The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-30 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Yesterdxy, the Grand Jury having been sworn,
the Chairman briefly addressed them on the nature of
their duties, after which they retired.
MISS A. G. BURDETT COUTTS V. DUNN.
Mr. Bodkin said that as he had a matter of an ex-
tremely distressing description before the Court, he
hoped it would be taken early.
The CHAIRMAN was willing to take it imme-
diately.
Richard Dunn was called by Mr. Edmunds, the
Clerk of the Peace, but no answer was returned
Mr. Bodkin then said that he appeared there on be-
half of Miss Burdett Coutts, to exhibit articles of the
peace against Richard Dunn.
The CHAIRMAN—Let them be read.
Miss Coutts was then brought into Court. She was
accompar.ied by Lady Burdett, with several of her fa-
mily, and accommodated with a seat on the Bench,
beside her father, Sir Francis Burdett.
Miss Coutts was sworn by the officer of the Court,
after which the Clerk of the Peace read the articles
exhibiting charges against the defendant for the annoy-
ances to which she had been subjected. The substance
of them has already appeared in the public journals.
William Ballard, late of Bow-street, deposed in
substance, that he went to Harrowgate, in September
1838, to apprehend Richard Dunn, and that he fell in
with him on the Stray at Harrowgate. Upon making
known his business, Dann said lie was not going near
Miss Coutts. Deponent asked him how he could say
so, when he had written to her to say he was coming.
He then admitted that it was so, and said if she had
done this she was worse than the commonest whore
that ever walked the streets, and he repeated that lan-
guage two or three times. Subsequently, speaking of
another transaction, he said, if Miss Coutts had done
so she deserved to be tarred, feathered, and burnt.
When Dunn came to London, on being released from
York Castle in October, 1838, he (Ballard) bad been
almost constantly, day and night, resident in Miss
Coutts' house in Stratton-street, and when, in conse-
quence of further annoyance, he again apprehended
Dunn, the latter made use of gross and offensive lan-
guage in reference to Miss Coutts, and when at Bow-
street he destroyed and burnt the depositions and
took up the poker to strike him (Ballard).
The latter had also for a considerable time past re-
sided in Stratton-street, by order of the Magistrates, to
protect Miss Coutts from further anticipated violence,
William Weedon, footman to Miss Coutts, also de.
posed to Dunn walking up and down before her house
and following her carriage, and to the subsequent oc•
currences related in her affidavit.

The CHAIRMAN inquired what was the amount at
present of Dunn's personal recognizances ? Mr. Bod-
kin replied 2001.
The CHAIRMAN—What situation of life is he in ?
Mr. Bodkin—He is, 1 understand, a Barrister. He
apprehended the articles required no comment. It
must be evident that under such circumstances life was
intolerable. Miss Coutts could not possibly leave her
house with safety.
The CHAIRMAN said there was quite enough to make
any lady feel apprehensive of personal violence, but
500/., which appeared to be the amount of his recogni-
zances at Harrowgate, appeared to be a large sum for
one
Mr. Bodkin said that Dunn frequented the Hari,
and rode about on a fine horse, and appeared to have
abundant means at his command.
The CHAIRMAN wished he was in Court, that he
might explain to h:m the consequences of WC-present
conduct.

Mr. Bodkin replied that that had been clone re-
peatedly, but what could be expected of a man who in
the presence of the Magistrate could seize the deposi-
tions and throw them into the fire ?
The CHAIRMAN was of opinion that it was one of
those cases in which the strong arm of the law ought
to be biought into operation for the protection of those
by whom it.was claimed. The sentence of the Court
was that he do enter into his recognizances to keep the
peace towards all her Majesty's subjects, especially Miss
Coutts, and be of good behaviour for two years, himself
in 5001., and two sureties in 250/. each.
air Francis .Burdett and his family then left tilt'
'The cases tried dutiag the day were of no

iutercst.

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EXPORTATION OF STEAM-EN-

GINES AND MACHINERY.

A return has been made to the House of Commons,
pursuant to a motion of Mr. Emerson Tennent, of the
value of steam-engines, machinery, and mill-geering, ex-
ported during the ten years beginning with 1831 and
ending with 1840, which suggests some very important
considerations to the minds of parties engaged or inte-
rested in the prosperity of English manufactures. What
may have been the object of Mr. Tennent in calling for
this return, we are unable to say ; but the conclusions
to be drawn from an attentive consideration of it, and
of well-known facts connected with the establishment
and rapid extension of machine-making establishments
on the Continent, point irresistibly at the propriety of
removing the existing restrictions upon the export of
machinery.
As may be supposed, the exports fluctuate consider-
ably from year to year ; but on a comparison of the
two periods of five years comprehended in the return,
the increase in the latter is very striking. The return
is given under the five following heads, to each of
which we append the amount in the first and second
quinquennial periods :-
1. Steam-engines and parts of steam-engines.-Ist
five years, 265,9471. 2d five years, 773,512/.
2. Mill-work of all sorts allowed by law to be ex-
ported.-Ist five years, 106,054/. 2a five years,
157,626/.
3. Machinery of all other kinds allowed by law to be
exported.-Ist five years, 321,7901. 2d five years,
1,307,624/.
4. Machinery exported under license from the Trea-
sury or Privy Council.—lst five years, 34,877/. 2d.
five years, 175,4641.
5. Machinery and mill-work of all sorts (being the
aggregate of the foregoing heads).—.lst five years,
746,019/. 2d five years, 2,414,226/.
The preceding amounts are all interesting as matters
of information connected with a branch of traffic which
is evidently becoming very important to the country ;
but we are desirous of directing the attention of our
readers, at the present time more particularly, to the
rapid increase in, and the great amount of, the exports
under the third head in the return, namely machinery
' (other than steam engines and mill work) allowed by
law to be exported, and which has increased from
321,790/. to 1,307,624/. or more than four-fold. It is
perhaps not generally known, but we believe it is a fact,
that the great bulk of the exports under this head con-
03ists of lathes, planing machines, drilling machines,
cutting engines, and other tools used in the making of
machinery, which is now rapidly growing up into a
most important branch of business in many parts of the
Continent, simply because the export of machinery from
this country is prohibited by law. The very large
amount of the exports under this head (amounting to
nearly 400,000/. in the last year) would be sufficient,
even if there were no other evidence, to show that the
machine-making establishments of the Continent are
extending with great rapidity ; but we know from
other sources that such is the fact. In the works of
Cockerell and Co., at Seraing, near Liege, there are
about 1,800 men employed, out of whom, we be-
lieve, there are only two Englishmen. A Joint-
Stock Company, the Societe du Phcenix, at Ghent,
employs about 750 men, of whom there are sixty
English, chiefly in the construction of cotton
and flax machinery ; and an establishment newly
formed at Hamburgh, that of Messrs. Gluis-
man and Busse, will, when fully at work, employ
a large number of hands, having expended about
30,000/. last year in the erection of buildings and
the purchase of English tools: All these parties are
provided with patterns of the most approved English
machinery, and are ready, not only to supply the de-
mands of their own immediate neighbourhoods, but to
execute large orders for foreign countries. The com•
pany at Ghent have already, we believe, exported ma-
chinery to a considerable extent to different parts of the
worn ; and the following paragraph,which we copy from
a London paper of Saturday last, appears to have refe-
rence to their operations :-

" A large ship, freighted with machinery, recently
sailed from Ghent for Vera Cruz, on account of a Mexi-
can merchant. This is said to be the second similar
cargo sent to the same party within the last three
months. The whole of the machinery was manufactured
in Belgium."
In this way unless something should be done by
the English Legislature, a most extensive and

lucrative branch of trade will be monopolised by
foreigners, to the exclusion of the machine-makers
of this country. From the skill of its workmen, the
abundance of coal and iron, and the many other faci-
lities which England possesses, it would have been
easy to keep; for many years to come, a monopoly of
the trade in the hands of our machine-makers ; and if
the existing prohibition of the export of machinery
were even now removed, the further increase of the
continental establishments would be at once checked,
even if those at present in existence could keep their
ground, which we very greatly doubt.
But it may be said, " Would you give foreign cot-
ton and linen and woollen manufacturer's an opportunity
of procuring machines on equal terms with English ma-
nufacturers ?" We answer, that ere long they will have
them on equal terms, if the Belgian machine makers
are permitted to go on in their present course.
Everybody knows that machine-makers, who carry
on a large business, and make a great number of
machines of one kind, possess great ficilities, both
as to the quality and cheapness of their work, over par-
ties, whose business is more limited ; and if we allow

the Belgians to become machine-makers, not merely for
themselves, but for the rest of the world, we may
shortly find them not merely equal but superior to the
machine-makers of England. So long as the trade is
retained in this country, our own manufacturers will
be the first to obtain and to profit by improvements ;
but if it should be carried on to a greater extent else-
where, the English manufacturers, instead of being the
first, may be the last, in the race of improvement ; and
their business must suffer accordingly.
On this account, and for the interest of the manufac-
turers themselves, as well as for the purpose of securing
a trade which is yearly becoming more important, and
must eventually be of very great extent, we wish to sec
a repeal of the prohibition on the export of machinery,
and shall be glad if the returns obtained by Mr. Emer-
son 'Ferment should have the eff,!et of drawing public
attention to the subject.—Manchc-ster Guardian.

Hop INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, JUNE
26.—The greater part of our plantation continues loaded with
filth and vermin, which has had the effect to stop the growth of
the plant, and its leaves are cupi ing up and dropping off,
being quite exhausted by the ravager of the blight. In same
of the earliest blighted grounds, we have observed this week a
slight freshness on the plant, and those less diseased ; the b'ne
keeps growing, but the weather continues too wet and cold to
be favourable, hot sun being now wanted to bring the Midsum-
mer shoots out and destroy the filth, without which the crop
must be short. We leave little business doing in the market,
the planters being unwilling to sell, and the trade yet to buy, at
the advanced prices.-- Worcester Herald.
ATTEMPT AT SELF-CRUCIFIXION IN CORK.
—Friday the medical officers at the Dispensary in Hanover-
street were presented with one of the most extraordinary cases
that had ever come before them. Upon a car, brought to the
door of the institution, was laid a stout hale man about 30 years
of age ; he was tied down, and it was with difficulty the persons
its charge could restrain him. Upon being brought into the
consulting-room it was found that his feet and hands had been
perforated, apparently with large nails. It appeared from the
statement of those by whom he was brought to the dispensary
that his name is Bartholomew Donovan ; that he is a labour-
ing man, has t esided several years at Carrignavar, had frequently
betrayed symptoms of insanity, and was yesterday morning
found in an outhouse contiguous to his own dwelling bleeding
profusely at the feet and hands, having in each a large nail,
with a view, he stated, of " crucifying" himself ! He was
taken home, and this day, his wounds being first dressed, the
unhappy creature was sent to the Lunatic Asylum.
ACCIDENT TO LORD ALFRED HERVEY.—
We regret to state that the above nobleman, son of the Mar-
quis of Bristol, met with an alarming accident on Saturday even-
ing, near Apsley House, by being thrown from his horse. His
Lordship on being taken up was quite insensible, and it was
greatly feared his Lordship was killed. He was immediately
conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where it was discovered that
his Lordship had not broken any bones, but had received severe
injuries on his head. His Lordship was conveyed from the
hospital on a stretcher to the family mansion. He is suffering
from a severe concussion of the brain.
SLANDERS ON THE QUEEN.—Some passages
from a late number of the Liverpool Mail have just begun to
excite a general and indignant notice. There is a great deal
of affected mystery about them; and more, perhaps, of that
disgusting disposition to insinuate what they dare net openly
assert, which is peculiarly characteristic of mean and malignant
natures. At the same time, the writer makes his object plain
enough to warrant us in speaking of his slanders with the deep-
est detestation. The chastity of the highest lady in the land,
he thinks, may be broadly questioned, and
" her life's life lied away,"
when the worthy object is to vilify Lord Melbourne. No
matter what the infamy would be of making such an attack
on an individual in private life ; no matter that the
laws, to say nothing of the ordinary feelings of decent
loyalty, have invested the reputation as well as the person
of the QUEEN with peculiar safeguards ; all these consi-
deratioas are utterly insignificant, in the writer's estima-
tion, compared with the one great purpose of throwing dirt
upon a minister who has the unpardonable guilt of being a
Whig ! How thoroughly depraved must be the mind that could
conceive such slander ! how depraved the readers that can pa-
tronize the journalist who originates it? As public attention Is
just now somewhat directed towards that individual, we may
mention that the reputed editor of the Liverpool Mail is the
same person who was editor of the notorious (London) Morn-
ing Journal of 1829 ; that his paper was set on foot a few years
ago, it is understood, by the pecuniary aid of a knot of Liver-
pool Tories, but that the speculation has been an unsuccessful
one, the concern having just now been brought to the issue of
bankruptcy —Manchester Guardian.
COACH ACCIDENT.—An accident, which
might have been attended with very serious consequences, oc-
curred to the Shrewsbury and Aberystwyth Mail, last week;
passing over the bridge at Llanfair, owing to the restiveness of
the horses or carelessness of the driver, the coach came in con-
tact with a large stone on the Welshpool end of the bridgt, and
was instantly upset. Two of the passengers were consideilbly
injured, but, we believe, not dangerously. The person anst
hurt was Mr. Marshall, of the Belle Vue, Aberystwyth, who
with difficulty managed to proceed to Llanfair. It should not
be omitted to observe that the coach was not on this occasion
driven by the person who usually drives this Mail, who is noto-
rious as well as for his gentlemanly behaviour as his skill and
attention as a shiver.

A small hen of the bantam breed, belonging to
Mr. Whittington, of Tonna, r:Par Nowt;:. 'thick had been for
C. (tar-
;.
.'.:r • ;I‘. a 4:144 uk to.o
she appeared with twenty.five very fine chickens.

EVENING EDITION,_.

CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE
SCHOOLMASTERS.

We trust we have done some service by calling the
attention of the public to the attempt now being made
by the Church Papists ruin the whole race of school-
masters, excepting only those who belong to the aristo-
cracy : they are spared of course.
•If the conspiracy succeed, the schoolmasters of the
middle classes must starve ; they must soon see their
families driven from their homes, and feel in all its hor-
rors the bitter pangs of destitution.
A schoolmaster cannot readily turn his hand to other
employs. There are too many clerks already, so that
refuge of educated distress will be closed upon them.
The Union workhouse only will be open to them, un-
less Parliament will interfere, and erect in every diocese
an asylum for ruined schoolmasters—ruined by a con-
spiracy of Oxford Papists in the Church, and ultra
Tories out of it.

Some correspondents, amazed at the audacity of the
scheme, and almost doubting whether such cruelty could
be contemplated by any party in the
year of Grace
1840, have inquired what can be the object of the cle-
rical and lay conspirators in thus seeking to annihilate
the present race of schoolmasters, and set up schools of
their own ?

We answer ti,em in few words. Let them read with
attention the description of the lapsing of the larger
section of the Church into Popery, which we have but
begun to sketch in the preceding article, and last week,
and this mystery will be at once explained. The con-
spirators are of two classes—the advocates of spiritual
despotism and the advocates of political despotism ; 018
former are the Oxford Papists, whose doctrines 'co are
in course of laying at large before our readars ; the lat-
ter are the Tories. These have formed an union to
help each other to their several objects, which aro in
truth perfectly congenial, if not identical. The Tories
are to help the Ox'ord Papists to the entire possession
of the Church, and they arc to help the Tories to power
and to keep them in it, by prostrating beneath the feet
of priestcraft and superstition the minds of the people.
The most sure way to accomplish this is obviousl,c to
exterminate their present enlightened teachers, and to
place the rising generation under the guardianship of
those who will teach only their own debasing dogmas,
and shut out all other light:
It is trua that the Tory conspirators offer to permit
some of the existing schoolmasters to live, provided
they will submit to tLe d 'gradation of subjecting them-
selves in all thiags to the Diocesan Board, and teach-
ing as the Oxfo, d hgofs hall direct ; but w hat school-
master, worthy cf e office, would so debase himself
as to put on the fett. rs of a self-constituted despotism
And if any be found dk spicable enough to do so,
we do
not believe that any parents will be found silly enough
to intrust the education of their children to so grovelling
a ere; Lure. A man who has no mind of his own is un-
fit to form the minds of others. He who will sacrifice
his own independence to become the slave of one
tyrant or many is not the man to whom should be con-
fided the sacred duty of training the scions of a race of
free men.

But it is not the concern of the schoolmaster
alone. Every parent in the land, that is, every Pro-
testant parent, is interested in saying the schoolmasters
from the threatened rain. A blow levelled at the
teacher reaches the pupil. If the union of Oxford
Papistry and Toryism should be but partially successful,_
and grasp any considerable portion of the education of
the young, the consequences must be awful. Protes-
tantism will have to struggle for its existence ; religious
liberty will be lost, and civil liberty, which is °nil
secure when based upon religion, will perish with it, or
by a terrible convuls'on shake off the incubus that
stifles her.—Somersetshire Gazette.

ON THE EXTERNAL USE OF LIVING A -2,1
(FORMICA ILUIA), BY DR. SCIIREIBER.)—The summer
vision of the author's hospital lies in a wood, where there ate S°
many ant-hilb., that the thought struck him of drawing soma
advantage from them for his patients. As ant-baths and titlF-
tore of ants were of no great use, he tried the living inse(ts ltl
paralysis, hemiplegia, paresis, and inveterate arthritis- Ill!
ants are to be taken directly from their hill, and put in a bagl
and this bag is to be tied over the limb in such a manner the
the ants cannot escape (but obtain access to the skin.) Some
time after their application to the paralyzed limb, the patient
begins to feel the running and biting of the ants, by which they;
gradually excite a kind of electrical twitches, and a feeling "
warmth, which gradually extends over the whole body..Moreorer.r
by their ethereal principle, they cause as violent a perspiration over
the whole body, as if the patient were in a vapour bath. Thera'
ralyzed part must be kept in the bag with the ants for two. or
three days. The patient is then to rest for a day-, after wilIT
the ants are to be applied again ; and this is to be repeated till
the object is attained. In 1535, Dr. Schreiber obtained a fa-
vourable result in seven cases of a paralysis ; in 1836, in foul e;
and in 1837, in three; by which he was encouraged to use t"
same remedy in chronic rheumatism and gout. It is unneces'.'
sary to remark t hat this remedy alone cannot be of much set"
v:ce, if the case is complicated with syphilis, scurvy, or scro:
fula ; but the military hospitals have plenty of uncomplicate.‘
cases, and in three years forty-six patieres under this
head were cured. Dr. Schreiber now began to use
the remedy in dropsy proceed* from inactivity el
the skin. In anasarca it was found sufficient to tie up the
lower extremities in bags with living ants, an 1 thus obtain
profuse sweatiar, and a cure. This method of treatment, Or
ported by gentle purgatives and sudorilics, 'succeeded in twentl-
one cases. ( The German translator here remarks that ho can-
not call ten grains of jalap with the same qualstiv of calomel, a
" gentle purgative.") In a case resembling elephantiasis
where the leg was cold, hard, and swollen, and a variety of,
treatment had been employed in vain, the disease was entirely
removed within twenty days, under the nee of living ants, and
the patient was dismissed cured.l IThe author mentions inci-
dentally, that, in Little Russia, they employ a home-made
spirit of ants, called inuraschluna wIl
a, to prepare a punch leh
is used in many varieties of colds, with very great advantage.--
Medical Ga zette.

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BIRTHS.
At Liverpool-terrace, Ramsgate, on the 29th inst., the Lady
of .tttephen Winkworth, EN., of a daughter. •
On the 23th inst., at Chester, the lady of Cap!a'n Barlow,
20th Regiment, of a son and heir.

On the 23d inst., the Countess of Denbigh, of a daughter.
On the 16th inst., at Wratting-park, Cambridgeshire, the
lady of Charles Wager Watson, Esq., of a son.
On the 26th inst., in Bloomsbury-place, the wife of J. C.
Hall, Esq., of a son.
On the 26th inst., in Doughty-street, Mrs. C, Walton, of
a son.

On the 27th inst., at Clarence-terrace, Regent's-park, hors•
Macready, of a son.
On the 27th inst., at Croom's-hill, Greenwich, Mrs. George
Brocklebank, of a daughter.
On the 28th inst., at Beaufoy.terr'tce, Afaida Vale, the lady
of J. Greenwood, E•q., of a daught< r.
On the 26th inst., the lady:of the Rer. T. Spyers, of Alden-
ham, of a son.
On the 26th inst., at Kippenross House, Pert} shire, the lady
of John Stirling, of Kippendavie, of a daughter.