The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-26 00:00:00

fnr bills of Exchange, on the Continent, which were
• his afternoon as follows :—Paris, 25f. -12ic. to 40c.;
Amsterdam, 'l2 1, to rif ; Hamburgh, 13 74 ; Ant-
werp, 12 14 ; and Frankfort, 1-19;1-.
The favourable intelligence from the East, respecting
the declaration of the French Consul to Mehemet Ali.
of the intention of his Government to remain neutral
in the approaching conflict between him and the Four
Powers, having been substantially confirmed, the prepa-
rations for war by the determined Paella have ceased
to excite any serious apprehensions among the specu-
lators in the funds, who appeared to be going a-head for
a rise. Unless the bulls should be disposed to carry
over their accounts, or it should turn out that they
are not prepared with funds to take up all the stock
they have contracted for, we may expect sonic tight
work on the settling day (the 27th) among the jobbers
for a fall, although, until the books are made up, it is
difficult fur a looker on to say which party will have
the best of it. The continuation en stock at present
seems to indicate that it is in favour of those
who have purchased in anticipation of a rise,
and who are quite unconnected with the Stock Ex-
change. Consols for immediate transfer rose about
per cent., being marked 904 on the opening of the
market, and 90} lat its close. For the October
account the quotation was 901 to 91 ; Bank Stock im-
proved to 168} and 169 k ; East India Stock was rather
heavy at .2481, but the Reduced Three-and•a-Half per
Cents. improved to 99i to 4 ; and the New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents. to 981 to 99 ; Exchequer Bills
were 225. to 265. premium ; and India Bonds par to
2s. discount.

Spanish Bonds left off at 26 ; Portuguese New at
; Colombian at 25i- ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. at 52:1-, being all steady.
The Great Western Railway Shares were at 28 to
28 ; the New at 11 to 12 ; the Hull and Selby at
3to 2 ; the New North Midland at ; the London
and Birmingham at to 83 ; and the South Western
at 18i to 19k premium. Brighton Shares were at 9 ;
Blackwall at :4- ; and North Midland at 13i discount.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE M.ORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
( From the Morning Chronicle.)
The death of Dr. Otter will afford the Government
an opportunity of gratifying the Liberal party, and of
ornamenting the Church by the elevation either of Dr.
Hampden or Dr. Arnold to the bench. It is, moreover,
to be desired that Oxford should have its proportion of
preferment. Of the 12 mitres vacant during the adminis-
tration of Lords Grey and Melbourne, no less than nine
have fallen to the lot of Cambridge men ; neither have
the selections from Oxford been happily made. Dr. Grey,
the late Bishop of Hereford, was the brother of the Pre-
mier. The very lukewarm liberalism of Dr. Longley,
the Bishop of Ripon, the second Oxford prelate, has been
thrown into the background by the bolder apostasy
of the Bishop Salisbury, the third and last see con-
ferred on Oxonians. We exonerate the Government
from blame in this untoward mistake, because the real
opinions of Dr. Denison were too well masked, up to
the hour of his consecration, to have allowed of any
suspicion of his political integrity ; nor could renegad-
ism so flagrant and ungrateful have been predicted
of a professed friend without subjecting the accuser
to the charge of gross uncharitableness. On hearing
the declaration of Dr. Denison in the House of
Lords, that " his conscience prevented his voting
for the Whigs," it was remarked by a Witty Peer,
that " the Bishop might be conscientious, but that
at any rate he had not the fear of his Maker
before his eyes "—pointing to Lord Melbourne.
It is certainly desirable that the arnende be made
to the Oxford Liberals, among whom there are several
who are not likely to prove counterfeit. Dr. Hampden
has been well tried ; and having gone, perhaps, more
triumphantly and courageously than any other man of
his position through the ordeal of persecution, he has
a strong claim on a Liberal Government, especially on
that Government on whose account he was selected as
a victim to party venom. The high merit pertains,
moreover, to Dr. Hampden, of having conciliated his
enemies, without deserting one friend or compromising
a single opinion. We believe the Government to be
fully conscious of the policy as well as principle of de-
fending and distinguishing those who suffer for con-
science sake.

(From the Timer.)
In a week or two hence " The British Association
for the Advancement of Science," which bears exactly
the same relationship to the regular forces of philosophy
as a militia regiment does to the troops of the line, will
go into quarters, according to its annual practice, for a
few days' pastime and parade. From one motive or
another, though of course wholly disconnected with the
cogent reasons which often deter a certain class of itine-
rants from showing their faces twice in the same town,
the governing Council of the Association, whose preten-
sions to all sorts of profundity emboldened us to desig-
nate them " their Deepnesses; have so ordained mat-
ters, that both the place of rendezvous, and also their
presiding savan, known by the title of " his Unfathonz-
ableness," shall be annually changed. These arrange-
ments, it must be owned, discover considerable tact.
Apart from mere subordinate pretexts, the love of dis-
play, a passion for speechmaking, an appetite for plea-
sure, and an insatiable lust for pulic homage, constitute
the leading objects for which this Bobadil corps is pe-
riodically embodied. What with notes of preparation
addressed to local authorities, and the sanguine
hope that trade will be considerably profited by the
expected encampment, the various towns selected for
the Association's gatherings are in the habit of putting
themselves to great expense for the purpose of bil-
letting and glorifying its members. Now, its commis-
sariat department is perfectly aware that this sort
of thing, when once tried, will never admit of a second
experiment in the same place. The enormous outlay
incurred for splendid entertainments, requited by
shallow blarney, is ascertained to be no go. For the
same reason their Deepncsses' habit of electing a presi-
dent whose high scientific distinction can give eclat to
their proceedings, or whose neighbouring park suid cellar
can sumptuously contribute to their convivialities, will
not admit of being practised a second time upon the same
dupe. A single trial of the office of " his Lb:fathom-
ableness" is found to suffice. Whether its occupants have
had sufficient science to detect and despise empyricism,
or sufficient common sense to be disgusted with fawn-
ing parasites, the fact is indubitable, that no philoso-
pher or nobleman who has once been induced to take
the chair, and dissuaded from deserting it in the middle
of the campaign, can possibly be relied on to under-
take, on any terms, a repetition of the preferment.
Accordingly, the necessity of choosing such a place of
rendezvous and such a president as shall afford con-
currently a reasonable prospect of obtaining numerous
recruits and splendid entertainments, seems to have
determined the council not only to pitch their tent this
year in the large city of Glasgow (which, while suffi-
ciently distant from their last encampment to en-
courage a hope that the scandal of former fooleries
may not have reached the west of Scotland, is. more-
over, a peculiarly favourable locality for securing a
star4l4 crowd and every description of refined indul-
gence), but also to wheedle the Marquis of Breadal-
bane into the unfathomable chair, for the sole purpose
of bleeding his Lordship's bucks and bins as a holocaust
to impudent quackery.
(From the Morning Herald.)

In another column will be found a letter on the Corn-
laws, signed " A Constant Reader." Our Correspond-
ent endeavours to establish that a repeal of the Corn-
laws would be beneficial—because, the English soil (as
he alleges) does not produce a sufficiency of food for the
population of England—and, because, it is only neces.
sary (so runs his argument) to repeal the Corn-laws,
in order to induce the foreign and colonial landowners
to feed the whole mass of war labourers. Of the truth
of neither of his propositions does our correspondent
furnish aoy sufficient proof. He does not prove that
the English soil is unable to feed the population
of England. He does not point out the mode
by which, if the Corn-laws were repealed, the
labourers of England might be supplied with food,
through the instrumentality of foreign and colonial land-
owners. To the assumption that the soil of England is
unable to feed the population of England, it may be
sufficient to oppose a simple denial. The occurrence
of temporary scarcities proves absolutely nothing on this
point. And when our correspondent dilates on the steri-
lity of the uncultivated lands of England, as rendering
them incapable of " paying" if taken into cultivation,
he forgets, as it seems to us, the reasons which ren-
der it, at present, unprofitable to cultivate these poorer
soils. Temporary scarcities of corn prove nothing, we
repeat, as to the incapacity of the soil of England to
feed her population. There are, let it be remembered,
times of plenty, in which the poor are found to be de-
prived of the power of consuming all the cheap corn
grown on the soil of England. If then, the presence
in our markets of cheap home-grown corn does
not necessarily remove the distress of our labourers, the
iwnotruoidd,ucatisosnuriend, have
tolyourm markets of " cheap" foreign corn
short, cheaper corn t
the s such c hi a
buorer w
effect. Itao ist. a
s not,s
in
at nothe
means of bettering his condition. It is an increased
power to consume corn—whatever its market price.
Unless the labourer's power of consumption shall be
increased, it is probable that the cheaper corn shall be-
come, the more miserable will be the labourer's con-
dition.

i sctre
CHARTIST NIEETINGu n."—A meeting was held
last night in the Hall, 41, Q
t from thebetween
m
't h e proceed-
ings of which it appears that
the
e ; t,
that physical and moral force
Chartists of Aberdeen havecyoeoea
in
they have engaged, for twelve
they met ; and that they are abouto to form a united nths, the Hall in which
so-
ciety for the purpose of carrying on h
People's Charter.—Aberdeen Heraldt.e agitation for the
PRINTING IN TURKEY.—The art f
was introduced into the Mahomedan o-
printing
the reigns of Achmet 111. and X
Louis __ Empire in
V., and wa
E from the Court of Versailles illy Mehemet F,fred;B
Ambassador from the " Brother of the Sun." The house-
that contained the first printing press is now used
for
the Sultan's favourite women, "and in all the dreams of
perfect felicity (says the American writer Willis) Which
visit those who have once seen it, it rises as the paradise
of retreats from the world."

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

NORTHERN CIRCUT7'.—LIrEBrooz, Aua. 24.

DROWN SIDE.
(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
The Court was occupied the greater part of the day
with the trial of several cases in which death had been
caused by injuries received in fighting. They were of
no public interest.

I Villia ut -11ontgontery was indicted for the man•
slaughter of Daniel Wall, by stabbing him in the belly
with a knife.

It appeared from the evidence that on the night of
Saturday, May 23, about 12 o'clock, the deceased,
Wall, was passing from Salford into Manchester by the
New Bailey bridge. He was in company with two
young women of the name of Fox, and a young man
named Leach. As they approached the bridge they
saw Montgomery strike a woman, beside whom he was
standing, a blow in the face. Wall said ho was no man
to do so, and said if he had been beside him when he
did it, he (Wall) would have served him in the
same way. Some blows were exchanged, both
Wall and Leach striking the prisoner ; indeed,
according to the testimony of one of the wit-
nesses, the prisoner was treated with great bru-
tality. Wall and Leach then passed over the bridge,
Wall being first with one of the young women ,and
Leach following with the other about ten paces behind.
They heard the prisoner running, and he passed them
on the middle of the bridge. He went round in front of
Wall, and, according to the testimony of Leach and his
companion, struck him, without any previous scuffle,
twice in the belly. Wall flung him down, and ran away,
shouting murder. Leach then came up, but seeing
something in the prisoner's hand like a dagger, ran
away also. The prisoner immediately after came back
across the bridge. He was running, and without a hat.
The young woman who was with Wall at the time did
not appear as a witness. Wall, it appeared, ran off to
a house near the bridge, and it being then found that he
was wounded, he was taken to the infirmary. He had
received two stabs close to the navel, from one of which
the bowels protruded. He died about four days after,
and it was then found that the intestines were wounded.
When the prisoner was taken into custody a clasp knife,
which corresponded with the wounds, was found on his
person. He did not deny the act, but said he did it in
self-defence. From the appearance of the clothes of
the deceased there was some evidence of there having
been a scuffle at the time the wounds were received.

The Jury, after consulting for some time, returned a
verdict of Guilty.
Sentence was deferred, his Lordship intimating that
he looked on the case as one of a very aggravated kind.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 25.
SEDUCTION:AINSCOUGH V. ASHCROFT.

Mr. CRESSWELL stated that the plaintiff was farm
bailiff to the defendant's father, at Marlin Mere. The
daughter lived with her brother, who was also in the ser-
vice of the defendant's father, at Bury-park. One of
the brothers married a sister of the defendant ; this
brought about an intimacy between the parties. The
defendant had paid his addresses to the daughter for
16 years, promised to marry her, and having acquired
an influence over her affections, seduced her ; she be-
came the mother of a child, he then discarded her, and
now refuses to make her any compensation. He had
hoped that the defendant would have arranged the
matter, and not have made it necessary that this young
woman should be called into the box to tell the story
of her own shame, but as he had not done so, he must
take the consequences.
Jane Ainscough—l lire at Bury House. The de-
fendant's father has a windmill near my father's house.
The defendant is 29. I have known him 17 years ;
my brother married one of his sisters. 16 years ago
Robert Ainscough began to pay his addresses to me.
I had a child by him on the 23d of June last. I asked
him to marry me before the child was born ; he said
his folks were not willing that he should marry me.
Since the child was born I have not spoken to him,
and lie has done nothing for the child.
Cross-examined by Mr. ALEXANDER-It is ten
months since I was foolish enough to allow the defend-
ant's attentions to come to a point. lam 25. My fa-
ther hail 13 shillings a week for managing the farm, and
my brother had the same when he left. The defendant
offered to my brother to pay 41. a year for the child ;
he did not promise that to my father.
Mr. ALEXANDER, for the defendant, said a more
trumpery case had never come before the Court ; the
proper place for such a case to be disposed of would have
been to have applied to a Magistrate under the bas-
tardy law. It was quite plain this was an action to put
money in the pocket of the plaintiff.
The Learned Judge summed up, and the Jury found
a verdict of 401. damages.

DOE DEM. MIORT V. IT. HELEN'S RAILWAY COMPANY.
This was an action in which the lessee of the plain-
tiff sought to recover in ejectment the railway, with the
tolls and dues, as mortgagee.
By the Acts of Incorporation the Company were em-
powered to raise two sums of 30,0001. and 40,0001. by
mortgage, and were anthorised to assign the under-
taking, with the tolls and dues. The lessee of the
plaintiff was a mortgagee for 1301., and the proviso for
redemption was upon six months' notice, or default of
payment of interest. The interest was in arrear, and
the action was brought. The form of mortgage was
according to a form prescribed by the Act. There
were other mortgagees to the full amount of the 70,0001.
The Act provided that one should not be preferred to
another, but all should share the proceeds alike.
Mr. CaEssWELL objected that the action would not
lie to recover the railway itself ; and, subject to the
opinion of the Court on that point, a verdict was taken
for the plaintiff.

WESTERN ClRCUlT—Bmsroz.,.4ua. 24. •
MATTHEW'S V. NEALE.
This was an action for damages for injury done to
the character of the plaintiff by the defendant, in ap-
plying slanderous epithets and insinuating that he had
been insolvent. It appeared by the statement of the
Learned Counsel (Mr. Erle) that the plaintiff was en-
gaged in an extensive business at Castle Cary, in
Somersetshire, and the defendant was a farmer residing
in the same neighbourhood. The plaintiff, at. a former
period, had carried on business at Yetminster, but
some time since lie had purchased a factory, called
Milton Mills, and attached to those mills was an
extensive pond, well stocked with fish, which he had
taken pains to preserve. The defendant had been
in the habit of adding something to his income
by introducing gentlemen to fish in the waters
in the neighbourhood of his residence. In the course
of the month of April the defendant on two occasions
took a gentleman of property, named Hall, to the
plaintiff's pond fer the purpose of fishing therein.
Upon those occasions he was warned by the plaintiff's
foreman ; but, notwithstanding this notice, they, in the
month of May, came again, accompanied by another
gentleman, of the name of Cripps. They were again
requested to desist, and, paying no attention to the re-
quest, plaintiff's foreman, having received orders to pre-
vent any fish from being taken, adopted the very common
expedient of beating the water with a pole. This in-
censed the defendant, and on that occasion the language
was used for which the plaintiff now sought redress. He
said, " Tell your master to go back to Yetminster, and
pay the ten shillings in the pound he left, there unpaid ;"
and added, " Why was 1 • turned out of Stuckey's
bank ?" and upon an observation made by the plaintiff's
foreman, he said, " Your master has no more
property in these mills than I could cover with the
tail of my jacket." This constituted the slander of
which the plaintiff complained ; and (said the Learned
Counsel) the Jury are aware how injurious such impu-
tations were upon the character of a man in such an
extensive business as the plaintiff was, and he trusted
they would mark their sense of the proceeding by award-
ing a fair amount of damages.
Uriah Marshalsea (plaintifrs foreman) was called to
prove the language made use of on the occasion.
Mr. DERE addressed the Jury at considerable length
in mitigation of damages, and argued that no applica-
tion had been made to the defendant to withdraw the
offensive expressions, or it would readily have been
complied with on the part of the defendant.
His LORDSHIP having summed up, the Jury retired
for half an hour, and returned with a verdict for the
plaintiff.—llamages
WALL V. THE BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY COM-
PANY.
This was an action brought to recover the amount of
loss sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the al-
leged negligence and inattention of the Company. The
Company were erecting a bridge across the river Avon,
for which purpose a number of piles were driven into
the ground ; and the plaintiff's barge in navigating the
river had struck on some of those piles, in consequence,
as was alleged, of the want of sufficient marks or buoys
to show how far the piles extended, whereby the
plaintiff had been put to the expense of unloading the
barge, which had been obliged to undergo repairs, for
which purpose she had been laid up in the yard five
weeks.
Mr. ELLS stated the case for the plaintiff, and called
the following witnesses :
John Gillham deposed that he was a trowman be-
longing to the Druid barge. On the 21st of February
last she was coming down the river laden with coals ;
when she came to where the bridge was being erected
the captain of the barge called out to the mea at work
on the bridge to know how much water there was over
the piles, and the reply was " Six feet." Almost im-
mediately afterwards the barge, through drawing but
four feet of water, struck. She remained on the piles
had
for a ttso
gethour,
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her was c
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and
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o tdock-
yard, They
.:
Y ard, where she was five weeks under repair. There
was no buoy or beacon to show where the piles were.
On his
cross-examination
said
that Mr.
heard Sergeant
ain Bompas,say
the witness
there were piles there, some time before they reached
si
he
e had
the bridge, and there were boards on each side of the
river where the works were going on, which could be
seen from the lock above.
Thomas Oakley, another trowman, confirmed this
witness's testimony, as did also Joshua Tavernor, the
captain of the barge, who also stated that he had seen
the ;
',des the night before, and had endeavoured to