The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-28 00:00:00

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, July 27.

Petitions, demurrers, and further directions, of no
general interest, occupied his Honour the Vice-Chancellor
of England the whole day.

INS 0 IVENTDEB TOR' S COURT, Julg 27

'1 he Court was occupied during the day in hearing
bail cases, of which there were thirteen town and three
country applications. No point of general interest was
elicited in any of the hearings.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
THE WESTMINSTER LOAN COMPANY.

Sir Peter Laurie was engaged upwards of two hours
in investigating the charges against the above Company.
The Court was crowded by persons who lent them
money, many having lost their last shilling.
Sir BETER desired the parties present to put down
their names, and the amount due to them, which they
did in the private room.
It was ultimately agreed that the matter should stand
over until next week.

Several of the parties have expressed their determina-
tion to commence criminal proceedings against the Com-
pany, in the event of not getting then• money.
BOW-STREET.

The cases which came before the Court this morning
were not of an interesting character.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Edward Kelly, a lusty, powerful Irishman, and Susan,
his wife, young woman of exceeding stature, were
charged with committing a violent assault upon Police-
constable No. 109 of the P division, in the execution of

party was traced further on the road, and ultimately taken up
and committed to take their trial ; but no money was then
found on either of them. The Gratd Jury, however, ignored
the bill against the two men; and the case was now gone into
as against the woman alone.
Mr. PALMER having addreised the Jury,
The Learned JUDGE left it to them to say whether the pro-
secutor was mistaken when he swore, as he did must stoutly, to
his knowledge of the prisoner's person.
Guilty—Nine months' imprisonment.

WESTERN CIRCUIT—Exeter, July 25.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice
-RESSWELL. )
William Lazarus and Philip Ewings were indicted for
breaking and entering the house of the Rev. W. Timothy
Napleton, at Stoke Canon, in this city, and stealing therefrom
a quantity of plate.
The only fact in this case at all of public interest is, that no
evidence could be given in what way the prisoners had entered
the house. The prosecutor's two servants proved the locking
up the house at night, and that a back door leading into the
garden was found open in the morning when the robbery was
discovered. This door had been bolted, and the witnesses
stated that it was impossible it could have been opened on the
outside. The prisoners, therefore, must have secreted them-
selves in the day-time in the house, .r they must have had an
accomplice there.
From the failure of evidence as to the mode of their entrance,
and as there was no second count charging them with breaking
out cf the house, they were acquitted of the burglary, but
found Guilty of stealing from the dwelling-house.
Though only 21 and 16 years of age, there were three other
indictments against them. Sentence was therefore deferred.
WITNESSES TO THE CHARACTER OF A PRISONER.—In
the course of this day, after a prisoner had been convicted, her
counsel on her behalf tendered to the Learned Judge a certifi-
cate of her previous good character.
His LORDSHIP refused to receive it, and said, " I shall
always refuse a certificate of this sort. If any one knows
enough of a prisoner to think it proper that he should receive
a good character,. it is a public duty that such person should
come forward and state it in open Court. In my short expe-
rience en the Bench I have remarked with great pain the man-
ner in wh;ch even respectable people venture to give prisoners
a character, and that too on their oath. A slighter sentence is
passed in consequence, and then rumours sometimes reach us,
and which are afterwards confirmed beyond doubt, that the par-
ties were as bad characters as they well could be. This is a
great evil, not only with regard to the false evidence given by
these parties on their oath, but also that it seems to take away
the effect of a good character when it is properly and truly
given."

his duty. • •
It appeared that about half-past eight :on Tuesday
evening, the prisoner and another woman were quarrel-
ing together, and causing a great disturbance in Dudley-
court, High-street, St. Giles's, a place where fights
and rows occur several times a day ; and on the com-
plainant 'interfering to preserve the peace, both the
Prisoners commenced a furious attack upon him, got him
down, and then beat and kicked him in a brutal manner
about the head, face,- and body, until he became appa-
rently lifeless. Others of the force having arrived, the
prisoners were secured after a desperate resistance, in
which they struck and kicked several of the constables.
They were fined 50s. each, or in default, six weeks'
imprisonment and to hard labour in the House of Correc- ,
tion, Cold Bath- fields.
The, LATE WHOLESALE ROBBERY.—Yesterday Ri-
chard _Manley, alias Hanley. alias Davies, alias Under-
wood, .Enoch Word, and Sarah Ann Hunt, alias Good,
who were on Wednesday last committed on six separate
charges of felony, but who were brought up again in
order that other charges might be substantiated against
them, were placed at the bar.
Since the committal of the prisoners a number of ether
cases have been preferred against them, and a host of
fresh prosecutors were in attendance.
Several witnesses were examined, and described the
wav in which they had been deceived and robbed by the
prisoners, but the statements were without interest to
any but the unfortunate prosecutors.
Mr. MALTBY, after the examination, said he had made
a calculation, and found the amount of property already
proved to be stolen was 2,3041.
The prisoners were then fully committed on these ad-
ditional charges, but were ordered to be brought up
again next Monday week, as it is expected, that in the
interim, more of tha stolen property remaining in the
hands of the police will be owned. The value of the
whole of it was at first estimated at upwards of 1,000/.
Mr. Clarkson appeared for Giftbrd, and Mr. Phillips
for Hunt, and an application was made by them to Mr.
Maltby to order to be given up property found upon
Gifford and Hunt at the time of their apprehension ;
viz., upwards of 100 sovereign, and receipts tor 700/ de-
posited by them in the Westminster Bank.
Mr. MALTBY said it might be the proceeds of the rob-
beries that had been committed, and therefore he should
leave it for the Sheriffs at the trial to dispose of.
_ QUEEN-SQUARE.

tVIONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 8:} per
millet which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10-lid.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25
36k., and the exchange at Paris on London at short
being 25 474., it follows that gold is 0.44 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4311
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10d.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 81,
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 10, it follows that gold is 0.80 per cent. dearer
in London than in Hamburgh.
By the official returns published by the Customs the
export of the precious metals to foreign and colonial
parts for the week ending Thursday last, was as under:—
Ounces.
Silver coin to Ceylon
Silver bars to Hamburgh
Silver coin to Mauritius
The report mentioned in the Times the other day,
that the West India Steam Packet Company design to
have one packet per month instead of two, now obtains
general credence, and has created much excitement
among the merchants, who are resolved to use every
effort to prevent the object from being accomplished.
The new Mexican tariff, a copy of which has lately
been received, contains some items which promise to be
of material benefit to the manufactures of this country,
and show the decided steps towards more liberal com-
mercial views which have been 'taken by Santa Anna.
The descriptions of linens which formerly paid 14 cents*
the square yard are now reduced to 11, while others
which paid 12,?-t are reduced to 9 and 10. Stockings for
adults of all descriptions have undergone the reduction
to one dollar 25 cents. the dozen, from two dollars 25
cents., while handkerchiefs, which used to pay 124 cents.
a piece, are reduced respectively to 6 and 10 cents., ac-
cordingly as they are dyed or not. These facts, it is to
be hoped. will give additional encouragement to our
ade, which seems to be generally reviving.

Augustus Such appeared upon a summons charging
him with using language of a threatening character to-
wards the Rev. Daniel Nihil, the Governor and Chaplain
of the General Penitentiary.
The defendant was formerly a wardsman in the Peni-
tentiary, and was discharged for some impropriety of
conduct. It may be recollected that in February last
the defendant was charged at this court with severely
horsewhipping the Rev. Mr. Nihil, in Milbank-street,
and he then said his motive for acting in so violent a
manner was, that Mr. Nihil had, after he had left the Peni-
tentiary and obtained a situation at a county gaol, written
to the Governor, and stated such things that the Go-
vernor, with whom he had been an especial favourite,
had turned his back upon him, and rendered his situation
so uncomfortable, that he was compelled to resign it.
It appeared from the evidence adduced, that he had,
within the last few days, threatened " to do for " Mr.
Nihil ; and on information to that effect being conveyed
to the Governor, the present proceedings were instituted.
After some witnesses had been examined, the prisoner
offered to make to make an ample apology, and engaged
never to do the Rev. Gentleman the slightest injury.
_ _

THE COLLIERS' STRIKE.
( FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES, LONGTON, TUESDAY.
With great pleasure I write to inform you that an amicable
adjustment of the colliers' grievances has just been effected with
a large firm, and which will have its full weight on others.
The Broadsfield Colliery Company, Alderman Copeland, Philip
Barnes Broade (lord of Fenton Manor, and a Magistrate), and
William Baker, Esqrs., have arranged with their men, who
commence work to-morrow morning, under the almost unani-
mous accordance of the whole• body of colliers present at this
meeting. The terms are these—there will no longer be any
boot•-colliers, to take much of what the men earn, without
sharing the labour and danger ; each man is to be paid 4s. 3d.
per day, for nine hours work, but not to have his burn (burthen
of) coal for house fuel; the regular (former) customers to be
served only ; and their workmen, with the employed colliers,
to contribute to the support of the men whose employers are
non-contents. A diversion in favour of the old system was
tried, but failed ; and the tearful eyes of some of the booty-
colliers present plainly showed they felt " Othello's occupation's
gone."—Yours, S. S.
This morning some military were marched into Tunstall, to
be present lest anything might occur to interfere with the men
who were to resume work at Golden Hill and Kidsgrove. On
Wednesday a general meeting will take place at Tunstall, rela-
tive to the Pinnox, and Botany Bay ,and Greenfield,and Clanw ay
colliers resuming work, on the terms of Messrs. Copeland,
Broade, Baker, and Company. I understand this minute that
Messrs. John and William Ridgway have agreed on these terms
with their Übberley colliers.

Mr. Nihil left the ease to the Magistate.
:Nit.. GREGORIE, after animadverting upon the conduct
of the defendant, whom he described as a young man
possessing au exceedingly irascible and dangerous tem
per, ordered him to find bail, himself in 2001. and two
surieties in 1001. each, to keep the peace for two years,
and to give twenty-four hours notice of bail.
Defendant was taken to Tothill-fields Bridewell.
KINGS 7ON POLICE COURT.

WAGES OF FARM SERVANTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

The Sun of the 16th inst. it is stated that " John
!finite, in the beginning of Spring, had eight farms unte-
nanted ; three are now let at a reduction of 25 per cent. ; the
other five he cannot let."
That " wages in two branches of business have, within two
years, fallen tram 2s. 6d. to Is. 2d., and horn 4s. to Is. 10(1. ;
other branches in the same proportion."
That " in Northumbrrland, Cumberland, and Durham, the
labouring men subsisted upon a little weak tea and black bread
—not fit for dogs."
These facts are no doubt brought forward to substantiate the
assertion so frequently made, and pertinaciously adhered to,
viz., that rents are sustained by the high prices of agricul-
tural produce obtained by means of the Corn-laws. It is alto-
gether beyond my comprehension how this opinion could be
adopted in defiance of the fact, that the average price of grain
has always been lower under the operation of a Corn-law, than
it was when the law was enacted. If people would examine
and retied, instead of jumping to a conclusion, such mistakes
would not occur.
The greatest consumers of agricultural produce are the work-
ing people, and it is not probable, that a system which deprives
them of good bread, butcher's meat, and malt liquor, and re-
duces them to black bread and tea, should be the means of
raising prices.
The only certain protection that caw be given to agriculture,
is securing a free scope for industry, that people may have full
employment and good wages. This conclusion was arrived at,
several years ago, by an agricultural Committee of the House
of Commons, after a laborious investigation of all the evidence
that could be procured upon the subject; and well would it
have been for all classes of society if the report of that Com-
mittee had been acted upon. The evil of the Corn-laws has
not been in raising the prices of provisions, but in throwing
people out of employment, anti thereby taking from them the
means to purchase the necessaries of life at any price.-1 am,
Sir, your most obedient, WILLIAM BO ULT BE E.
Frederick-street, Edgbaston, Birmingham, July 20, 1t342.

Two persons, of respectable appearance, one of whom
described himself to be an attorney's clerk, and the other
a publican, were on Monday brought before Mr. W. B.
Jones, the Mayor of Kingston-upon-Thames, on a charge
of stealing five 51. Bank notes, 131. in gold, and ten
pounds worth of silver, the monies of Mr. Dunlop, the
landlord of the Dolphin, in the above town.
A Solicitor appeared on behalf of the accused.
The prosecutor stated that on the previous Thursday
afternoon, between two and three o'clock, two persons,
whom he believed to be the prisoners, came to his house,
and entered the bar and called for a glass of brandy-
and-water, which was furnished to them. They then
asked for a newspaper, and afterwards for a sheet of
paper, and while these things were being fetched, the
parties were left alone in the bar, and they took the
opportunity thus affbrded them to dexterously open a
bureau in the bar, and remove nearly fifty pounds in
gold and silver from it. The men left before three
. .

Three o'clock, and very soon afterwards the robbery was
discovered. In his opinion the prisoners were the same
men who came into the bar, and he said that the rob-
bery could not have been committed by any one else.
On the prosecutor being cross-examined by the priso-
nrr's attorney, he admitted that after his accompanying
the officer to London, awl being shown the prisoners, he
said they wore not the men, and that they afterwards
drank together, but he said, upon further consideration
he was now induced to think that they were the same

pet sons.
Elizabeth Atkins, the daughter-in-law of the prose-
cutor, said she was in the bar on the day of the robbery,
and she expressed herself to be certain of the identity of
the prisoners. One of them asked her to get him a sheet
of paper, and when sho went out of the bar to fetch
it, he took down an inkstand ; and when she re-
turned with the paper, he was standing close
to the bureau, and- he then put the paper
in his pocket, and both the prisoners left
the house directly afterwards. A person who was stand-
ing close to the bar when the parties entered, also spoke
to their identity, and witnesses from the railway station
were likewise called, with other persons, to prove that they
were in the town about the time the robbery was committed.
The attorney for the prisoners said he vas instructed
that the witnesses were all mistaken, and that there was
no ground for the charge made against the prisoners,
who, he assured the Magistrate, were persons of respec-
tability, and incapable of committing the offence imputed
to them. He then applied for time to be all Owed to pro-
duce witnesses on their behalf.
The MA.voit said that,. as the case at present
stood, he should feel himself called upon to re-
mand the parties for further inquiry to be made, and
this would give an opportunity of obtaining additional
testimony.
An application was then made to admit the prisoners
to hail, and they were ultimately liberated upon entering
into recognizances, and producing sureties to the amount
of 400/. for their appearance on a future day.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Guildford, July 27.

LLOYDS' SHIPPING
LONDON, JULY 27.—Wind this day at Noon, S.
DEAL, JULY 26.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Arrd. Brixton,
Elbourne, South Seas ; Prince George, and Curlew, Quebec.
Arrived from the River, and sailed, Moffatt, Hobart Town ;
Ellza, Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 26.—Wind E.S.E. to S.—Arrd.
George IV., transport, London, for St. Helena, &c.
POOLE, JULY 26.—Arrd. Reaper, Quebec, after touching
the ground, apparently with little damage.
FALMOUTH, JULY 25.—Wind variable and light.—Sid.
Royal Tar (steamer), Vigo.
Livicaroor., JULY 26.—Wind W.N. W., light.—Arrd.
Portsmouth, Glover, Mobile ' • Sterling, Saunders, Savannah ;
St. Lawrence, Brown, New York ; Zanthe, Porsen, St. John's,
New Brunswick; Burnett, Thomson, Montreal. Sid. Rhode
Island, Providence, Harvest Home, Calcutta; Inglewood,
Havre and Rio Plate ; Hope, New Orleans; Rochester,
New York ; Grace Darling, Rio Grande. Arrd. off Cer-
delia, China ; Havannah packet, Africa ; Alezo, Wise, and
Alexandrine, Montreal; Mary and Eliza.
Dumas, JULY 23.—S1d. British Queen, Miramichi.
CORK, JULY 24.—Arrd. Pallas, • Hall, St. Andrew's. Sld.
Caledonia, Jamaica.
PENTLAND FRITH, JULY 23.—Arrd. Alfred, White, Que-
bec ; Symmetry, Kendall, America.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—A ship, supposed the
Otterspool, No. 9,267 (new code), 11th inst, lat. 39,
lon. 14, by the Byker, arrived at Cork ; Progress,
Monte Video, to Cork, 20th ult., lat. 48, lon. 46,
out GO days ; Packet de Genes, ditto to Genoa, 27th ult.,
lat. 32, lon. 43, out GG days, by the Matbilde, arrived at
Bordeaux ; St.' Andrew, Stornoway, to Cape Briton,
29th ult., lat. 43, lon. 56 ; ILope, Teignmouth, to New-
foundland, 6th inst., lat. 47, lon. 42 ; Pride, Quebec,
to Limerick, 17th inst, lat. 51, lon. 12, by the Louisa,
arrived at Cork. Five Sisters of Aberdeen, 19th inst.,
lon. 7, by the Curlew, arrived in the Downs ; Providence,
London to Quebec, 21st ult., off the Bird Islands, by the
Kingston, arrived at Southampton ; Brilliant, Liverpool
to Quebec, 13th inst. lat. 49, lon. 17, by the Reaper,
arrived at Poole.
LIGHTS AT SANTA CLARA.

.1 • IV
The Commission for the county of Surrey, was opened
this day by Lord Abinger, and to-morrow morning at
ten o'clock, both Courts will proceed with the business
of the assize, Lord Abinger presiding on the Civil Side,.
and Mr. Justice Coltman in the Criminal Court. There
are very few prisoners for trial, and none of the offences
are of a serious character. On the Civil Side a great
many causes are entered, several of which are Special
Juries, and it is expected that the business will not be
concluded in less than a fortnight.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT—Norwich, July 25.
These assizes commenced to-day at ten o'clock, with ten..
causes, of which three were special jury causes, and a calendar
containing 53 prisoners.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS. )
Letitia Broom, aged 23, was charged with having stolen the
sum of 301. from the person of one John Neale, of Edge-field.
Mr. O'Malley was Counsel for the prosecution ; • and Mr.
Palmer fe,r the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutor, who is a cattle dealer, re-
paired from his home to.Reepham fair on the 7th of this month,
for the purpose of selling an old horse. Having accomplished
this job for the small sum of 21. 25., the prosecutor found time
rather heavy on his hands, as he intended to proceed pn the
following day to Dereharn market to make large purchases.
In order to dispose of the superfluous hours he wandered into
the fair, where meeting with some friends he adjourned to a
booth. Leaving this, he agiin tried the fair, and for four
mortal hours he gazed at some " London show, where there
were plenty of Andrews." While so engaged night drew on
apace, and about half-past ten o'clock at night a " female with a
black eye and a weil over her bonnet" came up to him and with-
out so much as "by your leave, or with your leave," she thing her
arms round his neck and saluted him as an old friend. Staggered
at the warmth of the greeting, the prosecutor drew his right
hand from his breeches pocket in which was his purse, and
put her away from him. At that instant the fair one slipped
her hand into the unguarded pouch and extracted its precious
contents, with which she made off as fast as possible, in com-
pany with two men, who were seen by other witnesses to be in
the fair with her both before and after the robbery. On the
following morning, at half-past six o'clock, the prisoner and
her two companions, foot-sore and fatigued, made their appear-
ance ataymondizam, a distance of nearly eighteen miles from
lie4liam, when she was observed to have in her possession a
quantity of severeigus. The robbery be noised abroad, the

OPENING OF CROSBY HAL
,
This ancient Hall, in Bishopsote-street, to wh 'cn
so
many rich historic reminiscences attach, wact
yesterday evening with an accompanying soiree, va
occasion of its conversion into a literary and OM ;.Vc
institution, an inaugural address being delivered f
Bell, Esq., F.R.S., the President. The institution MM...
sists collectively of a suite of apartments, the entrant '-
chamber, or refreshment-room, possessing an excellerat
organ, and ornamented by a City artist with fresco paint-
ings, illustrative of the Third of the Plantagenets and.
his actions. Descending by steps, three rooms con-
tiguoui -to the Hall contain specimens of a mu-
seum which is in course of formation, and in which we
observed, en passant, several fine speciniens of marine con -
chology, and geological relics of the antediluvian world,
in the shape of huge fragmentary bits of various mega-
theriu , with several of the tortoise and tapir species
complete war-skins of African Caffres and Boshmen also
embellished the walls. The entire library also, which.
has been accumulating for three years past, while the in-
stitution was at Salvador House, consists of five or six
thousand volumes. The Dail itself, intended for lec-
tures, meetings, &c., and which had a doubly-magnifi-
cent appearance last night, when the antique beauty 0:
its architecture was enhanced by the• attendance of 500.
to 690 fashionable and select City people, measures about.
60 feet in length, and about 37 in width, containing the
usual ranges Of raised seats, and terminated a: each cadl
by elevated galleries. Mr. Davies, the architect eto-
ployed, has used his best art and taste in restor:ng its long--
obscured and time darkened beauties ; far, as the able
lecturer on this occasion *noted; this hall till within
these . few days, was put to the vile uses of a packer's
warehouse—a hall which had been trodden by
princes and merchants, whose roof had resounded
to the uhisic of high civic feasts in the days of the fif-
teenth century; whose floors had re-echoed to the tratti
of Richard; in which the classic More, a scholar and
Chancellor dear to fame and England, had resided ain't
studied; and in which the accomplished Sully, the rich
Spencer, and the princely Gresham, had lived or con-
stantly resorted to. The roof is especially noticeable, as
formed or that richly carved Gothic cedar-work, which
architecture had so much in vogue in 1472, the period
the ball was erected; the elaborately cut arches spring
from their stone-work rests or pediments no less vigo-
rously than symmetrically. Ceastantly surrounded by-
such associations as those enumerated above, the mem-
, bars of this institution will involuntarily breathe in a re-
fined atmosphere of thought and intelligence, such as the
annals of history inspire. The.youth, the mechanics, the
virtuosi, of the City and its environs, will here, for their
almost nominal annual subscription, find constant me;gis
of improvement and pleasure, and the Committee canon
be too highly eulogized for the excellent project which
they .litive thus carried out and perfected in rescuing the
veneraed hall from desecration and a lumber-room to its
present apposite and intellectual purpose. Mr. Bower,
ba,nk, Mr. Ward, and other influential gentlemen, ho-
noured the.assemblage with :heir pr.,senee.

THE MELOPItoNIC GUITAR.—A concert was given
yesterday evening at the Hanover-square ROOMS, prin-
cipally for the purpose of introducing to public notior
M. Barelli's new musical discovery of the Melophonie
Guitar, which was played upon and exhibited by
Signor Giulo Regondi. ' The novelty appears chiefly
to consist in a refined melodiousness of the ordinary
guitar strings ; for the body of the instrument is essen-
tially the '-same, as also the mode of operation.
Its name, " Melophonic," or "Melodiously modulated,"
is exactly expressive of its character. A MS. concert, by
Schutz, a Fantasie Elegiaque, and the Souvenir des
Huguenots were each performed upon it by Regondi, and
these strings confessedly were proved to be capable of pro-
ducing much finer and softer instrumentation than the
often tuneless strings commonly used. The concert was
given by its inventor for the philanthropic purpose- of
getting lovers of music to patronize and adopt it, and so
affbrd work and occupation in a new line of factory art
to the English working-classes in want of employment.
The direction of the preparations for the funeral of
the Duke of Orleans, is confided, says the Moniteur Pa-
risien, to M. Visconti, who has received the necessary
instructions and powers. All the persons who are to
assist him have been specially nominated by the Minister
of the Interior. Workmen are actively employed in pre-
paring the draperies and other ornaments with which
the Cathedral of Notre-Dame is to be hung on this truly
awful solemnity, which, it is now said, will take place on
the 30th instant, instead of August 3, as first suggested.
Many workmen have also been sent to Dreux to prepare
the tomb for the reception of the august remains.
We understand that the Right Hon. Earl-Grey
will shortly arrive in this neighbourhood, on a visit to
his son-in; laiv, J. C. Belted, Esq., of Fleet.—Devonport
Independent.
Major-General Sir ,John M‘Leod, Lady Pottinger,
Sir Michael Stewert, Lord and Lady Rivers, lady Majori-
banks, and Lieutenant. E. Von Donop, left London on Tuesday
in the General Steam Naeigation Company's steam-ship Soho,
for Antwerp and the Rhine.
Major Begbie, Lady Bidden, Sir George Clerk,
Mr. Bet thwiek, M.P. Colonel Cadeil, Sir E. Colebrook, and
General Wardlow, left London fee. Edinburgh yesterday
evening, in the General Steam Navigition Company's new
steam-ship Princess Royal, Captain J. W: Morris.
A man named Rochblave was murdereti last week
by his son, a young man of eighteen, in the com;.none of
Mialet (Gard.) The father lived unhappily with his wife,
and frequently had quarrels With her. On the da' On
which the fatal act was committed, some words arose as
usual, when the son interfered and took the mother's
part. Urged on by her, he seized a large stone, and
hurling it at his father struck him on the temple. The
father fell, and the son immediately attacked him most
ferociously, striking him with the stone until he was
\dead. The murderer then took to flight, but in two hours
returned and gave himself up prisoner. His mother is
also in custody.
The Sentinel& de la Marine gives an account of
an accident which has occurred at Toulon, on board they
'l'enare steamer :—" The boiler, which had not been
hexed for two months, but which after being cleaned a.
!brought ago had been since hermetically closed, was on
the 13th opened in the upper part to be examined by it
new engineer. A candle which was thrust down having
been extinguished, he determined to wait until the air
was renewed, but the stoker and another man disregard-
big this prudent resolution and the engineer's remon-
strances, descended, and were immediately deprived of
their senses. Luckily they were drawn up, though not
without difficulty, in time to have medical assistance
afforded them with effect."
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• ~ HITES AND BLACKS.—" I find from the votes
Of supplies, which have been passed by our careful And
Considerate House of Commons, that the sum of 30,0001.
has been voted for the purpose of education in England,
and 24,000/. for the like purposes in the West Indies.
The population of England is 17,000,000 ; that of the
negroes in the West Indies under 1,000,000. The
amount per head for the education of the blacks Is,
tlieretore, about 7d ; for the whites rather more than a
farthing .and a half ! If the suns voted fur the blacks
be not a lavish one, that voted for the whites must be a
very scanty one."—Correspondent of the Bolton Free
Press.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Tuesday afternoon an in-
quest, adjourned from Thursday last, was resumed before Mr.
Baker, at the University College Hospital, on the body of John
Steedman, aged 13 years. From the evidence it appeared that
the deceased was the son of a isabinet-maker, residing at No.
49, Seymour-street, Euston-square. Ott Tuesday week last a
gentleman gave him a horse to hold in Judd-street, Bruns-
wick-square, and he (deceased) was riding it quietly towards
the New•road, when several boys collected around him, and
endeavoured to frighten him and the horse by shouting and
waving their caps. Deceased kept the same pace until one of
the boys, about seven years old, threw his cap at the horse's
head, and the others at the same time set up such a cry that the
animal started off at full gallop. Deceased clung to the saddle
for a few, seconds, but the horse gallopped at such speed that at
the corner of Leigh-street the boy was thrown, and as he fell
his foot became entangled in the bridle, which he had suffered
to hang liaiselY by the side. In that manner be was dragged
along about 15 yards, and when at length the bridle broke he
was found lying in a state of insensibility in the road. lie
was taken to the hospital, and died there of an injury to the
skull on the following night. The Coroner adjourned the in-
quiry in order that some of the boys, if any of them were
above the age of seven years, might be apprehended. When
the Jury met yesterday the boys were found to be too young to
be amenable to the law. The Coroner suggested, and the Jury
agreed to, a verdict to the effect that deceased died from a fall
from a horse, but how or by whom it was set in motion there
was not sufficient evidence to show.
LARGE SEAL.—There wits shot on Saturday week,
in the bay of Thurso, by Mr. G. Sutherland, salmon-
fisher, in the service of the Messrs. Hogarths, a seal
weighing three cwt., and measuring seven feet.—Ross
Advertiser.
.CHEAP CORN FROM ABROAD..—A . Correspondent
informs us that the Anti-Corn-law League are about to
establish an association upon a large scale, to import
Corn from all parts
,of the world where it is to be had
Cheap, seeing that they can make no impression on the
landed interest., who form a large majority in the House
ef Commons.. - We do not know whether the advertise-
ment in another part of our paper refers to this or not,
but this we do know, that fine wheat may now be pur-
chased at Calcutta for lfis. per quarter, and brought to
this pirt, freight and all charges, including the
highest rate of duty, to stand in not. more than
41s. per quarter, and the recent importation from
chili is said to have realised a profit of 40 per cent.
The accounts from America represent the growing
crops as promising a yield of many millions of quarters,
in excess of the wants of its inhabitants, the greater
part of which will, no doubt, find its way to this country,
the same us cotton does ; no matter what the prices may
iie, for they will have it to spare. From South Russia
rind Poland, where an extended cultivation has taken
ace. large supplies mats be • expected ; as also from
brermany, Italy, South France, and Spain, so that the
tettl.ily farmers of this country will no longer be able,
by withholding supplies from the market, to keep up
prices as they have done ; and a well-informed friend of
ours expects that the average price of wheat, from he-
ddier next, to the harvest of 1843, will not exceed 425. per
(parte r. —London Mercantile Journal.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and
quite on Tuesday honotired the Surrey 'Zoological
mGeamnblez
with a visit, for the purpose of inspecting the beautiful
tirte:sisntihinleil
eu
ra,dddi admission
Of Oxhibition of flowers and fruits gobteifeuto.
tif the South London Floricultural Society. The Duke
arrived early in the morning,
Of the general company, so as to obtain a view of the
If:cot:7(11w
ahgi.laeint hiebi rt
bte'resliness evening wtats)
witness
qttnosphere of the crowded tents.
'rAeonTfo theo last. His shot al Ili Less
fireworks fro the Cttit
•
ACCIDENT. o rSt
A tlittal accident 0e-
.... Auge.o.
arc expected at Gordon Castle early
:The Duke and DUchess of Richmond and family
.",i," Iy 1, Ao Ti
v. , A 0 ItntodAauly Lof NwoN
th .
ManchesterAfmaetri
named John
ii.leaaihl:
in August. Prepa- (Fred on_ the line
rations for their reception have been making for some
aed 5-, residing at Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, having engaged
time past.
ZIAn address of thanks to Mehemet Ali for ,' Tme men
keeping ne, was watchin e hay grass growing on the slopes of the
open the communication through Egypt in 1840, beauti- 1 tirain w..
aAv g them work, and as the half-past nine o'clock
from Manchester, he observed his dog
fully engrossed on vellum, with the Royal arms of Eng- ! r in, "
, ri to btiaskkei basking*
outaona cot: lfhgtelt lei ndean.
eTrheanddogi nmoVci)eactdeilngonhbisisca.eltli.he
land at the top, together with a large gold medal, bear- i .
inn an admirable likeness of the venerable__ Pacha, will ' old of it.the engine came 4 Ind knockedm him Ydown,ar!'d soiran't
passed everhisy . He killed on
be transmitted by the next mail to the English Conattiat ei.s_f tilt, carriagewheels
bed,
was
Alexi:lschia for nrpentation to his ilighae§s. Y' 90t, 44, bis body YAP mob mutilated..
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The Nethalie, Labrielle, arrived at Havre, reports that
since Jan. 1, 1842, a fixed light had been established on
the highest extremity of the island of Santa Clara, in the
Gulf of Guayaquil ; and, in order to avoid the numerous
tratlite,s of vessels which formerly took place, two buoys
have been placed at the entrance of the Roads of La
Puna, differently painted. The white should be passed
at larboard, and the black at starboard ; and both may
be approached without any fear of danger.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
SHOAL. AT PORT ROYAL (JAMAICA).
A white buoy with a black vane and staff; has this
day been placed on the 17-feet shoal in the entrance of
the South Channel, approaching Port Royal from the
southward, with mask, and bearing South Key on with
South-east Key bearing S.E. by N., southern part of St.
Gelrge's Cliffs N.N.W., Wreck Point W. by S. half S.,
and the Portuguese Bay N.E.• by N. about half a mile
distant. IL D. BYNG, Commodore.
Jamaica, June 17, 1842.