The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1841.

THE FUNDS—(CLOSING PRICES.)
. : • BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock l69i India Stock —
3 per Cent Red.
3 per Cent Cons B9i. Ditto Old Annuities ...
3i per Cent Red 991, 'Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent 9Bi Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 16 pm
New 5 per Cent — ; Ditto 5001 l7 pm
Long Annuitiesto expire 1 Ditt Small l9 pm
Jan. 1860 ... 121, 'Bank Stock for 0pg....
Oct 1859 l2 13-16 India Stock for Acct ...
Jan. 1860.
FO REIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent ... 1091 Portuguese' 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent lO2l Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian 80nd5.......... 67 Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent —
Chaim) 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 6 per cent 2l/
Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred. . 10i
Danish, 3 per cent 79} ,French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625. Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 52
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. i Ditto, 5 per cent 102
SHARES

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Great Western Railway (65 paid) BO4
Ditto New Shares (50 paid ss*
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 46i
London and Blaekwall Railway (25 paid)...
Ditto New Shares ( paid)
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 160
Ditto Thirds (32 paid)
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ..
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 124.
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) •• ......
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid)
North Midland Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Thirds (10 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (38 paid)... 174

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

I
FROM TIIE EVENING PAPERS 'OF TILTS DAY.
GLOBE.—It is fortunate for the Tories, that on com-
ing into power•thty find the country in a state of order
and tranquillity which many former years of their own
misrule had rendered exceedingly rare, until the acces-
sion of a Liberal Government, by making proper conces-
sions to public opinion, has removed all excuse for ex-
travagant demon& by satisfying those which had justice
for their foundation, and reason fur their advo-
cate. It will not be denied that the late Minis-
try leaves our domestic policy in a tranquil, if not
in a prosperous, state ; and while we claim
for the Liberals the merit of the freedom from any-
thing like convulsion or agitation which the people
at ths moment display, we unreservedly charge upon
the obstructive policy of Toryism a great share of the
distress which afflicts a considerable portion of the com-
munity. While the Whig Government has kept the
people obedient to the laws, the Conservative Opposi-
tion has deprived the mass of the population of the bene-
fit that would most probably have arisen from the mea-
sures proposed by the late Cabinet ; and if the country
is tranquil under the disappointment it has sustained,
the cause is not to be found in the overthrow of its
friends, bat in the expectation of receiving relief, how-
ever reluctantly granted, from the more powerful hand
• of its enemies. -In plainer language, the starving mil-
lions of our population, who show no symptoms of vio-
lent excitement at the accession of the Tories, are calm
and unmoved only because they hope, from the policy
and fears of the Conservative body, such a revision of
the Corn-laws as never would have been conceded from
the same quarter on any nobler or wiser principle.
The leaders of the Tory party in Parliament, and
their principal organs among the press, have declared
that something must be done. The Times has threat-
ened to cast off Sir Robert Peel, if he does •not at least
moderate the burdens that press on food ;: and the new
Premier himself has declined the support. of all who
require the inviolability of the Corn-laws.as the price
he must pay for obtaining it. As far, then, as the lan-
guage of himself and his principal journals can bind
him, the new Premier is pledged to do something , and
it is to know what that " something" will turn out to
be, that the people are waiting—in an attitude of repose,
it is true, but of the most intense and anxious interest.
STANDARD.—The spirit of the following passage of
Sir Robert Peel's speech of Friday night is that which
ought at present to animate all Conservatives :—" I
have been opposed to the Hon. Gentleman opposite for
a period, with a short interval of nearly ten years.
I have attempted to conduct that opposition--
reconciling, at the same time, the frank ex-
position of my opinions, and- the open and direct
condemnation of their measures, with the absence of
every expression of an acrimonious nature—the absence of
every feeling betraying in the least degree any personal
hostility. Placed in that situation in the opposition
where some latitude is necessarily allowed, I have in this
way endeavoured to discharge the duties imposed upon me;
and it certainly is not upon this occasion, when, accord-
ing to the apparent feeling of the House, that opposition is
likely to be attended with success—it is not, I say, upon
this occasion, that I shall allow myself to be betrayed into a
course different from that which I have hithertopursued."
They who have had to fight the Conservative battle
in the ranks, carefully as it was their duty to guard
themselves from all feelings of a personal na-
ture, cannot claim the praise of having always ab-
stained from acrimonious expressions and violent hos-
tility—to them, it would be no praise ; for, as in actual
combat, the common soldier must meet blow with
blow, fierceness with fierceness—though a serene and
gentle temper always becomes a leader—so in the politi-
cal struggle, the tone of controversy on the one side must
always serve more or less as an example to the other.
But, if it has unfortunately not been in our power to
imitate the dignified equanimity and courteous demea-
nour of our great chief hitherto, there is nothing to pre-
vent our following his :example now that the battle has
been won. A certain vigour, 'not to call it ferocious-
ness of resistance, was necessary while the strife lasted ;
not as a mere retuliation ; mere retaliation is unmanly
and unchristian, but in order to prevent the triumph of
our principles being snatched from us. Now the same
description of resistance would not be innocent, because
the necessity for it exists no longer. The triumph of our
principles has been secured, and it is unworthy of good
and generous men to look for any other triumph. •

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Europe, from Buenos
Ayres to Newcastle, lat. 40 N., lon. 44 W., by the
Gipsy, arrived in the Loire. Cosmopolite, Plymouth
to Quebec, Aug. 22, let. 48, lon. 14, by the Forester,
arrived off Brighton. Water Nymph, Newcastle to
Valparaiso, March 10, lat. 9 N., lon. 24 ; Beulah, Li-
verpool to China, April 2, lat. 28 S., lon. 25, by the
John Witt, arrived at Mauritius. Bragilla, of Fal-
mouth, from Quebec, 21st inst., lat. 48, lon. 17 ; Naga-
den, of Falmouth, from Quebec, 23d, lat. 49, lon. 11, by
the Cornwall, arrived in the River. Agostine, of Fal-
mouth, from Quebec, 21st inst., lat. 49, lon. 12, by the
Alpha, arrived in the River. 'James Harris, of London,
for Quebec, 21st inst., lat. 49, lon. 12, by the Alpha, ar-
vcd at Bristol. Argyleshire, Calcutta to London, June
25, let. 54 S., lon. 15 E., by the Carnatic, arrived in
the Clyde. Barque 1,459, Calcutta to the Clyde, June
11, let. 35 S., lon. 24 E., by the Hope, arrived in the
Clyde. Euphrates, England to the Mauritius, 7th ult.
lat. 9 S., lon. 34 W. ; Potomac, Liverpool to Alexan-
dria, Bth ult., lat. 43, lon. 28 ; Reform, London to St.
Helena, 13th inst., let. 45, lon. 9 ; Susannah Collings,
Liverpool to the Cape of Good Hope, 16th inst., eight
leagues off Cape Finisterre, by the William, arrived at
Lisbon. Caroline, Madeira to St. John's, 12th inst.,
let. 47, lon. 46 ; Harvest Home, Falmouth to Miramichi,
22d inst., lat. 48, lon. 17, •by the George, arrived at
Weymouth. Mary Belfour, New York to Quebec, 4th
inst. ; Earl Aberdeen, New York to Quebec, 7th inst.,
lat. 47, lon. 60 ; Hamilton, New York to Quebec, 9th
inst., lat. 47, lon. 57 ; Bonaccord, New York to Que-
bec, 11th inst., let. 45, lon. 5 ; Adamant, New York to
Quebec, 12th inst., lat. 45, lon. 51, by the Lord Seaton,
arrived at Belfast. Agincourt, London to Calcutta, 13th
inst., lat. 45, lon. 13, by the Coronation, arrived at ditto.

A NEW ISLAND.—For a long series of years
an island has been gradually forming between Witten-
ness and Oyster-ness, in the Humber, and its present ex-
tent, if we are correctly informed, is not much under 301)
acres. Mr. Read, of Burton Stather, has taken it from
the Woods and Forests, or in other words, the Govern-
rnent,and on Thursday week entered into possession. Se-
veral steamers were plying between it and the adjacent
coast the whole day, and many of the neighbouring gen-
try visited " Bead's Island," the name by which the new
settlement is to be henceforth distinguished. The sur-
face is covered with a fine crop of grass, and about a
hundred head of cattle are already feeding where nothing
but fishes ever fed before. There is, as yet, but one
house, the occupier of which is the person 'appointed to
look after the rest of the inhabitants.—Hull Rockingham.
SILLY HOAX AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL.
—ln the papers of Friday last appeared a paragraph,
headed " Mysterious Affair," in which it was stated that
on the previous Wednesday night an Italian had been •
taken to the London Hospital, owing to having re-
ceived some dreadful injuries in an afFray which had
shortly before taken place between him and some fellow-
countrymen. The statement .has since turned out to
be false from beginning 'to end. It originated in a
very silly hoax played by one of that giddy class of young
men called " medical students." A book is kept at the hos-
pital, in which it is the duty of a person appointed for
that purpose to enter all cases of accidents, &c., brought
into the hospital. On Wednesday night this person
happened to be absent from the institution, and on the
following morning he found a memorandum lying on his
desk statir, that an Italian, named Giovanni Rosalio,
had been admitted to the hospital with his skull fractured,
both legs broken, and that he had received a stab with a
dirk in his hip, in an affray which had occurred inFetter-
lane. This "mysterious affair" was sent to the papers,
and thus the hoax was discovered.

THE FISHERIES AND THE CORN-LAWS.—
While we write, cgreat part of the inhabitants on the east
coast of Scotland are engaged, directly or indirectly, in the
herring fishery, and with every prospect of obtaining abundance
of fish. The curers have contracted with the fishermen at a
rate which, with the price of barrels and salt, brings the cost
value to about one pound per barrel. Where are they to ob-
tain a profit of this outlay ? The Baltic ports are already well
supplied with last year's fish, and the 'West India markets are
now virtually shut against them. The consumption in Scot-
land is trifling, and London and Liverpool take but a very
limited supply of reds. The only hope the fish-curer has, at
the present moment, is from the advance of the price of wheat
until it reach the maximum, when the opening of the ports
will encourage the importation of grain, in return for which,
herrings will be taken, as in 1839. Now, were the Corn-laws
repealed, there would be no necessity for speculating upon a
contingency of this kind, as a mutual exchange: of commodities
would take place, and a steadiness would be imparted to the
business, which would be alike profitable to both parties. Why,
then, are those engaged in fisheries not bestirring themselves
to agitate for repeal ?—Aberdeen Herald.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANICRUPTCY.—Aug. 31.
(Before Mr. Commissioner PANE.)
IN THE HATTER OF JOHN HENRY BARLOW.
The bankrupt was a stockbroker carrying on business
in 'Change-alley, and this was the clay appointed for his
final examination. He was examined as to several items
in his balance-sheet, from which it appeared that his
profits for the last four years had averaged 2,0001.
a-year, and he attributed his bankruptcy to losses sus-
tained in the United States Bank and railway shares,
but more especially in the latter. He estimated his loss
upon the former to be fully 5,000/., and upon shares in
the "New Brunswick Land Company," at nearly 2,000/.
more.

The Learned COMMISSIONER asked whether the shares
in the New Brunswick Land Company were not worth
something, for he perceived that no value was assigned
to them in the schedule ?

The bankrupt said that, unfortunately, they had be-
come valueless, as the tide of emigration, which at one
time had promised, to set to New Brunswick ant the
other North Mierican provinces, had subsequently been
directed to Atlitralasia and New Zealand.
The Learned CO3IMISSIONER asked whether the bank-
rupt's accounts were satisfactory to the assignees ?
The official assignee (Mr. Pennell) said they were per-
fectly so ; the debts were about .5,0001., and the a.-,sets
would probably realize 1,2001.
The bankrupt having been sworn to the truth of his
schedule: was declared to have passed his final ex-
amination.

IN THE MATTER OF CHARLES DALY.
The bankrupt was a publisher and bookseller, carrying
on very extensive business in • Red Lion-square, and
having left home a fiat was issued against him in order
to save his valuable stock for the creditors. At the last
hearing his housekeeper was examined at great length
as to her knowledge of the place of his retreat, but she
positively swore that all she knew was, that upon leav-
in7 his house he said he would proceed to Manchester,
and return in a few days. Some further proofs of debt
were to-day admitted without any opposition.
Mr. Lawrence, who attended as solicitor for several
creditors, said he expected there would be very nearly
20s. in the pound ; but the bankrupt's books were so
loosely kept that no assistance could be obtained from
them in the settlement of his affairs. The stock, which
was valuable, had not yet been sold, in consequence of
the great depression in the book trade, and hence an im-
mediate dividend could not be declared.
The bankrupt not having surrendered to his fiat, the
usual proclamation of outlawry was issued against him.
It is supposed that he has gone to New York or New
Zealand, and amongst the latest books published by him
beforehis departure was tile splendid edition of Burns'
Worki, edited by Mr. Cochran.
IN'

.NSOL VENT DEBTORS' COURT Aug. 31.
This day was appointed for the hearing of bail cases,
and the list on the occasion presented a most extraordi-
nary appearance, there being no less than 127 applica-
tions from debtors in actual custody, to be discharged on
sureties, of which 81 were confined in the metropolitan
prisons. Orders were sent on Monday to the keepers of
the London gaols (the attendance of the country insol-
vents not being required), not to bring up more than 40
persons to-day, as it was considered that 86 cases (with
the country applications) would be sufficient business for
the day.
Information was received this morning that the
Learned Chief Commissioner, who had intended to sit,
was unable to take his seat from serious indisposition,
and the business of the Court was delayed, in order to
obtain the sanction of the authorities of the Home-office,
enabling Mr: Nichols, the senior Barrister, to preside.
Mr. Nichols could not commence business until nearly
one o'clock; when the Learned Gentleman proceeded
with the country bail, which had been investigated by
the Chief Commissioner on the previous day.

IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM BUTT.
This was a novel case. The insolvent had been heard
at Ilchester, and remanded for two months for a vexa-
tious defence at the suit at the detaining creditor. He
was discharged
_as to his other debts, conditionally on
satisfying the Court that an advertisement had appeared
in a newspaper; 'according to the prescribed time. The
advertisement turned out to be inserted too late, and
consequently the case stood adjourned to the next Cir-
cuit, and the present application was to obtain bail until
the Circuit in October.

The detainingcreditor opposed on an affidavit.
On the part of the insolvent it was contended, that
is the period of remand had expired, the party could
not oppose.

Mi.-Commissioner IshcrioLs said there was a novelty in
this case. It was true the time had expired, but the
Act only ordered notice to the detaining creditors for
all creditors, and he should therefore admit the oppo-
sition.

An affidavit was read as to the bail, and the Court re-
jected them.

It was complained on the part of the insolvent that it
was a very hard case on him.
The Learned COMMISSIONER, after he had concluded
the conntry bail, proceeded with the town cases. Very
few were opposed, and nearly all were allowed for the
sittings in November.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
James Desbay, aged twenty-two, was•indicted for un-
lawfully assaulting and beating George Hoare, a Metro-
politan Police Constable, in the execution of his duty.
The prisoner, without any provocation, came behind
the prosecutor and struck him a blow on the head, which
knocked him down. Sevcsal other constables came up,
each of whom he assaulted.
The Jury at once found the prisoner Guilty and he
was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for three months.

Henry Garris, cabman, aged 28, was indicted for un-
lawfully attempting to steal monies and goods of Charles
Birras, from his person.
The prisoner was driving the prosecutor, who was
very drunk, in his cab, and he stepped with him at a
public-house to have some ale. When the ale was
brought, the prisoner put his hand into the prosecutor's
pocket ; and, having. been seen in the act by a police-
man, he was taken into custody. The policeman got
into the cab, and ordered the prisoner to drive to the
station-house, which he did.

Mr. Doane addressed the Jury for the prisoner, and
stated that the prisoner only put his hands into the
pocket of the prosecutor for the purpose of paying for
the liquor, as the prosecutor was so drunk he did not
know what ho was about. -
The Learned RECORDER, in summing up the evidence,
said, although it was a case of strong suspicion, that this
would be the safest view to take of the case under the
circumstances, and they accordingly acquitted the prisoner.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
Charlotte England, a middle-aged woman, who, from
her language and manner; had evidently seen better days,
was yesterday placed at the bar, charged with having
assaulted Colonel Charles Wyndham, and created a dis-
turbance at the house of his brother, No. 4, Grosvenor-
place.
•

- Colonel Wyndham stated, that between 20 and 30
years ago he had formed a casual acquaintance with the
defendant, which in a short time terminated ; but she
had at various times since annoyed him. Thecomplaint
he had now to make against her was for annoyance and
insult of the grossest description on that morning. ,He
was, with his wife and family, at present on a visit with
his brother, at No. 4, Grosvenor-place, and on that morn-
ing a servant informed him that a woman named Eng-
land wanted to speak to him. He replied that he knew
no such person, and did not wish to see her. In the
meantime the defendant made her way into the house,
and created the greatest disturbance amongst the ser-
vants, insisting that she would not go until she had
seen him. She was at length put out ; but, as she con-
tinued her violence and repeatedly rang the bell, he sent for
a policeman, and, on his arrival, being determined to bring
the matter to an issue, he himself went into the street.
The moment he made his appearance, the defendant
came up and assailed him with the coarsest and most
violent abuse, applying the epithets villain, scoundrel,
ruffian, &c., and swearing she would murder him. He
at length gave her in custody to a policeman, and accom-
panied them to the station-house, and on their way there
she seized him by the pocket of his coat, and, had it not
been for the exertions of the policeman, would have torn
it from his back.

William Field, police constable 101 B, proved finding
defendant ringing the bell at No. 4, Grosvenor-place.
She swore she would not go until she saw Colonel
Wyndham, and she would murder him the moment he
came out, even though she should be hanged for it. In
the station-house her conduct was equally violent, and
she swore she would break every window in Colonel
Wyndham's house directly she was liberated.
The woman, in her defence, said that she had never
received any relief, although she had written to him in
the most humble and submissive manner. She had been
married to a respetable stonemason, who worked fir Go-
vernment, but he died six years since, and she had been
reduced to the greatest distress. She wrote to complain-
ant for relief when on a sick bed and in a dying state,
but he neglected her application. She was at length re-
duced to the rags in which she then stood, and being
nearly without shoes, was unable to visit the different
shops in search of needle-work, as she had been in the
habit of doing. So far from having annoyed the com-
plainant, she had nut even seen him for the last twenty
years, and when she saw Captain Wyndham that morn-
ing he appeared so much altered for the worse that she
hardly knew him.

Coinplainant begged it to be distinctly understood that
he was Colonel Charles Wyndham.
Mr. GREGORIE said, Colonel Wyndham must be pro-
tected, and defendant must therefore find bail to keep the
peace for three months.

Defendant said she had no bail to offer, and must be;
therefore, she supposed, sent to prison.
She was removed in custody.

•
CAUTION TO ANGLERS.—From a Correspon-
dent.)—ln the present and the following month barbel
will be in full season, and us many little piscatorial
parties are invited, by the delightfulness of the weather,
to make excursions to Shepperton-deeps and other lo-
calities in the Thames, where barbel abound, it may be
as well that novices in this particular branch of sport
should be opportunely cautioned against participating
in the roe of the above-named fish, if brought upon
table, which is not only unwholesome, but is apt
to prove exceedingly dangerous, if eaten. The most
alarming symptoms of diarrheea have too frequently, and
in some instances, fatally, accrued to persons who have,
unconscious of its pernicious effects, indulged in the, roe
of the barbel. Even experienced fishermen, who may
not be immediately acquainted with the noxioils_proßer7,,
ties of this fish, may peril-1114, at the same time, receive a
friendly hint out of the book of an old " brother of the
angle," without feeling, themselves offended.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WINDSOR CASTLE, Atm. 21.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Cap'ain George Rose Sartorius, Royal Nary.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Richmond Campbell Shakespear, Esq.,
Lieutenant of the Bengal Artillery.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Richard La Saussaye, Esq.

FOREIGN OFFICE, Auo. 28.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Beverly Nevreommer,
Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Paraiba.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Henry Ken-
dall as Consul, in London, for the Peruvian Republic.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Ana usx 27.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain and Brevet Major
Z. C. Bayly to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Dunn, retired on
full-pay; Second Captain J. A. Wilson to be Captain; Second
Captain C. R. Dickens to be Captain, vice Bayly, promoted ;
First Lieut. H. C. Stace to be Second Captain vice Dickens ;
Second Lieut. R. F. Mountain to be First Lieutenant, vice
Stace, Aug. 17.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
F. W. Knight, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Auf;.2B.

WHITEHALL, Auo. 28.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edmund Carlyon. of
Truro, in the county of Cornwall, Gent., to be a Master Ex-
traordinary in the High Court of Chance 7.
The Lord Chancellor has also appointed Edward Trewbody
Ca tlyon, of Truro, in the county of Cornwall, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

The following places have been duly registered for solemniz-
ing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act 6th and 7th Wil-
liam IV., cap. 85:—
The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Hunslet, Yorkshire.
The Wesleyan Chapel, Cappen-house, Cornwall.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
WILLIAM WALKER and JOHN WALKER, manufac-
turers of apparatus for heating-buildings, St. John's-square,
Clerkenwell.