The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-01 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Harriet Surgrove, a young lady of very interesting
appearance, aged 22, was charged by her father, the
Rev. John Surgrove, the Rector of St. Mary, So-
merset, Upper Thames-street, with having absconded
from home, taking with her the whole of her ward-
robe, and also with having obtained goods in his name
from different tradesmen.
The Rev. Gentleman stated that he was under the
painful necessity of charging the defendant, who was
his youngest daughter, with having absconded from
home in company with his gardener, a young man
named William Godfrey, and with having, since her
departure, obtained a variety of articles from different
tradespeople on his account. On the morning of Sun-
day last he left her in charge of his house in Dalston-
terrace during his absence at church, and on return-
ing home in the afternoon he found that she had gone
away, and had removed the whole of her wearing
apparel and everything belonging to her.
Mr. BINGHAM inquired whether he had been in
the habit of authorising his daughter to give orders
for goods in his name, previously to this unhappy
occurrence.

The complainant answered in the affirmative, and
said that she was treated with the utmost indulgence
in every respect.
Mr. BINGHAM said, that as a Magistrate he had no
power to deal with :the case, and discharged the pri-
soner, who then left the court with her father.

TILE VICTORIES rig- ASIA.---AS may be naturally
supposed, the whole interest, conimercial and political,
is centred in the important news from the East.
The success of our arms in Affghanistan, and of our
negotiations at Nankin, have caused an excitement
which has been rarely witnessed : the favourable
operation upon our manufactures has been imme-
diate ; and those who were loudest in their blame of
Lord Palmerston, for what they called his anti-com-
mercial policy, are not backwerd in their rejoicing at
the bright prospect the triumph of his policy has
afforded to us. The unscrupulous attempt to de-
prive him of the credit of this important result, and
to appropriate the merit to the Tories, has wholly
failed ; the most that ,the public will admit is, that
the virulent opponents of his policy have the good
fortune to be in office when the triumphant issue has
been achieved.—Glasgow Argus.
TILE INCOME-TAx.—The labours of the Commis-
sioners are rapidly drawing to a conclusion, in as far
as the eastern district of the city of London is con-
cerned. They met on Saturday, at ten o'clock (the
Commissioners present being Aldermen Wilson, Gibbs,
and Musgrove, Mr. Deputy Blackett, Messrs. Pea-
cock, R. L. Jones, Sampson' and Melville), but they
adjourned at eleven o'clock, having no business before
them. The sitting was resumed at a later hour, but
all the business was finished before two o'cloc1;. On
Monday there were 132 numbers taken out, the greater
portion of which were satisfactorily disposed of. In
one case only—and that a very bad one—was the ap-
pellant sent back to amend his return. We understand
that the Commissioners, finding that their leniency
has been abused, are now leaning to a more strict in-
terpretation
of the Act ; but this only in cases when
the attempt at evasion is palpable. the Commission-
ors attending on Monday were the s ame as on Saturday,
with the addition of Alderman Musgrove and Messrs.
Carter, King, and Mr. Deputy Allen.
DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Tuesday night between five
and six o'clock, a fire broke out in the lower part of the
premises of Messrs. Warren and Co., blacking manu-
facturers. In a few minutes three of the Chandos-
street engines, with Mallet and several firemen, were
on the spot, and instantly got the engines into opera-
tion, but from the dense smoke issuing from the
cellars where the fire was raging among the straw in
the crates, considerable difficulty was experienced for
some time to bear upon the flames, till fortunately the
County, Farringdon-street, Crown-street, West of
England, and also the City engines arrived to their
assistance, with Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent,
when the supply of water being abundant, they were
enabled to pour streams of water into the lower part
of the premises, and thus prevented the fire reaching
the shops, otherwise the whole of that extensive
establishment must have been destroyed. It is said
that the fire was caused by an explosion from lucifer-
matches.

Tun CHINESE WAR.—The following is an extract
of a letter from that gallant officer Captain Hall, of
the Hon. Company's steamer Nemesis, to a gentleman
in this city, dated Nankin, August 31, 1842 :—" Now
the war is happily over, I have time to think of my
old friends. Yes, thank God, we have at last brought
these fellows to respect the name of our noble coun-
try, anal to speak of us with respect. They have been
regularly beaten into it; and I feel proud and...thank-
ful in having taken such an active part. The parti-
culars you must have seen and heard all about before
this. 'Yes, the Chinese know her well, they call her
the devil ship; fire ship, and all sorts of names. Well,
I do think myself truly glad to get out of it as I
have. At'Chapoo I had two of my men shot at my
'side ; and tIM other day, at the taking of Woosung,
one of my men had his right arm shot off, the arm
chest near where I was standing shot to pieces, and
fifteen shots struck us that day. I hope some of
these' days to give you all particulars myself; for the
Present, you must be content with this short scroll.
eace was signed on board the Cornwallis on :he 29th
instant. 'I
was present, and a very interesting sight
it was; and the day before I was at the top of the far-
famed
Porcelain Tower, and had the pleasure of
drinking the Queen's health and friends north of the
Tweed. The sight was truly splendid. We rode
out,' about twenty-five of us, on Chinese horses, and
had a good dinner there, and returned the same even-
' ing to our outer advanced guard, where our artillery
was. The latter are a fine set of fellows."—Caledonian
Mercury.
;;The Carlsruhe Gazette of the 29th ult. states, that
for some time past alarming reports had been in cir-
culation at Vienua relative to Prince Metternich's
health. "It is true," says the Gazette, " that the
Prince had been slightly indisposed, and had even a
consultation of physicians, who recommended that
his Highness should take more exercise than he had
been hitherto accustomed to do, but that there was
nothing in his case to cause the slightest alarm
amongst the Prince's numerous friends."
Tax WEST INDIA AND MEXICO MAILS.—The
following notice was issued on Tuesday at St. Martin's-
le-Grand and the branch offices :---" The Clyde steamer
for the West India mails for the Ist December (to-day),
not being ready for sea, will be detained until the
arrival of the post of Saturday, the 3d of December, at
Falmouth. The Tay steamer arrived at Madeira on the
evening of the 9th or morning of the 13th inst. ; she
was prevented by a gale of wind from touching at Co-
rti/31M

POLISH REVOLUTION.
Tuesday, being the twelfth anniversary of the Po-
lish Revolution, a great number of the Poles assembled
at the rooms of the Literary Association of the Friends
of Poland, in Duke-street, St. James's, to commemo-
rate a day glorious in the annals of Europe, as having
given occasion for a display of valour and patriotism
unparalleled in the chivalrous ages. Captain Jablon-
ski having been called to take the chair, addressed the
meeting in a very energetic speech, and reminded his
countrymen of the glory which Poland has acquired,
and the services she has rendered to Europe. lie then
glanced at the later periods of the history of that
country, and forcibly expatiated upon one of the most
in famous transactions recorded in history—the parti-
tion of Poland, and the annihilation of her
theindepend-
ence. Having come to the anniversary of
day of the 29th of November, 1830, in the
event of which every one present at the met-
ing had taken an *active part, he assured
brethren that the struggle for liberty and natins!
independence was .not yet at an end ; that they woulq
all be again called upon to rescue their native land
from the yoke of the oppressor. That sorry as he was
he
to embitter their already protracted sufferings,
could not pass over in silence that religious persecu-
tion which the remorseless hand of their enemy has
recently inflicted upon their country. He could not
refrain from saying that the faith of their ancestors,:
the churches wherein its rites were celebrated, ana
the clergy who administered its consolation
d
to a
people deprived of every earthly blessing, had nTb
with treatment at the hands of the Emperor of Russia
which would have disgraced a barbarian conqueror. .
But it was not for him to relate the particulars of the
unexampled cruelties perpetrated by the ambition of
Nicholas; the public press had already brought. them.
to light, and he trusted that the Almighty, I.a
the
justice, would decree that these insults offered in
name of religion to the principles of ChrishaniMi
should be of no long continuance. Suffer, as theyath
must,. to see their father-land reduced to such adPrs
n.e
o. f misery and abasement, to find themselves Iva
in a foreign land, and severed from the ties which are
dearest to humanity, still (continued Capt. ja.bl°l3s 1`
in-
ultimatelyt
triumph, and this conviction ought
they must not yet despair. The cause of justice mils
spire every one of them with certainty that thecae cause
of Poland is not lost, but she is destined once
become a barrier against the irruption of Asiatic paid
harians (he could give them no other name)' ,5130 f
prove, as she has often proved before, the bulwark
.Christendom. and of Europe. Captain jablen!..'
having concluded amidst loud cheers, .55u3liur.
zewski, Mr. Wiercinski,) Mr. Prusinowski,
Reczynski, and the young poet, Mr. Olizartrowl
successively addressed the meeting in yerY
to
s_
langu.age, particularly the last, whose poetical eo.o_
po.sition bore the character of religious
with
.regard to the duty imposed upon every Fele'
as children of one and the same mother, the unforo.
nate Poland. The speeches were in Polish, the the
sembly being composed entirely, of ales; in
sensation produced by these energetic appals in
a .remarkable degree powerful -and affecting• of
meeting then broke up, amidst the ardent wtsbe,lig.
all present that the next anniversary might be
brated in Poland. exhortan::

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of yesterdaYiljo,
MANCHESTER.—Since the market of y'este
week, a slight advance has taken place in some, of
scriptions of manufactured goods, and also in y'¢
current current numbers, and ready for immediate deliv6,,ed
Yesterday, however, the demand appeared to he chochso,
by the advance ; many foreign orders for god' re.
ing been sent with limits considerably below the p,ln,
sent rates, are necessarily lying over for fortherco
structions ; consequently the market, though perfe unt
firm, did not exhibit much activity; and the stn°
of business done was comratively limited.
oR The
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Nov. -- _nd
demand for flannels continues extremely brisk On.
to-day's market has been equal to any of the
.I)_4l`
ceding ones. Yet, with the ready sale that Plerto
have met with, the manufacturer has not been °very
obtain any advance of price. There has been the
little doing in the wool market, on account °,..ce,
dealers attempting to obtain an advance ill PsAin
which has been resisted by the manufacturers.
better
wool is more difficult to buy, and rather bave
prices have been given ; but other descriptions the
been sold at former prices. It was stated in d
market, that at the London sales, the latter end of
last week, skin wool had been sold at an advsne°
one pound per pack.

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STATE OF TEADE..=--The revival in trade' ctlatx'
had begun to show itself in the first portion
month, has received a decided stimulus from Om° ;eft
of
fpected settlement of the dispute with China.
whhiope, it must be admitted, mingles in the teei,
now pervades the manufacturing and faercsa.cii
tile circles. But, besides the beneficial effects svnide
thed restoration of peace cannot fail to have cn trade
an commerce, by removing a cause of exPense
unficertainty, the triumph of our arms has forced °Pen
ta
feld so extensive for British enterprise that exeencet;
a ion can scarcely be too highly raised as to the ell ial
which the event is likely to have on the c°innl Wereld/
et
prospects of the country. The entire Eastern
with the exception of Japan, is now laid °pan to
jot%
merchants; and, great as is our trade in thewi
at-
impossible to estimate the height to which it
tain in the altered circumstances of that heall.t-selif,
populous, and productive hemisphere. China„!
with its teeming population of three hundred 11111:
instead of being accessible to our control° ti,,;.affetli
port only, and that one not the best fitted for
is now accessible at five ports, and those,unlike tar,'" 10
so situated as to make it certain that, in less tirii-pa
months from this time, British manufactures No ire.
their way into every part of the Celestial fi°o,3o,
cheering; and no sinister event will,
The prospect is, it must be admitted on all:Jariae
we ow', al of
to cloud it. Nothing is now wanted but the rePeoore
the Corn-laws to enable England to spring onceto the
forward in the career of prosperity ; and, thank: event
energy of the Anti-Corn-law League, even thn" f the
is more probable than the continued existence °
present atrocious statute.—Liverpool Albion' 500
THE NEW NAUTICAL NOVEL, "
CLUB," BY "THE OLD SAILOR."—" The p°Pula
Mr Barker's writings have acquired is well des faicl
it will not subside, but will doubtless strengthebe has
extend, both among the members of the service class
so faithfully described, and among the nurnet°ll-facti-
of readers, who, though they know nothing P iuse-
cally of the service, find an endless source of and
ment in perusing illustrations of the character:i'llich
narratives formed of the soul-stirring incidents whose
abound in the eventful lives of British seamen,lw the
foibles are forgotten in the fun they inspire
often
drollery in which they invest the mischief they bast
perpetrate. In The Naval Club' Mr. P.Bl.:'eoonse
in his best manner, brought befbre us an the
variety of those incidents, in which the grave_ia oafhl
gay will alternately find matter for serious srorreen'
and hearty hilarity. Life Afloat and Life in iglus'
with Hospital—interspersed with anecdotest cole-
trative of the characters of some of the In
the dif;
brated of the heroes of the quarter-deck—'," stiPP',.l
ferent gradations of their professional career ire
the subjects of these volumes. TheY Palau
interest which cannot flag; and will he
among nautical men, as they cannot fail t°
general readers."—Globe.
SUICIDE THROUGH DISTRESS.—TUegwv gospe.
Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the Aliddlesl Joseph
tai on the body of an aged glass stainer, nan'e he wio
Miller. A gentleman's servant said dud,
passing the end of Newman-mews, Oxfor"'
saw deceased in the act of cutting his throat
arms
razor. The witness instantly pinioned the a roof.
the deceased and forced him to throw away the troy
He asked deceased why he had attempted askrae?
himself, when the latter said, " How can yolioly
I did it from distress." As he was bleeding Pr ic' coy
from a wound in the throat, he was prowl from
veved to the above hospital, in which he di
erelli'
mental depression and loss of blood. Mr. Total!, that
a sculptor, of the Cornwall-road, Southwark, sal" alia
he had known deceased for the last fifty vears,oo6o
had taken tea with him on Monday last, at year
11.1 A,
in Golden-square. He then appeared of weak In'
la:trewe.t,,2les
and had been so for the last eight or nine months.
post nzortern examination, of the head of deceas'A
into the ventricles of the brain. Verdict—Temporar.t
showed a large effusion of serum on the surface and
insanity. • habiC
Among the 178,000,000 individuals who lit or
Europe there are said to be 17,900,000 beggarnyl,
persons who subsist at the expense of the commun'h
without contributing to its resources. In Denium..n
the proportion is o• per cent., in England 10 per cent.,
in Holland 14 per cent.
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Jane Swinburn, of twins.R/R TES.
On the 25th ult., at East Done, Isle of Wight, the Loll
Esq., of a son.
narOan, the 28th ult., at Southampton, the lady of Joseph Be'-
On the 29th ult., at Hereford, Emma,
Wontner, of Isn London,
rdof a daughter.
On the 30th litilt., atgton, Chelmsfo , Mrs. Edward Copland, °f I
daughter. wife of Mr. Josh
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MARRIED. Dot'
rby,
',
On the 22d tilt., at St. Weiburgh's Church, o
Francis Johnson, eldest son of Francis Jessop, Esq., f Eby;
to Margaret Sophia, sixth daughter of the late Cap tam,
peb
R.N., of Saling Hall, Essex. Also, at' the
seam e time lot",
place, Lieutenant Dobbie, R. N., of her Majestys shi p Eace/len t
eldest son of the late Captain Dobbie, to Lucy .Anne,
daughter of Francis .3ti,Dicil ______...------
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DIED- dVforrioo
eldes

On the 27th ult., in King-street, Cheapside, Thy Pmas -
Esq., aged 85.
Mr. .13°"
On the 26th nit., Elizabeth Ann,the wife o f
Edwards, of Cornhill, City.

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