The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-05 00:00:00

MORNING SUN._ LITERATURE This N SPORTING itEVIEIC 13 , ,umber cont a i ns t wo Platt — t One, a por the ~,` Ghazttee, the winner of the Oaks; and kho w e r) view of Cowes Harbour—the well durinn Place of rendezvous of the Yacht Club, Kithtilt autumnal season. This last forms a "tterful, animated picture, and is engraved of l34 sable ability. The literary department %kir co urse, almost exclusively restricted to tibg Matters. mon the SPORTSMAIV. th Sportsman is cleverly em b e llished this th e mwith an engraving entitled " Starting for Eck °° r B )'' which exhibits a very picturesque lite ra i rir ° ll nd of moor and mountain. Among the '`, 4 lle ' 7 n : i n t : i des we may single out for praise ^rit er l- - t uigent observations on the Turf, by a a e -Ivt lo signs himself " A Looker-On ;" and glie s - ' 4ll t Of sporting " anderings by the and Rivers of Ireland."W This M ALLWOOD'S MAGAZINE. tPeriodical improves in interefit, the . arti N o n the numbers before being as N, to lls ' and well chosen as could be desired... qtv () st eAtertaining is an account of Russia in J 1 04. 1.8 1835, 1830, which seems to be drawn up I N., ' 4 .' 7116 has been a resident in that country,.. "lth : ar niliar with the manners and institutions e Inhabitants. I.Thet,PRUIKSHANK'S OMNIBUS. t lik e irnrd Number of this smart and humorous ) 7td VY has just made its appearance, illus 4ith Y several capital plates, one or two of 14 are as • arti s Ingenious and fantastic as any tha .. t Truikshank) ever executed, even in k'tls' L a rit "s. The " Discovery of Van De ,• V ` P elt of 18 of this description, and represents rs, I.l4ling imps, malting .ev ery effort to 'tar!s ` 4 , l e prog ress o f t h e Fly in g Dutchman, , 4tivanciaB--, under a heavy preSs of sail, 1'44'44 the shores. The figures and faces of 14,„ t t;ese imps are replete with the most kpaysity with "e Rumour. Of the literary contents we Perfect truth, that they will richly 1 1: ti 8 )" ertlB4 l. " A Few Notes on Unpaid Let touilititar ti.r'ular, are singularly terse and ft elr , ST ' GEORGE'S CHAPEL, eri,„ WINDSOR. k h ' t witi i l l t ! L ieber or more c h arm i ng sight is not to be Oa , the three ki n gdoms tam that which, for ri a.ts .s i Century, St. George's has presented on those tat • : ' 7 hen it h been attended by the 3 services have . • _ w hi c h .4-ftking back an y of the reigns, in s u ) , il as attended i o i n i this Chapel, historic recollec - P e elil 'ess ril"s- IT a host of scenes w hich, from the rich "f their reality look almost fair a s the Aet:` ~ The T t udor-gneens and the Plan -1;:, t ...11r4411 „ ;`„ e s also these of Stuart and Brunswick , h ave 3 . " its altars worshipped in its sanctu ar y , tit d 1 . in i ts courts. i s; it is out pure devotions 'rite`tsoo .not alone the title or beauty f its l i a 410 1 invest it with charm and romance .there e b ti iher of Other concomitant circumstances,. 4 t e ". n ntl all, to the eof the artist, intertwine tt .- 11 4t lY ethq vi s i'i e nder the tablea umost attractive to notice. all °I : attend St. George's, as have we ; that is, - opt the following recipe, and we will warrant .d qr 4 . 4 . -reln ae.Y of enjoyment, both in eye and min 0,t11, 1 4 requisite must be a superb Sunday surnmer b the air is a-blaze with sunbeams, and you d i74erie:°re.You enter the chapel, that every nook an 7.sPringh,g. with IWO - . Requisite, too, that the Yo r , l l, ll ,_her suite, which,. of course, comprehends. i...%l‘ l ,;_ e 's of beaut, be destined also to take part in - and . that ,, also, of course the in singing-men 044..6", women and choristers be allarray and the 4 ,fay nu attention, meanwhile, when in chap], alt date wood-carvings of . Grmli Ss kt,,7 Verrio, or the thick-clustered' rose:mul nG'bbons the 4 11, a t other ornaments of the ceilings ; but examine,_ . tne • • s bibus the Uruci -151, . bun f or a w seconds in - ' of il t il h e st4 . l nedglass e ,,on the great West window, or choir_ windows on the North and South side of th e f r 1..4'h -coloured with sacred historie.s. 1 . \Tait k. the e in le il tea s moment when the sun emerging lights l o v f. -- i h e e w s k i nto emeralds and jacinths ; when the e Choir harmoniously cadence ; when th t t ra eness of the Court appears fully brought out, 12se anti mess of the sun-light streaming through Windows shed so ethereal a softness o 1 1 1 t neirersons and features as make them seem 111, aui tartt of s some brighter clime. Watch . for that and we warrant no theorizer on optics or vision l 't t .„ t llreis to one that would be lovelier. I. `l ‘ ;'?, 'll -e rbegun)(rass-stained windows are magnificent. Wer e in Richard Beauchamp's time, when the purple pall of Bishop of Salisbury, and the 1 d y ed monkssi every pane with that blood - red ruby 1 1 1 - ‘` I ve have now entirely lost, and the place of which av e no colour splendid enough to supply. The c hiei. ,N4s.w.,which now has the greatest quantity of this old is the G rea t W e st Window, which is entirely filled 'iteelent st a i ne d g l ass , ga th ere d together from different ' 1 4, 4 .1 ws of the chapel, so that now all the piously ar l'h`t,,labour of Bishopßeauchamp has been made havoc caused, like the pretty pink and crimson pieces `rial,reelvlng kaleidoscope, to assume with the same ma li sib altogether different shape. This great variety % ii g' r es of saints, coats of arms, saintly and ;, 1 a e :• -t oevices, &c., which were before time figuring 'lt 1 - were thus put together under the direction ''eckna a k n, Dein of Windsor, in 1774. L t Y bi., "is time, however, it is sad to find that • 17," b e ' lll "hie neglect lay among . those who . , ought ec t . o_ f, tl the beautifiers and repairers of . this fine v t e i r In t he year 1797, an antiquarian in going int t!xllctel, and observine. the faded beauty . of the paint by be- Othi:ltted by the haiid of Verrio, left this record_ ter ex .l4 a book which he published shortlya! t4)t,1111 train k la a forcible light the scandalous neglect which t qkli c i t e t „ t jme . to this has been allowed to exist. The 41. 1%, i°ll ringS of the ceilings, the traceries . on its l'e b a ,ltlie ° Z,' ‘ !he frescos on its tombs, the devices on its ttl lr ed 'f il .tnents, were suffered shamefully. to go un- "t b. Pity it i• " vs he " that this chapel, which . 41 11 1 1 sta: d ar t ornamesn't, says he, "that this chapel, which Ornament, should be suffered to run to ruin, It•l„ t sin a tz ra ark of public resentment; . for certain it is th "`"ng James's reign, it has been . entirely neg -4:411, gins the care and repair of it is peculiar . to .. !he or g iil g no appendage to the Collegiate chtuch - 1. 17 t he Third certainly did much towards reno p,„ . °4 th e internal decas of the chapel ; but Wyatt, o, 4. era ist t il s, g'tgel to overlook the progress of the iir.- 4 11) u naccountably) , did not effect their comple " great Western IN indow, which we have before ! t 4 ,_ ,itittred, is pi ecemagnificence in the way of 14 g l ass, a surpassing, nf prhaps, any other to be found al tit iei t a kshi , r e• Itis fitted U e , as observed, wi a thetoe te l3 s ,P ; a `ated glass of Beauchamp's time, while . sub• - ' al nin West was directed to draw up a design on t 1,, r ieet of the crucifixion, with which it was destine ''or,,4eeerated. West was handsomely patronized by th e Ti • and when compared . with the tus k whi - "Ping of his Scripture-painting, those designs 1 :)41, 1, eh he has embellished the chapel are no 'Poe : 13 ' 14e ''. of his skilfulness and power. If not qui.. -atyptic " Death on the White Horse " the gi l d ii hd as his Ystic vision of John of Patmos—they h_ave. Significant arrangement of his " Raising La ,''4te r i in molting the same synrnetry of parts, and es s of dissal This window has for many P a st ., been considered to . be in an unsafe con \ and a bulging prominence of some inches 111 4 d e d the truth of the fact. Surveys were_ ,; 11 1Z,' made of it some years since, and k44 lll j t e n rs ti lf h re a p s a b ir ee N n vent forth, but nothing from that done. Now, however, the Dean ~its a ao ns have summoned courage to restitute it out . crazy state ; the stone work is to be temporariy SIZ tII , the framework rebuilt, and the glass newly th e d• dnw Mr. Blore superintends the Work. Saviour, _ Othe r great p a inted window, called the Ras:, Wi . Ati'l l , P ePresents the resurrection of our Saviour. Beira eat equally designed this with the foregoing, and t de t , Xecuted in painted glass by Jarvis and Forest, in iDa Year 1788. A window by the sameieer artist, represent east ` i e angel; appearing to ourav s plendid embellish , is paced at the ke nt e i ld of the south aisle. These ovi d are a ll modern, and owe their existence to the ip era care of his Majesty George the Third, who was '4„:'if a liberal contributor to tham, %h , of this beautiful and who expended le sttir s ums in procur ing the l Nt ttar e to be thoroughly repaired, and its ornaments I°red • 44t 4 ~t lic windows on the north and south sides of the are the arms of the Knights. Companions of the the ' t t. • The arms of each King -ar and Garter and surmounted with his crest and Knight are encompassed with /k tca t ltl h e i t • yhe Garter is underneath, with a blue riband ... h int it thereto, on which the name and title is in !hi! -eq • The Knights Companions of this Order, toge -Ikt: with the Dean and Chapter of Windsor and the Pre- Na,alld Chancellor of the Order contributed to h i,04, of the east w i n d ow , w hich is said to have tex- cost e s ix, 1 ' Thes e l as t- men ti one d w indows, to the number o u f T ti s re to h ave the dark panes of colore d g l ass taken t 4 tai l )%„ n ',:'lld transparent painted glass substituted - inc-'h Mons. Villemont executes. 15 4 11 Conclusion, we wou ld a dd, that a pretty general, ti4 er Y erroneous idea exists with regard to the.supe over of th e co l ours employe d i n ancient glass-pam_ting , 414n,,,tf105e in u se at t h e present d a y. It is believed b)r th e ••') and t a k en for granted by others, that not only is 1 •4 41 ' ll le brilli ancy . unattainable by modern skill, but Ill tiri le ar t of producing. the colours themselves is itself 4 41 1 , e 'Y lost. Thi s i s a very m i s taken notion ; for not N e ":re those employed as durable. and brilliant as the 'vie s b of the ancients, but others have been added, ` )r a e t h i t "ey most probaby did not know how to . produce, e ol eas t did not use. Amongst these arepink,.strtiav- I . ; - „ ur, and other compound tints. That indiscriminating . I, esi„ -ra t,ion for the antique, which has so often and the 41 0 - „ IIS 'y interfered with the claims of modern art o .. t te ak t e r agement to which it is entitled, has . operated kior„litt glass-painting and staining, with 111. p t e l ‘ l3' - . ta. pt : mree than any other art. . )Pith the 11 4 "11,11, perhaps, o'f' the ancient ruby, to which appears s _ t4 h , e "'eon lost for the two past centuries, we not only Iv en Taud all the resources of the old artists, but are I‘l,erfully reinforced with many new. t he% ) s 'rvice has of course been procociled with, d , u , ritig i. I.)i'ee alterations for many past Sundays, in the window was completed on Saturday last, and Ivi4ng from this, as to the general appearance when t les s , e are finished, the interior of the chapel will doubt tune" a more splendid appearance than before. T~iiSitT `STOL AND. GLOUCESTER IiAILWAY-- I lei:.1 1 ‘, in the .°II, S on thi s li ne are GOO roceedin,, b(),"14011rhood of Wieltwar, where additional la. e k . 3 ha ve ire tr9.44CIC, been put on this week. BMN O F A FIXED DUTY ON CORN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. First,—lt will prevent the Revenue being defrauded by fictitious sales, evading the law, and smuggling (surely no trifle in the e.ye of a Prime Mini ,ter). Seeolt&-4t iiil destroy the ile6eSsity dfkeeOng,o4,l in bond fOr ttidntlis *kid Ailt6 the lowest scale a Wheitoby theltisands of quarters have been seteilt ithd thrown away. Third,—lt will open the corn market to at least file thousand merchants of the moderate capital of 20,0001. each, forming an active capital of 100 millions of pounds, instead of keeping the trade in the hands of two hundred capitalists, of 100,000/. each, forming only a capital of 20 millions of pounds, Fourth,—lt will give Oiled basis for the merchant manufacturer tti eiticulate upon, and enable him to barter his manufactures in all markets for corn, whereas a sliding duty (apart from its being a perfect gambling transaction) is quite a prohibition to the merchants, who otherwise could bring home corn instead of a cash re mittance, when he is certain of being able to sell on arrival, at a fixed duty, and encash his funds promptly. Fifth,—This would prevent the constant drain of gold from the bank, in the same proportion as manufactures are bartered. Sixth,—This would prevent the continual restrictions of the bank that now so often occur, and the distresses of the country would be lessened. Seventh,—lt would destroy the jealousy existing be tween the landed and manufacturing interests, because the daily and monthly operations of the merchant throughout the year, upon his manufacturing profit, would amply repay him, and enable him not to be grudge the landholders even a 10s. protecting duty; his operations being very different to the great capitalist (moving only once a year) with enormous profit, when the people are at the extreme point of need and starva tion, for the manufacturing merchant's frequent repeti tion of a small profit would more than equalise the one yearly great profit of the capitalist ; he would not be watching the seasons, but the consumption, of his manufactures. Eighth,—lt would put the twenty thousand pound man and the one hundred thousand pound man on an (quality in the corn trade, as there would be no neces sity for holding. Ninth,—lt would give a vast impetus to our manufac tures, increasing the price of labour, and lowering the price of bread. Tenth,—lt would prevent the capitalist taking two profits—the manufacturer's and his own. Eleventh,—lt would lower the price of bread three pence per quartern, which, to the population of Eng land, 24 millions (giving eight persons to a fa mil y ), making three millions of families, consuming two quarterns a day, at least say sixpence per day per family, or eighteen millions of pence per day, for 365 days, gives upwards of twenty-seven millions of pounds into the pockets of the people per annum. Twelfth,—lt would create a boundless market, and a regular supply, owing to the vast capital open to the trade, and the immediate sale of the merchant-manufac turer's stacks of corn, who would not hold his corn to watch the distress of his country, but convert it directly into cash to pay his workmen, and make more goods. Thirteenth.—lt would not prevent the capitalist join • ing also in the trade ; there would be ample latitude left for him, because an article bartered fir half cash and half goods would not be imported so low as for all cash; thus there would be 120 millions instead of 20, if need required to play with. I have sold abroad the manufactures of my country for twenty-five years, from 1805. I have bartered many a lot of Manchester goods fur produce, part goods part cash ; but I would refer to my book of customs. I found a fixed duty to make my calculations upon, but a sliding duty I consider unjust, because, exclusive of the mass of merchants, and a curse to the country. I ridicule those who say barter is not to be effected with our manufactures ; I have effected it often ; but the duty mitst be fixed to accomplish it for the merchant, who has the two trades to follow, of manufacturing and importing. Query—Why is corn to be the only article on which a sliding duty is affixed ? I am, Sir, your's, respectfully, July 27, 1841. E. T. This is no question of Whig or Tory, Radical or Chartist ; the salvation of the country depends upon a prompt alteration of the present evasive smuggling law. No lowering of the sliding scale will prevent the smug gling—nothing but a fixed duty will do it. Oh, ye legis lators! the capitalist outwits you, and laughs at you, and deprives the revenue of hundreds of thousands, so that you are bound to alter a law that permits a coach. and four to be driven through it by the rich, owing to its defects, and not tax the people over again for the losses occasioned by such a lache act. THE LATE ELECTIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,--A glance at the returns will show the deplorable state of our representative system. It is evident that the intelligence of the United Kingdom is swamped by the ignorant farmers and the corrupt freemen. The new boroughs in the metropolitan district, with Manchester, Salford, Stockport, 'Oldham, Rochdale, Bolton, Sunder land, Greenwich, Tynemouth, and South Shields, elect Reformers, and the old boroughs, which contain free men, viz., Liverpool, Hull, Whitehaven, 'Worcester, Lynn, Harwich, Rochester, Canterbury, Lincoln, Exeter, Knaresborough, Scarborough, and Cambridge , return Tories. Leeds is about the only large town not cursed with freemen which has selected a Tory to represent it. In Newcastle-on-Tyne, where they are afflicted with freemen, the parties avoid a contest and return a Whig and a Tory, whilst in the adjoining new ' borough of Gateshead, which is only separated by the river, a Tory dare not show his face. I think we should not wish a revolution in Ireland and disturbances in England and Scotland because the Tories have contrived to delude and intimidate a set of stupid farmers, and to bribe the notoriously corrupt freemen in the English boroughs, but the sense of the nation should be taken by some means or other. Perhaps a convention of delegates from all the large towns of the United King dom would be the most effective method.—l am, Sir, your most obedient servant , A REFORME. When our Sheriff's Poll-book is published I expect it will show a majority of between 300 and 400 101. house holders in favour of the Reform candidates, although we were defeated by the freemen ; and I believe the same will be the case with every large town which has the mor tification and disgrace of having returned Tories. Hull, Aug. 2, 1841. ANTI-CORN -LAW MEETING AT ISLINGTON. —A preliminary meeting was held on Tuesday at the i Thatched House Tavern, in Islington, for the purpose of , taking the necessary steps for the formation of a branch , Anti-Corn -law Association. A deputation from the Society attended. Mr. Richmond took the chair, and shortly stated the object of the meeting, and his hopes that the great measur e the y were struggling for would soon be carried triumphantly. The parent Society at tributed some importance to the formation of a branch society in Islington, as the character of that district was in general Tory, and they hoped that the formation of such an association would act as a beginning to a more liberal state of feeling and opinion. Mr. Wickham, of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association, then addressed the meeting, and stated the desire of the Asso ciation which he represented to organize the metropolis into regularly-constituted associations, having for their great object a repeal of the Corn-laws. Already three fourths of the Metropolitan districts were regularly organized, and the system was being carried out in the neighbouring counties of Kent and Essex. The ques tion that an auxiliary association be formed, was, after some discussion, triumphantly carried. The necessary arrangements having been made, the meeting sepa rated. AINSWORTHS DICTIONARY.—At the Ses sions, on Tuesday, John Thompson Woode and Charles Tibbs, two respectable-looking men, were charged with having feloniously broken into the shop of Mr. EdWard Davies, ontician, Bold- street, and sto len 120 p air of spectacles, 120 gold and silver eye-glasses, ten tele scopes, and two compasses, th? proprty of the said Ed ward Davies. Mr. Henderson conducted the prosecu tion ; Mr. Murphy and Mr. Venables were for the de fence. The robbery, it appeared, took place between the closing of the shop on Saturday evening, the 29th of May, and its opening on the morning of the following Monday. Goods to the extent of 3001. were stolen. On the last-mentioned day, two men met Mr. David Davies, who is also a jeweller, but no connection of the prose cutor, and asked him to purchase some gold and silver spectacles, eye-glasses, &c., offerin g to introduce him to a person who had a quantity of such articles to dis pose of. Mr. Davies knew one of the men slightly, but having some misgivings, declined to make the purchase. In the evening of the same day, he heard el the robbery in Bold-street, arid informed Mr. E. Davies of what had occurred. The police also were put in possession of the circumstances and Mr. D. Davies having on Tuesday morning again met the two men, acted under the direction of the police, and offered to purchase the goods. Ultimately he was introduced to the two prisoners as the persons who had the goods to sell. They showed him samples of gold and silver spectacles, eye-glasses, a telescope, es:c-, and gave him a paper containing a list of the goods, bill wri:teu in flash languag e. The y , howaver, took alarm before the completion of the bargain ; the two negotiators, first spoken of, decamped, and the prisoners W ere about to follow, when constable James Ainsworth and his son went up and apprehended them. None of tha property was recovered, so that there was no identification of it. Another paper, c ontaining a list of the goods, was found on one of the prisoners. The two papers were produced. They wenr in different dialects, or descripfions of slang language, and were interpreted yAins" norahworth. In one of them the gold eye- g lasses Were called owlers," in the other " ridge quiz." " Ridge" was stated to mean gold, and " norah" al so si g nified gold. " Wedge," in one paper, and " plato" in the other, were stated to sig nify silver. The telescopes were called " spicy minge." Mr. Murphy—" This is a new edition of Ainsworth's Dictionary."—(Laughter.) Mr. Venables—" Pray, Mr. Ainsworth, in what college have you stud ied this slan g ?" Ainswnrth—" I picked it up amongst- thieves." Mr. Venables—" You have fallen amongst thieves pretty often. I have heard that you are first cousin to Mr. Ainsworth, the author of Jack Sheppard.'" Ains worth—" I don't know it, but perhaps I am, Sir."— (Laughter.) Mr. Venables--" Well, to test your know ledge of this slang, can you tell us the meaning of Nix my Dolly Pals, fake away?' " Ainsworth—" if you, Sir, were to bolt out of Court, that would be it." Mr. Venables—" You have not any of the property in your possession, have you ?" Ainsworth—" No, Sir ; I wish I had."—(Laughter.) Mr. Venables—" Don't you wish you may get it?"—(Laughter.) Mr. Venables and Mr. Murphy submitted that there was no evidence against the prisoners. The Recorder thought it would be dan gerous to convict on such evidence, and the Jury ex pressed their concurrence in the opinion. The prisoners were acquitted.—Liverpool Times. • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. POTTERY RACES.—TUESDAY. The Champagne Sullies of 20 C sovs. each, hit., 50 added T.Y.C. C Anson's Attila (Holmes) 1 Osbdrtth's (Tipsy (queen . . 2 iticdfdd .INl4titin •!' • " •• • !, • ... y:: The folldwing also started , but si':re ?= Mr. Prince's Valentina ; Lord Dorchester's c. by Rock ingham, out of Purity; and Mr. Copeland's Combermere. The Borough Cup of 1001., added to a Handicap of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft., and 5 only if declared, &c.; the se cond saves his stake. Mile and a half. Mr, Bower's Lady' Grove, 4 yrs (Francis) 1 Mr, Price's Tidy, 4 yrs: a a • a a: 2 The rolluiting were riot planed 6 yrs ; Po tentate, aged ; and sir Mark, b yrs. The Borough Members' Pl ate of 50/, HeatS / ;Thee round and a distance. Mr. Morris's Fat Jack, aged (Marlow) 0 1 1 Mr. H. Manus's, 4 yrs 1 3 2 Mr. Clarke's b. g. by the Earl . 0 2 dr Mr. Thompson's b. f. by the Mole, 3 yrs BRIGHTON RACES.—YESTEIIDAY. The Brighton Stakes of 25 ' sovs. each, 15 ft, with 100 added; the second saves his stake. New Course. (22 subs, 10 of whom declared.) Captain Gardnor's 10, 5 yrs , Bst 71b sir. Gratwick's Carlotta, 4 yrs, 7st 21b Mr. Booth's Benjamin, 4 yrs, Bst 51b, Lord Albemarle's Exit, 4 yrs, Bst 41b, Mr. Goodman's Mungo Park, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b, General Wyndham's Aspatria, 3 yrs, 7st 41b, Colonel Wyndham's Monsieur Le Sage, 3 yrs, 7st, Mr. Shelley's Huon, 3 yrs, 6st 10 1 b, and Mr. Rush's c by Plenipo, out of Obelisk's dam, 3 yrs, Est 41b, also started, but were not placed. Betting-5 to 2 against Carlotta, 7to 2 against Benja min, 3to 1 against Exit, and 4to 1 against 10. A fine race between the first two, and was won at the post by a head ; Huon was third. I'he ltailway Plate of 501., added to a Sweepstake of 5 sovs. each. Heats; the New Course. (3 subs.) Mr. Goodman's Orelia, 5 yrs, Bst Illb (Nat) 1 1 Sir G. Heathcote's fby Defence, 3 yrs, Est I Ilb 2 dr Mr. Booth's Benjamin,- 4 . yrs, Bst 41b Won in a canter, The Town Plate of 50/., added to a Subscription of 5 sovs. each, mile heats. (5 subs.) Mr. Wright's Folly, 4 yrs Mr. Balchin's Dromedary , 4 yr s Lord Eglinton's Amulet , 4 yrs . Sir G. Heathcote's fby Emelius—Jane 4 yrs 3 3 First beat won by a head ; th e second was a dead heat between Dromedary and Amulet. The third heat was not run when the coach left. Entry for the Queen's Plate (Thursday). Orelia, Ben Brace, Benjamin, Aspatria, Argos, Hyllus, and Huon. Ben Brace is reported to be lame. WESLEYAN CONFERENCE •AT MANCHESTER. The ninety-eighth annual meeting of the Wesleyan Conference commenced sitting in Oldham-street Chapel, at Manchester, on Wednesday week last. About four hundred ministers were present. The Education Com mittee, on reading its Report, stated that a large in crease had taken place in the number of day-schools, and that it was their intention, for the present, to de vote the interest of the grant from the Centenary Fund towards the maintenance of teachers at the Glasgow Normal School. At the meeting of the Missionary Committee, it ap peared that from the great debt of the Society, amount ing to no less a sum than 39,0001., but few additional missionaries had been sent out, chiefly to Ashlintee and the Gold Coast. The aspect of this debt was gloomy, and would prove a serious cheek. Two new Theological Institutions were spoken of as now proceeding, one at Didsbury, near Manchester, and a nother at Richmond, near Londo n. After a President, Rev. J. Dixon, and a Secretary, Rev. Dr. Hannah, had been chosen for the Conference, inquiry was made as to how many ministers had died during the past year ; to which it appeared that fifteen had died in England, two in Ireland, and ten mission aries at foreign stations. On Thursday evening the Centenary Appropriation Committee met, and the Treasurer announced that he had received to that time 190,0001. The following sums were then voted : Former appropriations Additional to the guarantee for the New Auxi liary Fund Additional to the Centenary Chapel Relief Fund 3,000 As a Special Fund, the interest to be applied for keeping the Centenary Hall in repair • 2,000 To be divided equally between the 'Theological Institutions and Missions ... .£lBO,OOO £200,000 The Conference was occupied, during the whole of Thursday and Friday, in investigating the characters of the ministers, and considering any charges that were made. The " gown question," as it has been termed, has, we understand, been mooted, but no decision has yet been made. As far as could be ascertained, the feel ing of the majority is decidedly in favour of the Wes leyan ministers assuming the ministerial costume. - - THE COAL TRADE. On Friday noon, a public meeting was held in the Exchange-buildings, Sunderland, to receive tho report of a-deputation appointed to meet the coal-owners of the river Wear, on the depressed state of the coal trade. The meeting was numerously attended by the ship owners and merchants of the port. Messrs. Wilson, Moon, Tanner, and Scarfield, the deputation appointed, c3mmunicated to the meeting the particulars of their in terview with the coal-owners. The substance of the munication was as follows :—The coal-owners refused to lower the price of coals, and when the inadequate re muneration received by the ship-owner was mentioned, it was found that the price of Sunderland coals had risen to 21s. 6d., 2s. higher than when the meeting was held. The coal-owners objected to freighting vessels, and sug gested that so many vessels going up to London at the end of each month, and obtaining their clearances at the beginning, tended to depress the market, and that suffi cient pains was not taken by the factors in the sale of the coals. In answer to a question by a Mr. 'Wil son, whether they would watch the price of coals in the London market, and when they fell below the price at which the ship-owners could afford to sell them restrict the vends ? the coal. owners re plied that they had a strong wish to do so, and begged that the ship-owners would keep up a communi cation with them on the subject. A long discussion then arose as to the propriety of further urging on the coal owners the adoption of the freightage system, the lower ing of the price of coals, or the restriction of the vends when the price of coals was below a certain amount. Objections were urged to each of these plans. With respect to the former, it was said that a large number of vessels, with best coals, going into the market, and hav ing only a limited time to discharge, would overstock the market, and either lower the price of the coals, or compel the coal owners to pay a demurra g e, which would, of course, reduce the freights. With respect to the second proposal, it was urged that every decrease of price in the North had been followed by a proportionate diminution in London ; and, with respect to the cost, it was said that 'the coal-owners and ship-owners of the North combined could not control the price of coal in London, as coals were now sent from Wales and the inte rior of the country, and the restriction of vend in the North, and the keeping back of sales in London, only had the effect of throwing an additional quantity of inferior coals into the market, and thereby diminishing the sale of the Wear coals. Great complaint was made at the conduct of the factors, who, it was alleged, bad forced sales to the injury of the ship-owners, under the mistaken impression of the purport of a resolution passed on the 17th of July ; and, after some observations to this effect, Mr. R. Scarfield moved " That in the pass ing of the resolution of that day, disapproving of the withholding of best coals, to the disadvantage of the port of Sunderland, it was not intended that the resolu tion should interfere with the coal-factors in exercising a sound discretion for the benefit of their employers : and the meeting regrets that, by interpreting the resolution literally, the factors should have fallen into the opposite extreme, and pressed sales unnecessarily, particularly on the preceding Monday." Mr. H. Tanner seconded the motion, which was opposed by Mr. Wm. 'Nicholson, who contended that by keeping hack Sunderland coal for a high price, not only were the ship-owners injured, but also the seamen and their wives and families. After some further discussion, the motion was negatived by a majo rity of one, ti great number of gentlemen in the room not voting at all on the question. A conversation followed as to whether a return to the rotation system would be advisable, but no resolution was come to on the subject. The shipping interest is in a very depressed state in Sunderland, many vessels are laid up, and a greater num ber of seamen out of employment than has been the case many years. THE WEATHER.--NooN, AUGUST 4. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer Thermometer— 67 I Highest 7l 1 Lowest ...... b 5 Wind N.B.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.—On Monday an extraordinary sensation was occasioned in Guildhall, at half-past three o'clock, by the appearance of a fine large black cow. The numerous visitors of the Hall were astonished by a cry of drovers from without, and immediately afterwards in ran the cow, amidst the alarming cries of "A mad bull, a mad bull." The cow, instead of turning to the right or the left upon en tering the Hall, walked up the flight of steps leading to the Court of Common Council and the Committee-rooms, and proceeded to the door, the very room in which the Markets' Committee had last held their meeting uvon the subject of the alterations in Smithfield Market. Here the cow stopped for a few moments, but finding that there was no admission she turned round and made for the Hall again. Just as she was passing the Cham berlain's office Mr. Henry Sewell, one of the Lord Mayor's household, mho had just left Sir James Shaw's apartments, turned round upon her, and apprdiending, from the foaming of her mouth, and the hanging of hen tongue, that she was a dangerous character, gave her a slap behind, and off she scampered dom II the steps and right through the folding doors to the Guildhall-yard. The crowd outside considered. that the cow formed part of a deputation to the Markets' Committee, to apply fur a small allowance of water upon the arrival of cattle in Smithfield. RAILWAY TRAFFIC. —The following calcula tion of the last weekly returns of 33 railways, 1,205 miles in length, will, we believe, be of interest :—Number of passengers on 22 railways, 307,862, consequently the total for the week must be above 400,000. The receipts for passengers on 33 railways, 76,5571.25.; ditto forgoods on 25 railways, 15,7581. Bs. 6d.—total, 92,3151. 10s. 6d. This is an average of 761. 15s. per mile per week. The traffic, therefore, is certainly at the rate of more than 4i millions a year, and carrying 21 millions of passengers. THE SUN, LONDON, TuutopAi r , AUGUST 5,_1841. EXPENSIVENESS of the OLIDING SCALE. I am not aware, Sir, whether your attention has ever been directed to the great pecuniary loss which attends the purchase of foreign corn, under the present Sliding Scale—a loss resulting solely from its uncertain action, ttneentierted with the amount of the protection to the latiotief, cl• the quantity at' corn imported. I Wiefe tnet itY retitfy Oi the cidAfttitleg of each de scription of grain impet''te" fth A: Are dons,ituiption daring the last three years, has yet been ittid tleftlte re.flitrient; but this, so far as my argument is concerned, is o lid importance ; the loss I allude to being in proportion It the quantity, whatever that may be. I shall, therefore, assume as correct, the quotations of Mr. Leathern, of Wakefield, which, he says, he received from a, large corn-dealer in London. , According to this authority, the importation which took Ogee in little more than eighteen months, did not amount to less than 10,380,267 quarters of grain of all descriptions, namely End of 1838 4.4 / # 634,730 quarters. 1839 Six months 1840 10,380,267 The smallest cost of which must 'have been — Say, 7,000,000 qrs. wheat at 50s. £17,500,000 1,200,000 barley 1,360,000 oats 20 3,380, 000 820,000 beans, peas 10,380,267 £20,880, 000 Now, it must be remarked, in the first place, we paid for these 10,380,267 of quarters, at le ast 15i. too much for wheat, and ss. too much for the oth er kin ls of grain ; that is, in round numbers— that 15s. x 7,000,000 quarters = 0,250,000 ss. X 3,380,267 7 , -..,-_ 845,000 /605;00 But, for the operation of the sliding scale , opens the ports only occasionally, for short periods , and untkt risk of ruin to importers (ruin, if they b u y too soon, and have to warehouse for years ; ruin, if they buy too g late, and, on arrival, find prices down, an d duties up) ; all this quantity of corn, instead of be!t l bought sud denly in near markets, and at high pric es, would hare been bought in many markets, at variou s times, and at low prices, and this enormous sum of above 6,000,000/. been saved to the nation. It has been entirely thrown away, or made a free gift to foreigners. What should we think of a law, framed for • the a vowed purpose of taking from us 6,000,0001., to give absolutely for nothing to foreigners ? What must we say of a law which has actually done this, and which necessarily entails a fre quent repetition of such a sacrifice ? This national sacrifice, constantly to be repeated, whenever we import foreign grain, is entirely owing to the operation of the sliding scale ; it has nothing to do with securing high prices to the agriculturist ; not one quarter of wheat, more or less, is introduced into con sumption ?, it is a simple, gratuitous robbery of the na tional property,. tbr which ignorance alone can be pleaded in excuse.---Mr. R. H. Greg's Letter to the Presi dent of the Board of Trade. BE DFOR Li-ADDRESSES -7 TO THE QUEEN. TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. May it please your Majesty,—We, your Majesty's de voted and loyal subjects, the gentry, clergy, electors, and other inhabitants of the county and town of Bedford, in public meeting. assembled, venture most humbly to approach your Majesty to offer our sincere and heartfelt congratulation upon the occasion of your Majesty's ho nouring the county of Bedford by your present visit to the noble house of Russell. We beg to assure your Majesty of the loyal and duti ful attachment entertained by us towards your Majesty's Royal person, while we fervently pray that Almighty God will continue to shower down his choicest blessings upon your Majesty and your Illustrious Consort, and that your Majesty may long be spared to reign over a united, free, and loyal people. HER MAJESTY'S REPLY. I thank you warmly for this loyal and affectionate address upon the occasion of my visit to this part of the country, and I: receive it with peculiar satisfaction under the roof of the illustrious and patriotic family of Russell. I rely entirely upon the assurance of your attachment; and to the prayers which you offer up for our welfare, I humbly join mine for the welfare of my people. TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT. May it please your Royal Highness,—We, her Ma jesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, the gentry, clergy, elec tors, and other inhabitants of the county and town of Bedford, in public meeting, assembled, beg leave most respectively to approach your Royal Highness with our sincere congratulations on the occasion of the visit of her Majesty and your Royal Highness to this loyal county. 'We humbly avail ourselves of this opportuity of ex pressing to your Royal Highness our devoted loyalty to her Majesty the Queen, and offering the homage of our unfeigned respect and attachment to your Royal Highness. We fervently pray that your Royal Highness may long live to enjoy the esteem and devotion with which your Royal Highness has so universally inspired all classes of her Majesty's subjects. PRINCE ALBERT'S REPLY. The very gratifying reception which the Queen and myself have met with on our journey to this place has already assured me of the kind feeling, which is again evinced by the Address you have just presented to me from the gentry. clergy, electors, and other inhabitants of the county and town of Bedford. lam very glad that this opportunity enables me to express to them the lively satisfaction which I, as well as the Queen, have derived from their cordial welcome. DREADFUL O CCURREN CE.—A dreadful oe , currence has happened at the Giant's Causeway. On Tuesday, the 20th of July, a party of fisherm be longing to the above place, discovered the body of a female lying in a small port immediately under that part of the Causeway called the Chimney-tops. The body was recognised by several persons in the neigh bourhood as being that of a woman who had been ob served wandering about the Causeway on the previous Sunday, who had also been met by a man named Harris going in that direction on Sunday morning, who, on questioning her as to where she was travelling to, was told that she was in search of her husband, who had left her, and as she was so nigh the Giant's Cause way she intended going to see it. It is conjec tured. from the place where she was found, that she had fallen from the Chimney -tops, which is one of the most elevated and dangerous points of the basaltic columns—so much so that the most adventurous tourists are unwilling to ascend it. Her skull was frac tured from the concussion she had received in her descent. On searching her person there were found ninepence in copper, and a written character, supposed to be of her self; in which she is called Jane Glass. The document is signed by eight persons, and dated from the parish of Aughentulogh.—.Londonderry Sentinel. INCREASE OF RENTS.--The landlords may be truly and properly described as the cormorants of the commonwealth, to whom nothing comes amiss which will raise rents. Now, every advance of the community tends naturally to an increase of rent, and is therefore sure food to their wide and ponderous jaws. No spade turns a clod of earth, no plough cuts the sod asunder, no pickaxe pierces the quarries above or mines under ground, but a bit of rent is gained ; and the success of the gardener, the farmer, and the miner is sure to be followed by an advance of rent. Roads and canals are opened, and they add immediately to the rent ; and if increased intelligence and activity fill our stage coaches with travellers, horses and oats are wanted, and that gives rent. If steam-boats crowd our rivers, or carry shoals of citizens to the Gravesends and Margates of the neighbourhood, property improves, and up gets rent. If railroads traverse the inland counties, or cockneys fly down to Buxton or Bat h, wh y rent fl ie s u p on both sides and at each terminus of their iron course. It temperance and teetotalism economise the earnings of the artisan and the shopkeeper, they will indulge in better food and habitation, and that again adds to rent ; if fresh ingenuity and additional mechani cal contrivances cheapen articles of dress or furni ture, the middling classes, save, and must have their bit of garden and land, and that also augments rent. If enterprising men return from the west full of bile, but with a planter's fortune, or from the East minus their liver, but with a nabob's wealth—lo ! they must have their country seat and park, and that increases rent. If vaccination saves myriads of infants from the ravages of small-pox ;if parents succeed in rearing large families with sound constitutions and hearty ap petites—if the advance of medical science preserves thousands, who would otherwise have perished before they reached the meridian of existence—if cleanliness and moderation improve the value of life, and virtue and wisdom prolong its existence to the duration of four score years and more, all this multiplies the demand for room and food, and therefore improves rent, Nuy, grim death himself is a sure and constant customer, bargaining daily for a thousand little leaseholds of six feet by three, and the lifeless carcasses are the mostgreedy andprofitable competitors for land, yielding more than double rent ; and could the dumb tenants of the grave be but driven to the hustings under some Chandos clause, what a pros pect would not be opened to the owners of the soil for an additional and most welcome improvement of rent 1 And yet will.these greedy jackal's, the landlords, have their Corn-law to make assurance doubly sure, and grunt and sweat because the sliding rule lets slip in now and then a bit of foreign wheat, to interrupt this infi nitely rising series, which is the true algebraical formula for their " theory of rent !"—Morning Chronicle. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY We are glad to hear that' the London and 13irtningham Railway Company have at last effected t'le object IN v pressed upon them some time ago—namely, the purchase of a piece of ground contiguous to the Euston-square terminus, so as to provide a hackney-stand within the limits of their own station. An almost inconceivable nuisance will thus be removed from Seymour-street, and the company, having the selection of the coaches and cabs who ply for fares from the up-trains, will be able to secure their passengers, on arrival, something like decent accommodation for reaching their destination in town,'both as regards the comfort of the vehicles and the civility of the drivers. It may be remembered that we suggested to the Directors of the Company, in order to prevent the extortion at present so grossly practised by hackney coachmen and cabmen on the luckless victims they+ pick up from the railway, that their servants should inform every passenger who calls a hackney-carriage of the amount of fare he :•as to pay ; but we have heard a still better plan proposed —namely, that a competent officer should be posted at the exit gate of the station to per form this duty. By the by, when the hackney-coach stand no longer infests Seymour-street, we trust that the Duke of Bedford will allow it to become a thoroughfare to the more northern suburbs of the metropolis. At Ipresent there is no outlet to them from the New-road, except to pedestrians, between King's-cross and Totten hara-court-road.--Jliontiq Paper. • ALDERMAN HUMP HER Y. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. S'Outhwark, July 31, 1841. Sta—l am one of the electors of the borough of South wark, devoted to the Liberal cause, and as such greatly deplore that the least dishonest, or even ungentlemanly imputation should be cast upon one of our Members. It was asserted by the Directors of the Blackwell Railway Compalty, at 4 late meeting of the Proprietors, that Mr. HumAry, when invested with the trust and responsibility of otlice, had betrayed such trust in the selling of the Company's shares not belonging to him, fof his own private benefit to the great injury of the ProprietOfs. Mr. Humpltcry, in his reply to this startling accusa tion, given in a letter from him, published in a late number of your Journa4unhesitatingly denies it : but I co. fens his explanation is not such as to insure him my vote, which otherwise he could have relied upon, at the next election for this borough. Mr. Humphery says, on the last occasion when he was requested to join the Direction, then having no shares, that he purchased twenty, and subsequently , twenty more. How then could Mr. Humphery, being por4eised only of these forty, dispose of one hu ndred, which ho admits in his communication to you he sold just prior to hie retirement from the Company ? As many of my fellow Liberal electors are no doubt equally perplexed with myself on this subject, it is only fair to Mr. Humphery to request he will (as I have lime doubt he can) set us right in the matter. The critical state of our lately disgraced unfortunate country requires that the Liberal cause should be sup ported by men of the highest standing, ennobled as well the virtue and probity, as by the patriotism of their characters. To this end, trusting you will give .our hitherto approved and respected Member an opportunity of satisfying; his political friends, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A LIBERAL ELECTOR OF SOUTHWARK. ANTI-CORN-LA 'Y MOVEMENT. It is gratifying to observe the success which attends the eirtitt* made by the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law As sociation to enlighten the inhabitants of the districts surrounding the metropolis, on the advantages which they cannot but reap from a repeal of the bread-tax. Mr. Sidney Smith lectured upon Tuesday evening at Merton, in Stiffen to a most crowded audience. It was at first intended to have held the meeting in the open air, but from the very unfavourable state of the weather this was abandoned, and the large room of the Nelson Arms crammed to suffocation. Indeed many were obliged to go nwny from inability to find room. And such was the ear;erness of the people for further information upon the 'object, that Mr. S. Smith was obliged to promise that he rfattld shortly deliver another lecture in the hall of the Victory, Knowledge of the widely-spread evil effects of the Corn-laws is only wanted among the people to render ti outcry fur their abolition too imperious to be long resisted; MAIL. DUTC . I4 ' , le of the Royal HAGUE. AUG. I . — The family, except Prince Henry, is again au2ng ri he ncess , King and the Queen, Prince Alexander, and Sophia returned from their excursion to Friesland Groningen on the 30th and 31st of July. The Prince and Princess of Orange, who have passed some time at Em 3, returned to the Hague yesterday. The Groningen Journals give further particulars of their Majesties visit to that city. It is reported that the King will shortly honour Delft with a visit. The MTh der Vryheid states that on the 29th of July, while the King was at Groningen, one of his Majesty's Aides-dc-Camp was sent to the wife of J. 11. Belt with the joyful intelligence that his Majesty had been pleased to remit the punishment to which her husband was sen tenced. It is now confidently said that his Excellency General List is appointed Governor-General of our possessions in India, and his Excellency General Nepveu as his suc cessor to the post of Director-General of the War De partment. It is affirmed that the Government is occu pied with projects of a constitution for the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, and with the best means of pro tecting c o m merce and manufactures in the Grand Duchy. M. Van Schasff is appointed Charge d'Affaires at Frankfort, in the room of Count Van Grunne. The Princess of Orange on her return from Germany was accompanied by her sister the Countess of Nieppey, who has apartments in the Palace of the Prince of Orange. It is said that her Majesty the Queen of Wir temburg is expected shortly in this town. NIMEGUEN, JULY 30.—The Prussian Custom-house Officers are strict in enforcing the Tariff ; travellers not sufficiently acquainted with this matter, not imagining that they have any prohibited articles among their ef fects, make a declaration to that effect; and if the slightest irregularity is discovered it is inevitably pu nished. Thus, a traveller had lately an old pack of cards in his trunk, for which, being prohibited in Prussia, he was fined 10 dollars. Yesterday a lady from Rotterdam being asked if she had anything liable to duty, declared some articles of silk, and said that the other articles in her trunk were necessaries for her use in travelling, but the Custom-house officers found twelve new muslin handker chiefs, seized them, and the lady with some difficulty got them back on paying a fine of seven dollars. DUTCH. FUN M.—Minimum, Ace. 2 Money. Olds. Actual Debt, '2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 pet cent. Amon Syndic 4% per cent 96% 91% Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent 74% 5 Commercial Company, 4 , 4 rer cent 15 5 14 1543 1 Ditto ( lg:15 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... 10154 102 Loan 1837, 5 per cent............ Exchange on London, One month l2 05 Two months .... 11 95 Hamburgh, One month.. 37 t6)4 Two months 36 50 Dutch Papers, Aug. 3. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JULY 26 Five per Cants. Metalliques ..... 105% Four per Cents. ..... • • 98 % Three psi. Cents. ................. Hank 5harp5..:..«.».»....».«.«.».«.»....«»........: 510 Aligemeine Zettung;' July Z) MARRIED.—On the 3d instant, by the Rev. Frederick Fisher, at Chetwynd, Shropshire, John APCutcheon, Esq., of Harley-street, Cavendish-square, to Harriet Fleming . Fisher, daughter of Robert Fisher, HAMBURGU AND THE GERMAN ! CUSTOMS' UNION, JULY 30. The question of the accession of this city to the Prus sian Customs' Union continues to occupy the attention of those whose minds are at e ork to prepare for coming events. In a former letter, in which I detailed the cir cumstances of the separation of Brunswick from the north-western union, I adverted to the improbability of Hanover continuing for any long period detached from the Prussian system. It has since transpired, that nego ciations between 'Prussia and Mecklenburg have com menced, which may possibly result in the addition of the latter to the number of the united States. The time, therefore, seems to approach, when the junction of the Hans Towns must force itself upon the consideration of Germany; and it may not be premature to offer some ob servations with respect to the probability of that event Three works bearing on the subject, and of which not more than one is likely to be yet known in England, are now before me. The first, entitled " Der Handel Ham burgs, durch'dessen anschluss an den Deutschen Zollve rein gefordert " [the commerce of Hamburgh augmented by means of its accession to the customs' union], is attri buted to M. Klefeiker, a merchant of this city,and argues strongly in favour of a junction with the Prussian union. M. Klefeiker recommends the introduction of the bonding system, by which he considers that Hamburgh may pre serve its present advantages of free transit under the new regime, paying duty only on goods retained for home consumption. He endeavours to show, by reference to the actual state of trade, that Hamburgh would lose neither financially nor commercially by the adoption of the new order of things, in which he includes a system of navigation laws to be established for protection of the shipping of the customs' union. By means of such arti ficial encouragement, the author anticipates that Ham , burgh would secure to herself the greater part of the carrying trade now in the hands of Great Britain and other powers ; and for such a privilege she must obviously look to the aid of Prussia and the other States, of which Hamburgh would remain the principal shipping port. The next work is a pamphlet of Dr. C. F. Wurm, who has collected, under the title " Zur Geschichte des Deuteches Zoll-vercins," a series of essays, originally contribute 1 by him to the Leipsic Allgemeine Zeitung. Dr. Wurm criticises judiciously the absurd theories of Mr. Cargill, and other writers, who attribute the exist ence of the Zoll-verein to the machinations of Russia. Whereas, those who know any thing of Germany, know also that the customs' union is popular, because it realizes the idea of German nationality, which is not done by the Confederation, or in any other way. It is the moral force of German feeling which carries Prussia forward with this masterpiece of her policy. Dr. Wurm has ex plained this very well •, and, although he does not say so expressly, he leaves the impression of being favourably inclined to an extension of the union, in which Hamburgh would be included. The third of the publications under notice is a prize essay, which has lately appeared in Paris, entitled, " L'Association des Douanes Allemandes," by MM. de la Nourais et Beres. This work, though containin g little new information, is a lucid and useful sketch of the his tory and principles of the Zoll-verein, and advocates its merits so decidedly, as to propose the formation of other unions on a similar plan. Austria, with Moldavia, ;:rallachia, a large portion of Turkey, and even Greece, i. " . is supposed, form a fitting combination to this would, same way, the Italian States, &c. &c. end, and, in ~l', .: ..e Hans Towns, the:authors are in With respect to I: under a system of navigation favour of their accesSion, Bugg. by M. Klefeiker. laws, to the same effect as :Hilicy of navigation I will not now enter upon the tation of such laws, further than to remark that the ag . 2 a system for German shipping is a sign or' the times, which Great Britain ought by no means to dis:egard• i It is in vain to tell the Germans t hat England ;." grown great, not by means but in spite of those laws. They reply, then why not repeal them, and let us have a share in the trade is ith the British possessions on an equal footing ? They see a prospect of immediate gain by conferring a monopoly upon ships of the Zoll-verein, and they offer to Hamburgh a bounty in this respect which she cannot otherwise obtain. But, coming more directly to the question of the accession of Hamburgh to the Union, the case appears to stand briefly as follows: — Let us suppose Hanover, Mecklenburg, and Holstein, included in the 1011-verein, Hamburgh becomes a little isolated spot, surrounded on all sides by toll-barricades, and retaining its free intercourse with the sea and the interior only by means of the right of free navigation of the Elbe. Its population are deprived of the benefits of unrestricted intercourse with the whole of Northern and Central Germany, and the manufacturing interests — such as the sugar refiners, the tobacco works, &c.--would suffer seriously, if not be entirely ruined, by foreign competition. The experience of other co untries, it would be said, has shown that a high tariff is not incompatible with the pro sperity of sea-ports (witness London; Liverpool, Havre, Bordeaux, &c.) ; and, at all events, the tariff of the League must affect the commerce of Hamburgh exactly in the same way, whether the last-mentioned place be excluded, or ineludew within the limits of the union. Any pressure of duties upon the inhabitants of Hamburgh might be obviated by a systbm of bonded warehouses ; and, at all events, no injury could be anticipated that would counterbalance the benefits resdlting to Hamburgh from the navigation laws which the States of the union would establish, and from the increase generally of the commerce of Northern and Central Germany, of which Hamburgh would be the principal and favoured shipping port. Such is the line of argument by which the accession of Hamburgh to the League would be advocated; and it mush be admitted, that, if it were practicable to introduce die bonding system with that of navigation laws, Hamburgh might possibly be rather a gainer than loser by the change. But, in the first place, bonding warehouses must be built at a heavy expense, for the present warehouses arc wholly unfitted to receive goods under the Govern ment locks. Then comes the loss that would be sustained by the owners of warehouses now used under the transit system—a loss which alone would raise up powerful ene mies to any change; and add to this, the difficulty of in ducing merchants to turn their commercial practice into any new channel. Supposing bonding impracticable, the revenue of the State of Hamburgh would be positively diminished ; for the proportion which. this State would receive of the tolls of the whole Customs' Union, would not merely be equal to its actual revenue derived from its very mode rate transit and import duty. Further, the citizens of Hamburgh would be subjected to heavy taxation on all foreign articles, not produced within the Union, and im ported into Hamburgh—such as French wines, fruits, rice, sugar, coffee, and many other articles of consump tion, now cheaper in Hamburgh than in Prussia, or any State of the Union. And as regards the sugar-refiners and other manufacturers, their interests are very unim portant, as compared with those of the foreign commerce of Hamburgh in general, and they would themselves be sufferers b e y the increased price of the raw material.— Morning Chronicle. Esq., of Chetwynd Lodge. THE NURSES AT ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL. —On Tuesday a Special Court of Almoners of the Hospital was held, which was attended by Mr. Alderman Lucas, the President, and a number of Go vernors, to investigate the charge of grossly improper treatment towards a child who was a patient, which was made against the sister and two nurses of th e ward, at an inquest holden at the Hospital a few days since. The inquiry . occupied a considerable time, and the Court were of opinion that no blame was imputable to the house surgeon, but that the sister and two nurses were unfit for their situation, and they were accordingly dismissed. ' The nurses urged that they felt they were doing wrong ; but could not help obeying the directions of their supe rior, the sister. They were told they were not bound to do ' what they felt to be wrong, fix they might have appealed to the matron, or the steward, or the clerk, who all reside in the Hospital, and would listen to any com plaints. AN ANECDOTE ABOUT SEA FISHING.-Sir Hussey Vivian, accompanied by his son, Major Vivian, were crossing the English Channel in a sailing vessel, and amusing themselves at the same time in fishing for mackerel ; but being unprovided with fish bait, a six pence was used instead, which, indeed, is a very common plan. Major Vivian, as understood, was the first who succeeded in hooking a fish, when, hauling away too eagerly, his tackle broke, and away went fish, hook, six pence and all ; but, strange to say, having shortly after baited another hook with a piece of mackerel, he actually hooked the same fish, which this time he had the fortune to secure, and thus recovered back his lost hook and six pence.—The Sportsman. 1 3- '4l OF ST. ANNE WESTMINSTER -- ARIS. •) .4ast evening a large meeting of the electors of the above -, ld( , Li Wardour-street T•IlE CORN-LAWS AND THE FACTORY BILL.—We understand that Lord Ashley, whose labours in reference to the Ten-hours' Bill, are tolerably well known to most of our readers, is now in this neighbour hood, ostensibly with the view of acquiring information as to the actual condition of the labouring population ; but, if we are not mistaken, his real object is to try to draw the attention of the working-classes from a repeal of the Corn-laws, by a revival of the agitation in favour of his old scheme, the Ten-hours' Bill. His Lordship, we understand, has had conferences, in this town, with Doherty, and other parties, formerly engaged in pro moting his views ; he has also visited Bolton (where he was yesterday), and the neighbourhood of Ash ton -under- Lyne. On leaving Lancashire, he intends, we believe, to proceed to Huddersfield, and other places in the manufac turing districts of Yorkshire. No doubt, Lord Ashley, and those engaged with him in this scheme, consider it a tolerably skilful move, at the present moment ; but we ---wf‘r their shall be surprised if it is found to answer their expects , tions. The working classes of Lancashire and York parish was holden at the Golden Lion, . ~ Soho, to meet Mr.G. "'Liggett , the S ecretar y to the West- shire are, we fear, liftel to have their hours of labour y minster Reform Society, who attended for the purpose of shortened per force, to an extent far beyond the o p era . supplying claims to all persons who were improperly tion of a Ten-hours' Bill ; and likely, at the same time, omitted from the register last time, and of giving infor- to have the price of bread too high to make it easy for mation to all persons who might require it, on matters Lord Ashley, or any other man, to divert their attention connected with the registration. Several of the inhabi- from the Corn-laws—the great cause of both the evils tants came forward and made inquiries regarding their to which they are likely to be subjected. If we a re no t c laims, which in many instances were declared to en- misinformed, Lord Ashley has already met with i n di_ title them to vote, although they had never been on the viduals amongst the working classes who have told hi m register. Meetings of this kind are being held in all their minds very freely on these points.—Manchester parts of the Borough, at which Mr. Iluggett attends, and Guardian. the system cannot be too highly recommended. If g en- STATE OF TRADE.—Some excitement w as tlemen of talent were appointed by the different Reform created in this town on Monday morning, by the Societies to meet the householders, the next election nounce mcnt of the failure of the long-established ablis a h n e d c saannond would no doubt give a very different result to the last on e.. well -known house of Messrs. Samuel s SILKwoRMS. Most kinds of CallerpillarS manufacturers and merchants , of Heaton Mersey and of b r ; spin the silken thread from an orifice just below t he this town, against whom, we believe, a fiat of bankruptcy mouth, in which, in the pupa state, they envelope them - has been issued. Messrs. Stocks and Son were, a fe W selves. The insect, on breaking the shell, before it has years ag o, cotton-s p inners as well touched food, will throw out silk. The colour of silk bu t their s p inning mill having been a s de ,s manufacturers - rs - depends partly on kind, and partly on food and he alth. they had ceased to spin, and purchased yarn for they fie sup' 'Wild silkworms, which usually feed in the open air , pify of their looms. They were also extensive purchasers arc of man) varieties, each feeding on its suitable leaf. o m anufactured goods for export. We understand that In China, one feeds on the pepper-tree, one on the ash, the amount of their engagements is something under and another on the oak. One of these spins a silk 80,000/. The necessary effect of this failure was to which, when woven, will not crease, although folded and throw a very serious damp upon the market yesterday ; pressed. The Indian tussah spins a coco on, han g in g and the effect . was increased by th e unpromising appear upon the jujube tree (upon the leaves of which it feeds) ranee of the weather, which, after two tolerably tine ley a silken cord, so as to swing in security for ten days, showed manifest symptoms of deterioration. Under mont4, till the tenant within forces itself out as a moth. these circumstances, it was not surprising that the market They are attended by day and night in the jungle, to should be, as in fact it was, one of the worst, if not the keep off birds, while they eat and spin. The produce very worst, of the present year. For manufactured is immense, and so cheap, that, when spun, cloth made goods, indeed, there was literally no demand ; and the from it, heavy and durable for thirty years, is sold at few sales made were at a serious reduction of prices. 6d. a yard ! The arindy feeds on palma Christi l eaves , For yarn, the market was not quite so unfavo urable ; producing a cloth whi ch, if washed in cold water, will and some business was done, though with difficulty, and wear from 50 to 100 years but if subjected to the ac- at gradually declining rates. fete rc glad to state, how tion of hot water, will tear like blotting paper. The ever that, with the exception o o small concerns at efforts which are making to place this pr o duction in the Blac ' kburn, no additional failures were announced ; and hands of the negroes of the West Indies are likely to a mischievous rumour of that nature, which was ciFcu prove successful. fated through the town in the morning, was ascertained THE LOTUS BIRD.—The white tents throw n to be entirely unfounded.—Manchester Guardian. out in strong relief on the dark foliage of the forest, AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATHs.u—d were pitched on a piece of open green sward, gently On Tuesday morning the following awful instan ce of • - sloping towards a small but clear and deep sheet of den death occurred to Thomas Aitcheson., 45 years of water, in whose placid bosom was reflected the tranquil age. The deceased was, and had been for many years, scene around, but broken here lind there by a partial in the employ of Messrs. Nixon and I , layward, the ex carpeting of the broad-leafed lotus - "salon whose whose wavy tensive builders, in Palace New-road, Stangate. About_ surface skimmed with fair y flight, the beautiful i, biri seven o'clock in the morning, the . _deceas_e , d was i in the which bears its name. So graceful is the flower of this workshops, about to begin h's daily work, a id, whilst h i s b ea d . was o r bs . erved to and plant, that the Hindoois make it give birth to Camdes, seated on a stool, the god of love. But ..-?t us return to the bird ;in shap e on some of his fellow -workmen going to dr oo p, gave it is a pheasant in miniature, but, if possible, with much one gasp and instantly expired. The deceased ga ve it Moyers, and on the body being more splendid plumage, which changes to every tint of much respected by his ernPscus) 111 r. Nixon, with much the rainbow as it lightly runs along the surface of the removed from the ~Thererenu is the last of an old and broad lotus leaf, and the bright feathers catch the re- emotion, exclaime d, fl e eted rays of the .sun. It is enabled to support its light faithful servant." weight on this frail tenure by the rapidity of its motions SHOCKING A C CIDENT AT EDGWARE.—On and pec uliar shape of the feet, which, altho u gh not Monday a ver y shocking accident happened at the Bald webbed, have toes of such unusual length, that the it y faced Stag , Ed g ware. A young man named John cover a very largo space, and, like a skilful skater, Clarke, who is in the employ of the landlord of the glides with ease over a surfa ce a pp arent l y i na d equate t o h o use, was with others forming a hay rick, when he its support.-Bc6tes an d Sport s o f Foreign Lands, by fell from the top, having at the same time hi his hand a Afajor Napier. pitchfork, which in his descent te the ground perforated MORNING SUN. --, his side. The poor sufferer was conveyed to a surgeon's in ete neighourhood, who advised his immediate removal t o St, George's Hospital, which was done. in a cart in as ex p e dwious a manner as possible. Such i s t h e nature of the injul y he has received that very littl e hopes are en tertained .of his recovery. Clarke is a young man o f steady so b. ?.r habits,' and has a wife an d two younc,r, children. LARGE I:IAKE OF IRON —At th e P ar k -en d Iron Lear Colefold, in the Forest o f D ean, the property of Meters. Montague and Jam es , 14 4 tons of A F R u G rn E ace, Ls ironthe course of last week, Winn. b a larger quantity own to have ever been made in th e v ere than made is in I,'l' good a quality from one f urnace. -- same Gi time mc es D . te r Journal.ndof os NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SALMON.-- Various interesting observations have of late been made on this subject, to which wt./ have now to add the follow ing, which has been furnisheA to us upon the best autho rity. The manager of the Duke of Sutherland's fisheries in Sutherlandsbire ettived his men to mark all the spawned grilse which they to on the 4th of March this year, with a brass wire, whicit they inserted in the back fin, and restored to the rivers. \One of these taken on the Shin at the above date, whej it weighed 4 lbs., was caught at a station on the same OsKer on the Ist of July, when it was found to weigh exactly 141bs. ! being an increase of 101bs. in less than 'four .ii - mths. This ratio far exceeds that stated by Mr. Shaw Drumlan rig, but the difference may be explained by the fish in the former case having had free scope in the riv,•r, while in the latter they are confined to ponds.—Perthcourier. THE VALUE OF PINS' HEADS.—The crin cipal members of the Chancery bar were occupied for several days last week before the Lord Chanceller in • arguing a question relating to a patent connected with the making of pins' heads. The costs of the proceed ing on both sides are said to amount to nearly 5,(001. DEATH OF LADY PRIDEAUX.—We have re ceived the melancholy intelligence of the death of Lady Prideaux, who expired at Netherton, this (Tuesday) morning, at six o'clock. This lady, who was the daughter of the late Rev. James Bernard, of Combe Flory, So merset, was married to the Hon. Baronet on the 99th of April last, so that scarcely three months hava elapsed between her nuptials and her death.— Western Luminary. THE CONVICT FRUST.—A gentleman who lately arrived from Van Diemen's Land says—" Frost was, in spite ofibthe assertions to the contrary, an over seer of convicts, but he is no longer so. About ten days previous to my informant's departure, Frost, with a gang of his fellow-prisoners, was missing. They had pro cured a whaling-boat, with which they had attempted to escape. After a week of very great privations they re turned to Hobart Town and surrendered themselves. Notwithstanding the declarations of the others that they . had forced him to accompany them, he had been deprived of his appointment. and has been sent to the extra penal settlement of Port Arthur. The Govern:nent believe that he must have had some foreknowledge of the attempts. Glasgow Courier. DUNDEE.—We are still unable to mention any changes in the state of our trade and manufactures. Notwithstanding the dull state of our market, foreign prices continue very stiff. In the Riga market there are eager buyers at the prices dem i anded. In St. Pe tersburgh there has been nothing doing—the quality of the flax from that quarter not being well reported of. Advices received from Archangel yesterday state that only a small quantity of °thorny flax-- , say ten tons— was parted with by a needy seller, at 127 ItS. The de mand for tows and codillas, particularly the third sort of the latter, continued undiminished, the ,dealers not at all anxious to sell at present prices ; indeed both tows • and codillas have every appearance of maintaining their prices during the season, the demand being considerable and the supply small. We regret the shipping interest i s 2ikely to suffer just now. Freights in the Baltic are lower than we ever recollect of their having been ; flax has been tzken to the East coast from St. Petersburgh a t th e ae peeee,ientedly low figure of 30s. per ton ; and even at this price cargoes are exceedingly scarce. We think that flax must soon give way—at least, if the de mand from this side govern the price. At present prices consumers can make nothing of it. 7 ---Dundee Advertiser. • BRITISH MANUFACTURES. --There were in this country, about a year since, not fewer than 16,000 • steam eaginei at work, some of them 1,000 horse power. But taking them at the low average 0f.25 horse -power each, this would be equal to 400,000 horses. Five men and-a-half are equal to the strength of one horse ; thus, the country possesses a power, through the medium of this vast number of steam engines, nearly equal to that of 2,000,000 of men. Each h orse, for his food a year, consumes the produce of two acres of land, and thus 800,000 acres are to spare for human subsistence, more than there would be if steam power were not employed in the produce of the manufactures for which England is now so celebrated. ~ 4 few Sundays S U N D AY HAY-MAKING.--. ago, the Rochdale Churchwardens stopped a small farmer in cutting his grass ; but, last Sabbath sia , y (August Ist), the vicar's late warden was suffere d to oake his hay, in the immediate vicinity of the sacred edifice,- unmolested. —[How could " a small farmer " expect to e. cape lik.: a churchwarden ? " That in the captain's but a choleric word, ' Which, in the soldier, is flat blasiihemy.''3 —Manchester Guardian. as a I caa- AUDACIOUS THEFT..-011 Sunda?,,boutbOut the racter well known to the police was prowling . North Inch, Perth, he fell in with a pers on lying asleep, apparently from the effccts of liquor, and finding th,:t lie had a better suit of clothes on than his own, c oolly pr‘.'' Iceeded to strip him, which he did to the shirt--habili tated himself with them, and left his. own lying beside • the unfortunate son of Bacchus ; who, on awaking, and collecting his scattered senses together, no doult felt much surprised at the change that had taken place his condition. He went in a sorry plight to the police-oifice, stated ilis complaint, and William Wood, an active aficer, succeeded in capturing the depredator the same day. Ile was tried the next day, and sentenced to sixty days' im prisonment. . LimEnrcrc.--The oat crop promises a very . fine and full produce this season. The rain, which may have affected the wheat, has improved the oats.—Lime rick Chronicle. STOCKS OF OLD GRAIN.—So far RS these can be ascertained, they turn out to be exceedingly light ; there being at the present time only 28,000 quarters of free wheat in Liverpool ; whilst at Wake field, the depot from which a large part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and of South Lancashire are sup plied, there are only 6,800 quarters, and in Leeds only 2,800. In all parts of the country, too, the stocks are believed to be on an equally insignificent scale . ; and it becomes tolerably clear, that a supply of foreign grain will be required to eke out the consumption until har vest. 'That supply is not likely to be obtained until the averages rise to 735. per quarter ; and, therefore, th: labouring poor of this neighbourhood, whose earnings have been so fearfully diminished by the unfavourable state of trade, will have to incur the additional evil of paying a famine price for their bread. —Manchester Paper. HINDOO WIT.—A Hindoo woman having been summoned to give evidence before the Court of Judicature in Calcutta, deposed that such a circumstance happened in her presence. The Judge asked where it happened. She replied, in the verandah of such a house. " Pray, my go6d woman," said the Judge, " how many pillars are there in that verandah ?" The woman, not perceiving the trap that was laid for her, said, without much consideration, that the verandah was supported by four pillars. The counsel for the opposite party imme diately offered to prove that the verandah contained five pillars, and that, consequently, no credit could be given to her evidence. The woman, perceiving her error, ad dressed the Judge, and said, " My Lord, your Lordship has for many yearspresided in this Court, and every day that you come here, ascend a flight of stairs : may I beg to know how many steps these stairs consist of ?" The Judge confessed he did not know. " Then," replied she, " if your Lordship cannot tell the number of steps nou ascend daily to the seat of justice, it cannot be asto ishing that I should forget the number of pillars in . a balcony, whi c h I never entered half-a-doze n times 'n . my life ?" The Judge was much plea sed with the coo" man's wit, and decided in favour of her party., . a , FIRE WITII Loss Or LIFE. 1 11 1 s between one and two, p.m., a fire broke F u h t : f n once .. three the Bell Inn, Horndon-on-the-Ilill, wholeinocf the premises, tened destruction, not only to tb_eut ‘. 3 .oal l e a a s last from the very efficient but to several adjoining houses . b aid rendered by the reaching the house, , notl lamenti to add, loss of life. Mrs enfiveaeting,le:sbi tohmu.ocrurhetogogrdoe,taust-iin' hdeosestreneeexer tions 3. were indefatigable.h, °these the seilmN horsee 1 e n ve ning. The origin ployed in re kV house, wa s onwf:CsleimarelesofDtihxoen,fulr‘n-hiitltsirtebufrseilmy etmh-e. s e h f e t h r e e e p e e i r v s e o d n s l t :t e h h o Dixon, property, e i t - h t 3. e • , wife a i d ' resides in premises adjoining , Mott, who urance.— Essex Herald. understood to be covered by ins is under of the fire is not known. .The p r opert r y th b e el c on r g n s w t n o Mr. and are sorry to state that the numbers of increase. ittee en wr T e h d e . • Nin*jatsirdicessltactih“;'hd°eefocer:r:lllir°eewdenntbhgei number 702. These represent 2,106 Wed nesday last amounted to e a d re hy st t i h il e o c n o t m h m e e f d cases oper a r t e i l v i e e s v individualsn ; about seventy of them are employed at the q uarry breaking metal. The money ' distributed on Wednesday last amounted to 421. 17s. 3d., and this unemployn* does not include those persons employed at the quarry ; a greater sum will be required to-day. A number of new applications for relief have been given in to-day, consequent on the heavy failures which have lately taken place. The Magistrates and th relief Committee are exerting themselves to the utmost to procure funds to meet this heavy expenditure, aided, as they are by a number of benevolent individuals in the town and neigh bourhood.—Renfretvehire'paper. VORACITY OF THE TROUT.—A curious in stance of a trout's voracity occurred a few weeks ago when fishing in Warrington Park. I was trolling with the diving minnow in a leet which communicates with the tunnel that supplies the pond with water, when a trout laid hold of it, and having allowed him time to gorge, I struck, when my gut next the hook snapped off, and away went the fish. I did not, however, suppose it to be a large one, from his uneasy move ments after he had taken the bait, and attributed the breakage to some flaw in the gut that had escaped my notice. About a quarter of an hour afterwards I chanced to cast in again near the same spot, and instantly had another run ; this I missed, though not till I bad pulled the fish, which was a small one, above the surface • and yet the very next throw I made, what appeared to be the same fish rose almost -the instant the bait touched the water ; and this fish I caught, when, to my great surprise, I discovered that h this fi erc e and hungry liattleglelli, him with, gentleman—for in hisfor he only weighed, three ounces and a quarter—had actu a lly my gorge, itoll thook,o the o minnow ne caughtnd a i I : l "e stdiad ighed one-thirteenth part of hi s own weight.— Cc rrse pondent of the Sportsman.