The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-18 00:00:00

How THE TORIES CROW OVER, MR. STCRGE.

(From the Liverpool Courie)..)—Prf..s rate, as the', Liberals
previously were, and fatiailiari,:ed with defeat- and morti-
fication, the result of the Birmingham electien
nevertheless, come upon them with astoneding effect. If
could not have been otherwise. • Never, in the whole
course of their electioneering experience, have they re.;
ceived a more terrible blow. A few years ago it would
have been thought as unreasonable to talk of pushing St.
Paul's from its base as talk of --shaking the power of
the Liberals in Birmingham. Like Manchester, the
name of the place itself was regarded as little el'e
than a synonym for rampant and incurable Ha:Lea:-
ism. For thirteen years, that is, ever since the Re-
form Act came into op4ation, the same party and lire
same family has reign 4 predominant in the borough.
At the very last election, the gentleman whose tri-
umphant return we hive now to record was defeated
by a majority of 138. His opponent on the present
occasion was the son of the individual against whom
he thus unsuccessfully struggled, and consequently
brought to the contest all the advantages arising from
name and. connexion ; yet Mr. Spooner is returned to
I'arliament by a majority of no less, than 360 votes !
Well may Liberals stand aghast ! And equally well
may Conservatives rejoice, and look forward with high
hope to future triumphs. The victory of South Lan-
cashire, great as.it was, is eclipsed. There, the Liberals
and Leaguers were only kept out ; here they have been
turned out. '

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THE LATE MURDER IN THE MINT.—APFREHEN.
SION OF THE MunnEitEn.—lt will be remembered, that in the
course of last February, a woman of the name of Elizabeth
Hobbs, the wife of a stoker, occupying lodgings in the Mint,
Southwark, had.a quarrel with hei landlord, a ran named
James Carroll, who, in ejecting her from her apartment,
threw her down stairs, and inflicted such other severe injuries
as to cause almost her immediate death. The result of the
Coroner's inquest was a verdict of wilful murder against
James Carroll, who decamped. Nothing was heard of him
till yesterday. He was apprehended in Tooley •street. Last
evening he underwent a brief examination at the Union-
hall Police-court, before Mr. Cottenham, the magistrate,
who, hearing -that a true bill had been already found by a
grand jury at the Central Criminal Court against him, re-
manded the prisoner.
PROVISIONING THE Narr.--Some idea may be
formed of the vast expense .of provisioning the navy, from
the annexed statement of the- stores taken by the. Albion, 90
guns, when proceeding on her voyage to Gibraltar :-
3,385 gallons of rum, I,ooolb. tea, B,ooBlb. sugar, 4,9981 b.
chocalate, 1.9001 b. peas, 4,8001 b. pork, 2,2901 b. beef, 10,0801 b.
flour, 900 bags of bread, -89 galloni vinegar, and 6191 b. soap.
The quantity of•live stock and fresh provisons, poultry, &c.,
was large in proportion. —Cork Examiner. .
SAVINGS BANRS.—A Committee upon a general
meeting, has been formed for the purpose of watching the
progress. of the Savings' Bank Bill when it is introduced into
Parliament. This the public will, we are sure, feel glad to
learn. Protect the "poor man's bank," and expunge from it
those who bad no right to make deposits in those valuable
institutions.

SCOTT MckNUMENT.—We have just learnt that Sir
Thomas Dick Lauder has received a subscription of
twenty guineas from the Marquis of Bute, and that the
Earl Of Zetland has contributed tweny pounds to this
truly national testimonial: Many of our readers may
not be mitre, that the heads sculptured on the main
capitals under the groined arch, now thrown open by
the removal of the scaffolding, are likenesses of the
princ:pal.Spotch poets. We have ascertained that the
following are finished :—Oa the north front—Queen
Mary, James 1., James V. and Drummond of Haw,
thornden, On the west front--Hogg, Burns, Ferguson
arid Ramsay• pn ihe:ioutif tioni::---BuchaaaN Sir David
Lindsay of the. Mount,. ,_and ..flyrpp.. On the
east front-:Sinollett only is yet completed, but the
three-,Tiz.,-. Rowe, Thomson,. Aeattie,_ are in pr 9
gress,Caledonian Mercury.