The Sun. — London, England, 1832-06-12 00:00:00

And nutsic in the same order aa ttt l , walked-to.tbegreund. The %caul!' ReFoirpeta petcceding to the left, and along the bridge, with mu►.ual cheering. The Reform Com mittee headed the procession till they saw their Chairman borne, wisest they drew up before his house so as to allow she trahea to convey their friends from the country a sham 4listance Irons the town. The people conducted themselves with perfect propriety. Not a single case o: riot took place, and by nine o'clock in the evening the streets were as quiet as upon ordinary occasions, the number who took part in the business of the meeting have ken estimated by military men at 4000, exclusive of the I:oats' crews and hystinders, who with the numerous spectators a‘sembled on the heights around, added considerably to the numbers and effect of the whole. ITALY AND THE ITALIANS. (From the Scotsman.) The following is an extract of a letter we hare received from a friend who spent the !ant winter at Naples, and who has since visited Rome and Flo rence. It presents some lively tketehes of the cha racter of the people : FLORENCE, MAY 8, 1832. The Neapolitan people are a curious half civilized, half savage race, full of life and bustle, making much ado about nothing, tremendous talkers, and endowed with voices shrill and sharp enough in some of their tones to crack a brass pan. Nowhere can you set eyes upon a heavy logger headed, open-mouthed, starving clown. Every body seems not only alive, but with all his senses about him, and the readiness of apprehension and acuteness of reply of the lower orders are remaikable; as well as their inexhaustible power of conversation with each other, an exercise which their love of the open air and idleness, leads them to indulge in to excess. At the same time, when these acute fellows come to the cheating part of their dealings with you, (it beit '' r carefully re served for the end,) their dulness of apprehension and stupidity are not less conspicuous. Appeal to the sentiment of justice and to the terms of your agreement, and you may waste the eloquence of Demosthenes upon their tympanums without find ing the slightest admittance of their errors. They dny nothing which you advance. They are too cunning for that. They let you waste your breath to your heart's content, and then, when you thick you have given them a home thrust and brought them to a stand-still, they coolly walk past with a gracious smile and return to their point as deli berately as if you had never spoken. Suspicion of each other is consequently as prevalent as the desire to cheat. Our friend D—, a gentle manly-looking lad, though a Frenchman, went in to buy something, price five or six franc. After offering one half, and higgling, as is usual, the par ties agreed, but, said the shopman, " show me that you have the money to pay for it before I give it." You never offend by distrust; and yet what a state of society, to be surrounded with lies, and not know what to believe! This feature, I am told, pervades the upper, as well as the lower and middle classes. The head presents a fine developement of the lower region of the forehead, or knowing organs—a sloping corona' surface, with good benevolence and firmness, large veneration, and deficient conscientiousness. Among the., propensities, secretiveness greatly pre dominal:es ; the others being not unduly developed. Ahnost always the temperament is vivaciou,, and hence every faculty When called into play comes out with force and freedom, se far as its organ will ad mit. Dark and dismal is the intellectual condition of the people, as regards education. The absence of all means of enlightenment, and the dePi ivai ion of newspapers leave the mass in a deplorable stare of ignorance. What do you think of Naples, with its 450,000 inhabitants, having a whole newspaper to itself, nearly as large as two leaves of a quarto book ? What do you think of its informing its readers that his Majesty, with becoming piety, went in state on the preceding day to pay his annual devotions and thanks to St. Genuaro, fer having arrested an erup tion of Vesuvius by a miracle, and saved the lives of his • faithful people ? In Paris, and in most French towns, Cabinet Litteraire is an attractive sign to the curious traveller, as it pro mises newspapers and journals for perusal at a very moderate rate. In Naples, it was the first thing looked for, and near the hotel, I saw one with plea sure. Next day I went in, paid my money, and was ushered in. I looked around for the news room, but no such place was apparent. I saw, in deed, a eapy of Galignani and ore of the Naples papers lying on the table, but regarded them as only the advanced guard of the main body, and was astonished to discover that they were the whole stock This was the chief or only reading-room. I was told that formerly they had French papers, but that the postage was now so great, and the pa pers were so often seized, that they were forced to give them up. Every thine" foreign is distrusted, prohibited, or heavily taxed, and every possible re striction placed on trade. The tailor asserted, and I am told with truth, that he paid four dollars of duty on the English cloth sufficient to make my surtout. Cotton is grown and manufac turing forced, but the produce is so coarse, that nobody that can help it will wear their cloth. The result is, that with a fine port, a splendid bay, a rich country, a dense population, and an admirable situa tion for trade, they have few vessels, and a harbour enjoying the repose of the dead, unless when the steam boats from France come in. Foreigners, and particularly Frenchmen, are most unwelcome to the government. D--, as a ur, had great annoyance before they would give him a pennis de ,sijour, and they gave it at last, only on Mr. S signing an obligation to be an swerable for hits as a peaceable man. If the school master be really " abroad," certain it is, that he has not taken Naples in his route ; but to make up for the want of him, the lottery man is omnipresent, and has a crowd of followers at every lodge. Every twentieth shop is a lottery office, and the more pub lic the place, the better it is, fur you will oftener find from ten tofifteen customers at one time than a smaller number, at least when the drawing approaches, which is once a week. Blindness is distressingly prevalent. Speaking of steam-boats, those here are immoderately dear. From .Marseilles to Naple. (.500 miles) you pay 240 francs without food. From Leghorn to Genoa or Civita Vecchia, 60 or 65 francs—the run being little more than fron. Aberdeen to Leith. Coals are not very dear, they are got near Lyons, and come down the Rhone. Tht boats are generally full of passengers, and unless heavy port dues diminish their profits, they must pay admirably. The Francis Ist, and Ferdinandu an regularly advertised as of " Custruzione Scozzese," and are fine boats. But I am allowing Naples to run away with me, and forgetting that my paper is tilling, and that you know already most of what I am writing. Leaving Naples, we traversed the Pontine Marshes on our way to Rome. No trace now remains of the brigands se formidable a few years ago, except thr little guard-houses within sight of each other, from which the Pope's valiant heroes watched anti too-booed the robbers. The Pope proclaimed par don arid employment to the repentant, death her( and damnation hereafter to the rebellious, razed to the ground the villages in which they lived, and effected what had defied the troops of Buonaparte. In Rome, however, he has not extinguished the use of the stiletto. Three months ago, a Dr. Thomson, received seven or eight wounds from a set of mis creants at a very early hour in the evening, and on, finding that he was English, they apologized for their conduct, having mistaken him for another person His life was in danger, but he ultimately recovered. Our friend, Mr. C - , of Dublin, was called to see him. The Roman people are de cidedly in advance of their Neapolitan neighbour. in civilization. They have less vivacity, and fuller features, approaching occasionally to the lymphatic. They have a more reflective and moral expression. The women are much finer (our friend M., you know, raves about them), and both they and the men have rich mellow and musical voices, and you know there is much virtue in a voice, and much ealthy merriment in its fullest exercise. The Pop. is a very worthy peaceable Christian, except when he takes into his head to stop the newspapers, which he did (lately. But I do think St. Veto would tnalvel, were he to come back to Rome, and, in entering by the Flaminian Gate, to cast .up tht corner of his eye on a very handsome building at his right hand, an there perceive, in bold well de fined chararttifsZY fqfficio della Reverenda ateteect Apo:violica." Certain feelings of incon gruity - between his, time, when men were called away - frnen " the receipt of custom" to teach Christianity and the present day, when his Holiness and all his Cardinals would leave their pulpit, and themselves sit at the gate, if they, could thereby get hold of a few more crowns, would naturally cross his mind: The people, by the way, are apparently more pious than they were 10 or 12 years ago; the churches are well frequented, end 'Sunday (externally) much liker our own, no shops being open except those of apo thecaries and provision -dealers. In Rome, too, the lottery is the ruling divinity. It is marvellous to see the crowds besiegi ng th e o ffi ces on drawing days, and the defences made against the pressure. All classes frequent them. It is an abominable and constantly recurring snare for the poor. As to an tiquities and the fine arts I need not write a word, when you have * * * at your elbow. I have not yet brought you the length of Tuscany, which presents a still higher race of human beings and a finer country, but I have lingered so long that I must close and leave a breathing space for the D— to present her own respects, and remain ever, your sincere friend, C. P.s.—Do you know what authority our Consuls and Ministers abroad have for taxing the signing of passports ? It is a mean abuse for well p tid men. At Marseilles I paid about eight francs, and at Rome a dollar, the English Consul being, I was told, the only one who charges any thing. The .:ustrian Minister stamps " gratis" alongside of his signature, to show that he is a gentleman, I sup pose. If our people were the ill-paid agents of a petty principality, such a practice must be allowed to pass ; but it is really too bad. REFORM MONUMENT. --.•. (From the Scotsman.) Our talented countryman, Mr. Laurence Mac donald, has communicated a suggestion to some leading gentlemen of the Reform Committee, which is at once novel and grand. He proposes that the monument to commemorate the triumph of Reform should consist of a colossal statue of the Goddess of Liberty, seventy feet high, placed upon a pedestal of thirty_ feet, making the whole height a hundred feet. The statue, suit ably draped, to be built of Craigleith stone, and the four faces of the pedestal to be covered with bronze figures in basso relievo, partly allegorical and partly portraits of the distinguished men who have laboured in the good cause, including his Majesty. The Goddess to have a lion couched at her feet, a shield in her left hand and a scroll in her right containing names and dates connected with the great event. His calculation is, that the cost would not exceed ten or twelve thousand pounds. We hope there will be enterprise enough in one of the two Scottish capitals, to adopt this bold idea, and give the first example in modern Europe of a species of monument grand and Imposing in no ordinary degree, and of which antiquity furnishes various models, some of which still exist. The two Memnonian statues at Thebes, are sixty feet high, and the six figures at Ipsambul are each sixty. five feet, though they are in a sitting posture. These, we believe, are all monoliths, or made each of a single stone ; but the skill of our modern masons in joining their work, and the distance to which the statue would be removed from the eye by the pedestal, would enable the artist to give his composite figure a harmony and perfection of surface which would completely conceal the multiplicity of its parts. The celebrated statue of Minerva, at Athens, was 39 feet high, and the still more renowned work of Phidias, the statue of Jupiter at Olympia, was sixty feet in height, formed of diversified materials, gold, ivory, &c., and therefore necessarily built, as it were, of a number of minute parts. The great defect of our existing monuments is their mono tonous character. A column, an obelisk, a temple round or square—behold our whole range, when we want something more imposing than a statue of nine feet high ! The pillar of Lord Melville—what is it but a capy of the London monument, which " like a tall bully lifts his head and lies"—and of twenty others strewed over our isle ? Glasgow has its obelisk—which is nothing more than the five-hundreth imitation of the Obelisk de Monti, or some other antique, all as like one another as figures cast in the same mould ! Copies of the Parthenon are already becoming wearisome. Let us try something new. Colossal statues may rival colutnns, and obelisks in height, with this advantage, that by changing the attitude, drapery and accompani ments, we can have a considerable variety of form. We do hope at any rate, that there are men in this city who have sufficient taste, spirit, and independence of mind, to give the project a fair hearing, and we cannot but esteem it an ad vantage, that we have a native artist bold enough to grasp such an idea, and who has already proved by his works that he has a genius fitted to realize the loftiest conceptions connected with his art. TITHES! TITHES!--TALLAGHT.--A BUL LOCK SOLD FOR Bs. 6d. !—Yesterday, a bullock, the pro perty of Mr. CHRISTOPHER MAGREEN, a responsibb farmer of the parish of Tallaght, after having been im pounded for a period of fifteen days, was sold by auction there, to satisfy a tithe claim of the Rev. WILLIAM ROBlN sots', the rector of the said parish, against the owner for the sum of 30a. In the course of the forenoon, Mr. SrunneeT, one of the police magistrates of Arran Quay, accompanied by Mr. J. FARRELL, chief constable of the division, and reinforced by a strong party both of hors, and foot police, repaired to the place. At one o'clock the bullock was guarded forth from the pound to the place of sale, which was, dose at hand. A man named Cone, gardener or labourer, in the employment of the Rev. Rector, acted as auctioneer on the occasion. A number of the country people were present, but, so silently did they look upon what was going forward, they could only be regarded in the light of an assemblage of mutes. Not a scold—not even a murmur escaped them. The bidders were strictly confined to the legal number—three ! namely, the Rector's gardener and auctioneer, the Rev. Pastor himself, and a man named MAURICE REILLY, a bacon slealer, living at a place called Glenisrnore, in the neighbouring mountains, and who appeared so mew h at a little more than half drunk at the time. REILLY offered but 8,. 2d., on which the Rev. incumbent advanced the bidding a groat, and the beast was " knocked down" to him. The bargain was, however, in the end turned over to REILLY, the successful competitor in the sale, under going the loss of the fourpence ! After the deduction of drivers' fees, fees of tile pound-keeper, &c. from the amount of the sale, the Rector pocketed the sum of-18d. ! —Dublin Morning Rigisler of Saturday. MODERN CHILDREN.—A real child would now be a prodigy. There are different sizes of human beings, from eighteen inches to six feet six ; but there are no children, They are all horn like Falstaff, with grey heads and great belies, and are dandies and fine ladies as soon as they can lisp. We never talk to children as the) used to be talked to fifty years ago, without coming to shame. The little things draw up, and show their accom plishments or knowledge of the world, in lieu of the bon-bonnerie of fancy with which we thought to treat them. They smile with pity at our talk of the Fairy Tales ; the) are but indifferently info, med of Puss in Boots; the) have seen Tom Thumb at the play ; they have forgotten Arabian Nights. It we would talk to a child now, we must look out for a person in a wig somewhere near on: own years. The last of tie Babies will soon be going tt , the grave at the age of Old Parr. The only real nurser) in the country is the House of Lords.— Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, for June. BRADFORD, WILTS, JUNE 11. The intelligence by The Sun express, that the Reform Bill had passed the Lords, caused the most lively joy it, this place but when the news came that it was the law of the land, the expression of feeling was most unbounded ; cannons were fired, flags were suspended from various win dows, and the houses decked with laurels, &c. The ringers, in particular, distinguished themselves; they im mediately, without any orders, began ringing and firing the bells, decorated the tower wi h 1 turels and banners, and in the evening brilliantly illuminated it. No plan as yet has been settled on, in what manner to celebrate the auspicious event, when a general day shall he fixed ; but the most approved is for every poor per,on to have a portion of meat, bread, and beer distributed to them, and the rest of the inhabitants to sit down to a public dinner, so for it to be a day of universal joy. Oa Saturday the Political Union cad a meeting of the inhabitants, when a petition to the House of Commons was unanimously agreed to, praying that the Irish Reform Bill might be made more efficient, so as to conciliAte and satisfy the Irish people. A petition to the House, praying that Mr. Baring's Bill might not pass, was also unanimously adopted, and has already received a great number of sig natures. The only subject of regret has been, that the King did not embrace tire op' ortunity of recovering his popuhtrity by giving the Royal Assent in person to the Bill. H ow _ ever, it is now law, and thank God the people know its value. CELEBRATION OF THE PASSING OF THE REFORM BILL. We rejoice to find that, in the the preparations for celebra ting the passing of the Reform Bill, a feeling of concilia tion is manifesting itself in different parts of the country, which must be productive of the best results—the lugu brious prophesies of the Ultra• Tories will thus be disap pointed, and the peace of the country secured from all attempts to disturb it. In this spirit the re'ormers of Car lisle have resolved to celebrate the passing of the Bill by processions and public dinners ; but, " out of respect for the feelings of some of their fellow -townsmen, and in order that the peace of the city may be strictly preserved, they do not deem it advisable that an illumination shall take place on the pre.ent occasion." At Manchester also, there will be no illumination : but the event will be celebrated by a procession of the trades, from which all flags and ban ners will be excluded which might have a tendency to destroy the harmony that ought to prevail on the occasion. A notice to this effect has been issued by the boroughreeve and constables. At Liverpool there will be no illumina tion. At Sheffield no illumination. At Derby no illumi nation. At Nottingham a subscription is on foot in order that the poor may be regaled with a substantial dinner. The Mayor, who is himself a tallow-cbandler, has issued a a handbill, recommending the inhabitants not to illuminate. At Birmingham there will be a festival, which, it is ex pected, will be of sufficient importance to attract crowds of strangers from all parts of the kingdom ; but here, also, it is understood that there will be no general illumination. At Plymouth and Devonport no illumination will take place on this occasion ; there will, however, be proces sions on a grand scale, a public dinner, and the poor will be supplied with bread, meat, and money. At Edinburgh many of the Reformers are in circumstances which would render it impracticable for them to comply with an order to illuminate their dwellings ; it is, therefore, recommended, that, nn the day set apart for the celebration, the " new freeholders will b~ content to let their political light shine over a substantial dinner." NEW BOROUGH OF BOLTON, LANCASHIRE. The note of preparation for the ensuing election has commenced in this town. Two candidates are now in the held, both on the liberal interest,—John Ashton Yates, El., and Col. Torrens, now M.P. for the borough of Ashburton. The former -gentleman has issued an address avowing his principles, and will proceed to canvass the electors immediately. Colonel Torrens arrived in Bolton on Saturday night, giving only twenty-four hours' notice of his approach. He was accompanied by Thomas Potter, Esq. of Man chester, as a private friend. He had been both in Bir mingham and Manchester, at the former of which places he hail had the " Union badge " placed on his breast by Mr. Attwood. At Bolton a large concourse of per sons were ase►nbled in the New Market place to give him a hearing. A great number of the prin cipal inhabitants were introduced to him at the inn, from the balcony of which be addressed the people. He first answered some objections which had been made against him as to family connexions ; and because be was a soldier. He then scent into a short detail of his princi ples, laid open his political conduct and character through life, declared his attachment to liberty, and his willing ness to give the Bill a fair trial ; but further stated, that if it did not give liberty and happiness to the people, as much as was possessed by the inhabitants of the United States, he would go for further concessions in the cause of liberty, such as would insure the results of good and cheap Government, and such as the enterprising people of this country had a right to expect. He declared himself the enemy of all monopolies, of the system of taxation which presses upon the industry of the people,---stating that his opinion was, that all taxation ought to be taken off pro ductive wealth, profits of trade, necessaries of life, and la bour, and put o❑ fixed property; as by no other means could trade and commerce be increased, profits of trade rendered remunerative, and the wages of labour sufficient for the proper support and comfort of the labourer. He declared himself against tithes, useless church establish tnents, and obnoxious and injurious imposts. He pledged himself to follow the course he had always pursued in po_ litical life, to produce good and cheap Government. Atter having made these general declarations, he said that if it was considered he was a fit and proper person to represent Bolton he should conceive a high honour was conferred Open him, and a most important trust placed into his hands. An industrious tradesman, Mr. Naisby, one who be lieves in the salutary doctrine that the people should have the control of theit own money, and that, if properly governed, the people would be better fed and clothed thau they now are, then read a list of pledges that ought to be given, principally relating to the abolition of useless places and pensions, putting Eif injurious taxes, doing away with abuses in Church and State, wiping off the public debt, and giving a further Extension of the suffrage to the people, and the ballot. Mr. Naisby did it in a good feeling, and put his pledges honestly. Colonel Torrens answered bins candidly, that he was prepared to go to universal suffrage, if good govern ment and liberty could not be gained without it. He only regarded the present Bill as a m eans to obtain that end. If it would not do so, it was as worth less as so much waste paper. He was friendly to the ballot, with an unlimited suffrage; but with a limited suffrage he thought open voting was the best, as it gave the non electors an opportunity of seeing how the syste►n worked, and established a moral force which might be of great utility in promoting that desirable end, the sending, good and honest representatives to Parliament. As re spected the debt, he would not be guilty of an act of rob bery on any party. His plan was, by remodelling tax ation to take the burden of providing for that debt from the people, and placing the charge on the shoulders of those who contracted it. Let diem pay it, and let the taxes be levied on them to pay the interest. He was the enemy of all monopolies, and had always exposed them. He was the advocate of commercial liberty, as he had been the advocate of civil and religious liberty. He was a soldierufliberty and not the soldier of despotism. The gallant Colonel was loudly cheered through his speeches ; and at the close, A large body of the influential electors then entered into a discussion of his Inuits as a candidate. The Gallant Colonel made to them, by desire, a further exposition of his vi ws, in a beautiful and philosophical address, which drew down repeated plaudits. He stated that he was not an avowed candidate. He wished to represent Bolton, because it was an important constituency. His public life was before them, and he said, without arrogance, that he had always been honest and consistent in the close of liberty. He had to be in London again on Wednesday' night, to vote on the Irish Reform Bill, and during the short time he stopped he should introduce himself still inure closely to the electors, and then they could take his pretensions into consideration and act accordingly. Colonel Torrents having an invitation to spend Sunday with Thomas Potter, Esq., of Manchester, then left. A number of the electors deeming his expositio n satisfac tory, then entered upon the question of his eligibility, and it was agreed to call a meeting of those persons who were friends to his return, for Monday morni❑; at nine o'clock, to consider on tl.e best means to be adopted to place himself in the situation of a candidate to represent Bolton in Parliament. Colonel Torrens returns to Bolton again on Alonday, and will call upon the most influential electors. He is ex pected to enter into further expositi on of his principles at the Exchange News-room in the course o f the day, and to addri 3s the people again at night. The experimental squadron, under Sir P. mal.coLm, is ordered to rendezvous in the Dawns. It 1. expected that its set vice will be this year in the North Seas. THE THEATRES. THE KIN G' S. Last night MnynanaEa's Opera, Robert le Diable, was, after much preparation, produced ; and certainly never have we witnessed an Opera so splendidly mounted, or one on the production of which so much labour and talent have been expended. The curtain rises upon the port and lido (strand) of Palermo, with a festive group of Knights, including Robert le Diable, exiled Duke of Normandy, and Bertram, a Knight of sombre aspect, supposed his friend, but really his fiend father. A Nor man minstrel is brought in and ordered to death by Robert for some liberties with his reputation in Normandy,. but saved by the lucky intervention of his affianced bride, with no less a commission than that of bearing to Robert the last will and testament of his mother. The damsel, Alice by name, is thenceforth his guardian angel, and the poor devil, Robert, is sadly plagued between his fiend father on the one side, and his foster sister on the other. The former wishes to make hint a sharer of his own infernal doom ; the latter would marry him to his mistress, the Princess of Naples, and the Devil is foiled by the woman. The demon instigates him to lose his money, his arms, and his horse at play; conjures up a Prince of Grenada for his rival and challenger, and pre sents to him a fugitive phantom for his adversary in a wood, whilst the Prince is proclaimed victor without fighting, and becomes entitled to the hand of the Princess, whom the non appearance of Robert has thrown into despair; but Alice obtains Robert an interview with the Princess, who not only pardons, but knowing his losses at play, very conveniently re-equips him. The Devil, again at his elbow, tells him his rival had obtained the advantage by dealing with in'ernal spirits--advises him to attack his enemy with his own weapons (in most cases no bad counsel)—offers to be his negotiator with the powers of darkness, and persuades him to prepare himself for the ceremony by an act of sacrilege, in tearing a cypress branch from the tomb of St. Rosalie, in an ancient Abbey. This cemetery is occupied with the tombs of a sisterhood of Nuns, who had forgotten their vows so far as to indulge in dancing, drinkinz, dicing, &c. Sze. &c., and their images appear carved in stone upon their respective tombs. The Fiend Father is before hind with the son, animates the stone into Nuns of flesh and blood and beauty, and instructs them to seduce poor Robert into sacrilege, " par leur poses gracieuses," in which these " imprudentes beautes," as he gently calls them, easily succeed. The Prince of Grenada, mean time, is at.out to marry the Princess, but instead of a bona fide Prince, he is only an evil spirit, the agent of the Fiend Father, who, strangely enough, forgot that such a bridegroom could not pass the threshold of the Cathe dral Church of Palermo. This convenient delay causes the devil's allotted time to elapse, and Robert, after a struggle between his duty to his fiend father and his love for his mistress, decide', as might be expected, for the latter, and marries her, after having seen his father car ri' d off, like Don Juan, in flames by a legion of devils. The opera was remarkably well performed. ASTLEY'S. This amusing little theatre was crowded last night in every part, and all the performances, which were remark ably well acted, went tiff with the usual applause. Ma zeppa was played for, we believe, the hundred and e'ghty second time, and did not appear to have lost any of its old attractions. A lion, tigress, and some infant ditto, have been added to the company, and are very creditable performers. Mr. DUCROW rode, as usual, in the most exquisite style ; and the evening closed with The Life, Death, and Restoration of the High melded Racer, founded on DIBDIN'S celebrated song. This was a jurnb'e of horses and had, quinatle, including attempts at a real horse-race and a fox-chase. SURREY. A new piece founded on the history of the brave, but unfortunate Flom, was produced at this theatre last night, and was eminently successful. It is needless to give any account of the plot, because, in its principal features, it adheres strictly to the truth of history, and that part of history is too well known to require illustra tion. Mr. OSBALDISTON represented Hofer, and was much applauded in some of his acting. In one part the cheering was most enthusiastic, but this arose not so much from the acting or the senti ment, as from the application of the words to the present state of the country. Hofer, in one of the conferences with his wife, who seems to have great influence over him, and after reminding her of the impropriety of women mixing in politics, adds, " a woman's voice should never turn a patriot from his duty." The words were no sooner uttered, than the house, which was full to the ceiling, resounded with loud acclamations and applause, which confined for more than a minute. Mr. VALE, who has been reengaged at this theatre, made his first appearance for the season in the piece, and met with the most flattering reception.. His representation of a Tailor, transformed afterwards by Hofer into a cowardly Drummer, excited great amusement. He sang two songs, made for the occasion, which were loudly en cored; and because, in the afterpiece, he did not obey the gods in repeating a duet with Mrs. VALE, the whole theatre was thrown into uproar, and the acing, for the rest of the evening, was little better than dumb show.— Some of the scenery, particularly that representing the Valley of the Inn, is good, and the piece altogether is got up in a way which entitles it to a good run. Two other pieces were produced, said also to be new : they might be new to the Surrey audience, but certainly one of them at least, Hallowmas Eve, has been often acted before. It would be a great improvement to lop off some of the scenes in this piece; the trriage-bed scene, in particular, is rather too strong for a modest audience. COBURG. At this Theatre last night a Grand Operatic Tale of Enchantment, called Thc Ebon Wand, or the Charmed Man and the Charming Woman, met with decided suc cess. The heroine, Arbelia (Miss WAT,ON) the pos sessor of the ebon wand, is anything but a charming woman, as the term is commonly understood. She charms her lover, not to say out of his wits, but actually out of his flesh and blood, transforming him into a marble statue, in revenge for his preference of another lady. But by the assistance of a genie called Orion, and some half-dozen good natured fairies, the Charmed Man is relieved from the sp,ll ; and after numerous adventures and miraculous escapes from the tricks and plottings of magicians, wicked spirits, gnomes, and a spiteful woman, he is restored to liberty, and at length is united to the lady of his heart, in the " Golden Palace of Orion," and in the presence of a splendid assemblage of fairies and immortals of every sort. The scenery introduced in this piece deserves the highe-t praise, and the feats of enchantment have a good deal of novelty in them, and were, for the most part, cleverly ex ecuted. In the Pilot, which followed, Mr. T. P. COOKE male his first appearance this season in his favourite part, Long Tom Cdfin, which is one of a dies of characters in the acting of which he has no rival. The entertain ment concluded with a new drama, called The Fatal Duel of the Clads. It was received with much favour, and was given out for repetition amidst great applause. Q UEEN' S. The perform inces at this theatre consisted of Clari, Rosina, and the Brigand—a bill which we should have thought had too much of the for jours perdrix in it to do honour to Whit-Monday but probably the manager knows best, for a full pit and gallery honoured his enter tainment with their presence. One of two things, how ever, is quite certain ; he selected these pieces either to oblige his audience or to oblige us : if the former, he suc ceeded in eliciting their applause—if the latter, we beg to give him our best thanks, and in return to wish him plenty of houses such as that of yesterday. STRAND. The entertainments at this delightful little theatre seem to progress in public estimation. Of all the singers of the ballads, commend us to Mrs. WAYLETT, who has a voice whose echoes thrill to the heart. Her ballad of " Kate Kearney," which she introduces in Midas, while per sonating Apollo, appeared to give general delight; for it would have willingly been encored a third time, had not regard for the exertions of the lady prevented. She was also deservedly encored in " Pray, Gosdy, please to moderate the rancour," &c. FortEsTER is gaining more c onfidence in his own power. Miss CRISP and Miss Dix are efficient aides-de-camp of Mr. WAYLETT ; and in low comic characters, MITCHELL is inferior to few. Of many of the other dramatis personce (except, perhaps, Wir.- LlAms), it is an indulgent mercy to he silent. Damp Beds appears to he a great favourite : for the bills tell us we are to have Miss Cars? anti Damp Beds every night— an odd conjunction. Two new farces will be produced here this week, and two ❑ext. SADLER'S WELLS. This Theatre opened last night for the summer season, under the new management of Mrs. FITZWILLIAM and Mr. W. H. `ViLLIAMS • There was a strong company, and the enter tainments gave the fullest satisfaction to the audience,whieh was as numerous as the theatre could contain. 110 Y AL CLAI?ENCE. This pretty little theatrewasopened last night under a new management, in consequence, as the bill stated, of the sudden and unexpected change, by which a majority of the performers of Sadler's Wells were deprived of their situations in the midst of the season. The bill went on to express a hope that their premature dismissal woold hr taken into consid era ti on by a lib era l pu bli c . If th e y con tinue to deserve support from the inhabitants of that part o' the town, as well as They deserved it last night, it ought to be afforded. The entertainments went off with great ap. plause, and the house was well filled. WINDSOR, JUNE 11. Yesterday the following personages had the honour of dining and spending the evening with their MaJF.sTiEs : The Hon. and Rev. Dean of WINDSOR, the Rev. Dr. GOODHALL and Mrs. GOODHALL, Mrs. HOBART, Colonel LYGON and his Lady, Colonel BOWATER and his Lady, and the Rev. Dr. MARKHAM. After dinner their MA JESTIES, with their visitors and suite, retired to the Water loo Gallery, which was brilliantly lighted up on the occa sion, where they partook of tea, for the first ti:ne of its being occupied, as it is not yet in a state of completion. The bands of both regiments, in their full uniform., were stationed in the ealleries at each extremity of the chamber, and on their MAJxsztEs' entering played " God save the King," and continued, during the stay of the Royal party, to play alternately several martial airs and other pieces of music. The company were joined at eight o'clock in the evening by Lady and Miss GORE. After tea the company repaired to the grand drawing oroom, where they passed the remainder of the evening ; her MAJESTY'S private b ind being stationed in the music room, which adjoins the drawing-room. This morning his MAJESTY took an airing in his pony phaeton. This afternoon, at three o'clock, the carriages and saddle-horses were ordered at the Castle ; and, should the weather prove favourele, it is their MasEsnes' intention to take their accustomed airing. Baron OMPTEDA, the Hanoverian Minister, arrived this forenoon at the Castle, and had an audience of his MAJESTY, and left in the afternoon for his residence in town. To-morrow their MAJESTIES and suite will honour Dr. GOODHALL, the Provost of Eton, with their company, where an elegant collation will be prepared fur their re ception, previous to their attending the Eton Montem. Notwithstanding the unravourahle state of the weather, much company continues to arrive. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND went to Kew on Sunday afternoon, and returned to town in the evening. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER and the Princess AUGUSTA visited their Royal Highnesses yesterday, at their residence in St. James's Palace. Prince GEORGE of Cumberland, accompanied by his preceptor, the Rev. Mr. JELF, left town yesterday afternoon, on a visit to their MAJESTIES at the Palace at Windsor. The Russian and French Ambassadors, the Prussian Minister, and the Baron DE WESSENBERG (the Austrian Minister on a special mission), and Count AIATUSZEWIC (on a special mission from Russia), assembled yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office, and held a conference with Viscount PALMERSTON. Mr. Col.QuHouN, the agent for St. Vincent, transacted business yesterday at the Co!onial-office. Tile Marquess of LANSDOWNE visited Viscount PA 1.- MERSTON yesterday. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Sir John Dalrymple, Bart., at the Burlington Hotel, from Scotland ; Messrs. Benyon and Miss Benyon, at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle.street, from Leeds ; Colonel Robins, at ditto, from a tour; Mr. and Mrs. Arcos and family, at ditto, from the Continent; Sir W. Heathcote, Bart., from his seat in Hants; Mrs. Istead, at the Coburg Hotel, from her seat in Northamptonshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Langton, in Dover-street, from Cheltenham; Captain Locke, at Paine's Bath Hotel, Ar lington-street, from Brighton; Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, in Harley-street, from the Continent; Sir Henry and Lady Pynn, in Welbeck-street, from Cheltenham. DEPARTURES. The Marquess and Marchioness of Lansdowne, for Rich mond; the Marquess of Northampton, from the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, for his seat, in Northamptonshire; Mrs. Smith and family, from Portland place, for their seat, Tring Park, Herts ; Lord George Lennox, from the Royal Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Goodwood, Sussex ; Rev. J. Brook, from ditto, for Cambridge; J. Wyld, Esq., from ditto, on a tour; Mr. and Mrs. North, from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle street, for Hastings; Captain Parsons, from Paine's Bath Ho tel, Arlington street, for Cheltenham; W. Hawkins, Esq., from ditto, for Oxford. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH NOBILITY. —The new and much enlarged edition of Mr.. BURKE'S History of the Peers and Baronets of the United Kingdom, which has at length appeared, contains upwards of 1,500 engravings of Arms, &e., which are for the first time in corporated with the text in a new and very improved man ner ; but the most remarkable and interesting embellish ment is a fine head of his present MAJESTY, from Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE'S celebrated drawing, engraved, by permission, expressly for this work. The Navy Board and the Victualling Board terminated their existence on Saturday, when the patents by which they were constituted expired. In future, the business appertaining to each of these establishments will be transacted at the Admiralty, by which an immense saving will accrue to the country. This desirable change has been effected by his Majesty's present Government. One of the complaints made by Mr. CROKEft on the bringing up of the Reform Bill was, that the boun daries and constituency of Tamwortb have been enlarged. This is Sir Rog PEEL'S own borough, and though the Right Hon. Baronet has too much tact to put biro ell forward to make the complaint, even the increase of his own influence, it is clear, does cot please him IMPORTANT TO WITNESSES.—The taxing officers of the Court of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, have agreed on the following scale of payment to witnesses :—For travelling expenses per mile, one way, from Is. to 75.; journeymen and labourer, per day, ss. to 15s. ; tradesmen and farmers, 103. to 15s. ; auc tioneers and accountants, 10s. 6d, to a guinea; gentlemen, bankers, merchants, &c., if in London, one guinea only ; if at Assizes, on guinea per day; professional men, one guinea to two guineas ; attorney's clerks, 15s. to a guinea ; females, according to their station in life, ss. to 20s. For these allowances witnesses are compelled to attend ; hut the taxing officers have not said who is compelled to pay. STATE OF CRIME IN BIRMINGHAM.—It is a singular fact, that during the extraordinary excite ment which has prevailed in this town ever since the in troduction of the Reform Bill into Parliament, but mote especially since the late resignation of Lord GREY, there has bee❑ less crime committed in this town, as evidenced by the small quantity of cases brought before the magis trates, than has been known for many years past. Not withstanding the !Jousts have been on so many occasions deserted, and the public streets crowded, scarcely any in• stance of burglary, pickpocketing, or even the most trivial disorder has taken place.—Birmingham Journal. HEXHAM GLOVE TRADE.—The glove trade of Ilexham, which is the stsple trade of the town, was (luring part of the last winter very brisk ; and the manu facturers having extensive orders on band, the workmen availed themselves of the opportunity of effecting an ad vance in their wages, which was conceded for the tune without hesitation. A few weeks after, orders were sud denly and entirely countermanded ; and then it was deter mined on the part of the masters to repeal the late advance (which though not very considerable was quite uncalled for) and to make the wages such as they bad been for several years preceding. This proposition was rejected by the workmen ; and the consequence was a strike, which, after about three months' continuance, has just ended in their submission to the terms of their employers. It is to be regretted that a spirit of insubordination so ge nerally exists amongst the working &asses, even where no wish exists on the part of the masters to do them the slightest injustice. Is it possible that men should be so misguided as to think, that the Reform Bill is to free them from the obligation of discharging relative duties? — Newcastle Chronicle. We understand that a few days since, just as a boat freighted with iron and other articles had turned the sumit of the inclined plane, on her descent at Boonton Falls, the chain broke, and the car being thus freed from the restrain•s of machinery, descended to the foot of the plane with great speed, giving the boat such a hasty plung, into the water, that when she rase on the swell thus created, it carried her over the tow-path at the bend of the , where they canal near the plane, and precipitated her down a rock) remarkable part of the precipice of about two hundred feet, where she now lies a m on board, a woman heap of ruins not worth picking up. So high was s h e raised by the swell, and so rapid her flight, that she scarcely material injury. The touched the tow-path or any thing else, until she struck any material case.--New York upon a rock thirty or forty feet below the surface of the canal, and broke in two near the ocennstrheo;retthoewtiko d p o ir parts sn t t t o e 7 n . y lie. i 4 continued that The there mostto descendw incredible ere fo four ra personso a n n among the re and three children, who went down the precipice with the t b ch o ae a p ;. t , pa neither liannae ,n d wh o ha f i whom nehd . is frequentlyrr ce probably i vei went e a n n t Papa, May 12. I sECON EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONIII6N GAZETTB THIS EVENING. ADMIRALTY, JUNE 9, 1832. •His Majesty having been pleased to revoke h is Letters Patent, constituting Commissioners for con ducting the Affairs of the Navy, Victualling, and Sick and Hurt Bowls, all Letters on Public. Service, and all Documents of whatsoever description from Public Officers relating to the Naval Service, heretofore addressed to the Commissioners of the Navy and Victualling, or t 0 their Secretaries, whether from Officers of the Navy in or out of Commission, or in any of the Civil or Marine Departments of the Navy, or from Individual.; u pon Naval Business, are to he addressed henceforward to the Secretary of the Admiralty. (Signed) JOHN BARROW. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. WILLIAM WRIGHT, New Windsor, Berkshire, grocer. '— BANKRUPTS. JACOB HUBBARD, Carpenters' Arms, Bridport.place, Nei North road, Hoxton, victualler, to surrender June 2t, and July 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Makinson and Saw ders, Temple; Graham, Copthall-buildings, Throgmorton-stree t t Londoii. JOHN WORSELDINE and WILLIAM THOMAS, Castle. _A yard, Castle-street, Holborn, c a rpe n t ers , J u n e 22, a t ten, a n d July 24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turner, Ne w City Chambers, Bishopsgate-street, London; Wilkinson, Vicar age-house, Colcmaii-street. JOHN PIKE, Hope-terrace, Shepherd's-buah, Middlesex!, baker,June 20, at one, and July 24, at eleven, at the Court 0 , Bankruptcy. Bousfield, Chatham.place, Blackfriars ; Riching 6 Staines. GEORGE GINGELL, Stroud, Gloucester victualler, Jun e 26 and July 24, a t f our , a t th e Ram Inn, Stroud. Read, and S,,n, Serjeant's-inn, Fleet-street; Clutterbuck, Painsworth - JOHN RICHMOND, Great Grimsby, Lincoln, surgeon, July 3, and 4, at six, at the Granby Inn, Great Grimsby. DaubneY. Great Grimsby; Constable and Kirk, Symond's-inn Chance* . lane. JAMES BETHUNE BOSTOCK, Wenlock-basin, Middle sex, screw-mantnacturer, June 21, at twelve, and July 24. at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Williams and Bethell, coin'. inn-fields. WILLIAM WHITE, Regent-street, ironmonger, June at two, and July 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Dods , Northumberland-street, Strand. THOMAS THOMAS, Osnaburgh-street, Regent's-park , builder, June 26, at halt past twelve, and J u l y 24 , at t we lve, at the s ofAComurtEL ROBERTS, Red Bankruptcy.ditch, Baynes, tlemept' s-inn. SAMUEL Worcestershire, drapers June 2.), 26, and July 21, at eleven, at the Crown Hotel, wor cester. Lowndes and (catty, Red Lion-squar e , L on d on ; Cress well, Redditch. j tWIL LI A M M'CA PIN, Belfast, provision-broker, June 2 4 and July 24, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, Kings Arms-yard, Coleman-street; Dunn and Wordsworth, Thrrad needle-street. JOHN CLARKE, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, corn dealer, June 20 and July 24, at eleven, at the Cross Keys Inn, St. Neots, Huntingdonshire. Bays, Potton, Bedfordshire; Price and Wakeling, St. John-square, Clerkenwell. GEORGE 13A1.tEHEAD, Norton, Yorkshire, coal-merchant , June 27 and July 24, at the White Swan Inn, Goodramgates Yorkshire. Hicks and Marris, Gray's Inn-square; Walkers, New Mahon. JOSEPH JACKSON, Bingham, Nottinghamshire, nailer, June '26 and July 24, at one, at Radenhurst's Royal Hotel, Bit• mingham. Norton and Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square ; Stubb6' Birmingham. THOMAS LOCKETT and CHARLES PENSWICH, Maly chester, June 22, 23, and July 24, at ten,. at the Star Inn, Man' chester. Makinson and Sanders, Temple,:London ; Hadfield , Manchester. HENRY WOOD, Bristol, innkeeper, .June 22, and July 2 4, at two, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol. Adlington, Gre• gory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London; Cary and Croth Bristol. JAMES ASPINALL, Liverpool, Banker, July 4, 6, and 2 4,, at one, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool. Hinde, Liverl pool. SAMUEL COLLIER, sen. and SAMUEL COLLIER, jun:, Witney, Oxfordshire, June 22, at one, 23, and July 20, at del ven, at the Staple Hall Inn, Wituey. Westell, Witney; der, Clement's Inn, London. • • WILLIAM SEDGWICK, Manchester, linen-merchant. June, 28, 29, at nine, and July 24, at one, at the Palace Inn , Manchester. Johnson and Weatherall,Temple, London; Hitch cock, Manchester. JOHN GOULDEN, cornfactor, York, June 26, 27, and July 24, at eleven, at the Office of Messrs. Blanchard and Richardson. solicitors, York. Williamson, 7, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Blanchard. and Richardson, York. , HAMBURG PAPERS. HANOVER, JUNE s.—The first Chamber of the Estate of the kingdom has now for its President Al. Privy Coun• cellor Von der Decker, and the Second Chamber M. Von Rutnann ; the former Deputy of the.Egoestrian Order o f Bremen, the later of the city of Hanover. A very long Royal rescript, dated London, May 11, has been laid be• fore the Estates. It relates to the improvements to be made in the Constitution, and explains at great length the views of his Majesty's Government, commencing with the opening speech of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge. CARLSRUHE, JUNE 3.—Several Journals of different parts of Germany have stated almost simultaneously that the Sth corps of the army of the German Confedera• tion will shortly be assembled and stationed in the Brisgau, and that Austrian troops are to occupy the Palatinate. These statements are wholly fictitious. We must re' quest our readers, as en a former occasion, to give ne credit to such reports, as they are manifestly contrived to inspire fear, and thus to cause a fermentation in the minds of peaceable citizens.— Carlsruhe Gazelle. KIEL, JUNE 6.—One of the "Experienced Members' (so the gentlemen summoned by the King to report oa important changes in the Constitution are caller]) bas written from Copenhagen to a friend in Holstein, that he cannot comply with his wish of giving;him a detailed 0' count of their proceedings, as he h.) been made t o pro mise secrecy; be believes, however, that he may say that the proposals of the Government are far more liberal than he had any hopes of obtaining. HEIDELBEItO, MAY 29.—The • St'uttgard Gazette gives, under this head, a very unfavourable account of the proceedings of the fete at Hambach, which it says folly justified the apprehension of the filen& of peace, o f the country, and of legal order. The' Speeches of Sobel , ' pfieffers, fir exceeded every thing that had before been heard in the most revolutionary countrie' s 9 from the tribune, in the clubs, or in the journals. Above all the others Dr. Wirth was distinguished, who not onlY equalled, but surpassed Marat in shameless effrontery, opi nions, and &elaination, so much so that he frightened hi', comrades, and was not chosen a member of the genera , German Committee, which was formed during the festivals to direct the measures resolved upon. He brandishe d the sabre, which he had received as a complimen t :, crying out " Liberty and equality.!" He called a" s aterrified iheard the German Princes traitors, and denounced them as suc h to their subjects. The intoxicated band loudly applaude d, • while Speeches, gs all 80 well-disposed n at the table where Wirth and his associates sat : even Born e did not venture to join. Itztein and many Deputies of ; Baden remained passive, highly disapp rov i ng o f much of and toasts person in e the r em e i a r spt w this er e e e what they saw. Deputies of the Bavarian Opposition openly showed their dissatisfaction; many of the most vin - 1 lent Liberals shudder sin ce th e i r return at t h e l angua ge 0 „ those speakers, anti others congratul a t e themselves on o° ' having participated in an assembly at which insurrecti on and civil war were considered by part of the compa n y (certainly not the most numerous) as very easy and deals' able things. FROM THE MAINE, JUNE 4.—ln Frankenthall, Den k ' hiem, and Deux Punts, there have been troubles, in con' sequence of the excitement at Hambach. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, JUNES.-13. 13%; two months. 13. 12. CHRISTIANIA, MAY 30.—Three months, :6 42. BERLIN, JUNE a—Three mouths, 6. 28N,. STOCKHOLM, JUNE I.—Ninety days, 14 10. BREMEN, JUNE s.—Two months, 61 7. HAMBURG, JUNE B..—BORSEN HALLE, HALT-I'AS! Two O'CLOCK. —The greater part of the wheat brougl" into our market this week has been exported to Franc' Our own consumers also bought freely. Of rye the 57 rivals have been trifling, and higher prices demanded' During the last six days of passed the Sound, of which nine Were b oun d f or British' Ind 42 for Dutch ports. May 1 20 cargoes of e°ll3 Weight. Rix-clollart Wheat, Anhalt, white ............. ..115 to 122....-125 to 1% ------- red ........................ 117 to 127 12.5 to 14.: Marks ............................ 120 to 125 130 to IR --- Mecklenburgh ..................... 118 to 124 130 to 14 ,1 Holstein, red ........... , • llB to 125 125 W 14 ;j, During the week 803 lasts of wheat have been i naport 649 exported, an d t h ere remains stock on band 1,6 00 lasts. Discounts 31 per cent. Anglo-Danish Lo an, 3 ,er Cent End of Jun e. 66 Anglo-Russian Loan I (.157 Hamburg ditto Russian Inscription, 5 per cent. 8716 Ditto, ditto, 1631 86% l'olish B onds l lO Austrian Bank Shares 1156 Ditto Metalliques New Austrian 4 ncr Cents 77N —Hamburg Reporter. The BATHURSTS were originally clothiers o f Canterbury. The clothiers were a powerful body to Kent, and, under the name of Gray Costs of Kent, forint kind of Political Union, and had great influence at tions. The first Lord BATHURST was a political advelii turer, a nephew of Dr. BATHURST, of Oxford, and a tiol u , tool of HARLEY and Sr. JOHN. He was one of the tv"!;; Peers they mule to procure a majority in 1712. WI:, his friends went out of office, BATHURST was famous being a great protester. In 1760 this first Lord Bias() A'. " on account of his great age, refused to accept any offic the but, on account of his great merit, took a pension on,, Irish establishment of 2,0001. a year." The present Ds.'n 13.vrisuissz, until the accession of Earl GREY, had beel s place almost front his boyhood.