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

EVENING SUN FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. - - THE HAGUE, SEPT. s.—The Members of the First Chamber of the States-General are summoned for Tues day, the 14th of September instant. TEE HAGUE, SEPT. 6.—The Utricht Courant has the following article :—" It is perhaps not generally known how soon, probably this very year, it will be possible to perform the voyage to our West India colonies and back very speedily and regularly. A Company, .called the Royal Mail Steam Company for the West Indies, has been formed in England, which has contracted with th . e Government orthe Netherlands to include Surinam in its arrangements. In September this year, six or more fine steamboats will be sent from Dartmouth to the several destinations; towards the middle of October three steamers will be ready at Barbadoes, to wait for the Eng lish mail, and within six hours after its arrival a steamer will be despatched. o, Demerara, and Surinam, a second to Antig homas, and the third to St. Lucia and the nort . The steamers stop two or three days at P , and return by way of De merara, &c. Thus it wil e possible to come from Para maribo by way of Barbadoes, Dartmouth, and London to Rottterdam, in three weeks ti or forty or fifty pounds sterling, and this twice in t th." TEE HAGUE, SEPT. 5.—A ;`'valuable present from the King of the French to the ' incr of the Netherlands tri,ived here to-day ;itis a porcelain table of the cele brated manufactory of Scores, adorned with a most beau tiful painting by one of the first masters. His Excellency Baron Verstolk has declined the 3,000 florins per annum allotted to him as table-money. The Handtlithd says—" We were greatly surprised to learn from the Nimeguen Courant, the falsehood of the report of the arrival of the Countess of Outremont in this country. Scarcely four-and-twenty hours had elapsed after the spreading of the report, when we were over whelmed with letters from different parts of the kingdom, all representing in different degrees the bad impression which the supposed arrival of the Countess of Nassau had made on the public. We confess that we believed that the ill-feelings - caused by the marriage were more allayed than they really are, the excitement and aversion which are man i fest in all the communications which we have.e received are vrry great, and would doubtless have dto severe consequences if the plan of a journey to Holland had really b een carr i e d i nto effect. All those who, like us, desire the welfare of the House of Orange, and of the country, will be convinced that the interest of both would have been wantonly endangered if the report in question had proved true. APELDOORN, SEPT. 2.—Though his Majesty the Count of Nassau will certainly not come to the Loo this autumn, yet his Majesty seems to have an intention to reside there occasionally, for a pension has been lately granted to the former physician of his Majesty's house-. hold, on the condition that he shall reside at Apeldoorn, or the Loo, to attend the household in case of his Ma jesty's arrival at the Loo. The Prussian State Gazette has the following news from St. Petersburgh :—" In the night of the 22d of this month the great hall of St. George, in the imperial.win ter palace (which was rebuilt a year and a half ago), fell down, and in its fall totally destroyed the valuable paintings, statues, vases, &c. The damage i s es ti ma t e d at several millions of roubles ; happily no lives were lost. It seems that the other parts of the palace received no injury. The Chapter of the Russian order had met only the day before in the same hall. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 5.—A letter from Dusseldorf of the Ist instant, announces that the whole section of the iron railroad from that town to Elberfeld was opened on that day, amidst the rejoicing of an immense multitude of spectators. It seems that it is intended to open the Session of the Chamber a month earlier than usual. They will meet, it is said, about the middle of October, but it does not appear yet decided whether the King will open the Session in person. BRUSSELS, SErr. 6.—Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Co burg, accompanied by the young prince his son, and an Aid-de-camp, arrived at Leige on the 4th instant from Cologne, on his way to Compiegne. The Echo du Luxembourg says, " The continued fine weather has dispelled all apprehension respecting the harvest. All the corn isthoused. The quantity is abundant, and the quality not at all inferior to that of last year. We are convinced that unless exportation to a great ex tent should take place, the price of corn will fall consi derably. At the last market at Arlen, wheat of last year's crop was sold at only 17 francs per hestelite. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 6. Aetna) Dcrb Money. BiPs. t, 2% per Cent 51% 52 Jitto, ditto 5 percent Amer t Srndic, 4% per cent 91%. 52 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 7SY, 75% Commercial Company, 4 , per cent 155% '56 Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per teat. ...... Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97% 98 Exchange on London, O ne month l2 0 . 9 t Two months ..... .. . Hamburgh, One month 35 75 Two months 35 50 • Dutch Papers, Sept. 7. BELGIAN b UNDs—Baussims, SEPT. 7 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant........... Loan of Thirty . iilli ons, 4 per Cent. 93 --------- 3 per Cent ---- Thirty.seven------- ... 7154 Loan of City, P:32, 4 per ( Cent ) lOl% . 90% Socletyot Commerce, -13.iper Cent 93% Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............. National Saciety. . Exchange on Londtm (sho:1) —Brussels Papers, Sept. 7. AUSTRIAN FUNDS...NI/MIA, AuG. 33. five per Ce4ta. foletalliques Four per Cents. 07% 1 jun pr Cents. Bak blirros 1570 —4l l m:eine &flung, Sept. 4, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE: (RECEIVED THIS DA ROCHESTER AND CHAT AM RACES, CONCLUDED.—WEDNESDAY. The Garrison Plate of 301., once round, was won in two heats by Mr. Knight's Meg Marrilies, aged, 10st 121bs, (Captain Williams), beating Mr. Morritt's Cerito, 6 yrs, lOst, and Mr. Heriot's Long Tom, aged, iOst 71b, by a length. The West Kent Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h ft, and 5 only if declared, twice round. (9 Subs, 6 declared). Mr. Dockeray's Lyster, 5 yrs, 7st I llb walked over. The Gold Cup Stakes of 5 SOTS. each, with 40 added ; the second to save his stake, and the winner to be sold for 2001. Two mile heats. (7 Subs.) Mr.Kingsley'sJessica, 3 yrs, ist llb (Bartholomew) 1 1 Mr. Stirling's The Pocket Viper, 3 yrs, 7st 41b ... 4 0 Mr. Booth's Colchicum, 5 yrs, 9st 21b Mr. Franklyn's Diplomatist, 4 yrs, Bst 71b 3 dr Won easily. The Hunters' Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 40 added, list each ; winners once, 71bs ; twice, 101bs extra. Heats twice round and dis. over four hurdles. The winner to be sold for 1201. (6 Subs.) Mr. Wesley's White Stockings, aged (Carlin) 1 1 Mr. Smith r s Little Robert, aged 2 2 Mr. Wallis' The Orphan, 6 yrs .. 3 3 Three others started. Won easy by three lengths. RADCLIFFE BRIDGE RACES.-(CONCLUDED.) TUESDAY. The IrwiJi Purse of 201. added tO a Handicap of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft. Heats, thrice round a Cis. Mr. Clarke's the Marquis, 4 yrs (Clarke) 1 1 Mr. Robinson's Lady Mary, 3 yrs _ - Won easy. The Hurdle Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 20 added ; the second saves his stake ; 3 yrs, 9st ; 4 yrs, lOst 71b ; 5 yrs, llst 41b ; 6 yrs and aged, 12st. Winners of one hurdle race, 7lbs ; of two or more, 101bs extra ; half bred horses allowed 7lbs. Heats, one mile and three quarters, over six leaps. Gents. riders. (4 Subs.) Mr. Hollinshead's Little Peter, aged 2 3 1 1 Mr. John son ' s b g b y Sandbeck, 6 yrs 0 1 2 2 Mr. Kay's Doctor, 6 yrs 1 2 3 3 A good race. NORFOLK AND NORWICH RACES—IVEDNDSDAY. The Light Weight Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 50 added. Heats, once round and a dis. (5 Subs.) Mr. Smith's Daniel, aged, Bst 71b ...(Welhani) 5 1 1 Mr. liorner's Blanche, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b ao•ed Bst 31b 1 2 2 M r . Sare's on, 2 3 3 dr. yrs, sst 41b Won easy. The Norf o lk and Norwich Stakes of 25 sovs. , and 5 o n l y if d ec l ared, with 100 added. each, °ace r each, ftd and a di s . Mr. Graville's Rory O'More, 5 yrs, Bst 71b ...(Nat) 1 Mr. Pettit's E. 0. 3 yrs, ist 21b 2 Mr. Negus' Portsoken, 3 yrs, Gst 71b Won cleverly. The Handica2 of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added, twice round and a'vlks., was won in two heats by Mr. Abel's Eolian, 3 yrs (Fettit), beating Mr. Coleman's Day Star, aged, and two others. " CHEADLE (STAFF) RACES: 11174DAY:—The Morland Stakes, thrice round and a dis.; mere won in two heats; by Mr. T4lor's f by Ish mael, out of Charity; the Hunters' Stakes by Mr. Lowe's Isabella ; and the Hack Stakes by Mr. James's Lans quenet. TUESDAY.—The Innkeepers' Plate was won by Mr. Walmsley's Comical John; and the Hurdle Race by Mr. Root's John Bull. WARWICK RACES.—WEDNESDAY (CONCLUDED). The Hunters' Stakes of 10 sovs. each. Heats two miles. (5 Subs.) Hon. Mr. Ongley's Humility, 3 yrs, Bst 71b. Mr. G. Cowley's Spangle, 6 yrs, llst 916 2 dr Won in a canter. GREENWICH REGATTA. The annual Regatta for a coat and badge and other prizes came off, opposite the town, on Monday, at twelve o'clock. James Sims (red), Joseph Cob. (pink), and Henry Lygo (light blue), started for the first heat, which was won by Sims. James Curd (dark blue), Richard Roadway (green), and Richard Webb (yellow), con tested the second heat, of which Webb was the winner. Two more heats were contested by the whole of the men, and about six o'clock Cob and Webb started for the coat and badge. A very close heat terminated in favour of ptnlc by a few boats' lengths. Webb, the second man, received 31., and the others proportionate amounts. On Tuesday the whole party paraded the town in flies, the utmost good humour prevailing amongst the party. LANCASTER AND PRESTON RAILWAY.— W e believe we are right in saying, that this is the best tnanaged railway (as respects the cost of working) in the kingdom. By the last official statement, it is shown that the total cost, including Government duty, is only 25 per cent. upon the receipts.—Lancaster Guardian. EMIGRATION.--There arc three ships at Loch tnaddy, North Uist, taking in emigrants from the neigh bouring parishes of Harris and South Uist, for Cape Breton. The Earl of Dunmore gives one pound sterling a-116d to the most destitute families from hisproperty.- -Edinburgh Advertiser. COURT CIRCULAR. The Marquis of Exeter arrived at Claremont park at twelve o'clock yesterday frorn town, and had an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and also of the Queen. The Earl of Rosslyn, the Earl of Uxbridge, and the Earl Delawarre, arrived at Claremont soon after the Noble Marquis, and had audiences of her Ma jesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. In the forenoon Prince Albert went out shoot ing in the Park. The Earl of Listowel and Mr. George Edward Anson rode in the Park yesterday morning. His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthall, attended by the Rev. J. R. Wood, left Marlborough House, Pall-mall, soon after eight o'clock yesterday morning, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Sudbury Hall. His Serene Highness travelled by the London and Birmingham railway. A meeting was held yesterday at the residence of Sir Robert Peel, in Whitehall-gardens, which was attended by Earl de Grey, Lord Eliot, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, and Sir Henry Hardinge. Sir Robert attended at the Trea sury in the afternoon, accompanied by Sir Thomas Fremantle. Dr. Nichol!, M.P., had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday afternoon, at his resi dence in Whitehall-gardens. The Marquis of Downshire, the Right Hon. J. W. Croker, and Colonel Darner, had inter views with Sir James Graham yesterday, at the Home-office. Sir Henry Bouverie had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial•office. Mr. C. R. Pemberton has been appointed Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. _ _ Tile Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday afternoon for Cambridge. Before leaving town the Right Hon. Gentleman had an interview with Sir Robert Peel. The Marquis of Londonderry left town on Tuesday. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne left town yesterday afternoon for their seat, Bo wood Park, Wilts. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. DEPARTURES. Sir George and LaTi?(TeOZ . from York -street, Portman-square ' for Southsea ; Mr. and Mr s . P r id eaux Brune and family, from their house in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, for Ramsgate ; Mrs. and Miss Cowell, from Great Cumberland-street, for Salisbury ; Mrs. and Miss Wingfield, for Baden ; Mr. and Mrs. Norton, from Harley-street, for Elton Manor, Nottinghamshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Goddard, f rom t h e B ur li ngton Hotel for Swindon House ; Captain John C. Vivian, M.P., and Lady, from the Waterloo Hotel, for Hampton Court ; John Harford, Esq., M.P., from ditto ; the Duke d'Al bufera and suite, from the Brunswick Hotel, for Paris ; Viscountess Stuart, from ditto, for Norfolk ; Sir Wm. and Lady Lawson and family, from ditto, for Brussels ; Edward Heneage, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. Heneage, from ditto, for Lincoln ; Colonel Conolly, M.P., from ditto, for Ireland ; H. Eaton, Esq., M.l'., and Mrs. Eaton, from ditto ; Count and Countess Chabular, from ditto, for Paris ; H. Dover, Esq., from ditto, for Norfolk ; B. Sanderson, Esq., M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Sanderson, from Belgrave-square, for Gunton Park, Norfolk. ARRIVALS. Lady Charles Bentinck and family, from a tour ; John Lloyd Clayton, Esq., in Portman-square, from a tour ; Mrs. and Miss Ravenscroft, from Miss Cotton's, Lud grove Manor House ; Rev. Hugh Willoughby, at the Bath Hotel, from Baconsfield. THE HON. MRS. NORTON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. "Whispers are afloat respecting the intention of the Hon. Mrs. Norton to adopt the stage as a profession, and make her debut at Covent-garden." Sir—My attention has been called to the above para graph, copied from your pap er o f M on d ay, t h e su b stance of which has, I am told, already appeared in forms more or less intelligible, and the report contained in which is a gross and unfounded falsehood. It is a clog and a stigma on the liberty of the press in England, that there is no personality so frivolous or so false that it will not find its way into the public journals; and once there, neither its frivolity nor its falsehood can prevent the idle fools of this world from believing the busy knaves who sent it. In proportion to the weakness of the party, is the boldness of the attack. The Earl of C— and his sister are the children of an actress ; the Countess of C-- is an actress's grand-daughter ; the Countess of W— an actress's daughter ; the wh o l e o f the F— family have th e same origin. Now, it would have been some time before any of your correspondents would have ventured to put forward either of these names as they have coolly done mine, although (and I intend no slight to a profession ennobled by hundreds of its members when I make this remark)—no woman of my family ever adopted it ; and my grandfather, when young, struggling with poverty, and with his way to make in the world, refused even to permit his wife to sing at a concert. I can of course only conjecture who the persons are to whose steady and unremitting system of annoyance I owe that this " whisper" is " afloat ;" but whether it be the invention of man or woman, of an open foe, or of those who should be friends and protec tors, I beg to repeat that it is a falsehood, and to request. that, as you have published the report, you will also pub lish the contradiction. I am, Sir, yours, obediently, CAROLINE NORTON. [The paragraph originally appeared in the Observer,] IMPORT DUTIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—The duties levied on sugar and molasses in 1840 appears, by a return recently published, to have been four millions eight hundred thousand pounds sterling,., On spirits two millions six hundred thousand pound:. On tobacco three millions and a half sterling. The prin cipal consumers of these articles are tha middle and lower classes of society, a very large section of whom are unrepresented in Parliament, myself among tiee number. I would suggest that a strong and convincine , demonstration of the impolicy of high duties may! be conveyed to the minds of the new Ministry by the lower and middle classes of society abstaining as much as pos sible (totally, if possible) from the use of these articles until our legislators see fit to materially reduce the cost of them to the consumers. When the revenue falls short a few millions per annum more than at present a change in taxation will be inevitable, and John Bull may perhaps be able to purchase coffee at Bd. per lb., retail sugar at 4d., as at Hamburgh, and spirits, tobacco, and other articles in proportion. Let all zealous reformers speak through the revenue as well as through petitions and public meetings on a large scale, and the result will be a pretty considerable fall in the prices of many articles. With regard to sugar I have began what I recommend—L namely, to drink none in my tea and coffee, though I use it with acid fruit. A few years ago we paid 6d. per lb. retail for sugar, now nothing under 9d. Your constant reader, Torquay, Sept. 7, 1841. A FAMILY MAN. FUNGUS VEGETATION IN WINE CELLARS. —ln the wine vaults of the London Docks this kind of vinous fungi hangs like dark woolly clouds from the roof, completely shrouding the brick arches from obser vation. On a small piece being torn off, and applied to the flame of a candle, it burns like a piece of tinder. Should wine escape from a cask in a moist and ill-venti lated cellar, it will altogether resolve into fungi of a sub stantial kind. A circumstance of this kind once came under the notice of Sir Joseph Banks. Having a cask of wine rather too sweet for immediate use, he ordered that it should be placed in a cellar to ripen. At the end of three years he directed his butler to ascertain the state of the wine ; when, on attempting to open the cellar door, he could not effect it, in consequence of some powerful obstacle. The door was therefore cut down, when the cellar was found to be completely filled with a firm fungous vegetable production, so substantial as to require an axe for its removal. This appeared to have grown from, or to have been nourished by, the de composed particles of the wine ; the cask being empty, and buoyed up to the ceiling, where it was supported by the surface of the fungus. FALLIN G OF TWO HOUSES—SERIOUS AC CIDENT AND MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Tuesday after noon, about five o'clock, much excitement was occa c2ooasnegdu2el7 e a n o d f it occa sioned in N e l son-place, Circus-street, Marylebone, in n the falling reported ling of two t h at houses tw o therein, ehildren N h o ad s. which report, however, happily proved to It app ears that the above place, which runs h b e ee t n io l t i .e killed, d , between Circus -street and Stingo-lane, is the property the of a gentleman named Fi n d ley, and consists of about 30 and occupied by very poor p h e o rs us o e n s s ,.le t For r t s i o n me tenements , time past tottering condition. The house No.y have been in a very 20, had only recently been empty , having been vacated by its occupants as unsafe, and at the above hour it suddenly fell in with a T washe They sometreur)k down bricks,ow n tremendous crash, carrying away part of O. 21, greatly alarming an Irish labourerand his wife, who were in the 0 and od against -work iiifnewhomille.y, y had a very narrow escape. A tiles,lad,ofatthteeaw, namedcarried to the Mar parlour and si p tt ar in t g Marylebone In firmary,by some bricks ; he was found that his skull was fractured, where it was severely injured. and that he was otherwise A We beli eve that theW c E h S a T ra A c l t O er ß (.f L a A W ND est j m U o ß re Y la i ll A j N u 7 yman is pretty generally known, and although they do not r an k the very highest in the scale of excellence, there may occasionally be found glimpses of originality and symp toms of independence of thought and action which would far exceed the demure punctiliousness of more accom plished juries. The following is a case in point:—A worthy farmer, whose crops were ready for housing, after having been for some time exrosed to bad weather, was most unwillingly obliged to leave all and attend at Appleby to decide some momentous case or cases, and by his verdict vindicate the righteousness of the law. Many a time and oft did his racked ingenuity devise liberating things for his devised absence from the wigs and robes, white, black, and scarlet, of which he was so uneasy a spectator. At length, grown desperate in his impatience, he summoned courage and walked up to the Judge —took hold of his bristly toppin and pulled it as submissively and respectfully as he knew how, and got himself deliveree:. of the following most humble request:— " I say, sir, I've gitten me hay down, and I sud like et gang yham, if ye'l excuse me, if ye pleas like." The Learned Judge looked unutterable things at Johnny Roe, but assured him if what he wanted was to leave the Court and go home, he could not interfere, and he must do his duty.—Kendahlfercury. THE SEW, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1841. I COMMISSION OF LUNACY UPON j AN INMATE OF THE COUNTY PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM. Yesterday a Commission of Lunacy Was issued before Mr. Commissioner C. K. Murray, at the Duke of York Tavern, Hanwell, to inquire into the state of mind of Salomon Cohen, formerly of Whitecross-street, and now an inmate of the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum, at Hanwell. The circumstances which gave rise to this proceeding were of a novel character, and it was stated to be the first inquiry of the kind that had occurred in this county. The Commission was taken out at the instance of the parish authorities of St. Luke's, to which parish Mr. Cohen was chargeable, upon their discovering that a share of 1,66 a. 35. 4d. Three per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities had been bequeathed him by the late Mr. Lewis Cohen, of Great Prescott-street, Goodman's fields. From the evidence of several witnesses it appeared that in the month of September, 1828, the alleged lunatic used to disturb his mother and other members of his fa mily by laughing loudly during the night, and upon one occasion he threatened to put his eldest sister's child upon the fire, and it was with great ditli?.ulty he was pre vented from carrying his threat into execution, On another occasion, when the black fast is annually ob served by the Jews took place, and which commences upon the beginning of their new year in September, he rinsed his mouth with some water, which was so serious a departure from their religious observances that his fa mily looked upon it as the first positive indication of his insanity. He subsequently repeatedly talked incoherently about the Rabbi and a female to whom he became suddenly attached, and who disappointed his affections. He also threatened to murder his mother and sister, and he was removed to Miles's Lunatic Asylum at Hoxton, where he remained about three weeks, and then returned home, but was again obliged to be placed under the care of the parochial authorities, and after remaining some time in the workhouse he was admitted into St. Luke's Hospital, and after a lengthened confinement he was discharged as incurable, and then he became an inmate of the Pauper Lunatic Asylum at lianwell, where he had since re mained. During the time he was in St. Luke's workhouse he fractured one of his legs in at tempting to escape ; b u t s i nce h e had been at lianwell he had been harmless, and had not been subjected to coercion or restraint. He laboured under general paralysis, arising, in the opinion of the medical gentleman, from the softening of the brain. His recovery was said to be quite hopeless, his case being characterised as one of dimentia or fatuity. Mr. Cohen was stated by all the witnesses to be totally it:capable of managing himself or his property. In the course of Dr. Bogby's (one of the surgeons of Hanwell Asylum) examination, he produced a book, called the Day-book, which contained a short history of each patient's case, and where the particulars could be obtained. The following is a copy of the entry in reference to Mr.. Cohen : " Solomon Cohen, aged 34, single, was admitted on the 22d of September, 1833. His brother-in-iaw states— Nine years ago the patient met at a wedding party a young woman, with whom he fell in love on the spot. He saw her home that night, and called upon her two days afterwards. Her parents asked him his intentions? He said he should call again next day, and declare them; but being ill he was not able to keep his promise. The young woman called at the house of Cohen's mother. in law on the day following, and left a message for him that he need not come to her again. Cohen, on being in formed of this, fretted very much, and walked up and down the street opposite to her door. He sent her let ters, but not receiving any - answer he became very dis consolate. In a fortnight after, unequivocal symptoms of a deranged mind had manifested themselves. He was sent as a private patient to Hoxton, by the advice of a Jewish medical man. His friends not being able to bear the expense, he was removed from Hoxton in three weeks, and afterwards sent to St. Luke's Hospital, from which he was discharged incurable, and came from that establishment to the County Lunatic Asylum. In the workhouse he was mischievous ; he used to beat the nurses, porters, and aged paupers. On one occasion he attempted to escape from the workhouse, and broke his leg. His father died at the age of seventy nine, and was sane and healthy. His mother, who is still living, is eighty-two years of age, and in the enjoyment of good health. He has four sisters, all healthy and of sane mind. Sarah Cohen, his sister, attributed his insanity to the girl not returninc , his affections, and u n iti ng her self to a pawnbroker in ' ''Farringdon-street." The Jury proceeded to the Asylum, and had a short interview with the unfortunate man, who returned no answer to their questions, and seemed utterly deprived of his reason. On their return to the tavern, they found that Solomon Cohen was now of unsound mind, and in capable of managing himself or his property, and that he had been so since the Ist of November, 1828. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Yesterday, throughout the entire day, much excite ment prevailed in the neighbourhood of the terminus of the Great Western Railway, in consequence of a report that an accident of a frightful character, and attended with loss of human life, had occurred on that line to the up-mail train from Bristol. This was in some measure corroborated by the lateness of the post delivery of letters from the western part of the kingdom. On instituting inquiries into the matter, it was ascertained the report was not without foundation, as the following particulars, obtained from an official source, Nvill testify. It appears that the mail train from Bristol,which was due at the Paddington terminus at five o'clock that morning, not making its appearance for some time after that hour, considerable apprehension was manifested, and a pilot engine was despatched 30 or 40 miles down the line to ascertain if anything had happened, but it returned with out any intelligence. A few minutes before eight o'clock the mail train arrived, and the cause of its delay was ascertained to be as follows :—Nothing whatever happened to impede the progress of the engine and train until its arrival at the S7tli milestone from London, about four miles on this side of Wootton Bassett. At this spot, owing to an extensive slip in the newly-formed embank ment, one of the rails got displaced and shifted outward. On the arrival of the engine and train, the joint of the line flew up and caused the former to go off the line at full speed into the embankment, in which it became em bedded to a considerable extent. The sudden stoppage of the train caused a tremendous collision between the carriages, two of which were literally smashed, and_the guards and engineers were thrown off with consider able violence. As soon as the confusion occasioned by the occurrence had in some measure subsided inquiries were made as to the state of the passengers, several of whom it was feared were more or less injured, and it was ascertained that two gentlemen had got their ancles dislocated, and were otherwise seriously injured ; a third had met .with several bruises about the body and a fourth was severely cut with the glass of the windows, in the face, as were also other passengers more or less. The guards were also cut and scratched ahout the face and hands, but singular to relate the engirieers escaped without any injury. The sufferers were conveyed with ail possible speed to Wotton Bassett, where surgical aid was promptly procured, and, with the exception of one gentleman, they were in the course of the day able to proceed to their places of des tination. Immediately on the intelligence reaching London, Mr. S. Clarke, the chief superintendent of the line, together with some of the Directors, proceeded to the spot and entered into a minute examination of all the circumstances connected with it, and to see that proper attention was paid to the sufferers. They found them to be as described above. After a delay of about three hours the line was cleared of impediment, and the guards, engineers, &c„ were sufficiently recovered from the shock to resume their duties. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered in the week ending Sept. 4, 1841." Tho Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General : Weekly Total. Average 1838-9-40 Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagions Diseases l6O 204 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 137 151 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heat and Bloodvessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 7l 60 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &e. Diseases of the Joints ' Bones, and Muscle s Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1 Diseases of Uncertain Seat Old Age, or Natural Decay 45 71 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intempet ance 22 25 Causes not specified Deaths from all causes 7BB - Average Weekly Deaths .. 926 Deaths in the Average Weekly Week. Deaths,lB3B-9-40 112 ...... 139 136 163 175 ..... 190 168 ...... 211 197 223 CAUSES OF DEATH. Western Districts ..... North Districts Central Districts East Districts South Districts Total 7BB It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality— and the parisheseof St. Maryiebone, St. Pancras, Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith (Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camber ell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, and 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the three years by 156. TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING Aug. 28. Sept. 4. 77 77 0 51 51 63 64 9, 1811. Highest Lowest Daily Alm ......... General Register Office, Sept. A letter from Hanover, 29th ult., in th e I c i ps i c Ga zette, inform s us that the States are to be convened in October or November, and that this meeting, which is earlier than was intended, is chiefly owing to the reso lution of the Duchy of Brunswick to withdraw from the local customs union, a measure which would have an in jurious effect, it is said, for Hanover ; and as the separa tion is to take place on the 31st Dece,rnber, a previous meeting of the States becomes necessary, The Rev. George Thompson, the celebrated anti-slavery missionary, will take the chair this evening at the meeting to be held in Finsbury Chapel, South place, for the formation of a Young Men's .Anti-Mono poly Association. In January, 1772, there was found in the ruins of the Abbey of Edrnundsbury, a leaden coffin, contain ing the remains of Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, uncle to Henry V., and deposited there in 1427 ; the hair and nails were quite perfect. CLOSING OF VAUXHALL FOR EVER. " The light of other days is faded," and the lights of Vauxhall have followed its example. " All their glories have fled" before the advances of bricks and mortar. The smiling rule of Simpson has given Way to.the two foot rule of the carpenter—and there, where the tuneful pipe of the musician sounded, the clay pipe of the hod man smokes. Vauxhall is in the process of absorption into the great wen. Matter of fact bath made another conquest from romance ; and Vauxhall—the Vauxhall of Addison, and Steele, and Goldsmith—the Vauxhall where Sir Roger de Coverley moralised, and Beau Tibbs flattered—and the widow vulgarised, and Mrs. Tibbs did the genteel—the Vauxhall which " united rural beauty with courtly magnificence"—has closed its gates for ever. LaSt night was the last night of Vauxhall, and as we wan dered through its pleasant walks, and-took a last - long lingering look of various spots, endeared to memory by associations with the past, we almost fancied we heard the widow's voice exclaiming' " The water-works over already. Impossible !" Yes, widOW, the water-works are over already and for ever. Their place will know them no more ; and when next we seek them on ,their old accustomed spot, instead " of finding; every sense overpaid with more then expected pleasure," we shall be disgusted with sights, and scents, and sounds, betokening the presence of squa ll e d wretchedness. There, where of old every one looked satisfaction ; there, where we were wont in days gone by, almost to realize the visionary happiness of the Arabian lawgiver ; instead of " lights everywhere glimmering through the scarcely moving trees," rows of flaring, vulgar eye-wearying gas lamps . will meet our gaze—instead of " the full-bodied concert bursting on the stillness of the night," our ears will be saluted with the roar of drunken men, the yell of quar relling women, and the squall of sickly suffering chil dren, while the nearest approach to " the natural concert of the birds" will be the mangy parrot of some ancient •spinster swearing " oaths profane" at a loitering pot-boy, We regret the closing of Vauxhall ; it has destroyed one of the few remaining links binding us to " happy child hood's hours," and our feelings on the occasion some what resemble those we experienced when we were, after stout argument, reluctantly forced to admit that the history of Aladdin was no true.story, and that the hopes in which we had indulged of perchance witnessing the glories of the 'lamp were " the baseless fabric of a vision." Sic transit gloria mundi. Had poor Simpson lived to see this, how magniloquent would have been his funeral oration over the departed glories of " the Royal property." The Lamentations of Jeremiah would have been a mere Jeremiad when compared with the la mentations of Simpson. Poor fellow ! after his death Vauxhall seemed like a widow—she drooped, and drooped, and for twelve long months shut herself up M entirely, and en arousing h er self for one last expiring effort, she set like the sun in his glory, and was greatest and brightest at last. TIIE HUMAN PANORAMA.—Mankind moves onward through the night of time like a procession of torch-bearers, and words are the lights which the gene rations carry. By means of these they kindle abiding lamps beside the track which they have passed, and some of these, like the stars, shall shine for ever and ever. During the storm of thunder and lightning, on Friday afternoon, a man named Suckling fell down at Roxwell, and was taken up lifeless ; and a labouring man, at Hatfield Peverel, in the employ of Mr. Ellis, was struck senseless to the ground, but he soon after reco vered.—Essex Herald. A FRENCH FRIGATE AT dRONSTADT.— The Danae frigate, which is to bring back to Fiance Baron de Barante, entered Cronstadt on the 12th ult. This is the first time for 17 years that a French man-of war has been seen here. She was hailed with acclama tion by the populace and by the authorities. Her Cap tain, M. 011ivier, and some of the officers, were pre sented to the Emperor, who invited them to dinner, as also the Ambassador and Ambassadress of France, and treated them with marked distinction. Next day the Emperor went to Cronstadt, taking Captain 011ivier with him. He showed him the port, a new fort in construc tion, and a division of the fleet. When his Imperial Majesty passed by the Danae, the second in command hoisted the Imperial standard, and fired a salute of forty guns; the whole crew were in full dress. Prince Mentschi koff, Minister of Marine, twice went over the vessel, and examined all her details with the greatest attention; ad dressing several questions to the officers, whose know ledge and capacity produced on him, as he said, the most favourable impression. On leaving the frigate he re turned the salute and hoisted the French flag. Two officers of the Russian navy, the Emperor's Ades-de- Camp, the Grand Master of the Horse, Prince Dolgo roucky, and other distinguished personages also came on board. Next day the Grand Duke Constantine, the Emperor's second son and Grand Admiral of Russia, was brought on board by his tutor, Admiral Lutke. On the 21st M. de Barante embarked, and a few hours after wards the frigate set sail for France. She will cast anchor for a few days at Copenhagen.—Moniteur of Sunday. A few days ago a man, dressed as a waggoner, having a whip in his hand, applied to a money changer, in the Cloitre St. Honore, for change of a 500 f. note of the Bank of France. The money-changer, perceiv ing that although the note was genuine, the vignettes had been removed and re-pasted on other paper, re quested the man to go with him to the Bank, to have the note examined, to which he consented with apparent cheerfulness. At the Bank he was interrogated by Count d'Argout, the Governor, and stated that he had received the note from a person who had it from a dis counter in the Rue Gadot Mauroy. As this was found to be untrue, further inquiries were set on foot, the man being in custody all the time, and it was soon ascer tained that his name was Adelaine, formerly a book binder in Paris, who had lately disappeared from Ar pajon and Lonjumeau to escape from his creditors. With some difficulty his lodging was discovered to be in the Rue des Cannes, and here were found convincing proofs of the fraudulent operations which he had been carrying on. It appears that, after long study as to the mechanism of the Bank of France, Adelaine had con by means of ink, essences, acids, a press, ceived the ide a o f sp li tt i ng them in two, an d trans f err i ng , &c., the im pression of th e v i gnettes from the front o f t h e note , upon the di v id e d paper, thus making two notes out o f one. Although Adelaine, when detected, wore the dress of a waggoner, as we said above, a rich and elegant ward robe was f oun d at hi s lodgings, as also many articles of jewellery, works of art, albums, &c., and a curious cor respondence with some gamblers at Baden-Baden, with a drawing, on large paper, of gaming-tables and the cy linder of the roulette, on which he was apparently study ing some combinations, as was done by M. de Labour donnaye, in hi s games of chess with England, Germany, and India. After these discoveries Adelaine was handed over to the Procureur du Roi. " Two days ago," says the Moniteur Parisien, " the owner of a hotel in the Rue du Bouloi had removed to the Hopital de la Charite, Madame Rey, an actrice of talent, who was found in a dying state on the floor of a small room, which she occupied in the hotel. This lady had been reduced by the backruptcy, or breach of con tract, of some managers with whom she had engagements, to a state of destitution, and was too high-minded to so licit charity. 'When her removal to the hospital became known, several persons came forward to assist her, but it was too late, as she expired almost immediately." A suicide of an extraordinary nature took place at Coignieres, in the Seine-et-Oise, a few days since. A peasant, who had been accused unjustly of getting his livelihood by poaching, was so much depressed in spirits by the imputation, that he went into the m iddl e o f a wood, got on a pile of about 400 faggots, and then set ting it on fire, allowed himself to perish in the flames. On the inhabitants coming to the spot, alarmed by the conflagration, they found a letter near the pile, explain ing the man's intention, and stating that it was not true that he was a poacher,—that he found he could not fol low the line he wished, and that he preferred death ; but adding that he was not poor, for he had left GOO francs to his widow. On the fire subsiding, a black shapeless mass in the middle of the ashes confirmed the indications of the letter. The Mayor drew up a certifi cate of his opinion that the poor man had been deranged, and, on the presentation of this document, the cure of the parish gave his remains Christian burial. AGE OF ANIMALS.—The age of a bear rarely exceeds 20 years ; a dog lives 20 years, a wolf 20, a fox 14 or 16. Lions are long-lived ; Pompey lived to the age of 70. The average of cats is 15 years ; a squirrel and hare seven or eight years ; rabbits seven. Elephants have been known to live to the great age of 400 years. When Alexander the Great had conquered one Phorus, King of India, he took a great elephant which had fought very valiantly for the King, and named him Ajax, and dedicated him to the sun, and let him go, with this inscription : " Alexander, the son of Jupiter, bath dedicated Ajax to the sun." This elephant was found with this inscription 350 years after. Pigs have been known to live to the age of thirty years ; the rhinoceros to twenty. A horse has been known to live to the age of sixty-two, but averages twenty-five to thirty. Camels sometimes live to the age of 100. Stags are long-lived. Sheep seldom exceed the age of ten. Cows live about fifteen years. Cuvier considers it pro bable that whales sometimes live 1,000 years. The dolphin and porpoise attain the age of thirty. An eagle died at Vienna at the age of 104 years. Ravens fre quently reach the age of 100. Swans have been known to live 300 years. Mr. Mallerton has the skeleton of a swan that attained the age of 200 years. Pelicans are long-lived. A tortoise has been known to live to the age of 107. THE BEE BUSINESS.—Mr. Rice, of Ripley, Erie county, Pa, has an extensive establishment for keepinr , bees. Twenty years ago he had one swarm, from which in twelve years he had 39G swarms. The Erie Gazette states that they had then become so power ful that they commenced depredations on the neighbour ing tribes, going out on predatory excursions to the distance of two or three miles, much to the annoyance of the unfortunate neighbours. THE WELSHMAN AND THE PAPER.—He used to take in a fortnight-Old '° daily L on d on paper," w hi c h, in his remo t e corner of Wales, would arrive by two, and three, and four at a time, according to the car rier's visits. Once there was an account, in the first paper he opened, that a great battle in Spain had been fought, in which the Welsh regiments had sionalized themselves, and the next paper was to contain ° lists of names, &c. Of course every soother, sister, and sweet heart expected to find their own favourites among the heroes, and besought the old Welshman to open the se cond paper instantly ; but he coolly locked it in a drawe unopened, saying, " To-morrow you shall hear, but mine is a da:ly paper, so there cannot be two for the same day." CAUTION TO FARMERS.—Mr, Honey, of Hollingbourne, having last week applied some. arsenic and soft soap to the backs of his sheep and lambs, it was afterwards discovered that some mistake had been made as to the relative proportions which should have been used, in consequence of which 119 died within two days. —.Dover chronicle. CONDUCT OF THE BRITISH IN INDIA. [We copy the following article from the Times of Tuesday, because we heartily approve of its principles, and because the reprobation it be stows on acts of brutal oppression, committed abroad by our people, cannot be too widely spread, nor too much enforced. It may serve to check similar excesses at home, and serve to snub that arrogant. spirit, essentially. Tory and aristocratic, from which all such excesses flow.] We repeat from Saturday's paper the account of one of two outrages in India, which, if our Correspondent's account of them is fair, are about as atrocious as ever disgraced Anglo-Indian history : " Khelat i Ghillie, an old fort, was thought to be a very proper place for a post of the Shah's troops, so two battalions and some horse were sent to take posses sion of the place. No opposition whatever was offered, but on the arrival of the force at its destination, three volleys of musketry were fired, and some salvos of artil lery—l believe in the Shah's name. This had a very equi vocal appearance in the eyes of the Ghilzies of the neigh bourhood, who did not understand it; and as Lieut. Lynch, the l'olitical Agent, was riding past a small fort, at some little distance, the next day, 'I believe, accompanied by an escort of cavalry, he saw a body of men, thirty or forty in number, who retired, as he advanced, towards the gate. To threaten them, be galloped towards them with the cavalry, when they drew their swords, flourished them in the air, and got into the fort. Lynch summoned the place, and the chief, one of Shah Soojah's most stanch adherents in those parts, sent word that no evil was meant, that the men had not understood the movement, and that he would pay his respects next morning ; but this would not suit the fiery Lieutenant; an express was sent off for a regiment and the guns, which arrived in the course of the night ; the place was attacked at once, a lr Ghuznee, the gate. blown in, and the fort stormed all but four of the defenders of the place were killed, fighting desperately in the gate, the poor chief among the number, and two or three survivors wounded. Sir William Macnaghten is said to have been very angry at the affair, but the Governor-General's sentiments have not been made known, whether Lynch will be dismissed from his political employment, which he richly deserves. The affair has not, however, ended . here: The Ghilzies, who are a powerful tribe of about 5,000 strong, turned out to a man, as might have been expected, and swore on the Koran to have revenge for the insult and injury, and for the innocent blood of their people. No attempt was made to pacify them, or to explain the affair ; indeed, what explanation could be given ? And they are to be coerced." Now, let us try to make this case our own. Sup pose French Canada in revolt, and the English popu lation engaged in concert with a tribe of North Ameri can Indians in putting it down ; how should we feel at hearing that the first act of a detached body of Indians, under the command of an insignificant chief, on arriving at the post which they were to occupy, had been to storm the position of an English officer of distinction, and massacre him with "all but four" of the Loyalists under his command, after an amicable message from him, professions of alliance, and an offered explanation of what ever might be suspicious to them, merely because his men had galloped about and brandished their swords in a way which the said insignificant chief did not (as how should he?) understand? Still more, how should we feel if our allies, the perpetrators of this wanton slaughter, had been, not ignorant savages, hardly know ing themselves what they were at, or against whom they were employed, but instructed Americans—men, who ought to have learnt what national laws, faith, and mercy are—and, to draw the parallel closer, allies who had shown no slight disposition to wrest from us the ter ritories which they were professing to protect ? What kind of compensation should we not demand ? how should we be satisfied at hearing that " the President's sentiments had not been made known, whether the American commander would be dismissed from his em ployment ?" Should we not say promptly and angrily, " You must do that, and more too : you have done a frightful wrong; you inust take the consequences : you must humble yourselves for what you, through your inca pable agent, have done ; you must not encourage your in struments to think that human lives, the lives of their allies, are to be sacrificed in mere carelessness ; and if they du think so, you must, by some signal example, convince them of the contrary ?" And if it so happened that we were at that moment the weaker party, and unable to right ourselves, what should we think of American jus tice and American mercy, if we heard that in New Ycrk people said, " It was a sad affair—quite a mistake, certainly ; but the English Canadians had taken it up so warmly, that accommodation was impossible ; receding was out of the question ; the matter must take its course ; fresh troops might be easily sent out ; and, if the quarrel went on, English Canada must be coerced?' " Or let us put the matter to ourselves in another relation. If one of our own officers had committed this kind of rtrocity, not in the north of India, but in the centre of Europe—not against a tribe of 5,000 Ghilzies, but against a power able to take its own part, against France, or Russia, or Austria ; and if it were a case in which the public feeling of Europe would plainly be called upon to express itself— not one in ‘1 hich the mouths of complainants may, (if, indeed, they may) be stopped by extermination, but one where the character of our quarrel, if one ensued, would be known and judged by all' civilized nations, who would all demand redress for the savage insult which had been offered to one—how would the English nation, or at least all that is honest in it, be pleased at hearing doubts whether this officer, this standing outrage upon all Europe, would be continued by Lord IEII in his command ? Would not every one of us who are anxious for our country's character feel almost as if our personal honour were at stake ? Should we not feel each of us half disgraced till all foreign Powers had been taught, by some act of justice as strong as our laws allowed that the nation repudiated as an unbidden, unwarranted act of madness, the outrage of its servant—was ready, was impatient to make all redress, all acknowledgment that could be asked for the injury for which it was unwillingly re sponsible ? Yet this would scarce equal what we ought to feel here, for it is the helplessness of the sufferers which goes far to make the baseness of the imputed act. Let men give to the weak what they dare not deny to the strong—to others, what they would enforce for them selves. Let us not think that these things have no disho nour in them because they are done a long way off, or to a wild people, or to a poor people, or to a weak people. We are running up an account in India that we shall have to settle ; our empire will not stand these acts of cruelty, or rather the morality which is not appalled at them. Our Government has been an improvement on that of the native Rajahs, or it would not have risen; it must be an improvement on itself, or it will fall. IF we fear not God, we had best fear man : we are ruling over millions by the muskets of thousands, and those thou sands natives ;we are increasing those millions,—if in doing so we increase the odium in which they hold us, we are collecting a weight to crush us. " It will not, nor it cannot come to good." Our mere strength is a feather in comparison with the mass which is gathering over it. As a mere act of policy, we must be just and beneficent, as well as strong. Men tell us that we cannot appear to recede—that England must not apologize to a weak tribe—that the prestige of success will be destroyed. It will not. The shadow will follow the substance. In action we shall succeed by the discipline of our troops and the steadiness of their commanders ,• and we shall have the credit of suc cess. But we shall lose what is of more consequence than men think to avert that national rising which might sweep us away discipline and all—the prestige (as they call it) of truth, justice, and mercy. Let those whose business it is act ; let theni, that is, first examine. We hope a Conservative Government will make them. The alleged misconduct of this Lieute nant may be false. If so, it is most necessary he should be cleared. But it may be true ; there is a prima facie case to demand inquiry. Audi alteram partem, but lose no time about it, for till it is fully done we Jie under the stain of this act, and the not unnatural suspicion that there may be many more like it. SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. MELANCHOLY Loss er LIFE.—The following letter has been received by Mr. West, the Secretary of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent So ciety, 26, Bucklersbury, London : (Copy.) Eyemouth, Sept. 6, 1341. SIR—I beg to communicate to you the particulars of the following distressing case :—On the evening of Friday, the Gth instant, a fishing boat, named the Jabeze, belonging to this port, was lost of Marshall Meadows, betwixt this port and Berwick, whilst prosecuting the herring fishery, and all the hands, five in number, drowned, viz., Thomas Dougal, John Dougal, his son George Dougal, another fisherman of the name of George Dougal, and John Grieve, a landsman, employed in the herring fishery. Thomas Dougal has left a family of five children ; the youngest son is seven years old, the eldest seventeen years. George Dougal has left a widow and five children, the youngest only six months, the eldest not exceeding eight years of age. George Dougal has left a widow and seven children, and the widow seven months pregnant ; the youngest child is only eighteen months old, the eldest only ten years. Such a calamitous case has not occurred here for many years, and I hope that the Committee of Management of the Society will lend all the assistance in their power. Your most obedient servant, (Signed) THOMAS BOWHILL, Treasurer of the Eyemouth Branch. . Edward West, Esq. ENGLISH MANUFACTURES.—I am more im pressed with the wealth and resources of England since I left it, but lam less surprised at them. The compass of this Portuguese vessel was made at Wapping ; the quadrant in Holborn ; their knives are stamped " sheer steel ;" the bell for the watch, and the iron of the wind lass, are from an English foundry ; the captain uses an English watch, and calculates by John Hamilton Moore's " Seamen's Complete Daily Assistsnt ;" " sail-maker" is stamped on one of the sails, and the passengers are dressed in Manchester prints or Leeds cloth. Every where it is the same—you meet in the solitary mountain paths of the almost unknown islands, a pedlar with two square boxes slung on each side of his ass, and see him in the -villages tcmpt'ng the women with the bright handl:ma:Ads end gay punts from Manchester. In the obscureFt village, tie neat blue paper needle-case from Birmingham lungs from a sting at a cottage door-way, to tell that English needles are sold within ; and in crossing in an open boat between two of the remotest islands, Flores and Corm ' en English sailmal ser ' s name and residence were p - ..incd le3ibly on the sa;l. V-- tells me that the other evening he had just landed in a fishing hamlet—a lonely place at the mouth of a deep ravine which pal is two gloomy mountain ridges—when his reveries were disturbed by a fellow passenger, who, having caught sight of some village girls, suddenly ex claimed, " Look, those are all my prints."--Residence ix the Azores. SOCIALISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - • -5, Sin—l observe, in your paper of last evettingi a statement respecting the Socialists, whichlik: been going the round of the weekly and &Ay press, and which purports to be extracted from an Anti-Socialist circular, of which I had not previously heard. You preface the statement by heading it, " Approaching extinction of the wretched Socialists," and say it will be read with much interest, as it shows Socialism to be rapidly on the decline. Allow me to inform your readers, through your pages, by the inser tion of this letter, that there does not exist a more happy class of persons than the Socialists, because they possess the confidence of being enabled, not only to relieve themselves, but like wise the whole of society, from the wretchedly distressed state in which they are now placed, by the daily-increasing powers of machinery ; and, with regard to their Society being on the de cline, I shall be happy to furnish you such sta tistical information of their rapid increase, as shall convince the most incredulous of the error of such a statement. By order of the Central Board, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, WILLIAM GALPIN, Gen. Sec. Central Board Office, 57, Pall Mall, Sept. 8, 1841. [We copied the paragraph from a Tory paper, —ED. Sun.] THE FESTIVITIES AT W YNN- STAY. The long-talked of festivities, destined to take place at Wynnstay, in Denbigh shire,the noble baronial residence of the _present Sir W. Williams Wynn, in celebration of his coming of age, and for which brilliant preparations have been making for the last three weeks, commenced the day before yesterday at this ancient seat. The mag nificent nature of the entertainments and reception may be supposed, when it is stated that the Percys, London derry, Cholmondeleys, and numerous others of the highest families of the realm, have hastened to partici pate in the pleasures of the occasion, and we therefore furnish, from actual investigation and other sources, an account of the park, mansion, and interesting vicinage, through which, for the next few days, so many princely persons - will meet together in pageants and festivities. The interior of the mansion at Wynnstay, in which these festivities are taking place, is in every part hand somely fitted up, and in - many rooms approaches to magnificence. The several spacious apartments which it contains are ornamented with many excellent paint ings. Among those which may be more especially par ticularized, are three large family portraits ; a beautiful St. Cecilia by Sir Joshua Reynolds; together with an Orpheus, by Dance, afterwards Sir Nathaniel Holland. The house itself, the most delightful residence, per haps, in Denbighshire, consists of a long range of building, standing on the spot where formerly stood the mansion of Madox ap Gruffyd Maelor. Part of it was rebuilt by the first Sir John Wynn, in the sixteenth century, and part of it by a late Baronet of the family ; the late Sir Watkins also recently cased and enlarged the whole. This mansion is situated on a spacious lawn, in a broad and open park, in which there are abundance of attrac tions for the gay parties that now fill its circuits. Fore most of these is a column nearly a hundred feet high, erect ed to the memory of the late Sir William Watkins Wynn, by his mother, Frances Lady William Wynn. Next to this, there is an avenue nearly a mile in length, the borders of which arc adorned with some superb oak and elm-trees, which will form one of the chief scenes of gaiety and carousal, leading as it does in a continuous arcade from a handsome modern gateway direct to the hall. Again in the park there is one feature which gathers much attraction about it, not fr om an y i n t r i ns i c beauty in the thing itself, hut from an affecting remi niscence with which it is connected. It appears only in the shape of an old and venerable oak, which is named after Sir John Wynn ; and tradition has handed down the report, that to this spot he was frequently led to feel the old tree, after that most precious thing on earth had been taken from him—his sight. He loved, it is said, to linger under its ancient branches, Sand as the winds of autumn shook the leaves in fitful gusts around his head, lie often sighed at the remembrance of his own blither summer days, and repined at the dark winter which, unalleviated by light, was about to visit his later years. Beautifully, too, through these parts, the River Dee pours its pleasant waters, brightening the whole of this estate, through which it runs for a distance of more than five , miles in length. Along the banks of this fair stream is a fine drive in the park, on which two buildings are passed, and which we must not omit to no tice. One is a tower erected in commemoration of the battle of Waterloo ; the other a cenotaph, after the design of the Capo di Bove, near Rome, to the memory of the officers and soldiers of th e regiment of Ancient British Cavalry, . who fell in Ireland under Sir W. Williams Wynn. The views from both these buildings are capacious, and afford many rich and striking pictures to the eye. The grounds are of consi derable extent in themselves, being about eight miles in circumference. Adjoining the mansion is a neat small building, for merly used for private theatricals by the grandfather of the present Sir William: - On . a wall within the court yard are the following lines, inscribed, more than a cen tury ago, by Sir John Wynn, Bart.:— " Cui dornus est victusque decens, et patria dulcis Sunt satin hcec vita', ccetera cura, labor." Bosomful of sweets and pleasures, Glides his life who owns the treasures Of that dear and threefold good— Country—home--and wholesome food : All beyond these three things fair, Are but gilded pain and care. The family name of the owner of Wynnstay was originally Williams, the addendum of Wynn being made early in the last century, upon their coming into posses sion of the Wynnstay property. The descent of the family, which is the most ancient in the Principality, is dated from Cadrod Ham?, or Cadrod the Handsome, a British chieftain, who resided at Tremaday, and was Lord of Tallyholion in the beginning of the 12th century. The most illustrious member of this house in modern times was Sir William Wynn, of Gray's . Inn, the first Baronet, so created in the year 1688. This celebrated lawyer was Recorder of Chester, Solicitor-General dur ing the short reign of James IL, and also under his successor, 'William 111. Mention has already been made of the change of name in the family and estate ; but it may be interesting to state that the first name of the mansion, Vat-stay, arose from its situation on the famous dike. It also should be remarked that the collection of ancient Welsh manu scripts made by that eminent antiquary, Mr. W. Maurice, of Cefn y Braich, are now preserved in the Librrry at Wynnstay. The , park, which we have before adverted to as most advantageously situated, reaches as f ar as t h e village of Rhiw Abon, and the whole of the estate is situated in Cantref Uwch Nent, now called the Hundred of Bromfield. Close on the outskirts of Wynnstay are many relics of great antiquity, which constantly tempt the curious to examine them ; among others may be mentioned a great Caer, called the Garthen, situate on the summit of a hill, end containing in an area of about four acres of ground .many vestiges of buildings,. the habitations of the old possessors. Within two hundred yards of this there is Offer's Dike, ?long the top of which the turnpike-road runs for a considerable way. A fierce battle was ibught at this place between Prince Owein Cyfeiliog and the English, attended with victory to the ancient Britons, and which gave rise to a very excellent poem, called " Hirlas Owain, or the Drinking Horn of Owrin," com posed by that Prince himself. In visiting these and other celebrated spots in the vicinity, the rides end excursions of the llustrious guests will be greatly enhanced with pleasure.;. Among those who have already e , r.rived here to pz!rinke of the splendid hoepiteliiies of Sir Watkil Willirms Wynn, are the Duke and Duches of No7.:hunibcrlond, Miss Percy, Marchione..s of Londonderry, rod L2dy Frances Vane, Lord &ahem, Eerl and Counte...s of Powis rod the Ladies Herbert, Hon. R. H. and L. - dy Hr - .iet Clive rod Miss Clive, Viscount end Vi„countecs Dun ;co non, Countess of Jersey rod Lady Clementina Villiers, Hon. Miss Irvine, Lord and Lady Delemere and Hon. Miss Cholmondeley, Hon. Hugh Cholmondeley; &c.. who, elready with the (tie of the beru wo.s.'e besides assembled, and the neighbouring number at lerst one thousand visitors. - WHIG OPINIONS OF THE SUFFRAGE OR SO VEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.—Every approximation to wards a Chartist Constitution of the Leglelatorc —that is to say a Constitution regarcVng numbers as the sole basis of power—is, pro tante, Pit approach to the anarchy which results from giving legal weapons for the war of the poor with the rich—from giving legal mastery to numbers simply, unqualified by possessions. That mas tery has never been used, rnd never will be used, but in one way. Those who think it conducive to the progress of seeial refor.ns that they should be commenced by cheating a legislature whose natural tendency and pro pensity must be the overthrow of privilege, rnd the in vasion of property—(and they have neither read his tory nor marked mob oratory, who deny the passions end instinct of subversion, which lurk in the multitude, and which their delegates must necessarily satisty di rectly or indirectly, by the modes of sangoinery violence, or of legislative fraud and chicane)—those who think vastly exte‘q. onstituencies the best inst . iment of social reform and an instrument which we must have, without Reform Bill restrictions, in order to effect any farther public improvements —may consis: ently ble me the Reform Ministers for hav;ng refased to aid them in framing that instrument, end forcing it through a second struggle with the rristocraticel powers of the State. Those,on the contrary, who believe that on the avoidance of such a struggle depended our avoidance of civil dis cord, or unbalanced democracy (which in Pu old coun try necessarily draws discord—because spo) ia tion—r ;ler it) must feel their g..atitude due to the Whig Govern ments, precisely on the same grounds es the promoters of that democracy deem them worthy of censere. It is not then for their much railed-at "fiuvßt,y " that we blame the late Ministers. We believe vilta the Leeds Mercury and the Illchwi,l Clava;ch, that tie Parlia mentary constituency wants expr-gation much more than extension.— Glooe. WOOD PAVING. FOR ST. GEORGE THE 14.1ARTYIt'S, SOUTHWARK.—Yesterday a Vestry was hold at the Church .of St. Gorge the. Alsrtyr, Southwa7.lc. for the pir_pose of applying to the Commission ers o f Pavements 'o lay down is Cherch-street, and that po l ion before the sacred edifice, a wootl-p.lving ilyst2zd of renew ing the stone. One of the chief reasons eleged by the Rev. Mr. Horton, the Rector in the Chair, was to pre vent the inter! uption during Divine service, occasioned by coaches and vehicles. The motion for the applicction was finally agreed to, EVENING SUN THIEVES' QUARREL. For several days we have been addressed in anony mous letters, written evidently by persons acquainted :with what is passing in some small Conservative circles. all assuring us that the Protestant cause is threatened by the new Ministry, and urging us to resume the position we occupied in 1829. We vainly sought to obtain per sonal interviews with the writers of these letters, in the hope that we might by reasoning calm their appre hensions, if they really entertained any, whic h we moo than doubted. - Our anonymous correspondents w ere too ; Cunning ; they were willing enough to commit us to falsehood, but they would not commit them • selves. We had no difficulty, however, in dis covering who they were from the nature of the proofs of hostility to the Protestant cause with which their communications overflowed these proofs being that certain Irish Protestant leaders had been neglected in the disposal of offices ; and all possible.un certainty was removed by an intimation, given to us in a letter of Monday, that the line which it was found we would not take, would be seen adopted by a most re spectable Irish journal of the same day. As that journal was, to our knowledge, in a great measure influenced by en individual, we were at no loss to know from whom the threatened mischief proceeded. Circumstances of a 'private, we might say of a personal, nature render it improper for us to name the individual, but Irish Protes tants can be at no loss to fix upon him when we say, that he is the last man in the empire whom the Protestants of Ireland ought to trust. This morning we looked into the Irish journal to which we had been referred, and with equal sorrow and surprise we saw in that able and respectable organ of Protestant principle:, the threatened attack upon Sir Robert Peel's Governmmt. This has determined us not to remain silent ; for when we find men, of whose talents we have had proof fdr ::any years, and whose integrity we can never doubt, thus grossly imposed upon, what may not the less inforr--ed class of Irish Protestants fear? Having said so much to explain the causes, and to show the minute dimensions of the pretended discon tent in the Conservative party, we shall now enter into the detail's of our distasteful task. We know that in doing so, we shall give a day's triumph to the adversaries of Conservative principles ; but better give them the triumph of a day, than permit the growth of an evil which, unchecked, must render their triumph final, and end in the ruin of Protestantism in Ireland, as mined it will be if the Irish Protestants do not heartily commit themselves with the present Government. The following is an extract from the leading article of the respectable journal to which we have referred, as being misled into an expression of discontent : For ourselves we must speak candidly. We cannot but lila with surprise and regret upon arrangements which, however excellent and unexceptionable in gene ral, appear to exclude Inland from her fair share of power and patronage in the Administration. Some fet posts back we gave willing credit to Sir Robert Peel for A desire to do justice to Ireland in this respect. One or two minor appointments seemed to indicate that the Conservative leaders of Ireland were about to receive that consideration in the Cabinet, which not merely their services to the Conservative cause, but the importance of the country itself demanded ; and we could not contem plate the possibility that the tide of preferment was to rest at those shallows, and that the heads of the party in Ireland were not to share in the honours and employ • ments of which Scotland had secured for herself a reir• sonable portion at least, and which England was enjoy ing from a cornucopia. In the Cabinet, indeed, we havo the 'Duke of Wellington, in himself a host, and Sir Henry Hardinge, an excellent man ; but neither of them, in the restricted sense we speak of, heads of the Irish party. But, neither in the dm of secondary of nor zn the Royal houselu.ll, is Ireland fairly re p resen t e d. We have no desire at all to embarrass Sir Robert. Peel. As the organ of the Conservatives of Ireland we fought his battles long and faithfully ; and it is biliruse we desire to see' his Government flourishing and Iper manent that we take leave to remonstrate on an over sight which might tend to diminish the confidence of Ire land in his Administration. Official appointment s are the types of poli c y. W e should like to see the policy of the new Administration indicated by such unequivocal demonstrations. " With respect to the Irish Administration we had something to say—part of which is anticipated in the following letter, received, whilst we were committing the foregone thoughts to paper, from an influential cor• respondent : " TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING MAIL. " September 6. " Sir—No small surprise, and I fear I must add alarm, has been excited amongst a numerous body of your readers, by the consultation which appears, by the Lon don papers, to have been held between our new Lord Lieutenant, his Secretary, and the Marquis of Normanby. Heaven forbid that we are to have more of • following in the footsteps of a predecessor !' Many go so far as to infer that it is intended to throw over, or sell the Protes tant party altogether ; but although this idea may be absurd, there is no doubt of the excitement and curiosity produced by the interview above alluded to, and we natu rally look to our leading journal, in which we all feel confidence, for some explanation of an affair which at present seems perfecty '" I your obedient servant, " 6 A SUBSCRIIER TO THE EVENING MAIL.' " TVe confess our ipu! , ;lity to expl tin; in any satisfactory way, the untoward interview of which our friendlj correspou dent complains. We tl no—indeed we feel assured—that his apprehensions, tied by the sufferings of the last ten years, are too For LordD6 Grey we feel all the respect and confidence due to his talents and character; and his administration shall receive at our hands all the sup port, which, on experience, it shall deserve. We have no wish to add to the difficulties of his position ; on the con trary, it is our earnest desire that he may be able to surmount them all with honour to himself and benefit to the United Empire. But we warn him that his path will be beset with temptations and dangers, which it will require great firmness to avoid.' If he seek to conciliate foes that are really irreconcilable--if he neglect the friends who are able and willing to serve him, and by whose co operation alone he can govern the country in the free and generous spirit of the British Constitution—if, for a false popularity, he surrender his discretion, or worship expediency by the compromise of principle —we warn and admonish him beforehand that he will not add to his honour or his happiness by coming to Ireland. But we hope, indeed we know better things of his Lordship, and trust that our duty will consist not only with a hearty welcome, but a zealous endeavour to sustain and facili tate the measures of his administration." Such is the welcome prepared fora Consgrvative Ad ministration in Ireland, but we have more to add from the London Correspondence of the same journal : " Lord Eliot's appointment to the Chief Secretaryship in Ireland is still the cause of great uneasiness here. His Lordship has many faults, aud, amongst them, an in ordinate love of popularity. how many a statesman's character has been wrecked on this shoal, particularly in Ireland, it were needless to enumerate. " Those who know Lord Eliot best have great fears lest his Lordship's fame be compromised before he is long in his new qffire. lie is a strange compound—this Lord Eliot. Cold and distant with those upon an equality with him, he is at the same time too familiar with those who can minister to his vanity—and there is no reason to doubt that he will lack sycophants in the new sphere of his action, Under all the circumstances, therefore, the great danger is that Lord Eliot will sacrifice too much to popularity. It will be right, however, before pro nouncing any decided opinion, that he have ' a fair trial' and let him be judged by his actions in Ireland and not by his previous character." —Standard. How TO KEEP A PRISONER.—The Boston Post relates the following mode of practice of the late Sampson Wood, once Sheriff of Middlesex county, Mas sachusetts ; "He often had to convey desperate prison ners from one part of the county to another, and when night came, he used to iron himself hand and foot to his prisoner, and go to bed, and address him thus You can now go to sleep ifyou like, or let it alone. For my part, I shall go to sleep. You can't get away without waking ine up, and carrying me with you. You have got one free arm and one free leg, and so hare I. Yet you may make out to kill me ; but if you do you'll have to carry my carcase with you, and that will be proof enough to get you hanged for murder. So you see I shall stick to you like death to a dead nigger, any waY you can fix it. Good night.' It is hardly necessary to say, that with this queer measure of precauie, no prisoner attempted to escape from Samson. THE NEGR O AND THE CHEESE.-1 he BosZod. Post says, that up at the west end there is a good-natured fun-makirg negeo, naa 3d sis," who hovers round the grocery stores in that n nan_ bourhood rather more than is oesirzble. ~I Y O other gentlemen of colour, he piides upon_a bet thickness of his skull, and he is always 11 ,T , r- fo r r his upon his butting powers, and well he may The other head is hard enough for a battening i- of tha , t p c e i , i t y . butt in Cle day he made a bet in a store that he_ co uld j. He then took cheese, which head of a flour bat ee!, and he succee i d r e; ge up a bet to chive it through,, a very Urge c c h o ‘vse, to th l u ie s e e p n h ve is lo w p o e o d l , c wit ea s r to nf be ch cze e re e d n u u n i i t b h s. a err Thesh .an u d p Parsis, starting off to his ears in the thine cto,lnecesittnoreutfg 1 7 k a e s p a l i a o c c e n d m i o n ti i l t ,e i:r b o u p l e i r ed po b s is i d considerable," A platA , sistible, and talked up "Pe, ,, Y c, inviting tcrget. Parsis now . b i , egan to feel himself ir %- him. There being some . , however, was soon coat sale, one of them 1 Lken was ptivate l y up, end wrap/32A ' iv r.T;n t d o sto l' ne 'e s it were a second cheese, and Par looked precisely as if another bet f • up in the same m: :finer as t cheese had been, and sis readily took ono' or ninepence, that he would • butt his head through it as easy as he sent it through the first. The Interest of the spectators in the operation became intense. Everything was caret - idly adjusted, and upon the word being ~, t ven, Parsis darted like an arrow at the ambush grindstone—lie- shuck it fair in the centre, and the next instant lay sprawling in the middle of the floor, upon which he recoiled. For some minutes he lay speechless, and then he raised him self slowly on his knees, and scratching his heod, said, with a squirmin g f ace —" Bevy hard cheese dat, massy Dey skim de milk too much eltogedder be:ore clew him; dat's a fact.' THE WEATHER._Since this day week the weather has been exceedingly variable, but, on the whole, very unfavourable for the harvest. This bad weather, we learn, has also prevailed very extensively both in Scotland and the south of England, rnd we fear its consequences will be seriously injurious to the cro IF. The temperature has also become much lower, and there have been several cold, frosty rights.—MancLeste r Guardian. Wood, of Gloucester, was The will and codi c il of the late M r . J ame proved on Saturd a y in th Registry of the Judi c i a l Committee o f t h e Privy Cou it cil, by Sir Matthew W oo d , Bart., Mr. Jacob Osbo rn e, and Mr. John Surm an, the surv i v ing executors. Th c property (personally) is sworn under 1,000,000/. Th c probate amounts to 13,500/. and Mr, Surumu e w hi c h The legacy duty is 10 pe cent., except upo n th at portion given to Mrs. Goodl : I will pa y 6 per cent. If 0 5 0 MI