The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-31 00:00:00

A CONSTANT READER.

UNIVERSAL PENNY POSTAGE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sta—The now only apparent difficulty attending this
most desirable measure seems to be as to the mode of ap-
plying the stamp. I beg to suggest that it be imprinted
on a sheet of post paper, in the centre at the back, so that
in folding it will be on the part where the direction of a
letter is usually written. This will obviate the trouble to
the writer of affixing the stamp by means of an adhesive
substance, which would be liable to be rubbed off, or de-
tached from the letter, and of being fraudently used again.
It will likewise afford the stationer or vendor of the paper
a means of remuneration for advancing the cost of the
stamp, supposing the charge for paper and stamp to be
three- halfpence per sheet. Persons having a considerable
correspondence might purchase by the quire at a cheaper
rate, but so as to afford the vendor a fair profit.
In order to prevent the abuse of using the stamp a se-
cond time, the post-mark should be placed across the stamp
in a different coloured ink.

Mere covers or envelopes are objectionable on more
grounds than one ; these have been stated, and I therefore
will not trespass further on the reader's time.

July 30, 1839

AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.

STAFFORDSHIRE COALS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Seeing a correspondence in your paper of yes-
terday between Mr. Pletts, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and
the Lord Mayor, on the coal combination is the north, and
noticing the price of the best coals in Staffordshire to be
(according to his Lordship's statement), 6s. per ton, on
board, I shall feel obliged to Mr. C. Lea Wilson, or any
other gentleman, to inform me at what mine, or mines, the
lest coals of that district are to be had at 65., at Bs., or even
at 9s. per ton, on board ; and from what authority he
states the canal dues, (or tonnage) to be only ss. 11d.:per
ton the whole distance from these mines to London ? If
he can clearly and satisfactorily show these statements to be
correct, I, for one, am very much deceived, but shall not
be the less gratified to find them true.
Should the insertion of this letter in your paper induce
a reply, the public will know how to set a proper value on
his Lordships' exertions, which have boon so eminently
useful.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Dudley, July 30. JOHN PARTRIDGE.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

TIME S.—From the Paris papers and letters it would
appear, not only that the accounts were substantially true,
of an attempted arrangement between the Bank of Eng-
land and the Bank of France, but that the additional
mortification is imposed, of two failures in the applications
made—one to the Bank of France, and the other to the
capitalists of Paris—a disgrace which certainly never be-
fore befel the great English banking corpora ion. The
Government, too, the natural consequence of being
in bad company, comes in for a share of the dis-
grace. English Exchequer-bills, it seems, are not
good security at Paris, because they would not,
at short notice, be convertible so as to answer
banking purposes—a remark which is perfect y true,
and at the same !time a very useful admonition to the
late Governor of the Bank of England, who was the ne-
gotiator cn this occasion, on his own recent practice in
regard to available securities. The " dead weight," of
course, if the Paris hankers could be made to arrive at the
comprehension of its meaning, would be far less available
as a banking security, since it is universally admitted not
to possess that character even in London. Phis is the
objection of the Paris capitalists to the arrangement, who
were to :save undertaken it, if that difficulty could have
been overcome, with the aid of the Bank of France, the
latter taking them as its security. With the Bank of Eng-
land in a direct way there was a refusal to treat at all, the
charter of that institution forbidding all traffic in " foreign
securities." The transaction is the universal topic of
dis-
cussion in the city, and every where severelyreprobated.
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SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS'
The South London horticultural Society held their
summer show of flowers and fruits at their Gardens
yesterday. The collection of flowers wa :by far the
best we have yet seen exhibited hythisi.
rododendrons, fuschias, balsams, and foreign
gn hetyeat Thehs in great abundance, and of the most rich and variedwer de-
e scription. The show of geraniums, even at this season,
was nearly as good as at the former exhibition, and one
in particular, a scarlet geranium, raised by the gar-
dener of Mr. Sullivan, of Fulham, for its size and I,
the beauty of the colour, attracted general attention.
There was also a plentiful display of cut flowers, dah-
lias, roses, carnations, &c., and several fine specimens
of the fruits of the season. The day was most unpro-
pitious, yet several hundreds visited the Gardens in the
course of the day ; and but for this unfortunate cir.
numstance, the numbers would probably have been in-
creased tenfold. The arrangement of the flowers was
in good taste, and what with the excellent collection of
lions, and tigers, and elephants, which Mr. Cross keeps
In such a healthy condition, the company, notwith-
standing the bad weather, seemed to think that the
1 shilling had been well spent.
A number of prizes were awarded, and among them
the
large silver medal to Mr. Lidyard, for the best col-
ec
ler • tion of miscellaneous plants ;
•1
AID
e sliver medal, for to Mr. Barnard, the
Mr
the best blooms of picotees ; to
. Edmonds, the large silver medal, for the best
heart's ease ; the large silver medal, for the best collec-
0n of miscellaneous plants for gentlemen's gardeners,
to Mr. Coutts ; for cut flowers, to Mr. Sadler ; the
large silver medal for the best collection of miscellaneous
plants for nurserymen, Mr. pa• •
band fi • to
market gardeners, florists,
specin Fair bairn ; for roses, to Mr. Paul ; for the best
.._ I._ plant, open 1%1 r. Dickso n . to all classes, to Mr. Pamplin and

LITERATURE.

TRAVELS IN NORTH .AMERICA. 2 VoLs.
Bentley, London, 1839.
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The thirst for adventure—that fierce, uncontrollable
, passion which sent Captain Head galloping, in steeple
chase style, across the Pampas, and is just now in-
ducing our enterprising Lord Mayor to brave the perils
of a voyage in the city barge to the far distant town of
Henley-upon-Thames—impelled the author of these
volumes, Captain Murray, in the year 1834, to quit
the more civilized portions of the United States, and go
hunting with the wild Pawnee tribes in the Prairies of
the Far West. Ile left England, it seems, in the Ame-
rican ship Waverley, for New York ; but encountering
a stiff Atlantic gale when about twelve hundred miles
from Liverpool, where he had embarked, was compelled
to put in for shelter to Fayal, one of the Azore Is-
lands. Here the vessel was detained for nearly a
month, while the necessary repairs were being made,
which enabled Captain Murray to acquaint himself with
the manners and customs of these remote islanders. Of
the town of Fayal, he tells us that " the streets are
execrably paved, and altogether the most favourab!c I
ever saw for the production of broken shins and sprained
ancles." Whlle a resident in this charming town, which
for quick or negligent pedestrians must teem with at-
tractions, he was invited to a dinner given by the chiefs
of the island, at which the following ludicrous scene
occurred. It should be premised that one half the
company could not understand English ; the other half
were equally ignorant of Portuguese
After a few minutes passed in bowing to my right and
left, and in various modes of telegraphic communica-
tion, I perceived that the chair on the right of our host
was occupied by a portly good-humoured Ecclesiastic. The
bright idea immediately struck me that I might here derive
some advantage from my Eton education ; so I addressed the
priest with, " Salve, vir roverendissime," which instantly
drew his attention and that of the whole company to my
learned self. The good priest rose from his chair, and
answered my salutation with a torrent of complimentary
eloquence, and soon found means to obviate the difficulty
resulting from the difference of our pronunciation. Two
sheets of paper were provided, on one of which he wrote
me a complimentary address on my arrival, assuring me,
therein, that " the Scottish nation was the greatest on
earth, that the island had never been so honoured before,
and that my visit would be treasured in its latest annals.'
Having had some exper'ence in public dinners in Britain,
I flatter myself I was not a bad match for the priest at the
weapons which he had chosen. I assured him that my
feelings of gratification wore too overwhelming to be con-
veyed in words; that this was, without exception, the
proudest moment of my life ; and that I congratulated
the island on the possession of a reverend luminary whose
learning and eloquence were not inferior to that of Gro-
tius orErasmus.'"

This is a delicious piece of humbug, scarcely to be
rivalled even by our own public practitioners in the art,
at a political dinner. On quitting Fayal, where the
Irish portion of the crew of the Waverley got into a
" pretty skrimmage" with the natives, the vessel again
set sail for New York ; and in the course of the voyage
the author, to his own inexpressible astonishment, shot
a whale stone-dead through the heart, with his double-
barrelled rifle. After a, comparatively speaking, quick
and smooth passage he reached the United States ;
made a short stay at New York ; then sailed up the
Hudson, and 'afterwards visited Boston, Washington,
Albany, Richmond, Baltimore, and other towns of the
Union. At Baltimore he encountered in the Museum
one of the loveliest girls be had ever met with ; but,
strange to tell, he took fright at her beauty, for imme-
diately on being observed by her, be turned away and
left the room 1 Old, and spectacled, and grey-haired
critics es we are, we scarcely think we should have run
away, like our bashful author, from a beautiful girl ;
on the contrary, our only apprehension would have been
that she would run away from us. But Captain Mur-
ray must tell his own story :
" While at Baltimore I strolled into the Museum, to
see the well-known figures of Tam O'Sbanter and Souter
Johnnie, which were being exhibited; when suddenly I ob-
served a delicate round arm passed round the Soutcr's neck,
and,a profusion of dark tresses mingled with his grey locks!
It was a young girl, of about sixteen or seventeen years,
who, with the naivete of youthful curiosity, had approached
to take a nearer view of the jolly Souter. She was one
of the loveliest creatures that I ever had looked upon ; her
hair was dark and glossy ; her eyes black and brilliant,
beneath eye-brows most delicately pencilled, and shaded
by lids the fringe of which threatened to tickle her rosy
shock ; her nose was of that fine correct form so distinc-
tive of American beauty, and round her sweet, small
mouth played two dimples that Psyche might have slept
in; her figure and her attitude blended the playful grace
of the child, with the symmetry of ripening bloom ; and
thus, in delighted and unconscious beauty, did she hang
her arm round Johnnie's neck of stone, and look into his
grinning visage, her arch eyes beaming with surprise, and
her full cherry lips almost touching his rough check. I
could not forbear gazing more intently, perhaps, than I
ought ; she happened to look up, and on encountering my
rivettcd eyes, she blushed deeply, and changed her position.
I turned, and left the room:!"
From Baltimore our author proceeded to Pittsburgh,
" the Birmingham of the West," and thence to Louis-
ville, from which place he steamed down the Ohio to the
Mississippi. Here, it appears, the cholera—an unwel-
come passenger—came on board ; committed an assault
and battery on several of the crew ; and did for one
man in, what Lord Duberley elegantly calls " the
twinkling of a bed-post." Fortunately Captain Murray
escaped the visitation, which is singular, considering the
very dangerous weather he encountered on the voyage :
" I never," says be, " experienced or conceived such
changeful or unhealthy weather. On the 20th the heat
was most oppressive ; we sat at half-past nine P. M. on the
deck, perspiring, without hat or coat, and could scarcely
bear a sheet on the bed. On the 22d of June the cold
was severe. Most of the passengers wore their great
coats, and added two blankets and a coverlet to their bed-
ding ; we kept, moreover, a good fire in the cabin stove I
This change occurred in about two hours! Who can
wonder at the fevers, agues, and bilious diseases prevalent
in such a climate ?"

Arrived at Fort Leavenworth, which is situated on
a promontory formed by a sweeping bend of the Mis-
souri, on the edge of the territories of the native Indian
tribes, Captain Murray fell in with a party of Pawnee
savages, who had come to the fort on an invitation from
the commanding officer ; and after a day or two spent
in their company, he resolved on returning with them
to the encampment of their chiefs, who were just about
to commence their great buffalo hunt. On his way
thither, nothing struck him so much as the prodigious
appetites of the Indians, who combined the voracity of
the Alderman with the digestive powers of the ostrich.
Here is an account of the gastric achievements of one
of the savages, who, had he exhibited at a Lord Mayor's
Corporation dinner, would have excited the envy and
admiration of the whole assembly, and, not improbably,
have been presented with the freedom of the City in a
gold snuff-box !
" I had been lucky enough to kill a fawn which fur-
nished us a good supper, and no more; for never did I see
anything equal to the appetite of our Indian. Ribs, head,
shoulders, &c., disappeared one after the other ! He
quietly ate every thing placed before or near him, without
the slightest symptom of diminished power ; and I was
not then aware of the incredible capacity of Indians,
or of their notion that it is unpolite to decline proffered
food under any circumstances whatever."
Captain Murray met, as might have been expected,
with several difficulties and annoyances in his progress
across prairies, streams, and forests, to join the main
hunting-body of the Pawnees; and among his minor
miscellaneous miseries, was the vexation occasioned by
his mule—an animal of a very indiscreet and eccentric
turn of mind, who was never happy but when in mis-
chief, and had a particular penchant for " throwing
somersets," kicking up his heels, and plunging down
hills with a load of brittle crockery on his back, all of
which he of course made a point of smashing to atoms.
" This," says our author, with infinite truth and pro-
priety, " though laughable enough, was scarcely
pleasant, as we were in a hurry." To enhance
his afflictions, one of his horses coolly walked
off with a keg of brandy, which occasioned a
lively chase of some hours ; and the handle of
his frying-pan was broken off by an Indian to whom he
had lent it. Moreover, he generally got wet thrmeh
once or twice a day ; but whanever it happened that
there was no rain, then the sun was so scorching hot,
that he was literally half-roasted. These, it must be
confessed,:were considerable drawbacks on his pleasure ;
but he bore up against them with the firmness of a
martyr, and had soon the satisfaction of coming up with
the main body of the savages, whom he found encamped
upon an extensive prairie, sloping gently down to a
creek :

" here there were about five thousand savages, inclu-
sive of women and children ; some were sitting under their
buffalo-skin lodges, lazily smoking their pipes, while the
women were stooping over their fires, busily employed in
preparing meat and maize. Far as the eye could reach,
were scattered herds of horses, watched by urchins, whose
whole dress and equipment was the slight bow and arrow
with which they exercised their infant archery, upon
any blackbird perched near them. Here and there
might be seen some gay young warrior, ambling
along the heights, his painted form partially exposed
to view as his bright scarlet blanket waved in the breeze;
while his small, fretful horse was scarcely to be recognised
under the variety of trappings with which the vanity of his
rider had tricked him out ; near him might be seen an-
other naked savage without a saddle, and his only bridle a
thong round the horse's head, galloping at full speed ;
while the banks of the stream were alive with the garru-
lous voices of women, some washing themselves, their
clothes, or their infants, others carrying water to the
camp, and others bearing on their backs a load of wood,
the portage of which no London coalheavcr would have
envied them•"
Captain Murray entertains but an indifferent opinion
of the Indian savages, whom he represents as perfect
Jews at a haanrain, and delighted with every opportu-
taorelieon a parcheat. w i t h one ofp? i
tniiiteyy
tome •sonutroofynconpsectiteifnotgioguinsgueasts-,
; and are as dexterous at special pleading as a
of cleanliness,
Nisi Prins lawyer,
that
ittiowinnduirdebreentuanrseartehetoy oshnatkheehsacno(ries
with them otherwise
nan through the medium of a pair
of tongs. Far differ:
these Indians. In lig;srertaotTanttic pages they teem with
is Mr. Cooper's account of
virtues and graces,
accordinglyo the annoyance
his ofc
Bird's sense of justice, whoy
tale "Nick of the Woods,"clever
has pourtraycd the sa-
vages, pretty much as we find them pourtrayed in these

I volumes. When our author had been some days rest
dent among them, a cry was raised one morning that a
herd of buffaloes had been seen, whereupon the whole
camp sallied forth in chase, when the following incident
took place
" A buffalo had just been shot, and two or three In-
dians were round the fallen monster, whose life was
scarcely extinct, whetting their knives on their mocassins ;
and just as I arrived, they began to take off the skin. I
am confident that from the time the first incision was
made, till the whole meat was cut up, packed, and strung
upon a horse, fifteen minutes had not elapsed; and except
the head, there was not enough left on the ground to feed
a dog. They were not provided with saw, axe, cleaver,
nor with any other weapon than a common pointed dinner
knife, and yet they had carried off the brains, heart,
marrow, and liver ; the greater portion of the two latter
they ate raw on the spot. I was then surprised and
horrified, bat I soon grew wiser."
This disgusting scene will remind the reader of the
dinner off the half-dead cow which Bruce describes
in his Travels in Abyssinia, and which at the time was
generally discredited. Captain Murray goes on to
sketch the character and appearance of the squaws,
who, it seems, arc horridly ugly ; the modes of court-
ship prevalent among the Indians ; and the course of
education they adopt towards their children. So re-
conciled did he become, after a short time, to their
habits, that one fine afternoon, when they were de-
vouring raw large slices off a buffalo which they had
just killed, and which was yet warm, he tells us—" I re-
ceived with thankfulness, and ate with eagerness, a good
piece of the warm liver, untouched by fire, water, or
salt, and I found it as agreeable to the palate, and as
tender as any morsel I ever ate." A few weeks sufficed
to weary our author of his residence among the Paw-
nees, and he quitted them, accordingly, in company with
one or two guides, and, in the fullness of time, arrived
at Fort Leavenworth, whence he made the best of his
way back to the more civilized towns of the United
States. The interest of bis narrative ceases in a great
degree with his departure from the camp of the savages ;
still it will continue to amuse throughout, if only from
the unaffected, good•humoured style in which it is writ-
ten, and the gallant front which the author everywhere
opposes to difficulty and danger.

BRITISH HISTORY CHRONOLOGICALLY

ARRANGED.
E. Wilson, London, 1839.

This corpulent octavo is eminently useful as a work of
reference, for it contains a chronological account of
English history from the earliest recorded periods ; a
copious obituary ; and a brief sketch of the character of
the different reigns of our sovereigns. Mr. Wade is the
compiler, and he has evidently spared neither time nor la-
bour in his task,

TEMPTATION, 3 Vora.
Colburn, London, 1839.
Temptation is a tale told with considerable feeling,
but possessing neither novelty of interest nor character.
The plot of the story may be summed up shortly, as
follows. Helen Gardener, a lovely, artless young girl,
who has been brought up from childhood in seclusion
by a maiden aunt, is married at the early age of seven-
teen, to the Earl of Montgomery, a cold, thick-headed
Peer, who is old enough to be her father, and who hav-
ing met with her at Cheltenham, where he finds her the
object of general admiration, falls in love with her at
first sight. Immediately after the nuptial ceremony is
performed, he hurries off with his young bride to his
magnificent ancestral seat, Norburn, where they live in
a round of gaiety, entertaining a constant succession of
guests. About two years after Helen's wedding, a
fashionable party of friends arrive at Norburn, on their
way to the Moors in Scotland, among whom is a young
man of rank and fortune, by name Vernon Clavering.
This youth, who is described as being uncommonly hand-
some, intelligent, brave, amiable—in short, all that the
hero of an impassioned love-tale should be, as a matter
of course, falls desperately in love with Helen, and she,
equally as a matter of course, reciprocates his affection.
While this misguided—but, it seems, well-intentioned
—couple are thus hovering on the brink of a precipice,
an old friend of the young Countess, a clergyman by-
name Morton, comes to Norburn on a visit, and seeing
at a glance the exact state of affairs, persuades Helen,
though not without a world of difficulty, to leave home
and go on a visit to her maiden aunt. By this means he
manages to effect a separation between her and Vernon
Clavering ; but, unfortunately, it is only for a season,
for they again meet in London, and again, therefore,
poor Morton has to set his wits to work to prevent an
elopement. But this time, as might be anticipated, he
is unsuccessful ; Helen's infatuation bids defiance to all
the earnest remonstrances of friendship and reason ; and
she is just about to take the last fatal step that must
cut her off for ever from society, when, luckily for her
fame, Vernon Clavering breaks his neck by a fall from
his horse, and she, after a long fit of illness brought on
by the shock of this catastrophe, turns saint, and lives to
a good old age in the full possession of every virtue
under heaven. It will be seen from this sketch, slight
as it is, that " Temptation" by no means conveys so
sound a moral as the author would have us believe it
does. Helen does not resist her guilty passion. In fact,
she abandons herself wholly to it, and nothing but the
circumstance of her lover dying just in the nick of time,
prevents her from becoming an actual and avowed adul-
teress. We protest, therefore, against her canonization
as a Saint. It is at variance with all sound morality.

MEMOIRS OF SIR HUMPHREY DAVY.
Smith and Elder, London, 1839.
The completest and most satisfactory life we have yet
seen, of this great philosopher, is the one now before us,
which is the production of his brother, Dr. Davy. It
is penned in no inflated spirit of panegyric, but with
calm good sense and moderation, which are the best
vouchers for its excellence. The volume is deeply in-
torczting, not only from the character and variety of its
details, and the numerous anecdotical reminiscences
with which it is interspersed, but also from the frequent
extracts it gives from Sir Humphrey Davy's Diary,
when travelling for health in his last years, on the Con-
tinent. These extracts show him to have been a con-
summate man of the world, as well as:a philosopher, en-
dowed with a nice and unerring faculty of observa-
tion, with a graceful and salient fancy, and with that
resolute, aspiring nature which, when joined with com-
mon sense and a power of continuous application, never
fails to achieve renown in the world's eye. The volume
is embellished with a well engraved portrait of tho late
President of the Royal Society.

FINE ARTS.

ENGRAVINGS FROM THE WORKS OF

SIR 7'. LAWI?ENCE.
Hodgson and Graves, London, 1839.
The Part before us, which is the S:xth, contains three
engravings, all from original pictures, which rank
among the best ever painted by the late President of
the Royal Academy. Among them we find a print, by
Egan, from Lawrence's portrait of John Kemble in
the character of Hamlet, which the engraver has exe-
cuted with much skill, though we could wish that he
had shown a little less stiffness in his disposition of the
drapery. Hamlet's cloak does not fall gracefully clown
from his shoulders to the ground. which it sweeps in its
exuberant amplitude, but stands up solid and erect,
without fold or wrinkle, like a brick-wall. " Miss
Murray " is a full length portrait of a lovely little girl,
fresh as the spring, and as sunny looking, with an
arch intelligence of countenance that the engraver,
Phillips, has been very successful in preserving. " Lady
Wallscourt "is another portrait—a half-length—de-
verly engraved by the same artist.

The Chartists of Stockton-upon-Tees, taking
advantage of " Ciierry Fair," which is held in that town on
the 18th of July in every year, anounced through the mu-
sical instrumentality of their celebrated bellman, " Bree-
ches Brown," that a public meeting would be held on the
occasion; but that as they had no wish to interrupt the
amusements of the people, the place of assembly would be
Yarm-lane, and not the market-cross. This considerate
pledge, however, was broken by the Chartists, their meet-
ing being held in the market-place. In the midst of the
speechifying, some gentlemen, who wet e then in the Town-
hall newsroom most injudiciously threw halfpence amongst
them, to produce a scramble and a hubbub. The conse-
quence was, that a stone was thrown through the newsroom
window. About the same time a commercial traveller to
provoke the meeting still more, began to mock the speaker.
A few lads attacked him, and he teak to his heels, followed
by a pack of pursuers amounting to upwards o a hundred.
A brother traveller came to the rescue, and by the use
of a few " physical force" arguments they contrived to
obtain a safe refuge in their inn. The chasing Chartists
then quietly returned to the meeting. Much fun, we
understand, was occasioned by the fluctuating numbers of
the orators' hearers, each successive donkey-race running
off with a large portion of the assembly. But the fickle
throng returned to their allegiance between the " heats,"
in good order.—lt was subsequently considered necessary
—whether because of the Chartists, or of the travellers
and scramble makers, we arc not informed—to adopt mea-
sures in the town " for the better protection of the persons
and properties of the inhabitants, and a meeting was con.
vened by the Mayor, to discuss this question. The meet-
ing was held on Saturday, but it seems to have been
thought politic to have no discussion ; and the Mayor at
once announced, that the magistrates were ready to
swear in special constables. A large number of constables
were then sworn in, including many members of the
Society of Friends. A Chartist basket-maker called in
question the regularity of thJ proceeedings, and launched
forth into a tirade against the aristocracy and other
ocracies. Mr. Walley admitted himself to be little short
of a Chartist, but strongly condemned the violent pro-
ceedings of that body. Mr. Henry Heaviside said, that
he was quite a Chartist in his political opinions, but the
conduct of many of the Chartists was disgraceful, and
retarded the progress of Reform. As a sample of their
language, he said, that on Thursday night, July 18, one of
the speakers advised the people to sell their coats and
buy swords and pistols ; to secrete these weapons in their
houses in readiness for the struggle; and to bring them into
excfcise at the proper time, and use them so determinedly,
' that either they themselves, or their enemies, or both,
should lie low on the earth.—On Tuesday night there
was another Chartist meeting in Stockton, when Mr.
Heaviside was denounced as a traitor, and the people were
called upon to mark their disapprobation of his conduct by
three groans ; but the Stockton poet being a greatfavourite
in the town, they gave him three hearty cheers, aed sepa-
rated in peace.—Gateshead Observer.