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

TOE SIN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1844.

Association Mr. O'CONNELL thus expresses himselfon
the subject of the Bill in'qu-estion•:—" 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 he repeated by " the convicted conspirator"
week after week ; when, dating from a prison, he en-
forces his objections by those impassioned and argu-
mentative appeals 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 upset the other, leaving to Government nothing
but the sorry consolation of knowing that they have
made him a " convicted conspirator."

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 vtrdict
embodied. So far as we can collect 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
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 himselt. on Monday last, who, on her ap-
pealing to him for his intercession, said, 'lf you
confess that you 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 of the liti-
gants, was direct as to language addressed to the de•
ceased by the young 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 heartiessnesi
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.

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. MARsn'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 con-
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 pf 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
anti 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 have 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 the public, are found in the ranks of our
clerical pastors, they must be classed among the mos
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
he proclaimed. Rumours are very prevalent of a serious
misunderstanding between NARVAEZ and M. Gors-
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-
MOTIIER will probably decide which of the two will
gain the ascendancy.

RoNcam 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 36i at sixty
days, the Fives at 23i 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-
HaTnhoveearc,
caonudnwt hoofstehriie eanfftaailrfacgiulvetniesbyartehdeepraatitgLd."
rus, as a German by birth, who in general resides in
varies from the above:—
rather

" The commencement of the Bourse (st ys the Pairie)
was greatly agitated to-day. People whc pretended to
be well informed, stated that the Duchess -of Orleans had
escaped becoming the victim Of an assassin in going to
pa) her devotions at the new Evangylicat church in the
Rue Chauchat—that a man,:armed with a "ignard, had
rushed upon her, and that an officer iq tho service had

warded off the blow by receiving it himself. - The ru4-
mOur of such an attempt made against a Princess so
justly popular as her Royal Highness, created an im-
mense sensation. The rumour at first lowered the
Three per Cents. 25c., but fortunately the Bourse is not
far from the Rue Chauchat, and as soon as the real
truth was known, the Funds rose again to 83. The fol-
lowing is the truth, according to information taken on
the spot :—A man of about 50 years of age, pretty well
dressed, had been pointed out to the police as being
furiously deranged. A peace officer seeing him enter
the church where the Duchess of Orleans was, rushed
to stop him. A struggle ensued, and the officer received
on the hand a blow from a poignard. He, however,
overcame the man, who was carried to a place in the
neighbourhood and searched, when another knife was
found upon him. The affair, as may be conceived, made
a great sensation in the church, and the Princess, who
was in a raised gallery, having asked what was the
matter, was informed that a thief had b. en made pri-
soner. But the rumour in travelling increased and im-
proved, and we know what it became by the time it
reached the Bourse, when it so happened that they had
no other rumours of any kind to talk about."

The Messager publishes a long report from the
Duke D'AUSIALE, Commandant of the province of
Constantine, on the expedition in the Ziban, and on
the commencement of the operations in the chain of
the Aures mountains. It appears that the army has
overrun all the oases known under the name of the
Ziban, in the first plains of the desert, has driven off
the Caliph who governed the district in the name of
Ann-EL-KADER, and dispersed the troops sent
against it. In a rather sharp action that took place
at Dlechoueche, the Duke de MONTPENSIER, who was
engaged with the army for the first time, was slightly
wounded in the face.

The repeal of the stamp duties on newspapers has
been carried in the Chamber of Deputies by a ma-
jority of 6, the numbers being, for the motion brought
forward by M. de MONTLAVILIX, 146; against it,
140. The proposal was strongly opposed by the
Minister 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.
'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 exathination of the remains of the late Mo-
narch :

" General Camps, the foster brother of the late King,
and who had for many years been one of his Aides-de-
Camp, has closely follosed his master to the tomb. He
died the day before yesterday. 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 scars 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
',maid() alba, 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
The process of embalment is now going on. General
Count de LoWenheim (our late minister at Viei:na), is to
be the bearer of the letters to the King of the French,
and other generals will carry them to London, 'Vienna,
St. Petersburgh, Berlin, Copenhagen, and Munich. The
States-General are *bout to be convoked. The King
will be crowned in Sweden in the course of the summer,
and later in Norway."
- PARIS AND ORLEANS RAILWAT.—The following is a
return of the traffic on the Paris and Orleans Railway,
for the week ending the 2d of April:-
22,075 Passengers 78,639f. 65e.
Luggage
Carriages and horses-- 1,552
Goods 27,572 65

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

Highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five perCente...... 122 90 .. 123 10 .. 122 90 .. 123 10
Three per Cents..... 83 05 .. 83 05 .. 82 95 .. 83
Bank of France.......... 3130 ..3135 —3130 ..3130
Latlitte Mutt, I,ooof. Sharesllss .. 1165 .• 1155 ..116.5
5,000 f. Sharessl4s ..5150 . • 5145 ..5150
Belgian Bank-- 660 .. 660 .. 660 .. 660
1842........1087 50 ••1087 50 ..1087 50 ..10s7 50
Belgian Fives, ex. die..,.... 1021 .. 102 .. 1024 . • 1021
1840, ez thy— 105 i .. Iosf .. 105 z .. 105 f
1842, ez div.. 1071 .. 1071 .. 107/ .. 107/
Dutch Tit-a
-and-a-Half 61 .. 61 • • 61 .. 61
Spanish Active •••••••..... 341 .. 341 • • 341 .. 341
Threes •••••• • • • • • • 371 • • 371 • • 361 • • 361
Passive 61 .. 61 • • 61 .• 61
Ohl Deferred....... 71 .. 71 . • 71 • • 71
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 461 .. 46/ •• 4e/ .. 461
Neapolitan ..... ........... 101 30 •• 101 30 • • 101 30 • • 101 30
Roman ...... 106 .• 106 106 106

RAILWAY SHARES.
• .. •• 833 • • 83.5

St. Germain • . • • • • ••

-• 835

• • R 35

R. 8..... 390
......... ..... 040

.. 390
• . 270
• • 940

Rouen • •

•• 390
•• 260
940

390
•• 270
•• 940

Rotten to Havre •••• • • • • • . 695 697 50 .. 695 695
Orleans .• ... • • • 916 25 .. 916 25 .. 916 25 .. 916 25
Strasburg to 8a1e.••....... 267 50 .. 278 75 .. 267 50 • • 278 75
Avignon to Marseilles.... 755 755• .. 755 .. 755
Mulhausen to ..... 390 • • 390 .. 390 • • 390

- - -
RAILWAY SITARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versailles, RM...., 385 • • 3/3 -.. 385 .. 355
L. 8.„ „ „ 260 • • 270 .. 257 50 • • 267 50
Rouen .
Rouen to Havre.....„, „,.. 697 50 • 697 50 .. 695 .. 695
Orleans . ...•.......... 915 .• 915 .. 917 50 • • 917 50
Strasburg to Bale 265 .. 280 .. N. 1.5 .. 278 75
Avignon to Marseilles• ••• • • 755 .• • 755 .. 752 50 .. 752 50

UNITED STATES-SEVEN DAYS
LATER.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY NIGHT.
The packet-ship Montezuma, Captain Lowber, ar-
rived here this afternoon from New York, whence
she sailed on the 18th, seven days after the Virginian,
that reached this port on Monday.
The lamentable accident of the bursting of the gun
on board the Princeton had been examined into and
pn reportedte d fur
rptohne by a
purpose.committee
calamity to have been entirely accidental, and it exo-
nerates the captain and others connected with the
vessel from all blame.
Their report describes the of naval officers ap-
pointed

Texas is again being discussed with much warmth,
as regards its incorporation with the United States.
rublic feeling appears to be a good deal divided on the
subject of the annexation. The President is
eagerly in favour of it, and it is said that
he has concluded a treaty for carrying the
project into effect. This treaty will have
to be submitted to the Senate for ratification, where,
the accounts also say, it is sure of a favourable recep-
tion. The subject had been taken up in the House
of Representatives; but nothing was elicited respect-
ing the movements of the Executive. Mr. Webster,
who is adverse to the project, had published a letter,
making his views known ; he regards the union as
already too unwieldy, and to extend it to Texas
would, he conceives, seriously weaken its present
stability.

One of those distressing calamities which appear to
prevail on the American waters to a greater extent
than in any other part of the world—a steam-boat
collision—occurred at Old River, and is fully detailed
in the New Orleans papers. The loss of life 13 stated
to be between sixty and eighty. One of the boats
sunk almost instantly, the others escaped without
injury; the accident happened at midnight, when the
passengers were, for the most part, in bed and asleep.
Amongst the sufferers were a considerable number of
negroes.

Disturbances had taken place at St. Domingo, in
which some officers of the Government bad been
killed, and others, on a more extensive scale, were
apprehended. _ _

- The House of Representatives, in Pennsylvania,
had, instead of making an effort to retrieve the cha-
racter of the State, by paying the interest on their
ock, passed a resolution against free-trade and a
ow tariff, as being likely to afflict the country with a
auper population!
The papers contain an account of a duel between
two newspaper editors at Vicksburg, in which one of
the parties was killed. Duels in other parts of the
country are detailed.

Business at New York, when the packet sailed,
was brisk, and money abrndant. The Cotton Market
was quiet, and all speculation in the staple had ceased.
MONEY MARKET, MARCH 16.
(From the New York Commercial Advertiser.)

The public expectation has been somewhat disap-
pointed by the course of proceeding of the Legislature
of the defaulting States, in relation to It resumption of
payment of the interest upon their indebtedness. A
considerable degree of confidence had been felt that the
improvement in the general business of the country
would excite a more honourable feeling in the popula-

tion of these States, and that the Members of the Legis-
latures would be authorised by public opinion to impose
additional taxes, in order to make due provision for that
purpose.
The adjournment of the Legislature of Indiana, with-
out showitig any disposition to restore the credit of the
State, had the effect to check the feeling of confidence
in regard to the perfection of any measures by other
States at their present sessions. The Legislature of
Maryland have now adjourned, without accomplishing
anything, although various measures had been under
discussion. What Pennsylvania may do is yet uncertain.
Upon her action depends, in a great degree, the estima-
tion in which our State securities and our national cha-
racter will be held abroad. We cannot but indulge the
hope that the measures which have been proposed, or
others designed to accomplish the same object, will yet
be adopted, sad a beginning, at least be made towards

restoring the credit of the country, And rendering simple
justice to their creditors.

- Inditutz and Illinois are not now supposed to be able
to pay their interest punctually without increasing the
principal, though even they might do something toward
it; but Pennsylvania cannot make the excuse of in-
ability. Her delay, so long as it continues, will be
chargeable only to unwillingness. One portion of the
Legislature would favour taxation, provided the public
wprks were to be sold ; another would go for taxation if
they were not to be sold ; the votes in either case de-
pending upon the, carrying out of their own peculiar
views ; while still another portion, and perhaps the
largest, are in favour.of such measures, and such only as
ate designed to seeure their own re-election.
SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, Banat 16.
$4,000 United States Sixes, 1862
5,000 Ohio Sixes, Is6o b3o days 971
-
10,000 Kentuck Sixes 1024
5,000 Illinois Special Bonds
5,000 Indiana Dollar Bonds blo days 361
15,000 Pennsylvania Fives , • 66
1,000 Alabama Fives
10 shares Bank of State of New York B9
5 do American Exchange Bank
10 do Lafayette Bank, Cincinnati 64
100 do Farmers' Trust Company
25 do Canton Company
'
21 do North River Insurance Company
41 do Auburn and Rochester Railroad lO5
500 do New Jersey Railroad
100 do Mohawk Pailroad ' 58

100 do Harlem Railroad
100 do Long Island Railroad
10 do Norwich and Woree.ter Railroad
EXCHANGE.—FOREIGN.—'1 here has been a fair amount
of business transacted in steriinw bills at 107 i to 198
closing at the latter rate. On Faris w•e quote .sf. 32k ;
Amsterdam, 39 to 39k; Hamburgh, 35 to 34 ; and Bremen
77i to 78 cents.

THE GUN OF TIIE PRINCETON STEAMER.
The following history of the large gun, which, by its
bursting, was the cause of the dreadful catastrophe on
b )ard the United States' stt amer, Princeton, is given in-
the report of the Naval Court of Inquiry appointed to
investigate the causes of the accidt nt

"Inthe year 1839 Captain Stockton, be7ng 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 wroti2ht.
iron, as a substitute for cast iron, for ()Ejects which required
a combination of strength and adhesiveness, or tough
ness. Large shafts fur steam-engines had been thus
fabricated, which experience had demonstrated to be
superior in those qualifies which were desirable, to the
same articles manufactured of cast iron. • •

" These circumstances appear to have led Captain
' Stockton to consider 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
motives the most patriotic; stimulated by the laudable
desire of being himself instrumental in promoting the
honour of his country, and of elevating that branch of the
'service 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, fur 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-
tiond strength given to the defective part of the gun, the
experiments were renewed, and the result ways adecided
conviction upon the minds of all connected with them,
that, in general, the anticipations of Captain Stockton
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 Iv as such as to
decide Captain Stockton forth,,ith to direct the con-
struction of untidier gun of a similar character, to be
made of American iron, which is usually regarded as
superior in strength arid 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 thickness of
twelve inches at the breech—a difference, even if the
metal were only of equal goodness, far more than suffi-
cient to compensate for the bands by which the first had
been fortified.

"Application was made to Colonel.Thmford. of the
ordnance department of the army, who, it is well known,
has been professionally occupied in 4,xperimenting ups tt
guns of a large calibre, and his opinion requested as to
the proper proof to which o-tteh a gun ought to be sub-
jected.. The
.proof su:;gested by Colonel Bom'ord as a
suitable one, will be found in his le!ter of November 25,
1840, appended to the record. The new gun con-
structed by order of Captain Stockton exceed d in di-
mension and weight, consequently, should taso have
surras,ed in strength that contemplated by Cot,nel
Bamford, they being of the same calibre, turd the Frouf
to which this cannon was subjected was much m,,re
se% ere than what was proposed as sufficient by that ex•
perienced offic:r."

The Aurora says, the youn; man s;:nlenct,d to death
for aiding in the cscape of a quadroon s:ave hac been
pardoned by the Governor of South Carolina. lie is,
however, to be publicly whipped."