The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-11 00:00:00

TELLERS.

Fremantle, Sir T.—Buckingham
Baring, H. B.—Marlborough

-NOES. 90.
Heron, Sir R.—Peterborough
Hill, Lord A. M. C.—Evesham
(Langston, J. H.—Oxford
Marjorihanks, S. —Hythe
Mitcalfe, ll.—Tynemorrh
Morris, D.—Carmarthen
(Murray, Alm—Kirkcudbright
Napier, Sir Charles—liarylebene
j Norreys, Sir Denham—Mallow
lO'Brien, A.—N. Northamptonshire
'O'Brien, Cornelius—Clare
O'Brien, W. S.—Limecick Co.
O'Connell, Daniel—Cork Co.
O'Connell, John—Kilkenny
Ossulston,Lord—NorthNorthurn.

berland.
Paget, Lord Alfred—Lichfield
Pechcll, Captain—Brighton
Philips, G. R.—Poole
'Philips, Mark—Manchester
Pinney, W.—Lyme Regis
Ponßouby, Hon. John— Derb)
Powe'l, C.—Limerick Co.
Power, J.—Wexford Co.
Pulsford, Robert—Hereford
Ricardo, L.—Stoke-upon-Trent
:choleficld, J.—Birmingliam
Scott, Robert—Walsall
Smith, Benjamin—Norwleh
Somerville, Sir Wm.—Drogheda
Strickland, Sir G.—Freston
Stuart, Lord J.—Ayr
Tancred, H. W.—Banbury
Townley, C —Beverley
Trollope, Sir J.—S. Lincolnshire
Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhampton
Vyvyan, Sir 11.-11elstone
Waklcy, Thomas—Finsbury
Walker, R.—Bury, Lancashire
Wallace, Itobert—Greenoca
Wawn, J. T.—South Shields
Williams, William—Coventry
! Wood, Benjamin—;:outh wark
Wm slay, Lord—Lincolnshire

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—Length
of line 46 miles. Return of traffic for week ending Saturday,
April 2, 1842 :—Number of passengers. 9,388 ; receipts,
1,3041. 15s. 6d. ; horses and carriages, 251. 4s. 6d. ; parcels,
goods, cattle, &c., 3071. 17s. 7d. ; total, 1,6371. 1:s. Id.
THE LATE MARQUIS Or HERTIORD.—The excels-
eutors, Lord ,Lowther, (Postmaster-General), Mr. Croker,
SAIiS'rATE OF SYRIA. Captain Meynell, and Mr. H Tkinson, the banker, have held
Bev Raul., %arts 16.—0 n the 10th inst. Izzet Pasha re- several meetings on the subject of the alleged abstraction or em-
coived a deputation from the inhabitants of Malak-atsel. Da- bezzlement of large sums of money belonging to his late Lord-
moor, a large village of 250houses,every one of which was burnt. ship, which had been drawn from Messrs. Coutts', and which it
They complained that Sheikh Nassif Abon Neked kept forcible alfpeared had not been accounted for. The result of the in-
possession of their land, that they had nothing to eat, and that quiry was an application to the Commissioners of Police, and
if the mulberry trees were not cultivated, they could have no an intelligent inspector of the A division (Partridge) was ap-
means of subsistence. Izzet Pacha replied, that he expected pointed to assist in the investigation ; and on Wednesday even-
Omar Pacha to come from Dair-el-Kammer in a few days. and mg, in consequence of circumstances which transpired, he ap-
he would consult him on the subject. prehended the suspected party, a foreign servant, who had
The people are fairly wearied out—the humbler classes been 20 years in the service of the deceased Nobleman, and
from the actual pinch of poverty, and those who are in easier lodged him in Tothill-fields Prison,l where he awaits an exami-
circumstances from want of confidence. They talk of nothing nation before the Magistrates.
but the return of Ibrahim Pacha, or of the old Emir Beshir. DLATU OF CONOLLY, THE JOCKEY. —We regret
On mature reflection I think the latter less probable, for the to announce the death of this celebrated jockey. Ever since
restoration of the former Emir Beshir would be a great step l his fall at Oxford, in August 1840, his existence was marked by
towards the restoration of order and the necessity fur calling in sufferings of a most painful and distressing nature; and although
Mehemet Ali would be weakened. The greater the anarchy he occasionally appeared to rally, yet it was only to experience
the stronger is Mehemet Ali's case, and if his influence be as relapses of increased severity. He expired on Saturday morn-
great in Coastantinople as it is now in Syria, he will guard ing at four o'clock, aged 35. It appears that, at the age of 13,
against the return, of the Emir Beshir, except under his oen being in the service of Mr. Prendergast, and under the care of
auspices. And what is to Linder Mehemet Ali from being the well-known William Cleary, that gentleman's trairer, he
powerful at Constantinople? Never was Ise better off in money made his debut as a jockey on the Curragh of Kildare, his first
matters, and never was Turkey more poor, corrupt, and de- race being on Jemmy Gray for a handicap, Peel course, en
graded. But can England allow him to return if he be under. which occasion he weighed 3st 9111 e l In the following year.
stood with the Porte and Russia? " Ay, here's the rub." At 1821, he came over to England with Mr. Prendergast, and
all events the mere re-conquest of Syria, if the Frank Powers went with his stud to Newmarket, but soon after his arrival
do not prevent it, would be a ddeuner ala faurchette for lbra- there Mr. Prendergast wrote to Mr. Cleary "to bring the
him Pacha. He could make a triumphal march from Gaza to i hot es Nos to London," which he did, and Conolly accom-
the Taurus without ever firing a shot. panied him. The horses were afterwards disposed of in
On the 11th the Phcenix steam-frigate arrived in four days various ways The question being put as to what should
and a half from Constantinople, with despatches from Sir Strat- be done with the "little jockey," it was proposed by
ford Canning to Colonel Rose. Mr. Prendergast that tie should be taken into the house to
The official trustee on the estate of the late eccentric Lady fill a menial situation then vacant. At this the warm-hearted
Hester StanhOpe has terminated his labours. Her debts Cleary, to use his own expression, " burst into a blaze," and
amounts to 600,000 piasters ; her assets to 240,000. The he repelled the offer with a generous indignation. The next
estate will thus pay about Bs. per pound sterling. Her affairs morning he returned to Newmarket, and on his arrival he
will be wound up by an English and a French merchant of " made a present of Conolly," as he himself described the act,
Be rout. to Mr, H. Neale for two years and a half. In 1823, Neale put
Nedjib Pacha was by the last accounts at Mezareib with him on Lord Verulam's Vaurien, for the Chelmsford Cup,
Shibly-el-Drian. Mustapha Pasha remained a week at Na- which he had the good fortune to win ; and, from that time to
plouse to arrange the disputes of the Abd-el-Hedy family with the hour of his death, Conolly found a most kind and libera'
the Naplousans. patron in his Lordship. It will be recollected that Conon..
It is reported that the people of Tersous have risen against was riding Lord Verulam's Albert, by Waterloo or Moses, ou t.
the Mohussil, and killed him in consequence of hishaving ire- of Vroennes, in a trial at Newmarket, when life became so it .e
posed the Ferdeh. staneously extinct, that, as Conde said, " Albert was des #
The plague has broken out at Zahle in consequence of the whilst yet he was in his stride !" In the midway of his caree,,
action of the spring weather on the numerous dead bodies Conolly was " put on" the most celebrated horses, and such w si
se
which were imperfectly buried there after the Drum attack. his success, that he appeared to " farm" all the great stakes h
By the last accounts from Palestine, the Bishop had gone the use and behoof of his employers. He won, Derby, Oak,
down to Jaffa with Mr. Nicolayson, to look after his furniture and Leger—the first Eclipse Foot at Ascot, on Priam, and tl A
and effects. A most melancholy accident had occurred there. Geedwood Cup, two years following, on the same horse. Isa
The pinnace of the Hecate steam-frigate lost, on the Bth in- 1834, he was selected by Mr. Batson to ride Plenipotentiary f,
stant, some water casks, which were washed ashore. On the the Derby, which lie won ; Shillelah being second, Glens e`
following day some marines were sent in a boat to guard the third. His conduct, on that occasion, and the " treatmete
casks, but the well-known treacherous surf of the Jaffa reef
upset the boat, and first lieutenant, thethree which he subsequently received on the " Leger account. '
• placed his character in a more honourable light than ever. S' i;
pilot, marines,
and two sailors, in all seven persons, were drowned. years ago he married Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of M' e
Turning from the south to the north of Syria, we find that
the Turcomans of the plains between Aleppo and the Bay of Boyce,lB of Newmarket, and has left a widow and three childrei .Y,THE `WOOLLEN TRADE TOR MAR(
Seanderoan have revolted against the Government, and re- REPORT OF
42.—Apri1 5, 1842.—When we wrote our last Report of t ss
fused to pay taxes. Assad Pacha had sent the irregular troops Woollen Trade, we expressed our opinion that the amount ii
against them without effect, the Turcomans having retired into the Spring Trade might be considered as nearly determined .
the mountains. the transactions of the two first months of the year. Anoth
The agents of the French societies for the revolutionising month's experience has served but to confirm that opinion ; a
the Christians of the East are actively at work, and various pee we think it may now safely be predicted that the whole trade 1 •-
pulations on the coast between this and Tripoli have been sup- to June next, when the spring season will have gone by, w
plied with powder purchased at Cyprus. The greatest agita. exhibit a result more unsatisfactory and disheartening than o
tion reigns at Tripoli, where the Christians talk of refusing to any one year since 1820. The rule is universal--and the ru
pay taxes, and the Mussulmans talk of massacring the Chris- is complaint, anxiety, and despondency. Purchases are mat
tians. The latter do not rely on their own force, but on their , with no spirit, and sales are effected without adequate prof.
brethren in the valley of the Kadiha, and in the neighbourhood i and but too often with misgivings as to final payment. Sm -
from sh
of Gibbet llesherrai. If a religious war break out, to which 1 capitalists are greatly straitened, end are anxiously looki
the Ilussalmans are direct parties, we may look for a bloody around for the means of escaping further impoverishment e •
.
spring. The timely arrival of the former Erair Beshir, or his ! ultimate ruin, whilst the more wealthy are lying by
son Ameen, may avert all. t inability to discover channels of profitable and safe investrro ,
The Government, aware of ,the gravity of the erisis, is lor speculation. As to the enlargeraentof the means of produ
about to draw a sanatory and political coraon around Peyrout, i tion, that is out of the question—the existing means are iis
so as to cut of all communication between the mountain and is slipping through the fingeri. s '
! half employed, and the market value of them is seriously I ..,
the town. i preciated. Floating capital
A suit, long pending between Sheik Hussein Suleyman and
! the owners by a slow but sure process, whilst the heavy ut Is
Hamid-el-Begh, regarding the local Government of the Mo- voidable charges on fixed capital are rapidly exhausting a
tualy district, between Sidon and Acre, which goes by the
ruining the owners. To crown the
last of miseries, emph
name of Belled Beshara, has been decided bylzzet Pacha in
: ment is diminishing, and privation and suffering arebecom, .7
fivour of the farmer. It is also said that the Government in- more severe and intense amongst our operative population. \ .;
the embittered tends to strengthen itself againstmere imaginary picture—we pourtray a sad and sent • ;
%mini( 11l the hletualieo. Christians Y t reality,.ed,s Mercury.
h. ' draw no

TELLERS.
Bowring, Dr.—Bolton
Blewitt, Reginald—Monmouth