The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-06 00:00:00

LONDON, FUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1640.

PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made in the cause of JOHN-
SON t'. HAMMERSLEY, the Creditors of HUGH HAM-
MERSLEY, late of Pall Mall, in the County of Middlesex,
(trading under the firm of °` Hammersleys and Co., Bankers),
who died on the 19th of September, 1840, are, forthwith, to
come in and prove their debts before Sir WILLIAM HORNE,
one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in
Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ;or in default
thereof they will be excluded the benefit of the said Decree.
CLARKE, FYNAIORE, and FLADGATE, 43, Craven-
street, Strand, Solicitors for the Plaintiff.
WALKER and COULTHURST, 13, New Inn, Strand,
Solicitors for the Defendants.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSU-
RANCE COMPANY,
8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
The FIRST SEPTENNIAL DIVISION of PROrITS
of this CO3IPAN Y will be declared in the ensuing year on
all Policies of the participating class effected previous to the
insure
their December, 1840. Parties therefore who wish to
their lives should avail themselves of the opportunity they now
have of sharing in the bonus so soon to be declared, by imme-
diately making pi oposals.
The following are the annur.l premiums for the assurance of
1001. for the whole period of life, on which half credit may be
per cent. interest, to bo deducted at death from the sum in-
sureded for live years ; which credit m
may remain unpaid at 5

Age. Without Profits. With Profits.
20 •... l3 10
30
40
50
Annual premium for assuring 1001. payable at a fixed age,
or at death, should it occur before the party attains that age :
Age to be attained.
Sixty. Sixty-five. Seventy,
Age 520 ...... £2 6 1 £2 2 4 £2 0 0
30 3 2 10 2 15 2
when 40 419 0 4 0 3...... 3 9 7
assured. t
Example.—A person aged 20, by paying an annual pre-
mium of 21. becomes entitled to 100/ on his attaining the age
of 70, or to the same sum should he die before arriving at that
age.
Fer the convenience of parties residing in the City, they may
make their appearance and pass the medical examination before
the agents, Edward Frederick Leeks, Esq., 4, Scots-yard,
Bush-lane, Cannon-street, and S. F. Youde, Esq., surgeon,
9, Old Jewry.
Every information will be afforded on application to the
Resident Director, Edward Boyd, Esq., 8, Waterloo-place.
Proposals may be accepted en Wednesday at three o'clock, and
any other day appearance may be made at half-past two o'clock,
when Frederick Hale Thomson, Esq., the Cempany's Surgeon,
is in attendance.
EDWARD LENNOX BOYD, Secretary.

j)READvut. SUICIDE.
Yesterday morning an inquest was •held at Tfre Ade-
laide Hotel, Sheet-street, Windsor, before Mr. T. W.
Martin (Coroner for the borough) and a highly respect-
able Jury, upon the body of Mr. William Glover, of the
firm of Hopkins and Glover, shipping insurance brokers,
of Change-alley, Cornhill, who was found dead on Satur-
day morning in a shed close to the Great Park, from
the effects of a pistol bullet, which had entered his head
at the right temple and come out at the opposite side.
The first witness examined was Ann Bartlett, keeper
of the Pheasants beer•shop, close to the shed in which
the deceased was discovered. She stated that on Friday
afternoon the deceased entered her taproom, where he
had two glasses of ale ; and after reading a newspaper,
and inquiring about the funeral:of the late Princess Au-
gusta (which took place the same evening), he left at 6
o'clock, after staying about half an hour. Witness ob-
served nothing extraordinary in his conduct.

aa 3.tioug him ;
John Taylor, a carpenter, who was building the shed
i
n out
close to the Magpie style, leading to the Park, in which
sixdiscovered,th
o'clock on Saturday morn-
deposed, thAt when he
w
down, and, thinking he was
but, receiving no answer,
regeunntidki
tec,ocsiewiaealo‘s,cre
kadal
laemvt(vi. l
past
he went close to him, when he found him lying on his
left side, with his face upwards, covered with coagulated
blood. He had firmly graved in his right hand
a discharged pistol, and there was a bullet-hole in his
right temple. He was quite cold, and appeared to
have been dead some hours. His cravat, hat, and walk-
ing-stick, were lying by his side. Witness then went
for the police, leaving him in charge of a sawyer who
was at work close by.
Henry Sexton, the policeman who was called in by
the preceding witness, stated that he had the deceased
taken to the Adelaide Hotel, where he searched the
body, upon which he found a bunch of keys, gloves,
several letters and invoices, the Times newspaper of
Friday, a silver snuff-box, and 7s. 6d. in silver.
There was also a two-ounce packet of gunpowder,
from which a small portion had been taken. In a
Pocket-book there was a blank check on his bankers,
(Williams, Deacon, and Co.), and a small scrap of
writing paper, on which was written, in pencil, the
following: William Glover, Homerton-terrace,
Hackney, and Change-alley, Cornhill. Take me to the
Adelaide, as I am known to Mr. Oliver, and Mr.
Barton, upholsterer, High-street."
It appeared that the deceased had not been to the
Adelaide ; but he had been seen in Win lsor just
previously to the funeral procession of the late Princess
Augusta arriving there on Friday evening.
Mr. E. Bagster, a nephew of the wife of the deceased,
stated that he had resided with Mr. Glover, at his
house at Homerton-terrace, Hackney, during the last

three years and a half. The deceased, who was se-
venty-one years of age, was formerly in a very extensive
way of business, but latterly he had transacted but
very littte. Until lately witness thought him to be very
wealthy, and he was considered to be so by all his friends.
Ho has now money at his banker's. Until within the last
three weeks, when he first complained of giddiness and
pains in his head), he appeared as usual; but since that ho
has been very reserved, and when any of his old friends
have called upon him he appeared annoyed, not liking
to see them. On Sunday witness observed something
exceedingly strange in his behaviour. Latterly he has
not attended business so regularly and punctually as
usual. Witness breakfasted with him at eight o'clock
on Friday last, and he then appeared more cheerful than
he had been for the two or three days preceding ; but
lie said nothing about going to Windsor. He had no
children. He had not had any losses lately in business.
The paper produced was in the handwriting of deceased.
Charles Walker Ford, who had been clerk to the de-
ce;sed for the last five years, deposed to his regular
habits of business until with;n the last fortnight, when
he observed a great change. He had not been to
'Cliange•alley but once (and then he stayed only five
minutes) since that day fortnight. He then tried to
avoid every person he met who knew him, especially in
passing the Marine Insurance-office and Lloyd's.
This witness then produteda letter written to to him
by the deceased a day or two before he left town, re-
lating to matters of business, in which he requested wit-
ness to inform Messrs. Elliott, the brewers, who had
applied to him, that he had been out of town for a week,
and would not return for some days. The letter then
o ent on to state, that his nights were sleepless, and
that he was almost distracted, and expressing a hope
that his bankers had discounted a small bill which had

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in
been paid for that purpose.
This being the whole of the evidence, the Coroner
briefly addressed the Jury, who returned a verdict of
" Temporary insanity."

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION

AT OXFORD.

On Saturday last William Davey, a young man o
dashing appearance, attired in a military cloak and cap,
and wearing mustachios underwent a final examination
in the Magistrates' loom in the County Gaol of Ox-
ford, before Mr. W. AshurstrChairman of the Oxford
Quarter Sessions, and a full Bench of Magistrates, en
a charge of shooting at with intent to murder Mr. John
Davey, a gentlemen of independent property, residing.
at Dorchester, in Oxfordshire.
The prosecutor, who is between sixty and seventy
years of age, and who, while giving his evidence,
seemed greatly affected, being sworn, stated that the
prisoner was his nephew and heir-at-law. el
eee was
twenty-three years of age, and on attaining his majority
came into the possession of a good fortune, which he
had squandered away in dissipation in London.
gave him 401., and advice as to his
About
three weeks back the prisoner came unexpectedly down
to Dorchester, and, waiting upon witness, asked him to
give him some money. Witness felt surprised at such a
request ; but, being assured by the prisoner that he was
crossing the garden attached to
He did not see any more of
wfuittuhroeut ncioanndeyu,cht.e
the prisoner till lie was brought there in custody.
which was evidently
founda
that
he layt
On Friday, the 25th ult., witness, who was one of the
Guardians of the Poor of his parish, attended a vestry
meeting, from which he was returning. about half-past 8
ndimfornue
iiniisthereesvideenninege,
somethingheardhnrai
,Idosonrsa:i
discharged at him, as something. hard at the same mo-
ment struck him on the breast. Not knowing what
for
Witness
time previous to the
where he was struck
followed by the report of a stol,
lie was not wounded, but severely
bruised. Having raise an alarm his brother made in-
quiries,injury
and suspicion fell upon the prisoner, as a per-
son answering his ces been seen loitering
attempt made on his life, had no doubt that
the person who tired was concealed behind . the tree
near which lie was walking. Whatever struck him did
about witness's dwelling
so as it passed hine w
sidcays, but in all probability lie
should have been mortal y wounded had not the dark-
ness of the night been unfavourable to the aim of the
intended assassin. ecutor and
The brother of the IlTs s_ , Collard, a police
particulars the prisoner's capture.
officer, stated the
Several respectable %;
• ',lli b o'susrehs swore to having seen
the prisoner in the nel,', God of the prosecutor's
residence on Friday cventr47,,,
The prisoner cross-
d
exiimine these witnesses at some
length, but elicited nothing to shake their testimony as
to his identity. • concluded
The evidence
being. if he ' the prisoner was
asked by the Chairman had anything to say, when
h© replied in the "gativheen all
The witnesses were then all bound over to prosecute,
and the prisoner was committed to take his trial on the
Capital
eha__e of ~ shooting with intent to kill" at the
1-6
Lent Assizes, which,
The. examiciation, ,
le itch lusted six hours, did not ter-
i
' minate till seven o'clock in the evening.

MONE le MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(MONDAY EVENING.)

CHRONICLE.—Taking all the 'bellicose demon-
strations into consideration, and the unavoidable ex-
pense with which they have been already attended
(supposing even that it was not to increase), and the
consequent demand for money which must ensue, we
are not to feel surprised that the Bank of England
should show no disposition to increase their liabilities.
The groat fault we always had to find with the policy of
the Bank parlour has been that they have been too
tardy in having recourse to stringent measures, so that
when they did proceed on a restrictive policy the action
was too violent and sudden, attended with great com-
mercial embarrassment and a convulsion in the Money
Market. We have on that principle lately, more than
once, expressed our disappointment that the rumours so
venerally believed of their basing sold a portion of the
" dead weight" annuities proved to be incorrect, but we
arc confident, nevertheless, that the Directors have
not been inattentive to the exigencies of the times, and
that they have been preparing themselves by a course
of judicious measures to grapple with any emergency.
We have never hesitated to give expression to the very
general opinion entertained, that the Bank Directors
have been averse to curtail their circulation until the
eleventh hour, in times past, in consequence of a desire
to preserve the value of Bank Stock, which is coincident
with a high rate of dividends, thus showing the incom-
patibility of their public and private interests. But at
the same time we are not blind to both sides of tie
question, and are bound to allow due weight to the
statements put forth by the Directors, that they are
always desirous to afford every possible facility to
trade ; and that if they have erred in times past, their
fault has been committed from a too generous desire to
benefit the public. We must take things.as they are,
and judge of them accordingly. The system under
which the Bank of England acts may he defective. Few,
if any, will dispute that it is so ; hut, until that system
is changed, We must make fair allowances for its imper-
fections, and not confuse the fault of the principle &th
the manner of its execution.

TIMES.—The accounts from Alexandria have
tended much to remove the prevailing apprehensions
respecting the route through Egypt, which the Pacha
(whose wisdom and moderation in this respect have ac-
quired for him the highest credit with the mercantile
interest of this countr) ) has shown no disposition to in-
terrupt, whatever his feeling may be at the course taken
towards him.

The state of Sydney is described as alarming, so
many robberies and other crimes have seldom been
committed. An Act called the Bushranging Act,
designed for giving security against naaurauders, is
much discussed. By this Act any man may seize and
detain another who is detected with fire-arms in his
possession. The Governor refers to the Act as the
great means of preventing excess of crime, and while
he acknowledges the magnitude of the offences com-
mitted, he considers they exist through the conni-
vance of the settlers themselves, who neglect the
Bushranging Act, by which the power of coercion
is put into their own hands. The sound policy of
this Act is, however, much questioned, and the settlers
desire more efficient protection from the Government.
At present, it is said, they are afraid of defending their
own property, because by wounding a burglar they
would become the marked objects of vengeance to every
marauder in the colony. Again, if neighbours joined
together to hunt down the robbers, it is said that there
would be no security to the families left at home. The
death of his cattle, the destruction of his premises by
fire, the murder of his servants, might all await the
settler who showed himself active against the marau-
ders. The recommendation by the Governor to the
settlers to take the law into their own hands has for the
reasons above stated caused the greatest indignation.
lie has threatened, in the event of further disturbance,
to remove the convicts elsewhere, and thus deprive the
settlers of the advantages of convict labour. The set-
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feelings satisfaction is expressed at such a prospect of
etting rid of a vicious population.
The Port Philip papers mention a requisition signed
by a number of merchants, convening a meeting of dick
inhabitants for the purpose of memorializing the Go-
vernment for the establishment in Australia Felix of a
supreme Court of civil and criminal judicature. The
Government had already come to the determination of
establishing a superior Court at Melbourne, and Sir
George Gipps had requested the Judges of the Supreme
Court at Sydney to advise as to the appointment of a
Judge for Port Philip. At such a period, and before the
result of the consideration of this matter by the Legis-
lature was known, it was thought inexpedient that the
merchants should call a meeting as above described.

POST.—Notwithstanding the arrival of intelligence
confirming the accounts of the destruction of Beyrout,
the money market has generally improved in the course
of the present day. The opinion appears to prevail
very generally that the c'mmencement of hostilities is
in reality very favourable, merely because a termination
is now perceived of the perplexity of the Eastern ques-
tion, France having now no alternative but to com-
mence hostilities at once; or to cease the warlike
menaces and demonstrations, which have been the
cause of so much difficulty, uncertainty, and derange-
ment in every department of political, monetary, and
mercantile affairs. Though not desirous to contribute
to the mortification of the national vanity of the
French nation, it is indispensable to be reported
that throughout the city of London the publication
of the letter of Lord Palmerston has created a feel-
ing of a very decided description against the conduct of
the French negotiators in the Eastern question, the
general observation being that in alliances of nations, as
in partnerships of individuals, the majority has the right
to govern the minority, and that if one member of the
great European confederacy can claim the right of op-
posing by force the execution of a measure in which the
dissentient party is only as one to four, then that there
is no longer any certainty or security in the principles of
international law. The conduct of the French Govern-
ment is not only condemned as improper, on the ground
of the very unwarranted opposition which has been
threatened to the majority of the European Powers,
but the strongest language is heard in the City on
the circumstances, that the French Cabinet should
have secretly transmitted the proposals to Mehemet Ali,
and that the French Ministerial Journal, the Courrier
Francais, should have asserted that the present
Cabinet and present Ambassador are not bound by the
declaration of General Sebastiani, that France would
remain a passive spectator of events. These points
iu
the Eastern question are thought to have an appear-
ance of treachery, or certainly to be very undignified
and dishonourable in the greatest possible degree.
The citizens of London are now becoming much less
forbearing in their language respecting the conduct of
the French Government, or rather the French Minister
M. Thiers, and the opinion prevails generally of them
that the vapouring of the French Journals must be ex-
pected to cease from the present time, probably with the
departure from power of M. Thiers.
Very extraordinary accounts have appeared in some
journals respecting the state of affairs of Buenos Ayres,
the most dreadful barbarities being ascribed to the pre-
sent Government, and British subjects being represented
to be murdered with the greatest impunity. Inquiries
have been made into these statements, which prove
that these assertions are tatally without foundation,
not one English subject having been murdered ; and the
account of the young lady, the daughter of General
Roses, who is represented as appearing in the most
brutal and bloody scenes, is described by well-in-
formed parties as a libel of the most outrageous class.
It is certainly very improbable that Mr. Mandeville,
the present British Minister at Buenos Ayres, should
continue, as represented in a newspaper, to be in the
constant habit of domestic intercourse with the murde-
rers of the subjects of the English Crown.
Some discussion on the merits of the President
steam-ship has taken place in consequence of the change
in the commander of that ship. It appears to be thought
that it is not far the safety of the passengers and cargo
that this steam-vessel should be forced rapidly through
the sea, the deficiency of beam being very great both
in the President and British Queen. In this view of
the subject the late commander of the President is
thought to have been improperly removed.
The American papers mention that the degree of
LL.D. has been conferred by the University authori-
ties on Mr. Junius Smith, of London, the gentleman
whose enterprise, science, and perseverance have FO
eminently contributed to the establishment of steam na-
vigation, between the Old and the New Worlds,

HERALD.—The accounts from the manufacturing
districts continue favourable, and a brisk demand for
woollen goods, both for home and export, exists. The
abundant harvest in Ireland will, it is expected,
bring buyers from thence. Complaints are made that
the high price of the raw article deprives the manufac-
turers of an adequate profit. At Manchester prices
had been a shade lower ; the fall has been occasioned
by the appearance which foreign affairs have assumed.
The quarterly sale of indigo, advertised to take
place this day, was, upon the receipt of the intelli-
gence of the arrival of the overland despatch, post-
poned until the letters had been delivered. The
news that twenty-six millions pounds of tea was on
the way here caused a decline of about one halfpenny
per lb. The consumption, notwithstanding the hi.,h
price, has fallen off, but in a very trifling. degree.' The
and
compared with it,
rently h
the trade will not be in a settled state for some