The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-04 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, -JULY 4; 1644.

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FOXEZON.

The King and Queen of Naples landed at Malta on the
24th ult. The steamer, having their Majesties on board,
reached the mouth of La Valletta -Great Harbour at five,
when Fort St. Angelo fired a Royal salute of 21 guns, which
was followed by similar salutes from her Majesty's ship For-
midable (bearing Vice-Admiral Sir E. Owen's flag), the
Ceylon (bearing Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis's flag), and the
Aigle corvette. The Neapolitan steamer Ercole returned the
compliment. Their Majesties enjoyed this spectacle from the
bridge connecting the paddle-boxes. After viewing the dif-
ferent public establishments they left on the 26th for Lam-
pedosa and Parlermo.
In the French Chamber of Peers on Monday, Count Mol6
spoke in strong terms against the vote of the Chamber of
Deputies, which forbids Members of either Chamber to
take part in railroad companies, either, as contrac-
tors or administrators. The speech was received with great
applause by the Chamber, and a feeling was expressed that
Count Mol6 was the last to whom a charge of corruption
could apply.
The Cartsrhue Gazette contains a letter from Hamburgh,
which states that the King of Prussia is ex-pected. to pay a
.visit in the middle of August to the Landgrave of Hesse-
Homburg. It adds that his Majesty will proceed from thence
to the banks of the Rhine, and stay for some weeks at the
Castle of Stolzenfels, near Coblentz.
The Patric, of Monday evening, says—" A report was
current at the Chainber of Deputies, this afteinoon, that the
Ministry has received accounts from Africa, according to
which Marshal Bugeaud has entered the territory of Morocco
and experienced more resistance than he had calculated on."
The Gazette de France states that the Duke d'Esears,
whose papers were seized a few days ago, underwent an in-
terrogatory before a Juge d'lnstruction on Saturday.
By the last accounts from Switzerland we learn that -the
Extraordinary Diet had been sitting for three days, and that
a very warm discussion Was going on respecting the recent
events in the Valais, but no vote of importance had been
come to. We have since learnt that the Extraordinary Diet
had closed, but the ordinary diet is now sitting.
M. Cardero, who was formerly political chief at. Badajoz,
was arrested in Madrid on the 23th, and sent, without trial,
to the Canary Islands. His arrest was effected by ordersfrOm
Barcelona, and he is said to have been connected with an ex-
tensive conspiracy in the provinces.
The Journal du Havre states from Hayti, May 28, that the
new Government was to be constituted on different. bases
from the last. A Federal Government, like that of the United
States, was spoken of, and negotiations were to be opened at
Port-au-Prince on the subject. - The Ex-President Riviere,
and his first Minister, Ilerard Dumesle, had received sentence
of banishment, and were to proceed to Jamaica.

34.A.W AND POLIC.M.
In the Central Criminal Court R,ibert Edwards,- a gentle-
manly looking young man, twenty-one years Of age, sur-
rendered to take his trial, on a charge of cutting and wound-
ing John Roche, with intent to do him some grievous bodily
harm. In another count he was charged with an assault
only. The jury returned a verdict of an assault only, and he
was sentenced to one mouths' imprisonment.
William Henry Hotham, a young man of respectable ap-
pearance, Was indicted for stealing, on the sth of May last,
a mare of the value of 251., the proper!), of John Davis. Mr.
Davis was examined; and on his cross-examination by Mr.
Clarkson, it was elicited that a conversation had:passed be-
tween them relative to payment, upon which the Learned
Judge stopped the case, and directed a verdict ofacquittal.
Mary Wright, aged 18, and Hart Neale, 50, were indicted
for stealing divers gold and silver coins from the person of
Mr. Moore, and acquitted. They were again indicted and
convicted of stealing a hat and some apparel, belonging to
the same Prosecutor.- Upon inquiry it turned out that Neale
keeps a house to which poor sailors are lured for the purpose
of plundering them of their property. It was also proved
that both the prisoners had been convicted of a similar
offence. The Court sentenced Neale to be transported for
ten years, and Wright for seven years. The latter prisoner
wept aloud on Learing her sentence.
At the'Guildford sessions, Reuben Hunt, 35, was convicted
of stealing a large quantity of brass, the property of Lord
Hotham and Sir G. H. F. Berkley, and sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment with hard labour. •
Samuel Salter, a bootmaker, . living in Gloucester street,
Haggerstone, and-Mary Salter, his wife, were committed to
take their trial for neglecting and otherwise cruelly maltreat-
ing their child, Emma Salter, a little girl only six years old.
Couirr. —r.asuxolv.a.niun.
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• The Queen Dowager is expected to return to this country,
from visiting her illustrious relatives at Meiningen and Wei-
mar, about the 20th of the ensuing month.
The Earl and Countess of Beverley have issued cards for
a grand entertainment to their Royal Highnesses the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge on Thursday re'nnight, the 18th
instant.

The Earl and Countess of Kinnoul received a distinguished
party to dinner last evening at Hampden House.
Earl and Countess Fortescue entertained a select circle at
dinner last evening at their residence in Grosvenor-square.
The Earl and Countess Brownlow entertained the Duke of
Wellington, Marquis of Salisbury, Marquis of Granby, Earl
and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, Sir
Robert Peel, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, Viscount
Curzon, Viscount Alford, Mr. J. M. and Lady Blanche Bat-
four, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, 'Lady Georgiana Kerr,
Hpn. C. and Mrs. Cust, and a distinguished circle at dinner,
last evening, at their mansion in Belgrave-square.
The Earl and*Countess-of Wilton gave a grand dinner to a
numerous and distinguished circle, at their family residence,
in Grosvenor-square, last evening, when the Marquis and
Marchioness of Exeter, Marquis of Worcester, Varquis and
Marchioness of Douro, Marquis and Marchioness of Aber-
corn, Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl Bathurst, Earl
and Countess Cowper, Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst,
&c., were among the guests.
Baron and Baroness Rothschild's dinner party last evening,
at their residence on the Terrace, Piccadilly, comprised his
Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van der
Weyer,Viscount and Viscountess Pork onby, Earl and Countess
of Morley, Lord Edward Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce,
Baroness Rothschild, Baron M. Rothschild, &c.
Lady Peel and family-have returned to Whitehall-gardens,
from Drayton Manor, Staffordshire.
The Earl and Countesi of Chesterfield returned to Ches-
terfield House, May -fair, last evening, from Bretby-park,
Ashby.-de-la=Zouche, where they have been staying since
Saturday. The Countess's party, announced for last evening
did not take place, on account of her Majesty's concert at
Buckingham Palace.
The marriage of Lord Charles Wellesley and Miss Pierre-
point, which was appointed to have been solemnised on
Saturday next, is postponed for a few days.
Married yesterday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, by the
Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Lord Alexander George
Russell, youngest son of the late Duke -of Bedford, to Anne •
Emily, youngest daughter of the late Sir Leonard Worsley
Holmes, Bart!, of Westover,-Isle of Wight, in the presence of
a numerous circle of relatives and friends.

On Wednesday afternoon the Dowager Duchess of Bed-
ford gave a fete, at her villa at Campdcn-hill, to above 500
personages of rank and distinction, and the juvenile members
of the aristocracy.

MUNE IT AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
• - CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A good business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday,
at very firm rates. Sales about 7,000 bags, including 1,000
On speculation, and 500 for export; 800 bags Pernam, 511
to 6}d: 700 Maranham, '4Ad. to' 50. ; 200 Bahia, Md. to
61. ; 500 Surat, 2lid. to did. ; 100 La Guayra, 5d..; and the
rest American, 4d. to 64(1. Grand Junction, Birmingham and
Liverpool, and Manchester Shares were in good request, but
others dull. Birmingham and Gloucester, 94A ; Dublin and
Di ugheda, 771; Eastern Counties, Registered, 134 ; Edin-
burgh, Leith, and Newhaven, Bonds, 141 i ; Grand Junction,
Half, 114; Great Western, Fifths, 234 ; Lancaster and Car-
lisle, 5 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 227 ; Ditto, Half, 1111 •,London and Birmingham, 220; Ditto, 32/. Shares, 364 ;
Ditto Quarter, 25; Midland C-ounties, 95; Ulster, 37. -
The papers, &c. by the Overland Mail have been received
to- day. The mercantile. accounts are not very favourable,
but yet are considered as good as the last.
. Stocks are firm, though dull, this morning. Consols 98L- 4
for the opening. Exchequer Bills realise 735. to 765. pre-
ini um. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 1024 to 4.
The animation which prevailed yesterday in the Foreign
Market has quite subsided. Spanish Five per Cents. are 23A,
and the Three per Cents. 33-4, being rather flatter. Mexican,
kept up at 35-I II; and Chilian at 104 to 105. Brazilian,
New, were firm at )0i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
obtain. 60g to 4.
Shares are at full quotations, and the northern lines have
risen. .French are also better again.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the OUicial List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
• 534 per Cent. I&,tuced Annuities 102% 4
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. Ib6o 12%
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 - U 5-16
India Bonds I'ooo1'000 94
Ditto under 1,000 94
Consols for Open ug 98%%N
Exchequer Bills, I%d. 114 d
1,0001. ..... ....,.......
..... _ ........... 7 6 pm.
- 5001
............ 75 pm.
• Ditto Sinall ........... 76 pin.
Ditto. Advertised„..., — Pm-
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New Bonds 1829 and 18:1/
" . Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent 105_104
Mexicin Bones, 0437, 5 per Cent. . ...........
. Ditto for the Account 3551
Ditto Deferred Stock 15%
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 23%
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 25; per Cents fol 34
-- . PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. .
It A ILWANS. PAID. PER SOA RE.
Bristol and Exeter
Eastern Counties .......* ......... . 23 ......... 11%
. Ditto New Registered 81. 6s. Sd.
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O — - to
Dit o % Shares ............:i...«.. 12%
Great Western ...........».«....»,. 75 12651
Ditto 14 Shires ... ...... . 5O - 75
London and Birmingham. . 100 .........22214
Ditto New Thirds '
London and Blackwall 165;
London and Brighton •
London and South Western , - 41% ......
Ditto Eighths
London and Croydon
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
_. . ...... to
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 21 '....
North British
Norwich and Brandon
Trent Valley ........«.....
York and North Midland
Ditto % Shares 2s' , 52% to
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux... 1
Paris and Orleans 2O ......... 39%
Paris and Rouen 2O ........ 38%
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint Stock
111.Als.MIIESTER STOCK EtxciiANGE, JULY 3.—ltere has
been rather more business doing to-day, but without any
material alteration in prices.—Eastern unties, Registered,
134 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 56 54; Ditto, Quarters,
3i premium ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 3A ; Man-
chester and Buxton, 10s. and Bs. 9d. premium ; Trent Valley,
8 i ; Manchester and LiVerpool District Bank, 10 13-16.

FiaE IN OXFORD-STIZEET.—Late last night a fire
of somewhat an alarming character broke out in the eaten•
sive range of premises known as Stratford House, situate at
No. 161, Oxford-street, in the occupancy of Messrs. Taylor
and Morel, jewellers and dealers in fancy goods. An instant
alarm was raised, and in the course'pf a few minutes a great
body of tke D division of police were on the spot, as well as
the St. Maryleboneparish-cngine. That part of the premises
where the fire originated was, with its contents, destroyed,
the adjoining apartments much damaged by fire and water,
and the ceilings underneath greatly damaged by water. The
loss is fully covered by insurances in the Stin and Guardian
Fire-offices.

THE CONVICT DALmAs.—Yesterday afternoon Drs.
Sutherland and Monro again visited the convict Dalmas, by
the direction of the Right Hon. the Home Secretary. Neither
his daughters nor any other visitors had been admitted to see
him. This, perhaps, was the more necessary, as at the time
of Dr. Sutherland's visit on Tuesday, the convict 'was natu-
' rally excited. Dalmas was again conducted into the pre-
' sence of Drs. Sutherland and Monro, by the principal turn-
key, Mr. Stiles, and he was dressed in the same manner as
on the preceding day. The interview lasted nearly an hour.
Seveipl questions were put to the convict, the whole of which;
we are informed, he answered in the leost composed manner.
Dahlias, if possible, appeared more cheerful than at the in-
terview on Tuesday, and conducted himself with the most
remarkable fortitude. Both Baron Gurney and the Home
Secretary are now entirely satisfied with the evidence, which
has undergone the most searching investigation since Satur-
day last at the Home-office. Sir James Graham having
stated that he would recommend the• convit as au object of
the clemency of the Crown, provided sufficient and justifiable
grounds were produced to warrant the Right Hon. Gentle-
man in so doing, Drs. Sutherland and Monro. again examined
the authorities of the prison, who had been in attendance on
the prisoner both before and after the trial, relative to his
general conduct and behaviour. The physicians will make -
their report to the Home Secretary this day (Thursday),
and it is not improbable that the result will be coinmuni-
eated to the High Sheriff the same, evening. At any rate,
the fate of the convict will be early determined and an-
nounced to him on Friday.

POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMEICTS.—III OUT paper last
week we stated, that after the 6th instant, the mails going
northwards from Lonthin would start an hour earlier in the
mornings and evenings, and that there would be no altera-

tion of Elie time of the mails leaving Edinburgh, Glasgow,
and the intermediate post towns. However, it turns out that

further arrangements have been made; for the mails going
southwards from the metropolis of Scotland and other places
will start nearly two hours later. This arrangement will
aftbrd the people in the north an opportunity of answering
their London letters two hours earlier than usual, for now
they cannot do so within five or six hours after their arrival
in ,the north. The Post- office authorities are using their
best endeavours in facilitating the expeditious transit of let--
ters, which will be duly appreciated by the public.
fACENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL.--l'he dinner
of the supporters and subscribers to the funds by which this
school is partly supported, took place yesterday, at White
Conduit-house, Nntonville. It was very numerously at-
tended, nearly 1,200 persons sitting down to the good things
provided by Mr. Rouse, the proprietor, beneath an immense
temporary building of wood and canvass, decorated with
flagsolevices, and pictures emblematical of benevolence and
charity, evergreens, flowers, &c. In the gallery were some
hundreds of ladies who enlivened the proceedings by their
presence. The musical arrangements were under the direc-
tion of Mr. Ashton, assisted by upwards or a dozen profes-
sional vocalists. Mr. Toole, the toast-master, kept the order
of the drinking, and announced in his usual manner the com-
mands of the chairman, Mr. W. Wigram, of the firm of Reid
and Co., supported by Mr. Octavius Wigram, Mr. W. Reid,
&c. There were also present many persons of high respecta-
bility connected with the beer and spirit trades. The healths
of the Queen, of Prince Albert, and of the other members
man, and the toast of the evening, "Success to the School,"
&
Family, of the Army And Navy, of the Chair-
l-unk with great loyalty and enthusiasm, and se-
veralo fe., et h Rs werecp ,eye
drunk
thes w
ere made, but so great was the noise of
thousands of veiees, that excepting to those close to the
speakers, it• was impossible -to catch the words of the
speakers. The amount pf subscriptions was considerably
above 1,0001., the chairman giving 501., and Messrs. Reid
and Co. 1001., it being the thirty-second subscription of an
equal sum. In the course of the evening the children edn-•
cated at the school entered the room, and one of the boys
spoke an addresswritten for the occasion. The whole of the
boys and girls than sang a hymn, and retired. The company
did not separate till several hours after.
GUANO.—The most easy and simple method of de-
tecting adulteration in guano, and also ascertaining the
quality of the article, is the following :—Take four pounds of
guano, and add one quart of water for every pound of guano ;
stir them well together, -and then let them stand for a few
days; it the guano be good, it will float an egg or a potatoe,
and if it float well, add water in half pints until the egg or
potatoe sinks to the bottom; and that guano which floats an
egg with the greatest quantity of water is the best. If any
earth or sand has been mixed with the guano it will be found
at the bottom of the vessel.—Lancaster Guardian.
SERIOUS ILLNESS OF MR. J. SCHOLEFIELD, M.P.
—We regret to hear that serious apprehensions arc enter-
tained of the ultimate restoration to health of the Honour-
able Member for Birmingham, who, we lament to state, is so
dangerously ill that his family has been summoned to his
chamber. "We understand that the Honourable Gentleman
was seized with a paralytic attack on Monday week, the
24th ult., the result of which has been the loss of the use of
one side. On Sunday last the worst fears were entertained,
but on Monday his medical attendants considered him some-
what better. On inquiry yesterday we were informed that
Mr. Scholefield had passed a restless night, and was rather
worse: Mrs. Scholetleld and the members of her family are
in town with the Hon: Gentleman, as also the family physician
from Birmingham.

FROLICS or A TAR AT DEVONFORT.—On Wed-
nesday evening a tipsy sailor, lately paid off from the
Indus, was observed pursuing a zigzag course towards
Mutton Cove, in which he several times lost his equili-
brium and embraced mother earth. lie, however, scram-
bled as far as the quay, when, to the horior of some and
amusement of others, over he went, clones and all on,
and struck out across Cremil ferry. After he had swam
three parts over (nearly half a mile), he came back and
made his way up into the town ; but shortly returned,
and stripped to his trousers, and took another voyage
towards the opposite shore. On landing again he be-
came quarrelsome, and got into a fight, when he was
seized and taken to his lodgings. A crowd which had
assembled were highly delighted at Jack's novel mode of
enjffing himself.
.• TR 8.--IR Bury gaol there are
Zes°Lof arson, and one for sending
nine p
threatening letters ; at Ipswich gaol ten for arson, and
two for sending threatening letters ; at Beecles House
of Correction, four prisoners for arson, and one for
Brisko'inßeErsS olnNchSau
threatening to burn ; waiting for trial at the next assizes.
The Police Gazette contains a notice of the apprehen-
sion of a mon named Abraham Farren, on the 7th
instant, by the Nottingham constabulary, on the
charge of setting tire to a stack, belonging to Henry
Beevor, L'sq.,
of Barnley-moor, in the same county.
He is suspected of having committed similar offences
elsewhere, and he states that he has travelled all over
Essex and Suffolk, and that one of his companions
was transported in Essex, for incendiarism. He says he
is a woollen cloth weaver, and a native of Rodley, near
Leeds. Heis remanded for further examination.—On
Saturday last, all old man named Francis Bye, was
brought before the county Magistrates at the Shire-hall,
Bury, and charged with hawking lueifer matches with
out a license. lie said,he belonged to Cawston Wood-
row. The fact was clearly proved by one of the rural
force, and the magistrates said they were determined to
put down the practice, so far at least as unlicensed
hawkers were concerned, and would convict in every
case that was brought before them, where the evidence
was sufficient. Bye was sent to the Castle for ono
month's hard labour.—Essex Herald.
A QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE.—The sloth, which has
just arrived in this country, is described to have four
stomachs: He has four -good •ieasons to congratulate him-
self, then, - that the Zoological-gardens is not a_ poor-law
ualon.--Punch.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.-
DISrATCHES FOIt TANOFER.—The Sydenbam steam-sloop,
Licat.-CommanderMapletnn, having had her defects repaired
at Portsmouth, is ordered to Devonport, whence she will
proceed to Tangier with dispatches for the British Consul. If
' her services be riot required by that functionary, she will go
to Gibraltar, and be .under the command in chief of Vree-
Admiral Sir E. Owen, at Malta. As we stated previously to
her being comml;sioned, she will be employed as a packet-
boat on the Mediterranean station, but more especially on the
western part, and by the consul at Tangier,
The Albion, 90, Captain W. Lockyer, C. 8., is under orders
at Cork to hold herself ready for sea at the shortest notice.
Herdestination. it is said, will be Gibraltar. - -
The Dee,-.Steam troop-vessel; Master Comma:rider:J. IL
Laen, is employed conveying the-Royal Marines to their re-
spective divisions, and will then wait orders at Chatham. .
The Tartarus, •steam-sloop, Captain Wolfe, has arrives} at
Cork, from Bombay.
The Madagascar, 44, Captain Foote.—By-.letters 'from-this
frigate to the 10th May,. we hear that sbnitas to leave the
Cape de Verde Islands on the 6th of this month for England
to be paid off.

The Penelope, 22, steam-frigate, Captain Jones, was off
Cape Mount on the .sth of April, and was about to proceed
to Boa Vista.

The Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane, has gone to Cape
Mount. •

The Spy, 3, brigantine, Lieutenant-Commander Woold-
ridge; is ordered from her cruising ground to Ascension, and
Peace to Spithead.
The• Sealark, 10, Commander-Gooch, was on her way to
Calabar and Benin, to relieve the Spy.
The Fox, 42, Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood, Bart., has re-
ceived her sailing orders at Devonport, for Calcutta. The
Fox takes out two full-length portraits of her Majesty as
presents to the Emperor of China.
. .

The old hreakwater ligbt ship is to be fitted at Devonport
for a tank vessel.

PROMOTIONS.

Mates—George Hancock (1840) from the Excellent, for
his proficienq in -,naval studies; and William L. Partridge
(1839) of the -Dido, to the rank of Lieutenant.:

APPOINTMENTS,

'iairman----(1829) to the Warspite,
taking passage to the Mediterranean in the •Sydenham, vice
George Goldfinch (Ist) invalided.
Second. Master—George S. Hall, of the Sydenham, acting
master of the Geyser.