The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-31 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS—(CLOSING PRICES)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock - 'lndia 5t0ck,..............
8 per Cent Red. Ditto Bonds ..: ..... ....... 11 pm
e per Cent Cons 894 \ Ditto Old Annuities ...
34 per`Cent Red.. — Ditte New Annuities...
New 34 per Cent
New 5 per. Cent. — Ditto 5001.... 3O pis
Long Annuities toexpire • Ditto Small 29 pin
Jan. 1860 ..... ..... Bank Stock for 0pen...1693/4
Oct 1859. .., ..... India Stock for Acct.... 241
Jan. 1860. .. .. :.. . 124 Consols for Acct......... 90
FO REIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... IPortuguese' 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 pei cent — Ditto,t New Ditt0......... 354
Brazilian 80nd5.... — (Prussian, 5 per cent....
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent......
Chilian, 6 per cent — 'Ditto, Meta11ic...........—
Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 244
Ditto, 1824.......... ..... 27 Ditto, Deferred....
Danish, 3 per cent — French, sps cent. —I. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange f ...e.
\
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 421 French, 3 per cent. —..'. ....,c
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 114 Dutch, 2i per cent. .. . 52
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .., . 1024
SHARES.
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92
• London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Birmingham (90) .. . .
.. 175
London and South Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l3
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...
..
Ditto New Shares (30 paid) 35
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 44
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Northern and Eastern (40 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto New Shares (40 paid 344
York and North Midland (50 paid) ... . ..... 944

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The position of Sir Robert Peel, as
head of the Government, is at the present mo-
ment the most humiliating that can be predicated
of a Prime Minister. The grand panacea which
he engaged to furnish for the . financial embar-
rassments of the Exchequer and the deep com-
mercial distress of the country, and which he
took several months to concoct—so pressing was
the danger, and so imperative the necessity for
consideration and skill in the practitioner—has
been received with chagrin by his own party, and
with decided opposition by the country. Day after
day arrives; but, instead of bringing any inti-
mation of subdued feelings of dislike on the
part of the opponents of Government, or any
newly-kindled sentiments of approval from those
who profess to be ifavourable to its continuance
in office, each new day opens with the horizon of
public opinion still clouded. Every token of an
approaching storm with which the sunset marks
the sun's arise. The Times refuses to utter a
single sentence in approbation of the obnoxious
tax. The Herald makes no sign of coming to
the rescue of the Premier from the threatened
demolition of his projected impost. The Post
alone evinces any sympathy with the Minister in
this the season of his difficulty. But the support
derived from this quarter is rather damaging than
beneficial to the measure. The only consolation
to the Right Hon. Baronet, which breathes
through the columns of the sympathizing organ,
is derived from the " majority" in the Commons,
wh ch the landlords have supplied to him for
their own purposes. In other words, let not the
Premier be perplexed and dispirited by the
coldness of friends and the opposition of the
enemies—let him.- not suffer his courage to
cool, nor his purpose to fail—there is a ma-
jority in the House sufficiently devoted to his
pleasure to enable him to pass whatever he
thinks proper to propose : he may therefore safely
enjoin silence on his colleagues, lest they expose
themselves by manifesting their ignorance ; and,
leaving the debate in the hands of the Opposition,
calmly wait for the division. This may be pru-
dent, but it is insolent, and will at no distant pe-
riod provoke retaliation, against which the pha-
lanx provided by the landowners will be unable to
protect the Minister. Even the journal which ad-
ministers the cordial, infuses ingredients into the
cup of most bitter qualities, which do not merely
neutralise the sweetness of the flattering sugges-
tions, but absolutely overpower their effect. The
Post admits that the Bill cannot pass in the
form announced by the Premier in the elaborate
:•.eech by which he introduced the resolutions :
It must be altered—modified, improved. This
is faint praise—questionable support, considering
the quarter whence it emanates, and that, of the
entire morning press in the interest of Govern-
ment, the Post is the only journal which has
uttered a single sentence in aid of the Premier's
scheme: -
STANDARD.—We have already shown that
the pretence of rude intrusion by public officers
is perfectly false, and now we add, .equally false
is it to say, as the Globe says, that " the officers
appointed under the law will have authority to
inspect any man's ledger." Every man's ledger,
and every man's house, will be sacred from in-
spection or intrusion, and the only case in which
the privacy of the ledger can be violated is that
in which the owner himself shall produce it in
a defence against the charge of the surveyor, be-
fore a private tribunal sworn to secresy. But
such cases were very rare under the old income
tax, and they will be'still more rare under that
which is proposed. To make a false return
for the saving of 3 per cent. is much less proba-
ble than the making a false return for the
Saving of 10 per cent. If a man acknowledged
any income, he could scarcely venture to re-
duce it more than 1001. per annum below the
truth under any circumstances; but as this
would save him no more than 3/., he would
hardly incur the inconvenience and eclat . of a
surcharge for that sum, though he might to save
101.; but what can seldom happen, will be even
less frequently suspected, and except. in ex-
tremely'flagrant cases no surcharge will be heard
of. We do not say that the millowners of
1842 may not act as Mr. Charles Buller says
the mil!owners of 1816 acted, but are we to
have them brought forward as objects of public
sympathy. These gentlemen boast to have
realised more than the whole landed capital of
the United Kingdom in about 25 years—that
is, according to Mr. Macqueen's calculation,
1,900,000,000, or, in round numbers, two thousand
millions, being at the rate of eighty millions a
year. This, questionless, looks like exaggeration;
but mark, if it be exaggeration, it is not ours,
but the exaggeration of the millowners them-
selves, and whatever it is there must be some
foundation for it. Whether the millowners realise
eighty millions, or eight millions, or the tenth part
of the latter sum in each year, surely they ought to
contribute some part of it to the public service;
and we can imagine no means of reaching
''any part of it but an income tax—no means
of ensuring an income tax which must
not involve the necessity of bringing per-
verse and dishonest men occasionally to
book. Such men only, however, will give
occasion for surcharges or inquiry. We
repeat it, that the incomes of 999 out of every
thousand men—indeed, we may say, of all honest
men—are as well known within a few pounds to
their neighbours as to themselves. They will
give no trouble and will be subjected to none.

ALARMING STEAM-BOAT
COLLISION.
On Tuesday evening, about eight o'clock, there was a
eollision of two steam-vessels, and the screams and
shouts of the passengers were distinctly heard on all
is of the river near Greenwich, and a number of
•is were rowed towards the spot, when it was ascer-
twined that the Nymph, belonging to the old Woolwich
Company, bad run into the Aurora, a Richmond steam-
- boat, employed during the holidays in carrying passengers
between Greenwich and London. The Aurora had just
left Greenwich with 200 passengers on board for London,
and was proceeding across the stream, when the Nymph,
which was on her way to Greenwich, and was coming
clown at full speed, with a strong ebb tide running at the
time, went stem on into her, and carried away the law-
board paddle-box, which was knocked to pieces, and the
wheel smashed. The steam-pipe was also broken and the
engines soon crippled, besides other damage done to the
hull of the vessel. The excitement and alarm which took
place among the passengers was frightful, and many were
about to jump overboard but were restrained by the master
and crew. The first boat which came alongide was a
police galley, rowed by Gco. Webb, a Thames police in-
spector and his boat's crew, who found the steamers locked
together ; the Aurora appeared a complete wreck. The
bowsprit of the Nymph was locked in the Aurora's fun-
nel,
and Webb directed the master of the former vessel
to back his engines astern, which was done, and they
were soon released from each other. The passengers
at this time were calling out for boats, and declared the
vessel was sinking, and a number of females here faint-
s hem on the decks, and others screaming loudly.. Many
of t attempted to jump into the police galley, and if
Webb_ had.Uut ordered his men to shove off, the boat
would have been swamped in an instant. Some skill
-ryas then necessary to prevent the Aurora from getting
aground in the dark on an ebb tide, and Inspector Webb
assisted in getting her close in to the north shore, just
below the lsle of Dogs, where she dropped her anchor,
and brought up. Another steamer had been previously
sent for to take the passengers out, and the call was an-
swered most promptly by the Waterman steamer No. 3,
about to leave the Watermen's Pier for Woolwich. A
communication was opened'by a platform from boat to
boat, and the affrighted passengers, men, women, and
- children, were relieved from the perils that awaited them,
taken over to Greet with, and transferred to Waterman
No. 5, John- Hawkes master, and conveyed to Loudon.

TUE ROYAL. BUtKIJOUNDS, WEDNESDAY.—There
Was a large and brilliant assemblage of sportimen at the
Salt-hill meet this morning, including his Royal Ilighness

Prince Albert, General Sir E. Bowater, Viscount Can-
talupe, General Wemyss, and Mr. Geoyge Edward An-
son (who were in attendance on the Prince), the Noble
Master of the Buckhounds, Earl Sheffield, Colonel Wyse,
Colonel Seymour, Sir Robert Gill, Captains Bates, Arch-
dale, and Hawkins, and most of the officers of the Royal
Blues ; Messrs. Albert and Sampson Ricardo, Mr. G.
Wombwell, Mr. J. Aldridge, &c. The turn-out took
place soon after the Prince arrived, in a field on the
north side of the Great Western Railway. The
favourite hind, Snowdrop, on being set at liberty,
made in a direct line towards Burnham, and ran
into a wood near the Beeches ; on the hounds coming
, up, she
.doubled back and ran by the mill-pond of
Lord Boston's to within a short distance of the place
she was uncarted ; at this time the weather, which in
the fore part of the morning had been hazy, cleared up,
and the sight was extremely imposing. The field were,
well together--the hounds and the deer a little in ad-
vance, and the numerous red coats gave the appearance
of a regiment of Life Guards in their uniform crossing
the country at full speed. The Prince was mounted on
his spirited chestnut hunter, which he sat close and well,
and appeared to have a good command of him. The
deer, with the hounds close at his heels, crossed the rail-
way just as the train had passed, and made for Salt-hill;
she then crossed the road, and made for the Thames,
which she crossed by Surby Hall, and then ran to Bray-
wick, on the Maidenhead-road, where she was taken
after an hour and a quarter's good running. The next
meet, it is expected, will be at Brick-bridge on Saturday
next.

ELECTION OF GUARDIANS.—As .we predicted, the
ratepayers and holders of property in this borough have
expressed themselves quite satisfied with the conduct
of the late Board of Guardians, by electing the gen-
tlemen proposed by the Liberal Association. The
"trial" of those gentlemen who had the temerity to "be-
come candidates for the'office" has resulted in a most
favourable verdict ; Mr. J. Boodle, against whom Tory
spleen was more especially directed, heading the poll by
not less than 1,089 votes above the highest of the Tory
list, and the lowest Liberal being over the highest Tory
852. When we compare the above majorities with the
numbers at the last election, where the victory was by
no means so decided, we .are induced to ask what
becomes of the boasted reaction in favour of Toryism,
of which we hear so much ? The average number of
votes for the Liberals is 2,136, and for the Tories 1,019;
giving us a majority of 1,817, or a. difference in the ma-
jority on the two •ears of no less than 2,492 votes ! ! !
So much for reaction.—Cheltenham Examiner.

DISTRESS IN STOCKPORT.—It iS with genuine
sorrow we observe that the distress in this borough
among the -unemployed operatives, continues unabated.
The Queen Dowager has surely only to be apprized o'
the fulness and depth of its extent, to extend that cha-
ritable hand which she so perpetually holds forth. The
relief fund has now been on full operation 13 weeks,
during which time upwards of 4,0001. have been ex-
pended ; and the last weekly report shows a return of
13,463 individuals, subsisting on an average weekly in-
come of 94-d. per head. The Committee prepared, as
they supposed, themselves to meet the present press-
ing exigencies, have been unexpectedly overcome
by the intensity and increase of suffering. Num-
bers of recipients have, they believe, no other
means of subsistence than the relief afforded by this
charity, and now that its continuance is hazarded, owing
to insufficiency of resources, they must, without help,
become dependent on the parishes to which they seve-
rally belong. This will remedilessly increase the poors'
rates to an enormous burden, in places where at present
the taxation is almost insufferable. Urgency of appeal
cannot be too closely pressed upon all charitable and
philanthropic individuals to come forward and help with
ail their power! We observe that the London bankers,
Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co., Smith, Payne, and Co..
and Denison and Co. have books open for this demand-45f
existence and humanity.
PARISEI OF CLERKENWELL.—Yesterday evening, at,
six o'clock, an adjourned meeting took place at the
School-room, in Amwell-street, of rate-payers of the
above parish, for the purpose of appointing beadles for
the ensuing year. The matter in dispute was whether
there should be one or two ; and as one rejoiced in the
very romantic name of Mount-Stevens, while the other
held the less euphonious sobriquet of Bug, it was de-
cided that such important matters should stand over for
one month ; and meantime a committee of eleven rate-
payers were appointsd to inquire into the character of a
Bug, and the qualifications of a Mount-Stevens. As there
is now virtually no " beadle of the parish," the boys of
" lesser and of larger growth " can play at dumps and
chuck-farthing with some degree of safety. The rental
of this parish exceeds 200,0001.!
The Prefect of the Seine has posted up placards in
Paris giving notice that he will, on Saturday next, decide
upon tenders for the temporary buildings on the occa-
sion of the King's Fete on the Ist May. They are to
be divided into two parts ; one for the theatres in the
Champs -Elysees, and at the Barriere du Trone, the ex-
pense of which is limited to 32,622 f. ; and the other for
the illuminations, may-poles, and orchestras, the maxi-
mum of which is fixed at 13,194 f. This is the first
time, we believe, that these works have been put up to
public competition. They have hitherto been taken by
private contract.

MORTALITY OF TILE METROPOLIS.—The number of
deaths during the week ending March 19 has been un-
usually small, being 120 less than the average for the
last four years, and 318 less than in the week ending
January 22, 1842. The decrease in the number of deaths
caused by old age and diseases of the lungs is most re-
markable. In the latter week the numbers were—from
old age 109, diseases of the lungs 374 ; whilst in the
former they amounted respectively only to 51 and 269.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—There is a new
square now being planted at the foot of Vauxhall-bridge,
on the Crown estate, which is to be called Lincoln-
square, in honour of the Earl of Lincoln, the First Com-
missioner of Woods and Land Revenue. This square
will have houses only on three sides, which will enable
each house to have a command of the bridge and river
Thames.

An Armenian peasant died lately at the village of
Bugukdere, in Turkey, at the advanced age of 108 years.
His death was caused by a severe fall • for up to the
period of his accident he had never been ;filleted by any
malady.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Kingston, March 30.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Baron GURNEY.)

Sarah Robinson, aged '2l, was indicted upon the Co-
roner's inquisition for the wilful murder of her new-born
illegitimate child.
Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence, that shortly before
Christmas last, the prisoner, who resided with her
grandmother at Dorking, presented an appearance
which induced a belief that she was enceinte. On
the sth of January she was observed in the. water-
closet, by a person who resided in the house,
and she then appeared very unwell. On the same day
she placed herself under the care of Mr. Curtis,' a
surgeon at Dorking, and continued under him till the
time she was taken into custody. On the night of the
27th January the water-closet was emptied, and the soil
placed on a dunghill on the premises of a neighbour ;
on the following morning the body of the child was
found amongst the soil, and it was evident that it had
been there for some time. Soon after Christmas the
prisoner was observed to have decreased in size, but no
particular notice was taken of the circumstance.
Mr. Curtis proved that the prisoner applied to him for
advice on the sth Jan. and remained under his care till
the day the inquest was held on the body of the
child. She appeared very ill, but he saw nothing'
which led him to suppose that she had been de-
livered of a child, or that she was in the family
way. On the morning of the 28th of January he
was called to see the body of the child ; the umbilical
cord was ruptured, but there were no marks of violence;
the child had been born alive and had breathed.
Mr. Baron GURNEY told the Jury that the case against
the prisoner had entirely failed ; there was no proof
whatever that she had given birth to a child, further
than a slight alteration in her appearance. He re v2r
before knew of a case of that description in which t'ia•
supposed mother had not been subjected to an examina-
tion by a medical man in order to prove whether she
had or had not recently been delivered ; and the fact of
the prisoner having been for three weeks under the care
of Mr. Curtis prior to the finding the body o: the child,
and his not having any reason to suppose that she was
or had been in such a state, was much in her favour.
The Jury instantly acquitted the prisoner.
Sarah Bead, aged 19, was indicted for the wilful mur-
der of her illegitimate male child, at the parish o'
Lambeth.

Mr. C. JONES defended the prisoner. Mr. CLARK-
SON stated the case on behalf of the prosecution, and
called the following witnesses :
Mr. James Francis Wool, of Bowhill Terrace, Brix-
ton, stated that on the evening of the 11th inst., on his
return from the City, a communication was made to him
by Mrs. Wool, which induced him to go to the water-
closet, when he observed what he considered to be the
body of a child lying on the soil. He immediately sent
for Mr. Christie, a surgeon, and also for a policemen.
The prisoner was at that time in her bed-roc-_n ; she
had been in his sert,:ce about 12 months.
Wm. Blenhame, 182 P, stated that on the night of the
11th inst. he was called to the house of the last witness;
he examined the water-closet, and after considerable dif-
ficulty succeeded in taking the body of a child frona the
soil he fished it up by means of a sweep's scraper, which
be placed under the neck, and part of a clothes' prop.
After washing the body he discovered an incision upon
the left side of the neck, which e::tended about three
inches. On the following morning he went to take the
prisoner into custody; he then searched for the baby-
linen but could not find any.
Inspector Campbell stated that the day after the body
of the child was f, eind, he went to Mr. Wool's with the
last witness. He found the prisoner in her bed-room,
when the prisoner said, " There is no knife there, the
mark on the child's throat was made by the clothe's prop
in forcing it down the water closet." At that time he
had not said anything to the prisoner about a knife. He
subsequently examined all the props, but could not
cover any marked with soil ; in fact, there was not one
of them, on account of their length, wl'ch could be put
down the closet.
Sergeant Kendall, 1 P, examined the prisoner's room,
the night the child was found. He asked her whether
she had any knife in the loom? to which she replied
she had not. He was then about to search a bureau,
when she said, " There is nothing there, the doctor has
searched all those drawers." He afterwards found a
penknife with a broken blade in her work-box ; she then
said she had brought that up afterwards.
Mr. Christie, a surgJoi, stated that he was called in
on the night in question, and sew the child taken from-
the'water-closet. He observed a wound, about half an
inch in depth, on the left side of the neck, extending '
from the ear, about three inches. The main vessels
were not divided, but a quantity of blood had flowed