The Sun. — London, England, 1832-08-21 00:00:00

t ` THE BRIDAL ROUTE. - fro BRUSSELS, AUG. 19. 20 BRUSSELS, has just completed his matrimonial ex pedition. He arrived last night at the Palace of Lacken, after a pretty tedious journey, and as many civic fetes as would have exhausted the bonhommie of the best-humoured Prince in Christendom. After the very moderate festivities at Compiegne, his Bel gic Majesty took his departure from that town on Monday morning, having been a visitant there for precisely one week. His turn-out was not by any means extravagantly royal, his own equipage being about on a par with those which generally perform Your Gretna-green excursions—a plain close chariot, with a team of the best post-horses of this country, with its cart-harness and rope-tackle. The seve ral voitures which contained his suite were, of course, accommodated in the same style. The garrison and artillery of the National Guard at Compiegne saluted him as he passed from the town. Louis Philippe set out for Paris on the evening of the same day. The weather, which during the preceding week had been but too fine, took a very sudden and violent change that after noon ; a cloudless sky became rapidly overcast, and a most inclement night passed away "in thunder, lightning, and in rain." Byron or Buonaparte Might have drawn a presage from this freak of the elements. 'We leave it for the speculations of the augurs. Since then the weather has been unsettled, but promises to clear up again in favour of one of the most magnificent crops that ever waved over the plains of the Pays Bas. Their Belgic Majes ties proceeded homewards through the northern fastnesses of France, whose bastions and cause- Ways, and curtains, and moats, and half-moons, and What net, may have reminded them of 'Vauban, but excite in the English traveller the much more refreshing reminiscence of Corporal Trim and the jack boots. In passing through the luxuriant orchard-like country of Ham, they could Perceive from the road the low, but vast, brick round -towers of that fortress-prison, whose ancient walls read so unpalatable a lesson to crowned heads and their advisers. From thence their route conti nued through St. Quentin to Cambrai, at which latter place they rested, after a day's stage. At each they found the streets decorated with the tri coloured flags of France and Belgium, the whole po pulation en fete, to welcome them, and the Main's, and all the other provincial functionaries having the of Privilege, prepared to bore them with homilies cong ratu l ation.ill On Thursday they advanced to Lhe, where a simil ar recept i on awa i te d t h em, w i t h t e very aggravating addition of being compelled to re main up a ll n i ght at an entertainment given at the Hotel de Vill e . O n the following day they tcrossed the frontier, and found themselves on heir own territories, and amongst their own sub jects ; nor had Leopold any reason to be chagrined at the contrast between the two . count r i es, nor the young Queen to feel that she had been separated from La Belle France. No river, nor forest, nor chain of mountains or hills, inter phpts the great Flemish lain; two sm a ll o ff ices o f e Customs some quarter of a mile distant from each other, on the high road, alone indicate a change of region. The face of Belgium is precisely similar to that of France for some time after you enter on it, but it gradually undergoes a change. You howhere meet in it with fields either overgrown or skirted with pommiers; hedges begin partially to make their appearance, and, at length, you perceive a union of the richly-varied English landscape and the grand simplicity of the fertile expanse of agri culture, which is only chequered by many-coloured crops, laid out as neatly as the squares of a chess board. The inhabitants of the two soils seem at first also of much the same race at each side of the se parating line, but in this respect a change also soon occurs: French vivaciousness is subdued on this side the Scheldt,and amongst the lowest classes the women appear of coarser form, in which the neatly-turned geisette is almost entirely lost. In the army there is a palpable distinction, the observation of which must be most useful to Leopold. The young Bel gian troops have much to acquire before they can be compared in soldier-like air or manner to their half brethren of F rance . T he i r e lite, however, is nearer to Holland. The reception which his Majesty and his young royal bride received from their subjects was well calculated to make both very uncritical fo r the time being, and to clear off from his counte nance that rather ungracious coldness of expression Which it so habitually wears. Nothing could exceed the animated display of affectionate loyalty with which they were hailed at every step in their progress to their capital. Tournay was the first fortified town which they entered. It was de corated with a profusion of triumphal arches, and ornaments of the most ingenious device, all ap propriately formed of a cotton cloth, which is the staple manufacture of that part of the coun try, and which was dyed of the national colours. They remained here for the night, to recover / 1 4 rest Which they hadlost at Lille. Yesterday they came on through Ath, whose fortifications appear to be in the most perfect condition of any on this route, and from thence through the small towns of Gouengien, Enghien, and Halle. The elegance with which those latter places were dressed out surpassed all that went before them, and was, in truth, quite beautiful. Young fir-trees had been cut down in the neighbouring plantations, and had been erected about five yards distant from each other on both sides of the narrow but clean streets through which the Royal cortege had to pass ; these were con nected by palm-branches, interwoven with flowers, while innumerable similar festoons were hung across from house to house, each of which had, in addition, its own particular decorations, while all hung out little flags of the red, black, and yellow, which, contrasted with their white walls and the green foliage of the firs, had a most gay and s parkling effect. Every little hamlet near the high road emulated this display, and had its arch spanning the road, its National Guard turned out, and its Pavilion erected, beneath which were wine and Other refreshments arranged, whereof it was hoped their Majesties would condescend to partake; and In every instance the Royal' chariot stopped at such Points, and rewarded the zeal of the rustic assem blage with smiles and kind words. On the nearer approach towards Brussels their testimonials became more numerous gad expensive in their erection, and a i _ 3 evening fell they were rendered m ore remar kabl e °Y being illuminated. Crowds of persons from the capital on foot, on horseback, and in elegant vehi j'es, lined the road whi c h branch e d off to the Pe of Lacken, and conducted their Sovereigns to e termin at i on o f t h e i r j ourney, am id one cont i nue d cheer and waving of handkerchiefs, and, in fact, vcr y out ward demonstration of enthusiastic loyalty. i 4 , 41 this Roy a l progress h ad no other resu l t t h an to , i f e rtain thp etate of feeling in 13elgium towards its tan Soverei gn , i t would be most useful and impor srt. It h as proved the moat ardent attachment of ' u epeopl e an d of all classes to his person, and their . Z eal to supp ort him to every extremity against those Awho would leave him but a maimed kingdom. mongst the shouts of the bloused multitudes in the t o osso were mingl e d many cries, "To arms " and n several bannere an d i nscriptions were displayed such charitable sentiments • r oco/s intperht ifs f" 43-- "" 44 u s able lcs pro- Th e feast of the Stewards of the Cler gy did not take Sons of th e place this year, owing to the appre "e'l,ions entertained at the time that insult and violence Si W ould be offered to the Dignitaries of the Church who glat h e present, The feast je given at the expense of the ,a)tewards to the heads of the Church, the Lord Mayor and dermen &c ., a n d th e co ll ec ti on ma d e a f ter di nner at these usual annual m ee ti ngs average d 1,000/ per an num . • . he omission this year will be a serious loss to the charity, W hich is for the widows and orphans of clergymen. t. CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS.—The R ev . TRuaLow, Rector of Houghton-le-Spring, in the ,(41tity of D ur h am, has appointed the Rev. J. S. NicHoL, (il,"rite of Wooler, to the ministry of the new church at The Rev. G. TOWNSEND, M.A. vicar of Noah. Orton, has been appointed by the Lord Bishop and the ffa anti tid Chater of D Oicial f Allerton f Allertonshi p re, in the URHAM, peculiar the and s ff iritual or jurisdiction t he dio cese o f D ur h am . p BOROUGH OF LAMBETH. Mr. Tennyson, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Moore, and Lord Pal merston, are candidates for this borough. The number of electors registered for Lambeth is 2,083, and for the whole borough, including Camberwell and Newington, will be about 3,500. The friends of the two former have, for some months, been actively canvassing the elec tors in their behalf; and Mr. Moore's pretensions as a re sident have been long known to the inhabitants at large. A few highly respectable and influential individuals, however, duly appreciating the benefits, and desirous, more especially, to evince their gratitude to the Admini stration, who, " through good report and evil report," have conferred upon them the privilege, for the first time, of exercising the elective franchise—opposing firmly any ma terial alterations in the Bill, especially the motion of the Marquis of Chandos, which would have deprived the me tropolitan districts of the right conferred on the country at large,—have lately been induced to solicit Lord Pal merston to offer himself as a candidate. In a few days the signatures of upwards of 300 electors in Lambeth alone were attached to the requisition. The answer of his Lordship responds to the wishes of requisi tionists; his reply to the deputation, assuring them " that he highly appreciated this unsolicited mark of approval of his public conduct, which was no less gratifying to his feelings as an individual than flattering to him as a Mini ster of the Crown." His Lordship and Mr. Tennyson, it is believed, will be the successful candidates, the electors having practical proofs of their sincerity as reformers,— Times. The Marchioness WELLESLEY has left Ted desley Park, Staffordshire, the seat of E. J. LITTLITON, Esq., M,P. for Buxton. The CHANCELLOR has dismissed Mr. fIocH FORT, of Walshestown, from the commission of the peace, for presiding at an anti-tithe meeting at Lusk.—Dablin Evening Mail. SIR WALTER SCOTT.—The accounts from Abbotsford continue to be very gloomy.—Scotsman. During the great struggle between France and England, JEFFERSON characterised them as " the mam moth of the land and the leviathan of the sea." SONIERVILLE, the soldier, has obtained his discharge. A subscription of upwards of 3001. has been raised, in small sums, to enable him to settle in life. A bookseller in Paris being lately asked for a copy of the Constitution of 1814, replied, " Sir, I keep no Periodicals." " The Charter shall henceforth be a verity," said once a King. These words remind us of the village barber's sign :—" Shave well here for nothing—to-mor row."— Corsaire. PEN AND SWORD.—CulOilel HODGES, who commands the English brigade in the service of Don PEDRO, was editor of a weekly periodical in the metro polis a short time before he left this country. Among the unclaimed letters now lying at the Post-office there ie one with the following enigmatical su perscription :—" A Mester Mester Jonson, Sep-Mekeler Beforan Mester Chriestaen." Of all the crops of the present abundant season, that of barley is reported to be the most prolific ; in many instances the produce appearing to be double that of an average crop. CHOLERA.—We are happy to say that Hali fax and Huddersfield are free from this disease. At Leeds it continues severe, and Manchester is suffering greatly.— Halifax Express. MONUMENT TO GUTENBERG.-It is pro posed to raise a monument in Mentz, by public subscrip tion and the support of all nations, to the inventor of the art of printing.—Foreiyn Quarterly Review. COBBETT.—It isstated that COBBETT'S re turn for Oldham is certain. We long to see the old egotist in Parliament, not from the good he is to do, God knows, but for the sport he is likely to occasion. .—Scotsman. PETERHEAD, AUG. 15, 1832.—The her ring fishery here, this season, Ills been, with few excep tions, prosecuted with abundant success. On Monday and Tuesday last, upwards of 1,000 crane were brought i❑ each day. A PERTINENT QUESTION.-A little girl on hearing her mamma say she intended changing her dress for half•mourning, replied, looking up in her face with great archness, " Pray, dear Ma, are any of our relations half dead?" CLIMAX.—A lecturer on the history of chy mistry thus described the celebrated Mr. BOYLE : He was a great man, a very great man, he was the father of modern chymistry, and the brother of the Earl of CORK." —,elthenceum. BASINGSTOKE.--We had a good supply of new wheat at market on Wednesday, which comes very fine to hand, and met a reduction in price of full 4s. per quarter. In all other kinds of grain no difference. Bread remains as before, notwithstanding the fall in wheat. Lord Chancellor BROUGHAM'S motto, " Pro rege, lege, grege," is not newly assumed, as it would ap pear to be. It has been long borne by the family, and is to be seen in an old apartment at Brougham Hall, of the age of Queen ELIZABETH. Grouse shooting commenced on Monday last. The birds are said to be numerous upon the moors in this county, but are strong upon the wing, and ex tremely shy. Comparatively few birds have been bagged. —Carlisle Journal. About three weeks ago, at Litherland, a man named PRICE threw a boy who offended him into a boiler of hot water! The poor little fellow died in consequence a few days ago. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against PRICE, who is to take his trial at the ensuing as sizes at Lancaster. The most high, most puissant, and most excel lent Revolution of July, Queen of the Barricades, and Princess of the Three Days, is going to be married i❑ Germany forthwith :—already the people of the Con federation of the Rhine dispute amongst themselves for her hand.— Corsaire. A bottle of sherry brought up from the Royal George, sunk at Spithead, has, within these few days, been presented to Cr JAMES GRAB M, by the per sons engaged in working at the vessel; pieces of the wreck and other articles have also been presented to Earl GREY and Lord ALTiroar. Samples of new wheat and oats were shown in HAwick market on Thursday last. All the crops, which are mostly good, are fast getting ripe, and harvest will be general in a few days. The hay crop is parcularly abundant. In Hawick, during the last week, upwards of GOO cart loads (about 40,000 stones) were weighed.— Kelso Mail. BENTITAM.—The Edinburgh Review, talk ing of BENTHAM and the parties of flatterers and detractors which he had during his lifetime, says—" He will now have judges —posterity will pronounce its calm and impar tial decision; and that decision will, we firmly believe, place i❑ the same rank with GALILEO and LOCKE the man who had found Jurisprudence a gibberish, and left it a science." The carriage of Prince TALLEYRAND, on his way from Compiegne to Paris, was overturned with great violence at sonic distance from Bourbon l'Archam bault. The Prince was not hurt, but the Princess PomAzowsxi, sister of the illustrious PONIATOWSKI, who accompanied M. DE TA LLEYRAND, was so seriously injured that she had an immediate attack of apoplexy, and her life is despaired of. When SHELLEY, the poet, was drowned in the squall off the coast of Italy, his death must have come upon him and his party when they were quite unprepared. When found he had his hand locked in his waistcoat pocket, where he had in his haste, says Captain MEOWIN, thrust a volume of BEAT'S poems, showing that he had been reading to the last moment, and had not made the slightest struggle to save himself. DESCENT OF THE BISHOPS.—The present amialA and respected Primate of all ENGLAND chances to be the son of a poor country clergyman. The Bishop of LONDON derives his d e sc en t f rom a sc h oo l ma ster in Nor wich. The father of the Bishop of DURH AM was nothing more than a shopkeeper in London. The Bishops of WINCHESTER and CHESTER boast no nobler lineage than belongs to the sons of an under-master at Harrow. Bishop BURGESS, as all the world knows, is the son of that illus trious citiz en w i th whose excellent fish-sauce civilized men are gen era ll y well acquainted ; w hil e his Lordship of EXETER dates his parentage through a long line of heredi tary innkeepers in the town of Gloucester. Besides these, we have the Bishop of Baa , rot., the son of a silversmith in London ; the Bishop of BANGOR, the son of a school master in Wallingford ; the Bishop of LLANDAFF, whose father was a country clergyman; with many others, whom it were superfluous to enumerate. LINCOLN', ST. ASAPII ELY, PETERBOROUGH, GLOUCESTER, all spring from the middling classes of society.—Fraser's Magazine. COMPARATIVE CONDITIONS.—One of the greatest arts, says JOHNSON, of escaping superfluous un easiness is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of (abets o❑ whom the blessings of life are more bountifully bestowed, or with imaginary states of delight and security perhaps unattainable by mor tals. Few are placed in a situation so gloomy and dis tressful as mot to see every day beings yet more forlorn and miserable, from whom they may learn to rejoice in their own lot. On Sunday, the 12th instant, four porters, employed to carry patients to the cholera hospital at Killi neer, were sent to fetch a cholera patient from a cottage in the neighbourhood. Instead of hastening back with the sufferer, they carried him to the house of his landlord, Mr. CA RNEY, at the Red Mountain, where they threat ened to leave him unless they were supplied with whisky ; from thence they conveyed him to Mr. THomrsotes house at Killineer, hut upon their approach being observed the gates were closed, which so enraged them that they at tempted to pull them down. They then proceeded with their burden towards town, stopping at almost every house on their way, and demanding whiskey. At length they reached the hospital, but the patient was so far gone that he expired in half an hour after his arrival.— Drogheda Journal. It was formerly usual among the Battas (in habitants of Sumatra) for the people to eat their parents when too old for work. The old people selected the ho• rizontal branch of a tree, and quietly suspended themselves by their hands, while their children and neighbours, farming a circle, danced round them, crying out, " When the fruit is ripe then it will fall." This practice took place during the season of limes, when salt and pepper were plenteous ; and as soon as the victims became fatigued, and could hold on no longer, they fell down, when all hands cut them up, and made a hearty meal of them. The palms of the hands and the soles of the feet are the delicacies. This practice, however, of eating the old people has been abandoned, and thus a step in civilization has been attained, and therefore there are hopes of future improvement.—Life of Sir T. S. Raffles. DREADFUL CANNIBALISM IN FIFESIIIRE. —On the occasion of a public dinner at St. Andrew's, we learn from the Fife Herald of Thursday, that " as early as six o'clsck the Market-street was crowded with indivi duals, who were served up, to the number of 900, with beef, porter, and bread." The cause assigned for the President of the United States having placed his veto on the Bill for the renewal of the Bank Charter is, that the Members who control the affairs of the Bank are adverse to the Presi dent's re-election ; and he hopes, by dissolving the estab lishment, to deprive them of their influence, and, at the same time, to win over to his side the partners i❑ those Provincial Banks whose interests were injured by the rivalry of the National institution. Extract of a private letter read at the Inver ness Board of Health yesterday :—" Portmahomack, 13th Aug. 1832.—Cholera has made its appearance amongst us. Since the 4th inst. there have been eighteen deaths, of whom 14 have died since four o'clock on Satur day afternoon. Hardly any that are attacked recover ; some stand only nine or ten hours, and others 24. The inhabitants are half dead with fright. We have two doc tors attending from Tain. This trouble has made a wil. derness of the place ; there is neither herrings nor boats, business or shipping."—lnverness Courier, Wednesday. As instances how little the provision respect ing the payment of taxes interferes to exclude from the lists persons otherwise qualified to become electors, we may mention that the Blackburn Mail of Wednesday states that the number of persons disqualified in that borough, by reason of the non-payment of rates, is only 19 ; and we have been assured on, we believe, first-rate authority, that the number in the same situation in Bolton is not more than 10. So much for the restrictive provision of the Reform Act, where the people are disposed to do their duty to themselves.—Manchester Guardian. SUPERFINE WRITING.--Mr. ATTWOOD'S entry into Whitehaven is described in glowing terms in the Carlisle conservative Paper. "In the whole range of probable or possible circumstances," says the Editor, "we eannot conceive any thing more gratifying than this splen did reception must have been to the feelings of Mr. Arr woon. He was evidently moved by it; and while gazing upon his keen eye and expressive features, every line of which hears the stamp of intellect in legible characters, we could discern the shades of emotion passing over his coun tenance like the thin silvery clouds over Me full moon in an autumnal sky." DELICATE OPERATION.—AbOUt a fort night ago, a boy, nine years of age, son of Mr. Josxrar TAYLOR, of Middleton, found an iron button, which he incautiously put into his mouth, and whilst he was in the act of jumping, it passed into the wind-pipe, and thence into the lungs. The boy endured the greatest torture, as whenever be attempted to cough, partial suffocation was produced. Lust week, Mr. Dacxxx, of Middleton, as sisted by five other medical gentlemen, made an incision in the wind-pipe, with a pair of foreceps of a peculiar construction, which were passed six inches to the bron chus, but they could not extract tte button. The attempt was renewed on Saturday by Mr. DICKEN and Mr. SCIIOLFIELD, and, after about three hours, they succeeded in extracting the object of their search. The case has excited considerable interest in Middleton and in the neighbourhood.— Caledonian Mercury. JOHN HERRING, a blind pensioner, of Prim rose-hill, near this city, will make an affidavit that he was lately called upo❑ by one of Mr. MlLEs's agents, who told him that if he did not vote for Mr. MILES, he would lose his pension in less than two years ! The independent Englishman instantly replied, " I did not mean to vote at all, but now I will go and register myself for LANGTON and BRIGSTOCK ; for I am very sure neither of them would attempt to get a vote from me in this unhandsome manner.—Bath Herald. 's Edmonton stages, DREADFUL COACH ACClDENT.—Yester day, at nine o'clock, one of AIATTHEWS when racing with another coach, on turning a sharp angle near the bridge at Lower Edmonton, was upset. There were seven outside passengers, one of whom, R. SOPER, Esq., of Bury-street, Lower Edmonton, was thrown on his f ace , b y wh i ch his nose was split open, an d t h e rest o f his features shockingly mutilated by the sharp stones. His son, a fi ne young man in his 21st year, was thrown un d er the coa c h, wh i ch crushed him in a most dreadful manner. Mr. S ERENE, surgeon, of Edmonton, who happened to be one of th e passengers, promptly attended the young man, and found his left leg shockingly shivered. He was con veyed on a shutter to his father's residence in Bury street, where he remains with but slight hopes of recovery. Mr. WATTS, an outside passenger, bad his shoulder dislo cated. The rest escaped with trifling contusions. There were three inside passengers (ladies) none of whom sus tained any material injury. Loss OF SHIPS.—A correspondent of the Boston Gazette furnishes the following remarkable facts : —" From an examination of LLoio's Lists, from the year 1793 to the commencement of 1829, it has appeared that the number of British vessels alone, lost during that period, amounted, on an average, to no less than one and a half daily. We learn from MoaEAu's tables that the number of merchant-vessels employed at one time in the navigation of England and Scotland amounts to about 20,000, having one with another a burden of 120 tons. Out of 551 ships of the Royal navy of England lost to the country during the period above mentioned, only 160 were taken or destroyed by the enemy ; the rest having either stranded or foundered, or having been burnt by accident— a striking proof that the dangers of naval warfare, how ever great, may be far exceeded by the storm, the hurri. cane, the shoal, and all the other perils of the deep. During the last great war in Europe, 32 British ships of the line went to the bottom in the space of 22 years, besides seven 50• gun ships, 86 frigates, and a multitude of smaller vessels. The navies of the other European Powers —France, Holland, Spain, and Denmark,—were almost annihilated during the same period, so that the aggregate of their losses must have many times exceeded that of the kingdom of Great Britain. These numbers, we believe, very far exceeded what most people would have supposed. To this immense loss of ships of tvar and of commerce, the imagination must be left to supply the incalculable amount of wealth swallowed up with them, and the thousands of human beings who thus found a watery grave." On Saturday an inquest was held before Mr. thoos, at the Millbank Penitentiary, on the body of THOMAS VICKERS, aged 25, a convict under sentence of imprisonment in that institution, who died on the pre vious evening of an attack of the cholera morbus. Capt. CHAPMAN, the governor, stated that the deceased was tried and convicted at the Salford quarter sessions for stealing two sacks of oats from his master, for which offence he was sentenced to seven years' transportation.— This was, however, commuted to five years' imprisonment i❑ the Penitentiary, and he was received on the 30th of November, 1831. Mr. JAMES WADE, the surgeon of the Penitentiary, stated that the deceased Was Seized on Friday morning, hetiveen seven and eight o'clock, With a violent attack of the cholera morbus. He was immedi ately conveyed to the Infirmary, where every thing possible was done for him ; but he sank under the attack, and died about seven o'clock the same evening. He died of the prevailing epidemic. C,pt. CHAPMAN stated that it was very singular that a convict named JAMES TURNER, who was convicted with the deceased at Salford for stealing the two sacks of oats, died last Wednesday of the cholera morbus in the Penitentiary, and on whom an inquest had also been held. The deceased assisted to bear TURNER to the grave, and in two days after it appeared he bad been attacked and carried off by the same complaint. The Jury immediately returned a verdict of—" Died by the visita tion of Ga." Died on the 14th of July, at Old Windsor, THOMAS POPE, in his 97th year, who had followed the employment of a shepherd with little exception, from an age when he received twopence per day, and discharged the trust reposed in him with great fidelity and honesty. He was an example to others in the humble station of life in which he was placed, having brought up a large family without parochial aid, for which he only applied when his age rendered him unable to live by the fruits of his labour. His known good character procured him many friends, who supplied every want his advanced age required. At his particular wish his crook and bell were buried with him—the crook in one band and the bell in the other. He was followed to the grave by his family, and his master paid the last mark of respect to so faithful a servant, with many of the villagers in the mournful train. Died, at Ayr, on Monday morning, suddenly, Mr. ALEXANDER WHITE, harbour master's officer. The deceased was born on the same day with Scotland's darling poet, BURNS, and under the same roof. It may be re membered that a dreadful hurricane prevailed on the night when the embryo poet entered on the stage of life, and that he and his mother were removed, withing a few hours after his birth, from the bed where he was born to the house of a neighbour, for greater safety, as the cottage oc cupied by the parents of BURNS was reckoned insecure— but it is not so generally known that Mrs. B. and the infant were placed in the same bed with Mrs. WHITE, and the individual whose death we are now recording. Shortly after the removal of I‘lrs. BURNS and the infant, the gable of the cottage was thrown down, and fell with tremendous violence upon the bed she had so lately oceu pied.—Ayr Observer. DISTRESSING CASE.—On Sunday week, a fine young girl, of 15 or 16 years of age, daughter of DAVID Ross, carpenter, in Tarrel, parish of Tarbet, went out with a cow to graze. While engaged in tethering the cow, the animal attacked her, and drove its horns into one of her sides. She survived the injury a very short time.— Edinburgh Evening Courant. PERILOUS DORMITORY.—Some evenings ago, about twelve o'clock, as a gentleman was proceeding homewards along the New Bridge, he was surprised to dis cover a sou of Neptune, who had been indulging in some thing more potent than three-water grog, sound asleep on the top of the parapet wall of the bridge. The gentle man, assisted by another person who came up, firmly hid hold of the snoozing bacchanalian, and safely placed him on the causeway of the bridge, very much to his surprise, as he by no means could account for his having adopted such a dangerous sleeping place. Had he turned the least on one side, he must inevitably have tumbled into the river below, then at high flood.—Ayr Observer. MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY.—On Tuesday, as the quarrymen of Mr. CAMPION were clearing away some earth at the rear of Montgomery-street, they found the skeleton of a man within a few feet of the surface; a breast-plate, with " Castledermot Cavalry" inscribed on it, the buttons of a yeomanry jacket, a pair of spurs, the swivel of a belt, a cartouch box, a few old halfpence, and part of a pair of boots. It is thought by the people gene rally that those were the remains of a yeoman, by the name of COLEMAN, who so mysteriously disappeared about thirty-two years ago, from the Bear Inn (formerly held in this town), where he had been celebrating an Orange festival.— Carlow Morning Post. FATAL DRUNKEN FROLIC.—An inquest was held last night, at the Fox-under-the-hill, Strand, on the body of WILLIAM BULL, a smith, living in Gell's court, Marylebone. On Sunday morning, he was in toxicated at the above public-house, and he challenged any one to fight or swim with him. No one accepted his challenge, and he then swore that he would swim across the river for " a lark." His companions prevented him at the time, but he watched his opportunity, and having escaped from them, he plunged into the river. Being a good swimmer, be got three parts of the way over, when, becoming weak, he sunk in sight of his friends. Several boats repaired to the spot, but the body was not found for half an hour, when life, of course, was extinct.—Verdict, " Accidentally drowned." ANOTHER DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE Itivait.—About the same time that the accident happened with Lord CHOLMONDELEY'S sailing boat, on the river Thames, off El itb, and within a short distance of the the same place, a gentleman, the superintendent of a boat builder's yard, near Blackwall, (whose name we have not vet ascertained), was in a boat amusing himself with a fowling-piece, when a steam-boat passing by, he placed the gun between his legs, to assist a friend who accompa nied him to manage the boat, when the gun went off, and the contents lodged in his abdomen. He was immediately taken ashore to Erith, where a medical gentleman was called in, who pronounced the case hopeless. ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On Wednesday afternoon last a private soldier, belonging to the detach ment of the 77th Regiment, at present quartered in Stone house Barracks, very deliberately shot at a serjeant of the same corps, with intent to murder him. It appears that the man, who is a notoriously bad character, had been for his repeated misconduct ordered knapsack drill. On the above morning he came off the Dockyard Guard, and, soon after his arrival at the Barracks, lie asked the ser jeant "if he was to attend drill that afternooon?" The serjeant answered, " Yes, by order of the Captain." On which the private said, " Very well ;" and, on the ser jeant's quitting, he took his firelock and levelled it at him from the window of the room, but providentially the ser jeant, although unaware of his design (his back being to wards the man), suddenly moved aside, and thus escaped destruction. The soldier was of course instantly secured, and must abide the sentence of a General Court-martial.— De vonport Telegraph. OUTRAGE AT BIRMINGHAM.--Last Sun-. day evening, in consequence of a report that an old man, named BamoN, who died of the cholera, had been buried alive, a mob, consisting of women and children, assembled in St. Mary's chapel-yard, broke open the coffin, and carried the deceased on the lid to the work house.—An inquest was then held upon the body in order to allay the great excitement that prevailed. One of the reports was, that the deceased had been poisoned; but it was clearly proved that the deceased was seized with cholera symptoms, after eating two large half-boiled cabbages, and that he died of the disease. It appeared that a young woman, named PRICE, who bas been gene rally considered half an idiot, and who was attached to the deceased, had circulated the report, and caused the disturbance. We regret to say, that one of the witnesses, a decent female, named JarninaELL, in whose house the deceased lived, was assaulted by the mob after leaving the inquest-room. From the effects of the ill-treatment and fright she expired on Thursday. Several persons are in enstody.—Birntingham Journal. The following letter, which was sent to a re spectable grocer in this city a few days ago by one of his customers, will serve to give the public some idea of the means which are being resorted to by the Tory party in order to procure, or at least to neutralize, votes :—" Air. A---, do not for your own sake vote for Ault- CROMBY and JEFFREY next election, for it will hurt your interest very much, and it will never do you any good to help the Whigs --they are a despicable crew; but if you do vote for either of these people, then you may anticipate that no more of my custom—and you have had a good deal in your time—will ever reach you again. Keep this to yourself, and act prudently. You have a family, and will be far better off than meddling with politics." This is the body or text of the letter ; but ladies proverbially reserve for the postscript the expression of their real senti ments—En voici un e.zemple. "If you hrve promised already, never mind, but don't vote. If you have not, vote for BLAIR ; I'll inquire." Now without saying any thing super inquirendis, this is as pretty a specimen as one would desire to see of female morality. "If you have promised already, never mind ; but don't vote !" That is, be guilty of the most damning violation of honour and rectitude in order to save your " custom." Am,ang men, nothing short of a double-posted poltrean could have tendered such advice to an honest tusksman ; but women, when their passions 2re or.ce fairly engaged in any cause, and rhea these are excited by opposition, seem to overleap at once all barriers of principle, and to lose sight of everythin g but the accomplishment of the object op which they have set their hearts. Would not the writer of this letter, to use her own words, have " been far better off than meddling with politics ?" Three inn keepers have damaged Captain DUNLOP; it remains to be seen how many ladies are required to ruin Mr.: BLAIR. Caledonian Mercury. COURT CIRCULAR. A conference of the Ambassadors and Ministers of Russia, Austria, France, and Prussia, was held yesterday afternoon with Viscount PALMERSTON, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by the Russian Ambassador, the Prussian and French Ministers, the Baron de WESSENRURG, the Austrian Minister on a special mission, and Count MA STUC HEVITZ, the Russian Minister on a special mission. Previous to the conference, his Excellency, Monsieur VAN DE WEYER, the Belgian Minister, had an interview with Viscount PALMERSTON at the Foreign•office. The United States Charge d'Affaires transacted business yesterday at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. THE ARMY. (From the Limerich Chronicle of Wednesday.) On Friday Lieutenant-General Sir H. Vivian, Com mander of the Forces, inspected the 27th and depot of the 65th at Buttevant. In the evening he was entertained at dinner by the 27th Regiment, where he was pleased to express the great satisfaction he felt at renewing his ac quaintance with so gallant a corps. On Saturday Sir llussey left for Sir Hugh Gough's residence near Fethard, and thence he proceeded to Dublin. Captain Goldfrap, 60th Rifles; Captain Ramsay, 87th ; and Captain Lord Wallscourt, 33d, have retired from the Army. At six o'clock yesterday morning the entire of the 43d Light Infantry, and two troops of the 9th Lancers, left Dublin for Tara Hill, in the county Meath. The 50th and Slat Regiments underwent the half yearly inspection in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on Friday, before Major-General Sir Edward Blakeney. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TAT TER SALE S. Some important alterations will be found below. Ni cotris has advanced to 11 to 2, and Retainer to 9 to 1, with plenty of takers, who do not appear to be much frightened by his defeat at York. Julius is in force—. Margrave and Fang keeping pretty close him, although we did not observe that much money was laid out upon them. Perion is gone to 20 to 1 (no taktrs), and there is a re port prevalent that be is not up to the mark ; it is not improbable, however, that Nicotris, who is in the same stable, may have something to do with it. Beirarn is nominally quoted at 20 to 1, and 20 to 1 was also betted against him and Byzantium together: it seems doubtful whether they will go. 'We subjoin the closing prices 11 to 2 west Mr. Watts's Nicotris (taken) 9 to 1 agst Lord Kelburne's Retainer (taken) 10 to 1 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Julius (taken) 10 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's Fang (taken) 10 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Margrave 12 to 1 agst Mr. Beardsworth's Ludlow (taken) 14 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Trustee 18 to 1 agst Sir R. Bulkeley's Birdcatcher 20 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's Perion 20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Beiram 33 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Daxon 33 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Brother to Maria (taken) 40 to I agst Mr. Scott's Carlton (taken) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Skipsey's Physician (taken) 40 to I agst Lord Langford's Roue 40 to 1 agst Mr. Powlett's filly by Figaro 500 even on Nicotris apt Julius and Ludlow 550 to 100 agst Julius and Ludlow NEWMARKET, OCTOBER 2. MONDAY, 100. b. ft.—Mr. Osbaldeston's f. by Partisan, agst. Mr. Henry's f. by Partisan, both 2 yrs. T. Y. C. HOUGHTON MEETING, 1832. MONDAY.—Count Matuscewicz's Lawn Sleeves, 6 yrs. agst. Mr. Vansittart's Rubric, 4 yrs. A. F. 200. b. ft. FainAr.—Sir M. Wood's Lucetta, agst. Count Matus zewicz's Lawn Sleeve•. D. I. 200. h. ft. The Match between Hyder and Doncaster is off by consent. HEAT ON PACK, 1832. FIRST DAY.-Mr. Okaldestoo's Bilberry agst. Lord Lichfield's brother to Dunton. Two miles. 150. h. f'. The entire racing stud of the Hon. E. Petre will be sold during the ensuing Doncaster races. Egham Races take place on Tuesday next and two fol lowing days ; great sport is expected. PARTIAL TAXATION.—The principal, "tax the poor, but let the rich escape," is apparent in every branch of the revenue. Let us look to the Customs. The champagne, claret, and Burgundy of the rich, pay 14 per cent. Port and sherry, of which the middling classes occasionally obtain a few glasses, and one in ten of the working classes tastes once in his lifetime, pay 28 per cent. ; but brandy pays 500 per cent. Yet these articles are all equally the produce of foreign countries. Tobacco, almost the wily luxury of the poor man, is taxed nearly 1,000 per cent. ; and an Act of Parliament has lately been passed to prohibit its growth in Ireland, lest the poor man should obtain the weed untaxed.— Tait's _Edinburgh Magazine. DR. SOUTHEY.—I found him in the evening, surrounded by his books and family, the most simple and unpretending of men. He is in person above the middle size, but slender, with something of the stoop, and not less the air of an habitual student. He converses very rapidly, both in language and ideas. Indeed it is somewhat diffi cult to keep pace with his mind in its transition from one idea to another, consequent upon or analogous to it. lie asserts with great energy and decision ; but this seems to arise, not from a disposition to dogmatise, but from a na tural impetuosity and perspicuity of mind. He uses no gesticulation, but his features and his person are instinct with animation, and alive with nervous action.— Griffins Remains. THE HEIDENMAUER, OR THE BENEDIC TINES, RV THE AUTHOR OF " THE PILOT," " THE BRAVO," Stc.--" Mr. COOPER is one who evidently avails himself of the opportunities which travelling invariably affords the intelligent mind, of turning the stores which it accumulates in other countries to advantage. Although we have more than once declared that his forte as a novel writer is undoubtedly to be found in the scenes of his na tive land, the prairie and the back settlements, or on th a t element, the sea, which has b een t o him a second parent and adopted home, still in his Bravo' he gave e'uldence that he had not visited the ' Queen of the Adria' . ., e , i n va i n. The present tale fixes its locale in German.;its date the middle of the sixteenth century, and it moral (for it has words, is 'to re p re one),present went society shall itsth the r a d u i n t h a o r r :, faces, in the act of pass ingo.lvl, set of governing principl es to from thato i f the influence another.' lt„:4ll be, therefore, easy to per ceive that the principl`..-s here put in antagonism are those of the ancient Chn:.ch of Rome, and the reformed doc trines first broa,',;tied by LUTHER, at a juncture than which the records the human mind can afford none more preg nant with vital interest to all humanity."—News. CHILDREN, WHEN A STRIKE TAKES PLACE IN A FACTORY Towx.—When the strike extended to the children as well as the adults, the parents thought it far from being;the worst thing that had happened. While the committee shook their heads over this weighty additi. onal item of weekly charge, many tender mothers stroked their children's heads, and smiled when they wished them joy of their holiday, and bade them sleep on in the morn ings without thinking of the factory bell. It was some days before the little things got used to set strange a differ ence from their usual mode of life. Some would start up from sound sleep, with the question, " Father, is it time?" Some talked in their sleep of being too late, and went on to devour their meals hastily, as if their tune was not their own. It would have amused some people, and made ethers melancholy, to watch the sports of these town-bred children. One little girl was seen making a garden—that is, boring a hole between two flints in a yard, with a rusty pair of scissors, and inserting there'n a daisy, which, by some rare chance had reached her hands. Others collected the fragments of broken plates and teacups from the kennels, and spread them out for a mock feast, where there was nothing to eat. The favour ite game that was played at being cotton-spinners; a big boy frowning and strutting, and personating the master ; another, with a switch in his hand, being the overlook& ; and the rest being spinners or piecers, each trying which could be the naughtiest, and get the most threats and scold ing. Many were satisfied with lolling on the stairs of their dwellings, and looking into the street all day long; and many nursed their baby brothers and sisters, sitting on the steps or leaning against the walls of the street. HA N NA II BRAY, when not abroad with her father, took pains to stir up her little neighbours to what she called play. She coaxed her father into giving them a ball, and tried to teach the children in the next yard to play hide and seek; bot she often said she never before saw sttch helpless and awkward people. They could not tiv, - ;.w a ball five feet from them, or flung it into oc,;. another's faces, so as to cause complaints and es - y - 4g fits. In hiding, they always showed themselves, or came out too sQo.a, or not soon enough, or jostled and threw one another down; and the) were the worst runners that could be conceived. Any on, of them trying to catch HANNAIt looked like a duck run ning after a greyhound. HA NN AI( began by laughing at them all round ; but observing that her father watched their play with tears in his eyes, she afterwards contented herself with wondering in silence why some children were so unlike others.--EA very affecting sketch from Ails- MARTINEAtra Manchester Strike.) ent 10 91 t: r( k f I =A SPIRIT OF : ",JOURNALS. We find, in one of the erman Papers which arrived yesterday, the following paragraph, rela tive to a fact which has been very little attended to, and seems very imperfectly understood in this country He must be blind not to see, that in Germany it is less the errors of the Press, and the excesses of popular orators, which have caused the distresses of our country, than the encroachments made on our industry by the Custom-house system—by those Custom houses which were pretended to be established In the interest of internal trade, and which, on the contrary, have led to its ruin. If by a general Congress, or by specific negotiations, France (and England) should succeed in detach ing the smaller States of Germany from their submission to Prussian douanes, they would de prive that Power of.its chief political support." On this subject we beg to make a few observations, chiefly with the view of bringing before the English public a state of things, which, we are convinced, would excite more of their interest if it were better known. The common reader has long been aware of the political yoke imposed on the smaller States of Germany by Austria and Prussia—the two leviathans of the Confe deration; and their recent conduct in attempting to put down the free press of an enlightened people, and to destroy all the constitutional gua rantees of their rights, by a decree of the Diet, has occasioned an explosion of indignation in every free state of Europe. But the slow, creep ing, progress of their influence, particularly that of Prussia, in establishing, silently, a commercial thraldom,—the little acts of tyranny exercised at the smaller Courts to secure their concurrence in a surrender of the commercial advantages of their subjects,---the successful att em pt s made to filch from the petty principalities their dearest rights, under pretext of advancing their prosperity or of encouraging domestic industry,--the jealousies attempted to be excited by Prussian manufac tures against the freedom of external trade, as if it were an injury to the German nation in general,—and the artful casting of a net-work of Prussian custom-houses round the half of Germany ;—all these arts and intrigues escape general notice till the evil is consummated, and only excite remon strance under the feeling of their calamitous result. It requires no decree of the Diet to sanction such encroaclnements—it requires no protocol published to all Germany to announce them—it requires only secret negotiations and interested manceuvres on one side, and slavish compliances or short-sighted selfishness on the other. Were the result of Prussian commercial domination over the smaller States of the Ger manic body to be consigned to a protocol of the: Diet, and published as the authoritative law of the Confederation, we are convinced that it would be reckoned more tyrannical in its. nature, more destructive of political independence, and more injurious to general interests, than all the: decrees which have ever issued from the diplo matic Divan of Frankfort. Indeed, were the sys tem of Prussia universally imposed on Germany,, or adopted by all its States, the " Berlin decrees issued by Napoleon against British commerce would be more effectually realized in that part of the world by the Court of Berlin, than by the universal despot from whom our arms and our subsidies freed both Prussia and the rest of the continent, Let us briefly trace the progress of these encroachments, and describe th7 J ir present extent. Germany being divided, by the Con gress of Vienna, into al sovereign. states (king doms, principalities, or republics',, of different sizes, and sever a l o f th em h av i ng n ts conterminous boundary with foreign Powers, avld no outlet but but by passing through other German States, it immediately became art object with the smaller principalities, after the estalilishment of their league, to settle their comm ercial relations with each other. As part of their revenue is derived from customs, and as thes e customs could only be rendered productive by laws to prevent con traband, the multiplicity of custom-houses, tolls, and tariffs, on every little frontier, became asi obstacle to all free trade. The evil was manifs:st, but the remedy was difficult. Accordingly, we find that the discovery of a beneficial arr.ange. ment has occupied in 'vain the attention of Ger man fr.ir the last seventr,en years. Prussia a powerful, a m ar i t i me , an d S ta b te e s i m r.,g e manufacturing state, and having besides se veral of the 'smaller states actually surrounded by her territory, took the lead in these Ise gotiatior,s. But Prussia herself was not enl:ight ened in the principles of commercial polic:y. She in against wP..s a supporter of a prohibitory systci foreign industry, and reckoned her national prosperity only complete if she, could realize the absurdity of selling her mrAufactures to other nations without taking a . .iy manufactures from them in return. Acting on these principles, nothing could be more fatal than her influence in Germany, if she could prevail on the smaller States to be so patriotic as to adopt her sys tem, and were :Ole to enforce it against all the world but lierlielf. In a great state like Prussia, a prohibitive system, though always injurious, because it diverts industry into unprofitable chanHels, instead of allowing it to pursue the unerring instinct of its own prosperity, was pos sible without absolute ruin. In some of the smaller States it was ruin itself. Without going back farther than the year 1819, we find atten tion to the state and laws of internal trade recom - mended to the Diet; but nothing was then done, nor has any since been done authorita tively by that body. A commercial association was, however, formed in that year, consisting of De puties from Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Baden, Hesse, Saxony, and some of the smaller principalities, to consult on the measures necessary to promote internal industry and trade. This association met at Vienna on the following year, but did nothing definitive. It agreed to meet at Darmstadt in 1820. There it discussed a project of union, by which the States composing it were to hind, themselves to consume the products of no t o _ reign States which did not admit in exs;h ange the products of the soil and industry th e Al lied Principalities. This Darmstaut commercial Congress finally concurred in, two propositions, —first, to suppress the interior custom-houses of the commercial Confederation,—and, se condly, to allow the trade in grain over the whole of Germany to be free. These resolu tions were reported to the Diet, but called forth no general regulation. Nothing was done on the following year, though an occurrence took place with respect to the trade of the small principality of Anhalt Goethen, which showed the necessity of some speedy settlement of the commercial relations of Gemany, in order to save the independence of the more minute States from the dictation of Prussia. After successive fruitless attempts at a general ar rangement in 1821, 1822, 1823, and 1824, when a new commission was appointed, (but nothing was done), in 1825, in 1826, in 1827, the object seemed to have been for some tune lost sight of by the Diet, and the separate states