The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-13 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1840.

OTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
GENERAL POST-OFFICE, MY 7, 1840.
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quested that they may be placed on the Front of the Letter
and upon the right hand corner on the upper side. Shoul.l
this direction not be attended to, from the rapidity with which
the duty must be performed, Letters which bear Stamps will
frequently be taxed, while the Parties receiving therm! will
put to much trouble in obtaining a return of the Postage im•
properly chargel. In all eases of complaint, whether of over-
chaige or of any other irregularity, the Cover of the Letters
must invariably be kept and sent to the Post-office, as affording
the only means of investigating the complaint,
By command,
W. L. MABERLY, Secretary.

rr HE LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND
DUBLIN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
No. 3, CHARLOTTE-ROW, AinNsios-Housz, LONDON.

Capital £500,000.
DIRECTORS.

Alex. Anderson, Esq. John Jehnson, Esq. Alderman.
John Atkins, Esq. Kenneth Kingsford, Esq.
James Bidden, Esq. John M'Guffie, Esq.
Captain F. Brnndreth. John Maclean Lee, Esq.
Vice-Admiral Robt. Honyman. J. Marmatiuke Rosseter, Esq.
Benj. Bill, Esq. Sir \\'m. White.
Alex. Robertson, Esq., Managing Director.

Important and Salutary Improvements have been introduced
into Life Assurance practice by this Company.
The Policies or Contracts of Assurance are Indefeasible and
Indisputable.
The whole Profits of the Mutual or Participating Branch of
Assurance, are divided amongst the Assured of that Class, who
are relieved from all responsibility.
The Lowest Rates of Premium, the Reduced or Non-parti-
cipating Rates, are intended for those who prefer an immediate
saving to prospective accumulations.
One-half of the Premiums may remain Unpaid for Seven
Years, affording a greater facility for Loan Transactions than
any other plan which has been suggested—allowing a Policy to
be dropped at one-half of the usual sacrifice—and entitling the
Assured at a future period, when loss of health may prevent him
from obtaining a :New Assurance, to continue a Policy for
double the amount of the sum for which he has paid Premiums.
Endowments are granted to Children contingent on their at-
taining a specified age.
Sums asssured may be made Payable to the Assured them-
selves, at any specified age, or to their heirs or assigns, in the
event of the Assured's death before that time.

Medical Gentltsrnen ar• in all cases remunerated by the Com-
pany fcr their reports.
A Liberal Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents.

REFORM YOUR TAILORS' BILLS.

AGENTLEMANLY SUIT of the Best
Quality . ...£3 12 6
Superfine Dress Coats ... 2 7 6
Ditto Frock Ditto, silk facings
Taglioni, or Great Coats 1 10 0
Fishing or Shooting Coats
➢lorning Dressing Gowns ... 0 15 0
Buckskin Trousers
Summer Trousers
Summer Waistcoats
Suit of Best Liveries
Army Cloth Blue Spanish Cloak, 9L- yards round 2 10 0
The New Waterproof Cloak
Ladies' Elegant Biding Habits . 4 4 0
DOUDNEY and SON.
49, Lombard-street. Established 1784.

Patronized by their Majesties the King and
Queen of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses
Augusta and Sophia, her Serene Highness the Princess Ester-
hazy, the Princesses Mary and Rosa, her Grace the Dowager
Duchess of Bedford, and their Graces the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, and the Dukes of Devonshire and Manchester. In
addition to the above distinguished patronage to the newly-
invented Spectacle Lenses and Invisible Operative Voice Con-
ductor, the Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians and
Aurists, No. 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, feel great plea-
sure in stating that their valuable inventions have also gained
the sanction and unqualified approbation of above four hun-
dred of the principal members of the medical profession ; as
also of numerous individuals of high distinction, who have
been greatly benefited by their use. linmediately these im-
proved Spectacle Lenses are placed before extreme imperfect
vision, it is at once brought back to its natural and original
state, every object becomes clear and distinct, and the most mi-
nute particle is seen, either by day or candlelight, with ease
and distinctness. Their Voice Conductor, by which thousands
of deaf persons have been greatly benefited, are not the least
perceptible, nor more uncomfortable, than having a piece of
wool in its place, and the faintest whisper at a public assembly
is heard with exact distinctness.-39, Albemarle-street. Not
to be had at any other house.
HUSSAR DINNER TO PRINCE ALBERT.—
In the account of the proceedings which took place at the Cla-
rendon Hotel, on Saturday, we omitted to state that the fol-
lowing resolutions were passed :—" That, having met in con-
formity to the request contained in the circular letter to the
officers of the Hussars, from the Marquis of Londonderry, and
the Marquis of Anglesey having taken the chair, it was proposed
by the Marquis of Londonderry that the Marquis of Anglesey be
deputed by this meeting, as our senior General, to wait on his
Royal Highness Prince Albert with the expression of our anxious
desire to offer him an entertainment indicative of our high res-
pect and attachment, and the gratification that we experience
at her Majesty's
gracious appointment." After which it
was agreed—" That, fully participating in the spiritwith which
the letter from the Marquis of Londonderry, addressed to his
brother soldiers of the Hussar service, was written, and sin-
cerely anxious as we are to evince our respect and attachment
towards his Royal Highness, and to mark our sense of the com-
pliment paid to that service to which we belong, by his Royal
Highness having become the C.,lonel of a Hussar regiment, by
requesting his Royal Highness's acceptance of an entertainment
such as that proposed ; we, nevertheless, after the fullest con-
sideration, have deemed it, under all the circumstances, not
advisable to carry the proposition into effect, and have re-
quested the Marquis of Anglesey to wait on his Royal High-
ness to express (ir feelings on the occasion."
About a fortniht ago a white crow was seen in
a field a short war
Crieft—Perth Courier.
west from she house of ,411,,relirrey, noes

MURDER AT GLASGOW.

At the Justiciary Circuit Court, Glasgow, on Thursday,
Thomas Templeton, bookbinder, was placed at the bar,
accused of the crime of murder, in so far as on the night
of the Bth, or morning of the 9th February, 1840, within
the house occupied by him in College-street, Glasgow, he
did attack and assault Mary M'Taggart, or Robertson, or
Templeton, his wife, by repeatedly and violently dashing
her head against a wall or floor, or against a board in the
house, and did also with his fists and feet, or with some in-
strument to the prosecutor unknown, inflict several blows
upon her head and other parts of her body, by all
which, or part thereof, she was mortally wounded, and
soon thereof died, and was thus murdered by the said
Thomas Templeton.
Several witnesses were examined. No exculpatory
proof \ as oared.
Lord Cockburn stmnied up, and the Jury returned a
verdict, finding, by a majority of fourteen to one, the pti-
sorer guilty of murder.
The Foreman afterwards intimated that the Jury bad
unanimously recommended the prisoner to mercy, on the
ground of the repeated provocation which the prisoner had
received from the deceased.
Lord MEADOWBANK, after commenting on the brutal
nature of the crime, ordered the prisoner should be, exe-
cuted on Wednesday, the 27th day of May current.

cent over proof, Leewards of common quality must be
quoted 4d cheaper, but good kinds are held firmly ;
proofs at 3s 8d to 311 Bfd, 2 to 3 par cent over proof at
3s Od ; Calcutta at 4s 8d for 29 over proof. Cognac
of first brands of the vintage of 1838 and 1839, at
rather higher rater, the former selling currently
at 53 3d in hhds, and puns 5s Id, the latter at 5s Id in
hhds, puns 4s 11d to Ss; in 1836 and 1837 a fair amount
of business has been transacted, in the former at 5s id in
hhds, puns 5s sd, the latter .5s 5d hhds, 5s 3d puns.
Geneva for export at is 11d to 2s, and for fine quality the
home trade still pay 2s 4d to 2s 6d. British Corn Spirits
at 9s lid to lOs per gallon.

To-day Proof Leevrards were not to be had under
3s Bd, but the market continues quiet.
SPICES.— For Pepper former rates have been sup-
ported; good fair brown Malabar at 4d to 4id, grey 31-ri to
4d. Sumatra half heavy 41, good light rather dusty and
stalky 3id, very stalky and dusty nd, good middling
white taken in at 91 and 9id. Gingyr of all kinds is held
firmly ; Bengal taken in at 173 for middling small wormy,
a few piles sold at Iss 61 for good middling bold.
This afternoon the public sales consisted of 50 chests
Cassia Lignea, and 102 bags Bourbon Cloves; the former
was taken in at 75s for good ordinary foxey, and the latter
at lOid for good fair.
RlCE.—This afternoen 5,572 bags East India at public
sale met with a good demand; nearly the whole was di:-
posed of at full former rates, middling dusty Bengal at
12s to 12s 61, good bold white Siam 12s Gd, middling
lls 6d to 12s, ord and good fair yellow Manilla was
taken in at 9s 6d to lOs 6d per cwt.
OlLs.—For Southern prices have improved 5s to 108
per tun ; at auction 200 tuns were all disposed of at 231
lOs to 241. 153 for middling to fine quality: Cod at 251 to
28110 s ; Seal, at 25l lOs to 251 15s for first quality ;
Sperm 1001 to 1021 for first quality. In Linseed 0.1
prices have improved to 24s for present delivery, and 25s
to 25s 3d for the next two and three months; Rape at 36s
for pale, and 35s for brown ; Palm has been dull, 341 to
341 lOs is the value of first quality. For East India
Cocoa Net prices-areastilLimAimAhilitamul
public sale were boughfin at 39s per cwt.
TALLGW.-Russian Tallow last week on the spot ;
prices declined to 48s 6d for first quality; for delivery in
the last three months there were no sellers under 49s 3d ;
yesterday, however, prices were firmer, Petersburg Yellow
Candle of first quality selling at 495; for delivery in the
last three months the transactions have also been on a more
extended scale at 49s 3d a 49s Gd. Town Tallow for
cash is selling at 47s per cwt.
To-day there was not much life in the market, yet a fair
business was transacted, and prices closed at 49s for
Petersburg Yellow Candle on the spot of first quality, and
49s 6d for delivery in the last three months.

IRISH MARKETS.
DUBLIN MARKET NOTE for the WEEK ending MAY S.

Average.
31i lt;

From To
1,025 Wheat,per barrel sluue..... 24 6 3!) 0
0 Bere ....... 16 5t•r:e...... i 0
(::,2. Barley
1,128 Oats '4 stone.... 16 6 18 6
0 Flour, per cwt 8 stare....., 0— 0
873 Oatmeal, A stone l7 0 :$ 0 17 3
Sold to 13akers only.
6.201 Cwt. Flour `.6 0 ,6 0
Average price Wheat and "our f 35, 4d per sack
iSt.S. from 23 Cd to .26s
fteceipts of Flour, ! 1,7431 .... •••••• •
. occo.titSl 0. to 2* s nt.
Sales of Do. 1800.3 from 2'
rinds from 9. 0 to 125 01,
PRIOR OF BRICAD.
Quarterr. Loa. .93,id Half Qua: tern .
CORK 111 Altli.f.:TS.—May 9.
Whext (per 203:017s 6.1.t0324. 0.1.10.5 ts (per last./ ...13 t.64.t 18 0..1
Barley (per 165t.)11 0 16 0 iFlorr it,erewt.)..,l6 n 24 0
Oatmeal (per Cd to 16s id.
beef, 4d. to 7d.—Mutton, 5,1. kl to 3d.
Pork, 40. to s,l..—Fresh Sutter, 10u. to r id., 7 a
PRICR c e RUTTRR.

IS 2
17 1

Te the Merchant& 'fc the Courtry
First Quality 1121•••.. 00000 ••••••••••••••..... 1034
second IA
Th
iC3 .11004..4. ,••• ...IN.*. •• •
102 .........-...,....“.......9-1
Fourth 94 , - 63.,
...........”.•,...........
Fifth
84 ....•».••••••••f••!1 •
Sixth 000000000000000000 ......•. 000000 "74 .•.. 1,,••• 'II.. •
CLONMEL 11. MA 11/4ETS..-May 9.
Per Cwt,
8, d. a. d. s .i. x.• d
New Butter .b& oto AO t; Hides Craw).......... Uto 24 U
Oatmeal _ _ 12 0 12 2 Bacon!'
V

- 4 I C 40 0
ftenderect I.ard ._ 0 62 to i ....... '3 0
Per Eel,
Flour, Second 44 011 e 21 0
—Household 0 42 01-- F4urthir. Zl 0
Per Barrel.
Rapeseed -..« ....... 0 Barley U 14 0
Bere S 4 10 0
Gila
..••••••••••••••• a U
KILKENNY IVA ItKETS,
Wheat.per barrel)3ol. od. to 375. Od.. Beef ?eir Os 00, to Cd. Harley 20 0V U Ihiuttta 0 b 0 6
'vats te 6 14 6 Pork
Flour (pier bag) 0 C Veal 0 6 fi 7
Butter(perclat.)...9o 0 9 0 brash Bisror
Bacon rigs .........35 0 36 0 Sait 0 6 ori
Coati 1 0 1 2 Uotatocs per ft.) b 2 to 3

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

TUESDAY IVENING.

TIMES.—The intelligence from New York holding
out a more amicable settlement of the Maine boundary
question than was at first anticipated, seems to have
caused a degree of firmness in the Consol-market.

The Share-market is active, and the general improve-
ment continues. Birmingham, which had so long re-
mained nearly stationary, partaking but little in the re-
cent excitement and subeaquent heaviness, have been
much in demand, and materially advanced. They are
quoted at 78 to 81 premium. Great Western have
improved about lf, and are at 224 to 231. Blackwall
are to premium ; Brighton, 5- to discount.
The amount of business transacted to-day in the fo-
reign exchanges was not large, and, although there was
but a moderate supply of paper, still it was at least quite
equal to the demand. The .rates of exchange remained
much the sameas last post; if anything, rather looking up.
The India homeward mails are to be despatched from
Bombay during the monsoon, as follows : —April 30
and May 23, by steamers ; June 1 and July 1, by
sailing vessels ; August 31, by steamer—to Suez ; June
22 and July 23, by steamer, to the Persian Gulf.
By the usual official return published by the Customs,
the exportation of the precious metals froixi the port of
London to Foreign and Colonial porta for the week
ending the 7th inst., is as under :

Ounces.
Gold coin, St. Petersburgb 5OO
Gold coif', Rotterdam 1,250
Gold bars, Et. Petersburgb l5O
Silver bars, Rotterdam... ..
Silver bars, Hamburg') 4,800
Silver coin, Britiilt Vest Indies l,OBO
Silver coin, Hamburgb 19,000

SUN.—We are sorry that it is not in our power
to notice acontinuance of the recent improve►nent
which we had occasion to notice in the Foreign Ex-
changes ; on the contrary, the:a was a slight decline
this afternoon in the quotations for bills on the princi-
pal continental cities. On Paris the rate was 25 52
to 55 ; on Amsterdam 12 1;1 ; and on Hamburgh 13
8i to 9.
'The accounts from New Ynrk of the 20th ult., also
notice little or no demand for bills on England—a bad
feature under all circumstances.

The Funds closed with the same firmness they had
manifested in the early part of the day. Consols, for
Money, at 901, and for Time 90i buyers ; Exchequer
Bills dropped to 21s. prem. ; and Bank Stock rose
to 1751.
The Foreign Market, on the contrary, was extremely
heavy. Spanish Actives left off at 28t; and Portu-
guese new Fives as 35 ; French Five per Cents. were
firm at 113 50 ; and Belgian Bonds receded to 1021 ;
there was a little more doing in Deferred Spanish Stock
at l3i to owing to the drawing at Madrid, almost a
mummery by the bye, considering the present state of
Spanish financial matters. _

In the Railway Shares we have again to notice a
good business, coupled with an advance in tho quota-
tions of most of the grand lines. The Edinburgh and
Glasgow Shares were at 6, the Great North of Eng-
land at 81; the Midland Counties at 4 ; and the
Brighton at 5f discount ; the Great Western were at
224 ; the Birmingham at 79 to 80 ; the Glasgow,
Paisley, and Ayrshire at ; and the New North Mid-
land at 3 prem.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
If the repeal of the Union be an object of justly indig-
slant denunciation—if repeal be but a synonyme for dis-
memberment—if co-ordinate Parliaments arc incompatible
with Imperial unity, and a domestic Legislature would be
speedily converted into a convention in College-green—if
the pester the power which Ireland is every day deve-
loping, the stronger the argument against its exercise by
an assembly which would speedily pass from independ-
ence to competition, and from competition to hosti-
lity—if there be reason to apprehend that from a re-
peal of the Union such a collision of interests would
soon arise, as to lead to an encounter of force, and
ultimately to produce results which to both coun-
tries would be equally calamitous—if these would bo
among the consequences of an event which we have always
regarded as disastrous, and which there arc few English-
men who do not look upon in the same light as we do—
with what feelings ought Englishmen to contemplate the
proceedings of that remorseless Tory faction, which, under
the guidance of a reckless renegade, !and animated by no
other passion than a sordid desire for office, by the grossest
outrages which it was possible to offer to the Irish people,
by wrongs the most flagitious, and by insults the most
flagrant, have created that baneful excitement amongst
millions of our Irish fellow citizens, for which, while we
deprecate the consequences to which it may conduct them,
we cannot but acknowledge that a fatal justification has
been afforded.

(From the Times.)
Amidst the spawn of legislation which may perhaps
quicken into life, there is now a Bill beaded " Seduction,"
"summary power to justices of the peace, in
special oiatlsgeisyseions assembled, in certain cases of seduction or
breach of promise of marriage." We can hardly conceive
anything more absurd than this °
Bill, and yet its provisions
seem almost necessarily to spring from the vile chancres
which have been already made in our laws, and is " prepared
and brought in" by two very respectable men, as we be.
iieve. In truth, the whole end and object of the measure,
though its promoters may hot themselves ba 0.1v,;.re of the
far'
the
gap anu deficiency which has been
cfteNew Poer..law, in depriving Lillidppr glris
isa tboyfitli l ie up
e
who hug been seduced from the path of virtue of the

PR ICE isd.

power of affiliating their illegitimate offspring. The vie
time of deception may by this Bill sue their bet ravers for
damages, after the child is born, at a Court of Special
Sessions; and the Court may award any sum noes exceed-
ing 301., and in default of payment of which sir months'
imprisonmLnt. The rest of the verbiage oft be Bill is
spent in providing measures for its own execution. The
above is the sum and substance of it.

(From the Morning Post.)
In some great commercial town of this emp;tre, but es-
pcciilly in Glasgow and in Newcastle-upon-T3 lie, a most
extraordinary conviction seems to have gained -possession
of certain leading perions in respect to the an anagernent
of the foreign interests of Great Britain. \ire do not
know whether Lord Palmerston has by any charrce become
aware of what i 4 going on, but the fact is ,;:hat public
meetings are held, and speeches are n-ado aid openly
published in the most widely-circulated provincial
newspapers, and the whole burthen of t hese meet-
ings, speeches, and publications is a din t..ct charge,
of the most open and undisguised charac t•cr, against
the Foreign Minister, which, were it true, v roUld merit
and demand impeachment and the block. NiVe dare say
that most of our readers will feel that whic h we cannot
help feeling ourselves, in referring to this pl.( rvincial con-
viction, that there is something wildly extraviegar.t in the
supposition of a British Minister in these days. deliberately
devoting his talents to the interests of other countries, and
to the ruin of his own, but as political journa)asts wo can-
no.; help noticing in the way of news that such is the sup-
position boldly asserted, and maintained by Lang circum-
stantial details in meetings at Glasgow, Nep;castle, and
South Shields.

(From the Morning Herald.)
We do beg of all persons who, like ourse Ives, are of
opinion that one of the greatest services that can be rer-
dered to civilized society is to preserve justice pure and
unsuspected, to look at the statement, or what is called the
"confession" of Richard Gould, touching the murder of
Mr. Templeman, as given at Bow-street the other day.
Let them recollect, at the same time, that a paper, con-
taiDia a promise of free pardon; and a reward of 2001.
t , - ww*-4aidaikafore „this wretched
caitiff previously to this purely " voluntary" confession
having been made. We ask, if twelve rational men in
England could be found to hang a dog, much less a human
being, on testimony derived from so foul and polluted a
source.

(From the .Morning Advertiser.)
What a lamentable state of the representation has been
exposed in the cases of Cambridge and Ludlow I The
honest portion of the constituency left in fact no alterna-
tive but an abandonment of their franchise, or a choice
between two candidates, both of whom bid for their votes
as competitors would bid for a bale of goods in an auction
mart. This is the state of representation which men pro-
fessing an ameliorative policy represent as scarcely suscep-
tible of improvement I And the majority of the House of
Commons pref,ir the total suspension of public business
rather than proceed in its senatorial functions without the
assistance of a representative from Ludlow I I