The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

HO WITT'S JOURNAL. Part I.

Precisely in the same form, animated with the same
spirit, and supplied by many of the same contributors as
the People's Journal, a new weekly and monthly peri-
odical has just made its first app,arance under the at
tractive title of Howitt's Journal. We know nothing
whatevei of the causes of this separation, we do not in-
tend therefore to enter into any examination of the
merits of the case, nor have we the slightest inclination
to do so. All we feel called upon to say is that Bowies
Journal at its very outset evinces remarkable talent,
talent worthy of its eminent contributors (among others,
Dr. Southwood Smith, R. H. Horne, Alaric Watts, Dr.
Buwring, George Thompson, and W. J. Fox, with a
promise of Douglas Jerrold, Leigh Hunt, Charles
Mackay, Miss Mitford, Ebenezer Elliott, Barry Corn-
wall, and others), and not unworthy of its editors.
William and Mary Howitt—names peculiarly associated
with the cause of the advancement of the people. With
such editors, such writers, and an object so noble and
philanthropical as that of elevating and enlightening the
popular mind, failure is impossible.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPQOL, JANUARY 30.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, 3s. 9d.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, Bs. 9d. p.—
Birmingham and Dudley, 5% p.—Birmingham and Oxford, 9M p.—
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 1% p. —Buckinghamshire; 65.
3d. p.—Chester and Birkenhead, Halves, 2314—Ditto, 201. Shares,
par—Eastern Counties, 221/s—East Lancashire, New, 2% p.—East
Lincolnshire' 2% p.—Huddersfield and Manchester, 3 p.—Leeds and
Lhlrsk, 2% dis.—Ditto, New, M dis.—Ditto, Preference, 1M p
iverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 2 p. —Ditto, New (late; West Lan-
cashire), 2 p.—London and North-Western, 193 —Ditto, Quarters,
New, 12M p.—London, Manchester, and Birmingham, Quarters,
New (C), 6%-p.—London and SouthAVestern, New (scrip), 14 p..—
London and York (Direct Northern), % p.—Manchester and Leeds,
Fifths, 5% p.—Manchester, Matlock and Midland, % p.—Man.
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Quarters (late Great Grimsby and
Sheffield), % dis.—Midland Stock, 401. Shares, 6% p...—Dltto, New,
4% p.— Ditto (Birmingham and Derby), 101—North British, Quar-
ters, 214 p.—Ditto, New, Quarters (scrip), 16s. 3d. p.—North Staf-
fordshire, 3M p.—Preston and Wyre, 31—Ditto, Half Shares (B), M
p.—Sheffield, Rothetham, and Doncaster, 3s. 9d. p.—Shrewsbury,
Oswestry, and Chester, 1% dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester,•New, is.
3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and
,Birmingham (A), 1 % p.—Ditto (B), 4 p.
—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, % dis. ex int.—South-East-
ern and Dover, (No. 4), Thirds, % p.—. West Riding Union, 11. I6s.
3d. p.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 5% p.—Newry and War-
renpoint, 1% p.—Demerara, % p.—putch Rhenish, dis.
3LANCHEST.ERPIIANUABY 30. •

STOCK EXCRANae.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, % dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, % p.—Bir-
mingham and Oxford Junction, 9 5-16—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c.,
11-16 dis.--.Buckinghamshire, p.—East Lancashire, H.—Ditto,
2 p.— Ditto, New (scrip), 14 p.--Iludderstled au i Manchester
iiallway and Canal, 34 p.--Ditto, Thirds. 1% p.—Lancaster and
Preston, 9% p.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 3/4
dis. —London and North-Western, Quarters (A), 7 p.—Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3/4 p.—Blanchester and Leeds, Fifths,
53/4 p.—Manchester and Southampton, Uq dis.—North Staffurdshire,
33-16 p.—North-Western, % p.—Northern Counties Union, 13/4 dis.
—Oldham Alliance, 34, p.—Shropshire Union, 7-16 dis.— South-East-
ern and Dover, No. 4, 7-16 p.—West Riding Union, 1 12-16 p.—
Wharfdale, 3/4 dis.

, LEEDS JANUARY 30

Sroca ERCHANGE.—North British stock is all better, as also are
Midlands. York and North Midlands, York and Newcastles, and
Eastern Counties. East Lancashires are not so stiff. Manchester
and Leeds and North-Westerns steady. The sales are—Ambergate,
Nottingham, and Boston, ss. dis. Eastern Counties, York Extension,
20s. p.—East Lancashire, 2 p.—Ditto, New, 2% p.—Ditto, New
Seri;,, 265. 6d. p. —East and West Yorkshire, 15s. n. dis.—Hudders-
field and Manchester, 3% p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 2% n. dis.—Ditto,
New, ss. dis.--Ditto, Preference, 255. 6d. p.—Leeds, Wakefield, and
Midland, 10s. 6d. clis.—Leicester and Medford, 3s. dis.—Malton and
Driffield Junction, 19s. 6d. p.—Manchester and Leeds, Extensions,
245. 6d. p.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 18s. c. p.—
Midland, Preference, 4 p.—North British, Thirds, 535. p.—Ditto,
Quarter Shares (late Carlisle Branch), 25( P.—Ditto, Extension
(scrip), 16s. p.—North Staffordshire, 3% p. —Northern Counties
Union, 21s. dis.—North-Western, I Is. p.—Sheffield, Rotherham, and
Goole, ss. 6d. p.—West Riding Union, 31. Us. 4pd.—Wexford,
Waterford, and Valentia, 1% dis.—York and Newcastle, Preference,
5% p.—York and North Midland, Preference, 10% p.
SHEFFIELD, JANUARY 30.
STOCK EXCKANGE.—The sales are—Manchester; Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire (Grimsby and Sheffield), 41. dis.—Ditto, 201. Shares, 114—
Midland, New, 4% p.—West Riding Union, 1% p.—South Yorkshire,
Doncaster, and Goole, % p.

1:1 U LL, JANUARY 30.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—North British, Quarters, 3%
Ditto, Extension (scrip), 18s. p.—Ditto, Thirds, 73s —Ambergate,
Nottingham, and Boston, 2%—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, par
ex iat.—East Lincolnshire, 2g, p.—North-Western, 12s, p.
NE WCASTLE-MiN -T L, JANUARY 30.
STocit EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, Bs. 3d. dis.— Great Northern (London and York reg.), % p.
—Newcastle and Carlisle, 112% —North British, Thirds, 435.
North Staffordshire, 3 p.—York and Newcastle, Extensions, 7% p.
EDINBUItGiI, JANUARY 29.
_ _

STocx Excuanoz.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 231. 103.-Airdrie
and Bathgate, 41.85.-Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, Half Shares,
15/. 55.-Armagh and Portrush, 6s. 6d.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/.-
Caledonian, 261. 103.-Ditto, New, 21. ss. - Caledonian and Dumbar-
ton, 2/. 4s. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 39/. 55.-Deeside, 31.55.- Direct
Northern, 2/. 125.-Dunblane, Donne, and Callender, 11. 158.-Dun-
dee and Arbroath, 42/. ex new-Ditto, New, No. 1, 321.-Ditto, No.
2, 251. 155.-Ditto, No. 3, 51. 7s. 6d.-Dundee and Perth, 261.-
Ditto, New, 121. 155.-East of Fife, 21. I 18.-East Lothian Cen-
tral, 2/. 38. 6d.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 21. 1514-Edinburgh and
.11asgew, 73/. 55.-Ditto, Half Shares, 191. 158.-Ditto, Quarters, 18!.

-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 191.-Ditto, Preference, 211.-
Edinburgh and Northern, 161. 2s. 6d. ex new-Ditto, New, 31.-
Pitt°, Newport, 5/. 10s. ex new-Ditto, ditto, New, 21 12s. 6d.-
Edinburgh and Perth (Old), IL 18s. 6d. =Ditto (New), 21. 108.-
Glasgow and Ayrshire, 651.-Ditto, New Stock, 341.-Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 16/. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 9/. 10s.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle, 61. 2s. 6d.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 11. 165.-Glas-
gow and Garnkirk, 401.-Glasgow General Terminus, 121. 10s.-Glas-
gow and Greenock, 191.-Ditto, Halves, 91.-Ditto, Preference, 81.
51.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 6/. 10s.-Great North of
England, 2381.-Great North of Scotland, 21. se. 6d.-London and
York, 3/. 12s. 6d.-Ditto, Extensions (scrip), 21. 55.-Manchester
and Leeds, 1051.-Ditto, Sixteenths, 71. 155.-Ditto, Extensions,
3/. 25.-Newcastle and Berwick, 321. 155.-North British, 341. 102.
-Ditto, Halves, 151. 12s. 6d.-Ditto, Thirds, 3/. I Is. 6d.-Ditto,
Quarters, 41. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 11. 6s. W.-
Ditto, Fifths, 71.25. 6d.-Scottish Central, 21/. 10s.-Scottish Grand
Junction, 11. 23.- Scottish Midland, 191. 10s.-Shrewsbury and Here-
ford, 1/. 15e.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 6/. 10s.-Ditto,
New, IL 3s. -Stirling and Dunfermline, 31. 9s.- Stirling and Mid-
land, 2/. 128.-Strathern Junction, 81. 105.-Wishaw and Coltness,
501.-York and Newcastle, 361. 10s. ex new-Ditto, New, 111. 15s.
-Ditto, Preference, 61. 155.-Direct Bombay and Madras, 3s. 6d.
-East Indian, 7s. 6d.-Great North oflndia, 3s. 6d.-Great Southern
of Madras, 45.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 2s. 6d.
GLASGOW, JANUAILY 29.

STOCI Excusicos.—The sales are—Caledonian, New, 46s.—Cale-
donian and Dumbartonshire, 45s.—East of Fife, 49s.—East Indian,
Bs. 9d.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 74%—Edinburgh and Perth, 50s.
—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 65/.—Ditto, Halves, No. 2,9%
'Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 61. 4s. 6d.— Glasgow, Airdrie, and
Monkland Junction, 54—Great Southern of Madras, 3s. 9d.—Ma.
dras, Nellore, and Arcot, 2s. L—Manchester and Southampton,
31s. 6d.—Midland, Halves, 6/. 4s. —North British, Thirds, 70s.—
Scottish Grand Junction, 21s.—York and Newcastle, Preference,
61. 18s.

IMPROVEMENTS AT THE ADELPHI TERRACE.—
On Friday the dilapidated balustrade on the Adelphi-ter-
raee, that has for some time past been in a very danger-
ous state, was removed. It is to be replaced by a light iron
palisade.
THE ITALIAN OPERA.—We are informed that an
early night after the opening of her Majesty's Theatre will be
devoted, with the whole resources of the establishment, to
the relief of the destitute Scotch and Irish.
ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—On Saturday the an-
nual report of this society was issued. 174 persons have
been restored by the means adopted for restoring suspended
animation by the society's officers; 26 were beyond recovery.
Fourteen silver and thirty-one bronze medals and pecuniary
rewards have been given to 162 individuals for courageous
conduct in saving human life : and 79 persons were rescued
during the recent skating season by the society's men, only
one terminating fatally.
We understand that a bazaar is to be held at Clifton
in Easter week, for the relief of the distress in Ireland and
lards, or located estates in
AScotland.—Bristolnexttsiv Journal.
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Texas, is announced in our columns to take place by Mr.
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kind, to those disposed to try their fortunes ia the Western
communication, and natural
Hemisphere. The distance of the lands from the point of
landing—a matter of very
emigrant—is, we hear, very trifling.
ROYAL ACADEMY OP Music.—We are authorised
to state that the appointment of
the Royal Academy of Music has been conferred on Mr.
Frederick Webster, stage Professor of Elocution to
director of the Theatre Royal
Haymarket.

The Tartarus steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Coles,
went up 0-Deptford yesterday before proceeding to Ports-
mouth and Ireland.

The Avon steam-vessel is reported ready for sea, and will
be employed in co veying meal to Ireland.
Messrs. Hobbs, Williams, and Sargent, engineers to the St.
Vincent, have been appointed for service in the Tartarus.
Mr. Hodgson, master, has been appointed additional to the
William and,MarY yacht.-

Mr. Norman; paymaster and purser to the Rosamond, vice
Stanley superseded.
Mr. Hobbs, acting second master to the Avon.

Mr. J. Grilling, acting master's assistant to the Avon.
Vessels in the Harbour—The William and Mary yacht;
Mastiff' and Woodlark, surveying vessels; Black Eagle,
Lightning, Antelope, Teazer, Minx, Avon, and Monkey
steam-vessels; Amphion, frigate; and Fairy, tender_ to the
Rowel Victoria and Albert steam-yacht.
In the Basin—Gorgon, Ariel, Rosamond,:,Dwarf, and Odin
steam-vessels.

In the Dock—The Terrible steam-frigate; and the Vixen.
steam-vessel.

HER MAJESTY'S STEAMER
SPHYNX.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3l.—The r Porcupine and Echo
steamers went down to Yarmouth yesterday with a great
variety of . stores, and some mooring lighters, and the two
camels which have been prepared, to endeavour to float this
steamer off the beach. The camels are large flat-bottomed
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and crew of the Sidon, who have oxen turned over this after-
noon, and the Myrtle steamer,• go down to-morrow morning.
The Retribution will be kept ready to assist the vessels off'
the coast should the wind change, or the rollers set in dan-
gerously. The Myrtle is a light steamer, drawing little
water, and will be used as a dispatch boat. The
wind is now moderate and favourable for the ope-
rations, being from north and off the land. The tides
to-morrow and Tuesday are expected to be very high, and
therefore the most sanguine expectations are entertained of
the Sphynx being preserved. Captain Austen, R N., Mr.
Murray, chief enginier, Mr. Watts, builder's assistant, Mr.
Bellamy, second master attendant, the commander and crew
of the Sphynx. and a great number. of experterxed and in-
telligent men from the dockyard, used to operations of this
nature, with at least 250 others, are to be employed. Some
remarks have. l!een made by naval people, that the same
measures should have been' adopted as were used to get the
Gorgon afloat in the Brazils, but the positions of the two
ships are quite different: the Gorgon was driven in a gale of
wind on a bed of sand, duri,g a very high tide, and there
left high and dry; the officers and'oew could and did get to
work on her nearly every day, they were able to raise sheers
to take out her engine,, they had to clear away 9,000 tons of
sand from under her, and bv downright hard heaving at the
capstan got her into the 1, waie • and then with camels floated
her into deeper water. The Sphynx is exposed to the open
sea, and only at certain periods can be approached, and the
weather must be watched to avail themselves of the slightest
lull to work the capstans afloat.

DETERMINED SUICIDE OF TWO

LOVERS.

A most lamentable affair took place in Wakefield during
the night of Friday last, which ha- created a great sensation
in the neighbourhood, ana whereby two respectable families
have been thrown into a state of the deepest distress. A
young man, named George Hampson, about twenty-five
years of age, had paid his addresses to a young woman of the
name of Susan Morton for about three years. Both the par-
ties resided in Wakefield,- the young man being a whitesmith,
and son of Mr. George Hampson, also a whitesmith, in
that town. On the evening of Friday last, Hampson went
as usual' to the house of- his lover, and at that time it would
appear the girl was not very well, for she sent for her younger
sister, Fanny, who came to her, but when she arrived Susan
was better. Susan, however, had a fainting fit during the
evening, but it appears she had been subject to them for some
time. About ten o'clock. Susan feeling better, was persuaded
by her sister to go out walking for a short time, and advised
her to go and see her mother, who was in a different part
of the town They all thfee went together, and
after walking round St. John's, and afterwards
into the town, Fanny left them, as she slept at the house of a
friend. It seems Hampson and Susan returned to the house
of the latter, and Susan's brother left them in the house to-
f.,ether when• he went to bed. Nothing more was seen or
heard of them until the following (Saturday) morning, when
two coats and a hat, and a bonnet, shawl, and boa, were
found on the banks of the Barnsley Canal, near the bridge
which crosses it in some fields near Heath Wood, about a
mile and a half from Miss Morton's home. Search was af-
terwards made in the water, and the bodies of Ha peon and
his lover Susan were found near the place where the clothes
had been discovered. The suicidal determination must have
been strong in each, for their bodies were firmly tied toge-
ther with four handkerchiefs; which must have been fastened
by Hampson, as the knots were tied behind the young
woman. In his pocket was found a pistol loaded with ball,
and two bullets, some powder, caps, &c.-; and in her pockets
was found a soft substance, like paste, which has not yet
been analysed, but which is supposed to be poison. What
tends to make the affair mare mysterious is the total 'inabi-
lity of any one to find a reason for the commission of such a
rash act. There were no marks of violence on either of the
bodies, or anything to lead to the belief that either of them
had come to their death by unfair means.

The deceased yotangwo'manlva;ttiTZt 21 years of age, a
fine figure, and very pretty.
An inquest was held on the bodies on Saturday, before
Thomas Lee, Esq., Coroner, when the jury returned the fol-
lowing verdict :—" Found drowned, without any marks of
violence; but how, or by what means, they got into the
canal, there is no evidence to show."

A JUDGE'S CHARGE ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

—Johnson, in his life of Savage, gives the following
version of the speech of Mr. Justice Page to the jury, at the
trial of Savage, for murder, in 1727 :—" Gentlemen of the
Jury !—You are to consider that Mr. Savage is a very great
man ; a much greater man than you or I, gentlemen of
the jury :—that he wears very fine clothes; much finer
clothes than you or I, gentlemen of the jury—that he has
abundance of money in his pocket; much more money
than you or I, gentlemen of the jury—but, gentlemen
of the jury, is it not a very hard case, gentlemen of the
jury, that Mr. Savage sltould therefore kill you or me,
gentlemen of the jury." Another remarkable charge
of the same Learned Judge is given in the following
terms, and it will be seen that it contains an anecdote
gaosodfarasastol pro-
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be said to be original:—" Gentlemen of the jury—_-1 have
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ADDITIONAL DAY MAIL TO SOLITIIAMPTON.—We
are gratified in being able to announce that arrangements
have been made for the purpose of affording Southampton
the accommodation of an additional day mail. A mail bag
will be made up and dispatched from London by the I rad.
train, and the letters will be delivered at Southampton by
the six o'clock delivery. This regulition will enable parties
to receive second editions of the morning journals, and will
greatly facilitate the communication between this town and
those places in the vicinity of London, whose morning mails
reach the metropolis before twelve o'clock ; it will also pre-
vent that delay in the delivery of letters from the North of
England, which occasionally occurs during the winter months.
The Southampton bag will be dispatched by the 1 r.m. train
to London, the box at the Post-office closing about 12.30 r.s
We understand these alterations will be made in the course
of next month.—Hants Independent.
ROBBERY AT KNIGIITSBEIDGE BARRACKS.—On
.Saturday information was forwarded to the police that some
diieves had broken into the stables' of W. Ileaumont, Esq.,
the Old Barrack-yard, Knightsbridge, and plundered the
place even to the bed and bedding belonging to the groom.