The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-05 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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I„Dubitz eptuton.

" Who runs may read."

201Z1EXGN.

The extraordinary expresses receired yesterday from Mar-
seilles enabled us to anticipate all the foreign news brought by
this day's post.

PAIZZIATOCZNT.II.IOr.
The House of Commons met last night, and the .first busi-
ness was to amend the return for Weymouth, the two seats for
which had been improperly taken from the Liberals, and were
last night restored.

Sundry petitions were presented against different parts of
the tariff.
Mr. Wallace gave notice of motions to improve the Court of
Session in Scotland, and for the production of the Corehouie
correspondence.
Duncombe's notice, and Mr. Currie's question, we have
referred to in the6leader. -
In reply to Lord John Russell, Sir Robert Peel said, he
expected to lay the amended tariff on the table on Monday next.
The Dublin Police, and the Licensed Lunatic Asylums; Bill,
were read a second time.
The Forged Exchequer Bills Bill went through a Committee.
Sonic discussion took place un the amendments moved by Sir
Thomas. Wilde, having tor their object to extend the inquiries
of the Commission, and alloW every man, connected with the
matter, to have a fair hearing. One to make the Commis-
sioners hear counsel was lost by 77 to 64; the others were in
general agreed to.
The House, after Mr. Blewitt had moved an amendment to
the motion for the Speaker leaving the chair, which was not
persevered in: went into a Committee of Ways and Means, to
consider the income tax. A good deal of talk seems to have
banished 'Members from the House, qr sent them to sleep ; and
Sir dobert Peel's first resolution, fixing. an income tax on
vs, was agreed to, nobody welt knew how. Lord John Rus-
sell, who was absent from the -House when the resolution was
passed, made up, he supposed, for not dividing on the resolution,
by threatening to divide on ,the Report. We had formed an
opinion, however, in the early part of the day from the leading
article of a certain Whig journal, that all serious opposition to
the income tax was to be given up by the Whigs. The result of
last night's proceedings confirms that opinion, and henceforth
it will probably be more honourable for the Whigs, and more
useful tor the country, if they give up al sham opposition, and
allow Sir Robert Peel to have his own way in the beginning,
as he will have it in the end, spa7ing the country a vast deal of
insincw or meaningless talk. The House hating pawed a re-
solution,to saddle the people with an income tax, adjourned at
Twelve o' Clock.

PirnMaC OrXNIO.T.
The Chronicle thus briefly alludes to the last disastrous in-
telligence from Affghanistan :—" There appears in the Indian
press a strong disposition to censure General Elphinstone for
the convention signed after the murder of Envoy ; and it
is said that nothing but downright fatuity Could have induced
him to march out of his cantonments, which he Might have
'safely held for another month. Without more precise infor-
mation, it is impossible to say how far these stricture's may be
founded in justice. In some quarters, it is stated that the con-
vention was forced upon the commanding ticker =tithe poli-
tical agent by the garrison. This, at all events, should sug-
gest caution in adOpting such strictures. A large force is ctn.
centrating at Peshawnr, and the utmost energy was apparent
in preparing to retrieve these disasters. Upon the policy of
this proceeding at least these still, we apprehend, he no differ-
ence of opinion. As to the course ultimately to be 'pursued in
Affghanistan, it rests upon the same grounds precisely upon
which the expedition was undertaken."
The Morning Herald says :—" At what cost will the new
expedition into Affg,banistan be made? Already Lord Auck-
land's ddclaration of Simla has expended at least twelve
millions sterling, and has brought the Indian treasury into a
state bordering on insolvency ; hal involved the East India.
Company in debt, has begot one loan, has caused the expendi-
ture of India to exceed its revenue by one million and a half
sterling, and has retarded the material prosperity of British
India. Whence are the funds for new I)ooranee wars to he
derived ? are the ryots of India or the people of England to de-
tray their cost? Will capitalists lend en the security or the
wilds of Central Asia? Sir Robert Peel has distinctly told'
us that permanent derangement of the Indian finances must
disorder those of thelmperial treasury; is there any hope that Aff-
ghan wars will re-pay their expenses? Can Lord Ellenborough,
Napoleon-like, make trans-Indian hostilities maintain them- 1
selves? Financial considerationi, as well as dangers and diffi-
culties, must give way to Considerations of nat;onal honour.
This is true ; but whatever course is decided, let it not be en-
tered on in the dark; let the country know and understand its
position and its liabilities, and the worst that is to be appre-
hended."

The Advertiser reverts to the question of the income tax,
in the following terms :—" Never was there a measure against
which so much was said, or so little done, as the proposition
for burdening the country with this iniquitous tax. The re-
cess has now come to a close, and though the unpopularity of
Sir Robert Peel's scheme has become greater every day, its
chances of being defeated are as remote as they were on the
day of the adjournment, or even more distant ; for then, at
least, the people felt prepared to second with energy any vigo-
rous lead that might have been made towards the indignant re-
jection by the nation at large of the obnoxious project. If
this had been done, the Minister would never have dared to
press his odious proposition, and we are compelled to tell the
clamourers against the income tax, in the words' of Coriola-
nus, that—' They who should find them lions—find them
hares.' For instead of putting on a bold and determined
front, they have shrunk in timidity before the party who would
hunt them down, and they hire only muttered complaints
where they should have thundered defiance."
The--Pact observes, with reverence to the news from Affgha-
nistan—" Looking as coolly as we can upon the whole disastrous
transaction from the commencement, we have reason to come
to the conclusion that our own errors are chiefly to blame, and
that our own energy must set all right again, so tar as the
honour and power of the nation are concerned. While, there.
fore, we mourn for the brave that are no more, and deeply
sympathise with the sorrow of many an aching heart for the
fathers, husbands, brothers, sons, who have.died in this lament-
able defence and retreat ; let us remember that, as Britons,
e are not to grieve, but to -xert ourselves, and that our duty
is to efface the memory ,of temporary defeat by permanent
triumph."

The Times has the following remarks on the subject of the
Indian news :—" 'We are saying as little as we can well make
up our minds to say, when we express our feeling that seldom
has there been a British officer whose conduct stood in such
grievous need'of explanation as that of General Illphinstone. As
long as he was in command, from the beginning to the end, the
British movements seem to have been characterised by a weak-
ness and indecision as unworthy as it has proved fatal. From the
first it would seem, by our accounts, General Elphinstone discou-
raged or prevented the more rigorous measures which were
urged by Sir W. Macnaghten. In a position where the defen.
sive course was plainly impracticable—wlen to be inactive was
simply to starve—he allowed (as we are told) a supposed—or
perhaps real—despondency and vacillation in the trool,s to pre-
vent that bolder line of conduct which, dangerous as it might
have been, was the only one which was open to him. Even
the small captures of grain which enabled the troops to retain
their position as long as they did, were undertaken " at the so-
licitation of the Envoy.' "

MONEY—TILILDM—CORITAERCE.
The run upon the Greenock banks for gold, immediately on
the failure of the Reofrewshire house, last Thursday, was un-
precedented, but the call was fortunately supplied to the full
demand, and a meeting held declarativo of their stability. The
liabilities of the bankrupt firm will exceed 200,0001., to meet
which, the private estates of the partners, Mr. Napier, of Black-
stone, and Mr. Roger Ayton, will yield but little. They have
been gazetted, and the first meeting is fixed for Monday,
April 11.

NAVAL AND NEXLITATLY. •
The regiments proceeding to India are the 10th, 29th, sEtth,
61st, and the 78th infantry, with others, that will altogether
amount to between 8,509 and 9,000 troops. The naval depart-
ment is also most active in increasing its stores : a contract for
100,000 gallons of rum has been announced, being the second
since the commencement of the year.
During the present year, sine new ships will be launched at
the various dockyards of Woolwich, Deptford, Chatham, Ply-
mouth, and Pembroke; besides s'eamers and other small vessels.
Three hundred men marched from Canterbury yesterday, to
proceed to India.

14.11.1 AT AND POLICE.
At Bow-street yesterday .1. Hedgcock, errand boy to Mr.
Morse, clock and watchmaker, Chatingicross, was committed
to take his trial for stealing two gold, vratehei and other arti-
cles, value 35/. 10s., the property of his master.
Yesterday, at Lambeth-street, Miry Newton, an unfortunate
femee, was brought before the Magistrate, charged with at-
tempting to cut her throat, and also with cutting and wounding
a young woman who lodged in the same house with her. It
appeared that the prisoner, disgusted with the life she had been
leading for the last eighteen months, had made the desperate
attempt, and her friend had been severely cut while wresting
the knife from her. Tb;,• Magistrate remanded the prisoner
till some asylum could 'oe found for her.
Eleven of the soldiers implicated in the late outrage at
Stockport, have been committed to take their trial at the en-
suing Chester A2sizes.

TMEATRICAL.
Madarn:.. Persiani arrived in town yesterday from Boulogne,
and wears to-night._

coiirr..T—FASEIqN.A.MIZZ.
Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy leave .Chandos
House to-day, for Germany.
The Duke of i3uecleuch, accompanied by the Duchess, lea.-as
Boughton House this morning for 'Kettering House.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland leave 'freiahaat it g
to-day, for town.
The Duke and Dr.,chess of Bea'aloli ham Nacittlnton for
Beaufort House to, day.
The Alarquis 'of Salisbury returned to Arlington-street 'on
Saturday, frer-A Etwathfiehltave.
- The Charcellor of the Pi:AN:ier has been indisposed since
his retur.l from BetoWorth Park.
A -,nignificerrt thtertainment was giren by the memhers'ef
Kildaeo Clubon Thursday evening, to the Lord-ttCiteltant
of Ireland and the Countess De Grey. Dancing "tres t=arried on
with gicat spirit till an advanced hoer hi itu Inrirning.
.rvarscni.tc.A.kalilotTS.
On this day, in 1797, died Mason, the pcet. There
is a tablet to his meniery 9sr Pett's Corner, Testunnster Abbey.
Doncaster fair.+VaS to-day.
At the ttniversary festival of the St. Anu's Society, held
yesterstty tit the London Tarern, it was stated that the Society
wet fu'unded in the reign of Queen Anne, after whom it was
named, and that since that time upwirds of 2,ooo.children had
been fostered under its care.

•
k..,ORONER',S.A.INQUEST,—OUICIDE INDUCER 4t 't' •
TUAL INTOXICATION. This morning et tit,. o'clock, an
inquest Was held iii the Board-more Afiddlesex Hospital,
before Thomes \Vakley, Esq., M.Ps, the Coroner; on view of the
body of Robert Holkan, aged (12 years, who committed suicide
under the following circumstances. The deceased resided at
No. 5, Grease-street, Tottenham Court-road, and formerly
earried.on a very extensive business as a music engrAter ; but
about five years ago, in consequence of his wife eloping wiih
aisother man, he abandoned himself to habitual intemperance,
‘ comkletely muddling himself," as one of the wit-
nesses described it, with cold gin and l water; from the time he got up to the time he went to bed. Embarrasstnrnt of his affairs followed, and eventually his mind
becania affected, and ultimately he was considered by those
who knew him as actually insane. about G o'clock on Thursday
morning last be was found lying in his bed with his throat cut
with a razor. He was immediately brought to this hospital,
and survived until Saturday morning, when lie expired. Ver-
dict—" Temper ry mental derangement." ihe Coroner, in
reference to the fact of the deceased's wife having left him, re-
marked that any wife was justified in running Away • from a
drentard.
It is stated in a letter from Algiers, 20th ult., in
the Commerce, that orders had been given for an expedition,
to start on the 24th to Medeah and Milianah, from whence the
territory was to be ravaged, and the expedition would, it was
supposed, move towards the East, on the side of Bugia. The
head-quarters of the Governor-General were to be fixed, says
this letter, at illidah, and his house at that place was being fur-
niihed for the recoplion of the Dukes de IN em•iurs arid d'Aurnale
!.o ere i-rl2,reterliko,arri,,, t• •
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the class c 4 wirft,ldischarged yesterday. Those of the
same dm in thepartments are also being nisebarged•

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS..
Cl 2 Y, QUARTER TO THREE.
A leading broker having bpught largely in the New Three-
and-a-Halt per Cents., all the English Stocks have'advanced,
and from the appearance of the market it is probable thits the
present prices will be still higher. Consols have risep from
90ti to 90A % for Money, and the same for the Account;
the New Three-and-a-Halt per Cents. have been s )1d at 100.
India Bondliare 10 to 12, and Exchequer Bills 35 to 37 prem
Very little has been done in Foreign bonds ; the quotations.
for Mexican are 39g ; the Spanish Three pet Cents. 233/0.
24% ; the Spanish Active, 244 ; Portuguese, New Bonds,
36h * ; and the Three per Cents. 21 for the Account. The
price of the Dutch Five per Cents. is 99i 100 i ; and
Brazilian, 674._

The Share karket is firm, and prices rather better. South
Eastern have improved to 25# ; Grand Junction, 92 ;
Eastern Counties, $.3,-; Grand Junction, Half Shares, 92;
'Hull and Selby, 39; 131ackwall, 121,- ; Croydon, 13it and
Brighton, 36i
Money was comparatively easy at the early part of the day,
but is now scarce, and worth four per cent. on the Stock Ex:.
change. The Bills. were generally well met yesterday, bit the
notaries were extremely busy last evening, which may be ac-
counted for by the extra number of bills falling due.
The news from India still engrosses the larger share of public
attention. The letters have been delivered 'this morning, and
mercantile affairs appear to be better than the accounts by the,,
last snail would have induced the expectation. "I he markets
for English manufac!ured goods had improved, and Bombay
advices s'a'e that if shipments be not too large and too fre-
quern., a rktrmarent advance in ric,p.s may be looked for. At
prerent, it is to be fr arcd; the redlN are very far from ITMIITIC-
rating the shippers. Freights also had fallen, and dead weight
could be sent home at 455. to 505., and measurement goods at
50s. to S4s. per ton.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
Ft AILIVAvs. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties
Hull and Selby
London an Brighton ... 50 ...... 3f 4i ... to
London and Blackwell
London and Croydon ( 131 134 ... to :
South Eiitern and Dover 4B 25M... to -
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, 4% rain 4.—An improved de-
mand, and about 4,01;0 bales were sod at the prices of Sa•urday, '
of whch the exporters took 400. They comprised 400. Surats
at 34d. to 4 d. ; 120 Egyptian, 7d. to ; 400 3larauham,
511 d. to 6d. ; 100 Peruvian, 74d. ; 2,880 American, 41d. to 7d.
Livartroon SHARE MARKET, APRIL 4.—Eastern C'ounties
and Great Western were purchased to a fair extant 'to-day, hut.
there was little done in other Shares. The sales included
Chester and Birkenhead, 28; Eastern Counties Deher,tures,
10/. 9s. 2d.; ditto New, 41. Bs. 2,1; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
40; Great Western Halves, 6,1 i ; ditto Fifths, toq ; London
and Birmingham. paid-up 321. Shares, 581 ; Manchester,
Bo!ton, and Bury, 54; MicVand Counties, 79; North Mid,
land Thirds, 221. 13,. 4d.

.MANCIIESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 4.—We have a
good inquiry for Railway Stock, and a larger amount of busi-
ness would have been dore had Shares been more freely
offered. The following sales have been reported': —Sodth
Eastern 'and Dover, 2.51 ; Edinkurgh and' Glasgotv, 48,1; •
Grand JuLetlon, 181 ; Lancaster and Preston, 27; Brighton
Loan Notes, 51 ; Bank4df Manchester, 53.

•• •
CRIMINAL,.UOURT(THIS DAY).
The sittings commenced to-day; but, the only important case
in the Session has been removed to the burt of Queen's Bench.
,(Before the RECORDER.
A THIEF CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TtLAP.—.IOII7I See ile,
an evangelical-looking young ir an; was indicted for being found
in the cellar of Mrs. Walter; a publican., at Pudding-lane,
on the night 'of the 1 Ns of March. . .

Two gentlemen named Nile and Claridge, stated that they
were passing the house about midnight, and they saw the flap.
leading to the cellar from the street open. They listened, and
heard sc-meboay groping below. Instantly they closed
the flap, and one stood on it, while the other
ran for policeman Hart, 529, and Everett, 589,
who came and • searched the premises, where they found
the prisoner with a candle, nit lighted, in his hand. The ex-
planation of the prisoner was, that having no particular lodg-
ing, and, being fatigued, when he saw the cellar open he
thought he might as well avail himself of the landlady's hos.,
pitalit., and he was much displeased at the rudeness' of the
gentlemen who 'disturbed him. His character, he said, was
bey( rid imputation, as his brother in the City-road could prove.
The police called upon the brother, who said he knew
nothing of his brother for the last five years.
The Counsel for the prisoner, Mr. PAYNE, argued
that though the prisoner was found in the cellar, he might
have got in through the premises up stairs at night before nine
o'clock, in Which case he could notbe convicted of theburglary.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty.
It turned out, on further inquiry, that the prisoner was a
watch-Movement maker, but he had not worked for some time
at his trade, and he was known to prefer the company of
thieves.

The RECORDER said an examxle must be made to check the
frequent rubbery in public-houses, and the prisoner was there-
fore sentenced to transportation for ten years.
Amongst the prisoners is Catherine Merris, spinster, aged
30, charged with stealing a loaf of bread, value 33d., the pro-
perty of George Schramm. She has been in prison since the
16th of March. •

POLICE INTELLIG EN CE.

BOW-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
Wm. Miles, and George Groom, two young lads, placed at
the bar together, were charged, the former with unlawfully
collecting money to the amount of 10s., belonging to his mas-
ter, Thomas Wood, and the other with embezzling the sum
of 16s. sd.
The case of Miles was first entered into.

Mr. Wood stated that the prisoner Niles had been in his
ern' boy abeut three months. He received 10s. on Maundy
Thursday_ from a customer, and had not accounted forit,
ness forgave him that, and sent him ',bow. his business. 'Since
then, however, he had been going about to all witness's cus-
tomers, endeavouring to collect money.
None of the parties, however, being present to, whom the
prisoner had applied, on this count the prisoner was remanded
till Friday next.
George Groom was then charged with errbezzling the
two sums of 12s. sd. and 45., the property of his master, Thomas
Halls Meyer. The prisoner Miles was also mixed np in this'
charge, and it appeared that, as the masters of the two boys re..
sided next door to each other, the prisoners were respectively
acquainted with their employer's concerns, and so had a fine
opportunity of carrying out any little rascality which might
appear to them to be desirable.

Iu this count also, as the parties necessary to the proving of
the charge were not present, the prisoners were remanded till
Friday.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
No case of the slightest public importance was brought be-
fore•the Court this morning.