The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-20 00:00:00

EVEN IN G ED I TION.

lIANWELL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
RE-OPENS THIS DAY, July 20.
Prospectuses and further particulars may be had on ap_p'ica-
tion by letter, post paid, to the Rev. T. T. Walmsley, D.D.,
Rectory, Hanwell ; J. D. Alacbride, Esq., D.C. L., Principal
of Magdalen Hall, Oxford ; and of the Principal, the Rev. J.
A. Etnerton, at the school.

EREC HT HEIUM CLUB; or, AUXILI-
ARY ATHENYEUM.
At a MEETING of GENTLEMEN desirous of FORM-
ING the above CLUB, held at the Committee-Room of the
Offices of the Assmiation, Waterloo-place, Pall Mall, on Thurs.
day, the 16th of July, instant,
Sir JOHN DEAN PAUL, Bart., in the Chair,
It was resolved,
I. That the Club be now formed.
2. That the Annual Subscription bP Six Guineas, commencing
from the Ist of July instant. The Entrance Fee for the first
hundred Members, Ten Guineas ; second hundred, Fifteen
Guineas; and the remainder Twenty Guineas.
3. That Sir John Dean Paul, Bart., and W. A. Mackinnon,
lk, M.P., be appointed Trustees.
oblemen and Gentlemen desirous of becoming Members
are therefore ruested to signify their intention on or before
Thursday, the 23d instant, on which day the Committee will
sheet at One o'Clock, to make the first selection of Members
from the List of Candidates.
Application for Prospectuses to be made to the Secretary,
II E. Paine, Esq , at the temporary offices of the Society, No.
, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, to whom all other communiea-
"uns respecting the formation of the Club must be addressed.

CATLIN'S NORTH AMERICAN IN-
DIAN GALLERY, EGYPTIAN HALL, PIC-
CADILLY.
immense and curious Collection is Open Daily front
aen to Seven o'Clock. Admission One Shilling.
Citizens of London intending to visit this Collection must
'eecis do it soon, as its term of exhibition in this country is
nearly
expired.
12 . A LECTURE in the Room, and Costumes displayed on
g .In figures each day of this week, at half-past three.

MRS. GREY'S NEW NOVEL,
In 3 vols. post Bvo.,
THE YOUNG PRIMA DONNA.
A ROMANCE OF THE OPERA,
By Mrs. GREY, Author of " The Duke,"
IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

RIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of
AUSTRIA having, AUTHORISED and GUA-
RANTEED
several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY
...1161311IUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES)
" r many possibilities of obtaining
LARGE FORTUNES,
.„ HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH,
if,e NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU-
i2NB- Persons desirous to purchase, may receive, PRE-
iIr,ULARS, (IS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR-
to %- up-on addressing WITHOUT DELAY, a line
HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH.
P. S--THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains
SEVEN HUNDRED MONEY PORTIONS,
Amounting to £72,170 Sterling.
The Smallest Portion is £5O,
And the largest Portion is £25,000.

0" ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
' Novelty Two Entertai in One.
The long ag nnounced. GorgeousNights' Spectacle. aided bynments 100 Fe-
?tale Warriors, and re-engagement of Van Amburgh, with
his matchless 'Collection of Leopards, Lions, and Tigers, who
h v
a nightly appeared to overflowing houses ; a combination
Of attraction never before offered to the Public.
Willise act THIS EVENING. JULY 20.
ed a Grand Historical Spectacle, of unequalled splen-
dour, entitled
JANE OF THE HATCHET.
Supported by the entire strength of the Company,
and One Hundred Female Warriors.
417-1100 PA To conclude with,
KaifaßKE ; OR, THE ARAB OF THE NIGER.
Rillthe Arab, by Van Amburgh, in which character he
r, be attacked by a leopard and a tiger, and finally encounter
the whole herd in their dens.

ROYAL SURREY ZOLOGICL GARENS.
'A FTH WEEK, and CONTINUED ARILLIAND T SUC-
CESS of BEETHOVEN'S BATTLE SINFONIA,
With its novel and effective Introductions ! !
GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET
CHAMPETRES,
By Godfrey's unrivalled Band.
e vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, b
.0 y
snson--Breaking up of the Ice—Melting of the Snows—
Release and Departure of the Discovery Ship.
Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostie " or " Lime Light.
Eruption of Mount Hecla, &c.
Every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
Prograrne of the Concert for July 20th, 21st, and 23d.
FIRST PART.
Ove,-ture--Die Zauberfiete. Quadrilles—La Fille du Da-
Pclaeca—Son Vergin Vezzosa. Waltz—Philomelen.
Melange D,s Danses " Pas des Nations" introducing the Ty-
tolienne, Bolero, Quadrille and Tarantella (First time of per-
tr°rrnanee). Hyk-nu to the imperor Nicholas. New MS.•Over-
tir---The Dragon Fight, descriptive of Schiller's celebrated
tallad (first public performance).
SECOND PART.
GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA,
Beethoven, with new effects and an augmented Band.
,Trip-Night is Coming. The highly popular selection of
4,001--ite Airs from " Robert le Diable." Waltz—Brandhofen.
qauitsman's Chorus from Der Frieschutz.
ADMISSION ONE SHILLING.
Concert commences at Six.

TO CORRESPONDENTS-
Pioeuratiou fees are claimed by custom, and the Eccle-
*l"eal Courts will enforce the payment, but will not
"Iforee large or undue fees. The clerk has no right what-
rer to refuse to swear in the Churchwardens, because the
"es are not paid, as there is a legal mode of procuring
*Tress for withholding the fees, while by refusing to
wear in the Churchwardens he stops the business of the
Pe'tish. We are informed, that if he persist in his refusal,
nuludamus would probably be granted to compel him to
141;forn, his duty, he having a remedy for the non-payment
li aad the law knowing nothing of the tradesman-
Principle of setting off a right, as men set off one money
;!:1111 againg another.
" coinmunic;;Ltion forwarded from Liverpool will appear to-
t:tom,
w.

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LONDON:
MONDAY, JULY 20, 1840.

W
bo 7 Seesymptoms amongst some of our Contern-
u' 0-'sr'es, who have hitherto joined us in vigorot.sly de-
la uneing the iniquitous Corn-laws, of a disposition
"ax and flatter the landed interest into loosen-
g their gripe. They appear willing to sacrifice
great principle in order to obtain some petty
i'lnPorary advantage. They begin to speak the
;,:l'downers fair, pretend *rot to doubt their patriot.
'm, and are ready apparently, like a wild beast
1074 by hunger, to take any crumbs the land-
-43; s may give them, and lick their hands as those
_ benefactors. However anxious we may be to
procure a
repeal of the Corn-laws, we cannot join
Yielding Contemporaries, and cannot but con-
er the landlords as having sacrificed the best
iterests
of the community to the most vile and
blind selfishness.
,„ T°OSt .give up to them now would be to turn a
unpressive lesson into a farce. An ack.now-
4,_"g:nent of their power, a confession of their pu-
and goodness, would not only be positively
l"; but eminently mischievous, by encouraging
ThemTn to pursue hereafter the same counle. Sub-
tssion would augment their power, and they would
not fail to use it.
We believe their conduct as legislators to have
been most iniquitous—a great breach of trust, and
we cannot palter with truth and principle to obtain
Vieittle present ease from their iron yoke. We be-
ve, too, that every day will bring forward facts
watch will tend to make them ashamed of their
eollduct, to make the farmers look aghast at the irA-
Tense losses the Corn-laws have inflicted'on them,
hale
make the universal people indignant that they
•lave so long submitted to the dominion of some of
the most unpatriotic and cruelly selfish men that
mover cursed a noble country.
It is one such fact that the price of wool is de-
b'ming, and likely to decline. At the Thetford
;gaol fair, held on Friday week, Sir WILLIAM
I°LKEs said, "he learned that the growers
'would not obtain last year's prices. The
aitak'e of the American markets, on which
Iney greatly depended, was much the same as
last year ; there was no improvement." The
Earl of LEICESTER'S wool was sold, butthe Duke
of NonyozK's and Lord ALBEMARLE'S was not
sold
; and several private sales were made after the
meeting was over, at a considerable reduction. It
Is Clear, therefore, that the decay or ruin which the
landlords have inflicted on the manufacturers is be-
ginning to tell on their own pockets ; and, with a
prospect of their surrender before us, at no distant
day, when truth and justice will be vindicated and
rampant oppression humiliated, we cannot now
%console the landlords with faint poise of their
I,loderation, generosity, and justice.

'e can understand why Lord JOHN RUSSELL
e ATTORNEY-GENERAL should dislike the
interkie.nce of Mr. KELLY with plans for
belongs alnisost exclusively to the Whigs. It really
looks I;ke au :eagerness on the part of this Tory to
reap and car.cy (NT, as many of his like have done,
a genuine W.Sig harvest,
t
.We are Tuite real, slso to admit the pro-
prety of the Noble ord'x statement, looking
at his situation, that it is only prudent to Watt
" the fulther confirmation from experience o;

the theory already so largely acted on, by abo-
lishing a considerable number of capital punish-
ments, before abolishing any more. The re-
sponsibility of a Minister, bound to uphold a par-
ticular system until it be demonstrated to be erro-
neous and injurious, is plainly very different from
the responsibility of an individual who is only bound
to obtain, if he can, the sanction of the world to his
own opinion, and imposes on him much greater
caution.

Making allowances on both these grounds for
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, we can hardly think that
he was justified, when he saw Mr. KELLY'S Bill
was supported by the great body of his own follow-
ers, and that he was supported chiefly by the
Tories and his personal friends, in acting so
directly and pertinaciously in the teeth of those
principles which deservedly gained the Whigs the
respect and esteem of all humane and reflecting
men. To convince Lord JOHN RUSSELL of his
mistake, his most bitter opponent, and the most
determined enemy of the Ministry, took the same
views as he takes, on Saturday, and, like him, the
Times hopes to see Mr. KELLY'S Bill thrown out
on the third reading.
The two crimes which Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
in common, we admit- with a great many
other persons wish still to be subjected to the pe-
nalty of death, are setting fire to her MAJESTY'S
ships, and rape, particularly the last. We will make
a few obServations on each.

It is now about seventy years since Portsmouth
Dock-yard was set on fire, and JACK THE PAINTER
was executed for that and other acts of incendiarism.
Since that period, if any serious attempts have been
made to set fire to the national vessels or to the
national arsenals in which they are kept, they
have escaped our recollection. We know, indeed,
that cases have occurred in which men, grown de:-

perate from long tyranny, have attempted to de-
stroy the ships-on board of which they were kept.
It is not improbable, too, that some of the many
men-of-war which have perished at sea and never
been heard of, have been destroyed by those whose
lives had been made so miserable by ill usage, that
they cared nothing for the lives of others, so that
they got rid of their own wretched existence, and
enjoyed in losing it the demon-like pleasure of re-
venge. But with these exceptions no attempt of
any importance has been made to destroy her MA-
JESTY'S ships by fire since about 1770. It would
seem usttless, therefore, to keep a penalty on the
Statute-book for an almost unknown crime.
Perha.ps it may be said that the existence of the
penalty has prevented the crime. We believe the
impracticability of perpetrating it successfully is a
more natural explanation. Every evening, winter
and summer, at certain hours, her MAJESTY'S
dock-yards are closed, and no person is afterwards
allowed to enter or leave the yard except lie be
known, rind there be good cause for it. Sen-
tinels and civil watchmen are planted all
round ea ch yard, and both the military and
civil officers go their rounds at different hours
of the night. All the storehouses and work-
shops are carefully examined and secured every
evening, by proper and responsibie officers, who
see the buil dings cleared of the workmen, and see
that no mi schief is done. In like manner on
hoard every ship afloat there are guards and watch-
men; while c n board of ships fully manned every cor-
ner may be said to have an eye, and it is almost im-
possible for any crime to be committed in secresy.
Now the se circumstances render it very difficult,
not to say- impracticable, to perpetrate the crime of
setting fire to her MAJESTY'S ships with any
chance of escape, and account, in our esti-
mation, much tuore satisfactorily for the non-com-
mission of the crime than the enforcement of
the penalty of death. In other cases where
that penakty has been enforced, the crimes
for which it was inflicted have continued or in-
creased. While these proper precautions, therefore,
are sufficient to prevent incendiarism, it is a wanton
piece of legislative cruelty to decree the punish-
ment of dieath for an offence that is so very diffi-
cult of cola- mission.

The ci,Tumstances in which the other offences
may be committed are very different. The Times
quotes the case of a lone woman abused in
boat by four ruffians, and afterwards mur-
dered to conceal their guilt. But how came
it not to occur to our Contemporary that this
crime is sti 11 punished with death, and that it was
committed in this case, and in the several other cases
of which we have lately heard, in spite of the
penalty of: death with which the offence is sure to
be visited ? If the punishment operated as a pro.
tection to women, we should concede the propriety
of continuing it, but these facts prove that it does
not. In truth, the existence of the punishment
brutalizes the people, increases the number of
ruffians in the land, and so lessens the protection
which we are anxious to extend and secure to
females of every class.
A better protection than any the law can give
is afforded by the progress of society. It is now
comparatively seldom that any woman need be
alone and unprotected. We all live, both by
night and by day, surrounded by our fellows. From
the increase of the people, and from the
facts that many occupations are carried on
at all hours, and that our streets and our
roads are seldom or never deserted, women, unless
by some carelessness of their own, are not often
left unprotected. As railroads become the general
means of conveyance, and all persons must travel,
as it were, at the same time, and in company, there
will be still less opportunity than at present for the
commission of the crime in question.
On these grounds, without now entering further
into the subject, we regret that Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL should have gone, in the two instances we
have mentioned, against principles which have
been claimed and professed by the Whigs, at least
since the days of Sir GEORGE SAVILLE, and
should have given an undeserved triumph, by Mr.
KELLY'S success, to those who were long the op-
ponents of all amelioration of the Criminal Code.

at St. Cloud. The Duchess of ORLEANS has attained,
in good health, the fifth month of her pregnancy. If
the expected scion of royalty be a male, it will receive
the title of Duke of VERSAILLES in compliment to the
prayer of the inhabitants of that most loyal town.
General Pfeil, the Prussian Envoy, has had his audi-
ence of the King to take leave, and sets out to-day fur
Neufchatel, in Switzerland.—Moniteur.
MALTA, JULY 6.—Admiral Stopford was to have
touched at Corfu on his way to the Levant, but the Gorgon
steamer arrived after he had left this port, but in time to
give him an order to proceed forthwith to the coast of
Syria. The Admiral's family then embarked on board
the steam-boat Phcenix, which was to land them at Corfu,
and then proceed to join the English fleet.
The ships of war which are already cruising off the coast
of Syria are the Pozoe:ful, the Bellei'le, and the Edin-
i burgh; to those are to be joined the Thunderer, the
Princess Charlotte, and the Bellerophon.
SPANISH REFUGEES.—Some more Carlists have arrived
at Perpignan, and the total number of the refugee soldiers
now stationed there in the Champ de Mars is about
14,000. On the 12th instant a heavy and lasting rain
came on ; to shelter themselves from which these poor
people had to make huts with branches of tree% which
they got from a neighbouring wood, but the greater part
dug holes in the ground with their hands, and then,
covering themselves with branches, huddled into them five
or six together. On the 13th one of the priests attached
to them said mass at an altar raised on the edge of the
Champ de Mars. All the men remained on their knees
the whole time of' the service, and, immediately on its
being terminated by the priest pronouncing the words,
" Ite misse est," they set up a general hurreh.
We have received the following note :
" TOULON, JULY 14.—Mr. Aymb, Secretary of Lega-
tion, who arrived yesterday post from Paris, and at whose
disposal the Government steamer the Sphinx has been
placed, is the bearer of the Convention concluded at Paris
between the Representatives of the English and Neapoli-
tan Governments, who it is said have agreed to accept the
arrangement proposed by M. Thiers."—Le Constitutionnel.
The Sesostris which left Marseilles on Saturday for the
East, has been forced to put back, after having passed the
islands, in consequence of an accident to its boiler; instead
of it the Ramsees has been sent, which could not leave
till yesterdPy. It is affirmed, that it was known before-
hand that the Sesostris was not in a condition to keep the
sea for any length of time. If this assertion is true, it
must be owned that the Directors of the packet service are
to blame, they cannot be too vigilant and careful, and
should avoid giving passengers ground for complaining of
delays affecting their interests.
A letter from Cairo says that a proposal is much talked
of in this city, which is going to be made to Mehemet Ali,
to allow a monument in honour of Napoleon to be raised
in the great pyramid of Gizch. The funds for the pur-
pose would be raised by subscription.
It eppears, says a letter from Vienna of the 9th, that
Count Fequelmont (the Austrian Ambassador) intends to
stop some time at St. Petersburgh. Nothing is yet de.
cideded respecting his successor. The Prince of Schvear-
zenberg and the Prince of Colorede Walse seem to be
likely to obtain this office. Count St. Aulaire, the French
Ambassador, is expected here at Vienna in the month of
September; but it is not believed that he will retain mueh
longer his post at this Court. —Le Contnzerce.
BRUSSELS, JULY 18.—We have mentioned that Colonel
Murray had come from Paris to Brussels to surrender
himself prisoner on an accusation of attempting to assassi-
nate his wife on the Boulevard of Waterloo.
In 'the month of November last a handsome lady,
mounted on a white horse, and followed by a servant in
livery, was taking her usual ride on the Boule-
vard of Waterloo. All on a sudden she per-
ceived her husband, whom she believed to be
at Paris. Being rather alarmed at his appearance,
she turned round and descended the Boulevard and went
home. On her return she aeain saw her husband on
the Boulevard; he had in his bend a cane of ueusual di-
mensions. On returning home with her servant, the fair
amazon saw the vestibule spotted with blood. On exa-
mination it was found that the servant's horse had a
wound near the tail from which blood flowed in abundance.
M. Doutreliene, one of our ablest veterinary surgeons was
sent for, and declared that the wound was caused by .fire-
arms. But as no report was heard either by the
lady or her servant it was concluded that an air gun must
have been med.'
Such are the facts on which the accusation of Colonel
Kent Murray is founded.
The Colonel, however, meets the accusation, by plead-
ing an alibi ; he affirms in a memorial, which he
has lately delivered, that, in the month of Novem-
ber last, :and especially on the day when the at-
tempt was made he did not leave Paris. We
are assured that he adduces the minutest details, and
offers to prove this alibi, while several witnesses, who have
been examined in the preliminary proceedings, declare
that they, saw the Colonel at Brussels some days after the
alleged attempt, and Mrs. Murray, her man servant, and
her maid, declare that they could not be mistaken.
HAMBURG, JULY 9.—A letter from Kiel says that the
dispute between Denmark and the Hanseatic city respect-
ing the transit duty is settled. The duty remains as it is,
but Denmark engages not to make any addition to it in
28 years.
BOURSE.—PakIS, SATURSDAY, JULY 18.

irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents llB 95 ... 118 95 118 SO 1 S SO
413 CT Cents lOB 75 iO4 75 ... 108 75 108 75

3 per Cents BO 45 l.: 86 45 .:: 80 40 ... 80 44)
Bank of France 5760 —.3770 ...3700 ...3770
Latfitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 11..5 ...1135 ...1135 ...1135
Belgian Bank
. 3 pet Cents 77 10 ... 77 10 ... 77 In .. 77 In
Sparthh Active i'F% ... 3% ... 9.8% ... 28%
Passive 6A, ... 7 ... 67 ... 6/
New Ucferred
Neapolitan
Roman
ItAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain
Versailles, R. B L2S ... 525 ... 5W2 50 ... 522 50
L.B.
Orleans .
Strasburg to Bale 417 50 ... 417 50 ... 417 50 ... 417 50

The Madrid papers received are of the 11th instant'
but the news they bring is of no political interest. The
only rumour which prevailed of any moment was, that
ESPARTEAO bad advised the REGENT to dissolve the
Cortes, and consult public opinion upon the pacific
policy of the State by a new election. Her MAJESTY
approved of the advice of the Commander-in-Chief, and
instructed her Ministers to hold themselves in readiness
for another appeal to. the Spanish Nation.
On the Bourse, business was brisk, and the funds
generally firm. The closing prices on the 10th were—
Five per Cents. 26 1-16ths for cash, and 26 13-16ths
at 60 days.

By the arrival of the Iberia steamer, at Falmouth,
on Saturd:ty, from the Mediterranean, we have received
Lisbon PaPcrs of the 13th inst. The Chambers had
voted the Add;'ess, in answer to the Speech from the
throne, by a large majority ; although, from other ap-
pearances, it was evident that the Cabinet was in ho-
minent peril. A bloodless duel had been fought be-
tween: two deputies, the Count DA TAIPA and Senor
JOSE ESTEVAO, relative to a hasty expression which
fell from one of them in the•course of debate. Were
truth not sometimes offensive, the expression would
hardly be ever misapplied in speaking of a Member of
the Legislature either of Portugal or any other coun-
try. The offending deputy had merely said that his
opponent " bad no sha:ne in his face,"—a discovery easily
made, we presume, but which only a person labour-
ing under a similar moral deficiency, could have enun-
ciated.