The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-15 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The 51st Light Infantry has been relieved at Corfu by
the 73d Regiment from Malta, and embarked for Ireland
on the 25th of April, on board the Jupiter troop ship.
The 11th Regiment returns to its former quarters at
Corfu, on being relieved at Zante by the second battalion
of the Rifle Brigade.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-THIS DAY.

(FROM I LOYD'S)
DEAL, MAY 14. ---Wind W. S. W., moderate. —Arrived
the Indian, Rayson, from Batavia ; Cuba, Gutchow, from
Havannah ; Lord Hungerford, from Bengal ; and Marga-
ret, Tuck, from Newcastle for Rouen. Arrived from the
River and remain the Ada, Simpson, for Jamaica ; Richard
Brown, Dunlop, for St. Vincent's ; Maria, Owston, for
Quebec ; Caroline, Barnard, for St. Michael's ; and Se-
dulous, Read, for Miramichi.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 14.—Wind W. S.W. to S.E.—
Arrived off port the Wellington, Liddell, from Madras—
sailed the 18th January, Cape the 13th March, and St.
Helena the 22d.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 13.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the
Amelie, Schultz, from Dantzic.
FALMOUTH, MAY 13.—Wind variable, light breezes.—
Arrived the Flamer steam-packet, from the Mediterranean
—left Malta the 30th ult., Gibraltar the 7th instant, and
Cadiz the Bth.

SHOREHAM, MAY 14.—Arrived the Neptunus, Bahl-
rusk, from Memel.
BRISTOL, MAY 14.—Arrived the Kengaloch, Thorn-
ton, from Newfoundland.
GREENOCK, MAY 12.—Arrived the Louis, Thomson,
from Trinidad.

DUBLIN, MAr 13.—Arrived the Patriot, Stone, from
Cadiz. _ _ _

SLIGO, MAY 12.—Arrived the Bilsay Castle, Richard-
son, from Memel.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 13. Sailed the • Jumna, Pinder, for
Canton ; and cordelia, Creighton, for Calcutta and Canton.

The Rodney, Salisbury, from Mobile to Liverpool, was
abandoned at sea subsequently to the 6th ult., being in a
leaky condition.

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, MAY 12.—General Evain returned from
Liege the evening before yesterday.
The Moniteur of to-day contains in its official part a
notice, that on the 27th of May tenders will be received
for the construction of that part of the iron rail-road
which is to extend from Malines to Brussels.

BRUSSELS, MAY 13.—The Prussian Late Gazette
of May 7, announces the departure of Major-General
Goblet, from Berlin, for Dresden.
Messrs. Duvigon and Smits are going to Paris : they
would have set out before, but the President of the Cham-
ber of Commerce at Lille, with whom they go to Corfu
before they go to Paris, was absent.
The representatives of the cotton manufacturers at Ghent
are still at Brussels.

The Eclair contradicts the report of the nomination of
M. Rcakenn to the post of attorney-general of the Court
of Cassation.

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M. Labrousse set out for Bruges this morning.
The police have not yet been able to discover the reheat
of M. Jabert, editor of.the Voix du Peuple.
M. Levoir has returned to Antwerp, the decree for his
expulsion from Belgium having been revoked. All the
fore►gn deserters who were continually sent to Ostend, to
be incorporated in the legions intended for the service of
the Queen of Portugal, set out on Friday for Ypres, where
a new battalion is going to be formed.
The Chamber continues the debate on the law for the
provincial organization. It has come to article 84.
BELGIAN FUNDS.--Baussins, MAY 13.
Actual Debt, 2 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cell' 99
Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent 4
—Brussels Papers, May 14.

THE TAILORS' STRIKE.----Upwards of
1,400 of the journeymen unionists yesterday afternoon
went in procession from Gray's Inn-road to the Insti-
tution in Charlotte-street, where they were addressed
by several of their delegates and leaders, who attempted
to vindicate the course they were pursuing, and urged
the men to perseverance, assuring them that they must
triumph in the end. They denied that it was intended
the good and bad workman should be paid alike, or
that the public would suffer materially in the price of
their wearing apparel, should the demands of the
unionists be conceded. In the end it was resolved
to appeal to the public for pecuniary aid. The
funds of the union are at a very low ebb, and
at many of the lodges no portion of the pro-
mised allowance for last week has been paid. The
men are required to -be in attendance four times
a day at the lodge public house, and all they can get
is an occasional ticket for sixpence, which the landlord
consents to accept on the guarantee of the Committee
as cash, and furnishes beer, and bread and cheese for
the same. Of course this mode of payment, while it
induces sottishness on the part of the men, affords not
the slightest relief to their families.
TRADES' UNIONISTS.—We understand the
guardians of the poor in this city have come to a re-
solution in the event of any operative who had joined
any union, and by consequence lost his employment,
and left his wife and family chargeable to the parish,
that no out-relief shall be granted, but that in every
instance they shall be sent to the workhouse.— West-
ern Luminary.

THE UNIONS. Letters have, we under-
stand, been received by the different classes of me-
chanics and workmen in Lincoln from the council of
the trades' union in London inviting them to join
them ; but the masters in Lincoln have determinedly
set their faces against it, and given their men notice,
that if they do join the union they are immediately to
quit their service. The masters have been given to
understand by the noblemen and gentlemen in and
around Lincoln that they will not give their work to
those having unionists in their employ, but will rather
suffer any inconvenience.—Boston Herald.
EXTORTING MONEY.—The extraordinary
treatment of Mr. Gee, related in the papers, puts us
in mind of a similar occurrence which happened in West-
minster, about 30 years ago. Mr. Coutier, who had
been a hair dresser, and was possessed of great wealth,
was enticed by a Mrs. Phepoe to visit at her lodgings.
Soon after his arrival he was introduced into a sombre
apartment, where there was lying on the table a brace
of pistols and a pair of candlesticks, both covered with
crape. The door was instantly closed by Mrs. Phe-
poe, who, presenting a pistol at his head, declared she
would shoot him if he did not give her 1,000/. Sur-
prised and terrified, he gave her a promissory note to
the amount, which he refused to pay, and she was
tried for the offence, but acquitted on a point of law.
The same person, some time after, endeavoured to ex-
tort money from a Jewess, and, in consequence of some
resistance, strangled her. This desperate woman was
afterwards tried and found guilty of the murder at the
Old Bailey, and executed in front of Newgate.

The action was brought by Mr. William Mitchell, a
performer at the FitzroyTheatre, against Mr. Laporte,
formerly manager of the Theatre Royal Covent-
garden, for the breach of an agreement entered into
between the parties, by which the plaintiff was engaged
at Covent-garden Theatre for thre'e years, at a salary
of 5/. a-week. The plaintiff, Mr. Mitchell, was en-
gaged from the Strand Theatre by the defendant, Mr.
Laporte, and performed at Covent-garden during the
season 1832. In the course of that season circum-
stances occurred which induced the Covent-garden
performers to leave that theatre, and go to the
Olympic. At the commencement of the following
season (the theatre having been transferred to Mr.
Bunn) there was, as usual, a call of the performers,
and the plaintiff attended at the theatre in pursuance
of the call, but was refused admittance, and from that
time to the present the agreement had not been ful-
filled by Mr. Lal,orte or his successor, Mr. Bunn,
although the plaintiff had expressed his readiness to
perform his part of it. He had been compelled, for
the means of subsistence, to accept an engagement at
the Fitzroy Theatre at 2/. 10s. per week ; and he now
brought his action against Mr. Laporte to recover
compensation in damages for the breach of the
agreement.
After some discussion as to the amount for which
the verdict should be entered, it was agreed that 301.
should be the sum taken now, with leave to the
plaintiff to move to increase it, if the court should be
of opinion, upon the construction of the agreement,
that the plaintiff was entitled to recover more.

PREROGATIVE COURT, MAY 14.

(Before Sir JonN NicnoL.)
STAVELEY V. WALKER.

This was a suit to try the validity of a paper, pro-
pounded as a codicil to the will of Mr. James Walker,
by which a sum of 1501. was given to Miss Mary Ann
Staveley, the deceased's housekeeper. The paper
was opposed by Mr. Robert Walker, the only son of
the deceased, on the alleged ground that the codicil
was a forgery, and had been obtained by fraud and cir-
cumvention.

Dr. ADDAMS appeared on behalf of Miss Staveley,
and in support of the validity of the codicil. The de-
ceased died on the 22d June last, at the age of eighty-
three years, and left real and personal property behind
him to the amount of about 3,0001. The codicil in
question was executed on the 14th June last. By a
will executed by the deceased, the bulk of the pro-
perty was given to his son. The learned advocate
referred to the facts of the case, and said the Court
was now called upon to convict Misa Staveley and
others of forgery.
Dr. LUSHINGTON, on behalf of the son, opposed
the paper.
Sir JOHN NICHOLL said the question in this case
arose on the validity of the codicil to the will of the
deceased party, John Walker, by which 1501. were
given to his housekeeper. It was the duty of the
Court to pronounce for its force and validity. The
Court also directed that the son, who opposed the
paper, should be condemned in full costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.