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

PROMISSORY NOTES.

(From Last Night's Gazette.)
An account of the Average Aggregate Amount of Promis-
sory Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been
in circulation in the United Kingdom, distinguishing those
circulated by the Bank of England, by Private Banks, and
by Joint-Stock Banks, in England and Wales, by the Banks
in Scotland, by the Bank of Ireland, and by all other Banks
in Ireland, and of the Average Amount of Bullion in the
Bank of England, during the four weeks ending the 30th day
of March, 1844, pursuant to the Act of 4th and sth Vic-
toria, cap. 50 :

IGVGLAND.
Bank of England
Private Bank 4,983,646
Joint-Stock Banks 3,502,363
SCOT AND.
Chartered, Privats, and Joint-Stock Banks 2,610,712

ZEELAND.
Bank of Ireland.
Private and Joint-Stock Banks

Total
Bullion in the Bank of En land ... ...E16,322,000
HENRY L. WICKHAM.
Stamps and Taxa*, April 12, 1844.

COURSE OF EXCii.t.:
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotteniam 2U. 12 6i
Antwerp 26 0
flamburgh M.B. 13:15
Altona l3 13
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70
Ditto, 3 months 23 95
Marseilles
Bonrdeaux 26 0
Frankfort on Maine 1221
Petersburgh, 3Us 36i
Berlin
Vienna, effee. 11. 3 M 956
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36i
Cadiz
Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36
&Tale —

GI...—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn
Genoa 25 95
Milan
Venice 47
Naples 39
Palermo, per oz ll7
Lisbon s3i
Oporto s3i
Rio Janeire 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Avre,l
NewTork;2ldyssight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, FEE OF.
Foreign Gold, bare £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 91
Silver in Bars 0 4 111

WESTMINSTER ADJOURNED
sk.:SSIONS.

(Before Mr. WALESBY and a full Bench of Magistrates.)
Yesterday John Cowley surrendered to take his trial
for an assault on Mrs. 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 Bit 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 enterin,,,,: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, ecnanyanied 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 houie, 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, soized
a quart pot, and struck the prosecutrix a violent blow on
the back of the head, from the effects of which she has
not yet recovered, and on the next day the defendant
took the prosecutrix before the presiding magistrate 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 Cirautmari having summed up the evidence,
The jury deliberated for a short time, and returned a
verdict of Guilty against the defendant.
The COURT ordered him to pay a fine of 5/. to the
Queen, and to be imprisoned until such fine be paid.
Mr. PRENDERGAST suggested to the Court that the
only wish of the prosecutrix was, that he should be
bound over in his own recognizance to keep the peace ;
to which the Court assented, in addition to the fine.

MANCHESTER MUSICAL FES-
TIVAL.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY.
We have now to record the second experiment on the
musical taste and feeling of the public of Manchester and
the surrounding
neighbourhood, an experiment which,
although it has not been attended with all the success it
deserves, has yet been successful in no inconsiderable
degree, as far as its main objects are concerned. In the
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 1,2001. to 1,4001., at the
least, without some reasonable hopes, at all events, of 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 of admission on the other. The engage-
ments of the
principal vocal performers were on the most
liberal scale--ss e 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 puhlic 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 Lrnst, 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 to
this town from Huddersfied, a distance of twenty-four
miles, in order to be present at the concert on Monday
evening. They bad 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
St. Cecilia," and to cross Standedge Moor that night.
If this be not genuine enthusiasm, not to be surpassed
by that of any fanatiee per la musk', we are much
mistaken.
Onmorning
some of the principals had a sort
ofrehearsal Herr Ernst tried the effect of
Monday
in th
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
Maria B. Hawes was trying one of her songs ; and, in
e ha
order to know whether she was in tune, she struck the
keys of the piano, and immediately a shriek—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.
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 came
to be in such a 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—
" Some bee had stung it newly."
We understand that she suffered considerable pain from_
the puncture for several hours afterwards.
SIONDAY EVE)7IIIO.--CONCrnOf SICZED MUSIC.
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