The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-27 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 26.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Home
Park and Slopes this morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and
younger members of the Royal Family, took their
usual pony and walking exercise.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel F. H. Seymour, and Colonel Hon. Charles
Grey, went to town at two o'clock to-day, by a spe-
cial train of the South-Western Railway.
The Duchess of Sutherland, and Lady Constance
Leveson Gower, and Major-General Hon. George
Cathcart left the Castle to-day.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yes-
terday afternoon at a meeting of the Surplus Com-
mittee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of
the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1851.
His Royal highness, attended by Colonel Francis
Hugh Seymour, arrived at the Palace at Westmin-
ster at three o'clock in the afternoon. The other
members of the committee present were, the Right
Hon. Henry Labouchere, Sir William Cubitt, Sir
Charles L. Eastlake, Sir Charles Lyell, and Mr.
Cobden, M.P. Mr. Edgar Bowring (secretary)
attended.

The meeting broke up at five o'clock, when Prince
Albert, attended by his equerry in waiting, took his
departure for Windsor Castle.
Mr. F. Mowatt, M.P., had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office, on the
subject of the Metropolitan Water Supply and Drain-
age Bill.

—Major-General the Hon. George Cathcart, Gover-
nor of the Cape of Good Hope, arrived in town yes-
terday morning from Windsor Castle. The general
had an interview with Earl Grey in the afternoon at
the Colonial-office.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Walker, Mr. Knox,
and R. Roy (directors), and Mr. W. G. Roy (solicitor
to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Com-
pany), and Mr. Stewart (secretary), and Mr. Carter
(solicitor), Mr. Ledsharn, Captain finish, and Mr.
Morgan, representing the London and North-Western
Railway Company, bad an interview with the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere yesterday, at the railway de-
partment of the Board of Trade.
Mr. G. England (solicitor), Howden, and Mr. W.
B. Beckitt (solicitor), transacted business at the rail-
way department of the Board of Trade yesterday.
Sir Alexander Spearman had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) ar-
rived in town yesterday evening, from his seat,
Bowood-park, Wiltshire.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of Canada.
Lord and Lady John Russell bad a dinner party on
Saturday at their residence in Chesham-place. The
company included the Prussian Minister and Madame
Bunsen ; the Marquis D'Azeglio, Sardinian Minister;
the Earl and Countess of Minto, the Right Hon. Fox
Maule, Mr. Panizzi, Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr. D.
Seymour, and Mr. James Hudson.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YEsTERDIr.
CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Mr. Martinson's Nancy
33 to 1 agst Mr. J. Merry's Ringleader—taken freely
33 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Ariosto
40 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Scarecrow—taken freely
40 to 1 agst Lord Waterford's Cockcrow
1,000 to 15 agst Lord Waterford's Duc4m-Dhurras—t
2,000 to 30 agst Mr. Wilkinson's Neasham—taken
1,000 to 10 apt Mr. Tomkins's Urbanity—taken
1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Gooch's Surprise—taken
1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Payne's The Mouse—taken.
The only horses backed, except for a trifle, were Ring-
leader, Scarecrow, and Cockcrow; we have quoted the
laying prices agst Nancy and Ariosto. They were act
backed.

DERBY.
8 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Hobble Noble—taken freely
13 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur
14 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Claverhouse—take 15 to 1
16 to 1 agst Mr. J. Stanley's Orelio—taken freely
17 to 1 agst Lord Ribblesdale's Kingston
25 to 1 agst Lord Ribblesdale's Lapidist—taken
25 to 1 agst Sir R. Bigot's Filius—taken
30 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Homebrewed—t.
The odds returned agst Hobbie Noble and Orelio were
taken to a considerable amount, for all the money, in
fact, that could be got on. 25 to 1 was taken, once in
hundreds, about Lapidist (the taker offering to go on);
25 and 30 to 1, to four or five hundred pounds,
about
Filius (5,000 to 200 in one bet); and 30 to 1 and 1,000
to 30, rather freely, about Homebrewed.
LIVERPOOL SPRING- MEETING, 1852.
Weights for the Liverpool Steeplechase_, _
Lord George, 1 Ist 101b—Sir John, list 101b—Vain
Hope, 1 Ist 41b—Abd-el-Bader, list 41b—Sir Peter
Laurie, list 21b—Peter Simple, list Mb—Due-an.
Dhurras 11st 21b—Lucy Neale, 11st 21b—Peter, list--
View-halloo, 11st—Fernhill, 1 lst—Chieftain, lOst 121 b
—Bourton, lost 101b—Bedford, 6 yrs, lOst 101b—Agis
lOst 101b—Little Queen, lOst 101b—Postilion, lOst 8161'
Warner, 10st 81b—Maria Day, lOst 61b—St. Hueliaeirf.,los t
61b—Melford, lOst 61b—Kissaway, lOst 61b— and-
half, lOst 61b—Joan of Arc, lOst 61b—Oscar, 1091
yl lOst 41b—
i 1., Oat 61b—
Simple Harry, lOst 61b—Miss Mowbray,
_.i. ent Friend,
Hardwick, lOst 21b—Dolly's Brae, 1081—Silent
tiazza Ludra,
9st 121 b —Bedford, 5 yrs, 9st 121 b—La
—Vengeance, 9st 121b—M10-, 9st
9st 121 b
Lad, 9st 101b—Abbot Laurence, 9st
luoie lolb—Forest
9st 81b—Janus, 9st 81b—Odin,,9st 81b— Maria Monk,
—Carrig. 9st 81b—Venture, 9st 81b— Bullfinch, Oat 81b
—Viotress, 9st 71b—Laraienne _ De Ginkle, 9st 71b
Maly, 9sl 61b—Everton,
9st
616—Maid
71b—Co is 9st 6113-
9st 61b—Cripple, gat 61b—R. b—Maid of the West,
9st 41b—Maurice Daly, 9 ingdove, 9st 41b—Scavenger,
jury, 931—Buseot, 9st. Hintont Alb—Royal Blue, 9st—Per-
Forfeits to be declared by pays forfeit.
Handicap for the Spring ~.. the 1 Ith of February.
Cossack, Bst Cup.--Mile and three-quarters.
7st 71b—A.bdallah, 7st 71b-.The Marquir, 7st 71b—Merry Peal
BMW!), 7st 21b—I 4lb—Hungerford, 7st 21b—Lough
anthe, 7st 01b--Prior of Lanercost, 6st
121b—Countess
Wiseman, inel
fist 101b—Kil '
quade, 6st 101b—Abbess of Jer-
Lveeatut x, Est 81b—Melford, 6st 81b—La Fiancee, Est 811)--
Letter-press, Est
Est 4elr- 81b—Ischia, 6st 41b—Porto Bello colt
b—First Fruit:, 6st 41b—Young Troublesome, Est
Olb—
True Girl, sst 121b—Merry Bird, sst 121b—Sir
Charles Napier, sst 61b—Zelmyra, sst 2113—Joe Miller,
sst 21b—Fallow Doe, sst 21b—Don Carlos, sst 01b—
Snowdrop, 4st 121b—Banshee, 4st Sib—Surprise, 4st 81b.
Forfeits to be declared as above.

THE NEW NOVELS.—The following new and po-
pular Works of Fiction, published by Messrs. Colburn and
Co., may be bad at all the Libraries:-1. Mr. Warburton's
Darien ; or, The Merchant Prince. 2. The Heir of Arden-
an, a Story of Domestic Life in Scotland, by the author
of "Anne Dysart." 3. Emily Howard, by Mrs. Dunlop. 4.
Jacob Bendixen, the Jew, by Mary Howitt. 5. Ravens-
cliffe, by the author of " Emilia Wyndham." 6. Falken-
burg, by the author of " Mildred Vernon." 7. Clara Har-
rington, a Domestic Tale. S. Mrs. Mathews; or Family
Mysteries, by Mrs. Trollope.. 9. Cecile, or the Pervert, by
the author of " Rockingham," 1 vol. 10. The Livingstones ;
a Story of Real Life. 11. Marian Withers, by Geraldine E.
Jewsbury. 12. The Lady and the Priest, by Mrs. Mo-
berly. 13.
.Lady Ponsonby's Clare Abbey. 14. Caleb
by the author of "Margaret Maitland."
Field,Also, Just
ready, 1. Hearts and Altars, by Esq., author
Robert Bell, , .
of "The Ladder of Gold," &c. 2. Ruth Garnett, an thst°'
'iota Romance.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE:.
Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, C. 8., M.P., has re-
turned to the Admiralty, from Portsmouth.
Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, took .on board
yesterday a quantity of bedding and other ea bin furni-
ture, for the use of Admiral Dundee, from the dockyard,
which he selected on Friday and Saturday,. when at
Portsmouth. She has bent nails, and has hgh toned the
ship by discharging her shot and some of her water,
to enable her to go cut of harbour to Spithead to-raorrow.
Encounter, 14, screw-corvette, Captain Gordon, is
ordered to be detached for the Mediterranean, and to
return to Lisbon, to be under the orders of Commodore
Martin.

Pique, 36 (the first of Sir William Symonds's 36'st).
it was reported some time eines was being converted, at
Pembroke, into a screw-ship. This, we are sesry to
find, is incorrect. A great deal of expense is being in-
curred in repairing—or rather renewing, this bad,
costly, and obsolete man-of-war.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—A court-murtial, CM`
prising Rear-Admiral H. Prescott. C. 8., President ;
Captain H. C. Chads. C.P., of the Excellent ; Captain
G. B. Martin, C. 8., of the Victory ; Captain Goldsmith,
of the Britannia ; Captain Yates, of the Neptune ; Cap-
tain Warden, of the Retribution ; and Mr. G. L. Greet-
ham, Deputy Judge-Advocate of the Fleet, assentibled
this morning on board the flsg-ship Victory to try Mr
Lewis Scott Beeves. First Lieutenant of her Majesty's
Royal Marine Corps serving in her Majesty's ship Rod-
ney. Capt. Graham, C.B. (who was the prosecutor under
the Admiralty), on the following charges :—" For that
the said First Lieutenant Lewis Scott Reeves, while
borne upon the books of her Majesty's ship Rodney, did
omit to pay the rum of 23/. on stem-vat of the ward-
room mess, although a letter was addressed to him by
Colonel Menzies, pledging himself to pay the same
sum, such conduct being unbecoming the character of an
officer and a gentleman; and allowed a debt of 27/. 7s.
for his mess, and a debt of 10/. 78. 6d. for wine, to
accrue since he joined the ship; also for having ab-
sented himself from her Majesty's ship Rodney, without
leave, from the 13th to the 17th inst."
The clerk (Mr. Freelock) of the Rodney, proved the
entry on the books of that ship, on the 18th of August
last, of the prisoner. It appears that by the regulations
of ell messes in her Majesty's naval service, it is cue_
ternary for each member thereof to pay the amount of
his monthly subscription thereto in advance, at the com-
mencement of every month. The evidence was much too
lengthy and void of general interest even to epitomise it.
The prisoner's defence set forth, that with respect to the
first charge, circumstances ot a private nature over
which he had no control prevented his fulfilling the pre-
mise made by him to Colcnel Menzies (Me Com-
mandant of the Royal Marine division to which the
prisoner belorged), namely, to pay the sum of 231. ou or
before the Ist of January, and that he had no fit:indolent
intention of withholdirg the same. With regard to of-
ficiating himself from his ship without leave, he threw
l 4 a.° ma' ely thy. enurt: ho alleged he had
received no orders to go on board, either tram uttintou
Hunt (commanding the Marine detachment on board the
Rodney) or from any other officer.
The Court having heard the evidence in support of
the charges, and what the prisoner had to allege in de-
fence, and having weighed and deliberated upon the
whole, where of opinion that the last charge had not
been proved, and therefore adjuged him to be acquitted
thereof; but with regard to the other charges, they
had been fully proved against him, and therefore sen-
tenced him to be dismissed her Mejesty's ship Rodney,
and to be placed at the bottom ot the het of First Lieu-
tenants of Royal Marines.
The Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Warden, went
out, of harbour this afternoon, and anchored at Spit-
head.

The Fairy royal steam-yacht, Master-Commander
Welch, was undocked to-day, and taken into the basin
to receive her boilers,
Woot.wicu, JAN. 26.—Captain Sir Baldwin Walker,
K.C.8., surveyor to the nay.), and Mr. Isaac Watts, as-
sistant surveyor of the navy, visited Woolwich dock-
yard, and remained for some time cn board the High-
flyer steam-sloop, in the basic, and now nearly ready for
trial down the river.
The Lizard steam-vessel arrived at Woolwich this
afternoon from Sheerness, and will proceed up the river
to Blackwell to-morrow, to embark a party who are to
proceed to Sheerness to witness the testing of anchors
and their holding powers in the anchorage ground off
that port.
The Tyne store-ship, Master-Commander Peter Wel-
lington, is at present under the sheers on the river sido
of the basin at this dockyard, having her rigging and
outside repairs effected previous to taking on board a
supply of stores for the Island of Ascension and Rio.
A detachment of Royal Marines will embark in her
when ready for a passage to Ascension, where they are
to be stationed.
The Resistance, 10, troop-ship, Master-Commander
Bradshaw, is still at this port, undergoing a refit pre-
paratory to further service in the conveyance of troops.

DIGNITY OF THE AMERICAN PRESB.—The Editor
of the American Mechanic has encountered trials unknown
to ordinary men. Hearken unto his wailings:—" Owing to
the facts that our papermaker disappointed us, the mails
failed, and deprived us of our exchanges, a Dutch pealar
stole our scissors, the rats ran off with our paste, and the
devils went to the circus, while the editor was at home
nursing babies, our paper is unavoidably delayed beyond the
proper period of publication."—New York Daybook.

- -
THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH OF EUROPE.—A.
letter of the 13th inst. from Mundal, in the province of
Christiansand (Norway), says :—" In the last week, we have
had the thermometer at eight degrees above the freezing
point ; the trees are beginning to bud, and the fields are
covered with flowers, as in the finest day of spring. This
is an event unexampled in our country. The lower classes,
in their ignorance, attribute the extraordinary mildness of
the weather to the last great solar eclipses, which they say
removed Norway farther to the southward. This warmth
does not, however, please every one, for the continual rain
which has fallen has rendered the roads impassable, while
with our ordinary winters the communications are always
open by means of sledges.— Galignahi.
PREPARATIONS FoR OPENING PARLlAMENT.—Pre-
parations on a very extensive scale are being made on the
works of the new Houses of Parliament for the approaching
session, which will be opened by her Majesty in person on
the 3d of the ensuing month. The old House of Commons
and adjacent buildings in Abingdon-street, and the tempo-
rary wooden erections and hoardings in Palace-yard, facing
the entrance to Westminster-hall, have been pulled down,
and the whole space thrown open, affording an uninterrupted
view of the end wings of the new palace. The entrance, to
the House of Commons will be through Westminster-hall, a
noble flight of steps at the western end leading to the main
corridor or avenue of the chambers. The hall will be lighted
by several gas illuminations of a spiral circular form, which
will have a most charming effect upon the fine and stately
proportions of the structure. The entrance of the Victoria,
Tower will be used for the first time by her Majesty on the
approaching opening. The State carriage will
be conducted
proceed under
the tower, and her Majesty, alighting, will
along the Royal corridor to the House of Lords. The entire
line of quay, or promenade, fronting the Thames, has been
lighted by some forty or fifty gesiamps, an
d f thelndiahave Water
has a very pleasing effect.
THE SUCCESSOR TO THE AMAZON.—As we stated
last week, the directors of h
juste .li
completed t
from the British and North American Loyal Mail Company,
t'es
of the Arabia steamer, to makeup so far the void created
by the losses of
the Demerara and Amazon. The Arabia
was 24t
was launched at Greenock on
dockyard h ult., and is in the
n
course of completion
ithe yard of Mr. Napier, of
Glasgow. She is considered the
Thefinest of all the North
American steam-liners.engines are side levers of the
largest size, we _ believe, ever put en board a vessel, the
cylinders being 103 t. inches in diameter, with a nine-feet
stroke. The
coffee is e power of the two engines f 1 000-horse Dower working engi will be
upwards 0 , , at alow pressure.
The wheels are 37 feet diameter. The -r •
principal dimensions
of the
of keel and Arabia are as we given have already •
ven them—Length
fore rake, 265 feat; l
breadth of beam, 40.8 feet depth of
on deck, 310 feet;
ton-
nage, 2,402 tons. The epth of hold 27.7 feet;
enabled to part with the owners have been the more readily
is Arabia from the fact that the Persia,
another of their liners, so far advanced that she will be
launched in April next.
SOUTH-EASTERN It
the Tunbridge-wells AiLwAY.—lt is intended to open
and Hastings branch of this line through-
out to Hastings o
shortest route bon the Ist of next month. This will be the
y railway from London to Hastings.
NORTH DEVON RAlLWAY.—Preparations are being
made by the
with a ' contractor to resume the works on this line,
view to their completion. It is intended to complete
the works at various places on the line so soon as the com-
pany obtain possession of the requisite land, which it is ex-
pected will be in the course of a few weeks.

The Earl of Derby will entertain at dinner !a
number of the Peers of the Country party on Monday next ;
and on the ensuing Wednesday and Saturday the Noble
Earl will give dinner parties to the Members of the Lower
House who at present sit at the Opposition side of the
Commons.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have enter-
tained a succession of visitors at Broadlands during the week.

THE Loss OF THE AMAZON.—In this inquiry
yesterday, the remainder of the evidence given by the wit-
nesses before the Board of h
aven was almost a recapitulation
of the statements they bad priusly given before the direc-
tors of the company, and therefore we have not thought it
necessary to give it at length. The inquiry was adjourned
till to-morrow (this day).
DISASTERS NEAR. LIVERPOOL.—Very
heavy weather
ther has been experienced in the Channel during
the past few days. The Leeds, an old steamer belonging to
Theyc,
the Dublin Steam Packet Company, the
south-west of Point Lynas. a
t tl
e sunk
on on Sunday
board
course destroyed, though the passengers were picked UP 1W
wetore of
im, laden
the ship Empire State. A schooner, the Specul
with copper ore, and bound from Wicklow to Runcorn, was
completely disabled iu the Channel on Saturday, and the
crew having been rescued by the Prince Steamer, the little
vessel was left to her fate. Yesterday, however, she was
in tow la 7 a steam-
brought into dock, having been taken
tug. The cargo, unlike that of the Leeds, will I ortunately
be little affected by the water.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—Yesterday morning a fire
broke out on the premises of Mr. Foletti, picture-franie
's. The while of maker, of 64, Banner-street, St' "khee top floors f the
back workshops were burned down;
workshops,t burnt dwelling
house, used as store-rooms andof house and contents out ; the
roof destroyed, and remainder_
s. Foletti was seriously severely
damaged by fire, &c.
MrThe contents were injured by
jumping out of window. e
DI house No. insured in the
Thcenix Fire-office.63, ilanner.street,
cured in
Tavern was y fire. was in.-
called the
the Ri Hopone
arch Fire-officde. Seamaged verbal of thet
more or less premises
contiguous were damaged severely by fire, water,
and removal.
T, a —The agitation
CHEAP .u.EE
.. for the reduction of
progressing
the price of Leer's
Wednesday] '
rapidly
amongst the work-
ing classes.
held, at •11. it evening last several district
meetings were w ic the reports were of the most
favourable character, and a practical result may be shortly
anticipated. So strongly prevalent is the feeling at the
east end of the town in favour of the movement
that it has been resolved to convene a public meeting for the
populous districts of Shoreditch, Hackney, &c.
SOMETHING LIKE A CLIMATE. The Albany
Knickerbocker, of t Aug s
u , says---" The weather has been
, all hot.' We saw a woman do her ironing with no other
fuel than the sunshine. When we came away, she hung
1 her kettle out of the Window to get tea ready."

Under the above Act, not only magistrates, but
the lowest fellow in the police, may enter any
Eaglishman's "castle," as he fancies his house to be,
and without a summons, and without a warrant, and
on his own bare authority, may haul him to a court of
justice, where he may be at once committed to hard
labour as a "rogue and vagabond," for three calendar
months ! In vain may he ask to be tried by a jury;
in vain may he hope to be allowed to see his
friends or his lawyer. " No, " be will
be told, "the prison regulations do not per-
mit this indulgence but once in three months."
And if be be not well versed and learned in the law,
and aware of the fact that he cannot appeal against
" such act or determination" of the justice, if he allow
seven days to elapse (and the prison regulations ac-
tually prohibit him from seeing a lawyer), then must
he undergo the full sentence of three months' con-
finement and hard labour, either at that vile instru-
ment of torture the treadmill, or by solitary impri
eeeeseer se a ..eta ewe dreary cell, compelled to pick
out a given quantity of oakum every day, and for-
bidden to raise hie voice even in a hymn to his Crea-
tor, under penalty of three days' incarceration in an
underground dungeon or dark hole called a refrac-
tory cell. Mr. Proctor was actually threatened with
this punishment for merely bumming a few bars
of " Religion never was designed to make our plea-
sure less."
But who, Sir, are the wicked and bad men that
are liable to these things ? The third section says,
" Every petty chaprnan or pedler wandering abroad,
and trading, without, being duly licensed," may be
committed to the House of Correction for one month,
and every person who shall " beg or gather alms."
True, the blessed Jesus said, " Give to every one
that asketh of thee." But this Castlereagh law, this
worse than Turkish Act of Parliament, says, " nay,
but give to everyone that asketh of thee one month's
bard labour at the treadmill." But the 4th clause
goes further—it declares that every person "lodging
in the open air," though he be destitute of the means
to procure a lodging, " shall be deemed a rogue and
vagabond," and he may be kept to hard labour for
three calendar months. This is consistent enough, for
it we punish fur asking alms. we should of course
punish for being destitute. Yet if we do this, let us
not be guilty of the mockery of calling ours.3lves after
Him who rebuked his disciples for forbidding the
destitute to ask of Him.
The Act creates a number of other offences ; and
then authorises " any person" to apprehend " any
person," and charge him or her with being an idle
and disorderly person, or a rogue and vagabond, or
an incorrigible rogue, and to take the persons so ap-
prehended and their " goods" before a justice; and
their " bundles, parcels, packages," &c., may be in-
spected, and their money taken, and their goods sold,
to defray their expenses at the House of Correction,
&c. So that an entirely destitute person can be
punished in person only, but a man having property
is to be punished in his purse also. And this plan of
seizing property is largely acted on, for even a man's
private library has been stripped, and his books,
globes, nautical almanacs, mathematical instruments,
Sm., seized, and never seen by him again. Yet, in
the days of " Wilkes and liberty," it was made the
law of the land that books and. papers should not be
liable to be seized except for high treason. Alas ! it
is easy, by such an Act as this vile Vagrant Act, to
annul and repeal all the liberties of Englishmen ; and
so say the magistrates, " goods " means books and
papers; and a fig for Wilkes, and a fig for liberty,
and hurrah for the Vagraut Act, and the summary
jurisdiction of the Solons who sit upon the bench of
justices l And Heaven knows, Sir, they have reason
to rejoice, for they have power, where any person
" resists" a peace officer, or shall be twice convicted
to commit him until the quarter sessions, and then he
may be kept for one whole year at hard labour and in
solitary confinement, and may also be " whipped," at
the discretion of the said justices ! And all this with-
out any trial by jury ! Sweet liberty is this !
" But, oh !" will say the stickler for magisterial
power, "the Act is only applied to vagrants, bad
characters, &c., and, therefore, cannot do much harm."
And some folk really think so, and conclude that as
vagrants are usually poor and do not vote for Members
of Parliament, we may safely treat Liberty as a nonen-
tity when she appears in their persons. Ido not agree
with this doctrine ; but the objection is not true, for
magistrates make a custom of sending spies into
peoples' houses to induce them to break this law, and
then pounce upon them, drag them from their homes,
and sanction the police in despoiling them of their
property, and then thrust them into a solitary cell,
there to be kept to bard labour and undergo all the
refinements of modern prison discipline, alias cruelty,
such as wearing a mask and being subject to perpe-
tual silence. And this conduct has been recently
brought by memorial before Sir George Grey, which
73:3table 'Whig lover of liberty sanctions it, and de-
utttres that he will not interfere. And the Recorder
in duty hand lays it down as law, that the magistrates are
hand to send into an English gentleman's
house "to
time see what he is about ! It seems high
therefore,
call ontheLtehat the public take up the case, and
denagislature to pare the claws of these
magisterial
And I trust that by amending the Vag rant Act.
will send short those of your readers who think so
for that House pays no petitions to the House of Commons,
'son ma such a to long ones. Any
pe y write uh a
cap and send it toany e e
petition on a sheet of fools-
to be effectualseould be Member to present. But this,
meets.—l am,,
done by the time Parliament
Sir, Yours
, &c.,

R. .J. MORRISON.

ORIGINAL ANECDOTE OF - E HORSE.
, individually, than
(From Kidd's London ..To 4711
cannot fairly The horse has puzzled us more '
individually,
any other animal; and though we
that we believe him to be gifted with e. y assert
yea readily allow that Providence has placedrehls"'"
highest scale of animal excellence. If we were'T in the
one-twentieth part of what we have seen to ad°rarireehlte
connexion with the instinct of the horse, we should ea_
teed all bounds. Well do we remember, when a mere
boy, forming a strong attachment to a handsome grey
mare, rejoicing in the name of - Peggy." Her propor-
tions were large, her height considerable, and her pre-
sence noble. We were always to be found, whenever
we were missed, in the stable with "Peggy;" or seated
on her bare back, without saddle or
madly galloping,
or bridle, all over the fields in front of the house. The
scene of these adventures was at Stockwell, Surrey,.
The friendship existing between
ourselves and this
charming creature, was nicely balanced. Wo were,
scarcely ever parted, e Pegg,, would come and kneel
on all fours" for us to mount; and when mounted, down
went her ears, up went her tail, and away we flew, helte•r
skelter—sauve qui peat! to the terror of all beholder e.
Then would our exhausted playfellow bend down, wit h
affectionate tenderness, to deposit her welcome load o n
terra firma, just as carefull
y, as she did to take it tio..
Our age, when these achievements came off, and th ie
early affection was formed, did not exceed seven years'
If any thing could induce us to believe that animals
were capable of
" reasoning," surely it would be " Peg-
gy's" own dear self. She was the very paragon of af-
fection. I was her best, her dearest friend; and sh-e,
" the goddess
(a fat goddess, I must own !) of my idola-
Y." There are
persons yet living who will read this.,
tr
and remember vividly having seen the Editor of " Kidd'.-:. I
I.endon Journal" thus mounted!—even then laying the
foundation of a love for the animal creation, which 1
has,
never diminished, but &sib increased.

A STRANGE SERMON BY A ROMANIST
PRIEST.
(From a Correspondent of the Clare Journa')
I made a visit to the far-famed west last week, and
having heard that Mr. Meehan, P.P. of Carigaholt, was
to harangue the people at the chapel of Cross, on Sun-
day last, I accordingly waited, and obtained a place
amongst the crowd. I send you the following brief
outline of his sermon, which may serve as a specimen of
the manner in which, the poor people of the west are
instructed by this agitating priest, and how landlords
are held up to execration, and the plainest truths per-
verted and facts misrepresented, to work upon the minds
of the deluded but well-disposed people. Father
Meehan is making a last and dying struggle to stop the
epirit of inquiry. It is evidently preying upon his
system; so that body and mind seem " ill at ease."
The western breezt is becoming too sharp, and is under-
mining a constitution which was once hardy and
vigorous. Mr. Dually appears well calculated to bat-
tle the storm.

Mr. Meehan then took his text from the 2d chapter of
St. John. He said the Saviour and his virgin Mother
were at a wedding, and that, notwithstanding what Pro-
testants might say, they were at every Roman Catholic
wedding, where the parties were previously prepared by
confession and communion. He then said the lords and
agents of the soil were busily engaged all the week
amongst them; but that any person who sent his child
to Mr. Kesne's school, or any other like it, ought to be
kicked out of the parish. He observed that he would
not curie them until he got an account of the children's
names. and then he would let them see what he could
and would do. He then called on Mr. Keane's spies to
listen to what he was saying, and asserted that Mr.
Keane's object was to make Protestants of their children,
as he did of the schoolmaster (" Croobeen"). Ho told
them Lord Palmerston was a soaper, and was kicked
our, of office; that Louis Napoleon had immortalised his
a complete revolution in France
inoamtweo hoursby inwaornkdaghalf, and had sent an army to assist
the Pope, who had uo army of his own to guard
him ; and further, that Louis Napoleon appeared to
he an instrument in the hand of God, and might
yet free Ireland ; and that the time was fast ap-
proaching when England might want the Irish people
to fill the army and navy. He nest exhorted them to
resist landlords and agents for twelve months, and not
let an •
inch of their right go with them; that, for his
how p.art, he was afraid of no man. They all recollected
souls, to the devil,childr
camehte attacked the preachers on the road when they
0 abuse their holy religion. He (Mr.. Meehan
swoalrdn'a(hierthem
geinea, and n9t to sell their souls, or their. children's
time of a brokener -Ls
He knew a woman in Kilrush who
aftenwatod a sweep for seven years for a
to Mr.:Keanenefod got sorry, and died in a short
heart, This woman was a Catholic.
He, therefore, warned tho mothers who sold their chil-
drendirec—t
ing. " Croobeen "
as they knew the road
aneT. owthrek " bog, to take timely warn-
as like him, had some chance,
but the children were lost
for ever, and went the
what they learned at the SOX eroad to damnation, from
r horted them to say the LitaPny of
sschool. He next ex-
long as the schools continued, andtheVirgin Mary as
cease his efforts until they wer that he would never
0 put dewe
eluded by urging them all to pray to the Vi; lie con-
and never cease calling on her to put down tlfein Mary'
Such was the sermon I heard, the text being soupers.
b the marr
riage of Cana.

FOX IN A DRAVING-ROOM A the meet of the Old Berkshire lieu • 6
wDaosEnaAtETlriiiiidnagyOs
Kingston
n
Inn, near Farringdon, when Reyanardd
covert in the neighbourhood and led
soon broke from
oce.At the latter place the'
to the coverts of Tubney,
lasta
nearly and eventually
tshlAppleton,y°:,lati ullmd sa
deaent daa
double,rlltetsi si nelgsalpn;
lewdentagbaaicnk, to Tahney, tra-
versingei but on arriving at that
retraced his steps to Besie!sl-b
of the mansion of the
dash at the drawing-roorn window
College, Oxford,
village and finding himself very hard pressed, he made a
the same groun,b,
Rev. Dr. Foulkes Principal of Jesus
and bolted through the glass to the no
sm all
by twoconsterna-
tion of the worthy doctor's domestics, followed
or three hounds close upon his heels, and finally sought
the
shelter under the sofa;
this proved of no avail,
hounds waiving the etiquette
of an introduction,
also through the window, and in a few seconds poor
-----------
R v ard was completely run down and killed under the.
THE CHATEAU or HAlkt,--This—n4;-w noted build- . ----.,e4n
half.
The run occupied upwards of an hour and a
dashed
ins was erected in its present state by Odon IV. in 1916, ii gi'''''.
on the place of a castle. dating probably from the time of the The huntsman and one of the whips were near at hand,
Romans. The principal tower of this bastille .-- called " L , an, l raved considerable confusion by whippivg, off the
Tour du Connetable de S. Pol."
- . which w.
..re equ.lly Sager to gain admit-
For the last thousanda ; other -on n ti),
years this castle has served as a, state prison, and some of its';
:twice to the drawing-room. The worthy mailer of the
memorable inhabitants were j,liarles the
' 1., has resolved upon
X[., k
France, in 923 ; Louis ,mg of France, in 1470; Mira- ' present of the brush to the learned doctor, as
Simple, King of i hounds, James Morrell, jun. PQn
making a
beau, 1782, &c. Its external appearance ;
.3 quite in ke ' With mediaml period 41 which it 17'4 ereCtlcl,-.. eping , memento of the novel circumstance. The Buikkrt • a

FRENCH RAILWAY
-- TRAFFIC,
The following are the last returns of the gross re-.
eeipts of the principal French RAilwaYl7 :
Passengers,
RorrEN.--Prom Jan. 11 to Jan. 17
56,720.; goods, 94,732 f.; total, 151,4"1.. : Passengers,
nvßit.—Prona Jan. 11 to Jail' 11
19,492 f.; goods, 43,537 f.; total 62,849 f.
BonDEAux--Froca Jan. 6 to Jan. 12:
38,944 f.; goods, 6,298 f ; total, 101,202 f. Passengers,
Passengers,
NANTES.—Fros Jan.. 8 to Jan. 14 : A--
24,626 f.; goods, 26.877 f.; total, 51,503 f.
MARSEILLES.—From Jas. Ito Jan. 7: Passengers,
30,746 f.; goods, 21,496 f.; total, 52.242 f.
LYONS.—Frons Jan. 4 to Jan. lilgel-3,
145,500 E; goods. 79.894 f.; total, 225,390 : PasEesf.
—......._______

THE VAGRANT ACT. THE STRIKE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The public will feel indebted to you for you do me the favour of inserting the
drawing attention to the cases of oppression that are enclosed letter ? I cannot expect you to be respon
now enacting frequently, under the authority of the sible for my opinions, for many will neither under.
above Act. stand nor approve them.—Yours, &c.,
I trust you will favour me with space in your DALETII.
valuable columns for a few remarks to draw attention
to the character and working of the said Act of Par-
liament. After the war very many loose characters
were thrown out of employment, and vagrancy be-
came a national evil. To remedy this state of things,
the Parliament of 1815 passed the first " Vagrant
Act," under the auspices of that bitter foe to liberty,
Lord Castlereagh, whose very name ought to make
every man of character hesitate before he acquiesces in
any measure having its origin in such a source. That
Parliament covered itself with disgrace by passing
such a law ; for it has all the character of an Algerine
act, and might well be thought to have originated
among the bureaux of Austrian police, instead of
from an assembly of English gentlemen, professing
to hold every man as innocent until he be found
guilty; for its whole drift is to punish upon bare
suspicion, and that not of feeling, hut of a new_
fangled crime, called " Vagrancy.' The Act of June
21, 1824, repealed that Ace, but re-enacted all its ty-
rannical and odious provisions ; and, bearing on the
face of it cruelty and oppression, stands still the law
of England, that fancied land of freedom, where it
is said that every offender is entitled to be tried by
a jury of his peen, which saying is beyond dispute,
while this Act exists, a falsehood, " a delusion, and a
snare."

TO THE MASTERS WHO HAVE STRUCK.
Gentlemen—It is not unusual when two persons or
parties are differing, for a disinterested observer to
think them both wrong, and that neither has found
out " the more excellent way."
Whether in the strike that is now threatening so
much inconvenience and suffering, the workmen be
right or wrong, it is not the object of this letter to exa-
mine or assert ; but I write to pronounce that you, the
educated and the prosperous," who ought to set an ex
to the uneducated and
ample in " all good things
the needy, are pursuing a course unworthy of your
high position, and that cannot be justified by any
principles or rules that should influence and guide an
enlightened Christian community; and such I suppose
you consider yourselves to be. But moral right and
religious duty, and manly bearing are so little
understood in a world where conventional usages,
and commercial maxims, and interested objects get
interwoven with them, that men, like yourselves, take
up with notions, and follow out a course of conduct
(as you are now doing) that are as contrary to truth
and to every injunction of Jesus, whom they profess
to follow, as murder or theft is contrary to Moses
and the Decalogue. Gentlemen, you may be sur-
prised at what I am about positively, but calmly,
to contend for ; but hear me. If the 12,000 men
whom you have turned upon the world to starve, be-
cause they will not comply with your commercial
notions, were to seize your mills and deprive you of
your property, you would condemn them as doing
what was wrong, and very justly refer to the
Divine law by Moses, " thou shall not steal." But
do you not know, and is it not worthy of your deep
consideration, that you are equally guilty in the course
you are pursuing towards them ? Is Moses every-
thing with you, and Jesus nothing 1' Are you to
compel your workmen to obey Moses, and they have
no call on you to obey Jesus ? Are they to be re-
stricted by Divine laws, and you only by commer-
cial maxims ? I repeat, and fear no contradiction,
that the men would be guilty of no more sin in burn-
ing your mills than you are in depriving them of
the bread they could earn ; and in the midst of the
conflagration it would be as much a Christian-like
shout of triumph, "Go to now, ye rich men, weep
and nowt., tor your miseries are come upon you," as
it is Christian-like in you to shut them from your
doors, and with scornful lip sit down and drink
the cup of luxury. I say, are the commands
of Jesus and the Apostles to be nothing
to you ? Is the injunction, " See that ye render to
no man evil for evil, but overcome evil with good,"
to be no direction for you ? Are you to do " what
you like with your own," and resist the Divine com-
mand of "Look not every man on his own things, but
every man to the good of others ?" Will you declare
that this world's goods are absolutely your own,
though you are cautioned to act as stewards only, and
reminded that " you brought nothing into this world
and can take nothing out ?" Are you to receive the
smiles and approval of men, though Heaven has de-
clared that "he who seeth his brother have need, and
shutteth up his compassion, in him dwelleth not the
love of God ?" In short, will you remain callous to
those awful words, "Inasmuch as ye did it not to one
of the least of these my brethren, ye did it not to me;
depart from me ?"
13ut perhaps, gentlemen, you reject religion alto-
gether as your guide, and neither expect your men
nor intend that yourselves should be directed or re-
stricted by its injunctions. On what grounds or
principles, then, do you justify your conduct that
would not equally justify them in laying hold of your
possessions. Does your having the power to turn
them from their earnings,and your power to live
without their labour, justify you ? If so, if they
have the power to seiz? on your property, and thus
possess the power cf doing without you, are they not
equally justified ? If you rest your conduct on the
grounds that your,mills are your own, and that it is
unjust to deprive you of your own, is not their
ability to labour their own, is not the opportunity
which the demands of the world give for their labour
their own, and are you not equally unjust and become
robbers in depriving them of their opportunities and
powers? And add to which, your own consideration,
that you can live without them, but that they must
starve without you, and do you not stand before the
whole world as by far the greatest sinners, adding in-
justice and obstinacy to the guilt of inhumanity !
Usve you never considered that they have possessions
as well as you, and that you rob them of the
power and opportunity they possess of supplying the
demands of the world and of earning their bread '
I have not touched, gentlemen, on the abstruse
subject of rights, privileges, and corresponding
duties, which might be a more literary mode of ex-
posing your errors; but I have chosen thus to lay bare
your direct duties and position irrespective of the
rights and wrongs of others. Nevertheless, if we
were to examine your conduct as to rights it would
be easy to show that you can trace no right to do as
you are doing to any higher source than power, and
which is a kind of right you would be sorry to see
your 12,000 men using in right earnest. Gentlemen,
let it no longer be said with the force of divine truth,
"Do not rich men oppress you ?" Let your mode-
ration be known unto all, and trample the silly pride
that now leads you to obstinacy in the very dust.
Yours obediently,
Cheltenham, Jan. 24, 1852. DALETH.