The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-08 00:00:00

THE SITN, LO:Likni&lst9,,koNt_rt Ay nvENTING3 APRIL 1844,

Association Mt. O'CONNELL thus expresses himself on
the subject of the Bill in question :—" That the te-
nant-at- will clause in the English Reform Bill, com-
monly called the CHANDOS clause, has been found, by
experience, to work most mischievously, and, in fact, to
destroy the independence of the English county voters.
It is the worst species of franchise known in England,
and, therefore, is brought forward as the principal
franchise to be given to Ireland ; while the low rates
of franchise existing in England have been most un-
justly taken away from the people of Ireland, and
are, with a similar injustice, still retained from them.
That another objection to the present Bill is, that it
makes no provision for an increase of the representa-
tion of the Irish nation." When these objections
come to be repeated by " the convicted conspirator"
week after week ; when, dating from a prison, he en-
forces his objections by those impassioned and argu-
mentative appeali to the feelings and intelligence of
his countrymen, of which he is so consummate a
master, it is not difficult to foresee the effect which
this martyr to the cause of Ireland will produce on
the popular mind, and the additional—and perhaps
also we might add, inextricable—difficulties in which
he will involve his Ministerial opponents. We can
scarcely anticipate any other fate for Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S Irish Franchise Bill, than that which a 3 ear
or two since befel Lord STANLEY'S Registration
Bill. As Mr. O'CONNELL upset the one, so will he
now up=et the other, leaving to Government nothing
but the sorry consolation of knowing that they have
made him a " convicted conspirator."

The repeal of the stamp duties on newspapers has
been carried in the Chainber of Deputies by a ma-
jority of 6, the numbers being, for the motion brought
forward by M. de MONTLAVILIA.:, 146; against it,
140. The proposal was strongly opposed by the
Alinister of Finance on behalf of the Cabinet, princi-
pally on the ground that the revenue could not spare
so large a'sum as that raised by the duty.

We cannot allow the finding of the Coroner's jury
on the late "Extraordinary Suicide in Fleet street,"
to pass out of public notice, without expressing our
entire concurrence in the rebuke which that verdict
embodied. So far as we can cvllect the facts from a
perusal of the evidence, we certainly can arrive at no
other but the appalling conclusion it so emphatically
records. " That the deceased (a young woman)
committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary in-
sanity, induced by the cruel and heartless conduct"
—of a person who was described as a 8.D., and a cu-
, rate in holy orders in the Church of England—is
the declaration upon oath of twelve respectable jurors
resident in the immediate neighbourhood within
which this catastrophe has happened. An evil sign
of evil times—unhappily not an isolated one, but of a
class of recent cases whose name is "Legion." The
young man thus disgracefully reflected upon—having
very coolly and circumstantially admitted a former
guilty intimacy with the deceased—so deported him-
self in the course of his examination and testimony
that the "finding" we have already quoted proceeded
in these words :—" and we are compelled to express

There is little intelligence from Italy in these
papers beyond what has been already published.
A letter from Stockholm, dated the 22d ult., com-
municates the death of the KING'S foster brother,
General CAMPS, and gives the details of the post
mortem examination of the remains of the late Mo-
narch :

"General Camps, the foster brother of the late King,
and who had fur many years been one of his Aides-de-
Camp, has closely fullovved his master to the tomb. He
died the day before ye sterday. Of all the French who
came into Sweden with the Prince Royal in 1810, the
General was the last survivor. The obsequies of the
deceased monarch are announced for April 27. Our
journals publish the report of the autopsy, made by the
celebrated Retzius, in the presence of all the witnesses
required by the ceremonial in such cases. Externally
there is nothing anormal but the sears of a gun-shot
wound in the head, and of a wound in the thigh from a
lance; but it is ascertained that there was in the brain
emollitio elba, or a softening of the fornix ; some serous
effusions and morbid adhesions, and in the arteries of
the lower members the ravages of the gangrena senilis.'
The process of embalment is now going on. General
Count de Lowenheim (our late minister at Vienna), is to
be the bearer of the letters to the King of the French,
and othi,r generals will carry them to London, Vienna,
St. Petersbuigh, Copenhagen, and Munich. The
States-Genetal are about to be convoked. The King
will be crowned in Sweden in the course of the summer,
and later in Norway."
PAuts AND ORLEANS RAILWAY.---The following is a
return of the traffic on the Paris and Orleans Railway,
for the week ending the 2d of April:-
22,075 Passenger 5....
Luggage
Carriages and horses 1,552 •
Goods 27,572 65

our strong disapprobation of the flippant and unfeel-
ing manner in which that gentleman's evidence was
given on Monday last." The Coroner, too, in sum-
ming up, said that " he could not but find fault with
this person's conduct towards the deceased, as ad-
mitted by himself on Monday last, who, on her ap-
pealing to him for his inttrcession, said, 'lf you
confess that 3ou have robbed my brother, I will see
what I can do for you.'" No evidence was adduced
to lay any ground of probability for the cruel charge
involved in this insidious offer. The counsel for the
Divinity Bachelor affirmed that his conduct to the
unhappy woman had been all that was generous and
considerate. The evidence of a party who overheard
the dispute between him and her on the night
preceding the morning of the suicide, by reason
of the thinness of the partition which separated
the room of the listener from that cf the liti-
gants, was direct as to language addressed to the de
ceased by the rung clergyman (!) of the most
brutal and callous character. The whole story, as
given by the young man himself, confirms the im-
pression avowed by the jury of the utter heartlessr.ess
and cruelty with which he had conducted himself in
this affair; and one feels that a more awful responsi-
bility attaches to him on account of the premature
fate upon which the deceased precipitated herself, than
even of the nature of the connexion which he had
formed with her.

Total for the week 116,977 f. 76c.
Total receipts from the
commencement of the
year 1,233,578 f. Ole.
THE BOURSE—SATURDAY, APRIL 6.
First Dighest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents ..
Three per Cents B3 05 .. 83 05 .. 82 95 .. 83
Bank of France 3130 ..3135 ..3130 ..3130
Lai-Rae Bank, I,ooof. Sharesllss ..1165 • .1155 ..1165
5,000 f. 6haressl4s ..5150 ..5145 ..5150
Belgian Bank..
1842 1087 50 ..1087 50 ..1087 50 —lOB7 50
Belgian Fives, ex div • • 1021 .. 102-2 .. 1021 .. 1021
1840, ex div.. 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051
1842, ex die.. 107; .. 1071 • • 1071 • • 1071
Dutch Two-und-a-11a1f..... 61 .. 61 • • 61 • • 61
Sp4unsh Active •• • • 341 .. 341 • • 341 • • 341
Threes •••••• - • • • • • 37i • • 371, •• • 361 • • 361
Passive .• •.•• • • • • 61 • • Gt • • 61 • • 61
Old Deferred ••• . • . 71 • • 71 • • 7 • • 71
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 461 461 • • 461 • • 461
Neapolitan ..... ........... 101 30 .. 101 30 • • 101 30 .. 101 30
Roman 106 .. 106 • • 106 .• 106

We cannot avoid the conclusion, that this last case
of clerical delinquency—like the scandal (with which
the public has been made, within these few weeks, so
familiar) of the Rev. Mr. MARSH'S incontinency, and
the Rev. Mr. DAY'S detestable propensity for cutting
and maiming his neighbours' sheep—calls impera-
tively upon the hierarchy of the Established Church
really to " set their house in order," at least to the
extent of better regulating the moral and private cot/-
duct of inferior functionaries. It is all very well for
Primates and Bishops to deplore the insufficiency of any
effective powers in the heads of the Church to enforce
moral discipline and decorous, pious, and orderly
living among their clergy; but the Church labours
under one liability common to all other institutions
connected with the State ;—if she be not speedily
reformed from within, she will be rudely, but exten-

sively reformed from without. Instead of attempting
to juggle the public by such a Bill as that now before
Parliament, professing to regulate and remodel the
_ _

Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, Sir ROBERT PEEL should
originate some bona-fide measure maturely adapted to
such a purpose; and entrust its conduct (if he cannot
retain its management himself) to hands beyond the
reach of suspicion or the imputation of interested mo-
tives. This question must again be brought before
Parliament and subjected to the most earnest and
searching discussion. In like manner, if the Primates
and Bishops of the Church be not in the meantime
able to devise some better tests of moral competency
and personal conduct prior to the ordination of clerks,
or some surer guarantees for the due maintenance of
these qualifications afterwards, the Church itself
will speedily lose much of its hold on the
affections and respect -of a vast proportion
of its present flock. The cases of delin-
quency to which we more particularly allude
are, we freely admit, disgraceful exceptions to
the general rule by which the demeanour of the
"order" is governed. But the truth is, that these ex-
ceptions hare become so numerous as to weary, to
disgust and resentment, the outraged patience of the
public. It is not in these times—in this country, at
least—that such offensive exhibitions of immorality
and misconduct, among a class to whom we are ac-
customed habitually to look for our examples of
"piety and holiness of living," can be thus repeated
with impunity. Society has little toleration to spare
for vices or follies which are so injurious to its own
best interests and private respectability. , But when
they who indulge in them, under circumstances, too,
that must necessarily bring the details of their cases
before tl:e public, are found in the ranks of our
clerical pastors, they must be classed among the most
inexcusable and most mischievous offenders against
public morals.

A report prevailed in Madrid that, on the birth-
day of CHRISTINA (the 27th inst.) an amnesty would
be proclaimed. Rumours are very prevalent of a serious
misunderstanding between NARVAEZ and M. Got-
ZALES BRAVO ; the former supports a return to an
absolute Government, and the continuance of martial
law ; the latter is disposed to resort to the forms of
the Constitution. The part taken by the QUEEN..
MOTHER will probably decide which of the two will
gain the ascendancy.
RONCALI has announced his entry into Carthagena,
in a dispatch to the Minister of War. He states
that the chiefs of the late insurrection have escaped
from the city, and that he has secured only a few of
the subordinates, whom he deems unworthy of the
bullets he had destined for the leaders.

The Three per Cents. were done at 361 at sixty
days, the Fives at 231 at sixty days.

The French funds were slightly affected on Satur-
day by a report that an attempt had been made on
the life of the Duchess of ORLEANS on the previous
day. The following account of the incident that gave
rise to the rumour is given in the Moniteur
" This morning (Friday), at the church of Chauchat,
a man, who was in the gallery, in front of that occupied
by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleans, made
some gestures which drew upon him the attention of the
persons placed in the church to keep order. At the mo-
ment that they were ordering the individual to quit the
church, he drew a very small dagger from his pocket,
without, however, appearing to have any intention of
using it. lie was taken out of the chapel, and recog-
racndovaesr, and
aGerwmhaonsebmy
enbtiratlbiacwuhle
who in
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greed.sid”es in
The account of the affair given by the Patrie rather
varies from the above :

" The commencement of the Bourse (says the Patrie)
was greatly agitated to-day. People who pretended to
be well informed, stated that the Duchess of Orleans had
escaped becoming the victim of an assassin in going to
pay her devotions at the new Evangylical church in the
Rue Chauchat—that a man,:armed with a puignard, had
rustled upon her, and that an officer in the service had

. . . .
warded off the blow by receiving it timseir. The ru- t restoring the credit of the country, and rendering simple ,•
'flour of such an attempt made' against a Princess so justice to their creditors.
jat;•!tly popular as her Royal Highness, created an im- 1 Indiana and Illinois are not now supposed to be able
mense 'sensation. The rumour at first Jon tired the to pay their interest punctuaFy without increasing the
Three 'per Cents. 25e., but fortunately the Pours° is net princip J, though even they might do someihilz toward
far from the Rue Chauehat, and as soon as the real , it ; but Pennsylvania cairns lea':e the excuse of in- ' ••',
trlith Wai kneyee. th{2 L„ eta, rose again to 813. II he f..;1- i ability. Her deli:', so long es it continues, will be 'et
lowing is the truth, according to int-eimation taken on cliargeaie only to utiwilliegi,e,—. One pertion of the
the spot :—A mall of about 50 years of ege, pretty well • Legislature would favour taxation, provid-A the puldie
dressed, had been pointed out to the police as being I works were to be sold ; another would go ,tor taxation if
furiously deranged. A peace -Officer seeing him enter they were not to be sold ; the Totes in either ease de-
the chureh where the Duchess of Orleans was, rushed I pending upon the carrying out of their own peculiar
to stop him. A struggle ensued, and the officer received views ;
,while still another . portion, and perhaps the
on the hand a blow from a poignard. He, however, largest, are in favour of such measures, and such only as
overcame the man, who was carried to a place in the are designed to secure their own re-election.
neighbourhood and searched, when another knife was SALES- AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 16. •
found upon him. The affair, as may be conceived, made 04,000 United States Sixes, 1862
a great sensation in the church, and the Princess, who 5,000 Ohio Sixes, 1860 b3o days 97
was ih a raised gallery, having asked what was the 10,000 Kentucky Sixes lO2
matter, was informed that a thief had b-en made pri- 5,000 Illinois Special Bonds
soner. But the rumour in travelling increased and im • 5,000 Indiana Lollar Bonds blo days 384
proved, and we know what it became by the time it 15,000 Pennsylvania Fives
reached the Bourse, when it so happened that they had 1,000 Alabama Fives
no other rumours of any kind to talk about." 10 shares Bank of State of New York B9
'Trustß atik ,
Company
Cincinnati
64
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The Messager publishes a long report from the sdo American Exchange Rink
Duke D'AtM rovnce
ALE, Commandant of the iof
' 10100 du°
Lafayette
Farmers'
25 do Canton Company - 391
d iti on
operations i n the i Ziban, ibtre ,
chain a n don 25
-21 do Ntaeh River Insurance Compary
the commencement
Constantine,orn m en c
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nt the
117
41 do Auburn and Rochester Railroad lO5
the Aures mountains. It appears that the army has ~ . • , ..
00 do New Jersey Reilroad
overrun all the oases known under the name of the
eofextre
1000 do M,diawk I,ailroad 5B
Ziban, in the first plains- of the desert, has driven off 100 do Harlem Railroad
the Caliph who governed the district in the name of 100 do Lone. Island Railroad
10 do No '• - mach and Worcester Railroad
ABD-EL-KADER, and dispersed the troops sent ,
.C.ACHANGE.—FOREIGN.—Therchas been a fair amount
against it. IN a rather sharp action that took place of business transacted in sterling bills at 101 to 108
at Mechoueche, the Duke de MONTPENSIER, who was closing at the latter rate. On Paris we quote sf. 322 ;
engaged with the army for the first time, was slightly
Am iterdam,39 to 39:1; Haniburgh, 35 to 35*; and Bremen
77i to 78 cents.
wounded in the face. •

PETE GUN OF TUE PRINCETON STEAMER.

The following hist,-,ry of the la, ge which, by its
bursting, oas the cause w the dreadful catastrophe on
b,iard the Unit,al st amer, eten, is given in-
the report of the Naval Curt of Ingiory appointed to
investigate the causes of the nt :
"In the year 1839 Captain Stockton, ben in Eng-
land, his attention was attracted to the extraordinary
and important improvements which had recently been in-
troduced into the manufacture of large masses of wrou:lht
iron, as a substitute for castiron, for objects which required
a combination of strength and adhesiveness, or tough
ness. Large shafts for steam-engines had been thus
fabricated, which experience had demonstrated to be
supelior in those qualifies which were desirable, to the
same articles manufactured of east iron.

" These circumstances appear to have led Captain
Stockton to consid,r the question how far the same ma-
terial might be employed in the construction of cannon
of large calibre. He appears to have been animated by
motires the most patriotic, stimulated by the laudable
desire of being himself instrumental in promoting the
honour of his country, and of elevating that brunch of the
eervice with which he was personally connected.
• " After much deliberation and several consultations,
with calculations furnished from the same quarter,
Captain Stockton determined upon the construction of
a gun of the proposed dimensions, for the purpose of
testing the opinions .of scientific men by the results of
experience. A cannon was accordingly made at the
Mersey works, of Yorkshire iron, which, being approved
of, was shipped to the United States. Having been pro-
perly prepared for the purpose, this gun was carried to
Sandy Hook and subjected to what was deemed the
proper test. • After the first firing, preparations were
made to mount the gun. In•doing this a crack was per•
ceived opposite the chamber, which induced Captain
Stockton to have the breech strengthened by putting
bands around it. These bands are represented as being
three- and-a-half inches in thiCkness. With this addi-

Goma strength given to the defective part of the gun, the
experiments were renewed, and the result w,,s a decided
conviction upon the minds of all connected with them,
that, in general, the anticipations of Captain Stocktor.
were perfectly"' realised ; and, secondly, that if a gun of
this construction should yield to the force of the trial, it
would be by a simple opening, and not, as in cast iron,.a
violent disruption and scattering of the fragments.
"The success of these experiments was such as to
decide Captain Stockton feithwiJi to direct the eon-
4ruction of another gnu of a similar charact,r, to be
made of American iron, which is usually regard! d as
• superior in strength and tenacity to the English iron.
This second gun (the same which exploded on board
the rrinceton) was constructed with a chamber similar
to that of the first gun, with an additional th;chness of
twelve inches at the breech—a difference, even if the
metal were only of equal goodness, far more than suffi-
cient to compensate fur the bands by which the first had
been fortified.
" Application was made to Colonel Bomford, of the
ordnance department of the army, who. it is well known,
has been profes.sionally occupied in ‘xperimenting upon
guns of a large calibre, and his opinion requested as to
the proper proof to which sueh a gun ought to be sub-
jected. The proof ste!gested by Colonel Bom'ord as a
suitable one, will be found in his letter of November 25,
1840, appended to the record. The new gun con-
structed by order Of Captain Stockton exce,A, d in di-
mension and weight, consequently, should also have
surpassed in strength that contemplated by Colonel
Bomford, they being of the same calibre, and the proof
to which this cannon was subjected was much more
set ere than what was proposed as• sufficient by that ex-
perienced officer."

The Aurora says, " the yuuns4 man sPnteneed to &.a.th
for aiding in the escape of a geadroutl slave has been
pardoned by the Governor of South Carolina. lie is,
however, to be pubhc'y whipped."