The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-30 00:00:00

THE LINEN TRADE.

It is et ident from a conversation which took place in the
Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday last, 'that the French Go-
vernment will raise the duties on linen-yarns and linen manu-
factures by ordinance, within a few weeks from the present
time. We shall not pause to expose the folly of such a rrea-
suie, or to contrast it with the policy of the British Govern-
ment at the very same juncture ; but the following figures w.ll
prove, that in attacking the linen trade with Great Britain the
French Government is shutting up by far the most important
channel of commercial intercourse between the two countries.
That trade is of a very recent creation, for the duties were
raised to prohibition in 1826; they were, however, lowered in
1835 and 1836, and the result was as follows
Linen-yarns exported from the United Kingdom to France
lb. Value.
In 1E32 ........... 76 512 £ 6,516
1833
1834 ... 1,430,369 130,561
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840

Our whole export of linen-yarn to all countries (including
France) were in 1840, 17,733,5751 b. • consequently the por-
tion sent to France is more than two-thirds of our whole foreign
and colonial trade in that commodity.
The total declared value of British exports to France in 1840
was 2,378,149/. ; consequently the value of the linen-yarns ex-
ported amounts to mere than ono quarter of the value of the
whole export trade of this country with France.
Such is the extent of the evil—such is the enormous blow
about to be aimed at the commercial relations of the two
greatest countries in the world, in order to gratify the claims
of a few unruly constituencies in the north of France!

lONIAN BANK-(THIS DAY.)
A meeting of the Shareholders in this Company was held
this day at the Guildhall Coffee-house. Two of our reporters
attended the meeting, but they were informed that reporters
could not be admitted, consequently we are unable to give any
account of the proceedings.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
SUN,—The Funds completely recovered from the de-
pression of Saturday, and considerable buoyancy was
manifested in prices, although but little business was
done. Consols closed at 92i 94- for Money, and 93-k
for the Opening, 15th July ; Bank Stock, 167 168 ;
India Stock, 249 251 ; Bxchcquer Bills, old, 39 41 ; ad-
'te'rtised; 35 37, premium.
The Fokeign. Securities were firm. • Belgian Bonds,
102.103 ;, Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents., 521 ;
the Five per Cents., 101 10 ; Danish, 80i 81} ; and
Brazilian, 67 68.

The Share Market somewhat improved. London and
Birmingham left off at 179 181 ; Birmingham and Glou-
cester, 50 52 ; Great Western, 90 91 ; the Half Shares,
621 63+ ; South Western, 624 63,1- ;4:"Gesport, 611 621
North Midland, 65 67 ; the New Shares, 32 33 ; South
Eastern and Dover, 261 27+ ; the Scrip, 6* 7k; Eastern
Counties, 91 91 ; Blackwall, 11 ; the New Shares,
81 9 ; and Brighton, 35i 3.5*..
Tli,e Bonds were thus quoted :—Colombian, 26* 27* ;
Peruvian, 19 194- ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 38 38* ;
the Three per Cents., 221 23 ; Spanish Active, Five per
Cents., 22123 i ; and the Three per Cents., 23i 23*.

Fine green peas were exhibited in Exeter market
on Friday, at only 12s. per peck !
ANIERICAN PORK.—We understand that private
letters show the people of the United States to be greatly
pleased with that part. of Sir Robert Peel's tariff which allow s
of the introduction of salted provisions at moderate rates of
duty. Preparations are making to send large supplies of pork,
hams' &c., to this country, not only from the back states, but
from Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, &c., where the p;gs in
numerous herds run wild in the woods, and feed on acorns
and maize. From the habits of the animals and the food they
live upon their flesh is of superior flavour; and we may anti-
cipate a large importation at a moderate price. This will be
an advantage to both countries.—Leeds Mercur y.

THE PLANET MERCURY.—A favourAle opportu-
nity is now afforded for observing this rare and interesting
object. Being very near Venus (a little below it), it may rea-
dily be discovered on the western horizon by the naked eye
about 9 o'clock in the evening ; and by the help of an ordinary
telescope, steadily supported, a clear iew may be obtained.

It was rumoured on Saturday night, at the Opera,
that " the differences" between Signor Mario and the directors
of her Majesty's Theatre were in progress of amicable adjust-
ment. It is not. generally known that Mario is the scion of a
noble family in Piedmont, where his father was formerly Go-
vernor of Nice, and on terms of personal intimacy with many
of the English nobility who have sojourned in that city. Mario
was an officer in the Sardinian service, but he subsequently
determined to renounce the profession of arms, and make his
debut as a singer at the Theatre Italian at Paris, under his
present nuns de theatre, and it was after he had undergone the
ordeal of a Parisian debut that he was engaged by the late M.
Laporte for her Majesty's Theatre.
SIGNS or THE TimEs.—There are at this moment
more prisoners for debt from Brighton in Horsham gaol than
was ever known before.—firighton herald.

SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—A few days ago a fe-
male of the name of Isabella Birkett, a resident in Troutbeck,
died very suddenly. About two years ago she was seized with
a fit of apoplexy, which deprived her of her sight. A short
t me previous to her death she went to visit some relations in
the same dale, and on her entering the domicile of those re-
lations she observed, " Now lam coming to die among you."
Her sight was immediately restored so as to enable her to read
the Bible, but, alas ! the verification of her own words took
place, for she departed this life before the sun of that day sunk
below the western cloud. Isabella Birkett was for many years
previous to her apoplectic attack the shroud maker of the
township of Troutbeck, and for many miles round, and kept a
! punctual register of all the last sad offices in which she had
been engaged. She was often also consulted as to dates when
deaths had taken place, which she was able to give with great
I accuracy.—Westmorland Gazette.
A GAOLER REWARDED.—The King of Prussia,
says a letter from Berlin, 23d inst., has just conferred on Gen.
Sir Hudson Lowe the Order of the Red Eagle, first class.
A letter from Seville states that the cultivation of
the cotton-plant, which has been recently attempted in Anda-
lusia, promises to answer the most sanguine expectation.
A soldier, named Ambrosio dit Costa, was hung last
week et Lisbon, for the murder of a youth named Torres, ou
the Cintra-road last year. The murder was committed in the
evening; the young man was coming on an ass with his gun,
to rejoin his father at Cintra, and the latter having set out to
meet him, was the first person who discovered his dead body.
Plunder was the object, but the gun and a few coppers were all
that were taken, and the murder was discovered by the sale of
the gun. Two other persons hid been previously murdered by
the same man.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—This morning, before six
o'clock, Joseph Bolton, footman to the Hon. Admiral Thu-
verie, having passed the night out of his master's house, and
decidedly under the influence of drink, went into the room of
Louisa Palter (who is lady's maid in the family, and between
40 and 50 years of age), with a knife in his hand, and attempted
to cut her throat ; fortunately the incision was not so deep as
to compromise life, but she received some cuts under the chin,
and upon the shoulder and breast. She was asleep when at-
tacked, but her struggles were successful, and she happily
reached the female servants' room. Bolton then quitting the
room, went to the butler's chamber, told him what he had done,
and added, it was because she was always aggravating him ;
meaning thereby, it is presumed, she had either told her mis-
tress of some former acts of his mi,conduct, or had threatened
him she would do so. The Admiral and the household were
speedily alarmed, and a policeman was called in, and Bolton
sent in custody to the gaol. At the Magistrates' sitting to-day
at noon, he was remanded till Thursday next, that it may be
then ascertained in what state the wounded woman may be.
The man is about 24 years of age, and is a native of Devizes,
Wilts.—Hampshire Telegraph.
Alexander Johnstone, Esq., formerly of this city,
merchant, perpetrated suicide by cutting his throat, in Glas-
gow, on Thursday last. It is said that commercial reverses,
caused by placing confidence in a house in that city, led to this
disaster.—Limerick Reporter.

Monday a man named James Lougimane, care-
taker to the late Henry Cole Bowen, Esq., was murdered
within a short distance of Toomavara. in this county. A bullet
passed through his neck, and his head was shockingly mangled.
—Tipperary Free Press.
HAMBURGII, MAY 29.—The papers contains nu-
merous accounts of subscriptions and contributions for the
sufferers by the fire. Among them are 20,000 dollars from
the merchants at Magdeburg.-2At the instance of Mr. George
Delaval, the Royal Hanoverian Custom-House at Stade has
agreed to let all remittance of money, tents, and blankets from
London, for the sufferers at Hamburgh, pass free of duty.—
We learn from St. Petersburgh (May 16th) that besides the
50,000 silver roubles sent by the Emperor, a collection made by
the Duke of Leucbtenburg in the Imperial family, has pro-
duced 140,000 silver roubles.
TROOPS FOR INDIA.--The utmost activity prevails
in the military department of the Hon. Company in Leadenball-
street, in freighting ships for the conveyance of troops. The
large ship (general Kyd has been taken up, and is now fitting
out as a troop ship in the ducts, and will sail about the middle
of the next month, with 450 of the 84th and 29th regiments.
Tot' LON, Mn( 23.—Such serious differences have
arisen with the Bey of Tripoli and of Barbary, that. Rear-
Admiral Owen, commanding the British squadron in the
Nleditt.rranean, sent from Malta to Tripoli, on the 12th of this
month, the Howe, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Mason,
and the Thunderer, of the line, with the Savage brig. Eng-
land seems to demand the renal of Bey Askra Ali. For some
time past steam-boats have been constantly going backwards
and f•rwards between Malta, Tunis, and Tripoli.
BRussEt.s, MAY 21.—1 t is said that the King and
Queen will go in the course of next week to London.
A letter from illuslutu (Prussia), 12th May,
states :—" Prince Puckler, who has for some months hail in his
service the famous pedestrian Meusen, sent him off this morn-
ing fur Cairo, giving him letters of recommendation for several
persons of distinction. Meusen is to pass by Jerusalem. He
is charged by the Prince to discover the sources of the White
River, as well as to determine the real position of the moun-
tains called the Mountains of the oon, which, up to the pie-
sent time, have been considered fabulous by most persons.
Aleusen formerly took a journey from Calcutta to Europe,
through Affghanistan, Persia, and Syria, and did not meet with
the slightest accident. He can easily walk 20 German miles
(92 miles English) a-day, requiring for food only a loaf of
bread. He is to embarll on the Nile for Karthum, and, as the
pretended Mountains of the Aloon are, it they exist, only five
degrees of latitude from this place, he could reach them in four
days. Great hopes are entertained that his journey will be
clowned with success."

In the night of the 16th inst. the house and premises
of M. Rohart, at Rheims, took fire, and in less than half an
hour the main body of the buildings with its contents was
reduced to ashes, causing a loss estimated at 80,000 f. One
of the tenants of the house had in his apartments 15,000 f. in
bank-notes, which he was so fortunate as to save, though every
other part of his property was consumed.
A gentleman residing at Passy was, at few nights
ago, about ten o'clock, walking in his garden, when he heard a
rustling noise, which made him suspect there was some in-
truder. He made a minute search, but he could not discover
either any man or animal. Returning to the house, he went
up to his bed-chamber, the window of which looked into the
garden, and was open. After a time he heard sounds of dis-
tress from the grounds, and descending again, was led by,
them to a large cask sunk in the earth, for the purpose of
holding water. It was covered by a lid, which was down,
and hastened by a catch, which could only be withdrawn on
the outside. On undoing this, and raising the lid, out came
a youth 15 or 16 years of age, who at once acknowledged
that he had scaled the wall, in the hope of hind some-
thing worth stealing i 0 a pavilion at the bottom of the garden ;
but hearing some one moving, he concealed himself in the cask,
and the lid falling down upon him he was caught as
in a trap.
The hopeful youth was up to his shoulders in water, and nearly
stifled for want of air. He was secured, and the next morning
committed to the Prefecture of Police.