The Sun. — London, England, 1844-06-24 00:00:00

A.R. Ge r Ladies and sehold,e aeon Ch'r in C, ) n. and Rev. ook dor' ligni s the rg--11,,r Royal berz h or sebacgt 11 8 ; ard B °W4 cv Igs on Satorl4l t Buckino - ' l3slll to e -ID itherland wio christeningthe ttended bYand he Robes; vaiting% ' her a) e f st i r d Pelawarr , K.G., G r ° ° l 4 IVO° rl of , tell, Groan Waiting; 1 0 Equerry nd Duchessrir4 sterdaY u 3 l 3s , ?y-street; were it' °I )f Camb ridge inning tool of Gl oo4l s ter . mbridge I cs of nd D uc a.- ra w ith tile" Tiovvard, ,jthe r. ' Mr. idges, Mr. a G ordon, ..0 8 ith the nig b o f ,t the office th Sir Robert ncluding , r, had an i n ; :xcheque r vning •stx t Trench 54 Royal , Ad ached by and,theAr s Effing h9n* eveson , Ales Win; yesterday s w ere bf preachei, seri musical 0. n F, (Trav e- 9 0. tprnan• ss of AL lir , rbury, Wilton r Tice ye° fi r mer " art r - Sta nboP e e ; ,nd Duc il d o he 3 114111 :11, a Churcw,„o he ga r ° Earl of oci iscoall t ord Sts nline, "ounci l 4 l . Lora 1 :0 for gn l s, ICornw tba frau /ar t ins" ;barn b iness of tio v y Colo cil ily• si t e cases Y. 11 be rg V evidence , ays, th ere -ent iter ° r Tie the amen t l ri Lonu ( 0 1 Jou t 65 r ariches te j n don e. er n 3 n the ,e tion, hcLe of tm• ' the L °n , d t PO:: Tun e o tteP; i nches t ,, e ' e a tv an it )01. an 1141 ! ‘ Pie e renc e i 5 d Goo d ;01. ; 1 ,5 8, 049° goilo fferel tie I ' 9 'rn lo6 Gr es t I e heyiels Dr ' 3°6; 35 01 ' ; :er Pi p 859 08 e lie NO. I , 13$1 C °WES, ISLE OF WIGHT. Thep, • (ritom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENI%) etea,er mnsular and Oriental St.:, ,n igat i on Company's uaraganza,, which has been for some months past 1 414 bjoll Messrs. Thomas and ,;:;nti White's patent slip, re a d y t'en lengthened thirty fret amidships, is now nearly lititn eh ° go afloat ; she has been newly coppered, and will be rved next spri ng t id es. 444 fe w week s more can elapse before the necessity of ; 4 1 such hug e leviathans on the slip will be done for we find the Messrs. White's, the proprietors 44,1.tensire building -yard and dry-dock at West Cowes, the 1 ; 4 order to keep pace with the t imes, and provide for tteat u a4ts of the shipping interest, commenced another kl be t' llderta kiog, the construction of a dock, which is ite a .__ l le largest in the world, capable of taking in the largest t he s u'er aft °a,t• We have, during the week, paid a visit to !re ang 'were surprised to find what energy and means the,tgivte.o...l,gf t u h s:d to bring this great, almost national, undertak "rtlpietiOn nature having in a n•reat measure,formed Site ' selected. It wls formerly the mast pond, ttlii o . s 'e of which hat been piled in, 'and the soil, which is ~hefstratum of clay, is already two-thirds excavated. drediuttllrlation .ef the - dock-heads have been laid, and bun dql,t,„°f tOns of stone have arrived, already prepared to lay the. 'there appears to be a most important object which terte?Prietors have in view, and that is keeping clear a teofellt 'Pace at the head of the dock to enable them at l~llst b 4 : u re time to enlarge it. The entrance of the . dock m ore than sufdeiently wide to admit therein the . f 4 cld! b '''e L atner. without the • necessity of removing their ai‘ o e. "'"eels. From ' the macriitude of the work and pre theernelttalien to meet all ends, the follies of the projectors of G re Britain have been guarded against. 4,4 at benefit will arise from baying so capacious a dock in l ear c i r n t ,,,_ ,, nd the advantage will he'great to the Royal Mail clt A i'''a and other steamers ; and we hope the spirited Shia desert proprietors' will meet with the success they so ; I .." e ry OS' TUE WATERWITCH.—AII the scientific men ,' d ot, eighhourhood were attracted to Cowes on this occa -I'4ea a splendid launch it was. Exactly at twelve ; " , th e i",,"e was, as it were, let loose. There was no . coynes . s 4 tlre r4} 44 S; but she rushed into the bosom of the brine as if 1; * , 4 ' r " er , O wil, and she knew she had no equal on it. The h'i•e3a wil -ee eived her their queen. She sits on the water sea-bird, as andfloa - ts like a thing of air. The sad neither of the new ones can touch her, and they —4 tY good judges of what " the water likes." • S P ORTING tNTELL IGENCE. It() 4 T IZE NEWCASTLE NORTH DER ag DY STAKES. - agst the Cure—taken sto 2 st Infidel—taken NORTHUNBERLAND PLATE. to l a Pt Parthian—t ;15 to 1 agst Queen of Tyne t„ 1 a4st Poussin—t 15 to 1 agst•Pornpey—t 1 4 t , a gst The Era 15 to 1 agst The Cure 12 to a gst Bay 111:on:us—off 20 to 1 ast Ilippona. a gat Whistle Binkie—t,2o to 1 agst Bashaw G DONCASTER —t BST . LEGER. to l a giit to 1 agst Ugly Buck—t I to 1 oagBtt The Prix, 110 to 1 agst Ithuriel—t r l3 a3' MolntU ATEST BETTING S , 7 to bit P TIIE NORTHIT3IP aa 10 0 1 agq Potts n—t • t • a tot I he Era—t to 1 agqst Baw Momus t ot ag Whistle Binkie a gst Lashaw AT NEWCASTLE. ,EELAND PLATE. 15 to 1 agst Queen of Tyne 20 to 1 agst Galanthus .20 to 1 agst Dumpling—t 25 to]. agst Hippona 30 to .1 agst Advice _3O to 1 agst Scalteen ! t ol HUNTERS' STAKES. •to I agst William le Gros I Bto 1 agst Lara, and a gst Thir s k 12 to 1 dgst Arnagill Very few arrivals as yet. ENTRIES MADE ON THURSDAY. MONDAY. Plate •of 50 soya. Heats, once round and a dig. ult l -e'„"tla, 4 •sr; Rowena, 3 yrs ; Tafilet, 5 yrs ; Bonnets ; 'Chilton's Sheet Anchor filly, 3 yrs; Saddle :—; and Geneva, 3 yrs. TUESDAY. kk.PitN• The Cricket Club Stakes. T. Y. C. ZYty4 - I ,, rnes, 3 v yr; ; rs • T Northum b uting's b ge rl,and, by Ph 3 yrs ysician, a 3rs ; Ma ; and y Lorimer, die ),.44,1,3rajestv's Plate for 3 vrs old, &c. Three miles. r t ',APi nt, 3 'yrs • Hippona, yrs; Sister to our Nell, 4 I rti4 -ee, 3 yrs ;' Ravensworth, yrs ; Little Vivian, aged ; 3 ,. yrs; The Squire, 6 yrs; , Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs ; 4 6.. _X oh u , yrs ; A r ist o tle. 5 yrs ; e Best of Three, 4 3 yrs ! e r , 3 yrs ; Saddle-bow, 3 yrs ; Parthian, yrs , 4 yrs; Little Hampton, 3 yrs; Crikey Billy, 4 . title arnkie le Gr ys os, 5 yrs • the Era, 4 yrs ; Geneva, 2 yrs , iu 'lr. THURSDAY. INe o • The Royal Victoria Whip Stakes. t:to t s'ePtion, 3 yrs ; Chilton's Sheet . Anchor filly,3_ A yr . s•, jj3 Inheritress, 4 yrs; the .\ obbler, 3 yrs; Lady ; Geneva, 3 yrs; Lorimer, 3 yrs. A "'"ivIES GRAND REGATTA. SECOND DAY: bh.goaCtiei'norning opened propitiously, giving promise of 0 1 41 I ghtful day ; the shun shone resplendently , a nd all animkion at Putney. At as early an hour as 0 4 ,ek the various steame rs, oinnibuses, and other con -10 t a l i began to discharge their passengers,. and at the Ve z t 4 . k e racing commenced everything which could . be k d u lat was seen floating towards the scene of !iction. i t• - ',„ 41 , 4 3 - or and several Aldermen of London, with the wi K" , - , ornmittee were aboard the City State barge, the 4r ll4: 4: l•C r d a l and other large boats with awnings, decorated supply of streamers, had been moored on the bi t ll le k Ti t ' . side of the river. Lord Castlereagh, the President lls4",sev e 4 ,.` l les Regatta, and other noblemen and gentlemen kit,.'eer; 4 ' ladies, were on board the Queen Victoria, which fh p e ut . in ' requisition for the . umpires and the Corn tabi 13 hop of London had given permission to admit klt: e Poii ee rnPanY into his extensive and beautiful girounds toiNin;;; 141 11 shoie, whilst the Vice-Chancellor of England 1 5 ,ite a numerous and distinguished party, who could 4 n admirabl e view of the matches. TzthOrts of the day comnenced with P Pt OARS RACE (Gentlemen), for two silver Cups. A. A. Julius and A. Dalgleish—Red. Ilarringtun and Walmsley. 'Ceti:l2(ly and Ronayne. (3 ` • Porter and J. Robinson. 11 .', 4 414A.Earnshaw and S. Chapman. 414 S - W ,as brisk • Dal rieish and Julius backed at even N c ; no vh e neld. E,:irnsii 6 ;tw and his partner, and Kennedy li,f 4 i next dividing the interest. It was a capital 1. 4 4 0 nit and light blue took the lead, and made a beau k4Pll.le 1,,,,; 4 nd-neck race; the former, if anything, leading. 1401 ot !'e I naking play in right good earliest, when they t , f t ° 4o ). • a skiff which was in the middle of the course, h 1 1 , 11. its occupants had been frequently warned to row out ;NI • Reach • mving up thewas very fine, red_ Vt 1 5 , i,taking it opponents, light blue, oft; and the . I ttl p Y „lia, ' ,'„ ° ,,lng a sir , dlarfavour upon pink. In this order ' s r ;"'" the C . lab-tree • red being about five boats' ki' ll ,'ee t b - f • a dvance of light ' blue ; and light blue the same ' l l;•'bri f i Pink. They continued in this order to Hammer- L'ge, where red passed through ten length . s a-head P, with the nuost apparent ease; pink being about tit - .4 l `tance astern of light blue. '3I3rF.REIGNS PRIZE for four-oared boats. In three heats. FIRST HEAT. A. The Star Club, Fulham—Red. ' Akers, I H. Bowen. 13/. 37 son, I M. Chasemore. A. Bowen, coxswain. 1, ei 3 The Avon Club—Green. P rlc • e . a . 'ton. Saunderson. ; • I J. Clayton. , Western, coxswain. The 'Newcastle-upon-Tyne Crew. kokr' Clasner I William Clasper. uer t Cia s ' I Edward Hawkes. t'‘ . \ l4 ll Pr• , coxswain. ti p - a start as ever was witnessed was followed by ' t4 l o `, 4.s tle boat taking the lead, and the other two being L4 ti lle tit - "': until after passing the Star and Garter, when k t t h , d m ,,to the second place. The NeWcastle men held o "ni the m ' ost perfect ease throughout, and won by ik,a thi rty lengths the Star Club being second. This Chiswick ' Evot. 11 SECOND HEAT. ~arnlnersinith Cutter Club—Light blue. • 'I x x ' lj , rnn. G. Wright. , right. I J. Wait. W. Mansell, coxswain. I\ IV. A N O„. Lambeth Aquatic Club. T. Crockford. ' , arri son A. Wentwell. tb t.. 'qe 4 4 • E. Weeble, coxswain. kei Ive lln erstnith Cutter Club took the lead for two mi lleftt,,en their opponents came up oar and oar with them, jk; ro ot ,' dozen hearty pulls passed them, but in five AipQkilee they were (Car and oar, and a gallant race for the h 411 followed, in which they were alternately half a pR,1,,,1tc1• Light blue then got the lead, and kept it, 11. 1 11 t hree lengths. 1 N GRAND HEAT. 14„-• , ,coa8tie, the Star, and the Hammersmith Clubs '44 ZevieeinlPetitors. Newcastle went right away with the ' g aily . Rave their opponents a shadow of a chance, and fq tt" 4 „ ... 4 0 1 WATERMEN'S SCULLS. FIRST HEAT. Forest (orange). h (gran Forest and white). It. Newell (pink). -(green). T. Maynard (black). li, itt ( r H tli) SECOND HEAT. 11'4 4 (st ripe). Watts (yellow). - ti4r:(o„t, blue). Leach (purple). . ' l k et t 4 k and i b y took t ,white). Wilson (red and white). ON nig ",e lead in the first heat, orange and white and •it‘rl f „ n either side of him. Pink then laid down to tto ..vio (I, (le Shook his opponents off, and gallantly . main ad, winning by five lengths, green being se "ft ;sint th n sue n „ SECOND HEAT. s tart Purple were first and second boats a minute gt 4 1 :14 yellow third, the others, all lying close up. • "14 the lead throughout, winning by above two st , T hl GRAND HEAT. jC 1 11 4 : t ted downwards, but was too much one way tit Witt attention. Newell (pink) took the lead, and ( 1 .. 1 , 4, Z; 11(1 easily. Blue and green made a capital race -411 d I, l° had Which was eventually obtained by light- IN opponent a length or so astern. f4 l Ai. '•nar Match, by Gentlemen Amateurs for the Ot Rreat Goi.o CHALLENGE CUP. . ti 4 tll:_,ate.... q ;,ace had been arranged in one,heat, there being Ott p'ag e L " Oxford University Club, the Leander, the 4're"•t. - and the Cambridge Subscrip 41:eVeri." ( Lona: 3 Clüb,' (.4 t ook the contest. The following, at a little tic-_ to stations at Putney-bridge to row on the r 'eAt Chiswick Eyot • •q• 61,,, kj.tAtltitmur Uxt 7 rtrelie. C. .1 1 (40 n . br ie V e ' s ison. „ :VERSITY CLUB.' 4. Cloves. 3. Manners. 2. Villiers. 1. Robins. D a l Munster, flip m Tim LE k'N' C effr:es stroke. tts. steerer. >ER CLUB, 4. Peacock. 3. Lee. 2. fladding. 1. Soames. steerer. I . tSITY CLUB. 4. IL Morgan. 3. Milman. th 2. W. Spotteswoode. 1. W. C. Stapylton. 111. I-laggard, steerer. l i to4a!l i 4 e reated considerable interest, the Leander having, 4 tifi tluni„srirne circles, whil e the Orford possessed the fa (.4 t" thers. Th e i r they rowed to the I•ti at s e _ tlI(t „ I ta; eq rtnee as of genera l a d mi ration, and each ap 11`)past snfidence, and anx i ous to be off. At twenty t ' w o'clock a cap i tal start was effected. The 4 3' on first, and s h owed fo r a few seconds the , I r 3 0 1Z )a t in advance. 'tr t tess "e(1 through the water wth amazin raidit, " ( Ally o n half a minute after the i start the three boats and oar, and formed an exceedingly pretty P, o x ,, o7 be *erd c • W• stroke. 0.• 14 ,r3 'son picture. Blue then gained a lead of about half a yard above red, and then purple, who went on the Middlesex shore, made the advance. In the course of the next twenty or thirty strokes purple was fairly a head. They continued, by dint of excessive labour, to mend their position, and off the Masthouse were two lengths a head of light blue, who were about the same in advance of red. At Hammersmith-bridge the Oxford led by about four lengths, the Leander being about three lengths astern of the second boat. No change ' took place, and they arrived as follows :—Oxford first, by three lengths, Cambridge second. LANDSMEN SW.:EPSTAKES, of two sovs. each Boat, and 201. added, the gift of the Chair man and Trustees of Putney-bridge, in one heat. Jackson's crew Wandsworth crew Yellow. Chelsea crew Miller's crew Pink. Eton crew Purple, or Chelsea; took the lead and kept it throughout, rowing very excellently ; pink was for a short period second, but yellow passed and came in next to the winners. THIRD DAY-SATURDAY. The weather was beautiful, the racing grand, and at tendance of visitors immense. The sports commenced at four o'clock, with the AMATEUR POUR-OARED RACES, amongst Gentlemen, for two Silver Cups. FIRST HEAT. THE LEANDER CLUB—Red. Dagleish, stroke 2. Julius 3. Bumpstead 1. Jeffries. • Shepherd, i coxswain. ST. GEORGE'S CLUB—Red and White. G. 8.! Smith, stroke I 2. M‘Kay 3, Ross 1. Wadham. G. Bannister, coxswain. CIVIL ENGINEERS—Orange. Arnold, stroke I 2. Montagu 3. Bell 1. Harriott. H. C. Ford, coxswain. NEPTUNE—Green. J. Walmsley, stroke I 2. L. Palmer 3. H. Robinson 1. E. Harrington. H. Halliday, coxswain. _ _ _ The Oxford University b - oat, which had been entered, was withdrawn. The Leander did not get away with their wonted quickness, and made a bad start. The Neptune showed a foot ahead, and, as a new club, surprised some of those well acquainted with rowing by their skill and speed. The Leander then rowed into the leading place, but fouling their oars against some craft, the Engineers and Saint George's passed them ; the Leander, however, spurted, and, giving both the go by, won by a length or so. SECOND HEAT. THE Guy's CLUB—Black. Chapman, stroke I 2. E. Lloyd 3. Ferguson 1. Earnshaw Martin, coxswain. ROYAL ACADEMY. 2. H. M. Cooper 1. Revel D. Cameron, coxswain. WAVERLEY CLUE—Light Blue. R. W. Hall, stroke 2. A. Prior 1 3. W. Rush 1. E. Prior J. Charlton, coxswain. Christ Church, Oxford, was withdrawn. was won with perfect ease. B. ,L. Atkinson, stroke 3. D. Cooper The race GRAND HEAT. The Guy's and St. George's went away together, the Leander being half-a-yard astern. The Guy's then made play, and went in advance at a good pace, but the Lean der laid down to their work ; first passed the Guy's, then the St. George's, and won by two lengths—St. George's being second. The CHA3IPION RACE of 100 sous. for four-oared boats, open to all the world. FIRST HEAT. LONDON CREW—Red.—R. Coombes, stroke ; J. Phelps, R. Newell, T. Coombes ; D. Coombes, cox- swain GREENWICH CREW—Yellow. Forest, Humphries, J. Wogan, L. Wogan ; T. Cordell, coxswain An apology for a race ; won without any difficulty. SECOND HEAT. NEWCASTLE CREW—Purple.—H. Clasper, R. Clas per, W. Clasper ; E. Hawkes, —, coxswain LONDON CREW—Light Blue.—W.Pacock,J. Double dee, R. Doubledee, F. Lett ; J. Parish, coxswain 2 CHELSEA CREW.—G. Hammock, J. Shepheard, T. Prince, J. Chittle ; H. Coles, coxswain 3 The Newcastle men took the lead, followed by the Londoners, who, off the Duke's Head, rowed level with them, and continued so for a trifling distance. The Newcastle men continued hard at work, and won by four or five lengths. GRAND HEAT. Coombes's party, the Claspers and Pocock's crew, were the competitors ; the race creating considerable interest, the Newcastle men having acquitted them- selves so gallantly on the previous day and in their own heat. There might have been a good deal of money on this ; but we can only say that, surrounded as we had been for an hour before by the leading men on the Thames, we never heard a bet offered. There was much conversation, in which it was broadly asserted the Lon doners would have their work to do to beat the strangers who had not, until their debut on Friday, been considered formidable, and the interest and betting lying between Pocock's and Coombes's crew. On the signal being given the Newcastle men took the lead, and were facing the Star and Garter, nearly half a length off red, blue being about the same distance astern. Coombes's party then went up to the Claspers, and a desperate struggle the whole way was the result. Coombes's party never were so tackled, and by dint of immense labour contrived to keep their lead in advance of their adversaries, and won by a length and a half only, the Newcastle men being second. The bad steerage of the lad who had the yoke lines in the Newcastle boat was the subject of general observa tion, while that of the Pocock crew was a finished speci men of what may be effected in that line. Had it been other than a boy, and he, too, a stranger to the water he was rowing, it would have favoured the idea that some thing was wrong ; as it was, much fault was certainly to be found, and had Jem Parish had the lines and weighed no more than the boy, there might have been a different result. The race undoubtedly proves one thing, that the Pocock party are not so good as the Coombes. DOUBLE SCULLS FOR A NEW PRIZE WHERRY. Nelly and Powell—yellow F. Phelps and J. Green—light blue A good race ; won by those least expected, and who rowed with very great pluck. THE EIGHT-OARED SCRATCH MATCH. Introduced as an appropriate finish, concluded the sport. They went up in procession (six of them) and re turned in somewhat about the same order. The winning boat, red and white, was manned byMessrs. Palmer, Moran, Cloves, Porter, Foanes, Harrington, Pickering, Stewart, and Martin, steerer. HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST. —His Royal Highness Prince Albert has been graciously pleased to forward the munificent sum of 1001. in aid of the building fund of this Institution, so that the committee are now enabled to proceed with one wing. The total amount collected at the fancy bazaar exceeded 2,4001., but the gross amount required to com plete the splendid building contemplated is 16,000 L The Marquis of Westminster has also forwarded fifty guineas for the same object. The benevolent founders of the in stitution have great cause to congratulate themselves on the favourable auspices under which they have com menced their labour. FIRES ON CHATMOSS.—SeveraI furious fires have raged on Chatmoss during the past week, supposed to have originated in the long-continuud dry weather, which has made the peat moss as dry and inflammable as tinder. At one time, on Thursday and Friday, Chatmoss was on fire in three different places. One of the firee reached within a dozen yards of Mr. Baines' woods, and was there stopped by great exertions. These woods, which consistprincipally of larch, fir, and beech, spread upwards of a mile from west to east, and, if once ignited, could not possibly have been saved. Some of Lord Egerton's woods were injured, though not very seriously. Great quantities of game were destroyed. HEIRS-AT-LAW AND FORTUNE HUNTING. —We have this week received from a person in Manchester; a letter inquiring for some particulars of an advertise ment for a next of kin, which some one had told the writer he believed he had seen in a Lancashire newspa per, some years since. Scarcely a week passes but we have applications for similar advertisements, about which the applicants are about as much, or even more, in the dark than the present writer. The applications are generally for copies of advertisements for next of kin, but of the paper in which the advertisement appeared, or the time at which it was published, they, in nine cases out of ten, are entirely ignorant. They are generally set upon their wild-goose chase by some one who has "heard a neighbour say that such a one believed he had at some time or other seen some person who thought the advertisement had been published !" Much time is lost, and much money thrown away, by parties who got it into their heads that they are the heirs to property, and act upon that idea without getting proper advice or assistance. --Preston Chronicle. HOUSES 01 ILL FAME IN WESTMINSTER.—In the House of Lords, on Friday evening, during the dis cussion on the Bishop of Exeter's Suppression of Brothels Bill, the Bishop of Gloucester stated he had been assured that the whole of the houses of ill fame in the Almonry, Westminster, had been pulled down, and that he " had the satisfaction of learning that the whole of the pro perty in question was entirely and completely be yond the control of the Dean and Chapter." In reply to these statements, a correspondent of the Patriot, and parishioner of Westminster, says—. There is not one word of truth in all this. Every z one of the twenty-four brothels at this very moment ; 'tis true, four of them a em re r closed, but as t the h e y other have twenty heeh, t a e r e fully riy ee r a t: idha very actively ledge, for the last forty years ; and, I believe, fora much longer period than that. I have just returned from a personal inspection of these Almonry brothels, it being eight o'clock on S aturda y evenin g , the 15th of June, 1844, and have counted twenty of them occupied in a way public decency forbids my further describing." The " Parishioner" states that, during the forty years in which, to his personal knowledge, these houses have been devoted to their horrid purposes, the leases of most of them have been renewed over and over again ; that, ,as the application for renewal is made every . fourteen years, his Lordship and his colleagues, or their prede cessors or representatives, could not have inspected any of the houses in order to settle the renewal fines, without seeing the immoral purposes to which the whole were devoted; that these houses are not held in the Dean and Chapter's general lease, as his Lordship intimates, but are or were held by different parties, and the leases of the different parcels fell in for renewal at different pe riods; and that the clergy or their representatives could not inspect a portion of them without becoming ac quainted with the vile character of the whole.—Noncon formist. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1844. FINE ARTS. MAPS OF THE CAMPAIGN OF 1815. Captain Siborne, the constructor of the well-known ' model of the battle of 'Waterloo which was exhibited ' so successfully for more than one season some few years since at the Egyptian Hall, has just completed a series of maps illustrative of the campaign of 1815, which was crowned by the memorable victory of Wa terloo, and the subsequent march of the triumphant British and Prussian armies on Paris. These maps are eleven in number, are coloured with great beauty and nicety, and represent with the ut most minuteness, and with a simplicity that there can be no misunderstanding, all the various move ments of the contending forces during their three days' hard fighting. Two of the maps are devoted to the delineation of the closing action at Waterloo, and those who study them with attention will have a distincter and completer idea of that murderous and obstinately contested battle than they have yet had. The first of the two maps gives a view of the state of the field at a quarter before eight o'clock in the evening, when Napoleon, all his other chances having failed, had just issued orders for the final charge of the squadrons of the Imperial Guard. These brave veterans, who are coloured in blue, to distinguish them from the British troops, who are coloured in red, are represented in the act of advancing at full speed in a compact, for midable body, up the long, undulating ridge behind which the English, with Wellington at their head, were quietly waiting their approach. The names of the different divisions and brigades, both horse and foot, are also distinctly marked, together with the exact position they maintained at this critical mo ment. To the right of the' spectator the Prussian auxiliary forces, coloured in green, are coming up at the extremity of the field by the road from Ligny, moving onward in heavy compact columns. In the second map, which exhibits the condition of the con tending parties at five minutes past eight o'clock in the evening, we see the Imperial Guard scattered in all directions, and precipitately retreating from the ridge, with Adams's division apparently foremost in pursuit, mingled among them, and the Prussians by this time close at hand. The representation of this las. disastrous attack of the French Emperor is deeply interesting, and places the whole scene vividly before us. But indeed no spot or movement of any import ance is omitted in these maps. We have the attack and defence of Hugouemont, with the exact appearance of its garden, the farm of La Belle Alliance, the high road leading across the field from Charleroi, and even the inequalities of the ground, its level and its rising portions, discriminated by shadows of more or less depth. The same praise that we have given to the two coloured maps of Waterloo may be extended to those which represent the battles of Ligny, Quatre- Bras, and Wavre, at the most critical period of these sanguinary contests. The idea of these maps is a perfectly novel one; and the constructor's (Captain Siborne) skill in military surveying has enabled him to give a scale of measurement which is characterised by the most scrupulous accuracy. The majority of our readers are of course perfectly acquainted with the particulars of the brief, but glorious and decisive campaign in Belgium; but we will venture to say that of all the careful and circumstantial descriptions they may have read of this campaign, none will give them so distinct, vivid, and correct an idea of its cha racter as these eleven maps. We should not omit to notice that they are engraved by Freebairn, who has acquitted himself of a difficult and complicated task with the greatest skill, spirit, and ingenuity, and dis played first-rate abilities as an engraver. persed. The flanks began rapidly to spread out ; and then the mass partaking more generally of the panic, ap peared as if rent asunder by some invisible power. At the same time, Halkett, notwithstanding the fierce con flict in which Alten's division was then engaged, most judiciously pushed forward his two right regiments, the 33d and 69th, a short distance, to cover, if possible, Maitland's brigade from any flank attack that might be attempted by a part of Donzelot's troops, and such ad vanced position offered considerable security to the bri gade of guards as it subsequently retired to re-form. " The British guards had continued their charge some distance down the slope of the hill, when Maitland per ceived the second attacking column of the imperial guard advancing on his right, and exposing his brigade to the imminent risk of being turned on that flank. He ac cordingly gave the order to face about and retire ; but amidst their victorious shouts, and the noise of the firing of cannon and other arms, the command was imperfectly understood, and the first sense of danger led to a cry of Form square' being passed along their line, it being naturally assumed that the enemy's cavalry would take advantage of their isolated position ; which, however, was not the case. The flanks of battalions gave way as if to form square. Saltoun conspicuously e xer t e d him self in endeavouring to rectify the mistake, but in vain ; and the whole went to the rear. The confusion in which they retired was unavoidable ; but it was not the con fusion consequent upon either defeat or panic ; it re sulted simply from a misunderstanding of the command ; and no greater or more distinguished proof could be af forded of the excellent order, cool self-possession, and admirable discipline of these troops, than the steadiness, alacrity, and intelligence with which, upon regaining the crest of the ridge, they obeyed the command, then given, of Halt, front, form up.", IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Under this vague expression, which means as much as another expression in common use Poverty is no crime "—and both meaning nothing, much errone ous conduct is extenuated,',and much evil-doing is per petrated with impunity. A man, true enough, is not to be imprisoned for debt any more than he is to be hanged for killing a man, but both are to be punished according to the animus which caused the acts. And he who has gained credit—he who has been entrusted with his neighbour's goods or his money, having given his distinct promise to restore that withiwhich he has been trusted—who has been believed on his solemn promise, and then does not restore according to his promise, is yet not to be punished, if by real, clearly defined misfortune, ne be unable so to do; but if he become unable so to do, from voluntary acts, either before-he made the promise, or from voluntary acts after he made the promise, or knowing at the time that he should be unable to fulfil his promise, then he is punishment-worthy, for he has voluntarily injured his neighbour, he has done what in him lies to destroy confidence between man and man, and is so far a public enemy. His degree of wrong will depend upon the class of voluntary acts he has committed : he may have been idle, and as a mechanic has neglected his work, or has worked only four days a-week in stead of six, whereas he agreed to do the contrary, for , in every act of credit-taking, it is most distinctly implied, that a man shall put himself in a situation and continue in it, by which he will alone be able to fulfil his promise ; or, as a tradesman, or merchant, or banker, he most distinctly, yet tacitly, promises that he will use all due diligence, and observe good, industrious business habits, for if he does not do all this he volun tarily places himself so as to be unable to keep his pro mise. Or as a gentleman, a clergyman, or nobleman when he borrows money, or gets wine and other luxu ries on credit, he distinctly promises that he is in and will pursue such a course as alone will enable him to keep his engagement; and thus ex uno disce wanes, in every case of credit, idleness and extravagance, or voluntary acts of the least criminal character, which render a man unable to keep his word, and which vo luntary acts he also promises not to do. Hence he who becomes insolvent by reason of his idleness and extravagance has done an act and acts which are in jurious to the public, and he deserves to be punished. Still more so, when it is considered that he who took his solemn promise is quite unable to know and to watch whether he does pursue the requisite course of conduct. He who lent the money on the goods can only know how he can give the credit which is asked ; he can but very imperfectly know how his debtor can take the credit ; that is the matter for the debtor alone to know. All this seems so simply clear, that it were a waste of words—it were crush ing a gnat on a wheel, to make such a parade of reasoning, were it not that quite the contrary is spoken by many men about town, who take their cue from the talk of others in high places, commissioner of insolvency courts, legislators, law lords, and still more, from acts of Parliament, for all these authorities declare the contrary, and say, no man should be imprisoned, who cannot pay his debts, except by reason of fraud ; whereas, in a commercial country like this, where millions of treasure are and must be every hour passing on credit among the people, where it is absolutely indispensable that men should believe one another, with just as much confidence, as they go to the Exchange, believing one another that there is no intention of assassination ; men must be punished for every cause of voluntary insolvency. And this would be the case,lif it were not for the pes tiferous influence of class legislation. If those who were exposed to these dangers made the laws, they would be protected ; but the laws are made by a privileged body, who care not for the people, a pri vileged body, who as landlords, law lords, tithe eat ers, pensioners, and annuitants, have the debts due to themselves secured by almost irresistible powers, bringing in many instances (as in rents, tithes, and taxes) all the machinery they themselves have pecu liarly devised, to obtain their claims, and then, having so done, they " do a bit of humanity ;" indulge in the luxury of a little cheap bene volence by crying out against the unprotected cre ditor, who is seeking to get payment of his debt out of the small wreck that these privileged law makers have left, and after 20s. in the pound has been got on their claims. There would be a little decency in their outcry in favour of poor unfortunate insol vents, if they would consent to make a hodge-podge with all the creditors ; but no, the tax-gatherer comes first, and takes away the bed from under the partu rient wife, in order to get the money wherewith to pay the 5,0001. a-year pension to Lord Brougham, and then this cosmopolitan patriot talks loudly and in dignantly about the cruelty of taking the husband to gaol at the suit of the doctor, who.has been called at midnight hour, to minister his art to the sufferer, "trusting" to payment at some future and more con venient time. Like the young French Prince who saw his domestic shedding tears of heart-moving mi sery, said, " Why, what do you cry for, I have had my breakfast ?" So his Lordship, whose pension is fur nished by the poor woman's bed, cries out to the doc tor who trusted, "Why do you pursue the poor hus band thus ? you can't have more of the cat than is in her skin ; if the poor family can't pay, what can you get by imprisonment. I've got my five thousand a year !" The subject admits of interminable illustra tion, and yet the argument itself is in a nutshell. Rather than the whole nation should be dislocated in its mercantile relations, and dishonesty and roguery taught and encouraged by law, it were much better to give the privileged classes the further privilege re specting debt which they claim for others, but with the object of our protection. It is not that they care for the poor insolvent, that they are demoralising the whole nation ; but it is that they, of the Lords and Commons, and the pious divines of Oxford and Cam bridge, may eat ices and drink champagne, and not be troubled for payment thereof—that they should thus, to use a homely phrase, set their neighbour's house on fire to roast their own eggs. Let them Ise ware—there is but one step between public and pri vate dishonesty. The lax laws of the United States, copied from the mother country, destroyed the cha racter of their traders and merchants, and that they, having found it convenient not to pay their private debts, they declared they would not pay their public debts. As with America, so will it be with England, if this destructive amateur law-making be allowed its course. FRANCE AND MOROCCO. (From the Church and State Gazette.) The official organ of the French Government, in Paris, has just published a manifesto upon the differences at present existing between the above countries, which is suspected, - with good reason, to come from the pen of M. Guizot - himself. It is rather lengthy ; but its substance may. he comprised in the few assertions—that war neither exists, nor has been declared ; that the Government of Morocco is responsi ble for the late attack made on the French troops ; and that the latter will abstain from making reprisals while they await the answer of the Emperor to the demand of the Consul- General at Tangiers, for complete reparation. The manifesto then expresses its determination of compelling the expulsion of Abd-el-Kader from the Maroquim territory, and terminates by some remark ably high-sounding phrases, not at all equivocal, as to their meaning, but very doubtful with respect to their sincerity. This conclusion declares that France is actuated by no desire for territorial aggrandisement, or of conquest ; that she does not wish to subdue the empire of Morocco, and that were she compelled to subdue it, she has no intention of keeping it. And, finally, that the space she occupies, and, as she says, will ever occupy, in Africa, is sufficient for her, and that she has no desire to add. an inch to her present possessions. _ _ 1 . Now, we have not the slightest inclinati on t o doubt the gallantry or the good faith of the French nation generally ; nevertheless, we must acknow ledge that we have not the slightest confidence in the expressions of moderation used on this occasion by M. Guizot. We have no doubt that he and his party acting with him are sincere—but sincerity in France depends upon circumstances ; and the present French Ministry may be succeeded by another, who will sacrifice the national honour, pledged in the face of the world, to opportunities which may rise, and to advantages attending the seizing of them. Any one, however slightly ac quainted with French history, will agree with us on this point. Years ago, France made the decla ration that the Pyrenees were her natural boundary on the south, yet when intrigue triumphed, and Louis XIV. was enabled to exclaim, " Les Pyrenees ne sont plus?" the expression was hailed with tri umph, and exalted into a proverb. She has repeat edly expressed herself content with her limits as they at present exist, and yet it is the darling object of the Republicans of France to push her boundary to the other side of the Rhine. Napoleon himself com menced his dazzling career -by promises of confining himself to the internal happiness and security of the French territory, yet long ere that career had termi nated he had borne terror and desolation into every corner of Europe. It is within the memory of us all, that when General Bour mont was sent to chastise the Dey of Algiers, the Governments of Europe were explicitly assured that the object of the expedition was not territorial aggrandisement, and that when reparation had been obtained the French troops would retire. The result we all know ; and the excuse for such re sult reminds us of old Dilworth's fable of the two thieves; the ex-Ministry, who promised to abstain from seizing Algiers, quietly justify themselves by saying that they do not retain it; while their suc cessors, for the time being, assert, with no less self complacency, that they did not take it. We repeat, that, whatever may be done for the moment to appease the watchful sovereignties of Eu rope, there is a great fear of a serious war springing out of this question. It may suit France to say otherwise, but we are satisfied that the mere occupation of Algiers does not suit her purpose, and that she is secretly coveting, and silently working to obtain the possession, not only of Morocco, but of Egypt. With the latter, however, we have for the present nothing to do. The former is a splen did prize, which is now occupying the unquiet spirits of the war party in France ; and to that we confine ourselves. That African dominion, which is now grandiloquently affected to be despised, occupies a territory nearly equal to that of Spain, and whether its population be but of four millions, as asserted by some, or extended to fifteen millions, as it is declared by others, there is little to pre vent the French, who now are biding their time, to enter and pronounce that the present dynasty has ceased to reign. The incontrovertible fact is, that they cannot afford to despise it ; and their proud boast of making the Mediterranean a French station is not likely to be realised until they have obtained possession of the devoted land. The advantages to them of such a possession would be incalculable. The range of hills, inaccessible towards the sea, which extend from Ceuta to Tangiers, would be, in their hands, as impregnable as Gibraltar. This alone, with the addition of Tetuan, would gi ie them the absolute command of the Mediterranean, much more than they, at all events, can ever derive from the occupation of Algiers. Again, on the line of coast between Cape Spartel and Cape Non, are situated those numerous seaport towns upon the Atlantic Ocean, which, if im proved, are so admirably calculated for opening a commercial intercourse with Europe, America, the East and West Indies, and, (including Tangiers and Tetuan), with th e Mediterranean. The interior is of no less impoitance, situated as the French are in Africa, than the mere frontier lines. At present they depend for existence upon their supplies derived from Europe. The possesion of the territory of Morocco would relieve them from all accidents and con tingencies connected with such a dependent con dition. The soil of that territory will produce, not merely European necessaries, but all the luxuries both of the Eastern and Western world. From the wretchedly slight cultivation which the country at present receives (merely the burning of stubble, before the autumnal rains come on), without the application of any manure, and with a lightness of ploughing that would very much astonish a Worcestershire farmer, it produces all that a numerous French army and colony would require ; for, excepting oats, which will not grow there, the ground, under its present disadvantages, produces in luxurious abundance excellent wheat and barley, Indian corn, and a long and varied list of esculent vegetables. Fruits are equally abun dant, and so are plants, the varieties of which are capable of being applied to the most useful purposes both in medicine and the arts. The mines of the Atlas Mountains, worked, as they would be, by French engineering skill, could furnish France, at a cheap rate, with what she most needs, ere she can bring to complete realisation, the steam fleet dream of the privateer prince—namely iron. In short, Morocco is so placed, that, in the present con. dition of foreign politics, the peace of the world hangs by it. It is calculated to become of the highest political and commercial importance. This is just such an importance as the French would fain acquire, in addition to that which it already possesses ; and when we look upon the map, we cannot but more and more doubt the assertions of slippery French states men, that they have neither aspirations, desires, nor intentions, directed towards this manifest " coign of 'vantage." In the meantime, as late as Tuesday last the French Government announced to the merchants of France, trading with Morocco, that there would be no war, but that everything would be settled by diplomacy. For the present, this is, no doubt, true. France is not yet fully prepared against a power, strong in pride, fanaticism, and position—a power to which three Christian kingdoms (Sweden, Denmark, and Spain;) still pay tribute annually. The great adversary of Morocco is fully aware, that in August the hot wind of the desert carries death upon its breathings : that in September all the energies of man would dis solve and be swept away before the deluge of rain which then converts the country into a wide morass (defended from invasion by the rampart of poisonous vapour with which it is enclosed) ; and that in the dry season, the locust would be the most efficient allies ofthe Negro-Moorish troops, by spreading famine about the path of the intruders. These circumstances show that time, opportunity, and foresight, must all be wanted, valued, and observed, ere the first shot can be safely fired, that will shake the peace ofnations. That this shot will be fired, we firmly believe, judging, as we do, rather from the acts than the words, of _the Ministry of the Tuilleries. The old Emperor Muley, in 1770, swore by his beard, that no Christian should ever again enter Tetuan. We fear our neighbours have especial views on this very city ; and that they will not be slow to show their disregard for the commands of the Vizier of the faithful. Once there, farewell peace ! We had much rather again I behold, as our grandsires beheld, Moorish cruisers lying in wait behind Lundy Island, to intercept Irish traders sailing to Bristol, than the French exacting satisfaction from Muley Abderrahman, after the same fashion employed by them to wring it from the Dey. The lighting from the swivel gun of a steam frigate would be quite sufficient to protect out mer chants from whole fleets of Salee rovers; but the world must be in flames ere we could make the four kingdoms, forming the empire of Morocco, too hot to be occupied by those who now see more glories and ad vantages attending the future struggles than are discernible by the English press. Elmahassen has no terrors for them. The memory of Christian armies slaughtered there, is a welcome rather than a prohi bition. And certain we are, that when even every; shadow of cause and reason for an invasion has been dispersed, they will condescend to plagiarise from Lord Ellenborough's grand drama in Hindostan, and we shall see them bringing back those sacred gates of Seville, the carrying off of which was one of the greatest triumphs of the mighty Almanzor. Buried, on Monday last, at Cardigan, with mili tary honours, aged 50, Samuel Garman, a pensioner from the 60th Infantry, who had been in several engagements with Coloncd Love, and is said, on one occasion, to have saved the gallant colonel's life. When the gallant colonel lay wounded on the plains of Waterloo, Garman moved him to a more retired spot, and out of the way of the horses, &e. lie had not done so long before nn ammunition waggon burst, and killed many that were near where the colonel had lain,—Monmouth Merlin. LITERATURE. HISTORY OF THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN. 2 Vols. Boone, London, 1844. " Some years ago," says Captain Siborne, the author of this history, " when constructing a model of the field of Waterloo, I found it necessary to make great exertions to procure that detailed information for which I had sought in vain in the numerous pub lished accounts of the military transactions of 1815 ; and ventured to apply to nearly all the surviving eye witnesses of the incidents which my model was in tended to represent. From officers of all ranks my application was responded to in a most liberal spirit. Thus was suggested the present work. Having be come the depository of such valuable materials, I felt it a duty to submit a true and faithful account of this memorable epoch." The author does himself no more than justice in alluding to the " true and faith ful" character of his history. It wears all the ap pearance of the most rigid truthfulness, and is in terspersed with notes, in which we find a variety of characteristic anecdotes, chiefly, as might be expected, of a military nature. The history commences with the landing of Napoleon in France, and gives detailed accounts of the immense preparations that he made for the campaign, which he foresaw was inevitable. It then proceeds to speak of the musterings of the Allied forces ; of the prompt measures taken by Prussia ; and enters into the most circumstantial details respect ing the three or four desperate conflicts that preceded the crowning shock of Waterloo. But that portion of the history , which the general reader will regard with the most interest, is the description of the last decisive conflict between the troops of Napoleon and those of Wellington, which possesses all the minute, matter-of-fact accuracy of a gazette, combined with a vivid and glowing power of description scarcely in ferior even to Colonel Napier's admirable " History of the Peninsular War." But indeed the work is written throughout in the most perfect con amore spirit ; and it is greatly to the author's credit that he does every justice to the bravery of the French troops, and the skilful dispositions made by Napoleon, pre viously to the commencement of the action. the volumes are embellished with portraits of the prin cipal French and English commanders—those of Soult and Picton are admirable likenesses—and at the close of the history there is an account, drawn up from the best authorities, of the numbers of regiments, cavalry and infantry, who took a share in the battle of Waterloo. We quote Captain Siborne's animated description of the desperate charge of the Imperial Guard, just towards the close of the action. It reads just like a bit of Napier's " History," and we know not that we can give it higher praise : " Notwithstanding the terrible havoc made in the ranks of the leading column of the Imperial Guard, it continued its advance in admirable order, and with the greatest enthusiasm. Several of its superior officers placed theraselves at its head. Ney's horse having beea shot under him, he drew his sword, and chivalrously led the way on foot, sustaining to the last his appropriate and well-earned nom de guerre—' le plus brave des braves.' General Friant, who commanded the grena diers, fell severely wounded. General Michel, Colonel en second of the chasseurs, was killed a few moments afterwards. The fall of the latter occasioned some hesi tation—the Ist battalion of the 3d regiment of Grena diers halted ; but at the call of General Poret de Mor van, who commanded it, it renewed its advance at the pas de charge, amidst loud shout of l'Empreurr As the column neared the rise of ground which consti tuted the highest point of the ridge occupied by the right wing of the Duke's line, it gradually passed the line of fire hitherto directed upon it by the greater por tion of the batteries on the British right of that point. Wellington rode up to the British foot-battery posted in the immediate right of Maitland's brigade of guards, with its own right thrown somewhat forward, and ad dressing himself to an artillery officer (Lieutenant Sharpin), hastily asked who commanded it. The latter replied that Captain Bolton having just been killed, it was now under the command of Captain Napier. The Duke then said, Tell him to keep a look-out to his left, for the French will soon be with him.' The message had scarcely been communicated, when the bearskin caps of the leading divisions of the column of the Im perial Guard appeared just above the summit of the hill. The cannonade hitherto directed upon this point from the distant French batteries now ceased, but a swarm of skirmishers opened a sharp and teasing fire among the British gunners. In the next moment, however, they were scattered and driven back upon the main body by a sudden shower of canister, grape, and schrapnel shells, poured forth from Napier's guns, which now kept up a terrific fire upon the column, within a distance of forty or fifty yards. Nevertheless the French guards conti nued to advance. They had now topped the summit. To the astonishment of the officers who were at their head, there appeared in their immediate front no direct impediment to their further advance. They could only distinguish dimly through the smoke extending from Napiers battery, the cocked hats of a few mounted officers, little imagining, probably, that the most pro minent of these was the great Duke himself. Pressing boldly forward, they had arrived within fifty paces of the spot on which the British guards were lying down, when Wellington gave the talismanic call—' Up, guards; make ready and ordered Maitland to attack. It was a moment of thrilling excitement. The British guards springing up so suddenly in a most compact four-deep line, appeared to the French as if starting out of the ground. The latter, with their high bonnets, as they crowned the summit of the ridge, appeared to the Bri tish, through the smoky haze, like a corps of giants bearing down upon them. The British guards instantly opened their fire with a tremendous volley, thrown in with so much coolness, deliberation, and precision, that the head of the column became, as it were, convulsed by the shock, and nearly the entire mass staggered under the effect. In less than a single minute more than three hundred of these brave old warriors fell, to rise no more. But the high spirit and innate valour which actuated the mass were not to be subdued by a first repulse. Its officers placing themselves conspicuously in its front and on its flanks, called aloud, waved their swords, and, by encouraging words and gestures, commenced a deploy ment in order to acquire a more extended front.. But the head of the column being continually shattered and driven back upon the mass, by the well-sustained and rapidly destructive fire by which it was assailed within so extremely limited a space, this attempt altogether failed. The front of the column was becoming momen tarily more disordered and broken up, men were turning round and disappearing by the flanks, whilst others in the rear began firing over the heads of those before them. The confusion into which the French guards had now been thrown became manifest. The Duke ordered w eoqu h ut i , l a s l t cyN a ao t lwi I, t ,se h t e tiol e s atthmi time, er t 3s a ,i n tbi t lo , ayt t si o h nl e , o gall gallant ol r t u odm Sal,cnh, e r t I to g u e l en d; The brigade sprang forward, with a loud cheer, to the charge. Numbers of the French guards nearest to the British, threw down their arms and knapsacks, and dis- MEETING A MANIAC. " The madman or idiot is universally looked upon in West Barbary as a person to be held in reverence. The Moor tells you that God has retained their reason in heaven, whilst their body is on earth ; and that when madmen or idiots speak, their reason is for the time permitted to return to them, and that their words should be treasured up as those of inspired persons. These wretched people are allowed to parade the streets in a state of nudity, and the maniacs sometimes prove most dangerous to unwary Europeans. A French Consul-General, some years ago, was nearly kited by a sainted madman, and in 1830 I had a very narrow escape for my life from another. " I happened to be walking on the sea-shore with my sister immediately below the walls of the town of Tangier, when I espied above us a wild-looking fellow, about seventy or eighty yards off, with a clotted head of hair that bespoke a sainted madman, aiming at me with his long gun, which he had rested on the wall. We were near a rock at the time, behind which we took refuge, and waited there a good while, in the hope that the madman's patience would be worn out; but he did not stir, 'and the passers-by, whom I appealed to for their interference shook their heads, muttered some thing about Seedy Tayeb, which proved to be the name of the saint, and went their way. In the mean time. the tide was rising rapidly, and we had the un pleasant choice of being drowned or shot. We agreed it was better to risk the latter; so telling my sister to run off in another direction, I stepped forward and gave him the preference of a standing shot. The maniac took aim and fired ; and I heard the ball whiz into the water behind me. I was proceeding to run up to him by a path which led to that part of the town wall where he nas standing, when I observed that he was coolly re loadipg his gull ; and as the next shot at close quar ters zraght have proved more effective, I thought the best thing I could do was to follow my sister; so I fairly took to my heels."--Hay's Western Barbary. _ . _ _ THE STATE TRIALS. The following letter has been addressed by Mr. Sheil to Mr. Wyse, whose motion respecting the State Trials had been delayed by the keeping back of the returns for which he moved : TO THOMAS NYSE, ESQ., M.P. My DEAR WYSE,—You have postponed the motion with respect to the constitution of the jury by which O'Connell has been convicted. The reasons by which you have been induced to adopt this step appeared to me fully to justify it; in deed, you had no choice ; but as I apprehend that in Ireland an inevitable delay may be mistaken for a most detrimental procrastination, and as almost equivalent to an abandonment of your purpose, and as I know that you are determined to proceed, I think that you are bound to take the ear li es t oppor t un it y o f signifying your unalterable resolution to bring the facts connected with the trial before the House and the coun try. It is a matter of surprise in Ireland that those facts have not been made the subject of minute discussion, and that an inquiry was not demanded immediately after the sentence was carried into effect. That the deliverer of his country should have have been de prived of his personal freedom, and that up to this moment that great incident in the history of Ireland should have been hardly noticed in the House of Commons, appears at first view to be inexplicable. The exclusion of every Catholic from the jury, the tampering with the panel, the reiterated declara tion of Judge Perrin, that the jury was improperly constituted, ought to have been, and must most assuredly be, made the subject of debate in Parliament. This great question is most properly in your hands. The high estimate in which your abilities are held, the personal respect which is entertained for you by men of all parties, will give no ordinary weight to your statement in the House of Commons. We are all rejoiced that you have taken up the cause ; but you should state to the Irish people, whose eyes are turned on you, your immovable determination, as soon as you can by possibility, to demand a Com mittee from the Minister whose conduct in these proceedings has been so strongly impeached. I ven ture also to suggest to you, that you are well warranted in writing to the absent Irish Members, and entreating them to attend in their places in Par liament when your motion shall come on. One of my motives in writing to you, and in thus publicly addressing you, is to express my own per suasion that you will not leave 0 Connell to destiny without a remonstrance against the mode in which the prosecution was carried on, and the conviction was procured. The effect of any impression that we had abandoned the man to whom we owe everything would be most discreditable to ourselves, and most injurious to the whole country. If Irishmen do not seek redress for a flagitious injustice in the House of Commons, were are they to look for it ? Lord John Russell, the leader of the Whig party, to whose solemn and deliberate declarations on such a subject the utmost importance must be attached, has stated, in the most emphatic manner, his conviction that O'Connell has not been fairly tried. This is a great fact, and Lord John Russell and his political associaies will, beyond all doubt, co operate with us in calling on the aovernment to af ford us an opportunity of proving the charge pre ferred against them.—There were a few, but they were very few, who thought that your motion in the Commons was connected in some way with the ques tion to be decided on the writ of error in the Lords. They now feel that in this impression they were sig nally in error. The question before the Lords is one of law, the question which you propose to raise in the Commons is one of fact. In the Lords the question will be, not whether the jury was corruptly consti tuted, but supposing it to have been so, whether the verdict should be set aside.—The question in the Commons on your motion will be, whether the Pro testant jury, by whom the great Catholic was tried and convicted, was fraudently formed. The defendants challenged the array, and the following is an extract from the challenge, in which the fact (which the Crown counsel did not venture to try) is thus put in issue:—" And the said Daniel O'Connell further says, that a certain paper writing, purporting to be a ge neral list, purporting to be made out from said several lists, so corrected, signed, and allowed as aforesaid, was illegally and fraudulently, and for the purpose and with the intent to prejudice the said Daniel O'Connell in the cause, made out by some person or persons unknown ; and the said Daniel O'Connell says that the said list, purporting to be such general list, does not contain the names of all the persons whose qualification has been allowed, upon the correcting, allowing, and signing of said lists as aforesaid, by the said Recorder, but omitted the names of divers, to wit, GO persons, whose qualification respectively to be on said list had been so allowed as aforesaid by the said Recorder, which said several persons whose names were so omitted are as follows; that is to say—(Here follow sixty names inserted in the challenge)." Tke Crown, instead of joining issue upon the question of fact, instead of having the allegation set forth in the chal lenge—the charge of fraud—tried in open Court, de murred to the challenge ; that is, insisted that, even admitting that the panel was fraudulently fabricated, still the case should be tried by a jury derived from that corrupted source. In the House of Lords, the question to be decided is utterly unconnected with that of fact, namely, whether an infamous tampering with the panel took place ; but is simply whether the verdict should stand, notwithstanding that this suppresion of the names of jurors may have been per petrated in the process by which the panel was made up. If the question of fact were to undergo an investiga tion in the Lords, it might be plausibly suggested that to the Lords that investigatiou should be con signed ; but with the fact the Lords have nothing whatever to do. It is only in the House of Commons that we can effectually inquire whether a Protestant jury has been packed, for the conviction of the fore most man in a Catholic nation, under a Government by which protestations of impartiality and of purity are so strenuously made. God forbid that we should be sufficiently pusillanimous, or sufficiently apathetic, ' not to demand an inquiry into what even Sir James Graham admitted to have been a most fortu nate occurrence. It will require a more than ordi nary exercise of the peculiar abilitiesby which the ac complished Baronet is distinguished, to show any plausible reason for not investigating, through a Com mittee, an imputation which so many circumstances have concurred to establish. R. L. SHEIL. THE SUGAR PLANTERS. At all events the country can now experience no difficulty in comprehending the policy of Ministers on the subject of sugar. It is openly and obviously an attempt to conciliate the West India interest, which will not succeed, because a too great disposition is at the same time evinced to conciliate public opinion. The planters have made the discovery that they are to he flung overboard, sooner or later. For the mance Sir Robert Peel informs them they are to enjoy a pro tecting duty of ten shillings per hundred weight, but they are not to count upon it ; at the end of the year he is to be on their back again, and then the ten shillings will probably be reduced to five, or annihilated alto gether. This they must, indisputably, look upon as a pleasant prospect ; but all the pleasure to be derived from it they most richly deserve to enjoy, first, be cause they are grasping and unjust monopolists; and, secondly, because they have not the spirit to resent the assault made by the landowners upon their mo nopoly, by uniting with the free-traders to bring about a. repeal of the corn-laws. They have but a year's respite, either to reap the fruits of their own injustice, or to avenge themselves by striking at the injustice of others. If they neglect the opportunity they will fall, not only unpitied, but objects of uni versal derision. They will pass down to posterity as men who were as devoid of courage as of hu manity—who clung to slavery so long as its abomination could be protracted, and who, when they could be slave-holders no longer, commenced a base and hypocritical crusade against the last linger ing remnants of the disreputable body from which they had been compelled to separate themselves. With regard to Ministers, nothing can be more pi tiable than the situation in which they are placed, if we except, perhaps, the House of Commons, which consents, at the bidding of Sir Robert Peel, to vote that black is white, or white black, or any other ab surdity or contradiction whatsoever. Both the House and the Cabinet have ensconced themselves behind a thicket of inextricable absurdities, and most gross and palpable sophisms. No principle whatever guides their decisions. In one country they are hostile, in another they are friendly, to slavery; they make distinctions without a difference—coin epithets to desig nate different forms of servitude—disguise plain mat ters of fact—pervert the testimony of travellers, or oppose it by other testimony, anonymous, and there fore worthless to the public, since, for aught anybody knows, it may be a poor invention—imagine petty contrivances to elude objections in debate, though they know that those contrivances must prove worth less in practice—and while making all this display of cunning disingenuousness and hypocrisy, experiencing all the while the consciousness that they are unable successfully to oppose public opinion, and that they mean, in the course of twelve months, quietly to suc cumb to it. In some respects, perhaps, cir cumstinces have combined to make Minis ters appear to be answerable for a greater amount of ignorance than they really possess, since they probably know considerably more than they would be thought to know of the condition of labourers in Java China, and the Birman Empire. They are awa re that although not negroes, the culti vators of the soil are, to all intents and purposes, slaves' in one country transferred like cattle with the estates, in another compelled to labour by the stick, and in a thin! kept to their tasks by a mixture of in fluences in which force greatly predominates. But the Peel Administration is determined hencefor ward to understand by the word slavery nothing but that predial or farm servitude, the type of which is found in the Spanish West Indies and the Brazils. To slavery in any other form they have no objection. They will buy and sell freely with Turkey, where a large portion of the pop u l a ti on h as a l ways cons i ste d of slaves—with Egypt, where precisely the sane state of things exist—with the United States, which are ambitious to rival Turkey and Egypt in this particular—and, in one word, with the Role world, without inquiring whether labour be forced or free, if we except Cuba and the Brazils. Now, is n o t thi s gross and impudent hypocrisy, if anythin g can b e called hypocrisy which exhibits itself after so undis guised a fashion? We would rather describe it as unparalleled effrontery, systematically insulting the country by the use of words which have no meaning in the mouths of those who utter them, It is not any respect for humanity that guides them, because they consent to purchase slave .grown cotton and coffee—it is a not a consideration of religious feeling, because they consent to deal in slave-grown sugar it self, provided it be consumed by foreigners or our own countrymen settled in the colonies—it is, and can he nothing else, therefore, than the result of a tacit compact with %Vest Indians to protract their mono poly as long as possible, provided they in return will uphold the monopoly of corn at home. If any one can make anything else of it we heartily wish him joy of his ingenuity—the undertaking surpasses our power altogether. Connected with this question there is another of much interest to the community ; we mean the probable down fal of the Peel cabinet. Within the last few days it has been within an ace of dissolution, and has, in fact, hovered for some months on the confines of life and death. The slightest accident would now suffice to overthrow the Ministry, and break up the party which but a short while ago appeared all powerful, and the reason is that there exists n o so lid pr i nc i p l es on which such a Ministry and such a party can re pose. Conservatism is a sort of negative force, a ris inertia, which may impede but cannot o p era t e . Wh en the time of action arrives this opprobium of action must be got rid of, for there is no compelling of nonentity to coalesce with existence. Society itself advances perpetually, and the policy which would regulate its movements must obviously advance along with it. To be what is called a Conservative is to stand still, while to be a Reformer is to adapt the institutions of the country, under all circumstances, to the exigencies of the times.—Sunday Times. THE SUGAR CONTEST. The great bulk of the Liberal Members supported Mr. Miles's amendment, with the exception of the pure free-traders, such as Messrs. Cobden, Bright, Gibson, &c. Lord J o h n R usse ll , L ord Howick, Mr. Labouchere, and others, saw that the amendment, if carried, would lower the price of sugor to the con sumer, and would thus be a national benefit. Mr. Roebuck said, it mattered not to him that the pro posal for the reduction of duty emanated from the sup porters of monopoly. In this case it happened that the interests of the monopolists coincided with the in terests of the consumers, and therefore he would sup port the amendment. The pure free-traders however, did not, or would not, see matters in this light. They saw in Mr. Miles's motion only a proposal for the benefit of the monopolists, and, accordingly, Messrs. Cobden, Gib son, Bouverie, and other pure free-t ra d ers , amo unti ng to about thirteen in all, voted for the high rate of duties, and against the consumer. The pure free traders thus have the high merit of saving the Tory Ministry ! It is pretty obvious, from this and other late divi sions in the House of Commons, that parties are break ing up, and have much greater difficulty in holding to gether than they had formerly. Men begin to form opi nions for themselves, independent of the views and opinions of the Ministry. The younger Members of the Conservative party—inoculated with the new ideas are becoming particularly restive; and threaten to overleap the traces and overset the coach. Peel has no control over them—they taunt and defy him ; and it is evident that, but for the wily cauti ousness and moderation of the Premier, an open rup ture would have taken place ere now. The Liberal party also is broken up, and without coherence. Members begin to act independently. At the same time there is no strong body of men—there is no great leading mind—Peel still stands alone. Weak ness and imbecility are the characteristics of all parties. Principles are held of small value.— Leeds Times. AN EXECUTION IN BARBARY As we hastened towards the party, we perceived they had two prisoners, who were secured with ropes fastened round their arms and waist. I recognised one of them to be a native of Reef, who had formerly been a gardener in the service of one of my friends at Tangier. He was a fine, tall, handsome youth, and his countenance was far from indicating anything vicious and depraved. Having joined them, I in quired of the kaid of the soldiers what was the cause of these men being led as prisoners. " The Sultan —may God prolong his life !" said he, " has ordered that their heads be cut off; they have been carrying on a contraband trade in oxen on the coast of Reef with the infidel Spaniards." " This, indeed," I replied, " is a severe punishment for such a crime; and if it be intended as a warning to others, why prevent the people of Tangier from witnessing it?" _ _ " Reason not with me, Nazarene," said the kaid ; " I have my orders, and shall soon obey them." The Jewish slaughter-ground had been selected as the spot for the execution. There we found a • depraved looking Moor, dressed as a butcher, hold ing in his hand a small knife, about half a foot long. This man, we were informed, was the executioner ; he was a stranger, and had been hired to act on this oc casion; for the Mahomedan butchers of Tangier, who are the persons constrained to perform such service when a regular executioner cannot be found, had taken refuge in the sanctuary of Mesmoody ; and had it not been for this person offering his services, the authorities would have been much perplexed how "to obey the mandate of the Sultan ; though the com mander of the troops, when informed by the Go. vernor of the di ffi culty, drew his sword, and ex claimed, " Let the criminals be brought to me, and I shall always be found ready to execute the orders of the prince of believers, be they what they may." A morbid curiosity chained me to the spot, al though I foresaw that I should have to witness a most horrid scene. Some wrangling now ensued between the Kaid'a soldiers and the executioner as to the reward which the latter was to receive for decapitating the poor wretches, who all the time were standing by, com pelled to listen to the bartering for their blood. The butcher insisted that four dollars had been of fered him for one head alone, and that he must have a second four f o r th e o th er . Th e k a id unwillingly yielded the point, and immediately the first victim, who was already half dead with terror, was thrown down on the ground by the executioner, who, kneeling on his breast, put the knife to his throat. I turned away, a violent struggle en sued, and I heard the executioner say, Give me another knife ; mine won't cut.' I looked round ; the wretched man was lying with his throat half cut, his breast heaving, and every limb writhing ! companion now loudly reproached the party for their cold-blooded atrocity, and called upon them to put the suffering man out of his misery. After a time another knife was handed by a soldier to the executioner, and the head was severed. The soldiers shouted feebly, " May God ptolong the life of our Sultan !" though I observed that many of them were as much horrified as ourselves. I remained riveted on the spot, while yet another victim awaited his fate. This was the fine-looking fellow of whom I have spoken : again there took place a bartering for his blood ; the kaid denying his last promise, and declaring that he would not give even the four dollars unless the head of the second criminal was cut off. To this the executioner was at length forced to consent. The culprit now begged to be untied. This request being acceded to, he took off his performed " AcCept gtheilsabla,satnadetgoivfinkginidtnteossththewsoarlddiserhwimh,o shadaid, this '• we shall yet meet in another world." His tur ban he threw to another, who had uttered a word of pity, instead of joining in the insulting shout of the soldiery; and walking steadily to the spot where his companion lay, he cried out with a distinct voice, There is no God but God, and Mahomet is his pro phet.'"fhen turning to the executioner, he loosened his girdle, and gave it to him, saying, " For the love of God, sever my head w ith b e tt er di s patch than you did that of my brother." He laid himself flat on th e ground, yet moist with blood; and the knee of the ruffiian, for so he deserved to be called, was placed on the Reefian's breast. A horseman was now seta galloping towards the party. " A reprieve !" shouted my friend. " Stop! stop P' The executioner withheld his knife. " It is only the son of the Governor," exclaimed a soldier; "he is coming to see the execution. Wait for him." _ _ .... I rushed away in horror ; and soon afterwards wss saw the soldiers bearing in their hands the two bleed.. ing heads. —Western Barbary, by J. D. Hay. THE CONGREGATIONAL EDUCATION MOVEMENT.—. Meetings have this week been held at Bradford, Leeds. Halifax, and Huddersfield, to carry forward this move ment. They have been attended by Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P. and the Rev. Dr. Reed, as a deputation from London, and the ministers and leading members of the. body have assisted. At Bradford the noble amount of 3,700/. has already been raised ; and as one chapel has not commenced its subscription, the sum is expected tos reach not less than 5,000/. At Leeds only one congrega-• tion has yet made any regular effort, namely, that of East Parade Chapel, which hasraised 1.0001. ; th e , amount of 1801. has been promised in Queen- s t ree t Chu-% pel, but this is only a beginning. In Belgrave and Saw. lem Chapels nothing is yet done. At Halifax, the very handsome sum of 2,030/. was announced at the meeting_ We have not yet heard the amount at H u dd ers field., where a meeting was held last night.—Leeds Mercury. I hat en d ore II