The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1839

BICESTER RACES-WEDNESDAY.

The Troop Cup, for horses that have been on duty this year;
ridden by members; mile and half heats, was won in three
heats by Mr. Aplin's ch g O. Y.C., 5 yrs, list 41b, beating
Mr. Painter's b m The Cook, 5 yrs, lOst 131 b, and another.
The Town Handicap of 10 sovs each, with 30 added. Two miles.
Mr. Robbins's b g Single Peeper, 3 yrs, Bst 9lb 1
Mr. Tranter's bg by King of Diamonds, aged, 9st 111 b 2
Mr. Lucas's b m Talebearer, 5 yrs, Bst I llb 3
The Ilicester Stakes of 5 sees each, with 30 added, for horses
that have been regularly hunted, Sze. ; three years, 9st 81b ;
four yrs, lOst 101 b; five yrs, I Ist 71b ; six yrs, 12st ; and
aged, l2st 21b; mares and geldings allowed 31b, thorough-
bred horses 141 b extra ; winners once 51b, twice 71b, and
thrice 101 b extra, in addition to the above. Heats about
two miles. The winner to be sold for 1201, &c. Seven subs.
\lr. W. Leeg's Stickb r, aged (h b)... ......... ...(Roe) 1 1
Mr. W. Robbins's b g Single Peeper, 5 yrs 0 2
Mr. J. Pettifer's br in Catchflv, 3 yrs . 2 dr
Mr. Savin's b g Miniature, 5 'yrs (h b)... ........
Two others started, but were not placed. The winner was
claimed.

A Cup to be trotted for by horses that were out on duty at quar-
ters with the Bicester Troop in 1839 ; ridden by :Nlembers of
the Troop, &c. ; thrice round ; was won by Mr. J. Aplin's
gr m Madame Mantalini (11. Painter), boating Mr. J. Fos-
ter's b in Bonny Lass and two others.
Handicap of 3 sous each, with *2O added. Thrice round and a
distance. The winner to be sold for 73/, &c.
Mr, Lucas's Talebearer, list

Mr. Owsley's Victoria, I Ist 131 b
Two others started, but vi ere wst placed

OSWESTRY RACES.7—TuxspAr.

A Cup of 501, given by Sir W. W. Wynne, Bart., added to a
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and five only,
&c. One mile and a half. Ten subs., sof whom declared.
Mr. Holken's ch in Maid of Monton, 5 yrs (T. Clerke) I
Mr. E. Peel's gr c Saul, 4 yrs, ist 41b
The following also started, but were not placed:—Sir T.-
Stanley's b h Cowboy, 4 yrs, 9st ; Mr. Collin's gr g hale,
aged, 9st ; and Mr. G Ogden's b c St. Leonard, 4 yrs, 6st
101 b. Won by two lengths.
The Shropshire Stakes of 20 says each, h f, and 5 ft only if de-
clared, &c., with 50 added by the Innkeepers, The best of
heats starting at the chair. (7 Subs, sof whom declared. )
Mr. Collin's gr g Isaac, aged, Bst ..
The North Shropshire County Members' Plate of 50t., added
to a .weepstakes of 5 says each, h ft, for all ages. Mile and
half heats. (5 Subs. )
Mr. Collin's gr g Isaac, aged, Bst 131 b (Darling) 2 1 1
Sir T. Stanley's bc. Apothecary, three years, ist ... 1 2dr
Mr. Meiklam's b g Wee Willie, four yrs, 7st I Ilb ... 3 dr
The first heat won by half a head, and the second easily.

THE EFFECTS of A REVIVAL.

On Thursday afternoon, last week, a young lady,
Miss Miller, daughter of the late Mr. Miller, rector
of the Grammar School, Dundee, went with one of her
sisters and a neighbour to the lodgings of the Rev. Mr.
Burns to converse with him on her spiritual condition.
While he was speaking to her she fell down apparently in
a fainting fit ; but, on medical aid being called in, it was
discovered she was dead. As this melancholy event has
caused a great sensation in the town, we .:hail, in giving
an account of it, adhere, as nearly as possible, to the
Rev. Gentleman's own words ; but we must first tell
how he introduced it. On Thursday evening, the usual
revival meeting was held in St. Peter's Church, when
Mr. M'Allister delivered an address, after which Mr.
Burns went into the pulpit, and prayed that " the death
—the temporal death—of some might be the blessed
means of bringing thousands to life." When the
prayer was over, he produced a letter, which
be had received, part of which he read,
nearly as follows :—" The bearer of this is the
young girl to whom, two or three weeks ago, you spoke
on the subject of her soul. In the evening address you
took occasion to mention the circumstance. She has
since attended the prayer meetings as often as possible,
and the result has been a most wonderful change for the
better in her temper, which used to be irritable. On
Sabbath last, she attended divine service, and after the
congregation was dismissed you again spoke to her, and
gave her a tract. On Monday evening, she went as
usual to the prayer meeting, and was much affected.
She was praying for her father on Tuesday morning ;
but, alas when she was that interestingly engaged, in-
telligence was brought that her father had been found
drowned.—(Great excitement amongst the audience.)
The first words the poor afflicted child spoke were—
" Oh, it is not his body, it is his soul I grieve for."—
(Sighs.) After a pause of a few seconds, Mr. Burns
said, " My dear friends, the Lord is teaching us in a
very remarkable way. This afternoon I had an instance
of his treatment ; but, in fact, I can hardly speak of it.
Last night I did feel enabled, thanks be to God, to speak
very plainly about certain matters regarding your eter-
nal concerns ; and I said, if you remember, that it was
perhaps the last time I would speak to some of you ;
but certainly I did nut think of one individual, to whom,
indeed, it was the last time.—(A pause.) On the day
that I had an opportunity _of adressing some of you in
the churchyard (the fair day), I observed a lady near
me ; and the next day I discovered she was in eternity
—I trust in heaven.—(Another pause.) My dear
friends, many came, as usual, this afternoon, to con-
verse with me, among others a young lady, who, after
wailing some time, came into my room, and said, with
deep emotion, that she was afraid she had not yet really
come to Christ. I thought she had come to Christ ; for
I had had many interesting conversations with her, and
I had great reason to believe that she was one of the
first fruits of this work of the Lord at present going
on. I began to speak to her a little calmly, and said
she ought to have good reason for saying so. I took a
tract, and writing her name upon it, gave it to her,
with a promise to pray for her--a promise which I can
never now fulfil. I wrote out a few texts, which I thought
suitable for her case, and gave them to her with the
tract ; but I was struck to see the tract fall out of her
hand.—(Considerable excitement, sighs, and an excla-
mation of " Oh, Lord !") She sank down upon the
ground. Her sister and another neighbour came in
from an adjoining room. She appeared to be in a
fainting fit at the time ; a doctor was sent for, and
when he came to see her, he found that she was in
eternity !—(Great excitement.) My dear friends,
when I came to this meeting to-night, I left two of her
sisters, weeping indeed, but weeping tears of joy ; for
they believed that she had gone to Christ. She was
here last night, and I thought that she might have been
much excited by what she heard, for it was a very
alarming message ; but I was told by her sister that she
was filled with joy, and was very happy, and rejoiced
that she had heard the message from God last night.
She had been very often anxious to come to speak with
me in private ; and two days ago she was coming, but she
was so timid and afraid, that, alter coming to the door, I
was told she went away again to get her sister to come
with her ; and now, my dear friends, I trust she is with
Christ. We are weeeping here.—[The rest of the sen-
tence was inaudible, but we understood Mr, Burns to
say that, while we were weeping here, she was rejoicing
in heaven.] She died without a struggle, and was so
calm that the medical man standing by thought she was
in a fainting fit ; but, when he began to bleed her, he
found there was no blood. Many things will be said
about this ; but I cast the case upon the Lord. One
of my friends said to me, It is a pity she died in your
lodgings.'—' No,' I said, it was no pity. I give glory
to God for it, for making me a witness of an end so
calm.' The Lord will, I hope, lead us to improve this
event. I can say no more, my dear friends." Mr.
Burns then sat down. He immediately rose and gave
out a psalm, which having been sung, the congregation
dispersed. We understand these revival meetings con-
tinue to be held every evening, commencing about seven,
and ending between ten and eleven o'clock.—Dundee
Chronicle.

SCOTCH DROVERS AT BARNET

FAIR.

A fair is held annually at Barnet, on the great north
road, in the vicinity of London, for the sale of cattle and
horses collected in the north of England and in Scotland
in the early part of the season. The fair for 1839, con-
cluded last month, was well attended by purchasers—
upwards of 45,000 head of cattle and 10,000 horses
having changed owners. Since the introduction of
steam vessels to the northern parts of Scotland, espe-
cially the Moray Frith, the transit of cattle to the me-
tropolis has become a matter of easy accomplishment,
but it will be a long period before journeys by land be
superseded. It is a question if the old system be ever
totally done away with, as the following description of
the route and the method of accomplishing it
will show—besides, many of the cattle are pur-
chased at markets in the interior of the coun-
try, and the easy progress of the animals in
theirjourney southward improves their condition
previous to their being submitted at the London market.
The majority of the dealers who attend Barnet Fair, the
great metropolitan market, generally reside in some of
the rich and fertile counties on the borders of England
and Scotland, and when the opening Spring and genial
April showers revive nature in all its beauteous forms,
supplying with ample store of provision the sweet-smell-
ing cows and their numerous progeny, these enterprising
men proceed northwards, in some instances as far as the
Kyle of Sutherland, heft) re they commence operations.
In their progress southward they visit the Muir of
Ord, and collect as they proceed through the eastern
parts of Inverness-shire and Nairn, Moray, Banff, and
Aberdeen-shires, the beautiful small Highland breed of
cattle that had been purchased the previous season by
the ever-active agriculturists of these districts. The mar-
kets are so excellently arranged throughout Scotland, that
by the period of the dealers meeting at Falkirk Tryst they
have generally collected a very large stock. The cattle
are then formed into lots of about 1,000 each, and en-
trusted to a number of Scottish drovers, and the dealer
sees no more of them until he meets the whole at Bar-
net. The commencement of the journey is usually cal-
culated from Keith, in Banffshire' that spot being in a
manner a key to the Highlands of the north of Scotland
and the fertile plains of Morayshire. The journey from
Keith to Barnet occupies thirty-four days, the average
number of miles travelled each day being sixteen. The
pay of a drover is two shillings per day and the expense
of his bed. When he crosses the Tweed he is allowed
what is termed night wages, to the amount of one shil-
ling extra from the owner, and one shilling from the
grazier who supplies food for the cattle. The amount
realised by a drover for the whole journey is about 81.,
and from 10s. to Iss.for return money. The majority
of the drovers return by land, in parties of twenty,
and accomplish the distance in thirteen days, at an average
expense of one shilling per day, including food and ledg-
ing. And yet one of these men, whose whole ward-
robe would not fetch fourpence in Rosemary-lane, is
entrusted with seven to eight hundred pounds to pay
the expenses of the food required by the cattle, and the
tolls to be passed during their journey. The number of
Scottish drovers who visit Barnet fair annually is about
1,500. Last year about 800 thimble-riggers were pre-
sent, and, by sleight of hand succeeded in winning a
large sum from them. This would have been a sad tale
to tell their wives and friends in the north, and but a
poor excuse for the loss of their hard-won earnings—
they, therefore, watched the motions of the pea and
thimble gentry, and being convinced that cheating was
the order of the day, on a given signal they surrounded
the thimble-riggers, and compelled them to return them
all their money. A gentleman residing in the neigh-
bourhood, who was present on the occasion, was so well
pleased with the thrashing the gamblers got, that he
gave the Scotsmen three sovereigns to purchase beer.—
Correspondent of the Inverness Journal.
•

SOCIETY.--A
benefit ion behalf ofN
tEhletSfunds this°institution took place
on Wednesday at that highly popular place of amusement,
the Royal Grecian Saloon, City-road. The entertainments
provided for the amusement of the audience, which was
both numerous and respectable, were tastefully selected,
and great credit is due to the performers for the manner in
which they exerted themselves on this occasion. Every
thing passed off with the utmost unanimity, and we are
happy to say that a considerable sum was realized for the
benefit of the Society.

A ROYAL MALEDICTION,___When the trial
of the murderers of Sir Thomas Overbury was going for-
wards King James I. went from Whitehall to Theobalds,
and so to Royston, and having sent for all the Judges, he
knelt down in the midst of his Lords and servants, and
judgment,
de
gd
m e theserit.
words
tha to
you, as
will answer for it at the great and dreadful day of
theexamJuidngeetsh:i—s
matter
you
l‘iiyLords, I charge
strictly, without
favour, affection, or partiality ; and if you spare any guilty
of this crime, God's curse light upon you and your poste-
rity ; and if I spare any that are guilty God's curse light
on me and my posterity for ever."—Sir Anthony Weldon's
t you
Memoirs. —I Yet notwithstanding this curse James par-
doned the Earl and Countess of Somerset, although fully
convicted of the murder of Overbury. The decapitation
of Charles 1., the banishment of James 11., and the ex-
tinction of the direct line of the Royal House of Stuart,
are awful comments upon the Royal imprecation.]

I TO the CHARTISTS of SHEFFIELD.

My Plundered Fellow-Townsmen,—There are in
this town about 6,000 adult labourers, and 8,000 great
and small capitalists. There are also about 10,000
skilled workmen, who (being themselves capitalists,
and more dependent for their well-being than any
other capitalists on the conservation of the public
peace), would, because they must, whatever their in-
clinations might be (in any case of tumult or convul-
sion short of the general overturn), join the other
capitalists. From these facts, (and one or two others,
too ludicrously notorious to mention), I draw the fol-
lowing conclusions. That you could not, if you were
unanimous (which you are not), carry by physical or
moral force, or any means whatever, any great public
object, without the assistance of some of the other pro-
ductive classes. That the children of the Sunday schools,
who walked through our streets in procession last Whit-
Mnnday, were then better prepared and able to contend
with the military than you were. That if you were,
this day, arrayed for fight with all your present means
(be they what they may), a troop of soldiers' wives
from the barracks, if they made their appearance un-
armed, and with or without their husbands' cloaks
over their shoulders, would scare you out of the parish.
And that the adult daughters of the other productive
classes (because they have surplus funds, which
you have not, and cannot have, until you get rid
of the Corn-laws), could, if need were (not by coming
behind folks, as some of your leaders advise you to
do), but in fair battle, and without the aid of
a single policeman or soldier, defeat and exterminate
you. The estimate on which I found these conclusions
applies, I believe, not only to Sheffield, but, with suffi-
cient exactness, to all England, Scotland, and Wales
including the agricultural districts. To Ireland it does
not apply, for in that country two-thirds of the popula-
tion are potatoe-fed labourers, and the remainder capi-
talists, chiefly shopkeepers ; vet with what ease those
potatoe-fed millions have been and are kept down by a
mere fraction of the other classes, and about 10,000
soldiers, the mournful history of " the Isle of Suffering"
too truly shows. For potatoe-fed men, having no surplus,
arc necessarily slaves—.and the Breadtaxry mean to
bring you down to potatoe wages. You will soon, then,
I venture to hope, see the folly of allowing yourselves
to be led the wrong way, by paid agents of the scoun-
drel Breadtaxry, who, favoured by your deplorable
ignorance, have contrived to place themselves at the
head of the Chartist movement, not merely to defeat
that wise and holy movement ; but, by so doing, to sus-
tain the all-beggaring food-monopoly, and make the
Liberal cause itself hateful and ridiculous.
Fellow-townsmen! there are cases (and yours, I fear.
is one of them) in which nothing is so unwelcome as
truth ; yet, I trust, you will receive this letter as I in.
tend it, and believe, that the last man in the world who
would willingly mislead, or ever insult you, is
EBENEZER ELLIOTT.
Sheffield, 23d September, 1539.

LONDON DOCKS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn,—Sitice the Bth June, 1838, a notice has been
put up at the Iron Bridge, Old Gravel-lane, signed
by the Superintendent, that the passage is unsafe for
loaded carts and waggons, and yet no repair or new
bridge has been made.

Why repairs have not been made, or with whom
the fault rests I know not ; but this I know, it is a
heavy libel on some party. And I now call the public at-
tention to it, as the near approach of the Tunnel will
make that opening a place of greater traffic than it has
been for years past.—l am your humble Servant,
Wapping, Sept. 2.6, 1839. AN INQUIRER.

POST OFFICE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The collection of the Post-office revenue by
a Government penny stamp being objectionable for many
reasons, and in my humble opinion quite out of the
question, I would beg leave to suggest the division of
the postage between the senders and the receivers ; the
senders to pay a halfpenny with, and the receivers a
halfpenny for, every letter ; or the senders to have the
option of paying the penny. This plan would save
much expense to the country, and a deal of trouble
and inconvenience to individuals, and at the same time
would insure the immediate receipt of one half the
Post-office revenue, which would be a guarantee for
the payment of the other half.
Your obedient humble servant,
ROBERT SEATON.
20, Arlington-street, Sadler's Wells,
September 26, 1839.

[We are willing to insert any feasible suggestions on
this now important subject, but we apprehend the half
payment on delivery, proposed by our Cori espondent,
would prevent that quick delivery which is one essen-
tial advantage of pre-payment.]

CAUTION TO LABOURER EMI-

GRANTS.

The following is an extract of a letter which has been
received by the agent-general for emigrants, from Mr.
Wedderburn, the Government agent for emigrants, at
St. John's, in New Brunswick :

I hasten to inform you of this circumstance (viz. the
calamitous fire at St. John's), that, if necessary, your va-
luable instrumentality may he available to check the
reprehensible cupidity of individuals who may, as on a
former occasion, be desirous to induce labourers to embark
from Ireland, under the most fallacious reports of the
wages they will receive to repair the damages. Such im-
positions were practised at home after the great fire here,
on the 14th of January, 1837 ; and, notwithstanding the
subsequent favourable season of the year, much disap-
pointment was experienced by the surplus immigrants
from the deception ; and should a similar one be at-
tempted in the present case, matters will be worse.
They will embark late ; in all probability have a diffi-
cult passage, and must arrive here late in the fall or be-
ginning of winter, when much of the work must of neces
sity be suspended till spring ; and it is to be justly feared
many would be ill provided for the inclemency of our
winter, and in a state of unproductive idleness. Hu-
manity and duty, therefore, deeply press me to caution
emigrants against embarking from home late in the sea
son, in expectation o f winter work from the effects of
the fire."

The King of Prussia has ordered of Professor
Rauch a colossal statue of Frederick the Great, which is
to be erected at Berlin. The model of the statue is already
finished.

The Countess of Scarborough has returned to
Portman-square for the winter months. . . .

COACH ACCIDENT.-011 Wednesday morning
last, Mr. Dowling, the Editor of Bell's Life in London,
on his way from Doncaster to Derby, after the St. Leger
race, in passing through Chesterfield, was thrown from the
Criterion, Sheffield coach, and seriously injured. It ap-
pears that the coach in question, after the horses had been
changed, was proceeding at a rapid pace towards a steep
descent, when the horses becoming unmanageable the
coach camp in dreadful collision with a post, thereby
smashing the splinter-bar, and throwing off several of the
passengers, among whom was Mr. Dowling, upon the
stones beneath. Upon rising it was discovered that Mr.
Dowling had the wrist of his right hand fearfully dislo-
cated, and the bone of the same arm broken; his head also
was cut, and his hip painfully contused. He was con-
ducted to the house of Mr. Creswick, the surgeon, in the
town, who skilfully rendered him such temporary aid as
enabled him to reach Derby Railroad on the same after-
noon, by which he was conveyed to London, and he is now
doing well.
AN UNTIMELY DEMAND.—A provincial ac-
tress was performing the part of Lady Anne, in King
Richard the Third, arid on delivering the following pas-
sage, " When shall I have rest?" she was answered by her
washerwoman from the pit, " Never, till you pay me my
three shillings and twopence I"
A curious application of the Daguerreotype,
it is said by the Fend Beige, is to be made at the opening
of the railroad to Courtrai, if the weather be favourable.
The camera obscure is to be placed on an eminence com-
manding the Royal pavilion, the locomotive engine, the
train of waggons, and the major part of the cortege, and is
to be brought into action exactly at the time of the deli-
very of the inauguration speech. " A discharge of cannon
is to be the signal," this paper adds, " for a general
immobility, which is to last the seven minutes necessary for
obtaining a good representation of all the personages pre-
sent. The plate is afterwards to be enclosed in lead and
deposited under the first stone of the foundation of the
station at Courtrai."

`SHY THE CORN-LAWS EXIST.—In 1828,
when Mr. Hume moved. in Parliament, for a modification
of the Corn-laws, Sir R. Peel said they were maintained
because " it was the constitutional policy of this country
to maintain the Aristocracy and Magistracy as essential
parts of the community." In those days Sir R. Peel had
less occasion for disguises than now. —Bath Journal.
KINGS AND SUBJECTS.—There is ever and in
all places a mutual and reciprocal obligation between the
people and the Prince : the one promiseth to be a good
and %rise Prince, the other to obey faithfully, provided he
govern justly. The people therefore is obliged to the
Prince wider condition, the Prince to the people simply
and purely ; so that if the Prince fail in his promise the
people is exempt from obedience, the contract is void,
and the right of obligation of no force. That people is
truly acquit from all perfidiousness which publicly re-
nounces the unjust dominion of a tyrant.—Hubert Lon-
gust's TrindicationofLiberty,l64B.
GENTLEMAN.—The word " gentleman" is evi-
dently no mark of wealth or station. " You are no gen-
tleman," said a waiter in a tavern to a person who gave
him threepence. Threepence more would have coasti •
tuted the gentleman in the eyes of the waiter, and this
threepence may have been withheld through poverty.
What sort of a person," said an individual to his land-
lady, "is that who occupies your back parlour ?" " He
is a tailor by trade," said he ; " but very much the gen-
tleman." This meant that he paid his five shillings a week
regularly. Thus it seems that the word is not confined by
any regard to the station or trade of the individual. There
is no doubt that we hare all a vague conception of some-
thing when we bear of a man being a gentleman. If a
man eat too heartily, he is not a gentleman ; and if
another have nothing to eat, he is also not a gentleman.—
Mirror.