The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-30 00:00:00

TIIE DERBY.

25 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kedger—taken Sr aft. offered
25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Newsmonger_taken.

FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, Aua. 27.—1 t is generally known at Ant-
werp that the number of Belgian sailors is not sufficient
for our merchant service, and that our shipowners are
almost always obliged to engage foreigners to complete
their crews.
In order to remedy this inconvenience and to procure
for the country a number of sailors equal to its want., it
had been agreed between the departments of the Marine
and of Justice to take in the depots of mendicity all the
youths of good character and robust constitution, and
put them, with the consent of their parents, on board
Belgium ships as cabin boys for a term of eight years.
Of course, the Government will choose only such lads as
have not been condemned for theft or other serious
offences.
The Russian Government, in order to obviate in future
accidents on the railroad, has constituted, at Berlin, a
school for the special purpose of giving instruction in the
art of conducting locomotives. The number of pupils is
fixed at 400. The annual payment to be made by each
pupil is very moderate, and the course of instruction is
completed in one year.
FRONTIERS OF SERVIA, AUG. s.—lntelligence has just
been received that Prince Masoevitz, formerly English
Consul at Novi-Razar, has been assassinated by the
Turks about two miles from the Servian frontier, on the
road to Mokro Gora. His attendant, a Christian from
Herzegwina, escaped. The family of the murdered
Prince has lived for some years in Belgrade, iu a very
retired manner, and is universally respected.
WARSAW, Auc. 21.—8 y an Imperial rescript just
published, the inhabitants of Poland, of both sexes, are
not to have passports for foreign countries till they are
full twenty-five years of age. The exceptions are mer-
chants, their agents, carriers' children accompanying
their parents or tutors, and wives travelling with their
husbands. Sons, however, from the ago of ten to
eighteen, are not to be taken abroad without a spe-
cial permission, for which application must be
made to the Governor, and which is not to be granted
except for important reasons. All persons, except those
who are sent abroad by the Government, and some others,
must pay for their passports.
AUSTRIAN YU NDS.—Vnuoia, Ausl.9l.
Five per Cents. Motalliques •.......N«.N«......N..NN 110
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents . .........
Bank Shares ... .......... . . 1001
sillgerneine ........ •Aug.-95.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Ave 27.
Balls. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank 5hare5........... 1630 .....
Anglo-Russian Loan 113% 113
Russian 5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate 104% ung
Inscription, let series lO5
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series .. . . ........ ge 98
Ditto in Certificates 99 96
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 9O 90
Dutch Act; i Debt, 9' - 59%

Jut. .ual . 14 per Cent. ........ 59', 59%
Ditto 5 per Cent -
Anglo-Danish Lean, 3 per Cont. 8.% 65%
Spanish. New 5 per
Polish Bonds. .... .........
New Tickets .. .. ..... 11.11.1 ...... mita -'.

could believe that any Magistrate would convict
from interested motives; he should, therefore, op
pose the application for the dismissal of the sum-
monses.

Mr. Oakes—Mr. Matthews seems to complain of
the pertina?ity of persons seeking convictions against
servants of the Star Company. Let them refrain
from continuing the annoyance, and the prosecutions
would cease.

Mr. Matthews—But my clients say, that handing
a bill and giving useful information is not an an-
noyance.
Mr. Oakes--I can see no reason to grant the ap-
plication. I, for one, will certainly adjudicate, and
enforce the penalties.
The Mayor and Mr. Spencer agreed with Mr.
Oakes.

Mr. Tickner and Mr. Smith concurred with Mr.
Cruden is the opinion that the matter should be
referred to the county Magistrates.
Mr. Matthews said that, as the Bench were equally
divided in opinion, and as Mr. Oakes and Mr. Spencer
were determined to act, he should leave them to do as
they thought proper, and would merely request the
Magistrates' clerk to receive notice of appeal, in the
event of convictions, in the'same manner as before.
Mr. Southgate said, acting for a public body, he
could be no party to anything but the usual leegal
course, that of paying the penalty on entering the
appeal.
Mr. Matthews said that was the first time he had
heard of calling for the penalty, when notice of appeal
had been given ; it was too mnch to expect that
penalties to a large amount should be enforced, which
might lead to incarceration for a lengthened period in
the event of convictions. What use would there be
to enter an appeal whidh the law gave four months to
effect, during which the applicant might suffer his
whole term of three months' imprisonment, in default
of payment of the penalty.
Mr. Oakes said that he should certainly order the
penalties to be enforced.
Messrs. Cruden, Tickner, and Smith hereuponileft
the bench, and Mr. Matthews again requested Mr.
Pearson to take notice of appeal in each case where a
conviction might ensue, and to take a note that three
Magistrates, had desired to refer the case to the county
Magistrates, by whose decision, he again repeated, his
clients were willing finally to abide; and then ob-
served that he should, without meaning any disrespect
to the Bench, retire, leaving, however, a gentleman to
take notes of the proceedings ; and thus give the re-
maining Justices free scope to exercise their judgment
on the cases, unrestrained by the presence of himself
or his clients. Mr. Matthews then desired Reid and
Rowe to leave the Court, upon which Mr. Oakes,
manifestly mortified at this apparent contempt of his
high authority, inquired, in an under tone, of the
clerk. if they could not detain the defendants, to
which Mr. Pearson replied that it was only a summons.
Mr. Matthews and his clients then left the Court,
which was almost immediately deserted by all but
Messrs. Oakes and Spencer, Messrs. Southgate and
Pearson, the police, and reporters.
One of the cases against Samuel Rowe was then
proceeded with.
J. Adams being sworn stated, he was a street-
keeper binder the Commissioners of Lamps and Pave-
ments ; he was on duty at the bottom of High-street,
near the Star-office, about a quarter before one o'clock
in the day of Sunday, the 18th instant. Saw the
defendant standing within the doorway of the Star
office in High-street. Heard him call to persons
" Turn to the right, ladies and
to the ' flying Meteor'—sixpence
gentlemen; passing a and
thisw reprising,
y a
each including the railway."
W. Cove, also a streetkeeper, corroborated the evi-
dence of the previous witness, and deposed to the
defendant delivering Star bills to the passers-by,
stating the times of the departure of the boats from
the Terrace-pier. A bill produced he saw given to a
person from whom he received it.

The Bench unhesitatingly considered the case
proved, arid ordered the defendant to pay a penalty of
forty shillings, including costs, or twenty-one days'
imprisonment in default.
Four other charges of a similar nature were then
heard against the defendant Rowe, and a penalty in
each case of forty shillings, including costs, inflicted,
or twenty-one days' imprisonment for each separate
offence.

George Reid, another servant of the Star Com-
pany, was charged by Adams, the street-keeper, with
creating a nuisance in East-street on the 20th inst.
The complainant deposed to the defendant sitting
within the window of the Star-office, looking into
East-street, about twenty minutes before seven
o'clock on the evening of the 20th inst., delivering
bills, and directing people to the Terrace-pier, say-
ing, " Straight on, ladies and gentlemen, to the
railway boat : only sixpence each.'
This was corroborated by the witness Cove, and
the defendant was convicted in the penalty of 405.,
including costs, or 21 days' imprisonment.
Mr. Southgate applied for immediate warrants of
distress against the goods and chattels of the defend-
ants Rowe and Reid, which were granted, to be levied
immediately after the application for the penalties in
the event of their not being paid.

To render the above account of proceedings at Graves-
end more intelligible, we append the following obser-
vations :—The resort of visitors to that town, at-
tracted by the facilities of steam navigation, and the
cheapness of the fares, has reached the enormous
extent of an average of more than 12,000 persons
passing and repassing daily during the present season.
The principal packets are those of the Diamond and
Star Companies, between which bodies a most active
rivalry has always subsisted, but it is kept up wi▪ th
increased energy under present circumstances. There
are also two rival piers at Gravesend—the Town-pi▪
er
and Terrace-pier. The former is the senior, and
being situated at the old part of the town, receives
the greater support from the shopkeepers, who are
jealous of the increasing importance and attractions of
Milton. The Diamond boats use the Town-pier; the
Star's the Terrace-pier, which leads to the new town.
The Directors of the Blackwall Railway being de-
sirous of inducing a greater resort of packets to that
station, at the commencement of this (as of the last)
season offered a preference to such packets as resorted
thither exclusively (that is, without any intercourse
with the piers above Blackwall), by allowing them
the privilege of remaining alongside the Bruns-
wick-wharf for half an hour, thus giving
them the chance of passengers by two trains. The
Star Company closed with this office,
which was ,
re-
jected by the Diamond; hence the "tug of war.'
Angry at the consummation of this agreement, the
Diamonds reduced the fares ; the Star and other
Companies necessarily followed, and an arrangement
was entered into by which the public with one pay-
ment could avail themselves of the passage by boat
or rail, or vice versa, between Gravesend and London.
From participating in the benefits of this arrangement
the Diamond Company
have excluded themselves.
The Star Company, to sustain themselves in the con-
flict, placed their servants at the doors of their office,
which is near the Town-pier at Gravesend, to hand
bills announcing the hours when their packets leave
the Terrace-pier, and to inform the public of the
superior advantages by the saving of time and money
offered by the Blackwall Railway route, the Star
packets conveying their passengers (free of the rail-
way fare) from the Terrace-pier, Gravesend, to the
Fenchurch-street terminus, London, and charging
for the whole distance the same fare as
the Diamond boats charge, leaving their passengers
who may land at Blackwall to pay the railway-fare
in addition. That the public appreciate the cora-
ls manifested by the numbers as
to counteract the powerful in-
ducementsgpiantvreaicom-
parativeo below.
. advantages,
ofl t this superior accommodation and
cheaper conveyance,i that the partisans of the Town-
pier are set n motion, and the public bodies of the
borough (consisting chiefly of tradesmen in the old
town), are brought upon the stage, as prosecutors,
judges, and juries, upon all occasions of invented
complaints against the successful Stars.

NUMBERS LANDED AND EUDARRED AT THE
GRAVESEND PIERS:—
544 Town Pier, Terrace Pier,
14,5,150
June
July
Of which have passed by the Blackwell Railway
route :

June
July ................................... 253,474
Leaving only in
June . ......... 122,168
July .................................... 138,233
who have landed or embarked at the other wharfs and
piers upon the river above Blackwall.

FOREIGN WHEAT.—In consequence of the contem-
plated rise of duty upon foreign wheat, last week there
w
was an immense deal done previous to Saturday, in the
clearing off stocks. The duty during the last average
was 18s. per quarter, and by the Saturdpatyti'da return
oitf
a .
rfdooursteei
iegtson; 19usl
wheat,.t
altogether,
g eOnt
amounting
n,linedt Fiunrrgii
during
gao Friday
the9n2e houseeek ending Friday,
31
of duty was cleared
at the Custom-house.—
Edinburvih Paper.
EXPORTATION OF HORSES TO Iletnium.—A very
large embarkation of horses was again made on Sunday
morning last at the St. Katharine's Wharf, Tower, on
board the steamer Antwerpen. They were the property
of Mr. Francois, the Belgian horse-dealer, and were
principally purchased at Horncastle fair. The ship,
under the command of Captain Jackson, arrived at Ant-
werp sufficiently early on Monday morning to allow the
passengers to remain in the town several hours before
the departure of the train which gets to Cologne in the
evening. She returned here yesterday morning, the fol-
lowing persons of distinction being amongst her nume-
rous passengers:—General Sir Andrew Barnard, the
Hon. Colonel and Lady Georgiana Catheert and family,
Sir Joseph Radcliff and Lady, with family ; General
Ogilvie, Sir Charles Forbes, Etc.
The Directors of the Midland Railway Company
have determined to oonnect the town of Stamford with
their line by a branch railway.—Derby Reporter.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENINEIr, AUGUST 30, 1844.