The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-26 00:00:00

ll_ () II .N - I.N G TIT--.;'_ It is impossib!e, indeed, on contrasting the conduct of Minis. ters last Session with their conduct and language the Les sign before, to avoid the conclusion that they were very ignorant of the state of the country at the earlier period, or very little ac quainted with the principles of commeree and political economy. The mischief they have done to a good cause by their ignorance cannot now be helped, but we hope that in opposition they will diligently acquire information, as well as win back public confi. dente, according to Mr. Rosaucx's recommendation, by practising virtue. kr. Rocsucx, in his clever speech on Tuesday night, taunted:Sir R. Pmt and the Tories with having profited by base appeals to vulgar Palilons on the subject of the Poor-law, while in their hearts they aPpinved of that law as beneficial to the poorer classes. The scorn expressed by the Hon. Member at this political baseness fell With a withering effect on the Tories themselves. They were ob. 'Piously ashamed. The Hon. Member might have added that their conduct, with 'respect, to the Catholics, was precisely similar, and equally base. Sir R. PEEL, though he professes modera'ion, and though he was publicly called on more than once to show that he did not approve of the vile arts of the bigots by Wbia_'he was profiting, never administered the slightest elflike to his partisans. When his and their purpose was answered, however, 'then the Exeter Hall fanatics, and the Pro testant Association were Froperly abused, and then the " surpliced ruffians" were described as worthy of respect. More base political conduct never fell under our observation. It is in politics what the lowest kind of pilfering is in morals, and the Tories, for so acting, well deserve the name of political sneaks. In law, too, the receiver is as bad as the thief, and Sir Roaster PEEL, receiving the support which he knows was most unworthily filched by dis onest arts, is just as bad as the sneaks at whose head he is placed. h meaner political party, is. fact, than the bands of monopolists, who seek to hide their several occupations under the common name of Conservatives, never disgraced the history of England. We have received the whole of the French Journals of Monday, Their leading columns are principally occupied with the question Of the Census, which now agitates the public mind of France. The following extracts include all the misccUaneous news they contain of any general interest : - . . . - A Swiss correspondent of the Courricr Francais observes:— " The new Austrian and Lombard road of the Monte Stelvio, which was formerly part of Eastern Switzerland, is now so much frequented by traders and tourists Iss to have already injured, to a &Feat extent, the interests of the inhabitants on the Swiss lines of gPlugen and St. Gothard. Although the Lew road is at its most elevated point 2,970 French metres, or more than 8,000 feet, above the level of the sea, it is practicable during the greater part of the year." The Minister of Marine has ordered two steamers of 220-horse Power, for the Mediterranean packet service, to be laid down at Bordeaux. According to our advices from Boulogne, the disturbance at the Ball, on Tuesday night, has not led to any further consequences. It appears to have been created principally by strangers to the town, and the pickpockets helped to increase the disorder, for many rob beries. were committed-while it lasted. Eight persons were ar. rested, and arestill under examination. A circular issued to the Consuls at Bucharest by the Walla chian Government states, that in the late affair at Braila, where some insurgent Bulgarians were put to death, the latter were the mitt to attack the •Wallachlan troops, who had conducted them to the lazaretto. The contest lasted tour hours. The Bulgarians hid five killed, nine wounded, and seventeen taken prisoners. A =teat number were drosined. Of the soldiers, one was killed, and two. wounded. _ _ • • Bernard Romberg, the celebrated violoncello player, has just died at Hamburgh, aged 73. The French Government has obtained from the Swiss authori ties the extradition of a fraudulent bankrupt, named Malaure, Who was an agent at Angers, for obtaining substitutes for young men drawn for the army, but had failed, and had since been carry ing on the business of horse.dealtr at Geneva, under an assumed narae. Bills and cash to a large amount were found in his possession. BOURSE—PARIB, MONDAY, AUGUST 22. 'First Highest Lowest last Price Price. Prici. Price Frelich 5 ver Cents ll6 40 ... Ild 40 ... 1 620 ... 116 25 % ... 4169er Cents ...._ lO5 50 ... 105 50 .... 105 1'0"... 105 50 4 per Cents 99 70 ... 99 70 3 per Cents. ex. die 77 45 %7 45 ... 77 30 ... 17 35 61W, 01 prance ....... Lome Bank 1,00(9. Stares 1441 25 —lO4l 25 ...RV ...1040 5,000 f. Shares 5125 ...5115 ...51t25 ...5125 Belgian 5 per Cents. New Loan lo4' ... 1 4 ... 103% ... 110% 3 peiCents 7l 50 ... 71 50 ... 71 50 ... 71 LO Spanish Active t.11% ... SO% ... •A% ... 1.0% ?ash., , . New Deferred Neapolitan Boman .... 102% 102% ... 102% ... 102% RAILWAY zH A ItEs. 'ft. Germain Versailles, 1..8 9OB 75 .., CBS 75 —. 203 75 ... 208 75 ft. B 327 50 3 7 50 ... 326 25 ... 326 25 Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale 237 50 _. 237 50 ... 237 50 ... 2;37 50 We received the Dutch and German mail last night pith the papers. It appears, by accounts from Ham burgh, that blecklenburgh will shortlyjoin the German, or rather Prussian Commercial League; and that, sooner or later, the whole of the Hanseatic towns will be included in it. Thd King of HoLLAND was expected at Flushing on the 26th instant, in order to grace the inauguration of the statue erected in honour of the gallant De RUYTER. . DUTCH FUNDS.—AMBTERDAM, AUG. 23 bloney. Bills. . Actual Debt. 234 per Cent ..... ........... SIN 52 ' Jitto, ditto S per cent. Amon Syndic, 44 per cent 9l 92 Ditto, ditto, 3)4 per cent 75 76 Commercial Company, 4.Q per cent 155 156 Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loun 1837, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One mouth l2 17 1 4 Two months .... 1: 97)4 Hamburgh, One month 35 9134 Two months 35 561. Dutch Papers, Aug. 24. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Am. 18 Five per Cents. Uetall i ques Four per Cents. ..................... ....................... Three p%r Cents. .... 7634 Bunk sharss .598 • Altgernrine Zellunt. Aug. 20 • EX PRESS FROM PARIS. FRANCE. We have received by Express news from Paris of Tuesday's date. A telegraphic despatch received in Paris on Mon day, antioUnced thrt tranquillity was restored at Lille on Sunday. The census was completed at Limoges without the least opposition, but in other towns it continued to encounter resistance. The Municipal Council at Nismes had protested against its legality. Ten in dividuals, arrested during the riots which took place at Bor deaux on the evening of the 12th and 13th inst., were tried by the Coitrt of Correctional Police on the 21st. Nine were sen tenced to from ten days to four months' imprisonment, and the other was acquitted. The Moniteur Algerian, of the 16th inst., announces the submission to the French of 900 persons of the powerful tribe of the Medjehers, who inhabit both banks of the Lower Cheliff. The price of wheat had fallen in most of the markets which supply Paris, and also at Arras, Bordeaux, :Donal, Lisle, Orlean s , St. Quentin, and Strasburg. The quality and quan tity .of the grain were generally inferior to that of 1840. The harvest was finished all round 1-aris, and was proceeding in the norh of France favoured by beautiful weather. A grand dinner was given to M. Guizot, at Lisieux, on Stinday'',last. Two toasts were proposed, the one by the Sub- Prefectrto the King of the French, to whose high wisdom the country owes the preservation of peace, and the other by the Mayor of Lisieux to M. Guizot, who, after having so much contributed by his eloquence and writings to found the consti tutional monarchy in France—after having with admiral courage defended , in turn liberty and order against the most desperate faction—has just added a fresh title to all his former glorious. titles. By his skilful policy peace is preserved in Europe, and France, which did not fear war, applauded the ho nourable treaty which terminated so happily the crisis that held the public mind so long"in suspense. Mr. Guizot, in returning thanks, said that he professed a strong attachment to the constitutional institutions of the coun try which had twice saved it, in 1830 when they suffered for the defence of its liberties, and after 1830, when they pre seved it from anarchy, and recently from the evils of a revo lutionary war, and in which neither France nor Europe is wil ling to engage, M. Guizot attributed the maintenance of peace to th e King's wise exercise of his prerogative, and then proceed ed t o vindicate at much length the domestic and foreign po hey of the present administiatien. Alluding to the Speech t'f Lord Palmerston to his constituents at Tiverton, M. Guizot said that he would abstain from all expression calcu lated to wotnd the susceptibility of any Government or say foreign nation " for," said he, " I should not forgive myself for tittering a word calculated to foment between France and England, between France and Europe, old prejudices or hostile sentiments." SPAIN. Our letters from Madrid of the 17th state, that a reconci liation had taken pl tee between the Regent and General Leon. COURT CIRCULAR. - - WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.--The unpropitious state of the weather this morning prevented any of the Royal party leav ing the Castle ; but in the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert walked for some time on the Terrace and in the:Slopes. The Princess Royal was also t , ken out for an airing. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and Viscount Mel bourne arrived on a visit to her Majesty. The Right Hon. Sir William Fremantle and Lieutenant- Colonel Rouvene will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening. Viscount Melbourne left town yesterday afternoon on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Dr. Phillimore, as Chairman of the Commission for the Examination into the Non -parochial Regi-ters, presented the Report of the Board, at an interview with the Marquis of Nor manby yesterday, at the Home-office. Baron de B runow , th e Russian Minister ; Baron de Boar queney, the French Charge d'Affairs, and Baron Koller, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, transacted b usiness yesterday at the Home-office. The Hon. 'Sir Henry Dymoke, whose name stands first on the list of the newly created Baronets, is the seventeenth re presentative of his noble and ancient family, who has filled the high hereditary Office of Champion of the English Crown. Sir Henry discharged in person, with distinguish ed approba tion, the duties Of Champion at the coronation of his Majesty King George the Fourth, and would then, according to former usage, have received, like his ancestors, the honour of the Bath, had that ancient knightly state dignity not been suffered to fall into abeyance. Lord Hastings, Sir J. Osborn, and Mr. N. Wigney, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office. Despatches from the Governor of the Bahamas were re cei red yesterday at the Colonial-office. regret THE W IZAR D OF TIIE NORTII. — We that the performances of this wonderful stranger are drawing to a close. We have had nothing like them in modern times. All his tricks, and he admits they are tricks, are done with such admirable address, that the most experienced spectator cannot discover the secret. He filled the Strand Theatre f,. sixty nights—he has filled the Adelphi for a hundred—and but fur the house being engaged, he would fill it for a hundred more. A letter from Trieste says :—" The house of fluleher and Co. is the only one here which has been the victim to the Vienna failures. All the other failures at Ti ieste were unconnected with those of Vienna. The cause of our embarrassment is the want of confidence, and the consequent difficulty of obtaining d scount for bills. Some Vienna houses, which had sent funds here, have been compelled to take them back, as the conditions were too onerous to be acceded to. There is no truth in the statement that the houses of Felix .Vivante and Mintz have failed. The first is one of our best hou-es, and the second is very solid, notwithstanding some 105 e,,. The position of Tri, ste is already improving. We have few debts, and 40 millions of francs of rner cbandise on hand. We have large orders for wheat from England, and many purchasers of sugar, oil, coffee, and "Cotton, from the interior. All that we want now is a revival of confidence." S 4' 51 y E F rt; • 14 AND Optuton. " Who runs may read." rOIZEEGIIi o The ConstitutionneLthe Gazette de France, the Echo Francais, the Commerce, the National, the Quotidienne, the France, and the Tempe, were seized at the Paris Post office on Sunday, the latter for writing, and the other Journals for quoting, an article stating that the Government had resolved to abandon the census. We need not wonder at the influence which French Journalists possess over the public mind when we find the Government thus solicitous to prevent them from telling the people anything but the truth. The Utilitaire, the Emancipation, and the Gazette de Languedoc, all Toulouse Journals, were seized for publishing articles condemn. ing the conduct of the Government with regard to the census. The Gazette de France asserts that M. Humann, the Minister of Finance, intends to resign. He is sick of the Census. The Paris Globe states that Adraird Hugon's squadron , con sisting of 12 ships of the line, will cruise off' Barcelona, Valencia, Cadiz, and Malaga, to protect French commerce, and to take on board the vanquished Spaniards in the event of a Revolution break ing out for the restoration of Queen Christina ! This is predicting the event betimes. Ifa Revolution do break out we shall know to what source to attribute the correctness of this prediction. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Post thus expresses itself on the subject of the Queen's Speech :—" The authors of this Speech manifest an equal degree of respect to the Sovereign and to the country. They adopt, as the dernier resort of their desperation, a theoretic policy, which they had rejected so long as their circumstances were not desperate, and employ their Sovereign as the organ of as advocacy, almost of a supplication—of an advocacy and a supplication which they know must be unsuccessful in its behalf." Had the Queen's Speech con. tained no allusion to the Corn.laws and Free Trade, then Ministers would have been accused of a cowardly desertion of theirprinciples ; but because they are firm and consistent to the last, their firmness, forsooth, is the dernier resort of desperation! Such is the candour of Tory reasoning. The Times is horror.struck at the language adopted in the Queen's Speech, and states that it is not only " a desperate attempt to compromise the Royal authority," but that it is also "a gross breach of the most unquestionable privilege which the House of Commons possesses;" adding—" No wonder that her Majesty, with the innate sense of propriety for which she is so remarkable, de clined the odium of delivering from her own mouth such a speech as this, and stated that if it was necessary (as her responsible ad visers said it was) that such words should be spoken in her name, it must be done by those who indited the composition and would have to answer for it, and not by herself." The advice given by Dr. Locock, her Majesty's medical attendant, not to open Parliament in person, is quite a sufficient answer to this malignant insinuation of our Contemporary. _ _ . The Times of yesrerday also makes the fol• . owtng remarks on the creation of the new Baronets :—" The outgoing Ministry have imposed upon their Royal and indulgent mistress the task of mak. ing a batch of Baronets. The public will care nothing about this. It is a trumpery honour at the best! Yet something ought to be done or suffered by those who obtain it; and what have the objects of this new creation done or suffered ? There is a Roman Catholic or two, weobserve. A Jew also; what would Old Moses say, if he saw one of his race thus disguised ? John Easthope, Esq., of Fir grove, in the county of Surrey; and though last, not least, there comes, with thundering sound, George Gerard de . Hochpied Latpent, of Roehampton, also in the county of Surrey. We recollect a story of a Spanish grandee having lost his way in a stormy night, and requiring admission into a mise. rabic cottage, sang out that his name and title were Don Juan Fernandez de Mendoza y Marialva y Patnpe— " I have not room fur half of you," exclaimed the ten ified peasant, and bolted the door. However, the baronetcy must make room for Sir George Gerard de Hochepied Larpent, of Roehampton. Then there is William Clay, Esq., the Parliament man for. the Tower Hamlets! Into such clay as this " old Robin Gray " would not like " to be turned." We wonder rather that Dents le Marchant has chosen to accept such an honour. Henry . Dymoke, also of Scrivelsby Court—he, we suppose, is the Champion of England. Why not John Gully, Esquire, late Member for Pontefract, the Champion for all England, except Tom Crib ? How poor George 111. would have stared at such a list being presented to him ! The Herald states that the object of the Queen's Speech " is to connect the Royal name and associate the Royal feelings with Whiggery, and to erect a principle of antat,onism between Royalty and Conservative Government. It is more properly an electioneer. ing appeal than a Royal Speech." An " electioneering appeal" after the elections are decided I The Herald must have been hard pressed for argument when it ventured on a remark like this, whose absurdity must be obvious to the most superficial reader. It is i..deed the forlorn hope of a sophist. . - - The Chronicle is of opinion that the cloven foot of oligarchy peeps out of the Tory amendment to the address. The following arc our Contemporary's remarks on this subject :—" The Ministers in expectancy seem to think that they are entitled to take their Queen prisoner, that it is enough for them to say, we are the majo rity, we insist on being installed in office as a matter of course, and, if our demand is not complied with, the business of the country shall stand still, and public affairs shall be thrown into confusion. In all former instances at all parallel to the present, the party seeking office have boldly stated the grounds on which they differed from the men in possession of office, and, in the face of the Sovereign and the nation, joined issue on certain tangible principles. Both Sovereign and country are entitled to demand this, the former that her decision may be governed by sound reaso,lB, and the other, that, should the Sovereign differ from the majority, they may know how to answer the appeal made to them. The present is showing the cloven foot of oligarchy without disguise. It makes a Parlia. mentary majority everything, and the Sovereign a mere pageant." The Cambridge Advertiser is of opinion that " the Tories must rule as Liberals, if they would retain their power longer than a week or two !" The Brighton Guardian remarks, in reference to the late Man. cheater Conference, " against the distress of the people, and the de monstrations of service, the starvation laws have stood their ground ; whether they will be able to resist the denunciations of Christianity, which have been sufficient to abolish slavery, and almost put an end to hanging, time alone can show." The Tyne Mercury says that though the Tories boast of a ma. jority of eighty, yet that a " majority of eighty on an election may turn out a most materially different affair when particular measures come before the House." AGRICULTURAL. The corn harvest has partially commenced in the vale of Gla. morgan, and it will become more general in the course of the en. suing week. Very serious apprehensions have for some time been entertained for the fate of the ensuing harvest. LAW AYi•D POLICE. James Spurle was charged at Union Hall, with setting tire to a house No. 59, High-street, Laml eth, to obtain the insurance. His room was discovered to be on fire, and chips, firewood, and tur pentine so placed as to ensure his purpose. A woman and her family slept over the room thus stored with combustibles, and acci dentally discovered it by the prisoner's going out early in the morning, and exciting her curiosity. The fire was happily checked in time. He is fully committed. A foreigner of the name of Gettin appeared at Queen.square, for hovering about the premises of Mons. Cresnan, an oil-refiner, at Mil'bank, and threatening to murder him. He had left France to obtain employment under Mons. Cresnan, who had however refused to engage him. On his arrest two razors were found on his person, and a phial of deadly poison, sufficient to kill a dozen people. Unable to find bail, he was sent to prison. In the course of an inquest held on Tuesday by Mr. Wakley, upon the body of a male infant, found in the Regent's Canals, the Coroner remarked that the child might be the offspring of rich or poor people, and might have been brought upwards of 100 miles per railway before it was placed in the Canal. This frequently happened, and he remembered a case where he held an inquest on the body of a child, whose father, wishing its birth to be concealed, carried it many miles, and buried it in a garden belonging to his brother. In the course of two or three days after, however, the body was discovered by a little dog, which scratched up the earth where it was laid. At the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday, a genteel-looking lad of the name of Peerard, fourteen years of age, was tried for stealing a penny, the property of William Ocock, a chemist, in Judd.street, to whom he was apprenticed. The Jury without a moment's hesitation acquitted the youth, when the foreman of the Jury read the following opinion—" The Jurors beg to ex press their strong sense of the unfeeling conduct of the prosecutor in this case." The Common Sergeant in reference to the con duct of a policeman mixed up in the business, thus described policemen generally, " It appeared to him that policemen often attempted to be Magistrate, Judge, and Jury.'' He might have added and " something more." A man of the isame of M'Csrmack, a rather respectable looking 3oung man, was fined ss. at Queen square on Tuesday, and in default of payment sentenced to two months at the treadmill, for annoying three ladies on Westminster.bridge. At the Liverpool Assizes on the 2.3 d inst. an action was brought by Mr. Ross, a calico printer, at Manchester, against Mr. Worth. ington, an attorney, for a libel, published in the Manchester Guardian, insinuating that the plaintiff had obtained surrepti tiously certain designs for printing calico. The defendant at first pleaded a justification, but in the course of last week obtained a Judges' order to withdraw it. Vardict-801. damages. SPORTING. On Tuesday last Prince Albert rode on horseback, attended by Col. Wyldv, the Hon. C. A. Murray, and Lord Alfred Paget, to Virginia Water, to enjoy the sport of rabbit-shooting. FINE AIM'S. At a sale of first-class paintings, which took place in Regent. street on Saturday last, a " woody landscape," by Hobbina, was purchased for the enormous sum of 9971. 10s. A portrait of George the Foutth, when Prince of Wales, by Woppner, fetched only 14 guineas. THEATRICAL. The entertainments on Tuesday evening at Vauxhall Gardens in aid of the Licensed Victuallers' School were varied and brilliant. The children, amounting to 150, were pleased beyond measure with the illuminations, feats, and music. Miss Ellen Tree made her appearance on Monday at the Rieh mond Theatre, in the character of Julia, in Sheridan Knowles's Hunchback. COURT—F.A.sH i oxcanLE. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out early en Tuesday morn ing thrdligh the Home Park, Windsor, and walked home. In th e afternoon they rode into the Green Park in a pony phaeton. The Queen Dowager arrived IA Marlborough House on Tuesday morning from Bushy Park. The Archbishop of Armagh and his family have arrived at Paris from a tour in the Netherlands. The Marquis of Hertford has left Brussels on a tour to Hungary. We regret to state that Field-Marshal Viscount Beresford lies dangerously ill at his house in Cavendish-square. His Lordship was attacked with spasms while taking a drive in his carriage. MISCELLANEOUS. The mortality among the convicts at Woolwich from a species of rapid consumption, has at length led to some investigation. A con vict, aged 30, died of it after only three days' illness, and Dr. Hope, the convict -surgeon, confessed he had never witnessed so destructive a case. The deaths, it appeared, during January, Fe bruary, and March, had been at the rate of thirty a month. It is calculated that the quantity of cloth of all kinds now manu factured in Kirkaldy, Linktown, Dyrsart, and Leslie may be about twenty-five million yards, or upwards of 14,000 miles. A number of landmarks of a peculiar form are being erected on the Cumberland and Westmoreland mountains, previous to the publication of the new map of England, under the superintendence of the Commissioners of the Board of Ordnance. On Tuesday morning a man, while walking horre towards the Mi in one of his legs, and, on looking downwards, nories, felt a snap observed the blood flowing into his shoe. On examination it was found that the main artery of his leg had burst. He now lies in a state of great exhaustion at the hospital. Mr. F. O'Connor was committed to York Castle on the 14th of May. 1840. The term of imprisonment was eighteen months, and consequently would have expired about the middle of November. " On Frid a y l as t , " says the Ty ne Mercury, two gentlemen tourists witnessed a severe conflict betwei n four Martin swallows and five common sparrows in the air, near the road between Ardoch and Crieff. They fought nearly five minutes, when a hawk darted in amongst th em ; but no stoner was he recognized by them, than both parties uniti ng, encountere d him, and beat him so severe l y that lie was scarcely able to fly off with his life." How happily this ty. pifies the present conflict for place between the two great Parlia mentary parties! The Martin swallows and sparrows are the Whigs and Tories , the hawk who darts in among them, clamorous for food, is the People ; but no sooner do the contending parties recog. !Axe this new-comer, than they both unite to punish him severely liir his impertinent intrusion, inasmuch as their quarrel has nothing whatever to do with him, but regards only their own self-interests! On Monday last the Rev. Mr. Wilks, of Little Hampton, Swoon: ris robbed in an omnilvis, of a bank warrant for 500/., a check - for 10/., end IS Bank of England notes of-51. each: He had taken no particular notice of the persons in the omnibus with him, A Welsh paper laments that in two parishes in Brcconshire. "the males exceed the females by more than a thousand." If females are so scarce in this district, there is no doubt that on application being made, the Tory party could furnish it with lots of old women I Weyman, convicted of the murder of Mr. Fisher, at Tockington, and whom we stated on Saturday had been respited, will be transported for life. The wild heresy of the Mormonites is said to have penetrated every State from the Maine to the Missouri, as well as the Canadas, organizing churches and confe rences in every region, and gathering . in its progress from 50,000 to 100,000 disciples. ~ • A subscription is in progress At. Cults, to erect some monumental memorial. to . Sir . David Wilkie in that parish, of which his father was many years minister. The great vine:at HaMpton Court presents:this year a splendid display.of grapes. It was planted iu 1525. A pay-serjeant of the 60th Rifles shot him Self on Monday, in his quarters at Dublin barracks. lie had fallen in love with a young lady in one of the Squares, who returned hiy passion ; but the officers interfered, and the man became desperate. The young lady has since gone distracted. The first regular Parliament was under King .Tohn in 1204. 1n•1694 an Act was passed for making Parlia ments triennial, which was repealed in 1716. A feW days ago while a man was digging in the garden of the Rev. John Brown, Vicar of St.. Mary's, Leicester,., he picked up a piece of copper money, on which was inscribed '` John Brown's halfpenny, 1G69." SO : •favourable a season as .the present has not been witnessed in the Isle of Sky for many years. THE SJTN, LONDON. THURS MONEY and COMiiEttaAt-VAII.: CITY, WEDNrSDAYEV4NING• There were one or two tranasetions of some magnitude in the emrse of the day, on aeccnnt, as was said, of the Bank of England and an Assurance Company, but in the present un settled state both of political and commercial affairs, the public evince but little disposition to do business. On the whole the market wore a flat appearance, and prices ranged h per cent. lower for Consols, which, for immediate transfer, were quoted 89i and 3to ; and for O c t o b er , 891 t o Exchequer Billet were, 15s. to 17s. premium, and India Bonds 3s. to ss. pre mium, being steady. Bank Stock was firm at 169 ; the NeW' Three-and-a-Half per .Cents. were not higher than 986 to 118*, and the 'three per Cent. Annuities were marked 891 to The more current value of money in the Stock Exchange eras 4 per cent. There was again an entire absence of activity in the Foreign Market, and the. quotations were not at all buoyant. Spanish Activei realized 193 for present liarisfer, and . 193 to 20 for next time. Portugue s e Th ree per C en t s .•i ver e at 184',. CP lumbinn Bonds realized 204-'; Mexican Deferred. reru vian, 16; Cubs, 70; and Dutch Five per Cents; 101i'to 102. • Shares were not much dealt in. Great Western Shares were at l 2 to 14; the New, 4% to 3, and the Fifths. 4'to 31- pre mium. Brighton wete 51 to 5; ; Blackwall, 10; rristol anti Exeter, 21; ; Manchester and Birmingham, 19i; Midland Counties, 22%; and North Midland, 35 discount. London and Westminster Batik New Shares were 2 to 1-3 h premium, and Natntial Provincial of Enaland 11 to discount. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sax--In The Evening Sun of Tuesday there is a statement which is calculated to convey a wrong impres sion as to a matter of fact ; and knowing your desire to be accurate, I beg to call your attention to the statement in question : A paragraph in The Sun states that on Monday last " three men pleaded guilty to an assault on the police in the progress of a procession on Whit-:Monday, headed by Mr. O'Connell." A paragraph immediately following.states " that an other was tried and convicted for the same offence," &c. This paragraph, which states that another " was con victed of the same offence," conveys that. he was tried and convicted of " assaulting the police during the pro gress of the procession headed by Mr. O'Connell." This is an error. The assault was not, either in time or in place, or in any other manner, connected with the pro cession in question. Mr. O'Connell took no. other part in the said procession than joining it, as a member of the Total Abstinence Society. One teetotaller, accused of an assault in its progress, was on Monday last acquitted. At the former Sessions two others were convicted of an assault, by no means of an aggravated charaeter ; and they were sentenced' to nine and six months' imprisonment, whilst two prostitutes, arraigned for the murder in Shoreditch, and convicted of man slaughter, were only sentenced to be imprisoned for six months.—Your obedient servant, M. P. HAYNES, WOOL W I CH—MONDAY. ROYAL MARINES. . The following appointments and _promotions have taken place in the Royal Marines,' dated Aug. 17, 1841 : First Lieutenant Edward 'locker, of the Portsmouth division, to be Quartermaster at Plyinouth, vice Wat son, promoted to Captain. Second Lieutenant G. C. Symonds, of the Portsmouth division, to be First -Lieutenant, and re-appointed to Portsmouth division, vice Hockey. "'CIRCULAR. " Royal. Marine•office, Aug. 18, 1841. " Commissions dated yesterday will be laid before her Majesty, appointing the following gentlemen to be Se cond Lieutenants in the Royal Marines, and they are to be attached to the divisions opposite their names : " Mr. Charles Louden Barnard ... Portsmouth Richard Franklin Tucker Chatham Henry Watson Hall . Henry G. Johnstone Davis Frederick William Hall Chatham Rodney Vansittart Allen Nerison W. de Courcy THE LAST NEWS FROM CHINA• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sirt—ln reference to the statement which appeared in a Second Edition of . the Herall of the 17th instant re lative to the chop of the Emperor of China for the.de strUction of all the teas and rhubarb in the province of Canton, &c., it appears to me to be beyond all doubt that it was nothing more nor less than a vile'hoax ' got up. by an interested party. We have an account of the Akbar having arrived at New York with a full cargo of teas (17,896 packages), and that two other vessels with tea had left Whampoa for the United States. The Akbar sailed from Whampoa on the 17th of April, and she brings no account corroborating one line of this big lie as to the outward cargoes that were landed at Canton, and said to be seized by the Chinese. You have a document under the hand Of the Commander of her Majesty's ship Sulphur, dated Macao-roads, April 7th, wherein he tells the British merchants resident at Macao of our strong force stationed at Canton, and the precautionary steps which had been taken to prevent any unexpected hos tile movement on the part of the Chinese, so that had such cargoes been seized there must have been ,;some desperate fighting, and our troops must have got a good thrashing. Of this the Herald's informant, or rather the informant of the French Papers forgot to tell us. Let not the advocates of the hoax alluded to deceive themselves, but rather let them expect every hour the ar rival of one or more vessels, at our own ports, direct from Canton, that they may not be, taken quite so much by surprise as our friends at New York were on the 4th of this month. I admit the dispute between us and the Celestials is far from a final settlement, but it is evident, that in pro portion as John Chinaman has been playing , - the fool with Eliot, so is he now humbugging the Chinese into the belief that we now only want trade and ask no more, and he is even quibbling, or pretending to quibble, about a reduction of export duty on tea, to the extent of one tad per pical (about ;111. per lb.) ! ! Eliot, after all, is a clever fellow, and I shall be much mistaken if he does not get two or three months shipment of teas previous to the return of Bremner. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Bristol, Aug. 21, 1841. A TEA-DEALER. THE TEA TRADE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—I think the annexed letter of Captain Elliot's will bear reprinting, and at the present moment will be interesting to some of your friends connected with the China trade. It may set at rest their doubts as to our prospect of getting a supply of tea, as well as the Americans. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Bristol, Aug. 23, 1841. A TEA DEALER. TO MESSRS. DENT AND CO., AND OTHERS. Macao, Afarch 22, 1841. GENTLEMEN—I have the honour to your letter of the 15th inst. My own opinions being coinci dent with those expressed in the fourth paragraph *ofi your communication, I had already publicly expressed my determination never to sanction the resumption of the trade till it could be carried on on a perfectly equal footing by our own merchants and in our own ships. It only remains for me to add, that the least at tempt of the provincial Government to advance or pro tect the interwils of the merchants of other countries more than our own will be considered a violation of the understanding between us, and lead to an immediate re currence of hostilities, accompanied by a sudden and close interdict upon the whole trade of Canton, native and foreign. I have the honour to be, &c. CHARLES ELLIOT. Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary. VICTORIA THEATRE. A new piece was produced at this theatre on Monday, entitled, Deeds and Doings glthe Dai h House, or Simple Bess of Billingsgate, the principle features of which are blue fire, combats three deep, and revenge. It appeared to be relished mightily by the deities, who, in emu lation,• attempted to get up an interesting do mestic drama on their own account, as there were fre quent indications of " pitching him over," and other phrases very interesting to the individuals concerned. This very pleasing part of the evening's amusement lasted for about half an hour, when the " thunder of the gods" became hushed. The performances concluded with a nautical drama bearing the title of Sweet Poll of Horsleydown, or Poor Joe the Marine, a kind of second edition of " Black-Eyed Susan," the principal character, "Pretty Poll," being supported by Mrs. Howard ; and, from the archness of manner, in which she played the character, we were not at all surprised that a fine Post Captain should fall in love with a publican's pretty daughter, and that the publican's pretty daughter should prefer her own "true love to the tendered affec tions of the Post Captain, especially when this same Captain was the chosen of her father. We laughed heartily at Mr. Gardener, who as a Cockney. )'.utter was irresistibly droll, especially where-, having been " pressed" and placed on board of k loa n o f war, he is being initiated into the mysteries of the mess-room, and the kind offices of the ship's cook. The house was crowded in every part, and the performances went off with great spirit. THE WEATHER.--Since our last publication, the weather in this neighbourhood has been exceedingly vari able and unsettled. Early on Saturday morning, the town and neighbourhood were visited by a violent thunder-storm, which appears to have extended over the greater part of the north of England and Scotland, and southward as far as Shrewsbury. On Sunday afternoon we had heavy and con tinued rain, which also appears to have been very extensive; and yesterday (Tuesday) morning, a most terrific thunder storm burst upon the town of Liverpool, where two of the churches, St. Michael's and St. Martin's, were seriously da maged by the lightning ; and the fall of rain is stated to have been exceedingly heavy. It would appear, however, from the London newspapers, that these vicissitudes of the weather have not been experienced in that quarter, and though some rain fell on Monday, the weather has been, on the whole, favourable for maturing and gathering the crops; and on this account the unfavourable weather experienced in the north has not produced any effect on the price of corn. It will be seen, from the report of the Liverpool Corn Mai ket of yesterday, that the great decline which took place in the price of grain on Friday las., was not at all recovered yester day ; and that sales were made at a decline of 6d., and in some cases Bd. per bushel on the prices of the pre ceding Tuesday. At Leeds, however, though little business was done, holders were firm, and the previous high rates were generally maintained. Indeed, the great decline in Liverpool seems to be in great measure owing to the libera'ion of a con siderable quantity of Canadian wheat and flour, which was previously under lock there. Yesterday, the weather in this neighbourhood was tolerably favourable for the harvest, being bright and dry, though rather cold ; but it was far from exhi w.hinng the settled appearance which is so exceedingly desirable at ttts present time.—Manchester Guardian. AUGUST 26, 1841., THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MANCHESTER CONFERENCE VINDICATED. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—The General Synod convoked at Manchester fur the consideration of our commercial economy, as it affects the present -position of this country, is pregnant with im portant matter to all classes with respect to our home, colonialyor foreign'relaticras: That it should therefore .haVe'excited the animadversion's of the Times, and have . prOvoked its malevolence, can in no wise be a matter of astonishment to those who habitually watch the arbi trary, conduct and peremptory fiat of that usually able, but.wayward and mischievous Journal. A coarse .and witless report of the week's proceed ings has been furnished at intervals by their own accredited Correspondent, as instinct with vulgar in ferences as it is indifferently inclined to facts, and the whole preamble exhibits a malicious pre determination to misrepresent or censure what, in its utmost efforts, it . could not repress. Every calumnious observation that a corrupt ingenuity could invent, or a wilful misapprehension supply, has been re • sorted to to impugn the cAmsideration of a subject the bread taxers dare not engage in, and to stifle the utterance of truths it is their policy to decry and condemn. All this, I trust, will be in vain. The character of the meeting— the weight, situations, and influences of its participants— will all tend to g ive at once a celebrity to the proceed irg3, calculated to strike deeply into the hearts of inte rested millions, and to put to defiance the low vitupera tion of a Journal set apart for no other purpose than as a hireling to oppose every thing. that has a single ele ment of ,popular prosperity in it; of course, to the nar row interests of its proprietors, or interfering in even the outer and more collateral possessions of a turgid and luxurious aristocracy. The time, however, I believe to be fast approaching when those social enormities will be destroyed, when the solicitation of thousands for relief to the common wants of nature will be accompanied by a portentious reserva tion of outraged feeling, which, under the pressure of famine, may break out into resistance, and demand that, in the force of their desperation, which has been denied to them in the fullness of their distress. The frequent national appeals —aye, the very season itself—seems almost to invoke an abrogation of these most iniquitous Corn-laws : the aggregated testimony of their impolicy from different countries, the biogra phical records of all great political economists of every time and clime, are fraught with memorable objurgations against any restrictive imposts upon-food for the people, and it is only for the .pttisne and - pseudo economists of t in the sustenance of their memorial and other privileges, to project laws, which, by keeping up the price of land, may hand down a crescent and improving , rent roll to their heirs by primogeniture, with a con temporaneous security, that sinecures, or offices of small need and great profits, are in store for the junior branches when they require them, and all this whilst the surrounding poor are experiencing present beggary, and " Hope so long deferred " as indeed to " make the heart sick.' The state of the poor is in every way frightful. One of the speakers at the meeting relates a conversation with passing agricultural labourers, aeveral of whom could not tell the price of meat per lb.; another, that he bad not tasted animal food for two years, by reason of his great poverty; a third, the father of six children, that his family and himself lived for the most part on potatoes, rendering the vegetable succulent by " drinking part of the water they were boiled in !" What a picture is here of miserable expedients to preserve life, and all the result clear to a demonstration of an iniqui tous.law, made for the support of a small section of men, and the increase of a wealth already monstrous to an enormity. And all this is to be endured ! whilst Ame rica, with nearly her two millions'of acres of corn. grow ing land, is ready and willing to barter - the produce of her superfluities for thecotton fabrics of Manchester, and the mechanical commodities of Birmingham and Sheffield ; but in consequence of restriction on one article of the inter change, this advantage is withheld,—the channels of im portation are closed, and, from the manufacturer to the operative, they are on the road to beggary, without pros pect of improvement. Let those, therefore, who heartlessly scoff at the want of national prosperity, and declare instances of indivi dual destitution to be only the fate of things in great countries—the influxes and the refluxes of the tide of prosperity exciting either natural advantage or popular discontent,—let them learn to be wise in time, and re flect upon the consequences of a bad harvest, greater scarcity of food, increased penury, and perishing fami lies, where abundance should only be ; and all this with the growing intelligence of a people well informed of the causes of their gnawing indigence, and independent of the thraldom and vassalage of the landowner, who can only lord it over a few serfs, whom not half a century of disseminated useful instruc tion has served to manumit them from feudalism, or strike off the prejudices of our almost prirnative ignorance of their own privileges as intellectual and responsible beings. Let such scoffers, I say, beware of placing any trust upon so hollow a philosophy. Above all, let them keep their eyes steadily upon the cause, progress, and matu rity of the French Revolution, and bear in mind that, however memorable for unrestrained atrocities those times were—however deplorable to the philanthropist the sacrifice of life and property—those times form a close, and flowing prototype of our own in the arrogance and sympathetic disregard of her " ancient regime" until it grew past popular endurance—and that, if the general resentment had stayed at the almost entire deportation of an aristocracy, too oppressive to govern, and too re morseless to be kind, historians might have represented the French Revolution as the result of a deprecated but imperative resistance to powers which had outgrown themselves, and by giant encroachments had become the scourge of the nation to which they belonged, the spoiler of every political and civil prerogative, and the wanton contemners of all the reasonable obligations from man to man, like distant clouds that look dark upon the ho rizon, and are hurrying up by the tempest to the me ridian ere they burst—lawful constraint will be fomented by the agitation of the political hurricane into lawless rebellion ; and the flood= g ates of natural resentment once let loose, it will be well if that merciless oligarchy —the people's rulers—be not engulphed irrecoverably in the deluge, and become a warning and monumental record of national immolation, to the misdoers of suc ceeding times. Yours, respectfully, Liverpool, Aug. 23, 1841. ALCIBIADES. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—It is high time that public atention should be awakened to the constitution and practice of the In solvent Debtors' Court. In each respect it appears to me to be peculiarly defective, and to call for an imme diate legislative remedy. The subject is one of great iirlportance'te . both creditors and debtors, to whom the decisions of the Court are too often equally ' unsatisfac tory. The predominance of the agency of evil over that of good is strikingly exemplified in its proceedings. Numerous instances might be adduced in support of this proposition, but then they would encroach too much on your valuable space. The Insolvent Debtors' Court can be regarded only in the light of a Court of Equity, and ought to be governed upon principles analogous to those of other Courts of Equity. But it is tied down and fettered by the pro visions of a Special Act of Parliament. It is true there is what is termed the " Discretionary Clause," * which gives the Commissioners greater latitude, but under which injustice is as often done as justice. No man can possibly divine, when an insolvent steps into that Court, when the issue of his case may be. The probability is, the greater the knave, the greater the chance of es cape. An honest debtor cannot be certain he will not be remanded ; and a rogue has many facilities to assist him in getting off. In many cases, he has only to swear lustily, and he walks out a free man. My experience, it least, has taught me that such is too generally the fact. If I were asked how the Court works, I should re ply, in the words of one of the Grave-diggers in Ham let, i.e., "It does well for 'those who do ill." Few per sons could sit in that Court for a single day, without being struck by its anomalies and inconsistencies. These are frequently particularly observable in Bail cases. I submit that the duty of the Court on those occasions is simply to inquire into the sufficiency of the bail tendered. It has no right to dip into the merits of the case, and to prejudge it. It has no right to antici pate what an Insolvent's case may be merely from a glance at the schedule. Nor is it justified in interposing unnecessary obstacles to the admission of bail. Now, I have known the Court to be guilty of all those acts ; I have known a case in which the Insolvent, although the bail was acknowledged to be unexceptionable, brought up three times before he was discharged, upon the most frivolous pretext, for no other apparent object but to increase the expenses, or to gratify the caprice of the Chief Commissioner, •by whom the ease in ques tion was heard. The chief characteristic of the Insolvent Debtors' Court seems to me to consist in giving impunity to fraud and discouragement to honest poverty. Not that such is invariably the case—if it were the Conrt would be a worse nuisance than it actually is—but this is its general feature. It is notorious that the most flagrant delin quents frequently escape, laughing in their sleeves at their own dexterity ; while artless, unsophisticated, well meaning, but unfortunate debtord, as often come under the ban of the Court. If an insolvent be opposed, and a " case," as it is termed, be made out against him, no matter however trivial or insignificant it may be, no Matter how vindictive may be the motives, or animus of the opposinc, cre ditor, still it is a "case , " a nd the un happy insolvent 6 is liable to a remand for any period not exceeding three years, to be determined by the humour of the Court, under the discretionary clause. As an instance of the severity sometimes exercised under this clause (or clauses) it may be mentioned that it is only a short time since an aged man, nearly seventy, in an ill state of health, and who had been already in carcerated for a period of fourteen years, was adjudged to a further imprisonment of two years, a judgment which will probably prove equivalent to confinement for life. The case was certainly a bad one, but not worse than many others, in which insolvents have been either discharged altogether, or subjected to a much lighter re mand ; and the advanced age and ill-health of this insol vent might surely have pleaded in favour of a judgment less severe. Ido not impute corrupt or improper motives to the Commissioners ; but it is quite evident that younger and more vigorous intellects are required to conduct the business of that Court ; and I have seen cases in which it was difficult to divest oneself of a belief that the Court had been warped by an undue bias. The purity of our legal Courts should be like that of Caesar's wife, not only unsuspected, but above suspicion. There is one other point to which I must allude, especially as I consider it, perhaps, the most important part of the whole subject. Whatever abuses may pre vail, whatever grievances may exist, under the jurisclic tien of the Court, there is no redress—there is no appeal from its decision. From all other Courts an appeal is allowed to a superior tribunal, up to that of the Privy Council, or House of Lords and why should there not be the same right of appeal from the Insolvent Debtors' (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL Corrox MARKET, Ave. 24.---The business done in the Cotton Market this day has been to a moderate extent; the sales amount to 2,500 bales. For export speculation we have had nothing to report. Prices still remain as on Friday. The market is rather quiet. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 24.—The following COM. prise the transactions as, reported at the close of the Stock Ex. change to-daF, viz., Eastern Counties 811; Grand Junction 201 ; Dita Shares 100 i; Great Western 201 Shares 71 ; Liverpool and Manchester Shares 93.1.; Midland Counties New Shares 191; York and North Midland New 22. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 24.—The demand for Share property puts on an improved appearance. London and Birmingham, 156 i ex. div. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 2li ; Manchester and Leeds, 57; Union Bank of Manchester, 6.-1 ; Batik of Stockport, 2% ; Union Plate Glass, S; Manchester Ex. change, S 6. Ship letters have been received to-day ftom Berbice, Nassau, New Providence, New Orleans, Demerara, and Calcutta, but they are all of an old date. The English Stock Market opened fiat, with a decline of i pee cent. in Consols upon the closing price of yesterday. They are now quoted at 891, sellers for money, and 894 to % for the October account. Three per Cents. Reduced, 894 ; Do. Three. and-a-Half, 981 99; Exchequer Bills, 15 17 prem.; Spanish Ac. tive Stock, 191 20h ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 294 34; Do. Three per Cents., 17f 181. In the early paArt of the morning Consols were very much de pressed. The quotation at one time was 89 1 4 for the present Ac count, and the same for Money, but a re-action his since taken place, and they are now t 914 Money, and 89a A ccount. No varia. Lion in any of the other English Securities. In the Foreign Market there has been but little doing. Spanish Active Stock is now 191; Passive, 4&; Deferred, 10i; Dutch Two.and.a.nall per Cents., Si ; Ditto Fives, 1011-102. Very HI tle doing in Shares, and prices are lower.--Bristol and Exeter, 31,1 ; Great Western, 78i ; London and Brighton, 441; North. Midland, 65 ; Ditto, Thirds, CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. •Bank Stock .. 169 India Stock ••• 3 per Cent Red B9l Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons B9l Ditto Old Annuities ... 3,i per Cent Red 9Bl Ditto New Annuities... New 34 per Cent 9Bh Ea. Bills, I,OOOL „Sid 17 pm New 5 per Cent ll6 Ditto 5001 l5 pm Long Annuities to e zpire I Ditt Small.— Jan. 1860 .. 12/ ;Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 l'4 India Stock for 0pg.... --- Jan, 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. -- Belgidn, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent -- Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent...... ;Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent I9L Ditto, 1824. — 'Ditto, Deferred ... lOh Danish, 3 per cent — 'French, 5 per cent. —l. —c. Greek, 1525, 5 per cent — Exchange -f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, - 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625, ' Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 51i Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. 16 Ditto, 5 per cent 102 SHARES Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ......... ... .. 311 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 79 Ditto New Shares (50 paid s4i Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 44} London and Blackwall_Railway (25 paid)... 15 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) Midland Counties Railway (101) paid) North Midland Railway (100 paid) Ditto Thirds (10 paid) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE: YORK AUGUST MEETING.—MONDAY. The Yorkshire Stakes of 25 sous, each, 10 ft. Mile and three quarters. (3 Subs.) Mr. BrOok'S Moonbeam, Bst 31bs. (Marlon) 1 Lord Zetland's Diavolina, Bst 31bs 2 • 5t04 on Moonbeam. Won by a head. Produce Sweepstakes. of Ibo sovs. each. Two miles. (8 Subs.) Major Yarburgh's Heslington,-Bst 51b (Holmes) 1 Mr. Heseltine's Betty Bay lock, 7st 131 b 2 tO lon Heslington. Vv on easy by a length and a half. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Two miles. Mr. Heseltine's ,The Shadow, 5 irs, 9st 41b • 1 Colonel Cradock's The Provost; 5 yrs, 9st 4lb 2 Mr. Gascoigne's4ack Sheppard, 3 yrs, 7st 91b Mr. Vansittart's Smollett, 6 yrs, 9st 91b Betting-5 to 4 on the Provost, 5 to 2 agst The Shadow, and 3to 1 agst Jack Sheppard. Won easily by three,lengths. TUESDAY. Two-yrs-old Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, were won by Mr. Brook's f. Idolatry, by Muley Moloch. Three-yrs-old Sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, were won by Mr. Gascoigne's Quilt Arnold. The City Members' Plate of 50/. was won by Mr. llesel tine's The . Shadow. EGHAII RACES• This meeting commenced on Tuesday. The Gold Cup of 501. (in specie) by subs of 10 sovs. each,. was won by Mr. Isaac Day's Tamburin'. The Members' Plate of 40/. ' added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, was wen . qlllr. J. Kingsley's Jessica. The Runnymede Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added, were won by Mr. Drage's Sister teGlepcoe. The Surrey and Middlesex Stakes;will be run for this day. Monops, Remnant, Specimen, Folly, and the Colt out of Obe li,k's dam, are expected to start. Eight ho, sea are entered for the Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and six for the Ankerwicke Stakes. WEDNESDAY. - Owing to the drizzling rain which fell without - Ceasing from an early hour in th e morn i ng unt il noon , a l ong 'afte i rmoon's racing passed off flatly, i n presence o f a cornpany-consisting almost exclusively of sporting men, and not a little to the cha grin of the tenants of the stands and the refreshment booths, whose profits arise from those who visit a race-course, with no other idea than that of " making a day of it." The afternoon was damp and " muggy," and the ground as bad for the pedes trians as it was for the running horses. As a list of the com pany would be merely to repeat most of the names given in cur last, we shall content ourselves with stating that the Shaw of fashion was very select, and the sport of a moderate charac ter. The following is a return : Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added; three yrs old, 7st 61b ; four, Bst 41b ; five, fist 11Ib ; six and aged, 9st; mares, &a., :allowed 31b. Winner to be sold for 801., &c. Three-quarters of a mile. (8 Subs. ) Captain , Gardnor's iEthon, 3 yrs (Nat) 1 4 1 Mr. Goodman's Sister to Gl encoe, 3 yrs 5 1 2 Mr. Balchin's Clematis, 4 yrs .. ...... 6 3 3 Mr. Ca , sidy's Fama, 3 ................... 3 2dr Mr. Scott's Abel, syi s "-- • 2 dr Mr. Wright's Wanton, 4 yrs The first and seem I heats were won by a length, and the third by a head, much to the astonishment of the spectators, to whom the race appeared a certainty for the Sister to Glencoe. There was no betting, however, to warrant an inference of un fair play. The Surrey and Middlesex Stakes of 25 sous. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared. Two miles and a distance. (34 Subs., 23 of whom declared.) Mr. Goodman's Remnant, 4 yrs, 7st 61b (Crouch) 1 Captain Gardnor's Alonops, 4 yrs, 7st 61b...... Mr. Rush's cby Plenipo, Obelisk's dam, 3 yrs, 55t..... ...... 3 2 to 1 on Remnant, and 5 to 1 agst the Plenipo colt; the latter took the lead to the distance, where he was paned by Remnant and Monops, the mare taking the lead, and winning easily by a length. The Ankerwycke Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 35 added ; 3 yrs, ist 41b ; 4 yrs, Bst 615 ; 5 yrs, Bst 121 b ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st llb ; mares, &c., allowed Sibs. The winner to be sold for 1501. Mile heats. (7 Subs.) Mr. Sadler's Diversion, 3 yrs ... (Howlett) 1 1 Mr. Balchins's Dromedary, 4 yrs Mr. Goodman's Isabella, 6 vrs Captain Gardnor's Dismal Jemmy, 4 yrs Mr. Scott's Windsor, 3 yrs The first heat was well contested by Diversion and Windsor, and won by a neck ; the second easily by a length. MANCHESTER BETTING. TOF MAY EVY,NIND.—The insignificant character of the York list has not prevented several of our speculators from being presertt ; and therefore the room, this forenoon, not only lacked iVatential faces, but left business at a very low ebb.— The fnilowing were the chief offers : THE LEAMINGTON STAKES.-3 to 1 against Rhodanthe (offered, take 7t02) ; 6 tot against any other (offered) ; 8 to 1 against Modesty (taken). Offers tl take 4to lon Mo desty and Champagne (layers of 60 to 20). As the room broke up 100 to 6 would have been taken on the Lord Mayor, it was offered to Bin two good quarters. Kingston Robin, Recorder, The Dean, Caution, and one or two °theta, which ha.: been previously nibbled upon, were not, to our knowledge, even named; we must therefore give their prices as nominal. Since Friday the first and last horses have been supported in Liverpool at 8 to 1, and Robin here at noon yesterday at that price ; Recorder at 6 and 7 to 1; Bto lis the outside offer against Champagne (takers of a point more). THE ST. LEGER.—Every day tends to bring this event to a completer certainty. To-day the desire was very great in the best of quarters to lay against anything " bar two." Middle ham, at the opening, was picked out at the London price, but soon two points more were laid ; 30 to 10 was laid on two against the field, but this we consider rather above the market. Offers at the close to take 5 to 4, and the layer to have either Coronation or the field. We thought the horse had by a shade the call. Even on Coronation. 3 to 1 apt Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh—offered. Take 7 to 2 freely 12 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Middleham —taken 13 to 1 apt Mr. Ferguson's Tearaway—offered 16 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's The Squire—offered. 10. to 5 laid last night. 100 to 3 was taken yesterday on the beaten Jack Shepherd. THE Yoitx Two-YEAR-OM:4—A little money, at evens, and 5 to 4 cn Idolatry, penciled down. A few days ago, a quarrel having arisen betwetn several of the porters and commissionnaires of the Halle in the Rue des Lavandieres, the parties proceeded to blows, and car ried on the fight with such earnest that the inhabitants became and, in order to separate the combata n t s , t h rew pa il s arzof f a them from their windows. The pl an was per .aetedr, uponfectly successful; and when some Alunicipal Guards and Ser geants de Ville came up, the combatants were so cooled that it was net thought necessary to arrest any of them ; but, says the Commerce, the Sergeants de Ville, resolving not to have been called out for nothing, drew up a report against the in hab;tants, who had put an end to the affray, for throwing water into the streets contrary to the municipal reptlations. MORNING SUN Court ? Can any satisfactory solution be given to this quesion ? r fear not. SCRUTATOR. * It is generally supposed that there is only one discre tionary clause. It is always spoken of as the discretionary clau-c ; but, in point of fact, there are three clauses, all of which may, with equal propriety, be so called—namely, clauses 76, 77, A nd 78. The first of these limits the terms of impri sonment to six months, the third to two years, and the inter mediate one to three years. All these clauses might have been ca•ily incorporate,l in one ; but this is only a solitary specimen of the extreme clumsiness with which the Act has been fratngd. A GLASGOW HANGMAN . Mr. Thomas Young, the late respectable hangman of Glasgow, was once officially requested to perform a legal operation, secundern artern, on .the tender throat of an un fortunate wretched criminal in Dumfries.. But Tho mas was an indulgent father as well as a dutiful hangman; and, under the gentle influence of paternal sym pathy, he took his amiable interesting daughter, in her teens, along with him in the carriage (for hang men officially travel, like gentlemen, in chariots), to have the benefit of the pure fresh air of ! Dumfriesshire, and behold the delightful scenery- on the banks of the beauti ful With, immortalized by the lyric genius of Burns. The worthy pair, father and daughter, proceeded together to Dumfries, and took up their abode in the gaol. On the evening before the execution, a venerable minister of the Gospel visited the unhappy panel to offer him reli gious consolation. In passing . from the prisoner's cell to the gaoler's apartments, he came in contact with an elderly gentleman in black clothes, and, deeming him to be a reverend parson like himself, come on the same philanthropic errand, to soothe the criminal's agi tated mind, he requested the honour of an introduction. The gaoler complied, and politely introduced him to Mr.• Thomas Young, the .venerab:e Glasgow hangman, and his daughter. A shudder of horror ran through the clergyman's soul. He bowed to Mr. Young, and he looked with pity on the filial girl beside him. By and by they began to chat, and Mr. Thomas diligently related a few of his " legal murders" to enter tain his reverend friend. " Do, you never feel any natural compunction," said the divine, " when you are performing your official duty ?" " I recollect," said Mr. Thomas, • "of having once' felt it ; and so strong was the feeling that it almost unman'd' me for a moment ; but it was only for a moment, and then I did my business as nicely as if nothing had disturbed me. It happened thus. I was called a few years ago to Inverness, to execute a woiral for a capital crime. When I was introduced to her, on the morn ing of her execution, to pinion her arms, at the first glance I knew her. She was the wife of my eldest comrade when I - was in the army, and they both had done me many acts of kindness ; but she was so terribly agitated that I do not think she either knew or recognized me. I felt a horrible sensation in' my mind, for I was about to hang the wife of my old friend, and one who had often been my soother and nurse, at a time when nobody else regarded me. I almost fainted ; and, had the intense horror con tinued, I must have desisted. But it soon passed off ; and when I again met her on the gallows I per formed my duty, and hanged her as deliberately as if nothing had happened to disturb me. This was the only time that I ever felt any natural compunc tion for the panel, and I have no wish to be troubled with it again." The minister looked at the old legal mur derer with pity, indignation, and horror, and, taking up his hat; walked off, without deigning to reply. The un natural monster who could thus hang the friendly wife of his oldest comrade, fur a little money, would have hanged his own mother in similar circumstances. Such legal and moral monstrosities should not be permitted to continue to disgrace civilised society with the barbarous recurrence of these disgusting executive operations ; and we hope the time is not far distant when the pay and office of hangmen and their satellites will be for ever an- nihilated.—Scotch paper. should not be omitted that the spacious pavilion which now fronts the orchestra in the gardens was built for Frederick Prince of Wales, who was a liberal patron of these Gardens. The present orchestra, too, which is not the old-fashioned one of Tyerg, was built by a car penter ; and the ornaments are of a composition some thing like plaster of Paris, but known only to the ingeni ous architect. Before the Gardens close therewill be given, a bal masque, which is to partake of all thatiliiiins of the long-past Ridotto al fresco, the first kind ot'enier tainmer.t with which old Jonathan Tyers opened the Gardens, and whose novelty attracted such immense numbers as soon made , his coffers fill with gold. T T SOLDIERS' UNIFORM.—With a change of Ministry there will be a new Master-General of the Ordnance. The present we have always sincerely re spected as a high-minded soldier. It is, however, to be hoped that the successor to his Lordship will make some few alterations in the dress and appointments of the Royal Artillery. In the first place, the yellow lace should forthwith be taken off the gunner's coattee ; it is a dirty thing, and is without meaning ; a good plain red collar, with red epaulettes, would make them quite perfect. The yellow trash of lace requires constant colouring to look decent ; and surely the loss of this kind of thing will be the better for a soldier who has enough to do in other ways without being punished by clean ing yellow cotton. Take all the lace off the collars, &c., of the Serjeants, leaving only their chevrons. The same with the Staff Serjeants. In fact, give the whole regiment, a plain red collar and cuff, officers and all, they will all look the better, and pro bably the officers the best of the whole ; for a shabby embroidery is not the best-looking thing in the world. Again, the musket should be abolished throughout the regiment—the carbine substituted. Do away with the pipeclay cross. belts, and substitute a black waist-belt, but something different to that worn by the Field Bat teries ; for that is decidedly the worst thing , every in troduced, and the men are ashamed of appearing with it in public ; not only bad in appearance, but bad for ser vice.—Nasal and Military Gazette. PILCHARD FISHERY.--GORRAN HAVEN.--- The boisterous weather has for the present suspended the operations of the drift-boats. LooE.—The drift-boats belonging to this place have commenced the pilchard fishery, and have takes flora 500 to 2,200 pilchards per boa:. LORD CARDIGAN AGAIN I—A Correspon dent writes us that there has been another shindy at Hounslow between Lord Cardigan and his officers. His Lordship has been so badgered himself, that we do not wonder at his objec tion to a badger bait. We think, however, that as regards the origin of the dispute in question, his I ordship is, for once at least, in the right. Another of his officers has sent in his papers to sell out.— United Service Gazette. Vice-Admiral 'Sir Patrick Campbell, K.C.8., whose death took place a few days ago, was a most zealous and active officer. In July, 1799, when in command of the Dart, sloop of war, and serving under Captain Henry Inman, of the Andromeda, in an attempt to destroy a French squadron lyins . in Dunkirk harbour, he carried and brought out La Desiree, mounting 40 guns, long 24-pounders on the main deck, with a com plement of 350 men, some of whom were on shore. Captain Inman in his official letter to the Admiralty says—" That the handsome and intrepid manner of his completely carrying het, in less than a quarter of an hour, and bringing her out, must convince their Lord ships of his unparalleled bravery, and the very gallant conduct of his officers and ship's company, as the ene my's frigate was so much superior in force. The Dart's loss on this occasion amounted to no more than one man slain, and her first lieutenant and ten men wounded ; La Desiree is said to have had nearly one hundred killed and wounded, including among the former every officer on board, with the exception of one midshipman, The Earl St. Vincent pronounced this to have been one of the finest instances of gallantry on record. Three days after this capture the deceased was advanced to post rank in the Ariadne. In 1807 we find him command ing L'Unite frigate, stationed off Corfu. During the ensuing year he captured a French xebec of six guns, and three Italian brigs of war, each mounting 16 brass 32- pounder carronades, admeasuring about 400 tons. From L'Unite he removed into the Leviathan, 74 ; and in the year 1812 performed active service in the Mediterranean. In July, 1830, he was promoted to the rank of Rear- Admiral ; and in May, 1834, appointed Commander-in- Chief at the Cape of Good Hope. In 1838 he was ad vanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral. This gallant officer was rewarded for his services by his Sovereign bestowing upon him the insignia of Knight Command:a of the Bath. UNEMPLOYED MINISTERS IN NEW ENG LAND.—In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa chusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, there are 120 ministers without a charge, 56 who are candidates for the holy office, and not fewer than 216 vacant churches. These things must not continue to be so long. Fifty years ago Massachusetts was better supplied with minis ters than she is at the present day. Look out that the Unitarians, Universalists, and the Trascendentalists, do not supply these vacant churches. Extract of a letter from Tangiers, dated the 28th ultimo, quoted by the Journal des Debats : " The Emperor of Morocco, having armed his fleet of two brigs and two schooners, has applied to the Eure peen Consuls to grant passports for them, - find they wilt sail as soon as furnished with these facilities. The pre tence of this expedition is to afford practice to the sailors who have lately been pressed and put under the instruc tion of Admiral 13rittel. If this was the sole object, ar tillerymen and ammunition would not, as they have, been put on board each ship ; but the probability is, that it is directed against such flags as have not been recognized in Morocco, that is, of such nations as have no repre sentatives here, or are not allied to the Sultan by trea ties. Russian, Prussian, Mecklenburg, and other ships have occasionally entered the ports of Morocco, and been amicably received. The salvage of a Russian ship has even been effected here, under the auspices of the Swedish Consul. It appears, however, that the Morocco Govern ment is tired of waiting for the decision of certain Powers to enter into official relations with it, and has resolved to make attacks upon their ships and vessels, and thus force them to come to terms (!) As a maritime power, Russia has nothing to fear from Morocco (!), but her commerce may suffer, and so may that of Prussia and the Hans Towns. The increase in the premiums of insurance alone will be a serious loss. We are the more war ranted in this conclusion by the fact that among the flags of friendly nations pointed out to the cruizers is that of Belgium, although she has not as yet entered into any treaty with Morocco, but has an agent at this time engaged in a negotiation, the basis of which is already settled. The Sultan has applied to Gibraltar for some master-builders to construct gun-boats at Tangiers, where they will be useful in case of war. The builders have not yet arrived, because only one piastre a-day is offered them, and they demand two. , ' A NAVAL GHOST--(From a private letter.) —A very singular circumstance occurred on board the Victory on Friday night last. Two marines (Corporal Wiltshire and private Newton) on duty, during the mid watch on the main -deck, were passing the last quarter of their watch (a quarter to twelve) by telling tales of ghosts, &c., and amidst others related that of a police man, who, but a few days since, was nearly frightened to death by the appearance of a marine on board the Princess Charlotte (which was paid off about a fortnight ago), and which marine, it is asserted, was killed on board her at St. Jean d'Acre. Newton, who was an attentive auditor, declared that he " never could nor would be lieve in ghosts, and that ev en if hi s f a th er h a d sa id t h at he ever saw one, he should set him down as a liar." No sooner had he spoken than, turning to walk down tho deck towards the beef-hatch, he was all at once alarmed by beholding an officer in full naval uniform at a short distance from him, and as it appeared to him, supported by two old sailors, dressed in the fashion of the late wars —to wit, a long pig -tail, with all the et cetera apper taining to an old tar's costume, and with what likewise looked to be hatchets with them. This so alarmed him, that turning to his comrade, Corporal Newton, he ex claimed, " For God's sake, Newton, what is that ?" Newton instantly turned and beheld the same, and taking hold of his lantern walked towards the group, when they slowly moved away, and he followed them, when they suddenly vanished near the water-tank. This made Newton's " hair move his cap up" (to use his own ex pression), and they immediately reported it to the officer of the watch, an d the next day to the Captain and First Lieutenant. The men are both very steady and credible, and declare most positively that they did see what they related, and they certainly do seem impressed with the belief that it was so. The Francc has an article on the question of an alteration of the import duties on foreign cattle for the supply of the French markets. This journal opposes the reduction of the duties on two grounds : first, be cause it is unfair upon the French breeders and feeders of cattle ; secondly, because the supply of butchers' meat is fully equal to the demand, and the high price is owing Criminibus debent poet os . solely to the trickery and combination of the wealthy A beauteous garden, but by vice maintained. bo mbers. The France informs us that for every fat ox Addison's poetic fancy seems, h ow charmed by the delights and meretriciou s ' a llurements of He dwells upon ever to have been brought to market in France, the owner has already paid 1 from 120 f. to 144 f. in taxes, and this assertion it explains thel by stating that the animal will have consumed the produce Fox-hall), as " excellently pleasant at ga r den this ( then die of the the place. of six hectares of land (nearly 15 English acres), the tax year. When I considered the fragrancy f the walks I upon which to the Government amounts to the sum here and bowers, with the choirs of birds that sting upon the called mentioned. Whereas in Switzerland, adds the France, trees, and the loose tribe of people that walked under as the tax is upon consumption, and not upon the soil, an their shades, I could not but look ti on that place as a ox may be fatted at from 120 f. to 144 f. less than in this sort of Mahometan Paradise." '.A ' ie same graceful tongue also speak s o f " a mask " to country, and therefore it would be u n f a i r upon t h e p ing Sir Roger on F the shoulder, a n d i nv i t i ng him w i t h p her pretty impudent French agriculturist to give to th e S w i ss , or any ot h er agriculturist similarly situated to economy of feeding, ruby lips, to drink a bottle of mead with her. They finished a splendid little evening with a slice of hung a still greater advantage by reducing the import duty. On the second point of discussion, the France makes beef and a glass of Burton. an assertion which at the moment we can neither Vauxhall, however, till 1730, was barely more than a contradict nor confirm in detail, but we confess that good tea-garden of our days, till Mr. Jonathan Tyers we should have been bett er sa ti s fi e d if our C on t em took a leas e o f it, an d w ith suitable entertainments opened po it every summer-evening. Hayman, who, when young, rary had favoured us with the data upon which the was a scene-painter at Drury -lane, j oined w ith that assertion is hazarded. We are told that for the l a st 25 prince of painters Hoo• 1 a rth, in embellishing the gardens years the increase in the number of oxen has be e n f rom for Tye rs , b u t the pro ductions' of both were then perhaps six to ten millions, whereas the population of France rather crude. Tyers, howev er , went to work with a has scarcely increased one-tenth. If the France is not bold hand in renewing t he g ardens. H o threw out more correct in its bovine statistics than it is as to the i broad sweeps of pavilions a nd saloons ; an orchestra was population, the arguments which it founds upon them erected by him ; a statue , ' are not entitled to much notice. The population of of Handel, by Roubiliac, sat up , France, although less rapid in its increase than that of in their centre, and engaged a goodly music-band. .,. s purchased the whole estate, which is I any other large state in Euro e, P does not go on so slowly Tyers afterward . heldof copy hold of inheritance, and . the Prince of Wales 1 a 1 s our Contemporary states. - Twenty-five years ago the of I? did muchexceed 28 millions; • as Lord of Kenington Manor, in right of his Duchy of population ranee not now exceeds 34 millions, which i s far beyond the tenth Cornwall. At this period, and up to. 1792, Vauxhall Gardens stated by our Contemporary. wer e open daily (Sundays excepted), and the admission ! The Journal du Havre a fter . referring to two was i s . ; it was then raised to 25., including tea and decrees of the Government of New Granada, authorising a coffee ;in 1809 several improvements were made, lamp s Granada-French Company t . o . forma t L . o n m ti m c al:ication by canal added, &c., and the price was therefore raised to 3s. 6,; or railroad between the h Pacific t c o a statement in Oceans, acrost the , Isthmus of Panama, and a lso some A mer ic an and were open only three nights in the week ; in 1821 the price was 4s. ' paper, that the period fixed for the commencement of the works had elapsed without anything being done, publishes a lett er Mr. Bryant Barrrett, upon the death of Tyers, sue- from al. Salomon, one of the grantees of the privilege, denying ceeded to the property, having married the grand-daughter of the original proprietor. Mr. Barrett's son became the execu tion. It adds, that the Company had established an easy next possessor. In 1818, th e en ti re property was adver- conve yance fur travellers between the port of Chagr es an d t h e tised for sale, but no purchaser was obtained. In 1821 Bay of Chorera, which in a short time will be capable of trap the London Wine Company became the purchasers, and ;porting machinery, materials, &c. The road in no part again restored it to something of its old celebrity. this latter a ,. ertion , and statin g that th e undertaking is in full _ passes over any uneven ground of importance, and is ex .it t petted to be soon fit for the • • eon \ey ance of heavy merchandise. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. Queens are not now as Queens were oft of old Couched like stone idols on a scat of gold, Whose triple locks and closely curtained throne Shut out like adamant their people's moan : Queens, now, have human thoughts—have human hearts That flow with love, and feel for kindred smarts— Weep with the weepers, and in tears distil— Yea, even bleed at their poor subjects' ill. Look up, poor Weaver ; though distresses deep With baleful famine round thy table creep ; Yet, have thou faith, an arm both prompt and strong, Shall give thee rescue ere the day grow long. Mighty thy Queen—supreme in thy behalf— Lean on her sceptre as thy surest staff ; For perils dark shall fasten on the foes Who thwart her plans, or purposes oppose ; While her high goodness in the end shall bless Thy days with plenty and with pleasantness. Look up, poor eaver ! trust thou in thy Queen, Bright times et to dawn, and days serene. THE EMIGRANTS. They fled from the land of the brave Heart-broken, Where never the word of a slave Was spoken : O why do they fly o'er the wave Heart-broken ? Oh, list ! their complaint as they fly Is spoken, " Though plenty still hangs in the sky Its token, From hunger—from hunger we fly, Heart-broken." From hunger !—though half of the soil Is unbroken; And the cattle adapted to toil Are unyoken ; Breathe a curse on the Lords of the soil Ye heart-broken Birmingham, Aug. 24th, 1841. R. R. R. SALE OF VAUXHALL GARDENS. This venerated place of old enchantments is now an nounced for sale on the 9th of September next, so that unless a purchaser is then found, its fairy-like groves, arbours, and palaces will fall to the lot of some invete rate speculator, and the site of so many olden pleasures, fetes, and feastings, be covered with bran new brick houses, for it is, we believe, understood " to be let as building ground." It is to be devoutly hoped that such will not be the case—that some charm,collected from an cient remembrances, will yet put to flight the Vandalism that would level it—that the mention of such names as Addison and Sir Roger de Coverley will throw some thing of consecration about the spot—that old Jonathan Tyers, and the pavilion paintings by Hogarth and Hay man, and the rare sparkling lamps, and the dear dusky walks in which love and beauty have so often knit their rosy fingers, and in which the evening and the morning have often listened to the little soul-breathing extacies of lovers, will not be swept away from the earth—that this " aviary of nightingales," where in early days Beard and Lowe, and in later Dignum, Mrs. Billington, Incledon, Madame Storace, Mrs. Bland, and Charles Taylor, warbled till the green groves shook—will not be allowed to pass utterly away, but still remain through the dull London summer to be a seat of pleasure and delight. Our sympathies enlist so strongly with this old fa vourite place of resort, that with the love of a zealous antiquary we have traced out the pretty history of the place, and our researches on the subject will perhaps be pleasing to many at the present moment. These cele brated gardens are situated near the Thames, in the parish of Lambeth, about a mile and a half from West minster-bridge. They derive their name from the manor of Vauxhall or Faukeshall ; but the tradition that this proper ty was the property of Guy Fawkes is erroneous. The pre mises were, in 1615, the property of Jane Vaux, and the mansion was then called Stockdens. Originally Sir Samuel Moreland, a private gentleman, appears to have laid out the gardens for his own pleasure,. and planted them with trees, the. same Sir Sarauel having displayed many whimsical proofs of his skill in mechanics, and, above all, had added a public room, " the inside of which was all looking - glass , and fountains, very pleasant to behold, and much visited by strangers. Up to this period Vauxhall was invested with but little publicity, nor is it. precisely certain as to when the place first threw open its enchantments. Nevertheless, its celebrity is upwards of a century and a half old. I n the reign of Queen Anne it appears to have drawn greatly a s a place of resort ; for, in a paper of the Sp ectator, dated May 20, 1712, Addi son has introduced S ir R oger de Coverley, going with him from the stairs at the Temple to Vauxhall, which was then termed Spring gardens. Addison s motto to hispaper seems to throw rather a doubtful sort of morality over this haunt of facinations, for he has topped it with this Juvenalian line :