The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-24 00:00:00

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
CHATHAM.—For the last two drys the greatest activity has
prevailed in this garrison, in consequence of an order having
been received for an immediate emba:katien of troops for
India. This military movement is to fill up the vacancies that
have occurred in the different regiments of the line sta.-
tinned in the East. The detachments were inspected yes-
terday on parade, and the excellent appearance of the men
elicited general approbation from the Commandant, Sir Thomas,
Willshire. This morning the detachments marched from this
garrison for Gravesend, where they embarked at ten o'clock,
from the Ordnance-wharf, on board the ships Queen of :-
England and Duncan, and consisted of the following
corps, with their officers :--9th Regiment of Foot, 80 rank
and file, under the command of Captain Robinson, with En-
sign Siveright ; 31st Regiment, 30 rank and file, under the
command of Lieutenant Wilton, with Ens'gn Sparrow and
Ensign Robertson ; 50th Regiment, rank and tile, under
the command of Lieutenant Malony ; Lieutenant Grimes and
Lieutenant 111'Kenzie, making a total of eight officers and 150
men which proceeded by the ship Queen of England. Ibe 3d,
Regiment of Buffs, 61 rank and file, under the command of
Ensign Woods; 10th Regiment, 17 rank and file, under the
command of the above officer ; 13th Regiment, 91 rank and
file; 39th Regiment, 8 rank and file, under the command of
Ensign Head, with Ensign Burrows, 'Ensign Wade, and En-
sign Bradford, of the 13th Regiment ; 39th Regiment-, 51 rank
'command and file, under the of Captain • Strawbengen, with
Ensign Newport. Ensign Gaynor, and Ensign Bra—total,
228 men and 9 officers ; they proceeded by the ship Duncn'
The two vessels are bound for Bengal. Yesterday morning 150
rank and file of the East India Company's Infantry lett the
East India Company's depot at Brompton for Gravesen4
where they embarked on board the ship Harmony, to proceed
forthwith for Bombay. The men repeatedly cheered as they
marched through the streets of Chatham. On Tuesday
a company of the 79th left Chatham fur Harwich. On Tues-
day morning the Chatham division of the Royal Marines, :7
was inspected in their barrack-square by Major-General • ,
the Hon. G. P. Lygon, Inspector-General of Cavalry, and
who was attended by his Aide-de-Camp, Lord De Ros. The,
General having inspected the men oii the parade-ground
heavy marching order, they marched thence to Chatharn-liues,
where the men underwent a regular field-day. The revievr
was attended by several field officers from the garrison. The :.
number of Marines on the ground was about 500; the prineifi,
pal part of them are newly raised ; hut a finer body of men I
is impossible to bring together ; and the able and precise melt
' nor in which the whole of this useful corps went throngn
their military duty induced the Inspector-General to Ragstl •
F very high encomium on the officers and non- comtnission
officers of the division. An elegant dejeuner was afterward',
given to the officers of the Frederick
in the splendid mess-role
of the Royal Marines. Sir Frederick Smith, Sir Thomas Vine
shire, and many other officers, honoured the table. Major-Ge'
neral Lygon and his Noble Aide-de-Camp were prevented free/
: attending, being obliged to leave fur London immediately. •

THE LIGHT COINAGE. -
In consequence of the allusion made by the Right U "„'
the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commenee''
the 'Legality of refusing a sovereign or half-sovereign efr,
due weight, as fixed by the proclamation of May, 1821, sou,'i"
her Majesty's Royal proclamation of the 3d of June inst., e't'; ‘ e.
5 dwts. 24 grains per sovereign, and 2 dwts. 13i grains"
half-sovereign, and the penalty incurred by so doing, a .
tier of publicans and shopkeepers in different parts of the in
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tropolis have taken the timely hint. The labouring classe.
have been most grossly imposed upon by dealers of every c,if,
scription since the issuing of the proclamation, chargl ,1:
them is. to ls. 6d. discount in the sovereign, and 6d- ,
9d. in the half-sovereign, under the pretence that they "1.`"„ ..s
light. So great has been the competition among the bag"' e
dealers and Jews, that many new offer to take light s; --,
vereigns at 19s. 9d. if more than ten are changed oat
time. This has been the means of inducing a g,
number of persous to take their gold to the del& —l
sooner than to the Bank of England, which will not take it'
sums than 20/. In consequence of the impositions practise, E •'speculators on the ignorance of the working classes as to tAti
real weight that the gold ought to be, and makings e,,,
weights and scales not stamped, the Master of the Mint ro
deemed it necessary to issue the following notice to prevent rot
nefarious system :—" Caution to the Public.—Money Weig',,
—Whereas, by Act of Parliament of the 14th George 111., elle, ":
22, entitled 'An Act for regulating and Ascertaining to
Weights to be made use of in Weighing the Gold and Silyee, ‘:
Coin of the Kingdom,' it was amongst other things enact
to , •
that from and after the 31st of December, 1774, all weight:,
be made use of for weighing the gold and silver bu -''
of the realm, shall be regulated by the standard seeigie ' j
lodged in the custody of the officer appointed by his l'l ,
jesty for the stamping of weights at the Royal Mint, ..,11
stamped with the stamp or mark approved of by the titer, l
of the Mint, ' and from and after the said 31st of Decelnu ! ,
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1774, no other weights but such as shall be just and true *if; :9',..
cording to the weights with and by which they are berebev
directed to be compared and ascertained, and shall be to,,ltt'ils .1,
in manner before-mentioned, shall be reputed or accepted of .::
law to be true or of any effect fee determining the weight 0, "A
the gold or silver coin of the realm, and that all persons eon As
terfeiting or selling any such counterfeit weights, or who
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wilfully increase or diminish any weight after it • has 'lf I
stamped or marked in manner before-directed, subjects hills! .:,
to a penalty of 501., or, in default of payment, to three trientebe
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imprisonment. Pocket-balances intended to ascertain q,
weight of coin, which are constructed so as to be used 01
out weights stamped as before-mentioned, cannot be con,;
dered in law of any effect in determining the weight of e ii
neither can any person legally refuse coin as light except it 1
determined so by the aforesaid legal weights. All 1010,
weights stamped as appointed by the Master of the Mint he •
on one side his Majesty's crest (a crown surmounted b:O4
lien), with the words ' Royal Mint,' and the date 1821, 0
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on the other side the current weight of the denonaivatilo
the coin." The demand for silver at the Bank for the , ity:
week has been greater than ever known, and it is with difleu ',,
the public can procure it. :
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TUII.KEY. ~to. 4'
Constantinople, letter from Cistantinople, June 1, in the C 0,1410,
tionnel, says —' The following are the details Of
conference of May 27 :—Sir Stratford Canning,_ o', N
de Bourqueney, M. Titow, the Russian Charge d'Affistt;tA
M. Cleizl, who took the place of the Internuncio f,
Austria, and M. \Vaguer, the Charge d'Affltires of l'rfp ;
sia, accompanied each by his chief dragoman, ree.ti;
to the country house of the Minister of Foreign AO ili
The Sublime Porte was represented, independentlY 1 ::,,,
Salim Effendi, by Tahir Paeha, the Grand Admillldi,'
Arif Paella, the President of the Council ; Mll,ter '..
Effendi, the Chief Reporter ; and Savfet Effendi, Liroo
Interpreter of the Divan. The discussion was carriena
with much moderation, but both parties were constent,
,!
in open opposition. If the European representatives ,0
tempted to prove, by official reports received f':be ,•
their Consuls in Syria, that the population of id
Lebanon did not wish to have a Turkish Governor, and
were desirous of obeying only a native Prince, the roou.
kish Ministers denied the correctness of the inforres.tloo
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given, which they refuted by exhibiting declarat,lel
covered with Druse and Maronite signatures—ohtnl,,, 00, :
from the writers by violence or bribery—testifying,''
the general content of the population. If the Ant n 9
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dors attempted to alarm the Porte with the dank the
poe/
consequences which might proceed from a rising_ itio
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Lebanon, the Turkish Ministers replied, whilst 001"
them for their excellent advice, that they were Pre 4.‘"
to incur the whole responsibility. At last, after de,
hours' discussion, the representatives of the PowersA,
dared that the same reasons which had caused their lic 0
lective proceeding against the nomination of Omer 11110,0
still continuing to exist, they could only consider, re
actual state of Syria as provisional. Sarim Effenttila
plied, that if the measures taken by the Porte 0 11 ,0
ed
effect the object which the representatives pretend 00,
their only reason for proposing a Christian Flit of
viz., the pacification of Syria, the present ordecor
things ought to be considered as the best, and oel
sequently ought to be maintained. M. de Bourrie 00
then said, ' We may therefore write to our Goverll iiiltie
that the present position of Syria is permanent,- Tiger,
interpretation of their arguments forcing the "ii"ner, .
Ministers to declare themselves in a positive 01101
they were obliged to come back to the questien,,,,tb
they prayed the Representatives to wait a little 10,1rea
until the Turkish Commissioner, &Hill Bey, had Tilete
more ample information on the subject on whiee eCe
was so much open contradiction. Thus, the confe'e7b of,
terminated without either party having yielded alt i. 5 01,
ground. The next morning the chief intereretebeeo ,
the five Embassies met at the residence of M. tin!.'ca fa
Dragoman of France, where they were occurviSt .-
nearly five hours in drawing up an account of the i3O, P
Yesterday the Ministers met at M. de Bourquenelsbeee '`Therapia, where they held a conference amongo quer ,'
selves, which lasted till two in the morning. • notir OP'
tion, notwithstanding all this movement, has cot ,
vanccd a step, and our diplomatists at Pera have.. con'5
most ridiculous figure. They are to have anothel..,o :
ference soon, which may not be more fruitful in
than the first." ;-;
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The Memorial de Rouen,, in order to show c
jury done to the French linen trade by the 1,1 Notro'-
amount of the imports of English threads an floe
quotes the following as the imports received at the,. 00'
custom-house only :-In- the first five months 010,
the quantity of linen threads imported asnotin"— •-
1,235,000 kilogrammes, and, in the correspondinficlothl
of 1842, to 2,177,000 kils. The quantity of line od •°/,,••
in the five months of last year, was 7,440 kils-iae
, ori‘Pr ,'
the present year, 124,089 kils., so that, says the ''"e le.r'''•
• bin di eiefr
the quantity of thread has been doubled iivit -,tl ..,,
and that of cloths has been increased seventeel/01;traJi1.,.
The exports from the same port have, on the C f
,164.;
diminished, for, during the first five months °BOA.,',
the quantity of thread exported amounted tniogotr" ,
kils., whereas, in the present year, it has only a
to 1,880 kils. if °III'
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MURDER BY A MONK.—ROME, MAY ".". iiiou., is
the last few days art event of a very uncorrire'?ll.6o 01.-us,
produced a great agitation here. An ecclesiarnserif
Dominic° Abbo), a native of Genoa, Who ail been, eor.
longed to the order of the Dominicans, ha,. disorne'4
eluded from his convent in consequence of life, life, ;0,,
conduct. He afterwards lived a very irregnia eeteaolt'
gave great offence to his neighbours. Ile_ villed w;e.,
ill-temper and discontent on a nephew who
on 2 Oslo,
him, a boy of only thirteen years of age. VI. inir....t.
eluded manner in which Abbo lived, it ":9, it •tl4.
for the neighbours to prevent the almost dtlo'Yover, ce-a.
went of the boy. For some time past;_ll. Wog
usual cries of the youth had not been noe%ia he rce
inquiries were made ;respecting hiln,Abbol,fis-n end IP 0
dead. On the undertaker bringing'
the eetral Ito led
posing to strip the corpse (which ,ri c _blest
ebii
always done by. the undertakers), Abbo
formation et Iv
said he would do that himself. •On in ell. sedribe
being given to the police, the coffin was Pe, 4te.
_A to
body was found in a most cruelly mutilaita,etitto' nun the
number of wounds and stabs, it is said,
tribunal °r
the
ninety. Abbo is now brought before the
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Inquisition. There is no doubt that he '0.12: it is 'l7ot
punishment of death for his horrid publicly,condtet(L
derstood, however, lie will not he execut a Aff'
within the walls of the Inquisition. nod t° oh
The King of the French has Presei gold• 111, tit
valuah eebbs elgie
bearing the portrait of the King and Quee;
the reverse Madame Adelaide, the King'? Vo-01.4_,IPserre-
children, and round the edge the inscriptuAnt,oooo
bp:',Tpiled-
Roi a Monsieur Atkinson, 18422' s!r* both et %wog° '
viously the honour of dining with the King' ed•teritsorposelite.:
ries and the Chateau de Neuilly ; and thath iost•!eli with or;
at the latter place on the evening of the
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of the Queen and a numerous eirele, :,,,ur;es rend e.'—o I,oS6e'l
Majesty's graceful acknowledgment of eh ~.,,b,,,,y i ~ i
Atkinson, at the instance of the Frenlefroisero7,
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with a view to the improvement of the lift at
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