The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-13 00:00:00

IRELANI).

Bank of Ireland
Private and Joint-Stock Banks

Total
Bullion in the Bank of England ...... X16,322,000
Stamps and Taxes, ApriliE IYBuL WICKHAM.
..

COURSE OF EXCIIA/
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.D. 13 15
Altona l3 15
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70
Ditto, 3 months 25 95
Marseilles
Bourdeaux - 26 0
Frankfort on Maine 124
Petersburgh, 3Us 361
Berlin 7

TGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 65
Genoa 25 95
Milan
Venice 47
Naples 39
Palermo, per oz ll7
Lisbon 53
Oporto 53;
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars...£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons..... 0 0 0
New DoHars 0 4 9i
Silver in Bars 0 4 111

Vienna, effe€. fl. 3M 956
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36i
_ _

Cadiz
36
narcekina 36

Seville ' '

WESTMINSTER ADJOURNED
SESSIONS.

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(Before Mr. WALESBY and a full Bench of Magistrates.)
Yesterday John Cowley surrendered to take his trial
for an assault. on Mri. Mary Anne Peel, on the 20th of
March. Mr. Prendergast appeared for the prosecution,
and Mr. Wilde conducted the defence.

During the trial the defendant was allowed to sit be-
hind his counsel.
The circumstances under which the assault was com-
mitted were as- follow :—During the latter end of last
year the husband of the prosecutrix was in trouble, and
while in the Insolvent:Debtors' Prison the prosecutrix
was desirous of entering into business, and having heard
that a public-house, called the Grapes, in Old Compton-
street, Soho, was to be disposed of, she applied to Mr.
Forewig, who had the letting of the house, and with
whom she came to terms, on condition of giving him a
bill of exchange for 3001. The defendant at that time
was on friendly terms with the prosecutrix, and being
anxious to forward her interests, entered into security
to Mr. Forewig for the prosecutrix, and the latter
took possession of the house on the 4th of December
last. Subsequently the defendant was in the habit of
giving references to different tradesmen to the Grapes,
and in those instances he generally represented him-
self as a captain in the navy, and proprietor of the
public-house in question, to which he 'seemed to think
he had a right, by frequently calling in (as the pro-
secutrix stated) in a friendly way to dine, and when
short of money would call on Mrs. Peel to replenish
his pockets. However, on the 20th of March the de-
fendant came to the Grapes, accampanied by a broker
and eighteen men, took possession of the house, and
commenced moving the furniture. The prosecutrix,
with her husband, was at the time at breakfast upstairs,
and hearing the noise, both came down_ to the bar, and
found the defendant, with his men, taking everything
moveable, and placing them in a van, which stood in the
street. The prosecutrix ran to the station-house to get
assistance, and on her return, she found her husband had
been'turned out of the house. She then went to the
rear of the house, and succeeded in making an entrance
through one of the back windows into the concert-room.
The defendant, who was in the room at the time, seised
i
a quart pot, and struck the prosecutrix a violent blow on
the back of the head, from the effects of which she as
not yet recovered, and on the next day the defend nt
took the prosecutrix before the presiding magistratq at
Marlborough-street, charging her with keeping forcible
possession, but the magistrate dismissed the case.
Mr. WILDE, having addressed the jury, called several
witnesses for the defence. •

The CHAIRMAN having summed up the evidence,
The jury deliberated for a short time, and returnee
verdict of Guilty against the defendant.
The COURT ordered him to pay a fine of 5L to
Queen, and to be imprisoned until such fine be paid.
Mr:PRENDERGAST suggested to the Court that
only wish of the prosecutrix was, that be should
bound over in his own recognizance to keep the pea(
to which the Court assented, in addition to the fine.

MANCHESTER MUSICAL FES
TIVAL.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY. i
.We have now to record the second experiment on the
musical taste and feeling of the public of Manchester rind
the surrounding neighbourhood, an experiment whi h,
although it has not been attended with-all the susses it
i
deserves, has yet been successful in no inconsiderable
degree, as far as its main objects are concerned. •in Vie:
first place, it will readily be admitted, that a few indivi-
duals,
none of them wealthy, would not voluntarily
embark in an. undertaking of this magnitude, involving
a certain expenditure of from 1,200/, to 1,4001., at the
least, without some reasonable hopes, at all events, oI a
moderate remuneration. That no more than this degree
of compensation has been sought we think is tolerably
evident from the scale of outlay on the one hand, and
the low rates.d.admission on the other. The engage-
ments of the principal vocal performers were on the mbst
liberal scale--we mean so far as the public are con-
cerned, for .we know nothing of the terms of the per-
formers—and the audiences have had no reason :to
complain, either that the quality or the quantity !of
their entertainment has been at all stinted. Indeed,
if anything, there has been a little too much in
point of quantity arising from the various principals wish-
ing each to do certain pieces. On this score, at all events,
no one will deny that the public has been satisfied, if not.
sated, with the feast. The engagement of Herr Ernst.
is another proof of the 'desire to give the public of Man-
chester an opportunity of hearing the highest talent in a
particular branch of art, and that in a way hitherto
unprecedented in a provincial town ; for this great'
'artiste has scarcely been heard, as yet, in London, and
came over from the continent expressly to play at
our festival. We say, then, that the public generally
are indebted to the projectors for a rich musical enter-
tainment which could not, under other circumstances,
have been enjoyed ; and to this extent the experiment
is a successful one. In another respect it has also been
eminently successful, for it has .shoWn, what, indeed,
many knew before, but what the most sceptical must
now admit, that Manchester possesses both choral and
instrumental performers in sufficient numbers, and of
adequate ability, to give the finest musical productions
of any age in a style that would shame some festivals of
higher pretensions, and with a much larger,expenditure.
With the exception of the six principal singers, the con-
ductor, Herr Ernst, Mr. Howell, and one or two others,
in all, about a dozen, all the choir and orchestra were
collected from this town and its immediate neighbour-
hood. Here, then, is an affluence of materiel capable of
being applied in combination to the production of the
grandest effects in the whole range of Musical art.
As one pleasing and striking instance of the enthusiasm
'felt by working men in these musical meetings we may
mention that a party of five or six actually walked toH
this town from uddersfied, a distance of twenty-four
miles, in order to be present at the concert on Monday
evening. They had imagined that, like former festivals,
it would be a morning performance, and so started on
Sunday night and walked all 'night. They were at the
doors of the Free.. Trade Hall by five o'clock on Monday.
evening, desirous to know where they were to sit ; and
they said that they should have to leave again " after
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' On Monday Morning some of the principals, had a sort
of- rehearsal in the hall. Herr Ernst tried the effect of
his violin, which was heard distinctly to the farthest part
of the room, both on the floor and in the galleries. 'A
singular incident occurred during this rehearsal. Miss
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whether
keys of the piano, and immediately a shrink—we sup-.
pose we may say a. genuine contralto shriek—rang
through the hall. Sir Henry Bishop turned round on
the fair cantatrice is great amazement, an emotion par-
taken by all the other parties on the orchestral platform.
was
trying
he was in tune, she struck the
one ()flier songs ; and, in
On an examination, it proved that Miss Hawes, by strik-
ing the instrument, had excited the.:rage of a wasp,
which immediately stung her hand. How the insect calve
.to .be in sucha situation, and at this season of the year,
we,must leave to the naturalists ,to discuss and' deter-
. mine ; but,.at.all events, one line of. a well=known song
would doubtless occur to the memory of the fair artiste--
..
"-Siiine. bee had stung it newly.":
We understand that she suffered considerable pain from'
the puncture for several-tours afterwards.

MONDAY EVENING.-CONCERT OF GACLIED MUSIC.
The hall filled up better than we had anticipated, the