The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-19 00:00:00

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The returns of the average circulation of the kingdom, dur-
ing the four weeks ending on the sth instant, show a decrease
of 1,147,4961., of which 818,9841. is in England, 111,7731.
in Scotland, and 216,7391. in Ireland. The Bank of Eng-
land has contracted its issues by 508.0001., the difference be-
tween 1ti,891,000/, and 17,402,000/. ; the private banks by
223,069/., the difference between 5,299,455/. and 5,532,524/. ;
the joint stock banks by 77,9151., the difference between
2,990,980/. and 3,068,9011. The private and joint stock banks
in Scotland arc less by 111,7131., the difference between
2,811,1091. and 2,922,8821. In Ireland, the circulation of the
Royal Bank is less by 90,325/., the difference between
3,188,7501. and 3,279,075/. ; and the private and joint
stock banks by 126,414/., the difference between 2,407,625/.
and 2,534,039/. The circulation of England at present is
.tated to be 23,184,441/. ; of Scotland, 2,811,1091. ; and of
Ireland, 5,596,375/., being a total for the United Kingdo.n, of
33,591,9251.

7he amount of bullion in the Bank of England appears to
increase steadily, having been on the sth instant 6,281,0001.,
and on the same day of February 5,602,0001. The average
amount, according to these returns since July, 1841, has been
4,918,7501., the lowe3t point having been in November last,
when it fell to 4,218,0001.

PRiCES OP SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Claeltenhatr and Great Western. 72i lB . to

Eastern Counties
Lireat North of England ... ..... 90
Great Western
London anc Brighton
London and Blackwall
. .._.

London and Birmingham 90
Ditto New ...
London and South Western 3BL 594 to
London and Croydon (Trunk)... 131 134..... to
York and PJurth Midland... SO
Ditto N'w Shares ......- ..... 15 -
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National Provincial of England... 35
COURSE OF EXCIIANGE—(YESTERDAY.

Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibraltar . . .
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8i Genoa . 25 95
Antwerp - 31
1 lamburgh M. B. 13 15& Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 70 Palermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 95 !Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 0 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 152 !Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 !Buenos Ayres
Berlin-- ... ............ 7

Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 954
Trieste, ditto 9 56
Madrid

Cadiz ..
Bilbao..

36?
35i

Barcelona
Seville

Philadelphia - 46
rRICEE. OF BULLION, PER oz
Foreign Gold, bars.£3 17 9
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Portu-gal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0

!New Dollars... 0 4
!Silver in Bars 0 4 11i

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 17.-
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 9BA ;Grand Canal 5t0ck......... Stock..
.......
Ditto Reduced
Ditto New 1830.........1830.........984 Ditto 4 per cent
I3i per Cent. Debs. o1f Royal Canal Stock
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 18.—The market
was rather dull, and most descriptions of Stock were 'n litee
request. Some of each of the following Shares were sold at
the prices annexed. London and Birmingham Quarters, 36 ;
Great North of England, 84k, ex div.; Manchester and Leeds
Quarters, 4,i, ex div. ; Great Western, 91; Grand Junction
Quarters, 24.
Livntiroca COTTON MARKET, MARCH 18.—A fair amount
of business was done in cotton without any alteration in prices.
Four thousand bales were sold. Three hundred Sea Island
arc announced for public sale on Friday, and more will be
brought forward. The sales of the week are 23,390 bags, and
the quantity taken for home consumption between the Ist of
January, and the 13th of March, 1842, was 241,500 bags, and
in the same period of 1841 it was 243,500.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 17.—We have
had a very inactive market ; and although Stock is offered
more freely, very few transactions have taken place. North
Midlands, 70; Manchester and Birmingham, 28k.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

CHANCERY CO URT.-(THIS DAY

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE EARL OF STAMFORD.
The ht aring of this case was resumed, and continued
;hroughout the day. Mr. BETHELL replied at great length
for the plaintiffs.

VICE-CH! ANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Vice-Chancellor WionAar.)

LEEMING V. SHERRATT.

This case, which was part-heard yesterday, and continued
this morning, came before the Court en exceptions to the
Master's report.
The question in the cause turned upon the construction of a
will, the clause in dispute being as follows :—" I give to each
of my children, Joseph Francis, &c., 1,0001. each, to be paid
respectively on their attaining the age of twenty-one, except
such of them as are girls, in which case I order half to be
placed out at interest, and to be secured from the control of
any husband with whom they may intermarry, and the interest
in the mean time to be paid to them, and the principal to be
disposed of in such manner as they may direct to their issue;
but in case they die without issue, I give each principal among
the survivors of my children in equal proportions." The ques-
tion was, whether with respect to one of four surviving chil-
dren there. was a good executory bequest?

His Honour, it is expected, 'will take time to consider his
judgment.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.

LONDON, MA actt 19.—Wind this day at noon W.
RA3ISGATE, Mancit 18.—The Messenger, from Newcastle
to Bordeaux, has been assisted in here in a sinking state, having
been ashore on the South Foreland.

DEAL, MARCH 18.—Wind moderate.—Arrd. Lady Flora
Hastings, Brown, Bahia ; Briton and Diamond, westward;
Falsette, India. Arrd. from the River, Judith, Allan, for
China; John Bull, Bombay, Olive Branch, Sierra Leone,
D'Auvergne, Jamaica. Put back, the greater part of the out-
ward bound.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 18.—Wind W. N. W., fresh. —Arrd.
Sutherland, Frecman, China; Athol, Trossack, Bombay ;
Higginson, Hogg, sailed 10th December, and S. Helena, 29th
Jan. ; Tyrian, Jackson, and Hannah, Cork ; Sprague, Natchez;
Mars, Patterson, New Orleans ; Sterling, Savannah ; Morgiana,
Charleston ; Splendid, Mobile. Put back, Querida, Manilla;
llingdove, Trinidad.

1-)iars;rouTn, act! 18.—Wind W. to W.N. W., strong
and squally.—Her Majesty's steamer Heell, Baibadoes ; Sul.
livan, Charleston, for Hatnburgh. Put back, Northern Con-
ference, Bermuda.

TOKBAY.—Sarah Maria Ann, for Algoa Bay.
DARTMOUTH, MAKcit 18.—Put back Geneva, for Virginia.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 18.—Wind W., strong gales.—Arrd.
Hervine, London, for Mauritius.

FA Lsiourir, 114 A BCH 17.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W., fresh
gales and squally.- - Sld. Thames (steamer), Madeira, West
Mexico;lndies, Wilberforce, Trinidad. Arrd. off, Margaret,
Dixon, Demerara ; Carl Henrich, Monte Video, for Antwerp,
sailed Jan. 13 ; Celt, Crockett, Port-au- Prince, and proceeded for
Antwerp; Olinda, Pringle, Sierra Leone, sailed Ist ult., and
proceeded for London.
SCILLY' MARCH 15. —The Princess Victoria, Ellis, from
Cape Vecchia to Falmouth, has put in here leaky, and is dis-
charging.
l'oar TALBOT, MARCH 17.—The George, Tamplin, hence
,
to Bridgwater, reported to be lost near the Nass Point, has
arrived at her destination with loss of top.r.alt.
STROMNESS, MARCH 14.—The Jane Christie, \Vemyss,
from Leith to Australia, has put in here with loss of boat, bul-
warks, &c., having been struck by a sea.
YARMOUTH, Afaacri 18.—The Attalla, Storm, from Har-
tlepool to London, carried away foretop and maintop gallant-
mast, off the Dudgeon, and will proceed.

The Times gives the following useful and expressive hints to Sir
Robert Peel :—" Sir Robert Peel is a bold and honest man, and
has a strong majority at his back; but with all his ability, all kis
honesty, and all his present strength, if he goes on governing in
the spirit of his late speech on Mr. Duncombe's motion, he will do
much to shorten his tenure of power. The country will not go on
for ever taking things upon trust, while each new disclosure of the
intentions of Government discovers some new sacrifice and morti.
fication for their supporters, without opening the prospect of any
measure calculated to satisfy any influential party in the nation. It
is astonistaing that a Minister who throws himself upon the pa.
triotism of the people for an extraordinary effort of self.denial in
time of peace, and would have them receive from his hands the
most unpopular of all imposts, should venture, at the same time, to
declare himself in favour of a narrow and oligarchical policy of
encroachment upon their liberties. He came into office upon
the full tide of popular hope and enthusiasm ; and if that
tide shou'd desert him now, he will fail as signally as he
then succeeded. He has proposed a Corn law, which has been
accepted by the Conservative agricultural interest, namely us an
evil from which (since he proposes it; they see no way of escaping.
He still retains the votes of that body, but he has lost much of
their confidence. On the other hand, the same measure has fallen
very far short of the wishes of the commercial and manufacturing
bodies, and has been by them received with indifference, even
where it has not encountered oppo,ition. The table of the House
of Commons is loaded with petitions against it, while few have
been presented In its favour. The second act of Sir Robert
Peel's Administration has been to propose an income lax.
Such a measure, when viewed by itself, is calculated to
provoke nothing but opposition from every quarter. New taxes
are always unpopular; and this tax, from the inquisitorial nature
of the machinery by which it must be collected, is peculiarly dis-
tasteful to all the vast interests which depend upon manufactures,
commerce, and professional occupations, and has the additional
defect of taxing incomes of limited or precarious duration at an
equal rate with those which arc founded upon realized property--a
clear injustice, alone almost sufficient to insure the hostility of
those influential classes. The Minister who introduces such a
measure must have very strong claims upon their good-will, or
else must be prepared to find their influence falling more and more
into the scale of opposition."

The Herald expresses itself as follows on the subject of the in-
come tax :—" Sir Robert Peel's plan for collecting the proposed
income tax is now fully before the public. The machinery by
which it is proposed to be worked, is in the main, that which was
found to b?, so objectionable when the tax was formerly in exist-
ence, with some amendments, however, for the purpse of dimi-
nishing the inquisitorial objections in reference to the profit
of trade and professions. The powers intended to be taken
are, of course, most stringent, and though great efforts are ap-
parently to be made to preserve secresy, yet those powers
are apparently to be worked by the parties desiring con-
cealment; a person availing himself thereof will be compelled to
make sacrifices therefore ; this is clearly most objectionable. If
secresy be desirable, it ought to be attainable without any sacri-
fices ; and upon so hasty a perusal as we are able to give the de-
tails, the owners of landed and funded property seem much more
likely to be protected from the curiosity of their neighbours than
tradesmen, merchants, or professional persons. To allow all to
compound for the three years, for which period the tax is, in the
first instance, to be imposed, and so avoid any disclosures, will,

we fear, afford very inefficient means of escape from injurious
knowledge of their incomes for those persons who are most likely
to suffer.

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
The trade of Leeds, Bradford, and some parts of Yorkshire, is
improved. At Leicester prices are without alteration.
NAVA.I. AND IVIIMITA.Rit.

Twenty new powerful fire.engines have been ordered to be con.
structed for the use of her Majesty's dockyards by the Lords Corn.
missioners of the Admiralty. Nine have been completed, and sent
to NVoolwich dockyard to be proved.
Lieutenant-General Shrapnel, whose death we announced yes.
terday, was the oldest officer in the Royal Artillery. He was dis.
tinguished chiefly by his invention of the case shot, well known to
military men as a most destructive engine of war, and capable of
annihilating a whole regiment at once, called after him " Shrapnel
Shells." The discovery was considered of such importance, that
on its adoption by the service he received a pension of 1,200/. per
annum, in addition to the pay of the respective ranks in the army
he subsequently held. Be retired front active service as a general
officer on the 20th July, 1625.
LAW AND POLICE.

At the Maidstone Assizes yesterday Mi.s Neatly, residing with
her father near Margate, brought an action for breach of promise
of marriage against Mr. Ellis, son of a gentleman of fortune
living at Greenhithe. The damages were laid at 5,0001. The
Jury returned a verdict for 4001.
On Thursday, at York, Henry Noll was convicted of the murder
of his wife on the 27th of November, and sentenced to be exe-
cuted. It appeared that the parties had lived ery unhappily for
a number of years, and that the fatal deed had been committed in
a fit of jealousy. Seven of the Jury recommended him to mercy.
At Stafford, Smith Muchall was indicted for the manslaughter
of Samuel Jarvis, his groom, on the night of the 27th of February
last. It appeared that both the prisoner and the deceased had been
alarmed by the barking of a dog at a late hour, and believing rob-
bers were about the premise., the latter, unknown to his master,

stepped into the yard to ascertain the fact. His master, supposing
him to be a robber, fired at him with small shot, three of which
passed through the lungs, one of them dividing the pulmonay
artery, and causing immediate death. The prisoner pleaded Guilty,
and expressed great con aition, when Mr. Justice Creswell sentenced
him to be imprisoned for three months.

At the Northern Circuit, held at York, before Mr. Baron
Parke, on the 16th instant, an action of ejectment was tried, in
which the plaintiff; Mary Jackson, sought to recover the posses.
sion of property, amounting to between 30,0001 and 40,0001.,
which she claimed under the will of her late husband. The
defendant, Henry Jackson, was the testator's brother and heir-at.
law. The case turned upon the assumed informal execution of
the will, the identity of which, however, was unquestionable.
The testator had signed in the presence of only one of the wit-
nesses ; but the case appeared so clear and satisfactory, that the
Jury returned, "That the testator intended to acknowledge his
signature, though he had not done so ;" upon which an absolute
verdict was accordingly entered for the plaintiff.
LITERAXLY AND SCIENTIFIC.
At a late meetirg of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Mr. Payne
gave an account of his new patented process. His method fills up
the pores of timber with various substances, so as to render it almost
like stone, and perfectly incombustible.
SPOUTING,.

The Queen's hounds on Thursday had a good run from Bray.
wick, past Bisham Wood, Sir Gore Ouseley's park, and through
the woods to Beacontield; the deer gave a two hours' chase, and
was killed in a pond on Lord Boston's estate.

The Cottesmore hounds, the finest of the Earl of Lonsdale's
packs, are to be sold.

COURT-FASHION ALE.
The Duke of Wellington has a dinner party this evening at
Apsley.house.

Lord and Lady Stanley receive a distinguished circle at dinner
this evening in St. James's-square.
Lord Lyndhurst, as High Steward of the University of Cam.
bridge, gave a grand dinner yesterday in George-street, Hanover-
square, to the Vice-Chancellor, &c.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury gave a grand dinner
on Thursday, in Grosvenor-square.
Lady Francis Egerton gave a musical party on Thursday night,
in Belgrave-square.____

MISCELLANEOUS.
Lady George Hill, widow of the late Marquis of Downshire, died
last Monday, at her se..t in Ireland, leaving a youthful family of
four children.

The statute-book, to the present minute, contains an unrepcaled
ordinance of the lith Edward 111., sec. 3, commanding that no
man shall be served t dinner or supper with more than two courses,
txcept on great holidays (those specified), at which he may be
served with three.

M. Cherubini, the celebrated composer, who presided over the
Conservatoire de Musique ever since its foundation, during the
Republic, until 1840, died in Paris on Tuesday.
Heeren, the celebrated professor of Gottingen, has just died, in
his 82d year.

Sir Robert Peel, by his despotic conduct towards the silent and
sullen country gentlemen, whom he has crinpelled, much against
their inclination, to swallow the Corn-law Bill, has clearly brought
himself within the limits of the statute regarding cruelty to dunth
animals.

.
per Scinde, in his 20th year, Edward Darnley Hills,"
DIED—On the 11th of December near Seebee Up-
Gth
Regimert Bombay Niatie Infantry, the highly gifted and
much loved son of Edmund Halswell, Esq., of Gore Lodge,
Old Brompton. This talented and amiable young man was
killed by the natives whilst out sketching, and his untimely
fate will be long and deeply deplored by his afflicted family and
by a numerous circle of friends.