The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-13 00:00:00

WILKINSON V. PAGE.-JUDGMENT.

His LoRnsHIP gave judgment today in this case, which
came before the Court, upon appeal, from the decision of Vice-
Chancellor Wigram. The question mooted in the case
wiu as to the validity of an award made by an arbitrator,
appointed to settle all matters in difference en the termination
of the partnership of Messrs. Pearson and Wilkinson. There
being one point in the reference not awarded upon, Vice-
Chancellor Wigram declared the award invalid, and from that
decision the parties appealed. The Lord Chancellor was
clearly of opinion that the judgment of the Court below was
correct, and dismissed the appeal.
The Court then proceeded to hear appeal motions.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
This being the last day of term, the petitions remaining un-
heard were called on, but the absence of Mr. Pemberton, who
was engaged in the greater portion of them, prevented the
Court proceeding with any of importance or interest. Lord
Langdale was, in consequence, engaged throughout the day
with consent petitions.

VICE-UHANUERY—(THIS DAY.)
This being the la,t day of Trinity Term, his Honour the
Vice-Chancellor of England took motions, none of which pos.•
sessed any interest.
(Before Vice-Chancellor BRUCE.)
IN RE ST. KATHARINE'S DOCK COMPANY.
His Boxoua gave judgment in this case. The case came
before the Court on a petition and cross-petitions. Certain
property included in the marriage settlement of Mr. and Mrs.
Pinner having been taken by the St. Katharine's Dock Com-
pany, under the powers of the Act of Parliament, the purchase
money was paid into the Court of Exchequer conformably to
that Act, and laid out in stock. After paying some costs the
clear residue of the stock amounted to I ,355/. Afterwards, in
Mrs. Pinner's lifetime, an order was made by the Court of
Exchequer on the 27th c•f June, 1837, on Mrs. Pinne.'s
petition, on which occasion the only parties respon-
dent were the Dock Company, and the two trustees
of the settlement. That order directed the sale of
sufficient stock to pay the costs of the petitioner and of the two
trustees, and the transfer of the residue into the names of the
trustees. Little argument had been used at the bar against
this order, nor did either of the petitions seek to discharge or
vary it; but upon the terms of the Act of Parliament he was
not satisfied that it was right. One of the trustees having
died, the earlier of the petitions asked simply that the transfer
ordered to be made to them might be made to the survivors.
This had been opposed in the other petition on behalf of
some of the cestrique trusts. It was not denied that Mr.
Rigby was the surviving trustee, but it was said that or: certain
alleged grounds he was unfit to he entrusted with the funds. His
Honour s id, the utmost he could do at that moment was to
dechne to allow Mr. Rigby to possess the fund until further
orders, giving the parties an opportunity of obtaining an order
restraining him from further interference. There being, how-
ever, a writ pending at the Rolls, the object of which was to
administer the whole funds of the -settlement, the fund under
discussion might be included in that suit. He proposed,
therefore, to order that the stock which was the subject of
these petitions, and the dividends due, and to accrue due,
might, if the Master of the Rolls should think fit, be carried
over to the cause as part of the funds to be administered in
the cause, this order to be without prejud,ce to any question,
wheth.r the Exchequer order ought or ought not to have been
made, or ought to be discharged or varied. He could not give
the costs of either petition.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY)
This being the last day of term, the Court, at its sitting,
called upon the junior Counsel behind the bar to move, ac-
cordivg to the usual practice.
QUEEN V. GREEN.

In this case Mr. COLE had obtained a rule calling upon the
defendant to show cause why a quo warrauto should not issue,
calling upon him to show by what right he claimed to be upon
the burgess roll of the city and borough of Lichfield. In con-
sequence of a recent judgment of the Court deciding the point
at issue,

Mr. COLE now moved that the rule should be discharged.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL trusteol the rule would be dis-
charged with costs against the attorney tor the relator. The
relator himself being a pauper, and the attorney being in fact
the relator.

Mr. COLE trusted that as that rule had been applied for
before the judgment of the. Court in the other case, the Court
would permit him to discharge the rule without costs. The
relator had been on the burgess-list for four years.
The COURT discharged the rule, with costs, against Mr.
Simpson, the attorney.

BAIL COURT--(THIS DAY.)
The Court was engaged in disposing of motions involving
points of practice. No case of interest occurred.

EXCII EQUER.-(r hIS DAY.)
The Court was occupied during the morning in hearing
some cases of no public importance ; most of them relating to
the taxation of costs.

In the absence of Counsel, a few cases remained altogether
unheard.

The Court rose at a few minutes alter one o'cluck ; and the
term was concluded.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
The business of the Central Criminal Court commenced this
morning, it being the 92d session, and the Bth - of the present
Mayoralty. The Judges for the present session are Chief
Justice Tindal, Mr. Justice Matteson, and Baron Gurney. The
calender is a heavy one, containing one prisoner on trial for
high treason (Francis), one for murder, fifteen Admiralty pri-
soners for piracy on the high seas, and a list of other offence ,
many of a serious character, to the number of 269. The prs-
boners now on remand at the different police offices, and thosie
out, en bail, will increase the number to MO before the end of
the week.
The Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Alderman Kc,ly, and Alder-
man Sir J. Duke, took their seats before ten o'clock, and pro-
ceeded to swear in the Grand Jury.
THE CHARGE.

The RECORDER then delivered his charge. He said the ca-
lendar before him comprehended, he regretted to say, a list of
names approaching to 300 prisoners, and among the crimes
specified were charges of almost every description and eiegree
of crime known to the law—charges of cutting and wounding,
of forgery, piracy, rape, and robbery; and also a charge of the
highest crime known to the law, a charge of high treason.
Although the calendar comprehended Offences of these several
p descriptions, and although the investigation of them would
ecake some demand on their anxious and painful attention, yet
ote a perusal of the depositions, it appeared to him that they
woulat not have a very difficult task in applying the known laws of
the lane': to the different circumstancesof those cases, as they would
be detailed in evidence. There was nothing in those cases that
would make them require the assistance of the Court in ex •
plaining the law as it applied to them. But one case—the
charge or high treason—it being, happily not one of frequent
occurrence, they would perhaps requireof him some notification
of the law as applicable to the case of the particular individual
committed for the offence. The charge, as far as he could
.
collect from the' deposition of the facts, would be founded upon
the ancient statute of the 25th of Edward 111., and also on the
Act of the 36th of George 111., chap. 71. The statute of
Edward 111. made A declaration of what offences should be
judged to be high treason, and it declared that any
one " compassing or imagining the death of our Lord
the King," was guilty of treason. It at once appears
that, under the description of the Soverign authority con-
tained in the term " Our Lord the King," was compre •
hauled every Queen regnant, as the Queens Mary, Elizabeth,
alio'. Victoria. It had been expressly laid down by Coke and
Sir Al. Hale, that the Queen regnant is King within the statute,
and in the first year of Queen Mary an Act was parsed declar-
ing that, all the incidents of sovereignty were to be attributed
to the Queen in the same manner as though the sovereign
person had been male. There could be no doubt, therefore, of
the term, " Our Lord the King," which had uniformly obtained
under the statute of Edward 111. and the Act of Queen Mary. The
Jury would have noticed that the few words he had read from
the statute of Edward 111 , specified the crime of high treason
in this manner; " compassing and imagining the death of our
Lord the King." The words "compassing and imagining,"
observes Judge Hale, are of great latitude ; they first refer to
the purpose and design of the will, though the purpose bad not
been carried into effect; but though the intention might be
happily abortive, yet still the offence was the same. Now the
intention, as long as it was not not manifested, could fall under 1
the cognizance of God alone, and the statute, therefore.
required such an overt act as could be subjected
to trial, and sentenced by human laws. In this statute
of Edward the Third, after specifying the several kinds
of treasons, are these conciuding words :•—" And thereof
there shall be sufficient proof that the person may be attainted
of some open deed." The intention was the treason, the over t
act being the proof • of such intention. By an Act of the 7th

of William the Third. and the 7th of Anne, such overt act was
required to be proved by the evidence of two credible witnesses,
and by the sth section, persons accused of treason were entitled
to have copies of the indictment a seecified number of days
before the trial, and were to be defended by counsel, in some eases
to be assigned him by the Court. By a more recent Act, that
of the 39th and 40th of George the Third, chap. 93d, it we,.
enacted that in all cases of high treason, for compassing and
imagining the death of the King, anti where the overt aei
alleged in the indictment shall be the assassination or killing
the King, or any direct attack against his life, whereby his his
'may be prelate ered, or his person suffer bodily harm, the per-
son charged with such offence shall and may be indicted in the
same manner, and according to the same course and order of
trial in every respect, and upon like evidence, as if such per-
son stood charged with murder, and that the 7th of Anne shall
not extend to high treason, where the overt act of such trea-
son should be an attack on the King's hie. That being th*
case, the Acts of William the Third and Anne were dispensed
with. Without troubling them with the reasons why a certain
course was taken with regard to charges of treason which were
directly stamped with a political character, lie would state that
where there was a distinct motion towards the destruction o:
-the Sovereign's li le, those safeguards of the accused person
wet e dispensed with. Those provisions did not apply to the
case to which he had now to call their attention. He• was not
entirely free from difficulty in doing so; he could- have no
authentic source of information except the depositions, and in
any observations he might make, he must be, understood as
putting a probable case of facts, to which the Jury would have
ter apply the law. He should endeavour to take a similar course
to that of Chief Justice Abbott, on the trial of Arthur Thistle-
wood, in which he informed the Jury that he should confine
himself to an outline of the case. Having read that portion of
the Judge's charge, the Recorder proceeded to state
the details of the late attempt, as they have been
Lid before the public, in thy accounts of the oecurrence
and the publication of the depositions. He apprehended
that there could be no doubt as. to the identity of the indi-
vidual, but it was important to ascertain whether the pistol
was discharged with a deliberate aim or not. They
would bear in mind that it was the intention that was
the crime, and that it was the evidence of the overt act
that must manifest the intention. Whether, from hanging
fire, or any other cause, the pistol might appear to any of the
witnesses to be discharged mote at the wheel of the carriage
than at the person of her Majesty, made no difference
as to that intention. And it was also important to ascer-
tain whether the party accused was on the spot
accidentally or by chance, or was waiting there for an express
purpose ; if they found it established that on the previous day
the same individual had been seen at no great distance from
her Majesty's carriage in the act of holding out a pistol in the
direction of the carriage, though the weapon was not discharged,
and if the failure of the attempt drew forth any complaint or
observation from the individual, this would form a strong con-
firmation as to the premeditation of the event. The main point
for their consideration would be the intention with
which the pistol was discharged, and then their inquiries
must be directed as to in what manner the pistol
was loaded. That it was loaded there could be no doubt ; then
how were they judge, when the contents were not found, whe-
ther it -was loaded with ball or not? From the position in
which the party accused was standing on Constitution-hill, the
contents of the pistol must have been carried to a consi-
derable distance over the open ground opposite, and if
so, the finding so small an object as a ball was quite out of the
question. There were persons conversant with fire. arms, able
to judge from any difference in the report of a p stol loaded
with ball, and one without, whether the weapon con-
tained a ball or not. That was a matter for their
grave consideration also. He would not presume to anticipate
that opinion, but address himself entirely to the importance
of it. Unphappily about two years since a case, in many of
its circumstances similar to the one that formed the subject
of their investigation, was brought, under the attention of the
Grand Jury, and he could infer from the course of proceeding
on that occasion what would be the probable course on the
present one. The Learned Recorder then read over portions
of the indictment nrid proceedings in the case of Oxford, and
proceeded to state that on the particular form of the charge the
evidence would be the same as would be advanced to
prove a charge of an attempt on the life of any other
person. As in a charge of attempted murder, they would look
at the time chosen, the weapon employed, the declarations
made by the party, and under all these circumstances it would be
for them to dt cide whether they could reasonably infer that the
individual was in a position to effect the mischief apparently in-
tended. lf anything approaching to what he had referred to as likely
to be a matter of evidence should be proved, it would be their
bounden duty to place such a charge in the course for further
inquiry. There could be no case which more strongly de-
manded the anxious and particular attention of the
grand inquest than the charge of an attempt to destroy
the life of the Sovereign—a life in which all that
was dear to them, •in their liberties, the protection
of property, the preservation of the laws, and government of
the State was involved. On the other hand,. it was not be-
cause the charge was so serious that they should be the more
eager to entertain it; for in proportion to its importance,
it followed that the evidence should be clear and distinct
that was brought to support it. But that they would put
the case in course of further inquiry, he could not, looking at
the present evidence, entertain any doubt. With these remarks
he should now dismiss them to their important duties.
The Court then proceeded to the trial of the cases on the
paper for the day, and was proceeding with them up to the time
of our going to press.
Should the case of Francis not be traversed to the next ses-
sions, he will probably be tried on Thursday or Friday.

?MACE INTELLIGENCE,

BO W-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.— A woman, named Elizabeth
Brown, was charged with attempting to drown herself in St.
James's Park on Saturday night.
Denney Farrow, one of the Park-constables, deposed that
when on duty on Saturday night, about seven o'clock, in the
inclosure of St. James's-park, his attention was attracted to a
large crowd of persons standing at the edge of the water ; he
proceeded to the spot, when he found the prisoner in charge of
a man named Wood, who stated that he found her about two
feet in the water, whence she was just going to make a spring,
when he seized her and pulled her out. She was the worse
for liquor at the time. •

Mr: HALL very justly remarked, that if they had let her give
herself a good ducking, and then have pulled her out, it would
have been the best thing for her perhaps. •
The witness said he asked the prisoner if she would go home
if he would allow her to do so, but she said if he did not take
her to the station-house she would go to Hyde-park and do it.
The prisoner stated that she was a laundress and a married
woman. She was very sorry, and would not do it again if
allowed to escape this time, but she was drunk when she made
the attempt.
Mr. HALL said, his only surprise was that she should ap-
proach water at all ; if it had been a large sheet of gin he
should not have wondered. He had a great mind to commit
her for trial.

The woman's husband, a respectable looking labouring man,
begged the Magistrate to let her go; he was sure she would
not do so again, if she were allowed to go now.
Mr. HALL then gave her up to her husband, with a caution
that if she were brought before him again for a like offence, he
should most certainly commit her to Newgate.

MONEY and uOMMEIiciAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The whole of the Markets to-day are exceedingly flat, with
scarcely anything done. The prices of the English Funds
have been firmly maintained, Consols remaining at 913% for the
opening ex. div. ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 91i 92 ; Three-
and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 ; Reduced Three-and-a-Half per
Cents., 100 a 100 a ; ank Stock, 166 ; India Bonds, 22 ; Ex-
chequer Bills, 48 50 pi em.
No transactions in Foreign Securities ; prices, however, are
nominally as on Saturday. Mexican is quoted 36k.
In Shares, Great Western have been sold at 89a ; Brighton,
35i 351 ; the Loan Notes, a prem. ; South Western, 62i ;
South Eastern, Scrip, 6a.
The Bonds quoted to-day are Columbian, 26i ; Spanish
Five per Cents., 22k ; and the Three per Cents., 234—a1l be-
low the opening rates this morning.
Letters received this morning from the manufacturing dis-
tricts give a very gloomy account of the state of trade.
Great expectations had been formed that the last Overland Mail
would have brought some extensive orders, and operations
had been entered into in anticipation of such an event.
The contrary, however, was unfortunately the case,
and the i e-action has been more than proportionate to the
rise; prices have declined below what they were some veeks
since. It is to be hoped that the heavy stocks lately on hand
in most of the foreign ports will shonly be re-
duced to a point which will allow of a renewed
demand, since. it is said that if not, increased
and very serious distress may arise. The orders from America
during the present year have been far below an average ; this,
however, may be attributed to the deranged state of their
finances, and not to permanent cessation of demand, so that it
is considered that at the fall of the present, or the commencement
of the ensuing year, some relief may be expected from that
quarter.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto New
London ant'. Brighton ......... 50 . 3sii to
London and South Western — 621 to
South Eastern and Dever........ 50 ..... . to
Ditto Scrip
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 11.—Only a very
moderate quantity of cotton was sold to-day, the entire sales
merely comprising 3,000 bales. Prices were steady.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 11, closed languidly,
with a poor inquiry for Railway Stock -in general. The sales
were, Eastern Counties, Debentures, 10/. 12s. 11d. ; Edinburgh
and Glatgosv, New, 11; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock,
New, bi ; Grand Junction, 187 ; New Quarters, 26 ; London
and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 59} ; London and South Wes-
tern, 62}; Paris and Rouen, tsi.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 11.—Our Market
presents a firmer appearance, anal we have had rather more
inquiry forillailways generally. Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quar-
ters, 2i. 3s. 6d. prem. ; Manchester sad Leeds, 83 83a; Ditto,
Half-shares, 36i 36a; Manchester and Birmingham, 26 26a ;
Rochdale Canal, 56,k,

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock l6B 'lndia Stock —pm
3 per Cent: Red. ...... 911 Ditto Bonds
3 per Ceut. Cons — Ditto Old Annuities
3i per Cent. Red... 1004 Ditto New Annuities...
New 3f, per Cent — Ex. Bills, 1,0001....2d. 49 pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001— .50 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 48 pm
Jan. 1660 .....•... 12i Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1800 Consols for Opg. ...... 91i
; FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 per cent..,,,,
Ditto, Metallic ...... .
Spanish, 5 per cent —
Ditto, Deferred.... .
French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Exchange —f —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, per cent.
(Ditto, 5 per cent. 101 i
SHARES.
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid),,.... 51
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid....
London and Brighton (50 paid)
itto Loan Notes (7i paid)
.....
London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4d id)
Ditto Preference, or Privilege
London and South Western (431 153 odpd) 62i
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 26i

FOREIG
Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian 80nd,...
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent
Chinon, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Di:to, 16'24 l4i
Danish, 3 per cent
Gieek, 1823, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent 36}
I duo, 6 per cent. 1637
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct.

7 The Royal Court of Appeal will decide on Satur-
day, the 11th inst., nn the appeal of Messrs. Carrel and Coste,
Directors ( Gerans) of the Journal Le Temps, against the
sentence, condemning them jointly to a fine of 83,000 francs,
fur having
and
ngpu M. Coste
blisihedthejournal without the signature of the
manager, to a fine of 10,000 francs, for a false
declaration of the property of the security (cautionnement)
of the Journal.— Commere.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.
Last week's arrivals of all Grain were moderate, and the
fresh supplies vere inconsiderable. Wheat hardly supported
the last terms. Barley Is. per quarter d-ater. Beans and
Peas obtained their former value. Oats further advanced Is.
Per quarter•. with a slow sale. The Flour trade was dull, at
former quotations.

ARRIVALS 01. UN AIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK.
1 Wheat. liarl,y. oath. ; Flour.
English
Irish - --- ~,,110 -
Foreign
PRICES OM BOARD Or srIP
Wheat,Red (old) s. -s. I Beans, Small (new) 37, 3,5.
-.White (01d)......--s. --8. ------_---- (old) 42 465.
-- Red 184 i) .50*. 545. --- Tick (new) 27 IX*,
Fine 5.53. COS. .................. (old) 38,405.
Superfine 6125. 645. - Harrow (new) 91;.33 F•
............. ‘V bite (1641) ss. 51s. l'ine - (old).. ..... 38s. 4::s.
--...-. nk
Superfine .6Cs. 70s. Oats Feed -s -- s
..-....-Foreiguf ree 52a 725. - Icr•% 16,215.
lyt 365. 40s. -- Poland
itarley. 26s 31 -________New f23. C 6
- Grinding •6* 20,, --- Potatoe
Malting fos. 32, -.. ,s 14,w 2t. V3s.
Malt sos. 60s -. scotch '27, 2fis.
--- Fine New ... 625. IA& -.... Irish 155.... 18, 249.
Pease, (rey, New 'o,, 3.25. Flour Town (per, tack).- 54i 57,
- Maple New. Slt. 345. ---- secon .l; Ws. :4,
- White .345. 314. ---. lc,,rth Country .... 48. 50i.
Boilers .36s . 384. Bran Si os.
SMITHFIELD.
The supply of Cattle, Calves, and Pigs was moderate, of
Sheep and Lambs large, with a heavy demand for every thing.
Mutton, 2d. to 4d. per stone lower ; Veal, 4d. higher; Beef,
Lamb, and Pork, without alteration. Beasts, 2,314; Sheep
and Lambs, 29.600; Pigs, 371 ; Calves, 117. Beef, 2s. h/d.
to 4s. 6d. ; Mutton, 33. to 4s. 4d. ; Veal, 3s. 2d. to ss. ;
Pork, 2s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; Lamb, 53. to 6s.
TEA MARKET.
The market was firm, and a fair business was transacted.
Company's Congou, Is. Bd. to Is Bid. cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
A fair business was done at 48s. 3d. on the spot, and 49,:. 3d.
to 495. 6d. for delivery in the last three months of the year.
PRO VISIONS.
Butter sold slowly at declining prices. Bacon is heavy of
sale, at 475. to 495. per cwt. Lard is neglected. For Hams
there were few buyers.
____

FRUIT MARKET.
In Currants a fair business was done at 525. to 60s. par cwt.
Figs scarce and wanted.

HEMP.
Jute secured a fair sale at 171 , but other sorts of Hemp were
dull of sale.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
WEIGHTS FOR THE GOODWOOD CUP.
st. lb.l st. lb.
Charles XII., 6 yrs lO 0 Attila, 3 yrs 712
Lanercost, aged ... ...... 9 11 Marius, 4 yrs ...
Bee's-wing, aged...
Mus, aged... . ... .. ..... 9 7 Monada. 6 yrs...
Warctan, 5 yrs...
Sleight-of- Hand, 6 yrs 9 2i 6 yrs...
9 OiCh g by St. Nicholas, 7 5
Y Retriever, 6 rs
Satirist, 4 yrs
Confusionee, 6 yrs
Galaor, 4 yrs
St Lawrence, 5 yrs 8 I 1 11eteor, 3 yrs ....... .... 7 4
The Squire, 4 yrs
Van Am burgh, 4 yrs ... 8 10 Ballinkeele, 3 yrs 6 13
Prince Caradoc, 4 yrs... 8 lolJack, 3 yrs. 6 13
Tubalcain, 6 yrs .. 8 9 Pharold. 3 yrs...
Thistle Whipper, 4 yrs 8 5 Nautilus, 3 yrs 6 12
Nlustapha Altiley, 4 yrs 8 5 Eaglet-field, 3 yrs 6lO
Fieschi, aged . 8 3 Policy, 3yrs 6 10
Nliddleham, 4 yr 5.....,.,, 8 3 The Golden Rule, 3 yrs 6 10
Zelmyra, 5 yrs 8 3 Belcceur, 3 yrs . ..
Arnagill, 4 yrs
Muley Hamet, 4 yrs
Galen, 5 yrs... .. .8 0 The Oneida Chief, 3yrs 6 10
Bulwark, 6 yrs 7 12 Yorkshire Lady, 3 yrs 6 6
li. by Priam— Seamew, Fireaway, 3 yrs ... 6 6
6 yrs
Alarshal Soult, 4 yrs .... 7 n Alartyr, 3 yrs.... ......
The above are subject to alteration every week

SOVEREIGNS DEFICIENT IN
WEIGHT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN:
Slit,—Great loss, independent of much hindrance of busi-
ness, was experienced, particularly yesterday, from the prohi-
bition of passing light sovereigns. This has been a rich h••r-
vest to money-changers and bullion-dealers, and a most ini-
quitous one it has been. The current weight of a sovereign is
5 dwis. 214 grains, or 12211 grains; of the half sovereign, a
mere trifle less in proportion, 2 dwts. 13% grains, or 6IA
grains; and at these weights respectively, of standing weight,
they are to be received, and when tendered of less weight per-
sons are authorised by law to break them. Yesterday I had
an opportunity of weighing many, stated to be light, some of
them were not so, others were standing weight, and a great
number from one-eighth to one-fourth of a grain under the
proper weight. New, Sir, the ounce of gold coin, of 4SO
grains, or 12 dwts., is at present valued at 3/. 17a 100.,
n:aking the grain of gold coin 7 farthings and 63-80ths of a tar-
thing, nearly twopence ; yet the dealers made the holders 'a
critiee 6d. upon the sovereign of standing weight, 1221 grains,
and 9d. when there was the slighteft adverse turn of the scale.
This isas extremely unjust, hut enormous sums a!together •
were yesterday exchanged upon these terms. •The coin most
deficient in weight is that of 1621, which has undergone in
some instances severe ‘. sweating." There should he an office
somewhet e established, where as few as four sovereignkmight be
changed at their intrinsic value, at,d persons will then get that
quantity exchanged for, most frequently, from one penny to
fourt.ence.

When our gold coin (which was the case till within the last
15 years) was alloyed with silver, 11 parts gold and 1 silver, it
resisted wear much better ; now it has 1 part of copper to 11 of
gold. Every one much accustomed to the gold and silver coin
of foreign countries must be struck with the great loss our coin
suffers from attrition ; that of foreign countries not being
,re-
duced from detrition one-half the quantity in double the time.
I believe the great cause of this to be the asperities of our
pieces. The milling now practised I believe to be very inju-
rious, by friction of the pieces one against another ' • and I con-
sider the lettering, both on the face and reverse (and even if
there be a legend on the edges), should be stink, not promi-
nent. No die that ever was struck has been so well calcu-
lated to prevent wear as that of the penny copper piece of the
year 1797; it has a raised border, about the eighth of an inch,
which protects both the face and reverse, and all the letters
and figures are sunk and not prominent.
June 12, 1842. NUMISMATIST.

We have heard, from good authority, that Govern-
ment are in possession of information from Jellalabad, three
days later than what has been given to the public, by whi,
the gratifying fact is known, that General Pollock had effected
a junction with Sir R. Sale, and that the united force would
be competent for offensive operations.—Liampshire Telegraph.
DOVER, JUNE 12, 1842.—Arrived the Britannia
steamer from Boulogne, with his Excellency Aaly Effendi,
Ambassadc.r from the Sublime Porte to this country, with his
suite.

GRAY'S INN, JUNE 1 1 ..--,Tweph Pollock, Esq.,
was this day called to the degree of Barrister-at-law, by the
Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.
SUICIDE AT 13RIGHTON.---13RIGHTON, SUNDAY,
JUNE I2.—Last night a distressing suicide was committed by
a lady of weak intellect, who had been residing for the benefit
of her health, at 14, Crescent. place, Brighton. It appears that
the unfortunate lady was Mrs. Mary Cumberland, the mother
of six children, and the wife of Mr. Richard Cumberland, a gen-
tleman said to hold a high official situation in the Tower of Lon •
don. For some time past she had been left in the care of the land-
lady of the house, and according to custom for protection slept
between two females. Last night they retired to rest soon
after ten, and about eleven o'clock Ann Leifer, one of the ser-
vants, was surprised to hear the outer door violently closed;
s ie. immediately proceeded up stairs to ascertain the cause, and
found the unfortunate lady had left the bed, her two attendants
being fast asleep. The police were alarmed and a search com-
menced without effect, until about two o'clock this morning,
when two of the coast guardsmen, named Joseph Grist and
Thomas Robertson, perceiving something white washed up on
the beach, went to the spot and found it to be the body of the
unfortunate lady quite dead. The cause assigned for con,-
mitting the rash act was an idea she had entertained for
some time past, that she was about being removed to a lunatic
asylum.
Mr. Wilson, before his departure from town to
fulfil some provincial engagements, will give but three more
evenings' entertainments at the Music Hall in Store-street—
viz., this evening, and on Mondays next and following, the 20th
and 27th inst. Of his sch'eral performances there is none more
popular than what is called his "Charlie nights," wherein are
comprised the principal songs written in espousal of the cause
of an exiled prince, who sought to restore the fallen fortunes of
his family, which will come off to-night. What are to be the
subjects of his two following nights' entertainments has not at
present transpired.
The King of Song, the inimitable Eub:ni, is again
with us. He makes his re-entree to-morrow night in the
Snyznambuta. He appears only for a few nights, when betakes
leave of the stage.

It is strongly rumoured that her Majesty and
Prince Albert intend to honour the Duke of Buckingham and
Chandos with a visit at his magnificent mansion at Stowe.
Forty London tradesmen are coming down to make prepara-
tions for these illustrious visitants. The Royal Bucks Yeo-
manry are to be almost entirely new equipped for the occa-
sion, which will, we believe, take place in the month of August.
—Aylesbury News.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—This morning (Monday) a
youth of the name of Charles Lock lost his life under the fol-
lowing distressing circumstances :—lt appears that the unfor-
tunate lad was bathingin the Thames opposite Messrs. Goding's
brewery, about half-past twelve o'clock, with several other
perons, when all of a sudden he was observed to sink in the
water. An alarm was raised, the drags procured, and
the river searched, but we regret to state without
his parents
avail, as the body was nowhere to be found. On
the first alarm being raised, a gentleman, who was passing
near the spot, plunged into the water, and nearly
lost his own life, for he was instantly seized with cramp in the
chest, and was obliged to be pulled out of the water b another
rperson.reside at No. 92, w
The
e
deceased:bbewr-arsowon,lßy
lalclkfyrejaarr.
ss
The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel,
The Giraffe, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom House of age ;
at eleven o'clock yesterday, with the Dutchmails.
AWFUL VISITATION.—This morning, about one
o'clock, Mr. Robert Wright, of the Harrow public-house,
Pronrose.hill, Salisbury-square, F ect-street, suddenly expired
at his residence, under the fo lowing melancholy circum-
stances:—lt appears that yesterday Mr. Wright took an excur-
sion to Richmond, from whence he returned home at about
twelve o'clock last night, apparently in full health and cheer-
ful spirits, and having superintended the closing of the house,
he .at down and eat a very hearty suem-r
,-, ; after which,
he discovered that the ale was tt oft, ' and after ex-
pressing his disapprobation to his ,life of the circumstance,
cent himself into the cellar for:the purpose of performing what
was requisite, but being absent a longer time than was necessary
he was called to, but no answer being returned, the waiter was
sent to tLe cellar, when the unfortunate man was discovered
lying upon his back and life quite extinct Medical aid was
procured with all possible dispatch, but without avail. The
deceased has left a wife but no family.
PAISLEY, JUNE B.—SINGULAR CASE OF SUICIDE._
A Mr. Wilson, who kept a hat shop in High-street here, put a
period to his existence in the following extraordinary manner.
:ieing in embarrassed circumstances with regard to business,
a meeting of his creditors had been called, which took place on
Monday last, at which, as a matter of course, his attendance
was requisite. At some particular stage of the meeting he was
requested to retire to the door for a short time, and ;
A
that the unfortunate mail had walked thence stra:ght to the
canal, and deliberately plunged himself in, near the West Re-
lief Church. About two hours afterwards the body was dis-
covered, and carritd to his home. The amount of his debt,
it is reported, is scarcely 701., upon which he had offered a com-
pensation of 13s. in the pound.
The alum works established on the Marquis of
Normanby's estate are now in full operation, and a discovery
has been made in the compound of an article which is likely to
supersede the use of indigo in dying cloth and other fabrics,
which promises to be a source of considerable wealth to the
Noble Marquis. I