The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-15 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE, Mir Il.—The Handelsbad says:—
" We learn from an authentic source that the Go-
vernment does not intend to dissolve the Second
Chamber after the adoption of the electoral and other
organic laws which now occupy the States-General.
It is rather intended that there shall be a short session
in the middle of September. The First Chamber, on
the other hand, will be dissolved in order to its re-
election by the provincial states.—Journal du Com-
merce, May 13,

TURKEY.
Accounts from Constantinople of the 27th ult.
state that the insurrection in the Island of Samos
had again broken out. Disturbances have also oc-
curred at Bagdad and in the Syrian cities.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
The Gazetta di Corfu of the 27th ult. publishes a
Parliamentary resolution, confirmed by the Lord
High Commissioner, by which all goods transported
by the Austrian Lloyd steamer from Corfu, Cepha-
lonia, and Zante are exempted from the Customs duty
of five per cent. formerly imposed.

MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, MAY 14.—The
intelligence by the Atlantic has had a very depressing effect
ou to-day's market. It has sent up the price of yarns I,Bd.
to ,y d., and in some instances even more, over the rate of
this day week. The consequence has been .an almost total
stagnation in the yarn market. Except for the East India
market (numbers ranging from 50's up to 90's and 100's,
upon which of course the advance in the price of cotton is
not so much felt) few purchases have been made. In lower
numbers, unless it may be for the completion of pressing
orders, under contract, little or nothing has been done. The
goods market has experienced little alteration in prices. The
demand for shirtings is tolerably good, 36 and 40-inch T
cloths are dull of sale, and decidedly unremunerative.
TREASURE TROVE.—Exactly twelve months since
we announced the fact of a large amount of treasure being
found in an old clipper, bought by two watermen after being
engaged in the coal trade, but which craft had been captured
several
years previously when engaged in that abominable
traffic the slave trade. It gives us great pleasure in an-
nouncing that the same good luck has fallen to the share of
her Majesty's steam-sloop Cormorant, Commander H.
Schoenberg, one of whose prizes, an empty slave barque of
382 tons, arrived at St. Helena on the 6th March last, in
charge of Mr. G. C. Smith, master's assistant of the above
steam-sloop. The barque had bad a tedious passage of
forty-eight days from the Brazils, but the voyage was
somewhat enlivened by the discovery of between five and
six thousand dollars headed up in a farinha cask. She was
the third prize made since the Cormorant arrived on the
station, but the first sent to the prize court at St. Helena for
condemnation, the others being burnt, unseaworthy.—Nau-
tical Standard.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—The following notice has
been sent to the deputy-postmasters, by command of the
Postmaster-General :----General Post-office, May 12, 1850.
It is found that many postmasters still forward, on the
Saturday night, in their " London through" bundles, letters
and newspapers which ought to be kept over for the dispatch
to London of the following day, viz., letters for London and
the London district; letters for foreign parts; inland letters,
prepaid by money; unpaid letters; letters for Guernsey and
Jersey; and newspapers. Particular attention must be paid
to the previous instructions, which direct that the " London
through" bundles are to contain none but stamped forward
betters, and the State's or Government letters. No registered
letters, unpaid letters, or letters pre-paid by money, or news.
papers, are to be sent, nor any letters addressed to London
or the London district, except the Government letters.
Postmasters at the outports must, however, forward to Lon-
don, as usual, all foreign, colonial, and ship letters landed at
those ports.
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ILL-TREATMENT Or A LUNATlC.—Kingston-upon-
Thames has been in a state of excitement in consequence
of certain facts brought to light a few days back by a brick-
layer and his labourers in their repairs of a house. It ap-
pears that whilst these men were at work a young woman
opened a window, and communicated to them that she had
been imprisoned in a room at the top of a house for several
years and treated as a lunatic by her relations, and that her
incarceration was in consequence of certain claims to pro-
perty tinder her father's will. The report made by the
bricklayer and his men caused considerable sensation is
the town, and in consequence of what transpired the business
was brought before the magistrates, who, after an investiga-
tion, instructed their clerk (Mr. Jemmett) to see that the
young woman was forthwith removed to a more comfortable
and healthy apartment, that she had not only medical but
other attendance, that her diet should be such as was proper
and nutritious, and that she should have out-door exercise
when necessary, and these regulations they insisted on ; and
they did not separate without expressing their acknowedg-
ment of the services rendered by the parochial authorities
and police.
LONDON HOSPITAL 1/SEDICAL SCSIOOL.The me-
dais and honorary certificates awarded for the past winter
session were publicly distributed on Tuesday, May 14, in the
library of the hospital, Mr. C. B. Stutfield, chairman of the
house committee, presiding. Hospital gold medals, presented
by the governors of the hospital for zeal and humanity in
attendance on the patients :—Medical—Henry Hanks, Bath.
Surgical—George Cochrane Millar, Finsbury. Medicine—
Senior class—Gold medal - Robert Brudenell Carter, Tiver-
ton. Honorary certificate—Thomas Peete, Margate. Junior
class—Silver medal—Alfred Adams Mantell, Bilton. Hono-
rary certificate—Ridley Porter, Bishopsgate. Surgery—
Senior class—Gold medal—George Edmund Smale, Ply-
mouth. Honorary certificate—William Thomas Bell, Great
Grimsby. Junior class—Silver medal—Robert Brudenell
Carter. Anatomy and Physiology—Senior class—Gold
medal—Alonzo Henry Stocker, Chelsea; George Edmund
Swale, Plymouth. Chymistry—First silver medal—William
Horder Sheppard. Shaftesbury. Second silver medal—Tho-
mas Busby Jeffs, Finsbury. Forensic Medicine—Silver
medal—Alonzo Henry Stocker. Honorary certificate—
Bernard Charles Beale, Bow. Botany—Silver medal—
Alonzo Henry Stocker. Honorary certificate—William
Henry Harris, Barnstaple; Owen Jeffries Llewellyn, Pad-
dington, Devon.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.--A meeting of the
Bethnal-green Reform Society was held on Monday evening,
at the Norfolk Arms, William-street, Bethnal-green, which
was numerously attended; Mr. Joseph Dean in the chair.
Mr. Hackman, one of the delegates to the National Reform
Conference, made his report, which was approved and
adopted. The meeting then proceeded to take into consi-
deration the principal objects of the society, which were to
obtain the elective franchise for all persons living in houses
for which the landlord pays the rates and taxes, without the
necessity of claiming to be rated to every rate made during
the four quarters of the year. The chairman stated that a
Bill had been prepared by Sir William Clay to remedy the
evil, who was now in communication with the Government
and the law officers of the Crown on the subject. Mr. Wick-
ham urged upon the meeting the importance of watching
most closely the progress of this Bill, which there was too
much reason to fear would be rendered nugatory by the Go-
vernment officials. The meeting resolved to act upon Mr.
Wickham's suggestion.
Stu R. PEEL AND MR. KEARSEY. -- Mr. Kear
sey having written to Sir Robert Peel that he had been
seventeen years a farmer, and yet never earned so much dur-
ing that time as in the seventeen last months since he be-
came a trader, Sir R. Peel has caused the following reply to
be sent :—"John Kearsey, Esq., Warnford, Bishop's Wal-
tham, Hants.— Sir,—l am directed by Sir Robert Peel to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th March,
and to thank you for its communication. You observe that
you gained more money in seventeen months' trading than
you had gained in seventeen years' farming of a good estate
in Barks, of 5,0001. stocking, and that farming has long been
an unprofitable trade. During the seventeen years of farm-
ing to which you refer, or a very considerable portion of the
time, there were high duties on the import of foreign agri-
cultural produce, and yet they did not avail to secure you
a profitable return on your capital and skill applied to farm.
ing ; he concludes, therefore, that you would not look to the
restoration of such duties as a remedy for agricultural dis-
tress. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, A. W. PEEL.—
Drayton Manor, April S."
INSPECTION OF THE HOUSEHOLD TROOPS.—(TRIS
DAY.) The fineness of the weather this morning attracted a
vast crowd of spectators to witness the inspection of the
Household Troops, which took place in the presence of his
Grace the Commander-in-Chief, his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, Colonel of the Fusileer Guards, his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, Colonel of the Coldstream Guards,
and a brilliant staff of officers. The troops looked extremely
clean and healthy, and went through their evolutions with
marked precision and nicety.
PETTY SESSIONS CLERKS (IRELAND).--From a
return ordered by the House of Commons it appears that the
number of petty sessions in Ireland is 595, which furnish
employment to 555 clerks, 47 of whom hold two, and 7 three
petty sessions. The amount of fees paid to clerks was,
1849, 16,201/. Isa. 10d.
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condition that he should
THE RUINOUS BILL SYSTEM.—Lieutenant Arthur
7751.,
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bTywtihsse,
lonfsothhe.e
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d, was yesterday dis..
The the
trans-
appropriate a certain sum from his pay for the liquidation of
his debts. The cause of his insolvency was the acceptance
of various accommodation hills for a brother officer, Lieute-
nant Burchell, who is also in prison. The Jew bill-dis-
counters obtained, by this abominable system, from these
ymoneyoung na
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ai tmi cos n tont
etah
teoaomn
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actions only extended over the space of a year.
At the Lambeth Police-court yesterday the corps
dramatigue of a penny theatre, recently opened in Lock's-
fimeelndst,
ewneerhe, sentenced
rintoin2gOws.ifithnoen,
torafiliiueretneceen imprison-
. days'
Sidney Robert Sparkea and Charles Stanley,
alias Nixon, charged with having in various instances ob-
tained money under the false pretence of providing persons
with situations—with being, in short, keepers of a sham
aMgre.ncyJaordffiincee—rewfuesreedyetosterclay remanded from Bow-street.
admit them to bail.

THE WEATHEE.—The mean daily reading of the
nesndiali(y),
barometer in the past week at the Royal Observatory,
Greenwich, was 29.577. The mean temperature was 461
deg., and was less by 5.4 deg. than the average of the same
week in seven years. On every day it was less than the
and
rsday
but especialwhenlyt
the
en
decrease l onday
w, Tuesday,as from
seven to
Wednesday,
degrees. The wind was generally in the north-east and
south-west.

The body of a Custom-house officer, named Sta-
pleford, whose disappearance from the Dutch brig Pallas, at
Portsmouth, about two months since, caused considerable
excitement was picked up floating near the shore off Ilayling
Island, on Sunday last.
In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday Mr. Commis-
sioner Fonblanque adjournea the examination of henryßose
sine die, and refused him protection for a single hour. The
bankrupt had carried on buarneee in Aleachester AS a brew er.