The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-01 00:00:00

THE CONVICT MISTERS

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
SHREWSBURY, MARCH 31.—1 t is understood that Josiah
Misers will be executed in front of the County Prison, at
twelve o'clock on Saturday, as the Governor of the
prison, up to last night, had not received any orders
to the contrary. Mr. Mackreth has petitioned that
the unhappy convict's capital sentence should be corn-
mu'eJ. In this attempt he has been backed by the Fore-
man of the Jury, and by many respectable inhabitants of
Shrewsbury; arid all pray for the commu.ation, on the plea
of the convict's youth, and the fact that murder aas not
actually committed.
The relatives and friends of Misters are also using every
effort to obtain the exercise of Royal mercy. His bro-
ther, Mr. John Misters, of Birmingham, Os ho is a most re-
spectable and worthy man) went to Bristol, in company
with Mr. Ludlow, immediately on hearing the result
of the trial, and returned on Sunday night. Their object
was to see Mr. Mackreth, but did not succeed, that gen-
tleman not returning to Bii,tol until yesterday. A, Bir-
mingham, where the fueling is in favour of the remission
of the extreme sentence of the law, principally on account
of his family and respectable connections, a pe
tion has been numerously signed, and a deputation
of gentlemen left yesterday with it to wait upon Lord
Normanby. On proceeding from Shrewsbury to Here-
ford on Wednesday last, the two Judges (Mr. Baron Gur-
Ley and Mr. Justice Coleridge) visite i the Appel Inn,
Ludlow, carefully examined the premises, and arc said to
have declared that the result of their personal investigation
was a conviction r,f the justice of the verdict
The Rev. D. Winstone, the chaplain, has been unre-
mittir.g in Lis attendance upon the prisoner. Oa Sunday
he preached the condemned sermon, the text being Num-
bers, xxxii. 23.--`• But if ye will not to do so, behold,
ye have sinned against the Lord ; and be sure your sin
will find you out." Immediately before, as well as once
during the sermon, the prisoner tainted. Restorat:ves acre
promptly adminktnd by Mi. Dawson, the Givernor of the
prison, whose humanity is only equalled by his ettert'on
to the duties of his very responsible aid painful situation.
The prisoner's state of health remains as it was prior to his
trial. There is little change in his manner or appearance.
Ha preserves the self-possession whet] so much distin-
guished him during the whole time he was on trial, and he
still persists in his innocence. This morning, Mr. John
Mister, accompanied by Mr. Ludlow, were to leave Bir-
mingham for Gloucester. Their intention is to wait upon
Baron Gurney, and personally entreat bias to give the case
his merciful consideration.

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THE SON OF ROBERT I BURNS.--MajOr
Burns, the son of the justly-celebrated Scottish poet,
who has recently completed 26 years' service in India,
and who now holds an appointment under the factory corn-
missi n, bas been officially enraged during the list ten
days in ascertaining the condition of the persons em-
ployed in the paper and other factories of the loca'ity of
Maidstone, perhaps the most favourable district for the
health of th)se employed of any in the kingdom. It
would be a libel upon Maidstone to suppose that Major
Burns has not been welcomed by the live, a of the belles
le tires amongst her population. Major Burns is rather of
shorter stature than his highly-0' ed f ether, but possesses
a considerable resemblance to the poet in the upper part of
his face, and much of that conversational facility in which
poor Burns is si id so singularly to have exe* lied, re fined
and polished by intercourse with the talented and the
great. A complimentary dinner was given to Major
Burns at the Haunch of Venison Inn on Monday, by seve.
ral ardent admirers of his father's extraorOinary genius.
Dover Chronicle.
FRENCH EXTRAVAGANCE.—The extrava-
gance of the French is scarcely credible, and nothing in
England .ever equalled it, at least that I ever heard
of. The trousseau of Mademoiselle de Matignon, who
is going to marry the Baron de MoLtmorency, is to
cost a hundred thousand crowns, (about 25 0004
sterling.) There are to be a hundred dozen of shifts, and
so on in proportion. The expense here of rigging out a
bride is e qual to a handsome portion in England; five
thousand pounds worth of lace, linen, and gowns, is a corn.
' mon thing among them —thoinburne's Courts of. Europe.

UNIT ED STATES.

BY EXPRESS F.a.f.OM LIVERPOOL.

ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA•

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The fine steamer Britannia, Captain Cleland,
which had been looked i for with much anxiety,
and been the subject of many wagers, fired a gun
and entered our river ata little after four o'clock
this morning. She brings papers from New York
to the 15th, and Boston. 16th inclusive, having
sailed thence on the latter day, and from
Halifax on the 17th. She has therefore
made the voyage in 141 days, which, consider-
ing the very tempestuous weather she has ex-
perienced, must confirm the opinion previously
entertained of her good sailing qualities. .
By her we learn that the President, so long
expected and anxiously looked for, sailed from
New York on the 11th instant. She has, there-
fore, now been at sea 20 days, and her news is
anticipated by this arrival.
Upon the great point of interest, the detention
of M'Leod, these papers do not bring any deci-
sive news. He was still in gaol at Lockport, and
nothing more than a very prevalent report that
Mr. Fox had demanded M'Leod's release or his
own passports, and which is strongly com-
mented upon in the New York papers, was
known. It does not appear probable that
the demand could be officially made before
the 10th or 11th, as the presentations of the
foreign Ministers, and of course the British
amongst the rest, did not take place until the
9th. The Americans are very sore that the de-
mand should be accompanied with a threat,
which, as they say, puts it out of their power to
accede with due regard to their national honour.
It seems to be generally believed, at New York
that he would be set at liberty.
The Boundary dispute remains unnoticed, and
the Canadian news generally is not important.
The business of New York, and of the country
generally, remains in a sad state of prostration ;
the rate of Exchange on London 71 to S
for New York Bills, and 7 to 71 for South-
ern Bills. United States Bank Stock, which
had declined to 151 on the 11th, had rallied, and
was quoted 17 a 171 at New York on the 15th.

The Britannia, though she has experienced a
rough passage, looked in excelled trim, and had
sustained no damage. She brings a large number
of passengers, and the heaviest mail brought
since the establishment of this fine line of packets.

(From the Daily Advertiser and Patriot.)
BOSTON, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 15.
THE CASE OF M'LEOD.—We do not yet hear
any thing, of an authentic character, of the
nature of the communications which have been
made by the British Government to our own, on
the subject of the arrest and imprisonment of
M'Leod. The better opinion seems to be that
the rumour of a peremptory demand for his
release is unfounded. That it is so is a sup-
position much more consonant with the
character and temper of the British Ministry,
than the supposition that it is true. They have
given too many proofs of a disposition to avoid
occasions of irritation and unnecessary excite-
ment of popular feelings, in their mode of ma-
naging the negotiations between the two coun-
tries, to make it probable that they have at this
time adopted a course at variance with that cour-
tesy and moderation which it is manifest is most
likely to bring this question to an amicable ad-
justment.

The steam ship Britannia, Captain Cleland,
takes her departure for Liverpool to-morrow.
The passages of the Cunard steamers will be, for
the ensuing eight months, semi-monthly. The
Caledonia, whose day of sailing from Liverpool
was the 4th inst., may be expected to arrive here
by Friday or Saturday next.

SNOW STORM.—We had a severe snow storm
on Friday night and Saturday morning—equal
in violence, we believe, to any which we
have had this winter. The snow was much
drifted. The cars on the Worcester Rail-
road, however, with the land mail, arrived, by
the aid of two powerful engines and a snow
plough, at half-past nine, A.m., having forced
their way through the snow drifts, a distance of
45 miles, in a little over three hours. The train
from Springfield was much obstructed by snow.
It arrived, however, at 10 o'clock at night. The
Norwich train with the New York Steamboat
passengers, arrived at 12 at night. The Provi-
dence train, with the New York passengers by
way of Stonington, at half-past eight. The storm
was violent in the Sound.

THE NEWS FOR ENGLAND.
(From the New York Herald of March 15.)
Instead of having any news to send to England
by the Britannia to-morrow that is highly inter-
esting or important, we are all awaiting with the
most intense anxiety the receipts of that descrip-
tion of news which we expect will be brought by
the Caledonia in the course of this week, and by
the British Queen in the course of a few days
afterwards. More especially do some of our
financiers look for this, as the receipt of the total
failure of the United States Bank reached Lon-
don, beyond a doubt, some days before the Cale-
donia sailed, and she has now been out eleven
days.
It had been confidently expected that the
Britannia would have taken out some definite
intelligence relative to the case of McLeod, and
the result and the nature of the final instructions
of Mr. Fox, and his movements connected there-
with. But up to the moment of writing this, no
intelligence on the subject has reached us of any
definite action on the subject, and no demand
has yet been made or divulged for the immediate
liberation of McLeod. That he will be finally
liberated, no one here entertains a doubt; and
his trial is expected to come on at Lockport in
the course of the present week.

In commercial- matters, of course, no change
for the better has taken place. The gloom, de-
pression, and distrust, are almost without a paral-
lel ; and it is painful to add that beyond a doubt
matters will be much worse before they begin to
mend. The corn market is sadly depressed.
Cotton is in no better condition. Money is
awfully scarce, and those few who have it
are clinging to it as to the cords of their
salvation. The credit system has been so com-
pletely scattered to the winds that all the energy
and talent of the new Administration can never
collect the stray particles thereof. Under these
circumstances, every philosopher in the commu-
nity is patiently awaiting the issue of events, on
the old rule that the hardest must fend off.