The Sun. — London, England, 1839-08-19 00:00:00

EV_ENING . AN AMERICAN BIGAMIST. One Henry Sampson has gon. , to jail in Buffalo for having no l ess than six wives--tw, of them located in that city; two in Rochester': one at Utica. and another somewhere in Ohio. We are not: informed which of Sampson's wives proved a Dalilah, and betrayed bun into the hands of the Philis tines. —.New York paper. S'serat of the 42d and 48th, in this garrison, are aftiieted I+Kth typhus fever. - If the sickness should con tinue,it*. understood the 48th will move to Ternplemore. LiWitt4ck Chronicle. Al N a t .dr seaman, who had escaped one of the re• cent shipwrecks upon the coast, being asked by, a good % ° .." v ,_, , h _k a tc.lt . whett the waves dashed o ver him, replied, m "rn; very wet." . • • • - • ... • ; PERTU ELECTION. (moss A CORRESPONDENT.) The nomination of p_s_andidate, to represent the city of Perth, in the room of the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, took place this day, in front of the County Building°. The Sheriffappeared On the hustings a little after twelve o'clock, and haying read the writ, &c., requested to know if any elector had any candidate to gropose. Chenie then stecPped fordard and proposed Lau renew Oliphant ) Esq., of Condie, as a fit and proper per son to represent the city of Perth, having formerly had that distinguished honour. He was seconded by the Lord Dean of Guild, Mr. Leish. The Sheriff having then asked if any other candidate was to be propdsed, I.l4ilie Robertson, after a short address, stating the tiumrotas qualifications of the present Lord Provost, his liberal politics, his business habits, his affable address, and his assiduous and gratuitous laboura hi behalf of the community of Perth, nominated David Greig, Esq., Lord Provost of the city of Perth, as a proper and fit person to represent the fair city in Parliament, which was received With long, loud, and continued cheering by the numerous assemblage in front of the hustings. The nomination was seccn led by Bailie Johnson, in a neat and appropriate speech, pointing out the benefits to be derived by the com munity from being represented by a gentleman whose in ter(' At was so much connected with the trade and commerce of h country in place of a stranger, whose landed con n' eciors were at variance with ti e interests of the manu facturing populat!on of this great trading country. Atter proposing thanks to the Sheriff for his conduct at the hustings the mectieg diss:Aved, and from the stroeg feeling in favour of th:: Lord Provost manifested by all classes and parties there is no doubt of his successful return. Tne Sheriff announced the polling on Monday next, at eight o'clock in the morning. Perth, S..turday, Aug. 17, 1839. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DEVON AND EXETER RACES, THURSDAY. The C.ty Members' Plate of 50/. Heats, one mile over the New Course. Mr. W. Ley's gr h Pocket Hercules, 5 yrs, 9st 71b 1 1 Lord Palmerston's bf Clasp, 3 yrs, 7st Won easy. The Home, :Stakes of 5 soya each, 3 ft, for horses bona fide the prop- rty of subscribers resident in Devon and Cornwall, P.eats ' two miles and a dis. 11 subs. C•enciral Gilbert's Passport, 4 yrs • walked over The County Members' Plate of 501. Once round and a dis. General Gilbert's Passport, 4 yrs, 9st 101 b. Captain William's Sledmere, 6 yrs (h b), Bst 9lb 3 3 2 dr Sir J. 13. Y. Buller's br f Wolveritie, 3 yrs, 6st 71b 0 1 dr First a dead heat : the second was won by Passport by half a tength, but a charge against him of improperly bearing the filly towards the ropes having been preferred, the stewards de yd, d the heat in favour of the latter; but her owner not g saiisfiqd, withdrew her, on the ground that Passport ought to ha• - ie been declared distanced. 10 to lon Passport. The City Purse of 501., given by the inhabitants of Exeter, added to a Handicap of 5 soya. each, 2 ft. Mile heats, over the New Course. r. NV. Ley's Vasa, 3 yrs Lord Palmerston's b f Clasp, 3 yrs 2 2 The Hurdle Race Stakes of 5 sous. each, 2 ft, with a Purs• of 201. added (mile heats, over the New i'ourse), were won in three heats by 'lr. J. Hex's Esculapius (late Nemo), 5 yrs, 1 lst 71b, beating Mr. Crofton's b h Cricket Ball, 6 yrs, 12st (won the first heat ;) Mr. Dourie's ch m Norna, aged, 12st ; and Mr. Hearder named Whissendine, aged, 12st, by three lengths. BROMYARD RACES.-.-THURSDAY. The Tradesmen's Gold Cup of 60 sovs. (in specie), added to a Sweepstakes of 7 sovs. each, the second to save his stake. Three-yrs-old, 7st ; four, Bst 21b ; five, Bst 101 b ; six and aged, 9st 1 winner of a Queen's Cup or Stakes, of 100 sons. value, in 1839, 51b extra ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. Thrice round and a distance, about two and a half miles. Six Subs. Mr. Barrow's brn Catherina, aged (W. Pearce) 1 Mr. Speed's ch c Antwell, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Ogden's b h St. Leonard, 4 yrs ..... 3 Mr. Weahington's b c Northenden, 4 yrs Weatierall's Red Rover, aged Won by a length and a half, after an interesting race. The Selling Stakes of 6 sovs each, with 25 added, for three year-olds, 7st ; four years, Sit ; five years, Bst 91b ; six years and aged, 9st 21b ; half-bred horses allowed 71b. The second to save his stake, and the winner to be sold for 1001., &c. Heats twice round and a distance. 8 subs. Mr. Cradock's ch c by Grey Viscount out of Maid of Oaks 3 yrs Mr. Frost's b f Viola, 3 yrs Sir. Clarke's b 1 by Recnve* and Sally Barlow 3 yrs 2 0 3 Mr. Clegg's blk c Abraham Cowley, by Jerry, 3 yrs 3 odr Mr. Huxley's b g Erin-go-bragh, aged Mr. T. Ashton's b m Miss Fanny, hb, aged ...... odr SWANSEA RA CE S. Tlr RSDAY. This Tradesmens' Plate of 401. added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, two forfeit. Two mile heats. 4 subs. Mr. Ragnall's b m Lauretta, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Dixon) 1 Mr. Thomas's b m The Howdy, 5 yrs, 9st 21b Mr. Goules b 1 g the Pil o t, age d 9 s t Mr. Henderson' s ch g Greedy Sam, 4 yrs, ist 71b The first heat was won by a length, and the second by a neck. The Hurdle Race Stakes of 5 sovs each, and 25 added, heats two miles and a distance, gentlemen riders, were won in two heats by Mr. Narrie's b g Barrister, aged, 1 Ist 71b (Mr. H. Harris), beating Mr. W. Tucker's b m Lucretia, 4 yrs, lOst 71b (bolted), and Mr. Wood's b h Game Cock, 6 yrs, 11st 41b (rider fell). A Forced Handicap of 3 sovs each, 1 ft and 25 added, was Won in two heats easily by Mr. Gough's b h Bay Hampton, 4 Tr., Bst 101 b (T. Edwards), beating Mr. Henderson's b m by br. Faustus, 3 yrs, ist 101 b, and Mr. Bagnall's b m Lauretta, 4 yrs, B,st 11b. The Beaten Handicap of 3 soya, with 15 added, was won by two lengths by Mr. Morris's b g Young Hesperus, 5 yrt! (Moon), beating Mr. cough's b In Needle, aged. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. 7 to 2 agst Bloomsbury—offered 4 to 1 agst Charles the Twelfth—offered 11 to 1 agst Euclid—taken 13 to 1 agst Hetman Platoff-16 to 1 taken 20 to 1 agst The Commodore—offered 23 to 1 agst The Lord Mayor—taken 25 to 1 agst The Provost-100 to 3 taken SOO to 1 agst Hyllus—taken 200 to 1 agst Meunier—offered 200 to 1 agst The Corsair—offcred FANCY STOCKS. `'PALL.STREET.—. STATE OF THE MARKET.—The Board 4.)f Brokers is shaved very thin, and its condition now is nearly trapsparent. Our current notes are uncurrent, and are oftener counted than discounted. Brokers are now breakers, and many a floating capital has been sunk in them. It was proposed at a meeting of merchants yesterday, that a petition should be presented to the Common Council for changing the first letter in the name of the street from a W. to an F. Dealers in hardware say they never found things as bard as now ; that tin plates are fist, lead heavy, iron dull, spades not trumps, and more rakes in the market than in quired after; brass is, however, in demand for politicians ; brads are also in request, but holders cannot be got to fork them out. Nails won't go by pushing, and have to be driven. The Dry Goods merchants say that their case is hard, and complain that Feople prefer bank rags to theirs. In Paints everything looks black, though many attempt to varnish the thing over. Shippers of Ashes have had to add sackcloth to them, as prospects are by no means pearly, and prices are going to pot. The Timber trade is pining, and holders have to rest upon their oars to stave off the pressure. There is no spirit in the Rum trade, and holders of Vi negar look sour ' • Champagne, however, is brisk. Rhubarb and Senna are quite drugs, but there is a con tumption of Brimstone for matches ; many having lately been made. Since the disposal of an article in the fur cap line at the church door, we have heard of no further transaction. Holders of indigo look blue, but those deep read are not green enough to think that a symptom of the trade is dykg. Starch is stiffning, and paper is stationary. In the meal market things are flowery, but the millers say that the high price of wheat goes against their grain, at which the bakers are also crusty. . . . The grocers have got along pretty gingerly, but some, having tasted spice at times, have become peppery. Tare is no life in dead hogs, but some animation in old ci eese. Bills of exchange arc wanted ; those which have crossed the Atlantic twice arc inquired after.—New York. Lite rary Gazette. THE TREASONABLE ORANGE CONFEDERACY. (From the Militia Evening Post.) The Daputy Grand Mabter of the Orangemen_ has d totailv failed in his attempt to prove that any political euncederacy, in the form of Ribbonism, exists Ireland. But, rogarding the treasonable Orange_arll.a Confederacy, denounced have a ); denoun c ed f ou r years ago by P . had a b un d ant an d i n di sputa bl e evidence and, although Lord Roden, and other leaders of the Conspirators, " I solemnly assured the Legislature that the Orange Soci,:ty has ceased to exist, and that there is no such thing as' an Orangeman in Ireland, the functionaries of the Society have thrown off all disguise, and are proclaimin g to the world that it is, and has been, all along, in active operatio n . W e copy the following from the last number of the Limerick Chronicle:— GRAND ORANGE LOLGE.—The Grand Lodge has a dopted the folloaing resolution :—" Reolved, That this Grand Ledge do pledge itself collectively and individually, and solemn) , recommend to the brethren througho the kingdom, not to support an y te at a general elec tion, no• matter how high his pro'essio n of Conservative principles, who will not promise to oppose the annual grant to Maynooth College, inasmuch as i t i s our decided and diliberbte opinion, that a college est iblished for the disse • cf the degrading and soul-destr.ying do ctr i nes of nitriao pery, is not only a national disgrace, but a national sin.” In addition, we learn from the .Newry Telegraph, thgt.the Orangemen of Upper Canada have again pl aced in • communication with the Or ange A„ 0. t h e mselves ciation in Ulster. Of course renewed attempts will be m tde to, spread treason amongst the Queen's troop s i n hat Colony. PA T AitY DIVISIONS. (Vrom the Potes and Proceedings of the douse of Commons.) BIRMINGIIAM POLICE (No. 2) BILL. Order for second reading read ; Motion made, and Question proposed,—" That the Bill be now read a second time :" Amendment proposed, to leaNt out the Word " na. o* '' ,d at the end of the Question to add the Words " upon thi day three months :"Question put, " That th e word ' now ' :tared , -- part of the Question t"—The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 74. Mani, Admiral Sir Eliot, Hon. J. E. Praed, W. T. Baring, F. T. Forester, Hon. G. Price, Sir R. Barnard, E G. Freshfield, J. W, Bice, T S. Barry, G. S. Gaskell, J. M. Rich, Henry Bernal, R. Graham, Sit J. Rolfe, Sir R. M. Blackburne, J. I. Gm'', Sir C. Round, J. Plair, James Hamilton. Lord C. Russell, Lord John Blake, W, J. Hinde, J. H. I Rutherford. A. Bolden, H. G. Hobhouse, T. B. Seymour, Lord Bolling, W. Hodges, T. L. Soinerse, Lord G. Bramston, I'. W. Hodgson, R. Somerville, Sir W, Bridgeman, H. Hoskins, K, Stanley, E. J. Broadlev, Henry Howard, P. H. Stanley, W. 0. Brownrigg, J. S. Kemble, Henry Surrey, Earl of Bruges, W. H. L. Loch, James Thomson, C. P. Bryan, George Lushington, Hon. S. Troubridge, Sir T. Burrougnes, H. Lygon, Hon. Gen. Werbartoa ' H. Campbell, Sir John Macauley, T 13; Wilbraham, Cochrane, Sir T. Maule, Hon. Fox Wilmot, Si; E. G. y W a r te ig:t jsoohnn, A. C ow per, Hon. W. F. Morpeth, Viscount Wood, G. W. Craig, W. Gibson Muskett, G. A. Darby, George Norreys, Sir D. 1 D ar lington, Earl of Palmer, G. Divett, E. . Parker, R. T. Dunkin, Sir R. Philips Mark l) c uglas, Sir C. E. Pigot, D. R. TELLERS. Grey, Sir a Parker, John fAilonby, H. A. 13-otherton, J. Buller, C. Duncombe, T. 8. Eas'hope, John Ewart, %ti, ;'inch, Francis Rector, C J. Vigors, N. A. Villiers, Charles P. Wakley, Thomas Williams, W. TELLERS. A ttwood. T. Scholefield, J. POOP RATES COLLECTION BILL.. Order for Committee read ; Motion made ; and Question proposed,—" That Mr. Speaker do no* leave the Chair." Amendment proposed, to leave otit from the word " That" to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " This House will, Upon this day three months, resolve itself into the the said Committee," instead thereof. Question put, " That the words pr o p ose d to be left out stand part of the Question." The House divided 1— MAJORITY—AYt% bl. Ewart, W. Phillpotts, J. F inch, Ftancis I Pigot, D. R. Grey. Sir G. Price, Sir R Hinde, J. H. Protheroe, Edward Hobhouse, T. B. Pryme, G. Hodges, T. L. Rich, H. Hodgson, Richard Rolfe, Sir R. M. Hoskins, K. Russell, Lord John Howick, Lord Rutherford, A. Hume, Joseph Stock, Dr. K emble Henry Thornely, Thomas Lushington, Dr. Troubridge, Sir T. Mackinnon, W. A. Warburton, H. Morpeth, Viscount Wocd, G. W Muskett, George A. Yete=, J. A. Norreys, Sir J. D. TELLERS. O'Connell, D. Wood, C. Philips, M. , Parker, J. Aglionby, H. A. Baring, F. T. Barnard, E. G. Barry, G. S. Bernal It. Blair, 5. Blake, W. J. Bramston, T. W. Bridgman, H. Briscoe, J. I. Broadley, H Brutherton J. Bruges, V. H. L. Burroughes, Campbell, Sir J. Clay, W. _ . adrnenv, Lord Divett, Edward Attwood, T. Douglas, Sir C. E. Duncombe, T. S. Hawkes, T. ele::tor, C. J. Hindley, Charles Parker, R. T. Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question proposed—" That Mr. Speaker do leave the Chair." Amend ment proposed, to leave out from the word " That," to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " This House will, upon this day three months, resolve itself into the said Com mittee," instead thereof. Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question. The House divided : MAJORITY-AYES 36. Fremantle, Sir T. Pryme, G. Grey, Sir G. Reid, Sir John Rae Hawes, B. Rice, T. S. Hodgson, R. Rich, H. Howick, Lord Rolfe, Sir R. Kemble, H. Rutherfurd, A. Lincoln, Earl of Smith, John Abel Milton, Lord Smith, B. Norreys, Lord Somerset, Lord G. O'Ferrall, More Townley, R. G. Pigot, D. R. TELLERS, Polhill, F. Stanley, E. J. Price, Sir R. Parker, J. Baring, F. T. _Bernal, R. Briscoe, J. Broadley, H. Brotherton, J. Brownrigg, J. S. Buller, C. Currie, Raikea Darby, George Dick, Q. Divett, E. Donkin, Sir Rufane Deuglas, Sir C. MI .A.ttwood, T. Bridgman, Hewitt Bryan, George Callaghan, D. Ellis, J, Finch, F. Hindley, C. Vigors, N. A. Wakley, Wyse, Thomas TELLERS. Huine, J. O'Connell, D. CARL. ST KIDNAPPING. The following facts, for the authenticity of which we pledge ourselves, illustrate so completely the system carried on by the Carlists in Spain, that we are induced to lay them before our readers : In the month of May last the usher of the school at Barcelona, took out for a walk twelve children who were under his care, and when at a short distance from the town he handed them over to some armed men who were in waiting, by whom they were carried to Berga, and placed at the disposal of the Conde de Espana, the chief of the Carlist forces in Catalonia. The Captain-General, Baron De Meer, immediately wrote to Espana, to request that the children might be sent back, and recommending him to prove that be had no participation in so foul a deed, and chastise its in famous author. To this letter no answer was sent. A. second letter was subsequently addressed to Espana by the Captain- General, who stated, that with the object of calming to a certain degree the fears of the parents for the fate of their children, he had been compelled to retain as hostages the two sons of Espana, who were in Mal lorca, and the daughter of Segarra, another Carlist chief. This letter produced no more result than the first. Upon the arrival of General Valdes, the present Captain-General, he was besought by the wretched pa rents of these children to place himself in communica tion with Espana, and to endeavour and procure their release. He did so, and the Carlist chief replied that although he had not ordered the children to be carried off, he should certainly turn it to account, and would not deliver them up until some officers who had been made prisoners, and of whom he enclosed a list, were sent to him. General Valdes, indignant at such a demand, replied that he would never consent to a pro posal contrary to every usage of war, by which pri soners were exchanged according to their rank, nor sanction the barbarous principle, which even savages would reject, that peaceable inhabitants and infants might be captured in order to be exchanged for men made prisoners of war with arms in their hands. These facts require no comment ; but our readers will easily imagine the exasperation which now exists in Barcelona at this outrage, which exceeds in fiendish atrocity any that has yet been perpetrated by the obe dient agents of that Prince whom the Northern Powers of Europe and his abettors in England uphold as the representative of legitimacy and of true monarchical principles, and the curse of whose reign they desire to inflict upon unfortunate Spain. There is not a parent in Catalonia who does not at this moment feel exposed to similar misery as that of the wretched fathers and mothers whose children are incarcerated at Berge, whence, if they are suffered to depart alive, it will be to return home tainted by their contact with the ruffians and criminals who compose the Carlist hordes in Cata lonia. We trust that this atrocious crime may not lead to reprisals ; but if it does, we think no one will deny that such a result, however lamentable, is natural. NEW MODE OF RESUSCITATION FROM DISOWNING.—At the,annual meeting of the Bristol Hu. mane Society on Tuesday, the Society's silver medal was presented to Dr. Fairbrother, of Clitton, for his exertions in recovering a boy who had been under the water in the floating harbour a quarter of an hour, and another quarter of an hour had elapSed before the doctor could operate upon the body. The most remarkable feature in this case is the new mode by which Dr. Fairbrother succeeded in his laudable object; namely, by closing the boy's mouth with bis finger, sucking off the foul air from the lungs through the nostrils, and promoting respiration by pressing on the abdominal muscles on the sides. The usual method is to inflate the lungs, but it is very seldom that persons are recovered by this method if they have been longer than a few minutes under the water. —B arrow's Worcester Journal, Aug. 15. On Wednesday afternoon last, an instance of sudden death, attended with some singular circumstances, occurred in Park-road, Liverpool. A labouring man, said to he from the neighbourhood of Chester, went to the Far mer's Arms, kept by Mr. Nicholls, to get something to drink, which was refused him, he being then in a state of intoxication. He then went to a butcher's shop a little lower down the street, and purchased half a pound of beef steak, which he took to a neighbouring beer-shop to get cooked, and called for a pint of ale. The beer-seller hav ing also refused to serve him, he left the house, and stag- gered down the street, eating the raw meat, and followed by a crowd of children and others laughing and hooting at him. He had proceeded only a few yards when he fell to the ground, apparently in a fit. Prompt assistance was rendered to him by Mr. Syers, druggist, Dr. Pearson, and others, and it was found that a part of the beef was stick ing in his throat, and producing suffocation. A piece two or three inches long was extracted, and the man breathed for a moment or two afterwards, and then expired in con vulsions. The body was then removed to the dead house. —Chester Gazette. Madame Vestris was in town in the course of last week, and like a theatrical queen (as she is) held her first levee fur the season at Covent Garden The ire. W, understand that several perfumers were engaged, but the expectations of many more w. re cl.sappointed. The prin cipal contract entered into was certainly one of impor tance, for it ensured the services of Ellen Tree for at least a portion of the approaching season. The articles are only for a limited number of nights, for, as we said last week, Ellen Tree positively refuses to enter into terms with any manager for the year. We are informed that she public, and we is to play at two separate periods, each for only a few nights, much fewer, we have no doubt, than will satisfy the 'v l e at c e o ) n . may be prudent not to encourage y any such notion too much. n years stars look for a renew al, though it stars have , , ' at a time, and suchnot thought ti to bind themselve s down to * mo‘e than from 12 to 20 performances Tree.— Observer. we believe to be the case with Ellen —__ ILLNESS OF SIR JEFFFRY WYATVILLE.— W e are gratified to be enabled to state that Sir Jeffery Wyatville is last proceeding towards convalescence. HIS complaint, which it was feared would have terminated fatally, was spitting of blood, but by the prompt adminis tration of ice, by Mr. :George Chapman, surgeon, of Windsor, the effusion was stopped, and this eminent archi tect is now in a fair way of recovery. Sir Jeffery is still confided. to his apartments in Windsor Castle. i'ORITY-1N OES, Hume, Joseph Hutt, W. Lushington, C. O'Connell, D. Pattison, J. Pechell, Captalh TOompsdn, Md. thornely, Thomas NORITY-NOES, Pechell, Captain Polhill, Frederick Rushbrooke, Colonel Scholefleld, J. Vere, Sir C. B. Vigors, N. Wakley, Thomas BAN. lORITY-NOES, Langdale, Hon. C. Muskett, G. A. O'Connell, M. J. Reddington, T. N. Shell, R. L. Somers, J. P. Somerville Sir W. OF IRELAND BILL. 20. Williams, W. Wood, Colonel T. TELLERS. Palmer, George Grimsditch, Thomas THE COBBET-CLUB PETITION. SCRAPS FROM THE UNITED I STATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. The sill serpent was seen again yesterday off Fire Island, by a schooner boiind Itt. This is a very singu lar coincidence. We are told by one who sa* the mon ster, that he is as long as the British Queen and Great Western wottld be if placed together stem to stern. The monster doubtless intends to try his speed with these twu monstrous ships in a race across the Atlantic. It is the only chance he has had worthy his acceptance or powers of competition. And since this is the case we withdraw our bets on the British Queen, and back the American sea serpent, tail and all. ENVIABLE! VERT !—Although the thermometer is at 98, we are enabled to feast on ripe peaches, melons, new apples, new potatoes, bright eyes, ice cream, warm hearted, beautiful girls , and tender mutton. Delicious ! very I Hydrophobia is on the decline. Dogs are plenty, but beef and good water are scarce. CRITICISM ON DANIEL WEBSTEIL—The following extract contains the best criticism on Mr. Webster's oratory that we ever fetid Webster never talks anything but English, and he handles it just as a strong man handles a sledge-hammer ; that is, in an easy kind of way, as if be was playing with it ; and -Set the sparks r fly right and left from t h e r ed - hot iron. I heard vlr9b ster myself at Bunker - hill , when the corner stone of the mon u me nt was laid. It was the 17th of June, 1825, I sat right next to one of the old soldiers who was in the battle. When the speech was over, the old patriot pulled up the waistba nd of his breeches with his rig ht hand, and turned to me, saying,' That's a grand speech, Ido declare. lam pretty ,deaf, you k now , but I heard seemed t o can weigh we a pound." to-day or to-mefrott, iiotigo it all as plain as I did the B ritish cannon. Every word of that o s ic p t ee N c . h_ W see to be so cool and comfortable as to Hoboken ? The air is refreshing, the distance short, the trees shady, the tout ensemble delightful. Put on your bonnets, my girls, and let us all go over to Hoboken to eat ice creams, breathe pure air, sit on the grass, and—and—keep coo) and feel comfortable. G. T. T.—General Nathaniel Smith, late the Indian emigrating ag ent for the Cherokees, has fled to Texas, with from 40,000 to 100,000 dollars of Uncle Sam's money in his pocket. ARKANSAS TAVERN RATES If one inqu i res the price of a dinner in Arkansas, he is thus informed by the obliging host —S' Four bits for a common dinner of bacon, greens, bread, and meat ; six bits, if we add chicken flxins ;' and one dollar, if you have flower doings.' " COLOURED VIOLENCE.—Richard Wallace, a black hero of gigantic proportions, from the proboscis to the heels, was fully committed for hitting Richard Evans, also black, but no hero, several blows right on his right temple, " which caused him to lie insensible and unable to speak for eight or ten hours afterwards." RISE IN PRICES.—Fat young negro girls are now sold in this market at 100 dollars a-piece. They make excellent roasting joints, and taste like mountain mutton. —Hamburg Alabama Despatch. A young gentleman had the gold buckler of his sus penders melted on the levee at New Orleans by the sun, on the 28th of June. His brain was not injured by the heat. Cause vy? He was brainless. Sin,—Being one of those who had the honour of signing the petition of the Cobbett. Club, which caused such a sensation in the House of Commons on Monday, evening, I beg to thank you for defending the petitioners against the false and unmannerly attacks made on its presentation. _ I am utterly at a loss to ateount for tile opposition of Lord John Russell on this occasion. He accused the petitioners of " having threatened the House with force and resistance !" Now, Sir, I appeal to you, who have a copy of the petition, to say whether there is one word in it that can be fairly construed to mean anything of the kind. One would really think, from what his Lord ship said, that the Cobettites were determined to attempt an immediate resumption of Church and Abbey lands ! Mr. O'Connell hinted that the petition was worthy of being laughed at (the House seemed to be of a different opinion). That is his accustomed made of reply to a rather unmanageable opponent. He well recollects that on one memorable occasion he promised to'' laugh a reply" to a " comical miscreant." Now, if Mr. O'Connell, instead of laughing at the " humble petition of the Cobbett Club," will refer to a little sixpenny tract ) just put forth by that Club, and read an article in it on the subject of the 6' Irish Coercion Bill," and an other on " Poor-laws for Ireland," he will there find food for his laughter. If other people will read those two articles they will be able to account for Mr. O'Connell's desire to get the " Honourable House" to join him in laughing at the complaints and prayers of the Cobbett Club ; but they will expect that his part of the cachinnatory concert will be performed on the wrong side of his mouth. The Newspapers tell us (but I am sure untruly) that Sir R. Inglis called the petition " an impudent and deliberate attempt to insult and coerce that House." We are sere, Sir, that not one man could be found in all England to make such" an impudent and deliberate" assertion as the Newspapers have put into the mouth of this polite and gentlemanly Representative of the drones of Oxford and of the Clergy of the Church of England ! The Learned Attoreey-General declared that the petition would 44 excite to insurrection and bloodshed." How that brilliant idea got into his learned noddle the God of Folly only knows ; but there it seems to be, and while we are under the sway of the ever " vigorous" Whigs, who are protected by such a diabolus regius, we cannot wonder that you started back with affright at the proposal made to you to publish that " raw-head and bloody-bones" of a petition. Mr. Fieldcn wound up the tragi-farcical affair with an epilogue, declaring that " whether that House re ceived or rejected the petition, ninety-nine out of every hundred of the people would say the allegations in that petition were perfectly true." You, Sir, also, have had the manliness to say the same ; and you say further, that " the petition touched the House of Commons too much on the raw ; it was rubbing nitre into their wounds, and they kicked it out," and so must say every honest man who has read, or heard read, that memorable petition. I am, Sir, Your obliged and very humble servant, B. TILLY. 92, Fleet-street, August 14, 1839. GALIGNANI'S MESSENGER. We extract the following from the first number of a new periodical, called the " Inventor's Advocate and Patentee's Recorder, &c.," published on Saturday. It certainly is most preposterous to make the proprietors of newspapers here and a few commercial men pay 3s. 6d. postage for Galignani's Messenger, while all the French papers are charged only one halfpenny each. We can see no sense in the regulation either as regards England or France. The British Government never trouble their heads about any attacks made on them by foreign newspapers, and should a printing press be established in London to bombard the throne of the Citizen King by means of a French newspaper pub lished here, Louis Philippe, without any breach of the contract, could prohibit its admission into France. We may mention, before giving the extract, that there is an article on expeditious travelling in this new publication to which the printer has neglected to prefix the words " from The Sun." " While the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Lords of the Treasury, are busily employed in the details of the new Post-office Bill, and professions are made by the Government to place the cor respondence of this country on the most liberal footing, our attention is strongly drawn to a prohibition enforced by the Government in relation to a particular foreign journal, which seems to us as irreconcileable with their professions of liberality as with public convenience and common sense. The journal we allude to is the well-known Anglo-Parisian paper, Galignani's Messenger, which, by the admission of a most uncalled for clause into the Act regulating the permission of newspapers between England and France, has been virtually excluded from this country—that is to say, it is admitted only on the postage being paid for it as for a letter, which amounts to somewhere about three shillings and sixpence, while its contemporaries are admitted at the cost of a halfpenny! The law contains a provision t hat the Journals admitted into either country must be in the language of the nation in which they are pub lished. Now Galignani's Journal, as we presume all the world knows, is in English, containing little original matter—the news being translated from the French and other Continental journals, and consisting also of ex tracts from the British papers. The reason given for this notable piece of legislation, is said to be this :—That the French Government, having the fear of the Republican refugees who had escaped to England before their eyes, were fearful that if journals in the French language were admitted into France, the fugitive perturbators would set up a print ing press, and, from this side of the Pas de Calais, bom bard the throne of the Citizen King with libels which no Procureur du Rei would be able to reach ! This is possible ; and the precaution might have been pru dent and necessary on the part of the French authori ties ; but granting this, what conceivable reason existed for rendering such a clause binding upon England ? Our late old brave Monarch, in whose reign the Act was passed, feared no paper pellets from the shores of France ; he laboured under no apprehensions of being pushed from his stool " by expatriated scribblers ; and sure we are, that our present amiable young Sovereign stands in need of no such protection. Why then, we ask again, was the prohibition rendered mutual ? The only effect here, has been to deprive the Public of a useful, talented, and agreeable newspaper, and the Journals of a ready and sometimes valuable assistant ; at the same time, committing an act of signal unfair ness towards Galignani's Messenger. We will go fur ther,—setting aside its injustice, we contend that this senseless exclusion, which serves no useful purpose upon earth, is a positive injury to the commercial part of the community. Galignani's Messenger, in addition to its wide general circulation, is received, by the per sonal influence of its proprietors, into many of the Con tinental States, where the English, and even many of the French Journals are rigidly prohibited ; and a news paper which thus finds its way into every Court in Eu rope—which is read in every city from " Pekin to Peru"—must obviously present advantages as a channel of communication in a commercial point of view, of the utmost value to a country like our own, where enter prise, skill, and ingenuity, are daily bringing forth some new element of commercial wealth. In aiding our Anglo-Parisian Contemporary to get rid of the silly and vexatious prohibition which excludes it from our table, we deem ourselves in some sort paying off a debt of honour, in acknowledgment of the honourable impar tiality with which the sentiments of the English Press have been for years represented in its columns." Lord and Lady Lovat are receiving a numerous circle at Beaufort Castle, Inverness-shire. The Earl and Countess of flardwicke arrived on a visit to his Lordship, on Monday last, and the Duke and Duchess of Leeds ar• rived a few days previously. The Hon. W. S. Jcrninghatn left town early in the week to join the party. The Duchess of Buceleuch has left Montague House, accompanied by the Earl of Dalkeith and family, for Broadstairs, where her Grace purposes to reside until the return of the Duke from Scotland. LUNACY.—It has been found, that the en couraging the exercise of the mental and bodily powers is the most important of the curative measures which have yet been tried in the treatment of the insane.—British and Foreign Review. , . BOLTON, FRIDAY.—Or d er i s completely re stored, no apprehensions of prisoners have this morning taken place. The Bth Hussars left the town this morning for Rochdale.—Manchester Guardian. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.-Between eight and nine Gn Saturday morning, a young woman named Mary Ann Rupert, app irently in good health, fell down dead while conversing with a neighbour at the door of her residence, in James-street, Vauxhall. She had not mani fested the slightest indisposition previously. THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST.-TO load our columns every day with dull twaddling tautologi cal bits of accounts cut from the country papers were a misappropriation of our space, by which the reader's at tention would be fatigued to little purpose. Yet nothing can be more remote from our feelings than than to pas over without notice intelligence that bears on the imports ant question, whether the working classes, justly dissatis fied with the Corn-laws, are next winter to have a loaf at a purchaseable price, or to be driven to desperation by being deprived of bread. We, therefore, obtain all possible information on the subject, and have now before us a multitudinous mass of reports re lative to the crops from all parts of the king dom. Nothing certain is yet, or possibly can be, known of the yield, and all that can be said is simply con j..ctural. In some of the reports received we re gret to see it stated that there has been a good deal of rain, not only in Ireland, where the " continual rain has been accompanied by stormy wind from the south and south east," but in most parts of England. Still we incline to hope that the amount of injury done to the wheat is incon siderable, and that, despite the iniquitous Corn laws, the sufferings of our population will not be increased and ren dered unendurable by a deficient harvest. THE SIN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUG-UST 19, 1839. THE LATE MR. GALT. our last 1 John We noticed the t(hUep lamented e nCanada)ted deceaseS tar 0 . Galt, one of the greatest benefactors that the Canadas have ever had. It would have much mitigated our regret for his loss, if we could have known that he died amidst all the comforts of an easy competence, or that he was sus tained in his long and painful illness by the bounty of a generous nation. We greatly fear, however, that the latter years of this attractive popular writer were pas sed, not only amidst the attacks of an incurable and enfeebling disease, but also amidst the embitterments which a narrow fortune inflicts upon the mind of the too sensitive votary of literature. Some few years since, it was announced in the public prints that Mr. Galt had received a pension, as a re ward for his various literary labours and public ser vices ; and we are sure that wherever this intelligence was conveyed, whether in England or America, un mingled satisfaction was experienced at so judicious an application of the Royal bounty. But—and we state this upon good authority—no such pension was ever received. The man who had done more for Canada, by his writings and personal exertions, than any one else—the originator of several public projects, which, though successfully accomplished, had not benefitted him one farthing—the author of successive entertaining works, ranking high amidst the produc tions of fiction, and inculcating virtue and nobility of conduct—such a man has been suffered to descend to the grave, uncheered by any reward from his country, and smarting under the most irritating of all human ills, the sense of unmerited neglect I Light rest the soil over the remains of John Galt ! We suppose that the recognition of his various services to the public, which was denied him when living, will now be idly expended on some monument to his memory; and that many a cheap and artificial sigh will be heaved for the additional illustration he has afforded of the mis fortunes of genius. Let us hope, however, that even now the attention of the Ministry may be called to the claims of departed worth, and that they may be regarded as having descended to his surviving widow. Lord John Russell—and we gladly seize an opportunity of saying a single good word in favour of any of the present Cabi net—Lord John Russell has performed several generous actions towards the unfortunate sons of literature ; and we sincerely trust-that his observation will be attracted to this particular case. Then, however late the boon may be in coming, it would gratify every speaker of the English language, to learn that the widow of him who wrote that admirable volume " Th e A yrs hi re L ega t ees ," was enjoying a participation in the national bounty— not doled out in charity, but paid as a long standing debt, and due to her as the representative of her gifted husband. MR. RICE'S ELEVATION. TO THE PEERAGE. —The Cambridge ( Tory) Chronicle says" As nothing can be now more certain than the elevation of the Right Ho nourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Peer age," the Liberal party in the town of Cambridge are on the alert, and have made application to more than one person, but that a Whig candidate cannot be found. There is, of course, according to the Chronicle, an excel lent opportunity for a Conservative, the achievement of " a glorious victory " and so forth. THE GREAT MONTGOLFIER BALLOON. — The proprietors of the great Mongolfier balloon, nothing daunted by their bad success in their attempted ascents from the Surrey Zoological Gardens and the Beulah Spa, and lately from t he Hi pp odrome Racecourse, have for the dm last two d busilyengaged i n re p a i r ing the sustained by b u rsting at the latter place, and it is their int ention, as soon as practi cable,aage the to make anot her attem p t. It is said they have already expended no le ss a sum tha n 1,4781 ., and that they have another balloon nea rl y finished. stupendous asbeen machine ------- KEW.—For upwards of a century, this village has been a military station as a guard of honour to the Pa lace and the other Royal residences, b u t d ur i ng the last week orders have been received from the Horse Guards for the withdrawal of the soldiers, and it is understood that for the future no guard will be stationed there, it being in timated that the barracks are about to be converted into a private residence, under the direction of the Com missioners of Woods and Forests. A detachment of the 45th Regiment of Foot, commanded by Lieutenant Nott, has been doing duty there for the last four months,lbut was marched on Tuesday last to join the regiment at Windsor. The inhabitants in general very much regret the removal of the military, to whose presence they have been so long accustomed. THE CHARTISTS.— CARLISLE.— , Many Of our good friends at a ditance will, we have no doubt, re joice to hear that the denizens of " merry Carlisle " are as well and as hearty as ever—that they go about their busi ness as quietly and as orderly as they were wont,—that though they have passed through the ordeal of the "sacred three days," the only persons who have cause to remember it are the few poor deceived and humbugged creatures who, by devoting three days to idleness instead of to honest industry, have, by so much, curtailed their already scanty means of procuring food for the ensuing week. We say this, because ,ne have reason to believe that m ost exagge rated and false accounts have been circulated of the state of this city, which has been represented as almost in a stat of siege, and its inhabitants moving about with fear and trembling. Those who struck work in this city were nearly all hand loom weavers; and a very large proportion of them were boys and young men from 14 to 20 years old. A few of the workmen in Wigton, Dalston, Cockermouth, and Dumfries, held the sacred three days ; but, as in all other places, their numbers were comparatively small, and all passed off peaceably. So far as we have yet learned the "strike" has been an utter and contemptible failure throughout the country ; and it will have the good effect of proving to the Chartists how extremely small is their num. ber as compared to the whole population—how enormous and wicked have been the falsehoods told to them by those whom they call their leaders, and to support whom in idle ness they have expended so much of their own hard-earned nioney—md how little is their chance of success in over turning the social fabric of this country by an appeal to arms.— Carlisle Journal. On Saturday a large number of the inhabitants of the parish of Heston, appeared before the Ma g istrates at Brentford, f or the purpose of applyi n g to be relieved from the payment o f poor rates. Some of them stated their wages amounted to only 12s. per week, out of which they had in some instances to support ten children. Others were widows, and pefsona upwards of eighty years of age, several of whom are at the present moment in the receipt of parochial relief. Most of them were relieved by the Bench, with the concurrence of the overseers; a few wore ordered to pay, and the remainder were directed to pay 6d. per week until the rate was discharged. The Maiquis Wellesley has engaged, for the next two months, the splendid mansion at Fern-hill, about four miles from Windsor, the prop ert y , and late the resi dence, of Sir Ch ar l es M etca lf e . Sir Francis B urd ett ar rived at Windsor a f ew d ays s ince, with Miss Angela Bur_ dett Coutts, for the purpose of enjoying a residence in the neighbourhood during the autumn. It was the intention of the Hon. Baron e t to have secure d the mansion at Fern bill for that period, b ut i t h a d been let to the agent of the Marquis of Well es l ey only a day or t wo before his arrival at Windsor. FAMILY DISPUTES. " The ease of all others that demands the greatest caution and address on the attorney's part, is that of imputed infidelity to the conjugal vow ; on whichever side the charge arises, it is to be received with suspi cion, rut it is usuaiii made before it is well-founded, and when once Made it has a direct tendency to substan tiate itself. . . . The first thing to be co nsidered in reference to this point is the temper in which the complaint is made : and here I may observe that jea lousy is rarely prominent where certainty exists ; nor is even violent excitement often exhibited where a set tled conviction of conjugal guiltis entertained ; if I see a man actuated by very strong and bitter feelings, I infer, that whatever ground he has for suspicion, it is after all only suspicion ; and hence that my primary duty is to allay it, unless he discloses facts that ought to be conclusive to an unbiased mind, or that are too unequivocal not to call for inquiry ; even when this is the case, that inquiry must be con ducted in the most cool and dispassionate temper. Artful servants, and mischief-making friends and gossip ing relations, are wont to put the worst construction on conduct that may amount to no more than thought less levity, blameable but not decisive. The manner of some men is naturally erapressee towards females, without any criminal motive ; others from mere fop pery .affect an air of gallantry, or a tone of senti ment, which : ;ffhtly interpreted, means no more than they afe thinking of in preference to any body else, whether male or female; and often have I seen this coquettry returned, by married women, too, so sympathetically, that p l a i n n ;:_ttter-of-fact people would set it down to improper intimacy, while others of more acuteness or more knowledge of the world would only laugh at the deception each party was practising on the other, and probably on himself. Yet incidents and scenes like these are ill-naturedly treasured up by some of the good folks I have men tioned, and, when a sufficient hoard of them is amassed, liberally bestowed on the ' injured husband,' as a cha ritable donation by some pious friend, and like all cha ritable donations most gratefully accepted : the unfor tunate husband is of course made vigilant, officious servants are set upon the watch, and to vindicate their claim to confidence tell twenty lies for one word of truth ; the husband kicks his wife out of doors—loads his pistols—sends for his friends—his friends for the doc tor and a straight waistcoat—and after proper commo tion, and a decent Interval, all hurry away to the attorney, who, without Motg ado, retains Serjeant Wilde, issues the writ, and frorti that moment all go their own way to the devil ! Instances sometimes occur where even less doubtful indications of guilt prove in the event to be utterly fallacious. A gen tleman once consulted me in a case in which, with all my distrust in such matters, I could not help arriving at. his conclusion ; but happily we discovered our error in time to avoid mischief. He had been in . formed by one of those pests of society, the lady's maid,' that his wife received unusual attention from a young clergyman, who was a frequent and welcome visitor at the house, and moreover that a clandestine correspondence had long been carried on between them : a good night kiss,' too had twice been noticed, and duly commented on below stairs, and sundry other little liberties of no individual importance, but of large aggregate amount, proclaimed a very good understand ing between the parties. After much uncomfortable espionage that led to nothing more decisive, the hus band intercepted one of the aforesaid letters, and was at once convinced of his dishonour. He brought it to me without an hour's delay ; and oa the perusal of it and hearing of the previous occurrences, I quite con curred in his impression ; with his approba tion I jmmediately went to the lady, to in timate the necessity of her taking refuge with her friends. I found the fair one in gay spirits, seated on the sofa with the young gentleman by her side, and her sister next to him. I was embarrassed by the frank and cheerful reception I met with from all the trio. You are just come in time, Mr. Sharpe, we wain your help.' I looked as grave as possible, while I in quired the occasion. We have lost a love-letter Mr. Sharpe, and Alfred, here, is half mad about it.' I have it in my pocket, Ma'am,' I replied with awful gravity.—' Let me have it, my good Sir ; do give it me directly ;' cried the sister, suddenly jump ing up from the sofa, and all but offering to search my pocket. Stay Caroline ; have patience : Mr. Sharpe, how did you obtain that letter?'—' From your husband, Madam,' still maintaining the most inflexible severity of features, but I could not pre serve it long ; they looked at each other at first with some blushing confusion that confirmed my impres- As soon as she recovered herself, sions. the lady quietly asked me whether I had read the let ter, and on telling her that I had, she inquired with playful anger, how I dared to pry into other people's correspondence.—' Your husband desired me. And how dare he presume to open it ?'—' Because it was addressed to you.' So you neither of you noticed the C below the seal I that letter is my sister's, Sir ; and now allow me to introduce you to Mr. and Mrs Lawrence I they were married a week ago, and have been engaged these six months! ! I looked like a fool, no doubt ; it was clear enough that the acuteness of woman's wit immediately penetrated my errand, and I a man never looks so silly as when abashed by woman's superiority ; the mystery was soon explained ; the clergyman expected a living from his uncle An attorney cannot be too cautious in _ _ receiving the first statement of a husband's dishonour, or too doubtful of the evidence by which it is pro posed to establish the fact ; where, however, the proofs are irresistible, even there he is not at liberty at once to bring the action. I have already noticed that in all such affairs, there is assuredly faults on both sides. This will always appear on the trial of the issue, if the action is not collusive ; and then both parties leave the court irretrievably damaged, and the children, as a mat ter of course, are excluded from the pale of society. . . Before he sanctions by his advice, proceedings of which the consequences are so terrible and so exten sive, it becomes him to satisfy himself that the exposure may not be shared by both husband and wife, and thus orphanise their issue. It is the more important because I have too often seen that in the impatience of redress on the one side, and the eagerness of self-vindication on the other, all parental anxiety is absorbed in selfish feelings, and the claims of the infant are forgotten by those who are especially bound to protect them."—Ad ventures of an Attorney. The Nottingham Review well observes that " the middle and enfranchised people—without whose assistance no ameliorative change can possibly be carried —.cannot remain much longer qu►escent witnesses of their fellow-creatures' miseries; if they do, the poverty which unjust laws has created, will invade their own homes, and leave its unhappy concomitants there." AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATII.---On Monday, the sth, as William Richard, a labourer, was mowing in a field at Dolgun, within a mile of Dolgelley, he fell down and died in an instant. He appeared in full health, and had attended the Sacrament at Dolgelley Church the day previous.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.-Yesterday, three young men from the neighbourhood of Wellington, were ex amined at the Shirehall, on a charge of ♦iolently assaulting and robbing William Roberts, on the Bth of July last. The prisoners are colliers. The prosecutor stated that on the day in question, he was sent by his master to collect money from several persons who had purchased hay from him ; he called upon seven persons during the day, and received 581. 183. 6d., in notes, sovereigns, and silver, which he placed in a leathern purse in his breeches pocket. His purse was taken, and at the same time he received a kick on the head, which rendered him senseless for some time, and prevented him seeing how many were there. When he recovered he got up and missed the men and his purse, upon which he shouted " Murder I" and people came to his assistance, who took him to a cottage, where he remained very ill all night, and was sent home next day. He bad been bad ever since. The prisoners absconded soon after, and were taken last week at Ponty pool, in Monmouthshire. The evidence of the prosecutor having been confirmed by several material witnesses, the prisoners were fully committed to take their trials at the ensuing March Assizes.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. OPENING OF THE ULSTER RAILWAY TO LtssuaN.—On Saturday last several experimental trips were made along the Ulster Railway to Lisburn, prepara tory to its being opened to the public, all of which trips were performed with the most gratifying success. The average time occupied was from 15 or 16 to 19 minutes, but a much higher degree of speed could have been at tained had it been desirable, as the object was to use every necessary precaution at the beginning for the prevention of accidents. Yesterday morning, at 7 o'clock, the line was formally opened, and the train continued to ply up and down each alternate hour during the day till 8 o'clock in the evening, as had been previously arranged. The crowds assembled in the neighbourhood of the Railway were immense, and universal enthusiasm prevailed at the success with which that truly national undertaking has been hitherto prosecuted. The number of passengers during the day amounted to upwards of three thousand, while hundreds were disappointed in obtaining places. This is a flattering commencement, and we hope that it is only a prophetic omen of the reward to which the Com pany may reasonably look forward, when the line shall have been further extended.—Belfast News Letter. THE MOORS.—Monday the 22th was highly propitious for our sportsmen, as the weather was dry and clear, without being oppressively hot. Lord W. Thynne, the Hon. Captain Grey, and Mr. Cox, bagged 67 brace on Lord Cawdoes moors. Mr. Baillie and Lord Gifford were very successful at Glenshiero, and had sundry brace dispatched to Inverness during the forenoon, shot by ten o'clock, a.m. Mr. Langtry and friend, at Aberarder, bagged 52i brace. The birds are unusually strong—the best that have been seers here for some years at this early period of the season. We have not yet had time to re ceive particulars from the hills. Lord Lovat was at Mar Lodge last week. and killed five fine stags. His Lordship has with him at the grouse-shooting. the Earl of Hard wicke and the Hon. W. S. Jerningham. The Duke of Leeds is at Mar Lodge; Lord Kintore at Boner; Sir Philip Gray Egerton and Mr. Cornwall Leigh at Tolly ; Mr. Barton at Killin ; Mr. Wormald at Garve ; Sir Hume Campbell at Novar; Mr. Wood and Mr. Parnther at Strathglass ; Captain John Dixon at Invermorriston ; Captain Inge and Mr. Eyton at Flowerdale ; Captain Downes at Eskedale ; Mr. T. S. Gladstone at Loch Rosque ; Captain Gerard at Rosehall ; Captain Willis at Burnside, &c. Sm.—lnverness Courier. PRESENT STATE OF GREECE. King Otho, of Greece, and his young Queen, have been lately making a tour of four or five weeks dura tion through the northern part of their dominions. As the account reaches us through the Augsburg Gazette, we must take the evidence it contains of the political feelings and general content of the inhabitants for no more than it is worth, but the poverty of the country, and the simplicity of the preparations made for the re ception of the party, render the account more amusing than that of most Royal progresses. 'The whole population of the villages, including in fants in arms, and frequently people of more than a hundred years old—poured out to gaze on the showy dresses of the Royal personages, and of course to tes tify the most unbounded affection. Troops of young girls with complete helmets of various coins—their necks and long braided tresses decorated with coral, surrounded the Queen, dancinc , and singing before her, whilst the men loyally squabbled fur the honour of ap proaching the King and leading his horse. At Turko chori, the clergy advanced in procession and presented the Testament, which the Sovereigns saluted accordinc , to custom ; and this, being considered as indisputable evidence of their attachment to the cause of religion, called forth the loudest acclammations. The schools, visited during the progress, appear to have been in the most deplorable state imaginable ; so much so, that it was sometimes thotwht necessary for the Sovereign to express some dissatisfaction : it is not, however, stated that any measures for their im provenient are in contemplation. During a great part of the journey, the country was too poor to afford even the merest necessaries, and above a hundred horses were employed in carrying jeds, furniture, and provisions. The Plain of Thessaly hasbeeome almost an uninhabited wilderness ; and, on the whole—ia spite of the wish of the writer to present things under the most favourable aspect, and notwithstanding his sentimental delight in the troops of village maidens with garlands of flowers, and their venerable grey-headed sires, brimful of loyalty, who bestowed their tediousness upon King Otho—the general result from the few facts we can gather, is, that the state of the country is wretched in the extreme. It is, therefore, droll enough to find the whole account summed up with a " thus we may see that there does not exist a more flourishing, prosperous, and improving peasantry than that of Greece."—Athenwuni. LATE PARACHUTE DESCENT. MR. HAMPTON'S STATEMENT. Early on Monday morning last I was on the grounds super intending the arrangement of my apparatus for my aerial exhi;;fion, and everything went on to my entire satisfaction—the heather seemed also more settled, thus giving me the greatest confidence that all my plans and efforts would terminate favourably. At the time appointed the parachute was brought into the arena where the balloon had been inflated, leaving me nothing further to do prior to my departure than to fasten the cord connecting it with the buoyant machine, and some other minor matters, and here I must mention that in removinc , the parachute from the place in which it was deposited to the balloon I found two of the irons immediately over my head, and com bining the car or basket with the tube of my parachute, had completely given way, but with the assistance of my friends and some cords I remedied this startling difficulty in such a manner as to ensure its adhesion to the tube, and felt not the slightest apprehension of its failure. Having now arranged my ballast, cleared every line and halyard, ascertained the full ascending power of the stupendous and impatient aerial machine, I stepped into the car with every feeling of the most perfect confidence in my success, which every one at that moment in their excited state around me for my safety can testify. The signal to let go was given by me, and responded to by the deafening cheers and acclamations of those in the gardens, as well as from the immense mass of human beings which had thronged together in every direction as far as the eye could reach, and never did the machine leave te rr i:.firma more proudly and majestically than on the present occar . 2on. Having surveyed the locality over which I was agreeably floating, I found that I should speedily be directly above Kensington Garden ;.7 ; and deeming this to be a favourable spot for my descent, especially as I had announced it to be my intention to make; it within sight of the grounds, I accordingly arranged for the separation from the balloon, and with a resolute heart, a firm and steady hand, instantly severed the only cord which connected me with the rapidly soaring machine above me. At first I endured the usual dread ful sensations of being nearly suffocated, which lasted some few seconds ; but, having recovered, I cast my eye in the direction of the exact spot upon which I was likely to descend, and instantly discharged the bal last, at the same time waving my cap to the assembled multitude. Finding I was making towards a large tree, I crouched down in the basket and prepared for the concussion. Unfortunately, I caught one of the branches of the tree ; consequently the proper action of the air on the parachute was lost, and the bough breaking with the weight, I came with much force to the ground, whereas, had I escaped the tree, or fallen even in a cluster of trees, my descent would have been unattended with the slightest ill effect. The shock for a few moments deprived me of speech, but I was perfectly sensible, and by the kind assistance of several persons who had surrounded me (and to whom I feel most thankful), I was enabled to return within a very short period of time to the grounds I had previously quitted, where I addressed the numerous company anxiously awaiting my arrival in explanation of the feelings I entertained in having ac complished to their entire satisfaction the feat I had promised, though that feat was not perfected to my own satisfaction. inasmuch as my hitherto twice suc cessful plan of bringing down the balloon to the earth, not only near the place of my own descent, but reaching it before me, failed ; and this proved a serious event to myself in the loss of the machine. A very slight line has hitherto been affixed to the top of one of the gores inside, and terminating through a small incision near the neck of the balloon, is made fast to the bottom of the tube of the parachute. Thus, when I cut the connecting cord which held my whole weight, it rested only on the above-named line ; the sndden jerk instantaneously causes an incision through the entire gore of the balloon ; the gas rushes out in one immense volume, and the weight of the balloon being in the head, it completely turns over, and reaches the earth in a few minutes. In this instance the pack thread or line through;the silk snapped asunder, instead of acting as before described. Such is the confidence I have in my apparatus that I should not hesitate making another descent in a proper locality, where clear and open spaces preclude the pos sibility of my coming in contact with any intermediate object than the earth, and which must be admitted is not the case in my making the descent near the metro polis. In regard to my descent on Monday last, had not I found that I was likely to drift over the densely popu lated neighbourhood of Kensington and its immediate vicinity, I should not have descended so soon, it being my wish to have attained a greater altitude, as the grandeur of the sight would have been more en hanced, as likewise appertaining much more to the safety of the aeronaut, my opinion being that an alti tude of at least one mile ought to be gained before cutting away, as at this height the parachute itself acts much better, and pore ample time is afforded to the aeronaut to regain composure, and regulate the mode for a safe and steady descent. With this knowledge, and being determined to give every one the opportunity of dis tinctly viewing my separation of the cord, I accom plished that descent in sight of all, which, if I had journeyed further, and gone much higher, would, as far as scientific purposes are concerned, have been consider ably more effective. I am happy, however, to find I have given general satisfaction, and that, at this mo ment, beyond the results of a shock or collision in my descent, I am not suffering any bodily injury ; the prompt and skilful treatment of my kin.:l friend Dr. Frankum, of Montagu-square, having perfectly re moved every temporary ailment attendant upon my somewhat violently reaching the earth. JOHN HAMPTON 6, Hanover-place, Regent's Park, Aug. 15, 1839. THE LION, A TALE OF THE COTERIES.— We took up this fiction expecting, at best, a clever fash ionable novel of the present season, and this it is, and a brilliant one ; but had it not been something more it would not be considered worthy . of a formal; introduction to our readers. The calamities of literary " Lionise forms the prominent feature of this very clever novel. The moral of the tale lies in the morbid vanity and selfishness of what are supposed the finer natures among our species. Os tensibly it hinges upon the ridiculous folly of the female patronesses of literary talent, and upon the silly pursuits and sickly conceit of literary aspirants ; and never were warnings, lessons, and severe rebukes more required than at the present moment. 66 How do you like my book ?" is the question put by the author to the public, after his frie,nd had damped his hopes, and we venture to reply in name of a large portion of that public—" Vastly do we like your book, combining as it does French brilliancy with German patios, and that sound masculine stamen which is so eminently characteristic of our own favoured island." In conclusion, we must remark, that if " The Lion" be the production of a new writer, which, however, is not likely, the best among the old stagers will need . to look to their laurels.— Tait's Magazine. T HE NAVAL RESOURCES OF r ENGLAND. om c haa am It is not generally known that a steamer of very large ton nage is to be launched in a day or two f Dockyard. It will have been begun and finished within the incredibly short space of eight weeks. We are in formed that this extreme expedition is an experiment under di re ction of the Government, in order t o ascertain the shortest possible time in which such a vessel can be com pleted. The number of hands have bee n unlimited ; in fact, the men are working on her at the present moment as thick as bees in a hive, and they are allowed to make as many working hours per day as th ey can. The sum ap portioned for the labour, we understand, is four thousand pounds; and should it n o t cost th t,.the ' overplus is to be greatestdivided paamongssi passible ete the iinterest al re e s n t . int T be h n e e e ig xperiment has excite d wt t. h a bourb o o Gr e enwi ch Gazette. I On the 14th inst. at E M lstr Aßß ee, Henry ED. Alexander, Erq., s°" of the Lord Bishop of Meath to the Hon. Louisa Juliana Knox, daughter of Viscount Northland. Onithe 15th inst., at St. Giles's, Camberwell, Sidney Jam es ' fourth son of Silvanus Philip, Esq., of Hampton, Midalesex, to Fanny, youngest daughter of Benjamin J. Nunes, Esq., of t he Grove, Camberwell. On the 15th inst., at Walcot Church, Bath, William Morse Crowdy, Esq., of Chisledon, Wilts, to Sai ah, relict of the late P. W. Vaughan, Esq., of Clifton. On the 17th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Henry Nichols, Esq., of the Middle Temple, to Mary Francklynt eldest daughter of Thomas B. Williams, Esq., formerlY. °I Gower -street, and now of Rio Bueno, in the Island of Jaresio• DIED. On the 25th of June last, at Kingston, Jamaica, Mr. Charles Hutchings, the youngest son of Henry Hutchings, Esq., for merly a merchant in that island. On the 14th inst., at Winchester-row, Edgeware-road, John Harmar, Esq., many years a purser in the Royal Navy, aged 8 4 . On the 14th inst., Fanny, third child of the Rev. J. Cum ming, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, aged 2 years and 2 months. On the 15 th inst. , George Dudley, the eldest son of Mr. George Boughey, of Pentonville, aged 17. On the 16th inst.; at Lewisham, Thomas Morton Lloyd, only son of the late Plumstead Lloyd, Esq., aged 24. --; London : Printed and Published b y MU RD G i YOUN , 01 - No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand n. the county of Middlesex.—Monday, August 19, 1839. EVENING EDITION. THE RIOT AT BOLTON COMMITTAL OF TWENTY-FOUR RIOTERS TO THE ASSIZES. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY.-The few particulars which have yet appeared of the riots at Bolton, though somewhat incorrect, are not much exaggerated. The town has cer tainly been the scene of very serious disturbances within the three past days. The riots resulted out of an attempt on the part of the Chartists to enforce the observance of the sacred month. The men apprehended for taking part in the riot, and committed to the Assizes, were James Tilling, 'William Willoughby (who had a pistol found upon him loaded with powder and two balls), John Merle, John Gill, Joseph Wilde, Richard Eastwood, Solomon Greenhalgh, Henry Parkinson (a youth), Robert Gillibrand, James Heywood, I John Pearson, Isaac Crompton, William Openshaw, John Holt, William Barnow, and Thomas Farrell. Yesterday the town presented a dismal appearance. All the shops were closed throughout the day, and none of the factories had resumed work. The hands at a few minor establishments began work in the morning, but were visited by Chartsts, who insisted on their leaving. Goaded to revenge, probably by this act of tyranny on the part of the men, some of the more timid of the tradesmen of the town, who had witnessed the proceedings of the rioters, and identified some of the most active among them, but had hung back during she early part of the day front giving information to the police, came forward towards night, and between about five and nine o'clock eight more of the rioters were ap,orehended, taken before the .Mayor, Mr. Robert Lemax.• and other Magistrates in the police-office, and after sti, an examination, commit ted for trial at the 'Assizes. Foul' of them had pikes found in their possession, the staves of vv, t tich were about twelve feet long. The names of these toe,rt are—Thomas Hey wood, Robert Bell, Daniel Bell, .its seph Bostock, James Morris, Edward Gledhill, James Shas vies, and William Bolderson. These prisoners were brois. -ht to Manchester during the night, and sent to Liverpool by the first rail way train this morning. Though there am 'eared to be no disposition to renew the riots during the Lia v, the streets remained thronged, and notices were issued 16 ) the Mayor in consequence. The town, however, has since remained quies`,. and a gentleman %vim came from there by the last train thi,s even ing, says business has been partially resumed. ROCHDALE. THE HEYWOOD AND MIDDLETON CHARTISTS. The people of Rochdale did not strike work on Monday, but those of Heywoocl. and Middleton, on Tuesday, made an arrangement that the Chartists of these two places should meet on the road to Rochdale, and proceed thither in a body. This arrangertent, becoming known at Roch dale, caused a good deal of excitement, and Mr. W. Chadwick,one of the Magistra tee, hearing of their approach. went out to give them the mee•t;ng on the road. He was accompanied by about 20 specfa. l constables, and a party of the 20:h Regiment, under Cart ain Horne. They met the Heywood Chartists alone, at ottl,v a short distance front Rochdale, the Middleton body not having formed a junction with them. On coming up to them Mr. .Chadwick requested them to return, but some of the leaders sad they had a right on the highway, and would not be deterre,d from proceed ing. Upon this the Riot Act was read, at.'d the military taking the advance with fixed bayonets, the Chartists be thought themselves that discretion was the bet.ter part of valour, and retreated in haste upon Sudden-bridge, the junction of the roads to Middleton and Heywood; Here the Chartists of Middleton were seen advancing, with music, and colours flying. These, however, as soon as they could understand what was doing, also scampered off back again. The worthy Magistrate and the troops kept up the chase after the main body upon Heywood, where the Char . tists again made a stand, and again the Riot Act was read, but without effect. At this moment a re-inforcement of the ` military, consisting of the 79th Highlanders, appeared in , I sight, and this was sufficient. The Chartists of Heywood have been quiet ever since, and returned to their work. BURY. The Chartists here kept holiday on Monday and Tues day, but on Wednesday were glad to return to work. One manufacturer, however, has refused to re-admit his men. He says they have kept holyday for two days to suit their own convenience, and now they shall keep holiday a couple of weeks to suit his They mustered numerously at a meeting on Monday, but Mr. Walker, the Magistrate, a -1 tended the meeting, and on threatening to read the Riot Act they dispersed.—Abridged from the correspondent of the Times. EXTENSIVE FIRE IN MAN- CHESTER. About half-past eleven o'clock on Thursday night, a fire was discovered in the shipping warehouse occupied by Messrs. A. J. Saalfeld and Co., Dickinson-street , Manchester, by some persons passing, who immediately gave the alarm. When the engines arrived, flames were issuing from the windows of three stories ; the roof bad ah - eady fallen in ; And the heat was so intense, that the cement on the walls and the stone of the columns cracked and flew in all di r ections, in pieces varying from one pound to three pounds! Weight each, to the great ;e crowd of persons who danger of the firemen, and a loft had assembled in front of the 'ling& There being no hopes of saving Messrs. Saalfeld's warehouse, Mr. Rose first directed his attention to pretecting the pre' mises in the occupation of Mr. Renn, organ-builder, which are separated from Messrs. Saalfeld't: warehouse by Back George-street, there about five yeds wid• e, and adjoining the warehouse of Mr. Machell, carrier, the fire having already reached them. He succeeded in cutting off the communication on that side in about half an hour, and then turned his attention to the warehouse adjoining Messrs. Saalfeld's, on the other side, in the occupation, we understand, of Mr. Robert Gardner. One pipe was taken into that warehouse, the roof of which was then in flames; and the fire rapidly communicated with the roof of the next, an unoccupied warehouse, and from thence to that of the adjoining one, fronting Mosley-street, in the occupation of Messrs. Ovens, Lamport, and Co. Pi▪ pes were taken to the upper stories of each of these ware houses ; and, though the slates continually fell upon the firemen, and severely hurt some of them , they remained playing upon the flames. At one time it was . the ge neral opinion, that it was impossible to prevent the whole pile of buildings being completely destroyed but, by Mr. Rose's method of getting the water pipes into the inside of the buildings, five stories out of the six of two warehouses—the one unoccupied, and the other that of Messrs. Ovens and Co.—r;ere saved. Two stories of that occupied by Mr. Gardnz.r were also saved ; but the warehouse of Messrs. Saalfeij and Company, got' the one in which the fire was origina2.ll discovered, was completely gutted. The fire w as sentunder backby two tn the c opcnkl police and n d yard. at O six five ne of remainedthe engine s playing all day upon the goods, and the b eam en d s , an d was intended to continue doing so d ur i ng th e w h o l e o f last night. The damage is supp ose d t o b e f rom 8,000/. to we re to 10,000/. Mr. Gardner, the owner of the build ings, was insured in the West of England fire office, for 3,000/. ; Messrs. Saalfeld and Co., in the Alliance f or 3,5001., a nd in the Guardian Fire-office for 1,5001. ; and Messrs. Ovens, Lamport, and Co. were insured in the Sun and Scottish Union Fire-offices, for 3,0001. in each office ; but the goods in this warehouse were all got out almost uninjured by fire, though damaged by water, and by being placed in the street. It is not known how the fire ori ginated, though we have heard it attributed, we know no t how truly, to the dangerous practice of cigar-srirk" ing. A considerable body of the borough polic e were on the spot in a few minutes after the fire Was discovered, pursuant to the arrangement made by the chief constable for such emergencies. About ten or a dozen of 'the old police arrived soon aft er wards ; and both parties were very active in prese rv i n g order, in which duty they were most effectually assisted by a troop of dragroons, under the command of Colonel Jackson, and a company of the 79th (Highlanders) , under the command of Colonel Fergusson. There was a great crowd of people assembled, but not so many as on some former occasions of the same kind, The most perfect order and regularity prevailed. A QUANTITY OF SECOND-HAND SIL— VER SPOONS and FORKS are offered for Sale, price. from 6s. 3d. to 6s. 9d. per ounce, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Goldsmith, Silversmith, tic. 47, Cornhill (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street), London. SHEFFIELD PLATED WINE COOLERS, A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing Silversmiths, 14, Cornhill, London (opposite the Bank of England), have for choice in their warerooms a Selection of PLAIN and ORNA MENTAL ICE PAILS, to which they wish to direct attention. The price of the Plain Tub-pail (now much in use), 81. 10s. the pair ; the Classic Vase (very neat), 10/. Bs. the pair ;' the Victoria Pattern, 151. the pair ; the Dresden C001er,.191. the pair, &c., all of whit.. are strongly mounted with Silver, and have Silver Shields for Engraving the Crest or Coat of Arms. A pamphlet is published, with drawings of the above and other articles of plate generally, which may be had on applies tion, free of cost. On the 15th inst., at Wolsey-house, Battersea. Surrey, Mrs. Newton, of a son. On the 16th inst., at Forest-hill, Sydenham, the lady of John Poyer Poyer, Esq., of Russell-place, Fi, zroy square, of a sop. On the 16th inst., at Highbury-place, Mrs. George G• Sandeman, of a son.