The Sun. — London, England, 1829-08-06 00:00:00

IRELAND. DUBLIN, AUG. 3. We have great pleasure in giving publicity to th e address presente d by th e P res byt er i an S yno d °f NUnster to the Lord Lieutenant. It breathes a s Pirit of true patriotism and Christian benevo ienee highly creditable to that body. Happy "uld it be for this distracted country if such Sentiments were adopted and acted upon by the r~e Prot es t an t p o pulation of Ireland. The t e erest P L Y of his Grace will be read with deep in- Friday, the 31st ult., a deputation of idhisters and Elders from the Presbyterian Yood of Munster waited upon his Grace the 1 , 4 °l 4 Lieutenant, at the Viceregal Lodge, in the 6111. x Park, with the following address : I. ° Fits GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, 1611 n LIEUTENANT-GENERAL AND GENERAL GO- Ve RNOR OF IRELAND, &C. tt till Elders it pl e ase your Grace,—We, the Ministers' t i ll Elde rs o f t h e S out h ern A ssoc i a ti on , or Presby terian Sy no d o f M unster , g l a dl y em b race t h e ear li est of r:sion afforded us by our Annual Meeting, to 't our cordial congratulations on your Grace's til v ointment to the chief government of this t:sititry ; an d to renew our assurances o f f a i t hf u l nYalty to o ur b e l ove d S overe i gn , an d of st ea df as t eti tu Ilttachttent to the principles of our matchless Con tio d. `` The commencement of your Grace's administra t',,n has h a d t h e pecu li ar f e li c i ty o f b e i ng mar k e d b y o r it e settlem en t o f a grea t p o li t i ca l question, which h many generations has agitated this country, and a trueted every plan for its prosperity and improve talit. The mild and impartial spirit of your Grace's o vernment has inspired us with the pleasing hope 14 it is reserved for your Grace to be the happy instrument of perfecting his Majesty's wishes in this WPortant measure; and that its salutary effects 11 be speedily manifested in the subsiding of rty violence, and the union of all hearts and hands I I : fidelit y to t h e K i ng, respect f or t h e l aws, an d ve for one another. Internal concord being e stabli s h e d , we trust that means will be found, of your Grace's wise and benevolent patronage, e xciting to useful industry the indigent and un -4,13,10yed p opu l at i on o f t h e i s l an d, an d o f e ff ectua ll y t i u nng forth h er vas t resource s to contribute their of proportion to the general welfare and prosperity "le British empire. tat 7,Should your Grace's patriotic efforts be at nti these happy consequences, your ad "olyrstration in Ireland will add fresh lustre to the aid • 11 of the ancient and noble house of Percy; t i o It will be imperishably recorded in the recollec t': or a grateful people. h e Permi t us to assure your Grace, that it is the . ' toattfelt desire of the members of our communion /to e } ? -o Perat e , t o t h e u t mos t of ou r power, in pro onr 4 ng these important objects; and thus to evince gratitude for the unrestricted religious liberty, b e Z t • ecti ", and support, which we enjoy under the .V L sway of our most gracious Sovereign. i n oat y our Grace may promote your own hap ess)ll advancing the permanent prosperity of L e :u, is our fervent prayer. 8 '"'gried, in the name and on the behalf of the Plod of Munster), " S. HANS SLOANE, LL.D., Moderator. " JAMES ARMSTRONG, Clerk." HIS GRACE THE LORD LIEUTENANT'S REPLY. Gentl emen ,—l t h an k you f or t h e a dd re ss which t er , 4 •2'are presented to me on behalf of the Presby ` Synod of Munster. stir i• repos e an i mp li c i t f a i t h in your proffered as „tances of d evote d l o yalty to the King, and of l e eadf ast attachme n t to the principles of our match -B,a, Constitution. l le th e pale of this Constitution we benefits h are now tai ti - ti Tusion. Its honours and its at euole by all; and I am sure, gentlemen, that you in 'c'Perate with th ogres ood cof ver cred g ac celerating the pof itizens civilizati e y e on, and in o l e n ti ring for Ireland the two great temporal blessin gs Christianity—' peace on earth, and good-will to wards men.'"—Freeman's Journal. THE ARMY. ord Th er e 34 th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot is under Th e t° p r oceed to Halifax. tion e d 63 d (Shropshire) Regiment of Infantry, now sta pm at Bi rr , is under orders for Gibraltar. r . 411 e 6 7th (W es t Middlesex) Regiment of F oo t h as re orders to proceed from New South Wales to India. Th e 2d battalion of the 60th Rifle Corps has received ti ( 2 l 4 , on being relieved in the West Indies by the 65th ~t N. Riding), to return to England. coed'he 73d Regiment of Foot has received orders to pro tfrnin Gibraltar to Malta. beinv"e 7 4th Regiment of Infantry has received orders, on to b ,7„,._ te 'ieved at Bermuda by the 81st Regiment of Foot, ` - '''ced to Ireland. INDIAN ARMY. t a i, s - e Government Gazette of Calcutta, of Feb. 18, con k, the foll ow i ng proport i on o f pr i ze money t h at w ill f a ll Hs share of each individual concerned in the taking of 12 t 4 h rt 1 30 re. The booty was to commence paying on the 411,1 1'e bruary, and to continue until the 19th June, when to n - " l tes then remaining unclaimed were to be paid over to is'overnment ; those for the European part of the Army frremitted to England, and those for the Native part t he Ar my to b e reta i ne d i n I n di a, su bj ect to b e c l a i me d u eaf ter for six years. The sum to be distributed amounts Plvarde of forty-eight lacs of rupees : SCALE OF DISTRIBUTION. Amount for each Rank. Sa. Rs. A. P. , t t' ll ander-in-Chief, being one-eighth of 4" 4 e whole 595,398 13 10 I: 4J°I. and Brigadier Generals 59,546 14, 0 le t u i t enant Colonels, Inspector of Hospi ,,4'B, Adjutant General, Quarter Master "eneral, Judge Advocate General, Com ll'i.i"ftry General, Brigadiers and Lieu 14":31ant Colonels Commandant 14,291 4 0 aJort, Superintending Surgeons, Deputy 4 "..intant, Quarter Master, and COM-. e ft 'ulstary Pt4 i 4B ,Surgeons, Paymasters, Assist i'tB and Deputy Assistants in the Ad- Altant, Quarter Master and Commissary G enerals' Departments, Brigade Ma t°,42 Aid es -d e -C am p an d S u rgeon to `e Com man d er -i n -Chi e f 4,Li4 lterns, Assistant Surgeons, Quarter 41 asters, Adjutants, Veterinary Sur-. goons, and Deputy Assistant Commis -11 of Ordnance .. °L unt eers 4O 5 0 I l ductors, Provost Marshal, Riding aqasters, Apothecaries, Stewards, and ti ki la-Assistant Veterinary Surgeons b ' Condu c t or s, As s i s tant Apothecaries, OM Stewards l2O 15 0 litnental Sergeant Majors, Quarter Mas ter Sergeants, Staff Sergeants, and gltde r ° 0 1) Sergeant Majors l2O 15 0 and Colour Sergeants, Trumpet Drum Majors and Sergeants BO 10 0 "Torah', Bombadiers, Drummers, Pri ht % 301. el , ' and Hospital Apprentices 4O 5 0 S~uaclar Majors %dars ' Russuldars, and Woordee Major s ,l,_ 282 3 0 120 15 Nars, • Naib Russuldars tvildars Drum and Trumpet Majors, Nat • ' 53 12 ive Doctors Nishoun Burdars, Khote Duffs, 1 ,.1 111 , Duff a d a r s , Drummers, and Sepoys, Nature Farriers and Regular Bheesties 26 14 0 tip - 4 YMARKET THEATRE.—Another transla n f hp % ',ern the French, entitled Nothing Surperfluous, was fr o ,„glt out last night at this theatre. It is, we learn, t t i;"_!lte . p en of Mr. THOMPSON, the actor, and was re- With applause. kr IVT n oe -• ....YER MYERS, hatter, No. 11, Stag tionj Hounsditch, is not the Mr. MYERS, lately men ' In our Police Report, as accused of fraud. t he of the American Patriots who signed the Y tt e? i ,l,tion of Independence on the 4 th of July, 1 776, is CHARLES CARROLL, of Lambton, in Maryland. lil t v enerable man took part in the public rejoicings on Ott Anniversary. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHANGES. The Duke of Devonshire and Mr. William Howard, at De vonshire House, from Worthing; Viscount and Lady Frances Sandon, on a tour; the Duke of Manchester, for Kimbolton Castle; the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, from St. ,James's -square, to Bishops Stortford, Herts ; Viscount Chabot, from Talke's Hotel (late Miller's), Jermyn-street, from Scotland; Miss Wykeham, at Crescent Lodge, Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell and family, from Charles-street, Berkeley-square, for Germany ; S:r Jacob D. Astley, Bart. for Everleigh Hall, near I'ensey, Wiltshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Bromley, from Thames Dittos, for Ramsgate; the Right Hon. William Dundas, for Pitchford Hall, near Shrewsbury ; Capt. Courtenay, in Brook-street, from the Netherlands ; Colonel and Mrs. Robarts, for Russell Farm, in Hertfordshire; Captain Kennedy, in Pall-mall, from Dublin ; the Earl and Countess of Kinnoull, for Duppin Castle, in Fifeshire ; Captain Hastings, in Piccadilly, from Malta ; Mr. and Mrs. Clifton, for Wellington-crescent, Ramsgate; Major Maclean, in Regent-street, from the lonian Islands ; Sir William Rowley, Bart. for Tendring Hall, near Stoke, Suffolk; John Wallace, Esq. at the Blenheim Hotel, Bond-street, from Margate; Capt. Spencer, in St. James's-street, from the Hague. ARRIVALS AT BRIGHTON. Mr. and Mrs. Selby, Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds and family, Mrs. and Miss Gregory, Lord Southwell, Mr. Southwell, Captain Volley, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Joy, Mr. Matson, Mr. Broadhurst, Captain Mason, Mr. W. C. Dutton, Mr. J. Postlethwaite, Mr. A. Rodick, Mr. Byrne, Mr. Pole, Mr. Hewlett, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Johnson, Hon. It. Edwards, Earl of Surrey, Hon. Captain and Mrs. Poulet, Viscount Seaford, Lady and the Misses Hardy, Lady East and Miss Fenton, Misses Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. H. Gallon, Messrs. and Miss Barclay, Col. and Mrs. Achmuty, Mr. and Mrs. Crowe, Mrs. Powney, Messrs. Measure, Wharton, Otway Cave, Cologan, Harrock, Benhow ; Count Pulbees, Count Mot Pulbees, Mr. and Miss Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. Hale and family, Mr. Valentine, Dr. Kavanagh, Mr. Bland, Captain Chisholme, Mr. Mrs. and Miss Smith, Major and Mrs. Algeo, Captain Kinloch, Miss Williams Wynne, Hon. Mr. Petre, Mr. and Mrs. Wingrove. ARRIVALS AT BATH. Lord Hawke, Sir Charles Dance, Hon. Mrs. Waldegrave, Viscount Ennismore, Hon. Miss Hare, Sir John and Lady Ma joribanks, Lord W. and Lady Paget, Marchioness of Hertford, Hon. Mr. King, Admiral and Mrs. Sotheby and family, Gen. Wilson, Colonels Cleveland, Kepp, Smelt, Danbury, Nignor ; Lieut.-Colonel Cooper; Captains Ambrose, Dobyn, Dengell ; Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Knollis, Ward ; Mr. and Mrs. Bastard, Duncan, Hardman, Furse, Oldham, Newton, Murray, Glubb ; Messrs. Estcott, Mills, Simpson, Knight, Davidson, Stewart, Barton, Chichester, Cruise, Davis, Evans, Fowles, two Gurney, Harming, Harris, Lewes, Meares, Osborne, Popham, Richards, Stone, Stevens, Thackeray, Thomas, Welch, Tudway, Wathen, Ricketts, Blackwell, Aldridge, Dick, and Webber; Mistresses Davis, Evans, Maguire, Barton, Ferris, Robins, Willis ; Misses Bevan, Collis, Willis, McMullen, Thomas, Lewis, Page, &c. ARRIVALS AT TUNBRIDGE WELLS. Rev. Mr. Mills, Rev. Mr. Kelson, Mr. and Mrs. Hilder, Mrs. Benson, Mr. Lloyd, Rev. Mr. Crawley, Mrs. Crawley and family, Mr. Rogers and son, Mr. Lewis, Mr. H. Griffith and friend, Mr. W. B. Lennard, M.P., Mr. Smith, Mr. Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Mercer and family, Mrs. and Miss Cheap, Mrs. Rowlinson, Miss Carter, Mrs. Meleux and family, Mrs. Factor, Mrs. Brewyeure, Mr. and Mrs. Laugher, Mr. and the Misses Horsenails, Count Verouski, Monsieur Vaikleur, Mr., Mrs., and the Misses Loyd and friends, Captain Heathcot, Mr. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. Allnutt and friend, Mr. and Mrs. Hennesey, the Earl and Coun tess of Chichester, Lord Kinnaird and the Hon. Arthur Kin naird, Mrs. Wild and family, Mrs. and Miss Bethell, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Green, Colonel and Mrs. Hugh Baillie and family, Mrs. Levingstone, Mr. Cohen, Mrs. Francis Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. James Peirce, Hon. Mrs. Pelham, Mrs. and Miss Davis, Mrs. and Miss T. Clarke, Capt. Freeman. The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE ar rived in town about eleven o'clock yesterday morning from their residence in Bushy Park. Soon after their ar rival the Princess SOPHIA came to pay a visit to their Royal Highnesses, and was accompanied on her return to the King's Palace, at Kensington, by the Duchess of CLARENCE. The Duke of WELLINGTON left his residence in Downing-street yesterday morning, and proceeded to the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park, where his Grace had an audience of the Knic, and afterwards returned to town about five o'clock iu the afternoon. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial Office, for the Hon. General PoNsorun", the Lieutenant-Governor of Malta, and also to Sir G. Dow, the Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar. Several Gentlemen of the Committee of West India Merchants and Planters, headed by Mr. G. Hia aERT, attended at the Treasury yesterday, and had a con ference with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. The Prussian Minister had an interview with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at the Foreign Office, Downing-street. The LORD MAYOR transacted business yes terday at the Treasury. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL and the KING'S AnvocArz transacted business yesterday at the Foreigm Office. Sir ALEXANDER GRANT entertained some of the Cabinet Ministers and a select party to dinner yes terday, at his residence in Privy Gardens. The residence of the Duke of CUMBERLAND in the King's Palace, St. James's, has undergone a thorough and substantial repair, both in the interior and also its ex terior. The drawiug-room, and several rooms en suite leading to it, have a most splendid and elegant appearance ; they have been papered with a handsome crimson flock paper, the cornices of the rooms and the mouldings have been newly gilt, and the furniture, some of which is new, is very elegant. The Duke of CUMBERLAND left London at a very early hour on Tuesday morning, to meet his Duchess and Prince Gronos, who are on their way to England, and accompany them to London. We understand that so large a sum has been given for the copyright of the " Life and Correspondence of Locke," by Lord KING, that it is not in contemplation to publish it in any other than its present form, of which a very large impression has been printed to supply the ex pected demand. BURKE'S NEW PEERAGE AND BARONET- A6E.—Thib popular work, the third edition of which has recently appeared, justly deserves to be considered as a History of the British Nobility. It is enriched by a va riety of personal anecdotes, never before published, rela tive to many illustrious houses, in addition to numerous authentic details connected with their lineage, and com municated to the author by the noble inheritors of the titles. The volume, containing 900 pages of letter-pre e, is mereover illustrated with upwards of 1,500 heraldic plates, is printed in double columns with a remarkably clear and beautiful type, and comprises a quantity of mat ter equal to no less than twelve octavo volumes! TRAIT OF A PRIVATE SOLDIER.-JAS. MANSFIELD, a private soldier of the 45th regiment, was, with many others, left wounded on the field at Talavera ; and when circumstances permitted these men to be re moved from it, a report was made to his Captain that MANSFIELD refused any assistance, but begged to see hill where he lay. His Captain went accordingly ; and after re remonstrating with him, was answered, " It is of no use, Sir—my hour is come ; but I have two requests to make, which I rely on you to answer justly." " Have I done my duty as a good and brave soldier e" "Most undoubt edly, MANSFIELD; like an excellent one." " The se cond is, that you will promise that the balance of my accounts shall he transmitted to my wife." " I promise It shall be faithfully done." " Well, then, I die happy and contented." It was the spirit of ABERCROMBIE in the humblest rank of the army.— United Service Jour. The last New York Papers state that Ex- Sheriff PARKINS killed a mad dog in the streets of that city, on the 3d of July, by knocking him down and run ning him through with a cane sword. A curious case of crim. con. came on for hearing on Tuesday before the Tribunal of Correctional Police at Paris. An artisan named Fasces was the plain tiff, and one of his friends, named LIAIS, and the wife of. FARGIS, the defendants. The fact of adultery was not denied ; but it was shown that the plaintiff had been privy to and approver of the conduct of his wife, as he had not only consented to her cohabiting with Lials, but even gave him a promissory note for 300 franca for her main tenance. This note not being paid when due, FARGIS was threatened with an action for the recovery of the amount, on which he took vengeance by prosecuting the parties for adultery. The defendants were declared guilty, but considering the infamous participation of the husband in their guilt, the Tribunal sentenced Madame FARGIS to imprisonment for only three months, and her paramour for one month.— Galignani's Messenger. On Monday night about 11 o'clock, as a gen tleman of the name of SCOTT, accompanied by his wife, was passing along St. John's -street, Clerkenwell, he was knocked down and robbed of a valuable silver hunting watch and two gold seals, by three desperate villains, who appeared to be lying in wait near the Bull public-house. He seized hold of the fellow who bad possession of the watch, and struggled hard to secure him, until he should obtain assistance, for which he loudly cried ; but being violently assaulted by the other two, who beat and kicked him all over the body, lie was obliged to let him go, and they all effected their escape. One remarkable circum stance attending this daring act of highway robbery is, that the watchman is said to have been near at hand all the time. THE BOOK OF THE BOUDOIR, 2 Vols. LONDON, 1829. The first volume of thiii work is one of the most amusing awl miscellaneous of any that has yet proceeded from the pen of Lady Morgan. It is anecdotical, critical, metaphysical ; spiced with humour, and sarcasm, and raillery ; and penned in that easy flowing style of eloquence so peculiar to the old French .memoir writers, of whose manner it is a manifest, and, we may add, a successful imitation. The second volume is less acceptable, for this reason, it is more pe dantic and ambitious. Her ladyship there busies herself occasionally with abstruse topics, and throws off a dogma, or shows up a fallacy, with all the assurance of a thorough-bred metaphy sician. Yet we know not that we ought to con demn this assumption, for it is really one of the principal charms of the work. It serves to im part a decided tone and character to it ; to give it a mark, likelihood, and individuality; to flavour it and keep it " green,"—as Mr. Moore would say—in memory. Lady Morgan gives us a taste of every thing in the shape of sentiment, criticism, anecdote, and metaphysics. She cuts a joke in one page, moralizes in a second, tells an anecdote in a third, flings down an apophthegm in a fourth. At one moment she is all diffi dence and apprehension, at another she ex hibits a model of easy assurance. Now she shows herself off as a patriot, now as a politician, and now as a woman of fashion and frivolity. In every case, however, whether patriot, aristo crat, critic, or metaphysician, she renders herself exceedingly agreeable, though we must confess we prefer her most, where she is most lively. Her serious matters are very serious matters in deed, and have a stiff, forced, unnatural air about them, like Dominic Sampson's laugh, which caused his landlady to miscarry. In addition to this we have to blame her Ladyship for her perpetual sneers at Johnson. This is either a proof of bad taste, ignorance, or of a childish wish to appear original. Does the authoress of those very silly and now forgotten fictions, the " Novice of St. Dominick," the " Wild Irish Girl," the " Missionary," " Ida of Athens," " St. Clair," &c., really imagine that the man who penned " Rasselas," who criticised Pope, Dryden, and the metaphysical poets of Eng- land, who wrote that masterly pamphlet, un rivalled in style and vigour, the " Falkland Islands," and paraphrased Juvenal with a grave majesty scarcely inferior to the original—does her Ladyship imagine that such an author was really as insignificant as she would lead us to infer ? If so, we conjure her, with all speed, to drop so preposterous a notion. The gruff old lion of Bolt-court, however purblind in some of his opinions, and beset with pre judices for which the age was more to blame than himself, was a giant com pared with the pigmy philosophers of the pre sent day, and will be read with wonder and delight, years after the Cockney metaphysicians and petticoat politicians of 1829 are forgotten. But we are in no humour to quarrel with Lady Morgan ; with all her faults she is a delightful clever writer, and even her conceits are better than the correct prosings of some others that we could name. What, for instance, can be more animated than the style of the subjoined extract ? "In the long list of biographical egotism, I know bu of two persons who have got out of the scrape hand somely ; Caesar, the tactician in taste as in war, with his third person, , and Buonaparte, who talks of his splendid views, and wondrous combinations, in a manner that makes the individuality of the man disappear before his powerful and personified intellect. I allude to the sketches and scraps dictated by him to Las Casas, &c. at St. Helena. His life was a perfect epic—one great dra matic action. What a subject he would have been for Shakspeare ! There is nothing of scenic effect in Richard the Third, or Julius Caesar, finer than the picturesque situations so carelessly traced by the military pen of Ro vigo. For instance—Buonaparte crossing the Red Sea at the head of his legions, precisely where Moses led his Israelites ; the peril in which his dauntless daring placed his devoted followers ; and his saving them by one of those rapid decisions of mind which characterize the in genuity, as well as the firmness of genius. In all the great exigencies, the man, as well as ' the woman, who deliberates, is lost !' Another scene, still more picturesque occurred the night before the battle of Austerlitz,—the moon shining at its full upon the field, strewn with legions of the brave, who all, save the watch guards, slept,—how many soon to sleep for ever !—the Emperor, in the midst of his army, stretched upon straw, under a rude shed, raised over his head by the tenderness of his soldiers, and sleeping so pro foundly that his aid-de-camp was compelled to shake him roughly, when it was necessary that he should be roused to learn some movement of the enemy—his instantly vaulting on his saddled horse—his gallop to the out-post, and perilous survey of the Russian manoeuvre—his return to his bivouac—his being recognised by the drowsy troops, whose rest his horse's tramp had broken,—their cry, of vine l'Empereur !—the lighting of straw torches, a spon taneous honour to their chief, till the whole field blazed— his return to his couch, and to that deep sleep from which he was to awaken to the crowning victory of his great career, that laid the throne of the western Caesars at his feet, and placed the destinies of the Emperors of the East in his hands ! " One picture more, and I have done. The time, the evening before the battle of Jena, when Napoleon found the artillery, which was to open the action, blocked up in a rocky ravine, from which it could neither advance nor retreat. His concentrated rage, his terrible silence, un broken by one reproach of the unskilful Commandant— his instant decision, activity, and remedy of the evil. Re suming his first vocation of a working engineer, he hastily gathers the cannoniers round him, distributing to one a torch, to another a pickaxe. Then placing himself at their head, he clears the brambles, cleaves the rocks, and opens a passage for the guns; and when the first carriage has passed, returns again to those obedient slumbers, which, like all else, then awaited on his powerful will." It is curious to mark the amazing assumption, affectation, and pedantry, that of late years have crept even into our lighter literature. One novelist gravely sets down the inhabitants of Russell and Bedford Squares as barbarians unfit to be associated with ; another condemns all who use steel forks at dinner ; a third denounces the lovers of port wine ; and now we have Lady Morgan, stepping oracularly forward, and asserting that " the man who visits you in the morning in a milk-white waistcoat, or the woman who in the evening, when she is an nounced, stops to make a curtsey at the door of your drawing-room, must be wholly beyond the pale of social redemption." , How ever innocent, however amusing such affectation — and our modern novels abound in it—may appear, it is not without its effect on an age which is no toriously influenced by the authority of a few glittering names in literature, and is but too 11 uuc ,y aSlae cne Ilattirai ai►u MC ,ealthy, for the false and the affected in intel- Acct. For this reason we feel bound to enter our' protest against it ; private and individual coxcombry is harmless and may be tolerated; but when is taints the current literature of a nation, and even finds admirers and imitators, it becomes a public nuisance. We have said that Lady Morgan is pedantic : we repeat that assertion. She has an absurd trick of mixirg up French and Italian phrases with her English, and, above all, of coining words which are utterly without meaning. For instance, she uses " popularized" for the acquisition of popularity—" impulsion" for impulse—" pre coce" for precocious—and a variety of other ex pressions which are significant of any thing rather than sense or judgment. Having said thus much in condemnation of the authoress of that delight ful tale " O'Donnell," we shall now hasten to make—as far as we can with justice—the amende honorable by asserting that the " Book of the Boudoir" is a brilliant, animated, entertaining, and even instructive Miscellany. We forgive its quaintnesses and conceits, fbr the sake of its talent, its candour, and the air of bonhommie that pervades it. CIDER.—The fact, I believe, is this, that ;here will be cider enough made this year in Somerset- shire and Devonshire to last the inhabitants for seven years, without the assistance of a bushel of malt. The trees are literally groaning beneath the weight of apples; and the boughs bend to the earth, although the apples are not yet more than half the size and weight that they will be when ripe."— Correspondent of a Morning Paper. HOW TO STOP A RUNAWAY HORSE.-A few days ago, two boatmen having resolved to become - - competitors for the cup at the ensuing Regatta, took their boat over to the New Ferry, on the Cheshire shore, to fit her up for the occasion. When the tide fell, the boat which they intended to haul up to be painted was left high and dry on the beach, and having procured a small cart they packed into it the masts, sails, and other appurte nances, including a cable and anchor, and were proceed ing with them to the ferry-house, when the horse, a powerful animal, took fright, and furiously dashed along the shore. Finding all their endeavours to arrest his pro- _ gress in vain, anti apprehending, as one of them said, that they should " upset" or " founder," a parley was held as to how they should act. " Shiver my timbers," said Jack, " let go the anchor!" _ No sooner said than done. A turn was taken round the trams or " bits" of the cart, and at the words " Let go !" down went the anchor over the stern, and the cable was paid out. In a moment the cable came to its tension, the anchor was plowed into the gravel, and, holding firmly, the furious animal was brought to a stand-still, surprised at finding a " stopper" put so suddenly to his " course." " There now !" said Jack, " that's what 7 call bringing the ship up all standing !" We would recommend some of the young gentlemen who sport their tits in the neighbouring lanes, or along the north shore, and who are but indif ferent horsemen, to take a hint from the cool contrivance of these tars in a gale, and carry a small anchor and cable behind their saddles in case of accidents.—Liver pool Albion. Two men, named JAMES GRANT and Wm. ROBINSON, attempted to poison a woman at a public • house in the Side, in this town, where they had all been drinking together, on Wednesday afternoon last, by putting laudanum, with which some deleterious powder had pre viously been mixed, into two glasses of rum and ale they gave her to drink. The woman had some few shillings upon her, it appears, which, no doubt, as in one or two recent cases in Scotland, were the incentives to this daring and felonious act. She was soon afterwards taken ill.— On being charged with the offence, ROBINSON made off, throwing a vial bottle away, on which was marked the word " laudanum ;" but GRANT was secured, and taken before a Magistrate, by whom he was sent to prison, to wait the apprehension of ROBINSON, who was the buyer of the poison, and after whom the officers are in search. The stomach-pump had to be three times applied, after the poor woman reached the Infirmary, before the contents were discharged ; but she is now, though exceedingly de bilitated, in a fair way of recovery.—Between ten and eleven o'clock on the morning of the same day, a person named WATKINS, who had arrived bnt a few days before from London, was found suspended by the neck in a bed room of the Swan with two Necks public-house, Painter heugh, in this town, quite dead. He cheerfully bade the landlady good night the preceding evening, saying be was tired, and it would probably be late before he came down stairs the following morning ; which was unfortunately too true, for he never again came down alive. He is said to have been connected with the India-house, in the tea-trade, and to have left a wife and two children in London.— Newcastle Courant. JOHANNA SOUTHCOTE.—It seems that there are yet people in the world so brutishly ignorant, or so monstrously wicked, as to believe, or pretend to believe, in the doctrines of this bungling impostor. Three wor thies, wanderers from some corner of England, and con fessedly her disciples, are in town, and have been lately holding forth in the character of apostles in the vicinage. We chanced to meet them in Prince's-street the other day, and more suspicious-looking gentlemen never came under our observation. Two of them are tall and middle-aged, and one is evidently consumptive. The third is youthful, but deports himself quite as gravely as his seniors. They are all dressed in a sort of uniform, somewhat Quakerish in its cut, but without the attribute of cleanliness which appertains so especially to the broad-brim sect. Their beavers are in colour a dirty white, and serve them for umbrellas in rainy weather, and for parasols when the sun threatens to spoil their complexions, which would be no easy matter. Their coats are true blue, and, as far as we could discover, buttonless ; nevertheless, the cloth is good, and the cutter has done his duty. Their unmentionables are drab, and drab also are the continuations. But the strongest feature about them is the enormous longitude of their beards, which are as grim and grizzly as the tuft on the under jaw of a he goat. They abominate the use of razors. The consumptive gentleman, who probably was originally bred a tailor, is evidently on his last legs. As far as their vesture enabled us to judge, they find their mission a lucrative calling. Where the money comes from that supports them in these bad times, when people have so little to spare, even on licensed priests, we cannot con jecture. It is but fair to add, however, that they are re puted to be sober and orderly men. One of them was seen carrying a new table the other day, so they probably apply themselves to some useful calling when the spirit is not upon them.—Edinburgh Paper. SCHOOL LITERATURE.—Mr. GUY, the suc cessful author of some of our best Books on Education, has just published a new work, that must add largely to his reputation in this important branch of literature, and will, no doubt, be well received by every respectable academy in the Empire. It is written for universal use, being as use ful to the young scholar as to the more advanced student. The work is called " Guy's General School Question Book ;" in which each question, in a regular series, is fol lowed by its appropriate answer ; not only in Ancient and Modern History, in which the whole is arranged in chro nological order, but also in Biography, Geography, Astro nomy, Heathen Mythology, Classical Phraseology, and a great and interesting variety of Miscellaneous Subjects, the whole tending to enlarge the boundaries of juvenile know ledge by increasing its stores; and thus by blending such a course of general information with sound classical, or liberal learning, to raise the better superstructure of School Education. Mr. Guy in his own advertisement thus ex plains its uses :—" To supply youth with a compendium of General History has been the first object of this manual. As such, it exhibits not a confused and multifarious assem blage of ill-arranged questions ; but a well-digested abstract of both Ancient and Modern History and Biography, from the creation to the present time, in a regular series, with the dates affixed, embracing the most prominent features of ten Ancient, and eighteen Modern Kingdoms and States; with the principal revolution of the most illustrious nations ; and, perhaps such a body of historical matter has seldom been compressed in so moderate a volume. The second part comprises interesting questions on Geography, Astronomy, and Miscellaneous Subjects; not on subjects that may or may not be known by the well educated, but such as every parent and every instructor would deem altogether essential in a course of liberal education. The work has been drawn up with great care, from the most authentic sources, and accommodates itself to every class of learners; serving, first, as a daily course of reading among the lower forms; and afterwards, as a regular course of study, during the last years of juvenile instruction. MUCI OXFORD RACES. WroNc-,Day, AuG. s.—The Cur. I,y subscription of 10 sovs crick, to he said in -pecie. Two miles. Lotd AbingdOn named h. c. liasselas, 1 yrs 1 Mr. Annesley named Challenger, y, Lad MaCclestield named Liston, Aged 3 Produce Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each h. ft. for 3-yr-old colts, Bst. 71b., and fillies, Sst. 41b., untried stallions or mares allowed 31b. One mile. Mr. J. Dilly's ch. c. Toaster, by Mr. Thornhill's ch. c. Geoffrey Crayon, by Ruben - A Plate of 50 sovs. given by the City Members, for all ogee. — Heats, two•miies Mr. Fane's His Highness, 1: yrs I 1 Alt. Peds Lilliputian, 3 yrs • • - • t) 1 Mr. Wood's b. 11, Carib, 5 yrs - 2 Mr. Wilkinson's Therese, by Whalebone, 4 yrs , 4 4 LEWES RACES. TUESDAY, AUG. 4.—His Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. Heats, four miles. Mr. Gully's ch. h. Garaeboy, I yrs 2 1 1 Capt. Locke's ch. g. Spondee, 5 yrs , 1 2 2 Mr. Hayne's br. h. Rembrandt, 6 yrs 4 3 dis Mr. Burgess's hr. h. Scipio, 6 yrs • 3 dr The County Plate of 50/. Heats, one mile and ball. Mr. Shakell's br. h. Bhurtpare, 5 yrs. 1 1 Mr. It. Walker's N h. Dicky 1)olus, 3 yrs 2 2 Capt. Locke's br. h. Bottle Imp, br. to Vision...— 0 3 Capt. Bulkeley's b. m. Burlesque, 5 yrs 3 0 WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5.---The Ladies' Plate of 601 Heatfs one mile. Mr. Payne's ro. f. Jungfrau Lord Egremont's br. c. by Whalebone, e Match for 200 sous. h. ft. Marquis of Worcester's b. h. Maresfield, 5 yrs 1 1 Mr. Payne's ch. h. Privateer, 4 yrs 2 2 The Members' Plate of 50 soya. Heats, the New Course• Duke of Richmond's b. f. Gallopade, by Reveller 1 0 1 Mr. Coleman's br. f. Bunter, by Tramp ...... 2 0 2 Mr. Scaith's br. h. Vulcan 3 dr HUNTINGDON RACES. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5.—A Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each. with 20 sous. added from the Race-fund. Heats, once round. Mr. Fellows named Mr. Flintham's Anti-Catholic 1 I Mr. Stuart named Mr. Theakstone's Tancreda 4 2 Colonel Vaughan named Mr. Plates ch. f. Jule 3 3 Mr. Baring named Mr. Sowerby's Impude , lce 2 dr Mr. Calvert named Gen. Grosvenor's Shepherdess dr WINCHESTER RACES. TUESDAY, AUG. 4.—The Great Produce Stakes of 50 snvs. each, h. ft. New mile. 20 subs. Mr. Mills's ch. c. Cornelian, by Rubens Mr. C. Day's ch. c. Zeuxis, by Rubens 2 The Reveller Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft. with 50 added by C. Shard, Esq. Last half mile. Mr. G. Lovell's Dc Vere Walked over. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added by the County Members. The new straight mile. Mr. T. A. Smith's Baleine, by Whalebone, 4 yrs Mr. Mills's ch. c. Cornelian, 3 yrs 2 Mr. Gardnor's b. f. Emmelina, 4 yrs 3 His Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. free for any horse, mare, or gelding. Heats, four miles. Mr. Sadler's br. g. Jocko, 6 yrs Mr. Mills's br. h. Brownlock, aged 2 2 Mr. Coming's ch. in. Aura, aged 3 3 Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 says, added by the County Members, for all ages. Heats, a mile and a half. Mr. H. Jones's b. f. Smilax, 4 yrs . 1 1 Mr. Mills's b. h. Pandarus, 5 yrs 2 dr WEDNESDAY, AUG• s.—The Ladies' Plate of 50 sovs. Heats, two miles. Mr. Mills's ch. c. Comelian, 3 yrs 1 1 Mr. Portman's Red Mantle, by Rubens, 3 yrs 4 2 Mr. Shard's Revelletta, by Reveller, 3 yrs 2 3 Mr. Dundas's ch. E by Robin Adair, 3 yrs 3 4 Mr. Gardnor's Luna, by Wanderer, 5 yrs 3 5 A Sweepstakes of 50 sovs, each, h. ft. for two-yr-olds. • • •- •• The last half mile. Mr. Mills named Cetus, own brother to Pandarus 1 Mr. W. Wyndham's b. f. by Comus Mr. Wretbrd's Will Watch, by Middleton 3 The City Members' Plate of 501. Heats, two miles. Mr. Radelyffe's br. h. Windermere, 5 yrs Mr. H. Jones's Smilax, 4 yrs 2 dr Mr. Gauntlett's Pandarus, 5 yrs 3 dr The Noblemen and Gentlemen's Plate of 50 sovs. Heats, two miles. Mr. Gauntlett's Baleine, 4 yrc 3 1 1 Mr. Gardnor's Emmelina, 4 yrs 2 '2 dr Mr. H. Jones's Smilax, 4 yrc NEWCASTLE RACES. TUESDAY, Aim. 4.—The Town Plate of 70 sous. for all ages. Heats, twice round and a distance. Sir W. Wynn, Bart.'s Courtier, 4 yrs Mr. Turner's Clinton, 4 yrs Mr. Thomson's Orthodox, aged 2 dr A Sweepstake of 5 says. each, with 30 soya. added by the Corporation. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. - E.Yeel's Cicely, own Sister to Cain 1 Mr. R. Borradaile, M.P. names Independence 2 Mr. H. Booth named Brother to Mary Anne 3 Mr. Turner's Navarino, Brother to Clinton 4 A Hunters Sweepstake of 5 sovs. each, with 25 sovs. added, for horses not thorough-bred. Heats, twice round and a distance. Sir R. Brookes, Bart.'s Gamecock, aged 1 1 Mr. Khmersly namoi Tom Moody, 5 yrs• 2 2 CLARENCE SAILING MATCH. A Grand Sailing Match took place yesterday for a Cup and Cover, given by the Clarence Club, to be sailed for by Gentlemen's Pleasure Yachts, from Blackfriars-bridge to a boat opposite the Meadows at Putney, and back to Vaux hall-bridge. At five o'clock the following vessels moved to the starting place, and were thus placed ~ . . Stations. Boats. Owners. Belonging to. Tons. No. I Leander W Cottingham... Battersea 7 2 Spitfire T. Bettsworth .... Chelsea 6 3 Rover J. Bishop Hammersmith... 6 4 Daphne J. Nelson Lambeth 7 5 Rowena T. Groves Lambeth 6 6 Clarence W. J. Sawyer Hammersmith... 7 Not a breath of wind stirred when the signal was given for starting. All the boats endeavoured to make a tack ; the Rowena took the lead slightly, and crossed the bows of the Daphne, and fouling a boat, upset it ; but all the pas sengers were picked up. It was determined that the boat should be moored at Wandsworth, and the Clarence rounded it first and won the match ; the Spitfire being second. COWES ROYAL YACHT CLUB REGATTA. COWES, Auc. s.—The second Gold Cup given by the Club, value 100/., was sailed for to-day. The following were the vessels entered:— Vessels. Owners. Tons. 1. Peri Dighy Murray, Esq. V. Hebe Andrew Corbet, F. , q . OS 3. Harriet 4. Emerald John L. Symonds, Esq 53 5. Elizabeth John Moore, Esq. 65 6. Dolphin John L. Gower, Esq 53 . The yachts started at 10 o'clock. The lugger Peri held by her moorings, and lost two minutes. The Hebe returned round the starting vessel at a quarter before two, winning the Cup; Elizabeth, second; Harriet, third ; Emerald, fourth ; and Peri fifth. The Dolphin did not start. The company at Cowes are exceedingly thin ; lodging-keepers and boatmen exceedingly civil. The Re gatta gave but little amusement, the Hebe outsailing the other vessels, so as to completely distance them. SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.- A young female, respectably attired, attracted the notice of some bricklayers, at work at Paddington, about eight o'clock this morning. She was crying most piteously as she walked to and fro, and ultimately she threw herself into the Regent's Canal, at the second bridge from Cam den Town. A man of the name of BANNISTER, one of the bricklayers, instantly plunged into the water after her, and in less than two minutes brought her to the bank. She was taken to the house of her preserver, a short distance from the spot she had intended to make her grave. lqh recovering herself she burst into tears, and returned thanks in the most humble manner for the interference that had been made to save her life, but said that she was ruined, and could never return to her father's home, at Hornsey. She had been seduced about three weeks ago at Peckham, where she was on a visit, by a gentleman, whose proposals were honourable, even after the first rash step had been taken. She accompanied him from Peck , ham to London last week, and they resided in lodgings in Wilderness-row, Goswell-street, till Saturday, when he deserted her, and left her in penury. The father of the unfortunate girl will be written to on the subject, and every means will be used to restore the penitent to her paternal roof. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Am inquest was held on Tuesday evening last at five o'clock, at Mr. Mama's, the London Ale House, in St. Mary Arches-street, before S. WALICET, Esq. and a respectable Jury, on the body of WILLIAM LANGMAN, of Bow, aged 57 years, who was found dead early the same morning, in Northam's-passage, St. Mary Arches-street. Two females, named GRACE BRIANTj and ELIZABETH COUSINS, with whom he was seen in company the preceding night, were apprehended on suspicion of being the cause of his death, either by ad ministering some deleterious drug, or by some personal violence, while he was in a state of intoxication. The body having been viewed by the Coroner and Jury, and found free from any marks of ill usage, after about ten minutes' deliberation, they returned a verdict that " The deceased was found dead in a passage, called Northam's-passage, from some cause unknown to the Jurors. ".--.Exeter Alfred. A paper of considerable importance, in a po .tico-economical point of view, was ordered by Ile House of Commons before tlie recess; 2iiidn 4. & as just made its appearance. The following its title : " An Account of the quantities of the folloysft —: Articles which have paid the duties of Customs Excise for home consumption; stating the rate of duty paid to the Customs and Excise, and the tota . ,:".;;/ of both ; also the total net amount of revenue ccived on each article in each year since the yeas 1789 : " Tobacco in Great Britain and in Ireland; " Foreign Wines in Great Britain and Ireland ; " Foreign Spirits in Great Britain; a sugar in Great Britain; " Tea in Oreat Britain; " Coffee in Great Britain ; and " Glass in Great Britain. " Also similar accounts of Spirits made in Ireland and Scotland since the yein. 1820." Now it does appear from this document, not withstanding all the croakings which we have heard of the miseries of the people, that the con sumptiom of these articles last year, particularly of the more necessary ones, and those consumed by the poor, has in general exceeded that of all preceding years: The articles themselves have , in general, paid more Excise duties. Not that we make light of the sufferings of the poor : but be they more or less, we are sure they have been, in a great degree, brought upon them by that class of people who now raise the chief clamour, simply because they are involved in the necessary consequences d o a f o d se supported,measures then said they would spend their last guinea, and shed the last drop of their blood. However, cash payments have been resumed, and small notes have been called in ; and yet corn is above Ss. a bushel, and the people consume more tobacco, spirits, tea, sugar, and coffee, than they ever did ! We are said to be favourable to the present Ministry ; and were thought hostile to that which existed when we said that these things would be,—that whatever difficulties might occur in the progress, yet that cash payments could be resumed, and small notes could be called in : and we may surely now boast of the verity of our derided predictions. The truth is, that we were neither hostile to preceding Ministries, nor are we attached to this, but at all times we seek and pursue the truth. If manufacturing and commerce had not been checked after the war by raising bread to a high price, through the exclusion of foreign grain,—if the artisan had been then suffe:ed to eat a cheap loaf, and of course support himself on moderate wages, we should now have had ex clusive possession of the foreign market for the productions of our looms and forges, and the price of corn would have been comparatively a matter of small consideration. 'We could have afforded high prices for all the agricultural pro ductions. However, it is clear from the tables referred to, that we are not yet plunged into the abyss of misery.—Tinws. The last Gazette announces the appointment of Mr. William Gregson to the Patent Office of Writer of the London Gazette, formerly held by the late Mr. Rolleston. The office is almost a sinecure, but yields the possessor several hundreds per annum. The gentleman now nominated to it is the Barrister whose assistance Mr. Peel has had in the preparation of his several Bills for the Amendment and Consolidation of the Cri minal Law. We believe that in the quarters most competent to form a judgment of the manner in which the task has been performed, the new Acts are not considered to have been framed with any extraordinary ability ; but the merit of the design may well avert any great severity of criticism. What we now notice Mr. Gregson's appointment for is to reprobate the shape in which it has been thought fit thus to remunerate him.— We had imagined that the system of re warding public services by grants of sinecures was exploded, and are sorry to see it revived in this instance. Mr. Gregson may well deserve the emolument of the office, but sinecures, if kept up, will inevitably be often bastowed on undeserving persons. The only safe and just course is to state openly and fairly the services rendered by any individual, and to demand of Parliament specifically the remuneration due. If the Commissioners for revising the law of Real Property, and those for the amendment of the Common Law, are to be paid in the same way as Mr. Gregson, we may make up our minds to expect hereafter all manner of jobbing and foul play. Mr. Peel ought not to have suffered his honest and praiseworthy labours to incur the scandal such a mode of payment attaches to them.—Morning Chronicle. It was, we believe, Louis the Fourteenth, who said to one of his courtiers that he hated reason ers. We wish we saw more reasoning in this country, and less sneering. The assumption o. superiority which is implied in sneering, renders it peculiarly offensive to all who are the objects of it ; and the superiority is often any thing but real. There is no country in the world in which opponents are so much in the habit of employ ing against each other this contemptible practice as England. If a man entertains some obnoxi ous or unpopular opinions, that is quite enough to procure for him contemptuous treatment. We have beep led to these remarks by the perusal of the papers relative to the slave population, or tiered by the House of Commons to be printed 12th June last, which have just been distributed. There is in the letters addressed by Sir G. Mur ray to the Authorities in the West Indies, a fairness and openness, an earnestness of en deavour to exhibit the real workings of his own mind, which are by no means usual in official communications, but which are admirably calcu lated to disarm the prejudices of those to whom they are addressed. Sir George is a reasoner, and an able reasoner. We were particularly pleased with the mode in which, in his letter to Sir John Keane, dated 15th September, 1828, he endeavours to persuade the Legislature of Jamaica to receive slave evidence : " The other main topic (he says) to which I shall here advert, the admission of slave evidence, is one to which his Majesty's Government attack the utmost consequence; it is, in fact, one of the most important and influential steps which can be taken towards a system of improvement ; it removes a general stigma from the whole body of the slaves, and must tend to raise them, not only in their own estimation, but even in that of the masters them- selv es. " While the Courts of Law exclude the slave from all participation in the means resorted to for the ends of justice, not scrutinizing his evidence to make sure of its truth, but rejecting it at once, on the presumption that it must be false, the local pre judices that exist against this class of men arc for tified by a political sanction, aid the law is made not merely to authorise their condition of slavery, but to acknowledge, and even to certify their moral degradation. This is the first consideration. The next is that of the safety with which this privilege, if it cal