The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-31 00:00:00

MA Y 31, 1842.

tMarsion-house, May 30, 1842, 8 o'clock, p.m."
" ' Whitehall, May 30, 1842, 7 o'clock p.m.
"My Lord Mayor,—lt is my duty to inform
your Lordship that her Majesty, on her return from
the Park this evening, was shot at on Constitution-
hill. The criminal has been apprehended, and your
Lordship will rejoice to hear that her Majesty is safe
and unhurt.—l have the honour to be, my Lord
Mayor, your faithful servant,

" J. R. G. GRAHAM.
" The Right lion. the Lord Mayor.' "

THE MARKETS.-(THIM DAY.)
COLONIAL MARKET.
The trade is still very dull ; large parcels of goods are pressing
for sale, while the demand continues very trifling, and prices
in some instances rule below the cost of production.
TEA MARKET..
The public sales still progress with considerable heaviness..
Prices have with much difficulty been supported, but a very
small quantity has found buyers. Common Congou Is. 4d. to
Is. 6d. per lb.

TALLOW MARKET.
The demand continues very dull, but prices have been firmly
sustained. P.Y.C. on the spot, 48s. to 48s. 6d., and to arrive
in the last three months of the year, 495. per cwt.
WHITECHAPEL HAYMARKET.
The supply was but moderate, the demand good, and prices
steady. Clover, 2/. to 51. 33. ; Hay, cut, 2/. to 4/. ; Straw,
1/. 10s. to 11. 14s.

C H URCH-RATES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
a,—Passing through Dartmouth-street this morning, in the
parish of Aston, I came in contact with a large concourse of
people, who were hooting and groaning, and crying "Down with
the Church I" I inquired the cause, and my attention was
directed to four policemen taking seven bundles of wire, value
41. from the warehouse of Mr. Cornforth, wire-drawer, fur a
Church-rate amounting to 1/. Sc. 6d. From 4tr. Cornforth's,
they went to Mr. Walter Cooper's, and took two pair of brass
candlesticks and a large family Bible, value 51., for a rate of
13s. I wish to ask you, why our Bishops recommend Bible
Societies if their underlings are to rob the poor man of that
sacred volume with impunity ?
Constant subscriber, W. S.
Birmingham, May 30.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, MA v 30.—Messrs. F. Compton, H. G. Hulse,
A., P. Lawson, and T. M. Rice, have been elected Postmasters
of Merton College.
The Trustees hare recommended Mr. T. C. L. Wraxall, of
Bath, to be elected a Scholar on Dr Dyke's foundation, in St.
Mary's Hall. These Scholarships (six in number) are tenable
fur six years.
Mr. R. Dangertield has been elected an Exhibitioner in St.
Mary Hall, on the foundation of Dr. Nowell. There are three
exhibitions on this foundation.
Besides Mr. Way te, of Trinity College, Mr. Frederick Tem-
ple, of Balliol College, should have been mentioned as being
in the first class in both classical and mathematical lists. There
have not been two double first class men in any list since
Michaelmas Term, 1836.
The Lord Bishop of Hereford has instituted the Rev. J. F.
Benwell to the Rectory of Neenton, Shropshire.
The Lord Bi,hop of Winchester has presented the Rev. D.
Morgan to the Rectory of Weeke, Hampshire.
The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. W. Worsley to
the Rectory of Braytoft, Lincolnshire.
The Duke of Rutland has presented the Rev. J. Ilealey to
the Vicarage of Scalford, Leicestershire.

. -
ouicinr or A BOIC.—An inquest was held on *Sa-
airday night before Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., Coroner, and a
respectable Jury, at the Pembroke Arms Tavern, Pembroke-
square, Kensington, on view of the body of George Chalk, a
bey not yet eleven years of age, who hung himself on Wednes-
day. It appeare I that the father of the deceased, who is a
carter in the employ of Messrs. Bird, the builders, of Kensing-
ton, lived in Earl .street. On the afternoon of Wednesday, the
deceased, who was a boy of a morose and sullen temper, and who
had been suspended from the National school, in consequence
of his mischievous and obstinate disposition, was sent, accom-
panied by his sister, on an errand for his mother, and on the way,
his sister remonstrating at his staying to play, he beat her vio-
lently. When he returned home his mother punished him
far his improper condur,t, by ordering. him to pull off his
shoes and go into the bed-room, which he did. He was
soon called out by his mother, to assist her in some little
matters, at which time he appeared in his usual bYriod spirits.
When lea was ready his mother went to the bed-room door
to call the deceased, but receiving no answer she opened
the door and went in, when she was horror-,truck at finding
her unfortunate son suspended from the bedstead, by a line
scarcely thicker than strong packthread, and although his
knees were on the bed, life was found to be quite extinct.
Mr. Wakley expressed his astonishment at the extraordinary
formation of the head, and said he had in two other cases
only seen such an enormous developement of the organ of
destructiveness. One was the case of a- child not seven
years of age, who, being corrected, said, " I'll go, and make
a hole is the water, and not enter the house again," and her
body was soon alter taken out of the canal near Worm-
wood Scrubs, and the other of a pot-boy at the Eight Bells
public-house, Chelsea, not thirteen years old, whose greatest
(ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) delight was in torturing animals, and who would purchase from
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRISONER, other boys birds, rats, and mice, in order to gloat over their
_dying throes and kicks, and who finished his career by hanging
The prisoner, John Francis, is the son of a respect- hunself.—Verdict, " Temporary Insanity."
able man of that name, living in Tottenham-court- BRANDING DESERTERS. A circular has beeen
road. He is about 20 years of age, about 5 feet issued from the Horse Guards, recommending that the mark-
-5 inches ,in height, and at present rather shabby in ing of deserters shall hereafter be conducted on an uniform
appearance. He has a foreign
,cast of countenance, system throughout the army, and directing attention to an in-
though by no means such as to warrant the belief at
strument recently invented. This instrument, which is of
-
first entertained that he
red
at the end into the form of the letter D, from
was a German. His hair i; bthreas is
outlinehaof which is protruded, by means of a spring, a series
very dark, and he has dark whiskers. His corn- of needle points, which are regulated by a screw at
plexion is sallow, and .allowing for the paleness .the end, and by turning which their length may be increased
natural to him in such a situation, rather of a or diminished. By pulling back this nut, after the points
are regulated, they
.rtrede into the box, when the instru-
light olive. There is certainly nothing to indi-
ocroToiliveorerds
thene cate ferocity in his countenance. It appears that charged.edle rittssligihntilignessuareutio,n
amsemntalrbai?'assbleev
he has been absent from his family for more than tore on the skin the exact shape of the instrument. These
'liese
six months past. Ilis father had not heard of punctures, on being rubbed with a marking flnid composed of
him for nearly that time. The father, who is a quarter of a pound of pulverised indigo, two sticks of Indian
a very respectable, honest-looking man, came down ink, and enough water to render it liquid, leave an indelible D
to' the Home-office, in a state of the deepest only
yn
ttoheboaarmdroionri handster of
on
parade
:le in deserter.the p r
elisieisneeof punishment
men
anxiety. He was, it appears, at Deptford, when in the cavalry by the trumpet-major, and in the infantry by
he was in formed of the fact that a youth, who was the bugle-major, who are to be instructed by the medical offi.
believed to be his son, had committed this crime. err how to apply the instrument. It is, moreover, only to be
he !Billeted in the presenter
_of
there is
If marking deserters
Scarcely believing the possibily of the thing,
it rd
indisepsabl
nevertheless hurried up to town, and the first news lits ecra'.. accomplished with less pain and more certainty.—
he had heard of his son for so many months turned United Service Gazette. •
out to be that he was in the hands of' the law charged Tun ROYAL NAVAL. SCHOOL DIN-NEIL—Last
with this most serious offence. At first an attempt evening, the Anniversary Festival of the Royal Naval School
was made, probably from a humane motive, to lead was celebrated at the London Tavern. The Earl of Hadding-
the poor man to believe that lie was mistaken; but it ton, First Lord of the Admiralty, presided, and was supported
St ford,
ofoftDdevoAn,,tmLiorratll Is'rirltebAoddttratl the
Admiral
lilosnr.
ultimately turned out that his fears were too true. bSyirthße.l6:
When asked about the residence of his son, he said lie Charles Ogle, Admiral Sir E. T. Troubrid:er Admirmal '''ir C.
did not know. The last he had heard of him was Malcolm, the Bishop of Chichester, &c. &c. About "00
three or four months ago, when he lived in Great a, nllemen belonging to the naval service sat clown to dinner.
Portland-street.
The usual loyal toa• to having been disposed of, tlie Chairman have
" Toe Royal Naval School and prosperity to it." This excel,:
The father was not examined lest night, because hnt instiintion had been' established rank to the evidence already before the Council was' sufficient a Gallant Officer of the navy holding the rank tOf it:raaprt,sainag,oani.
for the remand. It is understood that lie will be it now numbered 200 pupils, the entire amount which the Tire-
examined this day. A large square deal box, found sent building was capable of containing. He had lean-n.ll that
there wedi.,.c.;imany objects of distress in the naval service still
as we understood at the prisoner's residence, was
fur,_ and the present building being found wholly
brought to the Home-office and examined ; what the 9nPrvi
ins equate to the wants, it was contemplated to extend its
contents were did not transpire. operations, liso boys, sons of naval officers and mariners who
From a different source w
e have received another had fought, bled, and died for their counlry, had received edit-
account of the prisoner. It will be found to be sub- cation in the Royal Naval' Schools, and it is an institution
stantially corroborative of the above ;—peculiarly deserving of support.—(Cheers.) The toast having
-
is John Francis. He is been drank with great applause, Admiral. Sir Charles Ogle,
the President, returned thanks. The Noble Chairman then
The nanul. of the prisoner
communicated to the meeting the attack made on her Ma.
fet five inches. His
20 years of ale ~, hitheight five 'e • •
beafing, notwithstanding jesty. "In the early part of the evening," said his Lord-
ship, " I proposed the health of the Queen.— ( Hear, hear.)
person somew iat corpulent ;
Lord-
the latter circumstance, a very strong resemblanCe' to
Oxford. He was dressed in a dark frock .coat rater Little, however, did I think that her Majesty's health had been
w
too • large for him, a light aistcoat, black stCiek, placed in imminent danger from the hand of the assas-in (the
with a pin in it, drab trousers,
greatest consternation here pervaded the whole assembly).
boots, and a wide-
i.er Majesty had been shot at on her return from a ride in the
brimmed hat.
park, but lam happy to say had escaped unhurt."—(Enthu-
One particular circumstance observable in the siastic cheering, and cries of " God save tie Queen" resounded
prisoner's appearance has a peculiar
is, that he from all parts of the roam.) The National Anthem was again
rolling eye.
sung by the vocalists' and on Mr. Hobbs introducing the lines,
He is thf son of a machinist at Covent-garden the
" From every latent foe—From the assassin's blow—Gott save
Queen," the whole company rose en masse, and cheered
Theatre. His father, who is a very clever and indus- vociferously. The Noble Chairman left to attend a Cabinet
trious man, brought his son (the e prisoner) up to the I Council, and the Earl of Devon filled his place until a late hour.
same business, but some months since he got into The London Gazette of March 23, 1685, furnishes
confirmed loose habits, and deserted . his parent. i the following singular advertisement:—" A tannymore (tawny-
Since then he has had no direct communication moor), with short bushy hair, very well shard, in a grey
with him. livery, lined with yellow, about seventeen or eighteen yews of
age, with a silver collar about his neck, with these directions,
Several of his relations and acquaintances describe Capt. George [lasting's boy, brigadier in the King's Horse
Guards. Whoever brink's him to the Sugar Loaf, in the Pall-
him as being of a very quarrelsome disposition.
' When the prisoner arrived at Tothill-fields the Go- mall, shill have 40s. reward."
Captain Gcorge Hope Johnstone, youngest son of
vernor, Lieutenant Tracy, placed him in a separate
cell, leaving a turnkey to watch him, the late Vice-Admiral Sir William Hope Johnstone, G.C. 8..
Hyde-park. died at his cottage, near the Lake of Constance, on the 9lst
It is stated that the prisoner has for some days past instant, in his 40ih yer.r. Captain Johnstone was. cousin to the
been seen lurking about
Earl of Hopetoun, and brother to 111 r. Hope Johnstone, Al. I',
The prisoner had been searched by the price soon and obtained his post rank as Captain in the Navy on the 6111
after he was given into custody by Colonel Arbuth- of July, 1527. The Gallant Officer has left a widow and inrant
;
f 'i ~
were found upon -am,.:.3'
not, the Equerry in IVaiting. 1 here
occupation, a bunch of lt:•y, the number of ships of all rttiorstbit passed the
his person a pocket book, without name or 'address, or I Sound- in the month of April was—f:e'rs s'y 'e' North ''('a., 75-9 ;
any clue to the party's
fr•im the Baltic, 476—in all, 1,267 ;of these there were 24,',
Was no chargel off English. namely, from the Noah Sea, 916 ; from the Baltic, 26.
and a small pocket knife. There
any kind, nor any ball, or cartridge ;• nothing, in Er.oi•EASENT..--,The g,-;ssips of
fret from whieh any idea of re -loading Would be in- bourhood have had ample food administered to their appetite
news during the last week, from the eircuitstanre of a mar-
ten-NJ. The pistol had been discharged ;it was a for Boston and the neigh-
ied man in the town having left for America,. with the wife of
inch©s in•leneih. and al. trsilesman. in humble station. The parties, who have left
small pocket pistol, about seven
,
appeared to have been recently loaded,
..but whether families (one numbering nine ebildren; the other two), are
with ball or large shot, we could not learn. ' said to have taken away nearly 9001. Linccen Mercury.
It has been stated in some of the newspaper
,ac- , Tun PRESTON • MUnDEn.—Peter Whittle, cotton;
counts that a soldier of the 2d battalion of Scotch . spinner,'of Preston, whose horrible murder of his wife, and
Fusilier Guards was the first mill/ "pinned" the subsequent attempt at self-destruction, created so gnat a ken-
,l cation in that town about three weeks a ,go, was krogobt to
'prisoner ; such, however, we learn, upon further 'ln- LAncaster Castle Qn Saturday last, ells'erift;'elils.,a epode '
ton not
quirt', was not the fact. A policeman of the Adis:- permitting an earlier rertiovaf. Lancasier Guardian.

plode, would not in the slightest degree mitigate
either the character of the offence or the punishment
to which the party convicted of it would be liable, if
found guilty.

(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)

HOME OFFICE, Three o'clock.

The prisoner, Francis, is still under examination,
and there is every probability that the proceedings
will last for some time longer. Shortly after two
o'clock the prisoner was ordered to withdraw from
the Council Chamber, and the Council remained in
deliberation for about a quarter of an hour.
At the expiration of that time the prisoner was again
called in, and the Council proceeded to hear the evi-
dence of Allen, the soldier in the Scotch Fusilier
Guards, who arrested him.)
The prisoner's father is in attendance at the Home-
office.

Among the witnesses waiting to be examined, is
Mr. Smith, the gunsmith, of Bridge-street, of whom
it is said the prisoner purchased the pistol with which
he made his diabolical attempt.

sion, on duty .on Constitution-hill, had, about a guar-
-ter of an hour prior to the occurrence, noticed the pri-
soner leaning on the pump, and was persuaded, by the
somewhat strange behaviour of the prisoner, to watch
him, it being his (the constable's) opinion, that he in-:
tended to destroy himself. As the Queen's carriage
was cominginjhe direction of the Palace from Hyde-
park, the conitable noticed. the prisoner vacate his,
pok and 'fumble in his pockets. He (the constable)
Hastened. towards him, having . a presentiment that
something was about to happen, and when within ten
yards of him the villain fired a pistol in the direction
of the Royal carriage. The policeman immediately;
seized him, and was assisted almost immediately after-
wards by a soldier. He was then, as we have before
stated, hurried off to the Palace, where he was
searched, and all that was found was a Tian,
loose powder in one of his waistcoat pockets. The
pistol is a small and common one, with a flint lock ; it
was examined and declared by several competent
judges to have been recently discharged, and their
belief was that it had been loaded with slugs.
NOTICE AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.
The following notice was published at the Man-
sion-house within a very short time of the perpetra-
tion of the attempt. The intelligence of her Majesty's
safety excited the most lively manifestations of satis-
faction among the multitude -who thronged around
to read the paper
" The Lord Mayor having received the following
letter, hastens to communicate the same to the citi-
zens of London, convinced that they will unite with
him in heartfelt gratitude to Divine Providence fo.
the safety of our beloved Queen.