The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 7, 1842,

Present rates are as under:—
R.A. R. A.
Cossimbazar and Gonatea 7 8 to 10 0 per fy. seer.

Juugypore and Baulcah 6 8 to 9 9 per bazaar seer.
Hurripaul 7 4 to 8 12 per bazaar seer.
Radnl:crore
Corahs—Business has not been brisk in this fabric
since our last report. Fine qualities only have been in
demand, and they are very scarce. There has been no-
thing doing in inferior goods. We quote—
IL B.
Best qualities, at 125 to 150 per corge.
Inferior
. .

Saltpetre—Owing to the extremely low-freight; which
prevail, and favourable accounts from Europe, this pro-
duce has maintained good prices—little of tine-quality is
procurable, and the market is supplied almost solely with
the coarser descriptions. The quoted prices are from
5-4 to 6-4 per factory maund.
Sugar—Business has been rather brisk in this staple
since our last issue, but holders have submitted to lower
rates. We may quote—
R. A. R. A.
Benares 9 2 to 11 0 per bazaar maund.
Other sorts
lihaur ...... 3 8 to 4 12 per bazaar maund.
Rum—Has been in no request ; the price is from 6
to 8 annas per gallon.
Rice— Qualities suitable to the European market have
not been in demand.

Table rice is worth from ... 2 0 to 2 4 per ba. md.
Iloonghy and Balla m... 1 2to 1 6
1-lides—The market was dull just subsequent to our last
report, but latterly some large parcels hare changed
hands at the following rates :

Slaughtered cow bides
Brined ditto 3O to 33 ditto.
Other descriptions
Buffalo 26 to 49 ditto.
Good hides are, lmever, very scarce.
Burns and horn tips are selling freely at our quota-
tions, but the stock is not large :
Buflalo horns lO to 20 per 100
Born tips
Linseed and mustard seed command very high prices
owing to the small supply of last crop, and the excellent
remittances that have been made of these articles—we
may quote :

Linseed cleansed at Rs
Mustard ditto
Safiluw•er continues in demand at former rates
Ist sot-. 2O to 25 per ba. md.
2d ditto

Turmerie—Not much hu:iness has been doing in this
article. We have heard of some having found sale at
Rs. 2 7-6 per maund ; the quoted prices are 2 4 to 2 8.
British Piece Goods—The demand since our last issue
has a little improml, particularly. in gray and white
thirtings, in illadapollauns a good business has been
clone ; lappets hare been much in request, and some ex-
tent of business has been done in scarfs ; dhootees, espe-
cially flesh-coloured bordered ones, meet a very ready
sale.

Mule Twist—The demand has remained s!cady during
the month, with little alteration in quotations.
Coloured Twist—A moderate business has been done,
and German reds have maintained :he prices of last
month ; other colours have suliCred a slight decline.
Woollen Goods—Pieces are improving in price, and
the demand for the season has commenced.
Metal—lron and Iron Goods—ln these wo cannot
observe any improvement upon our last quotations.
Lead remains at the same rate. Saltpetre has suffered
a considerable decline. Copper, both sheating and tile,
have also sustained some reduction in price since our last.
Wines, Beer, and Spirits—Wines of all descriptions
the market is full of, and only the superior qualities find
demand, and that very moderate. •
Beer—Bass and Allsop have remained at our last quo-
tations ; of the former the steck is small, and holders are
firm, requiring an advance.

THE THAMES TUNNEL.—This magnificent under-
taking is rapidly advancing to completion : the stair-
case of the shaft on the Rotherhithe side of the river
has been finished several days, and, during the
week, the men have been employed in removing the
gear, which was sold by auction some months since,
and which formed a portion of the machinery which
was originally laid down for the excavation
.of the
"shaft. the old steam-engine has been removed,. and a
new and more compact one has been erected for
the purpose of drawing off the water, which would
otherwise accumulate from the land springs. The
entrance for the public from the south side is not ex-
pected to be opened before December next. For some
weeks past the time of admission has been extended
from five o'clock at night to nine o'clock, which has
afforded an opportunity to many to see this splendid
work of art, who had not the time to spare in the
course of the day.
CHARGE OF SMUGGLING.—On Friday last, a decent-
looking female, a native of Scotland, was charged at
the Police-court with smuggling 141bs. weight of
tobacco, with which she had been stopped by police-
officer 176. The prisoner, in her defence, stated that
she had just arrived in this country in the ship
Rochester, with her child ; that her husband had died
in New York ; that she was very poor, and that the
sailors in the vessel had made up the tobacco for her
from their own stocks, so that she might dispose
of it for her support on landing. She had left
her infant child on board the vessel. An
officer was sent on board the vessel to make in-
quiries, and it appeared that she had come by the
vessel a returned emigrant, and that her child was
there. Mr. Rushton kindly sent a communication to
the Collector of Customs, to ascertain whether, under
the circumstances, he would abandon proceedings
against her ; but the reply from that gentleman Was,
that he had no power to mitigate the penalty in such
cases without directions from the Commissioners in
London. Mr. Rushton informed the prisoner of this
fact, and stated that he. was under the necessity of
imposing the penalty fixed by the statute of 1001., or,
in default, imprisonment; but be should represent
the case tb the Board, who, he hoped, would mitigate
the penalty, in which case she would be liberated
after a few days' imprisombent. Mr. Rushton or-
dered that her child should be brought from the ship
and given to her while she was detained.—Live7pool
Mercury.
:MEETING OF COLONEL FERGUSON, M.P., WITH
MIS CONSTITUENTS:—CoIoneI Ferguson delivered an
address to the electors of Kirkaldy, in the Town-hall,
on Monday evening, Provost Swan in the chair. He
briefly detailed the proceedings of the late session of
Parliament, and stated the reasons for the votes
he had given, which appeared satisfactory to the electors
present at the meeting. He said that during the
course of the session he had been unbiassed by 'party
feeling, and that althcugh he had in general been hos-
tile to the policy pursued by the present Administra-
tion, he had nevertheless, in some instances, given it
his support. The measures in favour of free trade
which passed last session he considered erroneous, but
was of opinion that some good would result to the
country by their adoption. He had supported a great
part of the measures proposed by the Liberal party in
Parliament; and although he could not conscientiously
vote for universal suffrage, he had supported Mr. S.
Crawford's motion for inquiry on the subject. No
elector present interrogated the Colonel, with the
exception of Mr. William Lockhart, who wished to be
informed how the existing difficulties of the country
could be removed. The Colonel said he could easily
answer the question but would refer Mr. Lockhart
for information to Sir Robert Peel and the Ministry.
A motion of confidence in Colonel Ferguson as the re-
presentative of the burgh was afterwards proposed and
unanimously agreed to.—Fifeshire Journal.
DEATH OF SIR JOHN CROSS.—We regret to an-
nounce that Sir John Cross, Judge of the Court of
Review, expired on Saturday afternoon, at his house,
in Whitehall-place. The death of the Learned Judge
was quite sudden, as he had been out during the fore-
noon taking his usual exercise. His Lordship was
for a great number of years well-known on the North-
ern Circuit, when Sergeant Cross, and was the leading
advocate in the well-known cause of Turner v. Wake-
field.

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tuntcootnhne.en:
Tiiz LATE DR. lIERSCIIELL
metropolis
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their
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respectiveny thega:
places of devotion, for the purpose of offering up
prayers and thanksgivings to the Almighty for the
repose of the departed soul of the late Dr. fierschell,
Chief Dignitary and. Rabbi of the Synagogue, on
which occasion, also, contributions were received
from all who have the means to give toward the
support of the poor. The new Synagogue in St. Helen's
was hung with black velvet and crape, and the mar-
ble pedestals, in connexion with the altar, were orna-
mented with festoons of black crape and velvet. Over
the reading-desk was a covering of rich damask, mag-
nificently embroidered, and which is only devoted to
occasions similar to that it was used for on Saturday. A
funeral prayer, which is exclusively chaunted on the
'death of a Chief Rabbi, was performed by the Reader,
assisted by the congregation. The entire funeral ser-
vice was also different from the ordinary practice.
The whole of the ceremonial, in the course of which
no singing was permitted, was conducted in the most
solemn manner. At the Great Synagogue, in Duke's-
place, Aldgate, the same solemnities were proceeded
with. Sir Moses Montefiore, Messrs. D. Salomons,
Aaron Cohen, Henry Moses, &c., attended at their
respective synagogues, and about 2001. was subscribed.
The mourning will continue for thirty days, and on
all holidays throughout the year prayer will be offered
up. The successor of Dr. Herschell has not yet
been named.

On the 24th ult. a man, named Chapuizot, an inha-
bitant of the hamlet of Azzouville, in the Eure-et-
Loire, aged 65, attempted to carry into execution a
threat he had repeated!), made of making away with
his wife, by setting fire to the straw mattress of the
bed on which she was asleep. Ilis pro:ect was, how-
ever, defeated by the timely assistance rendered by
the neighbours. The Magistrates wore sent for, but
when they arrived Chapmzot was found dead in a
loft, where he had hung himself.
Five young men were, some days ago, sailing on
the Seine, near Mantes, when, by a sudden gust oj
wind, their little boat was upset, and they were all
plunged into the water. Four of them saved them-
selves by swimming to shore, but the fifth, a very fine
youth of 19, was drowned.

The LORD MAYOR then declared the show of hands
to be in favour of Mr. Payne and Mr. Pritchard.
Several gentlemen immediately left the Court de- I
termined to take no part in the election.
The numbers were then taken, which were as fol-
lows :

Pritchard BO
Payne
Eight gentlemen recorded their totes in favour of
Mr. Harvey.
Only eight Aldermen polled, all of whom gave
their votes in favour of Mr. Payne.

AN AERIAL STEAM CARRIAGE.
This is the name which has been given to a new
machine, for which a Company has taken out a
patent, and which is to convey passengers, goods, and
dispatches through the air, performing the journey
from London to India in four •days ! and to travel at
the rate of from 75 to 100 miles per hour.
At the first glance of such an announcement our
readers will doubtless feel disposed to treat it as some
chimerical absurdity, written merely to excite wonder
and expressly fox-the marvel-loving mass of society;
but the facts connected with the subject are of a kind
to diminish disbelief, at least as to the truth of such
a contrivance being in process of formation. A com-
pany of gentlemenis really formed even of mechanical
men : the patent was formally sealed on the 29th
of September last, and systematic arrangements are
in progress to complete the design. At least this
would prove that the inventors and their supporters
are. well convinced of the certainty of their invention ;
land, wonderful as may appear this • announced stride
in science, we may surely pause in our incredulity
when .we remember with what unbelief the proposi-
tion to light the metropolis with an invisible fluid was
received—and when we know that seventy years since
we should have been deemed madmEn if we •had
stated that we should thereafter travel at the rate of
forty to sixty miles an hour. In such an age
of improvement, we really have no right Or
precedent, to deny the possibility of this mea,.
sure, and, therefore, we allude as we do to the fact
of such a steam-carriage being, not only contem-
plated, but in the engineer's hands, to be borne on the
air, unlike the principle of the balloon, and to which
even the winds are to be made subservient !

The subject is one so replete with matter for spe-
culation, that we will not venture to point out the
consequences which would occur—still, not denying
the rapid transit to be practicable, and even likely to
be carried into operation ; but in January the ma-
chine will be thoroughly organised, and until then
we take leave of the subject, and only trust that this
alleged -invention is neither exaggerated, nor an
Utopian project ; and from the conversation we had
with those in connexion with the design, we have every
reason to believe that neither is the case.—Atlas.

HORRIBLE INFANTICIDES.
SIX INFANTS MURDERED BY THEIR
MOTHER.

We haVe this week the painful duty of recording
a case of long continued and inhuman depravity
almost unparalleled In the annals of crime. It ap-
pears that a woman named Frances Bennett, residing
at Ruardean-hill, in the Forest of Dean, being very
ill, and probably fearing to 'die with the undivulged
guilt of murder upon her conscience, commu-
nicated to the Reverend Henry Formby, curate
of Ruardean, that about twelve months since
she became the mother of a child by a
man named Thomas Yapp, with whom she has `been
cohabiting for about eight or ten years, which child,
after it had lived a few days, she destroyed• by poi-
soning it, after which she and Yapp buried it be-
neath the pavement of the brewhouse. The wretched
woman further added that she had been the mother
of five other children by the same man, all of whom
she had murdered at their birth, and with Y app's
assistance had buried their bodies at separate spots
beneath the floor of the brewhouse, and near a barn
adjoining her cottage.
These horrid confessions seemed, from their unex-
ampled atrocity, to be more like the ravings of deli.
rium than truth ; but upon information being given to
the police, and a search being made in the spots indi-
cated by the unnatural woman, the skeletons of her six
murdered offspring were all found, and stamped truth
upon a tale much too horridelse for belief. Upon this
Yapp was taken into custody, and a policeman, we
believe, remained to take charge of the woman, who
repeated her confession to her sister and afterwards to
the policeman, Towler. The facts were intimated
to J. Cook, Esq., and a warrant was issued for sum-
moning a jury to hold an inquest. By this time, how-
ever, the woman, Frances Bennett, had recovered in
a measure the hardihood of her character; and on
the inquest, which was held on Tuesday last she
positively denied that she had ever given birth to
any children, except to two which she bore to her late
husband, and which were alive now ; and she strongly
persisted that she had never made any communica-
tion such as tha4 above stated, either to her sister, to
the policeman Fowler, or to the clergyman, the Rev.
Mr. Formby. The latter gentleman was examined by
the Coroner, and deposed as above ; and he further
admitted that the woman had subsequently made fur-
ther disclosures and confessions to him, but as they
were made to him in his spiritual capacity, he must
decline to divulge them. After, without effect, en-
deavouring to prevail upon Mr. Formby to state all
that the woman had told him, and after unavailing re-
monstrances against the withholding of evidence, the
Coroner left the point as it stood, and passed on to the
examination of the sister of Frances Bennett, whose
evidence was to the effect that on Saturday last,
October 29, she was with her sister, who had been
in a weak state of health for some time time, and hail
been confined to her bed for about a week ; that before
Mr. Formby called, her sister made an alarm, and ex-
claimed that she would have her dead children dug up
and buried in the churchyard. She said that immedi-
ately after the infants were born she held them under
water till they were dead, and that then she and
Yapp buried them. She added that the last of the
six children was not served in this way, but lived for
two days; and that it was weakly, and she gave it
some arsenic and it died ; that •Yapp was
very sorry when he found this child was
dead, and said he would not have lost it
for fifty pounds; 'and that they both toge-
ther buried the child in the brewhouse. At this
stage of the proceedings it was thought advisable to
adjourn the inquiry, in order to afford opportunity
for further and more deliberate inquiry into the cir-
cumstances of the mysterious and very extraordinary
case, and the inquest was accordingly adjourned till
'Wednesday the 9th instant.

THE CASE OF CAPTAIN DOUGLAS

A writ of habeas was this morning moved for
in the Bail Court to bring up this gentleman,
who was committed on Friday as a deserter
from the East India Company's service. The writ
was moved for by Mr. Chambers, and was
granted by Mr. Justice Patteson, and it was expected
that Capt. Douglas would have been brought up be-
fore the full Court. It had been understood that he
would not be removed from Tothill-fields before half
after two o'clock. .On the messenger arriving at the
prison at quarter before two o'clock for the purpose of
serving the habeas, he was informed that Captain
Douglas had been removed from the Bridewell about
a quarter of an hour before for Chatham in custody.
Messengers were instantly dispatched with the
writ, in order, if possible, to overtake the prisoner
before he shall be removed out of. the jurisdiction of
the Court. This sudden remaial is rather sharp prac-
tice on the part of the East India Company.

CHINESE ARTS AND ARMS.—We shall not attempt
a description of the arts in use by so artful a people as
the Chinese. Suffice it to say, that Chinese society is
one " Royal Society of Arts," of which the Emperor
is perpetual President, and every individual in the
nation a life-member. As to their arms—the arms
of the Chinese are almost as curious as the feet of
their wives. Their weapons are not numerous. Their
swords, like all bad arguments, may be said to cut
two ways, for they sometimes kill themselves with
them instead of their enemies. Their guns are
match-locks, and each soldier who carries a gun, car-
ries also a math-lock for himself, though no match for
us. Their cannon are so formidable, and so fearfully
constructed, that our soldiers, when they have cap-
tured one (which they rarely succeed in doing unless
they try), are actually afraid to fire them for fear
they should burst. Their bows and arrows are per-
haps their best weapons, for if they hurt nobody else
with them, at least they don't hurt themselves. We
should be inclined to think that the most truly de-
structive of all their instruments of war are (strange
to say) defensive weapons—namely, their shields—
for on these they paint such dreadful faces, that the
very sight of them has been known to make English
soldiers fall down, and almost die,--of laughing. The
effect produced on the nerves of weak people, when
they behold specimens of all these tremendous imple-
ments of destruction collected together in one spot,
may be imagined, but cannot be described.—Punch.
IDicd, lately, at Rumncy Ironworks, Mrs. Joyce,
aged 108. She was the mother, grandmother, great-
grandmother, and great-great-grandmother of 105
children.

WOOD PAVING.—On Saturday the first section of
a new system of wood paving was laid down at the
entrance to Lombard-street. It is called by the in-
ventor the " Stereoprism " system, and is about the
sixth now upon trial in the metropolis.
BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, Nov. 4.—Sugars con-
tinue exceedingly brisk, and anything good, more par-
ticularly in groceries, is eagerly taken at gradually
advancing rates. The stocks are decreasing, and con-
fidence in future prices seems to he perfectly esta-
blished. Our fruit-market is in a sate of confusion,
owing to peculiar local circumstances, and although
the quality of this year's import is much finer than
usual, prices of currants are daily declining, and will
not now bring more than 50s. Valentia,s, 368.
Bristol Mercury. _ ,