The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-15 00:00:00

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sfERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MOR3ING.

Tb Hibernia, Captain Burber, has just arrived
at hi 3 port this morning, and by her we have dates
In al New York to the 24th ultimo, inclusive.

'll le papers of the 22d say the failures among mer-
cl:• an is continue numerous, and business generally is
ex conlingly dull in ali its departments. The state of
bi isiness is sensibly felt by the banks, which have lost
th a most profitable part of their business, consisting
of the deposits of the mai? dealers about town. We
tip_ ehend that near three-funrths of the business do-
riN ed from the deposits of thit, class of de leis have
cel' se d to be.

ft: is understood that the labours of Lord Aspour-.
011. a: 7e nearly brought to a close. No doubt is now
e. ttert _ained that the negotiations will be zatisfacto.-ily
co, I ,511 mmated at an early day.
7 :To .oRTANT men if.trri.—Captain Hill, of the Wil-
lia n. Thatcher, at Philadelphia, from St. Croix, states
the at. information had been received there from St. Do-
y, giving the important information that a revolu-
tio, t had broken out in the Island, and that Boyer had
bee i deposed and put to death. This is important, if true.
1. k sE HONOUR AND JUSTICE.—Anothur negro has
been j turned at the stake at the mouth of the Red river.
He • .s captured in the swamps and burnt in the same
manna ras described in our paper a day or two since. He
had id lied a man and carried off two women, one of whom
he hait 1 violated, and for this they had him well chained,
and ill a faggots ready, with a view of giving him a fore-
tast e c ,f his inevitable ultimate end.

E tsc LISH PHILANTHItOPY.—ILITHeSSiIIg women to coal
cart a i a the colleries, making them drag a -horse-load, and
then t c ry shame against this country fitr its slaves.
Z ; WEATHER.—IL is just possible that we may have
a at Dal I spoil of pleasant weather before the year is out ;
but stii it is a matter that is very problematical indeed.
Het NI wal have the thermometer up to ninety in the shade
julst a dirty mizzling rain was falling for thirty-six
hou cr. The side walks are covered with mud—the
stre tt a ditto—the air is muggy—the ladies ciothes get
dragz led with dirt—every body feels uncomfortable, and
every one expects the cholera.
SMI 7GGLING ON THE LINES.—It has been carried on
pretty extensively, of late, on the Canada lines. Entire
packa. ;es of printed goods may be obtained at Troy, at
20 • cent. less than the cost of regular importation.
This i s agreeable news to the honest importer.
IMPC MTANTFROM MENICO.—We have been favoured with
the sit ;ht of a letter from Vera Crux, under date of Way 17,
whic h discloses some facts of great political consequence,
ba• letter says :—" Santa Ana has 60,000 troops
und' !..r arms, well paid and equipped. Castle Ulloa,
clos, y to Vera Cruz, is repaired and strongly fortified.
As 3:br the Texans, no fear is entertained of there. 'The
vessel:; of war bearing their flag, it is understood, do not
belorq 7 to them, and stand a good chance of being treated
as pir, ites."
Speaking of the captives at Perote, it says :—" On Sa-
turda3 - the Commanding-General here told me that the
whole of the prisoners were liberated."
In a riding that this intelligence is from a highly in-
fo] mod and trustworthy source, we must remark that the
all• tged extent of Mexican preparations is certainly
sta.'tling. If real, they can scarcely have been made
wit] tout English assistance.
W'e regard it as far more likely that this array is
against freedom in Mexico than Texas. Armaments
agaitast the latter are Santa Ana's pretence for keeping
a fora on foot sufficient to secure, by the bayonet, the
power which the late elections will take from him.

ATROCIOUS MURDERS AND OUTRAGES.

A treuruscript was left in our office yesterday morn-
ing, from which we condense the following state.
ment : --The passengers on board the Sunflower, which
stopped at E. P. King's Wood-yard, were informed
that some horrible murders had been committed in
that vicinkv, and that the citizens were in pursuit of
the murdere."s• Ai ter wooding, they had proceeded
but a short dis:ance when they perceived a crowd upon
the bank, which they ijgi,lltdfuilt apwed that a negrowerelyemaireludcdthe
pursuers. They stopped, And
named Joseph, belonging to Mr. Voorhees, on
Bayou de Maize, had been persuaded to run off
and join him by a negro run away from New Or-
leans, named Enoch. They nWrdered a Mr. Har-
rington, and took with them into the woods his
wife and a young lady. They cal;cd Mr. Harrington
out of his house, and he unsuspectingly wont ; a pis-
tol and gun were presented at him. fie was guarded
into the house, when the negroe: laid their weapons
on the bed, and declared their purposes to t'e to murder
him, and abduct the females. Harrington seized
a pistol, aimed at the breast of Enoch, and exploded
the cap without discharging the load. Joseph aimed
the rifle at Harrington, the young lady clung-to Har-
rington, the rifle went off; killing him and wounding
her. His body was thrown into a lake, and the fe-
males carried off. The negroes had with them a mu.-
latress named Margaret, whose entreaties saved the
lives of the poor women, who were inhumanly out-
raged. They then killed a Mr. Todd, and carried off
his wife and child. They also killed another person,
name unknown.
Jihe citizens caught Joseph on Sunday, and the
girl Margaret. Enoch escaped, though supposed to
be wounded by some one or snore of the balls fired at
him. Joseph confessed, and they determined to burn
him alive.- Ile was chained to a tree, the faggots
piled around, and in that situation being questioned
by P. Routh, he declared as before that he had no
other accomplice than Enoch, and that Enoch made
him kill the men who were murdered. His cries
were terrific when the fire reached him, and by
superhuman exertions he wrested the staple which
confined the chain to the tree. - He was then shot,
and his body cast back into the fire. The girl is
in gaol in Vidalia. They are still pursuing the other
villain.
Since writing the above, we learn tiom a gentle-
man of the neighbourhood that only one female was
at, and carried away from Harrington's, Kis young
daughter. The statement is substantially cotrect in
other particulars.—Natchez Courier.
The terrible scene of burning the negro is thus de-
scribed by the Free Trader :

The boy was taken and chained to a tree iintoo-
diately on the bank of the Mississipi, on what it
called Union Point. Faggots were then collected and
piled around him, to which he appeared quite indif-
ferent. When the work was completed, he was asked
what he had to say. He then warned all to take ex-
ample by him, and he asked the prayers of all around •
he then called for a drink of water, which was handed
to him ;he drank it and said, " Now .set fire--I a:n
•
ready to go in peace !"
The torches were lighted and placed in the pile,
which soon ignited. lie watched unmoved the curl-
ing flame as it grew, until it began to entwine itself
around and feed upon his body ; then he sent forth
cries of agony painful to the ear, begging some one
to blow his brains out, at the same time surging
with almost superhuman strength, until the staple
with which the chain was fastened to the tree, not
being well secured, drew out, and he escaped from
the burning pile. At that moment the sharp ring of
several rifles was heard—the body of the negro fell a
corpse on the ground. He was picked up by some
two or three, and again thrown into the fire and con •
sumed—not a vestige remaining to show that such a
being ever existed.
SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
$1,250 New York Seven per Cent., 1819 IOI
2,000 New York Sixes, 1862
6.000 Kentucky Sixes
5,000 Illicois Sixes, 1870 , b6o 20i
1,000 Indiana Fives
cash 69
10 Shares Delaware and Hudson
36 Do. Buicber's and Drover's Bank .....
25 Do. Farmers' Loan 2B
35 Do. Mohawk Railroad 43
300 Do. Paterson Railroad b6O 54
9 Do. Stonington ..... l7
37 Do. Harlem Railroad
150 Do. Long Island Railroad
19 Do. Neptune Insurance Company ..... ire
SECOND BOARD.
25 Do. Mohawk Railroad 43
50 Do. Harlem Railroad
STATE OF TRADL:.
There is no material change in any of the markets. At auc-
tion the following sale has taken place :
Terms—Ninety days over $lOO, approved enclotibed notes.

SUCCESSION OF TIM PRENCII CROWN.—II. is a
remarkable historical fact that for the last two centuries ( that
is since the accession of Louis XIV. in 1643) no French Kivg
has transmitted his Crown to his son. Loiiis XIV. and
Louis XV. were succeeded by their grandsons; and since the
death of Louis XVI, it is well known no son has succeeded his
father on the throne of France.
The Countess of Leicester, accompianied by her
son, the Earl, and the rest of her family, left London by the
Princess Victoria steam ship for Antwerp, which started yester-
day morning from the St. Katherine's Wharf, Tower.
lIOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, JULY 13.•---We
received reports from parts of this district on Monday last, being
fair day; many stated that no improvement was discernible,
but that generally the garoens were not looking so well again,
the cold nights at the beginning of the week having given there
a yellow sickly appearance, and that the bine is also much bat.
tered by the high winds Upon the whole the prospect of a
crop is by no means so favourable as last week, when the duty
was freely 12,0011
10., but now no one will go be-
yond ,
bale k eadmt
the late reduction in prices. 1841 's,
000
105 s. to 126 e., choice
such therey is more disposition to buy Hops at
ditto, 1355. ; 1839'5, 635. to 7as., choice ditto, 841. ; 1836-7's,
455. to 705., choice ditto, 755. Weighed on Saturday 55
pockets; during the week, I.
CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—Yesterday, at the Brent.
ford Petty Sessions, a mar., named Cha les Taylor, a labourer,
in the employ of Mr. Johnson, an extensive farmer, at Gun-
nersbury-plane, Ealing, appeared before the bench of Magis-
trates, to answer a summons for having cruelly beaten a
horse. it appeared that the defendant, while at plough,
driving
.two blind horses, was put out of
poor animals not turning the corner of the land
ploughed
to his satisfaction, when • he immediate' seized the plough-
fan, and with it struck the fore horseY
over the head with
great force. The foreman, who witnessed the rut, told him
if be repeated it, he would kick him off the premises, when
the defendant again struck the horse and Mr. Johnson being
unable to get rid of him,
Iris engagement being for the. year,
be caused him to be summoned. The defendant was fined 10s.,
and 75. 6d. costs.
Moujallard, the man who was condemned to death
by the Court of Assizes for the Vaucluse, for the murder of his
mistress, was executed on the 4th instant, in the market-place
of Carpentras. He died with courage and resignation, in the
presence of an immense congregation of the people.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
What would our Correspondent, " A Depositor," do with the
heavy new sovereigns ? Has he read the parable of the ten
pieces of money?

THE WEATHER.—NooN, JULY 15.
4')YAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-.STREET.
Thermometer—. 69 Highest 7O I Lowest
5.
Barometer 30.43.—Wind E.

HIGH NY ATEIt AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
\'orning 5) minutes after 6 1 Evening lO minutes atter 7.

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SUN OFFICE Three o' Clock:

Nothing could be kindlier, safer, or better, than the
spirit in which all parties in the 'Louse of Commons last
night—with a single individual exception—received Mr,
Humes motion for throwing open the Library of the
British Museam, the National tialLry, the Armoury and
Jewellery of the T. over et* London, Greenwich Hospital,
Westminster Abbey, and the other public edifices of the
4,,untry, to the publie. The sole dissintient was .Sir
INGLr, whom Mr. G. Ic.xtener well described as the
impersonation of st,w, holy, purblind, bead-dropping,
s nidaled. eerd-einctured, tonsured Monk of the middle
ages. Nu proloised brother of the .orders of Domfritc,
Flt-Asets of Assisium. or A tec;t-s-rtN, was ever, by con-
traction of ideas, fitter fur a cloister than the • Hon.
Member for the University of Oxford. Well does he
represent :its illuminated missals and other re-
cords of the piety and intelligence of the fourteenth
century. Could we for a moment regard him as an
un-
personation of the political opinions of the youth of Eng-
land there-educated, we would despair of the regenera-
tion of our country. But the debate in the House of
Commons last night assures us that we need entertain
he fear on that head. Mete vas no virtual opposition
matte to the motion on the part of the Government. !On
the 'contrary, all the Ministers pres Apt, the Pre-
mier among the rest, warmly supported it, and merely
recommended that it might be withdrawn, to allow the
authorities in charge of public buildings the merit of
throwing them open of their own mere motion, as other-
wise the Crown might be involved in disputes with per-
sons who might deny its right of interference, and even
s..t. that authority at defiance. The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer told the House that no mini could be more fully
convinced than he was of the importance of giving the
people free access to exhibitions which had a, tendency
to elevate their thoughts, improve their taste, and by
that means to humanize their minds. Great advantage
had resulted from throwing open the Parks on Sundays.
Ho scarcely ever allowed a Sunday to pass without
walking in the Parks, to enjoy the gratification
of seeing so Many of his fellow-subjects partaking
of a similar innocent recreation. If there was any
diferenee between his views and those of the lion.
Member for Montrose upon the motion, it was merely
of 11, technical nature. As regarded her 'Majesty's
Ministers, he declared that they were most anxious to
extend the means of enjoyment to the humbler classes,
end that they would lose no opportunity of endeavouring
to prevail upon the direetorsnl public establishments to

e the freest possible acres; to the people. sir 11.
p;:r.t. said that the greatest advantage would re'sult from
allwving the working classes to familiarize their minds
With our national monuments. It 'would. refine and im-
prove their minds, and not, only restrain them
from low vices, but affora ' a guarantee for the
stability of our Govevament Mid institutions.
With respect to the hi-gh charge's for admission,
argued tha:c they were necessary to
secure the respeetabi'My of. visitors ; but he under-
s ood that it was- not from the artisans, but the vulgar
rich that injury -was to 13e feared to public exhi-
The Earl of LINCOLN expressed senti-
ments equally liberal, and such was the unanimity
the House, upon the subject that the Hon. Member for
Montrose very prudently withdrew his motion. The
age of can is happily disappearing. Never within our
v4colleetion did the House of Commons manifest a better
feeling towards the pcuple, or a more earnest wish to
supply their intellectual wants than last night.

WAS

i;itions,

Though agreeing with Mr. Hum.: in many of his
plans for diminishing public expenditure, and rewarding
,'slicers of the army and navy, not according to their rank
in hie, but theiranerit, it has been our lot to differ with him
utt every occasion when he has grudged to these public
servants an ample reward fur their services. Last night
lie complained of the great number of Captains and
Lieutenants of the navy, and in adverting to one class-
said, "Of 2,000 Lieutenaws,, the average pericd
since they were last employed was fourteen years
nact seven months. What finances can sustain
this ?" The question was put with great naivete,
:6.ad must no doubt have excited a smile on the counte-
nances of Whigs as well as Tories, when it is known
that this enormous burden does not exceed 200,000/. per
annum, and that many of these brave men had risked
their lives for their country, and that every one of them
might be called upon to face the cannon's mouth for the
small:pay of 10s. a day. In times of peace there must
always be a great number Of_officers on half-pay, else
what would become of the country in a case of emer-
gency, and what patriots even could be expected to ex-
pose themselves to death, and their families to want,
for the- mere glory of defeating the enemy ? Let him
look at the hosts of civilians in every department with
salaries from 2001. to 1,0001. a year and upwards, who
run no risk, who enjoy long lives at ease, in public
-offices, and in the bosom of their families, and contrast their
happy condition with that of soldiers and sailors banished
from their country for years, and at the same time ex-
posed to every hardship and danger. Mr. HumE would
be much better employed if he would turn his attention
to the extravagance of our civil departMents, to
the enormous pay of the • higher clergy and
Bishops, with all the useless staff of cathedrals, and
exert his laudable industry in cutting down these estab-
lishments to make up the deficient pay of the army and
navy. We have to maintain forty Bishops and Arch-
bitihops, at an expense of more than half. a tuition ster-
ling a year, taking into account their perquisites and
patronage ; they would live more suitably to their calling
on the one-fifth of this enormous income, nay,
the Presbyterians say they might be dispensed with
altogether ; and could not a Member of Parlia-
ment. therefore, be better employed in devising
measures of economy for this overgrown Church system,
than in attempts to diminish the already too small in-
come of men to whom all look in the hour of danger ?
The people of this country arc anxious,to see patronage
properly distributed, but Mr. Hum; may rest satisfied
:that they will turn a deaf ear to any plans for lowering
the income. of the worst paid servants of the public.

"Ile French Journals of Wednesday have. beertre-
evived. We have quoted.ftona their latest intelligence
all the particulars of the distressing death of the late
Duke oT ORLEANS. They will be found in another part
cf The Sun.
BOURSE—Pm:L.!, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents 119 20... 119 25... 118 15—'118 50
4 per Cents 102 25... 102 25... 102 25... 102 25
3 per Cents 79 40... 79 40... 78 20... 78 60
Rakil:CCrtranae—
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1020 ..1020 ...1020 —lO2O
Belgian Fives 1840 lO-C, ... 10:111 ... 104 i ... 104
Neapolitan—
Roman
... lO4 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104
RAILWAY SHARES.

.„ • s6a
Strasburg to Bile 2lO

... 565
... 2W

... 565 ... 565

. 205

... 205

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

PARIS, JULY 14.
There is little to add to the melancholy intelligence
you yesterday
efloveyed to by express. The Royal
Family, as may be imagined, are in the greatest afflic-
tion, but the fortitude of the King,. on this trying occa-
sion is the admiration of every one. The poor Queen
is inconsolable. Neither of them went to :rest during
the whole

The remains of the late Duke are deposited in the
chapel at Ncuiily. Nothing is yet decided respecting
the funeral. All places of public amusement arc closed.

It is understood that next Sessiox a law will be in.
troducad respecting the Regency, which is not provided
for by the Charter.

The July Fetes will not take place this year.
'the Funds have fallen about 3 per cent. Three per
C2nti., 76f. 90c.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
lownox, Jut.ti 15.—Wind this lay at Noon, E.
DEAL, JILY 14 Wind, W.N.W. to S.W.—Sid. Am-
phitrite, Ap.eension ; Harriet, Cape.
PoaTsmour li, JULY 14.—Tne Confidence, Christianson, is
!•.s: at Alariom, the Captain has arrired here in the Aleyon,
Boman, from Mfriom to Stockholm.
LIVERPOOL, JULY I4.—Wind W.,' moderate.—Arrd. Bri-
tish King. Bonnyman, Georgians, Toole, arid'Edward Perkins.
'.New Orleans ; llibernia, New York, .sailed the 23d ;'of
Jnr.e ; Fortitude, Libby, Mobile. Sailed Bella Marina,-
Batavia ;
ifirminson, Bombay, Arrd..off, Magnet, Quebec.,
Canae;a, and Prince Albert.
D a.e, St. ÜBLlN,John's, New Brunswick3i JULY 12 .4.1:13 lek. .—Arrd. Ann and Halcyon,
KINGSTOWN, JULY
13.—Arrd. Wanderer, Jenkins, Trini-
dad Aurora, Martin, Quebec.
CORK. JULY" ,
Eclipse, Pietou. Arril..off, Nellune,
St. John's, Newfoundland.
Tv t4,--irklN..Arrd. Madras, Shield,
-
for China.. 161 d: her Majesty's ship Talbot, South America= •.1