The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-16 00:00:00

Darlington, Ju.p 15.

CHINA.
Re'"urn of all Monies repaid by her Majesty's Governmait to.
the East India Company, on account, of the War in China,
since the eommencement of the War until the present time
.1840, October 24 £ 150,000
ltt4l, July
184.), February 9

Total... X 573,442
JAMES C. AIELVILL, Secretary,
East. India House, June 8, 1842.

DOVER, JUNE 15.--Sailed her Majesty's steiarner
Ariel, Captain Smithett, for Ostend, to receive on board his
Majesty the King of the Belgians, with his suite at Ostend,
It is expected his Majesty will embark to-morrow, and proceed
direct to Woolwich.
THE LIGHT SOVEREIGNS.—It is not true that the
very hot weatherhas led to the Queen's proclamation on the sub-
ject of " sweating sovereigns." We understand, however, that
Sir Peter Laurie has placed all his ready cash in an ice-house,
in order to keep the gold from getting into a violent perspira-
tion from the intense heat that has been lately prevalent. Alter
the allusion to sweating sovereigns," we car. perfectly under-
stand the meaning of parties betting" a cool thousand," which
of course means a thousand pounds that have not been sweated.
—Punch.

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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FROST THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The recent melancholy occurrence at Clare,
where a crowd that had assembled round a store were
fired 'on by the police, has, it will be seen, led to an in-
vestigation at the instance of Government. As the
matter is one which may very seriously affect a great
number of _ individuals, we abstain from giving any
opinion as to the criminality of the proceedings which
are the subject of inquiry, and can only express a hope
that every one whom appearances may seem to inculpate
will be enabled to justify his share in the unfortunate
event alluded to. _ _

Without, however, throwing any blame upon parti-
cular parties, we cannot but remark that the loSs of
life which ensued at Clare was altogether needless,
and that there was nothing to justify the firing upon the
.people. This appears to be admitted on all hands ; and
even those who had the command of the police force are
must desirous to establish the fact that they gave no
orders to fire ; and consequently it must be inferred that
they acknowledge the impropriety of the act, which, had
it been necessary, it would have been their duty to com-
mand, instead of being one which, for their credit, they
are eager to repudiate. Whatever may be the result of
the investigation which is now going on, it Must be clear to
all persons who have read the evidence already adduced,
that there is at least a want of a sufficient understanding
between the officers and men of the police force, which
has been the cause of the fatal error that has been com-
mitted. The men who fired doubtless acted upon
either a real or a supposed order of their superior, and
it seems admitted oa all hands that he addressed some
lvords to them ; but whether the expression used was
" Firs," or " Don't fire," is left undecided by the ,
contradictory testimony of the- witnesses. The
most favourable construction that can be placed
upon the conduct of the police is, that they mis-
took the words of their officer ; for we are unwil-
ling to believe that he could have been so criminal
as to have given orders for the needless sacrifice of life—
since needless tie declares it to be, when he maintains
that he. end nav(mred to prevent his men from tiring on
the po, Mace. It does not appear that any feeling of
irritation against the police had been manifested by the
cro,vd before the occurrence of the fatal calamity, and
there bad been not 'Aug in tne conduct of the mob to
excite a fear of outrage. It is not even pretended that
the p. ark might not have, been disp,rs,,d- without re-
coarse to tiring ; and it is therefore-to a most fa al mis-
understanding, if to nothing worse, that the deplorable
evert inust be attributed. . _

ST-INDARD.—Sir Richard Vyvyan has addressed a
letter_ to his constituents upon the several subjects of the
' Cont-laws,;lncople-tax, and Tariff, condemning the mem=
ures of Ministers with reference to all three. We have
reaci this letter with a mixed feeling of admiration and
:pain. Every • sentence bears testimony to the high
'talents, the overflowing beneviolence, boundlesi 'pa-.
triotisin, and noble spirit of the writer ; in a
-word, to that combination of the best gifts of nature
tducation, wr.ich cinstitute hun, perhaps, as per-
a Model of the accompli,hed English gentleman •as
•,Yuglund. possesses at this day. 'Painful it must be,
:.1,-e,c!er any circpmstances, to differ from such a man ;
:,; ns, who for more than fifteen years have been
1,1•,,u* to follow his course, to take the guidance of
Lis miblic conduct • when we could have it as the
nfest . and where we had been. core-
iiull rd t„ act without this guidance, to test our
actions by'. their conformity to his principles, the
pain is I.,,reat indeed. We find ourselves opposed to
>Sir Richard Vyvyan, and we scarcely - know
why. Were not his station, his career, hiS
;emus, sufficient guarantees that his - prin-
ciples have suffered no change, the letter
bef,,ie us affords proof that a euange in him is impos-
, bible, for such must ever be the case with one whose
iprineiples are the highest and thapureSt. Indeed, there
-;s lot a principle enounced in the letter—and it is full
..)f political principles—to which we do not at this mo-
• meet most heartily subscribe. We hope, on the other
side, Oat our principles have undergone no change ;
and we :oust therefore ascribe the opposition in which
ve stand to the writer of the letter to llelston to some-
thing diff:c?rent from principles—to the application of
principles in an imperfect state of society, and a per-.
piexed conjuncture of affairs.

REPORTED MURDER NEAR
WORCESTER.
-(Abridged from the Worcester Journal of' to-day.)
(n Monday this city was thrown into a state of con-
-sid, excitement by a rumour which had got afloat
that s, murder had been committed in or near the city,
and th at the mutilated remains of the victim had been
discover
by some boys, concealed on the bank of the
'ed
Severn E Pitchcroft Ham. The rumour as it was at
first circNulated was very vague ; several versions of
the affair And its circumstances being given, all of
resolved themselves into this—that as
which at i'a.vt
two boys w ere walking up Pitchroft, they discovered
the arms antA hands of a human body in' the grass near
tA) the margin of the river, that they were conveying
them to this city when they
.were met by two men, who
:snatched the nvitilated remains from the boys and ran
elf. This fitory,baving come to the ears of the police,
jinn:ciliate inquiries were instituted, • and the boys were
eNamined. They persisted in the truth of their
,statemont ; and inconsequence of the information which
wa,; 015tained from them, two young men, nained-Wal-
i.k.r.)a end Barber, were yesterday. morning taken before
r. Sidebottom; who made a preliminary investigation
the matter.
t one o'clock the two boys, whose names are Palmer
and I:orris, the one aged about 14 and the other 8 years,
t,)geth.o7 Ni:*ll Waldron and Barber, were taken before
the aNI a full bench of Magistrates sitting at
the politl3-office .4 flie Guildhall, when the case was
thoroughly investiga.`ed. The office was crowded with
respectable citizens, an,i the outer ball was besieged by
numerous band of „oreln, who evidently. looked upon
a
to affair as a second edition Pf the Roehampton atrocity.
Harris was the first of the wo boys examined. He
ste..`ed that on the previous day o.,londay) about ten or
elCv; ti U'elcck, he walked up I'ithero.l by the side of the
ih.er with Palmer. When they had arrived at the
Obit k\pposite to the Dog and Duck public-house,
he obser.,ed lying in the grass, between the footpath
and the river, and upon the river's bank, two hu-
man hands t..nd arms. He at once picked them up,
and showing them to his companion, exclaiming,
...•Look, what I've' found !" Palmer took hold of one
of the arms, observed that it smelt badly, and
then returned it to Harr when both proceeded withis,
the. remains down the side Of ,the river in the direction
for Worcester. When they Wired at a short distance
from the Grand Stand two ).rose came up, to whom
titer showed the arms, upon which one of the men
snatched them from his hand, saying, at the same
time, that " he'd keep it for the sake of the ring ;"
there being, as Palmer declared, a plain g0i;..1 ring upon
a finger of one of the hands. The arms had been cut
off the body near to the elbow, and there were marks
of blood at that part, and also upon other parts of
the arm. There were no other incisions in the arm.
On being confronted with Barber he said jie thought he
was one of di'm, but could not positively say. He did
not appear to know Waldron at all.
John Palmer, on his examination, corroborated Har-
ris's statement, in its chief points. On being closely
questioned as to the appearance of the limbs, he said
that the extremi.ties, where they had been severed from
the _main body, were "haggled" or ragged, as though
they ht'd been separay.d with a blunt knife ; the bones
were broken and splint•ered,' as though they had been
c'noppmf through with a hatchet. There was a good
deal of .coagulated blood upon the arms, and there was
a ring upon a finger of one of 'the hands. The arms
smelt. very badly, and there were holes in the hands,
prod aced by putrefaction. The. boy spoke positively as
to the identity of Barber, who lie affirmed was one of
the men who snatched the arms from Harris. Ho had
known Barber personally for some time.
Waldron and Barber were then required ,to account
for the manner in which they had spent the previous day,
wi ieh they did satisfactorily.
The inquiry occupied two hours, and at its close the
a.;istrates., after a brief aonsultation,:decidcd that there
irii,s•poevidence before them which would warrant them
in detaining Waldron or Barber, and they were conse-
qut tidy set at liberty with the boys.
The police are still engaged in making further inqui-
rica into this extraordinary affair.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Lord Dzw MAN.)
THE QUEEN V. WALTON.
The Court was occupied the whole of the day with this case,
"which was an action brought against the defendant for the in-
fringement of a patent. The evidence was of a purely technical
character, and totally dev.44 of general interest. There is no
ova) ibility of the case terminating this day.

COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAY.)
• Davis r. summary's.
This was an action for assault and false imprisonment. The
plaintiff was employed by the defendant to collect rents, amid
fell under the suspicion of keeping back. portions of the rno-
neys wiiicts, be received. On one occasion having received a
sum- of • ftioney for which he did not account, before
the deknalasit learned it had been paid, the lat-
ter caused hiei 'to be taken into custody, and brought
b..fore the 31agi,itrate at Queen-square upon a charge
of ielony. The Magistrate would not entertain the charge, but
disinarged the plahitiff. For this iMprisonment the action was
brought. The -Turk having retired, for nearly an hour, re-
tui ned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 801.

AWFUL STOAcM AT -LIMERICK,
AND LOSS OF LIVES,
A most awful and long .e ntinued storm of thunder and
lifrht fling, accompanied by hely,
r rains, visited thisitei..h-
-hArh66-4 and the country for .home miles around on Sun-
da,. arid *as, we regret to le, u-, i from statements made by
Curr..,spondents, accompanied ix t several plaCes by loss of
limbs and life, destruetion of tstt,'e, houses and trees, and
was the cause of theeatest .consternation -throughout
greatest
the extensive district it swept over hi its merciless course.
The storm arose from the ,Nc.rth Ea.-it, and went on with-
out abatement, pursuing direction, from
a so nth- westerly
twelve till near seven o'clock r.3t. ,At Stara, Killeloe,
Sixmile-bridge, and the comstry gerrerally in that quarter
between the Claremountains the hann o n , the storm
first broke out with vehemence and furp. We regret to
say that about five o'clock, _.m.., the fluid struck the house
of John Branton at Six-mile Bt 'Age, and killed a fine boy
about four years old, ave was t itting at the moment be-
tween Branton's knees, leaving 11rd'int-oun speechless, tear-
ing up the floor, and killii g son ie sheep which this poor
man had breught from his fields for protection. In the
sa no neighbourhood a man was ka Locked down and left
senseless, and two women who .werc scorched are now
lyitig wil'hout a hope ofrecos pry. 'The market-house roof
of Sixniile-bridge was thrown.:AdowT, and some cattle were

killed in that vicinity. thirty miles to the west-
a rd,, 1144 u use .elipeapt. lton ; gee it tnm, ';wt, d -
down, and a man was kitled—several casualties are.said
to have occucr-eil to cattle. At .Newcastle w .a' man was killed
and a house was bury ad down also. Some of the largest
trees in the demesne of Mount Shannon and Adare, in
Cratloe—indeed, throughout this part of the country al-
most without exception, were split into fragments, and,
in slim instances, were thrown across the roads. The
river in a few hours rose about several feet, and the
lowlands adjoining, the valleys in the interior, the moun-
tain gorges, and every channel which had been dry in
the morning has been flooded. It is impossible for us to
give anything like an accurate estimate of the amount of
injury done.—Limerick Reporter. ,

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY-

EDINBURGH.

CASE OF WILFUL FIBS RAISING.-Our readers will
remember the subjoined case, of which account was
given some time since in The Sun, and in which Harris
Rosenberg and Alithia Bennet or Rosenberg, his wife,
had been convicted at the Circuit Court, held at Aber-
deen, of wilful fire-raising. The verdict of the Jury
was then accompanied by a recommendation to the
leniency of the Court ; and the trial, which commenced
on Saturday morning, April 15, had been protracted
until the following Sunday forenoon. Lord Moncreiff,
before whom the trial took place, in consideration of the
extraordinary circumstances connected therewith, ab-
stained from pronouncing sentence, and certified the case
to the High Court of Justiciary.
On Tuesday last judgment was accordingly passed ;
when Lord Moncrieff, in passing sentence, observed, he
did believe that the attempt was not a thing of her (Ali-
thia Rosenberg's) contrivance • and with respect to the
woman, he'thought the Court should abstain from a sen-
tence of transportation. He would propose in her case
a sentence of long imprisonment—namely, of imprison-
ment for two years.
The COURT baying. expressed their concurrence, the
Lord Justice-Clerk, in appropriate terms, pronounced
sentence of transportation beyond seas for the term of his
' natural life on Harris Rosenberg, and of imprisonment for
two years in Perth Penitentiary on Alithia Rosenberg.

ORGAN.
PERFORMANCE OF MENDELSSOHN.
(THIS DAY.)
Dr. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the first organist living,
performed this afternoon on the large organ at Christ
Church, Newgate-street. Never have we before so fully
appreciated the powers of this most noble instrument. He
took his seat at the organ at two o'clock, and commenced
with one of Sebastian Bach's magnificent voluntaries.
Those alone who are acquainted with the compositions of
Bach, the Milton of music, can form any idea of the gran-
deur, sublimity, and power which Mendelssohn infused
into this most magnificent composition. It was
indeed, a high treat to hear a composition
of Bachs performed by Mendolssohn, on, per-
haps the finest instrument in London. The
composer, the performer, and the instrument, were
alike worthy of each other. Mendelssohn afterwards
performed several fuguos and voluntaries, and among
them many compositions of his own. In these last his
astonishing powers of execution were brought admirably
into play. We had always hitherto considered Thalbergs
pianoforte playing as the ne plus ultra of execution, but he is i
surpassed, both in rapidity, preciseness, and power, by
Mendelssohn. When we consider what would, by a
mere pianiste, be thought the insuperable difficulties of
organ _playing ; that the performer has not only to work
several sets of keys with his fingers, but also several sets
of pedals with his feet, that he frequently depends solely
upon one finger for preventing him from falling
forward on the instrument, that it requires a firmness,
united with a delicacy of touch, of which the mere
pianiste can form scarcely any idea, and that the finger
must continue resting on the key as long as the note
is to be sounded ; when we consider all these
things the powers of Mendelssohn appear little
short of miraculous. Is it to these difficulties that we
are to attribute the paucity of organists in England ?
We hope not—it would argue ill for the future progress
of music in this country if such were the case ; but it is
a lamentable fact that we have no rising English organist
at the 'present day. Who is to be Samuel Wesley's
successor is a question to which the English musical
public will find it somewhat difficult to reply. This ought
not to be ; while flutists, pianistes, and violinists, are
elbowing each other in the race for fame and patronage,
surely there ought to be some musician to support the
claim of the most sublime of instruments—the organ.
The church was crowded, and the thanks of the public
are due to the parish authorities for their kindness in
lending the instrument, and in throwing open the church
to all who chose to come. To Dr. Mendelsshon a high
debt of gratitude.is due from the British musical public,
and we, by this, publicly tender him our thanks for the
high treat he has afforded us.