The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-07 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, APRIL 6.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN THE MATTER OP KEASLEY, BROTHERS.
This being the day fixed for the final examination of the
bankrupts, who carried on business, in Bermondsey, as tan-
ners, a number of fresh proofs wyre to-day admitted without
any opposition.
A creditor claimed to prove upon the joint acceptance of tFe
bankrupts for a debt incurred on account of the Tablet weekly
newspaper, of which, however, only Mr. Thomas Keasley was
the "registered proprietor." Admitted. •
Mr. Lucas, the principal editor and manager of the Tablet,
claimed to prove against the joint estate for the fall amount of
a sum due to him for acting in those capacities.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE—Under what denomina-
tion do you seek to prove?
he claimant—As a servant, I suppose, for wages and for
work and labour done. Commercial travellers, I believe, have
been allowed to prove in full.
Mr. Commissioner Fo n NQU E—Commercial travellers,
not solely employed by one person, are not allowed to prove
in full; and, in your ca-
e, you might have employed your
leisure time otherwise than in } our literary labours for this
newspaper.
The claimant—l have kept the accounts as well ; and I also
had to superintend the general management.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE—But the keeping the ac-
counts was only incidental to your literary labour?
'I he claimant—That service was actually demanded of me.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE—And that still less makes
you a " clerk" or a " servant."
The claimant—This also is a business in which Imight have
become a bankrupt.
The Learned COMMISSIONER—DecidedIy not; y." ea,n,
prove against the separate estate of Thomas Keasley. would
give a liberal construction to the clause of the Act to which
you refer; but I am also ruled by another clause, to construe
the Act for the " general benefit of the creditors."
Mr. Lucas—l am told, your Honour, that in the recent case
of the proprietors of the Public Ledger, that they were made
bankrupts.

The Learned eO3ISLISSIONEIt—Not U the proprietors and
literary conductors of a newspaper ; but if, to these avocations,
they added the business of general printers for others, then

they might be made bankrupts in the same way as attorne) s,
being money scriveners, are, in the latter capacity, made
bankrupts.
Two other literary gentlemen also sought to prove for the
full amount of their re-pective demands, but were inf-rmed
by the Learned Commission. r that they could only be allowed
.to prove against the separate estate of the registered pro-
prietor of that journal.
Another claimant (Mr. Staff) sought to prove for seventy-
five guineas, which he had expended in roasting a bullock for
the bankrupts, and which they distributed to their workmen in
commemoration of the marriage of our most gracious Queen.
One of the Trade Assignees said that the claimant hai
charged 101. for pepper and salt upon that occasion.—Claim
admitted.

The Learned Commissioner asked what course was now in-
tended to be pursued ? and
The Official Assignee (Mr. Pennell) answered that there
was no objection to the bankrupts passing their final examina-
tion. The Trade Assignees concurred, and no creditor having
made any objection, the bankrupts answered the usual interro-
gatories, and were declared to have passed their final examination.

I NSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, APRIL ,6,

Michael Williams applied to be discharged on bail.
In the course of the case the Chief Commissioner complained
that one of the documents relating to the application was in-
complete, and handed it down twice or thrice to the attorney,
and in a peremptory manner asked whether it was correct?
It was intimated that the attorney had had but little busi-
ness in the Court. The Commissioner continued in the same
strain of interrogation.
Mr. CREESWELL rose and said he believed that the present
was the first case the attorney had had in the Court • and he
thought some excuse should be made for him. " And (added
the Learned Gentleman) he is no doubt intimidated by your
mode of addressing him."
Chief COMMISSIONER (with warmth)—"Upon my word,
Sir, I am surprised, I am amazingly surprised, that you or any
gentleman of the bar should interfere."
Mr. CRESSWELL—I shall say.no more—
CHIEF COMMISSIONER—You ought not, nor any gerole-
man, to interfere, or to make excuses for the ignorance of
persons.
Mr. CRESSWELL (excited)—I never had a rebuke from the
Court before, and I have been here since 1827. I thought it
my duty to state that this was the first case—
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said he should not have in-
terfered.

CRESSWELL—I thought it my duty:
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—CertainIy not, Sir. I am
quite surprised at you or any person interfering with the
Court.

The matter dropped. The bail were accepted.
(Before Mr. Commissioner LAW )

IN THE MATTER OF SIR THOMAS S. M. CHAMPNEYS, BART.
This case again occupied Mr. Commissioner Law the whole
day on the proof of debts, before the declaration of a
divi-
(lend. The investigation has brought to light some extraor-
dinary disclosures on " bill transactions," the means adopted
to raise money at great sacrifices, and the sale of property in
some instances at one third of the sum charged. The Learned
Commissioner has on fii.; return from Circuit resumed the
inquiry, and, from the able and searching manner which Mr.
Commissioner Law has applied to the affairs, it is expected
that the first dividend will be as much as 6s. in the pound.
The matter, it is supposed, will be concluded in a few days.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

FROM THE MORNINE PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

TlMES.—Scarcely any attention has been drawn in the City
to the quarterly return of the revenue, and it seems to have
been wholly without effect on the prices of public securities.
These documents have, indeed, long been considered quite
valueless as to any practical result, because they exhibit a one.
sided account, in which the whole of the receipt, but a small
portion only of the expenditure appears, and not to possess the
merit even of good statistics by which the fluctuations in the
commerce of the country may be determined. The only fact
of any importance deducible from the present return is, that all
the increased taxation has not maintained the income of the
country at its old rate. Notwithstanding this, however, the
moneyed interest do not appear to indulge in any notion of a
loan, since they are utterly unable to form any judgment of the
extent to which the same purpose may not be answered at the
Treasury by the application to public purposes of the stock and
money belonging to the savings-banks. If the returns were
omitted altogether, there would be very little inquiry after
them in the City, though an improved form might be adopted
in which they would be very generally useful.
The premium on gold at Paris is 7% per mille,
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 1010. per ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 33, and the ex-
change at Paris on London at short being 25. 42k, it follows
that gold is 0 38 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4281 per mark,
which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. lOid. per ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 61, and the ex-
change at Hamburgh on London at short being 13. 61, it fol-
lows that gold is 0.12 per cent. dearer in Hamburgh than in
London.

The course of exchange at New York on London is 104
per cent., and the par of exchange between England and Ame-
rica being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is
2.33 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at
exchange at New York being for bills at sixty days' sight, the
interest must be deducted from the above difference.

Considering that this was the first day of private transfer,
very little business was transacted in the Government securi-
ties ; the prices of which fluctuated but slightly.
The committee of the Stock-Exchange met to-day for the
consideration of the question, whether the quotations of the
converted Portuguese stock should be marked or not in the
official list. They adjourned the question for a month, and
therefore it is evident that the quotations cannot be marked
during that period, but that they consider that, according to
the present aspect of the matter, their regulation prevents
them from esteeming the converted stock as one agreed to by
the bondholders, so as to justify its recognition in the Stock-
Exchange. To remove apprehension that business has been
transacted in converted Portuguese bonds, a price for which
was posted in the market yesterday, it is now explained by the
jobbers that they deemed this the readiest mode to make known
their estimated value, and it was to this end, alone that the
announcement was made, to save inquiry on the subject. It
is now withdrawn.

CHRONICLE.—By a communication received by Mr.
Thornton, the Chairman of the Committee of Portuguese
Bondholders, from the Secretary of the Committee of the
Stock Exchange, we are informed that the Committee, at their
meeting held this day, came to the following resolution :
" That the further consideration of the'memorials on the sub-
ject of marking the prices in the new Portuguese Bonds be ad-
journed till Tuesday, the 4th day of May next."
This we look upon as a very proper measure, lair and impar-
tial to all parties, giving time to the bondholders to obtain
better terms from the Government of Portugal, if they deem
the recent financial decree finally unacceptable; or of enabling
the Government of Portugal to remove the objections
entertained against it, if they have good arguments
to advance in its support. The great obstacle to the
acceptance of the decree in its present shape arises, we pre-
sume, first, from the notoriety of the fact that the home credi-
tors of Portugal have, under all circumstances, been paid in
full out of a separate fund appropriated to their exclusive use,
while the English bondholders were totally neglected ; and,
secondly, from the breach of the original contract of loan,
whereby the whole revenues of Portugal were pledged and hy-
pothecated to the bondholders ; so that the payment of the
home creditor, to their prejudice, was a palpable breach of
faith, and an act of which they have most cogent reasons to
complain in terms of the principles set forth in Lord Palmer-
ston's instructions to Mr. Adams as regards the debt of New
Grenada.

It will be incumbent on the Gevernment of Portugal to
meet these objections and to justify the basis on which their
conversion rests. There can be no doubt that Lord Howard
de Walden will bring the subject forward, and use every proper
exertion to effect a satisfactory arrangement. Abuse of the
Portuguese Government, however, will do no good, and add
anything; except weight, to the proceedings of the Committee.
By their violent and inconsiderate language they have done
much to injure their own cause, and to embarrass their friends
in affording them efficient assistance.

HERALD.—The Foreign Market remains in a quiet state.
The new cut-down Portuguese little goes were not quoted to.
day, for reasons to be seen hereafter.

appears that a deputation of ten members of the Com-
mittee of Portuguese bondholders was deputed to manage an
interview to-day with the Stock Committee of Capel-court
on the subject. of the proposed conversion fraud of the Por-
tuguese Government. The parties so deputed by the Por-
tuguese Committee were gentlemen of social standing and con-
sideration, some of them officers of rank, but lest by chance
they should assume to conceive themselves entitled to the de-
cent observances of society as such, the Stock quorum, with
the democratic spite of brief authority which delights in bringing
down all above to its own more lowly level, are said to have kept
them for some con,iderable space dancing attendance and in ait-
ing for audience in their ante-chamber. At length, after
grave deliberation a gracious intimation was conveyed from the
Stock conclave that Sir. Thornton with one or two other mem-
bers of the Portuguese Committee would be admitted, but
that the Stockroom—what a queer pretence for these Stock
grandees of the first class—was net large enough to contain the
whole ten of the deputation in waiting. It is said, however,
that the little room might easily have accommodated some two
dozen more individuals. However, Mr, Thornton, who by way
of proving his qualification as a bondholder, and his right to a
voice in relation to the decision of any question respecting Por-
tuguese bonds, had taken the precaution of being accompanied
with a waggon load of credentials in the shape of Portuguese
bonds, with another gentleman of the depUtation proceeded to
the interview with these " potent," if not grave and gracious
seigniors of the Stock House. What transpired it is of no
consequence to refer to, as the following document subsequently
addressed to Mr. Thornton involves the gist of all that was said
and done i

" Committee-room, Stock Exchange, April 6, 1841.
" Sir,—l am directed by the Committee of the Stock Ex-
change to inform you that, at the meeting held 410 day, it was
resolved,—

" That the further consideration of the memorials on the
subject of marking the prices in the new Portuguese Bonds, be
adjourned till Monday, the 4th of May next.'
" I have the hon,o,u.frAiltombes, SviAr,Nyousroot B, eNdiEentservant,
Secretary.
" To Richard Thornton, Esq., Chairman of the
Committee of Portuguese Bondholders."
So doses this business, so little discreditable to the Stock
Committee, for the present. It may be added, however, and
we have the authority of the most respectable Members of the
House—of Members ranking higher for character, and quite
as high in the breeches-pocket sense, as any one of the thirty
members of the Stock Committee, a list of whose names is
now before us, that the course of these proceedings has
been viewed with infinite disgust in the Stock Exchange
itself, as tending greatly to eamage the character of, and to
impair the confidence of the people in, that e,tablishment
whose credit, and the interests t,f the community as con
necttd therewith, it was their first and bounden duty to up-
hold, with utter disregard of selfish views and sinister in-
fluences of their own, or of loan jobbers' connections out of
doors. There are names on the Committee which suggest at
once a solution of much of the paltering, equivocal, and dis-
graceful manmuvres by which the recognition of the fraudu-
lent conversion was attempted, was actually decreed, and
lastly rescinded in very sneaking deference to the expresed
sense of pubic opinion, which could not safely be defied for
reasons which were coming home, and would have been driven
nc,,ar.,r home to them with the journals of every morning.
There ought not to have been one moment's hesitati ,n from
the first in rejecting the application for "marking the prices
of the dishonest conversion bonds, that is of legalising the.
dealings in them, by whomsoever such application was made,
or by whatever dishonourable influence supported underhand,
in respect of which on another occasion something more may
perhaps be said, when a certain ministerial morning journal
extraordinarily allied somehow for years past with Penin-
sular loans and finance will not be forgotten. The Stock
Committee knew well that the Portuguese Committee of bond-
hol lers could not
Portuguese represent less than eight or ten millions of
stocks, and therefore their intimation of
dissent from the proposed conversion confiscation of a
have been received and acted upon as finala
large proportion
a tpropertyonce, shouldfounded
of so immense
too as it was on a recorded and binding regulation of he Stock
House itself. They had moreover publicly challenged, and
were in possession of the proof to which their character as a
great public body was pledged, the calculated perpetration
of a system of fraud, by which it was soufiht to be made air-

pear that a vast majority of Portuguese bondholders were
anxious for the conversion, and had so sent in names, claims,
and large amounts for registration, as if bonds were held bona
fide to the amounts, whreas no such bonds were held, the
parties pretending being I,ttle better in many instances than
a better class of paupers ready for any dirty work for a consi-
deration. •

Bonds may however make their appearance to be converted,
and it behoves the Portuguese Committee to be vigilat.t lest a
second edition of Mendizabal's surreptitious issues of Spanish
Bonds should be attempted from Portugal, and so foisted on
the market in the shape of Conversion Bonds, by which the
treasury at Lisbon might be conveniently and unsuspectedly
replenished, to the greater damage still of the interests of the
bondholders. These, however, are matters on which more re-
mains to be said yet. The conjoint confederacy here, at Lis-
bon, and Madrid, for plundering the British public must be
waited upon with such constant and assiduous care that perhaps
at length the unholy league and covenant may come to be
broken up and the parties to it brought to justice. No thanks
for that, however, to the very accommodating friends of the
loan jobbing interest in the Stock Exchange Committee.

POST.--Ten of the members of the Committee of Porti.-
guese bondholders waited on the Committee of the Sto-k Ex-
change to-day, for the purpose of getting a knowledge of the
intentions of the latter body with regard to the conversion
which the Portuguese agency are attempting to thrust upon
the English people in behalf of their Government. The gentle-
men of the Committee of bondholders demanded, as the parties
appointed to watch over interests amounting to ten minions of
pounds, exclusive of four years' accumulation of dividends, an
unreserved conference with those of the Committee of the
Stock Exchange. The latter, however, demurred, and a
considerable time 'being taken to deliberate upon the sub-
ject, it was at last decided that two or three only of
the number should be admitted, on the ridiculous plea
that the Committee-room was small. Mr. Thornton and his
friends appear not to have been able to make much impression
upon the Stock Exchange authorities. It is not convenient to
them to he regulated by the declared wishes of a public meet-
ing in 1841, as was the case he 1834, because those wishes
are opposed to jobbing in a spurious security. They have,
nevertheless, exacted a promise that no immediate recognition
of Ferrer's Two-and-a-Half per Cent. conversion shall for the
present displace the legitimate bonds.
Although the Committee have not yet authorised the quota-
tion of the new bonds, prices for them, real or fictitious, have
been put upon the board of the house, and the wonder among
the members generaliy is who could have taken that liberty.
The Committee are bound, wr think, to put an instant stop to
such a proceeding, as, otherwise, they may be themselves sus-
pected of dabbling in them
The continued absence of the steam-ship President is be-
ginning to be viewed with very great, though we cannot but
hope unfounded, apprehension. It has been reported that a
vessel resembling her was seen making for Fayal, in the
Azores, where the Company to which she belongs are under-
stood to have a depot of coals. If she went to Fayal for coal,
or put back to Bermuda to refit, after the heavy gale of tht
14th ult., it is hardly to be expected that she should reach
Liverpool for a day or two to come. Yet as much as 15 gui-
neas per cent. premium was paid on her at Lloyd's yesterday
and to-day the rate was increased, we hear, to 20 guineas per
cent. She may not improbably be coming slowly on under
canvas.

Although the commercial, and still more, if possible, the
financial advises brought from the United States by the North
America are, on the whole, of a gloomy complexion, there
are, nevertheless, here and there points to be found in them
which present an agreeable contrast to the mass of discourage-
ment.

It may not be uninteresting to our readers to know the re-
ports going out from hence to the United States on busines'
matters. The subjoined is extracted from the circular of an
eminenthouse at Liverpool, as transmitted by the last steamer :
" The present quotations of the price of cotton vary little
from those at the close of last month ; that little, however,
is against the importer, and the advices from the manufac-
turing districts are exceedingly discouraging, with a con-
stant tendency towards decline throughout the month. This
feature is the more remarkable when we look around and
behold the prosperity which pervades the manufactures o 1
our neighbours, the French ; when we consider that grain
will not be wanted ; that the Continental exchanges are so
much in favour of this country as not only no longer to cause
the Bank of England any alarm for their gold, but to give an
almost certain assurance that it must now flow back into thei•
coffers at too great a rate to maintain the present rate of inte-
rest. When we see such evident signs of prosperity it is really
disheartening to think upon the present state of England's most
important branch of national prosperity. In fact, it can no
longer be doubted, and it is no longer doubted, even by some of
those interested in the maintenance of the present regulations
affec ing the necessaries and comforts of life, that, by pursuing
her present course, this country is gradually debarring her po-
pulation of the means of living with comfort, closing foreign
markets against her, and thus causing an over-production of
her manufactures. Unless, therefore, the present expectation
of the community be fulfilled in regard to the removal of pro-
hibitory duties, we cannot anticipate the prospect of a speedy
termination of the existing distress."

S UN. —We have no news either of the President steamer.
or the India overland mail.

To-day the public securities were rather more buoyant, and
there was a good deal of real business done. For Money Con-
sols realised 89% to 89%, and for the Account 89% to %.
Exchequer Bills were steady at 9s. to Ils. premium, and India
Bonds at par to 2s. premium. The New Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. were worth 98% to %, the Three per Cent. Re-
duced Annuities 88% to % ex dividend, the Three-and-a-
Half ter Cent. Reduced 9714 to 97%, and Long Annuities
12 11-16 to %. Bank Stock was 168% to 170 ex dividend.
The Revenue returns, as was anticipated, still showing a defi-
ciency, checked in some measure the buoyancy of the market.
No decision has yet been come to respecting the sanction of
the Committee of the Stock Exchange to dealings in the Nevi
or Converted Portuguese Bonds. Spanish Active Bonds were
heavy all day at 23* Portuguese New Five per ,Cents. at 333.
and the Three per &Tits. at 204 to 4. Colombian Bonds were
at an improvement to 23 and 23.4, Mexican were not higher
than 304, and Brazilian were dull at 694. Russian Bonds were
marked 112.4, and Dutch Five per Cents. 98 to 974.
Railway Shares were very brisk and brought fully previous
rates. Great Western Railway brought 283, the New 133, tin
Fifth 74 to the Gosport Junction 51, the London and Bir-
mingham 67, the New 213, and the South Western 184 prem.
Brighton were 4, Croydon 1, Manchester and Leeds 2, North
Midland 23, and South Eastern and Dover 144 discount. Na-
tional Provincial Bank of England New Shares were at par.
This afternoon the foreign exchanges were firm, a circum-
stance that cannot but be gratifying to those who desire an
improvement in our foreign trade— one great lever in raising
the productiveness of the national revenue. The rates at
which three months' paper was negotiated were these :—Paris
2.5 f. 67%c. to 70c., Hamburgh 13 9% to 3, Amsterdam 12 3i
to 4*, Frankfort 150, and Trieste 10 2 to 10 3.

The following are the official returns of the exports of bul
Lon from the port of London for the week ending Thursday last
Silver coin to Hamburgh 041,000 ounces
Rotterdam.
• „ bars to Hamburgh 72,250 do.

POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE

MORNING JOURNALS.

The Morning Post observes, in the course of a leading
article on the subject of the revenue :—" We are glad to learn
that the ratification of the commercial Treaty with France (that
is, provided it be a good Treaty) is daily expected. We di('
not know that it had yet been signed, or even that its terms
had been finally adjusted. The last we heard of the matter.
only a few days ago, was to the effect that negotiations on the
subject of the commercial Treaty with France had been sus-
pended, in consequence of the recent state of our relations with
that country, and were not yet renewed. To be sure this was
only from Lord Melbourne, in his place in the House of Lords,
an authority which we would not think of comparing with our
well-informed Contemporary; yet we venture to suggest to
the latter that the information may not be strictly and literally
accurate which has led him to announce to the commercial
world that the ratificati"n of the Treaty is daily expected."
The Morning Herald, alluding t 9 the subject of Ireland,
says—" What compensating prospect has the country at large
in the present state of Ireland ? Nothing more satisfactor2.
than the permitted incendiary harangues of O'Connell and his
faction; and the issue of addresses to the Irish people, exhort-
ing them, in the case of a war breaking out, to abstain from
their duty as subjects to their Sovereign—as Britons to their
felow-countrymen—as members of a free State and a Chris-
tian community to the institutions they are bound by every
principle of natural allegiance and civil obligations to defend.
We hope that some Member of Parliament, who may find his
strength and powers sufficiently renewed for the task by the re-
freshment of a long Easter vacation, will not fail, directly Par-
liament shall have re-assembled, to move for a Committee of
Inquiry into the present state of Ireland, and of the law in
Ireland with respect to the matters submitted the night before
last to the House of Lords by the Earl of Charleville."
The Times thus alludes to Mr. Tooke's late letter to the
Editor of the Britannia :—" Ecce iterum Crispinus !—be-
hold again Mr. William Tooke ! That singularly self-satisfied
specimen of humanity, ex-Member of Parliament, ex-Trea-
surer of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowlette,
and ex-Manager of University College, London, but not yet
ex-Candidate for Finsbury, has thought proper to circulate a
letter addressed' To the Editor of the Britannia,' upon the
occasion of his late expulsion from the Gower-street Commit-
tee of Management. It cannot be denied that, in the present
great dearth of topics of political, ecclesiastical, or general in-
terest, the publication of this letter is extremely seasonable.
Au explicit exposition of the principles' to which Mr. Wil-
liam Tooke has steadfastly adhered from his youth up,' is the
very thing which the world for some time past has been
anxiously and impatiently looking for. Public men have be-
come so changeable, and a high tone of principle so scarce,
that we want some faultless model to fix attention, and chal-
lenge universal imitation. Mr. Tooke condescendingly, but
with a master-band, sketches out the portraiture of such a
man."

The Morning Chronicle puts forth the following remarks
on the subject of Dr. Wiseman's letter to the Editor of the
Tablet : ---.‘ In the letter of Dr. Wiseman, which was pub-
lished in last Saturday's Tablet, the Oxford question is treated
with great meekness and piety. This eminent Papist regards
Puseyizin ' as a struggle of noble minds to break- through
chains that have bound them for years,' and adores the power
of Providence in ' the revival of Catholicity in England,'
and the movement towards Catholic ideas and Catholic feel-
ings' of the ' Theologians of Oxford.' The whole affair, in-
deed, except perhaps the late pitiful submissions, must have
been, as it evidently was, highly gratifying to his mind. To
see the English Clergy, after centuries of separation, hostility,
and Protestant pride, thus returnini, to the rock whence they
were hewn,' is a sensation for which Dr. Wiseman and every
other zealous Catholic might well he envied."

AFFLICTING AND FATAL ACCIDENT TO A
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STHE PRESENCE OF ,
evening,° about six o'clock, the following I%llowi°inrHg
accident occurred to a fine lad, named John:
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He was in the employ of Mr. Corkhill, of the
Dukeigter called ofClea'rence, Rotherhithe, as pot-boy. His mother and
a upon him that
Cafternoon, and he accompanied
atheecimnamtote(tth:,n6braanydoonSgurrnreayn anal Dock, for a walk. Being
namedon Jamesb Garbutt, on board
gafirnnogcml.tothaemncueseshiids
the ship Ann and Eiza, he wente_tehnednxtFarnriddg,
andthe
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trmteooawetnhheethle stay to the main-topmast cross-trees. He at
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cross-trees; and being
being taught, he could not reach t‘hiesascvs The stay not
suspended by his hands, called out save me." Hi.
mother, who witnessed his peril, cried out me.fo
Garbutt and a man named Bates simultaneously
assistance,l and
his aid, but ere they could reach him he let soyhascended to
fell on the deck, a depth of upwards of 70 feet.g Thisehold, and
unfortu-
nate lad lingered only until eleven o'clock the same evening,
when he died..
Laporte, Seguin, and Mitchel!, of B
ono-street,
are in Paris, hunting for novelties, and making musical thea-
trical engagements for London. Laporte, after long negotia-
tions, has secured Tamburini, 31addle. Rachel, whose fixture
at the Theatre Francais is for one year only, as she will then
be of age, comes to London the end of May to play at her
Majesty's theatre on the off nights of the opera. 'Waddle
Plessis will, perhaps, be the heroine of a rival speculation in
French plays. 'Waddle. Mars, who has left the French stage,
was offered large terms by Messrs. Seguin and Mitchell, to
take, like C. Kemble, a few additional nights of farewell, but
she declined them by saying, "that she would see what she
would do in a year or two."