The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-12 00:00:00

I RoST, WILLTAYS, AND ,TO.IEI.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sir—Two petitions have been sent from this piece and
tsaeighbourhood to Mr. Leader, M.P., for presentation
(Queen, in favour cf Mr. John Frost and others,
1. are now on their way to the penal colonies. It was
sig e by 13,766 of the inhabitants, praying for full and
1:e e pardon.
The female Petition has been -signed by 11,000 to the
trmeefleet.—Your obedient servant,
Merthyr Tydvil. D. JOHN.

rOLITICAL SUIVIMARY OF THE
:MORNING JOURNALS.

The Times of this morning, alluding to the debate in
( Lords on Thursday night, observes: The grievance
e country is, that this Ministry, unprincipled prodigals
the public money in favour of their own dependent com-
missioners and partizans, have so wasted the revenue and
oroken down our whole system of finance, from a low-
minded submission to the blind will of clamorous demo-
cracy, that they have left themselves no means of keeping
up our establishments at that level which the honour and
safety of the country rencler absolutely necessary."—The
Morning Herald, for lack of a more seasonable topic, in-
dulges in the following querulous Jeremiad —"Amidst the
rejoicings which are well adapted to "he present season, it is
to be hoped that the leaders of our various political parties
will not conspire to overlook altogether the alarming circum-
stances in which the country is placed. Trade languishes.
The agricultural classes arc marked out for plunder. The
labourers are filled with discontent. They brood over
schemes for the distribution cf property en new principles,
schemes which never before were familiar to the minds of
masses of the people. Ireland is volcanic. The colonies
are insecure, and to some extent, disaffected."—The
.Morning Post, commenting on a leading article that ap-
peared in a Ministerial print on Monday, says :—‘l We
like to see British royalty supported with becoming mag-
nificence, and though we feel no particular delight in the
payment of taxes, yet we had far rather pay for the sup-
port of the Royal grandeur, than that there should not be
Royal grandeur to pay for. At the same time, however,
we detest the glazing dishonesty of Palace parasites, who
would pretend that Royalty is not, after all, very amply
provided for, when in truth it is."—The llloruirg Cltro.
nicle thus expresses itsef on the subject of the recent
Tory tactics in the Commons :—." We have now a
patriotic Queen and King Consort with a smsller net re-
venue at their joint disposal than that of a Tory Queen
Dowager, who has not, unless she so please, any public
state to maintain. Whatever may be said in praise of the
economy, nothing can be said in praise of the proportion.
Toryism recognizes no proportion, save the proportion of
subserviency to its own purposes ; for that, whenever it
can reach the public money, it bestows bounties and in-
flicts penalties. In this way has it aimed at making Prince
Albert feel its power."

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(Flom the Globe.)
We have never questioned the right cf the House of
Peers to deal with any bill which comes before them
as they may deem fit. Mutilation or strangulation is
within their province, as each has been of late their
practice. But though absolute in power, they are
yet responsible to public opinion ; and whenever
they commit a flagrant violation of decency in their
mode of operation, they expose themselves to, and can-
not escape, censure in a free country. The precedency
clause in the Bill for Prince Albert's Naturalization
was, we need hardly say, an important preliminary to the
Royal nuptials, and one in which the Queen must neaes-
sari!), feel a deep personal interest. Was it-not, then,
an indecent disregard of the courtesy due to the feelings
and dignity of the Queen, to postpone for an entire Par-
liamentary week tire consideration of such a Bill, in order
to afford tinze for the attendance of an individual Peer, who
was enjoying the hospitalities of the" Royel" House of
Stowe, instead of attending his place in Parliament ?
Lord Lyndhurst's convenience was thus consulted by
the Tory Peers at the expense of the deference due to
the Queen as a lady and a Sovereign. This we have
designated an " insult"—forming one of many her
Majesty has received from the Tory party ; and this
the Ministers very properly resented on the part of the
Queen, by withdrawing the precedency clause from
their consideration.

(From the Standard.)
The Queen's marriage must greatly change her
position ; and this is all that can be desired for a
Princess in whose personal qualities any alteration must
be for the worse. Hitherto her Majesty has been se-
cluded to the society of a description of persons ill qua-
lified to permit the development of her noble disposi-
tion. We aced not canvass the personal merits of her
Majesty's female household. Two wise men have gone
before us in telling what the female household of a
more experienced Queen regnant was, and what every
female household must, we fear, be. Let us not be
charged with want of gallantry in quoting the ob-
servation of the most accomplished and polite cavalier
of Queen Elizabeth's Court, or be supposed to labour
with prejudice when we reprint what the " wisest,
brightest of mankind," has deemed worthy of a
perpetual record. It is from the works of Bacon we
take the following passage :—" Sir Walter Raleigh was
wont to say of the ladies of Queen Elizabeth's
Privy Chamber and Bedchamber that they were like
witches ; they could do hurt, but they could do no
good." Queen Victoria then, since her accession, has
been confined to the society of persons who could do
hurt but no good, as far as the female part of her
Court was concerned. How much this society,
potent for evil, but powerless for good, was im-
proved by the accession of Lords Melbourne, Head-
fort, and others, whose own private history, other
considerations apart, must have made them desirous
to keep their Sovereign in a state of general ignorance,
the public can judge. The public is aware, too, that it
is by an influence which, upon the high authorities of
Raleigh and Bacon, we must know to be powerful only
far evil—that the present Ministers have been continued
in office since May last. The Queen's marriage de.
stroys this influence, and renders her Majesty what the
Sovereign of a free people ought to bc—a free woman.

It is reported in military circles that Captain H.
Stephens, who had the honour • of commanding the squadron of
the 14th Dragoons Nshich escorted his Boyal Highness Prince
Albert to Buckingham Palate, will receive the rank of Major.
We understand that a petition from the inhabitants
of the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, to the House of Coalmen!,
dischargefur the of the Sheriffs 'of Middlesex, is in course of
signature, and is already most respectably and numerously
signed. _ _

- One thousand guineas will be given to any per-
son who may have any kind of eruptions or inflammations of the
skin, as erysipelas, lerra, scrofula, or king's evil, ring-worm, or
scald-heads, and who shall have persevered for some time in the
use of Holloway's Ointment and his External Disease Pill,
and shall prove that they have failed to produce a radical cure-.
These two medicines must be used together. They certainly
are the most. wonderful and extraordinary remedies that ever
were known. They are now being used in many of our greatest
hospitals. They are sold by the Proprietor, 13. Broad-street-
buildnigs, City, and by all respectable patent medicine venuors
throughout the kingdom.

HORRID MURDER.-BODAIIN, (CORNWALL)
FEB. 9.—Mr. Nevil Norway, who is a timber and iron mer-
chant, of Wadebridge, left Bodmin about half-past nine o'clock
on Saturday night, to return home ; he had been attending the
market here, and is supposed to have received some considera-
ble sums of money, which be bad about him. His horse, about
half-past ten, came home without its rider, with a quantity of
blood about the saddle. An immediate search was made,
when he was discovered with his brains knocked out, near the
four-mile-stone between Bodmin and Wadebridge, and pitched
head foremost into a mill leat, which runs close by the side of
the road. His pockets were rifled, and but ls. 6d. was found
about his person. It is supposed that he must have been
knocked off his horse with the butt. end of a gun, as part of a
lock of a gun was found dose by the spot, and there is every
appearance of two persons having been concerned in it. He
has left a widow and eight small children, and was a person uni-
versally beloved. His death has cast a gloom over all the
neighbourhood. The spot where the murder took place is
between two small villages, and not more than one hundred
yards from either, and about three miles from his home. P. S.
Ten, p.m.—l have just returned from the Coroner's inquest.
A verdict of .‘ Wilful Murder" has been returned against some
person or persons unknown. Four persons are in custody, but
nothing came out in evidence before the ii.quisition to impli-
ate any one.

CASES OF THE MONMOUTH CONVICTS.—
We have never known opinions on any subject make such rapid
progress in the public mind as those against death punishmr nts
have done, in this part of the
country
last few cars. So far as we can gather (Glasgow) during the
r the sentiments of the
public, we should consider ourselves
with,sae in saying there is not
one individual in twenty to be met
con-
vinced of the inutility of capital but who is now punishments for the preven-
tion of crime, and who will not condemnahe cruelty and re-
Chronicle.
morseless nature of such punishments.—
NEW CONVENTION.—The followinga
Paragraph
sums ef money
for the purpose
is from the noted Northern Liberators—Large
have already been collected in different towns,
of establishing another Convention of the Wo'rllg Classes, to
Stockton arndMiddlesbro'
meet at Manchester ; amongst these,
have contributed liberally, and other places are preparing to
follow in the wake ; it may, therefore, be fairly presumed,
that another Peoples Parliament is about to be organized
h
out delay. which, by its acts, may convince our self.swtitled".
rulers—the merciless Whigs—that Chartism is " not dead, but
only sleepeth !" We say to every true and honest patriot,
he up and doing !" Unite with your fellows, and show by
union and determination, that the severities and wrongs under
which the toiling millions are labouring " and ready to faint,"
shall no longer exist ; that starvation instead of plenty, and
misery in place of happy homes, shall no longer devastate our
beloved country. Men, arouse ye, and teach our aristocratic
rulers that Englishnien have yet a right, an undeniable right
to ask for an unconditional restoration of their unjustly with-
held privileges-L-to demand constitutionally the People's Chart er
THE ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR WORCES-
TER.—We much regret to state that the information which has
reached us as to the state of the health of Mr. Yarworth during
the present week has been more unfavourable than before. We
fear there is now little hope of recovery. The unfortunate
young man still lies at the inn at Piff's Elm. Bowen has been
examined again, and was again remanded.

OPEN ENG THE SWEDISH DIET.

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ll* speech of the King of Sweden, on opening the
Dict at Ste,elholen, on the 25th ult., which is of unusual
length, represents the kingdom as in a state of high pros-
perity, and states that, although the taxes have been ar -
nuilly diminished, there lira since 1814 been expended 'n
public works upwards of 15.'-k millions of thalers, or about
80 millions of francs. Particular attention, it says, has
been paid to the moral and religious education of the people,
and the States are recommended to authorise the establisl -
roent nfa primary school in each ofthe I,2ooxisting parishr F.
His Majesty enumerates all the improvements made in the
government since his accession. Among these if: the extinc-
tion of the whole of the foreign and a great part of the
home debt ; an increase of the profits of the Bank from
248,000 thalers banco to 700,000 ; the formation of an
army of 100,000 effective men; the creation of a coast..
guard of 250 gun-boats ; an augmentation of the fleet ;
an increase of commerce and n anufactures aAd general
industry ; and finally, a perfect union between S xeden and
Norway, which had been previously divided by a mutual
spirit of animosity: His Majesty, at the conclusion of his
speech, made a feeling allusion to his own advanced ago,
and the great happiness which the actual condition of the
country afforded him.
THE DREADFUL AFFAIR AT

DUNKERTON.

(LATEST PARTICULARS.)

It appears that Silcox went to the parsonage-house
about seven o'clock on the evening of Thursday, and,
after entering into conversation with Thomas Jordan
and his wile, who were left in charge of the house, Mr.
Bampfylde generally residing at Bath, he was invited
to take a glass of elder wine and some cake. He stood
some time against the fireside, entering into general
conversation, and offered to take a wager that Frost
would not be executed. Jordan has only one child, a
very intelligent lad, about fifteen years of age ; and
whilst Silcox, the deceased, was talking to his father, the
boy observed that he would go to bed. Immediately
upon this observation, Silccx aimed a violent blow
at the father, which stunned him, and then com-
menced an attack en the poor boy. The lad en-
deavoured to get out of his way, creeping under the
table. Silcox next commenced attacking his wife,
when the boy said, " If you strike falter and myself,
don't hurt my mother." By this time the miscreant
had inflicted several severe wounds on Jordan and his
wife ; and the boy coming from his hiding-place, he
stabbed him in the lower part of the back with a sharp
instrument. The lad had a candle in his band, which
was knocked out in the acuffle. He then concealed
himself in the library. The assassin, supposing he had
escaped, went and searched for him all over the house ;
he entered the library where the poor terrified lad was
concealed ; but not finding him, he took a light and
again went up stairs ; in the meantime the boy effected
his escape, and ran to farmer Willis and gave the
alarm, in consequence of which, about a quarter of an
hour after, the constable repaired to the rectory, when
they beheld one of the most dreadful sights it has ever
been our pa'nful duty to record.
Poor Jordan and his %rife are dreadfully mangled,
and there are not the slightest hopes of their recovery.
There are no less than fifteen different wounds on the
head of Jordan ; the wife is also frightfully mutilated.
The walls are literally splashed with blood ; the floor
of the ball is also flooded with the gore of the
victims : detached portions cf the hair and scalp adhere
to various parts of the room. Intelligence was imme-
diately conveyed to Mr. Bampfylde, who lost no
time in repairing to the spot. The constable instantly
went in search of the culprit, who, after having called
at his sister's house in a state of extreme agitation, had
repaired to his own home near the parsonage. On the
entrance of the constable it was perceived he had already
commenced the work of self-destruction by inflicting a
frightful gash on his throat. The wretched man seized
a formidable weapon (known to the trade as a horse
shoe), with which he struck the constable a violent blow
on the head, who fired a pistol at him without effect,
and, starting off in the direction of the canal, a distance
of 200 yards, threw himself into the water, from which
he was taken out dead within a quarter of an hour, and
conveyed to the parish church. An inquest has since
been held on the body, when the above facts were put
in evidence, and a verdict of felo de se has been re-
turned. Not the slightest hopes were entertained of the
life of either Jordan or his wife.

THE WITNESSES ON THE LATE

TRIALS AT MONMOUTH.

(From the Times.)
NEWPORT, SATURDAY.
It Will be recollected that about a fortnight since
several of the witnesses who had given evidence against
the traitors at. Monmouth came down to Newport and
stated, that in consequence of the dreadful threats held
out to them, they were afraid to remain at their homes,
and they claimed the protection of the Magistrates. Not
only did the Magistrates promise them their protection,
but several gentlemen desired them to go to their
agents, and they should have immediate and constant
work in their collieries. Arms were also given to the men
with which to defend themselves, and they returned to
the hills determined to do the best they could. The
men have again come down here, and from their state-
ment, which is confirmed by the report of the agents,
it appears that as soon as they ,vent into the levels to
work, all the other men instantly turned out, and de-
clared their determination not to work in the same
levels with the witnesses. Every remonstrance vvls
used, but i.] vain ; nothir.g would induce them to alter
their determination ; and of such importance is it to
the proprietors to lec.,ep their collieries at work, that
they have been obliged to submit to this unwarrantable
conduct, and the result is, that these witnesses, through
whose evidence the traitors were convicted, are driven
front their homes, and will be obliged to leave that part
of the country. The accounts from Merthyr are very
bad ; the men there are represented to be ready for
anything.