The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-06 00:00:00

BARBAROUS MURDER.

On the night of the 80th or morning of the 314
ult. a man named George Johnson, who was employ-
ed by Mr. Sherrard, of Blessingion-street, us a keeper
of the lands called the Folly, Barony of Balruddery,
County of Dublin, was found murdered at Palmers-
town, within a quarter of a mile of his residence.
The unfortunate man exhibited marks of the moat
savage. cruelty on the part of his assassins; lie had
fourteen cuts on his head, one arm and several ribs
broken. An inquest was held by Mr. M'Carthy,
Coroner. The Jury were composed of the most
respectable n.anh i 1.:
tants, Peter Bournes, of Pieldstown,
Foreman--verdiet—Wilful Murder, against seine
person or persons unknown. it is worthy of remark,
that fur a period or twenty-nine years no cireuntstance
of this nature was perpetrated in that neighbourhood.
The Police, under the command of Captain Brad,
have been indefatigable in tlteir endeavours to dis-,
cover the murderers, and some yersons have. been
taken up on kiusp , 0n• jei --Dublin ratriot

LONDON,
TUESDAY .EVENING, JUNE 6, 1826,

The Hamburgh Correspondenten of the 2d and
3d instant reached us last night. They contain no
other news than the account of the death of her Ma-
jesty the Empress Dowager ELIZABETH of Russia,
which afflicting event'We announced in our paper of
last night. Her Majesty has survived her august,
husband but a very short period, and her death is
stated to have been been occasioned by the effects of
intense grief on a delicate constitution. Her Majesty
died at Belcw on the 16th May, on her way from
Taganrog to Kaluga, to which place the Empress
Mother had proceeded for the purpose of meeting her;
but it was ordained that this meeting should not take
place.

Her Majesty, the Empress ELIZABETH ALEx-
lEWNA (before her marriage, the Princess LouisA
MARIA AUGUSTA) was the second daughter of
the hereditary Prince CHARLES LOUIS Of BADEN,
who died in 1801. She was born on the 24th of
January, 1779, and was married to the late Emperor
ALEXANDER on the 9th October, 1798. She never
had any issue. The Hamburgh Papers, in recording
her death, state, " that though her life was short, it
was the life of an angel, filled with acts of beneficence.
Adorned. with all the virtues that can dignify woman,
she would have been worthy of the most splendid
throne, had not fate placed her upon it." And we
believe this panegyric to be just, as she invariably ma-
nifested the most amiable feelings, under circumstances
of peculiar delicacy and difficulty, and was an object of
the particular attachment of the Empress Mother
and the nation.

We subjoin a few extracts from the Hambur!,,:h
Papers:—

8881 IN, MAY 30.
On the 22d of this month a fire broke out in Pilieu, which,
the wind being very high, spread so rapidly, that several houses,
warehouses, a salt magazine, and the back buildings of the
salt factory were reduced to ashes. It was only by extraordi-
nary efforts that the progress of the flames was checked, which
had already communicated to the timber yards, and the- maga-
sines of pitch and tar. The damage is considerable.

mAy SO.
His Majesty has been pleased to appointnaxovv.a, M. Mackenzie, British
Consul General in Hayti, to he Consul General for the Kingdom
of Hanover also in that island.

, SI.
Our Court has gone into mourning for threeßßAUN' weeksMA Y for the
Empress Elizabeth of Russia.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cmnberland is gone to Duben.
STOCKHOLM, MAY 26.
Several corps of dragoons and !faint.* have already set out for
the camp in Ladugardsgarde.
Baron Stedingk embarked to-day on board the Eurydice frigate
for St. Petersburgh.

COPENHAGIN, MAY N.
The betrOthillg of prince Frederick Charles Christian and the
Princess Wilhelmiva Maria, took place at Court the day before
yesterday, as we announced. The inhabitants of thu capital
showed their satisfaction at this happy event by voluntarily illu-
minating their home in the evening.

11104111tR011, JUNIt 3.
Exchange on London, 57 2:—Two Months, 86 11.

Reports have been for some days in circulation, that
it is intended to confer a British Peerage on the Lady
of Sir HENRY HALFORD. We presume not to
know on what foundation these reports rest; but as
they have given rise to many observations, we must
take the liberty of offering a few remarks upon the
subject.

It has been said that, the talents- of Sir, HENRY
}IA LPORD, (which have placed him in such dis-
tinguished situations as those of President of the
Royal College of Physicians, and Physician in Ordinary
to the ICING,) and'that his services to His MitsEsTY
and ,
toicience, nave been such as to justly entitle him to
be elevated to the Peerage, but that two objections
exist against it. First, that there is no precedent of a
Physician having been raised to the dignity of a
Peer ; and
secondly, that if such a precedent were
made in his case, it would necessarily oblige him
to resign his presidency and drive him out of the
profession, by which he would sustain a loss of
12,0001. per aiinum ; as it would be as inconsistent for
a Peer to receive a fee as a physician, as it is eonsi..
tiered infra dig. for a Nobleman to practise as an Ad-
vocate. To avoid this dilemma, the expedient of
atin her own right, has been
hit upon,inwho was a great admirer of the Opera, always had .a
ereg ish
muchwife ain peeress,
t he same way as a eenain Bishop
box in the name of his wife, which he constantly used.
We are not advocates for
,expedients, and therefore,
la'talvbeele'eneictoltnifleed. upon himself'
if the talents and services of Sir HENRY HA LVORD
are deserving of so high a mark of his Sovereign's fa-
eh
gratified by hearing
per-
sonally, which would have shed a lustre over the
learned profession of which he is the head.
osillioouurldh
tztutr ,t
hNev
We can see no reason why a precedent LI mold not
be set, if none exist, of a I • • •
The profession of physic, it isyt being ennobled.
t
rue sician,
was formerly held

in disrepute, because its professors were ignorant
quacks ; but in these days, when it numbers among
its Members, men as distinguished for attainment in
science, and for general talent and character, as any
other of the learned professions can boast of, we see
no reason for considering that because a man has been
bred to the practice of physic, he is to be excluded
from arriving at the honours of the Peerage, whfch are
open to all other professions and classes of persons;
more particularly too, as the honors of the Baronetage,
have been so unsparingly conferred on inferior classes
of practitioners, -as well as upon those of the highest
rank in the profession. With regard to the other argu-
ments against the elevation of Sir H. H ALFORD person-
ally to the Peerage, we cannot conceive that it would be
any degradation of Nobility for one of their Order
to preside over a body, so learned, and so distinguished
for science and talents, as the College of Physicians. In
deference to the customs and feelings of Society, we
suppose he must, if ennobled, relinquish the practice of '
his profession, although we see little difference be-
tween a distinguished Physician at the head of his
profession receiving fees from patients, and a Learned
Lawyer, at the head of his profession as a Judge, re-
ceiving the fees of suitors in his Court. Be this,
however, as it may, it appears to us that it would
not be less inconsistent for Sir HENRY HAL"'
FORD to receive fees for the support of his wife's
dignity as a Peeress, than it would be for the main-
tenance of his own ; and that if his fortune be not
sufficient to maintain with suitable splendour a
Peerage for his wife, without practice, it would be
right to postpone ennobling the family tilt he has
amassed wealth sufficient to enable him to abandon it
altogether.

The dissolution of Companies appears to be pro-
ceeding now with as much rapidity as their limitation
did a year ago, and we are not a little amused to see
the avidity with which the British public run from one
extreme to the other. A few months singe, and there
Were no topics of conversation but projections : Lon-
don was to be converted into a sea-port, by bringing
the briny flood in cast-iron pipes' from Brighton or
SOuthend, and the CockneyS were to be pickled at all
prices, from. Peers at a pound'a piece to tinkers and
tailors at two-pence; travellers were to be transported
through an exhausted tunnel at the rate of sixty mile
a second ; steam was to be brought into universal use,
and applied with such dexterity, that a traveller was t"
have nothing to do after breakfast but bestride the tea-
kettle, and start at the rate of twenty miles an hour,
whichever way lie turned the spout; mines, which had
never been properly explored, were to be ransacked at
once, and lines of waggons, loaded with the precious
metals, were already imagined to reach from a dQuil
ports to the country house of M. ROTHSCHILD> or
the Million office at the Bank ; beds of Pearl'
were to be disturbed by the diving bells, and
the young nobility to play at marbles with those
of secondary colour ; coral rocks were to be blown into
fragments, and brought in barge loads to the stone
Wharfs of the metropolis ; in short, we were all at ov.ce
to realise the fiction of the Arabian Nights, and
London was to vie with the inost magnificent pictures of
Fairy Land. Changes, almost endless; were to be worked
in the twinkling of an eye ;
Whig Lords turned,.
washerwOmen Members of Parliament, milk-maid;
Dukes, drUggists ; Peers, pawls-brokers ; and Baronets,
briclunakers. The results,
however, of these concerns
have not been quite so flattering as the projectors
wished to make them .appear, and the publief one and
all, is as prejudiced against the schemes as they were
once in their favour—but this is very illibroal, for
many have given proof that they have not entirely.
fitiled in their objects ; for instance, the subscribers to
the Chdian Company have caught: cold, the Share-
holders of the London Drug Company have had
physic, those of the National Both Company have
had a stveat,' the Equitable Loan Company, has gives&
plenty of pledges,' and the Directors of the Cobalt and
Copper Company have exhibited lots of btass; so 60
although these things have not answered the intended
purpose, they have. not entirely faile&---nor can we
join in the outcry against the great men who have
Into trade. It is a proof of theirgone
perception; the have:
seen that in a few years none but " Operatives' will
be allowed to rule, and they have been naturally
ous to go with the stream ; an instance of prudent%
forethought which cannot be too much admired.

We received German Papers this morning. They
are chiefly occupied with strictures upon the prospect''
of the harvest, and other matters interesting to the
Germans :

HANOVER.
f
In Fault Friesland, as. in Mecklenburg and many other parts od
Germany, the winter corn has suffered very much from the "I
and wet weather that prevailed in the spring. The rape-or
been checked by the cold; wheat and rye are very thin; and dlau
.latter, ou all damp soils, has, through the eouthumince of
weather, been hindered from rivovering. The prospects of w
good crop of winter corn are, therefore, very premien.. Ilnd`r
these circumstances, the prices are rising as the old stwl‘
dr-
creases ; to which we may add, the piobability of exportatiesi 11),
England.

• FRONTIEftB OF 1.01.. ANN MAY 6.
According to the account* given by travellers, seutence
already been Paned by the Section of the Russian Siinate acting
Si a High Court of Justice, on many of the persons arreste4 st
Schlusselberg and I'eteraburgh, for having been coocerno,ll iu the
revolt of the 26th of December, last year, who have been Ai*.
detnned to death. It is even added, that the sentence has illet44
been etecuted on some of them, among whom are the two JO'
shelbeekets ; but the accounts add such Very singular particulso,
that we may justly hesitate to place entire confidence in thew'
According to other statements, however, there is reason to belie..
that the punishment of death will be mitigated by the Eloper" to
banishment.

A report is this moment spread,tvhicly f it
finned, would, be attended with important consequences to We
trade of Ifamburgh and Bremen. This report is to the followi"g,
effect :—That the Prussian Government,
lietti"fg• the Pc"ever"ict.
of the Government of the Netherlands in its refusal to desist (Net.
its pretensions to impose arbitrary shackles on the irayigatite tit
LOWVIt
the Mine, has resolved to use measures of yetalietiou : that ar-
sr.a;:olutiad v
w filS
col 7
•
rordingly an extremely high import duty on all goods corni.ig
from Ilollandi and going up the Mine, will render 'their iisrpol-
tation by this channel for the supply of a great part, of IVefOrti
Germany; and this market would then be bbliged 40 h fig"
nialual through the German ports on the North Sot. If is .2"n
affirmed, that this rneneure will be carried into effect on theist
of July, unless the Government of the Netherlands should tC6')/".4

before the expiration of this time, wl ieh ii peremptorily fixed, to
make the concessions required, in a diplomatic note lately pre-
sented to it.

FROM MI MAINE, MAY 25.

. • • The fertilising rains and thunder storms, and the warm air which
we have had for some days, have again checked the speculations on
high corn prices, which, in connection with the state of things in
England, seemed to be tolerably secure. Every thing looks ad-
mirably.

BERLIN, MAY 20-
The half-official article in the Hamburgla Paper by which we
Allen first nude acquainted with,the particulars of the punishment
of the authors anti accomplices of the treasonable "Society of the
Youths," is ascribed to Privy Councillor V. K..—The public is
very anxious for the announced sentence on the.menabers of the
"Society of Men," especially because Lieut.-Colonel Y. D—,
Who has been for above a year under arrest at Copenick, is said
.tehave given important information in this investigation. The
greater part of the condemned members of the`" Society of the
Youths" began to undergo their punishment (confinement and hard
lthour)iroutediately on the close of the proceedings last year. The lat
edition of a pamphlet hy Ludwig. Frey, published at Leipeig, which
contained an incomplete and mutilated copy of theKiug'e letter to the
Duchess of Coethen was prohibited by order of the Ministry, hut
the second edition is allowed to be sold. The appendix to the
pamphlet, " What way and will be the consequence of the con-
veraion of a Protestant Prince to the Catholic Faith," by Professor
Krug, in Leipsig, is advertised in our papers, with the remark,
" That it contains the genuine letter relative to that conversion
from a Protestant Prince to a female relation." All aavertise-
, meats of books must he submitted to the Censorship before they
can appear in the newspapers. The anniversary of Qr. Jenner's
discovery of vaccination was celebrated here the day before yester-
4aY by 4 numerous company of physicians. The entall-pox still
ocean, in all quarters of the city, for whiCh reason eight establish-
ments are opened, where vaccination is performed by an order of
the police.

Accounts frmn Lisbon state, that the communications with
London are very active, since the arrival of dispatches
trot Sir Charles Stuart to Sir ,Wm. A'Court, and that the
EtnPeror .of the Brazils is expected at Portugal. An order
01 the Imperial Govermuent has been sent to the Province
of ILainharn, to send to London iO thousand pounds, to pay the
'merest of the Brazilian Loan ; it is thought the amount will be
sent in cotton.
- -

Private accounts from Buenos Ayres, mention that they were
dally expecting thu arrival of the Chilian Squadron to their assist-
ance; 'should this prove true, the Brazilian naval force will' he
unable to face the Buenos Ayrian and Chilian Squadrons united,
and consequently the blockade would be immediately raised.

. •
Majesty's ship Gloucester, of 74 guns, accompanied by the
Comet steamer, arrived at Horubeckbury, near Elsinore, on the
evening of the 26th May, having on board the Duke of Devon-
Shire, for St. Petersburgh, owing to the wind and current being
against them, they had been unable to get to Elsinore Roads. The
Comet steainer had proceeded to Copenhagen, but was expected
back on the next day.

the Earl of Liverpool from New York, in 22 days, we
nave received papers of the 10th of May, from which we make the
folloWing extract
HAVANNAN, April 26, 1826.—Since our last the only thing
tew is the arrival of a Spanish ship of war, Lalino, from Ceiba
aua Cuba having on board three Brigadier Generals for the
4"mon, which at present is very large, much to the lOW-
at of every enlightened person ; one of them is a black
nlau, who rendered essential service in Peru, but the Captain
!General, no doubt, will not permit him to take command of a
brigade, even of the black troops, here : it is even whispered he
Inn be sent back. The Spanish squadron, consisting of the
"errtro 74, and Ave large frigates, were, according to last ae-
eo"t4, at St. Jago de Cuba: they are antler the orders of Ad-
tuiral Labordi, and it is rumoured they are under orders for the
Alain, which, if so, will be detained in a state of blockade.

Extract of a letter from an English merchant at
Paris, dated 3d June, 1,826.:
" Thia day is the settlement of Foreign Securities. Naples
Stock is still very low, owing to the weight of it on the Stock
Exchange, and the bad state of the King's health, in the event of
Iv hese demi% u minor slime& to-the throne. Nothing else new."

THE FUNDS.

CITY, Half pact Twelve o' Clock.

- . -
'Ott the opening of the Stook Exchange Collania were 801 if
1110 immediately after advanced to 80k, buyers ; they have aim*
ticute at 801-, 4-, but reached 801, at' the above hour, some-
buyers and sellers. Three per Cent. Reduced are 791 f.
„ "reg per Cent. Consols, abet; Ditto, for Account, 801;
Pbr Ceat. Sarip, 11, 11, pm. ; India Bonds, 8,9, pm. ; Ex-
tlit,oure Bills, 8,9, pm. " •
FoasZoll Faarns..--Colombian,, 18251, 88, 9; Ditto, 1824,
4,0 i, 1 ; Ats.xican, 6 per Cent., 68, 4; Ditto, 6 per Cent., 62, ;
5 per. Cent,, 801„1 ; Greek, 14k, 18; Austrian, 67, 8 ;
56, 7 ; 40, 2 ; Peruvian, 29, SO.
)11e:tican, 16, 10, die. ; Brazilian, 4,2, die. ;
Ilulivar, 6,7, pm. ; Colaubian, 7,8, per Share ; Pasco Peruvian,
I°,o, di.. ; United Mexicatt,,3i, 2k, dis.
BmA/um-British Iron Company, 24j, 2, die. ; Welch lrou
41114 Coal, 16; 14, die.

Two o' Clock.

Thy Stock market is nearly deserted, scarcely any business is
(.1
244 K; the nearest 'price for Consols is 80/, With considerable
orinsirss.

THREE O'CLOCK.
No variation in Consols, the price remain at 80#,
buyers.
FOUR O'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICES.
4."8°18 • Danish Bonds 563.
00. for Op. 80i Greek Bonds 1825 14i
'Brazilian Bonds Mexican Bonds 1825,62
%elms Ayres Peruvian Bonds 30
Russian Bonds 81
Columbian, 1824, 41 Spanish 7i•

W‘' have been .favoured with the parusal 01 a letter
rrom a INaval Officer on the South American station,
slated at ,Maldonado, on the 12th March last, and as
it gives somie account of the war going on between
Brazil and Ouenos Ayres, the following extract may
he interesting .to. our Readers :
" The war. is car,"ied on with great limper on both sides. W.,g
have no ae.ceunts frot,n the armies that can be relied on : they
have not come to Mows since the partial affair of the 12th Oeto-
IC.' When the Patriots gained a decided victory at Monte
Vida9i, and the hill wlilith fliees name to it. On the oppo-
site aide of the harbour the Brazilians have about three thou-
sand troops, their out-Boats are on a height immediately
outside the city gate, and those of the Patriots about two
ntilca throe from them. We rode II h ti without a goes-
tier'. The town is supplied Rs usual by paying a very slight
&ay upon articles sent in, and none of the evils of war are yet
felt by the inhabitants. The streugth of the Patriots is reckoned
At between '6
or 7000 men, all mounted ; that of the Brazilians
nearly the tame, partly mounted, but not such good horse-.
Then, nor, acquainted with the country, and inured to the
Ilittutte, go that already disease has made some havock
.44nongst th.oin, and more may be effected now, that winter
it coaling .'n4 they have not the stamina of our Gauchos or
"Mttry people, nor do I think they like the war. Here there is
nut a Brazilian norer than an hundred miles, and they are aid&
(LientlY protected by their ardent in driving out their
"Nhhoure to their proper limits. At Buenos Ayres, and through-
out
t the United Provinces, great energy is used. A very deter-
-4-neeled_lnan, Itivadavis, is elected, Presidetn, and Buenos Ayres
, .areo the capital of the Confederation, so as to concentrate
their Power.A famous fellow here, Commodore Brown, am
`lnt and attacked Vice-Admiral 'Lobo, Commander of the blciek-
, 4,441
Ntlnatirtm, with a very inferior form ; and had his own yes-
vzonot played truant, it would have been all over with
‘44:k. The knperatriz, a fine largo Drazillan frigate, was going
t.° Rio with Vice-Admiral Laguna, the thriller Governor of
\ma Video but LObo thoueit he could not trust himaelfwith-
t
n! Iter, and :he is added to his squadron of two corvettes, two
"4111.'fii brigantines, and gun-brigs' innumerable. He hes taken
arttii at the river and Mr. Brown together, and has anchored in
't la Monte Video, which enabled Brown to attack Colonia,
riseP,Oy point the Brazilians have near the sea, excepting Monte
,„41e0i inn with what success we cannot learn. Ile is a moat en-
-0
tv,ilang mare, anti I [ilia will the river and relieve
blockade. My opinion is, 'that right mud prevail, and that
riAilieut will be beaten into their own territories,"