The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-13 00:00:00

STATE OF MEXICO.

MEXICO, Arnim I.—The revolution which was pro-
claimed here by the National Guard on the 27th of
February had, in the ,first instance, very extensive ob-
jects. They demanded a new Congress, and fresh elec-
tions of president and vice-president ; Gomez -Ferias,
who held the latter office, to be immediately removed,
and the executive power to be confided provisionally to
Senor Pena y Pena. Towards Santa Anna the dislike
of the Moderado party, who attempted the revolution,
is quite as great as to Gomez Ferias, and their fears
much greater, but they considered him to be engaged
in a hopeless expedition against the Americans in
Saltillo, from which he might possibly never return,
and they therefore treated his claim to the
Presidency with little ceremony, leaving him
simply the title of Commander-in-Chief of the
army. Santa Anna's ingenuity in converting his
repulse at the Angostura into a victory soon
convinced the Pronunciados, however, that he was
not to be thus easily disposed of, and, as the Congress
showed no disposition to dissolve itself at their bidding,
while the regular troops under Rangel remained faithful
to the Government, they found it prudent to lower their
tone and, remodelling their plan, announced as its sole
object the deposition of Gomez Ferias. Santa Anna,
on his march to San Luis Potosi (to which place he
found it necessary to retreat after the battle of
the Angostura), received intelligence of these disturb-
ances, and fully comprehending their tendency as
affecting himself, wrote in the strongest terms to Gomez
Ferias, exhorting him to hold out until troops,
which Santa Anna promised to dispatch immediately
to his assistance, should arrive here. He protested,
further, that if the insurgents were not punished in
the most exemplary maneer, he would himself leave
the country, considering it no longer habitable if the
laws could be violated with impunity. There is some-
thing ludicrous in this language from a man whose
whole life has been a series 01 insurrections, and the
Pronunciados, estimating it at its proper worth, lost no
time in communicating to him their modified plan, backed
by those arguments to which he is known to be most open.
The effect was immediately perceptible in a fresh series
of communications from him, to the Government in cool,
and to the Pronunciados in very friendly terms. Com-
plying with the invitation of Congress, he announced
his intention to assume the Presidency, by which the
obnoxious individual (Gomez Ferries) would be legally
got rid of, and directed that hostilities should cease
until his arrival. Many and anxious were the delibe-
rations of Gomez Farias, and his party the ultra de-
mocrats, or, as they are now termed Puros, on the re-
ceipt of this unexpected intelligence; but they had no
alternative but submission, as their military supporters
acknowledged no orders except Santa Anna's. The
young eentlereen of the National Guard, called by the
mob "Polkas" with (reference to a well known dance,
not to the President of the United States), on the other
hand, were highly elated. Both parties maintained their
position, and though the streets continued barricaded,
and business of every kind suspended, the firing ceased
until Santa Anna arrived at Guadeloupe on the 22d ult.,
and, having taken the oath as President before a com-
mittee deputed by Congress to wait on him, made his
entry into this city and established himself at the
Palace as the head of the Government. Thus
the dissensions of Moderados and Puros (the
Conservatives and Radicals of Mexico) have termi-
nated for the present in the elevation of an indi-
vidual towards whom both parties entertain feelings
of dislike and distrust ; and it is one great proof of
Santa Anna's superior energy that, in spite
of those
feelings, his presence seldom fails to produce submis-
sion. The clergy, whose money and influence con-
tributed largely to the recent change, have obtained
from Santa Anna the repeal of the late law for the sale
of church property. The church must, however, suffer.
Santa Anna has obtained from Congress authority to
raise 20,000,000 of dollars, and from no other source than
the ecclesiastical coffers can any efficient aid be obtained.
Forced loans are proscribed as dangerous and ineffi-
cacious ; taxes are slow in operation, and tend to ex-
asperate the classes on whom the pressure of the war
chiefly falls ; Mexican credit in foreign countries is a
jest. The clergy must, therefore, consent to sacrifice a
portion of their property ; and this conceded, the ques-
tion becomes merely an arithmetic:al one, Santa Anna
endeavouring to extract as much, and the reverend body
to give as little as possible. Changes of Ministry have
become so common here, as to be scarcely worth record-
ing. Latterly, Gomez Farias could find no one
to accept those appointments, and was obliged
to dispense with the assistance of a Cabinet. Santa
Anna has, however, succeeded in forming a Ministry
of rather a respectable character. The War Depart-
ment is given to General Ignacio Gutierrez, that of
Foreign Affairs to Senor Baranaa, Justice to Senor
Suarez Iriarte (a remnant of the Puros party), and
Finance to Don Juan Rondero. The last appoint-
ment is the only one which will excite any interest
in England. In peaceable times I should consider it
favourable to the bondholders. Senor Rondero has
never before been in office, but few men here are more
deeply versed in the abstruse mysteries of Mexican
finance. Originally a military man, he retains few
traces of that profession, and has long been closely con-
nected with the moneyed interest, which he may be con-
sidered as representing in the present Cabinet. For a
Mexican, he is unusually sensitive on the subject of
credit, and .n the whole I do not think Santa Anna
could have made a better selection.
A note of woe is heard from Vera Cruz. That city,
styled " the heroic," as well as the strong castle of San
Juan de Ulloa, are said to have fallen into the hands of
the Americans, after a few days' bombardment by
General Scott. As yet it is difficult to learn here
any particulars of the surrender, but the public
dejection is evidently very great. The forces of General
Scott arrived late in the season on the coast.
The deadly scourge of the vomito appears generally in
the present month; and he has now not a moment to
lose in pushing his way to Jalapa, which he will perhaps
not do without opposition. Peurto Nacional and Plan
del Rio have to be passed, and both present natural obsta-
cles to the march of an army. The
-former has some forti-
fications, which have been thought impregnable by
the Mexicans, but fatal experience has shown that they
are not likely to prove so to the Americans. Attacking
or attacked, the Mexicans seem fated to be defeated.
The battle of the Angostura was fought chiefly
by American} volunteers, who are described in a
letter from Saltillo as a most undisciplined rabble ; yet
Santa Anna, at the head of his chosen troops, much
more than double their number, was compelled to re-
treat before them. Already some indications of what is
likely to occur have been shown at Santa Fe, near
Vera Cruz, where General Romulo de la Vaya at-
tempted an attack on an American outpost, and was
immediately abandoned by his troops. This officer has
acquired an inconvenient sort of reputation iby his con-
duct at Resaca de Guerrero, where he allowed himself
to be made a prisoner, instead of running away, like the
rest, for which Congress voted him a gold medal, and
the most extravagant expections are entertained of
his future exploits. Santa Anna has obtained per-
mission from Congress to resume the command of
the army, and now goes to undertake the most dan-
gerous of his campaigns. Of the 25,000 men as-
sembled at San Luis Potosi previous to the battle of
the Angostura, probably not more than half are now
in the ranks, and a part of those must be left to
garrison San Luis. With national guards, militia,
and volunteers, Santa Anna may be able to oppose about
15,000 men to General Scott, in the neighbourhood of
Jalapa. Notwithstanding the dislike which Mexicans
entertain. toss ards all foreigners, and the tenacity
with which every offer of peace from the Americans
has been rejected, there is little show of war-
like enthusiasm here. Every Mexican, indeed, asserts
that the war must be continued; but few are inclined to
take any personal share in the contest, and still fewer
to contribute to its expenses. A party, too,
exists who desire the subjugation of the country,
not from any love to a foreign yoke, but from disgust
at their own internal dissensions, and a convic-
tion of the impossibility of their establishing a perma-
nent Government amongst themselves. This party,
under the mask of patriotism, will continue to augment
the obstacles to peace, in order that the Americans may
be forced to convert their invasion into a conquest.
In the northern provinces the war has already taken the
latter form. The capital of the State of Chihuahua
has been eocupied by eight hundred Ameri-
can. They were met (I cannot say opposed)
by at least 3,000 Mexicans, who abandoned the field en
receiving one volley of artillery. This little band of ad-
venturers is now threatening the populous capital of
Durango. A strong American squadron has arrived at
Acapulco, and there can be no doubt that all the Mexi-
can ports on the Pacific will fall, like these on the At-
lantic, into the hands of the United States.
Santa Anna has been authorised by Congress to name
a deputy-president during his absence, in order to ex.
elude Gomez Ferias from a return to power.—Times.

A PROMISING YOUTH.
. We find the following statement in the Droit :—"A
f youth, named Alfred, not yet sixteen, belonging to an
. honest family of working people, having received some
little education, and calling himself a clerk, was arrested
, on Friday under the following circumstances :—During
some time, Alfred has been alone at Paris, in conse-
quence of his father being on a journey. Free from
paternal authority, he plunged into pleasure, and in-
curred excessive expenses. His disorderly conduct
brought down upon him the reproaches of his relatives,
but he took no notice of them, and quitted his father's
house, saying he would not receive advice from anybody,
and that he knew how to create resources to live inde-
pendently. A little while after, Alfred had occasion to
go to the house of an English doctor named Edmonds,
residing in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, who during fif-
teen years had attended his family. In his visits to Dr.
Edmonds, Alfred was much struck at the rich furniture,
and concluded that the doctor must possess money and
valuables. He according resolved to rob him, and in
order to carry his design into effect studied the doctor's
habits. Having observed that Dr. Edmonds frequently
absented himself, he procured a key to open his apart-
ment, and made preparations for effecting a robbery.
On thinking further on the matter, he came to the con-
clusion that if he murdered the Doctor, and then robbed
him, the chances of discovery would be fewer. He ac-
cordingly determined to murder him, and for that pur-
pose procured a large awl, which he sharpened. Fearing,
however, that his energy might fail at the fatal moment,
he resolved to obtain an assistant. Ile, therefore, went
on Thursday night to the well-known establishment
of Paul Niquet, which is frequented by thieves and
outcasts, among whom he hoped to find some one
to aid him in carrying out his abominable designs.
In the smoky tapis franc, he soon remarked a man
of about 40, covered with rags, without shoes,
with a long and dirty beard, and his whole appear-
ance betokening suffering and misery. He accosted him,
and asked what he did at Paris. The man replied that
not being able to obtain work at Bordeaux he had come
to Paris to seek it. " Work !" cried Alfred, " don't
think of it ; you will not find occupation anywhere, and
if you did you would not earn sufficient to live on. If
you like I will procure you resources ; yes, I will make
you have money, and that without fatigue !" And there-
upon Alfred went on to speak of the wealth of the doctor,
end of the good stroke that it would be to murder him.
house,do the
a and job,
would sai d
givet a t
him one-fourth of all that he might be able to steal.
he would proposed
wudin introduce heeishim companionin into
Strangulation was the means he first proposed, and he
particularly recommended to the man to take care not
to allow the victim to utter cries. He promised to dress
hie accomplice in new clothes, in order that he might
enter the house without suspicion, and he spoke of the
murder as the most simple and natural thing in the world.
The stranger appeared to accept his proposition, but
said that it would be difficult to strangle the doctor
without his crying out. Alfred thereupon drew his
large awl from his pocket, and showed the other how he
might kill a man with it at one blow. The stranger
made no further observations, and a bargain was duly
made, and confirmed by a good supper. The next
merning Alfred led his accomplice to a barber's, and
then left him to seek some clothes for him. When
alone the poor wretch became so frightened at the hor-
rible projects of the lad, that he hasted to the Marche
des Innocens, and communicated them to some sergens
de ville, who took him the commissaire de police of
the quarter, to whom he told the same tale. Measures
were immediately taken to arrest Alfred, and whew he
appeared with his clothes at the appointed place he was
captured. The instrument with which he had proposed
to kill Dr. Edmonds was found upon him, as was also
the key with which he intended to open the doctor's
door. The examination to which he was subjected was
not long. He, however, made the most complete con-
fession, and detailed all the circumstances here related
with extraordinary sang froid. He manifested not the
slightest remorse, but exposed his criminal plans as it
they were perfectly reguiar. He has a mild and agree-
able expression of countenance, and appears to possess
a well developed intelligence. He has been sent to the
prison of the prefecture of police.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSIIIOUTIT, MONDAY.—The Swedish corvette which
arrived yesterday proved to be the Najaden, of 16 guns, com-
manded by Captain Ehrenstam, K.S. last from Cadiz. She
yesterday saluted the flag on the King's Bastion with 21
guns, which was returned by the Lieutenant-Governor of the
garrison (Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, G.C.H.) with a like
number. This morning she saluted the Commander-in-Chief
with 17 guns, which was acknowledged by the St. Vincent
(flag ship), Captain Milne, with the same number. Captain
Ehrenstam has charge of a number of young Swedish gen-
tlemen, whom he is educating practically for service in the
Swedish royal navy; observation and instruction, therefore, is
the object of the vessel's anchoring in our port. She saluted
also yesterday the Swedish Ties-Consal at this port, AL Van-
denbergh, who has this morning introduced the Captain and
his staff to Sir Charles Ogle, and conducted them over the
dockyard, and afterwards presented them to Lord Frederick
Fitzclarence, the Governor, who received them with his usual
urbanity, and invited .them to an inspection of that gallant
regiment the 43d Light Infantry, under command of Lieu-
tenant Forlong, K.H., which took place on Southsea- common, ,
at 4 o'clock this afternoon. To-morrow the Swedish officers
and Vice--Consul dine with the Commander-in-Chief. Prince
Oscar is daily expected in the Eugenie frigate, accompanied
by the brig Nordenskold. The Najaden is ordered to await
their arrival. Sir Cherie Oglehas deputed M. Vandenbergh
to invite the Prince (who is the third son of the King of
Sweden) on his arrival to make the Admiralty-house his
home during his sojourn at this port.
The bachelor officers of the navy and army in commission
at this port are getting up a superb ball and banquet, which
will take place at the King's-rooms a few evenings hence.
The Recruit, 12, Commander Slade, was towed out of
harbour this morning at half past five o'clock by the
Geyser steam-sloop, and the wind being light and baffling.
the steamer did not cast her off until she got outside the
Nab, when she made sail with a light southerly wind for
Plymouth:
The Avenger steam-frigate, Captain Dacres, is having
her paddle-box boats, which have hitherto been carried in
amidships on deck, fitted to the paddle-boxes in the usua
way. We are glad to recognise an evidence of the Admi
ralty's orders with regard to this all-important matter being
enforced, so that ships may not again be sent to sea without
the means of providing for the safety of those on board, a,
has been the case in too many instances hitherto. The fac
is deposed to by the officers of the late Thunderbolt
that but for the reliance which was placed in her paddle-
box boats when she was wrecked, the loss of life would have
been awful.
The Geyser steam-sloop, Commander Brown, is ordered to
be employed for the present as a steam-transport, in lieu o'
the Dee, which vessel is to have new boilers, and to be
thoroughly overhauled and repaired at Woolwich.
Commander Robert Jones (1844) died at Southsea on
Friday last. Commander Jones was the only lieutenant on
board the Victory at the time the Queen unexpectedly I
visited that ship in this harbour, by which casualty he ob.
tained his promotion after holding the commission of
lieutenant upwards of 32 years. He has not been employee
as a commander, and has left five motherless boys without a
farthing in the world to provide for them, and they art
to'ally unable to provide for themselves, the eldest being onlj
13 years of age.
MAY Il.—The Centaur steam-frigate returned from Ireland
this morning, and came into harbour to coal prior to refitting
for other service.
The Daring, 12, Commander Peel, was about to proceed
from Vera Cruz to Halifax by the latest advices.
The Spiteful steam-sloop, Commander Sir W. Hoste,
Bart., was at Colombo on the 21st of March, on her way
home.
The Frolic, 16, commander Hamilton, arrived at Val-
paraiso
on the 28th of January from Mazatlan, and sailee
on the 10th of February for Rio and England with freight.
The Cormorant steam-sloop, Commander Gordon, arrived
at Valparaiso from Callao on the Ist of February.
The Carysfort, 26, Captain Seymeur, arrived at Callao on •
the 19th of February from Valparaiso, and sailed on the 21st
for Mexico.
The Nimrod, 20, Commander Dacres, sailed from Simon',
Bay, Cape of Good Hope, for Algoa Bay, on the II th of
March; the Snake, 16, Commander Brown, sailed the same-
day for the alozambique Channel, and the Eurydice, 26
Captain Anson, same day for Mauritius.

ROYAL MARINES.
The following promotions and appointments in the corps
of the Royal Marines have just taken place :
First. Lieutenants Henry Carr Tate and George C.
Langley, to be Captains, and attached to the Artillery
companies.
First-Lieutenant Joseph Edward Wilson Lawrence, Acting
Adjutant of the Artillery companies, to be established Adju-
tant of those companies.
CHATHAM., MAY IL—The Charon steam•vessel left this
port at ten o'clock yesterday morning with the officers from
the Pay Clerk's-office at this dockyard, and paid off the Star
6-gun brig, Acting Commander Selwin, at Sheerness.
The Howe, 120 guns, Captain Sir James Stirling, commis-
sioned on Thursday last, at Sheerness, is to have a comple-
ment of 800 men. She is to be fitted so that she may be at
Portsmouth on the Ist of June next. Commander Hector
Loring is appointed to this ship.
The Marlborough ordnance gunboat is loading with stores
and condemned guns. She also takes on board 250 bedsteads
for the service of the hospital of the Royal Artillery at Wool-
wich, and will sail on Wednesday next.
The Wolverine, 16 guns, Commander John Hay, was paid
off at ten o'clock this morning.

THE LATE FATAL FIGHT AT
HEADLESS CROSS.
It will be in the recollection of our readers that OR
Easter Monday a drunken fight took place near the
White Hart Inn, at Headless Cross, between a shoe-
maker, named Thomas Robinson, and a needlemaker,
named Richard Boulton, in which the latter received
a blow which knocked him down, and that he died
next day from its effects, as was suspected, although
the Coroner's jury returned a verdict to the effect
that he died in a fit of apoplexy, caused by exer-
tion and excessive drinking. The widow of Boul-
ton appears to have been rather dubious as to the accu-
racy of this verdict, from certain circumstances which
bad since transpired ; and she accordingly ap-
plied to Mr. Gray, magistrate of Alcester, who
ordered her to attend at the Petty Sessions, on Monday
last, at that place. After hearing the woman's state-
ment, he ordered warrants to be issued for the apprehen-
sion of William Robinson, as principal, and William
Harris, Matthias Pool, David Hill, and William Shirley,
as being eiders and abettors in the fight. Robinson,
Shirley, and Hill, were apprehended the same night by
Munsloo and Spooner, the Alcester officers; Harris was
apprehended on the following day by the Ipsley officer;
and Pool gave himself up to Mr. Munsloo. On Wednes-
day they were brought up before Mr. Gray, and in the
course of the hearing a.man named Richard Stanley having
been implicated, be was put into the dock along with the
other prisoners. From the evidence now brought for-
ward the affair seems to have been one of the most dis-
graceful kind; for it appears that before the fight com-
menced Robinson said to diseased that if they did turn
out to fight, he (deceased) should never come in alive.
Before the commencement of the last round, having
fought for about an hour and a half, one of the bystand-
ers, now in custody, said to: Robinson, " Hit him under
the ear, and that will finish the —," and accordingly,
on the standing up to fight, Robinson, after saying
to the diseased, " This will be the last round, for I
mean to finish you," struck him a violent blow just under
the ear. The unfortunate deceased instantly dropped
down, his mouth filled with blood, and be never stirred
or spoke until the following, when he died. At the con-
clusion of the hearing, which lasted about six hours, the
whole of the prisoners were committed for trial at the
next Warwick assizes. Pool, Hill, Shirley, and Stanley
were admitted to bail, themselves in lOU, and two sure-
ties of 501.; but bail was refused for Robinson and Harris,
in consequence of the evidence adduced above.—Birming-
ham Journal.

CHARGE OF POISONING.
(From the Devonport Independent.)
It is with considerable regret that we have to detail
he particulars of a most determined and but too sucess-
'ul attempt at poisoning, which was made on Thursday
morning last, at a beer-shop in Pembroke-street, known
by the sign of the Victory of China. Fortunately we
have in this neighbourhood been spared the excitement
and ,the pain which such transactions occasion, and
when our columns bad contained the revolting particu-
lars of the endeavours of one party against the lives of
others, other places have been the scene, and we have
joined, to the natural feelings those particulars have
produced, some congratulation that at least this locality,
had not attained a disagreeable notoriety, by the perpe-
tration within it of such crimes.
It appears that a young man, named Henry Humphrey
Gilbert, a clerk in her Majesty's navy (whose father is a
messenger in the Admiral Superintendant's office), had
visited the beer shop referred to, and had remained in
company with one of the depraved but unfortunate
creatures who spend their miserable lives at the various
houses of resort in that neighbourhood. On Wednesday
night he slept there with a girl named Ellen Mc. Mean,
and on the following morning they came into the tap-
room of the house, and there saw a man named Joseph
Pedler. This man had entered the house on the pre-
ceding evening, and asked for a bed to himself. This
he obtained, and on rising in the morning he came into
the taproom. Pedler, whose connexions are respectable,
has been a sick-bay man on board her Majesty's ship
Queen; he previously belonged to her Majesty's steamer
Bulldog, and some months since he was convicted betore
I Captain Foote and J. Ingle, Esq., at Stonehouse, of being
concerned in an extensive smuggling affair. We do not
say this with the view of raising any prejudice against
the man, but as a simple fact, for there can be nothing,
in a man's once being a smuggler likely to create a sus-
picion against him in reference to such a serious charge
as the present.
In the taproom with the deceased were one or two
other parties, and Pedler sent one of the girls who was
by his side out on an errand, and he was then seen to
put a white powder into a glass of porter, and going over
to Mc. Mean, he said " Drink." Another girl, who saw
this, warned her not to drink it, as a white powder was
in the glass. Mc. Mean then spat out out what she had
drunk, and threw the remainder of the glass of porter
under the grate. She then observed a white substance
adhering to the glass. Subsequently porter was offered
by Pedler to the unfortunate young man Gilbert, and he
drank three or four glasses. Porter was also offered to
a girl named Kesiah Cook, and she drank some. Within
a short time they both became ill. Gilbert was sick and
drowsy, and exhibited the ordinary symptoms of being
poisoned by a narcotic drug. Cook complained of sick-
ness and pains in the abdomen. All was confusion in
the house, and the landlady charged Pedler with having
put something into the porter. This he denied, and
afterwards left the house. Mr. C. Tripe was summoned
to attend Gilbert and the girl, and Mr. Laity and Mr.
Little, surgeons, subsequently came in. Every means
that medicall skill could devise to restore the unfortunate
man was resorted to without effect. Within a short
time he expired; and the woman, still suffering, was
conveyed to the workhouse. She had evidently had a
good dose, and required the continued attention of
Messrs. Little and Laity. On Friday she was consider-
ably better.
The man Pedler was everywhere sought after by the
police, who thought he was more likely to he found
out of the town than within it. Ile was, bower( r,
taken by some waterrnen (who had been told his " de-
scriptions," and who are entitled to credit for aiding the
police) in Queen street, on Thursday, and brought to
the station-house.
The inquest was hell on Frirlay, before A. B. Hone,
Esq., the coroner for the Devonport district, which, afti r
the examination of several witnesses, was adjourned to
Thursday next, in order to afford time for the analysis
of the contents of the stomach of the deceased.

STATE OF TRADE.
MANCHESTER, MAY 11.—Since Friday there has
been no improvement whatever in the state of our mar-
ket. Both spinners and manufacturers show a disposi-
tion to accept lower prices than they were asking
last week ; but buyers are not to be tempted by
any concession in prices to enter into operations
of magnitude, and confino themselves entirely
to such purchases as are necessary for the
supply of immediate wants. The amount of business
done is consequently quite insignificant. We hear that
reductions of wages are taking place in some parts of the
neighbourhood, but have not been able to collect any
precise information on the subject. The hands of the
three mills which stopped last week, in consequence of a
proposed reduction, continue out.

ROCHDALE, MAT 10.—There has been very little
business done to• day in flannels, very few buyers hav-
ing attended, and pieces are very low. In wool there is
little doing, and prices stationary.
lirni a ISFIELD, MAY 11. —Our market continues in
a very depressed state, and but few sales have been
effected. Some parties conceive our 'present difficulties
to be the drainage of money for railway purposes, and
others to the exorbitant price provisions are attaining;
in
s
but all parties seem alarmed at the great advance in corn
yesterdayss Al:ye niddio.lon7usmrlsivzhe.roakoseiht,sbat markets.
inAe r fairs.
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LEEDS, I doing
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some
market to-day, an
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time past. The fearful rise of bread '
sfons in general, indicates the approach of times than we have already witnessed for business.—
Manchester Guardian.

The Duke of Northumberland has directed
the fields adjoining Alnwick to be divided 3. i2nst.o6lloseotiZentos!
for gardens, &c., and let at the rate of
These allotments are to contain one• fifth, and som.epof: them
one-tenth of an acre, and. every applicant of good characterra
is to be accommodned with such portion as he may require.
The distribution and regulation of the allotments are placed
in the hands of the minister and churchwardens,—Newcastle
Guardian,

--
The Rev. Robert Montgomery, M.A., author of
" The Omnipresence of the De ty," and other poems, will
preach at St. Matthew's Church. Brixton, on Sunday morn-
ing next, May 16, in aid of the National Schools of that
district.

We learn from Leghorn, under date of the 28th of
April, that buyers from different parts of the interior had
visited that mark,-t, which had :tgairt giortrii an in:p.e.tus to
trade ; and good Marianopoli wheat was then worth
Pqual to 683. per quarter, free on board.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1847.

BANK RETURNS.

(From the London Gazette.)
Au Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth
Victoria, rap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank
Notes, oi the several Banks of Issue in England and
Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur-
day, the Ist day of May, 1847: Average
PRIVATE BANKS. Amount.
Abingdon Bank, Abingdon—Knapp and Co 24,432
Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co 15,145
Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 10,691
Aylshasn Bank, Aylsham—R. and E. Copeman 5,596
Aylesbury Old Bank, 4.ylesbury—Rickford
and Hunt 42,580

Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade
Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell... 36,745
Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Drake and Co. 16,14;
Basingstoke- and Odihare Bank, Basingstoke-
Cole, Seymour, and Co.
Bedford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard
3edford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford-
Trapp, Halfhead, and Co.
Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and
Crane
3icester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford
Bank, Bicester-Tubb, Wootten, and Co.
Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Attwoods,
Spooner, and Co
Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming-
ham-Lewis, Moilliett, and Co .... 17,820
Blandford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak. 8,853
Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 73,886
Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co 15,620
3ridg-r3ter Bank, Bridgwater-E. &J. Sealey 9,631
Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 38,487
i3roseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and
Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 25,02
Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett,
Parrett, and Co.
3nry and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market
Bank; Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co.. ...... 77,5e6
',ant ury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney. 41,234
latibury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 53,610
3atl. City Bank, Bath-Molter and Son . 3,665
tedrordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton
Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 36,888
liriningham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and
Lloyds
37,916
Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H.
and A. Harris
Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 62,780
3ridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry 23,589
3righton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West,
and Borrer
3urlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington-
Harding, Smith, and Co
Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds-
J. and Co.
i3romsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms-
grove Bank, Bromsgrove--Rufford, Biggs,
and Co.
..ambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and
Sons , 23,788
7ambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam-
bridge-Messrs. Forsters
Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and
Co
armarthen Bank, Carmarthen-Morris and
Sons
'lhertsey Bank, Chertsey-Messrs. La Coste
-,solchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green,
and Co. 23,224
Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex
Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester
-Mills, Bawtree, and Co
;lornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co, 48,705
• ;oventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood-
cock
lity Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 22,176
Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co.
Christchurch Bank, Christchurch-Tice, Welsh,
and Co
Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and Co
'lhepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon-
mouth Old Bank, Monmcuth Bank, Brecon
Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank,
Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co.
Derby Bank, Derby-Messrs. Evans
Derby Bank, Derby-Smith and Co.
Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak
Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co
Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Hughes,
Locke, and Co
Diss Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co
Doncaster Bank, Doncaster-Leatham, Tew,
and Co.

8,845

23,605

26,913

2,378

2,900

Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster—.
Cook ,and Co.
Dover Union Bank, Dover—Latham, and Co
)arlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton-
on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, and
Co
)evonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor-

6,529

2,775
6,758

9,832
12,069
42,880

26,907

9,000
.0,629

2,478

man ..
Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank,
Dorchester—Williams and Co.
East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster,
and Co.
East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton,
and Co.
Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank,
Chelmsford—Walford. and Co.
Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co
Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk-
beck, and Co.
Varringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far-
ringdon—Barnes and Medley
Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight
Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co
Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and
Keen
Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King
Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon...
Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0....
Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder,
and Co.
Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford—
Matthews and Co.
Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware—
S. Adams and Co.
Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull
—Smith, Brothers, and Co.
Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting-
don—Rust and Veasey
Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co
Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead—
Smith, and Whittingstall
Itoniton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co.
Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples
and Co.
Hereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross
and Archenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan,
Hoskins, and Co
Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co.
Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk,
Had Leigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley
Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich—
Alexarders and-Co.
Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall,
and Mercer
Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J
Davies and Co
Knighton Bank, Knighton—J. Davies and Co 9,456
Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank,
Knaresborough—Terry and Co
Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson,
and Co..

46,14

:11,852

52,294

6,016
16,785
14.196
29,458

37,655

21,833

54,810
4,656

23,715
17,805

39,635

21,466
21,235

45,76

Kettering Bank, Kettering-Ootch and Sons
Lane Ead Staffordshire Bank, Lane End-C!
llarvoy and Son
Leeds Bank, Leeds-Beckett and Co 54,372
Leeds Union Bank, Leeds-W.Williams, Brown,
and Ca
Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and
Congleton Bank,Leek-Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. 470
Leieester Bank, Leicester-Pagets and Kirby 29,349
Lewes Old Bank, Lewes-Molineux and Co 41,571
Liohfleld Bank, Lichfield-Palmer and Green 19,465
Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith land Co 103,347
I.landovery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando-
very-David Jones and: Co.
Loughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middle-
tons and Cradock ..... 7,017
Lymington Bank, Lymington-C. and S. St.
Barbe
4,418
Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis
-Gurneys and Co. 40,214
Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis-
Massey and Co.
Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brocklehurst
'Sand Co 12,260
\fanningtree Bank,Manningtree-Nunn and Co 6,837
Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts
Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl-
borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank,
and Hungerfordßank,Marlborough-Tanner
and Pinckney 16,644
Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank,
Marlborough-Ward, Merriman, and Hillier
Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly-Jones and 11,2E5
Williams
Miners' Bank, Truro- ...... . CC; ............ 194;41
Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial.
Bank, Abergavenny-Baileys and Co . ...... 27,056
Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon.
Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank,
and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth
-Bromage and Snead ...................... 16,344
Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, .
N...... ewport
-W. Williams and Sons
Newark Bank, Newark-
andilHutton 8,995
27,412
Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and
Newark Bank, Newark-Handley, Peacock,
and C 0.......... 51,912
Newbury Bank, Newbury-Bunny and Slocock. 37,096
Newmarket Bank, Newmarket-Eaton, Ham-
mond, and Son Fa 7,
Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss-Taylor and
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Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich-Harveys and
Ifudsons 46,269
Lrwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich-Gur-
neys and Co 73,523
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not-
tingham--Hart, Fellows, and Co 10,730
Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton-Craddcock and
5,647
co
Naval Bank, Plymouth-Harris, Mudge, and
C
New Serum Bank, Sarum-Hetley,Everett, and
co .„.....
13,934
:1 0C50... 29,095
Oswestry Bank and Oswes
Nottingham Bank, Nottinghatrm-y
oSldm
15,929
westry-Croxon and Co
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13,490
ranakn
Oxford Old Bank, Oxford-Robinson,
f9xford Bank, Oxford-J. and R. Morrllrarsons,
and Thompson 32,688
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Ileeching and 50n5...... ......... 940114/11.0. 9,563

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