The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-22 00:00:00

COURT CM, UL.A.R.
WINDs,a, Stns.:Av.—Yesterday the Queen and
Prince Albert, aid the Duke of Saxe. Coburg Gotha,
took their accustomed early walk in the forenoon.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were
taken out as usual.
In the afternoon her Majesty and the Prince, and
the Duke of Saxe Coburg, rode out in a carriage and
four to Bagshot, to visit the Duchess of Gloucester,
attended by Colonels Buckley and Wylde in a pony
phaeton.
Baron de Nieumann and Sir R. Peel arrived in
the evening.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Charlotte Dandas, Sir George Couper, and Mr. G. E.
and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, joined the Royal dinner
circle in the evening.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert and
the Duke of Saxe Coburg, attended divine service at
the Chapel Royal, St. George. The Rev. C. W.
Rtiyvot chanted the first part of the service ' • the
Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean, and the Hon. and Rev.
Ir. Stopford, officiated at the Communion service.
The Rev. Mr. Stopford preached an excellent ser-
roon from the 6th verse of the 11th chapter of St.
, aul to the Hebrews, " Without faith it is impossible
to please God." The Te Deum and Jubilate was
'Dr. Boyce in A full; the Sanctus, Kyrie Elieson • and
Creed, Dr. Nares in F ; the Anthem, Handel's Hal-
leluiah Chorus.
The Royal party were attended by the Duchess of
-Norfolk, Hon. Misses Paget and Murray, Lord
'Byron, Earl of Liverpool, Sir Robert Peel, Earl of
A,herdeen, Baron Gruben, Captain Meynell, Colonel
Buckley, and Colonel Wylde.
This evening the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady C.. Dundas, came to St. George's Chapel Royal.
The Rev. C. W. Knyvett officiated. The Magni&
ernt 'and Nunc Dimittis was Nares in F. The
',anthem, "The Lord is King," (Elvey) ; the solo
Darts by Mr. Lockey and Master Foster, were well
sustained. Dr. Elvey presided at the organ.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left this
residence at Kew at seven o'clock on Saturday morn-
-I;ig to honour the Marquis and Marchioness of Lon-
ounderry with a visit at their seat, Wynyard Park,
urham.
Sir James Graham remained at the Home-office
until a late hour on Friday night. Sir James was
,Irisited by Sir Robert Peel. The Attorney-General
vv
nakt also an interview, and some of the Magistrates re-
mained in attendance at the office.
Sir Frederick Pollock, the Attorney-General, ar-
tied at the Home-office at one o'clock on Saturday.
41r. Maule, the Solicitor to the Treasury, had after-
Wards a consultation with Sir Frederick.
„ Sir James Graham paid a visit in the afternoon to
zir Robert Peel, at his residence in Whitehall
- Sir Robert afterwards left town for
Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty.
Sir John Guest, Bart., and Lord James Stuart, at-
tended at the Home-office on Friday afternoon.
Despatches from the Governor of Gibraltar were
received yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Despatches were received on Saturday from the
Governor of Sierra Leone.

LORD. BROUGHAM. On Monday last, Lord
Brougham passed through York. His Lordship visited
the Assize courts, and, on being recognized, the bar rose
simultaneously to pay respect to this illustrious member
of their profession.—Hull Advertiser.
CENTRAL CRIMINAL Comm—This morning, these
sessions commence at the Justice-hall in the Old Bailey
at ten o'clock, being the 94th, and 10th during the pre-
sent Mayoralty. An unusually long period has inter-
vened since the Court adjourned in the early part of last
kontli, in consequence of which the present calendar is
iOVonly very heavy, in a numerical point of view, but
it contains also an entry of crimes of fearful magnitude.
Among the offences charged are murder, manslaughter.
. gutting and wounding, and other grievous offences
against the person ; burglary, highway-robbery, forgery,
housebreaking, horse-stealing, and other crimes which
Were formerly punishable by death. There are, as
Usual, a vast number of domestic servants and clerks
charged with stealing and embezzling the property of
- their employers. Beyond these, there are several per-
lons charged with misdemeanours of a serious nature,
Some of %% horn are at large on heavy bail ; and many are
under a course of examination, who will be added to the
Present committals. There are several cases which were
'Postponed at the last Sessions, and of the number are
'the person who made the last attack on the Queen, and a
clerk to the firm of Morrison and Co., of Fore-street,
Who stands charged with an extensive robbery ; these
are expected to come on on Wednesday. It is conjec-
tured that the Court will be occupied at least ten days.
Lord Abinger, according to the rota, will be the presid-
jug Judge.
THE OFFICE OF HIGH BAILIFF OF SOUTHWARK
---As it has been very confidently stated in the City that
'Mr. Harvey, the Commissioner of the City Police, will
be appointed High Bailiff of Southwark, several candi-
dates have already started for the office of Commissioner
'of the City Police. The gentlemen whose names are
• given, according to the form in which they appear to be
With the Corporation, are as follows:—Captain .King-
made, Governor of Bridewell, a gentleman introduced to
'the notice of the members of the Corporation by the
Most eminent military men in the kingdom, under whom
Ihe Captain fought through the Peninsular war; Colonel
'Campbell, Colonel Angelo, Colonel Gaunt, and Major-
General Sir Burgess Carnac. These candidates are, we
,are told, all canvassing, but the Members of the Corpo-
ration are very tardy in making promises.
Twenty-seven rioters were sent off yesterday after-
noon, at two o'clock, to York Castle, in two caravans, es-
corted by a company of the 17th Lancers : they went
by way of Wetherby.—Leeds Mercury of Saturday.
THE MURDER AT SWANSEA.—On Wednesday
Morning the coroner's inquest was resumed at the Town-
hull, and evidence was brought forward, which seems to
how that the barbarous outrage was premeditated. By
the evidence of a young man, it appears that he, toge-
• tier with the five murderers, were drinking together at
public-house called the Rising Sun, and that they left
about twelve o'clock on Monday night. Soon after he
stated the whole six again met at the house of Davies,
one of the men implicated, but he denied that they met
there by, appointment. It would appear that Davies, at
whose house they met, was the instigator of the whole
affair, simply because the deceased and some other Irish-
men had undertaken to work under price. After a very
lengthened inquiry, the Jury returned a verdict of
Wilful murder" against the five prisoners, whose names
are—William Davies, William Thomas, David Rees,
John Evans, and John Lewis—all natives of Swansea
and the neighbourhood. They heard the verdict with
the greatest indifference. The name of the unfortunate
deceased was John Bowling.
BATLEY.—On Tuesday morning last, about nine
o'clock, the mill belonging to John Burnley and Son,
was besieged by four or five thousand persons, under
the guidance of a leader, who insisted upon the works
being stopped immediately. Mr. Burnley told him he
had already done so, and given orders for all the hands
to turn out. The stranger then inquired if the plug
was pulled out of the boiler ? "No," replied Mr. Burnley,
" it is not, but if you insist upon it, I will order the men
to put it out to satisfy you." "I do insist upon it," said
the stranger. "Then," said Mr. 8., "I will order it to be
taken out immediately, but when will you allow us to
go on again." " When the Charter becomes the law of
the land," was the reply.—Leeds Times.
PRINCE OEOWGE.—This gallant young soldier, we
understand, has displayed great eagerness to engage with
the people during the past week. His Royal Highness
is a young soldier, and has not yet " fleshed his maiden
sword," which may probably account for his enthusiasm.
On Tuesday, our Member, Mr. W. Beckett, had great
difficulty in persuading his Royal Highness not to offer
- forcible resistance to any numbers of people which might
be disposed to enter the town. Mr. Beckett combatted
the gallant notions of the Prince, we believe successfully.
On Wednesday, Prince George made his appear-
ance in full dress in Camp-field, Holbeck, where the
Riot Act was read to a few straggling people,
and Prince George drew his sword, and waved
it about' with great gallantry. The Prince talked
a great deal also, in very bold and decided language,
declaring his determination to resist the mob in their
attempts to stop the mills. While Prince George was
speaking, with his sword thus drawn, and the two pieces
of artillery pointed in the direction of the crowd, a few
lads got into Messrs. Titley, Tatham, and Walker's
engine-house, and pulled the plugs out, on which the
works were immediately stopped. The crowd laughed,
but Prince George was very angry. However, he gal-
lantly drew off his body of troops to the Court-house,
without having achieved any very decided victory. On
the following day, General Brotherton assumed the
command, so that Prince George's laurels may yet be in
store for him.—Leeds Times.
A. PAID AGENT OT THE TORIES EXCITING THE
POPULACE TO RIOT AND TuDIULT.—Last Monday
evening the Rev. J. Smithson, a paid Tory agent, was
busily engaged in haranguing the people congregated in
Briggate, near the end of Boar-lane. In the course of
his speech, he stated that machinery was the chief cause
of all the distress and misery that prevails throughout
the manufacturing districts, and that the working classes
' could never again be prosperous and happy until this
monster evil was removed. In all probability this person
is partially supported by subscriptions from our Tory
Magistracy, therefore they are the cause of such per-
nicious doctrines being promulgated. Who can wonder
at the riots and destruction of property that have taken
place when such men are allowed to address such lan-
guage to the people in the public streets, at the very
time--when the working classes are goaded to despera-
tion by the cries of their wives and children when they
are famishing for bread ? No doubt the Tories are the
authors-of all the riots and disturbances that have taken I
place, and in order to screen themselves they wish to
throw the whole of the blame on the Anti-Corn-law
League.—Leeds Times.
We. have been for some days aware of the reports
so prevalent of the discovery of an extensive system of
fraud in the Customs' Department. A morning paper
having noticed the fact, we can have no delicacy in
stating that that well authenticated rumour involves seven
or eight officers of the department, called landing waiters,
in the charge. We may further add, that the failure of
silk merchants iu the City led to the discovery—certain
entries in the books of the bankrupts having come under
the notice of the assignees were immediately communi-
cated to the proper authorities. We shall, for the pre-
sent, forbear, saying more than that the whole subject is
under the consideration of the Commissioners of Cus-
toms; and that our confidence in the intelligence and in-
tegrity -of the body of gentlemen who compose that
Board maybe safely taken by
.the public as a guarantee
that strict justice will be done in the matter.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
BRUSSELS( Am. 18.—The Prince of Leiningen has
just arrived at Brussels. The Prince and Princess of
Saxe Gotha, coming front Ostend, arrived this..clay at
the Palace of Bru4sels. Their Majesties the King
and Queen, in deep affliction for the death of the
Duke of Orleans, do not yet receive visitors at Lacken.
The King came after dinner to Brussels to see his
nephew and niece.
Yesterday the Minister of War reviewed all the
troops of the garrison. It was observed that many
soldiers were taken ill in cpnsequence•of exbessive heat.
Viscount de St. Aignan, Prefet of the Department
of the North, is_kfiew at Brussels, in order to prepare
the removal of difficulties which may arise when the
two sections of the iron railway from Valenciennes to
Quiveram, and from Lille to Mouseron, are opened to
the public. A:: conference will shortly be held at
Lille, where Belgian Commissioners are expected.
M. de Rumigny, the French Ambassador in Belgium,
will be one of the members of this conference. There
is reason to hop&that the remaining difficulties will
be soon removed.
BRUSSELS, AUGUST 19.—The Journal du Com-
merce d' Anvers has the following article :—" The
Wilberforce steamer, which, according to thg Royal
decree concerning the steam-boats, could only depart
on Tuesday, kept to its usual day, and left on Wed-
nesday for • Londgi with two carriages and 70 passen-
gers ; among the latter were Lord Fitzgerald, Sir
Edward Parry, and the Rev. Mr. Hankinson. We
learn that the steamer has paid to the agent of the
Government of 'the Netherlands the Scheldt toll,
under a protest against the Belgian Custom-house,
the opposition being founded on the fact that the re-
imbursement of this toll is decreed by the Legisla-
tive Chambers without any restriction, and that the
Government has...no right to violate this principle
without a law."
GOTHA, AUGUST 12.—A dreadful, fire broke out
yesterday in the village of Tanabach ; the flames were
driven by the wind, and spread with such rapidity,
that all exertions:•to check them were in vain. Of
320 houses, 142 were burned, besides the church and
the buildings attached to it. By this calamity, 1,400
persons have lost their all.
MONZINGEN ON • THE NARE, AUG. 13.—Yester-
day wine was drank in the house of M. Fuak, made
this year from the produce of his own vineyard. It
was excellent. In general we expect that the vintage
111 be of a superior quality, for the weather which
we have had for some weeks past has contributed to
the early ripening of the grape. We remember that
in the remarkable year 1811, the first wine was tried
a week later, and this was considered something very
extraordinary.
FRANKFORT, AUG. 15.—The speculators in our
wine district, expecting a very productive year, flat-
tered themselves that the meeting of the Deputies of
the Customs Union at Stutgard would comply with
their wishes, expressed in a petition, and impose a
very heavy duty on the importation of French wines.
We learn, however, that this petition has not had the
desired effect, the Deputies being resolved not to
enter upon a course that might lead to prohibition
and reprisals, the consequences of which would be very
injurious.
DUTCHTfIJNDF.—AmeTERnsm, Alia. 19.
Blaney. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 52% 52%
.Jltto, ditto 5 per cent. . . ... ......... 101% 101%
Atm t Svndic, )4 per cent 94% %
Ditto, ditto, 3)4 per cent 77 77%
Commercial Company, 4' per cent 1433,4 10
Ditto (15'5 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 percent. l4l)t 100
Exchange on London, One month l2 17)4
Two months ..... 12 15
Hamburgh, One month 35 8114
Two months 35 02%
Dutch Papers, Aug. 20.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussms, Ans. 13.
Actual Debt, 2)4 per Cent , s2m
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent 10074
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 9l
------ Three per Cent.
hlrty.seven Milli. ns, ditto
118401 lOO%
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 96
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent
National Society . .
Exchange on London Ishort)
—Brussels Papers, Aug. 19.
All,, iRI 4.1 UNOS.—VIENNA, AUG. 11
Five per Cents. Metalliques B%
Four per Cents. lOl
Three per Cents...
16%
Bank Shams
4llgemeine Zeilung, August lit

A CHEQUE. STOLEN FROM TH
CUSTOM-HOUSE.
For some time past, private investigations by the
borough Magistrates, have been going on with respect
to the circumotances attending the loss of a cheque
for 1101. 10s. 12d., from the Custom-house. It ap-
pears that on the 7th of July a cheque for that
amount, drawn on Messrs. Maddisons, was paid into
the Custom-house, by Messrs. Forders, spirit-
merchants, and' in the course of business handed
over to Mr. Graves, of that establishment. The
following day Mr. Graves missed the cheque, and
from the hurry. of business at the time it was paid,
he did not recollect whether he had put the
cheque into the cash-box, or had accidentally
laid it on hia desk. An immediate inquiry
was made at Messrs. Maddison's bank, when
it was found the cheque had been presented im-
mediately after the opening of the bank in the
morning, br -a young man named Job Earle, a porter
at the Vine Inn, and cashed by lir. Maddison with
25 five-pound notes, 5 sovereigns, and 10 shillings
and 11 pence. arle had left the town, and from that
time to this the most active exertions have been made
by P. S. Terry, - -who, on Wednesday last, in conse-
quence of , infOrmation he had obtained, proceeded to
Havre, and there with the assistance of two of the
French police, apprehended Earle, and got him on board
the steam vessel and brought him over to Southampton.
On the voyage, the prisoner, without any promise or
inducement, made the following statement :—He said
he went out one morning to fill his buckets with
water, and saw the old man who sweeps the Long
Room of".the Custom-house come down, and empty a
tub of some rubbish in which were some pieces of
paper. B r.e (the prisoner) went and searched amongst
it for son ie pieces of string, and amongst the papers
he found a cheque. He took it to the Vine, and showed
it to the nook, who could read better than he could,
and she told him it was not worth anything. After
he had 11:161 his breakfast he went up to Maddison's
bank with the cheque, and Mr. Maddison paid him the
money Witl lout a word. He gave one of the Si. notes
to his fathe r and two others to his sister-in-law, and
then went off to Bristol. Afterwards he went to
Rouen, in. :France. About a fortnight back he got
tipsy at the house of a man named Fitzpatrick, at
Rouen, ai ad during the night he h
was robbed of sixteen
of the Si. notes and some Frenc silver. The prisoner
was fully- committed to take his trial for the felony.—
Hampshire Independent.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Woomvicu, A UG. 19.—1 t has been resolved to
commemorate the birth-day of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, on 'riday next, the 26th instant, by
laying the keel ofithe Royal Albert, first-rate ship of
war, of 120 guns. Ti its fine vessel will be built from
a plan submitted to t. he Lords of the Admiralt, b
Mr. Oliver Lang, master shipwright of the
WoolwichWoi
Dockyard, and the coremtmy of
layng the
take place in the slip from w' hich Trafalgar, of 120
guns, was launched last year.
The Black Eagle, steam-vessel, Master J. B. Cook
(acting), left Woolwich on Tuesday for Chatham, and
returned yesterday evening with the Lords of the
Admiralty, who had 1313 en on a visit to that port.
The Falmouth arriv ed on Tuesday for Portsmouth.
The Avon steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Henry Byng, is exr et•ted to sail from Woolwich on
Tuesday or Wednes, la.y next, for Portsmouth and the
West Indies.
The Lords Conn nissioners of the Admiralty, in
consideration of the hard labour experienced by rope-
makers in her Majesty's employment for the use of the
navy-, &c., have ore iered Oat in future their superan-
nuation pensions sh ould be .from 20/. to 241. per annum
according to their services. This will prove an ac-,
ceptable boon to many hard-working industrious men
when unfit for further service.