The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

,EVENING SUN LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAIL WAY COMPANY. The general half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors in ;he above undertaking, was held in the London Tavern yesterday. The Chair was taken at one o'clock by J. Harman, Esq., the Chairman of the Company. The formal business having been disposed of, The CHAIRMAN said it was most gratifying to himself and his brother Directors to meet so large a meeting of the proprietors, for he was convinced that before they left the room they would be perfectly satisfied with the statements that were to be laid before them. The most important occurrence since the last meeting was the partial opening of the line—the result of that opening was important, because it had convinced every one who had seen the working . of the line on that part which had been opened that their traffic when the line was opened throughout would be immense.—(Cheers.) He had also the pleasure of informing the Proprietors that the line would very soon be thrown open; indeed, he might say that it was the intention of the Directors to open it on the 14th of next month.—(Cheers.) They had, how ever, been unable to bring the works so forward without expending more money than he had led them to antici pate on the last occasion of meeting: He had then stated that the line would be completed for 2,070,0001., since that meeting it was well-known to them all, that they had met with some exceedingly heavy slips, wjiich bad caused them much anxiety. However, in so great and stupendous a work as theirs, considering that good judges had said their plan was almost impracticable, yet it was now nearly finished, and Sir F. Smith, who had inspected it, said it was nearly the best line, if not the best, it had yet been his duty to inspect.—(Cheers.) He had also much pleasure in informing them that even with the ad ditional outlay caused by the slips, the line would be made perfect throughout—it would be completed 'without the Directors calling for any further assistance from the. Proprietors.—(Cheers.) Even during the last half year many persons said that they would be compelled to borrow another half million before they could complete the line, and he could scarcely disabuse their minds of the error ; he was, therefore, much and highly gratified in being able to state most confidently that they would re quire no more aid. He did not wish to detain them ; he would therefore simply say that they had raised all the money they were entitled to, and he was happy to say that even in such an undertaking as theirs, only the small sum of 12,000/. was outstanding. Considering the nature and extent of their difficulties, he thought they had been well overcome. The clerk would read the Reports of the Directors and the Engineer, after which he would be happy to answer any question which might be put. The SECRETARY then read very voluminous Reports, which at length embodied all which had taken place since the last meeting. The CHAIRMAN said they had now heard the Reports of the Directors and the Engineer read, and be would be happy to answer any questions that might be, put to him. A PROPRIETOR inquired whether it could be stated with certainty at what period the line would be opened? The CHAIRMAN said the line , would be certainly opened throughout on the 14th of S e ptember.—(Hsar, hear.) He had very lately gone over the whole of the line, and the gentlemen who accdmpanied him, and him• self, could bear testimony to the accuracy of Mr. Ras trick's Report. Nothing but exceedingly bad weather would prevent the opening at the time fixed. There had been a trifling delay from the delivery of the rails, but these had all arrived since the date of the Report.—(ear.) Mr. PARSONS, a Proprietor, begged to know under what heads the excess of expenditure would occur? The CHAIRMAN said the great excess would be for completion of the contracts and for extra works, and it would amount to something like 130,000/. Mr. PARSONS said there was no detailed statements of the expenditure which was yet to be incurred. The CHAIRMAN said their Report was only made up to the 30th June, and t he y had, in addition, given the amount estimated for the completion of the works, which would be something about 2,289,000/. When the nature of the works was taken into consideration, and their vast extent, it would be seen that while they were in progress it was extremely difficult to come to any thing like a close calculation. A good deal of extra ex pense bad been incurred in making four lines of railwa as y at each station, and that had bee n done to prevent, far as possible, the liability of accidents.—(Hear, hear.) On their line, when a train arrived at a station, it stood out of the ordinary line, and another train passing the station either way could not, as had been the case on other railways, come into collision. Looking at the nature of the traffic, which they might reasonably expect upon their line, they considered that they ought not to stand at any reasonable expense to make it as complete as possible.—(Hear, hear.) He had no doubt that when the line was finally opened, it would be found that the expenses of keeping it in thorough repair would be very small. All would agree that the first expense was always the least, and they were not likely to have any heavy charges for its working or repair for some time to come. Mr. PARSONS said it appeared that 94,000!./had been expended since the 30th June, and he wished to know whether that included all the arrangements of the Com- pany ? The CHAlRMAN—Certainly not. They had given as an act of courtesy to the Proprietors a statement of the money expended up to the present time, but the det ailed items could not be given till the next half-yearly meeting. A DIRECTOR said the Hon. Proprietor must see that it was impossible to make up the accounts in a satisfac tory manner until the completion of the contracts. Mr. PARSONS wished to know if there was any con tract actually finished ? Mr. RASTRICH, the Engineer of the Company, said the only contract actually completed, and on which the accounts were balanced, was the Shoreham branch. There were still some little matters to be done on the contracts for the part of the line actually opened, and it would require two or three months before all the work would be actually finished off and the accounts sent in. The heavy works were all completed, and they were able to approximate very nearly to the sum that would be re quired for completing the line. At the last meeting of the Proprietors they had the Earlswood embankment, and two or three other very heavy works in hand, and one of them was of such a nature that for two months they made scarcely any progress. Now all these diffi culties bad been overcome, but it required both perse verance and increased expense to overcome them, and the works which remained to be completed were of such a character that they could estimate almost to a fraction what would be required to be expended on them. Mr. PARSONS' object in putting these questions was to ascertain what was the actual sum they would have to pay, because on many other lines considerable ex tra expenses had been incurred after their opening. Mr. RASTRICK coulk assure the Hon. Proprietor that the London and Brighton line would be an exception. — (Hear, hear.) They had expended a great deal of money in making the stations complete, by having four lines of railway, so that one train could pass another in the same direction. On other lines, the train at a station was on the main line, and there was no possibility of passing ex cept at particular places. They had also provided load ing places for carriages and horses, sidings, and other conveniences, and they were enclosing their stations ; whereas, if they looked at other lines, they would find that these matters were left till after the line had been opened.—(Hear, hear.) Indeed, it would be found that there would be a very trifling expenditure on the Brighton line after its opening, and they had as much rails and chairs in stock as would nearly enable them to make their arrangements for the conveyance of merchan dize and coals.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. PARSONS said the explanations of the Engineer and the Directors were very satisfactory, and he had made his inquiries, because, in many instances, he had seen 20 per cent. added for extra expenses. The CHAIRMAN said they were anxious to give every information to the Proprietors, but it was not always judicious to go into items where there were unsettled ac counts.—(Hear, hear.) They did not wish, to hide any thing, only he trusted that a little discretionary poa er, as regarded details, would be allowed the Direc tors. He was glad the questions had been put, because there might have been an impression that a large sum would be charged for extra expenses after the opening of the line. Now, they had made it a rule to pay for all the extras every month, and he was fully persuaded that the amount they had put down in their Report would cover all the expenses of the line.—(Cheers.) A PROPRIETOR begged to ask the worthy Chairman under what head would be charged the expenses of the rand entertainment given by them a fortnight ago, (Laughter.) The CHAIRMAN was very glad the:question had been put, because he had received many letters upon the sub ject, some of which were signed and some were anony mous, complaining of the entertainment given on the occasion of the opening of the railway, and stating that the Shareholders who went down the day after got only bread and cheese, while the Di rectors and their friends got champagne, &c.—(Loud laughter.) Now, after three years anxious employ ment, he did not think it was too much that the Direc tors should have the power to treat themselves and friends upon such an occasion. —(Cheers.) He must ' deny that Shareholders had been excluded. Each Di rector had the power of inviting two friends, and none other than those were invited except those who had been of great use to the undertaking. Two Proprietors expressed themselves much dissatis fied with the conduct of the Direction upon the occasion, and a Mr. Mayhew moved a resolution approving of the Reports, and ordering them to be printed and circulated, but condemning the conduct of the Directors in giving the entertainment in question, and preventing its being drawn into a precedent. The CHAIRMAN said the Proprietors could not enter tain such a proposition for one moment, if they placed any confidence in the Directors. lir. WALEY moved as an amendment, simply that the. Reports be printed and circulated amongst the Proprietors which, being seconded, was at once adopted, only four hands being held up in favour of the original motion. begged to ask the Chairman whe theArirthßeyE• N li s ar c'oti.ePio' any understanding with Mr. Gold smid respecting The CHAlRMAhNissapirdopNeor. . ty Mr. Goldsmid had given up his seat in the Direction. He had filled a bill in the Court of Chancery, to which the Directors had given in teir answer. When Mr. Goldsmid saw that, he thought he would not proceed any furter. Mr. RENNIE was very unfond of law. Was there no middle course that could be pursued ?—could not the matter be settled by arbitration ?: The CHAIRMAN said, that course could not be taken, becauSe Mr. G. wanted to introduce a clause in the deed conveying his land, which the Court cou of Par ld not pos sibly accede to without a violation of their Act - liament. He wanted to have power to re-enter on his land, if any coals were carried upon the road. The Di rectors acceded to that, in fact ; but they never could agree that it should form part of the deed. It would be against the express provisions ; and such being t he fact, no other power could decide between them 0111 the Lord Chancellor. THE ,LANCAS H IRE EOIiIANItY. • . , ... I N r 4 gib the following explan a tion of a circumstance , Waleh wquoted a short time since from a Manchester taper, anwhich has been addressed by the Noble writer 10 a Contnporar August 6, 1 841 . y :-- " Worsley, Manchester , "Sir,-- 11 rom a. paragraph in your paper of yesterday, infer ht remarks have lately appeared in other Publicatia of extensive circulation, on my recent ac ceptance a commission in the Lancashire Yeomanry, Which atilt a most undue importance and a most erro neous cotruction to that proceeding. lam reluctant troublrour readers or yourself on such a subject ; but as ti absurdity of the conclusions on which you have conented is partly attributed to a misconception of the fin, you will, I am confident , n ot ob j ect to a p ply a furthenrrective in the following statement:— " Sonnionths ago, Colonel Braddyl, the late cora mandanif the Duke •of Lancaster's Yeomanry, an nounce& intention to retire. The officers of the corps did me I honour of desiring that I should succeed to vaev, and with my consent the appointment was vueetedi the usual course, by . th e recommendation of the Lo r Li en t e nant to her 'Majesty.. My eldest son at the samime also received a commission in the corps. When tllatter appointment was made known in this aeighbolood, some forty or fifty of my neighbours and tenants,isolicited on my part, expressed to me a desire t° form ?,mselves into a troop, in the hope that my son nitht (Ain the command of it. The present establish 11C't of e corps, consisting o f three troops, being small : 1 t° ompison with the force in other districts, I should ha, hi little i;cruple in recommending this pro- Nat Lobe consideration of her Majesty's Govern ram; It believing that the estimate for this branch of t) pane service had been made up for the year, I wasintling to trouble the Home-office with an apple cult wich could. have no immediate result. I have, thenr( in fact, neither raised a troop of yeomanry, nor del any positive step towards the raising one. It woulapear that these ordinary and most unimportant °counts have been magnified into a measure for the ape© Fotecti.an of my own property, or even some 11orejeetiowable purpose. Whether they can reason aolytr such a construction the public may judge. "I not trouble you with any observations in de iencethe yeomanry force, or my connexion with it, Is I cot gather from your observations that the mere fact , joining it is objected to,lf it were so I &Woe inclined to leave our de fence to the many whigntkmen who, much in my opinion to their own ereditd the: public advantage, and I am confident under 110 abtd or selfish apprehension of danger to their own ProPes, be commissions in the yeomanry, and take an act) int' ;rest" iii its efficiency. ":1 remain, Sir, your obedient servant, "F. EGERTON." W 00 LW ICH-MONDAY. ROYAL ARTILLERY. Capin Nedham, Lieutenant Hawery, and 50 non e°ll2Wion(,cl officers and men , marched for conveyance 4,, rormout,h, where they are to embark in the Athol oop.tip, slid sail immediately for Jamaica. Gunner `9q diver Smith, of the 4 th battalion, one of the volun teers )r this service, absented himself yesterday, and, 141 tlionh two parties were se nt in search of him, he " 3 tlld of be found. He returned, hoWever, of himself this taming, when he thought it would be too late, and 7 1 / 3 plced in custody, and will be tried b y Court-martial ! tl, offe.nce. Another volunteer was soon found in „7 5 plce, and the men marched in hi g h spirits for their 7stuatiort. Gunner and drive r Smith will, it is said, erlv be punished for his conduct, but he will be sent ° ta. to arbadoes with the I st de tachment or company ~, that station. iest2rday (Sunday) a distressing accid ent occurred at t he Wtolwich Dockyard, which has been the cause of the detest grief to the family of M r. Feltham, one of th e inalectors of the police having charge of the y ard. Their bon a fine boy about ten years of age , w hile play -g Jondthe edge of the New East - do ck, which has re for","3' been completed, fell into the water , and was un "lnately drowned, having rema ined u p wards of a quarterad of an hour under the water before the body was a Every possible means to restore animation was t oc tect, but without effect. The melanch ol y occurrence Place between three and four in the afternoon. • THE BATH ELE.CTION. in The tumultuary passions a roused bY the late election t o 'flis city among the defeated pa rt y having had time p a„ , 4 bate, it is not unreasonable to in q uire why such one ever became excited. if those who have so intemperately yielded to them ..a te f eel . 'lone so on any grounds either of reason or right tng, it must be an advantage to them to have an op- Portunity of vindicating conduct which, if unexplained, ;Inist be regarded by every reflecting mind as both sense ess and disgraceful. The censure here pronounced may appear itself to need explanation, and certainly so grave an accusation demands that the conduct condemned, and the grounds of condemnation, should both be clearly stated. Were the intemperance displayed only a sudden ebul lition, likely to terminate with the occasion which gave rise to it, prudence, as well as charity, would pass it over unnoticed, in the hope that with returning calmness of temper misconduct so gla rin g and indefensible would ue - speedily self-corrected. But the outrage on public morals is not of this transitory na ture, neither is it so slight as to be contemned for its insignificance. For specifying the delinquency arraigned it is enough to say, What none of the accused will venture, or indeed feel clic. 1 1 °sed to deny, for they actually glory in their s hame, mat the trading class of the burgesses have to a large extent been visited harshly and cruelly with loss of busi ness n account of votes conscientiously given, and that luelisures are systematically pursued for establishing a Practice of exclusive dealing ; that the private i n t ercourses I life h ave b een su spended through the vindictive feeling e ngendered; that even friendships whic h had lon g endured have been rudely severed ; and that, so inveterate has been too hostile feeling generated, as to aim at the demolition I, 'f , a long-established and most respectable society, which of Bath for more than half a century supplied to the gentry ''',_Bath an agreeable medium of social intercourse, and t° ll , being of no political character, had its harmony never before disturbed by po litical contention. Such e vils S the f orego i ng are neither slight in their nature, transi tory in their operations, nor a t all of the harmless cha racter which would j us tify their being pass ed over unno ticed or unre p rov ed ; and to the bar of public opinion are these delinquents now summoned,. to show cause wh Y public condemnation should not be pronounced ;rust their misdoings—why their offences should not visited with public opprobrium. It would be cu tjas to see how they who have been guilty of conduct here reprehended would attempt its f ormal vindication. Their ae al must be addressed either t o i n t e llect or moral feeling. If to intellect, t hey will find some difficulty in proving that such con duet_ as th a t alleged is consonant with r eason ; and if to oral feelings, the code of morals does not exist which would afford its sanction to such dereliction of all moral Principles. But, independently of all scrutiny of overt act, the pri ma ry impulse which could h ave incited to t heir acts, demands inquiry. Will the p arties commence vindicatory plea with assuming t hat their p olitical dews alone are right 9 that their superiority of intel lect and • . • purity of princ iple are such, that all w ho differ f rom them must not only. be wrong, but be so disreputa ble In thei r i mpute d error , as to merit social degradation ? or to no less an extreme do es the p roscription of the in t°le_ritnt party tend. If such be the notions of this party a • more signal exemplification of folly and arrogance •Could scarcely be exhibited. To furnish even a colourable pretext for such high pre tensions as have been displayed, they who presume so to !ssert it ought surely to have some claim to pre-eminence 111 intellectual powers, high cultivation, moral worth, 1111 d exalted station. Do the leader s of the intolerant partyt belong to this category ? It is fairl y p resumable ~oat they do not, f o r those so endowed would b e little likely t o suffer the base passions of their animal nature to to predominate over the intellectual and moral as to guilty of such outrages as are now imp u g ned. That taaparties accused are at all distinguished, save by the acrimony with which they have vented t heir unrul y pas sions, is yet to be learned ; and unless they can adduce some better claim to consideration than their self-estima tion furnishes, they will do well to forego their assumed importance, which, in the display made of it, can procure them no better return than ridicule and contempt. Far as they have gone in their wayward misdoings, th e y r uay;yet retract, and in pity to themselves they are exhorted to do so for if they persist in the senseless career into which they allowed ungoverned temper to be tray them, they wi ll in no long time discern that in yielding to the imp ulse of turbulent and unrestrained Passion, they have not only called down the severe rep on themselvre es the ridi c ule of the ligh ter minded, but hension of all whose judgment and principles are entitled to respect.--Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle. NEW TRICK. —An ingenious robbery was ' "u n fitted on Monday e vening, between seven ana eight o'clo c k , on Waterloo -bridge. An elderley perstohn over , Very respectable appearance , was sitting in one of cesses, wh e n, on a sudden, a boy , who was passing man, the brid ge , t h rew s ome dirt at him. The gentle indi gnant at the insult, shook a silver-headed cane, which he had, at the mischievous young rascal, who, nothing daunted, continued throwing . At length a sort of " shabby-genteel " looking personage coming up, ex pressed hi s idea of the very improper conduct of the boy and begged the gentleman to lend him his cane, and he would soundly chastise the fellow for his impudence. The cane was given up to the " shabby-genteel," who ran after the boy, passed the gate on the Surrey side, and "made a forget" to return. The gentleman , a fter "cooling hi s h ee ls" on the bridge, waiting imp atientl y for his cane, which was worth a:sovereign, had the mor tification to go home with his clothes, covered with dirt, and minus his silver-headed cane. _ AP PALLING CARRIAGE ACCIDENT IN PORTLAND-PLACE.—On Sunday night, about half-past eleven o'clock, the following dreadful carriage accident occurred in Portland-place (and which it is feared will be attended with fatal c onsequences), to a poor old man of the name of Thomas Bull, residing at No. 24, Bain bridge -street, St. Giles's. It appears that the unfortu nate man was returning to his residence ; in crossing Portland-place he was knocked down by the horses of a gentleman's carriage, proceeding at a rapid rate, and the wheels of the carriage passed over his lower extremi ties. The screams of the unfortunate sufferer were dreadful. Assistance being procured he was imme diately carried to Middlesex Hospital, enduring excru ciating agonies. On examination by the sur g eons of the injuries sustained, it was found that the wheels had basset over th e a bd o men, and caused a rupture of the owels. The poor sufferer lies without the remotest hopes of recovery. Lord Ashley is now on a tour through the ma. itufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, with Qie view of acquiring information as to the actual condi tion of the labouring population. —Liverpool Chronicle. TH E SUN, * LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1841. Mr. MAYHEW begged to ask what was the cost of the entertainment given by the Directors ? The CHAIRMAN-2661. Mr. MAYHEW—A most extravagant sum.—(Laughter.) In answer to the complaint of a Proprietor, The CHAIRMAN said it was not intended that the trains should go at more speed than at present until the railway was opened throughout, when the time con sumed between the extreme stations would be under two hours. Mr. WALEY had the utmost confidence in the zeal and abilities of the Directors, but he must say that it was within his knowledge that many speculators had been prevented from joining them on account of the Chancery suit. He was an advocate for an arbitration in Mr. Golds mid's case. Mr. • PARSONS said the time of the meeting ought not to be occupied in discussing a legal question—it should be submitted to arbitration if that were possible. The CHAIRMAN said the Proprietors would have every reason to find fault with the Directors if they al lowed them to be deprived of their railway merely be cause a few coals passed down the line. They had been driven to the course they had now adopted, for he could assure the meeting that they had not gone into the Court of Chancery until they were compelled to do so. —(Hear, hear.) Mr. CASH begged to ask what charge was made,against them by the London and Greenwich Railway Company? The CHAIRMAN said they had nothing to do with the Greenwich Company. The London and Croydon Com pany made an arrangement with the Greenwich, and they (the London and Brighton Railwa y Company) paid the Croydon Company lid. per mile for each passenger. A PROPRIETOR said the Directors had acted very pro perly in the charges they had made for travelling upon their line ; but he wished to know whether, when the line was opened throughout, any alteration would be made in the fares ? The CHAIRMAN was happy to say that it was their in tention to reduce the fares when the line was opened throughout.—(Hear, hear.) They must recollect, that at present they bad a very expensive machinery between Hayward-heath and Brighton, and they must also bear in mind that only three coaches had been yet taken off the line, and within the last week they had carried nearly 6,000 passengers.—(Hear.) Another PROPRIETOR hoped the fares would not be lowered very much as the line was a very expensive one. The CHAIRMAN would endeavour to consult the in terests of the Proprietors and the accommoi:ation• of the public, and they had thought it better to start with high fares and then lower them, than to start with low fares and be obliged to raise them. A PROPRIETOR suggested that it would be advisable to have an, amalgamation . of the Croydon and Brighton Companies. At present it appeared to him that there was a great waste of power in that part of the line. The CHAIRMAN hoped the good sense of both Com panies would devise something which would do justice to both. They had no wish to do anything detrimental to the Croydon Company, but it was undeniable that their traffic must interfere with that of the Croydon. Mr. MAUBERT then moved the thanks of the meeting to the Chairman and Directors for their able and effi cient management of the affairs of the Company. The motion was seconded by Mr. MAYHEW, and car- ried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN returned thanks. He was satisfied that after the line bad been a short time opened they would all admit that they had no reason to regret having embarked their property in the undertaking. Thanks were then Toted to the engineer (Mr. Ras trick) and the meeting separated. THE ORDER OF MECHANICS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. address you because you have always proved yourself to be the steady friend, the able advocate, and the faithful adviser of us working men. I wish to ask you what it is that we are waiting for. Is it to see what Lord A., Lord 8., Lord Y., Lord Z. will do for us ? Were any people ever saved from op pression by waiting for their Lords ? I would say, let us wait no longer, but at once do our own work with our own hands. We have waited too long. The shouts of our trium phant tyrants are everywhere driving the poor to mad ness. They tell us—" By crippling trade we will lessen the demand for your labour and lower your wages—we will by high duties exclude you from sugar, and all things now indispensable for your comfort 3ou may bid farewell to beef and mutton, hence forth these are to be allowed only ,to clergy men and gentlemen; take a little loaf of bad bread and be thankful that we sell it to you." For all the misery we suffer, Lord Sandon tells us in Liver pool, " to thank the clergymen of the Church of Eng land." The Dublin University Magazine, insulting over our Queen, as if that lady were already their victim and prisoner, hesitates not to call her a " deluded" woman, and to bid us "Thank the Church of England alone" for all our miseries. The London Standard reiterates their cry of triumph over us, " The Church of England it is, and the Church of England alone." It is so. I never see the little loaf, I never look at my hungry children, I never listen to the useless advice to give more butcher's meat to a son and save his life, but I do feel towards the clergymen such feelings as do not find utterance from a man in words. • When Charles the Fifth had the Pope a prisoner in Rome he set all the priests in Spain to pray him out, So when our Lords have closed the ports against all wheat they set our clergy to work to pray it in. Having by their laws made bread dear and placed it as much as they can out of our reach, the clergymen would have us day by day and a dozen -times on a Sunday cry to God, " Give us bread." For what, Sir, are we waiting ? Let us exert our selves, " the hour" has come, and if we do our part doubtless there will soon appear " the man." Write for us. Act with us. The torch and the dagger are the means used by ignorant and misguided sufferers. Save us from a wrung course by enabling us to take the right road. To me it appears that in each of our large towns the working men should form themselves into a society for mutual improvement, for recreation, and for social elevation. We have Freemasons, Knights of the Garter, Odd Fellows, Baths, and Thistles ; we have ribbons and stars, and badges of many sorts. Let us have another " Order." Coventry will supply us with ribbons. Birmingham will make us medals. Let no one be admitted who is not industrious, sober, and well conducted, no one who is not either a working man or who has proved himself to be a friend of the industrious classes. A friendly intercourse could easily be kept up between our large towns. The object aimed at should be to fit us for, and raise ourselves to, our proper station in society. No easy task. Everything is tending to our degradation. When in Sheffield I never went to my work so early that I did not see at his shop window a file-cutter hard at work. At six o'clock on a winter morning there he was bard at work by candle light; at nine o'clock there he was still at work, his candle burning, the file before him, hammer in one hand, punch in the other, and the ceaseless and un varied thump, thump, thump. This lasted six days in the week. On the Sunday what could he do. All places for social enjoyment, for healthy recreation, or mental im provement, are closed against him. He has his choice of the dusty road, the public-house, or the great building where he is told to toil hard, suffer cheerfully, and to thank the good clergy. He may stay at home, but he cannot there have such comforts as his hard work has earned, nor be gladdened by the presence of his wife and children fed, clothed, and cheered as be would wish. Relentless toil, a bad atmosphere, deficient food—these things are making us physically inferior to our fathers. Division of labour gives to each of us such unvaried and machine-like employment, that our minds are not called into action. Leisure we have not. Low wages and dear food bring us into circumstances of distress, dependence, and degradation. We are losing the manli ness for which the English were once famed. It will soon be said " the English were once a fine race of men." If we do not at once rouse ourselves and take mea sures for our own improvement, we shall soon be defi cient in bodily strength, in intellectual power, in social habits, and in personal courage. We shall be miserable and helpless victims, safely despised by those who hare degraded us. To the party . coming into power we are no strangers. When apprenticed in Sheffield, I was often at the shop of the Miss Gales, and I heard how their father and brother had to fly their country to save their lives. Their lives were in danger, because in the Sheffield In telligencer they had opposed bad Government. In Shef field I saw that kind and amiable man James Montgo mery, who was twice imprisoned for long periods, twice fined large sums ; one time for sympathising with dis tress ; another, for lamenting over men murdered in the streets of Sheffield. I saw, for years, in Sheffield the gloom diffused by the rule of Sidmouth and Castle reagh. You might have thought that demons had spread their wings over the land. There was the horror of the skulking spy, the dread of the dungeon deep be yond what the law could reach. We had no Habeas Corpus Act, but the Church in all its glory, with its Test and Corporation Acts and its Penal Code. An ac cident when in London obliged me to turn into the first glover's shop I met with. I purchased what I wanted from a good-natured, honest-looking man. He gave me a tract. I read it. I thought the tract was evidently the result of strong good feeling and deficient informa tion. The newspapers soon after informed us that Evans and his son were both thrust into prison. But who needs to be reminded of those black days ? Who does not hear coming up from the dungeon the moans of the aged Ogden ? Who does not hear the fiendish laugh from the Tory Treasury benches of the " revered and ruptured" sufferer ? Who does noi, hear the cries of the wounded and dying that come, from Peterloo ? Who listens not during the more horrid-silence of the widow ? Who feels not burning in his bkeast that fire that burned in her eye-balls and prevented tears, as site" bent over her son Richard in his blood among the mas, sacred at Rathcormack. Lord Sandon need ItOt tell its to thank the Church. We know our debts to it. Gladly ' would we banish from our minds such persons as thel Ryders, and such Bishops as Jocelyn, did we not shud der at the knowledge that the Sandons and the Rodens were rendering the prospect before us as black as the dark years of suffering through which we have passed. The landowners and the clergy have money and leisure—their tread is sure, and their minds are at ease ; they have both Houses of Parliament—they have the army—they are omnipotent for monopoly. We are nu merous—we are congregated—we •mint at ante unite in peaceable, strenuous, and well-directed exertions, or be for ever tools and slaves. Under alLour. disadvan tages I can yet use the words of Cromwgli, I trust, the name of Englishman will one day be 'more respected than that of Roman ever was." AN ENGLISH MECHANIC. )1, Aug. 7t14 1841. • Liverpool The apparatus for shifting SUnderland light house being c ompleted, the operations of removal com menced on Monday. It is already shifted several yards to the north, and in a few all's will be removed to the east, um to the pier-vp.4o-4)/ne Not. THE THEATRES ENGLISHOPERA HO USE. An exceedingly amusing farce, or rather a burletta, entitled A Lady and Gentleman in a Peculiarly Perplexing Position," was produced at this theatre last night. It is an adaptation from the French by Mr. Charles Selby, who appears to have preserved the sparkling and pointed dialogue which so eminently diStinguishes all the minor entertainments produced upon the French stage. There is scarcely the shadow of a plot ; but one scene through out ; and only three characters are introduced. -The lady (Mrs. 'W aylett), an interesting widow, whose name is not even mentioned, arrives at a village in France late in the evening, on a journey which she has undertaken to avoid the persecution of a troublesome suitor, who admires her fortune quite as much as her person. While waiting for a carriage which she has ordered to be in readiness in a few minutes, the gentleman (Mr. Keeley), a sentimental traveller, arrives, and engages the apartment which she is occupying. As they meet in the doorway their garments get entangled, so that their first introduction to each other is sufficiently whimsical. While the lady is preparing to depart, Madame Jobarde the hostess of the inn, informs her that a gentle man is inquiring after her, and supposing it to be one who had annoyed her by his attentions on the road, s he expresses some regret at being in so defenceless a condition . The gentleman relieves her at once by proclaiming himself her husband, which the hostess understands literally, and after leaving them to dine together, she concludes by locking them up-in the same apartment for the night. Much of the drollery of the piece arises out of the shifts and devices of the lady and gentleman to pass the night with all becoming propriety in an apartment where there is but one bed, which they mutualiy agree not to occupy. In the morning the gentlernan's nephew and the lady's rejected suitor is heard at the door ; conceal ment of the occurrences of the night is impossible, and to rid the lady of a predicament so perplexing . , the gen tleman makes her an offer of his heart and hand, and both are promptly accepted. Such is the meagre out line of a little piece, which was received with the most cordial applause by a very full house, and which we have no doubt will have a very long run. The parts as signed to Mrs. Waylett and Mr. Keeley are admi rably calculated to display their respective styles of acting to the best advantage. A Venetian can zonet, composed by Mr. Lee, called the " Gondolette," sung by Mrs._Waylettovas loudly encored. And indeed, if the good humour of an audience be the best test of the success of a farce, no performance of the kind has ap peared during the present season at the English Opera House which seemed to have given so much pleasure as the Lady and Gentleman in a Peculiarly Perplexing Position. The other entertainments of the evening were Barnaby _nudge and the Printer's Devil, which were re. ceived with undiminished interest. SURREY. Throughout the whole range of metroplitan managers, there are none more active or judicious in catering for the amusement of their patrons than Messrs. Davidge and Willis Jones. It was only on Friday last that we were here, as in a temple dedicated to Polyhymnia, listening with the most intense delight to the dulcet strains of Miss Homer, and when, on Monday, we enter the same building, it has undergone a harlequin like transformation. The pit is converted into a spacious arena, the place assumes the appearance which it bore "in days of auld lan syne," and.the Royal Circus re sumes, for a time, its station among the lions of the metropolis. Taking advantage of the awful calamity which levelled Astley s Amphitheatre with the ground, the•management of the Surrey have entered into an en gagement with Mr. Ducrow and his magnificent stud of horses, for a series of hippodramatic performances ; and, last night, the first of the series commenced with, per haps, the most interesting spectacle ever produced, " Mazeppa." We have frequently seen this spectacle at almost every theatre (and their name is legion) at which it has been produced, and we have no hesitation in awarding the palm to the Surrey. The moving Pano rama of the course of the Dneiper was most magnifi cent, and may fearlessly challenge a comparison with anything of the sort which has been produced at any other theatre, major or minor. It was reported, at the time that the Amphitheatre was burnt down, that the celebrated horse Mazeppa had perished in the flames. We know not whether this was the case ; but if so, Mazeppa's horse at the surrey does the highest credit to the judicious training of Ducrow, for he is quite as admirable in his part as his predecessor. The scenes in the circle followed, introducing the whole of the highly trained stud ; and Madame Ducrow, Signor Hillier, Mr. Stickney, and Mr. Ilicken, richly merited the vociferous applause with which their exertions were rewarded. Though least in stature, yet far from least in merit, is le " Petit Ducrow.' This wonderful child made us really feel quite nervous by his extraordi nary feats of horsemanship ; and the young rogue seemed to enjoy the performance quite as much as any of the spectators. The diminutives seem in Mr. Ducrow's establishment to eclipse the great ones, for the diminutive steed, " Fire Fly," in his perform ances, distances all his larger competitors. He is the very " admirable Crichton" of horses. The theatre was literally crammed. Long before four o'clock the gallery and pit entrances were crowded by persons anxious to secure places, and judging from appearances we should say that at least as much money was sent away through absolute inability to accommodate the applicants as was taken at the doors. Never was management more suc cessful, and never did management more deserve it. VICTORIA. Though many years have fled since the committal the Brownrigg atrocities, yet it is one of- those infamies which the public memory seems undesirous to forget, and which the theatrical art has tended more than all to perpetuate. i'ossessing in themselves excellent materials for dramatic effect in the heartless inhumanity of the mal treater of apprentices, and the sad and revolting cruel ties put upon tender esh and blood, the circumstances of the reality are admirably adapted for representation, and in Mary Clifford, or the Foundling Apprentice Girl, which for the first time appeared yesterday evening at this theatre, they were skilfully thrown together, and enacted, in certain points, with adroitness and tragedial skill. The simplicity of the plot makes it easy of unravel ment. Mrs. Brownrigg, at her house in Fetter-lane, Holborn, had received beneath her roof several foundling apprentices, comely and well-proportioned g irls. Mrs. Brownrigg's nature, however, is so diametrically op posed to the human mood in general, that the " face divine, instead of kindling in her kind ness, seems to have acted like a trodden snake in coil ing up to scourge those around her. Like the serpents in the hair of Tisiphone, she hissed herself into rages, and woe was it if her apprentices then came athwart her path. Four of these poor girls, of whom the chief is the heroine, Mary Clfford (Miss Vin cent) were day by day stung by her words and bruised by her clenched buffets and flagellations, till Mary, the youngest, mild as an tin el, finds her lot insufferable. Attempts are made o escape from this abominable house of misrule, but Jo n Brown rigg (Mr. Seaman), the fiendish abettor of his mother's cruelties, counteracts the plans of escape. Then falls the heavy vengeance of Mrs. Brownrigg on the at tempters at escape, and her direst punishment falls sorely indeed upon Mary Clifford.. The scene which first in troduces this suffering heroine to our notice is a desolate apartment. with a forlorn, broken skylight, through which wind and rain have unopposed ingress. Central on the stage, is discovered a figure, fair of form, but fastened with triple links to a pallet of straw, in a state of delirium, and almost exhausted. Miss Vincent was admirable in this scene : the conflict exhibited in her person between fainting nature and trials to uphold her strength, along with her sad pray ings to her torturing mistress not to strike her more, were affectingly and well developed; and Mrs. Lee made an excellent female Bellona with the Brown rigg-whip. Meanwhile, however, a side-plot has been proceeding. Next door to Brownrigg's is Deacon (Mr. Dale), a baker, and this portly master of the rolls has held sundry communicatiops with a gabbling knave in the evil house. Deacon, too, is a sweetheart of Mary's, having been brought up with her at the Foundling, and having learnt from his loquacious companion that, by means of the above-mentioned skylight, he might gain access to Mary, he accordingly bastes to that airy height. His voice rouses the almost inanimate sufferer; she tells him she is dying; he would leap from the roof in his strong compunction, but she bids him not; he, however, bidding her be of good heart, determines to summon jus tice to investigate this heinous case. Meanwhile it tran spires that she is no orphan ; her mother, having grown rich, now re-seeks her whom she cast away in her days of poverty. Her father, too, Richard Clifford (Mr. Paul), after sixteen years' absence at sea, re turns home, has found his wife, and, flush of love and money, they are bOth intent, for the completion of their happiness, to disc Over their lost Mary. As may be seen, all the circumstances of the drama are now drawing together. The constabulary investigators forcibly enter Brownrigg's house, while his wife and son are at Greenwich; they demand Mary Clifford to be delivered up, and, when she is drawn out of a black unseemly hole, universal execration is heaped on the heartless punisher. But the strong arm of the law is abroad Mrs. Brownrigg and her son, after various elusions, are at last gyved, and as the judge is then sitting, the trial is sir. narily proceeded with. An affecting scene is here adduced, and Miss Vincent again drew down most merited applauses by the true and touching pathos with which she invested her part. In white habi liments, she rests on a couch, with the pallor of death on-her countenance, and only the faintest accents on her lip. Sudden delirium comes over her,—she fancies her torturer chaining and smiting her ; this beau tifully subsides into recognition of those around her, father, mother, lover, her spirit filli with so holy a calm, that she hymns a song t b l ee beckoning=—she torturesilonfgh a ppiness,—shesees an angel in white sufferings of the world, and true to the angel's beckoning she follows. Mrs. BrOvnrigu now only has to be dealt with ; she is . chst;for trial ; her cruelties stare her like Gorgons in the face' a her sentence is for death ; an d Newgate receives her. We last see her in the condemned cell—the officers demand her body, as is the custom—suddenly the execu tion bell peals—the gates open—the funeral cart and her own coffin wait to carry her to the scaffold—she turns, beholds them, and ex p ire s in a throe of agony. Mrs. Lee throughout was forcible and energetic. Mr. Gardner highly amused by his comicalities, and Miss 'Vin cent was greatly to be praised. The piece is very attractive, arukso soon as, by further representations, a little of the preont rigidity disappears, it will go off with great eclat, andli wov e no doubt a favourite. The old standard • ' arania of Black-eyed Susan s f o or e m x e t c i l uis t i h te e a pisecondpiece ofis thisth e ni loo g ru h .tki Et nautical, F. Saville appeared to great advantage in One o'Ciock, or the tdrearant drama, e x' ye e n sere moist — some were fl ow i ng . t that, s,,% and though una id e d b y T. P. C Knight and the Wood Demon,—a sort a German o peratic spectacle, with charms and spells, s alamander tongue s, and flamin g eyes. The scenery of Cloudland, with its glittering heaps of star-strown clouds, a nd the whole enchanting machinery o f- the in. cantation seems, were very We mu st not e fr e2 tive. Little Le y ol y n (Miss Wilton) was 'a charming petitessr• omit to notice Miss Edgar and Mr. Chain—m. 4 the . former a very promising and prettydanscuse. Her execuu2n. of t he hornpipe, and. her subsequent trippings in the in.; b e r ; sonation and light garmenture of Summer,' shows'. great dexterity of limb and a pretty-pointing toe. The only thing wanted'to have given the entertainments every roundness and completion, was the appearance, id any shape, of Mr. Osbaldiston. LITERATURE. . TOM BOWLING. 3 Vols. Colburn, London, 1841. The hero of this tale is a foundling, who has been reared by a dog-fancier, shortly after whose death he enters the naval service, rises to de served distinction, marries the girl to whom he was early attached, and finally turns out to be the son of a nobleman, and, after a happy and prosperous life, dies in the command of Green wich Hospital. There is little of novelty here to excite attention ; but the events of the narrative are worked up with spirit and ingenuity; and we have several animated accounts of those glo rious naval engagements in which the heroes of the last century so nobly distinguished them selves. In details such as these, Captain Cha mier—as might be anticipated—is quite at home. Indeed, in his description of a sea-fight, he is only inferior to the author of " Tom Criugle's Log"—by far the best naval novelist of his time, We suspect, however, that the taste for this sort of tale is fast declining among us. We have had so many writers in the field, and the nauti cal character in all its phases has been deline ated so often and so minutely, that any novelty the subject might once have presented, is long since exhausted. PICTORIAL SHAKSPERE. Part XXXV. Knight, London, 1841. The present Part contains the entire tragedy of Julius Casar, embellished with numerous il lustrations, and prefaced with an appropriate No tice on the subject of the Roman costume in the days of the illustrious conqueror. Brief, perti nent notes, attached to each page, clear up what ever difficulties and obscurities occur in the text HUMILITY.—An humble man is like a good tree, i,he more full :of fruit the branches are, the lower they _end themselves. A turnip, grown in Maria Island, Van Die man's Land, now in the tossession of a Norfolk gentle man, weighs 841b5., its girth is five feet two inches. Some short time since an eminent special pleader went to see Macbeth performed. lie sat quietly for a long time, cold and abstracted—his thoughts were far away, among the dark Courts of Chancery-lane. At length Macbeth questions the Witches in the cavern— " What is't you do ?" They reply—" A deed without a name." " A deed without a name ?" exclaimed our quibbling friend ; why, 'tis void!" YUCCA GuntrosA.—There is in the garden of Mr. J. R. Smith, surgeon, of Cirencester, a very fine specimen of this plant, with one , flower Stem, on which are upwards of 500 blossoms. INTERESTING TO PrinEiloLoGisTs.—There is a man up town whose forehead is so high that he is obliged to go up in a garret to put his hat on. " Can't say I admire your style of acting," as the landlady of the alehouse said to the strolling player when she caught him stealing her spoons. Crossing from Kingston to Toronto, if the tou rist boat it, and be provided with good tackle, he will find marvellous sport. Lake Erie abounds with a mam moth pike, and parts of these " deep waters" present rather a novel feature in the art of trolling. The Mac kinonge fisher must be provided with an unusual quan tum of line, and he must allow his bait to sink to an ex traordinary depth before he can hope for a run or cap ture ; he must run out at least 30 or 40 yards, or per haps more ; he must then exercise his piscatorial skill in imparting that ap captandum motion which he will have found so alluring in more shallow water. The tackle must be strong, for the fish met with here weigh from 50 and 60 to 801bs., and if the hand be not steady, and the rod and line adapted to such sport, the astonished angler will be in " a very considerable pretty particular tarnation fix,"Us brother Jonathan says. A stout trol ling rod of the usual dimensions with the line of strong whipcord immersed ih linseed oil (only have plenty of it coiled roundin your pocket) will be found indispensable. The sport is indescribably exciting, and I should say the most satisfactory.—The Sportsman. GRATlTUDE.—Gratitude was fancifully said to be the memory of the heart ; but, alas ! for poor hu m-an nature, hearts are more than suspected to have wondrous short memories. A candidate in the north of England, during the election, hit upon an ingenious method of corruption. He presented the wives of several with silk flags to hang from their windows, each piece of silk being sufficiently large to make a gown ! KNowLEDGE.—Knowledge should he acquired gradually, and by study ; for the superficial knowledge, which is the , result of the promiscuous and unregulated adoption of the discoveries of others, affects the mind, as the sudden removal of a person with weak eyes from a darkened room into a blaze of light dOes the sight—it overpowers and confuses. Some flowers absorb the rays of the sun so strongly that, in the evening, they yield slight phosphoric flashes. May we not compare the minds of poets to these flowers, which, imbibing light, emit it again in a different forni and aspect. ELECTION OF THE PEERS OF SCOTLAND —Friday the election of the sixteen representative Peers of Scotland took place in the Picture Gallery of the Palace of Holyrood. The following were the Peers elected : The Marquis of Tweeddale, the Earls of Morton, Elgin, Airlie, Leven and Melville, Selkirk, Orkney. and Sea field ; Viscounts Arbuthnot and Strathallan ; Lords Forbes. Saltoun, Sinclair, Colville (of Culross), Reay, and Rollo, and the Marquis of Queensberry. The only alterations were the substitution of the Earl of Seafield and Lord Rollo for the Earl of Home and Lord Gray, who retire by their own consent. USEFUL HINTS AND RECIPES.—ADVICE TO PuncliasEns.—Never deal at a shop that has two prices, asking in the first instance more than they mean to take. Whenever you see a shop pretending to sell " bankrupts' stocks" at great sacrifice; whenever you see a shop with goods to be sold at " immense sacrifice," pass it quietly by and go to some quiet, business-like shop, not where there is a long train of carriages waiting at the door, because there, if you walk in, you arc not waited'upon until the carriage company are all served. Also avoid making purchases at a shop where the front is very handsomely decorated and extravagantly fitted up ; if you . do, you must contribute to the folly of the owner by paying in proportion for the show besides that of the ac,ual worth of the article you buy. These shops are frequented by those who care little for money ; but for a man of moderate fortune they are much more plea sant to look at and admire than make purchases at. — Visit of the Parsees to England. SALMON-FISHING IN THE NORTH.— The river Ness has lately been very productive, and has afforded better angling and net-fishing than has been experienced for several years. The whole of our north ern streams have lately been highly successful, and the present season will form a bright one in the fisher man's calendar. About a month ago the river Shinn was producing its hundreds per day, and everywhere the take is abundant. From Aberdeen 600 boxes were shipped last week for the Thames, and about 700 from Perth and Dundee. - The weekly supply from Scotland to the London market is about 1,000 boxes per week, and the Cockneys are regaling on fine salmon at 6d. and 7d. per lb. We may mention, as a remarkable fact, that as the men were drawing the net here, one day last week, below the wooden bridge, and within tide-mark, they caught a small gold fish, healthy and lively, which has been placed in its usual element of clear fresh water, in a crystal goblet, in the shop of Mr. Tait, perfumer. — Scotsman. FEMALE SKELETON FOUND.—On Wednes day, the 21st ult., as a boy was gathering blaelierries near the ford betwixt Loch Loyre and Loch Benvein, in Strathglass, he found a number of bones 'beside a large stone. He communicated the circumstance to his father and another person, who went to the spot, and the bones were found to be those of a human body.. Beside them were part of a woman's brown cloak, some' pieces of blue printed cotton and worsted, and part of, what appeared to be the straw and wire of a female's bonnet. One of the men—Alexander Macgruer— said he had passed the spot about a twelvemonth previous, and recollected that there was a strong disagreeable smell, but he did not see or search for any object. Information of the bones being found was sent to Mr. Mackay, procurator-fisoal here, and Mr. John Macbean, messenger, repaired to the spot to inves tigate the case. It appeared that no native of the dis trict had disappeared, but Mrs. Williamson, Knockfin, recollected having seen, about two years ago, an insane woman, who stopped at the door, but would not enter the house. Another person also saw the poor maniac, who was dressed in a brown cloak and a straw bonnet. There seems little doubt that the above are her remains, and that the poor unfortunate had died by the wayside. —Scotsman. GAME PRESERVES. —The extent to which the system of game-preserving is carried is almost incredi ble : for not alone in the ranks of our proud and over bearing aristocracy are game-preservers to be found, the mania extends to tradesmen, ay, to Liverpool tradesmen too, and we are bound to say that the proceedings of the latter class are often characterised by a spirit of petty vindictiveness and spleen generally unknown amongst despots of a more elevated grade. We spoke of Lord Stanley preserving lands not his own ; the same remark will apply, in an equal degree. to the Earl of S e ft on . The latter nobleman commences with his preserves at Croxteth, and extends it through Kirby, Simmonsweod, Aintree, Sefton, Thornton, (a township in which he scarcely owns an acre of land), Altcar, to the sea, a space, as the crow flies, of some twelve miles in length, and averaging two miles in width. Lord Sefton should not put the county to expense for punishing trespassers on twenty-four square miles of land. Some years ago his Lordship's keeper, Joseph Warner, of Altcar, left for dead by some poachers, who were subsequently apprehended, and one or two were transported for the crime ; but the expenses of the prosecution were borne by the county. Within our recollection one of Lord Skel mersdale's keepers in Latham, was shot dead by a poacher, who was never taken. In Anglesea, the convict Chubb now lies under sentence of death for the murder of a crame k,eeper.. We repeat, then, game-preservers should dip into their own pockets, and not into these of the public, do Vatfor`thtir whims.--Liverpool pi tiCE OF 11 1 HEAT IN WALES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. —I send you the prices of wheat per imperial measure at the undermenti one d towns : lerthyr [ay A bergavenny 11s. Bd. or 935. 4d. ditto. B, 'econ lls. Od. or 88s. ditto. And yet : with these exorbitant prices staring the poor in t o b f e . foreign wheat cannot be i m p orte d un d er a duty per quarter, the aggregate average of the six weeks, en ding July 23, being 645. 2d. p er quarter ; and ave rt tge is struck, not imparti a lly, b u t b y exc l u di ng t. t h e l ist of prices selected for d e t erm i n i ng t h e ave fro man y great and important districts where the rage .tion. and consequently the consumption, is very popes Row k rig is this disgraceful infliction on the great. 'y to ls.st ?Itis a singular fact that the Tory communii ch is much patronized by the Rev. Divines of paper, Whk.-' gives no account of the market prices the diocese, '-riat in which it circulates. If this boiste within the dist. qutinues, wheat will be up in this neigh five shillings per quar t er more ; an d b ro o u u s rh m o ' o e d ath fo er ur c. ca lthough these are the m ar k et p r i ces , let us reflect that b. Vs to the shop and wants a peck, or yet if a poor ruarticT his immediate consumpti on , h e pays more, of whes.t '') at the rate of 1.5 c l: 0 nor cent. more. These are f acts , l imatie fact of all is that the poor are r to keep up the landlords' rents. • 7, 1841. CYAIRIL and thu thus mulcted ul ni ct o ed st in i t Abergavenny, AtTA • SIR J. GRAIL. NM'S IGNORANCE. OF THE h a i S e m h U o N t n h gst a d : h o e ! TO THE .ElAlr, , f* your valuable paper to Stu,—Allow me a corner , -s by point out one of the many fallac-. ;r weaker brethren. cites of monopoly seek to delude tilt- Two gentlemen of some consideratit.. ' munciations Tories having (I suppose to neutralize the of the contained in the Scripture against the oppresso.. „. poor) resorted to the sacred volume for the purpos, of learning political economy, have discovered the astounci- ; ing fact that Tyre owed her submission to Herod from her being compelled to import corn, and they tri umpharaf4r point to this fact as an argument for the maintenstmte of the present system of Corn-laws. Those learned Thebans " who have calumniated chro nology by a most preposterous anachronism," are a re mle Whig statesman and an ambitious parson. Sir Names Graham having written against the Corn-laws all his life, has now resorted to a clerical tutor for arguments, in support of his new-fangled opinions, with what suc cess I will leave you to judge. He quotes from the Prophets passages applicable to Tyre when " her merchants were princes, which were written about 400 8.C., as descriptive of her condition in the year of our Lord 44, when those very prophecies had been fulfilled, when she had been "swept with the bosom of destruction," and when her site was a " mere rock for fishers to dry their nets on." When the occurrence referred to in the. Acts took place, New Tyre, which had been built near the site of the old city, was an insig nificant town, subject to Rome, under the immediate do minion of the Praetor of Syria, and might well fear the wrath of Herod, the Vicegerent of the Emperor of Rome. But their very argument may be turned against them. Tyre, the mart of the East, in her days of greatest prosperity imported all her own corn (Ezek. xxvh. 17) Judah and the land of Israel, they were thymerchants; they traded in thy market wheat of Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm, and so did every nation of import ance in the ancient world—Rome from Sicily and Africa, Athens from the Black Sea, Carthage from Sicily and Spain, &c., and this fact is never alluded to as a cause, even a secondary one, of their decline. A misstatement of this kind can only have arisen from ignorance, or a deliberate intention to deceive ; of the latter I would fain acquit an English clergyman and a would-be statesman ; of the former I fear, disgraceful as it is to both, they must plead guilty. If the guides of the flock are so deficient, how benighted must be their followers ! With respect for your zeal and activity in this and every cause you advocate, believe me, yours truly, King's Bench-walk, Temple. A BARRISTER. LESSONS IN PUNNIANSIIIP.—Mr. T. Hood, professor of punmanship, begs to acquaint the dull and witless that he has established a class for the acquire ment of an elegant and ready style of punning, on the pure Joe-Millerian principle. The very worst hands are improved in six short and mirthful lessons. As a speci• men of his capability, he begs to subjoin two conun drums by Colonel Sibthorpe COPY. " The following is a specimen of my punning before taking six lessons of Mr. T. Hood :—Q. Why is a fresh plucked carnation like a certain cold with which children are affected ?—A. Becaush its a new pink off (an hoop . ing-cough.)" " This is a specimen of my punning after taking six lessons of Mr. T. Hood : Q. Why is the difference be tween pardoning and thinking no more of an injury the same as that between a selfish and a generous man ?—A. Because the one is for-getting, and the other for-giving." N.B. Gentlemen who live by their wits, and diners out in particular, will find Mr. T. Hood's system of in calculable service. _ Mr. 11. has just completed a large assortment of jokes, which will be suitable for all occurences of the table, whether dinner or tea. Ho has also a few second-hand bon mots, which he can offer a bargain. *** A GOOD LAUGHER WANTED. —London Charirari. FREAK OE NATURE.—A person in Perth, who keeps collections of canaries, about a month ago had one hatched, with 'only one wing and one leg. It was not supposed at first-that the creature would survive, or, if it did, that it would not be able to hop through the cage to supply its wants, and that it would require to be fed so long as it lived. But so far from this being the case, it is as active as its more perfect mates, and is in every respect as lively and as thriving. — Yerthshire Courier. THE TEN HOURS' SCIIENf E.-On Monday evening last Lord Ashley met a party at the Crown Inn, Deansgate, to unfold his views respecting a Ten Hours' Bill. The place,. and a packed meeting, had been pre pared by Mr. Turner, of London, formerly of this county, his Lordship's forerunner in his peregrination through these districts. Several of the company openly evinced their dissent from his Lordship's views, which appeared to bo all for restriction, and none for freedom of trade. Mr. John Doherty, of Manchester, accompanied his Lordship, and on a motion by him, seconded by Mr. Turner, a vote of thanks was given to his Lordship for the interest displayed by him in the question of a Ten Hours' Bill. It is something curious, that in a meeting of nearly 100 persons, there could be none found to move the vote of thanks excepting his Lordship's satellites.— Bolton Press. . THE WEATHER.—We have had another fickle week ; the hay harvest is now nearly done throughout the county ; it has been protracted and expensive, aad doubt less a large quantity is much injured ; good hay will next year be of high value. The temperature has been rather warmer this week than last, which, is very favourable to the hops—we live very good accounts of them, although in some yards the winds have done damage. The wheats have in many places been much beaten down by the rains ; on Tuesday last, in the latter half of the day, the rain came down in torrents ; the river Wye was at that time lower than it has been throughout the summer ; on Wednesday morning it rose very rapidly, and while it was a few miles below the city bridge quietly pursuing its meandering course, a few miles above the bridge it was swelling fast, and laving the banks in a most fretfu mood. Reaping will commence next week in many of the forward parts of the county.—Hereford Times. Mrs. Catherine Ferguson, relict of the late Rev. Leslie Moodie, D.D., minister of Inveresk, died at Kil. kerran, on the 27th ult. Mrs. Moodie was the aunt of the present Sir Charles Ferguson. A series of remark able coincidences have been noted regarding the death ot the venerable lady. She was born at Kilkerran, in the very room Where she died ; and her husband died on the 27th July, 1840, being the very day of the year on which his widow departed this life.—Scotsman. The Great Liverpool, Captain Engledue, left our harbour on Sunday morning for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria. She had fifteen passengers and a valuable cargo. Moorings are to be laid down immedi ately for the Oriental, and will be ready for her on her next arrival. —Hampshire Guardian. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall have been on a visit for the last few days at the residence of Roger Hall, Esq., of Narrow-water. They have proceeded thence to the seat of Colonel Blacker, county Armagh ; and they may be expected in Belfast in the course of the week.—Belfast News. • THE UTILITY 07 THE TOAD --A few days ago, a toad was observed in the neighbourhood of Settle feeding on catterpillars, which it appeared to catch by a rapid movement of the tongue. So eager was it in the pursuit of its prey, that it raised its forelegs on the stem of a gooseberry bush, and when the catterpillars were thrown at it, it continued to catch them in the same manner, never missing its aim. It is hoped that such facts as this will tend to deliver a much-injured animal from a contempt which it never deserved ; and that the i poor " paddock," n place of bei ng the object of cruelty, will at length be enabled to take its place among animals of a useful and respectable character—be considered by the gardener as an useful assistant, and permitted to pa , sue its ttvocations unmolested. NAUTICAL NOVELTIES IN SOUTHAMPTON. —We remark, among geurs, that on the 15th of August, the yacht-built schooner Louisa will leave Southampton for th Good Hope and Calcutta, offering peculiar nity is now comforts to . passengers.—An opportunity a the pre sented for enjoying a trip to Brighton b rn x ii s in e e -- d - jan screw, Prin cess R04.i1l steamer, propelled by the A 1 peculiar fac i litiese and Tuesday' : She leaves Southampton for Brighton every, _ yd e, in the made her first passage from Brighton alf ; li ' Isle of Wight, in five hours andtarebe_q from thence to three-quarters ; and Southampton in one hour and . b present time, the entire 1 —Within two months of t Mail Navigation Coin- I re turned from Hyde to Shoreham in four hours and a half. steam fleet of the West India be P en built, and make a trial at which the vessels haveivi ht, to ascertain their re ton from the different ports pany will arrive at Southam 'cruise round the Isle of g spective rates of speed. CovE ny.—The cause of la- IMPORTANT at 5 DI ! ) much earlier a stage of life than is attributed to the friction them. But according to the Hertford t t o s s ' e te o e f th the of the tongue '4'9 11 owing to the sweetness of their lips, as it is Courier, it is established h-- everybody's saying so), that decayingt her sex, a fact (we" the teed. sweet things rot the parish of Blidsomer Norton, cottage at Welton, in CURIOUS AFFINITY. —There are residing in dmother, two grandmothers, three mothers, one great'gran two grand-daughters, one groat grand one brother, one sister, one uncle, one daughter, one son, . e widow and four fatherless t-uncle, two nieces, on a but five grea the whole amount to but five persons ! tali:: daughters,' children, yet Salisbury Herald. EVENING STII. A FIGHT. I advanced into the middle or. the and: morel ws, w o i f th ti a le N m ie . w lofhsar niontgluopnga s fr t i oo en d ds t h h iti' s wf orc. a ..•••' l proceeded to scan th e countenances WAtli,s khol-fatlT. 7 when a pull of my h a i r f rom b ehind caused me to star t round with indignant surprise. My eyes li ghted upon row of faces of singular gravity, with a hand over each mouth as of philosophical speculation. As I turned scowling from these grave Muftis, hopeless of detecting the delinquent, a second visitation of the same nature awakened my fury, and turning short upon my heel, with a rapid swing of my arm I prostrated a small wretch, upon whose upturned visage still lingered a slight vestige of mischievous glee, which was instantaneous. , succeeded by a look of woe. The lamentations of tin s victim opened the throats of the smaller fry. "He won' 1 4. fight ;" " He daren't fight ;" " What's his name?" re sounded on all sides. " I say, you sir," cried a boy older and taller than my self, starting briskly up to me, " what's your name?" " Go it, Sinclair!—that's it, Sinclair!" shouted the in genuous youths. (Boys arc the generous, noble, high-minded beings their grandmothers inspire philosophers to call them. " What's your name, I tell you!' repeated Sinclair. " Richard Freeman," said I , sturdily. " Well—have you a mind to fight ?" " Any one of my own size, I answered ; " and I should like to catch the coward that pulled my hair just now." Although I said this readily and resolutely enough, a * sense of my unfriended condition lay heavy at my heart, and mingled grief and rage rose into my throat.' I would have averted my head to conceal the tears that sprang to my eyes; but at this moment a tap on the shoulder engaged my attention. I looked up, and saw a boy about Sinclair's age. He kindly took me by the hand. " I'm Gregory—Tom Gregory," said he; "never mind them—l'll stand by you." In the meanwhile Sinclair had been taking counsel his companions. see what he's made of," he observed, as he broke from thsem, sagaciously nodding his head.> Thereupon the young gentleman, in a kind of dance, receded a few paces, and with his tongue between his teeth, and one eye cocked as though to enable him to take a surer aim, he advanced towards me in the same lively manner, and struck me across the face with his open hand. Two boys, with very good intentions, instantly seized me by the arms. " You are no match for him—don't fight him," said they. But had he been the devil's own imp, I had flowrt upon him for that. Bursting from their hold, I rushed . headlong upon my assailant, and dealt him such a blow upon the under jaw as, had he not withdrawn his inso lent tongue, might perhaps have abridged it. As it was, he recoiled, with an expression of face almost pitiable. "Enough," said Tom Gregory, interposing. " Well, done, Zreemanl Sinclair, you are a coward to strike a boy youngbr than 7onrself.' bored to have taken clown such an ignoble swaggerer " I'll fight him,' said I, going up to him. I remem once before, who bad interfered with my amusement in Lincoln's Inn-fields. " Have you a mind to fight?" re peating his words. " Yes, I have," he replied. No more. Two detachments of lads seized upon us severally, and hurried us into the play-ground, behind a large elm tree, and, set face to face, we began to brui se eielfiSther without ceremony. - Sinclair proved himself to be no coward, or, perhaps,, shame did the word of courage ; but he was utterly ig— norant of the noble science to which the renowned Mr- Broughton, before I left London, lent such additional lustre. He lacked also my - activity and- quickness of manual resort ; so that, after a prolonged combat, in. which many blows were exchanged, three black eyes. were given, Richard and much blood was shed, he gave in, and reluctantly proclaimed me the conqueror.—" Savage," in Bentley's Miscellany for July. ! Y \L To propose to enrich a nation by forcing a per— manent scarcity of corn, and obstructing the natural course of trade, is, indeed, at variance with comm, ,n sense. The consequences cannot be mistaken: they a. "e these—the embarrassment of our shipping, and of ou r mercantile and manufacturing interests 2 - want of em— ployment, and desperate poverty among the labouring • population ; an increase of crime, and a tendency to emi gration ; a loss of our currency, and a fall in the prices of labour and corn ; a diminutien of the public revenue, and a derangement of the public finances ; and, more than all, the certain eventual ruin of the agricultural interest it self When England, the land of marine affairs and of commerce, and the best workshop, of ma nufactures in the world, attempted to sell corn in oppo sition to Poland, a country in want of those advantages, she perverted the natural order of trade ; she sold that it was most profitable for her to buy, and by destroying the means of her natural customers to buy what it was most profitable for her to sell, she artificially lowered the - prices of every description of merchandise. ; So ends for the crusado against the natural order ofcaoamerce. Till LBl5 the corn trade was fr,ee, and commerce prospered. In that ill-fated year the wohibi tory system became operative ; and as in 1;66 trade and manufactUres revived precisely at the moment when the restrictions on the importation of • foreign corn were re moved; so in 1815, when: those restrictions were again imposed, commerce languished, manufactures failed, and universal distreSs overspread the land.---Free Trade in Corn the real Interest of the Landlord and the true Policy of the State, by Sir James Graham, THE WORLDLY MINDED —The thozghts of worldly men are for ever regulated by a moral law of gravitation, which, like the, physical one, holds them down to earth. The bright glory of the day, and the * silent wonders of a starlight night, appeal to their minds in vain. There are no signs in the sun, or in the moon, or in the stars for their reading. The are like so me wise men, who, learning to know each planet by its pa o per name, have quite forgotten such small heavenly con stellations as charity, forbearance, universal love aad mercy, although they shine by night and day so brightly that the blind may see them ; and who, looking up at the spangled sky, see nothing there but the reflection of their own great wisdom and book learning.—Humphreys MELANCHOLY SUICIDE FROM UNREQUITED LOVE.—On Monday the family of Mr. Bulfoy, landlord of the Weavers' Arms public-house, in Brown's-lane, Brick-lane, Spitalfields, were thrown into the most inde scribable affliction, by the death, by her own hands, of , Miss Bulfoy, a very fine young woman, in her 21st: year. It appears that the deceased, after a lengthened acquaint ance, was a short time ago on the point of marriage with a respectable tradesman in the neighbourhood, but for some cause or other her intended husband broke off !ho match. This circumstance preyed deeply on her ran d, and on the night before, unknown to her parents, ae. l i sent a potboy to a neighbouring chemist for a smell quan tity of arsenic, and having procured it she swallowed it.; at bed-time, and . at two o'clock was a corpse. Informa tion of the unfortunate occurrence was forwarded t.•) Mr. Baker, the Coroner, and an inquest will be held o.n the body this day. On Sunday last, as a waterman of Limeho , isc, named John Stokes, was rowing off Brunswick-wliar£, Blackwall, he found, floating on the surface of the water, the body of a gentleman, apparently 30 years of age.. He conveyed it ashore, where it was examined, but no marks of violence were perceptible. The dress consisted of a blue coat, black waistcoat and trousers, and Hes sian boots, all nearly new. The linen was marked "J. W., No. 3." The body had been in the water apparently about nine days. DEATH OF A VERY OLD MAID.--A STOMaII, of the name of Mary Macleod, who passed all li9r days in a state of single blessedness, died at Morefl eld, in the parish of Ullapool, on the 23d ultimo, at fi'ie ad vanced age of 105. When upon her death-bec), she called in one of the neighbours, a piper, and, obliged him to promise her, un d er pain of being haunted by her ghost, to play the tune of " Caberfeigh" at her funeral. The lad being somewhat superstitious, and fearing, in case of non-compliance that the old lady's masses would take vengeance upon him, actually kept his w ord,_ and played the wished-for tune merrily, in the rears teen procession, from the place at which the co . rps o e,. , v,,_ u . p till it came to a river, within half a r . n v il l ? hietutuing ground. When he got over th disconti nued, perhaps recollecting the popular Courier. stream they daurna cross." —Inverness ebelief—" a rune n' Loss or LlFE.—Early on MondayACCIDENTAN D Iast, a most terrific! s Pactory, at Mold-green,: explosion took place atro)vieg the quiet inhabitants of . near Huddersfield, nth state of the greatest constcrna that locality intipd.ng to the spot we were struck lion. boiler which had been brit very r:eteethe horrid spectacle which presented iws e m orning Iworked for the first • k had burst, scattering destruction on last Tuesday wee , with itself. recently f t e l d a , r and was on y It occurred just previous to the time_ of around. ta,teidv,hn thetiho;denigninthee ( m st ill x w o e 'c re lOc sta k) n , th. : g le i n n ti m le a 3 n ,a y rd o , f n t e h a e r gtilstall.relr stbienomgilPer-house (which is partly detached from the of the waiting boiler fo Oo t k he pla en ce gi , engine abovet o sta s r t throw ing its - boiling contents over the hapless girls, an d scalding them in the most horrible manner, at the stone time throwing three of them completely over the pail btsildtiialf , pail ings into the mill-dam, whence the engine was supplied with water. The names of the unfortunate sufferers are Sarah Dowlass, Sarah Broadley, Emma Boothroyd, Martha Northrop, Hannah Milnes, and Mary Holden, the whole of them residing in the vicinity of the fac tory, or at no great distance. They were conveyed with all possible speed to their respective homes in a state that almost defies description, the flesh and skin of many of them coming away like ribands. Their ages we learn to be from fourteen to fifteen. Such was the violence of the explosion, that the boiler was completely blown out of its place, and turned bottom upwards, the lower end of it being thrown near 20 yards distant, while numbers of the bricks and stones were blown to a distance of from forty to fifty yards. We have not at present heard by what accident the bursting was occasioned. The first named girl, Dowlass, expired at about half-past one o'clock the same day; and the second, Broadley, lies in the most excruciating agony, without the least hope ; the others are most shockingly scalded, and one in a most precarious state. Since the above was in type we have learned that the girl Boothroyd also died on Thursday . evening. —Leeds Intelligencer. THE WEATHER.—The weather continues very unfavourable,.and the accounts - from every part. of the United Kingdom might be written in Dublin and If Dublin. In Ireland, which for the last three Frain will ho almost totally spoiled. We do not imagine, however, that as great a breadth of land has been devoted to the cultivation of this crop as in former years : so that we shall be less sufferers than we would have been had not Irish farmers, alarmed at their ill-success in former sea sons, abstained from growing a large crop. o i, w h eat. _ Dublin Post. a