The Sun. — London, England, 1841-07-02 00:00:00

MORN IN( SUN ADMONITION TO THE MIDDLE CLASSES. ta:Th_ The ordinary course of human passions has some livit!irlitt:sg(lo with the comparative apathy of the mann p the a" on this subject. The quarter from ft' es '''tation for repeal mainly proceeds does not Ittpcularly recommend it to their sympathy. I say it w h sorrow, it is a mournful but a certain truth, that the caPitalists of Lancashire have not the sympathy of their lab o . this sub lib allies." May Ibe permitted to speak out . on t oo ? lam myself a son of commerce. I think I i ll " of my " order " not to be proud of the title. °r distinguishes the lf-sustaining/en a nderseverance Which th b 1 f whom I now ven tureb _ e oey 0 men undress, and to whom I claim to belong. They min grown rich by the discoveries of noble plebeian s, by the natural advantages of our island, by their ow n f energies, and, above all, by the hearty co-operation to labour, They owe nothing to " Protection "—nothing legislative -rt . - While by their exertions the i l‘ R es s ° , ll . r t ces of th i e " eo l u a n i t 3 r); were increased as if by magic, le s p it e of the most lavish expenditure, rank and privi the 1 4°0 d idly by, or only interfered to tax and thwart of their They forth truly the sons of labour, the architects aec ir Own nes. Let them be content with this path; Parentage, this honest distinction. Let their sym- V e "'es be for labour rather than titled privilege—for the es ns Th e society rather than its gaudy drones. a, st i te h l _ave no pride of birth,• no prejudices of fort o _ "el) them aloof from their brother-men, a most pethe4;nb_ant.teseo.eccurren^e in this stage of the world, coul it aright. Their place is at the head of the ski s . e ,swlll the) prefer to fawn like spaniels at the e4 ,' s of thee few ? Thei r i n terest, as well as their duty, ae: es mto adopt th e d em ocratic tendencies of the seee.which the circumstances connected with their own or a TeS hue done no little to bring about. The days rask r.l :, t , °c , racy, considered as an institution for confining v eilti " . " ,l power to a class of men on fictitious and con the °n al grounds, are rapidly passing away. " When s i sea Peo o ple," says Dr.. Channing, "by degrees have with t t h s ome consciousness of their essential equality sub sid _ e rest of their race, the awe of rank naturally of h i . es, and passes into. suspicion, jealousy, sense . tai _Jury, and a disposition to resist. The very insti bigouns!Pornoe, t r at th a which once restrained, now provokes. Through e ni o a ld n, world is now passing. The strange because he wears a garter or a rib faein°: was born to a title, belongs to another race, is f revolutions ; and society must pass through a series o tak es I , ° as, silent or bloody, until a more natural order . % roe Pace of distinctions, which grew originally out of Il an • And again : " Old spells are broken ; old re gesnetess,golle ; men can no longer be kept down by pa to be s tate vibes, forms, and shows. Allowing it best that society should rest upon noblete depres quiel of the multitude, the multitude will nger be tient' when they are trodden under foot, but ask Y. for a reason why they, too, may not have a share mustblessi ngs. Such is the state of things, and we hei n „," i Tite the best of what we cannot prevent." Such Lan e 6 ,,r case, I call upon you,•the rich capitalists of are i i4 ,'"re, to consider whether, by your position, ycitt eisit°,, eminently fitted to play an important part at this tt_ be t t o wi srnd, as it were, between the living and the t the worn-out principles of feudality, and tick _ ef democracy rising into sudden yet not sufficiently much importance. I believe you might do h to alleviate the fall of the one, and to direct, while Is a b rest rained, th e b o i sterous v i gour of the other. For unto it• Y spir rea e s s ? of your wealth and the habits and notions You could have no tendency to rush revolutionary excesses, so on the other hand tre v : e no pride of birth, no hereditary prejudices to assi st •' You from taking the people by the hand, and l'ers tn il g them in working out their moral and political alli sb er ation. Oh ! it wou ld be a noble thing to see an and -e° ofrensive and defensive established betwixt you i tut Y° numerous workmen ; an alliance founded upon g oo l d l a ( ' ) sympathy and rapect, upon an interchange of tid a l fis f h - ces, a conviction that your interests are idea hass.Cuat you are all alike the sons of labour, that the down claims which rank and privilege have handed a ci 'rem barbarous ages are foreign and hostile to a nd Politics, that the spirit of monopoly, whether developed and religion, or commerce, is one and the same, s,,, a ,..ranght with evil consequences, not merely to the eility of trade,but the moral dignity of man ; not 0 v e T i tY to the material, but also to the moral and social I*°eing of the most numerous class of God's creatures. „,,u_sat betwixt you Sand the " masses," who toil and sea nt f kv beneath you, there is at present pt, great gulph 1,, e4 ; a gulph too, mainly caused and daily widened t 4„ Your selfish vanity and mistaken ambition. You i b ' S t needs, forsooth, play the aristocrats, and echo the a.`id Pander to the prejudices of the "great." To in th he s t alks of " Lords, ' to gain an uneasy footing 'Jeet brilliant circles of rank, seems to be the highest in s ,, of pleL4ian ;ambition. The man who in his count his nuse is alrhononr, energy, and independence, loses l syst: if- respect beneath the fascination of this bad social to ill, and sinks into the cring,in,, ,, parvenu. He affects talt e ak and think of the multitude as if he had lolled H ess his life in pubi c ' ease, and never known the bitter sepls,,,°lPoYeriy, or the wholesome glow of honest toil. I are:;,, s e I shall be toild that these aristocratic tendencies t tisetr ß el ; e a,t , itiour nature. I know it, but they are no nn this case resisted on that account ; besides, they are ZlT , se, - 17 ) 7 i e n It ti teit igi c ri led with She most disastrous results, be them, yoza commit yourselves to the th l ",-1 43 rt of: political, institutions, unsuited to the spirit of tin i ,g,° alai= the aeqiiirements of the nand people. On the n t ,b, you are far from being pojitiar with your_ tloallies. The Conservative :Journals vie with in ilie 104Zll. represent the sentiments of the " masses " l tgai k , t ll g You with reproac h es . Y ou r present agitation, the ewi nicrcial monopoly is generally. ascribed Wi se ;" illost unworthy motives. How can it be other ' t kAta,„ ii a` l6 you not voluntarily descended from the a slsoeg r ound of a hi g h p r i nc iple and , involved your tiiet .? dust and dirt of a purely mercenary con b Poi' so long as your mills could be worked .to a &rtni t ,, Y , l a pplYing the screw to those beneath you, you 4 _aila b “ . t.- 4 -. ,arist6crati c . legislation to pursue its course 'Lue,t — 'eu, and professed your entire satisfaction with . Wa s thT"lerable institutions" of the country. Then it b f ' th e Cashio n to. talk, not- so much about the miseries d 4 w 011303 r as of their vices and their extravagance . ,_ e an to Purify t u h re lles and new police sprang up side by side _ if 4 . c o - u l t r .morals al ad restrain their excesses. .Trnly, 4114 co t rY is to be saved by barristers, ecclesiastics, h effectstome of .aionopolY" have been brought its b'ii Q se ves, you have discovered that labour has 41; 111 ,"'ces and its claims, that the distresses of the not 41 1 0 a re not imaginary,' that p g a rsons and police are gethe ade to emrencies of ir case. o s True r Pidet. ioe of uate illozop the oly e , a s pirited, the judicious to • Sp "ItTING IN-TELLIGENCE. The T.A.TTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. ' 4 th e "IY movements that excited any attention w ere t o aely Stake s and Goo3wood Cup. For the former iie afte rti ' e M o . as laid twice ast the Rosalie colt early in the hen The takers, However, *ere eager, Et ffe r e h : i c ag _dispersed 6 . to 4 was the highest two up betting, bes ides showing a decline in (I °lle Principal favourit es, brought the French taken 4-lautilus strongly into the market ; 10 t') 1 Drov q , a b Y three or four persons, led to an ma "Peetoedllt of two points, and. a further advance may be P r 'ze, / 4 • To strengthen the French lot for this great I h n LOlltr g Seymour's oal4 tick and Lantarf! reeted del °ll yesterday ; Anatolk and Vendredi arrivedare ex; 1 , 4 2 t 1 3% Coronation was 13; icked for the St. Lege an " arid 5 and 6to 1 wouli I have been taken about th ey h .alhur g h ; Satirist was alt :o mentioned, but whe vqvl' P"ce Was 12 or 0 0 to 1 we could not ascertain. " Lail afternoon terminated as under 6 to JULY STAKE S. 4 t agst Lord Bruce's Rot alie colt ° 1 ag s t Mr. Sadler's Mulo to COODWOOD STAWES. 13 t agst M r . P ayne ' s Weill ire . 1 5 °,, agst M r . J ones ' s P o rtra it—taken la r agst M r . T reen ' s Fitzre y—taken ,*O,. it Duke o f Richmond .'s Confusionee — tak , .20 1 m .1 ‘ agst Mr. G oo dman's Isi Bella—ditto d 22 asst Lord Chesterfield's Henri Quatre— o. tett agst Mr. St. Paul's Calypso—ditto . t t °, agst Lord G. Bentincle,s Ratsbane—d tto agst Mr. P e ttit' s St. Francis—ditto 12 '() I agst Mr. Ridsdale's Jovial Bachelor — d i t to to I ag St St. Francis and CaP 4 v-pso G to GOODOOD CUP. 7 t agSt Mr. J o h ns t on e's Charles the Twelfth 8 t. ,, ° agst Mr. St. P a ul's Calypso agst Lord BChesterfield's Colwick—taken t 1 .2 0 agst Duke of Orlean 3 Nautilus to o 1 ag s t M r. Ferguson's T e rraway—taken tn ST. LEGER. " I n • '4 O agst mr. Rawiinson's Coronation—taken ;12 to agst Lord 'Westminster's Van Amburgh 1 060 1 agat Mr. Bell's The Squire— taken to 00 on Coronation and Scott's lot agst the field DERBY. 5 to 1 agst L ord Bruce ' s Rosalie c 4 5 L,o I cost Mr. Neville's Amadon c.—taken BIBURY CLUB MEETING. 't4 0 . WEDNESDAY. 0„,411P Stakes or 25 sous. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if and ar ed, 'with 100 added by the Club. Last mile W a ll , Z h alf. 12 subs., of whom 7 declared. Gen '-'t vall's cby _Mulatto, 4 yrs, lOst 51b (J. Bayly) !) i,7al Gilbert's Stork,' 5 yrs, 10st. 4 tr. .. Ip r , 3 n bert s Arctic, aged, 12st , . .-- 4 7t, '9.7' Gars 10, 5 yrs, lOst 21b Ir. ..,,loi. ell's Cracksman, 5 yrs, lOst 71b g Thee 4 agot, Melody c and 2to 1 agst h. Won easy.. Ai. aove,- Stakes . o , f 5 sovs. each, and 50 added Last mile. (14 subs.) 11,-,%O.sbaldestoes Mountain Sylph, 4 i;rs, list 31b 1 2 . to al Gilbert's Stork, 5 yrs, lost 41 3 rt G. B entincle:l Gobemouche, 3 yrs, 9st 31b 4 1-1 Ar. EtwalPa Me."maid, aged, 9st 31b 1,. 2 a nd 3tol on Mogiutain Sylph. Won cleverly by a -. Itli. • ST ei.m, ° RAC - C . :S.—WEDNESDAY. cc SWeepStakOS of 50 Sovs. each, h ft, for three YrA id colts, Bst. "lband 'fillies, Bst 41b. Mile and ) :31‘ ( 7 subs: )‘ S. Terbert's fby The Colonel Galatea (Conelly) 1 4ti(tt, Chest erfield's Slehemet Ali (allowed 31bs.) N , t c , car& or's; by Camel-Cecilia, 31bs 3 of - Riot, - nond's Harpoon, albs 111 Won easily by half a length. pstakes of '0 Sovs. each, h ft, for two yrs old colts, Bst 91b, a n d.. fillies, Bst Glb. T.Y.C. (4 subs.) Mr. Etwsk. 1 1's Palladium walked over. 1,1 when no protecting duty was t;LIRI a , to export tr a d e i n . corn was greatly in favour of th(ilai rt 'A.I before th e year 1' 771 ,; ,c , ie pt (1 by the landed interest Cr growers of corn, or any of 111 t stri e ti ons w hi c h they are e. -tdeavouring to perpetuate A A 1 the i n t eres t s of the Pnblic. ilis _ i . 1 '14 4 stler froin Vienna states hat an officer of the army has just been broken for Foune.swecrint • -,_ . At er ex- 111- Ir. We .1 .10 11 t he to, es' Id. f ° ,f 0 4.118 ~~ e THE MOLIERE COLUMN. Pints, JUNE 30.—Not having, like the Round-Table Knights, the search of the Sanegreal before me, or any other special piece of business, I yesterday, after buck ling my sabottes, allowed " the spirit in my feet" to lead me where it listed, and which, accordingly, conducted me to a part of the " Ville de Paris," formed by the corner of the Rue Traversiere St. Honore and the Rue Richelieu. I was here surprised into the discovery, by the; reverberations of axe and hammer, and the hum of busy ouvriers, that these implements were hungrily en gaged in pulling down a private house. This circum stance was nothing very alarming, but having a certain affection for old houses, and an antiquarian's veneration for cracked boards and crazy door-posts, I usually pry into the history of these perishable tenements, and some times meet with pickings of history. Addressing myself to one of the workmen, I learned that they were engaged, by Government order, in pulling down the said house, that the ground might be cleared for the erection of a monument to Moliere (1) ; and I was farther informed by the suavid surveyor of the works, that this house was the second so demolished by a second order of the Munici pal Council, who, on the preced i ng Friday, had voted an additional sum of 132,000 f. to the former sum of 211,000 f., raised in the first instance by a Parisian sub scription and the grants of the State, and which had been found insufficient to complete the undertaking. " But we shall go on bravely now," continued he, " and Moliere will be crowned with la gloire.' " Moliere has been ever my favourite; and I am so pas sionately his admirer, that like the books of the stoics, he always lies beside me on a silken cushion. My edition is the unrivalled of Sainte-Beuve, so splendidly embel lished by Johannot. On hearing my colloquialises last remark, my mind at once reverted to Tony s dark and sombrous chiaro-scuro of Moliere's burial, and all its con current circumstances came upon me like a rush of fu neral horrors. Yott know the hubbub 'that arose at his death. You know how when he lay a clay-cold corse, and the white shadow of corruption brooded over him, —when his tongue was silent and past all power of of fence,—the ecclesiastical tyranny of Harlai, the Archbi shop of Paris, a man of loose morals himself, denied him "un peu de terre," a narrow burial-hole, consigning him to a laical dunghill, as carrion for dogs and crows. You remember too, that when knees even sunk to the ground, and women with implorations and streaming eyes prayfully besought for him the last poor rites of Christian interment, that a stern and ruth less denial was still maintained, and only the almighti ness of a King's authority could gain this hard-entreated point from this truly episcopal " Tartuffe," who was himself a mockery of godliness, himself but a bragga docio in virtue. And then,when something of a cession was finally made, right of sepulture was only allowed on the ground that the ceremony should be celebrated without a vestige of pomp—that it should be a sort of serge and sackcloth burial, and that no canticle or psalm should be breathed, to call the seraphim around his grave. That funeral took place as Johannot has engraven it. Two priests alone were appointed to bury him. The body was borne to its last home with no song, no chaunt ing, no sound of blessing, and Moliere was cast into an inglorious grave-hole, behind the chapel of St. Joseph, in the Rue Montmartre, unanneled and almost uncoffined. His friends attended, and saw the destitute and power less dead thus ;ignominiously treated. His wife beheld this heinous and disgraceful transaction—her indigna tion, more burning and insufferable than the men's around her, flamed within her ; and the voice of nature and of virtuous shame at length broke out of her pent-. up bosom, and she exclaimed, as the clods were shovelled on his body, " What ! do they grudge a burial to a man who deserves an altar ?" True-hearted woman, and faithful beyond death ! Would that the strenuous and affectionate spirit that in formed: thy frail and fragile shape, could at this day be resuscitated for a short instant, that thy soul might learn in love and satisfaction that the high altar and shining catalogue which thy farseeing spirit knew was his de sert, was by the united world of Paris, with France's professors and councillors at its head, decreed as due to thy immortal husband, if haply the news hath not al ready travelled to thee in the far land of the departed, for . ming the burden of thy present song of praise, poured by thee beside the waters of overflowing comfort ! Build up a column to Moliere! Build it aloft in the heights of the air! Hew andainquarry the marble white To shape its shaft and pediment bright . That high it may rise, and trophy-like stand As a grace to his name, and a gift to his land. Yet shall its marble magnificence be But of small account, and little degree Compared to the blaze and the golden spell That his fame shall cause round his column to dwell, Filling the air and the region round With a glorious light and a clarion-sound, That the pilgrim afar shall cover his face And acknowledge the awe of that radiant place. Moliere had but little praise in his life-time, atleast not more than his true comedies brought him. In 1778, in deed, the French academy did him honour by erecting a bust to him in their hall, with one of Saurin's verses for its motto—"Rien ne manque a sa gloire ; it manquait a la notre." This, perhaps, was the beginning. of his pos thumous fame, but the harp of the poet, and the energies of the actor have, since then, given him a fresher glory. Who remembers not the magnificent verses of Boileau upon him (" Avant qu!un peu de terre," &c.; in his Epistle to Racine), which rose to an eloquence, that had all the deep accent of Bossuet, when Bossuet spoke solemnly over the dead? Who can . forget that the na tional theatres of Franke have no text-pieces but must give way to Moliere's, and that in the mighty characters which his profound intelligence drew, Grandmesnil, Mole, Fleur, and Dazincourt, have won their reputation, and Madames Contat, Devienne, and Mlle. Mars, have ga thered lustre and fair radiance round their names? So much, too, for the lapse of a few years: the very clidlicters whom he transcribed into his own page, and that once created spite against him, now come forward to add to his honour. The Harpagons of France have opened their gold-bags—while the " femmes savantes," and the pretty " precieuses," have written with patro nizing hands to help toward the erection of this column. Yet, pauvre Moliere ! this is somewhat late for dis tinction. Thou bast long been deaf to praise, and dumb to censure ; the animosities which r ag e in the shadow world above thee create thunders that are inocuous to thee ; thy tender milk-dietings, and thy pained chest, are in quiet now, and no part of thy physical organiza tion but has a quiet requiescat in the dust. Even Armande Bejart—thy bonny and beautiful wife, who with only seventeen blue summers of life in her eyes thou did'st marry in a rickety old acre, keeps thee no longer in the agonies of jealousy by her lively and co quettish carriage. Tony Johannot gives a sweet, joyous portrait of this tiresome Armande in his book. She has luxuriant tressy hair—a transcendently fair bosom and fine bust, with lips in a full cherry pout. While we are on edi tions, we may observe that Moliere, an universal favour ite, can be read by the modern Greek in his own ver nacular, as also by the Spaniard. The following fo reign editions are to be procured :—La Malade Ima ginaire, done into Spanish, under the title of " El Medico a Palos," 4to, Madrid, 1815; Turtuffe, done into Romaic, a Constantino Coccinaio, Bvo, Vienna, 1815 ; and L'Avare, also in Romaic, imprinted at Vienna in 816, ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION IN FRANCE. (From the Journal des Debats.) An attempt at assassination has lately taken place in France on the person of a sexagenarian named Tetu, the circumstances of which smack of the romantic. Tetu, some years ago, had held an intimacy with a woman who has since married, but who, nevertheless, retained as a lover a fellow named Bechard, aged 23. Bechard, drawn as a recruit, had entered ser vice in the 28th Regiment of the Line, and had even advanced a rank, when he was suddenly cashiered for violence and disorderly behaviour. Some time after, he enlisted in the 2d Battalion o f Lancers, a Vincennes regiment, which for three months was temporarily barracked in the environs of Paris. So soon as garrisOned here, he renewed his acquaintance with the woman ll—, and the terror with which he filled her husband by his menaces, were such as compelled the latter finally to consent to an undisguised and unconstrained adultery with her. His battalion, however, now received orders to put itself in marching array for Africa ; Bechard, resolved not to quit Paris, deserted, disguising hi m self, took asylum in ie house of a gentle man named Sarrazin (living in the Rue la Roquette), who had formerly known him, and whom, as the price of his hospitality, he was rascal enough to rob of the sum of 300 francs, with which he disappeared, and with it delivered himself up to uncontrolled debauchery and plea sure. But the 300 francs were soon squandered, and Bechard, finding himself without resourcos or asylum, presented himself at the door of M. Tetu's house, which is situated at the end of a long and obscure alley. At mid-day, Tetu was out; at two o'clock—at four—he had not re turned, and it was not till half-past eight, ring was called for the fourth time, that his ring was answered. Tetu came down stairs, leaving for a while his supper on the table, and required of Bechard the purport of his visit. "I come from Madame H—," said Bechard, affecting a German accent; " she must without delay speak with you, and has despatched me to bring you to her this in stant. She waits for you near at hand, in St. Pierre's-court." " I will comply with pleasure," answered 11. Tetu, " with Mad. H—'s invita tion. Just p e rmit me to finish my supper, and I am at your se rvice." So saying, he again seated himself at table, endeavouring to discover a rea son for so pressing an invitation from Mad. H— at such an hour, with a message sent through a perfect stranger; for though he had frequently seen Bechard, he did not recognise him, having always met him in uniform, whereas he was now dressed like a citizen. • " You will teach me, Sirs" said Bechard, after a short silence, affecting his German jargon, " you will teach me to'speak French as well as yourself." " I am not learned enough f o r that," replied M. Tetu, " but there are plenty of prof essors." During this dialogue, 117. Tetu had ate his supper, and lie was engaged in putting on his boots again, when Bechard, throwing himself upon him with a razor, gashed his neck, mouth, and face most murderously. A terrible wrestle ensued. M. Tetu, aged as he was : and stabbed with dangerous wounds, strove to overthrow his assassin; hut, weakened by loss of blood, and by the strong efforts he had made, he fell with out consciousness, with his watch and purse upon the floor. This encounter passed off more rapidly than related: the victim had not uttered a cry—nevertheless the terrified assassin hurried his flight, but, in so hastening, took only the purse and watch, together with a little bundle which he made of some table-cloths, handker chiefs, and shirts, and then precipitated himself down the stairs, and fled along the Rue de Tourcy. All at once a strange incident betel his flight. Scarce had he got to the middle of the street before Bechard felt the bundle he had under his arm loosen, and several of his handkerchiefs fall to the ground. " Master, master," cried out a poor woman after him, " you are losing your linen,—here, here." The murderer, far from dropping his speed, increased it; and the poor woman, running to pick up the linen, found it stained with blood. This she immediately car ried to the Commissary of Police. M. Tetu had meanwhile recovered his senses, and raised his cries. The police, doctors, and crowd, besieged his doors, and found him in a deplorable state. Tetu detailed the circum stances, and described Bechard. The police were immediately on the chase, and some grave facts soon transpired, that an individual, some hours after the crime was committed, armed with two pistols and a poniard, had been seized upon the informa tion of a common girl, as a deserter, whom exas peration had rendered mad. This individual, blood-stained, and gashed as if from recent con flict, was taken into custody, when he confessed himself the perpetrator of the crime. On being questioned as to his guilty act, he pleaded drunkenness, and the domination of a jealous passion over him. He stands for trial at the next assize. LETTER FROM PARIS. It is so long since I referred to the Republicans of Paris and their movements, that you will probably have begun to think that the party is extinct. Such a conclu sion would have been founded in error. I do not be- lieve that since the funeral of General Lamarque, now nine years and three weeks since, so formidable an array of that class of citizens has been beheld, 'as on this day, at the funeral of M. Gamier Pages, a lawyer of cele brity, but much better known as the leader of the Repub lican party in the Chamber of Deputies. So early as 10 o'clock this forenoon groups of people and numerous sar gens de ville, with the detachments of Municipal Guards, cavalry and infantry, began to occupy that portion of the Rue de Provence which lies between the Rue La- fitte and the Faubourg Montmartre, and in which the deceased had resided. The Boulevard des Italiens, the Rue Lepelletier, and the Rue Grande Batteliere pre sented in a few minutes a similar appearance. The church of Notre Dame de Lorette, situate at the end of the Rue Lafitte, to which the remains of the defunct were to be conveyed, was, as well as all the avenues leading to it, crowded. By twelve o'clock the streets I have named were choked up with people, through whom, with much difficulty, patrols of Municipal Guards forced 'their way. Notwithstanding these circumstances, I re marked to a person sent to " observe" the crowd, that I could not recognise among those so assembled either the journeymen tailors or the "schools" (students). " They are in position, " said he, " and will fall in. They have assembled in force at the Place de l'Ecole de Medecin, the Place de l'Odeon, and the Place de la Bourse, and will join the procession on its route.'` Determined to see how matt(xs stood, I did not attempt to enter the church, but proceeded alon g the Boulevards (des Italiens, Montmartre,:Poissonniere,desßonnes Nou velles, and St. Denis) to the Boulevard St. Martin, above the theatre of that name, where the nature of the ground enabled me to see half a mile in each direction. The distance between the church which the body of the deceased was borne to the spOt just mentioned is consi derably more than a mile. The entire of that line was nevertheless occupied, the cent.w of the boulevards, as well as the spacious pathways, 'by men of all classes and grades. There was not perceptible among them that which is called excitement, but there was a gravity quite at variance with the expression of mere curiosity. At twenty minutes past one o'clock I could, from the eminence on which I was placed, see the head of the procession emerging from the fine trees which still line the Boulevard Poissonniere. It soon assumed the ap pearance of a solid dark mass, occupying . apparently the entire space from 'side to side, and such, In fact, was its appearance during the ensuing twenty-five minutes. When the procession reached the place in which I had resolved to wait for it, I found that it was headed by a dozen Sergens de Ville. A couple of dozen National Guards followed. Then capa e the mourning coaches, and then the hearse, the pall borne by General Excel mans (I was told, but he was not on the side next me), Colonel Stirling (of the National Guards), M. Carnot, and M. David (d'Angers), the sculptor. Immediately after the hearse marched the people, I suppose I must say, and here the matter became serious, several hun dred persons (of *hom 120 were deputies), and other respectable-looking men, came first, but rather irregu larly. To these succeeded 20,000 others, marching in something that looked very like order, from six to twelve abreast; but of these 5,000 at least were in sections, con-. sisting of seven men each, every one of whom wore the dried flower called " immortelle" in his button-hole. That which was not the least formidable feature in the affair was, that the mass, if I may so call a long line of men seven or eight abreast, was flanked throughout by National Guards in uniform. The 5,000 I have particularly mentioned were, it was said, members of the secret societies. The number (seven) of which each section. consisted, looks rather like the !organization of the apparently silly Societe des Saissons, each section being a " week." There was evi dence of drilling in their movements, and here and there' you saw a section composed of men, all of whom were of about the same appearance, probably leaders, for they wore an air of authority. The other sections consisted of every description of man to be found in Paris, pourtraying the perfection of equality. In thE, same section you saw a dandy with yelkow gloves, and a gamin with only a blue bourger on (similar precisely to that worn by the Lascar seamen you see in Lon don) and canvas trou sers, a soiled neckerchief of some sort, and a greasy cap (casquette). Next to him was a. - portly looking person, a publican, who drank his own beer perhaps ; then a man with an outlandish beard—an, artist of course—then a mechanic, then a fierce-looki rig person, un ancien mili taire no doubt, then a student, &c. Such a motley set never has been seen but in France, and never seen in Paris since the Revolution of 1830. With the exception of the gamins and the strdents, to neither of which class could anything in tho shape of a row come amiss or take them by surprise--with these exceptions, I say, the face of every man in. the procession was serious and pre-occupied. Not a single soldier was to be seen. Now, I do not desire that you infer from these facts that we are on the eve of a revolution, or of an attempt at one ; but I think you will agree with me that the as pect of 10,000 men, mare} Ling in order, with 100,000 more accompanying or looking upon them (nineteen twentieths of whom sympathised with them), is, in such a city as Paris, seeing what we have seen, a spec tacle calculated to make a deep impression on the ob server. It was not so mach the display of force that struck the beholder, as the silence, the sedateness , the perfett union and order that reigned among them, and which (if I may venture upon the figure) proved incontestibly to all who know anything of Paris, that the 'hit is not dead, but sleepeth. THE LATE LORD DURHAM. " Don't you know who I am ?" was a phrase made use of by the late lamented Earl of Durham ; but it was in the heyday of his youth, and before his heart had been sickened with the cares Qf public life, or his brow had been pressed by a glittering coronet ; probably ambit tion had already taken up its position in .his ardent breast ; but, if I remember aright, it was previous to his having acquired for himself the notorious distinction of being " the proudest man in England." It was during the month of September, nearly thirty yelrs ago, that a sportsman, with his gun and a due ac companiment of dogs, was descried by an old-fashioned farmer in the midst of a field of unreaped wheat. This was in the county of Durham, where most of the wheats are raised upon cold and stiff clayey soils, so that as the soil is naturally backward, when the seasons otoo prove uncongenial, the farmers ought not to be blamed for not getting their corn cut and out of the way before Sep tember comes in, in order that the sportsman should not find himself inconvenienced when in the pursuit of game. It so happened in the year that I refer to, that I when partridge-shooting came in, the corn crops were out—nay, scarcely any of it had been cut ; hence there was abundance of covert for the birds in the fields of grain ; and notwithstanding most of the gentlemen who shot over the district of country more particularly al luded to had the good sense and the generous feeling that prompt us to do as we would wish to be done unto, there were exceptions, as there' are to all general rules, and a striking instance of which I will proceed to relate. r rn ea s d ti e c r f s n o rra f M er a l g v a hn w w it a h s t s h o e pr b o o m n i a ne fid nt e a c c There could be no manner of use in presenting the o li gn ara o c m t c e r n of n t t ec scene, since he is still in the land of the living, and as hale and hearty as but few men of fourscore fing, them selves ; and theTefore, without a shadow of disrespect, I m will designate hi as day— in Well, then, one d aY in September, as I said before—honest Scrubbins, hear ing several reports of a gun, withgrasping one hand the other,' and both placed behind him, and just upon the hole or opening that country tailors sometimes leave in the hinder part of the breeches waistband, he - slowly took his way across two or three fields, with no very de fined object in view, butjust to see what was going for ward ; for, simple soul ! he hadnot anticipated anything wrong, though he had heard the report of fire arms ; as he knew it must be some gentleman sportsman embrac ing the rights and privileges that his birthright and a game-certificate gave him, and gentlemen, he had always understood, were the very last to depart from what he, Scrubbins, call the rule of right." But only conceive his surprise, when, having as cended a low ridge that had i hid from . his view the ad joining wheat-field, his eyes informed him, in spite of his desire that it should have been otherwise, that there was a sportsman and two or three dogs in the very midst of his field of wheat, not simp l y passing through it by way of a short cut, which wou ld have been it had enough, but actually ranging to and fro as if thad been a field of turnips or potatoes ; for the gunner, it appeared, had broken the covey, so that the birds had dropped in va rious parts of it, and lay so close that the dugs had to push them up with their noses. There was no mistaking It. Scrubbins would greatly have had any other .indi- TIII4I SUN. LONDON. PRITTAY,.3IILY I, 1841. vidual to blame rather than he who stood revealed be fore him, for if the truth must be told, it was none other than his own landlord, he of whom he rented a very profitable farm for that part of the country. Rustic and illiterate as many farmers are (or rather used to be) most of them have sense enough to keep an eye towards their own interest ; and we shall see how Scrubbins acquitted himself in the peculiar difficulty he found himself in. Affecting not to recognise the person of the intruder (for his was a landlord that did not care to keep up any intimate correspondence between 'himself and his tenantry), he called out to him as loud as his Stentor ian lungs would allow him—" What the d—l are you after ? Don't you see that you and your infernal dogs are tramp ling down my wheat ? If you don't take yourself on; I'll see if I can make you." The Sportsman stood aghast : he was perfectly aware that he was upon his own territories, and never before, I presume, bad he re ceived such a point-blank broadside from any one whom he considered in the light of a dependant. Conscious probably that there might be something a little irregular in ranging the growing corn-fields, he seemed willing to enter into an explanation respecting the why and the wherefore he .had departed from the usual custom ; but Scrubbins well knew that such .a proceeding would not serve .his purpose ; so, rather uncourteously, he in formed the man "as carried the fowling-piece," (making use of his own words), that he would hear no thing be had got to say ; and if he (Scrubbins) got over the hedge, and brought away a hedge stake with him, why he wouldn't be answerable for consequences. This rather provoked the ire of the doughty Squire, and thinking it would be as well to crush his o pponent's au dacity bfore it proceeded to greater lengths, he put the following question to the redoubtable Scrubbins—see ing that he had reached the hedge and had commenced the extraction of a stout stake—" Don't you know who I am ?" Nothing "could have been more unsatisfactory than Scrubbins' reply, for instead of desisting from his belligerent preparations, he answered, " I neither know nor care, but I. know one thing, whosumever you be, you be no gentleman !"—" I am John George Lambton, of Lambton Hall," retorted the haughty owner of this lordly mansion, imagining that now he had " capped the climax," ,and put a stopper on Scrubbins' mouth for ever. But not so ; he mistook his man,who indignantly retorted—" Nay, nay, now, I know bett er than that, and I like ye the war for trying to forge my landlord's name ; for Mr. Lambton's every inch on him a gentle man, and ye, 'Aare say, are nought but some bit of a proud ' conceited 'torney clerk, or sununut quite as bad." Any further altercation seemed clearly out of the question; it was evident to the sportsman that this boor did not recognise in him the person of his aristocratic landlord; and, moreover, it was certain that of that landlord,' said Scrubbins entertained a high opinion. Human nature is but human nature, Mr. Editor, where ever we find it; and who is there among the m a g nates of the land that do not find it agreeable, or at least are not willing to apply the flattering unction to their souls, whether they may deserve it or not? But J. G. Lamb ' ton, Esq„ was neither " dolt " nor " idiot," notwith withstanding the "strong insinuation" in a speech of the late -Mr. Canning in the House of Commons, for which the embryo Earl called him to account; he therefore shouldered his Manton, called off his dogs, and took the nearest cut which would enable him to quit, not only the standinr , corn, but the farce of honest Scrubbins; . won dering, I presume (but, observe' this is apocryphal), how_in the world it was possible for any one, residing within the distance of four miles of Lambton Castle, not at once intuitively or otherwise to recognise its lordly owner.—Old Sporting Magazine for July. EASTERN NEWS. CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 9.—On Saturday, the Bth instant, contrary to all precedent, all the Government offices, without exception, were closed; and all the persons connected with them assembled at Topliana, in long and Secret Council. ' It is strongly suspected that ill news has been received from Arabia, and that the authority of the Caliph Abdul Medschid had received some very deadly wounds in the Holy Cities themselves. The Wa habites, whose chiefs Mehemet Ali had subdued at the sacrifice of immense sums, and of an army of from 15,000 to 20,000 men, and imprisoned in the citadel of Cairo, but after Wards, in compliance with the late treaties, let loose (as ./Eolus the stormy winds) upon the coasts of Arabia, are said to have filled every thing with anarchy and confusion. The only force to be opposed to the tor rent bf these fanatics is.that of the undisciplined and un paid hordes of Arnauts, left like an evil legacy by the Pacha to the Porte, under the direction of the grey bearded superintendent of pilgrimages—Osman Pacha, and his coadjutor, Shekir Beg, who has been lately pro moted from the rank of turnspit in the kitchen to that of Colonel, and who. in spite of his recent elevation, served his patron . its of bldnpon his late journey to Mecca. Is it then, to be suppOsed that, under such circumstances, the modern . Pharaoh, with all his advantages of armed forces, European: patronage, and a Numidian conscience , is at all likely to pay, with any regularity, the yearly tri bute bf 80,000 purses ( 40 , 000 , 000 piastres , or 4,000,000 f.) to which the Porte, witt-' the advice of its allies and pro tectors, has lately condemned him, or to perform with any especial fidelity and . punctuality, the„ ordinances of his sovereign lord ?' ' • Despite of all' foreign ccfunsel and foreign patchwork artifice, the whole Othman edifice is • inking to the ground; Without any exterior impulse, un der the weight of the colossal incapacity of its guardians and defenders. There appears no doubt that it is scarcely possible for .all the combined wisdom and state policy of our times to put off the cwing bankruptcy and dissolu tion even yet a few •years. - Destruction is evidently ap proaching with rapid steps ;' on the'teatern side anarchy prevails in all the provinces, with the(exception of Aidin, where that terrible Tahirhas established upon solid foun dations, after his own fashion, the spirit of subjection and blindfold 'devotion. • Even in the central point of Ana tolia, the Dere Beg (hereditary magnates) refuse to bear their part in the burden of the State, and in their autho rity of tax-gatherers of the district, instead of exacting the tenth part, exact no more than the sixtieth or seven tieth part of the produce of the land, in order not to drive the peopleirom despair into rebellion against the Govern ment at Constantinople.•'- • • In consequence of •the incredible i g norance, utter want of ideas, and brutality of the more iistinguished as well as of the common Turks, the present that has . been made then). .of Christian maxims of state and govern ment policy, for which they were, s o little prepared , has had the effect of the robe of Itjanira, or the farrier's drugs in Virgil's Georgics. Neither the Sultan hiniself nor any of his Ministers. has the least conception of t he size of the empire, cr of the extent posi tion, -configuration, population,- produce, and adminis trative condition of the respecti v e rainces Even in , geographical p matters ofthe very•greatest i m p or t a nce i gnorance and carelessness have reached a pitch which elsewhere would appear perfectly fabulonS. • Not even the Minister of War, or the Comitander-in-Chief of the land forces (and much less anyone else), has any knowledge of the condition of the defensive resources of the monarchy. No one (I give an example) has any idea of how many cannon the Government possesses, or where they are to be found. • Even the number of regiments is unknown at CoUrt, or in a subordinate situation. Raouf Pasha, the Grand Vizier, was not long ago quarrelling with his mustechar• as to whether there were thirty-six or only thirty-one effective regiments. After a long contest the latter put an end to the dispute with the remark that for merly in the Ottoman Empire there were none at all, and that it was victorious for all that. After the insur rection in Diarbekir it was considered advisable on the part of the Porte c.o place the citadel of Aleppo in a state of defence, and cannon were conveyed over there from Consiantinople at a great expense, when more than twelve admirable pieces, left behind by the,Egyptians 'in the . passes of the Taurus, were allowed to rust, forgotten and unheeded, not far from Aleppo. When the remFl was made;and the" question asked, why these ready stores had not been made use of, the answer - returned was, that these pieces of cannon had been, quite forgot ten. And yet, in the face of the powerless and miser able condition before them, the pride of the Mahometans, and their 'blind confidence in the maintenance of the empire, and their 'everlasting superiority over the king doms of the infidels; are unshaken and untouched. Abdul Medschid . is about as much as nobody here ; and from t'he Church of Islam, which now rules in Tur key, neither concession or conversion is to be expected. The Turks' . laugh in their sleeves at the lecture given, them by the Giaour t The Egyptians, in the very ex treme of their tyranny, extracted from the Emir Bechir annually 25,000 purses (12,500,000 piastres, or somewhat, more than 3,000,000 francs). The deputies of the Sul tan now demand of his successor 42,000 purses (21,000,000 piastres) yearly contribution, of which sum the new Prince' declares himself ready to levy 35,000 purses (1,750;000 piastres, Cr 437,500 francs), as reasonable and just. The people, however, have good English muskets and written promises in their hands, and refuse even to give these 35,000, as the new duty of 12 per cent. upon the etport. of silks alone brings in.a . yearly revenue of 52,000 purses, with which, according to their opinion, the Government ought to content itself. You may rely implicitly upon these statements ; and, alas ! I coqld find even worse to tell, if I would, of the people em 'loyed by the Sublime Porte.---411gemeine Zeitung. MALTA: . ADMIRAL STOPFORD AND COMMODORE NAPIER. The following important letter, in answer to Commodore Napier, had been publis hed by Sir Robert Stopford in the Malta Times : I , Princess Charlotte, Malta, June 14. " Dear Sir, —Although the speeches ascribed to you at Li verpool and Manchester have also gone the rounds of thoiews. papers, I did not consider it necessary to call upon you for ex planation upon potnts therein mentioned, which might bear the g, with whom I had the long standing, time upon th e most inference of excluding see from any share in the operations on the coast of Syria. I c ould not but doubt whether it was pos e so extraord inar y a l h o a n ave m i s a) i lm b e l a si e c au t b h r leaet footing, tsie o nr ffi gv ,i c n e gc r u s a flo t dr state ment. But, even if it had been made, no newspaper contro versy could ever have settled it- Tile and circumstances could alone elicit the facts.- I hare seen different versions of the few words I said at the entertainment given 1114 at Malta, to which you refer in your letter of the 31st of May, received on the I:2th instant. As your name was mentioned you have a right to know exactly what I did say, which was this, That, however gladly I availed myself of your skill and intrepidity, I trusted that the service would not have suffered if you had net been there, having full reliance on several officers in the squadron to execute any orders that might have been confided to them ;' but I utterly deny having accused you of arrogating to yourself the whole merit o f the S;rian campaign. 4, Your obedient servant, " R. STOPFORD. • "P. S. Since writing the above, I have seen your letter to me of the 31st of May in one of the public papers. I take it for granted that you will make this equally public. " To Commodore Sir Charles Napier." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MALTA, JUNE 23.—Admiral Sir Robert Stopford trans ferred the command of the Mediterranean fleet on Saturday, the 19th instant, to Rear-Admiral Sir John Ackworth Om manney, and left on the same afternoon for England, in her Majesty's ship Pri.ncess Charlotte (tow e d as far as Gozo by the Cyclops), in company with the Castor. The Powerful sailed at the same time for 13eyrout, and the Talbot and Locust steamer for Palermo, where the two' last mentioned vessels will shortly be joined by the Hecate steaipen The City of Dublin contract steam-packet (relieved by the Iberia) took her departure for Gibraltar and England on the 19th inst. without having been admitted to pratique, the qua rantine from the lonian Islands having been increased from seven to seventeen days, in consequence of the admission of the new Lord High Commissioner, the Hon. Stewart 111‘Kenzie, into the town of Corfu to perform his quarantine in the Go vernment Palace, within a week of his leaving Alexandria, where the plague was raging. The Calcutta sailed yesterday from Syracuse to water, and will be followed in a few days by the Cambridge, which latter will, perhaps, before returning, visit some of the Italian ports of the continent,. The Britannia will leave next Week, also for Syracuse, to water, and during her Ilisence Sir John A. Ornmanney's flag will be hoisted on boirdithe Howe, which, with all the vessels of the fleet, will visit Naples about the sth proximo, to accele rate, by their imposing presence, the definitive settlement of the long pending sulphur claims. The Vanguard will shortly proceed to Tunis, and the Rod ney to Corfu. The Prometheus may be looked for from Gibraltar, with the mail from England of the 12th, about the 29th inst., and the Iberia, from the lonian Islands, about the same time. MR. WARNER'S INVENTION. (From the Naval and Military Gazette.) To say that we are not prejudiced against such projects as that gentleman is stated to have discovered, would be untrue. We admit that, in common with members of the United Service of the highest rank and ability, we do re ceive any such propositions with extreme suspicion, not as to the honesty, or even the conviction of the schemers, but because we know, from constant experience, that such are generally possessed of sanguine minds, and apt to impute motives to those in authority, because they will not admit the value of the projects, oftentimes extremely clever and ingenious, but not applicable to purposes of war. It is not • many years since the steam-gun attracted considerable attention—a model is even now exhibited, showing to the whole world the possibility of applying steam to projectiles; and if we recollect rightly, Mr. Perkins incurred considerable expense in preparing a large model, which impelled a ball of 121bs. But this was for various reasons pronounced by competent authorities inapplicable to war, not only afloat, where steam of such high pressure would be highly dangerous, but on shore; and although the principle has been known, admitted, and publicly exhibited for years, there is no intention of adopting it as a war engine by this or any other nation. Again, we remember, sonic six or eight years ago, a celebrated west-end gun-maker, who boasted that he could produce a piece of ordnance capable of projecting a missile for twenty miles or more. His assertion was treated with ridicule, by those who considered the initial velocity required in a body that should continue to over come the resistance of the air for one-fourth of that space; yet he went so far as to submit his project to the Board at Woolwich, and demanded a large sum for the discovery; being required to explain, he refused , and so the matter ended, the Board not feeling justified in recommending Government to entertain a project of which they could give no opinion, in feet, to " buy a pig in a poke." • - . Now, to us it appears that Mr. Warner is much in the same position as our friend the gun-maker ; and that no responsible Minister or Board will ever be justified or induced to negotiate with him, until he has established certain essential preliminaries. First, if there should prove to be any merit in the invention, and that is made out to the satisfaction of the Government, to how many, or to what extent, has the secret been already divulged ? and what satisfaction can be given that after the invention is supposed to be secured, it may not appear in some other shape, and thus induce fresh demands ? Secondly—Sup osing that Mr. Warner has discovered some means of _ng or overcoming the objection to the use of ful minating substances, and rendered those highly destruc tive and sensitive substances subservient to his purpose, what security can be given that, when the project is brought into action, otber Chemists may not effect the same when it becomes worth while to apply their abili ties to the task ? . It is true the last objection may be said to depreciate the value of any invention ; and so it would, did not the patent laws apply in ordinary cases, from which this is exempt. But, considering that Mr. Warner and his friends have (according to the Times) expended upwards of 35,0001. upon this project, and (according to report) now demand a very large sum for the invention, having refused (according to Mr. Wakley) 300,0001. from a fo reign Government, we think the two objections will weigh against the purchaser in the mind of any Minister that may control the finances of this country. Mr. Warner appears to be unfortunate in appealing to the testimony of dead men, for the letters published go for little one way or other, except to prove that the late Mr. Lukin of the 'War-office introduced him to the late Sir Herbert Taylor, by whom he was recommended to his late Majesty, whO directed the late Sir R. Keates to examine into the ,affair, who took into his council the late Sir Thomas Hardy ; and there are copies of letters published in the pamphlet, to prove that Mr. Warner was in communication with all these distinguished personages, but there is no recorded opinion of any one of them as to the practicability of the project. We think that a letter or a report under Sir H. Kcates's hand, " expressing his conviction of the efficacy . of Mr. 'Warner's invention" in 1831 or 1832, before the infirmities of age had made wreck of his mind, would be of more value than the published extracts of his notes making, appointments, and desiring that the same specimens which had been shown to him • might be brought for his Majesty's inspection, thereby implying that lie had never witnessed even such a prac tical experiment as was lately shown on Mr. Bond's fish-pond. Oer space warns us that we must close the subject, for this week at least ; but before we do so we may remark that Mr. Walesby confirms two reports that are rife with relation to this affair. The one, tlaat the late talented Editor of the Tinzes, (Mr. Barnes became suspicious that lie had been imposed upon ; the other, that a military officer who witnessed the last experiment is " incredulous" as to the efficacy of the invention. We believe, moreover, that the individual Alluded to is high in the confidence of the Duke of Wellington. We shall have some observations to make in our next upon that part of the statement which relates to the opera tions against Dom Miguel, when it appears Mr. Warner was directed by his late Majestyto test his invention. This, could harldy be done without the knowledge of Sir W. Parker, commanding in the Tagus, and Captain Glas cock, in the Douro. These distinguished officers are alive, and we hope likely to live to perform good service ; why is it that no appeal is made to them ? It is scarcely possible that Mr. Warner could have saved Oporto, sup plied the destitute city with his own gunpowder, and held himself in readiness to destroy the Miguelite fleet (acting too by desire of King William the Fourth), without cap tain Glascock, the British officer in command before the city, being cognizant of his intention. We beg to assure Mr. Warner that we shall be at all times most happy to give publicity to such explanations as his stated case appears to require, and we think he is Jvrong in permitting his claim to be made the handle for political acrimony. Let him moderate his pretensions, and cease to incur ridicule by such pompous assertions respecting the destruction of fleets and armies, as if the Vessel containing Isis apparatus were impregnable. aver We have recently seen a description of a high apparatus for saving lives from stranded vessels, and from vessels in a sinking state at sea, constructed and brought into practice by Lieutenant Thomas Kisbee, R.N., Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Interna tional Shipwreck Institution, Paris. The apparatus is light and simple, and may be carried to a wreck by two or three men in almost any situation, , and appears calculated to meet every case ' in which the first communication has been effected by means of Manby's Apparatus or Dennett's Rockets. It will be found useful in life and other boats, where there are obstacles to their going alongside ; and at sea, when a boat cannot with safety be lowered down. The apparatus consists of a net made of small line capable of bringing a woman and child, or a man with his bag, on shore. A float or circular buoy, its dia meter 32 to 34 inches, under diameter 20 to 22 inches, diameters of its sections full 7 and 5 inches, cir cumference 19 ; made of juncus effusus covered with un bleached calico, dressed with three coats of oil or thin paint, weighing six or seven pounds, and is quite sufficient to keep a man's head and shoulders above water in a sea way, together with the weight of line that must occasionally bear upon it. The float may also be secured to the hoop of the net, and this has been tried on two oc casions with a man in it through the surf at Yar mouth. A pair of petticoat trousers made of stout canvas alike before and behind, the waistband 14 inches wide, and the depth from the top of the band to the centre of the clutch 21 to 22 inches, which when laced to a hoop and fitted to the float, will admit of the latter reaching close up under the arms of a good sized man. Lieut. Kisbee has .also proposed a sort of telegraph by night, and from The result of experiments made, the words Look for a line—haul in if ready, shout, &c., have been read 150 yards off very distinctly, or 200 yards, a distance within which the greater number of ves sels are stranded.—Naval and Miiitary Gazette. MALINAISON.—The Quotidienne gives the fol lowing rather interesting account of the Chateau de Malmaison : " After having formed part of a fief of the Abbey of St. Denis in the 14th century, Mal maison was purchased by Christopher Perrot, councillor of the Parliament of Paris in 1622. A hundred and fifty years afterwards it became the property of the Count de Canteleu, who improved the grounds considerably. After the brilliant campaigns of Italy, Bonaparte, who was then anxious for retirement, purchased Malmaison for three millions of francs. At this place be planned the cam paign of Egypt in 1798, and on his return it was here that the affair of the 18th Brumaire was resolved upon. During the Consulship it was his favourite place of residence, and his Court there became very bril liant. The chateau was not enlarged by him, but it was much embellished, and seveal hot-houses were added to the gardens. The first hortensias, now be come so general, was raised at Malmaison, and a menagerie as extensive and rich as that of the Jardin des Plantes, was formed, as also a bergerie, in which were kept the first Merino sheep introduced into France. Itwes at Malmaison that the most important political measures of the day were decided upon, and that Talleyrand advised the arrest and murder of the Duke d'Enghien. When Na poleon become Emperor, quitted Malmaison for St. Cloud, he said to an ambassador, 'I am going to' take possession of a vacant Throne. I ascend it free from the crimes which are too common to chiefs of dynasties. Let history be consulted, and a comparison be made.' In 1810, Josephine, repudiated by her husband, went to Malmaison to hide her tears, and here. Napoleon, in 1815, gives vent to his despair." THE CAMBRIDGE BRIBERY CASE.—The Tory Journals have of late said a gre a t d ea l on a c harge o f bribery made against the agent of the Liberals at Cambridge. On this case the Cambridge Advertiser says : We do not hesitate a moment in pronouncing the whole affair, from beginning to end, a premeditated , foul, and most atrocious conspiracy—a shameful and most dishonourable scheme trumped u-p by the Tories to cast odium on their opponents. Such is the opinion of every honest and unprejudiced pence:). ANECDOTE of SIR TOBY BUTLER. Talking of law and wine reminds me of a mem ber of the horse-hair Body, who was well-known to be incapable of acquitting himself with any degree of credit if he had not previously fortified his head-piece by what might be denominated his aids to eloquence. Sir Toby Butler was his name; and on the occasion of a trial in which Sir Toby was to address the Jury, the agent of the party opposed thought to muzzle the Counsel. He accordingly bet Sir Toby fifty guineas " that he could not speak to the Jury in the case of A versus B,' without first drinking his allowance of two bottles of claret." The Counsel accepted the wager, and the attorney communicated to his client that the leading Counsel of the defendant was done for, it being well-known he could not put two sentences together before he had finished his modicum of wine. The day of trial came, and the cause called on. While the plaintiff's Counsel was stating the case and examining his witnesses, Sir Toby was observed very quietly to uncork a bottle of wine, pour it into a howl beside him, and, taking a loaf of fresh bread, dip it in the bowl, and, having sa turated each mouthful, eat it until wine and bread had mutually vanished. He was not yet satisfied, for having finished No. 1 he attacked No. 2. A second bottle and loaf having gone to keep company with their predecessors. Sir Toby rose to address the Jury for the defence, and cer tainly - no change "came o'er the spirit of his dream," for his masterly eloquence wanted nothing of its usual vigour; the clearness of his reasoning, the force and brilliancy of his rhetoric, never exhibited greater powers; and the verdict of the, Jury in favour of his client with costs was the gratifying tribute to the abilities of the ad vocate. " Hand over the fifty," said Sir Toby to the attorney of the opposite side. " Sir Toby, you have not kept your word with me," replied the defeated man of costs. " How do you prove that, old Six-and-eight pence ?" " Was not your agreement not to taste wine ?" "Not to drink you mean; I only ate. Come, give me my money, or knock you off the Rolls, and never let you darken the door of a Court-house again." The loser thought it best to post the coal, and Sir Toby added to his well earned fame as a wit.—Old Sporting Magazine for July. SUDDEN DEATH THROUGH EXCITEMENT AT THE CITY ELECTION.—Last evening Mr. Payne held an inquest at the School-room, Walbrook, on the body of Frede rick Beasant, aged 54, employed as messenger during the late City election, on the Whig side. It appeared that about eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning, as' deceased was hurrying along through George-street, Mansion-house, he was seen to stagger, and then fall down suddenly on the foot pavement. He fell at Mr. Hampton's door, whose clerks rendered him every assist ance until the arrival of the police. Several medical men were sent for, and Dr. Bell, of Walbrook, came ; when he arrived he found deceased had died of an effusion of blood on the brain, or apoplexy, caused most probably not by over-ex ertion, but rather by over-excitement. Verdict—" Died of apoplexy." SINGULAR HOUSEBREAKER.......EdWard King, in the Bedford gaol, charged with housebreaking, has two wooden legs, having lost his own in the Infirmary. The Diario di Roma announces the death of the Marches; Quarontotti, aged 112 years. It states that, until two years ago, when shg. began to feel the infirmities of age, she enjoyed perfect healtn, and all her intellectual faculties were in full vigour. BODY FOUND IN THE RIVER UNDER 31YsTwous CIRCUMSTANCES.—Yesterday Mr. Payne, City coroner, held an inquest at the White Swan, Upper Thames street, on the body of Louis Schreder, aged 40. It was proved in evidence that yesterday morning, Wilton, an inspector of the 'lhames po lice, found the body floating down with the tide on the west side of Southwark-bridge. It appeared to have been several days in the water, and there were no marks of violence on the botly. Deceased was a German boat-maker, residing in Boyle-street, Saville-row, and on Thursday morning last left his home, saying that he was going out to try and obtain some money due to him from customers. He had not since been seen alive: He was not in embar rassed circumstances, and lived on affectionate terms with his wife. Though he drank occasionally, he never did so to such an extent as to incapacitate him for business. He was not a man whose mind was habitually dejected, but when he went to collect his debts and was unsuccessful, he took it more to heart than Englishmen generally do. The Jury, seeing that there was nothing in the evidence to ace6unt for deceased having been found drowned, adjourned the inquiry to Friday, to endeavour to find out on what customers deceased had called, and whether he had met with such refusals from them as would affect his mind. It was stated that a French Count, now in the Fleet Prison, was one of deceased's principal debtors. THE PILLORY.—Arnaud Fabre, the , public notary of Marseilles, sentenced to hard labour for life by the Court of Assizes of Aix for the innumerable forgeries which he committed in the discharge of his legal funetioni, was ex posed in the pillory at Marseilles on the 24th ult. Extraor dinary precautions had been taken to maintain order among the crowd; `l'a detachment of horse chasseurs, gendarmes, and soldiers of the line formed round the pillory a large ring, which kept the spectators at a considerable distance. The extreme corpulence of the culprit made it difficult jar him to ascend the steps of the ladder leading to the platform, on which he remained seated during an hour in a state of complete irhmobility, his eyes fixed to the ground, and his cap covering part of his face. During the whole time of his exposure the crowd did not utter ,te word against a man who had ruined so many families in Marseilles. However, after the legal part of his sentence was over, the indignant people in flicted their own chastisement on the miscreant. The road which he traversed from the Canebiere to the Prison of the Presentines was one of ignominy. The crowd rushed for ward to otpin a close view of him, and the g endarmes and escort could with difficulty open a passage for the cart in which he was placed. Fabre was assailed all the way by the most opprobrious epithets. At one place, the people were preparing to pelt him with stones, but the police and the troops prevailed upon them to desist from their purpose. OPENING OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL ROAD, FROM TILE TERMINUS AT PADDINGTON, DIRECT TO BRISTOL AND BRIDGEWATER.-011 Wednesday morn •• ing, at eight o'clock, the grand opening of the Great Western Railroad, direct from the terminus at Padding ton to J,lristol and Bridgewater, took place by a select train, containing the directors, engineers, and others connected with the great undertaking, quitting the ter minus at Paddington, with flags flying, and bands of musicians, performing beautiful airs , on the occasion. A few days since an experimental journey was made throughout the whole line, for the purpose of trying the solidity of the line of road, with carriages containing immense weights, which proved highly satisfactory to all those engaged on the line of road, the immense difficul ties which arose at Box-hill having been, after consider able labour and expense, overcome. At nine o'clock the public train of carriages took their departure, and the journey to Bristol, a distance from Paddington of 118+ miles, was performed in four hours, and that to Bridgewater, of 151 miles, in five hours and a half. Earl Spencer, the Lord of the Manor of Bat tersea, is about to erect a chain-pier near the Church, similar to the one erected by Lord Cadogen at Chelsea. ACCIDENT TO ONE OF THE DUKE OF BUCK INGHAM'S GAMEKEEPERS.—On Saturday night last, about nine o'clock, Joseph White, one of the keepers on the Duke of Buckingham's Wotton Underwood estate, residing at Grenville Cottage, at the end of the avenue at the back of his Grace's mansion, was " looking out," when within about thirty yards of his cottage he ob served a rabbit, and raised his gun to shoot it ; on his 'pulling the trigger, an explosion took place, the barrel burnt in pieces, and with the stock, lock, and screws was completely . shattered ; the poor fellow's left hand was dreadfully injured, two of the fingers being blown off, the thumb nearly so, and the whole hand cut and bruised in a sad manner ; fortunately no other part of his person was hurt. Richard Allen, another keeper, went to his assistance, and accompanied him on his way to Brill, that being the nearest place at which a medical man could be found. After walking about 40 yards White' became faint and unable to proceed further. Allen went on to Brill, and Mr. Knight, a surgeon there, quickly attended to the wounded man ; and after stopping the bleeding, and lending what as sistance was immediately requisite, accompanied 'him to Aylesbury for the purpose of obtaining professional aid in amputating the injured limb ; by two o'clock the following morning amputation below the elbow safely performed in the Buckinghamshire Infirmary, was a native of Bedfordshire, and has been - li nservice of where White still rem h a fa i am ns et , threethat dt • iytsheiarsgsohfg i on w ell. lii s wasr thee ifisrs3t4tireyeearesf old - fashioned, it from the Duke e is ot a ' Buckingham off a th n e el g d u -f n as , been used to kill wild ducks with, h Al is le fi n r . ing lt w as which had and had been occa sionally White being a very careful man, heavy loaded, the charge which produced th it not into unfortunate result was light, not more than is put e modern bf piee l ;t Allen had been usi ng are pleased to hear that his Grace h w as an gi e ven instructions for for White, his wife, and family of four children to have every necessary found them at his expense. FORMER OPINIONS OF SIR JAMES GRA IIAM.—" Nor will • wiseue to stop even at this po int ; if the landow ner i s to give up his monopoly for t he public good, shall the East India Company and West In dia proprietors be suffered, for one day, to retain the full enjoyment of their exclusive privileges ? Shall the con sumer be forced to pay an exorbitant price for his tea and for his sugar, that particular interests may , be benefited, and shall the nobility andY gentry of these realms, the owners of the native 'ail, alone be sacrificed ? On the contrary, let us adopt the sound principles of free trade ; but let us not limit their ap plication to the staple produce of our lad. Let us ense de stroy the heavy duties on timber, which n , at the exp of every man building a ship or a house in our the mother country, are, at' best, a paltry premium to col and since we are bent on establishing an on competi tion with the foreign manufacturer, let us a o pe n reduce The cours th, t manufactures of our cou ntr y . largely those taxes which affec t both the e, commerce and o be adopted is to consent to do evision of the Corn-laws, at the sam 'eaue a revision of all ing duty, but to force to consent to a free importan with a moderate protect -Cyr?' and Currency. very large amount." other monopolies, and to carry a rtion of taxes to a Cherbourg has just been the scene of a repeti tion of the story of atta ched and Leander, in the persons of a sailor, belonging to the Friedland. The day before the smart and lively lass, to the culinary art, and a Dieppe in tended sailing of the ship, the young tar was brought on board, and put in irons, for having passed the night on shore without leave. Not willing to sa il without taking a last leave of his love, he contrive d to free himself, and plunged into the sea ; his reliance on his strength as a swimmer was fatal to him, and three days afterwards his body was washed on shore. The poor girl, who was much attached tohim, was taken to see the corpse, and an affecting scene ensued. She then cut off a lock of has hair, and wrapping it in his last letter to her, kissed his lips, and wag conducted home, THE CHURCH-RATE VICTIM. (From the York Herald.) Mr. William Baines, after suffering an imprisonment of more than seven months in Leicester Gaol, for con scientiously refusing to pay a Church-rate, and the addi tional expenses which civil and ecclesiastical law saddled upon him in consequence thereof, was set at liberty on Wednesday last. Mr. Baines has not paid the rate, nei ther have any of his friends ; there is, therefore, some little mystery attached to the source whence he has re ceived his liberty. One thing, however, we may be sure of, it is not through any Tory influence. An Act was brought into Parliampt by the present Ministry for the express pur pose of opening the prison doors to those who were suf ferpg on account of this harsh and conscience-oppress inf impost ; but the Tory Lords and Lord Bishops did with it as they had done with many other excellent mea sures for the extension of civil freedom and religious li berty, mutilated it of those clauses which constituted its life and spirit, and sent it down to the House of Com mons a mere useless excrescence among the multiplicity of Acts which swell our statute laws. • It is thus that the House of " hereditary wisdom " will continue to deal with the Liberal measures that may be passed in the People's House, unless the people them selves assume au attitude which shall convince the aris tocracy that they will not be trifled with. The oppor tunity for doing this is now placed in their hands ; and if an overwhelming majority of sterling Reformers—no ha - ensure men.—no conciliators—be returned to the new Parliament, the obstructors of Reform in the Upper House will be constrained to surrender to discretion, what sound argument could never gain froM them. Their opposition to Liberal measures, recently, be came so annoying and so obnoxious to the people, that a reformation hi the House of Lords was a subject of serious argument with the country; and not a few peti tions were presented and motions made in Parliament, for the exclusion of the Bishops for mixing themselves up with political debates. With such a Parliament as the people ought now to return, in answer to the strong appeal of our patriotic Queen, a check would be placed upon the proceedings of the Lords which they dare not disregard, and a prudent concern for the privileges of " their order," would deter them from interfering with the privileges of the people. James and Eliza Black, being two of the pas sengers saved from the wreck of the William Brown, gratefully acknowledge the receipt of 51. from the Ship wrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society, No. 46, Bucklersbury. MEETING OF NON-ELECTORS IN SALFORD. —A most important meeting of non-electors took place n Thursday evening, on Shaw's Brow, Salford. -Up wards of 4,000 persons weee present. Mr. John Scott, a working man, who was called to the chair, opened the , proceedings in an appropriate speech ; after which he called upon Mr. M. Savage, who, after dwelling upon the ruinous effects of the Corn-laws, the fallacy of the as sertion that wages would be reduced if those laws were repealed, and the necessity of union on the part of all classes of Reformers, Moved the first resolution. Mr. J. F. Finnigan seconded the resolution, which was put and carried unanimously, amid loud cheers. Mr. Abel Heywood was loudly cheered : he dwelt upon the rela tive merits of the two candidates, denounced the alliance between " professing Liberals" and the Tories, and con cluded by calling upon all to support Mr. Brotherton— and by unfurling a white flag, on which wqs inscribed " Brotherton, and no Bread-tax," which was greeted by three times three hearty cheers. At this moment J. Brotherton, Esq., arrived upon the ground, and was tri umphantly escorted to the platform. His arrival was the signal for the most tumultuous applause, which lasted for some minutes. When it had subsided, Mr. Joseph Stanley seconded the resolution in an eloquent speech. The resolution being carried unanimously, loud calls were now made for Mr. Brotherton, who presented him self, and was again loudly cheered ; he addressed the meeting very effectively. The resolutions adopted were as follow :—" That this meeting of non-electors, and other inhabitants of Salford, consider the total, imme diate, and unconditional repeal of all monopolies, but more especially of the corn and provision laws, is a mea sure essentially necessary to the prosperity and even exist ence of the labouring millions.—That this meeting of non-electors and others, suffering dreadfully under the direful effects of monopoly, and having no .other means of influencing the electors or of counteracting the inti midation and corruption exercised by the enemies of the people, solemnly' pledge themselves to support by all means in their power those shopkeepers and others who will pledge themselves to vote for the candidate who ad vocates the total and speedy repeal of the Corn and Pro vision-laws.—That a Committee of n t on-electors, consist ing of the Chairman and the movers and seconders of the resolutions, with power to add to their number, be ap pointed to wait upon the electors, and to report their answers to this meeting."—Manchester Times.—[Let other non-electors do likewise.] CARLISLE.—About three o'clock on Saturday there was a violent assault committed on a police-officer, by two Yellow " lambs ;" the man, I am sorry to say, died through the course of the night. About ten last night an outrageous attack was made on the coffee-house, thequar ters of Messrs4l. and M., when about twenty windows were broken. The military were called out, about 15 persons taken into custody, including two implicated in the police-man's death, who are ideptified, and now in custody. A similar attack was ntade at the Bush . Inn, though much less damaged. The Royal Hotel is the , head-quarters of Goulburn; not.a single pane of glass_da, maged there ; this morning, at ten o'clock, another man, acting as a special constable, died of wounds received last night. The town, at this time, is comparatively' quiet, though this is the first day of the races.—Letter from Carlisle, dated Wednesday. TORY ATTACK UPON ALDERMAN WOOD.--- Wednesday aaernoon, shortly after the close of the poll, the worthy Alderman, who had been conversing with some friends at a house in Basinghall-street, upon leaving, in company with a friend, was grossly assailed upon passing the Tory Commit tee room, in Basinghall-street, by a rutfia:nly mob of long shore-men in the pay of the Conservatives, who hissed and hcoted the Alderman, and were proceeding to violence, when Mr. Shillibeer, the omnibus-proprietor , and a friend, who seeing the danger of the worthy Alderman, manfully fought off the ruffians, and ultimately forming a body-guard to the Alderman, succeeded in getting him safely into a cab in Cole man-street, but not until he had been severely handled by the mob, who, as soon as they saw the Alderman drive off, at tacked Mr. Shillibeer and his friend, tore the clothes off the former, and otherwise injured him. BRUSSELS, JUNE 27.—The six persons con demned to death by the Court of Assize of Brabant, have, ap pealed to the Court of Cassation. June 28.—The Marquis of Hertford arrived at Brussels yesterday evening. His Lord ship came from Paris, and is going to the waters of Tyrol. The Court of Assizes of Montbrison has just tried over again, in consequence of the decision of the Court of Cassation, the three men who had been found guilty at Lyons of having carried off M. Millon from that city, and attempted to extort money. The criminals have again been found guilty, and sentenced, the two principal, Poncet and Collett, to twenty years' hard labour, and the pillory; and Gervals, their accomplice, to ten years' solitary confinement, instead of hard labour at the hulks, according to the first sentence. FINE ARTS.—M. Gudin, marine painter, and M. Alaux, historical painter, have been named officers of the Legion of Honour ; Messrs. Delorme and Grenier, painters, and M. Etez, sculptor, have been named knights of the same order. The King has just purchased a charming little picture, exhibited at this year's salon, by M. Jollivet, l' lnterieur d'un • . Atelier, in which an artist, who has passed his soixantaine, • coolly mining his colours with his back turned to a lovely model sitting by the stove, attired like the Venus de Medicis, and doing the most unromantic thing in the world —reading a newspaper 1 His Majesty has also pur c ha se d f o r the Museum o f Versailles the spirited picture by M. T. S. Robins, repro sentinithe Veloce steamer entangled in the jetty at Calais. The Minister of the Inter* has purchased the Odalinque, a marble statue by M. Pradief, exhibited this year ; the Desil lusion, by M. Jouffroy ; the Faune, by M. Brian (this is really a good purchase), and the Andromede, by M. Lescome. The Minister has presented to the Ceramic Museum at Serves, and to the Bibliotheque Royale, antique vases discovered at Propriano, in Corsica. The tesult of the Westminster election is attri butable to two causes—one, the too great confilehneere ttf the Liberal Candidates in a certainty of succeas--#!_e_ surd conduct of the Chartists, who have ter Ily . cut Off their ildelnadect men waited nose to be avenged of their face. until the afternoon, to see how maantteerses went, and when they chance they voted for found that the Tory Candidate had " to spite the Whigs," him and Mr. Leader, in order, as forgetting that they were th ey more likely to spite themselves. On the 21st inst., says the Journal de Loiret, a man named Morel , as condemned to two years' im prisonment by the Cor:relacott w nal e Tribunal, at Chinon, for an al finding that he was to re attempted outrage a turn to the prisontrev a ult, oufPfontrevamult, from which he had but just much excited, and in a tit of rage left been released, t h e be y e a r a T e of the prison, at Chinon, and entering his work in the cell of a prisoncrl named . Ga . llard, who was asleep, beat out his brains with a arge paser . tg stone which he had picked He had previously said that, in order to up in the yard.. prevent his being sent to Fontrevault, he would either kill h i mse lf or somebody else , so that his destination might b e changed. A few days ago, says the Echo de Vienne, the Baron de Jouvenel, of Bagniere, near Veyrac, in the L o t, w hil e on his way to Cuzan ce, at half-past nine in the morning, received a pistol-shot from a man who was behind a wall- The ball broke his right arm and passed through his body. On turning round the Baron received a second ball which broke his left arm and also entered his body. The assassin then fled. The Baron, notwithstanding his wounds, attempted to regain his home, but soon fell exhausted by loss or blood. He was conveyed to his house by some persons who saw him, a nd died in a few hours. The motive of this crime is not stated. A disastrous conflagration broke ont a few nights since in the commune of Ham, near Douellens, and in less than two hours twelve large buildings were totally destroyed. A woman, the mother of five children, lost her life in endeavour ing to save some furniture. A strong detachrtent of troops trom the garrison of Douellens came to give assistance, and be hared in the most exemplary manner. The cause of the ca lamity is believed to have been aceidetal. MATHEWS AT TIIE JARDIN DES PLANTES. —I took Mr. and Mrs. Mathews to the Jardin des Plantes to-dpy, and was much amused by an incident that occurred there. A pretty child, with her bonne, were seated on a bench near to which we placed our selves. She was asking questions relative to the ani mals she had seen, and Mr. Mathews having turned his head away from her, gave some admirable imitations of the sounds peculiar to the beasts of which she was speaking, and also of the voice and speeches of the per son who had exhibited them. Never did he exert him - self more to please a crowded and admiring audience than 'to amuse this child, who, maintaining an im movable gravity during the imitations, quietly observed - to her nurse, " ilia bonne , ce Monsieur eit Lien d ro l e :" The mortification of Mr. Mathews on this occasion was very diverting. " How !" exclaimed he, "is it pcsdble that all my efforts to amuse that child have s o w h o ll y ailed ? She never moved a muscle I. "—Lady Bl ess i ngton ' s Idler in France. A Stockholm letter, in mentipning the expected arrival of Mlle. Taglieni in that city, observes, that it will be the first time of her visiting the place of her birth for 23 years. It adds that the fair d a n sa t r i ce was born in 1604. tier graucbuother, Mute. Kamen, is -still alive there. MORNING SUN