The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-08 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, AUGUST 6.—The llioniteur of this morning
contains the following Royal decree, dated August 2 :
"Provisionally, and dating from the 15th -of this
month, the Schelde toll shall be reimbursed only to
steamers which shall have left Antwerp on the days fixed
by the Belgian Government, and only for .the number of
departures determined for each of those days.
" We reserve the right of regulating the order of
arrival of these vesssels if experience should prove it to be
necessary."
It is hoped that this Royal decree will put an end to
the disputes which have arisen at Antwerp between Bel.
Irian and French Steam Navigation Companies respect-
ing the hours of departure, which the English packets,
contrary to the regulations, do not observe.
By virtue of the preceding decree the following minis-
terial order has been issued :

The Companies whose steamers at present ply be-
tween Antwerp and London shall obtain the reimburse-
ment of the Schelde toll for the following departures, viz.:
" The English Company for one departure on Sunday,
Tuesday, and Saturday. The Belgian Company for one
departure on Wednesday and Tuesday every week."
The Senate has agreed to the project of law respecting
the convention with France. Of the 34 members present
28 voted for it, the other six would not vote against it,
but declined voting at all.

DEATH OF JOHN BANIM, ESQ.
It is to-day our melancholy duty to announce, with
feelings in which the deep regrets of private friendship
are mingled with the higher sorrow resulting from the
sudden loss to literature and to Ireland, the death of our
country's first and most popular novelist, John Banim.
He expired on 'Thursday night at his residence, Windgap
Cottage, near this city, in the forty-second year of his
age. Mr. Banim was a native of this city, of the parish
in which he died, and which owes to him its celebrity as
the scene of some of the most exquisite of his tales.
At a very early age—so early as to have been almost
deemed an unhealthy precocity—his genius begun to be
developed; and there are still in existence manuscripts
of his prose and poetry written in the fresh bloom of
boyhood, which contained ample promise of the excel-
lence to which he afterwards attained. But whatever
expectations of literary fame might have been created in
the minds of his friends at that early period, they were
exceeded by their hopes of his success as a painter ; for
he displayed considerable taste and skill in " that sister
art," and was for some years resolved on making it This
regular profession. When scarcely. seventeen years of
age he became . editor of the Lanster Journal. At
the age of eighteen he produced the admirable play
of Damon and Pythias. in the following year appeared
his poem of the Celt's Paradise. When about twenty
years of age, Mr. Banim married, and proceeded to
Lowden, where he became immediately editor of the
Literary Register. However, he abandoned the compa-
ratively unprofitable work of editorship, in a few years,
when the great success of the first series of" The O'Hara
Tales" opened the way to certain fame and fortune. La-
bouring for several years with incredible industry, lie
produced—after" Crohoore," the " Fetches," and "John
Doe"—his "Boyne Water," the " Anglo-Irish" (first pub-,
fished anonymously, but since avowed), the " Nowlans,"
and innumerable other tales, essays, and sketches. The
" Nowlans' "published when he was only 26 years of age, es-
tablished him as the very first of Irish writers of fiction,
and left him leisure, if he chose to enjoy it, to complete
with little labour the fame he had already acquired.
But, unhappily, he continued his incessant toil—his
health gave way ; and in 1832 he was obliged to seek, in
a milder climate, for the treasure which he had lost
through over exertion in London. He remained in Paris
till 1835, and then returned to this his native city, in the
vain hope of recovering the greatest of earthly blessings,
which, alas! was irrecoverably gone. From the publica-
tion of " The Nowlans," in 1829, to. his return to Kil-
kenny, he had published "The Denounced,"The Croppy,"
"The Smuggler," "The Ghost-hunter," "The Mayor of
Windgap," with numberless contributions to the annuals
and monthly periodicals. A few tales in the magazines,
and his recent work, " Father Connell," were the fruits
of his exertions while in Kilkenny. It is with additional
pain that we have to mention the general fate of genius.
Mr. Banim died impoverished. A pension of 1501. a
year was granted to him by the late Government in 1837.
This was subsequently increased by an addition of 401.
a year for the education of his only child, a daughter.
But the necessities of his prolonged illness rendered this
sum insufficient for his support; and to his amiable widow
and child, the only legacy he could leave was the memory
of his life and the renown of the genius whiCh outlasts it.
—Kilkenny Journal.

LMARRIAGES IN lIIGII LIFE.—On Saturday last the
nuptials of Lord Walsingham and Miss Augusta Louisa
Russell, eldest (laughter of Sir Robert Frankland Rus-
sell, Bart., were solemnised at St. George's Church,
llanovcr-square, in the presence of a select circle of the
friends of both families. The Hon. and Rev. F. Grey
officiated at the ceremony. A ilejeuner was given to
a small party by Sir Robert and Lady Frankland Rty-
sell, at their mansion in Cavendish-square, after which
the noble bride and bridegroom left for the respected
Baronet's seat, Chequers. Bucks, for the honey-
moon. The marriage of Mr. Evelyn P. Shirley, M.P.
for Monaghan, and Miss Lechmere, the daughter
Mr. A. It Lechmere, and grand-daughter of Sir An-
thony Lechmere, Bart., was celebrated on Thur,,day last
at Hanley Church, Worcestershire. The fair bride
was attended by Miss Louisa Lechmere . Miss Shirley,
Miss Heywood', and Miss Enuna Lechmere, who
officiated as bridesmaids. The village presented an un-
usually gay scene, from the children of the parochial
! schools being liberally regaled, and the poor villagers
of the neighbourhood being bountifully relieved on the
happy oceusion, and the church bells rang a jovial peal
throughout the morning., Sir Anthony- Lechmere
gave an elegant •entertainmmt at Rhydd to a large
party, including Mr. E. J. Shirley, ALP., and Mrs.
and Miss Shirley, Mr. a-,:d Lady Emily Foley. Hon. Wm.
Cover try, Mr, Do wdeswell, M.P., and Mrs. Dowdeswell,
lion. Mrs. Lechmere, Colonel Strode, ll.m. Mrs. Parker,
Major Wilmot, &c. In the afternoon the happy couple
started for Eatington Park, Warwickshire. Tho Hon.
Charles Howard, M.P., son of the Earl of Carlisle,
led to the hymeneal altar this day Miss. Parke, (laugh-
ter of Baron Parke, of the Court of Exchequer. The
marriage was its private as possible, and the bride and
hridegroom go to the Duke of Sutherland's villa at Roe-
hampton, for the honeymoon.
SUICIDE •OP A MANIAC nv LEAPING FROM A
WI iinow.—On Saturday last Mr. Baker, owing to the
continued indisPosition of his colleague, Mr. Wakley,
held an inquest at the Admiral Keppel, Fulham-road, on
the body of Mr. JRIIICB Gristwood, aged 35, a corn and
coal-merchant. Mr. William Leppand, landlord of the
Admiral Keppel, said, that the deceased lived opposite to
him in the Fulham-road. Deceased had been known for
some time past to be subject to fits of insanity, and not
long ago they were so frequent, long, and severe,
that •by the advice of a prokssional gentleman, his
family were induced to confine him in a lunatic asy-
lum. He had been three times in lunatic asylums (once
at Hanwell), but was permitted to leave, as hopes of his
recovery were entertained. Recently he had been re-
siding with his family and friends, and had been under
the treatment of Mr. Raymont, surgeon of King's-road.
He had been confined to his bed for the last four days,
and on Wednesday night last he contrived to elude the
vigilance of his attendants, who had not been absent
from him many moments, and unperceived leaped from
the window of the second floor front room. Witness
heard him fall heavily
-on the pavement, and ran to the
spot, where he lay insensible. A surgeon was soon in
attendance, but deceased died from the injuries in two
hours. Verdict, "Temporary insanity."
Lord Stuart de llothsay, Captain Ward, and
Captain Knox, left London yesterday afternoon in the
General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Wil-
-1 berforce fer Antwerp.
Mrs. -..`Aountjoy Martin took her departure for the
Continent yesterday, from London-bridge Wharf, in the
I Earl of Liverpool steam-packet for Ostend.
I The lion. Captain Stuart, Mr. Lockhart, Dr.
Ferguson, and Colonel Hey, left London on Saturdty
evenin* in the .General 'Stearn Navigation CiJnipany a
new share-ship Trident for Edinburgh,
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VISIT OF THE LORDS OF THE
ADMIRALTY TO WOOLWICH DOCKYARD.
The Earl of Haddington,Vice-Admiral Sir W. 11. Gage,
Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P. and
Captain Brandreth, arrived on Saturday in the Queen
steam-vessel at Woolwich, and were received by Capt.
Sir A. Collier. Their Lordships on landing proceeded
to the smithery, to witness the work in progress at that
extensive department, and examined the whole of the
powerful machinery in operation for forging anchors,
Welding iron, and making bolts for the use of the navy.
Their Lordships afterwards visited all the working de-
partments in the yard, and witnessed the testing of a
large anchor by Bramah's powerful machine. An exa-
mination of the works at the new basin and the new dock
occupied a portion of their Lordships' time, and they
appeared greatly pleased with the beauty and substantial
manner in which the whole were executed. Attached
to the new dry-dock in progress of construction by
Messrs. Grissell and Peto, a powerful steam-engine
has been erected for the purpose of withdrawing the
water within a very limited time when vessels are docked
to be examined. Some idea may be firmed of the
magnitude and complete arrangement of the new dock
when it is stated that it is sufficiently large to admit for
the purpose of being docked ships of equal dimensions
as the Trafalgar of 120 guns, and that the volume of
w*r requisite to float vessels of that size could by the
power of the steam-engine be completely withdrawn
into the basin at high water, or into the river at ebb
tide in about twenty minutes, and in the event of the
vessel examined being found sound and not in want of
any repairs, she might again enter the river ready for
service without losing the same tide. These are improve-
ments in celerity of movement which cannot fail to prove
of great importance to the country in the event of war
with any foreign power at a future period. The en-
gine connected with the dry-dock has been erected
in a handsome and substantially-constructed building,
the roof of which is supported upon chaste iron pillars,
and on the top an iron tank has been placed, capable
of containing one hundred and ninety tons of water,
and which will always be kept full in case of acci-
dents from fire at the end of the yard in which it is
situate. The just proportions of the tank to the build-
ing on which it has been placed, gives the wholes pleas-
ing appearance, and reminds the spectator on the ground
of the flat-roofed howes in eastern countries. The time
occupied by their Lordships in examining the dock-yard
on this occasion was upwards of five hours, and was so
taken up with the works, that they were enable to visit
any of the offices. Amongst the inventions submitted
was a plan by which the approach to icebergs could be
detected, and other subjects important to navigation.
The invention is by a Monsieur Clement, and is said to
consist in the application of a clock, or kind of dial-
plate, with moveable indicators connected with the. com-
pass of the vessel. Their Lordships, with that spirit of
liberality which they have always shown towards all those
who have brought forward suggestions for the, benefit of
the service, have placed the Black Eagle steam-vessel at
the disposal of Monsieur Clement for a period not ex-
ceeding 15 days, to test the working of his invention, and
its application to actual service.

RIOT AT BURSLEM.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
TUNSTALL, Autt. 7.—We have had a lamentable
affair during the night in Burslem, and I have collected
these particulars from parties on whom I can place im-
plicit reliance
About six oliffek at night, three men, calling them-
selves colliers, with a box, were asking contributions
from persons in Burslem covered market, and thence
were taken to the lock-up, by Superintendent Ryles,
and Brown and Ball, two of the watchmen. No notice
seemed to,be taken of the affair ; and the town was Very
quiet until a few minutes past twelve o'clock, when sud-
denly the approach of a crowd from the Chapel-square
was observed, and at the time, . within fifty yards of the
Town-hall, where are the lock-ups. A shout was given
as soon as the mob Was opposite the hall ; then a second,
and instantly they knocked.the locks off the doors, libe-
rated the three men, and immediately commenced their
attack on the windows of the ball, which have been
riddled, and 90 squares broken ; several stones were
thrown through the illuminated dial of the clock, and it
stopped thereby, at five minutes past one. Another
party was then at work in like manner at the George Itm,
kept by Mr. William, Barlow, and 135 sash squares were
quickly demolished, and much internal mischief done to
his premises. Mr. Alcock's shop also was partially as-
sailed, and sixteen squares broken. Mr. Ryies's house
was beset by a party or sixty colliers, and eighty-four
squares broken, and the pannels of his doors and shutters
beaten in. The furniture was much injured inside the
house, looking-glasses were split, tables broken, and in-
dentations in the walls over the children's beds, almost
deep enough to hold a pullet's egg. Partial damage was
also done to a small house occupied by James Gracie, an
ex-policeman, who, being pot-valiant, rushed amongst
the mob, and was most rudely abused. His next-door
neighbours house also suffered from the missiles. Mr.
Acton's shop and parlour windows are destroyed ; but
strange to say, not a square of the six upper-story
windows is broken. A pistol was fired, and • the party
obeyed the signal, and left the town by the Waterloo-
road, towards Hanley, leaving a number of bludgeons on
the ground. They had remained longer absentthan was
expected by their fellows in the other parts ; for, after
the firing of the pistol, when going to attack the George
Inn, and Mr. Ryles's, two sky-rockets were sent up in
the direction of Cobridge (between Burslem and Hanky)
and little doubt can be entertained that they were in-
formed of the military having been sent for. In conse-
quence of an express sent as soon as could with safety be
done, to Newcastle, the Rifle company was brought, and
arrived about three o'clock, and here they remain.
The town is thronged with spectators of the disastrous
consequences of this ill-judged affair.
On the afternoon of Saturday, a party of colliers from
Longton, &c. " turned out " those at Norton, three miles
from Burslem ; a stone severely injured Mr. Dean, one
of the proprietors, and two of his bailiffs were ducked,
first in a dirty puddle, and then in the engine water-pit.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, SATURDAY EVENING.
SUN--The prices of our Funds have almost completely re-
covered from the late forced depression—Consols leaving off at
913/ 91i for Money, and for the Account ; Bank Stock, 1691
1701 ; India Stock, 249 250 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ;
New, 49 51 prem.
The circumstances by which the fall of one-half per cent.
was produced in Consols, has been very. .freely commented upon.
This was caused by a false report that events adverse to the
continuance in office of the present Ministry of France had oc-
curred, and that they had accordingly resigned. The rumour
was most industriously circulated by parties known
to be connected with the pigeon expresses, and operated upon
accordingly by several timid jobbers ; and the market having
been made so as to suit the speculators the opposite side was
then taken. So long as this system was confined to Spanisii
Stock, &c., it was not worth any very lengthened notice,
although, under any circumstances, most be highly deprecated.
And the distinction is made. inasmuch as none but specula-
tors themselves were ever taken in, and they -were perfectly
aware of the real value of the reports. Now, however, when
these same parties, finding that no more fleecing is
to be carried on in these bonds, and others of a
like description, venture to fly at such high game as our
own Securities, the attempts require exposure and every exer-
tion to render them unavailing. Some remarks have been
made on the conduct of the Committee of the Stock Exchange
in reference to this, and a comparison instituted between the
effect these rumours and the late swindle played off in Mexican
bonds. It would appear that the two cases are totally dissimi-
lar. In the latter a party is stated to have sold at 37, and then
to have produced a letter, by the aid of which the quotation
was driven down to 31. In the other it has been merely a
verbal statement, resting upon the credibility of the party
making it, and the value of whose testimony is now correctly
ascertained, and in future will doubtless be appreciated accord-
ingly. In the one case the proceedings of the body in question
were not only very remiss, but indicated a desire to shield some
of their own body; in the other it would appear they could
not be called upon to exercise their authority.
The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 1011 1021 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 5 l I ; the Five per
Cents., 1011 101;1; Dsnish, 81; 82k; and Brazilian, 63 65.
The quoteions for Mexican were, 35 2 5 1/2•
London and Birmingham Railway Shares were 180 182;
Birmingham and Gloucester, 47 49; Great Western, 891
90 ; the Half-Shares, 63,1 64k; South Western, 61% 6214 ;
North Midland, 59 60; the New Shares, 29 30; South
Eastern and Dover, 224 23h ; Eastern Counties, 84 9t ;
Northern and Eastern, 40 41 ; 131ackwall, 9 9k ; and Brigh-
ton, 33L 34h ; per share.
The quotations for the Bonds were—Colombian, 204 ;
Peruvian, 15 16 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 331 3334 ;
the Three per Cents. 191 20; Spanish Five per Cents. 20A
20a ; the Three per Cents, 19;1 196

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
The Marquis of Worcester, at Beaufort House, from
East Lodge, Brighton ; Viscount Villiers, in Grosvenor-
place, from Upton House, Warwickshire ; the Martini:,
of Bristol, in St. James's-square, from Brighton ; the
llon. George Ponsonby and family, in Bolton-row, from
Wooldeding House, Sussex ; Ifeathorn, Esq., and
Lady Prim, at Marshall Thompson's lintel, from Chel-
tenham ; William Leigh, Esq., Mrs. Leigh, and family,
at ditto, from a tour ; Vernon, Esq., Mrs. Vernon,
and family, at ditto ; Mrs. Foster, at ditto.
DE PA I :MIMS.

The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, from Belgrave-
- square, for Woburn Abbey ; the Marquis and Mar,
chioness of Londonderry, from Holderness House, for
Wynyard Park ; Countess Flahault and lion. Misses
Flahault, from Grosvenor-street, for the Continent ; Sir
Roger and Lady Palmer, family, and suite, from Here-
ford-street, Park-lane, to Kenure Park, Ireland ; Sir
John and Lady Mary ilamlyn Williams and family,
from Brook-street. for their scat, Clovelly Court,
Devon ; the Earl of Falmouth, from St. James's-square,
for his seat in Cornwall ; the Dowager Countess of
Sandwich, on a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. R. Brinsley
Sheridan, for their seat in Dorsetshire ; Mr. C.
H. Newdigate, for llarefield-place, near Uxbridge ;
Baron and -Baroness Dimsdale and family, foi Caulfield-
rlace, Hefts ; the Earl and Countess Fortescue, from
Grosvenor-square, for Castle IEII, Devon ; Sir John
Yarde Buller, Bart., M.P., and Lady Buller, frOm Spring-
gardens, for their seat in Devonshire ; Sir john Mor-
daunt, Bart., M.P. and Lady Mordaunt, from Eaton-
place, for their seat in IVarwickshire ; the Earl and
Countess of A ylesford and Ladies Finch, from G rosvenor-
street, for Packington llall, Warwickshire ; Lady
Frances Elope, from Hanover-square, flw Brighton ;
Hon. Colonel Westenra, M.P., and Mrs. Westenra, for
the seat of the Earl of Rossmore, in Ireland ; the Earl
of Kelburne, M.P., for the seat or the Earl of Glasgow,
in Ayrshire ; Lord and Lady Southampton, from (Treat
Stanhop:•Areet, for Whittlebury Lodge, Northampton-
shire ; Sir Edward and Lady Smythe and family, from
the Brunswick Hotel, for Acton Burnel Castle ; Sir
Patrick Bellow, from ditto, for Ireland; Colonel Conolly,
from ditto, tin. the Continent ; Baron Von Dryer,
General Gieten, and Count Gabriel Fejervenay; from
I ditto, for the Continent ; Mrs. Walter Jones and family,
from ditto, for Hale-place ; H. Dover, Esq., from ditto, '
for Norfolk ; G. Blundell, Esq. from ditto, for the-Yrth ;
J. Walters, Esq., from ditto, for Gloucestershir4 ; the
ri-cv' 'Charles Stewart, from ditto, for Ewhttr6t,-