The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY' EVENING, APRIL 25, 1848.

did not desire the Republic—a majority of them, had
they been polled on the 24th of February, would
have doubtless deprecated with all their might such a
form of Government. But finding it now established,
they will cling to it because it is established, if for
no better reason. Men at all advanced in life have
been so wearied with perpetual and violent changes
in France—by which neither general liberty nor
general prosperity have been much advanced, that
they will accept at the present moment the work of a
young, an ardent, and a determined minority, more
especially as the form of Government can only
now be changed by a fresh civil war. But
though this will be apparent in a majority of
the provinces where the people wish with Lamartine
a democratic community—but a community definite
and practical, devoted to amelioration, and yet not
destructive of social order—still there are restless
and turbulent spirits in Paris—the Montagnards of
our time, fostered by Ledru Rollin, and banded
together by Blanqui and others—who would com-
mence a reaction against everything Favouring of
moderation, and who are only for pursuing extreme
principles by violent and extreme means. But the
events of 'Thursday the 20th, of Friday, and of
Saturday, the 21st and 22d, must awaken these men
from their delusions, and ought to convince them
that the National Guard and the army now perfectly
understand each other, and are prepared to put down
any manifestations of the mountain of 1848. That
the great body of the line--the soldiers—corporals,
sous officiers and captains, have been for the last
fifty years more or less republican, we have never
entertained any doubt. But though these opinions
have been deeply felt for the last eighteen years,
they were not demonstrated, because the revolution
of 1830 was accepted as a quasi republic, and because
also the superior officers did not participate in the
opinions of their men. But now that a great change
has taken place in the personnel of the army, and that
more than 250 officers have been removed from active
command, and allowed to retire, the great body of
the line shows itself as demratic as it was in 1799,
1800, 1801, and 18C/2. The Provisional Government
and the National Guard are well aware of this, and
hence the Minister of War, Arago, in presenting the
identical colours both to the line and the National
Guards, said, " You have the same standard and the
same heart." But though the line are democratic in
a moderate sense, they are lovers of liberty and order ;
and they will not, any more than the National or
Mobile Guard, allow communists and clubs to over-
bear electoral opinions, or to interfere with electoral
liberty. That a complete homogeneity of
opinion—a complete identity of character and
of views exists between both branches of the
service is apparent from this—that several pe-
titions for the recall of the line emanated from the
National Guards; and that not only several squa-
drons of the latter desired to go out to the environs of
Parii to meet their brethren, but also offered each to
quarter one soldier in his residence in the capital.
Nor did the Garde Mobile, though so lately enrolled,
exhibit less admirable spirit. Each company among
them expressed its willingness to be first called on in
case of need ; " for," said they, " we feel that the
National Guard have their business and callings to
attend to, and we know that if we are engaged with
superior forces, they will hasten to support us. Un-
der these circumstances it was no marvel that the men
of both corps fraternised, or that the National Guard
of Montmartre went out to meet the detachments of
the sth light infantry, and the 74th of the line. Such
manifestations, on the eve of the election, are more
especially consolatory, and joined to the amazing
and well-merited popularity of Latnartine, they are
of the very happiest augury. If the Minister of the
Interior would but ,:emean himself like the Minister
for Foreign Affairs, and choose his instruments among
sensible and moderate men, how much more readily
would the Republic become consolidated—how much
more speedily would it conciliate respect, if not affec-
tion, amongst foreign rations. Instead of following
this course, M, Rollin has preferred what Lord Mans-
field called the popularity which precedes, and which
does not follow, and he will find this pseudo popularity
before long, to use the memorable words of the same
elquent man, but "the shadow of folly and the echo
of renown." A great and civilised nation, like
France, with so many glorious traditions of the past
—with so many memories that can never die, is not
to be governed and overborne by the clubs of Paris,
even though these clubs be led on by Ledru Rollin,
Louis Blanc, Jules Faeres, and Citise.n Raspail. It
is satisfactory to know that if these men are disposed
to proceed to extremities, the Provisional Govern-
ment are prepared to put them down. M. Rollin had
therefore better be wise in time, and follow the advice
which the ever glorious Beranger gives to Lise, with
a little variation :
" Pour to faire adorer sans cesse,
Mets a profit ces veri.
Ledru abjure to sceleratesse,
Et respecte nos libertie."
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To Gamier Pages, the Minister of Finance, a I
laborious and conscientious man, but an economiser,
and a theoriser, we would also say a word. We are
aware of the very difficult task that is imposed at
this moment on a French Minister of Finance, but
these difficulties can only be vanquished by respecting
private property, and religiously maintaining public
faith. Any interference, therefore, with great joint-
stock companies, such as railroads or banks, or privaes
establishments, unless on a fair and equitable basis,
and with the perfect consent of the shareholders and
parties interested, is nothing else than spoliation
and tyranny, however it may be disguised by an
epithet borrowed from the economists at the Bourse.
CHRONICLE.—We have no hesitation in pro-
nouncing our old friend Cochrane the victim of one
of the widest and best organized conspiracies of mo-
dern times. The great families are dead against him.
The Smiths, the Browns, the Joneses, and the Ro-
binsons would seem to have registered a vow to "put
down Cocky." These great houses will not give the
patriot the smallest lift in any one of his " arduous
but glorious undertakings." They will neither help
him to make the law, nor to break the law, nor to
mend the law. They bring him in third on the poll.
They decline his invitation, and violate the secrecy
of his setters. They mock at his minstresly, keep away
from his picture exhibition, won't wear his paper hat-
bands, and damn his Easter farce. It was but yester-
day that a gentleman of the name (we believe) of
Smith was rude enough, amid an assenting chorus of
Browns, Joneses, and Robinsons, to apply to the
blighted philanthropist the shamefully vulgar epithet
" consummate ass ; and a Vandal of a van-driver,
belonging to another of the powerful and influential
families above named, actually insulted the hero in
the public streets, by insisting on prompt payment of
a little account for waggon hire, at the very moment
that he held "five oil paintings" as collateral security.
It is grievous to have to add, that the authorities are
zealously at one with the Smiths, Browns, Joneses,
and Robinsons, and lend an unmistakeable support to
the combined machinations of the eminent Houses.
The Home Secretary makes no scruple of affirming
the Cochrane "statements" to be "entirely without
foundation ;" and the Home Secretary's porter answers
the Cochrane double-knock (though the visit was by
special appointment) with a gruff " Not at home.
The Chief Commissioner of Police, though not ab-
solutely declining the honour of the Cochrane ac-
quaintance, should it be positively forced upon him,
throws a freezing rigidity into all his epistolary com-
munications, which must strongly indispose their reci-
pient from cultivating relations of personal intimacy;
and
command to
the Chief Commissioner's subordinates take no
other notice of the Cochranepresence than by giving
the word of"move r
on."elyp—, -Y
Can, we
re
won-
der at
the indignant patriot's
ou are
nice set of fellows, you are." Altogether, it was a
very melancholy business
yesterday. Fate, and the
police, and the Smiths, Browns, Joneses, and Robin-
sons were all against Cochrane. The very heavens rained
down discouragement on
sadly the friend of humanity. The
"No Bastiles' got
spoiled all the best views of trieetThe umbrellas
" illustrations," and
those highly-coloured pictures of humanity's
were consequently quite unappreciated wrongs
thousand wouldn't muster, except in •he ninety
the pitiful pro-
portion of 1 per cent. The blue postilion and
pair
was money thrown away, considering that there
was
a cab-stand close to the scene of action. The
of the gentleman's leaving his business with the
clerk, and, his petition on the table, was only too
appropriate a wind-up to a spectacle in which official
superciliousness vied with popular ingratitude and
meteorological caprice in damping down the generous
ambition of a " Poor Man's Guardian." We hardly
know how far a serious word or two will strike our
readers as befitting an occasion whose incidents are
nearly all of the ridiculous sort ; and we are still
more sceptical as to the possible effect of grave re-
monstrance on the mind of the chief actor in this
most silly exhibition.
Yet,as we really should not be
justified in
taking forgranted that Mr. G. Cochrane has
any deliberate wish to do gratuitous mischief, and as he
t dcretion to know how
certainly possesses suffi cien w
ay, eis would hope that he
to keep out of harm's w .
may not be totally insensible to the consequences
of those proceedings with reference to those whom
a rain of
he affects to serve. If Mr. Cochrane
hasth
honest sympathy with the poor, he will hengcefor
have done with " demonstrations," which not only
disgust and annoy the general public, but are deeply
injurious to the industrious classes. Literally, ail
that he accomplished yesterday (beyond a ludicrous
and damaging personal display) was to abridge the
little holiday indulgences of the inmates of certain
metropolitan workhouses, and to spoil a day's trade
for not a few •
struggling shopkeepers and hardwork-
ing artisans. You cannotget up an " exciting"
show in the public streets advertise for a mob,
and and
and make quiet people uncomfortable, and put the
police on taking extra
week's wages
without docking
,wages of those who live
by ili -A dury. Ali titebe drniunstratious' itbolve
themselves, at last, into a tax
They break the continuity of on the poor.
traffic. They diminish production,peacefui
and gainful
and interrupt ex-

change. They make industrious men idle, and tempt
sober men to drink. They empty the workshops and
fill the public-houses. All the excitement, the alarm,
the noise, the fuss of these things is so much, at the
week's end, out of poor people's pockets. Mr. Charles
Cochrane does not seem to be a man much given to
thought ; but possibly he does possess the faculty, in
a latent form, of connecting causes and consequences.
Ho may, at any rate, assure himself that contemp-
tuous and indignant public reprobation will be the lot
of any man who persists in gratifying his own vanity
at the expense of the labouring classes, and who ob•
stinately courts notoriety in the character of disturber
of the public streets.

Name of Company.

Australasia ..........
Britsh:Aorth American
Ceylon .
.lomnsercial of Loadon
.....
Gloucestershire
lonian
Londn and Westminstr

Ditto
Ei=don Joint-Stock ..•
Provincial of Ireland . •
Ditto, New... • • • • • •
National of Ireland • •
Nat. Provncial of Eng.
Ditto, New... • • • • • •
South Australia • • • • • •
Union of Australia • • • •
Union of London. • • • •
Union of Madrid

Name of Company.

Dividend
per

Aiin=.

61. per cent.
6/. pa cent.
6!. per cent.
51. per cent.
151 per cent.
6/. per cent.
61. per cent.

61. per cent.
81. per cent.
Si. per cent.
51. per cent.
61. per cent.
5/. per cent.

61. per cent.

61. per cent.

British .. • • • • .. • • • • • •

Ditto Provincial....
Bristol .. • •• • • •• •• ••
Brighton •• •• .. • . • • ••
City of London .. • • ••
Continental Consolidat.
Ditto, New •• -•
Equitable- . • •
Imperial ...... • • ••
Independent ........•
L0nd0n..............

Ditto • . • . .. ..... . ..
Phonic . ............
Ratliff • •• . .. .. •• • •
United General •• • • • •
Westminster Chartered
Ditto, New • • ..... •

Amount
of
) Share.

£ i. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

25 0 0
'OO 0 0

50 0 0
100 0 0
10 0 0
a 0 0
!00 0 0
20 0 0

25 0 0

50 0 0
40 0 0

Dividend Amount
per 1
_of

annum.

Share.

X. s. d.

40 0 0

11.8 s. 20 0 0
11C1. per ceat. 20 0 0
51. per cent. 20 0 0
101. 100 0 0
925. pr share 50 0 0
85s. pr share 50 0 0
15$. pr share 50 0 0
61. per cent. 50 0 0
61. per cent. 40 0 0
2341. pr cent. 50 0 0
61. per cent. j 50 0 0
51. per cent. 50 0 0
51. end bns. 100 0 0
4%1. pr cent. 50 0 0
3/, 50' 0 0
128. 50 0 0

Paid.

tO 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0

25 0 0
20 0 0
13 0 0
10 0 0
25 0 0
10 0 0
22 !0 0
35 0 0
10 0 0
22 10 0
25 0 0
2 10 0
10 0 0
40 0 0

Price

Price

111 N
443
220

41 48.
13%
134

.ANXES.

Paid. I Price.

A. 8. d.
18 0 0
19 0 9

100 0 0
39 5 0
37 10 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
40 0 0
60 0 0
50 0 0
46 0 0
90 0 0
50 0 0

10 0 0

40
32
75
15
55%

BRIDGES
Dividend Amount
Name of Compsny. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
Z. a. d. Z. e. d.
liungerford - • ••.. • . 45
Southwrk, Nw Sub A.; . 632 12 5 2},,
Ditto Nw of 754 p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 —• , 16
Waterloo •••••• • • • • - • 100 0 0 , 5
Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. 11. ss. 4d. 60 0 0 27
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. 2s. 2d. 40 0 0 25
Vauxhall •• .. ... AT 11. 16s. 70 10 3 26
DOCKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
o.
.£ s. d. 4 s. d.
Commercial .• •• ..... 41. per cent. Stock.
east and West India... 61. pr cent. Stock.
East Country
Landon ••• • • • ....... 51. pr cont. Stock. 97
Ditto Bonds •• •• • ... 41. per cent.
8 t•Katharine •• • • .... 5 per cent. Stock. 76
Ditto Bonds ........ 4%1. pr cent.
Southampton •• •• •• • • 21. per cent. 50 0 0 60 0 0

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.

mMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1848.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 252
Diseases of Uncertain Seat 36
Turbercular Diseases... 191
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 101
Diseases of the Ileart and Blood-vessels ... 25
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ... 185
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ••• 52
Diseases of the Kidneys, &e.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 11
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 8
DiseasesAmtairPrematurefoprbnay
aot
oßtnhisr.o t.. Skin,h
1
Old Age
Sudden ••• ••• •• ••• ... 4
Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance
9
Causes not specified 3
DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES 991

Population
Enumerated,

1841.
West Districts... 300,711
North Districts.. 375,971
Central Districts 373,653
East Districts ... 392,444
South Districts .. 501,190

Totals... ..... 1,948,425

Males •••
Females ...

Average weekly Deaths
Deaths, 1843-7. in the
Five Springs. Week.
. 143 ... 132
. 182 ... 202
. 171 ... 191
. 199 ... 205
▪ 248 ... ' 261

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males •••
Females •••

Total ...

991
492
499

COURSE OF EXCH
A.msterd am ••••• • • • • • 12 4
Ditto, at sight •• • • 11 19
itetterclain ••••• • • • • • -

Antwerp • • • • • • • • •• " • •
flamburgh .... • • Ai.B . 14
Alton& •• .. .•••• • • • • •
Paris, 3 days' sight • • • •
Ai arsellles 25 70
.... • ....• • •

Mourdeaux .... ••• • • • •
Frankfort on Maine....
Peteraburgh, Sil. Rble . •
3
Vienna,Tmre edi del I.f it
ite
••• ••
Cadiz ..
Bilbao
Barcelona
5avi11e.......... ••••• •

... 694
... 604

... 1,298

►NGE.-(THIS DAY.)
libraltar.. ••...•• • • • • •
Leghorn ........ • • • • • .
Genoa .. •••••.• • • • • • • •
Milan .. • • • • • • • • • •
Naples .. •••.•• • • • • • • 39%
Palermo, per on . ...... .
Lisbon.... • • .. • • • • • • • • 51%
Oporto .... • • .......... 61%
Rio Janeiro ..... ... • •
Bahia ....... ..... ....
Buenos Ayres —
New York, 21 days' sight —•
Philadelphia .... • ... ..

PRICES OP BULLION, TER OZ.
Foreign Gold is bars.. £3 17 9
New Dollars .. .. • . 0 0 0
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 3 14 9
141ver in bars . 0 4 11%
THE CHARTISTS.

The North British Daily afail-of yesterday gives
accounts of a Chartist movement at Greenock on
Saturday last, and a consequent collision with the
authorities. The mob, it appears, assembled in 3t.
Andrew's-square at ten o'cloci: on Saturday morning,
and soon after formed themselves into procession,
accompanied by two bands of music, and as the
authorities had stationed the easternmost detachment
of police in Virginia-street, the Chartists, unwilling to
come into contact with them at that early stage of
their proceedings, walked in an easterly direction
through Cartsdyke, and up to Port Glasgow-road to
Ladyburn, where the workmen of the Clyde Pottery
joined them. The numbers in the procession, at a
liberal estimate, were from 700 to 800. In Deling-
burn-square, Mr. Campbell, shoemaker, was called to
the chair, and Messrs. Jones and Adams delivered
!addresses.
The me-ting brake up about two o'clock, and the
people began to move off, part of them in proces-
sion. Upon reaching Virginia street, they en-
countered the police. The great body of the Chartists
then passed down to the East India Brest ; but the
police, supported by a great number of constables,
effectually barred their progress further westward ;
but after a time they made a bold rush against the
police and constables, who made a vigorous use of
their batons, and attacked them with such violence
that a number of very serious wounds were inflicted.
Large placards were extensively posted on Saturday
in all parts of Edinburgh, calling a public meeting of
the inhabitants of Edinburgh and Leith, to be held on
the Calton-hill, yesterday evening, for the purpose of
memorialising her Majesty to dismiss her present
Ministers, and also to elect delegates to the forth-
coming " National Assembly." The meeting was
expected to be numerously attended.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 25, 18481

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Honour-
able William Napier, to be Clerk of the Works and
Civil Engineer for the island of Hong-Kong.
CROWN-OFFICE, APRIL 20. 1111.11211 S
MENDER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR.

Henry Alonzo Hart, linen draper, Devonshire-street,
Queen-square, Middlesex, May 5, at half-pact eleven,
and June 3, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green,
official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Lake, Carter-lane,
Doctors'-Commons

James Brodie Gordon, cooper, Church-row, Lime-
house, May 10, at two, and June 2, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Ab-
church-lane, Lombard-street; Holmes, Loftus, and
Young, New Inn, Strand; Prideaux and Co., Bristol.
Joseph Sargent, innkeeper, Llangynider, Brecon,
May 11 and June 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Davis,
Crickhowell ; Berkley, Lincoln's Inn London.
William Davis, iron and tin plate manufacturer,
Abercarne, Monmouthshire, May 9, and June 6, at the
Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol;
Savery, Clark. and Co., Bristol.
Thomas Swift, timber merchant, Monmouth, Msy 4,
at twelve, and June 1, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; White and
Co., Bedford-row; W. and C. Bevan, Bristol.
John Hamlyn Hill, veterinary surgeon, Plymouth,
May 4 and 31, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court.
Ilirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Stogdou, Southerhay,
Exeter; Kendell, Baker. and Grant, Lime-street,
London.
Robert Harding, draper, Bridgwater, May 4 and SI,
at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaaman,
official assignee, Exeter; Sto.&lon, Southernhay; lied-
dell, Baker, and Grant, Lime-street, London,
William Berridge, grocer,. Cheltenham, May 5 and
June 9, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Miller,
official assignee, Bristol; Chesshire, Cheltenham.
Alexander M'Donald, confectioner, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, May 5, at half-past one, and June 5, at one, at the
Newcastle upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official
assignee, Newcastle upon Tyne; Sudlows, Torr, and
Janeway, Bedford-row, London ; Hodge, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne.
Thomas Stnttard, innkeeper, South Shore, Lancashire,
May 2 and May 30, at twelve, at the Liverpool District
Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Mayhew,
Carew-street, London; Blackhurst and Son, Preston.

James Gray, jun., metal broker, Liverpool, Kly 5
and 30, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Sweeting and Co., South-
ampton-buildings, London; Whitley, Liverpool.
Robert Taylor, merchant, Liverpool, May 4 and 30,
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Messrs. Ilolme and Co.,
New Inn, London; Booker, Liverpool.
Whitfield Burnett, Robert Moon Watson, Luke Wan-
less; Thomas Harrison, and Daniel Stok9e, all trading
under the name of the Chartershaugh Coal Company,
coal owners, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, May 8, at
half past ten, and June 5, at eleven, at the Newcastle-
upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Messrs. Moore, Sunderland ;
Harle, Newcastle upon-Tyne.

. i1...4
l ty- five, or he might

was a young man—perhaps twen _
be a year or two older. in stature he was tall and
slender, of dark complexion, witt large expressive
dark eyes, and jetty hair. Theist lies thought him
handsome. He soon made confidant is of divers of the
villagers, and upon the minds of fiat 3se he most sedu-
lously imprinted the fact that he vii .s nobly born, and
one of the mighty ones of the ea rth. His private
fortune was represented at 20,0001. a year; and the
profuse liberality that he began to, display seemed to
warrant the assertion. The chilelr en of the schools
were regaled sumptuously during bis first week with
claret, &c. Like a faithful mini st er, he was inces-
santly active in every part of the parish, and was
markedly attentive to those who (lid I not form part of
his congregation, or who were known to cherish a
spirit of hostility to the Establivbed Church. All
these were asked why they did not 11.0 to church ; and
if a want of suitable personal habil: tments was named
as an impediment—which, during; the existing dull-
ness of trade, was no doubt in mat y cases the fact--
the obstacle was at once surmon nted by an order
upon the village tailor, or hatter,. or shoemaker, or
bonnet maker, according to this necessities of the
individual.
By the time that his Reverence: had been a month
or so in his new quarters, and when he found his
credit among the tradespeople unlimited—which,
by the way, he had pretty well tested, for his
own external appearance had w idergone a won-
derful improvement—he begam to make some
important additions to his house'm Ad, which hitherte
had consisted of only one female domestic. There
arrived one day at the rectory a youth whom Mr.
Fairfax described as his page, a -youth about whom
there appeared a great deal of my stery. There also
arrived another personage, even more mysterious
looking than the former, whose siex purported ts be
masculine—at least the dress sc. indicated. This
personation of mystery Mr. Fair-I'o.x spoke of as his
cousin, and familiarly called him " Johnny Deer," or
" Johnny dear ;" but as in either; case the sound was
the same, there was no means of .deciding, Johnny,
for his part, shunned communion with every one ex-
cept his aristocratic relative; and, those who sat near
him in church observed that he seemed ignorant of
the use of the prayer-book, for h e turned over the
leaves quite at random. Connec to d with the personal
appearance of this creature, in short, there was a
variety of matters of observatkrn which led to a
very general suspicion that he was a female in dis-
guise. If this was so, her relati.all to the occupant of
the rectory will be easily inferred', and the necessity
for the disguise will be apparent.
However good Mr. Fairfax's credit might be, it
soon became evident that he had. very little money at
command. The few payments -that he made—and
they were few—were Mostly in :fourpenny pieces, a
description of coin which the villagers brought to him
in profusion once a fortnight, as contributions to a
clothing club. From this source he received about
71. a fortnight. He was straitened in his finances, he
said, on account of his father's steward having ab-
sconded with a very large sutra of money. When
allusion was made to his family connexions and ac-
quaintances, he made the most contradictory state-
ments. He laid claim to America as the place of his
birth, and said that he had very extensive estates
there. He al, o stated that he was the only surviving
sun of Lord Fairfax, who was an intimate friend of
Earl Fitzwilliam ; but that nobleman, who resides in
the neighbourhood, disclaims any- knowledge of either
Lord Fairfax or his reverend son.

The time allotted for Mr. Fairfax's sojourn draw-
ing to a close, sundry tradesmen's accounts were
presented for payment. Mr. Mahon returned to
Rawmarsh on Friday, the last day in March, and
then odd parties dropped in at the rectory, and begged
that they might have a settlement of their small
accounts, but not a farthing could they get—
nothing but excuses. Suspicions then arose among
them that they had been duped, and their
worst fears were soon strengthened. Mr. Fairfax
left the rectory on the following Monday, under the
pretence of spending a few days at Whiston rectory,
and saying that he should return in a few days ; but
it was ascertained that he had taken up his quarters
at the Prince of Wales' Hotel, at Masbro', %% hence he
departed by train in a northwardly direction, at four
o'clock on the morning of the following Friday,
without having paid one shilling to his creditors.
He took away with him an immense quantity of lug-
gage—property that he got from tradespeople at
Sheffield, Rotherham, and elsewhere. The page and
" Johnny" had been dispatched by train in opposite
directions.
After Mr. Fairfax's disappearance from Rawmarsh
under such discreditable circumstances, it occurred to
the mind of one of the churchwardens, Mr. Hall,
that Mr. Fairfax had received the amount of a col-
lection made in the church on Sunday, the 12th ult.,
in favour of the Propagation Society, in obedience to
the Queen's Letter. The sum collected was about
and Mr.' Hall, doubting whether his reverence
had paid over the amount to the proper parties, has
since written to make inquiries, and has received the
following reply :
" Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts, 76, Pall-mall, London,
April 17.
" Sir,—ln reply to your letter of April 13, I have
to inform you that no account has been forwarded
from Rawmarsh to this office.
" I have the honour to be sir, yours respectfully,
" J. RUSSELL, Treasurer, S.P.G.
" To Mr. George Hall."
It is suspected also that a collection for the dis-
tressed Irish has shared the same fate, but this is not
certainly known to be the case. It now turns out,
too, that the money which this worthy has received
on account of the clothing club, with the exception
of the receipts for the first fortnight after his arrival,
has not been paid into the bank, as it ought to have
been, and there is a deficit to the extent of between
201. and 30/. Mr. Fairfax made many allusions
to his aristocratic mother, Lady Fairfax, whose
residence he said was at Leeds Castle, Maidstone,
Kent, and which august personage he pretended was
about to pay him a visit at the rectory. We can
state as a fact that no such person is known at Leeds
Castle. We believe that in days of yore it was the
seat of the Fairf axes but the family have been obli-
terated from the locality centuries ago, having " gone
and left no address."
It is only just to Mr. Mahon to state, that, to use
his own words, " the references and testimonials,
&c. (of Mr. Fairfax) appeared quite satisfactory,
and I selected him in preference to others who were
proposed."
We understand that the missing one's creditors,
feeling themselves so shamefully duped, have re-
solved to use every means of redress that civil or
ecclesiastical law affords them. No doubt they will
communicate with the bishop of the diocese.—Sitef-
field Times.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Emma Young, a well-dressed wcman, who stated
her age to be thirty• one years, was brought before
Alderman Gibbs, in the custody of Daniel Forrester,
the officer, charged with having attempted to utter a
forged note purporting to be of the issue of the Bank
of England for 51.
A. gentleman attended from the office of Messrs.
Freshfield, solicitors to the Bank of England, for the
prosecution.

William Smith, clerk to Messrs. Ridgway and Co.,
tea. dealers, King William-street, said Between
eleven and twelve o'clock that day, the prisoner came
to the shop for a pound and a half of tea, and ten-
tered the note produced, numbered and dated 30390,
Nov. 16, 46, and signed W. Peskin. Upon looking
at it I thought it not genuine, and I took it. inside
and found the same opinion was formed. It was
then taken to the Bank, where it was pronounced a
forgery.

Mr. Freeman, inspector of the Bank, said he at
once detected the forgery, and went to Messrs. Ridg-
way's shop, where he saw the person seated. Upon
being questioned she said her name was Young, and
that she resided at No. 24, East-lane, Walworth, and
was a married woman. She said she did not get the
note from her husband, but from a gentleman, with
whose name or address she was not acquainted. Upon
being told she must be detained, she observed that
such would be a very arbitrary proceeding.
Alderman GIBBS (to the prisoner)—Do you wish
to ask the witness any question ? Prisoner—No. Fie
will not say that I was not willing to come here ?
Witness—You were not unwilling.
Daniel Forrester said that when he took her into
custody she said a young man had given it to her to
go into the shop and get it changed. The people at
East-lane knew her when witnes3 called upon them
on the subject. She did not reside there it appeared,
but her relations did ; and they stated that her hus-
band was a seafaring man, and she had not lived with
him for some time.

The bank-note was in some respects admirably ex-
ecuted, but it was extremely defective in other points,
which the Bank inspector did not consider it abso-
lute wisdom to specify, inasmuch, as when officials
from the establishment have mentioned on any occa-
sions were errors lay, they were sure, in the next
issue of spurious paper, to find great ingenuity exer-
cised in the correction. In the present case the
figure at the corner of the note was as like as possible
to that in the genuine note.
The prisoner was remanded.

_
JERSEY.—The Lords of the Admiralty have given
notice to the directors of the South-Western Steam
Packet Company that, after the 27th instant, their
steam-boats will no longer be required to convey the
Channel Island mails to and from Southampton, their
Lordships having determined upon conveying the Post-
office bags in Government steamers.
MIDDr-r. TI.MPLF, AMT. 22.—The tirylermen
tinned itiember. of tlas li,,rc burl), et:Lilt:Li to tile
bar, and were sworn in this evening before the benchers:
—Benjamin Forbes Wale, Esq:, and Chas. Henry Cook,
Esq.

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I 1 ORRIBLE MASSACRE ON BOAR]
THE GENERAL WOOD CONVICTS W?nce
.
The intelligence we announced a few
the y siabove-
relative to a report of the foundering of
mentioned convict ship, with all hands, was erroneous
It is too true that the vessel was lost, but under cis
cumatances that have caused the most painful excite
ment. The convicts, of whom there were Settlement
yment
We
and who were on their way to the Penang settle
having mutinied, horribly murdered most of the crew
and afterwards caused the destruction of the vessel
She sailed from Singapore on the 2d of JADUAry last
without the protection of the usual military convict
guard, and hence arose the fearful catastrophe.
The subjoined details are extracted from a cornrow
nieatiOn written by Lieutenant Seymour, who
was a
passenger on board of the unfortunate
at vessel:
M., the--
"On Sunday, the 2d of January, six A.
General Wood weighed anchor and stood out of the
harbour with a fair wind, in company with two other
vessels. After rounding the Rabbit and Coney, we
had a stiff breeze against us, and by six o'clock
he wil!c! we lost
sight of the two vessels I have mentioned. T
and tide being both against us, we soon
brow!!
up, I think, off the Carimous, determined to
lie
end wee
there till daybreak the following morning?
retired to bed, leaving the watch on deck in chore
of the First-Lieutenant, all apparently. quiet. At
were
about half-past one o'clock in the morning we
startled from our sleep by a loud noise on deck, and
the smashing of glass inside the cuddy
rose and Awent to the door of our cabin for the
bad
pose of ascertaining the caule of the uproar.
scarcely touched the handle, when the door will!:
separates the master's cabin from ours, burst open,s°,_",,
the captain rushed in exclaiming, "For God's ate
'
• I immediatel
shut the door and keep it fast." He was follovveci.q
Mr. Farquhar and other passengers, who implored
.I°_
know what was the matter; but could get no soli
from him for some time, when to our horror be t,°,!„
us the convicts had mutinied, and had got possess";
.of the ship. Ile appeared to have lost all presenc.eetel_,
mind, and kept exclaiming, "0, merciful of
t° 1b ri
what have I done that this should happan. 0, bleb
Jesus, save us, save us ! They have got in,lo
cuddy and have secured all the fire-arms'
cliog
obtained his own private pistols, and I°s ow
them stood on the defensive, expecting every ty
ment they would break in upon the fat
said nothing, was to be done, for he wainbeardfear
his officers had already perished. Soon after 1 0
the cries of Mr. Gill, she third officer, apPate44oo
the cabin-door, endear.. wring to get in, at tue mid
time followed by heavy 'l' ows—his moans belie
fainter and fainter. The Captain opened the be
and managed to get hold ( the poor fellow, wh°n;eol
dragged in, and dischargii er his pistols to 10,e
the
them following. He was dreadfully.
was deluged in blood. Having again securefacro,
cabin-door, we consulted as to the best means of co
cealing the female passengers, when it was "10i elts
of placing them down the hold. The deckl litio
were torn up, but to our disappointment the aPeerbeei
by the rudder down was too small to admit ," ths
mutiate°. ,s.,
re"
being lowered. The passengers then implo
in to
Captain to offer the convicts the boats for the 00
escape from the vessel conditionally, if theY :id ; lis
spare our lives. The poor man appeared distract socl
said it will be no use, "we were in their ~,,er, ~
Jr" uld a'
the wretches know no mercy." He said be lc° lief
tempt their request, and went out of the quayterilificg
port for that purpose, but we never saw him atter, elle&
little doubt but that he was instantly rnurderet thew
ing the captain did not return, the females hl arcs,
selves in the quarter-gallery as the last rs
tooo
having previously barricaded the cabin deo' f the
utmost extent. I could see through the chink o.icto
The e? 0, ,be
door what was going on in the cuddy.
and rifling pd
seemed busy knocking off their irons, cable,
voia
ship. At daybreak they slipped the ship's
made all salt for the south-east, striving t° :ors*
Singapore harbour. They continued on this eviithin
till sunset, when they tacked, avoiding conaild io tbe
reach of any other vessel. We were confin , rvierdt
cabin, unconscious of what was going o°,!°„ dor.
and armed convicts were placed at the ea"l"seta•
On Friday, the 29th, they sighted the Greta
,t, merle
mas, and on the following day, at nine in wegolosut,
ing, the vessel was run on a rock near
on the island of Bungaron. It was evidentli 1 red,
tionally, for the convicts had everything to
and and leaving the vessel, made for the CO;stt so Ana
with them the passengers. About thirty las_io
about twenty convicts were left on boar" ""„ bat'
away with the remainder of the crew, w140,.,,wet,-er the
toned down in the fore part of the vessel. Iv "e";,-roble
horrible design was carried into execution I atti;,;lf oil
to say, or what really was their fat-, for vvithin " pa
rtilo 1..,
.000.
hour after the ship went down in deep vintrt,',s. a
not a vestige of her was to be seen. The icolll.7inhe
on the minds of my fellow-pas-eugers was, ti.`,ll-I,t 0
the whole
wreck ofthweeuntnfodrotwunnawteitchretahteurevseswsehloawhderepeirei;sea-bell,t
for there was no boat to escape
the island at sunset, where we
were by. We
of Malays, who showed every 0
met b;irralvpaertol
symptom of 160
They offered to conduct
the passengers to the RO) .A
residence,
but the ringleader among the convicts 511,1-
it was their intention to protect us, and 001
tended to take us up the coast as soon es they 01;
prepare three boats. One of the ass °".
p engers Ae
trived to communicate our real position t '-
0 ke
natives,
who at once declared their intention to :till"
on,
us tothe Raja's residence. The convicts resis., 3
but the natives, to our infinite joy and bearoev,
satisfaction,
mustered, and we were led eventq- the
country to their houses, where received
we
comfort their t h
means afforded. I am confiden sit
the natives left 'us behind, we should have bee,,,etS
murdered.
who
was afterwards captured, that such was tuPe-fol•
lowingtention
morning the greater mass of the conviclAit
for s ascars had retaken to the boats, ild sto7oo
ea, leaving about twenty behind, wh wer°
of,i to
prisoners by the ordersof S but
the Raja. 0 t
hut fe
General Wood's crew contrived to escape, -- well
few of them.to her
All the officers belonging
murdered." re iiigi
On the arrival
of the above news at SingeP° effect
Penang,
the cSt the authorities adopted every roans Wooed,
wouldapture of the convicts, who, it ia Pressrence•
remain at sea till a vessel made her aPPe old
when
marin they
would be picked up as shiPWriedis
Company's ers. The steamers of the
out
astAticiPili,
ports. service have been sent out to tbe 13`" Mos,
of thein the above localit in search of thew' od it§
.convicts were felons from Singer" is
.
adjacent country.

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Age
BIRTHS.
On the 17th inst., the Lady Katharine derfarb
ter, which survived but a few hours. g°
On On the 20th inst., at Highgate, the wife of t-ehter.
Dyne, Head Master of Highgate School, of a da
On the 20th inst., in Warwick-street, Beige'
wife of W. P. Stevens, Esq., of a daughter. obi
Oa the 20th inst., at Watford, Mrs. O. 11-,',e07.',.
On the 21st inst., in Guildford-street, Russew-
of Li
Blather Elwall, relict of the late B. Elwell, EA.' vitt/di
mous son. I it•
On the 21st inst., in Mernington-road, Ors. -*
PPP
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On the 21st inst., in Norfolk-street, the i'
01 v
Isaacson, Fsq., of a son. nest° f.
Of
On the 22d inst., at Dulwich, Mrs. Thomas
of a son. lecif
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On the 22d inst., at Charterhouse-square, 01- ~,
: b,So •
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On the 17th inst., at Creom's-hill, Greenvoe
Speed, et a daughter. 0
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MARRIED. v. Cadgll,,-
On the 28th ult., at St. Peter's Church, Jers,e,at clsh"re"
C. Lucas, Bombay Army to Mar • Elizabeth, o'7 reo3"-
of
of David Morgan Lloyd, 'Esq., of3Haverfordwes'
shire. , j3oftiftA,
On the 18th inst., at Jersey, Lieutenant Go
sci.eest `-
the Bengal Army, to Josephine Lacoste, you-v ' I
ter of the late Major-General J. W. Gravee• Or
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On the 18th inst., at Bridge-place, Leviishault-'
i 940
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On the 20th inst.. Mary Lavinia, daughter
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, FOP
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°sl3 '
the wife of Mr. C. F. Seyfang, aged 74.
On the 21st inst., Mary Ann, the wife of gr •
4'°.
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On the 21st inst., at Brixton Mr. H. Drew', —, Ft ..illSfr
On the 21st inst., at Eaton 'College, Augusl 13011'. •
eldest son of the Rev. F. F. Beadon, Vicar 0
ec1660
Somerset, aged 9. r fsg .ne
At Bute House, Petersham, John Jone, .11.020- '
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