The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-04 00:00:00

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W.e yesterday, by invitation of Mr. Batty, the spirited lessee of Astley's, visited the Royal Amphitheatre, for the Purpose of inspecting the 'numerous alterations and improvements (and in this case all the alterations are iMprovements) which haie been made in the interior during, the recess. Finding that . during the last season the theatre Tres not sufficiently commodious for the ac ePmmodation'©f its numerous -visitors (how many of our Metropolitan managers would be glad to have *Amp cause. of complaint), Mr. Batty during the recess. engaged Messrs. Hayward and Nixon E 0 Te'conttFtrct -the Whole interior of the theatre, and • ' mex. " 4l t-04 their labours has:been to make Astley!s one of, the: most' .splendid ; the most commodious, and the I n clt r etinafnrtable of metropolitan theatres. The pit has -been -entirely re - constructed, so as to afford increased iteennlin°4l4 ticm to much greater number of visitors, and this without, at all encroaching on the arena. devoted t ° ex.•hibition of feats of horsemanship. The seats in the :pit are fitted up with backs, and screens arc erected •to protect the visitors from those unpleasant. Ilraught o e,oid air to which they were subjected last "a 6 on• The Proscenium, too, is entirely remodelled. ,Twe:elegint - composite pilastres, with gilt capitals. and baset,-arise on each side of the stage, and between theca or.tho proscenium boxes, the .fronts of which are :ohave rnamented with velvet -and gold. New private boxes 11 30 been• lined tiN and hung with • htasteful rich and • • • dxaperi eL , -That, hugeOumbering, tinsightly affair, with .bs--uettYpdust.!eolleeting draperies, which occupied the centre of the dres s -eirele, and which was denominated the I R FIA I box, has been removedthus rendering the i i i Pr4ttince,of th* , the. at the same .t eatre lighter and more tasteful, and be • • time giving to th e public some twenty of the t• PlaCes iu the theatre. The whole front of the ilkiidience-part of the house has been brought forward- . , and the space thus gained will afford ac , c O!.:Onlodation to nearly two hundred persons additional. hhs at,the..§!trae tin .th e l o bbie s l utve b ee n enlarge O , and the space devoted t o the accommodation of each in . tviduallas been increased. The visitors to the boxes be' nenger " cribbed; cabined, 'confined," as tbtel V l Y e T.P.4.4 l l.t .e.114. - Ori, for even the generation of the lOnB'.legswll•now Sad room a • amp leand" verge enough" -41,k44..tbeirease , as they sit and witness the perform x, „.!•411*.-.2-,4,,galieries ; also hawse beenerilarged, - arid are ~.,10:eolastriteted. as to command a .perfect . view of the e and of the stage, even from the very back' seats. The franca of the hoxes and ct . 14r3; are elegantly orna- Inentd *9l arabesijuil.pahat logs upon a light-coloured e a rt nl, int Instead of tbeOld en t ranc e to th e c ir c le from under . • new ant t d'on the left :ranee has b, en constructed :114 d:Of-Ithe _ new,entrance is in the I.()r aivif, an elßggiii R oman a i e l t way., A new dome cell i - .' P$ has likewise been erected: This ceiling- is divided -• containing a classical t a bl eau , "Iralitedio4, it light-coloured wound. From the centre is P e hdedia magnificent: new cut-glass chandelier, one !Mist Splendid * We have ever seen, whilst fourteen .are suspended from . brackets °ltr . the. dress: Circle. The boxes have been entirely ,IY.l3 ',lptilieied - in:the most tasteful manner imaginable, -AstleY's now be pronounced one of , the most .fh tanti - aid, at 'the same time,- one of the- most COM. .tbriable theatres iu'Europp. Great credit i s due to Mr. - 1 1att3!:.Ter• the spirited and 'enterpriaing manner in which he has hitherto conducted thi s theatre. The last season r:• "us - 4 most successful one ; and he has shown his gra titude tri- his patrons, in the most substantial manner in .1 1 4 - . POWero, by, providing them increased means acconnnodation and - comfort, of whioh" they will no -dbUbt-glatllf avail themielvei. We have heard things of the vand mitional spectacle which is to be (Produced on. Easter Monda y, an d we have no doubt, ln Bee • ti • liteutearneu. fame :ma successful caterer f°l7 41 0 -publthat h t ine ex • amuseinent, t e.osos ..angu 11',tions. ivill'he more than realised. e, ~, , - ; .- COIIRT- .CIRCULAR.. ULA R. . - 'Her Royal:Highness-the Duchess .of Kent vi sited his t i"be , --Kine-Orthe Belgians on , T ues d a y even ing, after his arrival at Buckingham Palace. of Wales, the .4:ir Rlal H :f iniow,g 7 •rir);ll(ie were, taking 1q a .... : .. 5 _ sli.. 'fiil, d';:t4e.-P nFes§. R _i 1 Garden s of estaday iiretition #i. the. oy,a • ~I Her --..mringhati:Palatie. ----..--- ' -Royal High4esiillif o morning 6 14,,eit_:',and;the King; of the Belgians yesterday.DucliFss.... f Kent visited the 011inkhiFia Palace. ; their Majesties the - - :-."714-itiestirt accompanied Pan'ed by nd the Royal: Family,. IC4lVit'id Belgi ansatitilte : 4l4 er);.. c :tie - :110a1 it:, Royal party took afternoon tor- Windsor Castle; The • t left town yesterday -1 thins and 'uv,,, ,ora t 'tie: o'clOek in goir:of the Royal car ~, King I( " ti l ig r t ' u ' i rnm-Buelcinghm Palace a ten minutes zour..;lii the 'first • carriage were the Queen, the 10 4_ 1 ;lactan Qr. the- Belgiani, and the Countess of Dun ;.,°,l°,l,T,:.X:itdiin Waiting, on het - Majesty. In the secon d_ — " 14 0, -wete their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wiles, the Prinetes Royalrand the Princes 3 Alice, and the r.l/417Fiser. .Lady Lytteltnn. In the third carriage Qupen Of the Belgians; were t he 1361°6* dlloogyorst, Lady in Waiting on the • the llon. Miss Paget, and the Hon..Misi Murry; Maids of Hcinour in Waiting, and - _ IT‘orAltivers,T4or4 in,Wtqting. lifoerkerke; Gettlen.iii Waitillg, *era Ciiiiiit SieVeysrArgenteailand M • •dt In the fourth carriage Hanins de Belgians.; -COlnnel.:Berkele - ' ori fti th °r e King .of the ; . Waitiog; and. Major-Gene Yi• intnrnond, Groom in . Waiting.;• - .• ~ • • ra Wernyss, Equerry 1 • The. Queen ilid',their lthttelkellichthitelnirbeeairr- .iage Belgian Majesties were . eon • by the Lord Chamberlain and The 'loyal- ..!-ali.l •• ' Dragooni.f -a 4 --were escorted by a party of Light - , town by a is Ille ', %eat. r"}s°:,:uckin.gliairt Palac e to 'the terminus of .1, A. paragt ... 1 rri railstay, at Paddington, and le Nem train, for Windsor Castle. aph having ft atalv4vrs. , bf, ye_sterd.ay,'.ata-in aPpeared in some of the Morning that the State Apartments ,•p r ittity..w !"".Ik:astie will b eg pen to the public on Good not b e : i t t e . .h ave now -authority- to state that such will ~. ..,, O ease,' but that the public will be. admitted on 7„r•Mulday between the Church Services;and during the raster week it,s usual. iti..'dlie erlll63l44llbliess the :Duchess of Kent left her re . . ‘ r.lee,s. Clarence Rouse, St. James's, in a Carriage and ~ T it u t r t at one, o'clock-:yesterday- aftOrnbon, for Kew, where Ouchesi'l tea ' Thieliess • partook of a . dejeune ' wi th the ,s of • Cambridge: • -The - Duchess of- Kent af tep 4, ~,,,' h _ 114 proceeded.to --Peogrtiore Lodge, near Windsor, Ain„, - `",...her • Royal - Highness arriiied, . attended by Lady ... • ' 4 O-alarie:Detwison and• Sic George Couper.- • i- tk-'l",;Excellency-th Belgian- Minister -lefttoWn yester . j--"4441.1.1"...11-pott•fo-1,-I;inst. so - r• Castle - on a visit to her Ma .- ig is , t ;ce ... lleno ... ;M: ' Ded el • had an interview with Lord (''' --nv en Yesterday at the Foreign -office. ateh r es for Sir Charles Metcalfe Governor of : ' ipi. --41 q 4 ,'tint foi the Groiertrors of the other North Atilt; , °tint B jornstjerna, the Swedish , ~ hied b i t • a..: •• Y aron Stjernerona, tranzae b ',.1-'-‘'.4;-"Ta:tilli,:illiti:hin:fiPeiesoe'reveigate:f:e.et:.7 Yest7rd'atell:ienvietti:elirnr:egsaccsfl:°;:4lB:l?4t.: r. 4 0 , 114 _,;;21k, Iv RotiespAr.jiler arrived this " '."' 4111 gs-ran- Queen of .the Be l g ians , Majesty, accompanied Ittleriloon'at the Slough station of the Great Western The august . /B " ilw aY by a special train - from town. -.kallY uninediately -left. in a Royal. carriage The Prince ,VaistlK:estorled bra party of Life Guards. for Windsor - 46 151 L V Ilts, the Princess Royal,. and the- Princess Alice, ' if - 7' i Pallied by .the tDowager Lyttelton,- occupied thee'an -1)---r-etrri The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, inehided COUnte4 of Dunmore, Baroness dril. eog: ' . 11714':. ,11°1.i-15.Mserryag'et' 1-vers Count -- - • - Hon. Miss Liddell, Lord • ' 4FPke- Colonel n d'Argenteau, Major --r unn dand General Weniyss, Ku lowed in Ito al e °ll' a de Mo ,. er ,, i arriages. . 111-4•Xx gZeney.lll. v de . w .er arrived from town a visit to her Maj e sty, n e3' ..- h r . °galore Lo - catll ‘ tis - Rn /a 1 :, , Highness the Duchess of Keht arrived at age this afterneon'from town. The .._. Roval ' .--tlehess,attended by Lad An Maria Dawson and Sir Ge°rge Couper will '• Y " d' circle at the Castle - t - dancer' • join the Royal inner a the - 4-, ~ ' .;.".; • - •;.1:1 • .i. m, , . ..' 7.......... • , , h,,,,1,..J1tTa1r tAZiE tlitlAiliE.---The re . appearance o f .. --PrertrrMandernext irt Guillaume Tell is sure to fill every. :.trevice of this b i uiklin4.. ' The new and popular danseuse Ma 'ntilitille Ltctit -lit lin ham arrived, and is .-trr-the'elt,heat e a actively d sals of the new ballet, which is to be produce .- -'-'),11 .1/(lnesday next . occupied /,.. ~.. - • • -, - • .. •,.. r„,.,,ttass Or ' Be nin '- 1:0... ..../ITINGER.—The accounts re ceiveit intoWn liht eg froth Bury St. Edmund's, held tit,l7Tihopts *of fecovery He was still alive, but totally A n a .'" )10 ; and at his advanced age, under such a serious F?Pf4alisis, a speedy dissolution may be anticipated. 1,... redertek ollock, tt eral, is mentioned os ~,pleessor- in.tha Court of Exchequer. the 141:311 WEATREE.--- Yesterday was possibly , IstoN.Na3")l%the•year.',. The thertnonieter, af two o'clocx, w„ W a, _t 65—a summer heat—the wind wa.l from the south . ":4 1 e 4Y clear, and,,Of crirsc, bright sunshine. DUring. 7 : was ; Il lghl, the nioon- shone with a peculiar brightness, there at TIA .tel ° ll d in the sk • d the till • and beauty of the • _ea t . -- - 2„, and s now of ~, Itc resembled the most beautiful evenings in the Sou th k a ppoint me nt - . of Seen .e .Of Mr. Calhoun to the office t th,‘,7Y nr State; by. President Tyler, is a very important liitiio unaccountable step on the part of that functionar y .. , t 't ert°' the T Ylel:s,- at-least the President's' son and his saris of the press, have been thundering upon the Texas tuie.ii/reen quetions, as- if nothing less;than war and d!ti7 •..tiow„. Le tngland could please the head of the State. Y et .trit4 egelacts ne of the most moderate and able states- , ~, 4.,,.n,t0 occupy the important post of Secretary of State 14 the opetiiiig ngtiations' with Mr. Pakenham. The ''.the;,° eataatrophe of the - Princeton seems to have recalled • kit --lri'34ll PreSidemt from Those extrAvagant ideas which 41,i21.empecially on the eve of a Pro-sidential election, in t•tr nierlea, to sound, sober, and. purely patriotic views.. t t : t !gli Air: ealhoun be the staunch opponent of prohibi -43161141e:4c LI be hoped, even front . him, in 'obtaining, this ettitinnt.a re Peal or a modi fi cation of the teuiff. Should this ~, a ril ... _Y not prevent-his acceptance of office, the influence of • :thtikitri 50 sennble, so modest, and able, cannot but be felt . in e Partallt Matters.. pending between the two countries. ..- zi„,___geatest danger, in negotiations or difference with 9 Ilti t Ve- 11 + . Is that of falling upon ignorant and bigotted mind . . • 441 is ° f th e enli btened st-ttesmen of Amenca there is . . t fe4r °f g . . L• 4. ' country , tt.„• 9ur remaining • ming dltierences with that. - 4140. -,rS sertou s or hostile consequences. It is worthy of . re 1. sti,„,:..'.oat,.notwithstanding bluNter and party, the Americans Itr'''.:Nv thew-ablest men to conduct a negotiation with us. I .''.koibiitbster wax Pitted in the, Maine question with Lord 1 1i,iw(i.1414 Whoise merit with the Tories was his being no I.snt •Mr Calh • - 1•• •val of Mr. Webster, -ow t o ••• c f-,, •, onn, a u ort 9, ri eal vriUlraphilp.h.alizaza LITERATURE. TIME VERSUS LlFE.—Sherwood, London, 1844. The author. of this skilful treatise observes, in his : preface, "the following pages, though the result of long practical observation, are presented in a form rather popular than professional •, not because they are-destitute of obiervations which may be useful to the practitioner, but because I consider that impor tant medical truths, where they are sufficiently simple, should be made to enlighten that public they are meant to benefit, rather than suffer refraction through any medium, however bright and pure." The great. fault in most treatises of this sort is, that they are. penned in too profest•ional a spirit, and abound in : technicalities intelligible only to the faculty ; but this is not the case with the work before us, which Rives in simple and perspicuous terms such directions for the preservation of health as are likely to be most serviceable to the community. The chapters on the effect of "Atmospheric Changes," on "Diet," and the best method of regulating it, and.on the influence which age exercises on the "Digestive Organs," may be perused with great advantage by the reader, for they are evidently the result of long practical experi ence, and are wholly free from the crotchety theories in which medical treatises so often abound:. MAGAZINES--CONTINUED. HOOD'S MAGAZINE. We received this Magazine at so late an hour, that we were unable .to include' it among our usual periodical notices of the month. Among the poetical contributor 3, we find Mrs. Norton, Messrs. Monck ton Milnes, Wood, Mackay, and Lover. The lady's poem is the best ;. it is intitled. " How lately the Joy bells were ringing ;" and pourtrays in simple and. touching- language the death of a young and beautiful woman shortly.afterher marriage. We subjoin the closing lines : But an awful and glorious meeting Remaineth to comfort us yet, In a world'where our hopes are not fleeting, Where the sunshine of joy shall not set. There night shall be turned into morning, • - And Darkness give place unto Day, The bruising, the weeping, the scorning, The turmoil of life pass away. There, gladly that innocent Spirit • (Renewed by a Heavenly birth) Whole ages of bliss- shall inherit For an hour of sorrow on Earth ! Yet hard is the Parents' deep anguish • Though by Faith, and Religion beguiled ; • Long, long raust they sorrow and languish And yearn for their beautiful child. And long,—for his heart is but human,— ' The desolate bridegroom shall grieve, AM that sweet face, half child and half woman, Still haunt hi* at morning and eve At the sound of her light footsteps falling He shall murmur and smile in his sleep In dreams he shall hear her voice calling And wake, to remember and weep ! The " Ship-breaker's yard" is a prose tale, or legend, in which there is some good description mixed with much that is fantastic. A " Receipt for the Manu facture of Marriages" is a lively story, the dialogue portions of which are neat and pointed, and appa rently without effort. The " Matchmaker" is one of Mrs. Hall's , knowing and goodrnatured sketches of character. The Editor contributes an allegorical poem on the " Workhouse Clock," but it is not in his most successful manner. UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE. 'We find here, among other articles, a private Jour- - nal of the late Sir Thos. Picton, kept with great regu larity during 1809 and the four following years. We looked into it with some curiosity, but were greatly disappointed in our expectations, for it contains not one single trait of character, b eing, in fact, a mere dry, dull summary of proceedings from month to , month, to which not the slightest public interest is attached. The account of the " t.;onspiracy of the' Russian Nobility," on the accession of the present Emperor to the throne, is related in a most careful and circumstantial manner. We quote the following passage, which corroborates what we stated yesterday in The Sun, respecting the conduct of the Emperor Nicholas when the news of the breaking out of the conspiracy first reached him : " The Marquis de Custine, in his recent book On Rus sia, gives. us a dialogue between himself and the Em peror Nicholas, in which the former alludes to those events, as having famished an occasion on which the latter had distinguished himself in the eyes of all _Europe by his firmness . and. his courage. It is difficult to tell how much per cent. of the unmeasured flattery which the Marquis showers on his Imperial host is intended as . waggery, AS undoubtedly, from the subsequent portions of his book, we must judge a large portion of. it to be ; but it appears that the Emperor took all this adulation as genuine. His behaviour on this occasion is the sub ject on which Nicholas is said to be most accessible to flattery, and we may therefore readily imagine the one on which he is most generally flattered. It is cited both by his admirers and his detractors, and not, perhaps, inaptly by either, as he found here the opportunity of displaying the most salient features of his character, — both good and bad. We shall leave to the reader the appreciation of which predominates. The resolute firm ness, the energetic activity, which he displayed, saved not only his absolute crown, but his life ; uncertain as he was what mines might explode beneath his footsteps, he disdained all compromise, and boldly cast the die for unlimited power or utter ruin. On the other hand, in the face of his army, this man, who for years has never quitted his uniform, who idolises all that is martial, wko looks in stature and in port a Cceur-de-Lion, as soon as his faithful, force began to act, retired thus far from the scene of action as to place himself in indivi dual safety,—thus affording us .a spectacle of moral courage and firmness, and physical timidity, not inse parable, though seldom united. From this day's beha vious his friends and foes deduce arguments to assert his courage or his cowardice. but it would appear that he is endowed with that species of the former which s really valuable in a leader of men, but deficient in that personal valour which is .quite unconnected withthe for mer, but which men are apt to prize, both in themselves and others, as if it were a quality lets common." SPORTING MAGAZINE. The present, month's Number of this periodical is embellished with two engravings, one representing, a " Gamekeeper on duty"—that is to say, keeping a sharp look-out with his gun in _his hand and his dogs behind him, in the centre of a thick woodland pre serve—arid the .other representing a view of •" head Walton's Cottage," which is a snug, unassuming, thatched farm-house, shaded with loftv trees; The literary contents are all, as usual, taken up with sporting themes. BRITISH FARMER'S MAGAZINE. - A Magazine exclusively devoted to the consideration of agricultural subjects, which it discusses in a true, practical manner. Th e Observations on "-Grasslands are full of useful suggestions for farmers. SIMMOIVDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE: The details of the recent " Operations of our Indian army in Gwallior," will be read at thii particular sea= son with great interest, more particularly as they are penned in a dispassionate spirit, and wholly free from anything like a party bias. Of the remaining articles the . most entertaining one is an essay " On the Intel- , lectual Powers . of the Negro," of which the author is disposed to think more favourably than the--gene rality of people. • FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY REVIEW. Under 'the head of " Masonic. ‘Chit-chat" this number contains a variety of amusing anecdotes, chiefly relative to freemasonry, which will serve the purpose of whiling away an idle half-hour very agree ably. • The statements respecting " Freemasonry in Europe during the past century " furnish,some curi ous 'matter; but decidedly the ,best article in the Number is an " Essay on Education,". from the pen. of Dr. Slade. ,BRITISH MAGAZINE., An article entitled " Some Notices of the Early Colonial Church" leads off this Number, but, we fear, it will be attractive to few but clerical readers. The " Two Claudes" is a passable poem ; and the digest of . ecclesiastical intelligence for the past month is drawn up with skill and succinctness. - NEW MONTHLY BELLE ASSEMBLEE. . . i n The re are , several agreeable prose tales this Number, chiefly of a sentimental character, together with a skilfully , versified poem, addressed to the . Editor—of rather Editress—by Leitch Ritchie. By way of embellishment there is a beautiful fancy por trait, a half-length, of a young girl, who is repre sented kneeling before a crucifix, near an open window. appear anxious, for you to renew your battle with France., Not wishing to refuse explicitly, you make USe of indirect_ means, such as a, victor supposes he can impose. Any man of good faith will, perceive this - On reading your letter. If the same disposition to recommence the strug gle is not evinced on both sides, it is useless to prolong thee - neotiations For my own part rdeclare , that I. do not desert the field of battle, and that ..I teeognise your superiority only as accidental."—Galigranni. PROPOSED MAGNIFICENT NA- • TIONAL MONUMENF IN LONDON, TO NEWTON. • • • . • To THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF LINCOLN. CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE METROPOLIS. ." " Sibi gratulentur Mortalas, Tale tantumque extitisse, IIUSIIAILGENERIS DECUS." • A part of the - inscription on the tablet to the memory Of Sir Isaac Newton, in the sanc ' tuary of England, Westminster Abbey. MY LORD—Not having the honour even of the slightest personal acquaintance with your Lordship which might warrant me in soliciting an interview, I most respectfully pray leive to address you through the public press, - on a subject to which I have always,. ever- since I originated, it, between 18 and 19 years ago, attached a far deeper and more expansive than a mere national interest. Your Lordship, I am quite sure, will agree with' me in my conviction, that the name and memory of Newton belong not to England alone, but to all the nations of the world. I respectfully hope that your Lordship will not con sider me obtrusive if I beg, concisely, to enumerate the following facts in proof of the undeviating perseverance and fervour with which, ever since the - time of its origi nation (Oct. 1825), I have urged ,my favourite project on the public attention of England; a project in which I take leave to say I have,' and can have no personal interest whatever. lam not a professional architect, and, in addition to this, the nature of my avocations and duties sternly exacts from me that my general' residence should be, not in London, but in my native country, Ireland. First, ia October, 1825, after one day visiting our new observatory at Cambridge, then nearly com pleted, under the influence of the train of meditation inspired by contemplating the buildingfor who at Cambridge could think of astronomy without recol lecting Sir Isaac Newton ?—I wrote from my college, my own loved college Magdalene, a letter to the editor of the - Times, which was immediately , after published in that journal, suggesting the principle of my design. - That design was then, and it is now, that, as an exqui sively appropriate national monument to. Newton, a magnificent dome, of mighty elevation and diameter, • should, like that which I had seen in Italy; at Assisi, over the antique chapel, be reared by England over this house mid observatory in her metropolis ; the house and 'observatory themselves being at the same time put into as perfect a state of repair as British architec tural skill could devise, to protract their duration, with all their sublime associations. Secondly, I came to London from Cambridge and made drawings on the spot from nature ' and also drawings of my design, elevational and sectional, which were beautifully lithographed by. Mr. Scharf, and which I published in the pr int shops. Thirdly, I presented copies of these to the Royal . Astronomical Society, the Royal Society, the Insti tution ' of Civil Engineers, and to many highly dis tinguished individuals. Fourthly, in the summer of 1834, I came from Clare to London, and was examined by a Committee' of the House of Commons, the Shannon Navigation Committee, on the state of the navigation of that great river, and also touching certain improvements ; and deeming that to be a very favourable opportunity, I, by another public' letter with my name, in the Lon don newspapers, revived my long cherished project for the' national monument to the illustrious Newton. On this occasion the distinguished President of the Royal Academy, SirMaitin Archer Shee, in response to my solicitation, with the greatest courtesy and kindness, gave me his permission to dedicate to him whatever new pictures I might find it necessary to publish from new drawings. Fifthly, in 1836, Lord Monteagle, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, honoured me by presenting from ' me a petition to the House of Commons, and I was subsequently honoured in the same manner by the presentation of a second one to the House by Mr. Hume. These petitions were published in several of the London and Irish newspapers. In the second, presented by Mr. Hume, I intro duced what appears to me to be a great improvement. It occurred to me that nothing could be more feli citously appropriate, and in unison with the spirit of my design, than that a statue of white marble, of the most exquisite execution, of Newton sitting in medi tation, should be placed in this his observatory, where he so often sat in life in celestial meditation, and from whence I am now writing to your Lordship, and im ploring from you and England not to let it, and the house which it crowns so nobly, tumble prematurely, in England's metropolis, into ruin and rubbish. I do not 'deem it expedient, having already tres passed so long, to inflict upon your Lordship the ar chitectural details of the plan which I Tecommended, as they are described in thelpetition presented by Lord Monteagle. In conclusion, I respectfully pray permission to quote one passage from my letter from Cam 'bridge in 1825, a second from my letter written in London in 1834, and a third from my first petition to the House of Commons.. FROM. THE LETTER FROM MAGDALENE COLLEGE. "Protected in the manner I have -described from the dilapidating influence of rains and winds, the venerable edifice , in which Newton studied, or was inspired, that palace of the soul, / night stand fast for ages : a British monument mote s ublime than the pyramids ' although remote antiquity and vastness be combined. to create their interest." FROM THE LETTER OF 1834. • "The bOdy, of Newton .has Jung since mouldered into dust and earth and ashes, and these are not diffe rent from the dust and and ashes of the other great men of England 'who surround his sepulchre. "But , this: airy: the observatory , which I now again, for the second time, call-on England to save from ruin, was the ethereal T itadel from which, while he lived; the spirit of Newton made incursions into the abyss, of celestial space—the' empyrean-' the blue serene'—the hyaline of Heaven ; and _in its fight, made as if it had taken to itself the wings of the morning, it seemed, as ,it were,- almost to disidentify itself from its human essence, and to blend with those. superior existences described by Milton, those pure intelligential ' substances with thoughts which wander through eternity.' " • • • FROM THE PETITION PRESENTED BY THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. • • " Sibigratdentur trirtales,". And let the people of England exult above all others, ' " 7'ale tantumque extitisse," HUMANI GENERIS DECUS. " Petitioner respectfully, most respectfully, hopes that this appeal, to the House of Commons will not be made in vain, especially in an epoch like the present, when the light of science sheds an Elysian effluence oil the world ; although it be now,. in comparison with vvhatit will be hereafter, only as the cool dewy roseate dawn of -a roseal-blushing morning, in com parison with the meridian torrid glory of the Arch- Chemic Sun." " This must be the case, in consequence of the evitable progressive development,.throug,h future ages, of portions (to, use the words of the mighty metaphy sician Loeke),of those masses of knowledge which still lie hidden within the secret recesses of nature." STEELE, I have the honour to be, my m Lo A rd s , Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, TA member of the Cambridge Senate, and of the London Institution of Civil Engineers. Observatory of Newton, No. 35, 'St. Martin's street, Leicester-square; March 29,1844. METROPOPTAN • DRAPERS' ASSOCIATION. Rooms, - Assoca ion was last night A h :meetingelcn the f Hanover the Draptaking those steps which ma = ybe deemed most expe dient for procuring an abridgment of th e h ours of Hanover it' for th e p urpose o f business in -the drapery houses in th e me t ropo li s . This Association, it is right to remark, does not con template any . appeal to the Legislature for its in terference ; it is formed on purely, voluntary prin.: ciples, and seeks to accomplish its objects solely by moral influences. There is, therefore, all the differ ence in the world between its .proposal to abridge_ the hours of business and the legislative proposal to. abridge the hours of labour in the 'factories. There is this much difference between the two cases—that the' abridgment of-the hours of business in the dra-- pery trade 'would not lead to any diminution in the amount of business done, whereas, in the case of the factory operatives, the Ten Hours' Bill would be fol lowed by a reduction in the amount of work per formed to the extent of one-sixth. In drapers' shops the business now done in thirteen hours could easily' be done in ten or even eight hours, . and consequently, no pecuniary injury could be done either to the mas ter,or the assistant by .shutting up one or two hours earlier than at present.. In the case of the factory operatives, the diminution in the amount of produc tion-Would be followed by a corresponding reduction ' in the amount of wages. Our reader s are aware that the Drapers' Association has existed for some , time. They-are also aware of the objects for which it was formed. The unusual length of time each day . which assistant-drapers are obliged to devote to.busi .ness, has long been-the subject of regret to all who wish well to their fellow-men. The practice hitherto has been,and, in many , instances is still, to keep drapers', hops open, to nine in the ,evening. Some ,keep, open even later ; but let us take nine as the .generaL boiir Now,- to be kept .confined behind the ceanter THE' &UN, r -- 14 RSD -711, N I NG, AY It IL 1 MYSTERIOUS PRIZE. On Wednesday last, as, a young man was enjoying the agreeable pastime, of popping at small birds ' in some fields near Sedgley, an intended victim of his deadly sport perched itself 'on something, the exact, nature. of which was not very' discernable, in one of the pits of water with which the fields in that neigh bourhood abound. Our sportsman took his aim, but the feathered one, too cunning to remain in such dangerous . company, wisely ' took wing and flew away. Disappointed for the moment the wanderer . resolved upon a scrutinizing examination of the ex traordinary looking affair from which the bird bad just departed. It looked like the lead of ,a barrel, dimly seen through a kind of mist of long-attached slime and weed. But what business had a barrel there ? Determined to solve this mysterious appearance, and a hedge being near, the hero of •our adventure judiciously armed himself with a tolerably lengthy hedge rail, and took many a cautious poke at the tantalizing object before him. The weeds and aqueous_ incrus, Cations at length gave way,•and a portion of a tolera bly portly kind of kilderkin stood revealed to. view. It was heavy, and literally stuck in the mud. 110_, get it gut unaided_ vattimpos3iblq,-ind-assistaxpeilits speedily gathered. A stout rope and a hearty tug or two soon brought the curiosity. to the, shore. It was evidently well charged with . something—but what. could it be ? It was broached, andlorthwith from it poured. a rich stream of ruddy. mellow old- port ! port such as might have warmed the heart of even •old Bacchus himself!' The cheerful - news of this wonderful vintage soon'spreadaround ; even from the most unseemly - vessel was the precious. liquor eagerly quaffed, and those " drank port who ne'er drank port before." Nordid the luck of the' party end here, for one of them sagaciously enough conjectured that, as . the surface of the pit presented such good things, its inner depths might not be less satisfac torily stored, and forthwith an active exploration of all -its muddy recesses commenced, and the skill and enterprise of the party beheld' its reward in the safe landing;_ amidst cheers- and eager expectation, of another rotund prize, of similar. size and aspect to the one already secured ! This, on tapping, turned out to be a cask of peppermint! As the news of find ing these good things derelict became more extensively known, it was resolved that means should be taken to discover, if possible, unto whom these' remarkable ,• , waits legitimately belonged. .The wine cask was found to be marked • " Prince and Co., Tamworth," and three -" Ws" were impressed on that containing the peppermint. A communication was forwarded to Tamworth; but, strange enough, the firm knew no thing of the commodities—nor is any trace of them to' be found in thehOoki,Thotigh referred to for. years back•-•L'Wolttei-hizmpton • . • • _.. • • 'THE SEVENTY-NINTH HIGH- LANDERS. - THE SQUARE OF THE HIGHLANDERS AT TOULOUSE, APRIL 10, 'lBl4. (From the Note Book of Captain John Ford, Royal Hospital, Chelsea.) Though the square formed by the 79th Cameron 'Highlanders in the valley of the Ers, near Toulouse, is mentioned by French military writers, and is laid down in their plans, yet I am not aware that the par ticulars have been given in any British publication or official letter; I may, therefore, be excused copying from my notes a few words respecting it. The Sixth Division, commanded by Sir Henry Clinton, of which • the 79th Regiment formed a part, crossed the bridge over the Ers at Croix d'Aurade, but did • not sustain so much loss from the fire of the redoubt des Au gusting 'on the Plateau de Calvinet when advancing along the valley, as the Fourth Division which had preceded it. After passing and getting out of the, range of the guns of the above. men 'Coned redoubt, the 79th was on the right of the di vision in the valley, between the Plateau de Calvinet •in possession of the enemy, and the little river Ers ; While so situated a corps of French cavalry unex pectedly appeared, debouching in slow time by one of the deep farm roads which cross the plateau, with the' intention, no doubt, of attacking us if not pre pared to receive them, of turning the right of the two divisions, or of cutting off their communica tion with the bridge which we had passed, the only one over the Ers not destroyed by the enemy. The position of the 79th was, therefore, a very important one. Lieutenant-Colonel Neil Douglas (command ing) immediately formed square, ordered out Ensign Balfour to the front with one of the colours, and gave the word " march." Balfour's conduct was much admired ; he carried himself quite erect, the 'colours inclined forward— which, as he had no shoulder or waist-belt to support them, required strength of arm—pointed his toes, and gave the step . to the square with as much regularity and correctness as he would have done at any formal parade in England. The view of the two corps ad vancing in slow time to meet each other must have , been a very interesting sight, as seen from the high ground which the French held possession of. When the sctuare had arrived sufficiently near, Lieut.-Colo nel Douglas halted it, called in Balfour, and ordered the grenadiers to giVe the enemy a volley, upon which they wheeled round and retired as slowly as they had advanced. I believe they did not sustain any loss from our . fire—certainly I did not see one man fall. The French account ,does not agree with that I have given ; the French author must have written the passage from an incorrect report, because though the .Dragoons and Lancers in the French service are. called " Cavalerie de Ligne," they had not so many as 115 regiments of that description of force, there fore the 115 de Ligne must have been an Infantry regiment : The threatened attack upon .the 79th square was made by cavalry. 'On the morning of the battle of Toulouse, the 79th had only 414 rank and file present in the field, but they were veterans in every sense of the word. Not a shot was fired at us when in square. It was in attacking and carrying the redoubt des Augustins that the 79th afterwards sustained such a serious loss, about one-half of the 414 rank and file being either killed or wounded. Four of our officers were buried in' one grave in the redoubt (three of whom bore the name of Cameron, and were cousins), and a fifth at Toulouse, and thirteen wounded.--United Service Magazine, April. CHESS. It would appear from a correspondence which has aken place between M: St. Amant and ,Mr. Staunton, hat the return' match between those two celebrated players is not likely to come off, as the lovers of this scientific game had anticipated. In the last number of the Palantede, M. St. Amant's chess journal, .is published a letter from that gen tleman, in answer to certain conditions laid down by Mr. Staunton, as the bases of the second match, to the most important of which the French champion re 7 fuses to • consent, on the score of their being un reasonable and extravagant. M. St. Amant commences by • declaring that he considered Mr. Staunton boundby promise to play another match, on terms so similar to those of the - former contest, as to call for no hesitation as to their acceptance ; that as he has no written agreement, he - cannot force him to act as his promise seemed to imply, and that he should, therefore, merely recapitulate the terms proposed, 'and -state why he refused to accede to 'some of them. The new propo sitions, he remarks, - smack dreadfully of the victor : Brennus, when throwing his sword. into the scale, never spoke with more authority. Mr. Staunton's conditions are : • • "1. o play with M, St.... Meant, or an other player, five matches of five games each, for 50 1 a match, or • 2504 in all." To'this M. St. Amant replies, " that he sees no sufficient reason - for: changing the stakes. As the former' match was - for. 1001. a-side, so should be the, new one. If 'the intention of the English player was to play for a larger sum than before, the new proposition might defeat this purpose, as the chances were, that out of the five matches, between such equal players, only one would-be the difference at the end; and that, therefore, only 504 would be won or lost. But even supposing that one party won four matches, and the other only one, the Sura won would. be 150/., leaving the mean •1001, the same as in the other match. Why, therefore, change, particularly as the new proposi tion had this great disadvantage, of the possibility of one champion winning, three: matches, or nine games, and 'the . other two matches and twelve games, each thus deeming himself entitled" to sing le triumphe !" M. St. Amaiit invites Mr. Staunton to reflect on these observa tions, at the same time declaring that, should the con dition be insisted cm, he will subicribe •to it, although unwillingly. • 2. Those matches to be •played at , London or .Paris • within three • months after March 1, 1844, the sum of 50/ .being allowed out of the stakes to the • person who shall leave his own country for the pur. is on' this M. St. Amant declares that as it is ntterly imFossible fOr him to be absent from ' Paris, on account of his mercantile occupations, for more than ten days, he, cannot play the matches in London ; that as to 501. being allowed in place of 20/. (the sum agreed on for:the former match), he considers it to be an extravagant demand, and refuses absolutely to consent to it. Labourdonnais, heobserves; went four times to. London to ,contend with the English players, and never once thought of making any , such stipulation, "3. The play to take place in a private room, with no person present but the seconds and a referee on each side." Strongly, objected to, though not absolutely refused, on the ground that " as; even according to Mr. Staunton's own showing, nothing could surpass the ' admirable conduct of the Paris club during the late contest ; to insist on such a condition would be considered an insult, as implying that .something had been done on the previous occasion to render such privacy necessary." M. St. Amant further observes, that he feels convinced of the utter impossibi= lity to find three gentlemen among the Paris chess players willing to submit to such solitary confinement. • "4. A game to be played every day, except Sunday, from the beginning to the end of each match, when one or.two days' rest would be allowed, as might be agreed on, before the next was • commenced." Refused point blank, on the ground of his.mercantile engagements ab solutely preventing such an unlimited occupation of time. (31.. St. Amant is, we believe, a wine -merchant.) The French.champion proposes four days per week instead of six. " 5. The publication of the games to be forbidden until after the' whole of the matches are brought to a conclusion." Objected to, though not refused, on the ground that • such publication could not prove injurious to any party, and •that the amateurs of Paris • and London would be unwilling to hear of any such condition. M. St. Amant observes further, that this . prohibition appears strange, coming from a native of England, the country of publicity, and .after the eagerness evinced by the English journals to publish the games of the late match. . "6. The maximum of time to be allowed for each move to be 30 minutes."—Agreed to. " 7. In the half or the games (twelve) both champions 'to begin with the King's Pawn two squares." To this 141, St. Amant consents ; remarking, that, out of the 21- games of the last match, he had commenced by this move three times, whereas Mr. Staunton had done so only twice. He however, further observes that in a great match, such as . that in question, he is of opinion that no shackles or impediment ought to be placed on either champion's style of opening. " 8. Etch day's play to commence at 11 o'clock, and whoever should be inexact to pay a fine of one guinea," --Agreed to. M. St. Amant, in conclusion, says :--"From the tenor, of your letter, the lapse of time thatyou have permitted to, pass, and concarrbnce of other circumstances, you—or. rimeritOoyzootiN.Ahe friends. &Du .. hare iconsulted.—do mot nine in the . evening, must not only• be exhausting! both to body and mind,. but must be very perilous to health. . What materially aggravates the case of the ' assistant`drapers is the fact, that they take their meals in their employers' houses, which are in every in stance above their shops. They have; consequently,' no opportunity of inhaling a single draught of fresh air for thirteen long hours. Nor is, this all. ,They are only allowed half an hoar for. their meals—so that out of the thjrteen hours, they have to be' on . their feet twelve tedious rhours. - .Now this, in the nature of things, must be too much :for' the human constitution. Experience proves that it is so. Many young men come up, from the • 'provinces' to the metropolis, posiessed of robust' constitutions, and enjoying excellent ' health; who, in a few years, catch, by meanS of this close confinement and con,stant physical exliuus tion, "the seeds of diseases which speedily terminate in death. The injurious effects.of close confinement and continuous application to business, in drapers' shops, are clearly seen • in the countenances of the, young men, while engaged in their ordinary occupations: No one, can have entered any of our large drapery estab lishments, without being struck -with the pale, sickly looking countenances, he tees around him. The ap pearance of the young perions in these establishments is sufficient, without -a knowledge of the facts which bear on their case, to convince the visitor that there must be something wrong , in their condition. ,What aggravates the hardships of their case is, the circum (stance that they are mostly young men of intelligence,' und; consequently, of susceptible feelings. And they have •a painful consciousness of the hardships of their. position. They consider themselves to be, not merely - : in a state of drudgery, but in a state of slavery. Their. long hours are aggravated by the irksomeness of their employment. The anxiety -which they, must necessarily feel to acquit themselves in such a way as to give satisfaction to their employers, adds Very greatly to their other sources of unhappi- • ness. • Their ingenuity is constantly on the rack to adapt themselves to the whims and caprices of -their customers—the permanency of their situations being in many, if not the majority of cases, wholly depen» dent on their success in doing business with those who inspect their employers' goods. But there are other respects in which the destiny of the assistant draper is a one. He is possessed of sufficient education aiThlligence to make him desirous of acquiring more. With the present system of long hours, his advancement in mental cultivation cannot be expected. He is so exhausted, so jaded, physi cally and mentally, by the duties if the day, as to have little relish, and still less strefigth, for mental application of any kind. The inirval between the hour of shutting shop and retiring to rest is se short, that he requires it all for pedestrian exercise in the streets ; for it May 'be, that he spends it in places in which he may drown,`' for an hour or two, all recollection of the 'hardships of his conditfon. If; instead of the present hour of shutting up haberdashers shops, they were, closed at seven in the winter and eight in the summer, the young men would be happy to avail themselves- of the various means of mental improvement with which the metro polis abounds. They could read at home, in literary institutions, or in the more respectable class of coffee rooms ; or if they preferred it, they could attend courses of lectures on literary, philosophical, and scientific subjects. Messrs. Hitchcock and Co., of St. Paul's Church-yard—the largest retail drapery house in London, or, perhaps, in the world—have not only an extensive and well-selected library for the use of the young men .in their establishment, but they have lately established a course of lectures in their own premises for their benefit—the lecturers employed being the most distinguished men they can procure in the various departments of literature and science. Were the proposed abridgment of the hours of busi ness carried into effect, other houses would doubtless follow the example. The objection on the part of the master drapers to an abridgment of the hours ofbusi ness, is that they would thereby lessen the amount of their business. There could not be a greater mistake. The same number of dresses would continue to be bought. If it were once under stood that the drapers' shops were all to shut at seven -in the winter, and eight in the summer, those intending to make purchases would make a point of paying their visits by six in winter and seven in summer. And not only would the same amount of business continue to be done, but there would be a considerable saving to the master in the expenses of the establishment; for he would save the price of from one to two hours'- gas-light, varying according to the season of the year. This is , not mere theory. Messrs. Hitchcock have tried the experiment,. During the last six months they closed at seven, and_ they found that they did as much business . as in the corresponding months of the previous year, when they continued open from An hour to an hour and a half longer. In the item of gas alone, they calculated their savings to be 30s. per night, through this abridg ment of the hours of business. The views which we are pressing on the adoption of the trade were ably and eloquently advocated by the various speakers at the meeting last night. The more the question is examined, the more convinced the master • drapers must -become, that while their 'assistants would be incalculably benefited, mentally, morally, and physi cally, by an abridgment of the hours of business, they would not suffer in any way by the change, but would, on the contrary, in addition to the gratifying consciousness that they were contributing in a very great measure to the happiness of those in their em ploY, be considerable gainers by the saving which would be effected in gas. light and in other items of expense.—Advertiser of Tuesday. COMMON LANDS INCLOSURE BILL. We wish to draw public attention to the iMportance of, Lord Worsley's Inclosure Bill, for when it is car ried, which we suppose will be .the case, it will be the basis of many similar measures. We assume the principles-4irst, that the land that we have ought to be turned to' the most productive account; and, secondly, that it is bad policy to force bad lands into cultivation at a great expense, when we can procure land-produce at a much less price from other com , tries. We believe *that a Very large potion of the Common land brought under culture within the laSt' half • century might, to our advantage, be again turned into wilds .and wastes, and we are sure that a great many of the owners of these inclosed common would be very glad to get rid of their property if they could find a fair price, or purchasers of any sort. But let Inclosure Acts be what they may; they ought not to trespass on the rights of the poor. Lord Worsley. draws nice distinctions between common and waste land, and commonable land. The end of these quib blings is, that the poor are to, be robbed of whatever they possess. Let lawyers quibble as they'may about the extent of the poor man's rights, certain is it that of those rights he is to be deprived. Common and waste land is attached to certain tenements, and al.; though those who may take, leases of tenements, with this right attached to them,: may not care r to avail themselves oht, still, having paid the landlOrd rent in proportion to the acquisition, SllOl terfants ought not forcibly to be deprived of that „for Which they have' actually paid. The principle is., too clear to • be. disputed. Commonable, land.. may be Productive, of corn, and some parts of it be productive of only! grass • the arable produce is always clainied by somelandowner or lord of the manor, whilst the pasturage 'is the personal right of the inhabitant's. Here the-cloven foot of lordly power is seen trampling on the poor, for whilst the rich can pasture their cat tle all the year round, the poor can use the grass for. . only two seasons. ,'The . Bill provides for the enclosure andimproVement of common and commonable lands.. The exchange of lands, the .division of intermixed. ' land,' and for the defective or ,incomplete execution of the powers of. general ,and local inclosure Acts. No Bill. ever brought into Parliament aimed at a hun dredth part of such arbitrary power. How is this tyrannical Bill to be executed ? Hitherto, no inclosure, however small, could take place with out an Act of - Parliament - having passed the Lords and Commons, and having received Now,the . Royal. assent. , Lord .Wcirsley . is execute his law .by a set of Commissioners, who, he, assures us, will be unpaid.- ,They need na payment, for, they will have pickings and parcellings, allotments and opportunities, of preferences. and denials, sufficient to make their :places immensely profitable. But - no: man ever yet entertained the idea of a Commission with a power of -superseding Acts of Parliament'. Lord Worsley's Bill is nothing but an indirect . prop to t corn-laws. he 'co-laws. Ile tells us that, his Bill will call the industrious poor into employment, and pro- , duce a greater investment of capital. in the , land. There is too much capital kicked up in land already,, and as to the poor man's labour, abolish the corn-laws, , and employment for our poor wlll be ample ; whereas . Lord Worsley's Bill would not give to th e p oor through out England a four-pound loaf in a year for each in- 1 dividual. But food is not the only-thing to be con-: -sidered. - The health, the ventilation, the recreations,: l l the sports, and general enjoyments.of the poor are to.l be taken into account. A great source of morals ' proceeds from early associations, and the poor man, in middle life, and especially in old age, is broken-, hearted at seeing torn from, and inclosed, in favour of the rich, the land on which he gambolled in his child- , hood, and on which, perhaps, his mother kept a goose or a pig. His •Lordship's Bill holds out the' -lure of draining commons, in too many of which' there is' stagnant water: This drainage ought Ao . be effected by the magistrates, or the parishes 'but the new Commissioners having drained the land; take it all as possessions of the rich.' A: large common} may have stagnant pools, pestilential to all persons around it, but surely we are not driven to the alternative of letting• the nuisance continue, or of suffering a landlord, in reward for • draining the . pond, to seize upon the land? The new Commis sioners are to let ground for burial4places, for ehapels, 'and for schools, Atc. l ;iti fact,4 Commission with;mores aa!bitrar,i' or more -extensivetWreti, kiwier ?Wu, Ist6p4Sed to Parliament. The petty ionimoners go sadly; to Abe wall. His Lordship boasts that his ' Bill will throw no charges on the Consolidated Fund. It need not , do • so, for it robs the poor to such an extent; / that the Bill can•pay its own 'expenses. Lands,lit•England, are much intermiied, that is to - say, a• huinble man may possess a few - acres, stir roanded by larger estates, He • refuses to' alter his course of husbandry to meet the wishes of bis richer neighbours. This , presumes that such a division of land is inconvenient. Inconvenient ,to Show? Of course to, the rich man, and the 'Bill gives the •Commissioners a power to alter the arrangement or possession• of pro perty;, thus a humble roan, who Mayobe as proud of 'sniall•possession, inherited &mit his virtifous fore -fathers—as proud even as H r .,. DUkeS ths - t - inherit their large estates from the profligacY Ofilheit an- Cestral motheri.with Charles H., may be hustled out Of his property with very little ceremony,. whilst, if . ,"ive attempt to_ invade the . pensions, of ~immense amount, - granted by Charles 11. to his six to eight mistresses, we are reproached with designs of attack ing the right of property. In the woodlands of England there are iglades or ' intervening small pasturages, of course belonging to • the' humble classes. The woods are the possession of the rich, the pasturages are the property ofthe poorer proprietors. It Lis urged that these owners of pas • turages have an interest in injuring the wood. What `is tole the remedy? The owners of forests are to be empowered to do what they please with the owners of the small pasturages. There is . -no appeal to a jury; no - not even •to the quarter-sessions.. But the Commissioners are to •do all =these Commissioners, of course, being of the upper •classes, and having local interests, prejudices, and attachments. It is com pletely a Bill of spoliation. Great evils unquestion ably exist in our tenures of land; but they are not to be removed by . a sweeping measure - of this sort.-- . Weekly Dispatch. e► 1.~ I__l - LABOUR IN FACTORIES. 'THE MONOTONY OF AN OCCUPATION DOES NOT I EXERT A PERNICIOUS INFLUENCE OVER THE MENTAL VA C ULTIES or THE WORKMAN. . —The effect of the extreme subdivision of labour in manufacturing esta blishments, and the eXclusive attention it requires the werliman to bestow on one operation, has been sup posed to exert a most pernicious influence over his mental faculties. The genius of the master is said to be cultivated, but that of the workman to be con demned to perpetual neglect. Most mechanical arts, we are told, succeed - best under a total suppression of sentiment and reason. A "'habit of moving the hand . or the foot is said to be independent of either; and the wOrkshOp has been coropiuT4 to an engine; the yarts of which are men !-(Ferguson `,‘ on Civil Society," p.. 303. - Smith, who has given' so ad mirable an exposition of the benefits resulting from the division of labour, has, notwithstanding, concurred with the popular prejudices on this subject ; and has gone so far as to affirm that constant application to a particular occupation in a large manufactory, " necessarily renders the work man as stupid and ignorant as it is' possible' to make a huMan being." Nothing can be more marvellously incorrect than these representations. Instead of its being true that the workmen employed in manufac turing establishments are less intelligent and acute than those employed in agriculture, the fact is dis tinctly and completely the reverse. The weavers and other mechanics of Glasgow, Manchester, and Bir mingham, possess infinitely`more general and exten sive information than is possessed by the agricultural labourers of any county of the empire. And this is really what a more' unprejudiced inquiry into the subject would have led us to anticipate. The variety of occupations in which the husbandman has successively to engage, their constant liability to be affected by so variables power as the weather, and the perpetnal change in' the appearance of the objects which . meet this eyes, and with which he is conversant, occupy his attention, and render him a stranger to that ennui and desire for extrinsic and adventitious excitement which must ever be felt by those who are constantly engaged in burnishing the point of 'a pin, and in per forming the same 'endless routine of precisely similar operations. This want of excitement cannot, however, be so cheaply or effectually gratified in any other way as it may be by cultivating, that, is, by stimu lating, the mental powers. The generality of work men have no time for dissipation ; and if they had, the wages of labour in all old settled and densely peopled countries are too low, and the propensity to save and accumulate too powerful to permit any very large portion of them seeking to divert themselves by ' indulging in riot and excess. They arethus driven to seek for recreation in mental excitement;` and the cir cumstances in which they 'are placed afford every possi ble facility for their amusing and diverting themselves in this manner. By working together, they have con stant opportunities of entering into conversation ; and a small contribution from each enables them to obtain a large supply of newspapers and of the cheaper class of periodical publications. But whatever difference of opinion may exist respecting the cause, there can be no doubt of the fact, that the workmen employed in manufactures have become more intelligent accord ing as their numbers have increased, and as their em ployments have been more and more Subdivided. We do not believe that they ever were less intelligent than the agriculturists ; but, whatever may have been the case formerly, none will now venture to affirm that they are inferior to them in intellectual acquirements, or that they' are machines without sentiment dr reason.--Encyclopadia Britannica, Seventh' Editioh. Art. " Political Economy;" by d. R. M'Culloch,Esv. f ATTEMPTED FRAUD A person assuming to .be a lady called about .a fortnight since at the residence of a solicitor in Ili bridge, and produced an unexecuted engrossment of a. lease, purporting to be a lease from Mary Ann MOntagu,Cf Privy-gardens, to John GraY, of Henley upon-Thames, of a farm called Grosvenor Farm, stated to be near Henley, at a rent of 500/. per annum. The lease was admirably draivii, and properly stamped, the stamps .:'hearing the IlainpShire mark upon them, a stamp of 4/." being `dated ,Nov. 29, 1841, and the . second, of it., the 30th - of No vember, .1843. - The deed altogether bore an ap peara,nce of being completely authentic. The person represented herself to be the lessor, Mary Ann Montagu, and .that she was the owner of - the farm demised, the existing lease of which would expire at Lady-day, when the lease then prOduced was to be executed; that the title-deeds of the property had been deStroyed in the fire at Hillingdon-house, where she was at the - time on a visit ; and that she was very desirous before the completion" of the lease to hive her loss re paired by the preparation of fresh deeds, or some other evidence of her title, for the satisfaction of the tenant, if, it could in any, way. be accomplished. She made an . appointment to call on the following Monday to furnish instructions and full, particulars of her title to the property. Upon her again calling, her statements we re somewhat at variance with her former a,ccount, inconsequence of which inquiries were instituted, Which led to the discovery - that her representations , Were entirely false ; but as there was no apparent ob ject for 'the deception, the professional gentleman to Whom she had applied did not 'apprise her - of the in vestiation Which he had Made, in the anticipation that her intentions might be - discovered, and perhaps an extensive fraud be thereby frUstrated and exposed. At. a third interview she arranged for an appoint 'ment with the alleged tenant of the farm, to meet her at the solicitor's office, for. the purpose of execut- : ing . , the. lease. It having been ascertained that ;there was no such, person as John Gray residing near Ifenley, no letter was written, i but on the' 25th the' appointed day, the soi-disantigary . Anp Montagu duly made her appearance, accompanied by a respect-' ably-dressed young man, who stated" himself to be John Gray, jun., the song of Mr. John Gray, the tenant of Grosvenor farm ; that his father had, upon reflection, determined not •to renew his :lease from, Miss.,Montagu ; and.that he, .with his father's con sent, had proposed to become the tenant, it being father's intention tO assign over to him aids farming' 'stock, and to assist him with capital: To confirm this' statement a letter was prOdueed, purported. to 1104, been written, by the • father. In some way likely. likely. by inquiry at the Henley post-offiCe) it had been ascertained by the parties that no letter had been written ,to the tenant., Mr. J. Gray, jiin.; had been well tutored in his: part thus far, but on, being requested to take a seat in another room, apart from his instructess, where a policeman was introduced to his acquaintance, his assumed character required. more art than he was master of, and a few searching questions elicited , that the aspiring wotild-be-tenant of Grosvenor , farm,. at a relit of 5001: per annum, was a servant in the employ of a farmer at Colham-green. Unfortn-, i l Ate!y no evidence of an overt aet of fraud could be obtained to justify giving the parties into custody ; but it was apparent that there was for some purpose a,deep laid scheme, in which other parties of more plotting capacity than Miss Montagu, or her pre tended tenant, are Concerned. The woman represent-. ing. herself as Mary Ann Montagil is about thirty years of age, has a strong French accent, and speaks of herself as having resided - a long'time on the Con : tinent. She is Well conversant with titled names, I; and very plausible in her :Manners and statements, 4114 apparently amply provided with a Supply of ready money, It is, hoped that this exposure .may possibly lead to detection of - . other parties c'encerned, or at• least prevent the accomplishment of- the fraud else 'where. The lease has been retained by the solicitor; tafacilitate any further investigation. . • , FRIGIIITUT. ACCIDENT 'AT NANTTaLa:-i—lt is with unfeigned sorrow that we have .to announce a melancholy %and fatal accident which happened at these Works, last week. 4t 'appears that , four colliers , were descending the pit in a bucket, when the .chain broke ,and they ;were in a moment launched into another world. -Nohlame is attached - to any non. Two of the unfortunate sufferers have left wives and ; large families 4,0 Jament their loss. , ,:Sevpral: others were so , L „dreadfully inj u red, ._that little.:holls,arcat,present enter. tained - of their IRELAND: REPEAL ASSOCIATI93:-: 014 5 AILWD T 1)0 h'e usual weekly meeting of _the 'A,ssoct,atitk Ark place to-day in the Conciliation Hall,,whiCh ivo.erpWded every part. Mr. O'Connell ,entered the r buitdmg et One o'clock, and was received with_prOlonw,CeheLtiP• On the Motion of the Hon. Gentleman,. gr.', 10 V 7 O'Brien, 10„ was called to the chair, 'O'CoNsET,L rose t9dsa4l, there, was nothing lii beginning well.-(Loud cheirS.) wished_thex.nronld reserve those cheers for what he vas, aout: to 4114 in to the Association. He had PleaS'Ure,Othencling stun of '6OO/., transmitted to t.hein 141 the'refeatO of Newtork,—(Cheers.) He In oieik.tht ty_zank) o o r- f *thioi-dtdss4nhclastintionwbee.sugibVscerni toti 'I'be motion . kayink been carried, _ A 4 J . . 0:CONI,;),ILL sag that he - bad' iitperi "ricitielit;e4 to rl'* ePtine a very, iOportant .a.ha AtteFeSting OorTaspt) t he m c t ::(le . ne Which had taketi p)ate- . ..be(lYeeixt4e . ar Of 'Charleniont 'and Lord Trengh. an then,read the following letter; • . • •.:: - • chariemont -house,. p,A t ,lin "My Lord,-.—We have at this mome n t a lull inagigon, which in my mind affcinds a favourable an effort iii cause of peace; under *hich)mpreikon'ritnis take the liberty of addressing yonlip*kthe " I have every reason to • believe'_ thitt'it the tinware:the anion Mr. Pitt was of opinion that an arraagententiiasoeven then, possible for having periodical hessions.er4ittiogiinfthe Imperial .Parliament held ; in firsland, !for,lo l Wisietta. as might be most conveniently disPatehed . there, # . t.b.epople of Ireland desired it. , . , „ " What was deerned . prite'tical at that; tune 'n!)" . f ise. atilt more so at this, considering the facility,, ind,r4itlityof the present communication between London: and Dublih. ' it is as important also to conciliate popular SuppOrt now (if viewed with reference to the lastingintereits l of'the public) as it was then, and there appears to be A. rety gMieras persuasion that occasional meetings of the Imperial Parlia ment in Dublin would powerfully tend to. do so. It is also .considered that if the attention of. the Legisla ture was uninterruptedly given _from time to . time ,to the affairs of Ireland on the spot, they would be better under stood than they.can ever otherwise be by those to legislate 'concerning them; and 'a cenrse of Measures might thus be looked for which 'must - fetid secure,' hOt to-endan ger, the general fabric of the empire. '; - • "Some friends with whom -I have'consulted on ibis mo mentous subject think it desirable that these views should be laid'before the Throne, and a &aught of Na address , to her Majesty having been prepared for that purpo se, I beg leave to enclose a copy of it to you. • " Allow me to request your consideration of it, 'and that you Will be so good as to return it to me with as little' delay .as may Suit your convenience, with any observations , that may occur to . you upon its subject, and, if you approve, I should of course claim the advantage of your signature to the contents. , • "Believe me to be, my Lord, with respect and.regand. "'Your obedient servant, , " CUARLFMO.),;T. To the Right Hon. Lord FrenCh." ' The Hon. Gentleman having read the draught of the address alluded to in the foregoing letter, praying_ for the holding of periodical sessions of the Imperial , P.er littnient in Ireland, and representing that the betteut wonld be enhanced by tier Majesty's presence frOm time to time amongst her Irish subjects ' proceeded to lax,be fore the meeting the reply of Lord French, who, a very long letter, of which the following is an extract, stated his reasons for dissenting from the proposition of Lord Charlemont:— " If I have not entirely mistaken the feelings 'and designs of my countrymen, with whom I am associated in seelilififor a repeal of the legislative union, they require not an itine rant, but a domestic Legislature—not merely a resident; but a native Parliament. They wish to, have their legislation committed to men whom the history of. their country does not describe as inveterately inimical to their race—as high in hereditary hatred to their creed. They, long for liberation irons the control of a Parliam en t which, I n .the short interval of 44 years, has, like a sponge, ahsorbed all the milk and honey with which the land was flowing before the union. They wish to' have their interests entrusted to a Parliament consisting of men not born in Englanil, - Ru Sotland, or in Wiles —not educated in habitual contempt'of Irishmen—not stian gers to the names, the sites, the advantages, the require ments, and the'history of the principal localities or Ireland— not trained up in the belief that Englishmen are by nature what they claim to be at present—the superiors, the masters, the slave-owners, rather than the, co -equals and fellow-sub jects of Irishmen—not, in a word , men presuming that, be cause they walked a street or , .twO. of our, metropolis, or whiled over some thirty miles on a railroad or a day coach , they knew more about Irelan d than the men who spent their lives within her limits, and devoted their energies to' her service. No, my Lord, believe me, an alien ambulatory as sembly, though Dublin be the terminus of its ambulacrum, can never possess the confidence of Irishmen. The Parlia ment in which they will confide must be national and sym pathetic—it must be the product of the soil, and composed of the men of Ireland—it must be Irish in blood, in accgnt, and in feeling ;—no other will suffer the . Irish to be for Ireland, and most assuredly no other will give . Ireland to the Irish." Mr. O'Commet. moved the insertion of these docu ments on the minutes of the Association, and that the most respectful thanks of the body be bestowed on Lord French, for his admirable letter, and toLord charkenent for the kindly feeling manifested by him on this **- Mon. It was delightful to thew, looking back, as tey did, with fond admiration to the Charlemont of 82 to find the Charlemont of '44 not Sunk in the apathy displayed by the Irish nobility. It wetsl dr i ghrk to find him thinking of old Ireland ; end, although he fell short of the distance to which they wished him to go, 'he was in the right road. It was a confession to some extent, that they (the Repealers) were right, be. cause he admitted that the present system was bad ' • and they could not help regretting that his Lordship ha d pot arrived at the only adequate remedy for the grievances of the country, namely, the restoration of their native Parliament.—(Cheers.) What cared he where a Parlia ment hostile and ungenial to Ireland might be situated? —he cared not where such a body met, whether in the Orkney or Scully Isles, in London or in Dublin.--(Hear.) What they wanted was a Parliament genial to Ireland— devoted to Irish interests, and which would maintain, nay, eternise the connexion between the two countries. --(Cheers.) He wished that the highest in rank were foremost in ,work, and that the rest of the Irish no bility would join Lord Charlemont. He fell short, it was true, or his father, for the Charlemont of 1;82 would acknowledge no inferiority inherent in his country, nor would he admit that Irishmen were unfit to manage their Ownaffairs.—(Hear, heir.) Oh! what degradation there was in such an admission ! Amick - the prevailing torpor of the upper classes it was refre*Shing to see a move in the right path by any portion of the nobility, and 'he trusted that their next stride would be towards fede ralism. They should recollect that the Irish were -an easily manageable race, and, that they had a remarkable predilection for aristocracy 'when animated with.:. the right spirit. He appealed to the noble house of Caul field to take the lead now, and he called on them to re collect that serving such a people was the noblest species of servitude. By joining their countrymen at the pre sent moment, when it was of -importance to have all the virtue and - good sense of the nation with them, they would bring back all the glory which invested their family in the year 'B2.—(Loud cheers.) Alter elabo rately panegyrising Lord French's letter, iu which he said the genius of Ireland spoke its time languages the Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving the inseetiOn., of the correspondence on the minutes, and thanks to, the writers. . . The Honourable Gentleman next read a letter from Mr. O'Neill, of Bunown Castle, in which it was sug gested that parties should be received into the ranks of the Association without any inquiry into their politics or religion. He (Mr. O'Connell) was 'ex tremely averse from any inquisition into either politics or religion; but they could not suffer any body of men to join:them who were advocates of physical force, and who sought to effect their own objects by tyrannising over and attempting to coerce the opinions of others. The Chartists had been. guilty of these faults, and the Association would not suffer any person to join them whom • they knew to. be a Chartist.—(Hear, hear.) Having enumerated several acts of violence of which the Chartists have been guilty, the Hon. Gentleman con cluded by saying that when they abandoned such ,opi nions, and got fitter leaders than they at present , pos sessed, they - might be allowed to join the ranks of the Repeaters. If the Repealers countenanced them now, they would, without much difficulty, obtain adherents through out the colliery towns of Ireland, and would thus be come a truly formidable party; but he would take care 'to keep Ireland clear of them.—(Heir,.hear.) ~• . _Several sums 'of money having been. handed in, and n said that h ewis ofhed to Mr. t°l;eCa°tNtenNEtLioLnof again t rase,hemee gto some subjects t i considerableimportance. The first topic to which lie should advert was one which was generally interesting to the people of this country-41e meant the Presbyterian marriage question. That question had been raised as he was informed; in a very extraordinary manner. It -had been .asserted ' that - the expenses of the proceedings Were defrayed by a dignitary of the - Established Church, and, he could not help saying that he thought that.- personage -might have laid out his money}nuch better. , ,After detailing the - proceedings- , which fsi:e c e ce e t eodi of c o n dv t ( h t om e ti.s cL a u ti r en t cou rts g that of law in e - n i n g Iceland,length tt the u ! s r ( i .): offp, ' , So m e s hni:aa:eidlkele.ome tai a decision• on the matter, which waked have the adverse judgment of - the court below. There were four Lords present, whe.'were diVided in' their' opinion, and the judgment of the court below not being reversed, was now final, and these 'Mar riages were invalid. In 'accordance With those principles of equality for, persons of all creeds which he. had eser professed, he should move that it he referred ta the Committee of the Association to consider in what..-man her they could best advance the interests and-give sup port to the claims of the Presbyterians when the4e:e brought before the House of Commons. He next - '. d to call attention to their own prospects in England and in Ireland. 'lt Would be insufferable tediousness to ' o . over all . the proceedings in England connectectwith t/ e late prosecution and its results. He was ualiqUi g himself to go to London. He was . led not to eipect anything from the prejudices of the middle classes-r-tfie lower classes he knew might be led by Chartism,leit from the principles of that. political creed he entirely dissented, and he knew that the upper classes were ar- Tqed in hostility to Ireland , and to. her . wishes ; but having been overruled by the act p ro f -opinns- of - those for whom he had the highest respect, ne accordingly -went to London; and he had never beeis so much gratified by any other act of his life ; he was most agreeably disap piinted to find among the English people a &s ix*. tion to support the cause of Ireland-779.n intense and wide spread abhorrence of what had occurred in this country —a great anxiety for the purity of the administration pf justice, and. a longing desire to have juries c4irly selected. In fact, he had been as well. received whert ever he went in England as he could be in that - hall. After briefly detailing the various occasions upon which during his late Visit to England manifestations cif),rb sped had been shown to him, the Hon. Gentlernin iirb ceeded to say, that his heart was big with gratitti4c - to the wise, the good, the just, the discriminating pee i plef England. On former occasions . when Ireland wae,.;ap pressed Englishmen unhappily, facquieseed in the laps , . } lice ; but they had now taken a manly stand infatovr. Lot their brethren' in.this country, and hadltroclainsed,fin 1 voiee too loud to be miaunderatoodi that .03ey 143441.