The Sun. — London, England, 1837-08-22 00:00:00

PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Tories are leaving no stone unturned to accom plish their purposes at the next registration, and in one of their organs yesterday their friends are most ear nestly exhorted " to be vigilant and active, particularly during the few days, hours we had almost said, which will intervene between the present moment and Friday next, the 25th of August, the last day for delivering notices of objections to persons registered or claiming, and the last day also for claims on the part of those who may have been omitted from the borough lists." Mutatonomine—for Tories read Liberals—and we say the same with quite as strong an emphasis. Let the Li berals at least not be behind their enemies in exertion upon this important occasion ; or rather, let the Liberals double their energies, well knowing what an artful and insidious foe they have to deal with, and knowing, too, how much at any future election will depend upon what may be done in the way of registration within the next three days. Let all the friends of the Queen and of the Queen's Government look most narrowly at the lists, to take care that their own names are inserted, and that none arc included but such as are entitled to vote. No claim of the right of voting can be made by a Reformer, and no objection can be taken to a Tory who may have no right of vot ing, but who would fain sneak into the register, after the 25th instant. IVe therefore cannot be too urgent in our recommendation that no true-hearted Liberal will neglect this really sacred duty, a duty which he owes to his Queen, to his cause, and to his country. Few are aware of the extent to which the split ting of votes has already been carried by the Tories in the different counties. Faggot votes have been bundled together, not in hundreds but in thousands, and hence (even they cannot deny it) the degree of success they have met with among the agricultural population. In boroughs the Tory party have happily not been able to accomplish as much ; but, depend upon it, what they can do they will do : they will neglect no opportunity, and shrink from no means of making a vote for themselves, or of destroying one for their adversaries. Let the Liberals be upon their guard against frauds and tricks of every kind—for frauds and tricks of every kind will be at tempted by the Tories without scruple or remorse. As we said the other day,.fils est ab hoste doceri, in order that we may be alive to their artifices and contrivances; but as far as vigilance, activity, energy, and determi nation go, let us ourselves set an example which our enemies may be glad to imitate.—Morning Chronicle. If the Whigs, in their clubs, or through their news papers, express any annoyance at the state of public feeling in this island, of course it is not because they have the least wish to remain, where they can so well be spared, but simply by reason of the mortal injury whieh the dislodgment of a Whig Administration would inflict upon the cause of liberty and purity, not only at home, but all over the world. The despots of the Continent would get upon their stilts again and stalk over the people. On the Tory triumph, says one of our daily monitors, " the halls of the Czar will resound with the voice of gladness."—" The palace of Herrenhausen too will be illuminated, and the budding hopes of the Hanoverians will he nipped at once."—" If die Tories do triumph, it will be speedily, we believe, to lament over the immense mischief their example will produce throught the world, and then to labour at undoing their own work." Who would have thought, after reading the Whig news papers of but a month ago, that Toryism would by this time be so tremendous an agent among the powers of the world ? Why, a month ago the Tories w,ge over —past —gone—the last spark of Toryism was trodden out ; and yet now, from that spark, we have not only a flambeau to illuminate the Palace of Herrenhausen, but a flame to wrap the whole conti nent of Europe I We have the truest affection for the infant liberties of wliclt Leopold and Louis Philippe are the thy-nurses ; but, like many other very tine in fants, they are allowed to make more noise than is good for them. We doubt they have suffered from injudi cious cramming, and would fare better if left more to Nature. But, whatever be the regimen most whole some for them, we cannot see the reasonableness of England's persevering in a course of stimulants by way of experiment to encourage her neighbours ; for experiment, says the Esculapian proverb, should be made on a worthless body. For the passing hour the stimulant seems to enliven and invigorate, and the exhilirating effect seduces others to the same deceit ful draught. But lassitude and sickness super vene ; another and a stronger excitement is desperately sought and swallowed, which increases the exhaustion and the danger ; languor follows, then faintness, and too frequently, at last, extinction. Great Britain, by Heaven's mercy, is recovering from this inflammation herself : and so far from renewing it for the further betrayal of other States, let her rather rejoice that her stamina have saved her, for the double blessing of re storation to herself and warning to her neighbours. This cou n t r y h as o f l ate b een i n a false position : she is now resuming her proper one. For a century and a half her Constit ut i on was the subject of envy an d admiration to all Europe, except those few in each State whose rights were their country's wrongs. One after another the nations surrounding her attempted to copy its outline, sometimes falling short of the original, but oftener exaggerating and monstering its features. Instead of content ing themselves to repair and uphold a Constitu tion thus confirmed by time and testimony, her own wayward or treacherous sons went to work to deface it ; her own rulers lent themselves to the disfigurement ; and m partly f rom h er mu l t if ar i ous periodical press ad mitting and propagating every extravagance of the most intemperate imagination, and still more from the notorious alliance between the Ministry and the most dangerous of the innovators, England had obtained a new and very undesirable character upon the Continent, and forfeited but too generally and too justly her character for judgment and stability ; so that English opinions had come to be regarded no longer as the conclusions of thoughtful experience, but as phrenological curiosities or interested deceptions. In proportion, therefore, as the return of the people to safe and sound principles is viewed with uneasiness by those who would still use their fellow-subjects as decoys to lead others astray, so is the gratification with which we, on the other hand, behold this great nation shaping its course back super vias antiquas. An Englishman, with English feelings and understanding, will disquiet himself but little from whatever lamp the Northern Autocrats may " illuminate their'halls ;" but he will rejoice to see British intelligence once more concentrating usefully its scattered rays, no longer to be gazed at as a dancing gleam upon a quagmire, but fixed and placed aloft as a beacon to mankind. For then his country will again hold her true and proud position, fulfilling the destiny for which Providence, by its high and special bounties, has marked her—to enlighten and to save : " Then shall the Gentiles come to her light, and Princes to the brightness of her ris ing."—Tiares. Not a moment should be lost in attending to the registries. Friday next is the last day on which notice can be received, either of claims on the part of those negligently or wilfully omitted from the lists, or of objections against those fraudulently attempted to be intruded thereupon. The numerous instances in the last elections wherein the fair choice of Representatives was stultified and prevented by the assistance which the corruption and intimidation practised by the Tories received from their previous vigilance and activity, in regard to the registries, should rouse the Reformers into similar vigilance and activity to counteract their machinations. But for their unceasing exertions, from the commencement to the close of last Parliament, ' to pack the registries after their own fashion, all the infamous agencies of the Tories during the late contest would have been comparatively inoperative. In almost all the constituencies where they have been successful they had their fictitious voters previously organised and disciplined, and in the crisis of the engagement the victory was decided by the mercenaries, and those whom they forced by every species of undue influence to desert their standard, and fight under false co lours. Seeing thus clearly the causes which have con tributed to the partial successes of the faction, every good and honest citizen, every man who would pre serve the peace of the country, protect it from dis memberment, and accomplish by moral means tho,e reforms which may otherwise be wrested by less legi mate agency, should spare no effort to render the THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1837. registries a pure and perfect record of those legally qualified for the franchise. They should see that none are omitted who possess the requisite qualification and that none are omitted on fraudulent pretences. We address all manner of electors, without distinction of political opinions, being willing that the question of political amelioration should be decided even by those at present eligible for the franchise, provided they be allowed to exercise it conscientiously. The Tories may recommend their minions to throw the utmost embarrassment and annoyance in the way of the re gistration of those known to be of liberal politics ; we care not to retaliate ; we are are only anxious that the registries should be what they profess to be—a fair list of those legally enfranchised—and we hove no fear of the result. We can never think so meanly of the electoral body of the United Kingdom as to suppose that Tory sentiments could ever maintain a sentient existence in it, unless by the exercise of most undue influence. It is this influence which the Reformers are now called upon to counteract. One-half of the activity and combination employed by the Tories would effectually secure in the House of Commons at least an irresisible preponderance of the principles of Reform. Let the registries be vigilantly attended to, and in the pext general election, come when it may, and it may come sooner than anticipated, not all the gold nor all the threats, coercion, nor vindictive inflictions of the Tories, will enable them to give anything like an effective opposition to the sentiments of the British people. Let this be done, and we shall have the inge nious calculator of the Times forming estimates of the relative value of the Tory and Reform representatives of England, ludicrously as amusing to those which he is now making on the representatives of Scotland and Ireland. Our surmises yesterday of the estimate which this novel arithmetician would form of the value of the Irish Liberal Members was entirely erroneous. In stead of being valued in the proportion of one-half or one-fourth, as we supposed, the whole seventy-two Re form Members are rated against the thirty-three Tories as so many " Birmingham halfpence" against " ster ling gold guineas." This is so far beyond our humble powers of computation, that we shall merely venture to suggest to the " Grand Apostate," when it medi tates another desertion, not to accept its purchase money in such false coin—such raps—as the Tory Members of Ireland, for we calculate that in such an event not even the check of a Baring could make up, as on the last occasion, the deficiency, and com pensate the worthlessness of the bribe.—Morning Advertiser. There is no sort of morbid and maudlin nonsense more to be deprecated than the sympathy which some persons feel, or affect to feel, with the political conduct of the Irish Roman Catholics. If the conduct of the Roman Catholic Members of the House of Commons, who vote against the Protestant Church Establish ment, be what the Bishop of Exeter has described it to be, viz.—" perjury, aggravated by treachery," how much more certainly may we maintain that the conduct of the Roman Catholic electors is gross 'treachery, ag gravated by base ingratitude ? They held meetings, they petitioned, they speechified, they wrote pamphlets, and the burden of the petitions, the speeches, and the pamphlets was still the same—that they bore no en mity to the Protestant Establishment—that they only wanted an opportunity to support the institutions of the country in Parliament, like their Protestant brethren, and that so far from their accession to political power being likely to endanger the Protestant Church it would remove an existing danger, by annihilating their enmity. They know that this statement is true. They dare not deny it. The records of the time are not destroyed. Their printed speeches yet remain. Their sworn evi dence still appears in the sessional papers. Their de ceitful pamphlets have not all gone to the trunk makers. Compare the pledges, the promises, the pas sionate appeals, and the srcicus arguments of these documents, with the open and insolent persecution of everything Protestant which they now carry on, and then let any man who has within him a sense of jus tice or fair play say whether the present conduct of the Irish Roman Catholics is not a disgrace to human nature. No, it is not the Irish Roman Catholics, but those whom they unrelentingly oppress and persecute, for whom the sympathy of Englishmen ought to be evoked. The Romish Ecclesiastics in Ireland stalk about, the representatives and the agents of the rudest and most relentless tyranny that can be witnessed in modern Europe. From Siberia to Sicily there is no thing so monstrous, nothing which so certainly marks out whatever is most virtuous and most praiseworthy for annoyance, torture, or death. Under most tyrannies the man who is of a peaceable spirit, and submissive to the existing law of the land, is pretty sure to escape ; but in Ireland he is quite sure to suffer. Unless a man joins with the turbulent—unless he enters into confe deracy with the treacherous, to work out the objects of their treachery, he becomes a marked man, and, if he be not more than usually fortunate, a doomed man. The priestly persecutor has his eye upon him, and if he continues contumacious, the midnight murderer is as likely as not to neutralise his opposition. Think what it must be for men of property who have a crowded tenantry, that in mercy they have retained upon their land, that have their estates eaten up by people who cannot pay rent, and who yet find these people, who owe their lives from day to day to their landlords' liberality, voting against their landlords at the bidding of the priest. If these people did so from a conviction of their own judgment against the politics of their landlord, there might be a good excuse for their not voting for him, even though they lived upon his cha rity ; but it is not the case that they vote from their own judgment. They vote in obedience to orders, and the priest gives these orders. The landlord is openly insulted by those whom he supports, for the priest's dues are paid from the produce of his land, the rent of which is not paid ; and then, if he resorts to his legal right to take his land into his own hands again, he is denounced as a tyrant and a persecutor, by those who arc themselves the real tyrants, and the real persecutors! The workers of such iniquity deserve not sympathy, but punishment. If they will conspire with their priests, let their priests support them. If they cannot live without their landlords' bounty, let them not fly in the faces of their landlords.—Morning Herald. The Morning Chronicle, with its usual indifference to facts, contradicts the statement which we made on Friday relative to the entrance of a Pedroite steamer to the Douro, under the eve and with the cognizance of the British fleet, then stationed outside the bar. We now repeat that statement, and declare, on autho rity which cannot be questioned, that the outer squad ron of the Douro was a witness of the occurrence, and that the commanding officer had it in his power to prevent it, if he pleased. The pennant was hoisted by the Pedroite steamer close to the flag-ship of the squad ron, and as that ship neither fired a shot to bring the steamer to, no r s i gna l e d to C apta i n Gl asscock to communicate - to the batteries that she did not belong to his Britannic Majesty's service, it is clear that the commanding officer was a party to the fraud. Indeed the trans act i on occasioned both surprise and indignation on board the inner squadron, as every one felt that the honour of the country was compromised; that the word of honour of the officers under which the communication was maintained between the two divisions of the fleet was broken ; and it was only the obedience so essential to British discipline which in duced Capt. Glasscock not to replace the steamer in the position she occupied before the fraud was com mitted. The Morning Chronicle says " that our facts are fiction." Let our contemporary take care how it denies what we now assert lest we should push our researches a little further, and show that the steamer in question took in her cargo of ammunition at the Tower of London. Let it not force us to prove what the conduct of the British squadron was with regard to the steamers of Don Pedro, not only entering the Douro but going from it. We can point out a case where a Pedroite steamer, afraid of the Miguelite batteries which lined the shore, was piloted out of the river in the dead of night by officers of his Majesty': squadron, their companions leading the way with boats having lanterns on board, covered towards the Miguelite side, and open to the course which th e steamer was threading through the difficult passage of the bar. These are but two out of the many instances in which the good faith of England was disregarded by the persons employed in Portugal during the Pedroite struggle, who sought to recommend themselves at home by observing neutrality in the fashion most pleasing to Lord Palmerston. With regard to the particular case on which this controversy rests, we beg leave to ask the Morning Chronicle would a Miguelite steamer have been allowed to hoist the British pennant under the eyes of the British squadron, for the purpose of evading the Pedroite batteries ? No. The matter is quite clear to all who wish to see and hear the truth. An exception was made in favour of Don Pedro, and everything inconsistent with the honour and character of a great nation was at that time practised by the Bri tish Ministry, for the purpose of gratifying a blind hatred against Don Miguel, and keeping up a show of liberality abroad, for the purpose of gaining popularity at home.--Morning Post. Huntingdon town, arid the immediate neighbour hood, were visited by a very heavy storm of thunder, light ning, hail, and rain, from two to three o'clock on Thursday morning, and the atmosphere continued heavy and sulphe rous until nearly one o'clock in the afternoon, when the most frightful tempest ever remembered here broke upon the place, which, for the space of an hour, was enshrouded in a gloom, approaching to darkness. During that time the lightning burst from the Clouds in continuous flashes almost without intermission, and the thunder rolled in awful and uninterrupted grandeur, whilst the rain came down in torrents, quickly deluging the streets, and finding ingress into the shops an cellars. In the tempest Mr. Ladds, jun., of Ellington, had three sheep destroyed by the light ning. They were all laid in a heap, with the mark of the burn down the neck, where the wool was entirely struck off and turned back. At a meeting of the Liberal electors of the county, held in the Salutation hall, on Friday last, it was proposed to Mr. Fox Maule with a public testimonial of the high respest and esteem which the Reformers of the county en tertain of his exertions in their cause, and the manner in which he has discharged his public duties. This is a well timed, and certainly a well-merited compliment to Mr. Maule, who has exerted himself so honourably in the cause of constitutionol amelioration in Parliament, and whose de feat has been brought about in the late contest by means which no honourable mind could have ever employed. We have no doubt that the gift of gratitude will be in every respect worthy of the donors, the occasion, and the high attainments and public character of the gentleman to whom it is to be proffered.—Perthshire Advertiser. On Tuesday night last one of those dastardly acts of wilful fire-raising, which are unfortunately of common occurrence in Ireland, and some years ago in several of the agricultural districts of England, was perpetrated on a farm-steading of the parish of Cadder, near Kilvindock, by which seven stacks of hay were totally consumed. The farmer, whose property has been destroyed, is an individual of unquestionable respectability, and much esteemed by all in the neighbourhood in which he resides.—Glasgow Courier. Music.—The published fact of the female who died from bearing too much music we do not imagine to be well known in this country ; we therefore give a sketch of it, taken from the Surgical Repertory of Turin. A wo man, 23 years of age, who had never left her village or heard a concert, was present at a three days' fete in 1834, and dancing was carried on to the sounds of a brilliant or chestra. She entered into the amusement with ardour, and was delighted ; but the fete once finished, she could not get rid of the impression which the music had made upon her. Whether she ate, drank, walked, sat still, lay down, was occupied or unoccupied, the different airs which she had heard were always present, succeeded each other in the same order as that in which they were executed. Sleep was out of the question, and the whole body being deranged in consequence of this, medical art was called in, but nothing availed, and in six months the, person died without havinc , for one moment lost the strange sensation ; even in her last moments she heard the first violin give some discordant notes, when, holding her head with both hands, she cried, " Oh ! what a false note, it tears my head." We have heard of another instance of this in an aged person, who, from the year 1829, has the greatest difficulty in going to sleep, because he every evening feels an irresistible desire to hear an air which belongs to the mountains of Auvergne. He has tried reading aloud, thinking deeply, and several other means to get rid of it, but it is of no use—he is invariably forced, mechanically, to utter the words in the idiom of Auvergne. We our selves have seen the most alarming eff,'cts produced upon children by music to which they were unaccustomed, and fevers ensue in consequence.—iltienceuni. ArictrEß.Y.—The Robin Hood and Albion clubs, together with Messrs. Betty and Heath, met at Brixton on Wednesday, at two o'clock, to contend for the prizes offered by those societies. The shooting was carried on with the greatest spirit throughout the whole of the day. Mr. Heath, who was spoken so highly of in the public journals last week, did, on this occasion, ample justice to the reports. When the shooting at 100 yards was finished, he was found to have scored the highest number, but his opponents gained upon him at 80 and 60 yards. Mr. Betty's style of shooting was also truly beautiful. The first prize was carried off by Mr. Dodd, and the second (we believe) by Mr. Gouldaborough, a member of the Albion. Messrs. Heath and Betty were both successful in gaining prizes, although they were of small value. Saturday an inquest was held at the sign of the Lord Liverpool, in Dempsey-street, Stepney, before Mr. Baker, on the body of Captain John Thompson, who re sided in that neighbourhood, and who committed a most determined act of suicide. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased, who was Captain of a West Indiaman, had lost his vessel, and for some reason or other the insu rance-money on the ship was not paid. This was the cause of his not getting another vessel, and the circumstance preyed very severely on his mind. Added to this, he, a short time since, was attacked with paralysis, which deprived him of the use of one side, and this considerably heightened his misery. On Friday morning Mrs. Thompson got up at eight o'clock, leaving the deceased in bed, and hearing something heavy fall upon the floor, she fancied her husband had been a second time seized with fits, and she in conse quence went for the assistance of her sister and a neighbour. On entering the room she found the deceased on the floor, surrounded with a quantity of blood, and a razor clenched in his hand, with his head nearly severed from his body. Surgical aid was resorted to, but such was the determined manner in which the act was committed, that death must have been instantaneous. A verdict of " Temporary in sanity" was returned. The deceased has left a wife and six children to deplore his unfortunate fate. An extraordinary sleep-walker, named Alfred Hut - chinson, a young man, married, and the father of three dtildren, is living at New Snenton. His last ezplot was performed a few minutes past twelve on the morning of Friday last. He is a lacemaker, but, being unable to main tain his family a t th a t t ra d e , h e h as eked out latterly by fishing. At the time above named he was at Fiskerton, near Newark, sleeping, by permission, with a young man in a room on the second floor of an uninhabited house. Pre vious to retiring for the night, Hutchinson communicated to his associate that he was addicted to walk in his sleep. At midnight the somnambulist aroused his bedfellow by a ter rific shout, and rushed towards the window, the upper case ment of which he unfastened, and proceeded to let down. His alarmed bedfellow instantly resorted to the most vio lent means to awaken him and prevent him precipitating himself from the window. All was of no avail, out he rushed, and fell to the ground. The noise roused the neighbours in an adjoining house, who were spectators of the latter part of the exploit. Hutchinson then bounded over a brick wall, and leaped upon the top of another, along which he ran some yards, and jumped off. The torpor of his mental powers at that moment left him, and he called out to his friend, and those who were observing him, that they need not be alarmed, he had only been dreaming. He came limping into our office this week to narrate the painful injuries he had received from the fall. He states that he dreamed a large serpent had laid hold of his right arm, and that the efforts of the young man to restrain him, on the night in question, only increased the violent and dangerous means he used to escape from his illusive pursuer. A deep incised wound in one of his feet, and numerous bruises, were the injuries he received. He is rendered incapable of following his precarious method of winning his bread for a short time ; but we hope he will find friends, as he appears to be a sober man. At various periods of his life we under stand this nocturnal habit has been the source of great un easiness to his family, and of personal injury to himself.-- -Vottinyhant Review. The following letter from Warsaw, dated 2d inst., is given by the Constitutionnel :—" In obedience to an Impe rial Ukase, the authorities in the rural districts of the an cient provinces of Poland, now incorporated with Russia, have made a levy of )oung women, to be sent to the camp at Wosnesensk, to serve as cooks and washerwomen to the soldiers. The Ukraine and Podolia have furnished 200. The exasperation of the parents of these victims is, as may well be believed, raised to a high pitch, as they cannot but foresee that their innocent children will be converted into prostitutes. We know from a certain source that the Em peror Nicholas had the intention of restoring to Poland her ancient institutions, and of placing the kingdom upon the footing agreed upon at the Congress of Vienna ; but finding that the Cabinets of France and England did not protest against the transformation of the palatinates into govern ments, he determined to leave matters as they are at pre sent. Field Marshal Paskewitsch lately gave a ball on a day which is observed by the Poles as a strict fast. Remark ing the absence of several Polish talks, and being told the reason, he said, thinking of the Greek Calendar, which is twelve days behind the Gregorian used by the Poles : But this is not a fast. We must alter these customs. The time is not far distant when Russians end the Poles will be guided by the same Calendar.' This clearly shows the dis position of the Emperor to infringe upon the religious free dom of the Poles." FRACAS AT MAIDSTONE. On Tuesday last an investigation was gone into before Mr. Pybus, the Mayor, and Messrs. Ellis and Collis, rela tive to an assault alleged to have been committed by Cor net Routh, of the 16th Lancers, now stationed at the bar racks in that town. The circumstances, as detailed in the evidence of the complainant, Mr. Scherman, of the Maid stone bazaar, were as follow :—On Thursday evening, the 10th inst., Cornet Routh and his brother attended the bazaar, and after remaining for some time and behaving themselves uncivilly, they were asked either to buy some thing or put a sixpence in the retie. This they refused, and went to the door, where they took up their post, calling out " Walk in, ladies and gentlemen ; only one shilling each." They were then requested to leave, on which a scuffle ensued between the parties, in the course of which Cornet Routh and his brother seized several fancy tables, and hurled them against the heads of their opponents. The police were sent for, but be fore their arrival the young gentlemen made their exit. Application was made at the barrack-gates to see the officer in command to state the case, for the purpose of de taining Cornet Routh, who was to embark for India the following morning ; but the application was treated with contempt by the sentry at the gate and others, who threat ened to make use of their bayonets in case of its being in sisted on. A letter from the Mayor, it is understood, was similarly treated. A warrant was granted on Friday for the apprehension of Cornet Routh, who had in the mean time embarked on board the Thomas Granville, then lying off Gravesend. The policeman into whose hands it was put was informed on presenting it that it was totally useless, as unless he had a " silver oar" no one could be delivered up. A second application, backed with the authority of Mayor of Gravesend, was attended with no better suc cess. An application at the Horse Guards had, how ever the effect of producing the defendant, who received an order to appear after the ship had arrived in the Downs. On the part of Cornet Routh it was stated, that Mr. Scherman and his assistants were the first as sailants—that the damage done to the complainant's pro perty was done by himself and his men, and that the appli cation made at the barrack-gate was made, as applicants themselves stated, merely to get at Cornet Routh that they might " serve him out." Mr. Monckton, on the part of the complainants, animadverted in severe terms on the evi dence given by the soldiers stationed at the barrack-gates, which he contended was influenced by their officers, in whose presence they dared not speak otherwise than as they wished them. This assertion called forth, as may be conceived, a burst of indignation from the officers present. Ultimately the Magistrates dismissed the case, on the ground of the very contradictory nature of the evidence for the parties ; but Cornet Routh was, on leaving the Court, detained on a warrant for an assault against a Mr. Whitley, whose wife is connected with Mr. Scherman's establishment. The case was heard on the following morning, when the defendant was fined 20s. and 10s. costs. THE KING'S FOOL AT ADDAPAII.—In the course of the time we lay at Addapah, the drummer of the King of Callum-Curaffee came on board. He played on the drum, which he held under his left arm, by beating it with a stick in his right hand. Stones, or something of that nature, were inside the drum, and imparted a sort of hoarse, buzzing tioise. He accompanied his music with all kinds of antics and grimaces, and continued uttering in a shrill voice, " Baturee suffree, baturee suffree, baturee suffree ; batura yazakei, hatura yazakie—yazakei, yazakei ;" which, when interpreted, we found meant, " white men go, white men go, white men go ; white men come, white men come— they arc come, they are come." We were completely con vulsed with laughter at this man's drolleries, and in truth lie would have proved a very dangerous rival to any Merry- Andrew at Bartholomew fair. His expression of counte nance was extremely ridiculous. His mouth extended from ear to ear, his lips were much thicker than those of any other native I had seen, and his eyes appeared to be of an unequal size ; whlst his nose resembled a bridge, stretching from one cheek-hone to the other. An automaton soldier was suddenly shown to him in the midst of his merriment,; and had a thunderbolt fallen at his feet, he could not have been more terrified. When the arms and legs of the figure were put in motion, he fell prostrate on the deck ; sweeping it with his hands, and then putting them over his head, as if in the act of throwing sand on it, in token of submission and respect to the wooden figure before him : and so great was his terror, that it was some time before he could be prevaile'l on to rise from his respectful position.—Laird's Narrative if the last Expedition into Central Afriaa. IVIISFORTUNE OF HAVING A SALLOW COAI rLExioN.—" The French show a marked distinction in their treatment of us and our good allies," said O'Brien. "It was strongly instanced this morning. While we were forcing tho road, a company bad scaled the rocks above it to dislodge the tirallcurs, who were firing at us from the heights. A poor fellow of mine, whose com plexion is uncommonly swarthy, was wounded in the leg and fell. Unfortunately two or three retreating French men passed accidentally the spot where he was lying, and mistaking him for a Portuguese sharpshooter, stabbed him in several places, and flung him over the precipice ; while they raised his comrade from the ground, placed a knap sack under his head, and gave him a drink from a leathern bottle of excellent tinta, which one of them had slung across his shoulder. On coming up we found the sufferer upon the road, and with difficulty he told us how he had been treated. We of course rendered him some assist ance, but Sergeant Corrigan's remarks, as he was binding a cloth round his fractured leg, turned our condolence into laughter. "Fhere now,' said he, as he propped the wounded man against a rock, there you are as snug as if you were in the barracks of Kilkenny. Didn't I always tell ye, that yalla face of yours would bring ye into trouble ? No wonder the French mistook ye for a Portagee. It's yourself that could travel from Badajos to Giberralthus, and you're so like a native, the devil a dog would bark at you the whole way. If you get better, Barney dear, write for the priest's lines, that you were born at Shannon bridge, and ye can paste it on the back of yir knapsack:"..._ The Bivouac, by the author of " Stories of Waterloo." AGED BEECH.—The great beech-tree in Windsor Forest is evidently of very great antiquity. It is supposed to have existed before the Norman Conquest, and is men tioned by Camden as " standing on a high hill (Sunning hill), and overlooking a vale lying out far and wide, gar nished with corn-fields, flourishing with meadows decked with groves on either side, and watered with the Thames." According to Jesse, the trunk of this tree measures, at six feet from the ground, 36 feet round. "It is now," he says, " protected from injury, and nature seems to be doing her best towards repairing the damage which its exposure to the attacks of man and beast had produced. It must once have been almost hollow ; but the vacuity has now been nearly filled up. One might almost fancy that liquid wood, which had afterwards hardened, had been poured into the tree. The twistings and distortings of this huge substance have a curious and striking effect ; and one might almost imagine them to have been produced by a convulsive throe of nature. There is no bark on this extraneous substance ; but the surface is smooth, hard, and without any appearance of decay." The ancient bell called the " Edward of Westmin ster," and afterwards the " Great Tom of Westminster," is, it appears, from a very curious article in the Druid's Magatine, still occasionally heard in this metropolis, for the identical metal which formed the bell set up by Edward the First in 1288 in the bell-tower or clock-house fronting. Westminster Hall, exists in the bell of St. Paul's Cathe dral, which is tolled for the death of any member of th• Royal Family. This appears to have been the gift to St. Paul's of King William the Third, as The Flying Post of July 16, 1698, contains the following announcement r— " His Majesty has been pleased to give the great bell in th• old steeple opposite to Westminster Hall Gate, to the Cathedral of St. Paul, and given liberty to the parish to pull down that ancient steeple which seems to endanger the neighbouring houses." It appears, however, though stated to be given, the metal was paid for at the rate of tenpence per lb., and cost 3851. 17s. 6d. It was removed to St. Paul's, January 1, 1699, and was re-cast in 1700 and in 1908. Last week an experimental trial was made in the river of a newly-invented apparatus for the purpose of preventing incrustation on the botto ms o f th e b o il ers use d in steam-navigation. It is well known that in sea-going vessels this incrustation is frequently so thick as to prevent the water from exerting any effect on the bottom of the boiler, which consequently becomes red hot, and explodes w ith great violence. Even when this is not the case the tear and wear of the boiler, occasioned by the removing of the incrusting substance, which is often as hard and compact as stone, tend greatly to increase the expense of working a steam-vessel. The new invention consists in placing pipes outside the vessel, under the surface of the sea , that shall act as reservoirs for the condensed steam, which is thus cooled by the action of the external water, and returned to the boiler ; so that, in point of fact, the contents of the boiler become in a very short period dis tilled water. The inventor of this plan is Mr. Syming ton, son of the originator of steam-navigation, and well known for a variety of ingenious discoveries. The vessel fitted up for the experiment was the City of Londonderry, belonging to the Dublin Steam-Navigation Company. This experiment proved the complete success of Mr. Sytnington's apparatus, and gave great satisfaction to a number of sci entific gentlemen and others interested in steam-navigation who witnessed it. It is stated, as a proof of the distress of the working classes in Paris, that the pledges at one of the branch esta blishments of the Monte de Piete have, within a few months, increased from sixty thousand francs a month, the usual average, to one hundred thousand francs ; and that the central establishment is obliged to add to its warehouses in consequence of the immense increase of its deposits. KENSINGTON PETTY SESSIONS. r , 1 HIPPODROME.—On Saturday Messrs. CODD, BARLOW, PILKSNGTON, and VINCENT, sitting in Petty Sessions at Kensington, were occupied for several hours in hearing cases arising out of the races recently held on the Hippodrome Race Course, at Notting-hill. The first case was an information against Mr. Nathaniel Britton, the landlord of the Duke of Clarence, at Shep herd's Bush, laid by a common informer, named Daniel Byrne, under the 9th George IV., cap. 61, sec. 18, charg ing him with having, on the 19th of July last, in an un licensed booth on the above racecourse, sold " one bottle of stout," whereby he had incurred a penalty not exceeding 201. Mr. Under-Sheriff WIRE, Solicitor to the Licensed Vic tualler's Protection Society, appeared for the defendant. On being asked to produce the defendant's licence for the Duke of Clarence, as required by the summons, he ob jected, and the Bench took a note of it. Edward Sweet, of No. 7, Norway-place, Hackney-road, the informer's witness, on Wednesday, the 19th of July, about half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, went into a booth kept by the defendant, on the Hippodrome race course, and asked for a bottle of stout. The defendant served him with it, and witness paid him a shilling for it. The name of Nathaniel Britton, from the Duke of Clarence, was chalked on a piece of slate or thin board, and hung on the outside of the booth. Witness drank the stout in the booth in which defendant was acting and giving directions to the waiter. Byrne—What is stout ? Witness—lt is a superior sort of beer. The booth is not attached to defendant's premises, for which he is licensed. It is full half a mile therefrom. Beer is an exciseable liquor. Cross-examined by Mr. WlRE—Several other persons were in the booth. There were six booths on the course in which beer and wine were sold. Two of them belonged to one person. Cannot tell how many persons were in the Hippodrome. Saw horses running. The public were ad mitted on paying one shilling. Is not aware that a public foothpath passes across the course. Mr. CODD, after conferring with his colleagues, said, " We aro of opinion that there is nothing before us to show that persons who are already licensed are not authorised to sell exciseable liquors at fairs and public races,' even if the Act of 6 Geo. IV. was not in existence." Byrne—But there is no proof that the above races are public races. To be so they must have been held under a Charter, or by prescription, viz., by virtue of long and ac customed usage. Mr. CODD—That is the question into which we are now about to enter. We rule that at public races persons already licensed are permitted to sell exciseable liquors. Mr. Wire, you may go on. Cross-examination of informer's witness continued—Does not know of his own knowledge that a public footpath runs across " the Hippodrome." Does not know how many entrances there are. Has seen in the paper that Mr. Whyte, the Proprietor, has been summoned for stopping up a footpath, but did not read the whole proceedings. The public, to his knowledge, were not admitted to any part of the grounds without paying. Has been only once on the ground since it has been a racecourse. Horses do run races there, but whether they are entered for that pur pose or not witness cannot say. Witness believes they run for stakes. Has not more than two or three times seen the races advertised. They have been advertised in the papers as the Hippodrome Races," with the prices of admission stated underneath. May have seen hand-bills respecting the races, but can't recollect their purport. Has been on on other race-courses. At Marlow they pay .ss. 6d. for en tering horses. Mr. CODD—Do you know whether, at other race courses, the public pay for admission ? Witness—l don't know. Byrne—At Marlow can any one go or the race-course as a pedestrian without paying? Witness—Yes, they can. At Enfield persons do not pay. At the Hippodrome there are gates, which can be shut at pleasure. Mr. Wire then, at considerable length, contended that as the proof of the existence of a footpath across the course had been so recently before the Bench it would be unne ce.sary for him to enter into that part of the case. The public were admitted to the course two ways, first by pay ing money, and secondly by a public right of way which has been claimed, and is exercised by the public to this day, and which constitutes " The Hippodrome" a public race course under the meaning of the 6th of Geo. IV., cap. 11. It is advertised to the public, and they are admitted. If tickets were issued then he admitted it would be private. It was not necessary to prove that it was an " ancient and accustomed race-course," to prove it was a public one. Mr. Conn—We agree with you there, but we are not satisfied that it is a public course, and we must call upon you to produce proofs. _ _ Mr. Wire then put in the last number of The Racing Calendar, to prove that the next races, to be holden on the Bth and 9th of September, were advertised. Mr. CORD—TI-;at is a prospective advertisement. Those races have not yet taken place. Mr. Wire—l can send for an advertisement of the 19th ultimo. Mr. CODD—NO ; that is not necessary, as it runs in si milar terms. Mr. Wire then called Mr. Edward Mayne, secretary to the Hippodrome (and brother to the Commissioner of Po lice), to prove its being a public racecourse. He stated that the races had been established since June last, that they were publicly advertised, that horses were entered, and the public also indiscriminately on payment of money. There is a footpath across the racecourse by which the pub lic can enter on the course. Any person who chooses can enter and witness the races, and observe all that is going on in the grounds, there being no means to prevent it. Knows Ascot races. The public pay for admission to cer tain parts of it. The price varies in amount. Knows New market. The public pay there also. The stewards there exercise the power of putting any off the racecourse who misconduct themselves. At Doncaster it is the same. Mr. Conn--I think you have proved enough to show that money is also taken on other racecourses. Cross-examined by Byrne—The footpath has been at tempted to be shut up. The paling has been run right round the course, but the Hippodrome is not now enclosed. Pro ceedings are now in progress on the subject. Witness knows a great many racecourses which are enclosed, al though it is not usual. Many that are on commons are not enclosed. Epsom is not enclosed ; neither Newmarket, Doncaster, nor York are enclosed. It is nut a common practice to demand money from all pedestrians at race courses. Believes the Hippodrome is private property. Mr. BARLOW—You say other courses are enclosed— which are they ? Witness—Liverpool, Howth Park, and Hcaton Park. At Heaton Park money is taken for admis sion. I would object to informers going into the Hippo drome, or any such objectionable persons. Mr. Wire then put in the defendant's licenses to prove that he was entitled to sell beer on any " public racecourse," and submitted he had made a complete answer to the case. The BENCH, after consulting together, said that they had gone into the case at very great length, it being a very important question, and had given it their best attention. After going into a review of the evidence, they said they were unanimously of opinion that the Hippodrome is not a public racecourse. They must, therefore, cony ict the de fendant in the mitigated penalty of 101. The next case was against Mr. John Whyte, the pro prietor of the Hippodrome, under the 35th Geo. 111., c. 18, for suffering beer to be drunk on his premises, he not being duly licensed, by which he incurred a penalty of 20/. The BENCH, considering the case proved, fined Mr. Whyte 10/. Notice of appeal was then entered in both cases. By the above decision every tavern and hotel-keeper, not having a Magistrate's license, selling beer, ale, &c., is subject to the penalty. A few days ago a very distressing circumstance oc curred at Ramsgate, which has caused a painful sensation in the town. A young lady of great personal attractions and highly accomplished, and who is the daughter of most respectable persons in the metropolis, attempted to put an end to her existence, by throwing herself off the pier into the harbour. The rash act was witnessed by a number of persons, and a general alarm being instantly raised, she was rescued from a watery grave by two watermen, who coura geously dived for her several times, and eventually suc ceeded in bringing her up, and reaching the boat in which they had rowed to the spot. She was conveyed in an in sensible state to a public-house, where having received the attentions of a medical man, she recovered. It appears that the young woman, some short time back, left her pa rents' residence in London, since which she had been lead ing a very irregular life in Ramsgate. She was employed as a professional singer at the bazaars, and other places of amusement, in the town, and her society was greatly courted by the gay part of the visiters. The cause for making the rash attempt on her life was owing to her relatives having traced her, and at the time she threw herself off the pier she recognised her father and mother, a short distance off, coming towards her, both of whom evinced the greatest possible agony of mind at the dread of their daughter pe rishing. A'reconciliation took place, and the young lady returned to London with her parents with a promise of amendment. The Duke of Sutherland, during several years past, has adopted a silent but effective mode of putting to shame idleness and the " voluntary principle" of pauperism, by offering rewards to meritorious Cottagers who with in dustry improve and keep clean their cottages and gardens. His Grace leaves it to a Committee of Farmers to decide upon the claims of competitors ; and this year fifteen cot tagers have received rewards varying from 5/. to 21. for their respective improvement. One cottager, Joseph Poulter, had created his garden from the mound of a coal-pit at Ketley ; also two small crofts of land adjoining. This ex ample it of great importance. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Leeds Intelligences of Saturday.) The trade of Leeds has been pretty brisk during the week, both in the cloth halls and in the merchants' ware houses, the demand being principally for domestic con sumption. Several London buyers have been down. HECKMONDWIKE.—The Blanket Hall is well attended by buyers, and prices are looking up. BRADFORD MARKET. —There was a better market here on Thursday than for some time past, both as regards the demand for goods and the prices obtained. Yarns were consequently better to dispose of on improved terms, and Wool met ready sale at advanced prices. It is to be hoped that this improvement will be more than temporary. HALIFAX MARKET, AUG. 12.—The excitement of the election having subsided, business has begun to resume its regular course. A greater quantity of goods were disposed of in the Hall on Saturday than for weeks past, and there is every prospect that this improvement will be maintained, unless checked by the price of Wool, which has already ad vanced 10s. to 20s. per pack. Owing to the very scanty supply in the market, and the unwillingness of the grower to sell at the present comparatively low prices. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, AUG. 14.—Though this is what is called Little Monday there has been a good attendance of buyers in the market, and many pieces have been sold, especially of the finer qualities. Prices have undergone little or no variation. The wool market has been about the same as that of last Monday. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, AUG. 19. The demand for Cotton has been kept up with vigour:throughout the week, and the sales are again very heavy, exceeding 47,000 bales. Holders have supplied the demand very freely, yet prices have an upward tendency, and may be quoted V s el. to lid. higher in nearly all qualities of American. Brazils are in good demand, and, being sparingly offered, are rather higher. Bahia', from their scarcity, command very high prices, and may be quoted %d. higher. Maranhams have advanced il t d. per lb., whilst Pernams merely support former rates. Egyptian continues in good request, and 1 4d. advance has been pretty generally obtained. Surat is very general demand, and heavy sales have been effected in them at prices estab lishing an advance of 1 ,4 d. to 1 4d. per lb. in common and middling qualities, which have been chiefly run upon. 7,000 American and 4,500 Surat have been taken on speculation, and 1,350 American and 600 Surat for exportation. d. d. ! d. d. 320 Sea Islands l3 to 24 ! 60 Demeraras .... 4to Ili 10 Stained ditto 5i —lO 140 Peruvians ..... 7 71 5,340 Uplands 5 8 4,330 Laguayras 6i 8 6,650 Mobile, &c. ... 5 71,8,820 Surats .... 3* 3i 19,800 New Orleans 4i 8 60 Bengals ... 1,500 Egyptians 7i 121 110 Carthagenas ... 5 0 850 Pernams, &c Bi 911 Manilla 0 0 720 Bahias Maranhams Vi 8i B ar b a d oes 1,320 Sawginned 6i si, Smyrna o— 0 The Market to-day has been well sustained, the demand being quite equal to the quantity offering, and holders enabled to get very full prices for all descriptions. At these rates consumers appear willing to hold a fair stock of cotton, and the tendency is decidedly in favour of advanced prices. The sales to-day are 6,000 bags, and include 1,500 Surats, 500 of which are for export. Bales. Taken on speculation this year Same in 1836 Forwarded to the country unsold this year Same in 1836 Increase of import this year compared with the same date last year Increase of stock Decrease of quantity taken for consumption 10,300 Decrease of quantity taken for export .. 15,765 Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 12th inst., and of the Imports and Exports for the same period last year : Into the Kingdom this year. Bags. American South American West Indies, Demerara, &c. .. 3,784 East Indies Egypt, &c. Total of all descriptions Same period last year. Bags. American South American West Indies, Demerara, &c. . .. 3,636 East Indies Egypt, &c. Increase of Imports as compared with same period last year Exports in 1837. American, 34,265 ; Brazil, 2,505 ; East India, 42,882 ; West India, ; Other kinds, —. Total in 1837 Same period last year Stock. Aug. 18, 1837 .. Same time, 1836 307,700 263,200 On Saturday morning, about eleven o'clock, an Irish drover lost, or had taken from his pocket, in the neighbourhood of the Exchange, 801., thirty pounds of which were in Bank of England notes, the remainder in gold. A reward of ten pounds has been offered for the ra m. ery of the money ; the poor man is nearly distracted at his loss, by which he is utterly ruined.—Slierborne Journal. EDUCATION AND CRIME.—WO are Dot of those who are disposed to give to the teaching of mere reading and writing the name of education ; nevertheless, as the first step in the ladder of learning, as the key to the vast trea sures of human knowledge which have been stored up from the past, we think it very likely that many well-meaning persons do not sufficiently estimate the importance of these acquirements, regarded solely as a means or instrument of attaining knowledge. With these views we are glad to observe, that in the calendar of prisoners for trial at the pending South Lancashire assizes there is a col umn distin guishing the prisoners by their possession, or otherwise, of of these useful elementary acquisitions. There are 44 pri soners for trial, of whom only eight are reported as able to read and write well ; sixteen read and write imperfectly ; seven cannot write, and can only read imperfectly ; and thirteen can neither write nor read at all. Of these 44 prisoners, only four are females, one of whom is stated as being able to read, but not well ; she is charged, together with two men, with robbery from a dwelling-house ; two others, who can only read and write imperfectly, are charged one with manslaughter, and the other with murder ; and the fourth, who can neither write nor write, is also charged with manslaughter. Of the twelve males who can neither read nor write, two are charged with stealing from the person, two with highway robbery, one with coining, and one with uttering base money ; one with assaulting with intent to maim, two with malicious stabbing, one with horse-stealing, and two (boys of thirteen) with burglary. Of the eight who can read and write well, the only one charged with an offence against property is indicted for forging a post-mark on a letter ; of the other seven, one is charged with bigamy, five with manslaughter, an d one w i th murder. The num ber of prisoners in the calendar is happily too small to afford any adequate or safe dat a , w i t h a v i ew to statistical inquiries into the ! - elation—no doubt a very close and intimate one— between ignorance and crime, especially as to offences against property, or as to the ages or periods of life at which crimes against person or against property are more rife than others in the same i n di v id ua l s , or i n t h e mass of cr i minals amongst theignorant, and therefore depraved classes of the commu nity. The aggregate of the prisoners throughout England and Wales, at any given assizes, might, however, present some striking facts bearing on these points. All such re turns, however, must be necessarily incomplete, if not to some extent, delusive, if they do not also embrace some estimate of the moral as well as the mental condition of the criminal. How this could be done we confess ourselves un able to show.—lllanchester Guardian. PATENT LEVER WATC HES. With silver deuble-bottom cases £6 6 0 With silver hunting cases This celebrated construction (the most accurate en which a watch can be made) is offered, with the latest improvements, i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintaining power to continue going while winding up, at the above price, by T. COX SAVORY, Working Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, London. N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. BIR THS. On the 21st inst., in Lower Brook-street, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Duncombe, of a daughter. On the 20th inst., the Hon. Mrs. Kenyon, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Gledhow Hall, near Leeds, the lady of T. Benyon, Esq., of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Pendlebury, near Manchester, the lady of John Reid, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. At Northwood Church, Cowes, John Hart, Esq., solicitor, to Ann Harris. On the 19th inst., at St. George's Hanover-square, George Glenny Anderson, Esq., of Dulwich-common, to Elizabeth Mary, elder daughter of the late Mr. Scott, Clifford -street, Bond-street. On the 17th inst., at St. Lawrence, Isle of Thanet, Charles Wal ton, Esq., of Doughty-street, to Eliza, second daughter of Henri Gisby, Esq., of Hollycondane. On the 17th inst., at Clifton Church, Joseph Rawlings, Esq.' of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, to Frances Winfield, only surviving daughter of the late J. Winfield, Esq. On the 18th inst., at Clapham Church, James Bennett, Esq., of Salisbury, to Ma r y Bithi a h , d aug h ter of Th omas Grove, E sq ., of Thurlow-terrace, Wandsworth-road. On the 17th inst., at Great Marlow, Thomas Mathias, second son of W. A. W egue li n , E sq ., o f Chi c h ester , to Ch ar l otte , daughter of A. H. Poulett Thomson, of Court-garden, Bucks, an d Austinfriars, London. DIED. On the 19th inst., at Banbury, Richard H o yd en , E s q., aged V• In July last, at HamMersmith, Susannah, wife of Mr. Williaffi Tipper, aged 42. On the 17th inst., aged 74, Mrs. Benson, of Kew Bridge. On the 17th inst , in Caroline -street, Bedford-square, aged 42, Mary Anne, wife of J. B. Papworth, Esq., architect. On the 17th inst., in Camberwell New-road, Ann, widow of D . Langton, Esq., formerly of Uckficld, Sussex. On the 17th inst., at Pearce's Royal Hotel, Falmouth, 111 " 135 Drew, Esq., merchant, I3aseterre, St. Kitt's. London: Printed and Published by MIJIIDO YOUNG, of o. tv 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, St ran d, i n the not' 0 of Middlesex.—Tuesday, August 22, 1337. 1