The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LoNnolc, WEDNESDAY EVENINC-r, MAN 25, 1842.

" Sir Robert exclaimed on Monday evening,' I wish we could
make a considerable reduction in the price of meat.' It might,
perhaps, have been not less patriotic to express a wish that the
means of consumption enjoyed by thy labouring classes might
be increased. The two wishes are by no means identical. A
lowered price of meat by no means involves increased means of
consumption by the labourers, to whom meat is now, in many
cases, a forbidden luxury. When Sir Robert Peel wishes that
he could makd a considerable reduction in the price of meat,'
he might, not unfairly, perhaps, be requested to specify in what
element in the price of meat he would desire to see the reduction
effected? Would Sir Robert rejoice to see the reduction in
price effected at the cost of the grazier ? The grazier gene-
rally loses by fattening stock. He is enabled to sustain that
loss, only in consequencenf the increased facilities for farming
which the fattening of stook places at his disposal.
" Would Sir Robert rejoice to see a reduction in the price of
meat effected at the expense of the labourers, to whom the
rearing and fattening of stock furnishes employment?
Scarcely—for Sir Robert laments the diminishing means of
consumption now at the disposal of the labouring classes? Or,
finally, would Sir Robert Peel rejoice to see a reduction in the
price of meat effected at the expense of the owners of land?
If so, then it might be well, if Sir R. Peel would inform the
landowners of England, that he deems the returns which they
now receive from their investments in the roil exhorbitant.
These returns may be equivalent to two and a half, per cent."
The Herald cursorily remarks, in a leading article on the
subject of the tariff:—" Mr. Miles professed an intense admi-
ration of the principle of Compensation which Sir Robert
Peel's commercial proposition offered for his compulsory aug-
mentation of public burdens ; but from such compensation he
was proposing to strike out the most important item. Cheap
coffee, butter, bread, and cheese, arc all very good things ;
but cheap meat is, we venture to think, a much better thing.
Sir R. I'ecl's Scotch correspondent thought cheapness of all sorts
of provisions—save herrings—very desirable. Mr. Miles opines
that dear meat is the only exception that ought to be made to a
general reduction in the cost of living. The shoemakersapprove of
every reduction save that of baots arid shoes. Major Beres-
ford's Channel clients loudly demand that the present prices of
cod and turbot be supported. The cork-cutters allege that it
is a monstrous injustice to lower the price of British cut
corks ; while some of Mr. G. Batikes constituents protest
against the freer admission of foreign stones. The same vice
runs through all these objections ; the interests of the con-
sumer is wholly overlooked that high prices may be maintained.
We shall be told that push this argument to its full extent,
and the Corn-law is indefensible ; but this is not so ; bread is
the basis of food, and its price the regulator of wages ; these
considerations remove the Corn-law from the application of
this principle ; low price of bread cannot compensate a people
for dependence ; but the same proposition cannot be predicated
of any other commodity."
zaop.pir--Tizamoz—corrOmnco.
The Emperor of Austria has issued an'order for the opening
of subscriptions in all the provinces of the empire in favour of
Hamburgh.

CX.r S X.EISTY.CAT.-
The question of a Church-rate was put to the vote at New-
port, in the Isle of Wight, on Thursday last. when the Anti-
church party gained the day by a majority of 70 over 61.
rx.brxi
In the City a Committee has been organized, with many in-
fluential names, for the purpose of presenting to the l'asha of
Egypt a gold medal, as a slight mark of their esteem for the
ready facilities to the conveyance of the mils to and from
India through his territory, notwithstanding the war. Lieut.
Waghorn, It N., is active in the business.
Ihe treasurers of 'all th 2 sea-ports in France have been au-
thorised by the French Minister of Marine to receive contri-
butions towards setting up the proposed monument to the late
Admiral D'Urville.

litTER.AILY 13. ND SCIENTIFIC.
A prize has just been awarded by the French Academy at
Paris, for the best eulogium on Pascal.
At the anniversary meeting of the Linnman Society, held
yesterday in Seho-square, the Council stated that, owing to
their purchase of the collections and library of Linnmus, pur-
chased by them of that great naturalist's executors in 1828,
amounting to 3,0001., a debt of 5001. still pressed upon them,
A sum of 6001. had already been collected by subscription, but
there were still outstanding debts tothe amount of 6071. 13s. 5d

cctl. tT-7-briksaxoNanzz.

_
The Duchess of Sutherland gave her grand fete at Stafford•
douse last night, and the whole suite of her magnificent apart-
ments, with the exception of three of the Duchess's private
rooms, were thrown open to the brilliant company. The sup-
per took place at one. There was a royal table hid for 20, m
the green library, with gold plate.
T.ll3aliTß XC
Rubini is expected to arrive in town in a fortnight, or three
weeks at the latest, to fulfil his engagement at the Italian Opera.
Ivanoff, the Russian tenor, is now singing
at the opera al
Bologna.

RUMOURS or 'run DAY.
It is reported that a new claimant to the honours of the
ancient barony of Chandos, of Sudeley, is about to appear.
The new aspirant claims as heir male of the body of Robert,
son of William, fourth son of the fourth lord. It has hitherto
been concluded, in the absence of direct evidence, that the
above-mentioned Robert Brydges died without male issue.

AWFUL AND HEARTRENDINU

SCENE.
• FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
CHESTERFIELD, MAY 2.l.—Yesterday evening the peace-
ful and romantic village of Ashover became the scene of one of
the most deplorable and heartrending tragedies that ever oc-
curred in this, or perhaps any other, country. Mr. Richard
Eaton, a gentleman in independent circumstances, about sixty
years of age, in loading his gun in the house, to go in pursuit
of a mad dog, accidentally shot his son, a youth about 16 or IS
years of age, and immediately after, in the phrensy of the
moment, took a pistol and shot himself through the head, and
fell dead upon the spot. The gun was loaded with slugs, and
its contents first struck the young man's arm, and, after pass-
ing in an oblique direction and shattering the bone, entered his
side. He of course instantly dropped, but he did not expire
till about seven o'clock this morning. On seeing his son fall,
the father was seized with an agony of grief, and exclaiming—
" My dear son ! What shall I do ? what shall I do ? M y dear,
dear son !"—he took a loaded pistol, rushed out into 'the gar-
den, applied the muzzle just below his right ear and fired, when
the bullet, after penetrating the head, passed out a little above
the left ear, causing instantaneous death. Inquests were this
day held over the bodies before Mr. Hutchinson, the Coroner
for the Hundred of Scarsdale, and verdicts returned to the
effect that the son was accidentally shot, and that the father
put an end to his own existence in a fit of phrensy consequent
upon the previous accident. Mr. Eaton was a gentleman very
highly respected by an extensive circle of acquaintances,
to whom his urbanity of manners and his known worth had
greatly endeared him. Hi 3 melancholy end will be a subject
of unfeigned grief to all who knew hint. He has left a wife
and dauqhter who resided with him at Ashover, and a son who
is in business in Nottingham. The younger son, who has lost
his life as above described, was also an apprentice with Mr.
Hicklin, the bookseller in that town, and had returned to
spend a few weeks at home, in consequence of indisposition.
What adds, if possible, to the deplorable character of this
sad catastrophe, is the circumstance that the elder son was to
have been. married this day, and the wedding party were to
have visited Ashover, in commencing their tour of pleasure,
and preparations were made to receive them, but, alas ! how
changed the scene !
Ashover is about six milesto the south-west of Chesterfield ;
Overton-hall, the seat of the late Sir Joseph Ranks, is within
about half a mile of the residence of poor Mr. Eaton. Mr. E.
was formerly Governor of the County Prison, Derby, and had
retired with a comfortable independency, and purchased a
pretty little property in Ashover, and was, as it were, the
leading man in the place.

Aglionby, H. A.
Aldam, William
Bodkin, J. J.
Bowring, Or.
Brotherton, J.
Browne, W.
Christie, W. D.
Cobden, Richard
Colebrooke, Sir T. E.
Crawford, W. S.
Dennistoun' J.
Duucombe, T. S.
Dundas, Admiral
easthope, Sir John
Elphinstone, Howard
Gibson, T. M.

.NORITY—AYES,
Humphery, J. . •
Johnstone, Alex.
Marshall, "W. •
Marsland, H. '
Martin. John
Mitcalfe, Henry
Muntz, G. F.
Napier, Sir Charles
Oswald, James
Parker, John
Pea ell, Captain
Philips, Mark
Protheroe, E.
Scholeflehl, J.
Scott, Robert
Smith, Benjamin

Acland, Sir Thomas
Ackers, James
Alford, Viscount
Allis, John Peter
Antrobus, Edmund
Arbuthnot, Hon. H.
Archbold, R.
_ _

JORITY-NOES,
Farnham, E. B.
Fellowes, Edward
Fitzroy, Captdiu
Flower, Sir James
Follett, Sir W. W.
Forster, Matthew
Fuller, A. E.
Gaskell, J. M.

Ashley, Load
Bagge, Wm.
Bantle, Colonel

Gill, Thomas
Gladstone, W. E.
Glynne, Sir S. R.
Godson, Richard
Gore, Montague
Gore, W. R. 0.
Gore, Robert
Goring, H. 1).
Goulburn, H.
Graham, Sir J.

Banke;, George
Baring, F. T.
Barnard, E. G.
Barrington., Lord
Beckett, William

Bert sford, Major
Blackburn, John 1.
Blackstorie, W. S.
Boctitin, W. H.
Bolden), Henry G.
%Meld, Beriah

Greens l, Peter

Grirnsdiich, T.

_
Hamilton, W. J.
Hamrden, Renn
Harcourt, G. G.
Hardinge, Sir H.
Hardy, John
Heatheo;e, G. J.
Heneagc, G. W.
Henley, J. W.
Hepburn, Sir T. B.
Herbert, Hon. S.
Hodgeon, F.
Hodgson, R.
Hogg, J.H.

Broadley, Henry
Broadwood, H.
Buck, Lewis W.
Buckley, Edmund
Buller, C.

Burrell, Sir C. M.
Burroughes, N. N.
Busfeild, W.
Campbell, Sif H.

Campbell, A.

Cardwell, Edward
Carew, H. S.
Cavendish, Hon. C.
Cavendish, Hon. G.
Cayley, E. S.
Chelsea, Viscount
Chetwode, Sir John
Chute, W. L.
Clayton, R. R.
Clements, Lord
Ciive, R. H.
Codrington, C. W.
Collett, W. ItiCkford
Colville, C. R.
_ _

Holmes, W. A'Courl
Hope, Charle;
ttnwirk, Lord
Jackson, J. D.

James, Sir Walter
Jeriuyn, Earl
Jocelyn, Viscount
Johnson, W. G.
Jones, T.
Kelburne, Lo d
Kerrison, Sir E.
Knatchbull, Sir E.
Labouchere, H.
Langston, J. H.
Lascelles, W. S.
Legh, George C.
Lemon, Sir C.
Lincoln, Earl of
Litton, E.

Loch, James

Lockhart, William
Lowther, J. H.
Lyall, George

Lygon, General
Mackenzie; Thomas
Macoeachy, F. A.
Mainwaring, T
Manners, Lord J.
Marsliam, Viscount
Marton, G. R. •
Mislertnan John
Meynell, H.•
Miles W.
Mitchell, T. A.
Morgan, Octavius
Morris, David
Morrison„Jaines
Mundy, E. Miller .

MR. W.S. O'BRI.
JORITY—AYES,
Greenall, Peter
Grimsditch, Thomas
Hamilton, W. J.
hainpden, Reim
Hardy, John
Hcneagc, G W.
Hepburn, Sir T. B.
Hervey, Lord A.
Hope, Hon. C.
Rowick, Viscount
Hume, Joseph
Huraphery, J.
Jackson, Sergeant
Jermyn, Lord%
Johnson, W. 0.1
Johnstone, A. •
Johnstone, Hope
Knatehbull, Sir
Lahotichore, H. '
Langston, J. H.
Lose, Hon. C. E.
Lemon, Sir C.
Lindsay, H. H.
Litton, &'ward
Lyall, George
MacKenzie, W. F.
M'Geachy, F. A.
Harsham, Viscount
Marsland, H
Martin, J.
Kistennan, John
Mitcalfe, Henry
Mitchell, 'l. A.
Morgan, Octavius
Napier, Sir Charles
Nicholl, J.
Norreys, Sir D. J,
Parker, John
Pechell, Captain
Peel, Hon. Sir R
Peel, Colonel J.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.(
..,.
CITY,- QUARTER TO THREE.
The English funds are quite without business, the priceq
are nominally, Consols 921 9'21 for Money, 921 for the present
Account, and 93 931 for the Opening, which is fixed for the
15th July ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 91i ; Three-and.a-
Half per Cents. Reduced, 99% 100%; Bank Stock, 167 ; India
Stock, '249 251; Exchequer Bills, old, 37 39, and the adver-
tised, 33 35 premium.
Foreign securities are as yesterday. Purchases have been
confined to the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., at 52%;
and the Five per Cents. 101%.
Mexican is quoted 361 P.
A fair extent of business has been done in Shares ; Edin.
burgh and Glasgow, 53% 531 ; New, 44.; York and North.
Midland, 931 ; North Midland, 66 ; Manchester and Leeds,
841; London and Birmingham, 179 180 r Great Western,
fifths, 94 ; Northern and Eastern, 431 ; Eastern Counties, 9;
South Eastern, scrip, 7%; and Brighton, 364.
The Bonds which are quoted are Portuguese New Bonds,
38 ; and the Three per Cents., 22%; and Peruvian, 19.
Business, as is usual on this day, is virtually suspended in
the City, and there are no foreign letters of recent date.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh and Glasgow ...~
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
London anc Brighton ... .. 50 ...... 36%..... to
London and Birmingham '4O . 179
Ditto % Shares
London and South Western 3B-1 634 to 64
Manchester and Leeds
Northern and Eastern
North Midland ...100
South Eastern and D0ver......... 50
Ditto Scrip 5 ...... 718 ... to
York and Narth Midland 5O 931.•. . to
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 71 Gibraltar . . ...... 46
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 7% Genoa , ... 25 95
Antwerp l2 7 ;Milan
Hamburgh M. B. 13 13% Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65
(Palermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 152% Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 364 Buenos. Ayres.
Berlin... 7 New York, 21days sight 46%
Vienna, effee. fl. 3M. 956 Philadelphia
Trieste, ditto ... 957 PRICES OF BULLION, PER 07.
Madrid ... 36% Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Cadiz 36% Portugal Gold Com ...3 17 5
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville ... 36 Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 lls
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 24.—The Market
was very steady, and the improvement noticed yesterday was
well maintained. The total sales amount to 6,000 bales, of
which 2,000 American were on speculation.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MAY 24.—There were few
sales effected in any description of stock, and the market was
dull and languid. Some trifling transactions took place on the
following Railway shares :—Eastern Counties, 101. I Is. "Bd. ;
Debentures, 4/. Bs. Bd. ; Ditto, New, li ; Grand Junction,
Old Quarters, 46 ; Great Western, Halves, 64%; Manchester
and Leeds, Quarters, 51 ; North Midland, Halves, 32% ;
Thirds, 211.55. 10d.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 24.—Our market
continues firm, with but little doing. The following have been
done to-day : --NI anchester and Birmingham, 273% ; Eastern
Counties (New), 41. 14,. 2d. ; Bank of Manchester, 41. Is. 3d.;
Rochdale Canals, 62 ex div.
CLOSING PRICES.
_ -
• BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 1671 India Stock pm
3 per Cent. Red. .. ...... 9111 Ditto Bonds • • pm
3 per Cent. Con. 92/ Ditto Old Annuities ...
31% per Cent. Red......... 100% Ditto New Annuities...
New 3% per Cent... ...... 101 b Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2%d 39 pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001...... 39 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small
Jan. 1860 ... ...... 12 7-16 Bank Stock fur Acct —
Oct. 1859 -
Jan. 181.0 124
,Consols for Acct ...... ... 92/
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent. ... '.--. Portuguese, 5 per cent. 65
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto 3B
Brazilian Bonds... — 'Prussian' 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. jßussian,s per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent 'Ditto, Metallic ...... . ....
Colombian, 6 per cent — 'Spanish, 5 per cent......
Ditto, 1824 27 !Ditto Deferred.... .
Danish, 3 per cent lFrench, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Greek, 182.5, 5 per cent — ;Exchange —f —c
Mexican, 5 per cent lFrench, 3 per cent. —f. —e.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 (Dutch, 21 per cent. 52,1
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 19 , Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 101 i
SHARES.
Bristol :.nd Exeter (70 paid) .. . ... .. 44%
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) 9
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) .....• ... 53%
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid..
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Birm n;ham (90) ...... .....
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 361
Ditto Thirds (32 paid) ••.
London and Greenwichßailwav (12/ 15s 4d pd) 5%
London and South Western (384 17s 9d pd) 634
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ......... .. 841
Northern and Eastern (45 paid) . 43%
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto New Shares (40 paid) ..• • 32
Ditto Thirds ( paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 29%
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)
York anti North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 93%

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House qf Commons.)
TUESDAY, NAY 24.
• CUSTOMS ACT
DIVISION ON AIR. VILLIER

'S MOTION.

Somerville, Sir W.
Stanstield, W. It
Strickland, Sir G.
Strutt, Edward
Tancred, H. W.
Thornely, Thomas
Troubridge, Sir T.
Ward,
Wawn, John T.
Williams, Wm.
Wood, Benjamin
Yorke, H. itedhead

TELLERS.
Villiers, Charles P.
Hume, Joseph

209.
Murray, C. R. S.
Neeld, John
Neville, Ralph
Newport, Vi count
Nichol!, J
O'Brien, A. Stafford
O'Brien, W. Smith
O'Connell, M. J.
Ogle, S. C. IL
Owen, Sir J.
Paget, Frederick
I'almer, R.
Palmer, a
Patten, John Wilson
Peel, Sir IL
Peel, Jonathan
Pigot, Sir R.
Polhill, F.
Pollock Sir
Price, Richard
Pringle, A.
Pusev, Philip
Rashleigh, William
Roid, Sir J. K.
Rice, E. B.
Richards, Richard
Rushbrooke, Colonel
Russell, Lord John
Sanderson, It.
Sandon Lord
Scarlett, Hon. R.
Scott, Hon. F.
Seale, Sir J.
t Seymour, Lord
Shaw, F.
Sheppard, Thomas
Sibthorp, Colonel
Smythe, Hon. G.
•Somerset, Lord G.
Somerton Viscount
Stanley, Lid
Stanley, W 0
Stewart, John
Stuart, W. Villiers
Stuart, H.
Sturt, H. C.
Tomline, George
Trollope, Sir John
'trotter, John
Tufnell, Henry
Turner, E
Tyrrell, Sir J.
Vernon, Granville
Vesey, Hon .T.
Vivian, C. C.
Vivian, J. H.
Vivian Hon. Captain
Whitmore, T. C.
Williams, I'. P.
Wodehouse, Edmond
Wood, C.
Wood, Colonel
Wood, Colonel T.
Worsley, Lord
Wyndham, Colonel
Yorke, Hon. E. T.
Young, John

TELLERS.
IV'reinantle. Sir 1.
Clerk, Sir G.

EN'S MOTION.
121.

Philips, M.
Polhill, Frederick
Pollock, Sir F.
Pringle, A.
Rashieigh, Wm.
Rice, E. B.
Round, C. G.

Rous, Captain •
Russell, Loid John
Seymour, Sir H.
Shaw, Frederick
Smith, R. Vernon
Somerset, Lord G.
Somerville, Sir W.
Stansfield, W. R. C
Stanton, W. H.
Stewart, John
Sutton, Hon. h. M
'ferment, J. L.
Thesiger, F.
Thornely, Thomas
Trench, Sir r.
Trotter, J.
Turner, Edmund
Villiers, Charles 2.
Vivian, John H.
Vivian, J. K
Ward, H. G. .
Wemyss, J. C.
Williams, W.
Wood, B.
Wood, C.
Wood, Colonel
Wood, Colonel T.
Wood, G. W.
Wortley, Hon. J. S.
Wyndham ,Colonel
Yorke, H. R.

TELLS RS.
Fremantle, Sir T.
Clerk, Sir George.

32.
Plumptre, J. P.
Pusey, P.
Rcade, W. M.
Smith, Abel
Stanley, Hon. W. 0.
Vcre, Sir C R.
Wodehouse, Hon. E.
Yorke, Hon. E. T.

TELLERS.
Miles, W.
O'Brien, W. S.