The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-14 00:00:00

ANOTHER 'TRIUMPH OF STEAM-

NAVIGATION.
TRIAL TRIP OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
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This splendid new iron steam-stip, commanded by
Captain M'Arthur, made a pleasure trip from this port
to Dublin on Monday, and returned the same even-
ing (arriving early this morning), after a run, " out
and home," which proves her to be truly a " clip-
per." As we have before noticed, she was built
(both vessel and engines) for the Glasgow and Li-
verpool Royal Steam Company, by Messrs. Tod and
M'Gregor of the former;port, and is intended to run be-
tween this and the western metropolis of Scotland. She
is of 800 tons burden, and 380-horse power.
The Princess Royal started from the Sea-wall of the Cla-
rence Dock on Monday morning, at seven minutes past six
o'clock, in company wi t.h her Majesty's mail steam-ship Ur-
gent, and arrived in Kingston harbour, against a strongish
head w ind, in nine hours and forty-four minutes, leaving
the Urgent, hull down, shortly after passing Holy-
head. There were on board fifty six gentlemen, all of
whom were highly delighted with the magnificent
accommodations, the sumptuous fare, and the extraor-
dinary speed of the vessel. Most of the party proceeded
to Duiilin by the railway, and after enjoyining them-
selves for nearly two hours again joined the ves-
sel which started oe her return hither a few minutes past
six o'clock, and accompanied the passage into the
river in precisely nine hours, or nine hours and five
' minutes from quay to quay. On her homeward voyage
she met the Urgent on her " outward passage," (after
the delay mentioned,) off the Hill of Routh. The
Princess, mail ship, (a fast vessel,) had sailed half an
hour before het, and she overtook and passed her at
nine o'clock, before making Holyhead light. The Prin-
cess Royal made her last passage from Glasgow to this
pert in fifteen hours and twenty-three minutes, the
quickest on record, and is, we will venture to say, the
fastest steam-ship afloat. ,We had th,e pleasure to be on
board of her on her pleasure trip, and shall notice it at
more length in our next publication.—Liverpool
Standard.

A case of workhouse discipline, remarkable
chiefly for its revolting impurity, has lately occurred in the
Downham Union, in Norfolk. We are actuated by no feel-
ings of false delicacy in saying that the details of this tran-
saction are of too d!sgusting a nature to be presented to the
mixest class of readers of a public journal, but we trust that
the irquisitorial secrecy, which could not in this case prevent
the detection of the offender, will be equally unavailing to
screen him from exposure and punishment. We are the more
willing to pass over any further allusion to the affair for the
present, as we understand that it has already been lad be-
fore the Poor-law Commissioners, who have undertaken to
investigate it thoroughly, and that the evidence necessary to
substantiate it will be shortly published in the form of apam-
phlet. We must add, however, that the offender (heunefus
heu!) is a clergyman, and trust that his diocesan, the Bishop
of Norwich, to whom the particulars of the case have been
made known, will be less forgetful of the rower of ecclesias-
tical censures, than that self-constituted protector of female
innocence the Earl of Alountcashel.— Times.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A FOOTMAN.—
EFFECTS OF PLEDGIvO ATE.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween six and seven o'clock, a desperate attempt at suicide was
committed by a young man, twenty-four years of age, of the
name of Henry Jacynes, a footman, residing with Mrs. Leicester,
a lady in Psrk-street, Grosvenor-square. It appears that on
Monday evening his mistress gave him orders to bring the plate
that had been intrusted to his care to her for her inspection on
Tcesday, for the purpose of being placed in the plate-chest,
previous to quitting L.ndon. Immediately afterwards the un-
fortunate man went out for the purpose of endeavouring to
raise tte amount of four pounds (but which he could not), to
obtain out of pledge some trifling article, consisting of tea and
dessert spoons, which he had imprudently pledged. On re-
turning home he appeared dejected, and fearing a pi osecution
he determined to put a period to his existence by cutt:ng his
throat. Surgical assistance was procured, and hopes are en.
tertained for his recovery.
INVERNESS PRESBYTERY.—THE DAVIOT
CASE.—A meeting of the Presbytery of Invernesi was
held on T,uesday, when Mr. C. Stewart, agent for the
people of Daviot, read the sentence of the General As-
sembly rejecting Mr. Simon Mackintosh as presentee of
this parish, and appointing it to be intimated to the pa-
tron (the Crown). The Presbytery resolved to comply
with this injunction, on which it was moved by Dr. Rose,
and seconded by Mr. Fraser, of Dores, that " in making
this ,intimation to the Crown, in obedience to the General
Assembly, the Presbytery state that they are perfectly
aware that they're in violation of the statute law, as de-
clared by the Court of Session and the House of Lords,
and that if the patron or the presentee may choose in
this case to assert their undoubted rights, the Presbytery
will have the alternative of being deposed, or subjected to
n action of damages and imprisonment. The Presby:
tcry, therefore, respectfully, but earnestly submit to the
Crown, and through it to the Legislature, whether this
be a situation in which any loyal and obedient subject
should be placed or suffered to remain for a single day."
It was moved by Mr. Fraser, of Kirkhill, and seconded
by Mr. Sutherland, that this statement be not trans-
mitted. Votes being taken, it was carried " Not trans-
mit," by five to four.
JEALOUSY AND LOVE.—ATTEMPTED SUl-
cinEs.—Yekterday morning, two females, named Sarah Fox,
about 40 years of age, and Sarah Brown, about 16, were taken
to St. Thomas's Hospital in a shocking state from the effects of
poison, taken by them under the influence of jealousy and
love. In the former case it appeared the woman had been
living during the last three years with a man in Grcat
Russell-street, Bermondsey ; and on Sunday morning she
discovered that he had got married to the landlady of the
house where they were lodging. She procured two penny-
worth of arsenic and four-pennyworth of opium, which she
swallowed. In the latter case the unfortunate girl had
formed an attachment to-a young man of her acquaintance,
and which being unrequited, she procured at different times
small portions of laudanum till she had got together a suffi-
cient quantity, and proceeded to put her purpose into execu-
tion. On being conveyed to tare above hospital powerful
emetics were administered to both of them, and the poison
ejected from their stomachs, but they both remain in a de-
plorable condition.
WocmwiCII.—PERCUSSION SHELLS.—ne
Select Committee will, by order of the Master-General of
the Ordnance, meet in the mars Les on Friday, the 16th inst.,
at one P.M., for the purpose of continuing the experiments
with ;his new projectile, which is likely hereafter to exercise so
great an influence in naval warfare.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SHERIFFS' COURT, July 1:3.
RICE V. PARSONS.

This was an action brought to recover the sum of 9/.
10s., alleged to be due on a bill of exchange, made pay-
able in March, 1836.
The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted ; as
a second bill had been executed on condition of the one
forming the grounds of the present action being de-
stroyed.
Mr. Thomas appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Chad-
wick for the defendant.

The leading facts of the case for the plaintiff, as they
appeared in evidence were as follows :—ln the month
of March, 1835, the defendant accepted a bill, payable
in twelve months. for 91. 10s., which was endorsed by a
person named Robert Gellet, who subsequently paid it
away in the course of business to the plaintiff in the
present action. Shortly after it became due, some fur-
ther transactions having taken place between Gellet and
the defendant, another bill for 101. Bs. was passed under
similar circumstances, for Gellet's use, which the de-
fendant's son paid upon its becoming due. The plaintiff
Price was represented as a man of considerable pro-
perty, and consequently able to give time to the de-
fendant for payment of the present demand, although
his (Price's) attorney refused to give his address, or tell
where he could be found, us there was a suit in which
he was concerned pending in Chancery, and he kept out
of the way to avoid being served with certain law pro-
cesses from the Court.

STANDARD.—But how will Ministers act ? Lord
Morpeth's intimation of a design to retire from public
life looks as if it were not intended to meet the new Par-
liament, but the general impression is, that they will
meet Parliament, and Lord Morpeth, we see, is to be
put in nomination for one of Mr. O'Connell's seats
' (Limerick county). What is generally believed, in
fact, is, that Ministers will not retire before the 19th
of next month, when the writs are made returnable ;
that then, if they can find no pretext for violating
Lord John Russell's pledge, and postponing the as-
sembly of the two houses until November, they will
meet Parliament with a peccavi speech, and try
to prolong the ignominious period of their continu-
ance in office, by yielding to the Conservative reac-
tion, confessed by Lord Morpeth, though so stoutly
denied by all the Ministerial Journals. This would not
astonish us. The men are mean enough to resort to any
pretext for keeping place, and the duty of submitting
•to the expressed opinion of the country may serve well
enough as an Excuse for not subjecting her Majesty to
the pain of a separation from " the friends of her
childhood," who, however, never saw her until she
was of an age to exercise the functions of Sovereign of
the greatest empire on the face of the earth. If any
of the ordinary motives which determine men to re-
tire ,from stations, the duties of which they cannot
discharge with honour to themselves, and to the advan-
tage of the country, if any such motives could have
weight with the Melbourne Cabinet it would have ceased
to be a Cabinet some years ago. For our part, we shall
never believe them fairly out of office until some days
after having seen it ; for the bed-chamber plot proves
that they perfectly understand the trick of " going out of
the front-door and coming in through the back." That
a trick of some kind is in contemplation we are
fully satisfied ; and for this reason it is that we once
again strongly urge upon Conservatives the necessity
of patience and circumspection. We know that some
who affect to speak the language of the Court, say
that "Lord _Melbourne will still retain office" with the
principal part of his Cabinet. Such boastings must not
--"Dived as in the slightest degree expressing the
ne -^Ne of our beloved Queen, but they show
wishes or pm, - •
of those who have been
t them we know they
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u that can serve BANKRUPTS.
their interests and Ow i*Fe,§o Of •
their party. Caution WILLIAM MILLER, wine merchant, St. Martin's-lane,
„„Ado tiro in this the mo- Charinn
. eros: to surrender July 20, and Aug. 24, at eleven,
and temper were never DIDFP ••`. • m at tl
are capable of any §friggzem or ai4draps,..,.
ment of victory, when, perliapg, obinson, Gray's Inn-square.
to le Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell; official assignee •;
exercise them. illellAßD ROOT, draper, Wardington, Oxfordshire
ty g
COURIER.—The visit of the Icing of the Belziaus t
July an - ° August 94, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn,
her Maes has even rise to'
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many, Banbury. Munton and Draper, Banbury.
quarters, most of them connecting it, . ,:weyer with con- CHARLES COLLS, CHARLES THOMPSON, and
siderations grouting out of the Mute of parties and the RIOSiAiLD vEcti.ovEg HARRIS, jun., bill-brokers,

B. Gellet being called to the witness' box, was sub-
jected to a long examination. He was handed the two
bills of exchange, and requested to look at one, upon
which the word " received" had been written immedi-
ately over his indorsement, and asked if it had been
written by him, to which he replied in the negative.
Mr. C. JONES, on the part of the defendant, contended
that this was a trumped up case, and auimadverted with
some warmth on the evidence in support of the plain-
tiff's case. He then called

Henry Wm. Parsons, who said he was the defend-
ant's son. At the time the bill became due, Gellet
called for payment, and witness's father being unwell,
and unable immediately to meet the demand, Gellet con-
sented to renew the bill, charging interest, and including
a small account for goods delivered, which made the se-
cond bill amount to 10/. Bs. Upon Gellet receiving the
latter bill, he promised to destroy the other one ; and
after witness piving 10/. Bs., witness heard no more of
the demand until the present action was brought.
Several other witnesses having ben examined,
The Learned UNDER SHERIFF summed up, and, in
concluding, observed that he could not admire a plain-
tiff who came into a. Court of Justice to establish his own
claims in law whilst he tried to screen himself by keeping.
out of the way, in order to avoid the jurisdiction of
another and a superior Court.
The Jury, after a lengthened consultation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

DECLARATIONS 'OF INSOLVENCY.

THOMASIIiiGcIAIII,WitIe merchant, Cross-lane, Saint
Nary at Hill, London.
WILLIAM BUTTERWORTH, coal-merchant, Sunder-
land-wharf, High-street, Peckham, Surrey.
JOSHUA BUTTERWORTH, leather factor, 13er-
mondsey.

Lombard-street, London, July 22, at eleven, and August 24,
at one; at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cancan, official assignee.
17inshury--square ; Kearscy, Hughes, Thonaa., and Maiterman,
Bucklersbury.
JOHN SMITH DAINTRY and JOHN RITLE, bankers,
Manchester, Aug. 2,3, and 24, at twelve, at the Wellington
Inn, Manchester. l\lakinson and Sanders, Elm-court Middle-
temple, London; Atkinssn and Saunders, Manchester.
HUGH HERBERT DOWNNIAN, tin-plate manufacturer,
Kidwelly, Carmarthen, July 21 and Aug. 24, at ten, at the
Ivy Bush Hotel, Carmarthen. Jones and Jeffries, Carmarthen ;
Clarke and Medcalf, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
DIVIDENDS.

At the Court of Bankruptcy,Basinghall-street.
F. Bradford and T. Healy, wholesale stationers, Great Tri-
nity-lane, Aug. 4, at half-past eleven.
In the Country.
A. Sharp, S. Sharp, and J. Sharp, cotton spinners, Birken•
thaw Bottoms, Yorkshire, Aug. 6, at two, at the Commis-
sioners'-rooms, Manchester—W. Waddell, merchant, Liver-
pool, Aug. 12, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool—F.
Egerton, wine merchant, Birmingham. Aug. 3. at twelve, at
the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham—W. Latham, linen draper,
Halifax, Yorkshire, Aug. 11, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn,
Halifax—J. Dilworth, R. M. Arthington, and R. Birkett,
bankers, Lancaster, Aug. 6, at one, at the King's Arms Inn,
Lancaster—C. Hepper, hotel keeper, Liverpool, Aug. 9, atone,
at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool—W. and E. Wheeler, horse
dealers, Oxford, Aug. 4, at eleven, at 'l'. Lucas'i, Town-hall,
Oxford—J. Dudding, paint manufacturer, Liverpool, Aug. '2,
at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool—W. Smalley,
joiner, Liverpool, Aug. 6, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms,
Liverpool—T. Bowden, shipwright, Topsham, Devonshire,
Aug. 5, at twelve, at the New I.ondon Inn, Exeter.
CERTIFICATES— A tic. 3.

J. Johnstone, scrivener, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire—
G. Sutton, builder, Bedford-place, East-street, Old Kent-road
—P. 5. Harrison, ironmonger, High Holborn—J. Griffin,
wine merchant, Windsor—R. liars is, merchant, Lower Thames-
street—J. Nicholson, innkeeper, Halifax, Yorkshire --J.
Knowles, H. Rodwell, G. R. Parker, and J. T. King, silk
brokers, Thregmorton• street.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

C. Hancock and T. S. Harvey, tea dealers, Great St. He-
len's—T. S. Kelsall, W. S. Kelsall, and 0. Potter, merchants,
Manchester (so far as regards 0. Potter)—G. Wright and J.
Kirkpatrick, drapers, Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire
—W. Easy and C. Moss, warehousemen, Wood-street—N. A.
and J. W. Partridge, dyers, Hosforth, Yoskshire—J. Vava3our
and R. Holdsworth, farmers, East Woodbay, Southampton—
W. Smart and J. Cockshutt, stationers, East-Cheap—E. and
W. Bowen, mercers, Dudley, Worcestershire—F. U. Gledhill,
W. Rawson, and J. Rawson, cotton warp manufacturers, Ha-
lifax, Yorkshire (so far as regards J. Rawson )—J. Wright and
A. Albright, publishers, Bristol—C. Ellis and L. Cooper, iron-
mongers, Maidstone, Kent—J. Sloane, J. A. Wells, and C.
Sankey, cheesemougers, St: Martin's-lane (so far as regards
C. Sankey)—W. Kent, J. Kent. and E. Kent, smaliware ma-
amfactures Manchester—G. C. Caincs and H. Coggan, book-
sellers, Halkin-street West, Belgrave.square—J. Lockwood,
W. Stockdale, and J. Billcliffc, manufacturers of fancy goods,
High Burton, Yorkshire (so far as as regards J. Bilcliffe)—J.
S. Randell and W. Newth, common carriers, Reading, Berk-
shire.