The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-16 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CUR° A ICLE.—Mr. Thornton, the Secretary of the
Committee of Spanish Bondholders, informs us that the
fifth drawing of the Deferred Stock took place at Madrid
on the 3d instant, when the following numbers were
drawn:—
Series A No. 4,507 to 5,257... 751Bondseachps.fr. 200
B 7,586 to 8,668...1,083 ••• 400
C 1,252 to 1,668... 417 ... 800
—D 669 to 1,002... 334 ... 1,200
—E 4,670 to 5,252... 583 ... 2,400
—F 4,113 to 4,625... 513 ... 4,800 1

3,681 Bonds, making toge-
t: ter ps. fr... 5,179,400
SUN.—The markets were all dull on Saturday, and with
scarcely any business going forward. This part of the week
is generally quiet, and has been rendered more so than
usual by the holidays. Money has been in great demand,
and difficult to be procured at four per cent. per annum.
Consols left off at 924 92- for Money, and 921 928 for
the Account. Bank Stock, 1674 1681; ; India Stock,
249 251, and Exchequer Bills, 39 41 prem.
Foreign Securities had but little doing there ; prices
were—Bel ian, 1015 1024 ; Dutch Two-and-a-nalf per
Cents., 52, 524 ; the Five per Cents., 100:1 1014 ;
Danish, 80. 815, and Brazilian, 67 68.
Mexican was comparatively quiet to-day at the quota-
tion of 371 375.
In the Share Market, those of the London and Bir-
mingham have been, 180 182 ; Birmingham and Glou-
cester, 53 55 ; Great Western, 925 935 ; the Balf-
Shares, 64 645 ; South Western, 63 64$ ; Gosport,
635 645 ; North Midland, 65 67 ; the New Shares,
324- 334 x; South Eastern and Dover, 295 30 ; the Scrip.
71-74. ; Eastern Counties, 95 95 ; Black wall, 115 11,i.
the -New Shares, 95 95 ; and Brighton, 365 365 per
share.

MARRIAGES IN HIGH Line—Viseeunt Emir],
eldest son of the Earl of Cawdor, will shortly lead to the
hymeneal altar Miss Sarah Mary Caven,%isli, se-cowl
daughter of the lion. Colonel Cavendish, chief equerry
to her Majesty. Miss Cavendish is one of the Maids
of Honour to the Queen, and a cousin of the Earl of
Burlington.
SUICIDE INDUCED BY THE Loss or A SOVEREIGN.
—On Saturday last, an inquest was held before Mr.
Payne, at the Blue Anchor, Coleman-street, City, on
the body of John Chapman, aged 27, of No. 6, White
Horse-yard. It appeared in evidence that the deceased
was a porter, and was on Thursday morning last em-
ployed by Mrs. Burrowos, of No. 7, Coleman-street, to
go to her tradesmen in the neighbourhood, and pur-
chase some articles for domestic use. He received a
sovereign to pay for them,- but he had not been gone
from the house many seconds before he returned and said
that he had lost it. Ile could not find it in his pockets,
and whilst looking about die pavement, in case he had
dropped it there, he met a friend and told him that he
(lid not know what to do, fur he had not enough money
to make up the sum, and his employers might think
that he had dishonestly appropriated the money to his
own wants. In about half an hour he was found hanging
by the neck, by means of a rope, to a rafter crossing the
ceiling. Ilis wife said that he had upon many occasions
threatened to destroy both her and himself. She thoul;ht
that his mind was sheeted ; particularly at the period of
every new moon. Verdict, e Temporar,r insanity."
11,1. TIIALBERG'S CONCERT.—On riday morning
Thalber6 gave a colleen in Willis's-rooms, whiclii,n(i)-1
course, attracted a crowded and most fashionable au=
dienee. The performer exhibted, as formerly, his
paralleled execution, and his feats elicited the usual de-
monstrations of adiniration and astonishment. M.
Thalberg performed a fantasia on airs in the &mom-
; variations on the second finale of Lucia di Lam-
mermoor; a new grand studio ; and a grand fantasia
on the introduction and Erst fina:e to Scmiruraide.
In all these pieces he displayed the powers which we
and fellow-critics hare already tasked ourselves to
describe. We heard it said that lie was improved
since his last visit ; and it may be so, though we were
unable to perceive it. Ile bad, as we thought, formerly
reached the acme of mechanical dexterity, and now. he
could do no more. We are very far from saying that
the merit of M. Thalberg's performance lies entirely, or
chiefly, in its mechanical dexterity. Ile plays with ex-
quisite expression, me finement, and effiTt ; but these are
not the qualities on which he reckons for his success.
They are qualities of which these-who applaud him most
furiously make no account whatever. lie plays a charm-
ing bit of melody with the utmost delicacy and beauty ;
it passes unnoticed. Ile puts on a twenty-finger power,
flies over the keys like lightning, and produces a com-
plication of sounds which were never before heard from
a single instrument, and s!raightivity the room is in a
tumult of apt-douse. This, we hale often. said, and we
any it again, is the abuse of (easie. It is time perversion
of the most captivating of the efts into an exhibition of
equal value to dm of tight-rope dancing. That M.
Thalbcre; is an artist of the highest. class, no one who
hears Min can doubt ; but we should like to sae him ex-
hibit a little more reeling of the dignity of his art.
From the best information received by the last mail
from Bamburgh the loss of the three principal fire-
offices in London are-300,0001 sterling, 200,000/.,
1.50,000/.—a sum much greater than was at first entici-
rated, hut which will be paid in the course of this week.
The losses of the Humburgh fire-office and the Prussian
fire-office in Hamburgh, are much heavier than the above.
A grand inspection or review, in honour of her
Majesty's birth-day, will take place on Thursday morn-
ing, at ten o'clock, on the parade in front of the Horse
Guards, of the household troops, in presence of his
Royal ightmeas Prince Albert, the Duke of Cambridge,
Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington,
Lord Hill, Lieut.-General Sir John Macdonald, Major-
General Brown, and other general and staff officers.
Upon Wednesday evening, the Rev. Mr. Fraser
of New York, so well known as the claimant of the estate
and title of Lovat, was waylaid on his road from Inches
House to Inverness, and most barbarously knocked
down. beaten, and bruised by two young men at present
Unknown. He was discovered sometime thereafter lying
insensible between two dykes, and immediately conveyed
to his lodgings, where instant medical aid was obtained;
but up to Thursday night, when we received the last
accounts, the Rev. Gentleman, we are sorry to say, was
in a very dangerous state.—Ross-shire Advertiser.
KINMEL PARK.--We have much pleasure in hav-
ing it in our power to announce that Lord Dinorben has
issued the necessary instructions for the rebuilding of
the mansion, &c., at Kinmel Park, partly destroyed by
fire. Workmen are employed in clearing the ground,
preparatory to the work being commenced, which we
understand will be immediately proceeded with.—Car-
?tureen litirald. _

The bonds of the insolvent States were nominally
quoted—Colombian, 26 26+; Portuguese Five per Cents.
374- 38 ; the Three per Cents. 221 23 ; Spanish Five
per Cents. 231 230 ; the Three per Cents. 22 23.
In comparing the returns of the circulation for the last
four weeks, with that for the four weeks previously,
notice cannot but be drawn to the large increase, upwards
of two millions, in the issue for this kingdom alone.
The payment of the dividends at the early part of the
month has, doubtless, to a certain extent, been the cause
of the increase; but the large excess, and the low rate
of interest fully prove that the complaints of the depres-
sion in trade are not without foundation. It was ex-
pected, some short time since, that business was about to
revive, but the accounts from all quarters now state that
the improvement was but temporary, and that it has re-
lapsed into its former condition. One circumstance,
which has tended to this state of affairs, is the agitation
occasioned by the introduction of the financial measures
now in progress, and as it appears certain that no altera-
tion of moment will be made, merchants, however much
they may disapprove of them, now express an anxiety
that they may be brought into operation, expecting, that
when such shall be the case, some change may take
place ; let it be as it may, it is to be hoped that mer-
cantile affairs have seen the worst.

THE INCOME-TAX.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—Amongst the numberless and varied questions
asked lately, respecting. the forthcoming obnoxious In-
come-tax, may I beg to inquire of you if it is the inten-
tion of Sir Robert Peel to tax those persons who this
year may not possess 1501. by way of income from
various causes, such as insolvency, losing their situa-
tions, &:c ?

Yours, respectfully, C. g.
[The tax is to be levied on the income of the previous
year, and any person, for instance, who had 1501 during
the year endingthe sth of April, 1842, will be liable to
it. whatever income he may possess in he year ending
April 5, 1843. If his income during the latter year
falls short of 150/., he, of course, will be exempted from
the tax for that year.]

An acilidn was brought, last week, at Agen, by M.
Bout, peputy for the department of Lot-et-Garonne,
against M. Casagne, responsible editor of the Memorial
Agena is, for certain articles which it had published
against him. M. Cassagne was condemned to pay
.5,000 f. damages, and insert the judgment in a thousand
copies of his journal.

D. DALTON'S STATUE.--The pedestal upon which
Sir Francis Chantrey's fine marble statue of Dr. Dalton is to be
permanently placed, arrived here from London on Thursday
last ; and in a few days it will probably be substituted for the
temporary one on which, in the entrance hall of the Royal In.
stitution, the statue has hitherto reposed. The pedestal, which
has been in the National Gallery, weighs upwards of two tons.
—Manchester Guardian.

We are happy to hear it reported, and credited by
those who have the honour and happiness of knowing her
Grace, that the Duchess of Sutherland intends giving a masque,
in which the splendid pageant of Thursday night will once more
figure in all its fairy enchantment. If, as we hope. her Grace
should fulfil her hospitable intention, the scenic effect will not,
we are sure, lose any of its attractions. We can also state, on
good authority, that it is the intention of his Grace the Duke of
Buccleuch to give a Fancy Dress Ball on a scale of extraordinary
magnificence.— Court Journal.

ATTACK BY BUCK-HOUNDS UPON A CHILD.—On
Friday morning, about ten o'clock, as one of the assist-
ants to Mr. Davis, the Queen's huntsman, was proceed.
ing to town, for the purpose of conveying a pack of
buck-hounds (fifteen couples) from the Royal Kennel at
Windsor, to the premises of Mr. Tattersall, in Grosve-
nor-place, preparatory to their being sent off to America,
while passing along the road near Hammersmith Broad-
way, a child, named Ann Stainson, about five years of
age, was run against by one of the couples and thrown
down, when the animals instantly attacked the child, one
fastening on her upper lip, and the other on the back of
her thigh. The huntsman, on hearing the child's cries,
instantly went to her rescue, and, in driving off the dogs,
was severely bitten by one of them in the hand. The
child is severely injured.
DESTRUCTIVE ZAIRE.—This morning'about half-past
two o'clock, a destructive fire broke out at the residence
of Mr. Firth, surgeon, No. 11, Suftblk-place, Lower-road,
Islington; in a very short time after the alarm was given,
several engines arrived, but a considerable time elapsed
before the progress of the flames was arrested. The
house of Mr. Firth was nearly destroyed, and a great
quantity of valuable furniture consumed. His loss IS
estimated at nearly 1,0001. The residence of Mr. .Paul
adjoining was also greatly damaged, and a considerable
portion of furniture destroyed. The parties are fortu-
nately insured.
The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel,
the Ocean Fife, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-
house at one o'clock yesterday, with the Dutch Mail.

13RIGTITON ELECTION.--A petition has been sent
to London against the return of Lord Alfred Hervey. It is
signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Roberts, Colonel Trickey, Mr.
bribery and treating
to have taken place to secure the return
of Lord Hervey.
Jolly, and the . principal supporters of the Liberals, and alleges
The Municipal Council of Dieppe has just conic to
a resolution to guarantee an interest of four per cent. to the
amount of 75,000 f. a year, fo. fifteen years, in favorr of the
0,500 first shares of 1,t1)0f., subscribed for a branch line from
Dieppe to the Rotten and Havre Railroad; and in the event
of the Government riot approving of this determination, it has
voted a premium of 40,000 f. a year in favour of the same sub-
scribers. The Mayor Was requested to solicit from the Govern-
ment advantages analogous to those granted to the Rouen and
Havre line.

We learn by a letter from Castel Sarrazin, in the
Tarn-et-Garonne, that, on the 4th inst., the river Garonne be-
came so swollen, that the extensive plain of Caste! Sarrazin was
completely overflowed, and the inhabitants of the houses upi*
it driven up to the roofs. The Alayor went out in a skit!,
with provisions for their relief. The current was so strong,
that several boats were driven with su, h violence aga!nst the
trees, that they were stove in and sunk.

PORTUGAL. EXI-ERIMENTS AT AVOOLWIuI4.
SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY AFTERNOON.—The Braganza 'WOOLWICH MAY 14 —CI tain Sir Thomas Hastings,
(steamer), Captain Lewis, arrived this morning fit ten of the Excellent germ( r.y-shipP, st:at'ioned' at Partsimiuth,
o'clock, from Lisbon, &c. She brought the following who has been pycsent at Woolwich, on the pert ot the
passengers :—From Gibraltar, Sir C. Smith thavee'esii:esig•- Admiralty, during thy; whole of the time the recent cx-
andad threeCadiz—Mr.
3, t
r.c children, Mr.
Gordon,l4/r....NGirr. oasnside.Marsn.dllAo lur;hlt.
nWi‘erele3nni.!
aopunelreirnhteftln.rotssidnianyt,thheael
tlSEraeoihite st.ioacr'e
rails idtvoaii havingl,.,(,r, eri arrived
unfevour-
Farand, Mr. and Mrs. Batt, and two servants Mr..
the
-en, and Miguel Garcia Salle ; Lisbon—Mr. and Mrs. morn' ing and forenoon,q caused the men to orderedsil dur''l
out
Miss E. Moon, and selrrant, Mr. Bonsell, Mr. lat half-past one o'clock for practice newinst the repro-
E. Moon, . Mr. T. Maxwell 1, Mr. S. J. Kendall, and sentation of a ship's side and coal-bOx for protecting
T. B. Cord wee., ee
Castro, Mr. J. Wige:ey, steam-engines on beard vessels. of war. Fortunately, the
ani(l.l. MGras.liraioJeY kseN anb weather became more favourable in the afieynoon, and
Her Majesty's shlptsf the line„ Induseand Lynx schooner, the following members of the Select Comtnittee ap-
and a French corvette,
were et 1„,:,on on the departure pointed by the Board of Ordnance, attended. Colonel
of the Braganza. At Cadiz waysFre.i:"b brig of war ; Coeburn Colonel Lacy, Lieutenant-C..11()cl Dansiese
at Gibraltar, her Majesty's ship FaeatiealabLe, Belvedere, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Dundes, rte I Lieutennat-
(frigate), and Lizard (steamer), a Frew* tean-of-war, Colonel Chalmer.
and the United States frigate Brandywine. Lieutenant-Colonel Dundas conducted the practice Of
The Braganza brought home seven packages or Teeie. the 68-pender gun,. weighing 110 cwt., cast. h ~111 r pat-
Captein Lewis reports that in passing the bhingles tern of his own, and Lieutenant-Colonel Cleiln.'r
there was a veeeel ashore, which he supposed to he dueled the practice of Mr. Monk's 56-poulidei gun,
either a revenue utter, or one of her Majesty's dock- weighing 97 cwt. Major Hardinge, K. 11., brotilei
to
yard lighters ; but lie fieuld not get near enough to Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Ilardinee, K.C.8., Sees "-
render assistance. It was getie.e calm. She got,ashore tary at War, with Lieutenant Pack, had charge at the
in consequence of a thick fog pfeeeiling. butt, and by the promptness with which the Major
The Tay mail steamer will sail for MeWest Indies to- availed himself of the ships clearing the ramie, some
morrow. She will not take out many passelteers. excellent practice took place. Captain Sir Thomas
Übe Great Liverpool, from Alexandria, now tit the Hastings on this occasion remained nt erly the whole of
liotherbank, will be released from quarantine to-morfew. the time with Major Hardinge at the butt,. and was so
LisnoN, MAY 9.—The Portuguese firm of Lima satisfied with the practice of the 5:3-pounder gun that it
Sampaio tailed last week, at Oporto, for the large sum was ordered to discontinue firing after the twenty-fourth
of 900 contos, or upwards of 200,000/. As usual, in such round. Several of the 56-pounder shot entered tilt:
cases, the declaration of suspension of payments was coal box and caused great destruction, and although.
accompanied with an assurance that the assets were they did not pass through they tore the joinings from
quite sufficient to cover the liabilittele The bankrupt et the bottom to within about two feet of the top. Two
once gave up to his creditors 2,000 pipes see Port wine of mare rounds were fired from the 68-pounder, one of
the best quality, and likewise surrendered Ise them his Which rent the joinings at the east end of the coal
estates in the province of Minho. The wine will gv but box from the bottom to within about three inches
a very little way towards satisfying their demands ; and of the top, and a great quantity of the coals fell out.
although his landed property is said to be extensive, it is The experiments with these guns, which were made
not at all likely that it will be found sufficient to make at the long range of 1,250 yards, having been con-
up the deficiency, particularly considering that the stag- eluded, General Millar's ten-inch gun commenced
nation of the wine trade, which has been the cause of his practice, having been previously placed at a range of
misfortune; cannot fail to have greatly lowered the value 900 yards. The firing from this gun with shells was the
of such property, consisting as it does altogether of best that could have been witnessed. The first shell
vineyards. This event, by increasing the distress already entered the centre of the bull's eye, het did not explode,
so severely felt throughout the Pert wine-growing 6:s- probably from the action of the loose
cools through
trict, ought to stimulate the Government to conclude the which it passed extinguishing the igniting composition
commercial treaty with England, by means of which before it could communicate with the contents of the
alone that distress can be removed. shell. The second shell entered within about two feet
The Queen is understood to have agreed to nominate of the bull's-eye, and did not explode, probably from the
twenty-eight Peers, the majority of which are from the same cause as in the former case. The third shell en-
Chartist party, though a few Septembrists and some ex- tered about limey the same distance from the bull's-eye
Miguelites are among the number. The decree has not as the second, only nearer the ground, and in six sec ones
yet been published ibut the following are understood to exploded, throwing up into the air a flame of ignited
have been certainly nominated :—Marquis of Vienna, small coals to a height of upwards or thirty feet, forming
Marquis das Minas, Counts das Antes, Bomfim, Santa a grand and imposing spectacle, and scattering fragments
Maria, and Teresa (Jose) ; Viscounts Beira, Oliveira, of the shell, wood, and coals, to a distance of 200 yards
Semadaes, and Bertandos ; Baron Tojal, Villa Pouca, in all directions ; nail tine scene at the moment reminded
and Almeidinha ; Senhors Aguilar, Pessanha, Hen- Major Harding() of the blowing up of a moderate-sized
riques, Soares, J. da Silva Carvalho, Antonio de Sal- tower erected to protect a !midge over the Vavasour,
daubs, OzoHo, Vas Preto, and Trigueiros. The Mar- when the British armies were about to cross that river,
quez das Minas, D. Bras da.- Silveira, was married yes- and by a singelur coincidence Lieutenant-Col. Dansey,
terday to a daughter of the Duke of Palmella. who was present when the tower was blown up, was close
The British Government, it is well known, has from to Major Hardinge when the explosion of the real-box
the very outset made it a condition for the formation of was effected in the marshes. A tburth shell wins fired,
any new commercial treaty with this country, that there but it entered and exploded in the butt.
should not be on this side any monopoly affecting the The experiments were resumed at one o'clock on
export trade ; and if that of Portugal, pretending to re- Friday, the practice being with 10 inch shells from Ge-
gard the representation in question as the expression of neral slil!ar's gun, removed back to its former station, a
a wide-spread feeling, should evince a disposition to distance of 1,250 yards. The interest which the experi-
adopt the measure recommended in it, the negotiations tnents created caused a great number of officers to at-
will be broken off ; or, at all events, a fresh theme of tend, amongst whom were the following :—Major-Ge•
discussion will be started, which will serve the required neral Sir H. D. Ross, K.C.8., reputy-Adjutant-Gene-
purpose of further delay. rap Colonel Cockburn, Colonel Paterson. Oolonel Lacer,
I have nothing new to say respecting the approaching Colonel B. June?, Colonel J. E. Jones, Lieutenant-Colo-
elections, further than that the opposition papers are al- nel Dansey, Lieutenant- Coloeel Dundas, Lieutenant-
ready beginning to acknowledge, indirectly, that the Colonel Cealmer, Lieutenan:--Colonel Belson, Major
Government is likely to have every thing its own way. Hardinge, Major Hope, Ilijor Anderson, Captains
The Queen has issued two decrees regarding the Strangweys, Palliser, and For',es, of the Royal Artillery,
island of Madeira, by the first of which American eagle., and Colonel Sir George Charles Hoete, C. 8., and Bri-
and dollars are to be legally current in that island, at gade-Major Sandham, of the Royal Engineers. Captain
the rate of 1,003 reis per dollar, and English sovereigns Sir Thomas Hastings was ale° present on the occasion.
and silver coin, which were already current there at the Af.er continuing the practice with shells for some
rate of 4,600 reis pet sovereign, are now to be raised to time without doing much injury at that distant range,
that of 4,800 reis per sovereign. By the second decree although the firing was very good, considering the ob-
rice, the produce of Asia, is rendered admissible there, structions by vessels passing on the river, it was ro-
under whatever flag and from whatever place impartei solved to fire the red-hot shot 32-pounders at a range
of 800 yards. The first of these entered at the bottom
of the coal-box nearly perpendicular with the bull's-eye,
and set fire to tine wood-work, which continued to burn
slowly along with the ignited coals.
The second red-hot shot entered about three feet from
the bull's eye, and so lodgetl amongst the coals, that it
was fully a quarter of an hour before the smoke of the
ignited coals could make its way through the hole where
the shot cktered, and at the top of the box, but it after-
wardscorapidlynsun(the a
ascendancy,l
the
sire
bneaelid
put"•o outi d b. a
have
hadn
not
party of men with the fire engine. The experiments
li
consumed
concluded by firing an eight-inch shell from a battery at
a distance of 930 yards, and it struck in a horizontal
line with the bull's eye, tearing the eastern side of the
coal-box, and explodine. when it ieached the back part
of the box, scattering time coals, fragtwnts of shell, and
wood, to a considerable distance