The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-01 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Under the above 1•,;:ad we published in The Sun of
Sato/Sato/Oil, a frightful account outrages committed by
flay,
iiiithofitiee; upon a number of British and
American subjects, extracted troth d 14 err York pair•
In addition to that account, we find the folloWitlg is the
Journals brought by the Great Western :
REPUi3LIC OF MEXICO.
City of Tepic, May 2.4, 1840.
ThOs. 1. Ptiefiiih, tsq.
Sir—We, the undersigned, natives of Great Britain,
and of the United States of America, formerly residing
in Upper California, and at. preseet prisoners in this city,
beg to rehab you our most grateful and sincere thanks
for the very important services rendered to us in Cali-
fornia, while under confinement there, and for your in-
defatigable and successful exertions in alleviating our
sufferings and saving our lives while in the hands and
under the persecution of the lawless men, who have
lately committed so many atrocities against the settlers
established in that country.
We have also equally to acknowledge the great trou-
ble you have taken to lay our case before the British
and American Consul, of this place, and to procure for
us the kindness and protection of those gentlemen,
which relieves us from ail fear of further personal dan-
ger and ill-treatment, hitherto suffered by us from our
late persecutors.
Ali this we owe to your disinterested kindness and
indetatißable exertions for our welfare, and to you alone
under God many of us owe our lives, which otherwise
would eertainly have been secrificed to the fury of our
tormentors. Ili return for such buoaAne and beneficent
services, we can only offer our prayers and our thanks,
and we trust that iii due time you will meet the reward
which such true benevolence write.
NAMES OF PRISONERS.
Isaac Graham Lawrene, Carmiehal
Nathan Daily George Frazer
Lewis Po lock Win. Shea
Joseph Whitehouse Jamev Grigor Dove
Milton White Wm Bloomfield
John Warner Thomas Jones
John Price Albert Tr. Morris
Richard Westlake Wm. A r,dei son
Wilhelm Brineken jam, s Wadows
Th,;mas Thomas Wm. Forbes
John Irvin Elijah Parry
Macglone Henry Kt,,€ht
lb,rt Williams Thomas Lewis
Robert M•Callester Wni. Langlois
William Green John Lucas
Geo. Chapel John Christian
James 1.,,,eve1e Daniel Goff
%Vali.= Bally John May.%ard
Joseph Boles William B rton
John fligginN John Vermillion
Charles Williams G. Prior
Jos Pearce Charles H. Cooper
James O'Brian John Armstrong.
British Consulate, /
TEPEC, 24th May. 1840.
I hereby certify that the names affixed to the fore-
going letter are of the true handwriting of those they
represent, and now prisoners in this city.
("iven under my hand and seal this day and year
above dated.
(Signed)

Consols, wh;ch left off 3 esterday at 90.1 for the Account,
are not quite so good, owing to the news from the F.,,st,
and may be quoted at 90 for the Account, and at 891 for
Money; Exchequer Bills, 18 20; Bank Stock, 1681
1691 ; India Stock, 248 250.
In the Foreign Mark._t Spanish Active left off at 25+,
at present 24H- ; Deterred, 114 12 ; Portugue'e, 344
Three per Guts,, 22+ ; Celo&nbian, 241 ; Mexican,
28i 29 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 514 52 ;
Five per Cents., 101+ 102+.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Gloucester BO 69i to 70
Eastern Counties

Great Western
Ditto few
London and Blaekwall
London and South Western 387 5431 to 53i
..... .

North Midland - B 4

MINES.

British Iron

HALF-PAST 011/ E.

The Great Western steamer has arrived. Extracts
from American papers will be found in another part of our
paper.
The steamship President was telegraphed about eleven
o'clock, but so far at sea that it was doubtful if she could
reach the city before the hem. we go to press.
VERA CRUZ, JULY 6.—We are informed by a corm-
spndent from the capital that the English Minister has
made a demand, by order of his Government, for the le.
funding of the 10 per Cent. internal duty, or the ground
that a reasonable notice was tint given to the importers
that it would be imposed. It is to be presumed th,t
other diplomatic agents will follow the same demands.
The garrison of Puebla has marched for Vera Cruz owing
to a rumour of an insurrection in that department.
Maxico, JUNE 16.—1 a the paper of the 10th instant
we find the !ollowing :-
4. The English Minister, by order of his Govern-
ment, has sent a note to Mexico, notifying the Govern-
ment that if within a given time vh: shall not have re-
eonciurred Texas, the indep, ndence of that country will be
acknowledged by Great Britain."

Consols are rather heavy; they have been 90k, at pre.
sen 90 f.l the Account ; Money, 891 ; Exchequ: r
18 20 prem. ; Bank Stock. 169; India Stock, 2491.
la the Foreign Market very little doing Spanisn Ac-
tives have been 34:11, receded to 241 Deferred, 114 ;
Passive, .5,1- ; Portuguese 34 341 ; Thr-e per Centg., 224 ;
Dutch Two and-a- Half per Cents , 514 s ; Five per
Cent., 101/ 102 k.
Shares are heavy, and lower ht price. Bristol and Exe-
tor, 694 70; Eastern Counties. 10 10k; Great Western,
New, 48} 4S ; London and Blackwall, 194 1 ; South
WeAerii, 541531; North Midland, 84.

ULSTER ASSOCIATION.— LORD CIIA RLE
MONT.-0a Thursday last the first meeting of the general
Committee of the Ulster Constitutional Association was
held in the Music-hall of Belfast, and was attended by
members from all parts of the province. Edward Bruce,
Esq., J. P., of Scoutbush, presided. Several important
resolutions were adopted. A sub-committee wn. ap-
pointed for the purpose of promoting the more effectual
registration of voters in Ulster. Another sub-committee
was appointed, to report upon " the objectionable provi-
sions of the registration and election laws at present in
force in the United Kingdom, and especially to suggest
such alterations and amendments in those laws regarding
Ireland as would tend to prevent fraud and corruption,
and confer a more extensive franchise, with a greater faci.
lity of obtaining it ; and, finally, to suggest measures tor
defeating any bill similar to that lately introduced by Lord
Stanley." The general meeting of the Association was
fixed for the Ist of October next. The Earl of Charie-
mont, in a letter addressed to Mr. S. Crawford and Mr. D.
Ross, the Secretaries, announces his acceptance of the office
of President of the Society. His Lordship believes " in the
beneficial results likely to follow from the formation of
this well-timed association," nor does he " doubt of its ap-
proaching ir.fluence on the future destinies of Ireland, or
on the cause of well understood, rational, and practical
liberty in general ?"

MILITARY MOVEMENTS TO THE MEDI-
TEKRANEAN.-On Monday morning Lieutenant-Colonel
Gordon, Lieutenant Middleton, and a detachment of
the Royal Artillery, marched trorn Woolwich to the
Vauxhall terminus of the Southampton Railway, and pro-
, ceeded by that conveyance to Southampton, where they
were to embark the same evening on board the Oriental
mail steam-packet ship for Corfu. The Oriental sailed
to-day with a considerable number of military officers and
men for the Mediterranean. On Sunday evening orders
were received at head-quarters for Captain Cater, of the
Royal Artillery, and his company to hold thf,mselves in
readiness to proceed at a moment's notice to Malta. The
pressing nature of thise movements may be conjectured,
from the fact that Captain Cater and his company only
relieved Captain Hyde and the men under his command at
Purfltet so late as Friday last.

EUSTACE BARROW.

THE LATE THOMAS SIMPSON,

ESQ

• _
We published yesterday, from an American paper,
an account of the lamentable death of this gentleman,
and the awful circumstances with which it was accom-
panied. We have since learned, from a quarter entitled
to our fullest confidence, that, although no official Intel-
ligence of this melancholy event has been received at
the Hudson's Bay House, no doubt is entertained there
of the correctness of the main facts. Of the cause
there is, and car, be, but one explanation—insanity.
Mr. Simpson, it is well known, had been for the last
four years actively engaged 'n the prosecution of those
discoveries which have immortalized his name. He
allowed himself no relaxation, summer or winter, from
the labours necessary ler the accomplishment of the
great object of his ambition. The discovery of the
north-west passage absorbed his whole soul. So bent
was he on this enterprise that he actually made a tender
of his life and his whole fortune to the Hod-
, son's Bay Company in order to complete the
survey of Boothia Felix, and the great bay of
islands stretching eastward to the Straits of the Fury
and Hecla, should there be any demur as to the c xpense
and difficulty of the undertaking. Uotortunately for
him he knew not that instructions had been sent
out appointing him to the comm tad of the expe-
dition which his ardent imagination bad invested
with so much interest. In ignorance of this
appointment, and fearful of losing another season, he
was on his way to England for the purpose of laying
his plans personally before the Directors, and prevail-
ing upon them to embrace his views, when his reason
gave way under the excitement occasioned by the anxi-
eties of his position, and the great fatigue and want o
rest to which he had exposed himself during the part
the journey which had been necomplished.
It has been stated that. Mr. Simpson and Mr. Dense
both set out together for England, and were striving to
outrun each other in the raee of prefernvnt. There is
nut the least f aindation ter this statement. There was
no rivalship between these two gentlemen. M
though the senior of- Mr. Simpson, al-
ways acknowledged that the success of their expedition
was niamiy owing to the rare combination of talents
and qualifications possessed by his younger associate,
and was not on his way to Ea gland when these dreadful
ev,'nts occurred, but was returning with his family to
Gurida, of which be is a native.

Mr. Simpson wis about 32 years of age, and went to
Hudson's Bay in 1829. He was a native of Dingwall,
in Ross-shire, and had received a liberal education, hav-
ing been intended for the Church. While prosecuting
his studies at King's College, Aberdeen, he greatly dis-
titigui,hed himself, both by the regularity of his conduct
and his attainments in the various branches of literature
and science to which his studies were directed. No
man could be better prepared for the arduous duties
which devolve upon a discoverer in the Arctic regions,
and very few possessed the natural qualifications for
such pursuits in an equal degree. His constitution was
robust, and his activity extreme. No obstacles could
daunt his courage. or subdue his energy and perseve-
rance. To these qualities were added an amiable and
obliging disposition, which made him a general favourite,
and that generous love of fame which usually accompa-
nies superior talents. He had been promoted to
the rank of Chief Trader by the Hudson Bay
Company, and would, had he lived, have risen to the
highest distinction which they can bestow, as they
entertained the strongest sense; of the many valuable
qualities which he possessed.

P.k.lt LS POLICE.

THE FRENCH STUDENT AND fHE PARIS GRISETTE.

—A handsome young man, with light mustachios, w•as
called up before the Paris correctional police, on
Tuesday last, on the charge of having assaulted a
young woman.

Tile plaintiff, a pretty brunette, shot indignation from
her sparkling black eyes when she perceived the de-
fendant, and. after having allowed a rather energetic ex-
pression to escape her ruby lips, said with a sneer,
" With saint-looking Lace, who could think that he
would lift his hand against a woman ?"
Sydonie, on being called upon to give sonic
particulars of the case. spoke as follows :—" I was at
the concert of the Chalet with a female friend ;—that
gentlemen was cloy to us, and did nothing but look at
us, so much so, intlecal, that Clemente said he was look-
ing at her ; but I knew better, fur I saw he was look-
ing at me."
The PRESIDENT—These details are unnecessary ;
speak of the ill-treatment you received.
Mtnle. Sydonie—l tnust, I suppose, relate how the
affair happened. Well, the gentleman came up to us
and offcred us ices at the Cate des Ambassadeurs.
Those things are always accepted. Clemente ate three,
I I two, and when we were going to re-enter the
concert he let Clemente go in, and then whipped me
off to the boulevard, and I found mysdi in a coach
before I had time to look round mt..

THE PEOVER MURDER.— Notwithstanding
every exertion has been used by the Magistrates and Mr
Harper the special high constable of Cheshire, as well as
the constabulary force under his command, nothing has,
up to the present moment, transpired to fix the guilt upon
any party. Several persons have, howe-er been in ell:
tody ; but there was not sufficient evidence to warrant
their further detent,on. At one o'clock en Friday alter-
noon the remains of Mr. and Mrs. Cook were interred in
family grave in Oven Peover churchyard. The funeral
procession consisted of two one-horse hearses, headed by
the Rev. Christopher Bush, the incumbent of the parish,
and followed by Mr. Mapin (Mrs. Cook's brother), Mr.
R. Couk (the brother of Mr. Cook), Mr. Joseph Cemk (a
nephew, from Manchester), Mr. James Palin (from West-
gate), Mr. Joseph Palin (of Knutsford), Mr. Lear (bro.
ther-in-law), and seveval neighbours of the deceased.
THE PENNY POSTAGE.--A very important
announcement has been issued to the various regiments in
her Majesty's service relative to the delivery of letters to
non-commissioned officers and soldiers. At military sta-
tions, where the barracks happen to be within the limits of
the free delivery of any town, it is understood the Post-
master-General will cause all regimental letters to be de-
livered at such barrack., by the post-office servants, free
of all exnense, provided the officer commanding the
troops shall prefer that mode of delivery to their being
called for at the post-office. It is to be clearly understood
that the post-office letter carriers are not to be unneces-
sarily detained at the barracks on these occasions, or re-
quired to distribute the regimental letters in the
barracks; and that in all cases in which the letters
are sent from the post-office to the barracks, the
commanding officer shall cause them to be received and
paid for by some trust-wot thy non-commissioned officer to
be appointed for that purpose, preparatory to their being
distributed by that non-commissioned officer, or called ftir
at the regimental orderly-room by the individuals to whom
they are addressed. At stations where the barracks happen
to be placed beyond the limits alluded to, the regimental
letters must be called for at the post-office, by an orderly
non-commissioned officer, as a duty, for the discharge of
which he is to receive no perquisite. It is understood the
troop sergeant-majors and pay-sergeants of companies shall
take this orderly duty in turn. Tt.is arrangement will be a
difference to the fife major, who formerly enjoyed this
perquisite in the royal arttllery, of an average of 95., and
in regiments of tile 01 Os. per day.

The PuEsIoENT—W.2II, and then, I suppose, he
struck you ?

Aidlle. Sydonic—How could he strike me then as
he had no right over me ? The next morning he called
on me at the shop, and " Sydoriie, if' von like to
go the play to-night I will Like you." These thins
are always accepted. I accordingly went at six o'clock
to the place of appointment, near the statue of Wit-
ter, in the Luxembourg garden, where a young man
came up to me and said, " You are waiting for M.
Anatole ; are you not, Miss ?" I replied affirmatively.
He then told me that Anatole had charged him to take
ma to the Pantheon, where we should find hint. I, who
had no reason to doubt the young man went with him.
When we were seated he told me " Anatole will not
come, he has deceived you—take my advice and forget
him." The evening passed off very well, and as we
were leaving the theatre, the young man prepared some
punch. These things are always accepted. We went
into a cafe where he said he was known, and the first
person we saw was Anatole, smoking a pipe and play-
ing at dominoes. I went up to him, and, naturally
enough, told him he was a beast. He told me to hold
my tongue, but I continued to reproach him with his
ill-conduct, and repeated the word. He then seized me
by the arm and turned me out of the house, giving me
at the same time a kick which covered the lower part
of my shawl with mud. I wanted to scratch his eyes
out, but he was quicker in his motion than I, and,
giving me a slap on the face, laid me sprawling on the
ground. I began to cry, but, on reflection, I said to
myself that it was ridiculous to sheti tears for such
creatures, and I went to the commissary of police to
complain of the assault. This is the whole story.
M. Anatole, in his defence, said that Mdle. Sydow°
had begun by kicking up a row which by no means
suited him, and had commenced the attack by stretch-
ing his lace. He, therefore, solicited the trial to he
in order that he might produce wit-
nesses Cri'or a week,
3stoprowyethe truth of his assertion.
Sydouie•••." item taworrow." 14

EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE i week he'll be away from Paris, and then catch him again.
AT CAtAditMA. ', Oh, no ! Let him be sent to prison at once. .
m-
But the Court was not of the same opinion, anti c
ply condemned the defendant to 25 francs fine, to the
great dissatisfaction of Mdlle. Sydonie, who muttered,
as she went away," Men always support each other.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Princess Augusta was visited yesterday by the
Duchess of Gloucester. The account of her Royal
Highness's health issued yesterday was as follows :--
" The Princess Augusta has passed another very
good night, and her Royal Highness is rather better.
" Clarence•bouv, Aug. 31."
Io the forenoon the Princess passed some time in her
drawing-room, but we regret to state that in the after'
noon her Royal Highness was not so well. Among the
inquirers after the health of her Royal Highness yester-
day at Clarence-house, St. James's, were,
ian Min:ster, the Danish Charge d'Affaires and Coun-
tess Bille Brae, the Duchess of Inverness, the Duke
of Dorset, Marchioness of Westmoath, Earl and COO'
tess of Belfast, Earl of Westmoreland, Earl and Cel:
tess- of Charleniont, Viscount Ternpletown, Lady Pd
Monek, General H. tamphell, Colonel Cooper, ee
Colonel Sir Samuel G. Higgins. el
The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel
Jones, returned to town yesterday from the resiedt
of Colonel Wemyss, near Kingston. His RoYet 11„.,gke
ness left town in the afternoon on a visit to the 14•
of Somerset, at his seat, near Wimbledon.
the Hanover-
The Marquis of Normanby has left town for bis
seat, Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from
Broadlands.
D,spatches were sent off last evening front the C°.
lonia;-office for the Governor of Ceylon. lonik
Despatches were received yesterday at the 'ie-
nffice front Cie Governor of Gibraltar.