The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-23 00:00:00

YOUNG MEN'S ANTI-MONOPOLY

ASSOCIATION.
A meeting of this Society was last night held at Fins-
bury Chapel, to hear an address from Peter A. Taylor,
jun., Esq., upon the subject of the restrictive duties on food.
Mr. JOSEPH PRESTON was unanimously called to the
Chair, and briefly addressed the meeting on the subject
they were assembled to discuss.
Mr. P. TAYLOR then addressed the Association with
great effect, describing the principal baneful effects of
the Corn-laws on our trade, our manufactures, our so-
cial happiness, and our intellectual improvement. He
adverted feelingly to the thoughts and associations the
present season was fitted to call forth; but he hoped that
amid all the festivities and happiness which all he ad-
dressed would enjoy, they would not forget the fearful
amount of distress existing around them, and that much,
if not all, of that distress was traceable to the effects of
monopoly. lie trusted that such feelings would nerve
them to increasing efforts in the cause of free trade, and
consequently the cause of moral and social good.
Mr. P. Taylor's address was greeted with loud and
repeated marks of approbation. At its conclusion, a
vote of thanks was passed by acclamation to Mr. Taylor,
who briefly returned thanks.
The next meeting of this Association will take place
I on 1-
e 3d of January.
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,nbacco monopoly in France was to expire
The Tlnuary, 1842, but a law of February, 1840,
on the Ist of 'km until the Ist of January, 1852.
prolonged its (Jura.- -lingly come into operation in a
few d•
The, neways. law
In w
1818 the ill 400%
ulap4,.. - ',cture of tobacco produced
in 1828, 46,300,000 f.;
0 in
33,900
of.; 1823,. .
41,69Q,00,4, , -(10,000f. and in
in 1884, 50,800,.000f. ; 1839,
1840, by revaluation, 70,000,000 L

MYSTERIOUS DEATH ofa YOUNG
FEMALE at HAMMERSMITH.
Yesterday afternoon a lengthened investigation was
proceeded with, before Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., Coroner
for the Western District of Middlesex, and a respectably
Jury, at the Blue Anchor beer-shop, on the Upper Mall,
near Hammersmith Suspension-bridge, on view of the
body of Drascella Muller, a young female of remarkable
prepossessing appearance, 19 years of age, who was, on
Saturday last, found dead with marks of violence on her
person, in the mud of the creek leading from the Thames
into the High-street of Hammersmith.
The Jury having been sworn, proceeded to view the
body, and on their return the following evidence was
adduced.

George Rutty, a boy, residing in New-street, Ham-
mersmith, deposed that on Saturday last, about twelve
o'clock, he was standing near the High-bridge, crossing
the creek, when he saw something in the water, upon
which he hallooed out, and Mr. Parker and other persons
came up and went to see what it was.
Mr. Thomas Poole Parker, master of the Hammer-
smith National School, deposed that on being called he
jumped over a fence into the water, when he found the
body of the deceased. With the assistance of a plank
he got the body ashore, and, after having been refused at
two public-houses to admit it, brought it to that house.
The deceased was respectably dressed, and had on a
pair of gloves, in one of which was a patent latch-key,
and in the other is. 2d. in halfpence.
Mr. William Simpson, surgeon, of Hammersmith
Broadway, deposed that he had made kpost mortem ex-
amination by order of the Coroner, and had found a
slight contusion on the forehead of the deceased, but saw
no marks of violence on any other part of the body.
The injury on the scalp might have been occasioned by
a fall from a high place. Should say that the injury was
received before death, and that the immediate cause of
death had been drowning.
Mr. John Fitness deposed that he had a situation in
the Treasury, and resided at No. 64, Stafford-place, Pim-
lico. Deceased had been in his service since the 23d
of July, but had been missing since Friday, the 3d inst.
On the morning of that day he saw her last alive,
between ten and eleven o'clock, in the kitchen, in IN hich
she slept. She then appeared in her usual state of
health and mind. On the following morning, on coming
down, he was surprised at finding the breakfast not
ready, and on going into the kitchen could not find the
deceased. From that time, although every possible ex-
ertion was made to discover her, no trace could be ob-
tained until the finding of the body. All her boxes and
clothes were in their usual state. She was always very
steady in ,her habits ; and he had every reason to be sa-
.tisfied with her conduct. She was rather too reserved,
and had no male acquaintance to his knowledge.
The CORONER said the case was certainly enveloped in
considerable mystery, and
The Jury returned a verdict of " Found Drowned, but
how the deceased came into the water there was no evi-
dence to show."

BRAINTREE CHURCH-RATE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Slur—Many of the readers of The Sun will have heard
with surprise, and perhaps with alarm also, that Mr.
Border's rate has been paid with costs, and that the pro-
ceedings against him in the Coasistory Court of London
to enforce payment of a rate made by the minority of a
vestry meeting, have thus terminated by his submission.
For Mr. Burder's own sake, and for the good name of
Essex Dissenters, it is to be deeply regretted that our
late champion has not had moral courage to hold on an
honoured course, in unshrinking consistency with his
well-known principles of religious freedom, but has been
passively consenting to the payment of the rate by the
hands of a near relative on his behalf—a tacit arrange-
ment which in itself but further illustrates that " one
thing wanting"—mural courage to suffer, or to act.
In his public character as the champion of a principle,
and supported in this position; by ,a public fund, Mr.
Burder's conduct is amenable to public animadversion,
and it is very wholesome that it should be so.
By the circumstances of his position, Mr. Burder was
a trustee for the public cause, in the struggle for the
rights of the majority in vestry meetings, and in aban-
doning he has betrayed his trust in this matter. He
was, prominently, one of the representatives of dissenting
principles and leaders of dissenting action upon the ques-
tion of Church-rates, and although protected from pecu-
niary sacrifices by the intervention of the Braintree Com-
mittee, he has shrunk from the assertion of those prin-
ciples, and by his bad example greatly discouraged that
action. He was one of the depositaries of public confi:
dente for the unswerving advocacy of a great public ques-
tion, supported by the confiding subscriptions of those
who had no personal knowledge of Mr. Burder, but
whose faith in him was their faith in man, and he has
shaken that confidence, and put his associates upon their
defence before the country. He has made it necessary to
protest to the subscribers and the public, that the Brain-
tree Committee numbers men " good and true " to the
cause they have espoused and the trust they have ac-
cepted ; and that, as a Committee, they have not aban-
doned and will not abandon their post, nor fail to dis-
charge, honestly, and boldly, the duties incident to their
position.
. _

Immediately after it became known that the late pend-
ing citation had been quashed by the payment of Mr.
Burder's rate, the Committee met, and directed the
instant distribution of the following circular

" Brain—tree, Nov. 27, 1841.
" To the rate-payers of Braintree, opposed to the exac-
tion of Church-rate by AN ARBITRARY MINORITY, in the
name, but against the will, of the parish, in vestry as-
sembled !

" Mr. Burder's rate having been paid by a near relative
on Ms behalf, and the trial of the great question of the
power (for in a moral or constitutional sense it were ab-
surd to talk of the right) of any, even the smallest, mino-
rity of rate-payers, to tax the whole parish by Church-
rate, having thus been evaded in this case—the Braintree
Anti-Church-rate Committee request that any pa-
rishior.er against whom proceedings may next be taken,
and who may in sincerity and truth determine to resist
them, will then forthwith apply to the said Committee,
who are prepared, as in Mr. Burder's case, to undertake
the conduct of the cause, and to meet the expenses of its
defence. " SAMUEL COURTAULD, Chairman."
The rate will now be forthwith demanded of other
Dissenters ; and as it may be reasonably hoped we are
not all blessed with such friends as Mr. Burder, nor
equally passive and plastic in their hands, there can be
no doubt but that in the name of some honest Noncon-
formist amongst us, the case will again, and speedily, be
put in issue, and the public may still confidently rely
upon the Braintree Committee, that to the extent of their
funds (and at present they are ample) the question now
raised, of the validity of a rate made by a minority in
vestry, shall be as vigorously prosecuted, and as fully and
conclusively tried, as the question previously depending
in the Braintree case has been, viz. that of the validity
of a rate made by a minority (the Churchwardens) out
of vestry—equally the sequel to the refusal of- a rate by a
majority in public meeting. -

- SAMUEL COURTAULD.
Braintree, Nov. 29, 1841.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Traffic returns for the week ending Dec. 20, 1841:
Passengers £735 11 7
Merchandize 430 7 7

£1,165 19 2
Darlington, Dec. 22. W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SO..
CIETY.---LIBERALITY OF THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.—
Mr. H. F. Richardson, the indefatigable Secretary of
this praiseworthy Institution, has had the honour to re-
ceive from his Excellency Baron Brunow a letter, of
which the following is a copy, containing expressions
highly honourable to that distinguished man :
" Ashburnham House, Dec. 20, 1841.
" Baron de Brunow presents his compliments to Mr.
11. F. Richardson, and begs to say that he feels much
flattered by the kind attention paid to him by the Trea-
surer and Directors of the City of London General Pen-
sion Society. He is particularly pleased to know that
his friendly feelings for the suffering poor are appre-
ciated in this country, but not being certain of the per-
manence of his sojourn in England, he would hardly
venture upon accepting the title of Vice-President, so
kindly offered to him. He therefore begs to return his
best thanks to the Directors of the Society, and begs to
inclose a cheque for 10 guineas as a donation, which he
feels much gratified to offer to the Secretary of the City
of London General Pension Society.
" To H. F. Richardson, Esq., &c.,
20, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street."
BREAD IN PARIS . AND LONDON.—The as-
size, or fixed price of bread of the first quality in Paris,
as regulated by the municipal authorities of that city
for the second fortnight of the current month of De-
cember, is 34 centimes for the loaf weighing one kilo..
gramme, which at the present course of Exchange in
Paris on London, for bills at one month's date of 25f.
gl
35c. " money" per pound sterling, corresponds with five-
pence three farthings and rather more than one-third
(thirty-nine hundreds) of a farthing, for
generally
r the English
sell-
ing four-pound loaf ; and the price at which the best, or
" full-priced," as it is called, bread, is no
in London, being ten-pence for the four-pound loaf,
(although in some quarters of the town a higher rate is
demanded), shows that bread of the first quality is dearer
in London than in Paris by fourpence and sixteenths of
a farthing for, or rather on the four-pound loaf, being
at the rate of seventy-one per cent., within a very mi-
nute fraction unworthy of notice ; and that for the same
amount of money, namely, ten-pence as above, which
can purchase in London no more than four pounds of the
best bread, there may be obtained, in parL., six pounds
thirteen ounces, and exceeding seven drachms, English
weight, of bread of the first quality, both the quality
and the weight being
.guaranteed by law ;
and this re-
markable difference, it may be observed, exists at a dis-
tance of less than thirty hours' journey, by post, from
London.

itiE LOVE OF MONEY.—That odious Mam-
mon-worship, which is one of the most distinguishing
features
of our day, has at last attracted the attention
and en
gaged the pen of one of the most brilliant satirists
of the present tune—Mrs. Gore ,• and her new work,
" The Man of Fortune," is intended to strike at the root
of that besetting sin of the English character. Nothing
min offer a finer or a more varied scope for the talents of
this accomplished writer. The love of money has ever
been a recognised passion of the- human heart among
civilized nations, but it was never until now of so ab-
sorbing a nature as (like Aaron's rod) to swallow all
the rest.
The first instance of newspapers giving prints
occurred in 1723, when portraits of liing-George the
First, George Prince of Wales, and Prince Frederick
were presented to the public in the, first number of the
Protestant Intelligences. •
The public library at St. Chamond, in the Loire, has
.lately suffered from fire. A case, containing a valuable
collection of 150 rare works, was destroyed, but the rest
of the vauble contents were sued.

EVENING SUN

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS,
The Berlin papers mention a curious discotery--of4—'
yciTitschowskiva
quarrel
rPotsdam,rel
arose bnb yut
robbery and murder, committed 22 years ago.
milies, Petersaehvnizalmennodnt
but netowards
betweena
the d leo dg
the two wives, and the woman Titschowski reproached
the other with being the wife of a man condemned to
the gibbet for murder. This coming to the ears of the
magistracy, an inquiry was entered upon, and the houses
of the two disputants searched, from which it was proved
that Petersen was a name assumed by a man called Gas-
telberg, who was condemned to death by default in 1819,
for several robberies and murders, and that Titschowski
being one of the guards over him when in prison, had
suffered him to escape, in consideration of which service
Gastelberg had of late paid him a monthly stipend of 8
thalers (28f. 80c.) out of the salary of a place on the
Berlin and Potsdam railroad, which he had obtained.
Gastelberg fled, but has been taken at Magdeburg, and
will be again sent before the criminal tribunal of Bres-
lau, as his former sentence takes him out of the pro-
scription, which will act in favour of Titschowski, who
cannot at this distant date be tried for his offence in
letting the other escape.
Extract of a letter from Oran, 7th inst., in the Con-
stitutionnel:—"A few days after the return of our grand
expedition (that of the 53 days) some of the regular
cavalry of Abd-el-Kader, who had been furnished by the
great tribe of Angaed, passed through the tribe of Sidi
Gazer, where several chiefs of the Tafna were assembled,
and gave them an account of the battles which had taken
place with the Christians. When they had confessed
that the regular corps to which they belonged had been
routed, and that the Emir had no more troops upon
whom he could rely, the chiefs concerted together and
fixed upon a rendezvous to concert the means of defec-
tion. The opportunity was favourable, for Abd-el-Kader
was occupied in the East, near Blidah, where General
Changarnier held him in check. The day fixed was
the great market-day of the Tana, which is always
held at the mouth of that river, on the ground occu-
pied by our troops in 1836 and 1837. Never was
market more numerously attended, and it was there
resolved unanimously to abandon the cause of the
Emir. Some of the chiefs offered opposition, for the
question was a sucjden determination to throw themselves
into the hands of the French, or to act against Abd-el-
Kader by a diversion in favour of some influential name.
Too weak to act by themselves against the organised
force of the Emir, the Shieks resolved on applying to Mus-
tapha and the Governor-General of Oran. Some agents
were therefore despatched during the night to Oran. The
tribes who have abandoned the cause of the Emir are
eight in number, and, as is always the case, their neigh-
bours are only waiting to see what becomes of them, to
join their standards to those of the Douairs and Smelas.
All the horsemen of these tribes have elected as their
chief old Ali-Yamani, who was the compet itorofAbd-el-
Kader on his accession to power. Bon-Hamedi, the
Kalifa of Tlemcen, having become acquainted with the
project of our new allies, attacked them at the ravines of
the Sasef, about six leagues from Tlemcen. After a long
combat Bon-Hamedi was put to flight by Ali-Yamani,
and pursued so vigorously that he was not able to take
refuge in the town, and the inhabitants of Tlemcen, un-
doubtedly worn out by the exactions of the officers of
the Emir, took advantage of this opportunity to join the
victorious party. We learn that all our new allies are
encamped at Oued Sinam, where they have joined Gene-
ral Mustapha, who has now more than 3,000 cavalry un-
der his command."

The Journal du Ntevre gives the following account of
a ferocious contest between two brothers, forest-keepers,
on the 2d inst., near Cervol l'Argueilleux, where they
had been celebrating the feast of St. Eloi, at the house
of a miller, who had given them too much liquor. Re-
turning home they quarrelled, and, after fighting some
time with their hands, fell together, and continued the
struggle on the ground for three hours, when one be-
came exhausted, and the other was probably unable to
continue the fight ; at the end of which he, who may be
considered the conquerer, had had torn from him by the
teeth of his brother, the whole of his under lip, down to
the point of the chin, while the other lost half of one of
his ears in the same manner. They each had a gun, but
neither thought of using it, and the stronger carried
both away with him arriving at his home about midnight.
Having called up one of his neighbours, he sent him
first for a surgeon to dress his own wounds, and then go
for the body of his brother, which would, he said, be
found dead in the wood. He, however, was not dead,
and both are recovering, though frightfully mutilated
for life.
The Journal de la Vendee says—" In the night of the
26th ult., at La Cocuere, in the commune of Caille sons
les Ormeaux, near Bourbon Vendee, a fountain on the
slope of a hill suddenly dried up, and to the extent of
several hundred yards the soil in which it was placed sunk
down to the bare rock. A short distance thence, in a
swampy meadow, the same phenomenon occurred at the
same time. The soil was entirely stripped from it, and
the trees growing upon it were transported to a distance
of one hundred yards. The day was rainy, but without
any wind. Last year, at the same period, a similar oc-
currence took place at La Proutiere, in the commune of
St. Florent des Bois."

We regret to say that there have been several
failures in South Lancashire since our last, of various
degrees of importance, amongst them that of a Liverpool
house to a very serious extent.—Liverpool Times of
Tuesday.
_

SUDDEN DEATH IN A SURGERY.—Yesterday
Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Sun, Chapel-street,
Grosvenor-place, on the body of Thomas Evans, aged 18,
late footman toViscount Hereford, of No. 21, Chapel-street.
Mr. Frederick Archer, surgeon, residing in the above
street, said deceased came to his surgery between nine
and ten on Monday morning for medicine for Viscount
Hereford's tinnily. Ho was then perfectly well. At
hale-past eleven he returned, complaining of severe
sickness and pain in the head. Witness took him into
the back parlour, and bade him wait there until he
prepared some medicine for him. Whilst doing so
he heard an unusual noise in the parlour, and enter-
ing it, he saw deceased lying on the carpet, con-
vulsively graspieg at the floor, crying out for air,
saying he was being suffocated, and requesting that
his clothes might be loosened. Witness afforded
him the necessary assistance, tried to administer a res-
torative draught, but deceased could not swallow. An
attempt at blood-letting proved of no avail. In a few
minutes after the attack deceased ceased to exist, and his
death was in all probability caused by aneurism of the
heart, that is, the rupture of one of the vessels of that
vital organ. Verdict—Natural death.
BOAT SUNK.—FOUR LIVES LOST. —On
Thursday se'nnight a Garraris yawl was sunk nearly op-
posite Newtown Head, in a heavy squall of wind and
rain. She was returning from Tramore Bay, which is
about two miles to the north-east of Garraris. Four men
(some say five) sank to rise no more, and none survived
to tell the sad tale.— Waterford Mirror.
HUNGRY TORIES.—It is understood that the
names of upwards of 500 applicants are already on the
list for the first vacancy of Sub-Inspector (formerly high
constable) of the Police Force.—Dublin Evening
CAVANAGH IN A NEW CHARACTER.—The
following communication is from a Correspondent, who
has daily opportunities of visiting the prison at Reading :
—" Your old friend Cavanagh is progressing on the
tread-wheel, and eats and drinks the whole of his
allowance—meat, bread, potatoes, and oatmeal por-
ridge, with avidity, every day. He is no Ca-
tholic, for he keeps no fast-days ; Fridays, and all Saint
days, are not remembered by him. He is in good
health, and his appetite so keen, that he would devour
twice the quantity of food that he is allowed. I think his
London friends, especially the Faculty, should send him
either a goose or an alderman in chains, as a small ac-
knowledgment (at this season of the year) for the dexte-
rous manner with which he wrought upon their credulity."
LONGEVITY.—Some weeks ago, under the
head of the census of the county of Kincardine, we
alluded to a person residing in the new town of
Stonehaven,
n ehaTvehne p
, wtorsohhadreafrerirrveedd atto thew aasdvmanrc.ed
Smart, gardener, who was born in the parish of Methlick,
Aberdeenshire, m November, .1739. In the troubles of
1745 he removes with his father to the parish of Fyvie ;
from thence to the parish of Echt ; then to this county,
g
when he married at the Whiteri
gs in 1777, and came
to Stonehaven in 1781 ; when
after having numbered
his 102 d year, he, en the 26th Of November,George
Smart,
1841, at last
" crossed that bourne from whence no traveller returns."
Until within 24 hours of his dissolution he retained all
his faculties. He had 11 children, 53 grandchildren, and
eight great-grandchildren—makingMontrose Review.
POLICE COURTS.—The a family of 72.
Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor and Aldermen have given notice that they
will sit at the Mansion-house and Guildhall on Christ-
as morning, from nine o'clock till eleven o'clock, f
or
being locked-up in the Compter
vent the parties from
At Union-hall, Lambeth-street,
until Monday morning.
the purpose of hearing the night charges, so as to pre-
BoQw-street, St. Maryle-
bone,n-square, police-
offices, Marlborough
will also sit in the morning from
Thames Police,
the Magistratesk f h
nine till eleven o'cloc , or t e same purpose of disposing
Cl!srktreenev't,ena'n d Queen-square,
who can afford it.
charges, so as not to deprive those of a
G Epp's FOLLY.—With the money raised for
od by the liberality of the public, and as a
John Thorogo
for his long and unjust imprisonment, he
recompense
has built either
four or five (I forget which) very pretty
houses, an
Cofhtrlisetmbiasghdtinner
and the best joke of all is, that he has named the
place after Mr. Gepp, tho celebrated Churchwarden in
ins case ; and at one end is John's shop, with " Thoro..
good,"
in large letters ; at the other a board, with the
designation of the place, thus—" Gepp's Folly?' This
is removing the worthy Churchwarden out of the curse
named in Job ; to wit, that "no street shall be called
after his name."
ST. LEONARD'S.—It is reported that the Queen
Dowager, as soon as she is convalescent and able to re-
move from Sudbury Hall, will take shelter at Hastings
frum the bleak winds of the end of winter and the early
spring.—Brighton Gazette.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.—ChI Tuesday after-
noon, 13 geese, which had been landed from the City of
Aberdeen steamer on the Aberdeen-wharf, at St. Katha-
rine's, and were intended as presents to various indivi-.
duals in London, were inspected by an excise watermen,
named Young, who found them to be unusually heavy
and on opening one of them he found it to contain a
bottle of over-proof whiskey, which had never beforo
passed under the eyes of the customs or excise. This
discovery.induced him to cut open the others, and they
were all in the same condition—there was a bottle of
real Ferintosh in each. Young seized the geese and
their contents on behalf of our Sovereign Lady the
Queen, and removed his prize to the Excise-office. A
numbertheirfi fine
Insidesyoung
withpigs have been lately
seized
Scotch whiskey, and
on Saturday no less than thirty Dutch turkeys were
withf
captured in front of the Custom-house, which were stuffed
with liollands gin.