The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1852.

SPdRTING NOTES.

No. C; C XX

YESTERDAY'S RACING AT NEWMARKET, &c,
In one of the most uncomfortable days that can be
well imagined, as good a lint cf spurt was decided as
could be wished for.
The match between Diomedia and Warbler, marked
for the first race of the day, having been declared off by
consent, the sport commenced with the Criterion Stakes,
which resulted iu a very unexpected rr alner in favour
Mr. Payee's Speed-the Plough, who was not backed,
that I have heard, either in town er at Newmarket. lie
has only run once before, when, hacked by his owner at
small odds, he deceived him, finishing however a good
fifth to Orestes fur the Woodcote, at Epsom. He is un-
commonly well bred for heavy ground, being by Cattier-
stone, out of the Farmer's Daughter ; and to the state of
the course yesterday, I think, may be attributed in some
measure his victory. Along with North Pole, West
Australian, Filbert, and Sittingbourne, he ran bead to
head to the stand, where he took a lead of half a length,
and kept it. A close race for second place between
West Australian and Filbert, terminated in favour of
the former by a long neck. North Pole was fourth,
close up, and the crack Siteingbourno, backed against
the field of six at evens, dead beat by his six pounds
penalty and the dirt, was a good fifth. Amazon and
lonic were beaten early.
The Handicap Plato of 501. over the Cambridgeshire
course—a sort of trial stake to the great race of to-day
—was carried off very cleverly on the post by one of
Babette's trial horses, Gladiole. Carbuncle cut out the
work to the Duke's stand, where all cried, Enough!
with the exception of the winner, Trousseau, Carbuncle,
Knight of the Garter, and Henrietta. Trousseau took
up the lead, and carried it on, until within a stride or
two of the chair, where Gladiole got her head in front
and kept it there. It was a close race for the last
hundred yards. Carbuncle finished a good third, Knight
of the Garter fourth, and Henrietta fifth. The rest, in-
eluding Hungerford, the Confessor, and Cotton Lady,
were scattered far and wide. This victory of Babette's
Schoolmistress, looking through the trial telescope at
the Cambridgeahiro, caused the immediate fall of Ba-
bette from sixes to fours, and Lady Evelyn from twenty-
fives to sixteens. It was said, by persons connected
with the stable, that the heavy state of the ground was
rather in favour of Babette than against her.
Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy filly, bad as she is, was
quite good enough to beat the Duke of Bedford's Pen-
sioner, on whom they laid sto 4. lam glad to see
Lord Glasgow's luck, or judgment, or whatever it may
be termed, has taken the right road at last. He has
been, on the whole, the most unsuccessful racing man
of the present generation, though a staunch and truly
honourable supporter of, and an ornament to, the Turf.
Vivandiere made all the running, and won the 10
sous. Sweepstakes over the D.M. by a short length; and
afterwards changed hands for 60 soya. Only a head
divided the second and third—Florence and Trinket.

The 10 soya. Sweepstakes over the first half of the
Ab. M. produced a very one-sided race, Golddust having
it all her own way from end to end, and winning, with
half a stone in band at least, by a length and a half.
Lady Vernon beat Convict nearly three lengths for
second place. Kernel was a wretched fourth, and the
Treacherous filly last.
A splendid race for the last half of the distance next
came off in a match between Walnut and Gossip; Nor-
man on the former, despite all Butler's best efforts, get-
ting the Judge's fiat in his favour by a head. They laid
odds on Gossip; and for the third time in one day, was
the match-making Captain's judgment at fault.
The speed of Poodle was well served in his match
against Ilex ; the 71b in favour of Ilex, however,
brought the former to a length at the finish.
The renowned Lapidist of other days, over his favour-

ite distance, was literally beaten off, find finished a bad
fourth, and last to Conmore for the 10 sous. Stakes over
the Criterion course; such things as Guy Mannering
and Phlegra Hinz the places between him and the
winner. Sic transit gloria mundi
The stakes for to-morrow are all of tho skeleton
description, and, consequently, will not close and name
till this evening.

Two out of the three matches set down for tomorrow,
will not produces races, as Diomedia receives four sovs.
forfeit from the Alkali colt, and Flutter receives forfeit
from the Pisysalis filly.
Constantino and Alsmode are scratched for the Glas-
gow Stakes; Peach for the 50 sovs. Stakes on Thursday;
and the LauQrcost colt, Berengaria. St. Benedict, and the
leaflet) colt, for the 300 sovs. Stakes on Friday.
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

Oct. 26.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.
MONDAY.

Criterion Stakes of 30 soya, each, 20 ft, for two-year-
olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bat 51b ; winners extra.
From the turn of the Lands in.
Mr. Payne's Speed the Plough, Bst 71b (Flatman) 1
Mr. Bowes's West Australian, Bst 7lb (F. Bct er) 2
Lord Exeter's Filbert, Bst 71b (Norman) 3
Duke of Bedford's Sittingbourne, Bst 131 b (including
61b extra) (Rogers) 0
Mr. Fox's lonic, Bst 71b (Bartholomew) 0
Mr. Pownay's Amaz )n, Bst 51b. (A. Day) 0
Mr. J. M. Stanley's North Pole, Bst 7113...(J. Marson) 0
Betting—Even on Sittingbourne, 2 to 1 twat West
Australian, and 4to 1 agst Filbert. Speed the Plough,
Filbert, West Australian, North Pole, and Sittingbourne
got away in a line, and ran in company, at a bad pace,
to the stand, where Speed the Plough obtained a slight
lead; this he maintained to the end, winning by half a
length, West Australian beating Filbert as far; North
Pole and Sittingbourne close up. Run in 1 min. 29 sec.
Handicap Plate of 5 sovs, for three-year-olds and up-
wards. Cambridgeshire course.
Lord Chesterfield's Gladiole, 5 yrs, 7st 91b (Flatman) 1
Mr. Pedley's Trousseau, 3 yrs, bit 81b...(F. Allison) 2
Mr. J. M. Stanley's The Confessor, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b
(J. Marson) 0
Mr. R. Read's Sir Robert 5 yrs, Bst 41b ( l'empleman) 0
Mr. Morris'a Hungerford, 4 yrs, Bst (Bashaw) 0
Mr. R. Walker's Treasurer, 3 yrs, 7st (Perry) 0
Lord Glasgow's Knight of the Garter, 4 yrs, Est 101 b
(T. Smith) 0
(C.ra
Count Batthyany's Hambletonian, 3 yrs,
B 6st
dley 61b)
0
Mr. St. Aubyn's Jessie, 6 yrs, Est (Hammond) 0
Mr. Thomas's Carbuncle, 6 yrs, 65t...(T. Sherwood) 0
Mr. Paillips's Henrietta, 3 yrs, 6st (J. Veale) 0
Mr. Boyce's Urbanity, 3yrs, Set 101b...(5. Steggles) 0
Mr. Wright's Spark, 3 yrs, sst 101b...(J. Goodman) 0
Mr. Payne's Cotton Lady, 3 yrs, 53t 71b (Rickards) 0
Betting-5 to 2 agst Knight of the Garter, 4to 1 agst
Sir Robert, 4 to 1 aget Cotton Lady, and 5 to 1 spit Ham-
oletonian.
After a delay of a few minutes, caused by Carbuncle
breaking
away, a good start was effected, Carbuncle
taking the lead, followed by Cotton Lady, Trousseau,
Knight of the Garter, Gladiola and Sir Robert, and
making the runuiag to the Duke's Stand,
where Sir
Robert and Cotton Lady were beaten. Trousseau now
went in front, attended by Gladiola who challenged in-
side the cords, and defeated her by a neck ; Carbuncle,
Henrietta, and Knight of the Garter well up. Run in
2 min. 9 sec. _ _

Match-100, hft 83t 71b each. D.H.
Lord Glasgow's f by Don John, out of Conspiracy
(Flatm.tn) 1
Duke of Bedford's Pensioner ..............(F. Butler) 2
Betting-5 to 4ou Pensioner. Won by a length. Not
timed.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each; three-year-olds, 7st 61b;
four, Bst 41b; five, Sst 81b; six and aged, Sst 101 b.
The winner to be sold for 60 sous., if demanded, &c.

D. M.
Mr. Jaqueb's Vivandiere. 4 yrs ......... (Bartholomew) 1
Mr. Medley's Flurenco, 3 yrs .......... Otborne) 2
Mr. Barnes's Trinket, 4 yrs ............... (Flatman) 3
Mr. R. Walker's dEilas, 4 yrs ............ (Dockeray) 4
Mr. Sams Euphony, 3 yrs (Charlton) 5
Betting-5 to 4 agst Vivandiere, and 3to 1 apt tEulus.
Vivandiere made all the running, and won cleverly, by
three parts of a length, and was claimed. Run in 1 min.
51 sec.

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each for two•year•olds ; colts,
Sit 710 ; fillies, Set blb. The winner to be sold for
250 sovs., if demanded, Ste First half of Ab. M.
Mr. JAcques's Gold Dust (Flatman) 1
Mr. W. S.abbing'o Lady Vernon (Basham) 2
Mr. Arbor's Convict (Rogers) 3
Lord Exeter's Kernel (Norman) 4
Mr. Mare's f by Lauercost out of Treacherous
(T. Smitb) 5
Betting-5 to 4 agst Gold Dust, and sto 2 agst Con-
vict. Won very easily by a length; Convict LS bad third.
Nut timed.

Match-100, h it. T.Y.C.
Lard Exeter's Walnut, 7st 121 b (Norman) 1
Duke of Bedford's Gossip, Bst 81b ...(F. Butler) 2
Betting-5 to 4on Gossip. Won by a heal. Run in
1 rain. 24 sec.

...-•
Match-200, h ft. Cesarewitch course.
Lord Clifden's Poodle, Bst 71b (F. Butler) 1
Lord Exeter's Ilex, Bst (Norman) 2
Betting-5 to 4on Poodle. Won by a length. Not
timed.
Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each for three-year-olds 7st 71b;
four, Bst 31b; five and upwards, Bst Btb. Winner to be
sold for 3501., &e. Criterion course. 4 subs.
Mr. Dobson's Conmore, 3 yrs (J. Osborne) 1
Captain Lane's Guy Maunering, 4 yrs (Bartholomew) 2
Lord Exeter's Phlegra, 4 yrs (Norman) 3
Mr. Sam's Lapidist, 3 yrs (Charlton) 4
Betting-5 to 4 agst Lapidist, 7to 4 egst Conmore.
Conmore made all the running, and won by two
lengths • a head between second and third ; Lapidist
beaten Off. _ _ _

Match-100, h ft ; Bst 71b each ; T.Y.C.—Duke of
Bedford's Diotnedia received forfeit from Lord Ribbles-
dale's Bounty.
Th.) sport, as cur returns will slier, was ample,
although the Criterion excepted, not remarkable, either
tur interest or severity of competition. The weather
was miserably cold, wet, and misty, and the ground
muddy and deep; the attendance, nevertheless, was large,
embracing moat of the " inflaentials" of the Turf. From
the unprecedented number of horses in the town, a bril-
liant week's racing is confidently anticipated.

BEPTING UP TO SIX O'CLOCK.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
9 to 2 agst Babette taken.
7 to 1 apt Azael
8 to 1 agst Weathergsge
9 to 1 agst Robbie Noble
12 to 1 agst Knight of the Shire
12 to 1 agst Vermuth
16 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn
100 to 6 agst Convulsion
20 to 1 apt Alfred the Groat

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,._ 1;)e quo s of the Ltr great
Captain, affords an opportunity of considering the gone.
rut question of intramural interment, and of au appro-
priate receptacle for commemorative monuments of our
departed worthies. Will you then, give me leave to
suggest, briefly, in reference to the first, that all the evils
arising from the present practice of burying in cur cities
might be avoided, and all the proposed advantages of
far-off cemetries might be secured, by means of a py•
ramid, for the reception of our dead. Stich a plan of
interment was proposed some time since, and a company
was projected fur carry irg it into effect ; but nothing in
this way is yet accomplished. Architecture and che-
mistry might secure a resting place for the remains of
our deceased, without shockaig the feelings or endanger-
ing the health of the living. In other words, a proper ar-
rangement of cells, and the employment of pout-charcoal,
or °thar substances, which would prevent the generation
and escape of mephitic gases, would enable us to bury our
dead amidst the living, and thereby avoid the cost and
trouble of interment in distant places. In reference to the
second question,—that of a suitable place for the monu-
ments of our warriors, statesmen, patriots, and poets,
and other "great (?)" men,—might not the proposed
pyramid be surrounded, at the base, with a gallery, or
valhalla, for statues, tablets, and other monuments. Such
a British Aristodeusion would be fitter than our cathe-
drals, abbeys, and churches, for the display of comme-
morative works of art.

Subscriptions are raised for the purpose of erecting a
monument to the memory of the late Duke—the Man of
Duty. What, if the money gathered for this purpose
were applied, as a nucleus, to the construction of a py-
ramid, and a Hall of British Worthies? Such a Wel-
lington Testimonial would be worthy of the deceased,
and would confer a benefit on the inhabitants of London.
The city of London has shown an eagerness to do all
honour to the memory (or remains) of the illustrious
soldier, by heading the funeral pageant from the gate of
Temple Bar to St. Paul's Cathedral. Let the corpora-
tion go a little beyond mere pomp and display, and, by
giving up the area of Sniithfleld for the proposed pyra-
mid, confer on itself, on the city of London, and on the
public, a benefit which will be the best monument to the
memory of the Duke.

I am, Mr. Editor, your very obedient servant,
EXOPTANS.
Lambeth, Oct. 25, 1852.

THE COTTON TRADE.

active, resulting
aggregater
stock,e
We have received through favour of Mr. James
Irvine, Liverpool, the following report :
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Monday,
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openedhBoeonom sb
reluctant to pay the full prices asked by holders, and only
were still maintained,
18ththa ts edpatye
September
obe:ct notwithstanding
f,roooulo
aadmvoicuenstiontg
were only 2,750 bales. On Wednesday, the Canada's
Lbiavieersp. o ol came Tuesday's hand,sai
es
and their tenor disappointing the general expectation,
becamehtheeavdyemanadnd
4,250 bales. The supplies in the meantime continuing
accumulating less
factors,lti ng i
lif
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the Thursday,
eofw only
eeweek
showed themselves more disposed to meet the views of
buyers, and 7,000 bales were taken at easier rates; yes-
sales, as far as reported, are
yes-
terday, d2a3y.6,
23.600 bales.
bales,
T o- makingday,
6,000 bales, and the market closes animated and steady
at our quotations below.
" We find much irregularity in prices, various sales
being reported below, and others again above our quota-
tions; this is, however, a natural consequence of the legs
strict classification which is now being used by many
parties, and though we have reduced our quotations
slightly, we would state that for a classification, such as
used four weeks ago, our outside figures would be too
low. Tdo demand is chiefly for the North and Great
Britain; little has been done for France and Spain; for
Trieste, a vessel, of about 2,200 bales was taken by one
party.
The supplies are heavy, showing already an ex-
cess o f 25,104 hales over the same period last year, but,
as stated previously, the high state of the rivers will
continue to keep our market abundantly supplied, as the
high prices prevailing are an inducement far planters to
hurry their crops to market.
" With regard to quality, we find the finer descrip-
tions becoming extremely scarce, and very full prices are
demanded and paid for the same; a good deal of low
cotton is coming forward now, but such grades being
also much inquired for, prices for the same aro high;
good middling to middling fair are comparatively the
cheapest qualities.
" The advices from the country state, that they had
rains all along the river during this and the last week,
and the weather is much complained of ss promoting the
destruction by rust, worm and shedding, and preventing
planters from picking. From the Atlantic States, the
accounts are contradictory, some representing the crops
from various causes.
in a fine condition, others again as suffering materially

" We quote to-day: ordinary to good ordinary, iii to
9; low middling, 9/; middling, 94; good middling, 9i
to 101; fair to good fair, 11k to 11i.
"Export since Ist September, 31,259 bales."

ROMAN CATHOLIC "EDUCATIONAL" MOVEMENT.—
A public meeting was held last evening at St. Bridget's Ro-
man Catholic Chapel, Baldwin'e-gardens, Gray's-inn-lane,
for the purpose of raising funds in support of education
amongst the children of the poor, in accordance with the
principles of Catholicism. The chair wss taken by R. Swift,
Esq., M.P. There was a large number of Roman Catholic
priests on the platform, many of whom strenuously advocated
the necessity of educating the children of the working classes,
so as to counteract, as
and apostatisingmuch as possible, "the blasphemous
influence of Protestantism !" As may be
expected from the locality, the meeting was densely crowded,
and the speeches were mostly of an exciting character, 'and
vociferously applauded. The meeting did not separate till a
late hour.
THE DUEL AT EGuam.—The following particulars
of the duel may be relied upon. It is the custom in France
to place the principals at a distance of twenty paces from
then advance
other. The seconds toss for the first fire. The men
ut, advance three paces each, by the military deux,sido-step—
trois—and the pistol of the one entitled to fire is
then removed from the perpendicular pesition in which it
had previously been held by the side of the head, and dis-
charged sideways at his antagonist. All these regulations
were carried out to the letter on Tuesday last. M. Cournot
lost the toss, and was killed by the first shot of his antogo-
rust. Jt is said upon good authority that the unfortunate
man (Cournit) had fought fifteen duels before the sad affair
when he met with such an untimely and tragical end.
THE ACCIDENT AT CAMDEN Tows.—The Mar-
chioness of Anglesey and the Bishop of Lichfield were in the
train, and they were also among the passengers who went on
at eleven o'clock. One of the foreign ministers, resident at
this court, with his wife, did the same. The only passengers
at all injured, as far as cou'd be ascertained, are Lady Blay-
ney, who, being considerably shaken, preferred remeining at
the " Euston " a few hours before continuing her journey;
a Mr. Dacre, of Stone-buildings, who sustained a slight in-
cised wound on the ear; and a Mr. and Mrs. Matis. who
have since left London. The driver of the mail engine,
Benj. Blake, received a blow on his chest by being thrown
against the reversing lever, and fainted shortly after the acci-
dent, though it is believed more from fright than from
having sustained any serious injury, as he had quite reco-
vers t last evening. It is understood that both Ashbury and
his fireman are both under the surveillance of the company's
police. It is not yet accurately known what course will be
taken with regard to them. Wnen questioned by the
pointsman, Morgan, whose duty it was to have signalled him
" All right," before he crossed the line, Ashbury admitted
that he had seen no signal, and only accounted for his con-
duct by remarking, with regard to the mail train, e We
thought she had been gone."
THE FISDERIES AND HER, MAJESTY'S CRUIZERS.—
A New York paper says—" The American schooner
Ann has arrived at Portsmouth, N. H., from Prince Ed-
ward's Island, with information that she had been twice
fired at by the British steamer Devastation, and forbid.
den to enter Gaspe Bay. Our vessels are excluded
from the Bay of endear."
THE Porn AND Du CULLEN.—The ceremony of
investing Dr. Cullen with the pallium took place on
Sunday, in Dublin, with almost regal pomp, in the
Church of the Conception in :Marlborough-street. The
sermon was paeaPhed by an American importation
the " Lord Bishop" of Pittsburgh, who, it seems, was
the delegated bearer of a " message of peace" from the
Sovereign Pontiff to his well-beloved subject Primate
Paul Cullen.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN LIVERPOOL.--011 Sunday even-
ing, about six o'clock, one of the boys employed at the
Vauxhall-road Gas-works, Liverpool, while meddling
with one of the valves, turned it in the wrong direction,
thereby causing an instantaneous and terrific explosion.
Several persons were dreadfully scalded, and it was
thought at the time that two of the injured parties,
named Walker and Davis, would have been deprived of
sight. We aro glad, however, to find that though they
lie in a pitiable condition at the Northern Hospital, their
injuries aro such as time and skill may cure.
CUBA.—The feeling, in Cuba of discontent is
chiefly confined to about two-thirds of the creole, or
native white population. the Spaniards being loyal. The
complaint of the disaffected is, that the Government is
arbitrary, and that all the prominent situations are held
by the Spaniards. There are 25,000 troops in Cuba, all
Spaniards, The strictest watch is kept over the dis-
affected, and all suspicious persons are promptly arrested.
In addition to the regular police, there is an organised
secret police, which is very active.
THE AMERICAN MARILETS.--The advices by the
Canada from Now York are not unfavourable, commer-
cially ; but they represent a growing state of uneasiness
in the stock market. This might have arisen in some
degree from the late excitement of over speculation and
anxiety about the result of their bargains, when settle-
ments of account became due with those who have ope-
rated largely, and at high prices for the rise. It is
feared, however, that a graver cause was connected with
the unsteady appearance of the stock market. The
banks of New York city had been largely increasing
their discounts for some time past, whilst contempo-
raneously, and notwithstanding the large imports of
gold from California, the stock of specie in their vaults
had absolutely and in the aggregate diminished, as will
be observed by the following, being the latest returns
made up for the inspection of the State Comptroller,
charged officially to see that the banking laws are not
infringed.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Holloway's Ointment and
Dangerous Wounod in the Thigh Cured by their
Use.--About three years ag ,
Mr. Acton, of Melbourne, bad
his thigh fearfully lacerated when out riding, bis horse
running away, and his leg coming in violent collision with
a wall. He was confined to his bed for nearly eighteen
months, suffering from the accident; and notwithstanding
the best medical advice, every effort proved unsuccessful in
healing the wound, and his health became so impaired that
his life was despaired of. In this state he commenced using
Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which had the effect of heal-
ing his wound with wonderful rapidity, and restoring him to
sound health.

LITERA'TURE.

Ann,:tte : A Tale. 3 Vole. By William Frederick
Deacon, With a Memoir of the Author, by the
Hon. Sir T. N. Talfourd, D.C.L. Colburn and
Company.
A romance crowded with hair-breadth 'ewes, and
diversified with the most brilliant traits of heroism, is
this beautiful story of " Annette," in which an Eng-
lishman has celebrated the loyal and religious wars
waged by the chieftains of La Vendee against the infi-
delity and the cruelty of the Revolution. As a posthu-
mous work, moreover, the narrative appeals yet more
persuasively to our sympathies. Under no circum-
stances, we conceive, does criticism find itself so
effectually disarmed as when required to decide the
merits of an effusion coming to us, as it were, out of
the grave (d'outre tombe), according to the solemn and
melancholy thought of Chateaubriand. It is some-
what difficult, upon such occasions, for the reviewer
to speak with anything like his accustomed calmness
or precision, when he remembers that the heart
whose emotions he is weighing in the balance of judg-
ment has become still for ever—that the hand whose
latest traces are submitted to perusal is hut dust—and
that to " the dull, cold ear of death" the words of
praise or of condemnation are alike become matters of
supreme and everlasting indifference. "Annette" is
among the number of fictions invested with this
peculiar and pensive fascination. It possesses also a
pathetic charm of its own, derived from the nature of
the incidents recounted. It relates to the history of
those famous struggles in the name of God and of
loyalty which have consecrated the thickets of the
Bocage, and shed a lustre over the marshes of the
Marais. Recognising, as we do, the justice and the
glory of those great principles which first gave rise to
the revolutionary movement of 1789 among the
Parisians reverencing as we do that sublime
hope of Liberty for France which may be said to have
first become visible in the flames of the Bastile, as
they undoubtedly first became audible through the
voice of Mirabeau—ik is impossible for us at any
moment to look otherwise than with the profoundest
sympathy, and the most unaffected admiration, at the
annals of that outbreak in La Vendee where the
white flag so long fluttered in defiance of the tricolour,
and where the Royalist peasantry withstood, during
so many months, the valour and ferocity of the Re-
publicans. It were idle, in fact, to dream that the
loyalty of the Vendeans could ever be denied the meed
of that eulogium which it has extorted from the lips of
those historians even who have shown themselves most
devoted to the cause of the Revolution. Everything,
indeed, conspires to secure this feeling towards the
Vendean insurgents. Their simplicity revolting
against the arrogance of the ultra-democrats—their
love of the past inspiring them with a horror of in-
novation—their piety rousing them in the defence of
religion : it was only natural that they should have
listened with eager delight to the rallying cry simul-
taneously raised by the ministers they viewed with
reverence, and by the seigneurs whom they regarded
with affection. It was under these auspices that the
tocsin was sounded in La Vendee, early in the spring
of 1793, in the first horror excited by the intelligence
that the head of Louis XVI. had fallen under the
axe of the guillotine. Although the war which there-
upon ensued throughout the Bocage and the Marais
can scarcely be said to have lasted during the brief
period of a single twelvemonth, there were accom-
plished within that memorable interval so many actions
of daring and magnanimity, that the annalist can find
but few popular outbreaks more remarkably illus-
trated by patriotism, by courage, and by generalship
—by unselfish patriotism, by unfailing courage, and
by untutored generalship. The narrative of all this
has long since rendered glorious the name of many,
until then, obscure villages in Anjou and Poitou—
provinces now better known as the departments of
Vendee, of Deux Sevres, of Maine-et-Loire, and of
Loire Inferieure. Within the country of La Ven-
die, 800,000 constitute the number of the population.
Sixty years ago, the number must have been smaller.
Yet, such was the front raised by the Vendean peas-
antry against the soldiers of the Jacobin Government,
that it is estimated no less perished in the course of
the subsequent struggle than the vast and terrible
aggregate of one million Frenchmen. This, too, let
us remember, in consequence of the rising of a few
agricultural labourers armed with scythes and pitch-
forks! The account of their achievements the world

has already obtained through the authentic writings
of Beauchanaps and Lacretelle, through the military
records of Jomini, and the picturesque memorial of
Madame de Larochejaquelein. Even English students,
the majority of them,are familiar with these narratives
of glory and of suffering. They regard with the
homage due to heroism the fame of those renowned
and redoubtable leaders of La Vend6e, who withstood
with equal success the science of Kleber and the
prowess of Westermann. What generous heart is
there that has not throbbed with admiration for the
young De Lescure ? of whom, although as brave as
a lion, it has been written " his humanity was ange-
lic." Who has forgotten the valiant D'Elbes ? who,
although a Saxon peasant, rose to the rank of general-
issimo. Are we any of us dull to the skill of Cha-
rette, the naval lieutenant, like Espartero " of a
feeble and delicate constitution"—to the resolution of
Stofilet, the daring Alsatian gamekeeper—to the
genius or generosity of Bonchamps, whose audacity
was only surpassed by his gentleness—to the perse-
verance of Marigny, and the vigilance of D'Auti-
champ, and the inflexible determination of Beaure-
paire ? Can we ever lose a remembrance of that
warrior-peasant the good and valiant Cathelinean ?
described by the author of "Annette" as a wool-
dealer, but in reality a simple charioteer—that illus•
trious Cathelineau, whose piety was so pure and ele-
vated that he was known amongst his brother rustics
as the Saint of Anjou, and who, although bred in the
habits of an humble villager, was proclaimed unani-
mously by the haughtiest nobles of Vendee (on the
outbreak of the war) the Commander. in-Chief of the
Grand Army of the Royalists. Least of all, can we
regard without the most tender and the most generous
emotions the brave, the young, the gentle, the daunt-
less—most heroic figure, amidst all that matchless
group of heroes, with the red sash, and the scarlet
handkerchief about his head, and his sword flaming
at the gates of Thouars, and his cap thrown into the
trenches at Saumur—the brave, the young, the
dauntless Henri de Larochejaquelein ! Henri, who
gave that noble cry of battle to his soldiers, " If I
advance, follow me ; if I retreat, kill me ; if I fall,
avenge me !" Henri, of whom it has been written
(Hist. Eur., ch. xii.), "Notwithstanding his passion
for danger, he was lull of sweetness and humanity."
Henn, of whom another annalist has said with such
touching suggestiveness (Genoude 47), " Chance has
covered his tomb, as well as that of his brother Louis,
with the flowers of Achilles." The hero of our boy-
hood, the palladin of Sautbern France, the gay and
gallant De Larochejaquelein ! . . . It was a
circumstance illustrative in a very curious manner of
the extraordinary vicissitudes of that epoch that, in
the wars of La Vendee, while Biron, a peer of
France and son of a Marshal, was, on one side, the
leader of the Republican forces, the Royalist Seig-
neurs were marshalled under the banners of the pea-
sant Cathelineau. Fur Cathelineau was Commander-
in-Chief until his death on the Place d'Armes, during
the unsuccessful storming of Nantes, when the rank
was conferred upon D'Elhe3; and on the demise of
D'ElleSe the responsible authority of Generalissimo
was awarded to Henri de Larochejaquelein. A feeling
of breathless interest carries the reader on while
perusing the history of the civil war in the Bocage un-
interruptedly from its propitious commencement to its
melancholy and disastrous consummation. How rapid
were the alternations of fortune during those eight
months of 1793 may be seen by a glance at the re-
cords of the Revolution. On the 4th of May the Rtee
publicans were defeated at Thouars, and on the sth
of May the Royalists were in their turn defeated at
Fontenay. On the 6th of May, however, the latter
place witnessed the return of triumph to the white
banner of the Bourbons ; and later on (10th June)
the tricolour was again obliged to yield to the valour
of the Seigneurs, at Sautnur. Upon the 29th of
June the Royalists were worsted in their attack upon
Nantes; while on the 13th of August, at Luce'',
the Republicans were again victorious. Septem-
ber, nevertheless, brought success buck with it to
the Vendeans, who were triumphant on the 15th of
that month at Coron, on the 19th at Torfou, and on
the 20th at Montaigu. Yet they were overcome for
a while on the 17th of October, at Chollet, where
D'Elboe and Bonchamp were both mortally wounded.
At Chateau-Gontier, on the 25th of October, they
were, nevertheless, once more enabled to route the
troops of their antagonists—shortly after which, the
gentle and valorous De Lescure, breathed his last, in
the arms of his bride at Fougeres. At Granville, on
the 14th of November the Royalists were again con-
quered, but on the 19th of November, at Ponterson
they were again victorious. Antrain, on the 20th of
November, was, however, the scene of their last success,
for they were compelled to yield to the numerical
superiority of the Republicans, on the 30th of No-
vember at Angers, on the 10th of Decemberiat Mans,
and on the 22d of December at Saveuay the
struggle, being at length closed on the 14th of March,
1794, on the cruel, but heroic death of Henri de
Larochjaquelein. Thereupon the unfortunate pea-
santry were compelled, to bend their proud heads
before the ghastly and terrible vengeance of the Re-
volutionists. It was then that the world was horri-
fied by a series of atrocities, surpassing even those of
Marat and Robespierre. It was then that the
noyades of Nantes drowned the "suspected" by whole-
sale. It was then that Thurreau devastated the pro-
vince with his Infernal Columns, and that Carrier
destroyed the children by his Republican Baptis!its,
and the old men, and the young men, and the virgins,
and even mothers on the eve of their confinement, by
his hideous device called Republican Marriages. And
thus was it that in Nantes alone, there perished within
a few weeks, no less than 18,000 souls by the river,
by the bullet, and by the guillotine. And so Liberty
was desecrated, and the Demons of the Revolution

were triumphant, and the Royalist ChieftLins were
shot, and stabbed, and berried away, and their very
names for a white—but oily for a while—forgo'ten.
It has not surprised us, therefore, to find a schol tr
of generous sympathies, like the author of "An-
nette," selec!ing the scenes and the times of the Great
Civil War in La Vendee, as those of a ro.nance re-
lating to the French Revolution. Several of the
principol personages engaged in those events are in •
troduced in the course of the narrative—their fortunes
being ingeniLlidy interwoven with those of the
merely fictitious characters. The result of the cont.
bination is, as might he conjectured, a story in many
respects eminently attractive. It introduces us once
more to Csthelineau, to De Leicure, to Stofflet to
Charette, to Bonchamps, to D'Elhee, and to
Larochejaquelein—not to the empty names, be
it observed, but to the very men themselves.
Annette, of course, as the title-page sufficiently inti-
mates, is the heroine : an amiable though rather
colourless creation—the daughter of Delille, a mer-
chant of Nantes. Delille himself is, to our thinking,
the blemish of the book, being in truth a man so
painfully weak and timid as to become in the end ab-
solutely contemptible. The author has adroitly
selected as the hero of the tale—Alphonse, the son of
one no less distinguished among the Vendean Chicle,
than the brave old Marquis de Chatillon. Around
Alphonse the interest of the fiction is woven from
first to last, so that we are enabled to follow his foot-
steps continuously, down to the conclusion. The
beginning of the work is little else than what may be
termed a mere episode, serving the writer's purpose
doubtless well enough, by making the reader
acquainted with the villain of the plot, the unprinci-
pled De Chantereau. The real interest of the story
only commences with the arrival of Alphonse in
Paris, where, in connection with the worldly-minded
Count de Sevrac, he becomes engaged in various
state intrigues, and at last takes part in the memo-
rable flight of the Royal Family from the Tuileries.
Nothing can be more ingeniously contrived than the
incidents at this portion of the narrative—the hero
being introduced by his tutor Servette, into the
drawing-rooms of Madame Roland, where he familiar-
izes himself with the manners and appearances 0:
revolutionists as renowned as Barbarroux and Brissot,
and Robespierre. Immediately after the return o:
Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette from Varennes
the horrors of the epoch thicken, and Alphonse ulti-
mately becomes involved as one of the defenders of the
palace in that terrible storming of the Tuileries,
which ended in the slaughterof the Swiss soldiers. De
Chatillon is soon afterwards seized in his lodgings and
dragged off to the 13icletre, where he is incarcerated
among the number of the " suspected " as an aristo-
crat. Here the anxiety in his fate attains its climax,
for the reader finds himself arrived at the very eve of
the dreadful and ever-infamous Massacres of Septem-
ber. Alphonse appears doomed to irretrievable de•
struction : for as the critical night draws on, there
enters his dungeon—the vindictive and relentless De
Chantereau. Death seems to be closing in upon him,
and we leave the hero surrounded by murderers, and
horrified by the din and the yells of assassination.
There is one ray of hope glimmering, however,
through the darkness—dimly and timorously. Jacques
the half well-natured, and half rascally ex-valet of De
Sevrac has joined the party of the Jacobins, and
been installed as under jailor of the Bicetre. He de-
termines, if possible, to save the life of the friend of
his former master, the ill-starred and helpless De
Chatillon. Jacques communicates with Servette
and informs the old man of the perilous p-sition
of Alphonse. Whereupon the Republican dreamer
rises from reverie to action, and resolves, " come
what come may," that he will dare even a forlorn
_ .

hope of intercession. After a vain application to Ito-
land, he ventures, late at night, to carry his petition
into the presence of the dreaded Minister of Justic,..

himself—to Danton, the author and organizer of the
Massacres of September ! Servette's appeal to the
great and terrible democrat is one of the finest pas-
sages in the three volumes, rising in the end to a
burst of eloquent and impassioned adjuration. Of
this, however, we will let our readers judge for them-
selves. The supplicant has employed every argument
he could contrive by way of entreaty, but each has
proved in succession utterly and agonizingly fruit-
less. Pathos has been treated with contempt, and
solemn warnings as to the future with derision. In
the last distracting sense of disappointment, Ser-
vette, and even Danton, are startled by the clanging
of a distant bell in the midnight. It is the tocsin !
" Well may the fierce demagogue have started, for
that gloomy boll, which flung its awful voice far and
wide over the trembling capital, tolled the knell of not
less than six thousand of his victims:

Almighty God!' exclaimed Servette, every musCe
quivering with agitation,' can it be possible? Only one
hour?' and sinking on his knees before the Minister of
Justice, who stood buried in gloomy thought, the old
man thus addressed him, his eyes streaming the while
with tears: 6 Oh, Banton, if I cannot prevail upon you
to spare all tbo wretched victims of this dreadful policy,
at least let me, once more, conjure you to spare uue
whom I know to be as innocent as ho is dauntless and
high-hearted. Consider his youth, and the grey hairs of
his sorrowing father! You are brave, bo generous—you
are great, show true greatness by tempering justice with
mercy. Men say that you arc a fond and happy father,
and that your infant child is to you as a second self;
think then, what you would feel, were you, when that
child bad grown up to man's estate, to plead for his dear
lifts to some future Minister of Justice, and be met with
the same chilling reply that you have this day given
me! Oh, think what it is wantonly to extinguish that
holy spirit of life which the Almighty gave, and which
you cannot restore! Lo, hero in the dust at your feet,
I conjure you to be true to yourself—true to your fame—
true to that just and sacred cause of which you are the
triumphant advocate! You speak not! Eternal God!'
—and the old man clasped his hands together, and raised
his eyes to heaven—' eternal God, grant me power to
touch the heart of this cold, haughty man, who, when
ho might descend to after ages as tho benefactor
of his fellow.creatures, can endure to be branded

as their sc mrge. Still silent? Well, then'—and the
speaker started abruptly to his feet sinco the
voice of conscience and humanity finds no echo
within your breast; since blood must flow, no matter
from whom, spare Alphonse, and take me as your vic-
tim! Better, far better that the old should go than the

young; no ono will miss the helpless, solitary man,
whi,se lamp of life i 3 already well•nigh extinguished;
besides, were it not so, I have lived long enough, since
I have lived to soo this day.'

" The old man poured forth these supplications with
such impassioned energy, and in tones of such heartfelt
anguish, that Wilton, who had made many efforts to
stop him, at length desisted from the unavailing task.
S,rvette's solemn appeal to the Deity he acknowledged
only by a smile of scornful incredulity; he was visibly
affected, however, when he was reminded of his infant
boy, to whom ho was devotedly attached; bat when
the old man offered his own lire is exchange for his
friend's, thi heroic generosity of the offer struck Danton
so powerfully, that the tears actually stood in his eyes!
The rock was smitten, and the living waters came gush-
ing from it.

" ` Citizen,' exclaimed the stern demagogue, dashing
away the moisture from his lids, `your prayer is granted!
The chosen friend of so magnanimous a spirit can never
be the base, treacherous conspirator I had imagined.
No, I see I was mistaken, and it is right that I make
reparation. But, remember, Ido this as an act of mere
justice, not cf pity,' and advancing to tho table, he sat
down and wrote with an unsteady hand an order for
Alphonse's release, to the jailer of the Bieetre.
,‘ Away,
ho added, thrusting the document into Serrate a hands,
luso not a moment, or you may ba too late. Not a
word—no thanks—you owe nothing to my compassion
—away, away 1' and ho pushed him towards the door.
" No sooner was ho gone, than Danton resumed his
seat at the table, and in a few minutes had regainei
much of his usual stoical hardihood."

Alphonse de Chatillon is seved—snatched as it were
while the bloody weapons of death are already drip-
ping before his eyes, Irons the grasp of the assassins.
Soon afterwards he escapes from Paris in the disguise
of a sans curlotte, and upon joining his father, forth-
with takes part, with the rest of the chiefs, in the
Loyalist insurrection. Hereupon it is that the author
reveals the most clearly his skill as an historical
novelist. His description of the somewhat compli-
cated movements of the campaign, his delineation of
the contrasting temperaments of the different leaders,
and especially his account of the various battles and
sieges, are all of them admirable for their vigour and
perspicuity. In one particular alone—but that a ra-
ther important one—we conceive him to have been
labouring under some strange and inexplicable kind
of misapprehension. We mean in his appreciation,
or perhaps we should say in his want of appreciation,
of the character of Henri de Larochejaquelein. Henri
he has failed to estimate accurately, as he had already
failed to estimate aright Louis .X.Vl.—a king as good
in his life as he was great in his death. Henri, we
take it, was no mere flippant, thoughtless, volatile,
dallier with the chivalrous, any more than Louis was
a mere gluttonous, fickle, suspicious, craven imbecile.
Henri was as gentle as he was daring, and as resolute
as he was impassioned. Louis, again, was forgiving,
generous,
and humane, virtuous as a man, and valiant
as a prince, resigned under misfortune and benignant
in prosperity, grand in captivity, and sublime in t'n
e
hour of his execution. Alphonse de Chatillon, how-
ever, might have been altogether overshadowed had
not the writer endeavoured thus to render
subordinate
to him in some measure the heroic character of Henri
do we find
de Larochejaquelein. Therefore,possibly,
that the justice of the historian has yielded overmuch
to the exigencies of the roar •neist.
One of the least
a
objectionable passages in relation to this portion of
the narrative is the folios\ ing—a passage interesting
for inasmuch as it contains a description of the young
Vendeun Chevalier :
" Do Larocl e'
Jaquelein was of a more impetuous and
mercurial temperamn
oernet ; so enthu: iastic that he seemed
to love fightiug—
he was impatient of Hibernian—for fighting's sake ;
ardour
counsels except such as encou-
raged his mint try our ; and so invariably
scarcely to believe in sanguine as
the possibility of reverses. His
figure was tall and elegant ; he had light hair. and an
oval cc untenance, whose con our was rathe rEr gl sh than
French; and there was a (lash of eccentricity in his cos-
Win?, inasmuch as he usually wore several red handkor-

ehlefs—one on his head, enotbir about his neck, and
three or four roun:i his waist, Yo'sling his pistols."
As a companion picture to this, we Inv tranicribe
the subjoined sketch of the aspect and character of
Charette

He was slight in figure and of niitidia height,
ei:h a small but teelliant and penetrating eye, a nose
turned up in the Tartar fashion, and a mouth remarkable
for its .shapo and width. His nature was stern and
obstinate ; ho had none of that lofty and generous ps-
trioti,en which glowel in the loosens of the majerity of
the Seigneurs ; but was too much influenced by a desire
for personal aggrandisement, which seemed
to be his
ruling principle of acrion. In manner he was cold, re-
served, end dictatorial, and in carrying on his military
operations he was reckless of human lite, and was apt to
wink at the excesses of his troops after a victory; more-
over he was a rigid martinet, and was never kaewn to
forgive or forget any act of disobedience."
Further particulars as to this plot of "Annette" need
scarcely be enumerated, seeing that the tale follows
truthfully enough the movinte records of lu-story ;
besides which, it were scarcely fair to the narrator
to deprive his effusion, by a bold epitome, of its pro-
minent and most acceptable faFeination. It may be
permitted IP, howbeit, to mention one incident as
among the most enthralling in the developraent of the
story—that of the escapo of Annette and her father
from a sequestered auberge, under the guidance and
guardianship of Alphonse, where the three wayfarers
seem at one moment to be infallibly Fated to
assassination. This occurs when the Delitles are
proceeding to the sea-coast in order to find sh alter by
flight into England. Thither Alphonse ultimately
follows the refugees, when disasters having settled
down upon La Veneb, the young D. e Chatinon is
entrusted by his brother-chieftains with the task of
applying for assistance to the British Government.
Prior to his return to the Marais in company with
Lord Moira's expedition, Alphonse is happily married
to Annette; and when the last gloomy occurrences of
the Royalist movement have been recounted, and
when the civil war is seen to have closed for a time in
blood and calamity, the hero and the heroine, as bride
and bridegroom, are revealed to us at length in the
tardy enjoyment of something like happiness and
tranquillity. "All's well that end's well," saith even
the divine Shakspere, and sorest we contented. One
other extract must we indulge ourselves with before
concluding our reference to the narrative—it is one
descriptive of the death of our hero, the death of the
youthful and dauntless Henri de .Larochejaquelein :
" With some difficulty Henri, at times, restrained his
soldiery from giving way to a natural desire for ven-
geance when some stragglers from the republican army
occasionally fell into their hands. On one occasion
Larochejaquelein came upon a party of his men as their
muskets were turned upon two grenadiers, who, sepa-
rated from their companions, had entered the forest.
Pull of horror at an act which, to his chivalrous soul,
appeared a murder, Henri interposed; signing to his
men to desist, he advanced alone towards the soldiers,
exclaiming :
" ' Surrender, I give you quarter!'
" Perhaps incredulous of the existence of a magna-
nimity of which their own actions never bore a token,
the soldiers, for all reply, raised their guns and fired
with fatal effect. Henri fell, as his friends and soldiers
gathered round him, and the arms of Alphonse tenderly
sustained the dying hero. Human help was vain. Only
a few moments of life remained to Henri Larocheja-
quelein I They were passed in acts of devotion and tender
adieus to his comrades in arms; and taking the hand of
Alphonse within his own :

'• 'Farewell, my early friend,' he murmured in low,
faint accents, ' together we have fought and suffered.
You alone, may God grant it ! will live to bee the vic-
tory for which wo have signed. But not now, Alphonse.
It is only a protracted death•struggle, which can be
carried on here. Heed my last injunctions—withdraw
yourself, for a time, till the fury of the storm is over;
and then, when a brighter day is dawning for France—
come back and fight and conquer; and in your hour of
victory remember Henri—' Exhausted with so much
exertion, the dying youth paused, and then again re-
covering himself, added, as he saw the tears coursing
down the cheeks of Alphonse• Do net grieve lor me,
Alphonse; I could not hove lived away from La Vene6,
while my arm could wield a sword: sooner or later the
blow must have come to me. All our friends fallen
around us. But you may yet be spared—a future is
before you. The house of Cna,tillon may ugain be num-
bered among the pillars of the throne. Obey my last
wish, Alphonse, and live for France as I--I thank God,
according to my repeated prayer—die for her.' A few
more words of tenderness and resignation, and that
gentle heart had ceased to boat, that chivalrous spirit,
which i❑ a brief existence of only twenty years had
given so many proofs of gallantry and heroism, had fled.
Henri de Larochejaquelein was no snore. Sadly, with
broken hearts and tearful eyes, his followers consigned
their chieftain to the grave, in his soldier's accoutre-
ments; and as they heaped up the earth upon his last
resting place:

" indeed,' said Alphonse, the Convention
may say that La Vend6e no longer exists.' "

And so, indeed, ended that memorable struggle of
the Royalists against the Democrats—the struggle of
a chivalrous peasantry against the overwhelming
might of the Revolution.

We have left ourselves but small space for reference
to one of the most interesting portions of the work
lying before us, and one to which as yet we have
made no allusion—the graceful prefatory memoir of
the author, penned by his schoolfellow, Mr. Justice
Talfourd. Neither is much comment required, we
conjecture, upon a biographical tribute which for
years hence will be turned to with satisfaction not
merely by those who knew the writer of" Annette,"
but by those also who can appreciate the poet of "Ion"
and the commemorator of " Elia." Sir Thomas Tal-
fourd has afforded us one other evidence of his large
and generous heart i❑ that tribute to the memory of
his friend, William Frederick Deacon [a name men-
tioned once more not without emotion in these
columns of The Sun, which his hand, up to the period
of his decease, so often adorned by his criticisms]—a
tribute in which the biographer has deservedly cele-
brated the merits of a scholar as well as those of an
amiable and accomplished gentleman.

THE LORD-LIEUTENANCY ORDSHIRE..--
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orn;_-_-REF
Much sp3culation is afloat throughout this county as to
the probable successor to the late lamented Earl Somers
in the Lord-Lieutenancy. Lord Rodney, Lord Bate-
man, and the present Earl Somers are all spoken of as
likely ; but as the last-named nobleman supported Li-
beral principles at the last election, it is not very likely
that Lord Derby will pass by two of his supporters to
appoint an oppouent.—Hereford Times.
IRISH EMIGRATION.—The report of the Colonial Land
and Emigration Commission has shown that the total
emigration from the United Kingdom for the year 1851,
iu those parts alone in which Government agents are
stationed, excreded 335,996, of whom 257,372 were from
Ireland; and that if the emigration of the succeeding
months of the year 1852 does not diminish from that of
the four earlier months, it will have Exceeded 500,000,
of whom we may take 350,000 at. knst as the proportion
of the emigration from Ireland alone.
TILE WILL OF THE LATE MR. NEILD.—The will
gentleman, which has excited so much curiosity,
in Doctors' Commons. it is written by the de-
ceased himself, in a clear bold round hand, and only
oecupies the front of a sheet of foolscap. The will
begins by saying that he, James Camden Neild, of
Lincoln's-inn and Chelsea, in the county of Middlesex,
wished his body to be interred in Battersea Church, and
in a vault as near as
may be to his beloved father,
James Neild. Ile bequeathed to his executors 1001.
each, and directed them to pay all his just debts (which
were very trifling), and thereafter he gave and be-
queathed all " real and personal property to which I
may be entitled at law or in equity, unto her most
gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, for her own private
used and advantage, and her heirs, executors, and
Hon. :hO his
as-
signees." And he expresses a hope that her Majesty
came.will be pleased to accept thcame.li,leev.epHpeoninry ltltll,
appoints a'lllia' t
Tattetoi n, by
his C h
clerk.a r l ee
cxrcutors, the the keeper fur the time being of
her
Archdeacon Majesty's
Redford,rivypiirs e
andt
he
veryl
James Stephens, Esq., of
the county of Kent.
1,
TShhaudwweillil, of Gray rapyro'sv-eindn, 111 ed will
Georgeses
on the 21st lout,
by the Hon.
Charles Bowman Peipps, keeper of her Majesty's
privy
purse, the Archdeacon of Bedford, and Mr. Stephens,
Pe letter fromf Tournay, of
the executors appointed under it, and the
estate sworn to
as
cl‘tu.lnAldBpe,lism2tsa:t eißsontohclaAtß Chi Ee
definite'—
ttohoekpprolacpeerttyhoatf
Bury, belonging to M,lme. de Beetlrtroe,
hviigilhaegrethdtetni3thaautglimia"ie by Count Fordi-
nwmaeotrirdeninidnega6V(itsbatorhtthede Rectum& and eventuTalwlyothneewChflevears-
her Jenichek, a Hungarian
was declared the purchaser, tgentlemen, residing in Paris,
new proprietor, it is said, .or a sum of 137,500 f. The
house std grounds at once clheaasurgedivaenia
to allow of their being dorderst
repaired,o havei
n ordt the
lots of land and woodfwerea
which gives a total
value of theoccupiedt'terwianrdtsb the
sold spring.
'27 B'OO%T,
164,500 f. for all. The estimated
of Mdme. do u o propertyca3T,sooeool. i nfthe marriage settlement of the
late Count was 2,350 000 f.
a ti do
Nov.that t2h2e. marriage
THE
"RELIGIOUS EQUALITY" CONFERENCE—The
executive committee have had several meetings within
the last few days. for the purpose of revising and discus-
sing the several clauses of the draught report which is to
be submitted to a preliminary meeting of the Conference,
Ito bo held on Tuesday next. The document in question
is said to be cautious and moderate in its tone, end in
terms sufficiently indefinite to entrap Protestants opposed
to the connexion between Church and estate into the
belief that the plotters have really no ulterior object ia
view beyond the establishment of perfect "religious
equality " for all creeds. There is not a word about the
proximate appropriation of the " spoils," nor is the plan
for the eommencement of open hostilities against the
enemy as yet laid bare.
IRISH PROPRIETORS.—The number of proprietors
in fee in Ireland has been calculated not to exceed 8,000,
some of whom individually possessed morn than 100,000
acres. Between the years 1841 and 1850, it is asserted
that emigration and deaths have swept away more than
two-thirds of the entire holdings under five acres, a
of ft Om 5 to 15 acres, have also gene,
while an increase of 103,944 has, in the same period of
oqoudarsteo,roo of 0 afa millionm,, of smell farms have disappeared,
time, taken place in farms of upwards of 30 acres, and a
further increase of 66,042 moderate farms of from 15 to
30 acres. In one single year, from 1849 to 1850, the
net inertias° in farming stock was to a value of
1,250,0001.