The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-18 00:00:00

MORNING SUN. by long possession to be the owner of the property in question. The law allowed him to do so, and half the great estates in the kingdom were only held by the same tenure, and the poor plaintiff had as much right to the: undisturbed possession of his cot tage and a quarter of an acre of land, as Lord Grantley had to his immense possessions. He called upon the jury by their verdict to protect his poor client, and to show the world, and all thoso who might be disposed to act in a similar manner, that they would not oppress their poorer brethren with impunity. He would ask them after all the plaintiff had suffered, whether two hundred and fifty pounds was too great an amount of compensation. He did not wish for vindictive damages, he merely asked for sufficient to enable the plaintiff to remove, with his family, to another parish, where he might obtain employment, and forget the injuries he had received, and pass the remainder of his days in peace and quiet. Lord Chief Justice TINDAL then addressed the jury, and said the present was an action against the defendant for trespass, and assault upon the plaintiff, hut there had been no proof of any assault, and that part of the subject must therefore be dismissed from their minds. They must not be led away by the addresses of the Learned Counsel, but they were bound to give their verdict upon the evidence alone. The Learned Judge then proceeded to remark upon the circumstances of the case, and he said it was for the jury to decide whether Lord Grantley had made out a clear title to the property in question, and if the jury thought he bad failed in so doing, the plaintiff had a legal title by posession, and the trespass must be taken as proved ; and the only question would be the amount of damages that should be awarded to the plaintiff for the suffering and the inconvenience he had undergone. The Jury then retired, and, after being absent about half an hour, they returned into Court, with a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages—Two hundred and seventy five pounds. We understand that, in the case of Bogle v. Lawson, application was made to Chief Justice Tindal, on behalf of the pAintitf. to certify, in order to enable him to get his costs, but the Learned Judge refused to do so. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. _ BOW-STREET. William Lee, John Faversham, and William Lewis were brought up for further examination, having been remanded on Tuesday last, on a charge of embezzling money, the property of Mr. Eliason, the lessee of Drury lane Theatre. [An error appeared in our report of the case on its first hearing, as we stated that the two prisoners, Faver sham and Lee, were committed for trial.] Mr. Podkin, the barrister, appeared for Lewis. Mr Burgess said he had no further evidence to offer against Lewis. The only evidence he had to offer fur ther against the other prisoners was that of Mr. Jones, the Treasurer ; a point of objection had been raised by the prisoner Lewis, as to his being in the employment of Mr. Eliason ; and he (Mr. Burges) was prepared to prove by the evidence of Mr. Jones, that an engagement existed between Lew, and Mr. Eliason ; and he was also prepared to prove that it had not been correctly stated at the last examination that any arrear of salary was due to the prisoner. These facts were admitted by the Counsel for the pri soners, and the proof was not gone into. Mr. JARDINE said that Lewis must be discharged, as there was not sulficigat evidence against him to consti tute a felony. There - 'eras great suspicion, but he might be able satisfactorily le answer it. Mr. Burgess said he should apply to the bench for an order that Lewis should find bail to answer any charge. Mr. Bodkin said he would rather his client entered with the required bail, although he (Mr. Bodkin) was in a condition to ask the Magistrate to discharge Lewis forth with. The required sureties were entered into, and the prisoner was discharged. The evidence taken on the former occasion was then read over, and Mr. Flower applied, on the part of Faversham, that bail might be taken for his appearance at the Sessions. Mr. JARDINE said, its the Sessions were so near, being on Monday next, he did not feel disposed to grant the application. The prisoners were then fully committed for trial. The Court was crowded by a great number of the members of the theatrical profession. THE WALDEGRAVE OUTRAGE ON THE POLICE. The following statement has beens --- ent to the Morning Post, as the ease of William Duff, Esq., convicted, in conjunction with the Ea r l W a ld egrave , o f an assault on the pollee : Sta—l beg leave to inclose copies of a memoral and of affidavits of facts addressed to her Majesty, through the Secretary of State, by my brother, Mr. William Duff, now suffering imprisonment under sentence of the Court of Queen's Bench. I have to request that -on will do me the favour to publish them in the co . Is of the Morning Post. My brother is believed e world to be guilty of a most brutal assault ; • is he is entirely innocent, and the object I have in view is to clear his character of a foul stain. The parties who really committed the offence are Sir Willoughby Wolston Dixie, Baronet, and Mr. John Bell, the lately-elected Member for the borough of Thirsk, who have hitherto eluded detection and almost suspicion, and my brother has, unfortunately, from care lessness on his part, and mismanagement of his defence, been made their scapegoat. Sir, W. Dixie was, accord ing to his own admission, the person who beat the police man on the head with a heavy stick, and Mr. J. Bell was the person who kicked him the chest. I have invited them severally by letter to come forward, take upon themselves the consequences of their own misdeeds, and clear my brother's character ; but this they have both po,itively refused to do. I have therefore, no course left to me, h av i ng i n v i ew th e vindication of my brother's character, than to submit the facts of the case to the juagment of the public. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, FOLLIOT DUFF, 34th Regiment. Barracks, Gosport, August 13, 1841. IN THE QUEEN'S RENCII.-THE QUEEN AGAINST THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE EDWARD EARL WALDEGRAVE AND WILLIAM DUFF, INDICTED FOR AN ASSAULT ON THE PROSECUTION OF CHARLES JOHN WHEATLEY. The lion. Robert Grimston, of Grosvenor-square, in the county of Middlesex, taketh oath and saith, that on the occasion of Lord Waldegrave's being taken into custody by the policeman at Hampton Wick, on the fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, Mr. Duff repeatedly exclaimed, in the hearing of this deponent, " Pray use no violence ;" and that the said 'Air. Duff and this deponent, after Lord Waldo grace's release from the grasp of the policemen, beg ged the party to go home quietly. That the said Mr. Duff, in company with this deponent, immediately went towards home. That, is about ten minutes afterwards, this deponent and the said Mr. Duff, who had proceeded about a mile away from Kini., , ston, were overtaken in a fly at full gallop by the party whom they had left be hind, and informed of the collision which had, in the mean time, taken place. And this deponent saith, that no blow had been struck by any one of the said party in the presence of this deponent, or to his knowledge and belkf, and particularly that the said Mr. Duff did not-strike or give a blov-, or use any abusive language to the said policeman, or any other person there, whilst this deponent was in his company. And that the said Mr. Duff and this deponent were quite unconscious of the conflict which subsequently took place until they were informed thereof as aforesaid. IN THE QUEEN'S BEACH.-TIIE QUEEN V. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF WALDEGRAVE AND WILLIAM DUFF. William Duff, the defendant above-named, being now confined as a prisoner in the Queen's Bench prison maketh oath and saith, that the whole of the all ega ti ons ' contained in the annexed petition of this deponent are true in substance and matter of fact. TO.t•.; - ...riEEN ' S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. The hum 1.1 1 4. -- ition of Win. Duff, a prisoner confined in the Queen's Bench Prison. Most humbly showeth—That your petitioner is now under sentence from the Court of Queen's Bench, having, been on- the 3d of May last ordered to be i m p ris oned for the term of six months and to pay a fine of twenty pounds, and further to be imprisoned until such fine be paid, which sentence was so passed upon an indictment charging your petitioner, jointly with the Right Hon. George Edward Earl Waldegrave, with assaulting one Charles John Wheatley, a constable of the Metropolitan Police Force, on the fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, the statement in support of which charge is contained in the depositions on oath made by the prosecutor and witnesses before the Magis trate, an official copy of which depositions your petitioner begs leave to refer to and to transmit with this his petition. That your petitioner is most anxious not only not to deny any one of the facts connected with the charge upon which he stands convicted, and for which he is now suffering the sentence of the law, but also to disclose every fact connected with the transaction which may in any degree bear and throw light upon the same, in the hope that the sentence which has been passed upon your petitioner may be considered by your Most Gracious Majesty, and that such mitigation as the circumstances may warrant may be afforded in the pre mises. That, although your humble petitioner does not deny his association with his co-defendant and other parties, on the evening and at the place deposed to by the pro- Realtor, he most poSitively denies any participation in, or even having been present at, the infliction of the vio lence which became the subject of this charge, he, your tt,,) , refl]gr with a frie n d, (th e H on. R o b ert Grimston) hTfiT parted company from the Earl Wal degrave and his other companions before such violence (so proved to have taken place) did take place ; and for tae purpose of proving such assertion clearly, your humble petitioner takes leave to draw your Most Gra cious Majesty's attention to the following statement of . Your petitioner, together with the Earl of Wulde gram the on. Robert Grirnston, Mr. Bell, c.f . Thirsk, Sir Willoughby Wolston Dixie, and Mr. Connolly, of the sth Dragoon bpards (being six in numb er ), atten d e d Epsom itace4 - ofrthe 4th of June, 1840, and afterwards returned and diaed with the said Earl Waldegrave, rt his house at Strawberry-hill, where your petitioner is o!)liged to admit that much wine had been taken. After dinner it was proposed to go to Kingston fair, and about eleven o'clock the whole of the said party departed toge ther in a hired carriage, called a fly, for that place ; and after havi ng b een i n the town of Kingston, and as they wer e returning towards Strawberr •-hiJ, the carriage stop opposite the Swan Inn, at Hampton Wick, and the whole party got Your petitioner went across Cross the road to a house (which it has since appeared A as oeeupied. by a wom an w h o which keeps a m ang l e , but hie fact v pzt t i t t l i o orler . d i i l d not then know) to recd the signboayroduro but your petitioner did not try t c , o p en the 'said house, said house, as has-been erroneously supposed by the wit ness for the prosecution. At this time police sergeant Churchill came on horse back from towards Kingston-bridge, and Sir Willoughby Wolston Dixie went up to him, and began a conversa• tion with him, and shortly afterwards your petitioner and the Earl Waldegrave joined the said Sir Willoughby Wolston Dixie, and the said police sergeant, and cer tainly heard the said Sir Willoughby Wolston Dixie, who had first began the conversation, using some abusive language towards him the said police sergeant ; but your petitioner positively asserts that neither himself nor said Earl Waldegrave used any abusive or offensive lan guage whatever towards said police sergeant, nor did either of them interfere with him, except that while speak ing to him your petitioner, inadvertently and without any offensive intention, laid his hands on the bridle of the said police sergeant's horse, which the said police ser geant desired your petitioner not to do, and your peti tioner instantly - desisted. At this time John Wheatley (the prosecutor) came up, and sergeant Churchill directed him (Wheatley) to throw his light upon your petitioner and the rest of the party, and to go to the said fly and look for the; rest of the party, and to go to the said fly and look for the owner's name • upon which said Earl Waldegrave, your petitioner, an d said other parties went towards the said carriage with the intention and for the purpose of setting off and going home ; and when the said Charles John Wheatley attempted to look at the name on the carriage, the Earl Waldegrave pushed him aside, whereupon sergeant Churchill called to the said Charles John Wheatley, " Take them into custody," or words to that effect - and thereupon the said Charles John Wheatley sei ze d the Earl Waldegrave by the col lar, and after a short scuffle threw his Lordship down upon the ground. Your petitioner, thereupon, assisted, with Mr. Grim ston, in getting said Earl Waldegrave out of the hands of the said Charles John Wheatley, by opening or un clenching the hand of the said:Charles John Wheatley, who so held the said Earl Waldegrave, but no blow whatever was struck by any of the party in so disen gaging the said Earl from the policeman's grasp. That when the said Earl was so released, the policeman ad vised the whole party, to go home quietly, and your pe titioner and his friend, the Hon. Robert Grimston, con sidering such advice proper, determined to follow it, and they both joined in such advice ; but finding an in disposition in the rest of the party to follow such recom mendation, your petitioner expressed bis determination to leave them, and immediately went away towards Strawberry Hill on foot, together with the said Robert Grimston, and left the place entirely, your petitioner's other four friends remaining behind with the carriage, and in parley with the policeman. Your petitioner and Mr. Grimston having proceeded (walking leisurely) about a mile on the road between Hampton Wick and Strawberry Hill, were overtaken by the said carriage, the said Earl, Mr. Connolly, and Mr. Bell being therein, and Sir Willoughby Wolston Dixie being on the box, and by them your petitioner and his friend, the said Mr. Grimston, were informed of the violence which had taken place, and the injuries which had been inflicted on the said Charles John Wheatley, after your petitioner and his friend, Mr. Grimston, had left their said companions ; and but for such informa tion your petitioner would have been quite unconscious of any violence whatever having been used towards the person of the said Charles John Wheatley, or any other person. That from the above facts it will be manifest that although your humble petitioner was present before and up to, and while the Earl of W a ld egrave was co ll are d by the prosecutor, and assisted in disengaging his Lordship from the h o ld o f th e po li ceman, your petitioner was not present during any part of the affray which con stituted the grave part of the charge for which he has been sentenced; and in part proof of your petitioner's statement, he takes leave humbly to refer to the deposi tions sworn by the prosecutor and witnesses before the Magistrate when first this matter was investigated, a copy of which depositions, as before stated, accompany ing this petition, and on reference to which it will be seen by the evidence of the witnesses Churchill and Wheatley that they speak of four gentlemen only, evidently im pressed with the belief that there were four only, be cause there were only four remaining when the outrage was committed, although originally there had been six persons present, including your petitioner and the Hon. Robert Grimston. It will also be found that the said Charles Churchill also speaks of Lord Waldegrave as the person who first accosted him, when in truth it was Sir Wil loughby Wolston Dixie who so accosted him, and used the offensive language he complains of. He also de scribes your petitioner to have tried to unbuckle the throat-fiand Of his bridle, which, on his part, was a mis apprehension, your petitioner having merely placed his hand inoffensively on the bridle, and removed it on its being noticed by the said Charles Churchill ; and it will be observed further, upon reading such deposition, that the said Charles Churchill does not depose to having witnessed any act of violence, and that he did not consi der that any breach of the peace had been committed up to the time of hii comrade Wheatley going to the car• riage and taking hold of one of your petitioner's compa nions ; for in such deposition he says as follows :—" The other three wished him not to hurt their friends, and I rode away to Kingston to get further assistance, as I an ticipated a breach of the peace." And upon reference to the evidence of the said Charles Wheatley, it will be seen that he also speaks of four per sons only, and he describes the scuffle in which he re ceived the blows to have been after Sergeant Churchill had gone for assistance, for he says, " I called out for the sergeant, but he was not there." • That such being the evidence, in which there was, in deel, scarcely any proof of your petitioner's identity, ho was advised to permit the trial to proceed, it being con sidered there was no sufficient proof of his having been concerned in the outrage, and which want of proof was increased by the fact of your petitioner having been taken into custody and identified, as the fact was, by mistake, as Lord Waldegrave, although his Lordship was present at the time ; but your petitioner felt that it was more respectful to the justice of the country and more consistent with the character of a gentleman to , admit such participation as he really had had in an affair where an injury had been sustained by a fellow-creature, and for this reason he insisted on withdrawing the plea which his attorney had caused in a formal manner to be pleaded to the indictment, in the hope that by represent ing to the Court how far your petitioner was really im plicated, it would have had due weight ; and with that view your petitioner made an affidavit of the facts to be laid before the Court, but he did not feel at liberty, nor did he think it necessary, to disclose the names of the gentlemen who were his companions, and for that rea son, namely, omitting to disclose the names of his com panions, it was, as your petitioner understood, that no distinction was made in the sentence passed upon your petitioner and his co-defendant, the Earl of Waldegrave. That your petitioner most deeply and sincerely re grets the injury that was sustained by the said Charles John Wheatley ; and although it was not inflicted by your petitioner, or in his presence, or with his privity, yet, as he had been originally one of the party front whom the injuries were received, your petitioner would very willingly have contributed, as far as in him lay, to have made ample compensation ; but the whole matter was left by your petitioner in the hands of the legal ad visers of Lord Waldegrave, to take such steps as they should think prudent, your petitioner on his part not having employed any separate solicitor. That your petitioner is the more anxious to have the above facts investigated, as although he will not and has not for a moment denied the extent of his share in the unfortunate transaction, yet he at present stands in the eyes of his relations and friends a person guilty of the whole facts alleged against the most guilty parties by the prosecutor and his witnesses ; and for these reasons, and the hope that some commutation of punish ment may take place, your petitioner humbly prays for a further and fuller inquiry, by which it can be made clearly to appear who were the guilty perpetrators of an offence for which your petitioner is now suffering.—And your petitioner shall ever pray. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.-. VERY IMPORTANT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—Pray remind those who are about to make ob jections to parties on the list of Freemen of Cities and Boroughs of the very important provision in the 33d Section of the Reform Act, 2 Will. IV., c. 45, which enacts, " That every, .freeman or liveryman shall for ever erase to enjoy the right of voting if his name shall have been omitted for two successive years from the Register of oters." This is indeed important ; but has not been sufficiently attended to. Mind ; if a freeman be two successive years off the Register he can never legally be put on again, nor ever after be entitl e d to vote as a freeman. Let the Reformers look well to this point ; the free men have been their worst enemies. I am, Sir, yours, &c. R. W. D. Ilfracombe, Aug. 14, 1841 NEW WORK EDITED EY Boz — . We are re quested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough street, has this day published the following new works of fiction, which can now be had a t a ll the- libraries • I. The Pie Nic Papers, by variou s hands, edited by Charles Dickens, Esq. (Boz), 3 vols. with 2 Tom Bow ling, numerous ill us trations by George Cruikshank, & C . ling, a Tale of the Sea , by Captain Frederi c k Ch am i er , 3 vols. 3. James Hatfield and the Beauty of Buttermere, a Story of Real Life, by Edmund Corring ton. Esq. , 3 vols, with illustrations by R. C ruikshank. " The majority of novel readers (observes the Literary Gazette) will be gratified by a perusal of these volume s , which take a place between Eugene Aram and J ac k Sheppard." THE IRON WAR STEAMER PHLEGETI{ON —We perceive, by the Calcutta papers, brought by the India mail, that this vessel, which was built by Mr. John Laird, of North Birkenhead, for the East India Company, has arrived at that port. She is about 500 tons measurement, armed with two 32-pounders and other small guns, and is exactly the same size and model as the former iron war-steamer, the Nemesis. She was to sail for China about the middle of June, to join the expedition. It was reported in the Bombay papers that two armed iron steamers, the Ariadne and Medusa, both built by Mr. Laird, each carrying two 26-pounders, would be ordered to China : they would make an effec tive flotilla of four powerful iron armed steamers at tached to the expedition ; and, from the services ren dered by the Nemesis, are likely to prove a great acqui sition. The following extract of a letter, dated Cal cutta, June 5, gives an account of the Phlegethon " I am too full of business to write at length just now ; but you will be delighted to hear we arrived at this place on the 22d of last month, as sound in hull, boilers, and engines, as when we left England. We have had some severe trials, and a large share of stormy bad weather. The Phlegethon, in bad weather, has sur passed my most sanguine expectations, and having gone over 17,157 miles without straining a rivet, will, I con sider, carry out the principle that these sort of vessels can navigate in security between England and India."— Liverpool-Albion. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST lB, 1841. of bribery could be resorted to in all small constitu encies —(Cheers.) lam not opposed to the Ballot, but I wish to see the suffrage extended with it. Mr. Vin cent then enforced the necessity of knowledge and vir tue amongst the people. He hoped th e m iddl e c l asses would join the working men for the attainment of their rights. He said he felt nothing but a kindly feeling to wards all classes of the community. lie wished to see his fellow -creatures in the enjoyment of the highest amount of happiness. He prophesied serious events— to Peel and the aristocracy—and made a vigorous and eloquent appeal to the assembly to unite in defence of their rights. He made a beautiful allusion to the confidence intelligent men have in the onward march, and concluded a very powerful speech, of which the above is a mere outline, with the following appeal. " Who are they who despair !—the ignorant ? liaise them. then. Brighten their minds, you who have caught a spark of the divine light. Intelligence never despairs ; it believes in the progression of humanity—it places a firm reliance upon the decrees of Providence—it bears with fortitude the sneer of folly and the chill of apathy —it penetrates through the gloom of the age it which it lives, and beholds the future arranged in the full blaze of triumphant glory."—(Loud cheering.) After a few observations from Mr. Cleave, cheers were given for the Chairman and Mr. Vincent, and the As sembly dispersed, - The above is the first of a series of meetings intended to be held in the various parishes of Bath. STATE of TR ADE• and COMMERCE. The following melancholy accounts of the state of trade and the prospects of the harvest are taken from the L'vetpuel Times of yesterday, and we fear contain too mull truth : Nothing has occurred since our last to arrest the downward course of prices in the raw material of the staple manufacture of Lancashire, or to check the ad vance of prices in grain. The improvement in the wea ther, until Sunday, was very slight. The close, cloudy weal her, accompanied by frequent rain, w hi c h p reva il e d during the last week, did little to ripen the corn ; whilst the CI ntinued pressure of pecuniary difficulties, and the unparalleled dulness of the demand for goods in the manufacturing districts, has still further forced down the price of cotton. The decline last week was a farthing a pound on some descriptions of cotton, and an eighth on all. A respectable house holding a considerable quantity of cotton, stopped pay ment here on Friday, it is said, rather than sacrifice its stock at the present prices.. We are sorry to say that there is nothing in the state of the manufacturing dis tricts, or of the country generally, to encourage the hope of higher prices for some time. It is painful to have to give, week after week, such unfavourable accounts of the state of trade , _ but nothing else can be said of it w ith truth, and it is absolutely necessary that the real state of things should be known, especially now that Parliament is about to assemble for the purpose of discussing several must important questions connected with the industry Lnd prosperity of the country. 'Since our last, the average price of wheat for the whole kingdom has risen to 70s. sd. for the week, and 665. 4d. for the six weeks which regulate duty. These, however, are the prices of the week before last. The average price of the wheat sold in London last week, was 765. 9d., in Wakefield, 745. 6P., and in Liverpool, 735. As all the other markets throughout the kingdom are also rising, the average of Friday next will probably be at least 735. ; but a lower average than that will release all the Cana dian wheat and flour in bond on Friday next, at the lowest rate, namely, 6d. per quarter, and 3d. per barrel. as the average price of the six weeks is already within Bd. of 675. a quarter, at which the liberation takes place, and the week's duty which ceases to be computed, is only 635., whilst that which begins to be com puted must be nearer 735. than 70s. The total quantity of Canadian wheat and flour, &c. imported into Liver pool up to the 13th inst. and of which a good deal has already been liberated, is 12,078 quarters of wheat, 72,045 barrels of flour, 3,584 quarters of peas, and 358 barrels of oatmeal, which is only a few days' consump tion for the 28 millions of persons who are now depend ing on the scanty supplies of free grain and flour. The speculators in foreign grain will make a rich har vest this year, and in addition to the ordinary profits arising out of a rise in price, they confidently expect to pocket seven out of the eight shillings duty which they would have had to pay the Government, if the mea sure of last session had passed. The expectation of the shilling duty on foreign grain becomes more con fident every week as the supplies of free grain disappear, the harvest is retarded by the weather, and the accounts from the Continent become less favourable. Much uncertainty exists as to the amount of the sup plies which we are likely to receive from America and the continent of Europe, but the general belief is, that nothing but extravagantly high prices can produce any considerible supply from the Continent. The prospects in the United States and Canada are more favourable, though it will be seen by the accounts broUght by the Caledonia, that flour was rising in the New York market. From private letters from respect able houses in America, as well as from the accounts in the public papers, we believe that the wheat crop in the western part of the State of New York and in Virginia and Maryland will be found deficient, that it will be very good in Michigan and some other parts of the Union, and that the crop, as a whole, will be an average one. Amongst the causes which have reduced our supplies of. grain, and especially of wheat, to so low a point, a very principal one is the extraordinary decrease of the supply from Ireland. In 1832, this country received not less than 790,293 quarters of wheat and flour from Ireland ; in 1833, not less than 244,211 quarters ; and in 1834, not less than 779,505 quarters ; whilst in 1839, the whole quantity furnished by Ireland was 258,131 quarters ; and in 1840, not more than 93,633 quarters. These figures show a decline of nearly seven hundred thousand quarters per annum in the supply of free wheat, during a period in which the population of Eng land and Scotland has increased from two to three millions. Supposing that there has been an increase in the production of wheat in England and Scotland, during the last eight years, equal to the increase in the population, still it would require a regular importation of nearly a million of quarters of foreign wheat to place us in a favourable position, with regard to the chief ar ticle of food, as we were when Ireland supplied us with 800,000 quarters of wheat, more especially as the quan tity imported into Ireland is now much greater than the quantity exported from it. Great anxiety is beginning to be felt lest the specula tion in foreign wheat should again create a serious de mand for bullion from the Bank of England. The only security against this is the smallness of the supplies in the European markets, and which will probably occasion a still greater rise of prices on the Continent, and thus turn the attention of speculators to the American and Canadian markets, where all the wheat and flour that can be spared may be purchased without producing any derangement of monetary matters. For some time, how ever, it is probable that there will be a severe pull on the Bank. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTINGDON RACES.—MoNDA,Y. Match, 501.; the last three-quarters of a mile.—Hon. G. S. Byng's Garry Owen, 4 yrs. Bst 71b (Nat) beat Earl of Sandwich's Normanby, aged, 7st, cleverly. The Huntingdonshire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h ft, and 5 only if declared, with 100 sovs. added. Two miles. 36 subs. 15 declared. Mr. Pettit's E. 0., 3 yrs, ist 21b. (Pettit, jun.) 1 Mr. Meiklam's Droadwath, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b. Col. Peel's I-am-not-Aware, 6 yrs, 7st. 101 b 3 Mr. Fellowes nd Portsoken, 3 yrs, Est 71b. Mr. Gsrdnor's Monops, 4 yrs, Bst. Captain Daintree's Zephyr, 5 yrs, 6st 101 b. Mr. Daintree nd Tormentor, aged, 7st. Won cleverly - by three parts of a length. I-am-not- Aware was a good third. The Hinchinbrook Plate of 501., for three yrs old, &c. The winner to be sold for 1501., &c. Heats, once round. General Grosvenor's Alice (late Miss Ann), 3 yrs, 6st Illb (Bartholomew) 1 1 Duke of Portland's Ramadan, 4 yrs, Bst 61b 3 2 Mr. Booth's Russell Frost, 4 yrs, Bst 31b 2 3 Alice won in a canter, and was claimed. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added, for three yrs old and upwards. The winner to be sold for 3001., &c. Mile heats. (4 Subs.) Colonel Peel's Hawk's-eye, 3 yrs, Bst 81b...(Nat) ' 1 1 Mr. G. Thornhill na Humility, 3 yrs, Bst 51b 2 2 Mr. Tomlinson's Miss Twickenham, 3 yrs, Bst 21b 3 3 Won in a canter. OXFORD RACES-Y ESTERDAY. The Oxfordshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, h ft, and only 5 if declared ; the second horse to save his stake, and the winner to pay 10 sovs. towards the expenses, &c. Two miles. (33 Subs., of whom 29 declared.) Mr. Mciklam's Wee Willie, 6 yrs, Bst 21b 1 Mr. Rawlinson's Chilson, 5 yrs, Bst 31b ............... 2 5t02 on Chilson. Won easy. Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 30 added, for 2 and 3 yrs old. Three quarters of a mile. (Four Subs.) Mr. Day's Executrix, 3 yrs Mr. Rawlinson's Coral, sister to Coronation, 2 yr 5..... 2 A good race. The County Plate of 30/. Heats, two miles. Winner to be sold for 200/., &c. Mr. Holmes's Vulcan, 4 yrs.. Captain Pettat's Caliph, aged Lord Huntingtower's fby Langar, 4 yrs Mr. Rawlinson's Chilson, 5 yrs 2 dr Mr. Day's Mulciber, 4 yrs Not finished when the coach left. 1 2 4 1 TILE CUP. The following are expected to start :—Coronation, Ca ravan, Vulcan, Executrix, and either Isaac or Lady Liverpool. FIRST VESSEL DIRECT PROM EGYPT TO BELFAST.—The Saucy Jack, from Alexandria to Bel fast, has arrived at Milford, and been put under quaran tine, She will, we understand, be the first vessel which has ever been consigned to this port direct increasing._ There are now from eight to ten of our largest vessels engaged in the East India trade, out of Liverpool and London, and our foreign trade is steadily Northern Whig. A rather singular letter was last week received from the West Indies by Mrs. Munr con veying the melancholy i ntelligence of the death there of her son, George Munro. The greater portion of the letter was written by her son hims s e i at different periods, and -bearing different date aotehgbhy, ne tthl s i s e ` e and was left unfinished at his death ; and, letter was concluded with an account of his d e c n s surgeon who attended him, and whose name was also George Munro.—Dower Chronicle.A s T h tle fa l n a t rgest chimney in A LONG CHIMNEY.--. 4 f i a ss ctory of James the world is at the Soda t f h e e et e d n i o a r n m ie o t t e t r s Muspratt, Esq., near Liverpool. height of 406 feet above the ground l , tl inside at the base, 9 feet ditto at the top, and contains nearly 4,000,000 of bricks, lidouuflartirinligs s ht , oi sw illness I MORN - INN; Stil H E E It A T Of SUNDAY, the 22d of August, will contain THE FETES AT BOJLOGNE, By " YATES." CONTEST BETWEEN MASON AND JONES, FOR FIFTY POUNDS A-SIDE ; And LOWE and DONOVAN; by a Member of the P.R. THF; COWES REGATTA. 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Glorious success, and nightly overflows--immense THIS EVENING, AUGUST 18, Will be acted Lord 13yron's Spectacle, called amp THE WILD HORSE ; OR; MAZEPPA, THE C D OF THE M DE gnific SEßT. rse* introducing Mr Ducrow's aent Stud of Forty E°4 highly-trained Palf r eys, F a i r y Pooneys, the Equestr ians, al Companies of both Theat res . attraction! -FETES-AT BOULOGNE. - THE COLUMN AND STATUTE OF NAPOLEON. SUNDAY, AUG. 15.—At seven o'clock this morning the sound of cannon in the port announced to the inha bitants of Boulogne that the day had at length arrived which had so long been looked forward to—the day upon which their darling column, after numberless vicis situdes, was to be consecrated to the object for which it was originally intended. On this very day, in the year 1804, and upon the very site of this column, Napoleon distributed the crosses of the Legion of Honour to some thousands of his bravest troops, and thus a double inte rest was given to a ceremony which commemorated a bright day registered in the heart of many a time honoured veteran. Not a few of the soldiers decorated by Napoleon on the occasion above referred to have been in the town during the progress of the present pro ceedings, and their enthusiasm can be better imagined than described. They were the only persons who were indiscriminately admitted without tickets to inspect the statue before it was put up, and it is said that they have availed themselves of the permission as a privilege of the highest consideration, throwing themselves on their knees before the effigy of their beloved General, and kiss ing its cold bronze cheek, whilst tears streamed down their bronzed and furrowed cheeks. There was some expectation that the King would ho nour this interesting ceremony with his presence. In this, however, we have been disappointed. It was also still more confidently reported that Marshal Soult would have presided at the ceremony of the inauguration of the column, of which he was the chief original projector. But here, again, we reckoned without our host. The Marshal did not come ; but he sent as his deputy Ge neral Corbineau, a brave soldier, one of Napoleon's aide de-camps, and who on more than one occasion had done material service in the cause, and, indeed, towards the personal safety of his august master, by the discovery of the pass of the Beresina, which the Emperor made use of. The troops congregated to take part in this ceremony were under the command of General Letang, the Coin mandant of the Department, another of Napoleon's bravest officers, and who was decorated by him with the insignia of the Legion of Honour, after the battle of Dresden. The programme of the proceedings was drawn up by the Mayor and authorities of the town, and submitted to the Minister of the Interior for his approval. The only points in which any alterations in the scheme were deemed necessary or advisable were the two following : First, it had been proposed to announ ce th e event by a salvo of a hundred and one guns, but this was reduced to twenty-one, etiquette sanctioning the larger number on three occasions only, namely, the birth of a prince, the presence of a Sovereign, or the news of a victory. Se condly, it had been proposed that four discourses should have been pronounced at the foot of the column ; the first, by General Corbineau, on the part of the army ; the second, by Vice-Admiral Rosamel, on the part of the navy; the third, by the Prefect, on the part of the department; and the fourth, by the Mayor, on the part of the town of Boulogne, but these worthy orators were spared the exe cution of a very difficult task. A splendid scene of gaity, parade, and bustle, has oc cupied the livelong day since seven o'clock this morning, but at that hour the salvos of artillery awoke all who were not already on the qui vice to the actuality of the solemnity which was to distinguish the town of Boulogne in the annals of history. The abrupt and noisy signal was not long in working its effect ; despite a pelting shower of rain, which had fallen earlier in the morning, and the still threatening aspect of the atmosphere, every door, every window, was opened throughout the town, and the streets and quays were swarmed with spruce buckish fellows of all ages, and gaily dressed fair ones, radiant in smiles, light of step, and lavish in recognitions and congratulations, as they passed and re-passed their innumeable friends. Indeed all the world seemed to be friends with all the world. The sky now, partaking of the general feeling of cheerfulness, began to sweep away its few straggling clouds, promising a bright sunny day, and kept its promise. I heard it remarked, by the bye, that Napoleon, whenever he gave any grand fete, was always fortunate in respect of weather. To return to the port. On the firing of the cannon the ships in the harbour were all decked out with an ex tra supply of flags and streamers. The various troops destined to form part of the pro cession now began to march down the port towards the sands, each regiment preceded by its band. The appear ance of the wale body was most imposing. At about nine o'clock, all being at length in readiness, the various civil authorities assembled in the order of procession, in the grounds of the Etablissement des Bains. After which the Generals Corbineau and Letang and the other general officers, with a numero us s t a ff , came down to meet them, when, after the ceremony of salutation, the procession began to move on. The gilded car fell into rank a few hundred yards higher up, at the Custom-house, where it had been located. The National Guards including, besides that of Boulogne, deputations from Calais, Montreuil, and other places in the depart ment, together with the deputations of the Mayors from the 100 communes of which the arrondissement consists, fell into rank more in advance of the procession. The number of troops of the line of all arms engaged in this procession is said to have been about 1,800 or 2,000; that of the National Guards at from 3,000 to 3,500 ; making a total of between 5,000 and 6,000 men ; besides the civil authorities, which amounted to at least 300 or 400. This immense body of men began to move forward in the following order, at about two o'clock:— ORDER OF PROCESSION. Glens d'Armes. Cavalry of the Line, with their standard and bands. . Half a battery of Artillery of the Line, preceded by trumpets. Infantry of the Line, of various regiments, headed by their respective bands. First_ battalion of the National Guard of Boulogne, with their band. Deputations of the National Guards in towns in the department. First section of the Artillery of the National Guard of Boulogne. Deputations from the Hundred Communes of the Arron dissement, with their respective banners. A body of Sailors belonging to the Saumon and the other ships of war in the harbour, commanded by their respective Captains and Ifirst Lieutenants. Old Officers of the Grand Army, and retired OffiCers of Land and Sea Forces. group of Members of the Legion of Honour. THE TRIUMPHAL CAR. The General presiding at the Ceremony with his staff. Various Civil and Military Authorities, according to the order of precedence. Deputations of National Guards, with their respective bands. Infantry of the Line. Half a Battery of Artillery of the Line. Second Battalion of the National Guard of Boulogne, with drums. Detachment of Custom-house Officers, preceded by their Commandant and drums. Second section of the Artillery of the National Guard of Boulogne. Cavalry of the Line. Subdivision of the Cavalry of the National Guard of Boulogne, with trumpets. The procession proceeded up the Port, the Rue de L'Ecu, the Grande Rue, through the High Town, and out at the Calais Gate. On its return its course was slightly varied, taking the Rue Siblequin and theltueNeuve Chausse, and so to the church of St. Nicholas. The en tire line of route was adorned with festoons of foliage suspended across the streets, from posts which bore shields commemorating Napoleon's various battles, and a cluster of four tri-coloured flags. At a short distance outside the Calais gate, just at the top of the hill, an enormous triumphal arch was erected, gaily studded with appropriate insignia, and under which the procession passed. Some anxiety had existed as to whether the statue would be put up in time after all, the late boisterous weather having rendered this process one of great labour, attended by considerable danger. In truth, it seems it was a very near thing, and we heard of even betting in more than one quarter that the statue would have to be inaugurated on mother earth, or at best, in mid air, on its way to its last elevated abode. However, Napoleon's lucky star again prevailed ; and at a few minutes after eleven o'clock, " a long pull and a strong pull" landed him safely on the capital of the pillar. It was quite gratifying to hear the exclamations of heartfelt joy which burst from the multitudes, who were now flocking to gether from all sides on this happy discovery. I had hardly time to look about me, when the confused sounds of the various drums, trumpets, and bands of music, mingled with the booming of the deep-toned bell of the High Tower, announced that the procession had issued from the gate on the Calais road. The effect was very striking. One might almost fancy oneself on the site of an intended encampment. The appearance of the immense line of troops as they made their way along the road, which was a little better than a mile in length, and all exposed to view from this spot, gave one some idea of the great extent of the procession, and of what an armyfof twenty times its bulk, some hundred thousand men, for instance, would look like ! The pillar is certainly a very fine work of art ; chaste, yet sufficiently ornamented, and built of excellent mate rials. It starts boldly out of the ground, upon a s it e itself sufficiently imposing. Tri-coloured flags and streamers floated around it on all sides. Two temporary wooden erections had been raised, one on either side, for the accommodation of the ladies. There were also some reserved seats on the steps of the column, for a privi leged few of the other sex. The entire cortege had entered the area by about half an hour from the time when the procession first emerged from the ramparts of the high town ; the triumphal car drawing up to the steps of the column. A laurel wreath was all the precious burden it bore; and this was destined to crown the effigy of the great Napoleon ; as if he had not already l aure l s enoug h o f hi s own gatering in the storehouse of history; as if his brow needed at this day to be crowned with anything but the memory of his achievements ! Arriving at this lofty plateau or mountain plain around the column, where the statue stands, the troops and other bodies in the procession taking up their posi tions, while around the square of the enclosure galleries were erected of ample size, fn. the reception of the ladies, exactly as th e c l oc k struc k two, the figure of the Empe ror envelop e d i n i ts ve il , was suddenly revealed to the gaze of the million, looking with a severe yet benign aspect on that France which, in his latest moments, he declared he loved so well. The shouts of nearly ten thousand troops, and at least double the number of spectators, at this moment rent the air, and with the reverberations of artillery from every point, formed a most imposing scene. " Vive l'Empereur I" " Vive Na poleon !" became from this moment legitimate cries— abstract, perhaps, in sentiment, but still expressive of a great and glorious epoch in the history of France, and a distinct policy in its governnient. A Grand ,Cantata was then sung in hoilour of the ceremony w i t h str ikin g effect, after which the whole of the troops deplopd round tile column, and the procession retired in the order it THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE ON THE COLUMN. AuntrE VELUM—Tear asunder the Veil! " Column sublime ! how richly art thou laden : Proud of thy charge, thou risest up rejoicing, Clouds float around to honour thee, and evening Lingers in Heaven."—SountEr. INVOCATION OF THE LYRES. Unveil ! unveil ! Image august of Him Who ranked as Man-Almighty" when alive -0 veil ! asunder rive— And show to earth and skies The glories beaming from his brows and eyes. Unveil ! We call upon thee with our golden wail Which melts the hearts of Gods and Seraphim ; Remain no longer dim ! Show thy refulgent brow— That man may see, and bow. THE TRUMPETS. Unveil ! unveil ! If the sweet-praying Lyres may not prevail, List unto 11F- the Trumpet-Kings—who hurtle Like storms amid the realms of air, and weave As a god's mantle, songs of gold and purple. By thy majestic head, In blue air islanded, Unveil ! And so eternally be seen By the grey rocks, blue waves, and forests green ; And to all future generations shine A wonder and a sign. THE HARPS. Unveil ! unveil ! Sith thou wilt not surrender, O veil, unto the clarion's voice of splendour, Hearken to us—the Lords Of numerous song, and charmful melody. Royally roll we out our brilliant chords, Like sunlit surges, towards Thy high, and Pharos-like, and throning column. Unveil ! unveil ! Heed and obey our adjuration solemn. THE LUTES, VIOLS, AND DULCIMERS. Unveil ! Unveil ! . Sweet France with jessamine fingers, Plays on her lutes sad tunes of close beseeching,— While all the golden Viols rise up preaching -0 listen, listen ; while their music lingers In plaints and sighings : Hark to the stringed and silver dulcimers Whose holy-breathing airs Run up the atmosphere's crystalline stairs, Low at thy feet in prayerful cadence dying : Unveil thy brow, which Fame So radiantly enweaves, With bright and undecaying stars, And amaranth leaves. THE ORGANS. Unveil ! Unveil ! All-powerful in assail We raise our stops of diamond, and hail Thee, with our thousand organ-tubes divine : Unveil Lo ! Twilight longs to throw Her choicest amethysts about thy brow;— The earliest sun-beams come— Come, too, the Evening and the rosy Morning, With all theii: white-crowned Moons and gorgeous suns, Thronging around thy Image high aril huge, Adoring and adorning : They, all their sounds and perfumes on thee pouring, Cry out aloud—Unveil ! THE CANNONS. Unveil ! unveil ! All other sounds may fail, But none like us in power of spell rejoices-- None like to us possess the exceeding unction Of strong and irresistible compunction, Filled with flame-tongues, and thunder.pealing voices. Sublime above this sphere Thy form its front cloth rear As though thou wouldest dwell Alone, in grandeurs unapproachable, Yet wert thou in that Heaven Highest of all the Seven— There would we reach with power beyond thy power.— Image immortal, hail ! Unveil ! unveil ! FRANCE. Unveil ! Unveil ! Image of all our love and adoration ! If vain the imploration Of Harps, and Dulcimers, and Trumpetry, Scorn not the cry of thy own darling daughter— " Belle France"—young France—France clothed in gold and flowers— Hear, where thy Statue towers ! For thou didst love her dearly in thy days— Robed her in crimson—wreathed her head with rays, And like a puissant warrior, swore the while Kingdoms not worth her love, nor crowns her smile• Again she sings a song beloved by thee In those old days of dulcet dalliancy ; Again she longs to look upon thy face— To feast her eyes on thy immortal grace.— . Thou hearest—hearest !—Lo ! the blinding Veil —As the Morn-mists before the Sun-burst quail— Falls—and reveals to her enraptured gaze, Thy front surcharged with sempiternal rays. Ah ! thou shalt ever be to her a sign Round which her heart-strings shall unbreaking twine: Her Guide, her Glory, her serenest Star— Rainbow in Peace, and Oriflamme in War — Her Sword, and Buckler, and abounding Quiver — A light and splendour to her feet for ever ! Hark ! golden murmurs breathe through air and sides, Such as from Memnon did of old arise— While lo ! thy Image shakes with living throes : And smiles of glory on thy Daughter throws. Ah ! she is happy now—at that dear sign She folds her hands in ecstasies divine, Sinks in the trances of a gorgeous rest, For her high Father-King bath stood contest. FATAL ACCIDENT.—A melancholy accident happened on Monday at Richmond, Surrey, to a gentle man named Lewis, aged nineteen, whose father is Secre tary to the Union,Fire and Life-office, Cornhill, and Baker-street. It appears that Mr. Lewis was fishing in the Thames, near the bridge, when, from the swe ll of the steam-b oats, his boat capsized, and he was thrown into the water. The accident having been observed by several persons, they made off to the spot in boats, and in a few minutes afterwards the drags were procured, when the body was brought ashore, but all attempts to restore animation were useless. NAPOLEON'S OPINION ON THE FORTIFICA TION OF PARIS.—" Let Paris rise in insurrection," said Napoleon, " and I am here fortified, with my left on the Champs Elysces, my right on the Military School, sem manding the passage of the river, an open space between me and Paris ; my reserve at St. Cloud behind me ; my artillery depot can be moved from Vincennes to Meu don, and the Parisians will no longer be able to stir.' " Here," exclaimed one of those present, " you talk of fortifying the capital against its own inhabitants, not against the enemy." " Fortify Paris against an enemy!" exclaimed Napoleon, " I never thought of such a thing. A capital with a population of a million cannot be forti fied; first, because it could not be fed; secondly, because all the rich and sober classes would quit, and leave none but the turbulent behind. A siege in such a case would create a permanent sedition." THE HOPS.— WATERINGEURY, MERE WORTH, AND NETTLESTEAD.—The hops are coming to maturity slowly, in consequence of the cold nights and damp days. They are damaged by the rough winds at some places, and in some of the strong grounds the stric , of the burr is rotting by the wet. Most persons express ;decided opinion against a full crop. At the annual hop dinner, at the King's llead, W ater i ng b ury , on th e II th inst., there were between 40 and 30 present, and on betting for the sweepstakes the average was between 143/. and 144,0001. for the year 1841. The corn is looking well in those parts, and appears to want cutting ; some speak of it as being rather light. Beans are very strong. Harvest is slightly begun, b u t t h e weat h er prevents an y p rogress being made. The rise in flour causes great apprehensions and complaints amongst the la b our i ng c l ass , and the ob servation is vary common amongst them that everything rises but their wages. • - DR. PUSE Y .—Th e f o ll ow i ng appears in the Dublin F reeman ' s Journal OnSunday last there was a grand reception in the Convent of the Sisters of Charity, Stanhope -street ; his Grace the Archbishop ( presided. Several of the clergy attended, and amongst the spectators was the celebrated Dr. Pusey, who ap peared to be deeply interested with the imposing and afecting ceremony, - _ arrived—the - ccreinonr being concluded with tcsolemrr service in the Cathedral Church of the town. The laurel wreath was then taken from its resting place on the car, and honourably escorted up the steps of the column. It was there taken up to the top of the' column and placed on the head of the statue ; and the cheering :Will ,repeated with redoubled energy. Never was there a more exciting scene certainly in the open air. An ode, composed for the occasion, was then sung by a gentleman with stentorian lungs ; the burden of which was felicitating the Boulonn a i s an d the English (!) upon this happy occasion. This ending the ceremony of inauguration, the proces sion returned in the order it came to the Church of St. Nicholas, where, after a short service in presence of the authorities and part of the troops, the rest being drawn up outside, the military and other constituent parts of the large procession. marched off to their respective quarters. At nine o'clock at night a grand display of fire-works was exhibited in the harbour, a most splendid sight of the kind. 'lt commenced with a sort of sham engage ment between the three ships of war in the harbour and the soldiers in the port ; the firing extending the whole length of the latter on the far side. This cannonade, or feu d'artifice of course, the effect of which was very good, was in fact kept up, with more or less energy, throughout the whole of the exhibition. Amongst the set pieces, a representation of the column, at least thirty feet high, with the statue on the top, all represented in white lights, was greeted with rapturous cheering. Pots of red light were then set burning along the edge of the quay, and the water in the harbour looked like a lake of liquid fire. The whole concluded with a complete vol cano of Roman lights and rockets, in which the three colours, red, blue, and white, were ingeniously mingled. Nothing could have passed off better than the whole of the arrangements of this day. The people were fairly worn out with amusement, and by half-past ten o'clock the streets were almost ckared. There was not a single case of disordcr or inebriation, in the town. A scaffold ing., let out in seats at two francs a head, in face of the column, came down with a crash in the midst of the ode, but nobody was seriously hurt. I must premise that I only reached Portsmouth an hour before the dinner on the 6th took place ; that I did not know I should be called on to propose any toast, till I took my seat at table, where I found a printed list of toasts, from which it appeared that Colonel Jones, the Commandant of the Portsmouth division of Royal Ma rines, was to have proposed the before-named toast, but, as he was ill, his name had been erased, and mine writ ten down instead. I was, therefore, taken by surprise, and if any thing in my speech can be construed to im ply that I meant to give Sir Howard Douglas a priority over Sir John Pechell, in the introduction of the present gunnery system, my words must have borne a meaning I never intended them to convey. What I stated was that " Sir Howard's publication, printed in 1819, introduced the question of gunnery more generally to the notice of the Navy." A reference to dates will prove that the view I take of this question is correct. In the year 1814, Sir John Pe chell printed a pamphlet, entitled, "Observations upon fitting Guns on board her Majesty's Ships." It contains full and minute instructions for doing so. The greater part of these suggestions have been adopted. The pam phlet is dated March the Gth, 1814, Bermuda, and was officially transmitted to the Admiralty by Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren. These papers were finally re ferred to the proper Board, but were not acted upon. On the return of the San Domingo, under the command of Sir John Pechell to Spithead in the same year, 1814, she was inspected by Rear-Admiral Foote, assisted by four Captains. The official Report made by them to Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton, the Commander-in- Chief at Portsmouth, stated that the gunnery equipments and training of the San Domingo were so superior to those of her Majesty's ships in general, that they were induced to recommend them for general adoption in the Navy, stating that their value and efficiency had been proved by the celerity with which the San Domingo had been cleared for action, and the extraordinary rapidity and precision of her fire. The Admiralty of that year (1814) expressed their approbation, in replying to this official Report, through the Commander-in-Chief. It is merely an act of justice to record that tangent sights, similar in principle to those which have since been esta blished in the Navy, were then fitted to the San Domingo's guns by Sir John Pechell; that he had adopted a plan for obtaining horizontal fire, the efficacy of which had been shown in the actions of the Phcebe and Shannon ; and many other methods for instruct ing officers and sexinen in a thorough knowledge of the management of their guns, which are detailed in the pamphlet. rshafl not enter further into details, nor shall I touch on what has since been done by others, because that part of the question is fully discussed in the United Service Journal, for the month of September, 1839. Shortly after Sir John Pechell's return, in the com mand of the San Domingo, in 1814, he proposed that one of the guard-ships should be made a school of gunnery instruction for training officers, gunners, and seamen— this proposal was not acceded to. In 1817 Sir Howard Douglas transmitted his work on Naval Gunnery to the Admiralty in MS., and in Nov. 1819 he was authorised to publish it. In that work he alludes to the assistance he had derived from communications on naval gunnery with those distinguished officers, Sir Philip Broke and Sir John Pechell ; and I know and feel that both Sir John Pechell and Sir Howard Douglas will both rejoice to see this question fairly stated. In 1825, Sir John Pechell, when in command of the Sybille, printed a second pamphlet, on the fitting of ships' guns. In 1827 he again brought forward a pro posal for establishing a floating depot, or school of naval gunnery, and presented a minute to the Lord High Ad miral on the necessity of extending the gunnery training, improving the equipments, and rendering the gun exer cise more definite and uniform. In 1832 he prepared and arranged the present esta blished exercise for great guns in our navy, and, finally, in that year drew up th e minute which established the Excellent, during the administration of Sir James Graham. In that minute he adopted some things from Sir flow ard's book, but there can be no doubt, from a reference to dates, that to Sir John Pechell is due the claim of priority as well as of unwearied perseverance in working out this great national question; though it cannot be denied, that the good seed sown in the minds of the naval world by Sir Howard Douglas's publication, between the years 1819 and 1832, prepared the way for the adoption of the important measure, which Sir John Pechell finally car ried in 1832. I cannot close my remarks without stating that the establishment of the Excellent, which was formed during Sir James Graham's administration, has been doubled as to the number of its officers and men, by Lord Minto and the present Board of Admiralty, and expressing my deep sense of the warm interest and solicitude his Lord ship and the Board have constantly evinced for the effi ciency and success of every part of the establishment. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS HASTINGS, Captain, R.N. Portsmouth, Aug. 14, 1841. CHARTIST MEETING AT BATH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—From the great interest taken in the above pro• ceedings, your insertion of the inclosed abridged report in The Sun will much oblige Your's very respectfully, C. CLARKE. A highly respectable meeting of the middle and work ing classes took place last evening, in the large room, Kingmead-square, for the purpose of hearing an address from Mr. Henry Vincent, on the present position of affairs, and in defence of the principles of which he is the well-known advocate. At eight o'clock Mr. Vincent, Mr. Alderman Crisp, and Mr. Oliver, temperance lecturer, entered the room and were received with loud cheers, Mr. Alderman Crisp was unanimoasly called to the chair, and opened the proceedings by observing that they seemed to have less objection to his taking the chair than the parsons had to friend Bolwill some time since at the upper room. It is a pity these clerical gentry do not come amongst us and endeavour to enlighten our understandings, for they say we wander in darkness. God knows, in the estimation of some of Mother Church's sons, I have been wandering from the dear old lady long enough, yet none of her faithful shepherds endeavour to call me back again by convincing me of my error.—(Laughter and cheer:.) Mr. Crisp, at some length, dilated on the probable re sults of the Tories being in office, and the necessity of the people improving in knowledge and virtue, and uniting for the attainment of further organic changes.—(Cheers.) The Chairman then introduced Mr. VINCENT, who said—Ladies and Gentlemen. in a country possessed of good institutions, and amongst a people in the enjoy ment of social happiness, the interterence of a 'humble citizen like myself in its public affairs might be consi dered to require an apology; bat in a country like ours, where the aristocratic principle reigns supreme—where civil distinctions and honours are showered upon the wealthy and high-born—where the mass of the people are politically slaves, and are reduced to a state of social destitution ; the only explanation necessary is the public exigence, which calls upon the meanest man to, use the power God has endowed him with to aid in working out his country's regeneration. Such, Gentlemen, is my position—a novel one, I admit ; but warmly as I have been attached to the principles of liberty from boyhood—fervent as have been my aspirations for the good of my fellow-creatures in times when public excite ment ran high, and we had advanced, as it were, to the very threshold of victory, I should consider myself a pigmy in soul if I did not rise above my usual enthusiasm now that the cloud of oppression thickens around us.— (Loud cheers.) I mei 3-ou to-night for a variety of rea sons—to speak of principles lasting as nature—to rouse the sluggard—to spur on the intelligent —to whisper hope in the ear of despair —and to shake the virtue and intelligence of the city, in the quivering features of our cowardly oppres sors.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Vincent, at some length, proceeded to show the causes that led to the defeat of the Whigs at the late election. He said that four years ago the Chartists had clearly point e d ou t, t h at un l ess the Whigs took their stand with the people, another elec tion would be their total ruin. He ridiculed the notion of Conservatism having triumphed, and illustrated seve ral propositions to show that the democratic principle flourished as vigorously as ever. He proceeded to explain the principles on which government ought to be founded, and to show the end it ought to have in view is the hap piness of the governed. He had been prosecuted for as serting that our Government did not exist for the benefit of the governed. Nearly two years of correctional im prisonment had been inflicted upon him, but he now felt it to be his duty to declare, before a more intelligent jury, that the British system of government existed only to uphold the power and wealth of the few, and to enslave and degrade the many.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Vincent proceeded to show that the full measure of justice con tained in the People's Charter could be as easily ob tained as the smallest organic change. He showed that the aristocracy would never yield to the popular will unless compelled by a strong unity of virtue, intelli gence, and courage. Here a gentleman in the room forwarded a note to Mr. Vincent, asking, if the Charter could not be obtained at once, if it would not be better to contend for a single point ?__ Mr. VINCENT, in reply, enforced with considerable effect his former proposition,—that the Charter can be as easily carried as any one of its points. He said, —Perhaps the gentleman who forwarded the note is in favour of the Ballot, and thinks that obtained, all other good measures would _ follow ; but my experience teaches me, that unless the consti tuencies are made too large to be purchased, fatal acts NATAL - GUNNERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—May I request that you will favOur tne by in serting in the next publication of your paper the enclosed letter, addressed by me to the Editor of the Morning Post, at the close of last week. I am induced to hope you will comply with my re quest, because I have no other object than that of cor recting the erroneous impression which a part of my speech (as reported in the Morning Post) at the dinner given by the Navy and Marines at Portsmouth on the Gth of August to Sir Robert Stopford, is calculated to produce.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS HASTINGS, Captain, RN. Excellent, Portsmouth, Aug. 16, 1841. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST. SlR,—The speech I made at the dinner given to Ad miral Sir Robert Stopford by the Navy and Marines at Portsmouth, on the 6th of August, 1841, on proposing the health of Sir Charles Napier, the Captains. Officers, Seamen, and Marines, who so nobly supported him on the coast of Syria, has not been correctly reported, and there has been so entire an omission of a most important part of it, that I feel myself called on to request that you will publish some explanatory remarks. As head of the gunnery establishment, which has received such con stant support and liberal encouragement from the Lords of the Admiralty, I feel it incumbent on me to correct this omission, and to do justice to the utmost of my power. After which. THE SPLENDID SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, In the Largest Arena in the World. st y e In which ;Madame Ducrow i Signor Hilli er , the Great twjao, can Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, an d First Artistes in Europe will appear. To e conclu with THE REIYER'S RANSOM ; d OR, GILDEROY' THg BONNIE BOY. Gilderoy, Mr. Henry Hughe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. TON* UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBAOS S Grand and triumphant s uccess o f " Al ary Clifford r! . 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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAV' ir '• tinrning.....4l minutes after 2 I Evening 2 mint!tf. ""tt th..?.,t1 _--- t 4 ":iCr NI V_ r . m w.• •-s 4 . 4 2 ' Cte, LONDON: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1841841. The triumph of the Tories at the husting s e P- of exalted the horn of the priests. Their n ot or , exultation is heard everywhere. All their by Bans chaunt in chorus the victory achieved the them over the people. Th e i rs , th e y cry, i s 0 , They y y aorfehaatvilnegastdceofneasitsetdeattl.te The but Be it t be body as they do the sou l. R e li g i on bisutthterelBift.e of the soul. Not a rite appertains to it to which th . . ne have not tagged a tax. We can neither co n e into the world, nor go out of it; marry, n" D g , in marriage ; pray, nor abstain from Pr lt i rl . - no , without paying the priest's taxes upon re/jaii e. Nor have we even the benefit of a sliding sT iou Whatever be the dearth of religious consDia!,h. at home, we are not allowed to import any w i . out paying the maximum duty. i T n flghtolg • o then, for dear bread under the banner ° l ' the o 1 garchy who support the accursed Corn laws, they have proved themselves as ready body as the soul. But they exult rather too loudly. The people that they can be are neither so impotent ,nor so infatuated trampled upon with its grasping, with priestianity as to confo und to starve the o f the rapacious Jern:upsr.etertyl:npsriwe: ts etalnienoretligtaikolle the lowly detect Scripturest these open.e th eir hands; and with th e Gospels out bef f or n etltem, it is ea sy for them to dc wo lves in sheeps' c l o thi ng . J - Esc s ' eiis the head of the Christian Church, had not where to l a y his head; the Archbishop of CANTERBVII V i vtheelgr a i in y m . tdue a tan i sb e be c yr c l ol e af s N i tv a h s ee t s i tt c a a h l head sh ed of occupies,the Ch a r s e ° s i s cwoeprael poor bench a , n ad Palace' CHRIST and his Apostle ) the Bishops enumerate their wealth by thousan d; sterling. The Ap ost l es gave all t h ey poss esse d to the poor; the priests plunder, imprison, 011 , insult them. The Apostles had no money ° d i their purses, and their missionary outfit consist e d of one c oa t, a sta ff , an d a scr i p to car ry bread; ; the Bishops v i s it th e H ouse of GOD l e coaches, raise lawn-bedecked arms to impl o , blessings through the merits of HIM who washe, the feet of fishermen ; and whenever a O l t ! breaks a priest is sure to be one of the prineir` losers. Bishop BURNET, who knew the p riest well, tells us that he always believed well of l ast men till he saw cause to change his opinion , that he always suspected a priest to be ei thern rogue or a hypocrite till he was sure of the CO" trary. This is not at all surprising. The edne;3l tion, habits, and pursuits of the State priest".. render them naturally objects of suspicion. the Universities they contract a habit of f fl t t r l i s j : swearing, which must sap the very basis o religious feeling. Hardly one youth in a tbn°so4ll b,. ever dreams of observing the oaths taken tn serve the rules and regulations of his v