The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-01 00:00:00

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Monday the 29th, was a long and useful
debate on bringing in a Bill fot amending the law relat-
ing to Savings Banks.' There appears no reason to
doubt, that the intention of the Government is to put
them on a sound foundation for the future; and the dis-
cussions attendant on this, will have a strong tendency
to obtain that great measure of justice, compensation to
the sufferers by the laches of the past.
Points which appear clearly established, are that there
is no impossibility, nor indeed difficulty, in doing every-
thing for the security and advantage of the depositors
which can reasonably be desired. If the Government
can protect itself against defalcation by tax collectors,
by taking security for their conduct, it could do the same
in the case of those entrusted with the management of
savings banks. And if a private banker can make a
profitable trade by paying interest for sums collected
from the poor and the middle classes, this is
evidence that a Government might do the same without
loss, or without more than it chose to incur for the
sake of the object in view. One fault the Chancellor
of the Exchequer appears to be in the way of removing,
is the foolish resistance to receiving sums above a cer-
tain amount. If it is politic to encourage a man to save
to the extent of a hundred-and-fifty pounds, why is he
to be called ill names, to the extent even of making it a
plea for his being robbed of his capital, if he is proved
to have been traitorously endeavouring to hoard a hun-
dred and sixty ?
If the fact is that the Government means to make some
absolute present in the shape of large interest to the de-
positors under a hundred pounds, but cannot afford it to
rich people to an unlimited amount, the end is easily
obtained without violence, by diminishing the rato of in-
terest for the larger sum, or as the Chancellor of the
Exchequer proposes to do it, obliging the owner of more
than a hundred pounds to turn over the hundred to the
inferior interest of the funds. In all things of this kind,
where there is a will there is a way; and there appears
to be a prospect that the will will be found.
After this, the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill was read
a second time, after a debate lei off with great eloquence
and ability by Mr. Horscuan, and concluding in a display
of irritability approaching to violence from some of the
opponents. The Church question is not in a position
to bear patiently with an able scrutiny.
On Tuesday was Mr. Henley's motion for the reduc-
tion of Salaries and Wages in Public Employments in con-
sequence of the removal of the Corn-laws. It is strange
that a party who were so loud in threatening the Working
Classes with the reduction of Wages as the inevitable con-
sequence of the removal of the Corn-laws, should now be
found putting themselves forward as the executors of
the threat. The Minister answered with bold truths,
strongly tending to pledge him, if there were need for
pledges, to the maintenance of Free Trade. The Previous
Question was put, and carried against the motiun by
269 to 173.

I atn, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.

London, May 1, 1850.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY—The Hecate steam-sloop, one of
the advanced steam-squadron, was taken out of the steam-
basin this morning, and taken into dock to be examined.
The Rolla, 8, Lieutenant Fenwick, got under way from
Spithead this morning. to give the seamen apprentices, with
whom she is manned, a cruise of instruction. She was re-
called at 10 o'clock, to take on board Sir Charles Ogle, the
late Port-Admiral of this place, who took a cruise in her.
The gallant Admiral has been sojourning lately at the Port-
land Hotel, Southsea.
The Termagant and Devestation steamers are expected to
be shortly commissioned at this port, and it is expected the
Formidable, 84, will be commissioned shortly at Sheerness,
as will the Modeste, 18, at that place.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 29.—A court-martial, consisting of—
President, Commodore Lord John Hay, Commodore-Superin-
tendent ; Captain Johnson, Agincourt ; Captain Sir Thomas
Maitland, Impregnable; Captain Strange, steam-sloop,
Archer; and Commander M'Cormac, Agincourt, was as-
sembled to-day on board her Majesty ship Impregnable, in
Ilamoaze, for the trial of James Mitchell, second-class gun-
ner, borne on the books of her Majesty's ship Agincourt, but
serving in the steam-frigate Vulture, one of the ad-
vanced steamers at this port, under command of Lieute-
nant Rigg.
The charges were, that he (James Mitchell) did, on the
14th of April, on board the Vulture, whilst under the
influence of liquor behave disrespectfully to Lieutenant F.
Stevens, Second-Lieutenant of the Vulture, and make use of
disgusting language to Mr. Vine, the carpenter.
The prisoner pleaded "Guilty," and appealed for character
to one of the members of the court, Captain Strange, under
whom, when mate of the brig Pearl, prisoner served 12 years

since.
Captain Strange stated that at that time he was a remark-
ably good and steady man,
The Court, after a short deliberation, sentenced him to be
dismissed the service.
The barque Choise, Robertson, arrived in the Sound yes-
terday, from St. Martha, with fustic and tobacco for London,
and will proceed on obtaining additional hands. Lieutenant
George Jones, Ist West India Regiment, has landed here
from her.
The ship Branken Moor, Captain James, 112 days from
Port Philip, with a full cargo of wool and tallow, was off
the port this morning, bound to London, and landed here
Messrs. Pobbledon and Gardner, agriculturists, her only
passengers.
Wind, easterly; smart breeze.
WOOLWICH, APRIL 30.—Captain Michael Quin (1837) is
to have the command of the Ajax, 56, steam guardship, to
be commissioned immediately at Portsmouth. The Ajax has
auxiliary engines of 450 •horse power.
The Atholl troop-ship, recently paid off at Woolwich, is
to be repaired at Sheerness, and is expected to be recommis-
sioned by Lieutenant William Greet, to serve as a receiving-
ship off the Tower, instead of the Perseus, the latter being
now very old, and not worth repairing.
The Resolute, Captain H. T. Austin, C. 8., had her cost-
passes adjusted by Captain Johnson on Friday last, at Green-
hithe ; and the Assistance, Captain Erasmus Ornmanney,
had hers adjusted yesterday, immediately after she was
inspected by the Lords of the Admiralty. The Pioneer
screw steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Sherard Osborn, had
her compasses adjusted to-day, and the Intrepid steam-screw
vessel, Lieutenant-Commander John Bertie Cator, will have
hers adjusted on Thursday. Friday, the day appointed for
paying the crews in advance, will be a holyday, and on Sa-
turday they leave 'the river for the Arctic regions. Some
idea may be Formed of the anxiety to see these vessels pre-
vious to their departure, when it is made known that up-
wards of 70 highly respectable persons left the London-bridge
station of the North Kent Railway at seven o'clock A.M. to-
day, for the purpose of going on hoard the vessels at Green-
hithe, and numerous parties proceeded with the same object
in view by each succeeding train.
LADY FRANKLIN'S BRANCH EXPEDITION.
The Lords of the Admiralty have in the most considerate
manner supplied the Prince Albert vessel, purchased by
Lady Franklin, with provisions from Deptford victualling
yard, and no time will be lost in getting the vessel ready
for sea.

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MISS CLARA NOVELLO—This excellent English
vocalist, who a few years ago married an Italian nobleman,
has returned to the operatic stage, and recent accounts
speak largely and enthusiastically of i
the success that has
hitherto attended her efforts. A private letterinforms us
that her engagement at Florence has terminated, and that
prior to her departure she sang at a grand concert given by
the Grand Duke—an unusual compliment- the practice
ordinarily being to have no other than the two court singers.
The Puritani and the Sonnandnila have both been repre-
sented, in which "La Clara" sustained the principal cha-
racter with unbounded eclat. The communication further I
states that this clever artist was in treaty with the directors
of the opera houses both of Naples and St. Petcrsburgh.
She is, however, likely to visit England about the middle
of May.
SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.— The
Committee, hpreporting to the House in favour of this Bill,
state that their attention was directed to the circumstance
that, by the proposed reduction of the amount of the shares,
the capital secured by the original subscription contract
would be reduced to less than three-fourths of the present
estimate; but that it was proved, to the satisfaction of the
Committee, that a number of the new shares proposed to be
authorised by the Bill, and more than sufficient to supply the
deficiency, had already been subscribed for under contract.
We have much pleasure in announcing that the
Roy., Gilbert Elliot Lao been appointed Dean of Bristol,

Majority for Sue ... 8,175"
Although from the above analysis it would appear
that the votes of the army are nearly divided, yet in
reality the great majority of the army voted for SUE,
for with the army vote the Invalides who, under the
inspection of their Governor Marshal JEROME Bo-
NAPARTE, voted to a man for the Bonapartist candi-
date; and the gendarmerie, the Sbirri of M. CARLIER,
who, under his direction, voted, there can be no doubt,
for the employer of his nephew. Deducting the votes
of these two bodies, it is clear that the great majority
of the effective army voted for M. EUGENE SUE.
The National, in recording this great victory of the
Republican Constitutionalists, the party of legality,
over the Monarchical reactionaries, the party of
force, says that the Republicans would be unjust if
they did not award a part of the credit due
to those who have secured the return
of M. EUGENE SUE to M. CARLIER. " He,
more than any other single individual," says
the National, " has contributed to the return of M.
EUGENE SuE. In justice to all," adds the National,
"we must not forget the assistance which was ren-
dered us at the last moment by the Emperor of
Sundays (the Napoleon). In politics nothing is
so valuable as a wise enemy." We consider the re-
turn of M. EUGENE Sus (for the sale of whose
pamphlets the Court of Cessation recently condemned
a newsvender, which condemnation is the foundation
of M. CARLIER'S recent proceedings) as a protest on
the part of the people of Paris against the recent at-
tempts to interfere with the liberty of the press ; we
consider the return of M. EUGENE SUE, the advocate of
secular education as a protest on the part of the people
of Paris against the recent law of Public Instruction,
which hands over the whole of the education of the
people to the priests ; we consider the election of M.
EUGENE SUE, the author of the " Juif Errant," the
denounced of the Jesuits, the anathematised of the
College of Cardinals, as a protest against Jesuitism,
obscurantism, and ultramontanism, as a solemn re-
' pudiation on the part of the people of Paris of the
policy which led to the expedition against the Roman
Republic, and to the restoration of the POPE, and as a
warning to the Government to abstain from pursuing
an illiberal anti-republican and anti-national policy.
May they take the warning in time.
The number of electors who abstained from voting
was 65,471, and the number of votes polled is 12,000
less than it was on the 10th March. The refusal
of the parties to record their votes is attributed to
the disgust which they felt at the tyrannical proceed-
ings of M. CARLIER, at the ill-judged threat of Ge-
neral GaamsioNr to move the seat of government
from Paris, and at the very " imperial" tone assumed
by the Napoleon of last Sunday. The fact is, the
great majority of the French nation is Republican ;
although the reactionaries attempt to disguise this
truth even from themselves, yet it is a truth, and
although that majority is not socialist, yet it would
prefer to accept Socialism rather than to lose the
republic.
MM. MOLE, THIERS, BERRYER, MONTALEMBERT,
General Sr. Paws; and General GRAMMONT were
summoned to the Ely sus on Monday night, and re-
mained in conference till two o'clock in the morning
of Tuesday. It is believed the Ministry will be
changed or reinforced by some members of the Right.
M. BERRYER returned to the Dystie at seven o'clock
on Tuesday morning.
At a Council of Ministers, held on Monday even-
ing, M. DUMAS, the Minister of Commerct, proposed
that M. CARLIER should be dismissed, as his ill-
judged proceedings had caused the defeat of the
28th of April, as they had previously caused that of
the 10th March ; M. DUMAS, however, was overruled,
and M. CARLIER keeps his place.
M. CARLIER'S crusade against the Republican
newspapers has had, as we anticipated it would
have, the effect of immensely increasing their
circulation, while the privileged papers have
fallen off in sale immensely. On Monday
the sale of the Eveneinent, at the office, was con-
tinued beyond midnight ; the people formed en
queue, as they do at the doors of the theatre, waiting
for their turn to be served. It was in vain that the
authorised hawkers offered them the Patric, the
Gazette de France, or theoniteur du Soir, the pri-
viliged papers found no purchasers.
The people are advised by all the Republican jour—
nals to abstain from being present on Thursday at
the declaration of the poll, in order to avoid all
chance of a collision.

The Democratic candidates have all been returned
For the Soane et Loire. _

There are various rumours as to a change of Mi-
nistry. One account says that MM. DUFAURE Gus..
TAYE DE BEAUMONT and Generals BEDEAU and LA-.
MORICIEUE will enter the new Ministerial Cabinet,
while another states that M. DE FALLoux, who ar-
rived on Sunday in Paris, has been commissioned to
form a Ministry. The Patric threatens all sorts of
repressive measures, and the Legitimatist jour-
nals denounce the Bourgeoisie of Paris with a
hatred that smacks of 1789. The Patrie
announced that a law affecting the suffrage
would be presented to the Assembly yesterday, and
threatened a coup d etat. No such law was, however,
presented, and General LAMORICIEIIE declared that
the army would be as little disposed to suffer a coup
d'etat as to suffer disorder in the streets. The Mi-
nister at War expressed his surprise at the allusion
made to a coup d' dat, and with an affectation of in-
nocent simplicity, asked where General LAMORI-
CIERE could have heard any threat of a coup
d'etat ? "In the Napoleon of Sunday," shouted the
Left. " I know nothing of the Napoleon," said
General d'Haurron; " the only official journal is
the Moniteur," and thus the matter ended. General
BEDEAU has also expressed his intention of opposing
any attempt at a coup d'etat, and General CHANGAR-
NIER has declared that any such attempt would be
ridiculous. The schism between the Orleanists and
the Legitimatists is greater than ever; each party
charges the other with the ill success of the election.
Peals BOURSE, APRIL 30.—Latest Prices—Five
per Cents., 86f. 95c.; Three per Cents., 54f. 10c.;
Bank of France, 2,0701.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS:AT THE
LONDON STOCK-gXCELAN9E, APRIL 30.
Boulogne and Amiens, 6—East Indian, s%—Greatln-
dian Peninsula, 114—Northern of France, 11/8 —vans and
Strasbourg,
and Havre, 8.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 24th ult. have arrived.
MN are, it is said, perfectly
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reconciled.
There had been an entente at Valencia, and a col-
lision between the people and the troops, in conse-
quence of an order trom the Government prohibiting
the circulation of Catalonian money in that province.
MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 25.—Three per Cents.,
30~; Five per Cents., 12 15-16, both paper. Ex-
change on London, 50 35 paper.

DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.
The German journals announce positively that
Russia has at length executed the convention of Balta
Liman, by reducing to 10,000 men the number of its
troops i❑ the Danubian principalities
A letter from Odessa announces that the General
who had commanded in the principalities was to have
his head-quarters at Odessa, and to command the sth
corps cr armee and all the troops in Bessarabia, Cri-
mea, and Sebastopol.

GERMANY.
Advices have been received from Vienna to the
25th ult.
The Wiener Zeitung contains the project of the
Minister of Religion and Public Instruction, Baron
THUN, relative to the regulation of the Roman Ca-
tholic Church, in respect to all institutions fors
public instruction. It is dated Vienna, 13th. Thi
project has received the sanction of the EmPEIIOII.
The principal of these resolutions are—
" See. 1. That no person can hold the hoot of
teacher
of religion, or professor of theology, without beingin-
powerede to do so by the :bishop in whose diocese
stitution may be situated.
" Sec. 2. That the WAN) ia at liberty, at any time, to
withdraw the said permission or licence for any indivi-
dual; but that the mere withdrawal of such licence does
not deprive any teacher appointecl by Government of the
pension to which in law he may be entitled.
Sec. 3. The Government retains the right of up-
, poiotirig saute pereouo as Iwo received the mai= of

The second concert of the season for the exhibition of
the students of the Royal Academy of Music took place
on Saturday morning, at the Hanover-square Rooms,
and we congratulate both the professors and the pupils
on the very marked improvement which has taken place
in the performances of the latter. The concert of Satur-
day was the best Academy concert at which we have ever
been present, and the manner in which many of the
pieces were performed would not have reflected discredit
on veteran professors. Among the more noticeable per-
formances we would distinguish the terzetto " Pria di
partir " from Mozart's Idomeneo, which was rendered by
Miss Clari Fisher, Miss Mary Rose, and Mr. W. Lyon,
with a steadiness and a certainty which proves that they
have been most attentive pupils of most excellent masters,
and which augurs well for their future career.. The gem
of the concert, however, was the duet " Mille Sospiri,"
from Rossini's L'Aureliano in Palmyra, which was
delightfully rendered by Miss Clari Fisher and Miss
Owen. We shall watch the future career of these young
ladies with interest ; they are, if we mistake not,
destined to occupy a prominent position among our
native vocalists. Miss Helen Taylor is entitled to high
praise for the very efficient manner in which she gave 'lie
" Caste Diva," and Miss Botibal in the " Pergi Amor,'
from the Nozze di Figaro, gave promise of much future
success. The compositions of the pupils (an overture
by Mr. JohuThomas, and a part song by Mr. C. Steggall)
were above the average run of academical exercises;
and the solo performances of Miss Lehmann and of Mr.
Bembridge on the pianoforte, and of Mr. Aylward on
tho violoncello, and Mr. Hill on the violin, were very
creditable. Mr. Swift gave the very beautiful " Sprit°
Gentil" from La Favorita with intense feeling ; and
Miss Holreyd sang the solo parts of Bishop's chorus,
Now tramp o'er Moss and Fell," with great spirit.
The finale to the first act of Guglielmo Tell, in which all
the pupils took part, was splendidly sang. There was
a coherence and unity about it which told admirably,
and it would be well if some of our public performers
would in this respect take a lesson from the pupils
of the Royal Academy. The concert•room was
crowded.

THE CLAPHAM MURDER.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.

The perpetrators of this mysterious murder and rob-
bery are still at large, although ♦ery active exertions are
being made by the police to bring the parties to justice.
A secret note has been sent round from Scotland-yard
to all publicans, beershop-keepers, and others resident in
the metropolis and its suburbs, giving a full description
of four men who are suspected of having committed the
murder and robbery, and there is very little doubt, from
their being well known to the police, that they will soon
be apprehended.
It is supposed, from all the circumstances attending
the murder, that the perpetrators of it used chloroform to
render the female insensible while they plundered the
house; but, unfortunately for their victim, they gave
more than any perso❑ could bear, and caused instant
death. What makes that circumstance more probable
are the particulars which have been gathered by parties
who have been sent round to the chemists' shops. It
has been ascertained that on Saturday evening, a little
after seven o'clock, a tall, thin man, dressed in shabby
black, call, d at Dr. Hale's, No. 23, Blackfriars-road, and
requested to be supplied with sixpennyworth of chloro-
form. Mr. Hale asked him what he wanted it for, as it
was a dangerous article to be used by non-medical men,
when the party replied that he wanted to draw a female
acquaintance's tooth, and to make her insensible
while the operation was being performed he required
it. Dr. Hale reused to supply him, although the
man pressed him very hard. He then left the shop, and
joined two other men who wtro waiting at the corner
of the opposite street. The man who applied for the
chloroform answers the description of the man who
was seen to leave the house of Mr. Maddle with a
bundle under his arm. His trousers are much wore,
and pieced at the bottom with a darker cloth. The
other two, Dr. Hale says, answer the description for-
warde I by the note.
Another circumstance of sem* importance respecting
the probability of chloroform being used, and the fa-
cility with which it can be possessed by thieves, Las
come to light within the last ten days. The Combined
Vapour Manufactory, 32, Commercial-road, Lambeth,
has been entered during the absence of the workmen,
and 16 gallons of chloroform stolen therefrom, of thu
value of 72/.

The public ought to be on their guard while passing
along the streets in the night-time, and beware of being
accosted by strangers, as there is no telling how exten-
sive the chloroform may be circulated among the thieies
and their companions.
Several parties have been in custody on suspicion of
the robbery and murder; but on being confronted with
the authorities at the police stations, they were set at
liberty.

GREAT CIRCLE SAILING.—By the South Austia-
Han Gazette of November 0 (just received), we perceive
that the recent achievement of Captain Godfrey, of Dart-
mouth, in performing the passage to Adelaide in the extra-
ordinary short space of 77 days, had been made the subject
of a public demonstration in that colony. Captain Godfrey
had been honoured by an invitation to a public dinner. at
Adelaide, over which Mr. J. H. Fisher, barrister, presided.
The chairman, in proposing Captain Godfrey's health, ob-
served that that gentleman had made the best passage to the
colonies ever known, and this was corroborated by one of
the passengers, Mr. Rumley, who said that the result of the
voyage was far from being the effect of luck; science, and
not chance had determined it. Moreover, the sy ortness e f
the voyage was rendered more extraordinary by the fact
that the Constance had experienced ten days of baffling
and contrary winds; and he felt certain that if their
guest commanded a screw-propeller he would render
the voyage between England and South Australia
.as
short as that between Adelaide and Hong-Kong.
Captain Godfrey, in returning thanks, attributed his
success more to the system which he had adopted, that of
sailing by the arcs of great circles, than to any merit of his
own. He had tried the same course in the former voyage
(which had occupied ninity-nine days), but not with the
same success, owing to the calculations not being then so
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obtain which it had been necessary for him especially to
study, among other attainments, the art of great circle
sailing. Of sixty-four masters examined by the Plymouth
board, only two besides Mr. Godfrey, have obtained the
highest certiticate.—Plymouth Times.
It is in the power of any writer to be original by
deserting nature, and seeking the quaint and the fantastical;
but literary monsters, like all others, are generally short
lived.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
GOVERNMENT INTERMENT BILL.—A public meet-
ing was held on Monday afternoon at the Craven Hotel,Cra-
iderteedthaet
ven-street, Strand, of the objectors to the provisions the
Government Interment hill, for the purpose of concluding
arrangements preliminary to a future yublic meeting
subject, when the Bill and its clauses stootilvd,
length. Mr. James Wyld, M.P.,
of the Bill, directing
was called inne
general terms the purpose and claustes
chair, addressed a few words to thnesmwetehtie'nig,n
jucsotniedeemofnignigvinn'n
agaaiblished clergy and not to
his observations particularly
compensation for fees to the e!t
those who
derived large incomes from burying-grounds
and cemeteries.
dissenters, and making no positiveprovisio for th
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er ere with private interests,
He believed the power of assessment vested in the Board of
Health would injuriously in
do away with the practice of burying in the town ; for it
still permitted the o
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Several gentlemen, principally churchwardens from the seve-
ral parishes of London, spoke against the Bill in very strong
terms; after which Mr. Hargrave Stephens moved that a
committee should be appointed to watch over the progress of
the Bill in Parliament. This resolution having been unani-
mously carried, it was further resolved that the committee
should appoint the day for discussing in public the clauses of
the Bill, and that Mr. Shaw should; act as honorary secre-
tary. A vote of thanks to the chairinan concluded the pro-
ceedings.
SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM.—This exhibition was
visited on Monday by his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
who seemed much interested in the many curious and un-
common objects of natural history collected together by
Mr. Cumming during his travels in the wilds of Southern
Africa.
Mr. John Smith, jun., the son of a gentleman re.
siding in Skinner street, Clerkenwell, was yesterday sen-
tenced at the Clerkenwell Police-court to pay a fine of .51.; or
be imprisoned for two months, for indecently assaulting Mrs.
Sarah West in the public street.
Mr. Spooner, M.P. for North Warwickshire, has
been suffering for several days from severe indisposition. We
are happy, however, to state that the Hon. Gentleman is
considered convalescent, and. that there is little doubt, in a
few days, he will be able to realm hid rulialitaigi duties'