The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-29 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday an inquisition was taken_ before Mr.
PAYNE, at the sign of the Duke of Clarence, in the
London-road, Southwark, on the body of Mrs. Re.
becca Benson Garth, aged 26.
Miss Ann Standish was cousin to the deceased,
who was married to an ornamental painter, carrying
on business at No. 5, Borough-road. Witness was
residing at the deceased's house on Saturday and
Sunday last. On the latter day, about half-past two
o'clock in the afternoon, the deceased went up stairs,
as witness then supposed with the intention of going
into the parlour, where her husband was sitting. In
a few minutes afterwards witness saw her from the
window crossing the back yard. On going up stairs,
finding she had not returned from the yard, she went
out to look for her, and found her suspended by a rope
from a beam which crossed a shed. The deceased had
one child, which was about a year and a half old. She
had latterly been poorly, and had complained, particu-
larly during the last week, of pains in her head. As
long back as witness can remember, the deceased was
in the habit of saying she would make away with her-
self, when anything happened to cross her. Witness
attributed these expressions to the violence of her
temper. Her husband and she agreed pretty well in
general ; sometimes they had a few words, but it was
generally over in a minute or two. On the Saturday
night, after her husband had gone out, the deceased
said she was tired of her life, and alluding to several
modes of self-destruction, said she should prefer a
mode that was slow in its operation. Witness thinks
the deceased was at times jealous.
Mrs. Maria Taylor, of 3, Temple-street, South-
wark, deposed that the deceased was her daughter,
and had been married to Mr. Garth about seven years.
For the last two years she has appeared unhappy in
mind, but although witness had frequently questioned
her on the subject, she could never ascertain the cause.
She had from infancy been of a passionate temper, and
gave way to it. Her husband has frequently stopped
out of nights, and even sometimes for two entire nights
and days together. They would part on the best of
terms, he promising to be home soon, but yet not re-
turn, and no one knew where he was gone to. She
called on her daughter on Sunday last, about noon,
and found her in tears, and on asking what was the
matter, her daughter replied, that she could not bear
to be so ill treated. Her husband stopping out as he
did would naturally make a wife suspicious.
The jury, after a short consultation, returned the
following verdict :—" That the deceased destroyed
herself being in a state of temporary derangement,
arising from the ill-treatment of her husband."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Hygeia, from Jamaica to Liverpool, was spoken
with on the 4th inst., in lat. 39., long. 56., leaking
16 inches per hour.
The Sherborn, from London and the Cape to
Bengal, was spoken with on the 6th of January, in lat.
6., long. 93.
The Carnatic, from London for Bombay, on the
Ist ult., in lat. 3. N., long. 21. The Brooke, from
Liverpool for California, on the 4th in lat. 4., long.
23., by the Achilles, arrived off Hastings.
The Governor M'Lean, from London for Cape
Coast, in lat. 40., long. 12., by the Georgine Johanne,
arrived off Hastings
The Auspicious, on the 15th inst., in lat. 48., long.
27., by the Courier, arrived off Penzance.
The Theodosia, of Newcastle, bound tb the Mauri-
tius, on the Bth inst., in lat. 39., long. 14., by the
Mary, arrived off Dover.

Yesterday Leicester-square was crowded to
excess to witness the extraordinary and unparalleled
sagacity of a goose, just imported from the Scilly
Islands, which, out of the common course of nature,
proved that an animal, however stupid, can be brought
to possess intelligence. Several ladies and gentlemen
of distinction put divers curious and scientific questions
to the goose, and they were answered by referring to
a watch, the alphabet, multiplication table, dice, and
cards. Instinct and reason appear blended in this ani-
mal's wonderful performances ; and the curious, who
were highly amused and entertained, were astonished
that a goose, always imagined beyond the capacity of
human art to be made sharp and intelligent, had been
brought to assume another aspect by tuition.
For the great inconvenience of a bald pate,
our ancestors found a very simple remedy ; it con-
sisted of garden snails, taken from their shell, and
pounded together with horse leeches, bees, wasps, and
some salt. These ingredients were mixed up, put
into a hot-bed for eight days, and then smeared over
the bald head, on which they soon brought an ample
harvest of hair. When the reverse of this process was
required, as in the case of a lady whose hair grew too
low on her neck, the rebel growth was soon dispersed
by the application of the following lotion :—Take
twenty green frogs and a pint of wine, put both into a
pot, which keep forty days in the sun ; the residue is
the lotion.— The Doctor.

In a book bearing the title of " Egypt and
Mohammed Ali," just published, by a Mr. St. John,
Mohammed gives the following account of himself:—
" I will tell you a story. I was born in a village in
Albania, and my father had ten children, besides me,
who are all dead ; but while living, not one of them
ever contradicted me. Although I left my native
mountains before I attained to manhood, the principal
people in the place never took any step in the business
of the commune without previously inquiring what was
my pleasure. I came to this country an obscure ad-
venturer, and when I was yet but a Bimbashi (captain)
it happened one day that the commissary had to give
each of the Bimbashis a tent. They were all my se-
niors, and naturally pretended to a preference over
me; but the officer said, Stand you all by; this
youth, Mohammed Ali, shall be served first.' And
I was served first ; and 1 advanced step by step, as it
pleased God to ordain ; and now here I am (rising a
little on his seat and looking out of the window which
was at his elbow, and commanded a view of the Lake
Mareotis)—and now here I am. I never had a master
(glancing his eye at the roll containing the Imperial
firmans)."

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, MAI
A temporary depression has appeared in our cottcn
market, although we can hardly note an actual decline
in prices. Sales 2,000 bales, as follows :-120 Per..
nams, 124; 40 Bahias, 10id. ; 100 Maranhams,
I lAd. ; 70 Boweds, 9i ; 500 Boweds, Bd. to 9d; 500
Orleans, rid. to 90.

Sir JAMES CORDON-4 think this irrelevant:
Lieutenant Walker then detailed at great )engtfr
the annoyance of Captain Pigott, ordering hirt.
board his vessel whilst he was observing the offic&i4
of the Barham playing at cricket, when there was not
the slightest necessity for his being on board; Captain
Pigott's forbidding the conveyance of passengers on
board the Alban; and upon his uncourteous and humi-
liating conduct to him generally.
Lieutenant Walker, the first lieutenant of the Bar-
ham, was then cailed and examined by Lieutenant
Walker, the prosecutor
Lieutenant Walker—You have been present with
Captain Pigott on several occasions when he has
spoken to me, either or board the Alban or Barham.
What was his general demeanour to me on those occa-
sions? Witness—l was present on several occasions,
and, in my humble opinion, Captain Pigott's con-
duct to Lieutenant Walker was that of an officer and
a gentleman.
Lieutenant Walker—Were his conduct and de-
meanour towards me similar to what he was in the
habit of employing towards yourself, and the officers
of the Barham? Witness—l have not had an oppor-.
tunity of judging ; it was at first, but not afterwards.
Lieutenant Walker—How long was it before the
change appeared to take place ? Witness—To the
best of my recollection, after the first inspection of the
Alban. As an officer, he was more strict in seeing
the orders for the service attended to.
Lieutenant Walker—ln what tone and manner were
those orders conveyed? Witness—The tone of a
superior officer to a junior. .
Lieutenant Walker—Was it loud or mild, or ac-
companied by gestures ? Witness—Generally speak-
ing, his tone to Lieutenant Walker was mild, but as
he frequently foiind fault with Lieutenant Walker.
Captain Pigott appeared annoyed, and his tone and
manner more enraged, more properly I should have
said that he became angry, because enraged implies a
more violent manner than Captain Pigott had been
using to Lieutenant Walker.
Lieutenant Walker—Was I in the habit of visiting
your mess frequently, or the reverse ? Witness—
Certainly not frequently ; I only recollect seeing you
twice at the mess table.

Lieutenant Walker—Can you give any reason for
that ? Witnest-pnly his own conduct.

Lieutenant Walker—Now state what was the tenor
of that conduct ? The witness answered this question
in various ways, but not in such a manner as could be
received by the Court.
Lieutenant Walker--Don't spare me, I beg. I
ask what was there improper or ungentlemanly in my
conduct? I wish to know " the very head and front of
my offending."
Sir JAMES GORDON—It may subject him to a civil
prosecution.

Lieutenant Walker assured the Court that, let the
answer be what it might, he would not prosecute him.
The witness did not fear any consequence that might
result from the answer.

The JUDGE-ADVOCATE explained, and, after some
discussion, a minute was made, that the question, as
the witness had answered it, was, " That the reason
of the mess not inviting Lieutenant Walker was the
opinion they had formed of his conduct."
The COURT then stated that the opinion of the mess
could not be received in evidence.

- - Lieutenant Walker—Was it my conduct in taking
the earliest opportunity of showing an act of courtesy
towards your mess that caused them to make this
grateful return ? Witness—No.
Mr. William Cotsell, the late clerk of the Alban, in
charge, and now a purser on half-pay, was next exa-
mined.

Lieut. Walker—What was Captain Pigott's manner
towards me generally ? Witness—His mode of speak-
ing to you was harsh. I feel most painfully situated ;
lam speaking as to my superior officer. His gestures
were violent and threatening.
Lieut. Walker—Was it such as you have usually
seen observed in the service between an inferior and
superior officer? Witness—No, except in two or three
instances.

Lieut. Walker—What degree of harshness was it ?
Witness—On one occasion excessive. I did not ob-
serve it at other times.

Lieut. Walker—Upon these occasions of harshness,
did you observe any thing in my conduct that merited
harshness ? Witness—No ; your manner was most re-
spectful
Lieut. Walker—On any occasion was Capt. Pigott's
manner courteous to me ? Witness—l never observed
any mark of courtesy by Captain Pigott to Lieut.
Walker.

The usual hour having arrived, the Court adjourned.

It transpired in the city this afternoon
( Wednesday), and caused great surprise, so far as the
fact became known, that the dissentients to the reduc-
tion of the 4 per cents. exceed 3,000,000/., the total
amount of stock of that denomination not being more-
than 11,000,000/. This is the declaration of dissent
for the United Kingdom alone, the holders residing
out of it being allowed a further time for that purpose,
and a considerable increase, therefore, to the sum men-
tioned, unless circumstances change materially, may be
anticipated. This is the consequence, without doubt,
of those differences in the Ministry which now occupy
the public attention, and which have led the holders of
the 4 per cents. to expect such an injury to public
credit as will make it more to their advantage to accept
payment of their stock at par, than to take the 33- per
cent. stock offered in exchange for it. Other circum-
stances were so decidedly in favour of the operation
that there can be little error in assigning the above as
the main cause of what has just occurred. There will
be no difficulty, however, in a financial point of. view,
in meeting the exigency, provided the present difficul-
ties pass over, and public affairs resume their usual
course ; but it may, otherwise, be productive of some
embarrassment. It is understood that
the Bank direc-
tors will do all in their power to assist in the liquida-
tion of this part of the debt, by facilitating money
operations generally, and that among other measures
they intend to anticipate the usual period of making
advances at 3 per cent. till the payment of the divi-
dends. This, howeTer, will but increase the mischief,
unless the public mind is tranquillized on the subject
now pending. The anxiety respecting it is general
in the money-market, and will continue till the ques-
tion is disposed of.—. Times.

TRADES' UNIONS.—Two persons, named
George Peter and David Thomas, representing them-
selves as delegates from the Grand Consolidated •
Union, arrived in Stamford on Tuesday, and on the
same evening summoned a meeting of the tailors at
the Horse Shoe Inn, where several members were en-
rolled. On the following evening the shoemakers
were assembled for a similar purpose ; several other
trades also were sworn in. The magistrates, it is said,
have determined to withhold the licenses to the offend_
ing publicans at whose houses these illegal proceedinp
took place, and to pursue other steps against them.
The delegates make a charge of 6d. or Is. cn the
swearing in of each mechanic.--Boston Herald.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-31ORROw.
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This day was published, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
R O 0 K WOO D.

" A thorough romance. In breadth of delineation, and
in depth of colouring it is most complete."—Athenaeum.
" Very amusing volumes, and possetiiing great variety of
talent."—Literary Gazette.
" The most powerful novel which has appeared for
many years."—Manchester Herald.
" The ride to York is done with great vigour and
wonderful variety, not only of images, but of character,
being now poetical, now humourous, now smacking of the
turf and stable, now of flash. There are frequently inter-
mingled some admirable pictures of landscape. "—Spectator.
Richard Bentley, No. 8, New Burlington-street.

The ostensible cause of the retirement of
Mr. STANLEY and the rest of the dissentient
party is in the highest degree favourable to
Earl GREY. Perhaps no other circumstance
or;: ound for quitting the Ministry could have
beer! Jund less calculated to weaken the re-
maining part of the Administration, or give
weight to those who have deserted them. The
simple question is, whether the Legislature can
assume the right to distribute and regulate
Church property as the change of circum-
stances and times may demand. The
STANLEY party say no, while Earl GREY and the
general voice of the country assert the contrary.
According to the principle of the former all the
changes which have been made in the appro-
priation of church property are either violations
of the law or amount to public robbery and
illegal confiscation. Had this principle been
adhered to, Catholicism would have remained
the established religion of England and Scot-
land, though the Catholics do not form a twen-
tieth part of the population, and we should
have had at the present day a Catholic
prie-st in every Protestant parish, as there is a
Protestant parson in every Catholic parish in
Ireland. According to the same principle, the

'rotestant church must still be the established
church of Ireland, though there should not be
one'Protestant in the country. It is quite clear
that such a principle cannot be acted on, and
that any attempt to adhere to it must lead to
great injustice, and to the most manifest absur-
dity. We are, therefore, glad that the
Stanleyites have broken up the Cabinet on
such grounds, because men that could be guided
by such maxims are totally unfit for reforming
the institutions of a country, and must be a
drag on every Cabinet that can expect the sup-
port of the Commons. If Mr. STANLEY has
retired from principle, we can only lament. his
narrow-minded policy—if he has some object
in view, and expects to form a coalition with
another party, in order to make conservative
principles predominant, he is grievously mis-
taken. Mr. WARD'S motion would have been
carried on Tuesday by an overwhelming ma-
jority, and an united Conservative ministry,
even if a dissolution of Parliament were to take
place under the most favourable circumstances,
never could get a new House of Commons that
would support them. On the very first oppor-
tunity a trial of strength would take place, the
result of which would be a dissolution of the
ministry. The late changes, therefore, can only
have the effect of giving courage to the op-
position party in the House of Lords—of
thwarting Ministers, and delaying general re-
form. Stop reform it cannot—it. will keep up
agitation—it will prevent Ministers for some
time from carrying useful measures in the
House of Peers, and it will embolden the Tory
press to annoy and calumniate the stanch
friends of the people ; but ultimately it can
have no result, and the regeneration of the
Irish church is as certain as if it had been
supported by all the seceders. The only re-
gret is that the secession did not take place
sooner. Had they retired at the commence-
ment of the session, we should have had none

of those miserable delays, and none of those

half-and-half measures which have within the
last three months done such injury to the GREY
administration. The country now know the
authors of these measures—they know also
their true friends, and they will judge between
them. Mr. STANLEY has encouraged the
waverers—he has increased opposition with-
out rendering it effectual, and has added to the
strength of his enemies by diminishing his own
power. But he has done more. He has
placed the conduct of Lord GREY and Lord
BROUGHAM in its true light, and afforded
them the opportunity of asserting before the
country those grand principles of reform, in
church and state, by which we are now con-
vinced they have ever been actuated. They
will again find themselves in their proper posi.-
tion—backed by the people, and with such
supporters they may look without dismay on
the united army of conservatives, waverers, and
seceders.

The Post of this morning says,—,, His
M AJ EST Y yesterday announced to the assembled
prelates of our church, in the most solemn tone
and the most impressive language, his fervent
attachment to the ecclesiastical institutions of
the country, and his resolution to oppose every

innovation by which their rights should be
assailed, or their utility endangered." Our
contemporary here shows himself worthy to vie
even with Lord LONDONDERRY himself, in
,his discovery of mares' nests. Who ever
imagined for an instant, that his MAJESTY, as
head of the church, would' do other than sup=
port the just rights of the church ?

The London and Westminster Bank has,
among others, been represented as an instance
of the weakness of Ministers, because upon this
bill they suffered themselves to be beaten in the
House of Commons. We, on the contrary,
consider this bill as a proof of the power of
truth and justice, and a warning to Ministers
how they take it upon them to support that
which is wrong. The very question whether
there should or should not be joint stock banks
of deposit in London or Westminster was de-
bated when the Bank Charter Renewal Bill
was pending last year in the House of Com-
mons, and, upon the opinion of the then Attor-
ney and Solicitor-General, was carried in the
affirmative. Why the present Solicitor-General
has thought fit to set his opinion upon the
present occasion in opposition to that of the
present Attorney-General and Sir WILLIAM
HORNE last session, it is for that learned gen-
tleman to settle with himself. But having been
then in Parliament, he might have recollected
that, upon this and some other grounds, the
Bank of England having complained that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had broken faith
with it, Lord ALTHORP denied that he had,
but if the Bank thought so, he released it from
its bargain. What the Bank had got, however,
was too good to be relinquished, and the Bank
Charter was renewed on the express under-
standing that the exclusive privilege again con-
ferred upon the Bank was confined to banks of
issue in the metropolis, and did not extend to
banks of deposit. The London and West-
minster Bank has been established upon the
faith of this understanding. That it is a legal
establishment cannot be questioned, otherwise
an attempt would have been made by the Bank
to put it down. Is then the facility of suing
and being sued in the name of one of its officers
to be withheld from it, which has been granted
by bills like the present, specially applied for
by every joint stock insurance company in Lon-
don and Westminster? Is the safe deposit
of their money, which is matter of every day's
occurrence, of less importance to the inhabitants
of the metropolis than the insurance of their
houses against fire, accidents from which hap-
pen to few ? and, what is more germane to the
matter as it regards the Bank of England, are
the inhabitants of the metropolis to be prevented
from, or is any obstruction to be thrown in the
way of, their obtaining interest upon the de-
posits they may choose to make in the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, which that bank is
willing to give them, but which the Bank of
England thinks proper to withhold from them ?
We will not—we cannot believe it.

It now appears that of The amount of
10,708,9641., 4 per Ceiits. to be reduced,
there will be dissentients to the amount of up-
wards of 3,000,000/., or nearly one-third •of
the total amount. The Bank, it is said, . has
proffered its liberal assistance to the Govern-
ment for the purpose of paying-the dissentients..
It is no doubt for its interest to do so, because
it will thereby be enabled to put forth so many
more of its notes than it could otherwise do.
But what will be the consequence thereby
brought upon the country ? Home prices will
be raised by all the amount of the over-issue,
and be again depressed by all the amount of the
subsequent contraction of the currency. ThoSe
who sell at the increased prices will gain, and
those who are obliged to sell -at the di-
minished prices will lose. This is the inva-
riable consequence of the expansion and con-
traction of the currency.

Our contemporaries are continuing to deceive
themselves and to deceive their readers by tak-
ing the Mint price of gold and the course of the
exchanges, that is, the usance at which bills
are drawn upon London from places abroad, as
the means of judging of the relative value of
gold here and elsewhere. In so doing they as-
sume a thing which no longer exists, and they
further assume the commercial exchange as evi-
dence of the money exchange. What they as-
sume as existing, but which has ceased to exist
since 1816, is the Mint price of gold, which,
previous to 1816, was 31.175. 10-J-,d. per ounce,
because, until 1816, one Mint pound of silver
was coined into sixty-two parts or shillings,, and
if we inquired ho* much silver at ss. 2d. an
ounce was required to purchase an ounce
of gold, in the proportion of 15.2096
to 1, which is the proportion fixed by
our mint regulations, it was exactly 3/. 17s. laid.
But in 1816, one pound of silver was
directed to be coined, and has been since
coined, into 66 parts, or shillings, of which
the Mint retains four for seignorage; and silver,
which was theretofore a legal tender to the
amount of 251., is now a legal tender only
to the amount of 40s. From thenceforkard
there ceased to be a Mint price of gold in this
country. There is now only a market price
here as there is every where else ; and. in order
to ascertain the relative value Of gold abrOad,
for instance, at Hamburg or Paris, as com-
pared to London, we must go into the bullion
market of the three countries, and if the same
quantity of silver will purchase an ounce of
gold in all the three markets, then the price of
gold is the same in all. If more silver
is required to purchase an ounce of gold at
Hamburg or Paris than in London, then gold
is dearer in Hamburg or Paris than it is in
'1 London, and vice versa.

The other mistake, by which our contempo-
raries deceive themselves and their readers, is
by taking the usance at which bills are drawn
as a means of estimating the price of gold in
any country. Com Modifies are valued on the
Continent in silver, for silver is the measure of
value on the Continent. In this country home

prices`are valued in its currency, which ought to
be of the same exchangeable value with gold,
which is our standard of value, and foreigners
will not give us credit for our articles valued
otherwise than in gold, the value of which they
ascertain in their own market by the quantity
of silver required to purchase it. This country
then exchanges its commodities valued in gold,
for the commodities of other countries valued
in silver. The media of making and settling
such exchanges are foreign bills of exchange
for the amount, or the balance of the amount,
of the commodities so valued. But the usance
at which such bills of exchange are drawn will
not of itself determine the relative value of gold
in the countries where they are drawn, as com-
pared to the value of gold in this country. As
already said, such value can only be determined
by ascertaining the quantity of silver which
would be required to purchase a given quantity
of gold in the bullion market of the countries
where the bills are drawn and of this country.
Thus deceiving themselves and their readers,
some of our contemporaries think the favour-
able state of the foreign exchanges may enable
the Bank to issue the quantity of notes required
to pay off the dissentients with safety. Even
though they were right in their mode of esti-
mating the relative exchangeable value of gold
abroad as compared to its exchangeable value
at home (which last they have never inquired
into at all), still an over-issue of 3,000,0001.
at the present time would make the exchanges
so adverse, that every sovereign which the
Bank has would soon be drained from it. We
trust, therefore, that government will pause
before it avails itself of the willingness of the
Bank to over-issue, and thus bring upon the
country a crisis not less disastrous than that of
1825-6.

Brussels papers are filled with particulars
respecting the presentation of the address of
condolence of the Chamber of Representatives
to King LEOPOLD, and his Majesty's reply :---

BERLIN, MAY 10.—Letters from Frankfort state
that the efforts of M. de Kanitz, to bring the Duke of
Nassau to an understanding relative to the Belgian
question, have not been more successful than those of
Baron Neuman and M. de Reede.

The Duke declared that he owed it to himself not
to deviate from the principles he had manifested
during his last residence at the Hague. At that pe-
riod the Duke quitted his royal cousin and family,
without any other demonstrations than that of pure
etiquette.—Allgemeine Zeitung, May 22.
BELGIAN FUNDS.--BRussELs, MAY 27.
Actual Debt, 2 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 99 IA
Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent.. 94 ft
—Brussels Papers, May 28.

SUN OFFICE, Qaarter past Three.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 28, 1834.

The Countess of Pembroke steamer, Mat-
thews commander, arrived here this morn-
ing at five o'clock, from Lisbon, Oporto,
and Corunna. She brings Mr. Krans, King's
messenger; with despatches for Government,
together with the ratification of Don Pedro
of the treaty of amity, between the four
Powers. The Pembroke having been off'
Brest, the news of her being the bearer
of the ratification has anticipated her arrival by

telegraph. The fact, however, of the treaty being
thus far complete is now placed beyond all doubt.
The Pembroke has been many days on her
passage, having left the Tagus almost im-
mediately subsequent to the Espoir. Colonel
de Grand, and a barrister connected with the
embassy, have arrived in the Pembroke ; and
all these gentlemen went off by the mail for
town this morning. There has nothing of par-
ticular moment transpired by this arrival. It is,
however, confidently stated, that MIGUEL'S
power " totters to its fall."

SUN OFFICE, Four o'clock.
EPSOM RACES THIS DAY.