The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-03 00:00:00

IRE SUN, LONDON, FRIDA% EVENING, JUNE 3, 1842.

The Duke of Devonshire had a large dinner party on Wednes-
day at Devonshire House.
The Duke of Norfolk left Norfolk House yesterday, for
Arundel Castle.

Lord and Lady Leigh left Belgrave-square last week, for
Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire.
His Excellency Count Mersdorf, with his four sons, paid a
visit yesterday to the Polytechnic Institution.
Lady Ravensworth gave an elegant dejeune•a-la-fourchette
yesterday at Percy-e.ross, Fulham.
Lord Maryborough was prevented from attending the Levee
on Wednesday by a severe at tack of influenza.

LAW INTELLIGENCE

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to-day to hear Scotch appeals. The Peers
present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord 'Brougham, and Lord
Campbell.

MACDONALD V. LORD MACDONALD.
The further arguments in this part-heard appeal were post-
poned sine die.

KERR V. COCHRANE.
The arguments in this part-heard appeal, which were com-
menced in March hat, were resumed to-day, and had not con-
cluded when our Evening Edition went to press.

ROLLS' COURT.--(1111S DAY).
No ease of interest came before. Lord Langdale to-day.

VICE-UHANCERY-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
Unopposed petitions and short causes occupied His Honour
the whole day.
(Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
' COMBE V. THE CORPORATION OF LONDON.
The Court was occupied the whole morning, with the further
argument in this part heard case, which came before his
Honour upon a motion for the production of certain
documents in the possession of the City of London. The
bill was originally filed by the Corportion of London for the
purpose of obtaining the decree of the Court, declaring the
right of the corporation to the metage on corn landed at the
Savoy-wharf, belonging to the Messrs. Combes, the eminent
brewers. After the institution of the suit by the Corporation of
London the Messrs. Combes tiled a cross-bill, for the purpose
of discovering certain documents in the possession of the
Corporation of London, which thry asserted would show
that the corporation had no right to the metage.
(Before Vice •Chancellor \Vic RAM.)
Causes of no interest occupied his Honour the whole of the
morning.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
The Court was occupied the whole morning in hearing ar-
guments in cases in the Special Paper, all of which turned
upon points of law of a purely technical character.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
The Court was occupied during the morning in hearing a
number of minor cases, which involred no point of general in-
terest.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

SALTER V. BORTIIWICK.

Mr. BEST moved for a rule, calling upon the defendant to
compute. The application was grounded on an affidavit, stat-
ing that the place of residence of the c'efend,int was
unknown—that the deponent went to serve him with a rule
nisi, to the Cailton.club—that the servant told deponent
he was not there, though he bad been there twice
on the same day—that he went to the House
of Commons, of which defendant is a Member, to serve him,
but he was not there. That he went to his la,t known place of
residence in Upper Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, and a
second time to the Carlton Club and the House of Commons,
and was not able to find him in either place. Under the cir-
cumstances, he hoped the Court would interfere.
Rule granted.
The COURT having waited a considerable time to dispose of
other cases, then adjourned.

PALACE COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
A Court was held this day, at the Court-house, Scotland-
yard, but the cases which came before it were uninteresting,
being chiefly undefended actions.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The only interesting cast on the paper to-day, was that of
the Queen on the prosecution of Frederick Wood v. Stroud
Lincoln, a Churchwarden, which Mr. Doane applied to have
postponed till the adjournment day in July next.
Mr. CLARKSON concurred in the requst for adjournment,
and it was granted by the Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

MARLBOROUGH•STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Mary Ann Baker, a young woman of interesting appearance,
was placed at the bar, charged with uttering a counterfeit
crown-piece.
A shopman in the employ of Messrs. Stephenson and Allen,
of No. 144, Regent-street, silk-mercers, hosiers, &e., stated
that between five and six o'clock yesterday afternoon the
prisoner entered the shop, and having selected a pair of
stockings of the lowest price they had, tendered in pay-
ment a crown-piece' which the witness immediately detected
to be a bad one, and recollecting the prisoner to be the per-
son who had passed a counterfeit shilling to him about six
weeks ago, he detained her, and gave her into the charge of the
police.
The prisoner strongly protested that at the time she offered
the money she was ignorant of its being spurious. Respecting
the shilling the witness must be mistaken as to her identity.
The witness said he was quite positive on that point.
Inspector Plume, of the U division, stated that she had re.
fused to give her name or address on being brought to the
station-house, and still persisted in not giving any account of
herself. _

Mr. Hannwicx to the prisoner—How do you get your
living ? Prisoner—l am so situated I cannot answer that
question.
Mr. HARDWICK—If you are expectable you would have
no hesitation in giving a proper account of yourself, and of
whom you received the bad money.
Prisoner—lt was given to me by a friend of mine, but
whose name I will not be induced to disclose. lam placed in
a most unfortunate situation, which prevents me from clearing
myself of the charge made against me.
Mr. HARDWICK inquired if the prisoner was known to the
ushers of the Court or the police, and received an answer in
the negative. Ile then ordered the prisoner to be :remanded
until this day week, in order that the Solicitor to the Mint
might attend and see whether he knew her.
The prisoner, on hearing that she was to be sent to gaol,
wept bitterly.
John Davis, an intelligent lad only between twelve and
thirteen years of age, but who has been three times convicted
of felony at the Central Criminal Court, and undergone dif-
ferent periods of imprisonment, with the addition of being
twice privately whined, was again committed for trial from
this Court charged with stealing a book ( Bogatzky's Golden
Treasure), from out of the shop window of Mr. Alfred Sharp,
of No. 14, St. Martin's-court, bookseller. He was detected in
the act by a police-constable of the C division, and the pro-
perty found upon him.

UNION-HALL.--(THIS DAY.)
MATRIMONIAL MISERIES.— George Davis, a lighterman
was charged with violently assaulting wife, and threatening
to murder her.

The wife said that the defendant was in the habit of ill- treat-
ing her, and that on the previous afternoon he snatched up a
knife and swore that he would serve her as Good served the
woman at Putney. He then approached her and made a stab
at her with the knife, which cut through her clothes and in-
flicted a slight wound.
The defendant said that he and his wife were in the
habit of fighting with pokers, and that he was certain slaughter
would ensue if they lived much longer together.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that if the parties led such an un •
social life, it was quite time that they should be separated to
prevent murder.
Both of them agreeing to the suggestion, they left the Court
to have a deed of separation drawn up, the defendant having en-
tered into his recognizance to keep the peace.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A BOY.—Yesterday
afternoon Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Cooper's Arms,
Brick-lane, St. Luke's, on the body of Richard Wilson, aged
16, who committed suicide by taking poison. It appeared that
the deceased, who was very lively and intelligent, was appren-
ticed to Mr. Perry, boot and shoemaker, of the City-road, but
re ided with his parents at No. 7, Rose-street, Brick-lane. A
few days since the deceased inquired of his master whether it
was not two pennyworth of arsenic that Cooler, who shot the
policeman at Highbury, took to destroy life, and whether that
amount was sufficient to do so, and if it could not be taken on
bread and butter, to the whole of which Mr. Berry
replied that he did not know. On Monday Is t he had
a holiday, and, having played with other boys during
the day, he in the evening partook of some ale with his
brother, and all at once said he should go and get some
salts and go home, as he felt unwell. He was seen to
mix up in a cup What was supposed to be salts, and drink the
contents before he went to bed. He slept well until four o'clock
on the following morning, when his groans awoke his parents,
but he persisted that he had taken nothing but salts, which he
declared he had purchased of Mr. French, chemist, in Brick-
lane. Mr. James, a surgeon, was sent for, but deceased died
in excruciating agony an hour after. On opening the body a
large quantity of arsenic was found in the stomach. Mr.
French, the chemist, proved that deceased came to his shop on
Monday, and asked for two-pennyworth of arsenic to clean
leather. lie objected at first to serve him, but ultimately did
so. The word e poison" was marked on the paper. He ap-
peared very lively in spirits when he asked for it. Other evi-
dence was adduced, which went to prove that deceased's father
had been for 18 weeks affected with madness, as also other
branches of the family. Verdict-" Temporary Insanity."
The General Steam Navigation Csnipany's luail
prcket John Bull, Captain J. P. Corbin, arrived at a quarter to
eleven this morning off the Tower with the Hamburgh mail.
A POLICEMAN DROWNED IN THE LONDON DOCKS.
—Yesterday morning police constable Charles Reynolds, 21 11,
who was stationed in the interior of the London Docks, was
u issed, about half-past one o'c'ock, from his beat near the
Brandy-quay, by a brother constable, No. 53, and, having been
searched for and not found, a suspicion arose that he hadfailen
into the basin. In consequence drags were procured and used,
anti in a short time the body was found in the water. It was
removed to the receiv ne-house of the docks, and Mr. Bloom-
field, a surgeon, having been sent for, promptly attended, and
had recourse to the usual means of restoring animation, but
without success. Since the introduction of the metropolitan
police into the London Docks, this is the third instance of
death by drowning amongst them.
FEAT OF STRENGTH.—A large number of the re-
spectable farmers in the neighbourhood of Market Drayton,
as,embled at the Phcenix len, on Wednesday, the I 1 th ti,st.,
to witness the decision of a wager, alien James Beardmore
the third son of Mr. Francis Beardmore, of the Dairy-hotoe,
near Drayton (a youth only 17 years of age), was backed to
lift up from the floor, and get upon his right shoulder, a bag
of wheat (of three bushels, weighing 11 score and 91b., bag
included), with his right hand alone, unassisted by his left
hand, with which he was not to touch the bag. This very
extraordinary feat of strength he very cleverly performed in
the market-room of the Phcenix Inn, before the assembled
153ing the bag on his lap with his
company, by stooping down,
right hand, then turning it round his hip upon his back, after-
wai ds hitching it up his back and bringing it to his r ght
shoulder, keeping his left hand and arm down by his left side,
quite clear away from it—a most nnparallelled performance.
he free and generous burst of o!tl English cheers by the com-
pany, when he stood up with the bag upon his shoulder, proved
the view which the farmers took of the performance_a perfor-
mance which very few could do with both hands in the middle
of a roam.
_FRENCH RAILROAD PRECAUTIONS.—The members
of the commission for making researches and experiments as to
improvements in the manufacture of axletrees for locomotive
steam-engines, the resistance they have to sustain during their
use, and the proofs to which they ought to be previously sub-
jected, and secondly, to study the various means which ought
to be employed to diminish the effects and dangers to arise from
shocks and collisions on railroads, have been nominated by the
Minister of Public Works. 'They amount to seventeen in num-
ber, Laving M. Cordier, the Peer, for their President, and M.
Teisserenc for their Secretary. They are all scientific and
practical men.
On Sunday afternoon last. a man who was lying
asleep on the parapet of the Quai de !'Hotel Dieu fell suddenly
into the riverr The immersion awoke him, and his cries
' being heard he was rescued by two persons of the hospital,
' into which he was conveyed, and he was soon perfectly re-
stored.

IPSWICH ELECTION.

IPSWICH, THURSDAY.—The nomination being fixed for
this day, at an early hour the friends of the Conservative can-
didates met at the Assembly Rooms to escort them to the hus•-
ings erected on the Cornitill. The supporters of the reform
party met at the Suffolk Hotel for the like purpose.
At ten o'clock both parties made their appearance, accow-
panied by bands of music, with flags, banners, &c., bearing
appropriate mottoes ; the blue party taking their position on
the left of the Cornhill, and the ref trm party on the right.
After the usual electioneering greetings had taken place, and
silence restored,

J. C. COBB01:1), Esq. , the Mayor, came forward, and remarked
that circumstances of a peculiar nature had occurred, which
rendered it necessary that the electors should again exercise
their rights and privileges, and he trusted they would do their
duty honestly, and with temperance—( Hear, hear).
'I he Town Clerk then read over the precept, and the usual
preliminaries being gone through,
The MAvon called upon the Conservative party to propose
their candidates.

The candidates were then proposed in the following order :
Lord Desart, by Mr. C. Fonnereau ; • Mr. Moffat, by Mr. W.
May; Mr. Gladstone, by Mr. R. Rodwell ; and Mr. Gisborne,
by Mr. Benjamin Brown.
Lord DESANI, in addressing the electors, said he came for-
ward as the zealous supporter of those principles which he be-
lieved every Englishman wished to support.—(Loud cheers )
It had been remarked that he had been proposed by a Whig ;
he gloried in the nomination, as it showed a return to right.
mindedness.—(Cheers.) His principles were a firm and entire
determination to support the interests of the Church and State.
It was the Constitution of our forefathers and lie hoped i;
would not fail to he cherished by their children.—( Cheers. )
He felt assured the prtsent Government was formed of men
determined to support those principles, and lie would also throw
in his support, it they returned him as their representative.
With respect to the Poor-law, he would support it in that way
which he conceivtd to be most conducive to the benefit of
the people.—( Hear, hear.) The Nob'e Earl concluded by
observing he was opposed to Universal Suffrage and Vote by
Ballot.—( Cheers, and cries of "Oh, oh.")
Mr. MOFFATT said he gloried in supporting those measures
which were for the good of the people.—( Cheers.) The
Whigs might nut be popular, nevertheless they deserved the
well -wishes of the peop e. He was opposed to finality, and was
favourable to a more equitable arrangement of the representa-
tion. He would give Isis support to any measure which would
put down bribery and corruption.—(Cheers.) He was for a
larger extension of the Suffrage and Vote by Ballot, and in fa-
vour of shortening the duration of Parliament.—(Cheers and
hear.) He would lend his hand to an efficient Church Reform,
and a modification of the law respecting Church-rates ; and he
would be glad
.to see the Poor-law carried out with a more
lenient spirit.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.)
Mr. GLADSTONE then came forward and addressed the elec-
tors. He had heard it said that her Majesty would never be-
stow her confidence on a Conservative Government; but the
fact was, it had her most implicit confidence, experiencing as
she did the loyalty and attachment of their feelings.—( Cheers. )
He had no doubt they would continue possessed of that
confidence as long as they pursued an honest and straight-
forw rd course of duty. He had witnessed the Whig party,
which no longer merited the name, gradually giving up their
ground and approaching Radical opinions, one day advocating
the Corn-laws and another a low fixed
_duty—catching at a
straw like drowning men.—(Cheers.) A London news-
paper the other day stated that he had been a proprietor of
slaves. That was utterly false.—(Cheers.) His family were
holders of West Indian property, but who made them so?
The legislature of the country. He had had the honour of
voting with Mr. Gisborne for the extinction of slavery in the
British dominions. He never was an advocate for slavery, and
he felt surprised that such a charge had been brought against
him. He referred them to his past conduct as a guarantee for
his future behaviour in Parliament, if he were returned.

Mr. GISBORNE presented himself, but the feeling was so
much against hearing him, that atter several unsuccessful
attempts to be heard he retired amidst great uproar.
Mr. NICHOLSON, a Chartist, then made his appearance, and
was assailed with the most deafening yells and groans from
both parties; notwithstanding, he kept his position for some
time, and occasionally made an attempt to address the
assemblage, but to no purpose. The uproar gradually increased,
and a fight took place between the two parties. The efforts of
the returning officer to restore anything like order were quite
unavailable. Several rotten eggs were thrown at the hust►ng+,
one of which struck Lord Desert on the breast. Other missiles
then followed, when it was deemed most prudent to at once de-
mand a show of hands, which was declared in favour of Mr.
Gisborne and Mr. Moffatt, and the proceedings terminated.
The poll takes place to-morrow (this day).

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

William Peareth, Esq., and Mrs. Peareth, at Marshall
Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish.square, from Kent; Mrs
Thtye, at ditto ; Mactaggart, Esq., and Mrs. Mactaggart,
at ditto ; Edmund Bacon, Esq., and Mrs. Bacon, at the Wa-
terloo Hotel, Jerrnyn-street, from Bakewell, Derbyshire ; Mrs.
Richardson and Miss Richardson, at ditto, from the Continent;
John Gough, Esq., and Mrs. Gough, at ditto, from Bath;
Lady Sherbrooke, at ditto, from a tour; H. P. Lowe, Esq.,
Donagh, Esq., Gilbert, Esq., and Russell Kendall,
Esq., at ditto, from a tour ; John Pagott, Esq., and Mrs.
Pagett, at ditto, from their seat, Cranmore Hall, Somerset ;
J Little, Esq., and Miss Little, at Nelson's Hotel, Portland-
place, from Abergavenny ; Cornelius Heyle de Wormo, Esq.,
at ditto ; Carlos Raynsford, Esq., at ditto; Captain Pitt, at
ditto; and Sir Robert Barclay, Bart., at ditto.
DEPARTURES.

Edward Fyler, Esq., and Mrs. Lewis, from Nelson's Hotel,
Portland-place; Rev. H. T. and Mrs. Lumsden, from ditto;
W. C. Towers, Esq., from ditto, for Cheltenham ; Captain
Boulby, from ditto ; Rev. Archdeacon Law, from ditto, for
Weston Super Mare ; Mrs. Scott and Miss Rayne, from ditto,
for Reading.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, JUNE 2.—At a Congregation held this day the fol-
lowing degrees were conferred :
DOCTOR IN DIVINITY.—Rev. C. A. Ogilvie, Balliol Col-
lege, grand compounder.
DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW.—Rev, R. Grant, New College.
BACHELOR IN MEDICINE.—Chamber., Christ Church.
11lAsTEas OF ARTS.—Rev. G. S. Harding, Brasennose Col-
lege; R. Eddie, Brasennose College; A. R. Harrison, Queen's
College ; W. S. W. Vaux, Balliol College ; H. N. T. Bus.
feild, Worcester College ; C. J. Quartley, St. Edmund Hall ;
Rev. G. W. Hutchings, Magdalen Hall ; Rev. C. W. Bagot,
All Souls College ; D. Jones, Jesus College ; E. H. Plumptre,
University College.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.—II. S. Sawyer, Merton College;
R. Al. Richards, Merton College ; B. James, Queen's Col-
lege ; H. 0. Nethercote, Balliol Cortege ; G. S. Munn, Tri-
nity College; B. C. Kennicott, Oriel College; R. Roope,
Vtradham College.

CONCERTS.—The present is the season for concerts,
which are very fashionably attended, whether in the morning
or evening. Yesterday the Hanover-square Rooms were
crowded for the benefit of Miss and Mr. Dorrell, which went
off with great eclat. To-morrow Mr. Kiallmark will test the
liberality of his friends and the public, no doubt with success ;
and on Monday Mr. Frederick Chatterton will give his grand
annual morning concert, the bill of fare for which is particu-
larly attractive. .

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE HER MAJESTY.—It is
with pain and indignation we announce that a second attempt
has been made upon the life of our Most Gracious Sovereign
the Queen. This event, which has excitedone universal senti-
ment of abhorrence, occurred on Monday evening, precisely
on the very spot where Oxford reads his diabolical attempt,
and the first intimation of which was conveyed to the country
in the columns of a third edition of The Sun.—Derby and
Chesterfield Reporter.
POACHING IN THE PRESERVES AT WINDSOR
CASTLE. —ln the extensive slopes on the north side of the
Castle, and that part of the Home-park adjoining, the game
with which they abound has been preserved for some time
past with great care by command of her Majesty; and yet,
notwithstanding the sharp look-out of the keepers, poaching
has been carried on to a very considerable extent for some time
past. Wires have frequently be found in the preserves, but
until a day or two since the poachers effected their depredations
undetected. A well-known character, named Hancock, was
apprehended in the slopes on Tuesday morning, between three
and four o'clock, by John Orme, one of her Majesty's keep-
ers, just as he and another man, his accomplice;( who escaped)
had snared a fine hare. Upon searching the plantations five
more snares were found, with the wire of sufficient strength to
have secured a deer. The prisoner was taken before the
Windsor Bench of Magistrates, and committed for one month
to hard labour in the county gaol at Reading
THE AMBASSADOR'S WIFE.—Mrs. Charles Gore,
by her present most admirable novel, has tilled a place hitherto
left blank in our works of fiction. " The Ambassador's Wife"
is a romance of the Court, wherein almost all its brilliant
scenes occur. Whatever is dignified in that magic circle, and
whatever is mean (and there is much of both), find in our
brilliant novelist an adequate expositor. Her sketches of
kings and queens are made with a free, unhesitating pencil,
and look from her canvas, with an air worthy their
dignity, while some of their courtiers appear, it
must be confessed, with rather a pitiful effect. It
is astonishing how speedily an appearance at Court lowers
the pretensions of a man. All manner of snares are
laid to turn him into ridicule ; and, though valuing himself on
his wit, he will too often find that he is a laughing.st,,ek to
fools. As people are fond of seeing themselves reflected, every
courtier will read Mrs. Gore's nen- novel, while the uninitiited
will peruse it with ardent curiosity mixed occasionally with no

little wonder.
AGE OF ELIZABETH.—The sixteenth century, more
than any period of the world, was rendered conspicuous by the
prominence and remarkable characteristics of the personages
who then figured on the stage of life. It has been the great
defect of h'story " through fear of giving offence, or excitir,g
disgust, to veil the realities which it was reluctant to con-
template, and induce ordinary readers to believe that
heroes and heroin( s arc tot men and women, but beings
of a superior nature." The victims of this long and grave
deception are on the point of being disabused. They
will be able, under the guidance of a work, called-" The Ro •
mantic Biography of the Age of Elizabeth," " to explore the
terra incognita of human folly," and to probe the hollowness
of human pretension. They will be possessed of recently-dis-
covered facts, by which they can accurately estimate the cha-
racter of Queen Bess, and of her layout ite the Earl of Leicester;
of Catherine de Medicis, Henry IV. of France, and his Queen.
Margaret de Valois ; and will be acquai' ted with some circum-
stances, hitherto not suspected, in connexion with the mas-
sacre of St. Bartholomew, and with many other great events
of the time.

The Memorial of lioutn states that on- the 25th
ult. a man was found dead on the road between Roche Guyon
and Vernon, having discharged a pistol in his mouth, and
lodged the ball in his brain. After a day had passed, he was
recognised to be a wine-merchant of Bercy, near Paris, named
Auaanne. _ _ _ _

Jasmin, the poet of Agen, had the honour of
being received by the King and Queen, and the Duchess of
Oilcans, at Neuilly, be'ore the departure of the Majesties for
Bizy. He recited p its of his composition, for which he re-
ceived the most flattering praise.
On the 11th ult., about 250 acres of underwood in

the forest of Troncais Allier) were consumed by a fire be-
lieved to have been wilful, but the incendiaries have not been
discovered. Another conflagration, at. Martinpuich near Arras,
also attributed to malevolence, has reduced to ashes fourteen
houses, twenty barns, and other out-buildings, and a quan-
tity of furniture and live and dead farming stock, caus-
ing a loss estimated at 120,000 francs. A Rheims journal sf
Friday states, that, in the night of Thursday, a tire broke out
at Notre Dame de Liesse, and after having destroyed twenty-
fire houses and fifty out-buildings, was still burning. One man
was suffocated in his cellar, while endeavouring to remeve a
part of his property. The Courrier de Lyon, of the 27th,
states that a fire took place there on the eve, which, however,
was of no extent, as only one house was burnt, but four persons
were more or less injured.
MESSES. HOBIIOUSE AND COBS ESTATE.—The As-
signees commenced the payment of the dividend on Tuesday,
to the Bankers, and yesterday to other creditors. The amount
already paid exceeds 20,000/.---Bath Chronicle.
ilLit ..MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Owing to the
illness
of Signor Glasco, who was to have performed the part of Alma-
viva, in the Barbiere di .Ferialia, that opera last night was
changed for Le Cantatrice Virane, and Don Marco Bomba
and his rival, occupied the stage ins ead of Rosins, Bartolo,
and Figaro.