The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-24 00:00:00

EVENING SUN LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. The following additional and interesting, par._ the opening of this line, with the account of the (4._ wi;en to the Directors, are copied fruai the Briyhtoa Gazette of the 23d inst. : cula' On Monday last the entire length of the London and Brighton Railway was opened by the Directors, who made their first trip with a train of three first-class carriages, in which they arrived at Brighton about half-past two o'clock, and, after inspecting the works at the Brighton term inus, returned at five o'clock to London. Th e following morning witnessed the departure from Brighton of the first passenger train to the metropolis. It started at a quarter before seven ; but, owing to the unpleasantness of the weather (a dense sea-fog, which approached almost to rain, prevailing), only a few pas sengers availed themselves of the opportunity of making the first trip to town by railway. The new or last finished portion of the line is in excellent order ; and notwith standing that we, from a conviction of the great benefits which the railway will bring to Brighton, have always been ready to believe in the most favourable reports of the progress of the works, which our own observation, moreover, has enabled us frequently to verify, we were not prepared to find the work in the highly finished state in which we discovered it to be on our Tuesday morning's visit. In fact, with only one or two ex ceptions, the lastportion of the line is finished and cleared up in a manner superior to what is observed on some lines after they have been in operation for several years. These exceptions are the ornamental facings of Clayton tunnel, 'which are not yet quite completed, the mouths of the Hayward's Heath tunnel, and a little trimming in the ex tensive and difficult cuttings on either side of the last named tunnel. These trimmings are carried on in such a manner as to offer no impediment at any time to the free passage of the trains ; and a few weeks will see their completion. At Clayton tunnel the north face is nearly finished. It is built of stone, formed at top into battle ments, and has a beautiful effect from the turnpike-road, as well as from the railway. The finished condition of the line admits of few ob servations, no salient points presenting themselves for remark. We cannot, however, pass over the exten • sive embankment on the contract of Mr. Thornton, where (alleged) "insuperable difficulties" presented themselves twelve months since, owing to the re peated slips of the only materials at hand for form ing the embankment. These difficulties have been overcome by the use of a different earth, which the contractor was subsequently enabled to obtain ; and the road is now perfectly solid. The slips, which were lateral and not, as erroneously imagined by some, sinkings into a marsh, have now become perfectly dry, and are nearly as hard as stone ; and the greatly extended base consequent upon the slips has, both in appearance and reality, added to the security of this embankment, which, it wouldperhaps not be out of place to mention, is one of the largest on any railroad yet constructed. During the day the up-trains continued to run at the times specified, performing their journies with great punc tuality.' The first three up-trains all started from Brighton before the arrival of the first down-train. The departure of all these was witnessed and applauded by many of the inhabitants of this town ; but the most interesting part of the day's proceedings was the arrival of the first London train, containing the Directors, who had been invited by the inhabitants to one of the most splendid banquets ever given in Brighton. This train was pro pelled by two of the Company's engines. It was a mixed train and consisted of thirteen carriages, three of the first class being appropriated to the use of the Directors and their friends, and the remainder were completely filled with passengers in the regular mode of railway traffic. On passing the different stations, all which were decorated with union jacks, and other flags and ensigns, the train was loudly cheered. At Hay ward's Heath, Mr. Rastrick, the engineer of the line, who had accompanied the Directors to Brighton on the previous day, and remained there to make the last ar rangements for the conduct of the next day's traffic, took his seat with the Directors, and the train then moved on towards Brighton. It was in the newly-opened portion of the line that the spectators were most numerous ; and from Hayward's Heath to Clayton, several miles of country seemed to have emptied their inhabitants, who fringed the railway on either side. At the Hassocks' Station, the only new one on the line, many hundreds of the inhabitants of Hurst and Ditchling had assembled, dressed in holiday garb, and all welcoming, by their plaudits and smiling countenances, the first transit of the metropolitan visitors through their neighbourhood by means of the railway. The northern entrance to Clayton tunnel, to which we have before referred, was generally admired. On this occasion the tunnel was lighted, at long intervals, by torches. We understand that preparations are on foot for lighting it with gas, in the same manner as the tun nels at Balcombe and ii[erstham are lighted, a procedure particularly desirable, owing to the greater length of the tunneL From Preston to Brighton, the train passed between crowds of spectators, who filled every space adjoining:he line, from which a view could he obtained. The field at New England, westward of the line, was also densely crowded ; and the same was the case with the New England road, where also a great number of carriages and flys. 100 at least, were drawn up in file. Proceed ing onwards to the terminus, we observed the whole of the beautiful sheds, the iron roofs of which have been so much admired, densely packed with thousands of fashionables and the most influential of our inhabitants. From the gable • of the centre shed were sus pended a large floral star and a banner inscribed— " Welcome to Brighton." At the moment the tram reached the terminus, the band of the Scots Greys, the performers at the Concerts d'Ete, and the town band, struck up " God Save the Queen," the amateur vocalists singing the National Anthem, verse and chorus, alter nately with the instrumental music. A large number of the inhabitants also lined the foot path leading over the hill from the terminus to New England ; and the neighbourhood of Trafalgar-street and Surrey-street was filled with respectable persons, who were excluded from the terminus in consequence of the applicants for tickets being so numerous that the terminus would not contain them. In the evening a fete took place at the Royal Gardens, in celebration of the opening of the Railway. There was a grand display of fireworks by Jones, and the company was numerous. Several of the tradesmen also illuminated the fronts of their houses in honour of the event. The building of a London terminus for the Brighton line, altogether distinct from the Greenwich line, part of which the Brighton trains at present traverse, is proceeding rapidly. Most of the arches are already completed, and a portion of the ballast has been laid for the rails. One of the most important benefits which the railway must secure to the town will arise from its becoming the gran d route between London and Paris. The Rouen R a ilway is reported to be progressing most satisfactorily; and the only novelty in a recent report of the Directors is a complaint that the Shareholders supply them with a superabundance of funds! THE DINNER On the same evening the dinner given to the Directors of the Company to celebrate the opening of the line took place at the Old Ship, where upwards of 200 gentle men sat down at half-past six to a sumptuous entertain ment provided by Messrs. Cuff and Strachan. The viands, wines, and dessert were most costly; and the table was loaded with delicacies. E. H. Creasy, Esq., presided (in the absence of the High Constable from illness) ; on the right of the Chair sat the Chairman of the Directors, J. Harman, Esq., D. Maclean, Esq., J. U. Rastrick, Esq., Major-Gen. Hodgson, Captain Beauclerk, T. R. Robin son, Esq., N. Smith, Esq.. and the remainder of the Direc tors; and on the left, G. Darby, Esq., M.P., Capt. Pechell, M.P., I. N. Wigney, Esq., M.P., Major Hobart, Lord William Hill, and. other officers- of the Scots Greys, W. Seymour, Esq., G. Basevi, Esq., Major Allen, &c. The band of the Scots Greys was stationed in the gallery, and during the dinner and at intervals in the course of the evening played some of their most admired pieces. On the removal of the cloth Non nobis Dontine was sung by the amateur vocalists ; and silence having been then proclaimed by the toast master, After the usual loyal toasts had been drank with enthusiasm, v. The CHAIMIAN said he had to announce the receipt of letters from Mr. Fuller, M.P. for Sussex, stating that he was prevented by a death in his family from being pre sent; from Sir John Renni e , stat i ng that c i rcumstances rendered it impossible for him to attend; and from Mr. F. Cooper, kept away by indisp os iti on . w. sEymoTee, Esq., then sa id—l h ave the distin guished honour conferred up on me to offer to you the grat toast of the day.—();Tear, hear.) I have already, as most of you know, expressed my sentiments fully eipon the subject of the great work which h as b een just completed, to the d eli g ht of the inhabitants of Brighton; and I should have been most glad if another Brighton man .(I ,.. !ieen selected whom we a ll a d m i re, an d whose abien.t y would have done c re di t to B r i g ht o n and given gratification ;but I only learned this day at two o'clock that it was not p e ecticable for him to a . ttend. I am quite sure, how. ever, that I shall recei Halsm nd uch asst from d all Brighton and Sussex men and, Brighton part of London, I trust our London friends will give to me the sam e indulgence.—(Hear, hear.) Our o - hject here to-day:is to congratulate n . gr the Directors and atulate ourselves on the finishing of t uselorious work.—(Cheers.) They have surmounted immense difficulties. The evi dence given before the Committee e s nt o h f s, t n h a e y Lo , fe r r d y s e a a n r d s Commoic for days, and weeks, and months, —(Hear, for them to gar)---shows the great physical difficulties they had , to ene 'minter- It became necessary overcome almost she four elements combined say but little, bined of earth, air, fire, and water but of this I will since the victory ov e r them belongs rather to the engi neer, who will be the subject of a separat.e. toast. It is utterly imp oss ibl e t h at a grea t ure qertaking like this should not meet more difficulties than tout' be anticipated, and re quiringwe the highest courage to bear up against. When recollect that the Directors had to contend with the migh ty ,struggle which even now shakes the nation—that they L e d to encounter difficulties of finance, and that in addi tion to all other diaculties they had the difficulty which was s e e forth in a maxim of 1600 years old, and sanctioned by-subscepeent experience, that " in many men there are many minds," and that one motive in many of them is self interest, they might be forgiven for despairing. But the Directors (.:( this Railway encountered all, and t ll ey, succeeded; and the least we can d o i s to t h an k 'than, and wish them health aid happiness.—(Cheeri.) The men of Brighton, feeling this, Lave invited them to this feast ; and they, with their usual urbanity and kind mess, have accepted the invitation, They are now here by their own railroad, and we may now say that Brighton and London are never to be separated again. The Prime Minister of this country, in citing a work of Sir William Jones very recently, said that Sir William was once asked who was the greatest man ; a nd his answer was " The best." And w h en he was as k e d w ho -was the best, he said, " the mart that has deserved most of his fellow men."--(Cheers.) I say, then, look to the Directors of this Company ; and when you recollect the difieuties which they have had to encounter, the di4.1.1- which the overcome, and the ad rred upon B: ,hton men an )elieve upon all the wul are entitled to say they have deserved well of their fellow men, and this day we thank them.—(Loud applause.) Another difficulty which they had to encounter arose from impediments which were pur posely placed in their way, but this also they by zeal and perseverance overcame ; it required the gigantic powers of a Watt to make a steam-engine and to move it, but a boy might impede it. We are now met to congratulate the Directors on having overcome all obstacles, and to thank them for the benefit they have conferred upon us ; and if it be said, "Will you give them only empty thanks—empty praise ?" my answer is, " We give them all we give to heaven for the great benefits showered doss n upon us, namely, our thanks."—(Cheers.) I now propose to you —and I hope, gentleman, the steam is up—(Laughter) — the health of the Directors of the London and. Brighton Railway, and success to their undertaking.—(Loud applause.) The toast was loudly applauded, and drank with four times flour, and " one cheer more." Mr. HARMAN then rose and said he was called upon to discharge a most pleasing duty, which, however, he approached with great diffidence, inasmuch as he feared it would be impossible for him, in adequate language, to express the feelings of his brother Directors on this occasion. The very nature of their undertaking led the Directors, when the line was first projected, to look to Brighton for support—(Hear, hear}—and they were not disappointed ; they received from Brighton that support for which they looked. As they progressed in their undertaking, they found what might very naturally have been expected, that so great a change as was likely to be wrought in the town by a railway communication with the metropolis, was viewed with different feelings. They were not surprised that such should be the case; but they were quite sure that the day was not far distant, when everyone who felt an interest in the success and welfare of the town would hail the success and prosperity of the railway as their own. — (Hear, hear, hear.) It was difficult for him, after the very eloquent man ner in which the toast had been introduced, to follow it as he could wish ; but if he failed in saying what he ought to say, they would not believe it was from a want of good feeling, but from a failing of nature. No thing could be so grateful to the Directors of the Lon don and Brighton Railway as the reception they had that day met with from the inhabitants of Brighton.— (Hear, hear.) The Directors had become, as it were, Brighton men—(Hear)—their interests were the interests of Brighton, and to have been received as they had been that day—tO see the inhabitants, one and all, come out to greet the first arrival by steam, and to have the toast received and welcomed as it had been by this highly respectable meeting, had been most gratifying. He hoped and believed that the undertaking which they had met to celebrate would lead to many and vast improve ments in this neighbourhood ; and he could not but think that the completion of the railway, if they only took advantage of it, would open to them a vast channel of prosperity. He was looking, and with some anxiety, to Brighton becoming the direct communication between the two great capitals of the two greatest kingdoms on the earth ; he had attended a meeting here where he saw something like a prospect of the construction of a floating breakwater off the town, which would enable vessels to come in and out at all times a the tide. The project, he believed, was capable of being carried into ef fect; it only wanted the energies of the people of Brighton and the Directors of the Railway to carry it out.—(Loud applause.) He begged the meeting not to mistake his meaning ; let not the people of Brighton be deceived by supposing that the Directors had funds at their com mand for such a purpose ; but this he begged to say, that they had influence at their command, and where they could exert that influence to the benefit of the town, the inhabitants would always find them ready to do so.— (Applause.) He must be permitted to trespass a short time upon the attention of the meeting. When he looked to the way in which the Directors had endeavoured to make their Railway a most convenient mode of communication to all parties, he was quite aware that in carrying a work of this kind to completion, there were so many difficulties, so many interests to attend to, that it was impossible to please all, but he was anxious to take an opportunity to explain what the Direc tors had done. The Directors considered the traffic likely to come to this town a very superior traffic ; they looked at Brighton as one of the first watering-places in the king dom—(Hear, hear)—they looked at it as inviting the most respectable, the highest families in the kingdom to come to it at certain periods of the year. He believed the season which was the most fashionable was near at hand, and in their arrangements the Directors had endeavoured to give accommodation to that class of persons to travel to Brighton with the greatest comfort, and they had accordingly adopted the plan of having first-class trains, not with a view of shutting out any parties who might wish to travel by them, far from it, but with a view to benefit the town, for which they had been led to believe that without mak ing a distinction they might give umbrage to those per sons who brought most wealth to the town. Therefore they had first-class trains, and mixed trains to carry both first and second-class passengers. The plan was a new one; it was open to improvement, and the Directors by no means considered it as a final arrangement.—(Hear, hear. hear.) Their object was, and had been, to give the best accom modation to, this great town and to the parties who were in the habit of visiting it. He would not detain them longer on this topic; but he might perhaps be allowed, after the observations of the Hon. Gentleman who intro duced the toast, to carry the meeting back to the period when the formation of the line was first projected. At that period they were surrounded by difficulties to which he need hardly do more than make an allusion. After the termination of the Parliamentary contest, which some Honourable Gentlemen present had reason to re member, for the Directors drew pretty largely on their attention—after they had obtained the Bill, they met with difficulties such as few other Companies ever had to contend with. They had endeavoured to take that straight-forward course which public men ought to take ; they endeavoured to do justice to those who entrusted them with their capital, as well as to those whose land was taken for the purposes of the line. They had never de viated one iota from that straight-forward course. The observations of those who had their own reasons for con demning them, they treated as they deserved. As pub lic men, the Directors were not insensible to public re marks and strictures ; but the remarks of those who took every possible means of upbraiding them were despised.— (Hear.) Had they for one moment suffered themselves to be drawn away from the course which they pursued—had they allowed the various stigmas that were attempted to be fixed upon them to have weight—had they been faint hearted, they might have given up their hill ; the town might now have been without a railway— the Directors might have been he could not tell where.—(A laugh.) He remembered when the Bill was before the Committee of the House of Commons, seeing a print of their deep cutting at Merstham, with the Duke of York's monument in the middle of it, representing the undertaking as a perfect farce ; he remembered hearing men who ought to have known better, who had a character at stake, give evidence against the Direct line ; and if the Directors had not had the most implicit confidence in their engineer—(Hear, hear)—the line would most probably have been aban doned. But they had confidence in their engineer ; and he was proud to say that that engineer had done all he told them he could do.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The course taken by the Directors appeared also to have gained the confidence of the Shareholders ; for he was bound to say, that upon all occasions the Di rectors had been, in a most extraordinary manner, backed by them. They had had not only one Act of Parliament, which he believed was not the case with any other railway in the kingdom ; they had only one set of shares ; they never issued half shares or quarter shares ; and they had never sold their shares at a discount.—(Cheers.) The Directors had pursued the course which honest men ought to pursue ; and they had that clay received the reward of honesty. He must now beg to say a few words on the merits of the gentleman who had conducted them through all their difficulties ; he must bear testimony to that gentleman's unbounded exertions, his great talent—(Hear)—and his eternal per severance—(Cheers)—for such difficulties as he had to contend with were not easily overcome. What was the course of their engineer, when difficulties which could not be fore seen overtook him? He (Mr. Harman) gave him credit for great foresight; but there were difficulties which could not be foreseen, and when they arrived what did he say? lie did not say, " We have got into difficulties we can't overcome; where shall we go? what shall we do?" but he came and said, " A difficulty has occurred which could not be foreseen, and I will tell you how to over come it. It is a matter of expense ; give me the means, and I will remove the difficulty."—(Hear, hear.) The Directors did give the means ; he overcame the dif ficulty, and they were now met to celebrate the event which it was foretold could never be completed. Others who thought better of them than these prophets, had said the work might be done in ten years—(A laugh) —their engineer said he could complete the work in three years, and it was an extraordinary fact that exactly three opened y e h. a na r tsthwfslooasmgtaohethe publicd ay t h th e e fi fi rs rs t t po sp rt i i t o o n f o e f a t r h th e i w in a e s ._ duj ne th ar e . 3 alto; and to-day yt OthCCeUyrrheallaCeo,paensehdotrhtetnw-ohoolretlhirlieee. nr publicly a o da c enbeded been n d e a r t loe long,s r s le andym c that l e thatbhe he never etnvheeevdee honest; e was r ti o n s an o d f h : h r e e r D saidar e r m ct a o con nected with any set of men who were so anxious to do their duty; he had never met with a proprietary who had greater confidence in their Directors and he beli eve d theirreward was at hand. It was difficult to speak of themselves, and he hardly knew what t o say on the 'pre sent occasion. He believed he must conclude the few observations which he had made by borrowin g a few words from a celebrated poet:— - " Some chord in unison with.what w!.. feel Is struck within us, and the heart replies." (Loud applause.) t en Mr. FOLKARD (the Deputy Chairman)—Equally titled with the previous toast to your warmest reception is the one which I have the honour to propose e y o n your con sideration; for of what avail would the anxiety, and capital of the D irectors . andPro p rietorG of our Raielrwga; have been, had they not selected for their en g ineer a .gen tlemen who stands pre-eminent in the scientific world for his professional talent, unwearied assiduity, and firmness of mind ? When this vast undertaking was submitted to the consideration of the public in juxta-position with other projected lines, it was pronounced by eminent en gineers of that day to be impracticable, nature presenting such obstacles on the line of country through which it wau to pass, which no human skill could surmount. The master mind of Mr. Rastrick repelled their assertions as fallacies—(Loud applause) —and he staked his pro fessional reputation, not only on the practicability, but on the successful completion of the London and Brighton direct line of railway.—(Cheers.) That he has most nobly carried out his superior scientific views, the occa sion of our a.ssemblinz at this festive board is an incon trov4.rtible demonstration.—(Flear.) When we consider that only three years back the Act for forming the iine ',2ived the P.val nn ,-1 have aw:Ly r - 3inco the in Lip i U thouJancis to witnes Stone of a structure, the nrst couloienced on the line to Lo )(ion, and which now forms one of the brightest ornaments of our town ; when we reflect that since that period moun tains have been tunnelled, embankments formed, and deep cuttings excavated, I am justified in stating that the time occupied in the execution of the stupendous works, appears brief indeed. Next in succession as de serving our approbation, are those professional gentle men who have had the honour to act under Mr. Rastrick in superintending the execution of the works ; several of them are well known to myself and fellow townsmen, and are justly esteemed for their professional talent and good citizenship.—(Cheers.) If we turn from the engineering department to the office of the Directory, we shall find that the services of Mr. Thomas Wood, the Secretarj, are deserving of our commendation ; for zeal, promp titude, and gentlemanly attention have marked his official career.—(Cheers.) If we come nearer home, and view the official appointments at our terminus and the Shore ham branch, we must perceive that Mr. Dean, and the gentlemen under him, are courteously active in promoting the comfort and accommodation of the public, —(Hear.) I am fully sensible that the observations of so humble an individual as myself must be but of little moment to a gentlemnn of such high standing in the paths of science as Mr. Rastrick ; but, Sir, I feel proud, as a tradesman of Brighton, at having the opportunity to express my honest opinion of his exalted merits, and the grateful sentiments of my fellow-townsmen, for having by his unparalleled skill and indefatigable labours completed a work which dawns with the brightest prospect of prosperity to our highly-favoured town. I feel assured, Gentlemen, that the warm reception you will give to the toast will abundantly compensate for the de ficiency of the proposer, and prove to the gentlemen who are the subjects of it how highly we esteem them for their talents, and for having completed so stupendous an undertaking.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. RASTRICK never in his life rose with prouder feel ings than he did on the present occasion, to return thanks for himself and those joined with him in the compli ment; and he believed they would all remember, as the proudest moment of their lives, the present occasion, when they had been invited to partake of such an entertainment by such an assembly. Few gen tlemen in the room could imagine the difficulties which the Directors and himself experienced, when they first accompanied , him over the ground which now forms the London and Brighton Railway. It took them four days to complete a mere inspection of the line ; they were frequently up to their knees in mud, then making their way through brushwood, or forcing their Ray through the forest. It was little more than three years since they first put spade in the ground ; and now they were met to celebrate the opening of the en tire line. Mr. Rastrick proceeded to contrast the state of engineering science at present with what it was at the time the Duke of Bridgewater constructed his cele brated canal. On its being suggested to carry a canal over a river by means of an embankment and aqueduct, only 30 feet high, one of the most scientific men of the day, who was consulted by the Noble Duke as to the practicability of the plan, replied, " I have heard of build ing castles in the air before, but I never till now was shown the place where they were to be built." The cut tings on the Brighton Railway were immense, many of them being 80 or 85 feet high, and one at Merstham 125 feet ; and the difference of level in one mile of ground, from the top of Copyhold Hill to the bottom of the valley of the Ouse was no less than 180 feet. From the first to the last he had had the support of the Directors, who in all his difficulties assisted him to the utmost extent of their power; and he was happy to state that the line was at this moment in excellent condition. There might be some little places where, by and bye, a little subsidence would occur, and a little reparation would he required ; but lie :aid that, taking the line from the Brighton terminus to its junction with the Croydon line, it was as perfect a work as almost any railway in exis tence. The distance from Brighton to London was by the railroad 501 miles ; and that distance they now ac complished in an hour and three quarters. Com paring this with the five and six hours of the stage coaches, it might be expected that the increased faciity of intercourse would cause a much larger namber of visitors to come to Brighton, and much benefit must arise in consequence. Some years ago a French steamer came over to Brighton with the Mayor of Dieppe, who was said to have remarked, on seeing the magnificence of this place, that it was a town of palaces. He (Mr. Rastrick) said it was the Queen of Watering Places ; and he believed it would now be visited ten times as much as ever it had been. Mr. Rastrick concluded by thanking the meeting for the compliment paid to himself and the officers of the com pany, and was loudly cheered as he resumed his seat. Song by Mr. Davidson—" My grandfather was a most wonderful man." ? ~. • t~,. Major ALLEN, after an eulogium on the late Lord- Lieutenant of the county, the Earl of Egremont, pro posed the health of his successor in that office, " the Duke of Richmond," who trod in the footsteps of the late Ear], and discharged the high and important duties of his situ ation with honour to himbelf and satisfaction to the county. His Grace was a promoter of the arts and sciences; and those gentlemen who had witnessed his exertions in the House of Lords as Chairman of the Committee which se cured to Brighton the advantages of this railroad, the opening of which they were commemorating that day, would give him the most unqualified praise. —(Dear.) After some further remarks on the excellence and vir tues of the Noble Duke's private character. Major Allen concluded by proposing the health of the " Lord Lieute nant of the county, the Duke of Richmond."—Three times three. Mr. GOODALL proposed " The High Sheriff of the county, Sir It. Hunter."—Drank with the three times three. Mr. G. DEMPSTER proposed " The Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese."—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN proposed " The health of the Earl of Surrey," a nobleman whose condescending kindness had endeared him to every inhabitant of Brighton who had the honour of being introduced to him, and who had sent a fine buck for their feast.—(Cheers, three times three.) Mr. C. WIGNEY proposed " Colonel Clarke and the officers of the Scots Greys, and thanks to them for the use of their band "—(Loud applause)—eulogizing their services at Waterloo, and their gentlemanly demeanour in private life. Major HOBART, in the name of Colonel Clarke and hie brother officers, returned thanks. It was always their study to make themselves agreeable wherever they went ; and they hoped the inhabitants had been pleased at their in troducing the band for their amusement. This railroad was a delightful thing for the soldier, who formerly h a d the services of his carger only, but could now leave Brighton, breakfast in London, spend the day with his friends, and return to his barracks in the evening. He remembered being with his regiment at Chichester ten years ago, when a railway from London to Brighton was talked of, but only to be laughed at; yet they had now met to celebrate the completion of this great undertaking. Mr. ISAACSON proposed " The health of the members for the eastern division of the county," which was loudly applauded, and drunk with three times three. Mr. DARBY, in returning thanks for himself and col league, said Mr. Fuller regretted that the death of a re lative prevented him from being present on this occasion. Some of his (Mr. Darby's) most pleasurable associations were connected with this town, and he was bound to it by ties of a different and more public nature; to which it would be improper to advert ; but he might venture to assure the meeting that he felt deeply inter ested in its welfare and permanent prosperity, and that the event which they had now met to celebrate, was the commencement of a new era of prosperity. Mr. W. FURNER proposed the health of the "Borough Members," in doing which he adverted to their services with regard to the Railway Act. Captain PECHELL returned thanks for himself and col league. It had been observed, he said, that there could no: be a greater satisfaction to man than the conquest of dif ficulties which at the outset appeared insurmountable. The Railway Directors had vanquished obstacles which were said at one time to be beyond their reach, and which one of the most eminent engineers in the country had de clared could not be overcome, except by the assistance of a miracle or some enormous power not yet known. The gallant Captain then spoke of the projected breakwater, which he said was the legitimate offspring of the Rail way, and remarked that if, by the completion of the Rouen Railway and the construction of a harbour at Brighton, the grand comirulication between the two capitals should be through Brighton, that town would probably attain a height of prosperity beyond the most sanguine expectations. Colonel VERNER remarked, that he was a Member of the House of Commons' Committee on the Brighton Railway Bills, and that a friend having requested his support for one of the competing lines, he replied that he could not pledge himself to any line, but that, after he had heard the evidence, he would give his vote for that line which appeared to him entitled on public grounds to the preference. He attended accordingly, and heard the whole of the evidence, not absenting him self a single day ; and he then voted in favour of the direct line.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. WIGNEY, who had sat down, rose again in obe- Cience to a call made upon him by some persons present. and briefly addressed the meeting, expressing his plea.. sure at seeing- so large a party present to celebrate the completion of a . work of such vast importance to the town of Brighton. Mr. HARMAN then said it fell to his lot to propose a toast in which he heartily concurred. In the first place, he was called upon to pay that respect which was due to their Honourable Chairman, and he was sure that there was no gentleman present who would not concur with him in paying that respect.- (Cheers.) With that toast he had the honour to couple " Prosperity to the town of Brighton," with which was necessarily connected the prosperity of that great undertaking in which he had the honour to be concerned. The late period of the evening prevented him from. going into the subject, but he would repeat'his conviction that the prosperity of the town and the pro'sperity of the railway were so intimately con nected, that one could not prosper without the other. The CHAIRMAN said nu one present lamented the absence of the High Constable more —than he did, especially as that absence was occasioned by illness; for the High Constable would, as a matter of course, have filled the Chair, and received the compliment so kindly paid to its present occupant. It was most gratifying to him (Mr. Creasy) to receive that compliment from one whom he had so long known and so much reason to respect as Mr. - Harman, who had now, he might say, become an inhabitant of Brighton. The inhabitants had endeavoured to give the Directors the warmest reception in their power, to show their feeilng with regard to the great benefit which they had conferred upon the town ; and although at the other end of the line, the Directors might have a more splendid banquet, they would never have a more hearty welceme.—(" Hear," from Mr. Harman, and cheers.) This Was the first time the inhabitants of the OL;ir Brighton had ever came forward to give a public dinner I Lord ELLENBOROUGH wished to know upon .-.nn or any party; an,,, no , or oall,l what authority t!!:: , 1.,!)r,1 Il t aceu,,oci opportunif-- ' rants of the East then thanked .ny of puttmg n} r.,,~ the toast fiyi• 1 1 e with :he ',owl of ant e.aaner in which they had received the pro position.—(Cheers.) After some other toasts, Mr. HARMAN proposed the health of the " Deputy-Chairman." Mr. FOLICARD proposed the last toast of the evening'. "The Ladies," after drinking which, the Chairman and the principal portion of the company took their departure IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. :Lord GI:AFFORD said that such a re i i at LA goi about. Lord ELLENBOROUGH asked if any Englishman had used the word torture, and accused any of the ser vants of the East India Company of executing it ? Lord CLIFFORD said that no English subject had used the word torture, but he understood that those per sons who were imprisoned by .the magistrates were tortured. Lord ELLENBOROUGH wished the Noble Lord to read the foreign word which he translated torture. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. IS4I HOUSE OF LORDS, Sept. 23. Their Lordships met to-day at Half-past Three o'Clock The Earl of CARLISLE took the oaths and his seat. Lord COTTENHAM gave two judgments in Scotch appeals ; after which their Lordships adjourned during pleasure. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'Clock. On the motion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE. certain correspondence of Lord John Russell and the Marquis of Normanby was ordered to be laid on the table. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition froth the Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, of Black House, in the county of Dublin, praying their Lordships to expel the Jesuits from the Kingdom. The Noble Lord stated that he could not support the prayer of the petition; indeed he felt bound to object to it. THE RAJA OF SATTARA. Lord BROUGHAM also presented a petition ema nating from a public meeting held in Dublin a few days ago, and signed by the Chairman, praying their Lord ships to take into consideration the case of the Raja of Sattara, for the purpose of using their influence in re storing to him his possessions. Earl RADNOR presented a petition from mer chants, bankers, and other inhabitants of Montreal, praying that a tax might be levied on the produce of the United States coming into Canada, for the benefit of the revenue of the United Kingdom, and that such produce should then be imported duty free into this country. ASSIGNEES IN BANKRUPTCY. The Earl of DEVON presented a petition from Mr. Adam Murray, the land agent, of Parliament-street, complaining of the loss he had incurred by the failure of Mr. Abbott, the official assignee to Messrs. Stephen son and Co. He believed if the creditors had exercised a due degree of vigilance, so large an amount would not have been suffered to remain in the hands of the official assignee. The subject, however, was worthy the imme diate and earnest consideration of their Lordships. Lord BROUGHAM entirely concurred in the observa tions of the Noble Earl, and he thought the statements he had made would be worthy of consideration in the event of any contemplated alteration in the law. His Noble Friend was quite correct as to the manner in which the official assignees were appointed ; but he be lieved the selection was made, in the first instance, by a Board composed of the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, the Governor and Deputy Governor of the East India. Company, some of the principal merchants of the City, and two or three Judges of the Bankruptcy Court. When the ap pointments were making, there were not less than 1,500 candidates for the different situations, and therefore so far as the field of choice was concerned it was ample enough. It only showed how futile, after all, the most strict and searching investigation into cha racter was, for, at the time of the appointment of Mr. Abbott, no one could receive a higher character for integrity and business habits. Notwithstand ing the objections of the petitioners, he would venture, however, to say, that there was no power under the New Bankruptcy Act which had given more satisfaction than the appointment of official assignees. It appeared to him that the allowing so large a balance to remain in the hands of the official assignee was extremely injudicious, and argued a great neglect of the interests of the creditors. Lord COTTENHAM had, previous to resigning the Seals, directed an inquiry to be made into the matter, with a view of preventing its recurrence, but had not yet received the report. The Earl of DUCIE presented petitions from the Dissenters of Ebenezer Chapel, London, Wootton-under- Edge, and other places, praying for a repeal of the Corn laws. The Noble Earl also presented a petition from the Ministers' Meeting at the Conference of Ministers held in Manchester, on the subject of the Corn-laws. He begged to call the attention of their Lordships to the petition, as he looked upon it as well worthy of their consi deration, not only on account of the number of signatures attached to it, upwards of six hundred, but that it also represented the feeling of upwards of 700 more ministers. This large body of Dissenters considered the Corn-laws religiously wrong, because they were opposed to the spirit of the Bible. The present petition was the first of a series of movements on the part of the country, which would either be for goodikor for evil, according to the mode in which they were met by the Executive Govern ment. The Noble Lord having read several extracts from the petition, observed that he could not but express the regret he felt at the postponing all inquiry into the dis tressed state of the country till the next year. It was an undoubted fact that hundreds and hundreds during the last year had fallen into an untimely grave in consequence of these laws, and he felt convinced that before they met again thousands would have been added to those hun dreds. He thought such a postponement a great re sponsibility for any Government to undertake, and one which he must confess he thought would not have been undertaken by a Conservative Government. He thought a fraud had been practised on the people by the Noble Earl who-had proposed the Amendment to the Address. If there was no fraud, he thought the Noble Duke had no confidence in the troops he led, and that mutual confidence was an open question iu the Cabinet.—(Hear, hear.) Lord COTTENHAM moved for certain returns rela tive to the sittings in the Court of Chancery.—Agreed to. Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that he should, on Monday next, submit a proposition to their Lordships, with a view to obtain their concurrence in an Adrress to the Crown, to call upon the Home Department, at the beginning of each Session, to lay before Parlia ment a statement of anything that might have been done during the interval between that and the previous Session upon the Report of Pri4bn Inspectors. CATHOLICS IN INDIA. _ _ _ Lord CLIFFORD (of Chudleigh) moved for copies of any official communications made toward s the en d o f th e year 1834, or the beginning of the year 1835, to the British Government .. at home by th e Governor-General of Hindostan, relative to a correspondence between the Governor-General and the Governor of Goa, respecting the residence and the exercise of the spiritual functions of any Roman Catholic missionaries in Hindostan; also a copy of any communications that may haVe_ been made in 1839 by the Governor of Madras to the British Government at home relative to two decrees, dated, the one December the 18th and the other a few days after. It was pos sible that objection might be made to the production of these papers, and that it might be termed merely a petty squabble between some Jesuits and Por: tuguese priests, who the more they quarrelled the better, as it might end in their being converted to the Protestant faith. He trusted, however, their Lordships would not take such a view of the mat ter, but would grant the papers he had moved for. The petition presented by his Noble and Learned Friend that night from a clergyman of the Established Church, called upon their Lordships to address her Majesty to drive the Jesuits from her kingdom; but the Rev. Gen tleman, when he used that phrase, evidently did not know its real meaning, for Dr. Johnson, when asked what a Jesuit was, replied, " a Jesuit is a man rather more clever than the person who calls him so."—(Cheers and a laugh.) In that sense his Rev. Friend, Dr. Kenny, was a Jesuit, and the Rev. Harcourt Lees certainly was not. Again, when the Jesuits were persecutedin France, and the French Ambassador recom mended the English Minister to pursue a similar course, and confiscate the property they held in the English funds, what was the reply of Lord North? " The Jesuits may be very bad men, but your Excellency must know, that if the Devil himself had money in the English funds St. Michael the Archangel would never take it from them so long as I am Minister of England."—(Hear.) The Noble Lord then read several portions of evi dence relative to the meaning of the term Jesuit, and observed that, having a knowledge of the peace able conduct of these men, he was not in the least surprised at finding, on his return to England, in a Calcutta Gazette of the 2d of Jan., 1833, that a meeting had taken place at Calcutta, at which re solutions had bsen passed to, the effect that the interests of the Catholic religion required that they should have secular Priests or Jesuits educated at Irish Colleges, and that means should be adopted to obtain so desirable an end. This was at a time when many Irish regiments were sta tioned in India, and when it was necessary that there should be priests there to teach them the way to salvation. An application had been made to the British Government here to allow English Missionaries to be substit u t e d for the ignorant Portuguese priests resident a t the time at Goa. The Governor of Goa, however, re fused to allow the charge to be made, and the first part of the correspondence he moved for related to that subject. It might be said that their Lordships had no means of knowing whether these persons were priests or not, further than that they called themselves so, but that, he contended, was no ground for believing them to be the persons they represented themselves. In some of the sects which dissented from the Church of England, there were persons callin g themselves Catholic priests, but he would put it to their Lordships to say whether they would assume them to be such on that declaration. The cases were precisely similar, so far as he could see. In December, 1834, a Magistrate of the province of Me duah took from the recognised Catholic clergymen—re cognised as such by the Vicar-Apostolic of Madras—their chapels, and imprisoned them because they refused to deliver up the keys of those churches which they had , been for six years in quiet and peaceable possession of: Nay more, if his information were correct, they were put to the torture, although the very fact of their having had possession f or a period of six years was a proof that they were entitl e d to the possession of these churches. . The consequenc e was, t h at 800,000 Ro ma n Catholics of India, and he believed the number was at present little short.of a million, were deprived of sixty or eighty chapels where they were in the habit of receiving religious in struction. These chapels were put into the hands of Por tuguese priests who taught the subjects of Great Britain that they owed no temporal allegiance to the-Queen of England, or no spiritual allegiance to the Pope. Was that justice ? Was it common sense ? Was that the w -TaelrV6h 0 a What he e adyi India. which d they wmset stated t n e t d t t o h e c a e l a c t u t ! ate re o t f h e t h e C a p t p o e li r c s s h o e f asked for. It had b een suggested to him that the matter eweasmpulnaiwnoerdtho)f- wasthe c t o h n is s , i t d h e a ra t t t i h o e n , o r Ca tholic chapels had b een imprisonedt was said, f ru P s a te r e l i s ai o n f e . n s t o had been put to torture—for refusing to give up posses sion of their chapels to Portuguese Princes who were not subjects of her Uajesty. Lord CLIFFORD, having read part of the letter, Lord ELLENBOROUGH said he should not follow the Noble Lord in his defence of the Jesuits ; neither should he follow him in his attack upon the Portuguese priests. Of them he knew nothing, except that they had conducted themselves peaceably in India, and had discharged their duties. It would, perhaps, be proper that he should state shortly the circumstances out of which the transactions arose that had been referred to by the Noble Lord. A dispute arose between the English Catholic clergymen and the Portuguese priesti as to certain temporal possessions. The Government refused to interfere in the quarrel ; and the parties ap pealed to the Civil Courts, which decided in fa vour of the Portuguese. But he (Lord. Ellen borough) was persuadd that no Magistrate in ad ministering the law could have inflicted torture upon any party. The charges of the Noble Lord oppo site were brought forward on anonymous authority, and it appeared to him (Lord Ellenborough) that his state ments were not only not well founded, but could not lead to any useful result. He had no objection to grant the papers moved for, and.. he should take care that they should be produced at the shortest possible' delay, in order that the Noble Lord might have an opportunity of offering any explanations he might wish upon the subject. After a few words from Lord CLIFFORD, the motion was agreed to. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition from Dissenters at Homerton, praying the House to hdopt, without delay, such measures as might tend to stop the advance of what they believed to be impending national misery and ruin. The Noble Marquis said he would take that opportunity to express his concern that her Majesty's Ministers were not prepared to enter upon the important inquiry to which the late amended ad dress to her Majesty in some degree pledged that House, because he was convinced that it would have been the duty of Parliament to have gone into such inquiry. Finding, however, that her Majesty's Ministers were not prepared to do so, it was not his intention to elicit then any discussion on the subject. He should there fore merely move that the petition be laid upon the table. The Duke of WELLINGTON said he thought if the Noble Lord had reflected for one moment, he must have seen that it was impossible at that time to enter into any inquiry of the nature alluded to between that time, and the probable termination of that Session of Parliament. Their Lordships than adjourned to Monday next. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.---If the journals in the interest of the newly installed Ministry are to be believed, the people are so intoxicated with joy at the change of Government, that they regard the visitation cf commercial distress and general starvation as very trifling matters, when compared with the vast advantages which cannot fail to accrue to them from having Sir Robert Peel substituted for Lord Melbourne. The meetings which have been held, or are about to be held, in the several districts of the metro polis, and in almost every provincial town, for the purpose of petitioning the Queen not to prorogue Par liament until it shall have taken the severe and widely spreading distress of the country into consideration, with a view to its relief, are not, it seems, to be re garded as militating against the gratifying fact, that the people are perfectly contented with their lot, or at least resigned to their fate, which they are quite willing to endure for the time required by the Premier and his colleagues, or for as much longer as they, in their wisdom and humanity, may deem fit, rather than the Govern ment should be embarrassed, or its Chief inconvenienced by being compelled to develop his plans, and, possi bly, estrange some of his colleagues by the announcement. Hence we are assured that these meetings are chiefly, if not altogether. composed of persons whose general ap pearance indicates that they form a portion of those classes of the community on whom the Corn-laws press with rigorous severity; on whose families, diminished wages and dear bread entail privation of necessary sus tenance, and the gradual sacrifice of those articles of furniture and clothing to which the poor generally cling with fond tenacity, and seldom part with until want compels that the less necessary chattels and gar ments be pawned or sold, to obtain food, which is absolutely essential to the preservation of life. No wonder that such sufferers from the operation of the " insane and cruel policy" which diminishes employ went, and consequently the wages of labour, while it raises the price of food, should attend, aye, and form, too, the principal portion of the audience at meetings convened for the purpose of conveying a knowledge of their sufferings to the Sovereign ; nor will it excite sur prise if their hands be " unwashed," and their dress " tattered !" STANDARD.—The speech of Lord Stanley upon his re-election will be read with pleasure and long remem bered. The Noble Lord's vindication of his consistency was triumphant. We have, however, reason to be a little jealous with a part of it. The Noble Lord quoted the testimony of M. Duvergier de Hauranue as to his, Lord Stanley's, Conservative opinions so long ago as 1826—we can quote a better testimony of an earlier date, the testimony of Lord Stanley him self, in his speech upon Mr. Hume's motion against the Irish Church in 1824 upon which speech we remarked at the time, that, whatever he might himself think of the matter, Mr. Stanley, as a scholar, gentleman, and Christian, was a Tory in principle, and that, either sooner or later, a Tory he must declare himself. The observation, as we remember, involved us in a short controversy with the Examiner. We are not quite sure whether the speech of 1824 referred to was not the firt speech delivered by Lord Stanley in Parliament, but it certainly was one of the first ; and the statesman who, at the end of seventeen years, is found acting the part of which his outset gave so clear a promise, must be convicted of inconsistency by some stronger evidence than his relation to this or that party. Lord Stanley's opinions, in 1824, were the opinions (we are not speaking of the practice) of the Tory party for the last half century—the opinions of the present Con servative party. It was merely an accident that sepa rated him from that party, and he is only taking his tural and proper position in its ranks, or rather among its leaders. The part of the Noble Lord's late speech that regards the Corn-law question is complete as an argument. But what of that ? What do the mill-owners of the League care for argument ? They can hire for a few shillings a-day their Aclands and their Smiths, with organs of speech, and that is quite sufficient for them. They who are too stupid or ignorant to comprehend a reasoning process themselves, will not appreciate the value of it addressed to others. Noise is all they want, and of that they can buy a cheap penny worth with Aclands and Smiths in the market. If de monstration could silence the mill- owners of the League and their hirelings, they would hare been .silent long since. 'We rejoice to say, however, that reasoning has not been lost upon the people. We rejoice, too, to think, that by the questions they have moved, the mill-owners have caused the development of some truths which they had no design to bring to light, but which must prove of immense value to the nation. COURIER.—The most substantial and precious ho mage which can be paid to the importance and influence of a public man, is perhaps not that which manifests itself to the number of his friends, in the deference with which they receive his opinions, or the warmth and intensity of the feelings of admiration and esteem with which they regard his character and abilities. These doubtlessly bespeak him a man of mark and consequence in the estimation of his party ; they evince confidence in his integrity, and a just appreciation of his intellectual pre-eminence, suffi ciently grateful we admit to those occupying a prominent place in public life, and attracting a corresponding por tion of public attention. But that which bears upon its front the fullest impress of sincerity, which most strongly and strikingly attests the weight of his influence, the vastness of his capacity, is what is wrung from oppo nents, from those " Who hate and dread him too" in the shape of spiteful vituperation and malignant calumnies ; and, if ever the unvarying continu ance of attacks originating in spleen, envenomed by party rancour, and prompted and pointed by perfidy and falsehood, bespoke the importance of two pudbli Lcer of these Sir gifted James Graham dis tinguished men have been assailed by every species of abuse, and with every kind of weapon ; imaginations a m d en s , ta i n t le is ) ~ in tFleire years cage fertile in calumny have exhaused themselves in pouring forth foul and opprobrious epithets against them. A large, though fortunately not a very influential, section of our Contemporaries seem to think their daily labours unfinished unless seasoned by an attack Of some kind or other on either of these two statesmen. And even when freed from the fear of retaliation, when unawed by the certainty of requital, Whig leaders have not scrupled to vent their puny scarcasms, and direct their small insinuations against those who had abandoned their company, as soon as they found they could not con tinue the alliance which early associations had formed, without compromising their characters and acting traitors to their convictions. SIIIPVING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 2 I.—The Amanda, from Nantes to this port, is totally wrecked near the former place. CAsmorowN, ISLE OF MAN, SEPT. 21.—The Lavinia, from Charleston to Whitchaven, has put into Derby Haven, with loss of topmasts, and 5 feet water in her hold, having struck or. South Island. VESSELS SPOKEN WITII.—The Naride, Gauclaloupe to Marseilles, 26th ult., lat. 37, lon. 44, by the Afrique, arrived at Havre. Thomas Dickinson, Marseilles to Calcutta, 26th July, lat. 4 S., lon. 26 ; Vigilant, of Li verpool, 29th, lat. 1 S., lon. 25, by the llelena, arrived at Cowes. Constellation, 18th inst., lat. 51, lon. 8, by the Highlander, arrived at Liverpool. FRIENDSHIP.—Thou may'st be sure that he that will in private tell thee thy faults is thy friend, for he ad ventures thy diilike, arid duth hazard thy hatred, for there are few men that can endure it ; every man, for the most part, delighting in s e lf-prais e , w hi c h i s one of the most universal follies that bewitcheth mankind.--Sir Walter Raleigh. PERAMBULATIONS ;i1 PARIS . No. TLe obj Pet of It'3~J: ‘,!5.1 Is tli s to give a ill, assing e seres at 'olllmenCe3l description of all that is to bt, iouni og,'•lal or !ntere,32,- ingis perate.buLtiag tais rich anti spacious metropolis, and such of its immediate environs as may nearly be said to form a part of it. It is intended to glance at all that may be desirable to be known, either by the perManent resident or the casual visitor. The sketches are intended to include the fashions—the promenades, with their splendid restaurants and elegant cafes—the saloons, and the various entertainments they afford — the manufactories and warehouses, with the infinite variety of specimens of art, taste, luxury, splendour, convenience, and comfort to which the industry of the capital contributes so largely. Our correspondent does not propose to confine himself to any formal order or arrangement, but to notice each object as it presents itself—to catch " The Cynthia of the minute" as it may chance to meet his eye--in the course of his discursive rambles ; selecting for description, how ever, only such as are most attractive from their taste, elegance, or importance. Paris, perhaps, above all the capitals of the world, affords the most ample materials for such a task, abounding, as it does beyond all places, in all that is captivating to the wealthy, and desirable for the less diluent. Our " peregrinator" commences with an account of a visit he lately had occasion to make to the beautiful Parc de St. James, at Neuilly :—" I reached this charming spot (he writes) by the humble, but most commodious, conveyance of the. omnibus—a vehicle which, en passant, demands a volume of-corn nuendation—starting from the Louvre, which may be called the heart of hearts' of the metropolis. The Parc de St. James has long been distinguished by the sobriquet of Les Folies, which is derived froni.the enor mous, and, as some persons have thought, the some what insane expenditure of M. de St. James in its crea tion. Be this, however, as it may, the outlay has pro duced the most delightful retreat that is to be found within the entire circle of the metropolitan suburbs, and one, indeed, rarely met with anywhere else. The mansion is a concentration of ad that can be de sired for comfort, luxury, and internal enjoyment. Its grounds comprise enchanting varieties of sweeping lawns, o'ershadowed by trees, the growth of ages, re freshed and tempered in the summer heats by a length ened piece of water, and varied with numerous fancy buildings and picturesque rocks, pierced with subterra nean passages, in which one may wander, secure from the overpowering heat of a too ardent sun. All the enjoyments here described came within the reach of not only private families, with there equipages and servants, but of the solitary bachelor ; who, taking with him but his portmanteau, or more convenient carpet bag, may come hither, and find an apartment to his tare, with his table spread, and every attendant convenience. The value of this lovely retreat to the invalid and convalescent is obvious. The first may be sure of finding every relief from their sufferings that air and repose can affird ; and the second, the means of promoting and enjoying the re turn of the first of blessings. Such is the refined taste and perfect judgment with which all the arrangements are framed, that every indulgence which a fortune of thousands a-year could supply, may be obtained at this establishment at a very economical rate. This mag nificent residence has yet been opened but a very few weeks, but it is already inhabited by numerous guests, and before the end of the season, it requires little of the spirit of prophecy to predict, that every chamber and nook within its walls will have its occupant. I must not, however, dwell too long on the seductions of this enchanting spot, but wend my way once more towards Paris. Alighting under the arcades of the Rue de Rivole I stroll up the Rue Castiglione. Here, willy nilly, I am involuntarily arrested at No. 8, by the svrtistical display in the magazines of M. Debraux d'Anglure, of numcrpus works in bronz r, which, in design and execution, are worthy to vie with the purest specimens handed down from antiquity. These gems of modern skill entirely supersede the too ordinary objects with which even our richest man sions have been incumbered. M. Debraux has given an immense impetus, and altogether a loftier direction, to this special branch of elegant domestic ornament. His establishment also comprises rich specimens of can delabra and branches for the chimney-piece ; as also larger works in bronze, adapted to occupy distinguished' places in the galleries of the cognoscenti. The dimi nutive bears of Fratin—the noble statuettes of Me rochetti—and the classic groups of Cleudion, receive equal honour at the hands of M. Debraux. He is now occupied not only upon new ornaments for chimneys and consoles, but upon the formation of figures of dogs —the' dumb best friend of man'—large as life, with representations of animals in combat with each other. A statuette at full length of Latour d'Auvergne, after • Marochetti, in which the countenance, the attitude, the costume, and the folds of the drapery, are replete with grace and expression, demands special note of parting commendation. Turning the corner into the Rue St. Honore, I could no: but pause before the well called Maison de Confiance,' Ste. Barbe, deriving its name and justly-earned reputation from its never devi ating, from the prices affixed to every article. These embrace every thing that can be required for the most fastieious toilet, from the most ordinary linen up to the finest lace, muslins, and the richest shawls of India or France, with sarsenets and Marcelines, for the highest parure, and splendid brocade for Court dresses. Here, likewise, are to be found the handsomest materials for every species of household linen and draperies. All articles, as I have said, are here found marked at the lowest charge their nature and cost in ma nufacturing will admit of. Crossing the Place Ven dome, and sauntering along the Rue de la Paix, could I resist the temptations exhibited at No. 24, in so many of the fanciful coquetteries of fashion— its beautifully open-worked silk stockings, of tSe finest texture, with ladies 4 tnittens, richly and elegantly wrought, supplying the place of gloves and jewels ; the beauty of which may be imagined, when we state that the price of them is no less than 20. a-pair. M. Sarazia's attentions to the ladies has not, however, led him to neglect the gentlemen, for here are matchless specimens of black and white silk stockings, delicately worked by the nand, and likewise those of net-work, so much in request during the present hot weather, I could not quit the establishment without pausing to admire the light and delicate net scarfs, of all sizes, worked in raies chinees, or in the fashionable style of the Scotch plaid, with squares of colours varied ad infinitum, producing a brilliant or more sober effect, according to their combinations. These are made to be worn, either on the promenade with other scarfs or shaws, or thrown lightly over the neck alone, when entering the ball-room or the saloon in low dresses. At this warehouse arc also delicate fiehus of net-work, in black or white silk, equally calculated for the saloon, sad almost rivalling tuose of lace. Here my stroll terminated for the day. In my next I pro pose to entertain you with the novelties produced by the return of the shooting season, and in particular with those of M. Reolf, tailor, No. 10 : Rue de Louvois, who, with a skid worthy the princely Schneider's, told of in the Arabian Nights, contrive, to unite fashion with taste and comfort. Before saying adieu, I must, however, bestow one word upon the latest novelty in the world of fashions, namely, the Collerette Gizelle, which, richly embroidered, and hemmed with abund ance of the finest lace, and cut in a style of the hap piest. grace, is the reigning mode of the day. —Galignani. " A LOUNGER." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. THE CESAREIVITCH STAKES. 9 to 1 agst Mr. Goodman's Orelia 10 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Welfare 12 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's The Squire , 16 to 1 agst Lord Palmerston 's IPona—taken 20 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau—taken. THE 'DERBY. Offers to take 5 to 1 about Scott's lot, and to lay 16 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's two; 18 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Attila, taken ; 25 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Phcenix, taken ; and 25 to 1 agst Mr. S co t t ' s Lord of Holderness, take- 30 to 1. The report that Lord Westminster had taken his horses from Scott's and placed them under the care of John Osborne, proves to be correct—they are now at Eaton. Those, therefore, who bet against or back Scott's lot, will bear in mind that Auckland and William de Fortibus are no longer members of it. The room yesterday was thinly attended, and betting flat in the extreme. WORCESTER, SEPT. 20.--Our market on Sattluderidrtnhagisyas.,d,w.,a-nya's,.. HOP INTELLIGENCE. supplied with 106 pockets of the new growth of hops, ° l .,' owing the extravagant rates demanded by the planters, onir ro ' in '' pockets of them were sold ; the prices obtained 110 s. to 61. per cwt. At our great annual fair, he a further supply of about 500 pockets were pitched f i o he _ , I ' g d the which 447 pockets, besides 68 of old hops, prices quoted below, contrary to general ex w pe e t c r h t e a e t v iii e L; p b l e e i s ng was at length freely given. The average quality considered to be very good, though therewoe_fdriespaosfeedwooff. a very The ordinary character, which were not easily planters made great complaints of the and the general unevenness of the crop, hops coming many o d f ow then ligh thops being full ripe, whilst others in th i e red , in garden are still quite picking them. The green, so that great care is required I b 3 a: s : . ers. Present cur per cwt. ; I 839's, duty is now doing at 17,0001 . with 40s. to 705., choice, 75 8 . ; 7:s. to 953., choice, 105 s. ; It 6 rency : —lB4l's, 88s. to 12bs_., 3 p s o , i f c e e w , 18.3 ' 6's, 355. to 565., choice, 60s. OUTRAGE ON LORD HowicK.—Mr. Liddle, the publican charged with attempting to shoot Lord Howick. un& of tu rwent another exam ination on Tuesda y , and no new evi ariimyimportance having been adiluced, the Magistrwes g d av w i n g decision :—That having tak en i nto anxious lave ece the consideration all the circumstances of the case, they were unanimously of opinion that the charge of felony was not satin. tactorily borne out by the evidence , while they were equally agreed that the . prisoner had been proved guilty of a most abominahle and outrageous assault, for which the Bench were somewhat disposed to send him to take his trial at the Quarter Sessions. However, taking into consideration the serious his pecuniarybad lconoss the tt he prisoner Magistrateshati thoughtsustai sustained the d in demandsconsequence of ti c e would he answered by imp os i ng on him afineof s of I.,jaunsd calling on him to enter into recognizances, himself in 50/ and two sureties in 25/. each, th at he should keep the p e ac e . for wastwelv ische mo a nths. Good s ecur i ty was given, ' and the prisoner drged. The ATew York Mirror says that a Y an ke e down in the Bay St a t e h as i nvented a kind of musical clock, and that he has it attached to a cradle hung on pivots. The pendulum rocks the cradle, and the musical department sings the baby to sleep. ('OURT OF COMMON COUNCI r • Court was held for the dispatch 8 - 1 TiiP Court ttas Duitier , • - of Altlerrnfa as wall ac C•latiii.a •Couticilturn, in' '•'' the ititenti,a to present the li ce !0:11 of the City to A 'll;ir , Robert Stopford and Sir Charles Napier, agyeeably ti , .tro resolution cf the Court, for their important services in S) 'l6 THE CORN-LAWS. Mr. STACY gave notice of a motion, , 6 That an Addresil. presented to her Majesty not to prorogue Parliament until; subject relative to the present Import duties, and- caP ecl o.... those relating to corn, shall have received considerata* (Loud cries of "Oh, oh !" and " Hear, hear.") PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY TO Al; VIRAL SIR R. STOPFORD AND COMMODORE• SIR CIO" ' NAPIER. Sir J. SHAW, the Chamberlain of the City of Leril: having sworn in the two Gallant Officers, then addressed miral Sir Robert Stopford in the following words : 1 " Sir Robert Stopford— After a life spent in the servi e your country. in various parts of the world during the late you were selected at a critical moment of our affairs in the 7 to the command in the Mediterranean. Diplomacy havingla..l7, in a space of time almost incredible the whole c oast of was in your possession. Acre, the scene of the glories oi n lion-hearted Richard, and the not less chivalric and undau ar o" Sir Sidney Smith, will now have a third hero to graceth r si c sociation in the name of Stopford. For these service, Robert you have again received the thanks of both Hot'` , s d Parliament, and the thanks, with the freedom, of the London.—(Loud cheers.) alf Sir R. STOPFORD addressed the Court as follows:" .A Lord and Gentlamen—l receive with great gra tification '":. tif pride the high honour of becoming a freeman of th e fir s ' y a l t of the first country in the world, for services rendered to,,A, country. I was placed in a situation of much doubt anVri, cult) , in commencing the operations upon the coast of but the unabating vigour and skill of the officers and a ll under m command, both by sea and land, soon remove' d doubts a n d apprehensions.—(Cheers.) That * the peat „, Europe has been maintained through the means of our btu To appears to be an undoubted fact, and one which casts Ju r• than usual interest upon the events which have been so o cn) o ar ably acknowledged by those whom I may have now the b°' of calling my brother citizens of the city of London." t ip` SirJ., SHAW addressed Commodore Napier in the f olio words :—" Sir Charles Napier—Tke character of Cali, pt Napier, as a brave energetic officer, evinced on a vane o occasions in different parts of the world, gave assurance trot people of England of the wisdom of his appointment to a ?? , ., 4e t pennant in the Mediterranean, as second in comman d :4o the gallant veteran Sir Robert Stopford. The brilliant of the British navy in reducing the whole coast:l.nd .Ir,' • 0 holds of Syria, with almost miraculons rapidity, isjl l _ lt ' s ql;esa history among our most splendid achievements. 1„„, 0 . g torlD operations the name of Napier s tood p rom inent. " e and capture of Sidon, briskly followed up by the defeat of a numerous Egyptian army by a handful 'in s'",;rit arid marines and Turkish soldiers, directed by the 1) 01 . ,, (1 :!,'ves of Commodore Napier in person, are exploits in tat e "' which will long be remembered by his countrymen -with aVai, ration. Foi there services, Sir Charles, yot, havece it l,Ore thanks of both Houses of Parliament, and the thanks, rpP is freeaom, of the city of London • and you will izer':oa wish you health and length of days to enjoy the bon oe " - - have so nobly won. leaf r Sir C. NAPIER—My Lord and Gentlemen, I be l os return you my most cordial thanks for the high bott,:eat, have done me in presenting me with the freedom of Pl„j o yea city, and to assure you, that if ever again I should be ou'r ;le in the service of my country, I shall use every exertion to er , serve the acknowledgments which I have received. jpl} forming the duties allotted to me, it happened that I wa s ri'll in an unusual command, considering the services in vr•h- „ -c ;Jel have been engaged ; but I believe that we did our duty satisfaction of the country and of the allies : and I beg,l rif more, that you will, my Lord and Gentlemen, accept 0 most heartfelt thanks.—(Loud cheers.) 0 The two gallant officers then took possession of th e b` in which their freedoms were contained, and, h° w i n ,tost the Court, retired amidst great applause. The "" Io which are made of heart and oak, represented the fortres,3.., which such tremendous destruction was committed by th e fish guns. i 1' tP r NON-ATTENDANCE OF ALDERMEN AT THE CENTRAL - NAL COURT. op 1 Mr. ANDERTON gave notice of a motion on the non-s.--, ance of Aldermen, proposing that it be referred to the &J c t ..' and Clerks' Committee to examine such complaint, and the quisite remedy. ROYAL EXCHANGE. Mr. COPE, the Chairman of the Royal Exchange C° I . °14 :01 tee, brought up the Report of the Committee on the sube, the contract entered into for the reb u ildi n g, by which 1 . 1._ bf pears that of the fourteen builders who had been written n°,bs their direction for tenders for building the New Exchang e ', of proposal of Mr. Th omas J ac k son , o f Pi m li co , at tbV 0 ; 4 4 115,9001., had heen accepted ; and that they had further atio to accept a transfer of 16,6661. 13s. 4d. Three per Cent* f t ys art Annuities, into the names of two trustees on the p 0 Corporation, and two on the part of the Mercers' CotapoY' security for the due execution of the said work. The latter part of the Report referred to the due prep s 1: tion of the necessary deeds of trust forithe execution of the e( , tract, and the requisite annexing of the seal of the Corpora ; thereto ; together with a specification of the funds at the ` , f , posal of the Committee, for the purposes of the trust, and:' gesting measures for raising any further monies that migh t required. The Report, which apparently gave great satisfaction , unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be printed. THE ROOF OF THE GUILDHALL. h o a n ir t i h n e an re o f f er th en e c C e i r t e y sp L ec a t n i ds ng tion of the Gothic character of the roof of Guildhall. It!'",. A, the the Clerk of the Works had inspected the roof of 'Dur o r bro l U i g n itt ß u ß P lD th G e E' R t e h p e or C t and found that the timber was perfectly sound; that thee. ,; pense of substituting a Gothic roof would amount to I s t ` - .. 0 ,l(1 and that the Committee recommended that such mcpen w' not be incurred.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") • h reet/ 3 ; • f o n t b.- Ctlioer,f4t.t°: kiit' The CHAIRMAN also brought up a Report, w hie .u„, Grf mended an improvement of the passage leading 700/ Pt which the Clerk of the Works was of opinion it Co , ' .0 7,;+' Hall to the New Council Chamber, at an expense of , i ~,,,,, complished. The advantage of the alteration suggested w''' mitted by all who had seen the plans. 3'i After a short conversation, the Repo r t was agreed to, the recommendation was ordered to be cars ied in,p o effec t " SEPULTURE IN THE CITY OF LONDAW, C' t° The Report from the same Committee upon. the refer t d ,,o, examine into the means o f sepulture i n the: Citof ''' ° t - u the stated, that the most minute i nqu i r i es h a d ' q • . en mane ! 3 - t lat subject, and the Committ ee were unaniiroy „i v of opini 3P ..i 3 i $, the Court should petition Parliame n t tx, pro hibit the bursa bodies within the City.—( Hear, hear., ) 9b° burials .1(I ' Mr. ANDERTON said, it was high, t i me that but, d , i i • be prohibited within the City. The styenes, in fact, wh ich 11 08 took place in the churchyards wit,/,in the City were rev ° s 0 0 in the extreme.—( Hear.) Tbs".; adherence to the old sY ~,t , was strangely enough proved I .sy the fact that in am:Bel l :ai d yards furnaces were prepare d for burning the old cow a„ ,i:r the bones they contained.. —(Expressions of surprise, 43 „ 1•5 . 4 4 gust.) lie was happy to find that the Bishop of 1.0 000- 4 0 ,- directed his attention to the subject, and he felt COn 0 4 from the general feeling expressed, that all that was tle`i i eir to accomplish the great object of burying the dead r' t . -- ,ti)f i tance from the populous City of London was the pre` ,ol ' • of a petition to Parli ament .- -(Cheers. ) It. i• P A Mr. TAYLOR much approved of the Re%)ort. i '3 a OP rish in which he resided the gravedigger h a d l ate ly beep bo o o by the fall of a pile of corns. He also found ' oy the Palls"orasol that the graves were o r d ere d to b e dug An a very " bd.' , depth, in order, of course, that the gre ~:ter number of .. 5 0 might be deposited in them. In fact tf. L e top of a grave sir i r dfs far from the bottom as a two pair of_ stairs window w as Oil the ground. In no grea t c i ty in. f a rie world was such , 5 , ° t 0 t b ( 1, i 1 all•lwed as sepulture within its precincts .—( Loud 'r esented in the ear ly part of the day t ,,, " Hear, hear.") a h x e e a s r.; Gallant Officers were grer.tly ads aired. They were We . tr ot Menrs. Alston and Hall AM. gOl , 'smiths, of Bishopsglit e ..„ s o le, Within, and were said 'to be (each of them) a correct , o r,l r Ow sentation of Acre, fre.,m the Admiralty ground plan by •P : 3 , - , • ,D $ —the frosted silvet , representing; the sea, and the brooP ri r e al land side. On ene side are the City Arms in retie° , r it 0 4 chased; on th - e. other the arirss of the officers to whon' - presented. ._._._,,.........---...--•••••-•-• . •—•••rs-- - ,-- - l el2l ir PLATE.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS rii . l i tl :tll facturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London, oPP °9 l•O 7 '; Bank of England. . The best 'wrought FIDDLE PAT ' , r , " SILVER SPOONS and FORKS, at 7s. 2d. per ouW":• 0 4 followin g are t h e we i ghts r ecommended, but the ar ticle be Lad lighter or heavier at tb.e same price per ounce. x, f• i l • az. a ~ 1 „ 5 i 12 Fido '3O e 4 le Pattern Sil ver T a b le Spoons 7 x... 1 i , 9 12 ditto 1? d.no Dess art ditto 20 7 2** jo P 2•• 12 Tab .e Forks 3O 7 •• 7 ditto De, sert ditto '2O 7 " X!: 2 ditto Gravy Spoons IS 7 ' 2 •• 5 J,' a 1 ditto &nip Ladle ill 7 2 ."• si? i 4 ditt o `. sauce ditto I.tto Tialt Spoons (gilt strong). ..... .., ....... • 9 I L : 9 ' 1 ditto Fish Slice -• ......... •••• ..... 5 1 1,, tr IP , 7 12 ••• j . 6 , 12 ditto Tea Spoons ..19 7 •8 •" 0 '-il i*pair ditto Sugar Tongs (stroll?' ; ........... to ti: N. B A Price Current, stamped as a I Sf e . ............. , by drawings, and containing every inf Jrmatiiin . r illasvelativ e ;lir o ''' B purchase of silver or Sheffield plate,: may be had on s PE i se' l tion, or will be sent into the coma& y, free of postage, to a paid letter. ' `''` - -- / t- n , 4 ' - - PAPIER MACHF TEL TRAYS, 5 " -. itiP SET, of FULL-SIZED GO' f HIC SHAYS' 49. p ia riot- London Table K n i ves , w i t ) , ivory handles, L itn et4F dozen ; Brass Pol e s f or Wi n d ow 'Curtains, 1i inch f e udvfl Is. 3d. per foot ; 2 i nc h es , Is. m. per foot ; bronzed 4 feet Lug, Ps. WAl l' SUPERIOR LONDON TABLE CUTLERY F p RANTED.—TABLE KNI %TES, w ith Ivory Handless jo per 4pz en ; Dessert Knives, Ils. ; Carvers, 44. 6d. pal s , ; Table Knives, with white bone handles , Ss. St per 41%.°70 urns , 4 quarts, 275. ; new' s h a pes, 395. ; Papier Macho ~.4., tray sd. ; Carvorr , Ss. per pair ; Globe-shape Tot c ontaining the p r i ces , with the set of full sized. Catawith Engravings of every IroninonPA , shape, 50 s • Dess s e , r g t, ot 6 h s itl . Article necessary to the furnishing of a house of any 040' per cent. under any other old-established house, to be ~ gratis (post free). ... o at . RIPPON and BURTON, 12, IV ell. .- sw .. cet, Oxford-s.i ! Established 1821). 1"-,0 London: Printed and Published by MURDO No. 112, Strand, at The Sun. Office, N 0,112 '- the county of Middl esex, Friday, ...---- • ::, : ict of t o b d, ei r. , .i .: l wa ll, a . ... 0 o r 1 4 oho , ::.:, G eorge,' goo I , r it , i k.,.' a Je4 I ; . " 41. ... EVENING SUN B TIIS. On the 18th inst., at Blickling Lodge, N or f o lk, the I" °f John T. Mott, Esq., of a daughter. ' on the 21st i ns t., at P eckham, Mrs. W. Holderness , of t 561/ On the 22d in s t., at Watkins -terrace, Mrs. A. Legg ? '''' D a daughter., On the 22d inst., at Maida,vale the wife of F. ft°ge Esq., of twi n b oys. , On the 22d inst., at Eri-tol, the lady of the Rev . J ' 14' Woodwa r d. o f a daughter On the 22a i nst. o , ' at 'Wandsworth, Mrs. George Tal ll33l ' a son, still h orn. On the 22d i nst., the wife of I Esq. e 0'0. 9 , Turnh am - green, of a son. H. T. eig On the 23d inst., a t Cl arence-p l ace, Clapham-road' Mrs' Thomas Lambe: t, of a son. On the 2:3(1 iiist., at St. James's-place, Mrs. John 11 ' 111al° of a son. D. On the 21 s t i nst., at Swans ß ea RIR ~ Charles William, eldest of R. J. Nevin, Esq., of Llawenneek-park, Carmarthe shir 3, to Jan e , youngest daughter of D. Davies, Esq., of Sv.ar" ohn On th.! 21st inst., at W J inte Waltham, the Rev' D o yy le, f ' ( Routh, t o F rances, the eldest daughter of the Rev. a 1- Waltha m -pl ace , Berksh re , DIED. On the 20th inst., at Paington, Devon, Anne, r elict° • f a t ri b late Rev. J. E. Howell, Vicar of St. Gluvins. Cornea-, Canon of t)-,e Cathedral Church of St. Peter's, Exet er ' d e n, ° C On the 21st inst., in Bi rm i ng h am, M r. James 13" Northr.mpte-squar, Londn. Oil the 213 n t inst., e o George Woodruffe, e ldest son of George Stonhouse Griffith, Esq., of Burton -crescent, aged 4. or On the 22d inst., at Guildford, William Sells, r-- 41 Kingston-on-Thames. j o yd On the 22d inst., J o h n S anderson, Esq., 6 f t h e Old and Tottenham. ...