The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-29 00:00:00

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

The following was posted at Lloyd's:—
TONNAGE DUES AND EXPORT DUTIES AT

MANILA.

Manila, July 3, 1848.

Sir,—Enclosed we have to hand you a copy of a cir-
cular issued by the Superintendent of the Philippine
Islands, announcing the suppression, for three years
from the Ist of January, 1849, of the tonnage dues and
export duties on stores hitherto paid by the whaling
vessels visiting this port.
(Signed) Ker and Co., Agents for Lloyd's.
Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.
(TRANSLATION.)
" General Administration of the Army and Treasury,
and Sub delegate Superintendence of the Philippine
Islands.
" Under this date I have decreed as follows :—ln com-
pliance with what has been manifested by the Adminis-
tration of Customs in its preceding communications, the
tonnage dues and export duties on, stores paid by whal-
ing vessels that put into this port are abolished by way
of trial, and for the space of three years, commencing
from the lit of January, 1849. Charging the said ad-
ministration that, the period indicated having expired it
to declare whether the greater confluence of vessels, in-
t:need thereto by the exemption, produces benefit to the
country, in consequence of greater exports of provisions
for stores, and more labour in its dockyard in order to
enlarge it, to declare it indeterminate, or to again sup-
press it.
" Transmit this decree to the Messrs. the Foreign
Consuls resident in this plaee, and to the Spanish Con-
sul at Singapore, in order that they may give publicity
to this measure, and let note be taken of the effects eon-
s/ quent thereon, in the accountant-general's office, the
offices of the administration and receiver of customs, the
administration taking care that it be announced in the
periodicals of this capital, giving an account thereof to
the ' Board for Regulating the Prices of Bread and other
Provisions' at its first meeting.
" And I transmit it to you for your guidance and for
the purposes premised in the preinserted decree.
" God prot( ct your Excellencies for many years.
(Signed) " MIGUEL BELZA.
" Manila, June 27, 1848."

'''qCONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
There only one inquiry this day, " Bacitoffm.r v.
~4o recover 451. for B mone lent. A achoffner,"
admission of the t.;l`,bt being put in, a verdict 14 as givt.~n
n
for the amount.

THE CHARTIST TRIALS.

CRIMINAL COUitT.-(TIIIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
CONTINUATION OF THE TRIAL OF CUFFEY,

LACY, AND FAY.
Mr Baron Platt and Mr. Justice Williams took their
seats on the bench at ten o'clock.
The examination of Daniel Burn was resJmed. He
said between ten and eleven o'clock one night at the end
of April, or the beginning of May, Powell showed him
two pistols in the street. He asked him if he (a itness)
was prepared: he was continually asking him the ques-
tion. He said (speaking of the pistols), " These are the
things to do for them (the police). I wish to see some
good fires in London." Saw Powell at the Milton-stre et
Theatre on the 28th of July.:and thinking he was a dan-
gerous man he cautioned Mullins and others.
Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY.GENERAL—Was
opposed to violence. Was at the Kennington-common
meeting. There saw two persons give up their arms to
parties in the van, because it was understood that no one
was to go armed. Was at the Clerkenwell meeting.
Did not go in the procession which started from that
meeting, but saw the procession walk round Finsbury-
square. Did not walk with it. Had belonged to the
Dean-street district, but had no class leader over
him. Was now an unenrolled. Did not go to
Kennington common again, and would not go
again to any Chartist meeting there, because
on the 10th he was stopped at Blackfriars-
bridge, on his way home, and then found that he and
the other Chartists had been caught in a trap.
Wm. Gardener, a carpenter, living at Hoxton, was next
called—He said he was not a Chartist. Knew Powell.
Had known him whilst at Mr. Smith's, six or seven
years ago. Should certainly not believe him on his
oath.
Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Had
heard him deny the existence of a future state, saying
the whole story was a tissue of falsehoods. He appeared
well read in the Scriptures. Knew Powell by the sobri-
quet of " Lying Tom." Had heard him called " Lying
Tom" to his face by a lad called " Jack."
Henry Watson, bricklayer, deposed that he had
known Powell from his boyhood, and was at school with
him. From what he knew of him he would not believe
him on his oath.
Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Had
heard him say that he wished he could drag his
old father out of his grave and strew his bones
about the street, for not leaving him some money.
Had heard him say that Lord John Russell and the
Duke of Wellington were dead. Once he told., a woman
that a Mr. Daniels had dropped down dead. He after-
wards said to witness, " Oh, won't his old woman be in
a way when she is told of it."—(Laughter.) Once
asked him if he was going to the meeting at Kenning-
ton-common, telling him at the same time that he was.
Witness said he was not. Powell replied, " Then you
are not a man—l am going armed. Get an old knife
and grind it, and stick into the belly of the first police-
man that interferes with you—he will not annoy you
again."
Charles Goodfellow, a tailor, working in Love-court,
Old Jewry, deposed that he was a Chartist, but had not
been connected with any Chartist associations for more
than five years. Recollected seeing Powell during the
Chartist agitation in 1839. Saw him on the 15th of
August at the Coach and Horses, Holborn. He and
another man came in whilst 1 was sitting there. He
nodded to me, and then came across and inquired,
" Ilave you any work now?" Witness said, " No,
he had not." He said he wanted some clothes
made, as he and another man were going to
Australia. He gave him 2s. 6d., and engaged him to
come and measure him, and to receive the money for
the cloth at the Orange Tree, the next evening between
five and six o'clock, the night the arrests took place.
%Vent there at half-past five. Saw the police running
across Red Lion-square.
Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Did
not go in, because the police got in before him, and
closed the door. Powell had not appointed to meet him
outside, but inside. Went to a public meeting in Dean.
street, and from what he ascertained there, he became
convinced that Powell had laid this trap for him. When
he went home he wrote a letter, which he had since
destroyed, stating why he went to the Orange Tree,
in case he should be arrested, and in order to show that
he was convinced. Saw Coffey outside the meeting in
Dean-street on the 16th. Did not see him lock the
door Did not speak to him. At a meeting at Cart-
wright's, three weeks before the arrests, he got up, and
asked if their objects were peaceable and constitutional,
and he was immediately cried down by Powell and some
others, who acted with him. Powell said he was a
" moral-force coward."
William John Garrett, a shoemaker, said that he was
a Chartist. Proved that a man named Barrett had
showed him two pistols, and that ho had been engaged
in making ball-cartridges all day.
In cross-axamination the witness admitted having been
at Kennington-common on the 10th of April, and going
in procession from Holborn. The name of his class
leader was Taprell. He had before that read bills, stat-
ing that walking in procession through the streets was
unlawful. The police prevented him and some friends
passing over Westminster-bridge. A person named
Savage was also a class leader.
Davis, the third approver, was here re-called.
(The trial was proceeding when our report left.)

Lord and Lady John Russell and family left
M`Dunald's Star Hotel, George-square, Glasgow, yes-
terday forenoon, for Greenock, airoute to visit his Grace
the Duke of Argyle, at Inverary Castle. Afterwards,
we believe, his Lordship's intention is to visit Loch
Lomond and LochjKatrine. Our correspondent sends us
the following, dated Greenock, September 26:—" Lord
John Russel-I, with his lady and family, arrived here by
train at eleven o'clock this forenoon, from Glasgow, and
immediately proceeded to the Custom-house quay,
where the Banshee was lying, and went on board. There
was a large crowd at the station waiting his arrival, and
a slight cheer was given by a portion of them, whilst
others, as he was walking down East Quay-lane, sa-
luted bim with groans. The noble party were very
plainly attired; his Lordship appeared in good spirits,
and walked about the quarter-deck of the steamer until
she started, at a quarter to twelve. On leaving, a faint
cheer was set up by the crowd who had assembled. The
Banshee, we understand, proceeded to Inverary."—/Vort4
British Mail of Wednesday.
The dinner to Lieutenant-General Sir Charles
Napier at Cheltenham is fixed for Thursday the sth of
October. It will take place at the Queen's Hotel ; Lord
Ellenborough officiating as chairman. We believe that
from 80 to 100 gentlemen are expected to be present.
Several of the Gallant General's companions in arms are
now in Cheltenham. Among them may be mentioned
Colonel Willie, his Adjutant-General; Major M`Murdo,
his son-in-law, and Quartermaster-General, who was
with him through all his Indian battles; Colonel Lloyd,
who commanded his artillery; Major Leslie, commander
of the Horse Artillery; Major Poole, of the gallant 22d
Regiment, the regiment led by Napier himself into
action; Captain Tait, commanding the Regular Horse;
Colonel Harrison, who commanded the Light Company
of the 50th (Sir Charles Napier's own regiment at the
battle of Corunna); Captain Robertson, who served with
him in the Peninsula and in America; and Colonel
Clarke Kennedy, who so gallantly captared the French
standard at Waterloo. This morning, Sir Charles Na-
pier and a large party of gentlemen breakfasted with
the Earl of Ellenborough at Southall). We hear that
Sir Charles has taken No. 1, Wolseley-terrace, for his
residence.—Cheltenham Chronicle.
IN/VEST ON DR. NEsBITT, OF YEOVIL.—A
Coroner's inquest has been held at Yeovil on the body
Dr. Nesbitt, whose sudden death, and the fact that a
Prussic acid bottle was found near his body, then caused
the belief that he had destroyed himself. Since then a
uost mortem examination has been made, and the prussic
acid was found in his stomach. It was proved, however,
that a bottle of ammonia was found beside the prussic acid
bottle, ammonia being the most efficacious antidote to
prussic acid. Some other bottles were also found dis-
placed in the surgery. A surgeon stated that prussic
acid was sometimes taken in very small quantities as a
narcotic. It also appeared from other evidence, that on
the day previous to the morning when his body was
found in his bed-room, he had been to a party. A very
probable inference from these facts was, that, being some-
what excited, he had taken the poison as a sedative,
when, finding he had taken too much, he endeavoured
to stay the consequence by using the antidote, but when
too late. The jury retired, and after a short absence
handed in the following verdict :—" That deceased came
by his death in consequence of taking prussic acid, but
p r. otherwiseNesbtiht
Nesbitt
wasre i sa no
doctorevi-
dwel ecteh ebre
ftoarkee
thetaken medicinallyjury
to or
prove.
of medicine of the University of Glasgow.
THE INCREASED POLICE RATE.--Yesterday after-
noon, at 3 o'clock, a deputation from the Marylebone
Vestry, consisting of Messrs. Garnett, H. C. Wilson,
Hakes, Potter, Nieholay, Lewis, and Michie, accompanied
by Mr. Flood, the vestry clerk, waited upon the Police
Commissioners iu Whitehall-place upon the subject
adtitteionndaeldpboylic Aeir. f. o
Ray,
yof the recent increased demand on the metropolitan
parishes in the county of Middlesex for the support of
an ad
tThehereceivero
f commissioners,
who
werepolice
rate, received the deputation in the most courteous
manner. Mr. Garnett explained to the commissioners
the awkward position in which the parishes of the
metropolis were placed with respect to this increased
demand. The case of the parish of Marylebone was
precisely that of all the other parishes. After the re-
assessment of the county of Middlesex by the magis-
trates at an increase of 1,400,000/. over and above the
old assessment, it would be remembered that the com-
misssioners had themselves declared that there was no
necessity for such an increase for the support of the
police, and that they would therefore be content with a
rate of 6d. in the pound upon the old assessment. In
order to legalize this proceeding, Sir George Grey had
introduced a Bill into Parliament, and acting upon the
faith of that Bill, and the letter from the Police
Commissioners, dated the 3d of January last,
Marylebone and the authorities of the other
parishes had made a rate adequate only to meet
the demands for police rate levied upon the
old assessment, they therefore, until another rate could
be made, had no funds at their disposal to enable them
to meet this increased demand. Mr. Wilson observed,
that the demand made upon the parish of Marylebone
alone was 4,1141. more than the vestry had provided
for; and it was impossible to pay that extra sum without
snaking a supplementary rate, the inconvenience in col-
lecting which must be manifest to the commissioners,
more especially when he informed them that, in conse-
quence of the vast amount of pauperism, the rates of the
parish had had to be increased one-fourth, and that such

a rate, owing to the prevailiag distress, was with much
difficulty collected. Other members of the deputation
having stated their views on tin? subject, the commis-
sioners admitted the unfortunate position in which the
parishes were placed, at the same time they contends d
that circumstances had become so altered as to render an
increase of the police force necessary. They corrected
an error which the Marylehone Vestry and the other
parishes had fallen into, that in additi•on to every 6d. in
the pound assessed on the parishes within the polic,
district, they had 2d. in the pound from the Consoli •
dated Fund. Such was not the fact. The sum allowtd
from the Consolidated Fund being 60,000/. and no more.
It was, therefore, an error to suppose the additional in
crease would be 48,0001. Although time would be given
they could hold out no hope of a remission of the demand.
The deputation then retired.
SUICIDE IN THE PUBLIC STREET.—Last night
Mr. William Payne, the City coroner, held an inquest
at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of William
Lockie, aged 72, a carpenter, of 12, Plough-court, Fetter-
lane, who committed suicide by shooting himself in the
public street. Rebecca Seekings, of 24, Fetter-lane,
said that on Friday night last, about eight o'clock, her
attention was directed to the corner of New Victoria-

street, Holborn, by hearing a noise like the discharge of
fireworks, and upon looking in the direction, she saw
the deceased lying on the ground, with a pistol at his
side, and bleeding from his mouth. He was picked up,
and conveyed to the above hospital. Mr. H. Skipper,
of 20, Gray's-inn-lane, said that he had known the de,
ceased about twenty years. He was very sober in his
habits, and witness considered he was a man of strong
mind. On Thursday last ho packed up his clothes in a
parcel, which he took to the Parcels Delivery Company,
directed to his brother in Scotland. On that day he
told witness that he felt so ill, that be did not think
any of his family would see him again alive. He had of
late been very low spirited and unwell. Mr. Thomas
Jackson, one of the house surgeons, proved the deceased
expired on Wednesday last, from the effects of the in-
jury received. He found a ball at the base of the skull.
—Verdict, " Temporary insanity."
THE PLANET SATURN.—The planet Saturn may
now be seen every evening about eight o'clock, nearly
south-east, but as its distance from the sun is
906,000.000 of miles, it requires a telescope of not less
than 250 power to observe it with any degree of accu-
racy. Its immense rings are now invisible, as they are
supposed to be not more than 100 miles in thickness,
the edge being now presented to our earth, but a broad
shadow of the ring is distinctly seen across the planet;
there are likewise several belts faintly seen towards the
north and south pole. Several of its satellites may like-
wise be seen with a telescope of 250 power, particularly
its largest moon, which is now very distinct.
TItANSsHIPMENT OF MERCHANDIZE.—A communi-
cation, dated from the Spanish Consulate, London, 27th
of September, 1848, has been made to the Secretary at
Lloyd's, to the effect that the Spanish Government, in
conformity with the opinion of the Sanitary Council,
and of the Director-General of Customs and Tariffs,
has been pleased to command that every vessel found in
the same state as the brig Herby shall be permitted to
transship the whole or part of her cargo, on condition
that no mercantile transaction shall intervene in the
process, and that the vessel shall be in an unfit state,
through damages, to convey her cargo to the proper
laszareta.

According to a letter of the 16th from Breslau, for
some time past large quantities of muskets have been
conveyed by the railway from Liege, in Belgium, des-
tined for different parts of Hungary. The number
which had already passed through Breslau is estimated
at 30,000. Considerable quantities of scythes are also
said to have been transported from the north of Silesia
to Cracow, and other towns of Austrian Galicia.
IRIDIUM ORE.—An importation having recently
taken place, by a vessel from France, of iridium ore, a
question has arisen as to its liability to duty, it having
been retained by the officers of the revenue as liable to
the rated duty as an extract, of ss. per lb.
THE HERO or A HUNDRED STATUES.—Another
statue of the Duke of Wellington is to be put up in the
Tower, and in fact, London is becoming a sort of livery
stable, where the Hero of Waterloo and his horse are
being constantly put up. The Duke's head will soon be
as familiar an object in the metropolis as the top of the
monument or the dome of St. Paul's. The plume of his
helmet has already begun to take its place among the
established London weathercocks; and, as to his nose,
there is scarcely a bridge on this side of Westminster
that is half so conspicuous. There is hardly a street
where the Duke of Wellington may not be seen looking
in at the top windows, or inhaling the smoke from the
chimneys, or preparing to take a gentle trot over the
tiles. As to poor Nelson, the Duke of York, and the
two or three others scattered about town, they are com-
pletely lost in the crowd of Dukes of Wellington, who
are beginning almost to jostle each other at every turn.
If we want a new site for a statue, we shall soon begin
to find that " the Duke of Wellington's horse stops the
way." For it must be remembered that the steed gene-
rally shares with his master in this great game of tho-
roughfare cribbage, and that if the former needs one
yard for his head, the other requires at least two for his
heels.—Punch. .

SOUTII-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Gross traffic receipts
for the week ending the 23d instant:—Passengers, first
class, 14,341; second class, 38,240; third class, 48,733;
total, 101,314; amount, 8,4891. 6s. 7d.; carrying account,
2,3271. Os. 81; total, 10,8161. 7s. 3d.
TAKE OF THE BIG SALMON.—One salmon, and
seldom more than one, of extra large size, is usually
taken every season by flyfishing in the river Ness. If
the season is near a close before the looked-for great
fish is taken, the anglers become not a little excited as
to the one who is to have the luck to hook the large
salmon. What makes the capture singular
is, that this
annual monarch of his tribe never varies in weight
more than a couple of pounds-251b. being the lightest
and 271 b. the heaviest taken for a long time. Last
Tuesday Mr. Bowyer Smyth landed the large salmon
of this season from the Holm Pool, after twenty
minutes strong play ; the dimensions were three feet
two and-a-half inches in length, girth 221 inches, weight
261 b., a beautifully formed female fish. Six others were
bagged by Mr. Smyth the same day, and in one of the
upper pools Mr. W. Baillie, of Douchfour, caught a
fine salmon weighing 181 b. Since the commencement
ef the season the river has almost always been in
the best condition for the angler, and the sport has
almost uniformly been excellent.—Glasgow Herald.
HORRIBLE BRUTALITY.--The Journal de Maine
et Loire publishes the following act of savage barbarity,
which would disgrace the most uncivilized nation:—
" A horrible act has just been committed at Chou* on
the banks of the Loire, which demonstrates, at the same
time, the uncivilized state of society in certain districts
of France, and what ferocity has been engendered by the
incessant agitation of the Communists of Paris. Anlll-
dressed man, speaking French imperfectly, was passing
through Chouze last week. The inhabitants, who took
him for an insurgent of June, surrounded and menaced
him. Ile showed his passport,' in which he was stated
to be a Pole. He endeavoured to explain, but nobody
would listen to him. Ten or twelve men laid hold of
him, and hung him by the heels to a gibbet, letting his
head fall with violence on the ground during half an
hour, vociferating loudly at the same time. The women,
nor to be outdone, assembled, and after spitting on his
face they tore out by the roots the hair of his head and
of his beard, and having mixed it with some pomatum
which the unfortunate man had in his pocket, they
crammed it down his throat. The authorities at length
interfered, but too late to save his life, for the unfortu-
nate Pole, when he was conveyed to the hospital of
Chonit, immediately expired."
DEPARTURE OP THE FOREIGN MAILS TOR OC-
TOBER.—The following are the dates on which the fo-
reign mails will be made up at the General Post Office,
St. Martin's-le-Grand, and
the dates when the return
packets will be due at Southampton, Liverpool, and Fal-
mouth during the ensuing month:—West&c.—
The mails for the 'British and foreign colonies in the
West Indies (except Honduras, Nassau, Bermuda, and
Havannah) Venezuela, and Jacmel will be made up on
the mornings of the 2d and 17th of October; Bermuda,
Nassau, New Orleans, Mexico, Honduras, and Havannah,
on the morning of the 2d only; Madeira, San Juan de
Nicaragua, New Granada, Chili, and Peru on the
morning of the 17th only, via Southampton; the Great
Western steamer will convey the mails of Monday morn-
ing, the 2,1. Next packets due on the 7th and 22d.
Madeira, &c.—Her Majesty's brig Linnet will convey
the mails for Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres on the
the evening of the 4th from Falmouth. Her Majesty's
wig Seagull over due. British North America and the
United States, &c.—The mails for British North
America and the United States will be made up on
the evening of the 6th, to be conveyed by the
Niagara steamer vii Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston;
en the morning of the 13th for New York by the
Hibernia steamer; on the evening of the 20th
to Boston, by the Europa steamer ; on the evening of
the 27th, by the Acadia steamer, from Liverpool. Next
mails due on the 4th, 12th, 18th, and 26th, at Liverpool.
Lisbon, Ste.—The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon,
Madeira, via Lisbon, Ceding and Gibraltar, will be made
up on the mornings of the 7th, 17th, and 27th, to be
forwarded by steam-packet from Southampton ; next
packets due on the 6th, 15th, and 26th at Southampton.
India, &c.—The mails for the Mediterranean, Malta,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China
will be made up on the evenings of the 7th and 24th, to
be forwarded by the Overland closed mail via Marseilles
Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt,
India, &c., on the morning of the 20th, by steam-packet
from Southampton. . France, &c., daily (except Sundays)
by steam packets via Dover, Calais, and Boulogne due
Belgium, &c., daily (except Sundays), due daily,
Thursdays,
and Saturday
mornings, s
by the steam packets Dover and Ostend. Hamburgh,
&c.—Tuesday and Friday evenings, due Tuesdays and
Saturdays. o
, to and from
the Thames, by the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's packets. United States, &c.—Letters and news-
rni ngs
due londa y &c.—Wednesday
dWs, dhnuerss
news-
papers will be in time this evening for British North
Holland,
America and the United States, by the Britannia
steamer via Liverpool, Halifax, and New York.
SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.—PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 21.
—The board of directors of this railway had a meeting
yesterday, and in the course of the day a deputation,
consisting of T. H. Bulteel, Esq., William Burnell, Esq.,
and Mr. John Alger, three of the directors, waited
upon the board of the South Devon directors, with the
view of ascertaining if arrangements could be made for
bringing a branch of the line to Sutton-pool at an early
period. The board said it was important that they
should know whether the Sutton-pool Campany meant
to deepen the pool at a part adjacent to the quay, so
that ships may load and unload directly in connexion
wish the railway. The deputation intimated that they
believed the Sutton Harbour Company would be pre-
pared to adopt the measures necessary to bring about
such an arrangement- The deputation then withdrew.
We understand that the arrangements made for the
goods traffic are acceptable to the trade of Plymouth
generally, and that the terms, while fairly remunerative
to the company, will be advantageous to those who use
the line.