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

THAMES-OFFICE.-(THIS DAY.)

Lieutenant John Glen Johnston of the Hon. East India
Company's service, belonging to the armed steamer Mem-
non, appeared to a warrant issued on Monday, chat ging him
with having committed an assault upon Robert Gray, Quarter-
master of the same vessel, on the 27th of Feb. last.

Gray stated that in the evening of the day before named he
was in bed, in the cabin, with his wife, when the Lieutenant
came to him and ordered him on deck, and having I.one there
he was then ordered below, and was to consider himself a pri-
soner. Gray refused without knowing what for, when, as he
stated, be was forced down, and in the scuffle his shoulder was
dislocated.

Mr. BALLANTINE inquired, of Lieutenant Johnston what
reply he had to make to the charge.
Lieut. Johnston said that he was an officer in the service of
the Hon. East India Company. The Memnon, to which he
belonged, was a vessel of war, intended for the East India navy,
and was about to proceed to Singapore; to join the naval
force there. By sections six and forty-three of an Act
3d and 4th Victoria, it is set forth that all officers and men
serving in the Indian navy are amenable to martial law, the
same as those belonging directly to her Majesty's service.
Mr. BALLANTINE asked if the vessel was so constituted
while on Ibis side of the Cape?
Mr. Johnston replied that the Act stated "within or with-
ont the limits of the Charter."

Mr. BALLANTINE having referred to the Act, said that the
terms were so strong and comprehensive, that he should
dis-
miss the warrant, being convinced that he had no jurisdiction
in the ewe. If the complainant thought proper, he was at li-
berty to carry his complaint elsewhere.
Lieutenant Johnston expressed his regret that the case could
not be gone into, as they bad evidence to prove, not only that
the assault was not committed, but that the conduct of the man
was such as to require the interference of the officers, he having
his wife on board -without permission.

MONEY MARKET ►nd CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
POST.—The report is revived of Mr. R. Thornton being
about to be invested with the duties and dignities of President
of the Finance Commission of Spain. fhe long-promised
advertisement of Messrs. Borrajo and Salamanca, with respect
to the capitalisation of coupons, is still looked for in vain by
the bondholders, and the reason assigned to Mr. Thornton on
the 21st ultimo, for the delay, must, therefore, be another of
the many mistakes which have marked the proceedings of these
curious people. We understood M. Borrajo to say, that the
observance of strict fairness and good faith required that the
announcement should appear simultaneously here and at Path,
and that this was the cause of procrastination ; but we have
excuse upon excuse, postponement upon p stporement, and to
speculate on what is actually going on—what is actually meant
—or upon the question whether payment will ultimately take
place, or whether it will not—were equally unprofitable to
ourselves and our readers. It will, however, occur to most
persons interested in the result, that as time elapses, and im-
pediments seem still to stand in the way of the payment of the
present pittance of a dividend, the prospect of a continuance of
payment, in the event of a commencement of it being ever
made, become less and less encouraging.
TIM ES. —The premium on gold at Paris is 105 per mille,whic'n
at the English M int price of 31. 17s. 105 d. per ounce for standard
gold, gives an exchange of 25 44, and the exchange at
Paris on London at short being 25 575, it follows that gold
is 0.64 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 431 i per
mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10',4d. per
ounce, for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 Bh, and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 95, it
follows that gold is 0.63 per cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgh.
The c ,urse of exchange at. New York on London is 1081
per cent., and the par of exchange between England anti
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex-
change is 1.33 per cent. against England. But the quoted
exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the
interest must be deducted from the aforesaid difference.

SUN.-1 he Stock Market was undisturbed by any further
operations on the part •of the Hebrew dealers, but the
public made a few investments at yesterday's rates, the prices
therefore for Money were rather better than those for Ac-
counts. Consols for immediate transfer were 89b to 89i, and
for Account 8911 to 89g. Exchequer Bills improved to 255.
and 275. premium, and East India Bonds were steady at 10s.
to lls. premium. Bank Stock with the dividend was quoted
170 to 1701. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were 981 to
99, and the Three per Cent. Annuities 8934 to 90.
The Foreign Stocks atrracted but little attention, and al-
though there is a talk that the Spanish dividend announce-
ment will be out to-morrow, we do not find that many arc dis-
posed to speculate on the chances of so uncertain an event.
The South American Bonds continue to engross the chief at-
tention. Mexican Bonds maintained there value at 364 to 36k.
and Columbian at 234 to 23.. Brazilian were dull at 65.
Spanish Actives were at 244, Portuguese New at32i. Russian
Bonds were marked 1124 to 1121 ex-dividend, and Dutch
Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 52 to 51%.
The demand in the Share Market bore again principally upon
the Great Western, but which, however, were not quoted quite
so high as yesterday. The other Railway Shares were at fair
rates—Great Western were 23 to 244, the New, 114 to 124, the
Manchester and Leeds, 6, the York and North Midland, 3:3, and
the South Western, 17a to 184 premium ex. div. Brighton
Shires were 14 dis. London and Westminster Bank Shares
did not go higher upon the result of the favourable meeting
held to-day, and at which a dividend of six Ler cent. was de-
clared. They were 2i Fern.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY COMPANY.
—The I2th nalf-yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders of
the Great North of England Railway was held at the Company's
office, Darlington, on Tuesday last, when it appeared, from
the Report read, that the Directors were enabled to declare a
'dividend of 2/. ss. per share, after deduction of which, the
clear balance remaining on hand would be 1,111/. 14s. 2d.,
which, with forfeited dividends and a remaining balance,
formed a reserve fund of 4,2681. 13s. sd. No collision or ac-
cident has taken place during the winter, and the number of
passengers conveyed during the quarter vs ding June 30, 1841,
was 32,954, and in the last half year, 80,548. Arrangements
were stated to be in course of formation for obtaining a rail-
way communication with Newcastle by means of the New-
castle and Darlington Junction Railway, and the Darlington
and Shincliffe line is also proposed to be jo'ned to theirs.
klt'LL AND SELBY RAILM'AY.-1.33, the Report of
this Company, a meeting of which was held at York last week,
it appeared from the account of passengers who have travelled
by it during the six months from the Ist of July to the 31st of
December last, that there had been an increase of 35,786
during that lime, over the first six months of 1841, and that no
less than 91,000 passengers had been conveyed by the railway
during the past year. The clear balance in the hands of the
Company was 6,2361.16 x. 5d., and a dividend of 15s. was ordered
to be paid on the 11th of April next.
YORK CAr.EleuAn..-1;y a summary of the calendar
for the Yorkshire Spring Assizes, it appears that there are 140
ewes for the West Riding, of which, amonng the more serious,
are five for murder, seven for manslaughter, eight for stab-
bing, and one for rape. In the North Riding, out of nine
cases, there are two for murder and two for manslaughter. In
the East Riding, one for murder, being the only case.
Mr. Leigh, the Mayor of Liverpool, who is already
reported to be the richest commoner in England, has, during
the last month, received an accession of fortune under the will
of some old lady, who lived somewhere at the south-end of that
town.
Curti) IN TIIE COAL MlNES.—Upwards of 500
letters above the average number passed through the post-
office of Newcastle-upon-Tyne on Val'entine's-day—a sure
proof that the "Eoke gid" is atterniting to undermine the
hearts of the miners, watt-land: Oa

THE CORN-LAWS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,— A glorious meeting was held to-day on 'Change here,
and a resolution condemnatory of the Corn-laws, and Peers
second edition, or as he calls it " improved version," unani-
mously carried 1 Think of this, amongst the Manchester Tory
manufacturers of whom there are so many ! Peel must and
wil lfeel this, as a great blow to monopoly, and to his strength
as a Minister. He relied on our divisions, but to-day will
show him that we are united on this point, if we can agree on
no other. Your paper of I,st night was in the right strain—
go on and prosper. This Bill must not pass, and it cannot do
so if you are faithful. • Yours, Sr.C.
Manchester, Mareh 1, 1842. A REPEALER.

W HAT the PEOPLE HAVE TO DO

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—If the greater number of the manufacturers be in
earnest; and if the majority of us who are depending upon our
daily labour for our bread, be filled with just indignation fort he
wrongs and insults wo.are suffering from the monopolists, why
arc we talking like angry women, and not acting as English-
men ought, when the alternative is victory, or misery and de-
gradation for themselves and their latest posteoity.
Work is every where slat k. Let every Monday be a holiday,
until the evils be removed. An arrangement of this kind can
be easily carried into effect. It will give us the opportunity
of meeting from week to week, hearing what has been done,
and consulting together as to what is to be done. I do not
dwell upon the advantages which would result from the pro-
ductive classes confrideiing Monday for the present a day sacred
to national purposes, because I th nk they are obvious, and I
shall be glad if you will advocate the measure. Our of pres-
stirs have leisure and every convenience for consultations;
and whilst these bad men are conspiring to rob us let us meet
together and consider how we can best protect ourselves.
AN ENGLISH MECHANIC.
Liverpool, Feb. 26, 1842.

SUGGESTIONS FOR TtlE CONSI-
DERATION OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUI%

SIR,-It is time for the Anti-Corn-•law League to abandon
the hopeless effort to conrinse the landlords of the iniquity of
the Corn-law, and of its ruinous effects in the nation. The
makers of the laws still persist in their blind adherence to that
system, which the most enlightened of their own class de-
nounce as the most effectual way to depreciate the value of land
below that of such countries as Portugal and Poland, and to
involve all the interests of the country in one sweeping ruin.
Every rational and right-thinking man must be of your opi-
nion, that it is right to oppose such a law ; nay, that is wrong
not to oppose it; that it is as much our duty to evade the law,
as it is to take a bye-path in order to avoid an attack of high-
way robbers. If, therefore, the starvation laws continue, in
another shve, some means of evading it must be adopted.
Let the millions of operatives unite with the wealthy middle
classes, and that which is called law, will be found only to be
words on parchment.
On the true principles of trade, I submit, why should we
be their customers? Is there no other market from which
to derive our supplies?—Yes. The granaries of-other nations
are full, and will readily be emptied in exchange for our
manufactures. I beg to propose, therefore, that the consumers
of corn pledge themselves to use foreign corn only, if sufficient
can be obtained, till free trade in corn be conceded by law.
Let the merchants, manufacturers, dealers, and operatives,
throughout the country, combine and form a Joint Stock
Corn-Trading Company—such a Company should provide
foreign corn for the members of the League, and effect the
exchange of our goods for corn with the countries of the Con.
tinent, and especially with America. In the latter country
a corresponding Company might probably be formed to faci
litate the operations of the British Company. In case the
imports of corn should not be balanced by the exports of '
goods, and to prevent too great an efflux of gold, the mem-
bers of the League should abstain from foreign luxuries, and
even such as tea, coffee, sugar, &c., which are essential to the
comfort of the British workman.

I conceive that this plan, if boldly taken up by the presen
Anti-Corn•law League, and extensively acted upon, would
effect such a reduction in the price of British wheat, as would
be ruinous to the agriculturists, and would ere long bring them
to terms It would greatly increase our export trade, without
dceleasing our home demand for goods ; because, while it
would furnish full employment to our manufacturing popula-
tion, it would not increase the price of food beyond that which
otherwise must be given for British grain, under the undis-
turbed operatiou of the famine laws.
I should gladly enter more fully into the details of this
scheme, did the duties and cares of a large manufactufng
establishment permit, but I must content myself with thus
hastily submitting my suggestions to all who would rejoice to
see the arm of the unrighteous oppressor broken, without war
and bloodshed. A HATER OF OPPRESSION.

MORE BURNING 1N EFFIGY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Allow me to inform you that Sir Robert Peel's effigy
was burned here on Saturday last. It was mounted upon a gal-
lows twelve feet high, and placed in a dung-cart, and taken
through the streets to the Corn Market, where the sentence,
the same as was read at Derby, was read over to him, when
hundreds of voices were heard, wishing it was himself. On his
back was a printed paper with the words," Judas Iscariot's own
brother." Around his hat, " A New Jim Crow," on which
was the word, " Demon." It was calculated that there could
not be less than 4,000 persons present remain, Sir, your
obedient servant, though a constant reader of your liberal
paper.
Bridgenorth, Feb. 33, 1842. AoWORKING MAN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—It has been asserted that a reaction has taken place in
the public opinion relative to the Corn-laws, because the signa-
tures to petitions for the repeal, dated 1842, amount only to
between 400,000 and 500,000, whereas those dated in 1841
amounted to upwards of 1,000,000.
It appears to me that the signatures to petitions forwarded in
11342 ought to be added to the previous 1,000,000, not com-
pared with them. The unenlightened public were not aware
of Parliamentary forms, and those 1410 signed a petition in
1841, addressed to the same, or nearly the same set of men,
have not felt it necessary to put their names to, or even to get
up a fresh petition, because these same gentlemen meet under
a fresh writ; and Ido not doubt but that, if the signatures
w ere examined, this would be found to be the case. We must,
therefore, say that the number of petitioners against the Corn-
laws, since the late Ministry brought the question before Par-
liament, and this is the fair and just way ot viewing it, amount
to 1,800,000, say perhaps 2,000,000, or nearly one-half of the
acult male population of England.
Cver-production ! I would ask if all the surplus would not
be taken off our hands if we could take corn or provisions in
exchange ?
Poland a in a state of destitution, says one wise gentleman.
Could they take off our manufactures? If we had announced
twelve months ago that we would take as much corn as the)
could grow for us, would not a large quantity of corn be now
ready for us, and what would Ihey have done with the gold we
should be now sending in retarn for it? They would not have
eaten it, nor buried, nor hoarded it. It must have come back
to us to purchase clothes and articles of manufacturing indus-
try, whether of cotton, of wool, of iron, or of brass ; because
we have them always ready for their orders, or can prepare
them with more expedition than any nation in the world, and
at as low a rate.
Are such assertions as those I have noticed above capable of
carrying weight with any mind disposed to use its faculties in
reasoning on the subject?
ONE OF YOUR NUMEROUS SUBSCRIBERS.
Fulham, 25th Feb:, 1842.

TILE RAT AND ILLS TAIL.—Poor Peel ! Unfortunate
Prime Minister ! You thought you could cat the farmer's cheese
without being caught in his starving-trap. But Richmond has
effectually caught you by the tail, and you must either remain
where you are, or recover your liberty by biting off your caudal
appendage. Every body wonders why the Duke of Buckingham
resigned, after they discovered the distinction without a difference
betwixt the old sliding scale and the new. The reason of the re-
signation is obvious. Peel's proposal to the Cabinet was for a
much lower duty than that which he actually laid before the
House. It was carried in the Cabinet, and the " Farmer's Friend'
resigned. But the threats which his resignation produced forced
Peel to abandon his own measure, and on the Wednesday morning;
the day on which he made his declaration, the Cabinet was com-
pelled to throw up all their pans, and make an alteration in which
there should be no change. Unhappy man: We almost pity even
him, as Burns did the devil, lie is the mere tool of a cormorant
faction, and alt the good or sagacity that is in him is overborne by
the scoundrels of whom he is the instrument, and to the ambition
of leading whom he is ready to sacrifice his own character and a
great nation.—The Free Trader. . _

APPALLING MURDER.—AII inquest was held on the

lfith, on the body of Andrew Martin, of Skinagin, parish of Do-
nagh. The deceased was about seventy years of age. It ap-
peared from evidence, that he had been sitting at the fire..
side alone about the hour of nine o'clock, on the night of
the 18th, when a gun, loaded with slugs, was fired at
him through the window, and which unfortunately took effect.
Two slugs were removed from the body by Dr. Moffett, of Glass-
lough, and handed to the Coroner. One passed through the lungs,
and lodged in the heart ; the second was removed from behind the
knee-joint. The verdict was, "That the deceased, Andrew Mar-
tin, came by his death from a gun-shot wound of the heart, inflicted
by some person unknown."—Northern Standard.
DECEASE OF THE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD.—This
Nobleman, who has for some time been in a declining state of
health, expired at Dorchester House yesterday afternoon, a few
minutes before four o'clock. The late Francis Charles Seymour
Conway, Marquis of Hertford, Earl of Hertford and Yarmouth,
Viscount Beauchamp of Hache, and Lord Conway, Baron of Rag-
Icy, in the Peerage of Great Britain and Baron Conway, of Kil.
lultagl,, county Antrim, in the Peerage of Ireland, was K.G., Knight
of the Russian Order of St. Anne, Warden of the Stannaries,
Steward and Vice-Admiral of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Chief
Commissioner for managing the affairs of the Duchy, Lieu-
tenant- Colonel Commandant of the Militia corps of Cornwall
and Devonshire Miners, Vice- Admiral of the coast of Suffolk,
Recorder of Coventry and Bodmin, Custos Rotulorum of Antrim,
and a P.C. The deceased Marquis was born on the llth of March,
1777, and was consequently in his 65th year. He succeeded to the
title on the 17th of June, 1822, anti was married on the 18th of

May, 1798, to Maria Fagniani, by whom he had issue—the Lady
Frances Maria, who was born on the I,ld of February, 1799, and

married, in February, 18112, the Marquis de Chevigne (her
Ladyship died a few months after her marriage); Richard, Earl of
Yarmouth (the present Marquis), a Captain in the Army, born
February 9.2, 1800; and Lord Henry Seymour, who was born
January 18, 1805, who has been so long resident in Paris.
A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign (Mice
yesterday. The hour appointed for meeting was two o'clock,
but before that time most of the Ministers were in attendance.
ACCIDENT (TO MR. JONES, THE Coal EDIAN.—The
public will regret to learn that Mr. Jones, for many yt ars un-
rivalled in his line at Covent Garden Theatre, lately met with
an extraordinary and serious accident. Mr. Jones, while in
the act of advancing hastily towards the fire-place, by some
means entangled his foot in the hearth-rug, and fell headlong
against the stove, with such violence as to scalp the skull to a
considerable extent. In consequence of this accident he has
been under the constant care of an eminent surgeon during the
last fortnight, but we are happy to learn that our old dramatic
favourite is at knight convalescent, and will shortly resume his
accustomed avocations.

FOUR PERSONS I)ROWNED.-KIRKCUMIRIGIIT, FEB

27.—A very melancholy accident occurred here to-day. Five
young men went out to take a sail in a small boat, and were on

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their return down the river, when a squall upset the boat, and
four of the men were drowned. Their names are—Stewart
'Watson, who has left a wife and two children ; Hugh More-
land and Thomas Al'Keachie, single men. 'lhe bodies of the
above three have been got; the other, thigh M'Adam, has not
yet been found. Too much praise cannot be given to the men
belonging to the port, for their exertions in trying to save the
unfortunate sufferers, and afterwards in endeavouring to find
the bodies.—Shipping Gazette. -
CURIOUS ANTIQUARIAN DiscovEßY.—ln making
excavations at the Hotel de Ville, at Mons, recently, a leaden
coffin has been discovered, containing the body of a female,
well preserved, and the robes, in black silk, almost intact. Ihe
head, placed by the side of the body, showed that the individual
had been executed. It proves to be the body f t
ohe Countess
Inez de Mendoza, who was privately executed in the co sf
the Hotel de Ville, on the 9th of June, 1618, as an accomplice
in the conspiracy of the Marquis de Henriqun. A ring on
one of the fingers bore the -arms of the Mendoza family. The
coffin was transferred to the museum of the town.

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H W TO GET PRAISE IN TH
NAV Y. ,
Ni!efohleasj,uodfg. itn,heent arstiallessoonns
ofi7tichteivec7oucortztin
which .A -
will not be thrown away on the navy.
It appears that an officer is not to blame for getting
his ship under weigh on a lee shore, and in a rising
gale, under sail which would not keep her under
command in so possible or probable an event as hap-
pened, the wind's heading in a squall. This is vul-
garly called chancing it, in which there is nothing
censurable. liad the wind held, the ship under
courses, would have reached her anchorage ; but as
the wind headed, and the ship could not stay under
courses, she had no resource but to let go her anchor,
which did not save her from striking.
Had the gale continued from the south, she must
have been lost, and probably all her crew with her ; but
as one chance put her in jeopardy under sail with which
she could not stay, so another released her.
Next, an officer is not to blame for steering a
course bringing him to the edge of a shoal, especially
in so unknown and unmarked a sea as that between
the Nab and St. Helen's Roads, where the sight of
such -a thing as a buoy is as strange as a
pine-apple
on Salisbury plain. The Captain, as usual in all
such cases, laid the blame to the compasses, which
would not traverse; the compasses, poor dumb things,
could not defend themselves, and retaliate that the Cap-
tain could not traverse a distance short of a league with-
out two great. faults; but the Court honourably ac-
quitted both the compasses and the Captain.
" The Court cannot decide with precision on the causes
which led to the disaster They appear to have rested
mainly on some error in the supposed position of the ship
when at anchor off the Nab, on the morning of the 26th
of January last, and in the course intended, to he wade
good whilst under weigh, but it is not proved by evi-
dence, that there was any material error or deviation
in -the compasses."
The Court was thus of opinion that the compasses
were right, and the course wrong; but it saw no-
thing censurable in mistaking the position of the
ship in that unknown sea within half a league of the
Nab, or in shaping a- wrong course in -a kind of
voyage of discovery thence to St. Helen's Roads..
'inw amazement of the ship's company at the unex-
pected phenomenon of the buoy on the lee bow must
indeed have been most deadly and unaffected.
. .Nobody-and nothing having been to blame, not even
those common causes of such catastrophes, the Nth-.
less compasses ; her Majesty's ship the Vindictive was
handsomely thumping on the shoal, and in this blame-
' less jeopardy her Captain gains more credit for his
conduct than the ship loses from her bottom.
Should any other officer happen to be in the like
circumstances to those in which Captain Nicolas was
placed, he will do all that Captain Nicolas did, and
nothing but what he did, and with the full sanction of
the' Court-martial just held, he will run his ship
ashore. After the example and sanction now given,
no-officer will venture to set his top-sails in the same
predicament.—Examiner.

GOOD SERVICE PENSIONS.

The Lords of the Admiralty have been pleased to
grant Good Service Pensions of 1501. per annum to the
iollowini?* gallant officers :
Captain J. W. Maurice (1809), R.N., residing at
StOnehouse. This officer was in Lord Bridport's action
in 1795, and assisted at the capture of two French
frigates, La Unite and La Virgine ; was senior Lieute-
nant of the Centaur at the capture of St. Lucie and
oaer West India islands ; was wounded storming a
battery at Martinique in 1803 ; was distinguished for
his-defence of the Diamond Rock in 1805, and the island
of Anholt in 1811. His last post was governor of that
island in the Cattegat, the garrison of which presented
him with a valuable and highly finished sword, in token
of their admiration of his personal bravery, and his
conduct during his government.
Captain Thomas White (a) (IMO), residing at
Buck!ast Abbey, Devon. This officer commenced his
career under Lord Hood, and was in seven actions with
that distinguished officer between the 29th April, 1781,
and the 12th April, 1782, on which day he was con-
cerned in capturing the French Admiral de Grasse, in
the Ville de Paris of 112 guns, together with four other
ships :of the line. In 1794, as first lieutenant of the
Canada, he, by his unwearied exertions and suggestions
to improve her sailing, saved that ship from capture,
she having, in company with the Alexander, fallen in
with and maintained a running fight with five French
line-of-battle ships and three heavy frigates for some
hours, in which the latter ship was taken by the enemy,
As acting Commander of the Pelican, off St. Domingo,.
in September, 1797, he fell in with two French privateers.
one mounting 14 guns, %%jai a complement of 75 men, •
while the other had 60 men for the purpose of boarding' •
thus exceeding his own complement by 40 men. He in
a second action sunk the former, and would have taken
the latter, had lie not stopped to save the crew of the
sunken vessel. For this action he received the thanks of
the Admiralty, and was Gazetted, but never obtained
the third Order of the Bath, it having been confined to
the second war ; but not so with the first and second -
Order. of the Bath. In 1805, whim commanding La.
Eleche, of 18 guns, he attacked a French flotilla, and had
several men wounded, when passing close under the
battery of Greaeaz. In command of the- Ariel, in 1808,
in the Baltic, he was frequenily under the fire of the
Russian batteries while watching the Russian fleet in
Rogerwick, then locked imp by the Swedes and British,
tinder the late Lord de Saumarez. In 1813, when
Captain of the Virgo, bearing the flag of Sir James N.
Morris, in company with the Zealous, of the line, the
Ulysses and Hatnadryad, frigates, &c., &c., no less than
375 merchant-ships were convoyed safely through the
Sound, in defiance of the batteries of •Chronburgh
Castle., to which were superadded mortars and heavy
• guns slung in chains, fl- the purpose of throning shot
over to the Swedish shore, which was then for the first
time accomplished. Captain White served as flag captain
to the gallant Sir Thomas Hardy, on the South American
station, from 1819 to 1822, and in 1838-9 commanded
the Royal Adelaide, bearing the flag of Lord Amelius
Beauclerk. then Commander-in-chief at this port.
Captain John Pasco, R.N. (1811), residing at Stone-
house, Devon: This officer was tieutenant on board
Lord Nelson's ship, the Victory, at the battle of Tra-
falgar, and was severely wounded in that glorious action.
for which he receives a pension of 2501. a-year in addition
to his half-pay. He has since served in other ships with
much credit.—Devonport Independent.

The premises in Milsom-street, Bath, known as the
Old Bath Bank, and recently occupied by Messrs. Hobbouse
and Co., were sold on Saturday, at the large sum of 4,030!.
The purchase was made by the Directors of the West of Eng-
land and South Wales District Bank. A tradesman bid 4,0201.,
but refused to go higher.
Last week the fbllowing extraordinary change of
fortune occurred to Mr. Biddulph, 63 years of age, formed
master butcher in Clare-market, but from adversities he un-
fortunately became so reduced in circumstances as to be cbligcd
to become an inmate of the union-workhouse, in Cleveland •
street, Fitzroy-square. After remaining there some time,
a law-suit terminated in his favour, by which be has become
possessed of funded property and estates to the amount of
30.000/. Yesterday he quitted the workhouse in company with
his attorney, to take possession of his unexpected wealth.
Mrs. Wood, on her ride from her villa near Wake-
field, to take the railway train for Leeds,on Sunday evening last,
swing to the sudden flight of a favourite horse, was thrown with
considerable force over the head of the animal, and, for a time.
excited great fears as to the consequences of so untoward an
accident. She was not, however, prevented by it from com-
mencing an engagement at Leeds on the following evening.
There is a humorous story recorded of the Earl of
Devonshire, A. r. 1240. who asked a farmer of his, " How he
could bear his situation, seeing that his grange was much
troubled by fairies, which," added the nobleman, a may be
spirits from hell."—" Right honoured Lord," replied the
quaint fellow, "there be verily two saints blessed in heaven
which do trouble me more than all the devils in hell, and in
true sadness those be the mother of our Dad and St. Michael,
the archangel ; because it is on their days that I am bound to
pay his dues to the good Earl of Devonshire."
A lady was burned to death at Clontarf on Wednes-
day night, while sitting up for some of her family, who had
gone to the Castle ball.—Dublin Paper.
Yesterday morning a man, named Richard Flinn,
aged 50, a fisherman, living at No. 5, Crown-court, Bankside,
committed suicide by hanging himself from a bed-post by his
neckerchief. No cause can be assigned for the committal of
the rash act, as the deceased was a very steady man.
A bombardier of the Royal Artillery at Ballineol-
lig, was tried by a court-martial a few days ago, and sentenced
to be reduced to the rank i.f private, for repeated drunkenness.
When the finding was promulgated he retired to his room and
put a period to his existence, by discharging the contents of his
tireloek in his mouth.— Cork Reporter.
The whole world is put in motion, either bv the
thirst after fame, the aspiring: of ambition, the desire for
riches, or the dread of poverty.
Aliss Rowe, the daughter of a local missionary at
Gloucester, was dreadfully gored by a vicious cow on the
Bristol-road, Lear that town, last Wednesday afternoon. The

animal also wounded its driver, and tossed two other persons,
and it would probably have done much more serious mischief
had it not been secured. All the parties are recovering. Miss
Rowe, who was most seriously injured, seems to have escaped
with her life only in consequence of her cloak bee; ming unfurled.
Some friends o 1 the gentleman, who, by a late de-
cree of the Jockey-Club, has been expelled from Newmarket
and the other gambling territories of that society, were lament-
ing his hard fate, when a stander-by consoled them with the
assurance that, after all, he was only in the situation of a man
who had been " kicked out of h —ll !

We are authorized to state, that in compliance.with
a request made to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, that
Nobleman has kindly coiner ted to preside at the ensuing public
dinner, about to take place in behalf of that laudable charity, the
Jews' Orphan A sylum.

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"NO llumAN GOVERNMENT."—The New Haven
Herald says, a Mrs. Tuttle, of Prospect, was.committed to jail
on Saturday by the Supetior Court at New Haven, " for re-
fusing to testify, on the ground of conscientious scruples, she
denying the jurisdiction of the Court and all human laws. She
stil remains in jail, and thinks the accommodations pretty good
for a martyr."
THE LIVERPOOL REFORM ASSOCIATION has published
n letter to the electors of Liverpool, stating wh.r.th.7
thonOit it %inadvisable to eontvst the borough at. present.
After adverting to the number of free in en I.v!_o
,r,hree
bribed on former occasions, the letter
,sf,tl:o2';),
aseen-
foregoing iJtatement shows the source f
of the edancy, in the Parliamentary Elections
to exist in the venality of a great. majoritypropriety
of free-
men, and points out, to Reform ft
°feisocial depression and
staining, during
this
season
the chief and undesir-
political apathy, from auiconb: ()if this borough,
to force their adverAaries
this tire
able result of which would d
x enditure of money, the venal
to gratify, by increase
amongst theeelPectors !" Sir Howard' Doug-
la.,,, therefore,
talks over the course, alld is by
1,
and corm'?
Representative of ,Liverpool.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TEE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.--Mr. Feargus O'Connor, addressing his
Chartist admirers the other day in iNlaryielsone said, the
"cry was that there were too many mouths to feed. But
if the Corn-laws were repealed to-morrow, no good
would accrue to the working classes, who would not
have bread one halfpenny cheaper. The only good it
would do would be to make the manufacturers and the
millocrats greater tyrants than they were at present.
—(Loud cheers.) Instead of going to foreign countries
fir corn, they could grow it all at home on the unculti-
vated land, and give employment to the surplus popu-
lation." We might find our apology for noticing lan-
guage like this in the fact that it is not at all worse
than the House of Commons hears with complacency.
But we have a better reason for noticing it than any qua-
lity of its own. It expresses apprehensions which find
some echo (though a weaker and weaker) in the minds
of many of the working classes. The repeal of the Corn-
laws presents itself to their minds as calculated to ag-
gravate that competition of labour emigrating from
the rural districts, which is already complained of in
the towns, and to depress still farther its already de.
pressed and precarious remuneration. We have
said that this apprehension shows itself less and
leis actively in opposition to the repeal of the
Corn-laws, and, indeed, seldom shows itself at all in
any spontaneous expression from the lips of the work-
ing classes. Yet it is a key which may be still struck
with some effect, though in general the direct and
palpable pressure of the Corn-laws on the workini,
classes now outweighs their fears of indirect evils
from their repeal. It may not, therefore, be useless
to point 'out what the work-people apprehend from
the repeal of the Corn-laws is precisely what is taking
place during their continuance! It is very true that
the sudden and total repeal of the Corn-laws might
produce that sudden and extensive deprivation of em-
ployment in the rural districts, which would send
their labourers to compete with the already de-
pressed labour of the towns. This effect, if pro-
duced, would be the consequence of a panic amongst
the farmers, which, however excessive, we should
think it highly impolitic to create. We are not,
therefore, for the sudden and total repeal of the Corn-
laws. We are convinced that no augmentation of
our imports which could possibly take place would
make up the deficiency which would be caused by
any considerable reduction of our home-growth.,The
fears of our farmers greatly magnify the available
sources of importation. We should be more in dan-
ger of dearth than excess from any sudden and sweep-
ing measure.
STANDARD.—Lord Campbell introduced into
the House of Lords last night three Bills relating to
Law Reform. These Bills may be very good Bills
(we think that some of their provisions are impracti-
cable), but they will fall very far short of satisfying
the public expectation of a reform in the administra-
tion of the law. Lord Campbell's measures merely
contemplate some changes in the exercise of the appel-
late jurisdictions of the Privy COuncil and the House
of Lords, matters about which 999 out of every 1,000
of the people do not care, and have no reason
to care, one farthing. But thus it is always—" the
fly on one's nose eclipses the distant mountain ;"
and Noble Lords and eminent lawyers think nothing so
important as what concerns themselves, or what comes
wider their immediate cognizance. Accordingly,
Session after Session we have Bills for the reform of
the appellate jurisdiction and the higher Courts of
Equity, while the monstrous abuses of the inferior
departments in the law are left untouched. From
Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham, however, we
expect something better ; they are both, in the ho-
nourable sense of the phrase, men of the world ;"
they have seen, and are capable of judging, of mat-
ters beyond the limits of the particular courts in
which they have practised or presided. The law,
or rather the unreformed administration of the
law, is, however, a tyrant, and the only tyrant in
this country ; it fulfils all the conditions of ty-
ranny—no "man's liberty, or property, or fame, is
safe from it ; and it goes beyond the evils of
other tyranny in this, that its cruelties and op-
pressions are not the suggestions of individual caprics,
which must be to a great extent limited in its activity,
but the suggestions of the caprice, the cupidity, or
the malice of thousands. This is the enemy with
which a law reform must grapple, and it is an enemy
not unworthy of the arms of Sir Robert Peel,
Lord Lyndhurst, and Lord Brougham. The people
may not clamour for law reform as for other re-
forms ; but this is because the habitual clamourers are
of a class already ruined, and who have nothing to
fear from tyranny, whatever they may hope from dis-
order; while the classes above them are ashamed to
confess their hostility to the administration of the
law, lest they be suspected of having suffered from
it in a country where " poverty is infamous." It is
this dread of confessing poverty which guards the mon-
strous extortion to which persons in humble rank, and
in circumstances in the last degree embarrassed,
are exposed in England more than in any other
country in the world. The feeling is not a
dishonourable one, and it has proved eminently
useful as a stimulant to frugality and in-
dustry ; but it exists here in a far higher
degree than elsewhere, and therefore it is the duty
of the British legislature to protect from extortion
and. oppression those who are ashamed to complain,
and without complaining cannot protect themselves.
Such protection, however, cannot be afforded without
a severe revision of the details of the administratiOn of
the law, and an unsparing removal of all the instru-
ments of rapacity that time and the arts of greedy
and dishonest men have accumulated ; without, in
short, a thorough reform of the administration of
the law through all its departments, and all its subor-
dinations. This we expect from Sir Robert Peel's
Government ; and we expect it with more anxiety
from the conviction that, if Sir Robert Peel decline
the enterprise, no other statesman will ever embrace
it, and the country must wait for the worst of all pos-
sible remedies. What that is it is neither necessary
nor pleasant to say.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCIIESTER.—The announcement of advances by the
Bank of England at a lower rate of intervst, which was
expected by many parties to exercise a favourable in-
fluence upon our market, has, so far, produced no effect
whatever ; for prices still continue to droop, and goods
and yarn were both sold yesterday on lower terms than
were ever known before. The concessions thus made
by the spinners had some little effect in bringing pur-
chasers iTito the market, and a rather increased amount
of business was done at the reduced rates. For goods,
on the contr.try, the demand was extremely limited ;
and, notwithstanding the extremely low prices, pur-
chasers seemed disposed to take nothing but what was
necessary to supply their immediate and pressing
wants.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, FED. 28.
We have had a remarkably still market to-day, and the
little business that has been transacted has been done at
very lo►v prices. Thera is no change in the wool
mar:iet.

B UDDE R FIELD 111 A BEET, ifARCII 1. —So little
change has taken place in this market, that parties,
were divided in opinion to-day ; but, we are glad to
-gtatC', that, on the whole, there was a slight improvement
in the demand, especially in low-priced fancy woollens.
Business in the warehouses still drags on wearily, al-
though, perhaps, with a little more animation than for
Foam time past. Wools are heavy, and cost price diffi-
cult to realise.

THE NING OF PRUSSIA.—We mentioned a few days
since, that a tea service of plate was in preparation, by order of
his Majestyi the King of Prussia, as a present to Mr. Owen, High
Constable, of Westminster, for his services during his Majesty's
shY-t s jouru in this country. The piste has now been completed
by Mr. J. Woodbill, St. Paul's Church-yard. It consists of a silver
coffee-pot, tea-pot, sugar •basin, and jug, bearing the following
inscription :—" The gift of his Majesty Frederick William
the Fourth. Kim; of Prussia, to mark his sense of the at-
_ untion of Mr. Foster Owen, high Constable of Westmin-
ster, during the King's visit to the metropolis, 4th February,
1842.- The, other side bears engravings of the shield and
crown of the royal arms of Prussia, together with the arms of
the city of Westminster. The crest of Mr. Owen is encircled
by a garter, with the motto—" Fear God. Honour the King."
DEATH FROM AN OVERDOSE OF LAUDANUM.—
On Monday an inquest was held at the Green Man, Man-
Whitechapel, before Mr. Baker, on the body of
Mr. Robert William Rodgers, aged 40, a solicitor, of North-
ampton. George Morris, landlord of the Green Man, said
that the deceased arrived in London from Southampton
about two months ago, and engaged lodgings in witness's
house. lle came to London on professional business. On
Friday night last, at about twelve o'clock, witness went to
deceased's bedroom to ask him if he had done with the
candle he hail borrowed to light himself to bed. Deceased
repli-d that lie had not quite done with it, but that he
should ha7o it instantly. Deceased then gave it to him, and
witness then saw anti spoke to him fur the last time De
ceased had recently complained of want of sleep, and it was
witness's opinion that he had taken laudanum as a sedative,
and had by accident, an t not by design, taken as overdose.
The Jury, after a short deLbe ation, returned a verdict " That
the deceased died from havin taken' an overdose of laudanum,
but whether by accident or-design there was not sufficient
evidence to prove."
EDINBURGH AND • GLASGOW RAILWAY.—WE un-
derstand that the minority of the shareholders intend to pre-
sent a bill of suspension and interdict to the Court of Ses-
sion against the resolution of the majority, sanctioning the
running of a moining and evening train on Sunday.
This application will necessarily be founded
on sumo
of the old Scotch Acts as to the cornpu'sory ob:;er-
ranee of the Sabbath Day, and must open „p a wide
tield of discussion, as many of the statutory injunctions of that
period on this subject have
fallen into desuetude,
t,e majority
antieipa-
ton of such an appeal to the Court of Session,
re-
tained th:, Solicitor-General and MR r. utherfurd. The mino-
rity were also anxious to secure the aid of these eminent coma-
sal; and subsequently sent them retainers, which of course
they had to decline. —Edinburgh Advertieer, of Tuesday,
lairna.—We have reason to believe that the de .
spatchea received from the Indian Government give a worse
account of the state of affairs in Affghtthistan th3o the private
letters. The ennrage of the troops at Cabul was daunted by
the fearful odds around them, and overtures had been made
for capitulation ; hot it !cecina that the terms demanded by the
natiy,• chiefs were nothing short of the surreneer of Shah
Scojah himself, and the abandonment of the guns of the British
army. To accede to these conditions would be to expose the
array to the almost certain Violation' of them. The artillery is
the iast resource • • 3
Doefrtgeand.roownhout nothing, can be fUreseen but a masslcre
t