The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-04 00:00:00

IPSWICH.

According to the Ipswich Express, there h3s been a
very close contest in this place, in which the Tories have
been generally successful, owing, it is stated by the same
paper, to very gross bribery on the part of the Tories, who
have in some cases given 101. and 151. for a vote.

NORTHAMPTON.

In spite of their numerous recent defeats in this emi-
nently Liberal borough, the Tory party made another at-
tempt to carry the e►ection of Town Councillors, and have
again been signally foiled, not one of the three wards
having returned a Conservative candidate, although " the
faction," in the vain hope of lulling the Reformers to
sleep, deferred starting their nominees until the Saturday
preceding the day of poll. South Ward— Hagger (R),
180 ; Simpson ( R), 166 ; Shaw (T), 163 ; Marshall
(T), 161. East Ward—Groom (R), 190; Stevenson
( R), 187 ; Markham (T), 163 ; Armficld (T), 150.
West \Yard—Turner (R), 188; Shoosmith (R), 186 ;
Campion (T), 107.

BRIGHTON, Nov. 2.—Tim 11Th HUSgARS.
—Lord Cardigan has, no doubt with a view to making the
most of Lord Hill's amnesty, invited all the officers here to
Deenc- park, to give them the opportunity of evincing the

sincerity with which they forget and forgive; to forgive
all the indignities heaped upon them and their brother
officers, and forget the base advantage taken of their be-
loved and respected companion, Captain R. A. Reynolds.
We are curious to see what effect this invitation will have,
and to know who (if any) are mean enough to accept it.
Perhaps they will "forget" also the delicate manner in
which, in his rejoinder, Lord Cardigan spoke of " friendly
offices rendered" in the Deene-park preserves. I believe,
however, all will indignantly spurn his i-ordshtp-s-vnjoli.s.
invitation, excepting, perhaps, his two remaining toadies.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-Yesterday tnorning,
about nine o'clock, Mr. Strachan was in a gig going down
Haverstock-hill, when the horse stumbled, and fell. Mr.
S trachan, falling against the side of a lamp-post, fractured
his head in a shocking manner ; he was removed home in

a coach. The groom escaped without receiving any injury.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.-SUDDEN DEATH.
On Tuesday, between one and two o'clock, as Mr. Cope-
land, the accountant, of Walbrook, was professionally at-
tending in the matter of the bankruptcy of C. WI ight,
before Mr. Commissioner Fane, he suddenly fell upon
the floor of the Court, and was instantly raised by Mr.
Roden, one of the principal messengers, and the other

persons who were near him. Ills countenance was ghastly
pale, and he made no struggle. Mr. Wade, a surgeon,

who lives in the immediate neighbourhood, was instantly
in attendance, as was also Mr. Elderby ; but their assis-
tance was cf no avail. The surgeons agreed in attributing
his death to the bursting of a blood-vessel in the head.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.--,llie ordinary
meeting was held yesterday afternoon. Dr. Henderson,
vice-president, in the chair. The attendance was greater
than usual for the season, and the exhibition was very good.
The professorship has just been given to Dr. Daubeny,
who is now on the Continent, with the view of adapting
the foreign to the European processes of agriculture, and
of obtaining more information on the subject. The prin-
cipal part of the collection consisted of fruit, of which
nearly forty varieties of apples were from Mr. Kenny,
gardener to Viscount Maynard. Mr. Wilson, gardener to
the Duke of Norfolk, exhibited five varieties of pears; and
Mr. Wilmot, of Isleworth, a new seedling variety which had
some good qualifies. The fruit from the gardens of the
Society consisted of !six of the newest varieties of
apples, and thirteen sorts of pears, with some Esperione
grapes, a new and choice variety, grown with great success
upon an open wall. The most prominent exhibition of
flowers was from Mrs. Lawrence; and Mr. Dean, gar-
dener to Mr. Bateman, of Congleton, exhibited four new
orcbidaceous plants, chid), from Guatamela. Nine new
varieties of plants were exhibited from the gardens of the
Society, amongst which was salvia regla. a rare plant of
this species, recently sent over by Mr. Hartweg, from
Mexico. The prizes awarded were silver Knightian me-
dals to Mrs. Lawrence, for a beautiful specimen of catt-
leya labiate and calanthe deusiflora ; and to Mr. Dean for
odontoglossum grande, a plant with a large flower and
beautiful striped petals.
On Monday, the Ist inst., the Britannia, 120
guns, bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Sir John A. Om-
manney, in company with the Howe, commanded by Cap-
tain Sir W. 0. Pell, attempted to work out of the roadstead
at Spithead, the wind being then many points against
them. Before noon they had again anchored. the wind
having come right a-bead, when the Howe was found to
hire sprung a leak forward, about seven or eight feet be-
low water, as it is supposed in the gunner's store-room.
She goes into dock on Friday or Saturday next, after having
got her lower-deck guns and heavier stores. Should much
repair be wanted, it is thought that her crew will be turned
over to the Queen, 110 guns, now nearly ready to go out
of harbour, otherwise a delay in the sailing of the Howe
of about a fortnight will be the only result. The Britannia,
in rc-anchoring at Spithead, carried away the shaft of her
anchor. She sails again for her destination, the Mediter-
ranean, as soon as the wind permits, without waiting for
the Howe.
SINGULAR ESCAPE.—OR Monday last a ma n
working on the line of the Manchester and Leeds rail-
ay ias y i
inf
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in ee dt hae as
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tunnel,o f
when one of the trains came through, and though the
signal whistle had sounded, he either did not hear or did
not heed it. The trains do not eome through the tunnel
at a very rapid rate ; and the engine coming in contact
with him fortunately hurled him completely off the line,
where he fell in safety. This preservation from an
awful death is, we believe, without a parallel in the history
of railway accidents.—HalVax Guardian.
NOVEL AND EXTRAORDINARY PHENOME-
NON. —Accident has led to the discovery that the steam
which escapes from the boilers of steam-engines in many
cases developes or gives out great quantities of electric:ty.
About a fortnight since, the engineerman at a station-
ary steam-engine on a railway in the neighbourhood of
Newcastle, happening to have one hand in a copious jet
of steam, which escaped from an accidental aperture in
the boiler, whilst he appliedhis
an electricother
shock.
hand to the
lever This loefd ato stahreetyd-icvsalovvee experiencedry that olectarliemit ineyacwbas given out
ssteamfrom
a powerfulwithgre electrical great rapidity,etrie and might. It h
be co'.-
s
bibeyeeetntle a e4lascertained, moreover, that the phenomenon does not
circumstances poculiar to the boiler in which
, the steam has
arise from any
I it was first observnd. for in many-
since been tried
ta ieity very copiously. The
here by experiments, and h
ticelif some of the most eminent
It is not unlikely that h
may lead to important rtes
of the nature of the subtle mysteriousandni
other boilers, which have
beenb. found to develop elec-
su pet is being followed up
as been brought under the no-
tice scientific men of the
phenomenon
eultnse.wlydiscovercodo
advancing
an era in the history of electrical science.—Correspondent
and form
respondent
of the Gateshead Observer. fi.irdk,nw ledge

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EVENING ED ITIO
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AUDI ALTLRLAM PART -C.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE S •
SIR,—I rely on your admirable impartiality to "patirg4tl'.l4
me to ask the Public to between us, pn the question—
', Whether the late letter of Mr. Reyno'lds is or is not
under tile circumstances, the ignoblest production that ever
was penrmd?" Your's in haste,
A BARRISTERIAT.LAW„

CORN-LAWS v. POOK-RATE.

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TO THE EDITOR 01 THE SUN.
Sta,—The Poor-rate for the present quarter, in
Great Yarmouth, has been increased twenty-five per
cent. From what cause does this arise?
The Corn.laws, or the bad administration of the
parish funds by the Board of Guardians?
My own opinion, Mr. Editor, is—the Corn-laws are
the sole cause, and are steeping the little trademacop
and all the labourers al England, in want and misery.
I am, Sir, T. B.

The LATE MIL Ito w L ES.—The Merthyr.
Guardian gives the following particulars respecting Mr.
Rowles, the timber-merchant, who recently committed
suicide under circumstances detailed in The Sun :—Ru-
mours having been in circulation that serious differences
bad existed between the deceased and the other Directors
of the Rhymaey Iron Company, we are happy to give, on
unquestionable authority, the most positive contradiction to
those rumours, which are utterly without foundation, the.
truth being that the best understanding prevailed be-
tween them, which will be shown satisfactorily from:
the following short statement of facts :—Mr. Rowles
having been seriously indisposed for some time in
his health, wrote to the Directors, explaining his eon
dition to them, and tendering his resignation of the
responsible office of Managing Director; upon receipt of
which the Directors had a meeting, when they were so-
satisfied of the condition of Mr. Rowles's health, that they
resolved to accept his resignation ; but they did this with
great regret, and, being desirous of expressing their feelings
on the subject, as well as their opinion of the manner in
which, in their judgment, he had discharged the onerous
duties of his office, they wrote to him a latter, stating their
sorrow for the necessity he felt himself under of resigning,
and their approbation of the manner in which he had de-
voted his eminent talents to the service of the Com-
pany, adding a hope that, although he had thought
proper to resign the situation he held, he would still
continue to retain a seat in the direction. In reply to
another rumour, that the reason of the deceased com-
mitting suicide was the disordered state of his pecu-
niary affairs, we have to say, that so far from this being the
case, he was actually at the time of his decease in the pos-
session of a fortune of from six to seven thousand pounds
a year, having acquired large property as a Government
contractor, by building military barracks, &c., fur them ;
great public edifies, he also built several in which he
showed much taste and judgment. The deceased con-
structed. large works at Rhymney, which, besides their
being remarkable for their perfect adaptation 1:0 the PI"-
poses for which they were designed, were distingte'sh. cd for
the taste and talent displayed in their erection. Ta'e teal
cause that lcd to the melancholy catastrophe appear,' to
have been mental derangement, produced by great irrita..
bility of the system, arising from general bad health and
greatly disordered state of the stomach.
On Thursday last the subcutaneous section of
the muscles of the back, for the cure of lateral curvature
of the spine, was, for the first time in this country, per-
formed by Dr. Hunter, Professor of Anatomy, Ander-
sonian University, Glasgow. The operation consists ire
cutting across the muscles of the back that produce the
curvature, and although it has the appearance, at first
sight, of being a formidable operation, vet it is so cun-
ningly and simply performed under the skin, that the pa-
tient, although in this instance a delicate joung lady, com-
plained of no pain, lost noL more than three drops of blood,
and was only thirty seconds under the hands of the operator.
A good deal of interest has been excited in the
town of Halstead, within the last few days, on account of
the discovery of the dead body of an infant in a wood near
that town, under such circumstances as to induce a strong
belief that it had been murdered. It appears that a far-
mer being on his way home, heard a peculiar noise in the
wood in question, which he at first thought was the shriek
of a hare in a snare, bat in consequence of something that
afterwards came to his knowledge, he was induced to make
a search at tee spot from whence the noise appeared to
proceed, 'and he there found in a ditch the body of a fe-
male child, tied up in a piece of sacking. Two medical
gentlemen were called in, and they both expressed their
belief that the infant had been born alive. but they would
not pledge themselves positively to the fact. Further in-
quiries were then made, and a suspicion arose that a
)(yang woman named Hannah Wickers was the [weber of
the child, and she was taken into custody, and underwent
an examination before the Halstead Bench cf Ma.
gistrates, upon the charge of murdering the infant.
Evidence tv,s then adduced, to show that about
two months before the child was discovered in the
way above stated, a medical gentleman who had
been in the habit of attending upon the prisoner, sus-
pected that she was in the family way, and accused her
of it, but she denied that it was the case. Several neigh-
bours of the prisoner also spoke to their belief of her hav-
ing been in the family way a short time before the dis-
covery of the dead infant. A witness was likewise exa-
mined, who stated that a day or two before the body was
found, he saw two women, one of whom was leading the
other, who seemed to be in very great pain, go towards
the spot, and he believed the prisoner to be the one who
seemed to be suffering as he described. The Magistrates,
after a minute inquiry, said that although thore were cer-
tainly some suspicious circumstances against the prisoner,
there was not sufficient legal evidence to warrant them in
committing her to take her trial. The prisoner was ac-
cordingly set at liberty.
CARLOW ELECTION.—CoIoneI Bruen has
came forward as a candidate for the representation of Car-
I, .acant by the death of Mr. Vigors. His address to
the electors was published on Monday.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT TO Two RACERS.—
On Monday week a horse-box, containing two yearlings,
the property of Lord Westminster, was standing on the
line near the Rugby station of the London and I3irming_
ham Railway, when a train which does not stop at that
station came up, and ran against the horse-box with great
violence. The engine entered completely into the box,
and from the force of the shock the contents of the boiler
were poured upon the unfortunate animals, scalding them
• so severely as to render it necessary to destroy one, and
to give little hopes cf the other ever being fit for use. It
is reported that their noble owner claims 3 0001. for each
of them. _ _ _

TIIE GOTTINGEN PROFESSORS.—Professor
Albrecht, one of the seven Professors exiled from Gottin-
gen, has been named by the King of Prussia to a chair of
law in the University of Berlin. Messrs. Grimm, two
store of the seven Professors, have been named members
of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin, and hate been in-
vited by the King to the capital, where they arc to have
handsome pensions allowed them.
The Duke of Devonshire was to leave Killarney
on Saturday last, to visit the Earl of Clare at Mount-
shannon, county Limerick, whi re the Dowager Countess
of Clare, and Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon and a select party
are staying.
Prince Alexander Lieven has left for St. Pe-
tcrisburgh.
His Excellency Viscount Ebrington left Castle
Hill on \Vednesday last, after visiting the Earl and
Countess of Fortescue, for \Vcar Gifford, to visit the Hon.
Newton and Lady Catherine Fellowes.
His Grace the Archbishop of York returned to
Bishopsthorpe on \Vednesday last, from a visit to the
Queen Dowager, at Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire.
It is very remarkable that eight Peers, who were
married to divorced women, died suddenly within the last
three years.—Limerick Chronicle.
Considerable excitement prevailed on Sunday last
in the quiet village of Gillingham, owing to a corporal
belonging to the 96th Regiment being found in a field
(called the Hilly-field)in the afternoon, about two o'clock,
with his throat cut. It is supposed some persons saw him
as they were proceeding to Gillingham church, as some
men were despatched to the place with a stretcher, and
he was conveyed to Gillingham poorhouse. Upon
examining him it was found that not only was his
throat cut but the sinews of ono of his wrists were di-
vided. When first perceived he was lying on the grass
with his face downwards and his .arms stretched out,
his cap being a little distance off. The soldier was ques-
tioned as to uhether he had done the injuries to himself.
As the unfortunate man could not speak he shook his head.
Several civilians and soldiers repaired to the spot and com-
menced a strict search for the instrumentcorporal
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Sunday eveninlige,
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tteantt Gi\irn.awritiman..
It is Adaam Williams, M.P.
fo • Monmouthshire, will, on the niee iqg of Parliament'
accept the Chiltern flundr!ds on account of his indifferent
health.

THE RECORDER OF DUBLIN.—The Dublin
Evening Muil last Monday made some severe remarks on
the malignant attacks made by the ultra Tory press on
Mr. Shaw, and published conies of letters between Mr.
Shaw and the editor of the Morning Herald on the sub-
ject. The Herald, in a leading article, arerted in
effect that the Duke of Wellington had declared
that lie had been deceived and betrayed by Mr;
Shaw, who demanded the authority for
unjust imputation. The Dublin Mail now
publishes
these
a letter from the editor of the Herald, in wbicb
are
autho-
words.--" I am now enabled to state, on the seinequoted,
rity as that on which the passage alluded toer7or
that the Irish Peer referred to did not
that the Duke of Wellington had
b.!en deceived or betrayed by you. onr:
His observation was a genehraul, convey,
declaredaBs that he had
ords to that effect.
The answer to
such
ilishaes
inquiry
ed further with the subject."
of your own requect, to
ygoautirve,lirmstakeinsq
preee's not on record an instance of
inthetheternme;
The Mail then adds,
a fouler conspiracy—begun
on with malignity
more
ethe falsehood which pervaded the
sure more complete "there
i n 1 views '
accordingodmc i doreed l yt
sordid,o
yu
nbneeicnegss a rty ,
whole—than tha!bagof
to be gaining
Waterford seems
ainctinmvert.ersahtea,wn.o: ending in an expo-
The Marqunr
his estates in the county of Waterford,
golden laurels
On his arrival at Thurles his Lordship
aeridarncEaPdedcrte.ss from , ve of their
where his arrivale has beenthehianilieladbwitiatnhtseevxeir,yresmsiark of es_
arrival amongst them. Rockwell and and 't
joy at
his
d future to be called New ' 1 neighbourhood is in Melton, and
the extensive stabling recently erected eclipses that of our
hunting metropolis in Leicestershire. The " eccentric
Marquis," as he was once called by his aristociatio friends
of the west, is spending his princely fortune with trim
rteeecenice
Irish freedom amongst his fellow countrouß.

EVENING EDITION'

3IOiN EY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(TUESDAY EVENING.)

TI MES.— By advicesfrom Hamburg.h the price of gold
is 425; per mark, which, at the English Mint pOceof
3/. 17s. 10:1,-d. the ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of 13,51, and tho exchange at Hamburgh
on London at short being 13 3:12, it follows that gold
is 1.83 per cent. dearar at Hamburgh than in London.
The Femium on gold at Paris is 4 per mine, which,
at the -F,nglish Mint price of 3/. 17s. 14 d. the ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 25, and
the exchange at Paris on London at short being
"25. 15, it follows that gold is 40 per cent, dearer at
Paris than in London.

The course of exchange at New York on London is
108 k per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng-
land and America being 109 23.40 per cent., it fol-
lows that the exchange is 1.07 per cent. against Eng-
land, but the quoted exchange at New York being for
bills at 60 days' sigiit, the discount on these 60 days
must be deducted from the aforesaid difference.
In the affair of the Chilian dividend, which was ad-
tertised this morning, some surprise has been expressed
at the long period required for the examination of the
bonds previous to the payment, which is nearly six
weeks, but which is usually only three days, and also at
the omission in the advertisement of all mention of the
arrears ; but the circumstance otherwise is satisfactory,
and it is hoped the example will make a due impression
upon the other South American Governments.
The Chancery broker and another large broker made
considerable purchases of Consols for money, which
had the effect of improving prices full per cent. ;
otherwise the bargains of the day were unimportant.
Consols for money left off 88 to .1, and for the account
86-i to y.

A favourable re-action seems to have taken place in
the Share-market, for, although but trifling business
was done, prices generally are quoted higher.
There was a far better supply of bills upon Ham-
burgh to-day. and the rate of exchange on that place
was in consequence higher than last post, and with an
appearance of a further advance. The exchange on
Frankfort may also be considered better. Paris and
Amsterdam are much the same."'
A circular published in Ne7v York, and received
here by the Caledonia, relative to the cotton crop of
the United States, gives the growth, export, and con-
sumption for the year ending Sept. 30, 1840. With
respect to the growth, it appears that New Orleans,
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Vir-

ginie, have been the great producing States, and have
the. year exceeded most materially their former product.
As compared with 1839, Mississippi and North Caro-
lina are the only States that have fallen off. In IM9
Mississippi produced 16,432 bales, whilst for this year the
product was but 6,767 bales. In 1839 North Carolina
produced 11,136 bales, whilst for this year the product
was but 9,394 bales. The total crop of the United
States avP.s 2,177,835 bales, which, compared with the
total crop of 1839, showed an increase of 817,303
bales, The export to foreign ports, as a total, amounted
to 1,876,003 bales, showing en increase on the year
“339 of 801,314 bales. The total of export to Great
Britain was 1.246,791 bales ; to France, 447,465 bales ;
to north of Europe, 103,232 bales ; to other foreign
ports, 78,515 bales. The consumption was estimated
at 291,279 bales, and did not include any cotton manu-
factured in the States south and west of Virginia, nor
any in that State except in the vicinity of Peters-
burgh and Richmond. It is observed, in respect to the
present crop, that not only is there a very large increase,
as s'nown by the comparison with last year's product, but
that the quantity also exceeds that of any previous year
by 376,338 bales.

SUN—The effect of the news from Syria has advanced
the price of all the funded securities, lull 4 per cent.
today, the market remaining firm up to the close of
business this afternoon. Consols left off at 88i- to
for mono!, and 884 to for account. Exchequer Bills
realise4 par. to 3s. discount, and India Bonds 15s. to
12s- discount. 'lndia Stock rallied trom 240 to 242,
but ',lank Stock did not get up beyond 159. The
tiv w Three-and-a-Half per Cents., were at 978 to
There was very little business done in the Foreign
'Stocks. Spanish Actives were at 214 to ; Portuguese
New at 831 to ; Colombian at 231 ; Mexican at 271
to 1 ; Brazilian at 73 ; Russian at 111:12- ; and Dutch
Two-and-a-Halt per Cents. at 508 to being for all
a slight improvement, or else the previous rates without
alter.tion.

Tile Railway Shares have been more dealt in, and at
,advanc,ea prices. The Great Western were at 151- to
16:;, the Birmingham at 70, and the South-Western at
12* to 13* prem. BriLliton Shares were 13-* to I`.2i
Mi.. and 131ackwall die.
The'lnterest to he paid on the Ciiilian Debt is 31.
per ccrit. far the half-year (6 per cent. per annutu), and
not 17; per cent., as stated by our Contemporary tha
Herald, and we believe one or two other papers.
'l'ue Foreign Exchanges were rather better this af-
ternoon. Oa Paris the rate was 2,5 f. 45c. to '2si. 50e._ ;

Ilatuburgh 13 7to ; and on Amsterdam, l 2 2to
The following is the official return of the exports of
the precious metals from th,~ port of London, for the
Kuck ending Thursday last :
.1/45.1.ver Coin to Hunburgh 46.200 ounces.
Rotterdam
Belgium 4,500 „
S•lver B Ir 3 to Rotterdam
Hamburgh