The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-18 00:00:00

"FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.

" Whereas, on the night of the 14th of August inst.,
James Bright, one of the police-constables of the borough
of Ashton-under-Lyne, was shot and wilfully murdered
in the public streets of this borough; now we do hereby
give notice that her Majesty's Government has offered a
reward of fifty pounds to any person who shall give
such information and evidence as shall lead to the dis-
covery and conviction of the murderer or murderers.
And we do also give notice that the Secretary of State
for the Home Department will advise the grant of her
Majesty's gracious pardon to any accomplice not being
the person who actually fired the shot, who shall give
such information and evidence as shall lead to the same
result. _

"By order of the Mayor and Magistrates,
" HALL AND TAYLOR.
" Town-hall, Ashton-under-Lyne, Aug. 17."
BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY.—This morning, between
two and three o'clock, two Irishmen, named Ragan and
Jenny, living respectively in the Lower-priory and Inge-
street, were apprehended by Chief Superintendent Ste-
phens, charged with uttering seditious language at one
of the usual meetings of Confederates and Chartists is
Loveday-street. They were brought before Mr. Beale
and Mr. Luckcock, at the police-office to-day, and re-
manded until to-morrow.
George White, who was lately upon a visit to this
town on a Chartist mission, was apprehended in Man-
chester yesterday, and will to-morrow, with the prisoners
above-mentioned, be brought before the Birmingham
magistrates. _ _

The town remains quite. In the early part of the
week it was rumoured that the disaffected intended to set
fire to the mansions of Mr. James Taylor, of Moseley-
hall, and Mr. Munts, M.P., of Ley-hall. The police
were consequen'ly posted at those places for two days,
but they are now withdrawn. There does not appear to
be, as far as can be judged from outward appearances,
the slightest probability of a tumult.

RIGHT ON WAY THROUGH GLEN-TILT.--On Fri-
day last a discussion took place before Lord Cunieg•
Name, the ordinary on the bills on a note of suspension
and interdict presented by the Duke of Athole against
Mr. Gordon, a farmer in Aberdeenshire, being allowed
to drive cattle through the valley of Glen-Tilt to Castle-
town of Braemar, which was near his farm. Having
heard the case at great length, Lord Cuninghamo said
that the arguments had been very full and very able, and
it appeared to him that the question as now raised was
one really of very great importance. He was inclined
very strongly to think that it was to be inferred from the
statements of parties as he had heard them, that the
public have had no recent continuous possession of the
road. That was still his impression, and accordingly
the party who first claimed it as a public road proceeded
upon a declarater. The respondent in this case, on the
other hand, came to assert his right to the actual and
immediate use of the road. That was certainly a dif-
ferent question, and ho doubted if there were at present
grounds fur supporting such a claim; and upon that
point it was very material to observe that the claim as
held by the respondent, was not for a specific object, con-
fined to himself, but for the whole public, so that, if an
interdict were to be refused, the effect must unneces-
sarily be to declare that the farmers in the extensive dis-
trict to which the respondent belonged, would have the
same right to use the road as himself. It would ope❑
the road to the whole public; and he doubted if that
would be reasonable when the question as to the exis-
tence of the road, of its continuous use in modern times,
was the very point to be settled. In the ease before
Lord Ivory, it was maintained that this was not a servi-
tude road, but one of the public roads of the country.
That issue was now-fairly raised, but he was not pre-
pared to say that the road must be generally used in
the meantime by the whole public till the right to it was
ascertained.—Scotsman.
From Palermo the date is the 4th of August, and
the French fleet from that port had sailed, it is said, for
Cagliara. The letters dwell on the exasperation mani-
fested by all classes against the Neapolitans, and the pro-
spects, in case hostilities should ensue, of a war al-
most of extermination. The abolition of the order
of the Jesuits lid just been decreed by Par-
liament. Their patrimony is to be confiscated to
the State, the foreigners amongst them are to be ex-
pelled, and they are no longer to wear the dress of their
order. Provision, however, has been made for their
support. The fathers are to receive four saris (about
Is. 4d.) per day, and the lay brothers two saris (Bd.) per
day, so that the treatment in this instance is tar more
just than that which the body recently experienced at
Naples,
The advises from New York by the Hibernia,
announcing a decline of more than a half per cent. in
the rate of exchange, contributed yesterday morning in
some measure to the heaviness in the English funds,
since the knowledge that considerable orders have
lately been sent out for Indian corn and provisions
renders it probable that the downward tendency
will continue. The tightness of the money-market
had in no way diminished, the rate being still from
12 to 18 per cent., and the long continuance of the
disparity in the rate as compared with that pre-
vailing in England was a subject of general surprise.
Owing to this pressure, the stock-market showed
some heaviness, but it had received support from a
number of orders, partly from England, but chiefly from
the continent. By many persons an expectation was en-
tertained of severe failures during the coming months of
September, October, and November, when the chief col-
lection of country debts commences by the im-
porting houses, but it is probable the orders now
gone out will cause an increase of confidence. At
Boston speculations in railroads, mills, &c., have long
been carried on to a great extent, and it is in that
city that the occurrence of a revulsion is most feared.
The course of exchange at New York on London
is 1091 per cent., and the par of exchange between
England and America being 109 23.40 per cent.,
it follows that the exchange is 0.08 per cent.
against in England. But, the quoted exchange at
New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the in-
' terest roust be deducted from the above difference.
LIGHTING THR NEW HORSES OF FARLIAIVENT.—.
Last night, experiments for the purpose of testing a
new system of gas burners, with which it is proposed to
light the interior of the New Houses of Parliament,
were made in Trafalgar-square, before a committee, and
Mr. Barry, the architect. A branch, containing eight
burners for consuming common gas, was introduced into
the reflector at the south-east corner of the square, and
which threw a most brilliant light, by which small print
could be read at forty paces. The result was considered
satisfactory.
FRENCH BUTTER.—Among the arrivals at present
taking place from the Continent are some parcels of
butter from France, which, not being of common occur-
rence, are of interest. The steamer Belfast, arrived
from Calais, has brought 32 packages, and the James
Watt, from Ilavre, 100 firkins of this article, the produce
of France.

Tim PRUSSIAN LEGATION.—Letters were received
on Wednesday froth Berlin, in which his Excellency Cheva-
lier Bunsen states that urgent business had prevented his de-
parture for London, and that he is likely to be detained
longer in the Prussian capital than was originally contem-
plated. Madame Bunsen and family, who came to town
from Wales to meet his Excellency, will await his return at
the seat they have taken, near Barnet.
CIIESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.--traffic for
the week ended Aug. 5, 1,8071. 4s. Id. ; ditto, ended
Aug. 12, 2,2351.55.; Post-office, for conveyance of mails,
and toll from Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Com-
pany, not included.
The first of the new decimal coins, in conformity
with the plan of the present Master of the Mint, has just been
completed. It is a two-shilling piece, bearing the profile of
the queen on the obverse.