The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-01 00:00:00

AY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, is

o over the recollection of the lull
offintumn—celebrating its merits as the interval an-
nAally set apart by general consent es a time of
n'ational relaxation. He has, generously enough,
however, a commiserative glance at those itufortunates
who are necessarily compelled to " remain in bond-
age " while the rest of the world are recreating
themselves on the sea-shore or upon the continent,
compelled by an inexorable destiny to perform tasks
which are wholly indispensable. Feelingly does he
say—with an eye to journalism—feelingly, as though
he spoke from some lung-past but bitterly remembered
experience—" To write leaders during the dog-days
is worse than Tunisian slavery." Heigh-ho ! But
then the people have this satisfaction in the circum-
stance that there are ARGUS oyes ever on the watch,
even when the walls of Parliament are as silent and
as desolate es those of Os.:tair's " Old House at

Home " Balclutha. Reverting to the consideration
of more tranquil regions than the offices of the daily
newspapers, the writer in _Blackwood talks to us
rather distractingly of the luxuries of a stroll over
the heather, away from the roar of politics grid even
the thought of the Legislature. He reminds us plea-
santly of the only two notable interruptions to the
pervading stillness immediately after the genera)
elections were completed. Lord JOHN RUASELL'S
movements in Scotland, when he went about recently
"picking up stray burgess tickets" in bis progress
from Gert to Stirling, and from Stirling to Perth—
are duly noticed with a sort of " aside " lamentation
that no letter was written this time by the Whig
leader from the good old city of Edinburgh. Prince
Lours NAPOLEON'S movements in Southern France
are:then referred to in terms worthy in their elevation
of the serene and stately judgment of our contempo-
rary. This reference is acknowledged by MAG.I to
be " a practical rebuke to the blindness of thw,o who
could see in this extraordinary man nothing more

than the features of a common adventurer." We can
perfectlywell.understand, by the way, the feelings of
exaltation prompting the monthly organ of the Der
byites to "have at" the various discomfitted mem-
bete of her MAJESTY'S Opposition. We have before
now expressed our doubt, however, of the policy, to
say nothing of the indecorum, of pouring out invec-
tives upon the head of a defeated antagonist. Fortu-
nately, we observe in the present strictures of our
contemporary a certain degree of moderation both in
tone and in treatment. Instead of noisy vituperations
as in October, we have little more than sly- badinage
in November. Sir Jeates GILAIIAM is no longer
railed at like a political pick-pocket. He is simply
bantered, as though the satirist were not altogether
unconscious that he virus treating, of a distinguished
statesman and an illustrious administrator. Lord
Jona. Ilteisenn is not soundly " rated " as you
might reasonably expect to be rated yourself, sup-
posing you were brought some fine morning into
sudden collision, cheek by-jowl, with one of the
delicate purveyors of fish at Billingsgate. The
tex.Prelilier is satirized, it is true ; but the sati-
rist does not appear to be altogether unconscious that
he is directing his jibes at one who not long since di-
rected the affairs of the Government of the British
SOVEREIGN. We rejoice over this change in the man-
ner of our esteemed contemporary. We rejoice oe, er
the abandonment of a style of abuse which derogated,
iu no inconsiderable manner, from the dignity of its
reputation. The article upon which we are here
commenting, for instance, contrasts agreeably enough
with the stormy diatribes which not long ago dis-
graced the pages simultaneously of both Blaclwoed
and the Quarterly. As to the former of those two
periodicals, its present tone, we take it, is rather more
in accordauce with what might but reasonably be
looked for in an organ presumed to express the senti-
ments actuating the leaders of, or at any rate the
sympathizers with, a dominant Administration. Not
thus vociferously and coarsely, we have been gratified
to observe of late, has argued the daily organ of the
DERBY Government. Indeed, the tone adopted during
the last few months by the Morning Herald, cannot
but have struck the attention of the more dispassionate
class of observers, as contrasting honourably for that
journal with the virulent antagonism and blustem lag
vituperations indulged in by some amongst its Tore
contemporaries. Happily, however, Blackwood seems
to be at last tardily repentant. It no longer throws up
the mudiof gratuitous insult iu the:direction of Netherb) :
what though it still amuses itself by casting a stray
pebble or a casual potsherd in the way of jests and
insinuations towards the constituency of Carlisle, for
inrsmuch as it chances to have become the consti-
tuency of the night Honourable Baronet the ex ex-
Home Secretary ! Our contemporary, again, no
longer condescends to hurl the brickbats of person -
ality at INIT. COBDEN, or at Mr. BRIGHT, though it
appears to compensate itself for this tardy act of self-
, denial, by flourishing a bunch of stinging nettles in
• the shape of cooked statistics before the eyes of those
who are the moat unlovely of all politicians in his
estimation, the school of economists generally reso-
, elated in the Tory mind with the people of Manches-
ter. Even when alluding first to the arch-enemy
among all on the side of the Opposition—late the Prime
Minister of England—the writer contents himself
with mentloning b;el humorously es one whom the
Derbyites have long come to look upon as "a choleric
fellow, who would take his own way in spite of every
remonstrance: So far good. The change is un-
questionably, in every respect, a change for the
better. And we rest satisfied that.it is one, moreover,
more acceptable to those prudent rulers whom the mega-
, eine is avowedly desirous of maintaining in authority;
more welcome to the heart of Lord DERBY ; more
agreeable to the wariest of his colleagues; end cal-
culated, in fine, much more effect'vely to secu- the
realization of the chief of the popular wiahea— not those
of party squabblings or of factious contention, but
rather those evolved by the genius of patriotic states-
, manship in the blessings of a good, and the advanta-
, gesiof an energetic, Government.

ECCLESIASTICAL COURT.—The Law Times says
that the Government intend to bring in a measure fur tnu
entire reform—it not tor the abolition—of the Ecclesiastics I
Courts, so far as respects all their jorisdiction that is not
strictly ecclesiastical.

SW'EARING IN OF LORDS JUSTICES ON SATURDAY.
—A privy council was held in Dublin Cestle yesterday, when
the Lord Chancellor, the ANA Rer. Dr. Whately, A rcubishop
of Dublin, and Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Blakency,
commander of the forces in Irelred, were sworn in lords
justices during the absence of the Lord-Lieutenant, which,
it is said, will extend to three or four weeks. The sudden
visit of his Excellency to London at the opening of Perlia-
ment has given rise to various rumours and conjectures here.
Tim NEW LEGAL YEAR.—Term begins on Tues-
day, and with it all the iutcrest that will result from the first
trial of the new procedures, both in law and equity. The
common law courts commence the legal year with the
smallest list of arrears ever known. Altogether there are but
forty-seven, distributed thus -In the Q. 13. 24 ; in the C.P.
6; in the Ex. 17. Of those in the Q.B. 16 are especial cases
and demurrers, 4 are new trials, and 4 appeals from the
county court. In the C.P. there i 9 one demurrer, 2 are en-
larged rules and 3 are new trials; and iu the Ex. the spe-
cial paper riles,
5, the peremptory paper 3, and the new trial
paper 29, including one that stands for judgment. Of course,
the beginning of the term will produce some motions for new
trials growing out of the last assizes, but beyond these there
is no prospect of business to occupy half the term.--Law
Times.

FIRE AND Loss 07 LIFE AT PHILLIPS'S FIRE
"le premises of the' An-
nihilator" Womas.—Yest; 'aynihilator" Company, in Battersea-fields, were ravaged for
two hours by a destructive fire. Mr. Braidwood last tight
drew up the following official report of the occurrence c—
" Oct. 31, 1852,11;.} a in., celled to a fire In Battet€ta-fields,
near the Workhouse. On arriving found the premises known
as the stores and even houses of Phillips's Patent Fire An-
nihilator Company on fire. The flames were extinguished
by firemen. Engines that attended: Five Brigade, one of
the parish, and that of the West of England Office. The
premises and their contents destroyed. Cause of the fire
supposed to be from a defective flue." Unfortunately it is
to be added that a poor woman, nrmed Garrard, aged 54, the
wife of the watchmr', lost her life in the flames. She had
gone to a cupboard for come domest:c purpose, when she was
overtaken by the flames, the outbreak of which probably were
accompanied by the generation of some suffocating gas, which
disabled her from retreating in time to save her life. When
found after the extinction of the fire the body was shockingly
disfigured. A largo number of " annihilators" were on the
premises, which were not long ago the scene of a number of
experiments designed to exhibit the efficiency of the inven-
tion in cases of fire.

SINGULAR ACNIDENT—Mr. G. S. Brent, the
deputy-coroner for Middlesex, held an inquest, on Saturday
last, at the Red Lion public-house, Twickenham-common,
Twickenham, touching the death of Thomas Finney Pichols,
aged twenty-eight, which occurred in the following singular
manner appeared from the evidence that the deceased
was a milkman, rid resided with his father, who keeps a
small masicet-gard,n in the above village, and on Wednesday
afternoon last he got en a ladder for the purpose of repairing
the roof of a pigsty which let in the rain, and being subject
to epileptic fits, when, having taken off a consider...hie por-
tion of the rociling, he WS suddenly attacked by ono of the
fits, by which he fell off the ladder through the roof, pitching
with his head into a small pot, containing about three-quar-
ters of au inch depth of water. Being stunned by the fall,
and as no assistance was at hand, be turned with his face
downwards into the water, by which the passages of the
month and nose were stop:set:, and the deceased was soon
suffocated, in which positim he was found by his father, who,
not hearing him at work, was induced to go out to look for
him. Medical assistance was immediately obtained, but life
had been gone some time. A verdict iu accordance with the
above eyidellCO was retnreed,

TLIO3IAS ROOD'S GRAVE.

THOMAS HOOD—the gay, the gentle, the blight-
eyed, and large-hearted Tnosns Loon--is at last to
have rais-Al ov,,r his mouldering dvq, :,onio token of
the popular gratitude. Nruo, moLster 1-1 he way,
had flowers scattered over his grave by seine unknolNa
hand as the sign of a (16,ctionate remembrance. Why,
therefore, should not How), the poet of humanity—
why should not HOOD have his monument ? Happily,
that question h:s lately been asked by one whose
voice his not pleP.ded 'in vein. The goodly work
has been projected by a woman, and a kindred spirit ;
and perhaps, among the list of living poco.s, none
could have more zealously and gracefully effected

it than ELIZA. Coox. A short time since a few
simple and graphic verses from the pen of this
lady, written from the heart, told us that nct
even the commonest memento—a slab or a head-
stone—marked the spot where Hoop is reposing at
length in deep and everlasting tranquillity : scarcely a
fortnight has passed by since a committee was orga-
nized to redeem the admirers of genius from that
lamentable charge of negligence—and already nearly
two hundred pounds have been collected to defray the
expense of erecting some tardy tribute of recollection.
Cordially, and with unaffected emotion, do we rejoice
at this, because TUOMAS HOOD was, to our thinking,
one of the truest and noblest samples of human natr-e
—a brave heart beating warmly through a wee -y

life—the energy of a man and the sensibility of a
woman, audible to the world in every pulsation !
There is scarcely a man of letters recently deceased
whose name is cherished more generally, certainly
none more deservedly, with such genuine and earnest
feelings of endearment. OLIVER GOLDSMITH is re-
membered even now, it is true, by a generation sub-
sequent to thatiof the JOHNSOMAN era, with kindred
sentiments of tender and yearning admiration. Bat
we can never forget with poor NOLL his babble rnd
his gautheries. The popular affection for THOMAS

Hoop has none of: these dreervbacks to enthusiasm.
We era required to make no allowances while we
commend in his instance the sparkle of the wit end
the music of the poetry—we think of him merely as
of one whose writings have called forth ulike so often
our tears and our laughter. As such we remember
him with gratitude, no less then with adn“ratior
Here, at the grass-mound under which he lies in
Kensel-green Cemetery, he commands our homage,
for in his life did he not command our sympathies ?
Every one who has listened to the melody, and the
pathos, and the sweetness, and the solemnity, and the
benevolence of his "Bridge of Sighs," will answer, Yee.
Every one will reply in like manner, who has loved
(and who has not ?) that wonderful lyric of his" The
Song of the Shirt," who has listened to the chimes
of the " Workhome Clock," or has glanced over the
grotesque and innocent humour of the "Annual," or
lingered among those quaint but exquisite conceits
which he showered about with equal prodigality in
prose and in metro, through the wide range of our
periodical literature. Happily, in this matter, the
majority of the world thinks with us ; and we may
now look forward with confidence to the successful
completion of the enterprise upon which a few ear-
nest admirers of Tisomas Hoop have recently adven-
tured—that of raising over his honoured dust some
appropriate evidence that he is borne in the national
recollection. Already, nearly half of the sum pro-
posed to be collected to this end, has been subscribed
with the most gratifying promprtude,—insomuch,
that we rest assured the remaining amount must
be very speedily forthcoming. Those who have
participated in the undertaking when it shell
have attained its intended consummation, will
recal the fact of that participation with no un-
enviable emotions—emotions only subordinate to those
which cannot fail to be experienced by the fair and
rarely-gifted originator of the cnterprize. They will
remember that they at least have offered to the noble
and beautiful memory of THOMAS Hoop, the posthu-
mous panegyric of an epitaph carved upon no men
or fragile monument.

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AMERICAN MAIL.—The United States mail stmm-
ship Atlantic, West, commander, will sail for New York on
Wednesday next, with the mai% &c.
STEAM BETWEEN LIVF.UPOOL AND L13130N.
51essm. W. 'Wits3n and Son have announced their interVion
of running a line of first-class screw steam-Ships the Corino-
rant, the Gannett, Albatross, and Palican, between this port
and Labors. The lira steamer win he the Gannett, Capt.
Salliven, which soils on the P.th init.
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.—It 1V,15 rumoured
to-day, in Liveipepl, that Lord Ragland (Lord Fitzroy
Somerset), the present Mister-Generol of the Ordnance, iviil
be Lord Delhonsie's suer' or rs Governor.OncrA of India.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE or I.Bsl.—The ploughman
is busy at work in Hle Pcrk, where the police stow], pre-
paring the ;otind for grass seed, which will be sown ;ti
few des. Except some pillars of grenite and lumps of cog.';
upon which the ominous word "Lot" may be sT.en, nothing
remains of the structure or its contents. Will there be no
memorial erected to iaarl the spot where it stood ?
TERMINATION OF THE BOOTMAKERS' STBIILF: On
Saturday, the unfortunate dispute between the masters end
men in the " Strong Bootmellers' Strike," which has existed
sine) the 18th of October, when about 900 men struck, wee
amicably settled. It appears that a meeting of the masters
and men, twelve on each side, took place, end the confer-
ence lasted fourteen hours. Both sides appear to be satisfied
with the arrangement that he 3 been entered into between
them.

TLIREE MALE FEESONB FOUND DILOWNED.—On
Saturday morning, shortly after 11 o'clock, the body of a
young man, apparently about 19 years of age, wss found
floating in the river off Limehouse Hole, in the parish of All
Sa:uts, Poplar. About ncan, information was received by
the surolloving officer of the same district respecting the dis-
covery of the oody of a trnn named Edward Ski,:,ner, aged
31, in the import basin of the East lud'aCks. A third
body was picxed up tba came morning iu the Limohouse cut
of the River Leo.

THE LATE DUEL.—As a striking proof of the in-
terest created by this red event in this locality, we may men-
tion that her M.jesty the Queen and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, in one of their recent thive-, nroceeded to
Priest Hill, and stooped for some time in t :Lair cr, Lingo
while the spot where uournet fell was oointed out to them by
their attendants. The field where tae duel wes fought is
the second from the road, and is close to Ev-"►ymede, where
the Egham races are now held. Until within the last day
or two, a small heap of straw marked the spot where the v
fortunate victim foil. The place selected for the fatal ren-
contra was a deep dell, csanpletely shrovded from public view,
except at one particular spot. Had the whole of the sur-
vivors fled, the body might, in all probability, have remained
undhcovered for months.

THE TURF.—No less thus 313 horses passed the
judge's chair at Newmarket last w;,:271.
DEATH OF FIR EDWARD Sir Edward
Stanley, the premier kni:sht of Ireland, expired at his
residence, Great Brunswick-street, on the 2711 instant.
Sir Edward was knighted in the year 1809, on the occa-
sion of the jubilee, when the lab King George the Third
attained the 50th yez..,r of his reign. Ile took an active
part in the proceedings of the olei corporation, by which
ho was elected one of the sheriffs of the city, and sub-
sequently selected for the lucrative office el inspector of
city prisons. Sir Ed ward acted as the fiiend of Mr.
D'Esterro, in his fatal duel with the late Mr. O'Connell.
Sir Edward was also, for many years, a leading member
of the Royal Dublin Society, end wee, it is saiet, the ori•
ginator of those periodical exhibitions of arts and manu-
factures, which have led to such important results both
in Iceland and other countries.

Bt ICEITON RAILWAY:-.,-It is rumoured that Mr. Laing
intends to resign the manegirl directorship of the
Bri(zhtou Railway, but not to leave the board.—liera-
path.

DIRECT TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
ENGLt ND AND EUROPE.—The establishment of direst
telegraphic communication by means of the Submarine
Telegraphic Comprny's land line caom Cornhill to
Dover, Ad thence by submarine telegraph to Calais and
Paris, and 200 of the principal cities of Europe, is to
take place on Monday next.
EFFECTS OF FREE TRABE...-The expenses of the
Banbury Union have been greatly reduced since the
year 1845, when they weld in round numbers 17,000/.
This year they have been 12,0001, the reduction on the
year being 1,0001.
Dt.A.l'n OP A treeltEY IN IRELAND.—.An inquest was
held last week at Cashel, on the body of Christopher
Colgan, a jockey, who was killed the preceding day
while tiding a steeple chase at the races in the vicinity
of that town. The horn struck a fence with his chest,
and fell back over the unfortunate rider, breaking the
spine of Ids melt*
diet was accidental, dealt.
his jaw-bone, and two ribs. The yea-
DETERMINED SU:CIDE By A WAITER.---011 Sena.
day Mr. Wattiey held an inquest in St. Mary's Hospital,
Paddington. on Joseph Turncock, aged 31, late a waiter at
the Bell, Kilburn. On the 14th inst. he was found lying in
a pool of blood, in the long room of the tavern, and a knife
and razor beside him, with which he had cut his throat from
ear to car. He W 53 sensible, but could not speak. The Jury
returned, in the case of Tttrnce6, the following verdict:
Deceased committed suicide, but what MI the state of his
mind at the time. 'here is no evidence to prove.''
FORTUNATE Escare.—Saturdav afternoon, Wino]
four and rive o'clock, a young French lady, attired in a riding
habit and hat, mounted on a spirited hoi.,e, riding through
Regent-street, accompanied by a gentleman, and followed by
a groom, had a narrow escape of her life, as the horse, be-
coming restive, reared suddenly and threw his rider. She,
fortrnately, escaped with a slight bruise and a torn and soiled
habit. The gentleman, haling scan that his fair companion
was unhurt, changed horses with her, when the lady, nothing
daunted, remounts ;/, and rode away laughing et her disester.
SOUTH WFSTERN RAILWAY.— Mr. Wl' palm
Harding has resigned his office cf secretary to the
South Western Campany, and it is sat at all improbable
that other charges in tee mar end dittet;nn
the affairs of the campany will slior;.!y The
traffic on the trunk lino is at prase-at ao largo that the
greatest difficulty is experienced in keeping pace with
the increased requirements of the public, sad it will re-
quire all the energy of the corn vany to carry eut the
measures requisite for this prpose,