The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-22 00:00:00

KENSINGTON POLICE COURT.

Yesterday, Maria Ti Ilea, a very beau ilea' of " a
queen of the kitchen," vag,o a cook, was charged before
Mr. Barlow, the sitting Magistrate, with having been
drunk and disorderly at the residence of her master, Mr.
J. Jekyll, No. 4, Camden-terrace, Kensington.
Mr. BARLOW asked how she came to be so drunk?
He supposed she had been drinking gin.
Page, a police constable, replied that when he got to
the house the
.defendant was in the beer-cellar sitting
a choral across an ale-barrel,Bacchi plenus, and he had-
great difficulty in removing the goddess from her throne.
The defendant, who urged nothing in her defence, was
then fined in the " drunkard's penalty," ss.
Within half an hour from the hearing of the above
case, information was brought to the Court that the
policeman, Page, was no more, haviLg dropped down
dead on the high road. It appears that on leaving the
Court he proceeded to the house of Mr. Jekyll to in-
form that gentleman of the decision, who gave him a
sovereign to pay the fine, and give the remainder to the
cook, requesting him to return with her to see that
she took her boxes away quietly. He went and paid
the fine, and was accompanying the woman for the
above purpose, when, while passing through the posts by
the side of Kensington turnpike, within a few yards of
Mr. Jekyll's house, he suddenly dropped to the ground
in a fit. Lynn, the tollman, and police-eonstable Os-
borne, observed him fail, and immediately ran to his
assistance, and carried him into the Camden Arms,
public-house, where he was promptly attended by a sur-
geon, but life was found to be quite extinct. The de-
ceased was about fifty years of age, and had been in the
force from its establishment. He was much respected
by his superior officers. Some period since he was
severely injured by being thrown out of a window while
endeavouring to quell an Irish row, from the effects of
which he never recovered. Latterly he was placed on
reserve, being incapable of general duty, and was daily
in expectation of a retiring gratuity. He has left a
wife and six children.

FUNERAL OF THE MARQUIS OF CAMDEN'
—The obsequies of the late deeply-regretted Marquis of
Camden, according to the desire of the deceased noble-
man, were conducted with all the privacy his elevated posi-
tion in society would allow. Before the hour appointed for
the departure of the mournful procession from the mansion,
the principal attendants and the children educated at his
Lordship's expense assembled in the park, it being arranged
that they should form part of the mournful procession. A
large concourse of persons bad also collected to witness
the funeral. Shortly after noon it left for Seal with the
children of the school established by the late Marquis and
two of the principal tenants of the Lee Marquis on horse-
back. Tenantry on foot, two by two. The hearse, drawn
by six horses, was supported on each side by six of the de- I
ceased Lord's senior domestics. On passing through Seal
from the road which leads from the park, eery house and
shop was closely shut up, out of respect to the family.
When the funeral cortege reached the church the coffin
was borne by the tenantry into the body of the church.
RAILWAY FROM NOTTINGHAM TO LlN-
comi.—Active steps are now taking, and the Lincoln and
Nottingham Railway will certainly be brought before
Parliament at the ensuing Session. The advantage of
the measure to this city cannot fail to be considerable.
Nottingham is now within less than six hours' journey of
London, and the fares arc even more moderate than those
formerly paid by coach, which was not less than sixteen
hours on the road ; and should the railway be extended to
this city, it would be placed within an eight hours' ride of
the metropolis. Ten years ago this would have been
regarded as incredible, yet it has been achieved in other
places, and if not attained also here, Lincoln will be thrown
behind them in the rapid pace at which improvements pro-
t ile already
doeufteee t
iuivtpes
gress. By means of such railway, too, there is reason to
expect that goods to and from London may pass through
Lincoln, to Newark, Nottingham, &c. instead
, instead of
taking the present dangerous and circuitous r
the Humber and
uTrent,orpnostehse
of
navigation, Lincoln Trent
area having
low,
groceries, &c. from London conveyed in one bottom ; and
makes it tedious
tYs may be shown
Yorkshire coals carried up the re
astlathtrogfhit,
1 byreti t single instance ;
wit from 4s. 6d. to ss. per ton more than
and
to Newark actually
Fossdykc to Lincoln, although the d' when carried on the
mate-
rially vary, and a heavy tonnage is 'stance does not
at Torksey lock. The projected is Pa) able in the latter c, se
Lincoln less at the mercy of
who, if he intends to retaitt the lessee of the FoasCiyke,
must exert himself, and improvethe present tolls and traffic,
Lincoln corn trade the intended
much more direct route 'an('
that navigation. To the
ful, as by it corn, flour, railway'eannot but be use-
malt may be forwarded by a
expensive;thfcr tdhuee dues
it will even make h
1 within an easy disttthaeneelmopf
. than the one at present taken ; and
otrhtaentmarketof Birmingham
the farming e only Lincolnshire agriculturist,
and indeed supply
counties, the remainieg link wanted con-
nectte.t.,
nd Yorkshi district of the cast with the mi
potteries,r,s...Lincoainnduthaezmellaen.ufactories ofLancashire

EVENING EDITION

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEW S

SSDAY EVENING.)
CHRONICLE.—The election of General Harri-
son to the Presidential chair may now be considered
almost as a settled thing, and it will in all probability
be followed up by the re-establishment of a national
bank, with an uniform national currency throughout dart
Federal Union. Should this take place, the positioa
of the Bank of the United States might be materially
altered in its extent and influence. But for the present
it is enough to say that the institution will be
perfectly prepared to resume specie payments on the
day fixed by law. At present the Boston and Phi-
ladelphia Banks hold about $5,000,000, notes of
the Bank of the United States ; and it is quite
true that these banks have agreed to exchange
them for post notes. This operation will make the
resumption perfectly easy, and it will also allow the
Bank time to realize its assets to redeem these post
notes when they fall due. The exchange of $5,000,000
of active circulation for post notes, payable at long
dates, proves that the Bank is in a good state of credit,
and the result will materially
increase its strength.
The transaction shows also that the Back is desirous of
allowing full time to its debtors to pay up their ba-
lances, and to realize its assets to the best account.
We regret, nevertheless, that it has been found expe-
dient to adopt such a course of managezent, in order
to meet the resumption of specie payment. It would
have been a stronger feature certainly if the Pirectors
of the Bank of the United States had been Able to
fill their coffers with specie to meet any demand from
the return of the notes in circulation, but we shell be
better able to form a correct opinion after seeing lho
promised statement of their affairs.

TlMES,—Connected with the affair of Hammers-
ley's bank, a correspondent has submitted the draft of
a Bill to be brought into Parliament, if his suggestions
are approved of, for some administration of the estates
of persons dying insolvent less tedious and less expen
sive than the Court of Chancery. As a subject of ge-
neral interest to all commas cid men, leaving even the
case of Hamtnersley out of the question, an anal)sis of
the proposed Bill may properly find a plow under
this head. The chief object of the Bill is to transfer
the inquiry and administration of the effects of the
deceased, where any difficulty arises respecting the
execution of his will, to the Commissioners of Bank-
ruptcy in Basingliall-street ; and where the deceased
party shall have lived above forty miles from London,
to the present country Commissioners ; who, when
acting in the manner provided for by the Bill,
are to be called " Commissioners of Inquiry."
The clause which may be said to give effect to all the
subsequent parts of the Bill, and to organize the whole
by at once placing the supervision of a deceased per-
son's estate, in the first instance, under local authority,
requires that immediately on the death taking place the
local registrar of births and deaths shall inquire whe-
ther the deceased left a will, and also the names of the
executors, to whom he is to write, requiring them to
administer forthwith. Thus knowledge of the intention
of the executor is at once given to a competent autho-
rity, and doubt respecting the position of affairs, or as to
who is the responsible party, is at once removed. In the
event of the executor or administrator not complying
with the directions contained in the will, any creditor or
legaee to a certain -amount is, according to this Bill, to
be at liberty to petition the Chancellor and the Judges of
the Court of Review to appoint tlaeCommissioners of In-
quiry, who are clothed with all necessary powers, such as
the summoning and examination of witnesses, the power
of committal to prison, the right of assigning to the
trustees appointed by the creditors at a public meeting
all the testator's estate, and the power of appointing a
temporary trustee till such time as the creditors' trustees
shall be chosen. The legatee er creditor petitioning
for such a commission is not to be entitled to it without
his debt amount to 501., and when several creditors join
in one petition their debts arc together to amount to
1001. A bond in the penalty of 1001. is the security
to be given by the petitioning creditor. The vote in
the choice of trustees is to be limited to legatees and
creditors claiming 101. and upwards ; and during the
public meeting held by the Commissioners, the different
legatees and creditors are to prove their claims, either
in person or by affidavit. There is nothing new in this,
which is merely an application of estate of law already, but
when great grievances exist it u necessary to give sueh
remedies as may be proposed, in the hope that if they
are not sufficient they may lead in the end to something

that is so.
If what a correspondent writes be true, the canal
companies are most neglectful of their interests in
competition with the railways. He states that the
Regent's Canal Company have allowed all the trade to
be driven off their canal, and large barges to be
placed across it by another Company, on account of an
insufficiency of water. " The carriers," he sap, " are
obliged to land their goods at Paddington on an open
wharf, and without shelter. Hence sonic of the carriers
have had recourse to the railroad, and sent as much as
200 tons at a time." Such a state of things would
prove, as our correspondent observes, had " general-
ship" indeed.

POST.—It was found, on the publication this morn-
ing of the Paris letters in the Journals, as all well-in-
formed persons knew would be the case, that the report
of the assassination of the King of the French, which
prevailed here yesterday, was altogether devoid of truth.
Not only had no fresh attempt been made on the life •f
his Majesty, but the aspect of political affairs had so
far improved in the French capital as to have produced
a rise of some magnitude in the Rentcs upon the quota-
tion previously obtained from thence, say of two per
cent., or thereabouts, since the close of the Bourse on
Saturday. The more pacific note addressed to the
French Ambassador at this Court by M. Thiers, and
the imaginary disapprobation of Austria and Prussia of
the extreme measures meditated against Mehemet Ali,
appear to be the grounds upon which this revival of
confidence on the part of the French speculators is prin-
cipally founded. The fact of the abdication of the
Spanish Queen Christina, which was doubted by iotne
persons yesterday, seems to be fully confirmed, and this
tends to keep the quotations in check, especially those
of the Peninsular securities.

HERALD.—The foolish rumours current for a short
time yesterday about the Stock House, but nowhere
els?, and absurdly made afterwards the subject of se-
cond and third editions by the Foreign-office Evening
Print more foolish still, ielative to a more deadly at-
tempt on the life of the French King, had the effect of
producing some portion of the effect on the funds yes-
terday, for which doubtless they were fabricated. To-
day, however, the receipt of the Paris papers dispelled
any apprehensions that might have been entertained,
and the market bee,ime more firm.

The long-continued. adverse state of the foreign et-
changes in this country could not fail to excite atten-
tion in the United States, where all the people are par
excellence traders, and pre.ctical if not theoretical eco-
nomists. After discussing the question in various of its
bearings, and more especially as referable to deficient
harvests and large corn imports, the Americans were
naturally puzzled to discover why, after the cause had
long ceased, the imputed effects should still be in
full vigour of operation ; that is why, after corn im-
ports had so long concluded and been paid for by
the remittance of bullion, the foreign exchanges
should still exhibit no symptoms of re-action
and recovery. On this side of the water they found
addle-headed economists and shallow pated traders
still stupidly dogmatizing on the derangement of the
exchanges as owing exclusively to corn imports long
gone by, and as such a cause was manifestly incompetent
and inconclusive as to the far removed consequence as-
sumed, they are not slow in detecting the actual truth
of the case, and in settling the egg on its beam ends in
the Columbian style, which the fumbling pedants here
were variously attempting to,adjust into an upright po-
sition, from which it invariably rolled away like the Si-
syphean stone notwithstanding all their toiling and bol-
stering up. It has not unfrcquently been noted under
this head that the prominent and gigantic cause of mone-
tary vicissitudes and derangements in this country must
be sought much more in the nature of Transatlantic
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balances and payments with Europe and the world at
large, the liquidation of which is always in the end ef-
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and through
conclusions
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arrivnoted
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surprisingtis
matter in the United States, where, in fact common
sense appears to be at a much higher premium than the
political economy commonly current here, and
so fluently sported in pamphlets, in coteries, and before
Committees of Parliament, by bankers with more
wealth than wit, and by writers with more brass than
brains.

SUN.—There was a better feeling in the City to-day
as regards the Eastern question, and it was considered
a satisfactory circumstance that the foreign exchanges
have begun to show a tendency-twimprove.
There was a rise in Consols of nearly -k per cent. to-
day, the improvement being friim 86k and 86a to 87
87k for present transfer, and from 86k to 871 i for
November, the market leaving off rather firmly. T here
was rather a large amount of business transacted at the
intermediate rates, and the market wore on the whole, a
very buoyant appearance. Exchequer Bills declined to
1 3 premium, and par, and India Bonds were heavy at 10s.
to 14s. discount ; no doubt this depression arises from
the tightness of money out of doors. Bank Stock, after
dsrtoo pc
k p i ndgi
dfrom t
g10614h
toe
higher
than
nc2ln4s3e d. at
Thel. ee_
61
; and India
and-a-Half per Cents. brought 96k to 964, the
Reduced
' Three per Cents. 85 to 86, and the Reduced Three-
t'
and-a-Half per Cents. 95k to 95k.
Thera was cot much speculation 0-0!
Foreign Market, and the quotations
moved but slowly.
StockAs
wentnothing
al
sa tleorwcame
2Otoibaannddof Spain, the Active
204 in the morning, but
of 4rTn 'rig on in the
got up before the termination 4
ii, business to 2.
per
Portuguese New Five
Cents. rallied from 314 i
to 021 to but the Three Per Cents. were at 2.1 k