn with astonish-
ment and horror that an attempt was last night made
on her life. The assassin is a youth only seventeen
years of age, who has been in the habit of obtaining his
livelihood as a pot-boy at public-houses, though at pre-
s..:nt he is not in any employment. He was, how-ever,
respectably, if not genteelly dressed. He appeared to
be perfectly sane. How such a horrid design should enter
the head ofayouth of seventeen, in such a condition of life,
is no doubt most surprising. If he have been the instru-
ment of any plot or conspiracy to destroy her Majesty, as
seems to be implied in the statement) that at the
lodgings of this youth have been found a black crape,
having attached to it. three satin bows of a blood-led
colour, and a piece of paper containing a list of mem-
hers of a secret society, we trust justice will over-
take the whole of the guilty parties. It would be
idle, however, with the meagre stock of materials yet
possessed, to speculate on the motives of this diabolical
attempt to deprive us of our beloved Sovereign. The
determination to take her Majesty's life must
have been very strong, for it appears that twice
he fired with careful and well-directed aim. No-
thing, we understand, could surpass the bearing of
her Majesty on the occasion. She proceeded up Con-
stitution-hill as if nothing had happened, and returned
about a quarter-past seven o'clock, an hour after the
attempt on her life. Not the slightest mark of agitation
was to be traced in her countenance when she returned.
By that time the approaches to the Palace were filled
with gentlemen and ladies, who escorted her with the
most enthusiastic cheering to Buckingham Gate. We
have seen some of those who were present, who de-
scribe the scene as one of the most interesting that can
possibly be conceived. All were lost in admiration at
the noble bearing.of her Majesty.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
ATTEMPT UPON HER MAJESTY'S LIFE.
It is with pain of the most extreme character that
we record in this day's paper one of the most daring,
flagrant, and unjustifiable attempts that ever was made
upon the life of any human being—the most traitorous,
the most disloyal, the most heartless, and the most
cruel. Need we say that we advert to the horrible at-
tempt made yesterday upon the life of her Majesty and
her beloved consort ? Need we say that we shudder
at the thought that, under any circumstances, any
British subject should have conceived the infamous and
inhuman design of depriving her Majesty of life—or
that we are more particularly horrified at it when we
consider, on the one hand, the amiable and benevolent
character of our young and virtuous Queen,
and, on the ether, the fond hopes in which
her people indulge, of her becoming the mother
of a long and glorious line of British princes ?
Heaven forgive the unhallowed wretch who conceived
and attempted to execute the design of depriving her
sacred Majesty of her life, and England of her fond
hopes of regeneration and future glory ; for public in-
dignation will blast and destroy him without appeal and
without mercy. Callous, indeed, must be the heart,
and seared to all generous feelings of chivalry and
loyalty, that would not revolt at the ungenerous at.
tempt to deprive one of life who has hitherto de-
served so well of all, and whose sex at least ought to
have protected her from the dagger and pistol of the
assassin. What the motive of the wretch could be, it
is impossible to divine. The first inference from the
atrocious proceeding that would suggest itself, would
be.that he was deprived of reason, and most truly gra-
tified should we be, if such were ultimately found to
be the fact ; but no unconfirmed rumour tells us that
such is not the case. On the contrary, we have every
reason to believe that the person who was guilty of
the infamous attempt is of sane and sound mind, and
that he must have been !—but we will not prejudge
the case. The name of the malignant is, we are in-
formed, Edward Oxford, lately a pot-boy in a public
house in or near Pimlico, and living somewhere in the
neighbourhood of West-square, Lambeth. His age is
stated to be eighteen ; but it is rumoured that his al-
leged name must be a misnomer—his fingers being long
and tapering, and as white as the whitest silk, and
thereby indicating a superior rank in life.
(From the Morning Post.)
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE HER MAJESTY.
The metropolis was last night convulsed by the
strongest feelings of horror and indignation on learning
that an attempt had been made upon the life of our be-
loved Sovereign. It is easier to imagine than to de-
scribe the consternation which the first report of'the atro-
city excited. It seemed to be incredible that a Queen so
young, so interesting, so worthy of the loyalty and af-
fection of her subjects, so confiding in their loyalty and
affection, that with .these only for her guard she
habitually 'mixes in their assemblages and recrea-
tions, should be the mark at which the blow
of the traitor or assassin could.- be levelled. The
rumour was heard with shuddering incredulity.
A short period, however, sufficed to diffuse throughout
London the painful knowledge that such a crime had
been perpetrated, and that the prisoner was in custody.
The number of persons who actually witnessed it
was inconsiderable, and of this small number few could
be accurate, none dispassionate, observers. We do not,
therefore, ask our readers to give implicit credit to the
detailed statements which we subjoin. Those which
proceed from our own correspondents are, we have
reason to think, substantially accurate. But in a mat-
ter so deeply interesting to the public we have thought
it our duty not to neglect any source of information.
Upon one point there is no discrepancy in the ac-
counts we now present to our readers. It is evident
from the whole of them that the personal feelings and
demeanour of her Majesty and of her illustrious consort,
in the painful and trying situation in which they were
placed, were precisely such as a high-spirited and
noble-minded nation would desire to witness, on such
an occasion, in the occupant of its throne. The
steady self-possession and heroic self-control exhibited
both by the Queen and Prince Albert will be recog-
nized by the people of England as emulating (in some
points of view they may, indeed, be said to surpass)
the noble exhibition of the same qualities made on one
or two not dissimilar occasions by her Majesty's vener-
ated predecessor, George the Third.
( From the 7'i,nes )
The sensation produced by this diabolical attempt upon
the lives of her Majesty and her illustrious consort among
the crowd in the vicinity of the palace may well be ima-
gined, and it is probable that the indignation of the popu-
lace would have vented itself on the bloodthirsty miscreant
by whom the attempt was made, had he not been removed
so quickly by the police from the scene. Several ex-
pressed their fears that her Majesty, although unhurt,
would be likely to suffer severely from the circumstance,
but the apprehensions of the bystanders were in some de-
gree relieved by seeing the Royal carriage containing the
Queen and Prince Albertreturn along► the drive towards the
Palace at about seven o'clock. The carriage was attended by
a great crowd of Noblemen and gentlemen on horseback who
had heard of the atrocious attempt in Hyde Park, and on
seeing the carriage return accompanied it to the Palace
gates, and testified their delight and satisfaction at the
escape of her Majesty and the Prince by taking off their
bats and cheering the Royal couple as they passed along.
The joy of the populace was also expressed by long and
loud huzzas, and indeed the enthusiastic reception of her
Majesty and the Prince by the assembled crowd must
have been highly gratifying to them both. Her Majesty,
as might well be supposed, appeared extremely pale from
the effects of the alarm she had experienced, but, notwith-
standing the state of her feelings, she seemed fully sen-
sible of the attachment evinced to her Royal Consort and
herself, by repeatedly smiling and bowing to the crowd in
acknowledgment of their loyalty and affection. After the
carriage had passed through the garden gate the crowd col-
lected in groups, discussing the all- engrossiag subject,
and various conjectures were raised to r.ccount for the
motive which:could have induced the ruffianly assassin to
commit an act so atrocious and uncalled for. And here
we may mention that a report was circulated that the act
was preconcerted, and that the villain by whom it was
committed, was an agent instigated to the commission of
the deed by some interested parties. We notice th.s re-
port for no other purpose than to point out its gross and
stupid absurdity. for we firmly believe that no subject of
her Majesty, whether residing within the kingdom or out
of it, would wish for one moment to deprive her of life
and divert the succession to another source. The suppo.
sition is too glaringly monstrous for any man in his senses
to entertain.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

(WEDNESDAY EVENING.)
TIMES—Money was comparatively abundant to-day,
so much so that some brokers, who wished to employ it at,
the Stock Exchange, were un able to do so. These frequent
alterations in the value of money, which must have been
observed in all reports of late on the subject, have caused
a great deal of speculation among the dealers in money as
to the cause ; but they are unable in general to assign any
satisfactory solution of the difficulty. It has, however,
struck many persons who have been in a situation to ob-
serve what is going on between the joint stock banks of
the city and the private bankers, that this may possibly be
the true reason of the uncer.ain state of the circulation.
Suppose a joint stock bank to receive deposits to the
amount of 100,0001. in the morning, represented by
checks drawn on various private bankers, they not having
any admission to the clearing-house would collect the
notes for them immediately at the counters of the banks
upon which they were denwn, which would limit to that
extent he means of these bankers of accommodation to
their customers; and the case will be reversed when the
private bankers have checks in deposit to a large amount
upon the joint-stock banks. But if in the whole of these
transactions the money
they represent had been left un_
touched until the clearing at five o'clock in the afternoon,
it is probable that neither the general balances of the pri-
vate banks nor of the joint-stock banks would have been
materially altered by them. There seems much sound_
nese in this opinion, and it is a matter well worthy of the
consideration of the private bankers, whether. in this per.
tinacious exelus:on of the joint-stock hanks from the clear-
ing-house, they do not bring serious inconveniences upon
themselves and upon their customers also. They may be
assured that it wi.l come to this in the end, whether or not
it is the case at present.

CHRONICLE.—The English Funds have continued
firm throughout the day, Consols for the opening having

closed at 91i, sellers, ex. div,, after being buyers at that
quotation.
We learn by private letters from Madrid that specula-
tors there, acting, it is said, for English houses of high
standing, are buying up the lately issued tituk,s, by enter-
ing int) small contracts for the supply of the army, by
hich means they obtain possession of the new stock on
very profitable terms, and, it is said, are in the meantime
throwing a heavy amount of the Active Bonds upon the
market. Although the committee of the Stock Exchange
cannot prevent this operation, they will of course give no
countenance to any of the new titulos.
Some of the private bankers, we um derstand, have taken
umbrage at the opinion we have expressed on their refusal
to admit the Joint Steck Banks to the benefits of the
clearing house. They complain that we have dealt par-
tially by th2m, and that our views are erroneous in charg-
ing them with illiberality or narrowness of feeling. The
grounds on which they chiefly rest their case are, we be-
lieve, that in refusing to admit Joint-Stock Banks t„) the
clearing-house, they are only maintaining a privilege ex-
clusively enjoyed by the London private banks ; and that,
in resisting the extension of it to rival establishments they
are merely acting upon defensive principles.
Under those circumstances, they ask whether, in wish-
ing to maintain their privileges, it be not unfair to charge
them with illiberality, or to make their conduct the sub-
ject of censure in the public Journals? Such we believe to
Le the sentiment of the private bankers, or at least of a
large proportion of them ; and if we have not stated their
case fairly, we shall readily supply or correct any omission
or mistakes. Assuming, however, in the mean time, that
we have stated correctly the substance of their plea, we are
desirous to afford it full weight and notice, for we believe
that the admission of the Joint-stock Banks to the clear ing-
house:would materially interfere with the business of the
private Banks.

Such being the case, it would ,be perhaps unreasonable
to expect that the private banks should voluntarily resign
their monopoly of the clearing-house, and admit their
rivals on a footing of equality. Private bankers arc not
exempt from the feelings of human nature, and, as com-
mercial men, they are of course desirous to preserve the
profits of the trade in which their capital is invested. The
clearing-house is the mere accident of private arrange-
ment, instituted about the year 1776, according to the tes-
timony of Mr. Thomas, the inspector, given before the
Bullion Committee in the year 1810, at which period the
number of clearing bankers was stated by him at forty-six.
In 1834, according to Mr. Gilbart, they had diminished
to thirty, and do not much exceed that number, we believe,
at the present time.

SUN.—The Funds closed worse than they were in the
earlier part of the day, the difference, however, being
certainly very trivial. Money was in more request,
and from 50,000/. to 60,0001. is said to have bees
loaned on the security of Stock, at 5 per cent. For
the opening Consols left off at 9q- to sellers ; Ex-
chequer Bills wore done at 235. to 255, premium ; and
East India Bonds at 2s. to 4s. premium. The Re-
duced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 994 to
In the Foreign Market there has been scarcely any
business doing. The Active Spanish Bonds receded to
27-g- I, and for Account to 27i ; Portuguese New Five
per Cents, were heavy at 35, and the Three per
Cents. at 24i ; Belgian Bonds were as high as 104 to
; and Dutch Two-and-Half par Cents. obtained 544.
The Share Market presented an animated appear-
ance ; and, with the exception of one or two lines of rail-
way, there was a general improvement in prices. The
Great Western Shares were done at 36, the New at
17 ; London and Birmingham at 91, the New at 274 ;
the New North Midland at 105 ; the York and North
Midland; at 175 ; the South Western at 16i ; the
Manchester and Leeds at 245; and the Black-
wall at 14 premium. The Manchester and Birming-
ham were 51. the Midland Counties 7, the Cheltenham
and Great Western 21, the Eastern Counties 8, the
Brighton 51, the Greenwich 105, the Croydon Trunk
and the South Eastern and Dover 13k discount.