The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-11 00:00:00

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. 90 89% 90 I Ditto Bonds 32 34 pm.
Jper Cent. Cons,,. 9l 90% 1 South Sea Stock •
3i2 per Cent.........._........... 99 Old Annuities
Ditto Red ... .... .9734%1( New Ditto —
Nlew 334 per Cent... ...... ...99% 8% 9.3 per Cent. Annuities, 175 E —
,Tew 5 per Cent.. — Exch. Bills, £1,000......... 31 34 pm.
Bank LongAnnuitiestoexpire Ditto 500 3l 34 pm.
Jan. 5, 1860 1432 Ditto Small
Oct. 10. 1659
Jan. 5, .860 — Ditto Adverti5ed............ —pm
Jan. 5, .88,^ — Bank Stock for Acc0unt.........
April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Acc0unt.........
Jan. 5, 1870... — Consols for Acconnt
Omnium pm

PRICES OF I.OItEIGN FUNDS
Austri Bonds.
Belgian Bonds..
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds 817%
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bends —
Ditto Acc0unt..„..........„ —
Chillian Bonds

Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds.
Ditto Account.
Columbian Bonds, :821
Ditto Account .
Danish Bonds ... —........

Ditto Account
Greek Bonds
Ditto Bonds, 1825
Ditto Account .
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per cent —
Ditto Account... .........
Neapolitan.— ................

THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds .... ........... —
Ditto Account —
1 Portuguese Bonds

Ditto Account
Ditto New Bonds 47
Ditto Account
Ditto, 3 per cent. 294%
Prussian Bonds

Russian Bonds, 1822
Ditto Account ............

Ditto Metallic.... ...

Spanish Bonds

Ditto Account —
Ditto Bonda,lB3l. ........ —23 2%
Ditto Account 23 2%
French, 5 per cent.......... —f. —c.
4 per cent. —f. —c.
3 per cent. f. c
Exchange f —c.
Dutch, 2.X, per cent. 534 IA

Dia; ACCount
Ditto, 3 per cent IOOU 11'3
Ditto Account

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share
Great Western Railway Company 4O 41 40% 1
Brighton (Gibbs') Railway 1 0%
Brighton (Rennie's)
London and Birmingham Railway Company B3 115
Manchester and Leeds Railway Company
Manchester South Union Railway Company 5 3% .
North Midland Railway Company l5 13
South Brighton, Lewes, and Newhaven Railway 2 ON
Colonial Bank

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 9.
3 per Cent. Consols 893/, Grand Canal Deb.. 6 per cent. gs%
Ditto Reduced — Ditto, 4 per cent —
3; per Cent. Stock 971% Hibernian Bank
Ditto New, IS3I
314 per Cent. Debcntures 90% I National Insurance Co 3l
Bank Stock — i City Dashentures, 4 per cent...
Royal Canal Stock — Ballast (Alice Debentures, 4
. _

Grand Canal Stock

per cent

MAILS.

Arrived. Due Arrived.----- Due. Arrived. Due
0 America.... ..... . 0 I France 0 I Liston 0
0 Brazil 0 I Ouern.&Jersey 0 0 Afalca
0 Buenos Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico 0
0 Cartbagena...... 0 0 Holland
Irmblin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica
I Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW.
JIo ...... 16ininut,-s after 7 I Evening...... 42 minutes after 7.

NEWSPAPER STAMPS.

Extract from " Returns of the number of Stamps issued
monthly to each of the London Newspapers, from 1 Jan.,
1837, to 1 April, 1837.

Titles of Newspapers. January. February. March.
Courier
English Chronicle
Evenirg Chronicle 20,000 20,000 20,t,',.
Evenin!, Mail 20,000 40,000 25,00.
Globe and Traveller 90,000 66,000 56,000
Shipping Gazette . lB,OOO 18,000 23,000
Standard
St. James's Chronicle
Sun
True Sun 42,500 45,000 31,000

The puhlication of 'FILE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1837.

In the House of Lords yesterday, after the presenta-
tion of a Env petitions, and the passing through Committee
of the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill, their Lordships ad-
journod.
In the House of Commons an unusually large number
of petitions in favour of the Ministerial measure for the
abolition of Church-rates was presented. Petitions also
were presented relative to the Poor-law, Capital Punish-
ments, Observance of the Sabbath, Land-tax, Factory-
labour, and the recent Huddersfield election.
On the motion of Mr. P. THOMPSON, a Select Com-
mittee was appointed to revise the Standing Orders of the
House—the Committee to take first into consideration
those respecting railway levels.
Sir C. BROKE VERE revived the subject of the order
asserted by Col. THOMPSON to have been given by Gene-
ral WHITLLOCK at the attack on Buenos Ayres in 180 S.
The Hon. Baronet denied that any order had been issued
to spare only the old men and the women, but to put all
others to the bayonet. Col. THomrsoN adhered to his
original statement, which he said had since been irrefra-
gably confirmed.

➢lr. T. DUNCOMBE then moved the second reading of
his Bill to repeal the rate-paying registration clauses in the
Reform Bill.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL opposed the motion, by moving an
amendment, that the Bill be read a second time this day
six months.

Mr. HUME and Mr. GROTE contended that the rate-
paying clause was contrary to the declared principle of the
Reform Bill ; that it operated most unjustly, narrowed the
constituency, and had the effect of disfranchising many,
who, in political justice, had a right to vote. The second
reading was lost by a majority of 93.
The East India Maritime Officers 13111, after some dis-
cussion, was ordered to be read a second time.
Mr. WARBURTON moved as an instruction to the Com-
mittee on the Freemen's Admission Bill, " That they have
the power to make provision for the amendment of the
Reform of Parliament Act, in so far as it requires the pay-
ment of rates and taxes as a qualification of householders
to vote in the election of Members to serve in Parliament."
Eventually it was agreed that the Committee should be
postponed till the 21st June.

. The Small Debts (Scotland) Bill, and the Trial by Jury
(Scotland) Bill, were severally read a third time, and passed.
The House adjourned at a Quarter past One o'clock.

A discussion of some importance took place last
night in the Commons on the motion of Mr. T. DUN.
COMBE, that the Reform Act Amendment Bill should
be read a second time. The object of the Bill was to
do away with the rate-paying clause of the Reform
Bill, which refuses admission on the register, and con-
sequently denies the exercise of the elective fran-
chise to ail—county electors excepted--who have
not paid rates and taxes up to the sth of April in
each year. There is no doubt that the operation
of this clause has been very prejudicial to the interests
of Reform, and that it ought to be greatly modified,
if not entirely repealed. The real qualification
is the annual rent of the house, and if we are
not mistaken, that was the only qualification
originally proposed ; but the Tories, seeing the popular
drift of the clause, had tact and influence enough, as in
the case of the tenant-at-will clause, to get it encumbered
with a provision which in no small degree neutralised
its effect. If rates and taxes are in arrear the fault rests
with the collectors. There are legitimate ways and
means of recovering payment which ought to be resorted
to, instead of inflicting on the defaulter, as a penalty, the
loss of a political privilege. The things have no
earthly connection—unless, indeed, it be admitted that
the object of the obnoxious clause was to render the
duties of the tax-gatherer less laborious, and to give
the Exchequer an additional security for prompt payment.
Suppose the present mode of levying the assessed taxes
should be altered, and indirect substituted for direct
taxation, where then would be the tax-paying quali-
fication of the ten-pounder ? How ridiculous then is
it to set up the payment of such a tax as a test of a
man's fitness to elect a Representative in Parliament !
It will be seen that Lord JoHN RUSSELL moved,
as an amendment, that the Bill be read that day six
months ; thus putting a negative on the proposition
of the Hon. Member for Finsbury. We are happy,
however, to find that the Noble Lord is not opposed
to the amendment of the Reform Bill in respect to
this particular enactment, as he stated his intention,
subsequently, to bring in a Bill which would so far
alter that enactment as to allow an elector, once
admitted on the register, the privilege of the
franchise, if he shall have paid his rates and
taxes up to the Ist October in the year preceding, in-
stead of to sth April of the current year. This will un-
doubtedly be some improvement—practically, we should
say a great improvement ; but why not do the thing
handsomely and boldly at once, by entirely abrogating
the tax-paying part of the clause ?

The Noble Lord also proposes to include in his
Bill a provision for exempting the freemen from the

payment of a stamp duty on their admission, which
will supersede the necessity of the measure brought in
by the Hon. Member for Coventry.

The Hon. Member for Greenock, Mr. WALLACE,
has succeeded in obtaining a Select Committee of the
House of Commons, on such of the resolutions moved
by him on Tuesday evening as involve not the ques-
tion of a reduction of the Post-office Revenue. This
is all that the Hon. Gentleman had a right to
expect—all that the Government could fairly concede
under existing circumstances. Mr. WALLACE de-
serves great credit for his persevering efforts to eradi-
cate all abuses in the management of the Post-
office ; and on no occasion have we been wanting
in a high appreciation of his labours ; but we
must confess that the string of resolutions moved by
him in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening
last, appeared to us to be drawn up with singular in-
felicity. A Committee of Legislators upon a sixpenny
pamphlet would excite—and justly too—the ridicule
of all Europe. Besides, a Finance Committee, after a
careful investigation of the public revenues of the
United Kingdom, could only be supposed qualified to
pronounce a decided opinion upon the expediency of
a measure involving a probable deficit of a million and
a half of the national income. The only proper subjects
for inquiry by a Select Committee, in the seven reso-
lutions of the Hon. Gentleman, are the state of Port
Patrick and Donaghadee harbours, and the compen-
sations paid to certain mail-coach contractors as the
lessees of roads and tolls in Ireland. These are embodied
in the last resolution—the only one, in fact, which
Mr. WALLACE ought to have moved in such a form.
Were he resolved to bring forward the others at all
hazards, the proper course would have been to have
embodied them at once as so many clauses of a Bill
for effecting certain amendments in the management of
the Post-office, and in that shape to have submitted
them to the judgment of the House ; or to have moved
their introduction as amendments upon the Post-office
Bills brought forward by Mr. LABOUCHERE. Both
these courses were open to Mr. WALLACE, and we
are surprised that he should have taken one so very
perplexed, and at the same time so obviously leading
in a wrong direction. We may here observe that we
by no means approve of the system of asking for Select
Committees of Inquiry upon the subject of abuses
already recognised by the public voice. They are
attended with heavy expense ; lead very often to unne-
cessary delay ; and for once that they promote the
great ends of justice, they ten times serve only to gratify
personal animosity at the expense of the nation. On the
occasion of erecting great public works—the chartering,
of institutions or municipalities—the passing of funda-
mental laws forming a part of the national jurispru-
dence, and such like, we approve of previous inquiries
by • Select Committees ; but we are not for the exten-
sion of such inquiries to the petty malversations of
every toll-bar-keeper, and mail-coach proprietor who
contrives to evade the penalty of his delinquencies, be-
cause there happens to be no authority to pia the
laws of the land into execution.

The Paris Papers of Tueslay, the whole of which
we have just received, bring the gratifying intelligence
that Louts PutwrE has at last yielded to the dic-
tates of a humane policy, by the publication of an
Amnesty, which appears in the official columns of the
Moniteur. This is indeed the true way to disarm
the enemies of his person and dynasty—the most ef-
fectual means of ridding himself of the terrors inspired
by the reports of secret plots and conspiracies. The
Act of Amnesty is preceded by a Report of M.
BARTHE, Minister of Justice, to the effect that the
KING was only prevented so long from gratifying the
fondest wish of his heart, by an apprehension that his
clemency would be mistaken for the result of weak-
ness. But now, order being established, the Govern-

ment being strong in the support of the nation, and

the condemned being given up to the punishment
awarded by the laws, the KING has an opportunity of
exercising the Royal prerogative of mercy. The fol-
lowing is a copy of the Royal Ordinance :
" Louis Philippe, King of the French, to all present and

to come, greeting.

" We have decreed and do decree as follows :

" Art. 1. A general Amnesty is granted to all indivi-
duals detained in the State prisons, in consequence of hav-
ing been declared guilty of political crimes or offences. At
the same time a police surveillance will be continued in re-
spect of such of them as have been sentenced to degrading
and infamous punishments, as also with regard to those
whose sentences include a provision that they may be sub-
ject to surveillance.
" 2.- The sentences pronounced by the Court of Peers
against Victor Boireau and Francois Meunier are commuted
into banishment for the period of ten years.
" 3. The Keeper of the Seals and the Secretary of
State for the Home Department are charged with the exe-
cution of the present Ordinance.
" LOUIS PHILIPPE,
" King of the French.
" BARTHE,

" Minister of Justice and Public Worship.'

There can be no doubt but that the decree, if fol-
lowed up by conciliatory measures on the part of Mi-
nisters, will render the KING as popular among his
subjects as recently l►e has been odious to them. Let
him now restore liberty to the Press, and he may cal-
culate upon its powerful support—a support which
will give more stability to his Throne and dynasty than
the presence of a hundred thousand muskets. We
have the more pleasure in dwelling upon this event,
because we learn from private sources that in the Ca-
binet Council held to deliberate upon the Amnesty to
be granted, the KING insisted that it should be as ex-
tensive as he could make it, without interfering with
the ordinary course of justice. It is also but justice
to M. MOLE, and the Presidents of the Chambers of
Peers and Deputies, to observe that they gave their
opinion in favour of an extended clemency, as did
likewise the new Minister of Justice. What a load
of public odium will this act of Ministers cast upon
those politically defunct tools of despotism—MM.
GUIZOT and PERSIL !

There is little foreign news of any importance in the
French Journals. A Morning Contemporary pub-
lishes the following communication from the North of
Spain, stated to have been received by " Extraordinary
Express :"

" BAYONNE, MAY B.—The Carlists endeavoured on the
6th to drive back the advanced posts of the Christinos sta-
tioned in the valley and heights of Loyola to their former
positions. They were, however, repulsed with considerable
loss, notwithstanding the vigour of their attack.
" General Espartero is hourly expected with the re-
mainder of the troops of the reinforcement."
" PERPIGNAN, MAY 7.—The Baron de Meer entered
Solsona on the 2d, with several brigades, after having beaten
the Carlists, and delivered the troops who had taken re-
fuge in the convent. It is said that Colonel Nuibo and
Captain Castells were killed. The total loss is reckoned at
1,500 men.

" Two hundred and fifty armed peasants revolted at
Puycerda on the sth, and demanded their pay. They ill-
used the Governor, and then withdrew in disorder from the
place. There was a riot on the following day, and the Go-
vernor was forced to let in a quantity of French corn duty
free.

" On the 26th of April the Commandant Balleraule,
with his armed peasants and the National Guard of Reus,
where a revolutionary (democratic) movement had taken
place, tried to gain possession of Tarragona. They were
preceded by seditious proclamations. The Governor closed
the gates upon them."

-
AIA French Paper of Tuesday contains the following
extract from a letter from Berne dated the 2d inst.:—
We can possitively state that M. Obnskof, Russian
Charge d'Affaires at Turin, has received an order from
the Emperor Nicholas to send 1,000,000 f. to Don Carlos.
The merchants at Leghorn have, on the faith of this di-
plomatist, and without fear as to payment, made large pur-
chases of corn at Odessa on account of the Pretender, and
only wait a favourable opportunity to land it on some
point of the Peninsula, or even to send it through France.
Unfortunately for them, since the fall of the French Doc-

trinaire Ministry, their speculation meets with a thousand
difficulties."
The following are extracts from the Papers :

"An extraordinary courier has brought to-day the news
of the taking of Chelva by General Oraa. That town which
the Carlists had fortified has fallen into the hands of the
Christinos, after an engagement of more than ten hours.
The Carlists lost 300 men killed and 600 prisoners. The
loss of the Queen's troops was only 22 men. This event
took place on the 30th of April.
" The Duke of Orleans set out yesterday at one o'clock,
for Brussels.

" Princess Adelaide set out for Brussels yesterday even.
ing, at eight o'clock, with the Prince de Joinville."

FRENCH FUNDS.-Paeis, MAY 9.
rive per Cents., 107 f. 40e. 35c. 30c. 25c. 20c.
Four and a Half ner Cents. 100 E 55c.
Four per Cents., 99f. 60c.
Three per Cents. 79f sc. 78f. 90c. 95e. 85c. 90c.
Bank Actions, 2,410 E
Rente de Naples, 991. 99f. 50c. 40c.
Roman Five per Cents., 1001 A ,4,
Spanish Actives, 2514 25.
Spanish Passives, 6.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 101.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 30.
EXCHANOZ ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 35c.; money, 25E 32 $4 e.
Three months, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money, 25f. 124 c.
-Cours Aug/an/woe.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 107 f. 45c.
Three per Cents. 79f.
Bank Actions, 2,410 f.
Rente de Naples, 99f. 50c.
Roman Five per Cents., 100
Belgian Loan, 101.
Brussels Bank, 1,430 f.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 30%.
Spanish Actives, 25.
Spanish Passives 6.
Spanish Ditferes, 7.
Miguelites, 11%.
Belgian Society, 1,050 f.

We have received Madrid Papers to the 2d insl
but they bring no news of any interest.

German and Brussels Papers have been received.
The Belgian Chamber of Representatives is engaged
with discussions on the Budgets of the Minister of
Commerce and Pubic Works. Advices from Greece
state that tranquillity was not restored at Patras on
the 10th.

BELGIAN I. UNDS—Bnussins, MAY 9 :
Actual Debt, 2j per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, $ per Cent. 100,4
Loan of Thirty Millions 9l 4
Loan of ('itv, 1832, 4 per Cent 994
Society of Cosamerce, 41;,per Cent l3O
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 13814
Brussels Papers, May 10.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY I.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
B.ink Shares lass
—Allgemeine Zeitung, May 8.

WESTMINSTER ELECTION

THIS DAY.

STATE OF THE POLL.
NINE O'CLOCK.

Leader

Burdett
Majority for Leader
TEN O'CLOCK

564

Leader's Committee Room. 13urdett's Committee Room
Leader
Burdett 1,532 Leader .
Majority for Burdett...22o Majority for Burdett...432

ELEVEN O'CLOCK.

Leader
Burdett 2,051
Majority for Burdett...32B,

Burdett 2,209
Leader
Majority for Burdett...s26

TWELVE

O'CLOCK.

Leader
Burdett 2,491
Majority for Burdett...4ll

Burdett .
Leader
Majority for Burdett...636

ONE 0'

CLOCK.

Leader
Burdett
1
Majority for Burdett...393;Majority for Burdett...6ls

TWO O'CLOCK.
Leader ... ..... .... 2,57 G Burdett 3,113
Burdett
Majority for Burdett...37olMajority for Burdett...6oo

THREE O'CLOCK.

Leader 2,756
Burdett
Majority for Burdett...... 343

The Following New Works, by distinguished writers,
are published this day, by Mr. Bentley, New Burlington-street :

CAPTAIN CHAMIER, R.N.
THE ARETHUSA. A Naval Story.
By the Author of " Life of a Sailor," " Ben Brace," Sco. 3 you',

THEODORE HOOK, Esq.,
JACK BRAG.
By the Author of " Saying, and Doings," " Maxwell," kc. 3volt,

A. FONBLANQUE, Esq.
ENGLAND, UNDER SEVEN ADMINISTRATIONS,
By ALBANY FONBLANQUE, Esq. 3 vols. post Bvo., with
numerous Portraits.
IV.

SAMUEL LOVER, Esq.
RORY O'MORE.
A National Romance, with numerous characteristic Engravings by
the Author. 3 vols.

Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq.
NICK OF THE WOODS.
Edited by the Author of " Crichton," " Rookwood," &G. 3 role,

VI.
THE GERMAN PRINCE.
SEMILASSO IN AFRICA ; or,lAdventures in Algiers and other
Parts of Africa. By Prince PUCKLER AIUSKAU,
_Author of the " Tour of a German Prince." 3 vols. post Bvo.
VII.
W. HARRISON AINSWORTII, Esq.
CRICHTON.
By the Author of " Rookwood," &c. 3 vols.
VIII.
THE CLOCKAIAKER ;
Or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slick Villa.
1 vol. post Bvo.
Ix.
Edited by LADY MARY FOX.
AN ACCOUNT OF AN EXPEDITION
INTO THE INTERIOR OF NEW HOLLAND.
I vol. post Bvo.

Huddersfield has not even rewarded the Tories for
descending to the patronage of Oastler. The expected
triumph has vanished—the disgrace remains.
NATIONAL ANNUITY TO O'CONNELL.—Sunday
the 28th instant, has been fixed on for the simultaneous col-
lection of the National Annuity to Mr. O'Connell. "It will
be recollected (the Trustees state) that this measure, so im-
perative upon the country, was not brought forward in the past
year (1836), lest it should interfere with the arrangements
then adopted for the extension of the Liberal power through
the registries, or with the organization set on foot by the
National Association, called into existence by O'Connell, to
meet the circumstances of the times. This postponement
obviously involved at least a temporary sacrifice of the income
which Ireland feels impatient to supply, to defray the enor-
mous expenses inseparable from those high public duties which
her great advocate has imposed upon himself, and for the dis-
charge of which he seems indeed to have been specially raised
up." By the general report of the last collection, it appears
that the total amount received for 1835, according to the public
account, was 2%1894 155. sd. This sum may be said to have
been wholly absorbed by Mr. O'Connell in defraying his elec-
tion expenses, during and since the year 1835, which are
stated to have exceeded 19,000/. The approaching collection
is to constitute the O'Connell fund for two years--viz., 1836
and 1837.

„
SAXE ,IMEININGEN.—On the 30th of April, at
three o'clock in the morning, her Highness the Duchess Dow-
ager of Saxe Meiningen, a Princess of Hohenloe-Langen-
Cure, died of an attack of the grippe. She was born on the
11th of August, 1763. Her loss is deeply lamented, not only
by the Ducal family, but by the whole country. For the long
period of eighteen years she governed the country during the
minority of her son, our beloved Prince, the reigning Duke ;
and her government was such, and so mild, that all her subjects
retain the most grateful recollection of it, considering her
rather as their mother, than their Sovereign. She retained
the love and veneration of the inhabitants to the last moment
of her life.

-- ---
On the afternoon of Sabbath last the 30th of April,
four young men (one the eldest son of the tacksman of the
fishings of the lake, and the other three tradesmen from Perth),
who had gone to take a sail, were all, in consequence of a
sudden squall, plunged into a watery grave. This took place
when they were to the north of Queen Mary's Island, which is
the deepest part of the lake, and whence they were both seen
and heard from Burleigh side, as they clung to that part of
the boat which after being upset remained above water, and
as they shrieked aloud for relief ; but long before their situa-
tion was known at Kinross, and any help could be availing,
they had let go their hold, and sunk never to rise.—Edinburgh
Courant.

Capt. M'Kown, of the ship Havre, which arrived
at New Orleans on the 3d instant from Havre, makes the fol-
lowing report respecting the sea serpent :—" Feb. 19, lat.
35 32, long. 26 05 W., at noon, saw something very singular
in the water, about 100 feet from the ship, and as it approached
discovered that it was a snake—its head, which was shaped
similar to that of a flying-fish, and its body entirely round,
and of the size of a ship's mainmast, lying in a perpendicular
position to the ship's side, and of a grayish colour, appeared to
be between four and five hundred feet long. The day was
perfectly calm, and the whole ship's company (28 in number)
had a fair view of this monster or the deep for the space of half
an hour, when lie gradually left the ship ; his motions in doing
which were similar to those of a series of barrels, at equal
distances from each other in a direct line, rolling in the water."
—New York Paper.