The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-06 00:00:00

FLINTSHIRE ASSIZES.

The trials of the parties indicted for perjury at the late
election for the County of Flint have been abandoned in con-
sequence of the Judge, Mr. Justice Coltman, deciding that it
was necessary to have produced the writ, in order to show that
an election took place, which the parties for the prosecution
neglected to do. The High Sheriff as the returning officer,
and the poll clerks, were in readiness in the cage of a man,
named Hughes, indicted for perjury, to prove that an elec-
tion did take place, and that the defendant voted and swore to
a qualification that he did not possess, but the Judge stopped
the case for the reason stated. Mr. Townsend, tor the prose.
cution, contended that it was unnecessary to produce the writ,
and quoted a decision of Mr. Justice Erskine's at the last
Cheshire Assizes, when he (the Learned Counsel) took the
same objection as Mr. Justice Coltman, in a case of per-
jury, of a similar nature to the present, which was over-
ruled. During the examination of the High Sheriff for Flint-
shire, previous to the case being stopped, it appeared that
the poll-books of the late election had been lost or mislaid,
and that he knew nothing of them, neither did his Under-
Sheriff, Mr. Wyatt, although he acknowledged that he had
left them on a table, after casting them up, for his Under.
Sheriff to carry away. It appeared, also, that he had neglected
to file either the poll-books or an attested copy of the same
with the Clerk of the Peace within twenty days after the
election, as required by the.,Act of Parliament, and had also
refused to give a copy of the books to an elector on being ten-
dered a reasonable charge for so doing. The High Sheriff
also swore that Mr. David Williams, of Pvillheli, in Carnarvon-
shire, seventy miles from Flint, was his Under-Sheriff, and
was responsible to him for the duties, and that a Mr. Wyatt,
of St. Asaph, was the deputy of Mr. Williams ; but on the
Clerk of the Peace producing the sheriff's documents, it ap-
peared that Mr. Wyatt was the only party. legally appointed
Under-Sheriff. The Conservative party, it is said, are taking
legal proceedings against the High Sheriff.

MONEY MARKET und CITY NEWS.

TIMES.—The contents of the India mail, and, above all,
the important news from Cahoot, the full details of which we
were enabled to lay before the public at an early hour this after-
noon, were the subject of universal remark in the. City. Un-
happily, as regards the sacrifice of life in that dreadful affair,
the worst fears of the. pub'ic are realized; but there has been
some consolation in the observation, that it is to be ascribed in
great measure to a combination of ill-judged proceedings and
unlucky incidents, such as have seldom occurred before and may
never occur again, and which tend very much, therefore, to
deprive it of political importance. There is nn longer any ta'k
of the loss of our prestige or ruin to our supremacy in India
from this cause, and the hopes are now general that the next
mail may present a very different view of the state of affairs io
that part of India. In consequence of this feeling, the funds
have scarcely been influenced at all by the publication of this
intelligence ; indeed, after the appearance of the details con-
tained in the Bombay letter, which comprised the third edition,
the funds revived to within about one-eighth per cent. of the
price of Saturday.

COURSE OF EXCHA?
Amsterdam CF. 12 8
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13151
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight
Ditto, 3 months 25 95
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 0
Frankfort on Maine... 152

GE-7(YESTERDAY.)

Gibraltar ... .......
Leghorn ....
Genoa
Milan
Venice 47
Naples 4O
Palermo, per oz 120
Lisbon
Oporto 52i
Rio Janeiro 27
Bahia
Buenos Ayres —
New York, 21days sight 46i
Philadelphia. 46
PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz.
Foreign Gold, bars X. 3 17 9j
Portugal Gold Coin ...3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 91
Silver in Bars 0 4 11*

Petersburgh, 3Us ... 361
8er1in..... ............ 7
Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 955
Trieste, ditto ... 957
Madrid ...
Cadiz

Bilbao ...35

Barcelona
Seville ...35k

A correspondent writes from St. Petersburgh, 16th
inst. :—" Prince Paskewitsch has presented to the Emperor
the accounts of his administration of Poland during the five
years from 1835 to 1839 inclusive. In 1839 the population of
the kingdom amounted to 4,428,546 souls, of whom 469,930
were Jews. Since 1834 the population had been increased by
325,350. Warsaw contained in 1839, 139,295 inhabitants, of
whom 36,531 were Jews. There were 97 persons between the
ages of 100 and 120. It is announced as certain that the new
railroad will be finished in 1849. In the mean time, applica-
tions will be made to the Government to authorise the forma-
tion of two branches ' • one in the direction of Nischni Novo-
gorod, the other in that of Kolonia, which is the principal seat
of commerce for the southern provinces. This distance will
then be 'performed in- 24 hours, instead of requiring as now
four days."

MYSTERIOUS DEATII—About three weeks since
Miss Stabbins, who resided with her brcther and sister at
Worle, Somerset, atter she hart retired to her bedchamber, at
ten o'clock, said to her sister, ‘. I will *no down and see if the
street- door is locked," which she did, but not returning, her
sister went down to ascertain the cause, and found on the table
the young lady's cloak, shawl, and purse, containing several
pounds, and the street-door open. The distracted relatives
eontinued making every iuquiry, but could hear no tidings of
her until Monday last, when her body was discovered by John
Cox in the river Yeo,, full five miles from the house of Mr.
Stabbins, at Worle.—Bath Journal.
The Phare of Bayonne announces the arrival in that
town of M. Telleria, canon of the Cathedral of Toledo,
Who has been condemned to eight years banishment by
the Royal Court of Madrid, for refusing to recognise in
his diocese the authority of the Council appointed by the
Government. He was acco npanied to the French fron-
tier by a police agent of Madfid.