The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-25 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

&turday being the 23d of April, was St. George's-day. Ed-
ward 111. invoked the aid of this Saint at the battle of Calais,
in 1349, from which period " St. George !" has been the war-
cry of England..
Crockford's Club, which, since the retirement of Mr. Wm.
Crockfcrd, the proprietor, has been managed by a Committee
of Noblemen and Gentlemen, now consists of omy 600 members.
A number of old copper coins were on Friday dug out of the
new sewer near the foundation of 'femple-har, and afterwards
several apparently gold coins of the reign of Charles I.

ATTEMPT AT Muunt;n—X esterday afternoon, a
boy about twelve years of age, residing with his parents at No.
10, Parker-street, Drury-lane, went into the room of a female
lodger in
ehtahle.achtoeurs):, namedl.:L whom Ellen
he
had m
Smith,
in the habit of (a woman of disre-
putablegoing on errands. Upon his entering the room she immedi-
ately seised him with her left hand, and at the sante time in-
flicted a severe wound on the" side of his throat with a razor,
which she held in her right hand. The mother of the boy ran
into the room upon hearing his screams, and rescued her son..
The police soon' after cr.lveti, and conveyed the woman to
Bow-street. She declared her only reason for attempting the
boy's life was that she had made up her mind to commit a
murder, and he was the first person that came in her way.
It appeared she was drunk at the time. The boy was taken
to Portugal-street Hospital, And although very weak from loss:
of blood, yet it is hoped that he may recover, as none of the-
principal vessels were injured.
C REATWESTEAN li .11LIV A Y.—Bets .11ave been made
that the receipts for this Company reach 20,000/. a-week during
this summer. • .

or.OIeT`4COURT CIRCULAR.
Her -Majesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine
Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St.
James's. 'The sermon was preached by the Rev. J.
Morrison, from Acts, chap. xxvi., verse2B. The prayers
were read by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, the Lessons by the
Rev. Di% Wesley, and the Communion Service by the
Rev. Drs. Knapp and Wesley, The Musical Service
was Boy-es in A, the Sanctus in 1), Rogers, and the
Anthem, " Awake, awake, put on thy strength."
(Wise). Sir George Smart presided at the organ.
• Her Majesty was attended by Frances Lady Clinton,
Hon. Miss Mitchell, and Earl Howe.
Among. the Nobility present, were the Duke and
Duchess of Beaufort, the Duke of Sutherland, Mar-
chioness of Westmeath, Earl and Countess Wilton, Lords
llarrowby, Cawdor, Tyrconnell, Zetland, Canterbury,
Eliot, Lisburne, Dunraven, Leicester, Cantilupe,Norreys,
and Monson.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager received visits on
Saturday at Marlborough Roase from their Royal High
nesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess Augusta of
Cambridge. Her Majesty, walked in the morning in the
garden.
Her Royal • Highness the Duchess of Kent attended
Divine Service yesterday morning, in the Church in
Kensington Palace. Ludy Anne Maria Dawson was in
Waiting on her Royal IlighneSs.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George
and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge,
attended Divine Service yesterday morning, in Grosvenor
Chapel.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria
Damson and Sir George Cowper, Bart., honoured the
Italian Opera is ith her presence on Saturday evening.
A Deputation of Gentlemen of the Paper Trade, con-
sisting of Mr. Venables, Mr. F. Spiers, Mr. Hollings-
worth, Mr J. Smith, Mr. Harris, and Mr. Cowan,
accompanied by the following Members of the House of
Commons, Lord Sandon, Lord Courtenay, Sir Thomas
Acland, Sir Howard Douglas, Sir John Yarde Buller,
Mr. P. Stewart, and Captain Bernal, had an interview
with the 'Vice-President of the Board of Trade on
Saturday.
A Deputation from the Railway Companies, consist-
ing of Mr. W. Vickers and Mr. Thomas Linley, from
the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway ; Mr. John
Harman, from the London and Brighton Railway ; Mr.
George Locking, from the. Hull and Selby Railway ;
Mr. Richard Barrow, • from the Manchester and
Birmingham, Manchester and Bolton, and Bolton and
Preston Railways ; Mr.' William Jackson, from the
Chester and Birkenhead Railway ; Mr. Freckerick
Roberts, London and Croydon Railway ; Mr. William
Brooks, and Mr. D. J. Bannatyne, from the Glasgow
and Ayr Railway ; Mr. Thomas Sprat, from the
Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway ; Mr. William Leitch,
Mr. G. 11. Long, and --Mr. J. E. Errington' from
the Glasgow and Greenock Railway ; CaptainLawes,
from the Manchester and Leeds Railway ; Mr. John
Leadbetter, Mr. E. BuCkley, M.P., and Mr. W.lO.
Hunt, from the Edinburgh , and Glasgow Railway ;
Mr. George Duncan, and Mr. John Sheill,
from the -Dundee and .:Arbroath Railway ; Captain
O'Brien, froM the Great North of England Railway ;
Lord Frederick Gordon, from the Arbroath and
Forfar Railway ; Mr:. Glyn, from the London
and Birmingham Railway ; Mr. C. Russell, M.P.,
and Mr. C. A. Saunders, from the Great Western
Railway ; Mr. Boothby, from the South Wesetrn
Railway ; Mr. Glyn, and Mr. Russell, M.P., from
the Grand Junction Railway, and the Liverpool and
Manchester Railway • Mr. T. Pickersgill, and Mr. 11.
F. Stansfield, from the North Midland Railway ; and
Mr. Henry Bosanquet. and Mr. A. Grahame, from the
Eastern Counties Railway ; had an interview With the
Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official
residence in Downing-street. The Members of Parlia-
ment present at the interview, with the Deputation, were,
Mr. P. Stewart, Mr. J. Loch, Lord James Stuart, Lord
Frederick Gordon, Mr. Edmund Buckley, Mr. Charles
Russell, Mr. George Duncan, Mr. Gibson Craig,
Mr. 11. Broadley, Mr. Beckett Denison, Mr. Stewart
Wortley, Mr. Matthew Bell, Mr. Felton Eger-
ton, Mr. Robert Wallace. Mr. J. Wilson Patten,
Sir Philip Egerton, Mr, Bobth Wilbraham, Mr. P.,
Ainsworth, and Mr. T. Houldsworth.
Mr. Pellett and Mr. Christy, of the Glass Trade, had
an interview with the Earl of Ripon, on Saturday, at the
office of the Board of Trade.
Mr. Burnley, from 'Trinidad; and Dr. Dieffenbach, had
interviews with Lord Stanley, on Saturday, at the Colo-
nial-office.
Lord Sandon, Sir Edward Douglas, M.P., and
a Deputation connected with the Coffee Trade of Liver-
pod, including Mr. John B. Braucker. Mr. W. P.
Bushby, and Mr. John Crosfield, had an interview with
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone on Saturday, at the
office of the Board of Trade.
Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, and Mr. Delany,
Solicitor to the Excise, had interviews with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer on Saturday.
The Spanish Minister transacted business on Saturday
at the Foreign-office.
Despatches from the Governor of Gibraltar were re-
ceived yest irday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Bagshaw and Mr. Wodehouse had an interview
on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel had a dinner party on Sa-
turday, including the French Ambassador and Countess
St. Aulaire, the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunow,
the United States' Minister. and -Mrs. Everett, the Duke
and Duchess of Buccleuch,- the Earl and Countess of
Jersey, the Earl and Countess De Grey, Sir James and
Lady Graham, and a select party, at their residence in
Whitehall-gardens.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, SATURDAY EVENING,.
The prices of our own 'funds again advanced
to-day ; Consols being 914 918 for Money ; and
92 for the Account ; 3 per Cent. reduced, 901 91 ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced, 99; 100 , and the
gew Three-and-a-Half per Cent., 10011 1004. India
Stock, 244 246 ; Bank Stock, 165 166 ; India Bonds,
18 20 ; and Exchequer Bills, 37 39 prem.
The amount of purchases in the whole of the active
stocks during the week amounts to a very large sum.
The operations have generally been individually exten-
jive, and on account of some of the Insurance Companies,
and Scotch banks, as well as for private investments.
Foreign securities remain ' firm ; Belgian, 103, 1041 ;
Dutch 2f per Cent., 5211 52i; the 5 per Cents, 10011 100 ;
Danish, 804 H 1 ; and Brazil, 67 68.
Quotations for Mexican have again been fluctuating
to-day, and the principal operator now for a decline has
hitherto been one of the most strenuous for the value of
this Stock. No information has been received to war-
rant these changes, which, like the generality of fieal-
ings in the foreign bonds, are only to be viewed as Stock
Exchange gambling, disgraceful to every individual en-
raged in it, and ruinous to the greater portion. The
nominal rate at the close of business was 341 344, being
t per cent. below that of yesterday.
The bonds of the insolvent States were quoted. Por-
tuguese, the Five per Cents., 371 374 ; the Three per
Cents., 21 221; Colombian, 261 27 ; Spanish, 242_ 24:3- ;
the Three per Cents., 24i 2411.
Railway Shares are scarcely altered, the market, how-
ever, being firm; London and Birmingham, 179 186;
Birmingham and Gloucester, 35 57; Great Western,
94 95; the half Shares, 64 654; South Western; 61 6171;
Gosport, 61 61i-; North Midland, 69, 70; the New
Shares, 33: 341; South Eastern and Devon; 304 30f-1-;
Black wall, 128 121-1; New Share, 10 10f.; and Brighton,
364 36k.
Money continues far more plentiful tham employment
forit.

It is stated that the failure alluded to on Thursday, will
be of little public importance, almost the:whole of the
liabilities being divided among two or three opulent
firms. The house in question is reported to possess
assets amply sufficient to meet every demand, but
which, for the present, are difficult to be realised.
_ _

(From- The Sun of Saturday Night.)
The Money Market, which closed firm last evening,
has had a decided tendency to improve still further to-
day. Consols are 91i a for Money, and 911- buyers for
'he Account : Bank Stock, 165 i to 1664 ; Exchequer
Bills, 37 to as premium.
The Dutch a'wo-and-a-llalf per Cents. are 52:1,- 52;1 ;
the Five per Cents. 1001 100 i ; Belgian, 103?! 104 - ;
and Danish, 804 811 ; Mexican is quoted 371.
Birmingham Railway Shares are 179 1130 • Great
Western, 941- 951 ; South Western, 611 ; and Brighton,
371 per share.
The bonds of the insolvent States are quoted, Buenos
Ayres; 26 28 ; Colombian, 261 27 ; Peruvian, 181 19 ;
Spanish Active, 24y; the Three per Cents. 241 24.
. The West India gait has brought an immense mass
of papers, but which appear not to contain any intelli-
gence of importance. Matters were as badly managed
out there as they have been here. Every post teeming
with complaints of missing.eorreSpondence, which, when
it arrives, presents such an sccumulation, as to render it
a difficult task to get through it.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 22.—A fair
quantity of Cotton was sold to-day, amounting to about
5,000 bales at yesterday's prices. The sales of the week
have been 39,920 bales, of which 14,000 have been for
speculation.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 22.—The market
Was firm. Edinburgh and Glasgow,_ 521 53%; Eastern
Counties, Debentures, 111. lls. Bd. ; the New, Si. 171. 2d. ;
Great Western, 95; London and Birmingham, 179 ; Quarters,
372' Manchester and Leeds, 854.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 22. --We have
rather an improving Market, and prices continue to be fully
supported. Our sales have been as follow:—London and Bir-
mingham, 179 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 27i ; Man-
chester and Leeds, Halves, 37%; Brighton Loan Notes,
84 3s. 9d. ; Lancaster and Preston, Three Quarters, 183/ ;
South Lancashire Bank, 5/. 18s. 9d. ; Union Plate Glass, si.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
IPSWICH.
CLOSE OF THE INQUIRY-SATURDAY.

This Committee met at one o'clock. Mr. Pakingtcn
in the chair.

Mr. HILL proceeded to address the Committee, in an
able speech, contending that, although bribery was
proved to have taken place at Ipswich during the last
election for that borough, still nu proof existed connect-
ing the sitting Members with the bribery. The Learned
Gentleman concluded his address shortly after 5 o'clock.
when the Committee-roomrwas cleared of strangers to
enable the Committee to deliberate upon the resolu-
tions which would come • under their consideration.
About twenty minutes to six o'clock strangers were
again admitted, when
The CHAIRMAN asked if the counsel and agents for the
parties were in attendance.—One of the petitioners'
counsel was present.
Mr. WALLER, the agent to the sitting Member, said that
Mr. Hill and Mr. Phillips had gone home, not expecting
that the Committee would come to any resolution that
evening. He (Mr. Waller) however would receive the
'resolutions.

The CHAIRMAN said, he had been directed to state
hat the Committee had resolved—
ThSt Rigby Wason, Esq., and Georg,e Rennie, Esq.,

•
were not duly elected to represent the borough of Ips.
wich in the present Parliament."
" That the last election for the borough of Ipsvtich
was a void election."

The HoN. GENTLEMAN said he had been further di
reeted to state that the Committee had also come to tin
following resolutions : •
" Resolved unanimously, that Rigby Wasou, Esq.
and George Rennie, Esq., have been, by their agents,
guilty of bribery at the last election for the borough of
Ipswich.

" That the Committee are unanimously of opinion,
from the evidence given before them, that extensive
bribery prevailed at the last election for the borough of
Ipswich, and that the issuing a new writ for the said bo-
rough ought to be suspended until the said evidence shall
have been taken into the consideration of the House.
" Resolved unanimously, that the Chairman be re-
quested to move that the Report., together with the evi-
dence taken before the Committee, be presented ; and
that the Speaker do not issue his writ for the return of
two Members for the borough of Ipswich until the Report
and evidence be printed and submitted to the House."
The Committee then separated.