The Sun. — London, England, 1841-07-08 00:00:00

EVENING SUN MADAME CATALAN'. —My soul like an enchanted boat Floats on the silver waves of thy sweet singing ; While thine doth, like an argel. sit, Beside the helm conducting it, While all the winds with melody are ringing. PARIS, JULY 5. Angelica Catalini, then, is dead ! The Sultana of song lies silent and tuneless. She died on Sunday, the last 20th of June—when the curtains of a starry Sabbath fell around her final sleep. Those who are accustomed to the cathedrals of the Continent know well that dim and desolate emotion which sweeps through the avenues of the soul, when in the midst of a stately service, the majestic Jubilate is suddenly hushed, leaving blank and monotonous silence. Such was precisely the feeling which came over my mind when I heard the rumour, as it travelled into Paris from Italy, that Catalani had departed. It seemed to me as if the world had lost its only fine harmonic— as if its proudest music were broke off—anti the only trumpet-tones that kept this creation festal were fled and vanished for ever. Let it not be thought that I indulge in hyperbole. I speak from what I have personally felt, and that feeling arises from the remembrance of what Catalani was when she sang in the palmy past. Past, truly ; but the page in my memory, whereon those recollections are in scribed, is impressed with such rich fresh music-notes, and in my fancy's ear there still abides so high and golden a warble, of what I first heard from Catalani's lips, that obliterated neither of them can be. At the time of which I speak I was in the habit of attending , the English Opera on the arm of Lady E—, and I re member well the magnificent night on which, for the first time, I saw Catalani. Let me look back. Let me revisit the brilliant past. Open thy door, 0 memory ! touch the enchanted springs, and disclose the marvels of that wondrous night, more ravishing than a thousand Arabian. It was a night on which Semiramide, that master-tragedy of the Italian stage was announced for the leading text piece. Catalani, with her brow all diamonded from foreign favour, was to appear for the first time in your Babelonian London. The party of which I formed one intended to have been present as soon as Oroe begins his " Si—Gran Nume—t'intesi ;" but what with the toilets of the Ladies E—, the perfumings of the old Lord, and the non-agility of the full-fed footmen, we arrived villainously late. But the scene, nevertheless, as we were seating, burst upon us like a torrent . Catalani as Semiramide stood foremost on the stage. She was always handsome, and at this moment her noble cast of features, under the excitement of her part , were l i t u p with peculiar majesty : her form, too, tall and command ing, though less muscular, was almost like that of our own Siddons ; and the whole blazing theatre, with its thousand eyes, was fixed upon her there. Her voice at first was grave and beautiful--a rich and tuneable so prano—laden with noble Italian words. Gradually the Inspirations of her breath grew deeper—she seemed pre paring for some great effort. Suddenly a splendour lit upon her lip ; and at the words " Son Regina," her soul, as if fired at the thoughts of her regality, at the glory on her brow, and the grandeur at her feet, poured out a peal of rapture so majestical—shook the whole' house with so towering a harmony—that the walls seemed absolutely to act as a constraint, and the roof as a confinement to her powers. Never before, and never after, have I heard its second or its like. It was well said, and said by no mean connoisseur, when putting in comparison the three best singers of his age, that " Grassini was all grace, Band all feeling, but Catalani all fire." Edgcumbe was right, and I cordially agree with his Lordship. I have heard them all in turn. Grassini won you, and stole upon you with her melodious song, like the voice of girl-choirs from an old Attic temple, sweet-murmuring their hymns to vestal Dian. She abounded in exquisite sweetnesses of tone, and classi cal unisons. Banti was, on the other hand, adorable and loving of voice, as was a very seraph. Her soul seemed warmed with as pure an ardour ; her lips o'erflowed with the same sky-tuned hymn. But if Banti laid claim to seraphicism of song, what place in the celestial scale can be assigned to Catalani ? The rabbins allow but the Ophanim above the seraphim, or at highest the flaming archangel. Then boldly write her do srn that highest--call her a vocal archangel—all fire, rapture, and astounding song. But dropping from metaphor and the seventh heaven, let us inquire, with the simple inquisitiveness of a child, into the first history of this Queen of song. Catalani, if her lips had not been clay-cold now, would have related to you the circumstances of her early life in almost these words, which I have heard her times out of mind repeat herself. She would speak with a beautiful simplicity when she spoke on these things. " I was born," she would say, " at Sinigaglia, which lies, you know, in the dominions of our triple-crowned father the Pope, in the year 1785. My father, blessed be he, was a rich jew eller ; and when I was only fourteen years old he placed me in a convent along with my dear elder sister. I used at first to sing in the choirs of the convent ; and • my sisters ih the convent used to say that my voice, which was higher than theirs, used to crown the choirs like the spire of a Christian church which had a chime of silrer bells, and rings merrily up in the air. A great many people used to come and hear me, till the convent used to be filled to hear the singing ; and it was feared that I might fall into sin, and become vain, and, to pre vent vanity, they interdicted me from singing. But my father at last took me from the convent, when he came from the wars in Italy. He was, as I told you, very rich at first, but he had immense losses; and he decided, in 1802, that I should make my debut at the first, theatre in Rome, which you know is called Argentina. I was then only sixteen." I wish I could pursue the narrative in her own simple words, but here her reminiscences usually ceased ; we must therefore continue it from our own notes and me mory. Her success at Rome was prodigious. She was then in the bloom of her surpassing beauty, and her vocal powers were reaching maturity. Her form was a model of symmetry, and her countenance, which beamed with intelligence and animation, was capable of every shade and variety of expression. The natural gifts of her mind were not unworthy those of her person. She possessed energy and spirit, blended with great sensi bility, sweetness of temper, and exquisite affection. These qualities gave an irresistible charm to her man . ners, and it was impossible to be in her society without being fascinated by her unaffected good humour, and ex uberant, yet perfectly delicate vivacity. Her next appearances were in Portugal, where she took her station on the Italian Theatre at Lisbon. She there appeared with Crescentini, who was the director, and with Signora Gaffarini, to whom nature had given as much of the pathetic power as she had given to Cata lani, of the kind called la bravoure. When Catalani quitted Portugal, the Princess-Regent gave her a letter to the Queen of Spain, who retained her for some time at Madrid, and loaded her with taarks of favour and distinction. In 1806 she went to Paris for the first time. She there confined herself chiefly to the concerts, and made herself admired by the grandiose manner in which she sang Italian passages, particularly those in the Semira mile. She was really the Queen of Song. Equalled she never was in the execution of difficult and intricate pas sages. By the rapidity, flexibility, and incredible ten sion of her voice she astonished France, as she after wards did Europe. It was an extraordinary supple and well-exercised instrument, most mighty in its music, and of which the clavier was immense. As regards low or plaintively sweet expression, she was decidedly at a loss ; but her voice, entirely instrumental, executed with amazing facility the most involved and vehement diffi culties—those chromatic and enharmonic gamuts—those arpeggiaturas--those trills, interminable and astounding, that drew out in magic links the subtlest soul of har mony--those organic tones which embraced three and four octaves in their modulations—in these was Catalani unsurpassed, nay, was unsurpassable. Quitting France in 1806 she went to London, where she made the brilliant debut which we have described as witnessing, and which laid for her the foundation of an immense fortune. Her gains were about 3,0001. sterling, and two benefits which she had brought her almost 1,5001. The following year these profits amounted to 4,0001. sterling, and from concerts and journeys in dif ferent parts of the provinces in Scotland and Ireland, s h e at last had amassed a fortune of 80,0001. sterling, ga i ne d by a sojourn of eight years in the three kingdoms. But amid all the splendour of f r e i gn courts—th e rapturous applauses of lord s and potentates--the heart of Catalani was still amid the purple vines of belle Italia, and it is but justice to say that the first purpose to which her magnificent gains were put, was the succouring and assisting her father and mother, who, when she lef t Italy, had con tinued their residence at Rome.* On the return of the Bourbons she returned to Paris, and obtained leave of M. le Comte de Blacas to transfer the Opera Buffa to the Salle Favart, with the privilege of having it under her own direction. But on the return of Bonaparte, in 1815, she was obliged to leave it, and she withdrew into Bel gium, till the Bourbons came again into power. Ma dame Catalani now married M. de Vallabregue, a Frenchman, but still preserved the name by which she was known to the world. On the 22d of October, in the same year, she took under her management the Opera Buffa, and became sole proprietress of it, sole manager, and almost sole actress. She on • this occasion turned out all the other actresses of the theatre, preserving only the mediocre ones, and, for a very palpable purpose, that she might only have a shadow to the singly bright picture of herself. But one singer does not constitute an opera, though her husband, M. Vallabregue, was of a different opinion, and is re ported to have said, "Ma femme, et quatre ou cinq poupees, viola torit ce qu'il faut." Lord Edgcumbe thus speaks of her at this period : " Assuming latterly the place of first buffa, she suc ceeded admirably in that line. Indeed she gave me more pleasure in the comic than the serious opera, as she sung with greater simplicity and ease. In both her acting was excellent ; in the one, majestic, forcible, ex pressive ; in the other, natural, playful, genteel. Her face and figure were suited to both, for she is very hand some, with a countenance peculiarly fine on the stage, and capable of great expression. Though the outline of her feaures are decidedly tragic, yet she could relax them into the most charming smile, and assume not merely the character of gaiety, but even of niaiserie, and of arch simplicity, so that her versatile powers fitted her for every style." The year 1813 was the last season of Catalani's re gular engagement on the Opera stage. Tito and Figaro continued to be performed, but Catalani returned to the show-pieces of her favourite composers, entertaining the public, by w a y o f nove l t y, w i t h varia ti ons , com p ose d for the violin, on popular airs, " God save the King," " Rule glish songs, which were most extravagant marks Towards the beginning of her appearance one even announced to perform. ih a e nt p l a p r l t ay o e f d th in e the au audience, 'etehig u ( p o r nw r. which Queenshewsstill t'll:ttroeutbhreor uproar. The thronenithuesaiterdieiii of u tome shut up fora week from Britepni a " &c., and other Engl 1N - E•rp kg l by the public w ith th e _..- tt;ikliiltr• d delight. 'I W ..t i , tri t ior iaiji , v.. •• to make h 04 „, ~, , i ..... ...s . A. i , Aa e had 1 1.....--n :,.._.... ri _t,,....0 1. .c i itx.„ substittted iztv .0,..,61-.- tr47,......n. • : • tioß ' c, <11.!, ..4 .. ..t . ~.--1 . .7. - : .4 ... a i, a s. g e.vot„t„i ~,,,, ,„ : „ fa ... a. ....„„,. . and ,, w ol.e : 'ACs .. . •- • • . anSeliers Wer c .: M . estigyed, and the how, damage. Her husband had induced her to offer this .- want of respect to the public, in consequence of her salary having fallen somewhat in arrear ; nor till it was absolutely put to right would the proud heroine return to the theatre. At the end of this season Catalani may be said to have abandoned the dramatic part of her profession, and en tered upon a wandering life, in the course of which she visited all parts of Europe, exhibiting herself as a concert singer, and wherever she went astonishing the world by her amazing displays of vocal power. As soon as she had in one place exhausted her slender stock of things, got up for exhibition, she removed to another ; and wherever she went she was received with unexampled distinction. Persons of the highest rank vied with each other in their attentions to the wonder of the age. Princesses treated her as companion, and crowned heads attended her with obsequious gallantry. The enormous sums which she received were augmented by the costly presents showered upon her by the great and w ealth y of the land she sojourned in. In the midst, too, of the most trying circumstances in which a beautiful and fas cinating woman could be placed, surrounded with all the siren dangers and golden temptations Of such a flood of prosperity, she pursued her course immaculate and un stained. Her conduct, like Dian's, soared above sus picion, and not the faintest breath of calumny sullies the fair crystal of her fame. In 1816, she again ,travelled through the chief towns of Europe f, and excited renewed admiration every where. The magnificent images of La Vestale, Mitri date, Elfrida, La Clemenza di Tito, Semiramide, and Susanna were from time to time reproduced by her, and were received with raptures everywhere. The same nobleman, quoted above, saw her again in 1828, at the grand musical festival at York, and he thus speaks of her last appearance in this country :—" It may seem strange that in her latter years she should please me more than in the most brilliant part of her career. But so it was : and now I found out, that, al though at that time I liked her less than some of her predecessors, I now liked her better than most of her successors. The last notes I ever heard from her were in my own house, accompanying herself on the piano forte in some beautiful little Italian canzonets. In per son she is grown large, but still very handsome, with all her fine expression of countenance, and few or no marks of age. She had with her a daughter, now mar ried, who sang a little, but inherited neither her mo ther's voice nor talents. I have since heard of her from Florence, near which town she resides, and I hope will long do so, in health and happiness." Thus it was. 1831 could speak of her in this flatter ing way, while 1841 finds her folded in death, past hu man favour or wishes. Nevertheless, regret it as we will, it is permitted to few to die like Catalan, to die after the horizon of her destiny has long been gilded with all the rich and variegated colours that bestow beauty and happiness upon human existence,—to die when the riches of the earth had flung around her all imaginable beatitude, and the smiles of the Kings and magnates of the world had fallen on her, and . their hands had crowned her with fame's roses. After all, it was beautiful to die like Catalani—by the lovely waters of her own blue lake, in the bosom of her own 1 home : the sweet light of glory swimming round her [ brow, and the world doing her homage from afar. Of the generosity of Madame Catalani's disposition many instances are remembered. When she performed for the benefit of musicians, she frequently returned the whole, or a large portion of the sum for which she was engaged; and she often acted in the same way towards public charities. When a great musical performance took place for the benefit of West minster Hospital, in 1821, she transmitted to the Committee the result of her own concert, amounting to about 300/. Kelly, in his " Reminiscences," writes thus charmingly of her goodness and affability :—" I could relate numberless traits of her goodness ; no woman was ever more charitable or kind hearted, and as for the quality of her mind, I never knew more perfect child of nature. At Bangor she heard the Welsh harp for the first time. The old blind harper of the house was in the kitchen ; thither she went, and seemed de lighted with the wild and plaintive music which he played. But when he struck up a Welsh jig, she started up before all the servants in tilt kitchen; and danced as if she were wild. I thought she never would have ceased. At length, however, she finished ; and on quitting the kitchen gave the harper two guineas." Catalani was almost entirely uneducated, even in music. Her want of literary attainments, joined to her vivacity in conversation, sometimes produced ludicrous scenes. When at the Court of Weimar she was placed, at a dinner party, by the side of Goethe, as a mark of respect to her on the part of her Royal host. The lady knew nothing of Goethe, but, being struck by his majestic appearance, and the great attention of which he was the object, she inquired of the gentleman on the other side what was his name. " The celebrated Goethe, Madame," was the answer. "Pray on what instrument does he play ?" was the next question. "He is no performer, Madame—he is the author of Werter.' " " 0 yes, yes, I re member," said Catalani, and turning to the venerable poet, she addressed him, " Ala, Sir, what an admirer lam of Werter !' " A low bow was the acknowledgment for so flat tering a compliment. " I never," continued the lively lady, " I never read anything half so laughable in my life. What a capital farce it is, Sir !" " Madame," said the poet, looking aghast, " the Sorrows of Werter ' a farce ?" " 0, yes, never was anything so exquisitely ridiculous !" rejoined Catalani, laughing heartily as she enjoyed the remembrance. And it turned out that she had been talking all the while of a ridicu lous parody of " Werter," which had been performed at one of the minor theatres of Paris, and in which the sentimentality of Goethe's tale had been unmercifully ridiculed. The poet did not get over his mortification the whole evening; and the fair singer's credit at the Court of Weimar was sadly impaired by this display of her ignorance of the illustrious Goethe and. the " Sorrows of Werter." THE NEW YORK CUSTOM-HOUSE PRETENDED FRAUDS. There are few of our commercial readers, and still fewer in the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire, who will not remember that immense sei zures of British manufactures (principally woollens) have been made in the New York Custom-house, during the last two or three years, on the alleged ground of attempts on the part of the importers to defraud the American Government by false statements of their value and quality. These seizures have been in the whole to an immense amount, and the effect of them has been to produce an unfavourable impression in the United States, with regard to the character and con duct of the British merchants and manufacturers. It now appears, however, from the evidence given at an investigation which has been going on for some in New York, before Governor Poindexter and the other members of a Commission appointed to inquire into certain al leged frauds in the custom-house in that city, that most of these charges were founded in falsehood. The whole of the evidence has not yet been published ; but it will be seen from the following statement, signed by the three principal appraisers to the Custom-house at New York, that no mis-description of goods has been practised by British importers of woollen goods, and that the charge of false valuation was made by persons who were not the legal appraisers of the Custom-house, and whose valuations they pronounce to be false. The following is the Report of the legal appraisers of the Custom-house on this matter : To the Hon. the Investigating Commissioners, now sitting at the City Hotel. Gentlemen,—The undersigned, late principal ap praisers of the Customs, for the port and district of New York, beg leave to submit the following Report, and respectfully solicit that it may be considered as a part of their testimony, viz. : From lone and careful observations and examinations of merchandize at the Custom-house, they are fully satis fied that there have been no frauds of any consequence practised on the revenue in the under-valuation of cloth and cassimeres at their entry. Because there has been in all English fabrics of that kind a great uniformity in value, on the invoice prices, when of similar quality, whether imported by American or foreign merchants. Because most of the woollens, particularly the mid dling and lower qualities, have not been subjected to duties according to invoice value ; but have in most cases been subjected •to increased duties through prejudice, caprice, or false valuation by those acting as appraisers, who were not the legal appraisersin the New York Cus tom-house. Because there has been no motive to undervalue the goods, on invoice, since it was not taken as the criterion of value on which the, duties were to be computed, and consequently the merchant on the other side of the water, could not consider his invoice as a guide to the duties to be unposed here. have ßecause complaint s neither in our official capacity, or otherwise, ever been made of any instances of sus , petted undervaluation, either by importers, or by per sons eng age d i n ' the manufacture of domestic goods, and had the re been anysuch undervaluation, the vigilance of rivalry and prom Ptangs of interest would have made the facts known. Because in th e sales of cloths and cassimeres, when • they have been m a d e after seizures, by consen t o f parties and without prejudice,theylarge , evenandwhen made under the most voice cost and charges,have rarely brought the in favourable circumstance s ca ses they have not brought to exceed in a t w m o a_ j t h o r i rd i ty s o of f the the Custom -house valuation. That there were frauds by smuggling committed dur ing the last term of Swartwout's incumbency can not be a doubt ; but these were brought ab there colu sion of officers of the Customs with certai uut certain importers, and whether by undervaluation or otherwi se, the under signed not having seen the goods, are unable to say. We have confined these remarks to cloths and cass i m eres solely, because no a l legations of fraudsi n ; o ther descriptions of merchandize or manufactures have ever been made by .the American manufactu rers to our knowledge ; but it is due to the public to state, and we do it with great deference and respect, that among the numerous cases of evasions and frauds that came under our observation, when acting as appraisers of the Cus toms, whether by false invoices or undervaluation, or otherwise, much the greatest proportion, both in num bers and amount, were others than those in which woo' was a component part. (Signed) JEROMUS JOHNSON, A. B. VANDERPOOL, A. B. MEAD. Nothing more thoroughly infamous than this has ever come before the public, and we do trust that the severest punishment will be inflicted on all the parties concerned in this vile conspiracy against the property and characters of the manufacturers and merchants of England.—Liverpool Times. - - HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—OR Tuesday night Madame Garcia Viardot appeared here for the first time (as announced by the bills) during this 'sea son, and in La Cenerentola. She gave with great sim plicity and expression the ballad-fragment " Una volta," &c., and afterwards in the exquisite duet with Rubini, " Un soave," &c., acquitted herself with a delicacy and finish of execution that, together with similar merit on his part, drew from the house "a rapturous encore. .In her concluding " Non pin mesta," the perfect stillness of a crowded . audience olf?,red to'her the most.unequivo cal evidence of her success over bath its judgment and feeling. THE. SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1841. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TAB DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The Conservatives continue their pleasing occupation of " counting their gains ;" but in the long run, they may yet be a great deal out in their reckoning. As it is, each of the monopolist journals appears to have some peculiar system of arithmetic of its own ; for with the same data before them, they contrive to come to dif ferent results, the Times of this morning fixing the Con servative gain at eight borough and city seats in Eng land, while the Morning Post brings it up to nine, and the whole number most clearly to twenty. The peculiar re putation of the Times might induce the supposition that the Post may be right ; but that the inventive power of the former lies—as is well known—entirely on the side that happens to be favourable to the party of which it is the organ. The Herald's application of the rules of Cocker produces a result different from that of the Post, making the Conservative gain amount to nineteen, or on a division, as is acutely shown by an ingenious process of multiplying by two, to eight-and-thirty. The Chro nicle gives to the Reformers a gain of thirty-one and a loss of forty-five—making a loss of fourteen instead of nineteen ; and until the calculators have agreed upon their result, it will be as well to take that as the true one, which, among the party that has arrived at it, there seems to ke no dispute about. A great deal has been said 4,10ut the triumph of Convervatism in Westminster, which is truly alleged to have been for many years one of the strongholds of Liberal principles. There is no doubt that Westminster has temporarily forfeited a portion of the character it has so long possessed, but there were causes quite inde pendent of the questions now pending between the mo nopolists anil the anti-monopolists, which led to the de feat of one of the Reform candidates. In the first place the Liberals were too confident of success, and their exer tions were therefore languid compared with the reckless energy evinced by the Tories in their apparently despe rate effort to seat their candidate. Again, towards the close of the election, when the apathy of many voters on the Liberal side had allowed the Tory to gain the ascendancy, a sort of panic ensued among the respective friends of Evans and Leader ; and as almost every man who votes has some preference, however slight or unfounded, for a particular candidate, there were many, who, fearing that Evans might be thrown out, injudiciously plumped for him ; while others, under a similar apprehension, pursued the same course with regard to Leader. Thus the Reform inte rest in Westminster was unfortunately divided at the very point when union was of the most vital conse quence. Enough votes were given on the Liberal side to have returned by a large majority both the Liberal candidates, but by some plumping for Evans, anda great number towards the close of the day, when Leader was the lowest on the poll, voting exclusively for hirn,`the un fortunate result that ensued was unavoidable. STANDARD.—We lament that Ministers have been permitted to retain one of their county supporterA, in the person of Mr. Cayley, of the members for the North Riding. This is a great misfortune, and if the prin ciple to which Mr. Cayley owes his escape prevail to any extent, the result must be fatal. Mr. Cayley professes to be a friend to the agricultural interest, and in proof of his friendship he went so far as to vote with the Conservatives upon Lord Sandon's reso lution, condemning in strong language the meditated attack of the Ministers upon the three most important interests of the empire ; for although the sugar duties alone were mentioned in the resolution, it was notorious to every one that it was directed against the whole Mi nisterial Budget ; Mr. Cayley himself will scarcely deny that he contemplated the threatened repeal of the Corn-laws in voting with Lord Sandon. On the 18th of May we find the name of Edward Stillingfleet Cayley in the list , of the, majority condemning the financial plan of the Ministers ; but on the following 4th of June we find the same Edward Stillingfleet Cayley voting in the minority, declaring their confidence. in the Cabinet by whom that budget was brought forward as their only resource. Mark this, agricultural readers ; the Ministers told Mr. Cayley that without a repeal of the Corn-laws they could not carry on the Government, but Mr. Cayley said in little more than a fortnight after, that they should carry on the Government. Was not this plainly saying that.they must be permitted to repeal the Corn-laws, and to resort to all fair and foul means that might seem necessary to compass the object ? Can any one believe that Mr. Cayley was sincere in his vote of the , 18th of May, or that he sought more by that vote than to deceive his agricultural constituents ? The most common kind of burglary (we forget its technical name) is that in which some servant or inmate of the house holds a communication with the robbers ; and when a burglary is committed under circumstances to excite suspicion that it was of this kind, the officers of justice al ways make it a rule to inquire who seemed most busy in re pelling the attack, and if they can trace to this person any connection with doubtful characters, they are sure that they have the' robbers and their treacherous confederate together. Now the electors of the North Riding ought to have taken a lesson from this example, They saw Mr. Cayley affecting great zeal for the agricultural interest, and they saw him also so in timately connected with the declared and irrecon cileable enemies of that interest, as to exert himself for their continuance upon the vantage ground of office, from which only they could attack it with any prospect of present success—they saw him voting for a Ministry which had at the time actually made its pre parations to throw the country into confusion in order to ruin the farmers of Great Britain—yet they suffered Mr. Cayley . to return to Parliament again to support their enemies by his votes. Our correspondent, indeed, tries to acquit the farmers of the North Riding as left absolutely helpless by the unexpected desertion of one of their candidates, upon the eve of the contest. We cannot accept this excuse. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT ROTHERHAM. [FURTHER PARTICULARS.] The following, from one of the local papers, is the latest account received of this dreadful calamity :—" We are happy to find that some of those whose lives were yesterday despaired of, are, in some degree, reco vered ; others are yet lingering in a dangerous state, and great doubts are entertaied for th safety of their lives. The greatest exertions have been made by the medical gentlemen of Rotherham, to whom the greatest praise is due, and also to Mr. Chambers, the proprietor and builder of the boat, for his attention to the wants of the sufferers ; the whole of those missed were got out of the water by seven o'clock, and from what we have been able to learn, we trust that the whole of those who met their death by the accident have been taken out of the river ; the greater part of them were taken to their respective homes, others to the adjoining public-houses, where they await the C4o ner's inquest, which will be held this afternoon at two o'clock ' - the immediate cause of the accident has not yet transpired. Many rumours are prevalent ; some assert that the planks from which she was pushed into the water were too short, and that she struck the water too soon ; others state that being launched sideway into the water, the people on board running to the lower side, and the keel not clearing the stocks in sufficient time, the boat was overbalanced ; be this as it may, we cannot yet speak positively or certain, only from hearsay. Among the sufferers is the only son of Mr. Yates, iron founder, who is nearly distracted at the melancholy be reavement. The names and ages of the dead will be found below, amounting to fifty in number. The young man named John Greatorex, whose name appears below, was of age yesterday, and would shortly have come into the receipt of considerable property ; his relatives and friends are in the greatest distress; the occurrence ap pears to have cast a gloom over the whole of the inha bitants of Rotherham, and in every street are signs of mourning and affliction. The awful calamity is the general topic of conversation throughout that town and Sheffield, and the most anxious inquiries are made after the names of the sufferers. Nothing can equal the sensation it has caused among all classes ; and the vessel, which is considerably damaged, has been visited this morning by a great number of persons. The following are now lying dead in the township of Masborough :—James Shaw, 10 ; Chas. Robinson, 11 ; John Hargate, 15 ; Geo. Brown, 15 ; Jos. Furriers, 12 ; Thos. Woodyer, 11 ; Geo. Earnshaw, 11 ; John Jacques, 11 ; Chas. Hanley, 12 ; John Fox, 16 ; W. Greenfield, 10 ; Alfred Garfield, 5 ; W. Boler, 10 ; Thomas Date, 7 ; John Bradbury, 15 ; John Haywood, 15 ; John Gillett, 17 ; John Smith, 40 ; Charles Smith, 8 ; H. Smith, 5 ; William Wood, 11 ; George Carter, 16 ; Samuel Freeman, 16 ; W. Freeman, 8 ; George Rams den, 14 ; R. Shaw, 17. _ _ The following are now lying dead in Rotherham : Charles Matthewman 14, Samuel Woodhouse 18, John Shiletto 14, Richard Shiletto 11, Joseph Earushaw 10, John Pattison 10, William Hall 8, George Nixon 7, Andrew Dobson 8, H. Goodhall 8, William Bradshaw 14, D. Cundell 13, Henry Crowther 8, John Kent 10, J, Buckley 33, Alfred Buckley, son of Joseph Buckley, 6. Samuel Heathcoat 41, Robert Lancaster 13, Samuel Dobb, 10, W. Blackburn 14, John Parrott 19, James Yates 11, John Greatorex 21, and David Cundy 11. " THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR."—One of the Members just returned for Bradford is Mr. John Hardy—a gentleman, we have been told, who makes a peculiar profession of sanctity, and who, therefore, it might be supposed, would at leastbe free from the odious vice of falsehood a nd slander. Yet how stands the fact ? It appears from t h e re po rt of the Lecds Mercury, that, in his speech at the Brad ford nomination on Tuesday, he made the follow ing observations :—" Look at Lord Melbourne. Lord - Melbourne was Home Secretary at the time the people of Manchester were cut down, and moved a vote of thanks to the yeomanry." This statement is a direct falsehood. The Home Secretary, at the period in question, was not Lord Melbourne, but Lord Sidmouth ; and this is a fact which, if Mr. Hardy did not know, a very slight investigation would have shown him ; and that investigation he ought in duty to hav' made, and not have come forward without it to endeavour t o bl ac k en t h e c h aracter o f a p o liti ca l adver sary by th e ut t erance o f a downr i g h t un t ru th. It is nothing to s a y, as possibly may be said, that Mr. Hardy believed the statement. The man who, to disparage an opponent, makes a statement which ordinary in quiry would have shown him to be without foundation, is only one degree less culpable—he is not at all less malignant—tha n the one who invents and propagates a naked and deliberate lie. Manchester Guardian. DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF ONE OF - THE an inquisition was ta k en b efore Mr. Wakley, CLERKS AT CHELSEA C OL LEGE.--On Tuesday afternoon at the King's Arms, Fulham-road, on Joseph .Mumford, aged 42, one of the principal clerks at Chelsea College, who terminated his existence by hanging himself on Monday last. Mr. F. Goderich, surgeon, had attended the deceased professionally for the last fifteen years. Up to four years ago he never observed anything strange or peculiar in deceased's manner, but since That period his head appeared affected. Verdict, " Temporary in ea 1 ELECT•IO N MOVEMENTS. LINCOLNSHIRE *NORTH—PARTS of LINDSEY. LINCOLN CASTLE, MONDAY.—On Monday, at an early hour, all was bustle and animation; in every part of the city were to be seen the light blue colours of Lord. Worsley; indeed, so extensively were they worn, that it looked much more like a city than a county demonstra tion; there was a large show of,purple and orange for Mr. Christopher, and a smaller sprinkling of pink for the . Hon. Mr. Cust. At a quarter to eleven the Castle gates were thrown open, and immediately several thousand persons thronged the yard. Lord Worsley .and his friends took the south, and the Conservatives the north side of the hustings.. GODFREY TALLENTS, Esq., Under Sheriff, having read. the writ of election and the Bribery Act Sir JOHN CHARLES THOROLD, Bart., High Sheriff, took the oaths prescribed, which were administered by the Rev. Sir Charles Anderson, Bart. The HIGH SHERIFF briefly stated the object of the meeting, and requested an equally candid hearing for all. G. F. HENEAGE, Esq., of Hainton-hall, had to pro pose as a candidate, not one who was untried, but who had in four successive Parliaments faithfully dis charged his duty as their representative. As they had on all former occasions, so he hoped they would again return him at the head of the poll, as they had done his father and grandfather before him.—(Mr.Chaplin, "That is a mistake.") He would be as concise as he could con sistently with his duty on the present occasion. He wouldask, who was there that had occasion to apply to his Lordship on parliamentary business .that did not re ceive the kindest attention ?—(Hear, hear.) During eleven years had they ever found Lord Worsley 'to be absent from .his post ?—(No, no.) The Noble Lord, Mr. Christopher, and Mr. Chaplin had all sat for boroughs before being elected for the county, and Mr. Corbett had qualified by long service as an active magistrate and an extensive farmer. But what experience had Mr. Cust ? What single qualification had he ? He should like to know how it was that he was brought there, and who sent for him ? He called upon them to return Lord Worsley at the head of the poll, and he finished by proposing the Right Hon. Charles Anderson Worsley Pelham, com monly called Lord Worsley, as a fit person to represent them a fourth time in Parliament. J. ANGERSTEIN, Esq., seconded the nomination of the Noble Lord, having, when representative for a metro politan borough, witnessed the zealous discharge of his duties, in which he was exceeded by none. After a few words in commendation of the Government, which called forth some Tory yells, which were speedily drowned in Liberal cheers, Mr. Angerstein objected to their new candidate, that, being a soldier, he might be sent out to Canada next week ; he cordially seconded the nomina- , tion of the Noble Lord. Sir JOHN NELTHORP, Bart., had. comparatively an easy task, in proposing for re-election a gentleman who was well known to• them, who had uniformly done his duty as a representative, and had opposed all the mea sures of a Government that would infringe upon the rights of agriculture. He was once more a candidate, and they could not hesitate to renew their confidence in him . ; he begged to nominate Robert Adam Christopher, Esq.—(Cheers and yells.) ALGERNON MASSINBERD, Esq., considered it - a high honour to propose such a Member to such a con stituency ; and seconded the nomination made by Sir John Nelhorp. CHARLES CH ApLIN, Esq., would begin by explaining why he had exerted himself so mach in opposition to the return of his friend Lord .Worsley ; .and that was in consequence of the unfortunate vote the Noble Lord had given in favour of that reckless Administration which had declared they dissolved Parliament in order to carry a measure that would ruin the farmers not only of Lincolnshire, but of all England.—(A Voice—" Then lower your rents.") He saw before him the whole te nantry of the Noble Lord's father ; he would ask them; with a fixed duty of Bs., whether their farms would be worth keeping ? . It was true that the Noble Lord had voted against the alteration of the Corn-laws, and would do so again, but what was his individual vote ? He had supported the Ministry, and he would be swamped by the majority in the large manufacturing towns, and then he might whistle for his property. It was on these grounds that they opposed the Ministry, and not Lord Worsley personally. As he could not himself stand. forward, he had endeavoured to procure the best man he could, and he would leave the result with the free holders and electors. It had been foolishly asserted that his Honourable Friend had not an acre of land in the division • 4 would be much better if people confined themselves to facts ; and be fore the Chairman of the Noble Lord's Central Committee at .Rasen had allowed such a statement to be published, he might have looked to the re gister, where would be found Mr. Cust's name as a freeholder, and no inconsiderable one. Mr. Chaplin then read a letter that had been sent to him from the Reform Club, of ivhich the Noble Lord was a member : it asked for a siihscription'in aid of the Printing Corn mittee of the Reform Club, to take 101. worth of placards and handbills and other squibs against the Corn-laws, for distribution. in his neighbourhood, by which the funds of the Society would be greatly helped. He had another little document •„ this -was a letter from the Isle of Wight,- where Lord Worsley's father had great pro perty, and where the letter stated that the Noble Lord's influence was being used in favour of the Anti-Corn-law candidates, and' the writer, a Mr. J. Hamilton, thought the electors of Lincolnshire should be acquainted with the fact. Now, if these gentlemen had been returned from the Isle of Wight, they would have been voting against the Corn-laws, whilst the .Noble Lord was giving his single vote in their favour. On these grounds he should support his Gallant and Honourable Friend, who would oppose any Ministry that would not uphold the Corn-laws. Lord Worsley had determined to stand by his party, who, for the sake of place, would ruin agriculture, would set the West Indies in a flame, and risk another rebellion in Canada. In conclusion he pro posed the Hon. 'Charles Henry Cast.—(Cheers and yells.) Colonel'SuritioaP, M.P.. said that, in seconding the nomination of the Hon. C. H. Cust, he had little to do, as the recommendation of Mr. Chaplin was sufficient to claim their regard. He had no personal animosity to Lord Worsley, but in political conflicts private friend ship was but as a feather in the scale. Colonel Sibthorp then launched out into a tirade against Lord John Rus sell in particular, as the rejected of so many places, and against the Ministry in general. He said their only re trenchment had been the leather tax and that on dogs' tails, which had done no one' 6d. worth of good. He spoke of the COrn-laws is. their last dirty shift to keep office, and the trick to create two new equity judges ; speaking of Sir John Campbell, as the Whig Attorney- General, a fellow most odious to him.— . (A loud tumult of hooting soon drowned the faint Tory cheers at these expressions.) Of the cry of "cheap sugar, they were not so treacle-mouthed as to be invited by 'so paltry a bait, which would not alter the price a halfpenny a pound; or of " cheap timber," that would not save 10s. in the cost of building a cottage worth 801. or 1001. ; and then there was the proposal to put a fixed duty on corn, which three measures the Whig Attorney-General had said were to be considered as one common proposal. He begged to ask the Noble Lord whether he had not said in June, 1838, on Mr. Warburton's motion respecting Lord Cawdor's tenantry, that he regretted he had voted for the 501. clause. He found it so reported in the Times newspaper.—(Yells, and cries of " the bloody old Times.") . Lord WORSLEY dared say he had so expressed himself. Colonel SIBTHORP—They would perceive that his memory was good , and' yet after such a vote they pre tended to call his Lordship the farmer's friend ! Colonel Sibthorp, continued to speak for some time in his usual " miscellaneous estimate " style, and the disturbance rather increasing than otherwise, notwithstanding Lord Worsley's interference, he concluded rather abruptly by seconding the nomination of the Hon. Charles Henry Cust. . • Lord WORSLEY (after the tremendous cheering with which he was received had subsided) said—You have heard Mr. Heneage and Mr. Angerstein, two very large landed proprietors of this division, recommend me to your notice as a proper 'person to represent you in Par liament. Do. you think that these gentlemen, or any other of their class, would have come forward to recom mend me if they thought that I was not the farmers' friend.—(" No, no," and cheers.) I have been rather surprised at many of the statements which I have heard made against me brine- my canvass. My friend and colleague, Mr.' Christopher, in a manner which I have never before heard of being used by one - colleague to wards another,' spoke to me in the House of Commons with regard to what I had said at the county 'meeting at Lincoln. Ido not ,say that it was intentionally unkind of him, he might have stated what he did in consequence of the disappointment he felt at my not supporting Sir Robert Peel's motion after what he thought I had said at the County meeting. Gentlemen, .after a very ex, tensive canvass, a large majority in the division who attended that meeting are not of the same opinions with Mr. Christopher.—(Hear, hear.) Some of my politi cal opponents who attended that day and heard. what I said, tell me that they thought I should have voted as I did after what I had said.—("No, no," from some of the Tory party.) I tell you What I have heard them say—if you do not believe me I cannot help it. I state what I have been told by my political opponents ; I hare been in formed that .Mr. Christopher, in his speech at Horn castle, stated that he was surprised that I should rise up in my place in the House of Commons to oppose the motion of Sir R. Peel, and pull, out of my pocket a piece of paper, which was the report of a speech of mine made at Lincoln, which I had corrected and then taken from the Li rii.oln Gazette. I did see a copy of my speech made at that, meeting, which I corrected ; but I never saw the speech of Mr. Brailsford, and my reply, until I saw them reported in the Morning Post, and I took the report from that paper, because it was possible that some Members might have got hold . of . a garbled report from some of the London papers.—(Hear, hear.) This I will tell you that nobody asked me to speak when I did on the motion of Sir Robert Peel, and no person connected With the Government, either directly or in directly knew, within a short time before the decision upon that motion, hoW I should vote. Did Igo to Par liament to oppose everything Sir R. Peel brought for ward, when he was in office ? Did I not tell you on these hustings that I would not offer a factious opposi tion ? Did I not assist them oh their votes of supplieS? Indeed; I should have opposed them much more than I did, if I had been determined to oppose everything they proposed. This I would say, I had much rather have measures of reform proposed by those who wished to pass them, than by others who only do it bectetise the country forces them to pass them.--(Great cheering.) Now, I do approve of the general conduet of the Government, but they have committed one of those errors upon which I oppose th em . M r . Chtistopher has sta ted, ' in the course of his ca nvass , that at a meeting in London I stated that I th oug h t it " a pro fligate act of the Government to • a tt em pt a repeal of the Corn laws. I say so again, if they believed they had not m easure for the power •to carry their proposed " Ward, if they only did it for the rpose of creating ex citement. But I have fitichconfiae,nce • • our cause, that I do not believe any such measures can be carried in cur lifetime. Before I could think it right to vote for Sir Robert Peel, I must have asked myself what reason I had for leap in.,,ti• fdtmer Mends: Wleat reason had I, except that they proposed a measure which I disap proved of ? And I must be able to place implicit confi dence in Sir Robert Peel on the Corn-laws. I cannot.do this.—(Cheersi) !hate been told that I have misrepre sented Sir Robert Peel's sentiments on the COrnslaws. I have beard him say that he is opposed to a fixed duty, but he is not prepared to pledge himself to maintain the present graduated scale. Rave I not a right to suppose that he May alter that scale •so as not to be a sufficient protection ? Mr. Christopher, I am informed, when speaking at Boston, said that he would not pledge him self to support the present Corn-laws, but he would ad vocate a: just protection to the farmer. - Mr. CHRISTOPHER—I did not say so. Lord ;WORSLEY—Two friends of mine who were there I at the time, took down - the words unknown to each other, and afterwards compared notes, and both had taken the words alike. I wish: to remind Mr. Chaplin, that because I am a member of the Reform Club, it does not follow that I am therefore responsible for what may he done by its committees, any more than that. Mr. Christopher is to be responsible for all the acts of the Carlton Club.—(lrear, hear)—because they sent a gen tleman round to give lectures in support of slavery, at the time of the antislavery cry. The letter Mr. Chap lin has read, is not addressed to me ; they know my opiniong on that subject too well to send me-one.—(A voice, ".Perhaps you've had one before.") I never saw or heard of it before now. Sir Robert Peel, in his motion,. stated that it was unconstitutional in the Govern ment to retain office. Sir Robert Peel, when he was about taking office in 1839, knew that the majority of this country had iro confidence in him—and what did he state ? "He wished so to constitute her Ma jesty's household, that ,her Majesty'S l servants might have the advantage of a public demonstration of her Majesty's full support and confidence." IT e knew he had not the confidence of the country, and as he could not turn out the Ladies of -the ,Beesshamber, he resigned. —(Cheers.) It is said by many of those who canvass for Mr. Christopher that I am not a friend of civil and reli gious liberty. Have I not on all occasions been the sup porter-of liberty of conscience and of freedom of election? —(A voice from the Tory party, " The Ballot.) Yes, the Ballot; I have' always stated that I think there are many objections to ,the Ballot, but I know of no other way of putting an . end -to bribery and intimidation. I should like a less objectionable remedy, but it is acknow ledged even by many Of the Tory Members, that the evils of intimidation exist. This reminds me of almost the only words I heard front Col. Sibthorp, on my saying I re gretted having voted for the 50/. clause. I did say, that if `I had any idea that it would have worked as it has, I would'have taken the advice of Lord Spencer, and voted against it. What was the intention of that clause, but to give" to persons of respectability, tenants to the amount of 501., a : right . to vote, that they should have their opinions represented.? Now I contend that it has been too much used to represent the landlord's opinions, and not the. tenant's. A man occupying at 501. a year ought to have a share in the representation, 'and I believe if you hid the vote by ballot you would have the feelings and opinions of that class of persons repreSented, and then I should be delighted with it.— ,(Immense cheering.) Before I wits interrupted by some one alluding to the Ballot I was going to ask whether the charge against me of my not being a friend to civil, and religious liberty, was well founded. lam not aware of any votes I hale ever given which show that I. am not • inclined to respect in every way the rights of conscience. Am I to be stigmatised with not being a friend to the Church because T allow every man to have a decent place erected on land of my family, in which he may worship his God as he pleases ?—{Cheers.) Can I not be a Churchman, and yet. be a tolerant Churchman ? ' They thought I could not be a friend to religious liberty because • I subscribed towards the erection of a Wesleyan chapel in Brigg, and did not give anything for a new , Church: When I was applied to as to the new church, I said I thought my father, who held the property in that part, should subscribe to the new church; they applied to him, and he gave them 50/.—(Cheers.) Task you *ether I have not succeeded in representing you diligently, faithfully, and with constant attention? — (Cries of "You have," "you shall again.") But because I will not awn a. Tory, therefore, you the Reformers, who sent me to the House of Commons, are to oust me, .a.et to take , in my stead a person who, so far as personal ,and private character, gees, is perhaps better fitted than myself.--(No, no.) But he has not had that experience in the House of Commons ; and I believe'he will not be able to discharge his duties to you, if he continues in his profession, and intends to discharge his duties as a sol dier.—(Hear, hear.) I will tell you why I think so. I have had experience in this, and I found that when the House of Commons was sitting, I had enough to do to attend to your business, and do not believe I could attend to any other without neglecting your interests. — (Hear, hear.) I .forgdt to state that one of the mea sures condemned in Sir Robert Peel's motion was the Penny Postage Act. Why did the Tories let that Act pass ? There were ninety and some odd Members amongst the Tories who voted for that' measure—(Hear, hear) — and now -they wish to cOnderrin it. They voted for it because they had seen their constituents, and their con siituents were for it ; and because I had presented pe titions in favour of it from my constituents, and none, that I am aware of, against it, I voted for that measure. Now the Government is blamed for carying that measure, which one4hird of the party helped them to do. They tell you much about the state of the finances, but you will remember that it is only a comparatively short lime since that they paid twenty millions, which was voted for that • noble • object, the doing away with the slave trade, and three millions of the taxes have been taken off. They tell you that there were three millions left in the Exchequer, but they don't tell you of any deficiencies that caused there to be no such . surplus in reality at that period. The Government, you are told, have put Baron Cainpbell into a situation, in -the place of an old man who resigns, —(Lord Plunket)— and that this is done that Baron Campbell may have the retiring salary as ex-Chancellor of. Ireland, as he will soon have to retire also. Now, I have made inquiry,, and I find that Baron Campbell took that appointment, with a condition that- if the Tories came into power and he holds only for a' short time, he will not claim the pension.—(" No," from Colonel Sib thorp.) Colonel Sibthorp seems to doubt what I am stating.—(Colonel Sibthorp—" I do ;" hisses and signs of disapprobation marked the interruption.) I will give you my authority, it was Sir George Grey who told me,. and do you think that he would not be able to know that ?--(Loud cheers.) Let it be recollected that this Government, that they say ,is so fond of patronage and jobbing, - the first thing they did was to reduce their own salaries,--(Hear, . hear.) They reduced above 3,700/. annually in the salaries of persons who had been employed by the Tories- to collect the taxes. Who showed • themselves, when •in office, most fond of jobbing?—(Hear, hear.) Who opposed the Whigs when they tried to look into the state of the Pen sion List*? Who got it into that state ? Not the Whigs.—(Cheers.) What state was the country in when the. Tories left 'it ? Were there not incendiary fires blaring in every direction ? Were there not Political Unions in Birmingham and other places ?—(" Who en couraged them ?" from the Tory party.) If you want to know who encouraged them, I tell you, it was the Tories refusing to listen to the w i s hes of the people. What state was• Ireland- in ?—(Hear, hear.) Yet last year, wl4n the -Chartists, brought into notice and power by the Tories, by getting up a cry against the New Poor law, raised a fearful riot in Wales, the Government sent for troops out of Ireland to put those riots down. He defended his consistency in opposing the Ministry on questions of finance, but supporting them on Sir Ro bert Peel's motion. He would censure the Ministers for bringing forward measures, if they thought themselves unable to carry them. Mr. Macaulay had said they miscalculated,. and it seemed they had done so grieve ously. Sir Robert Peel had declared himself against a fixed duty, .but would not pledge himself to make no alteration in the present scale. He (Lord Worsley) had looked very carefully at the speech of Sir. Robert Peel at Tamworth, and had adopted that speech as a tone of the party that would come into office. Sir R: Peel said he would not alter the present system, but wished so to alter the scale, that the protec tion to farmers would not be less. The present system had worked well, and he (Lord - Worsley) advocated its continuance. Mr. CHRISTOPHER and Mr. CosT afterwards addressed the meeting. . Sir C. ANDERSON, Bart., wished to set himself right in regard to the public meeting that had been referred to ; he fully understood that the Noble Lord would op pose the Ministry on the proposition of a fixed duty, but he did not expect him to do so on any other question. As an old constitutional,Whig of sixty years' standing, who had supported' the' Noble Lard, and hia father and grandfather before Min, he did not expect that he should turn round, give up his former friends, and at once turn Tory. Such was the impression on his own mind as to what the Noble Lord. would do, and he had acted accordingly, although he must also, admit. that others, and those of his own family, had understood Lord Wors ley differently. EDWARD HENEAGE, Esq., M.P., would not have offered himself, but that Mr. Christopher had referred on his canvass to the Poor-laws ; such professions on the approach of an election were an appeal to clap-trap to catch a few stray votes. He had to congratulate them on the prospect of an abundant harvest c the crop of Conservative candidates grown .in the South Division was so great, • that not content with their couple for home consumption, they had exported two for the especial good and benefit of the Northern Division. Mr. CHRISTOPHER explained that lie had given .notice of a clause in the Poor-law Bill to give a majority of two ahieds of the Board of Guardians the discretion of granting out-door relief, without reference to the Com missioners, and he Should renew that proposal. On the show of hands being called for, it was im mensely in favour of Lord Worsley ; Mr. Christopher and Mr. Can' were nearl? equal. • The HIGH SHERIFF d6clared the show to have been in favour of • Lord Worsley and Mr. Christopher, and Mr. Chaplin (for Mr: Cust) demanded a poll. IiEREFORDSHIRE—TUESD AY. When I communicated to you yesterday that Sir B. Price had been nominated as the second Liberal candidate for the County of Hereford, I little contemplated the li beral electors being made the victims of base and dis gusting treachery, and robbed of their elective franchise. Sir B. Price was not only duly nominated and seconded, but the show of hands was declared to be in. his favour (as is most decidedly the feelings of the freeholders and electors of the county), upon which his friends commenced an active canvass on his behalf, after which Col. Powell, his proposer,. withdrew his name, and E. B. Clive, Esq., one of the Members for the City, on the behalf of W. M. Esq., the:seconder, did the same, although not Authorised by him to do so, so that whilst the Liberals of the Qunty were actively engaged in the struggle, a strug gle of principle, and which would have ended in a glori- ons triumph, their friends had actually sold _them. N r o sooner was the disgraceful termination of the contest known than the utmost disgust was felt by every honest voter of principle and integrity throughout the county, -0111011 nOw returns three monopolists, Messrs. Basker vale and ilitiley ; Tories, and Mr. K. Hoskins, a half-and ball Whig, but void of those steady political principles which has ever distinguished Sir IL Price, and to whose pay alone, the county is mainly indebted for the dis gracefgl Compromise, for'the sport and triumph of -Tory monopoly. Tbe return being unquestionably illegal, Sir IL Price jvill of course claim his seat, and Mr. K. Hos kins maybid farewell to the representation of the County of Herefqd, having deserted his Liberal principles, for which he: was retnrned in 1831 and 1835 so triumphantly, and placed a very large majority of the Liberal electors in the humiliating position of being actually misrepresented. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Lord ABINGER and Mr. Justice WILLIAMS ) Hanna,h Covington 15,- married, and M ar y Lon g , 28, spinster,:were indicted. for the wilful murder of Thomas Briggs. • The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Espinasse, the prisoners were undefended. . The first witness •called.was Mary Williams, who de posed thiit she lived with the deceased as his house keeper. Deceased was 74 years of age. On Friday, the 25th'June last, about six o'cloch in the evening, the deceased left his house, and witness never saw him alive afterwards. ghe siai the body of the deceased on the Sunday following. Ann Holme deposed that she lived - in Blu!gate-fields, Shadwell. She was in the Royal Sovereign public house on the day in question, about seven o'clock in the evening. • The prisoners were talking together about the landlord having been the cause of the death of Long's mother, Saw the deceased that evening; it was just after the convereation she had heard between the prisoners. He was coming up the street in the direction of the Royal Sovereign. The deceased was on the opposite Side of the street, and the prisoner Long ran across the road, and stopped him and said to him, " You b—y old wretch you have been murdering my mother, and for two pins . .l would knock your b—y old head off." She was then in liquor. The other pri soner Was more in liquor than Long. They both struck the deceased,[and he said, "-What does all this mean ?" Long then rushed on the other -side, and struck him a severe blow. After he had received the second blow he turned back down the street and both the prisoners fol lowed him, and struck him •several times with a stick, and the witness saw him taken into Mrs. Hardy's house. Thomas Hill was in Bluegate-fields on the 25th June last, about seven o'clock in the evening; saw the deceased there, also saw the prisoners at the Royal Sovereign; they ran out to the deceased as he passed, Long laid hold of the deceased by the collar and struck him on the face with her fists, and dragged him down against the wall ; she said to. hini, ". You were the death of my mother, and • I will .be the death of you ?" Heard the prisoner Long say, ." Don't give him any more I have given - him enough." Long then struck de ceased' again. His head was bare. After Covington struck the - deceased, witness endeavoured to keep both of thorn away froth hina. 'Went subsequently to seek the prisoners. Saw the deCeased an hour after he had seen him asseulted,. when he (deceased) was quite dead. Saw Long wipe the face of the deceased with a hand kerchief, to wipe the blood from it. It was the blood that came from his nose. . Robert Reed being sworn, said—His house was near the Royal Sovereign. Was in his house on the evening of the 25th'June about seven- o'clock. Saw the pri soners: in the street standing on the opposite side of the way ; also saw the' deceased there. Long was standing by the side of him: SaW her strike him a blow on the face with her fist. Also saw Covington strike him in the face with her fists; The deceased then raised his stick and struck at Covington. Did not notice whether he struck her or not. Did not see the deceased do any thing before he was struck by Long. Saw the last wit ness then. Does not know what became of the stick. When Long struck the deceased his hat was on, but after she had struck him it fell. off. Witness never quitted his room. Margaret Ann *Harvey lived in Bluegate-fields ; the deceased was her landlord. On the 25th June the de ceased called at her house about seven `o'clock. A little time after she saw him bleeding at the nose and mouth in the street. His face was all over blood, so that she could not tell where the marks of violence were. The de ceased appeared .to be. "„stagnated" (staggered). The deceased tried to get into. witness's house, but the pri soners kept him back by holding him by the arm. Wit ness succeeded in getting- him into the house, and she set him in a chair .; but he fell on the floor, and she tried to lift him up, but she could . not. The deceased turned black and blue in the face; and witness sent for a doctor. John William Bird deposed that he was a surgeon, in Ratcliffe-highway. On the 25th June was called in to the deceased at the house of the last witness. He was lying on the floor. quite dead. He had a severe bruise on the right eye. He had all the appearance of a person who had died of. apoplexy. On the following morning witness made an,examination of the head of the deceased, in company with another medical man. A considerable ex travasation of blood was perceptible on the removal of the scalp. The immediate cause of death was effusion of blood on the brain. That effusion might have been caused by blows on the head and face. Considers such an effusion not to be the natural result of apoplexy. Pretty deposed that he was a surgeon in the Rat cliffe-highway ; had seen the deceased on the day in question, and concurred with the last witness as to the immediate cause of death. W. Ross deposed that he was a surgeon of High-street, Shadwell, and had also examined 'the . deceased, and should say, from that examination, that the immediate cause of death arose from hemorrhage between the mem branes of the brain, the result of external violence. This being the last witness the prisoners were called upon for their defence. Mary Long said that She recollected nothing of the circumstance. Hannah,Covington said she was very much in liquor, and that she only struck the deceased because he struck her, and that she did not. recollect what occurred after the first blow. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS then summed up the evidence, and the Jury shortly afterwards returned a verdict of —Guilty 9f Manslaughter only. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS' then addressed the prisoners. He said the Jury had Very properly, in his opinion, found them guilty of the crime of manslaughter, as be thought it would have been rather too much to come to the conclusion that they hail by design caused the death of the deceased. But it was impossible not -to perceive that they had brought themselves into their present posi-. tion by reason of indulgence, and that propensity to liquor, which they had made a principal ground of de fence. But the Jury very properly deemed them re spozisible. However, as there was something to make the Court believe that there was not any malice afore thought, and seeing also that there was a certain provo cation, the sentence would be a light one, viz., that they be imprisoned, and kept to hard labour, for the term of six calendar months. STORY OF AN APPROVER.--A., a well known blood-thirsty character, proposed to B. and C. that they should join him in committing a burglary where a good booty was expected. "I've no objection to the swag," said B. ; " but if we go out together, mind hill have no crokers (dead men). If we can't do our business without them, why,'-then, I'd sooner follow some other game." C. agreed with 8., both consenting to join in the robbery, on the express condition of no violence being offered to any person. The same night the thieves entered into a house occupied by a single gentleman and his house keeper, who was deaf. The booty notbeing found where was expected, they agreed to proceed to the gentleman's sleep ing -room and search there—both B. and C. again protest ing that they would have no violence used beyond that of restraining him from leaving the house to give an alarm. The gentleman, either having no concealed property, or, being obstinate, refused to disclose where it was. A. became irritated from disappointment, and menaced the gentleman, who was sitting up in his bed, every moment becoming more furious and minatory, till at length the ruffian actually aimed a blow at the unfortunate gentle man's head with a small crow-bar. B. arrested his arm with one hand, while with the other he forced the brutal as-,ailant from the spot. C., Whilst thiS was going on, kept watch at the door, still commanding a view of the room ; and, witnessing the attempt of A., rushed forward to assist B. in preventing a fatal result. The gentle man, then becoming alarmed, suddenly sprang out of bed, and, seizing a sword which hung near him, made a pass at 8., whose back was towards him. The latter, feel ing himself wounded in.the shoulder, turned round, and with a blow from his clenched fist knocked the gentle man down. A., who had recovered himself, then turned round, and levelled a blow with the before-named bar, which he stilt held in his hand, at the fallen gentleman's head, which caused instant death. B. and C. imme diately denounced their comrade as a blood-thirsty villain, and left the house, resolving never again to be associated with.him in any other scheme of rob bery. ,All the property stolen on that night was subsequently carried off by A A few days after this murder was perpetrated, a proclamation was issued, offering a reward and promise of pardon to any accomplice, not the actual murderer, who would impeach his 'companion in the crime. A. was the(first to avail himself of ,this offer ; and making out his own statement of the affair, caused the execution of C., and the transportation of 13. These particulars were first collected from the malefactor that suffered ; they were also confirmed by his companion, whose sentence of death was commuted to that ,of transportation, and, finally; were. verified by the actual murderer, who a few years subsequently was executed at the Old Bailey for a similar brutal offence.—Frazer for July. DREADFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday afternoon as the Rev. Mr. Freeman, of Langley, near Sloagh, was driving Mr. Maurice Swabey, one of the Magistates for the county of Bucks, in his fourwheel chaise', on the, Slough road, within about a mile of his residence, he was met by a man just as he was turning into a lane leading to Upton, with some barge-horses, who was proceeding at full gallop. Mr. Freeman's horse took fright at the noise caused, it is supposed, by the rat tling of the chains at their heels, and upset the chaise, throwing both out with great violence. Mr. Swabey fell upon Zr. Freeman, and providentially escaped with only some slight bruises. The Rev. Gentleman, however, upon being picked up, was bleeding profusely from the ;ose, mouth, and ears, and totally insensible. lie was immediately Conveyed to the residence of Mr. Smith, the brother-in-law of the 'Vice-Chancellor, nearly opposite to \there the acci4nt happened, where, in less than a quar ter of an hour, he was attended by two surgeons, but all attempts to-revive him proving fruitless, he continued gradually to sink, until four o'clock yesterday morning, when lie breathed his last: . The female boa constrictor at the Garden of Plants recently hatched three eggs, and three young serpents that have issued from them are of the greatest Meoenger. EVENING SUN.' SHIPPING INTELLIGENG (LLOYD'S). Aber- VESSELS SPOKEN WITII. —The Pursuit, of deco, front Buenos Ayres, 2 d ult., lat. 15. Ton. 34, London, Batavia to Amsterdam , lat. 17, lon. 35 ; tura, (barque), lat. 34, lon. 38, by the Sir George Arthtl3; arrived in , the Downs. Great Britain, bound to England, 1 - Ith ult., off St. Paul's ; G race, of Liverpool, for Quebec, 15th ult., lat. 47, lon, 59 ; Curlew, steering 18th ult., lat. 47, lon. 51, by her Majesty's ship Ss?" phire, arrived at Portsmouth. Tier Majesty's shill' Princess Charlotte, Ton. 10, E. by the Liverpool, steamer., arrived at Portsmouth. Mersey, from Jamaica, 30th May, Tat: 25, Ton. 82, by . the Ida, arrived at Faliaoutby h. Huron, of Belfast, steeringW.N.W., lat. 47, To n.. the Rochester, arrived at Cork. Emily Vi , Monte d(ho to BordeauX, 10th ult., lat. 24, Ton. 40 ; Rose, Ch'ust to Havre, 19th ult., lat. 34, Ton. 39 ; and wile day. the Planet, Mauritius to London , by the Clorinde, arrive d at Bordeaux. Iris, Graham, from Calcutta, 11th ult. by t ll9 Cornelie et Henriette, arrived in the. Downs.. • . roe.. ------ S UBUR BS OF LONDON.—The vastness of stl-• burban London disting uishes that cit y eminently fr in om the Continental cities. mile beyond Parise ou rock are a wilderness of sand h ills ; gyp sum quarries, tile and windmills ; beyond . the walls 'of Rome there 1 literally au immense expanse o f desert ; whereas Lon don, if we may borro w a bull, surrounds itself, suburb clinging ; to Suburb , like onions, fift a r op y on e: The sUburbs, which George Colman describs?edi, emphatically as " re g ions of preparatory sebeel one@ have, a character peculiarly their own ; seen they cannot .be mista,:en. They are mar; vellously attached IA gardening, and rejoice above all things at a tree in a tub.--s. of ugliness, staring you out of countenancfive e with windows in front, and a little & Teen hall door at one side, They delight in a uniformity giving to each house the appearan. l e of having tic stroke ; they stand upon their (14;nity at a distance from the road, and are carefully defenaeo: fro in intrusion "1111. body-guard of spikes bristlinj O. a low wa They delight in outlandish and ridiculous names_ a dead wall a lot of tenements looking out upon flub tomether had a pantly in front, and a madhouse in the rear, ' and introduce themselves to your noel lc ' '0 tic as P. a Terrace ; another regiment is baptised by t and surnames of Paradise Prospect ; while a' third lot, ler of the standing together, two and two, after the man. Siamese Twins, are called Mogg's Villas, .ugs„c„):. Cottages, or Gemini Place. The natives of the le like- landish regions are less wealthy than genteel ; ,•,. Beau Tibbs, they live here for the benefit Of t h:lsric health—and fortune. When you visit them, they eloquent upon the merits of an atmosphere surcharg with dust, which they earnestly recommend for) our,te' he Christian halation, under the attractive title of " fresh air. ''..-- Blackwood for July. GYPSIES IN ENGLAND.—ShortIy after their first arrival in England, which is upwards of threads; tallies since, a dreadful persecution was raised ag e them, the aim of which was the ir utter extermiriatioutib, the being a gypsy was e steemed a crime worth ? . of de3t and the gibbets of Eng land g roaned and creake d be neath the weight of gypsy carcasses, and the tnis e , i _ c able survivors were literally obliged to creep earth in order to preserve their lives. But these (.I:.:C* passed' by ; their persecutors became weary o f pure d. ing them ; they showed their heads from the holes al l ' caves where they had hidden themselves, theh ventured forth, increased in numbers, and, e s. 4 „ tribe or family choosing a particular circuit, OIL.' fairly divided the land among them. In England male gypsies are all de. niers in horses, -and Sow times employ their idle tune in mending the tin ar'' into irl., copper utensils of the peasantry ; the females tell f?r tunes. They generally pitch their tents in the the of of a village or small town by - the. road side under thd shelter of the hedges And trees- The climate of Engl an t , .is well known to be favourable to beauty, and in no Pa r of the world is the appearance of the gypsies so prf ' possessing as in that count:7 ;_their complexion is dar'' but not disagreeably so, then' faces are oval, their fe.:: tures regular, their foreheads : 'other low, and their hand' and feet small. The men are taller than the Ell'llisb it he peasantry, and far more active. They all spea: the English language with fluency ruid in their gai t ' l 'd, demeanour are easy and graceful ; in both po ints slae h ing in striking contrast with the pea minty, who in .s PI are slow and uncouth, and in mann er sa gg ed and brat • —Borrow's Gypsies of Spain. 1 0 0 A FAIR IN CONNAUGHT.— r love to ,? , .at a fair, it delights my heart to witncss the le, meetings and greetings of the kind-heart ed people, to see the hearty kiss given, to hear the noisy laugh ~,Pa si ss o r round. I wish I had the art of fixing on caxlvass ''''"-not that most picturesque group, when I could only the round and jocund faces—blessings on them —duly countrywomen, but also the rich conti'alsneA colour in the costumes, which I wish they wool e n - o st change—the scarlet mantle, the madder re I peL. - . with its many plaits, and brown boddice, the yellow,' 'l -- , e . - chief, the sky blue stockings. Talk not to me of Swig %..- pt. •urtray _ 'German costumes, rather give me a Connaught 1': attired as I have just said, with her fair skin, her tee/ cheek, her mirthful black eye, and her white te l, almost sparkling frees her half-opened, good-1 101 7a and large mouth. She is no beauty to be s ure --- ',,, - , head and form are Celtic, and not Grecian ; but the she stands before a tent, a kind, laughter-lovl amiable crathur. I see hot- there coquetting utost in' tensely, with Pat on one side," And he's a clean, cornf'hed' broad-shouldered, light-limbed, springy fellow • %.11 could run to Sligo and never draw breath ; he couldhi.f. or fight till the cows came home. On the other sid e ° her is a sailor in his many-buttoneX and w f ell -fitting h l fa jacket ; he wears a white dimity waistcoat and a : • bandana tied carefully careless abot it his neck ; he be specimen of manly vigour , a little vTather-beaten to al sure. Sally, the deceiver, is divicl'ing her smiles and" pleasantries between her two admires ; an old wrink' .5 body (Sally's aunt, no doubt) is standing behind --s II I Y watching the lively colleen ; she would rather that t-ai.;, was not so particular with Jack-tar ; Paddy with "'i f bit of ground and his docent cabin, would do he tt h for her. Such groups you ma 7 jot dow nin your skte:'.; ,book at a fair in Killala.—ditvay's Sketches in - 1-f i rr ; We quote the following from the Caen J° 11 ; nal :—" In 1450 was fought the battle of ForMig e Y'!le Normandy, which was follow ed b y the ex p ulsion oft _ English, who for thirty-tree years had kept that coiTy try under subjection. In 1486 the hero of that be, ale John de Bourbon, in perfo. rmance of the vow he Ile. on gaining the victory, erect - ed a chapel on the fiel d :, to dieated it to St. Louis, and l'ounded a perpetual Ma'',, o f be said daily by two priests fe r the repose of the 5 0111- f• 0 those who fell. In 1672 it was: raised to the rank e,,, Chapel Royal by the great ,p'onde. Although darl, the first revolution this chapeil was converted ju:ry, granary, it was so far respected t. s a monument of l"i ie ; that the building suffered no 1 nutilation ; and, bi. 4 Louis Philippe having deternint d on restoring„lt, given orders for the commencement of the works. • 0, FLAT GOLD WATCHES, Gold Gi)(181,1) Ten Guineas each. Highly - finished iIORIZON TO , (1 00, WATCHES, with engraved or engine-turned Gold en. jewelled in four holes, and either t tngine-turned Mantel are offered, rice Ten Gui, seas each. Th e " - e ctil , ttle cases Watches wil l be found to perform very co. ht o and a printed warranty is given with fix ed ' terms, on 'chic will always receive any attention required- T. COX SAVORY' , fro . Watchmaker, Jeweller, &c., 47 , Cornhi ll ( Seven Dnoll Gracechurch.street), London. A PERFECT SUBSTITUTE YOR AG —CATALOGUE WITH ENGRAYIN GS, Posi„, too, FREE.—The material is so like silver that it can oulY tie from it on reference to the stamp lay persons well ae‘l l l; e ing with it. MANY SPURIOUS 11‘11.'TATIONS ar sold. The genuine metal, which we warrant more i " - s the than silver, is only to be had at our Warehouse• e same colour throughout, and can be engraved the 0 7: 25 . silver. As a criterion, s yoons and forks, full sized tabl e ' ori piC desserts, 10s.; tea, ss. t ier dozen. The Catalogu e , 6 11 ,10 the prices, with engravi , of every 1R0N310,0 sizAi ARTICLE necessary to it e furnishing a hous e of An) 25 per cent. under any other old established house.xf tr ee , RIPPON and BURTON, 12, Wells-street, Oord-5 Establi: ..hed 1820. BI R . r ----_ B Hs. This day, in Stratton-street, t beady of John Holland' °' i ' of a son. ciC I ° °el On the 3d inst., at Tregalls, t he lady of Lieutenant' 4 Carlyon, of Tregrehan, Cornwall , of a son. cl' tb On the 4th inst., at flaverstoc k -hill, Ham p stead -r" lady of Frederic ill, E..q., of a da.. u ghte. t e lib a°' On the sth inst. H , the lady of the Rev r . Edward lAr Brook-gven, Hammersmith, of a day ghter. son. r j, On the sth inst., at Deptford, Mrs- John e W e st, of a 1 . On the 6th inst., at Christ's Ho vital, Mrs. Georg lope, of a daughter. On the 6th inst., at Hornsey, Mrs. . 9 i '° ...--"-°, H. Pulley , 0 MARRIED. , ssle , On the 6th inst., at Sr. Mark's, Kt trinintoe, J°"nvieanor' Esq., M.A., of St. John's College, C un bridge. tohan ~ y Of daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Ect'en, ofVhite Bristol. Jr. ~ no d,_ On the 6th inst., at St. Paul's Chur th, Ba"' s ",,r 4 i: ba t " Ebenezer Burr, of Cateaton-street, Loi tdon, to v.. — Banton, of Shepperton Cottages, Hoxton. to Opnheethbee,losotliyndsta.o,gahtteSrt.ofP John o rak oCihghutr,et qP.e,ter P . Y",..,n rge s le j uil ; ' Tr. of St . u `" East. Ol t- On the Ist inst., at Lawshall, Suffolk , Mr. 003%00 mont Lea, of Hastings, Sussex, eldest son of the IaZAT, o , l' Lea, R.N., to Mary Anna, eldest daughter of J . 'ri d Laws Hall. W• W. On the 3d inst., at Wishford Magna, Wilts, the lle ;ect or 4 Tireman, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, end d aub Bowers Gifford, Essex, to Harriet Octavio, youngest '-',OOO, of the late John Williams, Esq., Commissioner of Cosi, o rotts On the 3d inst., at Stoney Stratford, Bucks , J °llll o f .1. t ei " Esq., of Stoney Stratford, to Irene, second dalighter Smith, Esq., of the same place. , r ,,, L' lv Captain Lushington, R.N., second son of Sir 1 ,6 2, - , i -, prer ington, Bart. to Henrietta, eldest daughter of OP' cott, C. 8., R .N. ' D lED. VIM' Re On the I Ith of February at Sydney, New rout- oth , James, son of Lieut.-Colonel ,Jenkin, formeily of t giment. 11 P b° have ' :mai On the 27th ult., at Denmark-road. Cam---„,, A t tx , .. — ,f Mackintosh, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel in the antis- " Legion, eldest son of the late Lieutenant John Alau the 15th Regiment of Foot. t , gar ° ' On the 3d inst. 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