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London, England, 1839-10-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. WEIMNESDAY, OCTOBER :30,,..1839,

ADDRESS TO LORI) EBRINGTON

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
EXETER, OCT. 28.—This being the day appointed for
the presentation of the Address to his F_,ldellencY 'tie
Lord Lieutantant of !reland, the Guildhall door's were
besieged lung before the hour arrived, by the public;
anxious to witness the proceedings. The Noble Lord
was received at the New London tnn by Lord Seymour
and Sir Robern iNe*tiaan, about half past one, between
whom he 'Walked down to the Guildhall, where his
Lordship was received in the Council Chattilsm, by
his Grace the Duke of Somerset; the Earl 'Of
Devon ; the Right Worshipful the Mayoi.br, Mac:—
Bowan ; Sir H. P. Davie; Bir T. D. Aela.nd,
ALP. ; Mr. Buller, of Downeg ; Mr. Stanley Cary ;
Mr. John &Want, 'jun. ; Colonel Fergusson ; Mr.
Nation ; Mr, Mark Kcnnaway ; the Rev. bi-. Car-
withen ; Mr. Ford, &c.
The galleries were devoted to the ladies, amongst
whom were her Grace the Duchess of Somerset ; Lady
Courtenay, and Lady Catherine Fellowes (sisters of
Lord Ebrington) ; Mrs. Divett ; Mrs. Hore, of Lug-
combo ; Mrs. Pennymau ; Mrs. Campbell ; Mrs. Stan-
ley Cary ; Miss Newman ; Miss Fellowes Mrs. John
Divett ; Mrs. Mark Kennavvay ; Mrs. Sanders, &c.
The cheering when the Noble Lord entered was tre-
mendous. He was accompanied to the Bench by the
Right Worshipful the Mayor (Dr. Macgowanl, Mr.
High Sheriff Davy, Dr. Miller, &c. His Lordship
'took the right of the Mayor, and the Duke of Slmer-
set the left. As soon as the cheering had subsided the
Mayor addressed his Excellency thanking him for the very
kind manner in which he had acceded to the request of
the citizens, that they might have the honour to receive
the Noble Lord in open hall, and present him with the
Address there.---(Cheers.) That honour and that gra-
tification was considerably enhanced to him (the Mayor)
by the pleasing duty' which he had to discharge in pre-
senting to his Lordship an Address containing the una-
nimous and cordial sentiments of respect and attach-
Mont which this City bore towards him.—(Cheers.)
He now proceeded to read the Address, which was as
follows

TO His EXCELLENCY TIIF. LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.
May it please your Lordship,
We, the Mayor, Citizens, and Inhabitants of the City
of Exeter, in Common Hall assembled, unanimously em-
brace the opportunity afforded to us by your Excellency's
temporary visit to Devonshire, of conyeying to your EA-
cellency this public expression of our deep-felt respect,and
attachment. •
Your Excellency: is no stranger to the inhabitants of
this City, and the sentiments which they now give utter-
ance to, are of no recent growth ; they are 'founded upon
continued observation of a life devoted to public services
.and adorned by private virtues.
In undertaking the arduous and responsible duties of the
Government of Ireland, your Excellency has given proof
of disinterested patriotism ; whilst your intimate know-
ledge of the people whom her Majesty has called you to
govern, accompanied by sound judgment, an inflexible
love of justice, and firmness of purpose, have inspired all
classes in that part of the empire, with confidence, that
the blessings of a mild, protecting, and energetic Go-
vernment, are at once the aim and character of your Ex-
cellency's Viceroyalty.
Thus, it has been your Excellency's rare and happy pri-
vilege to disarm. the bitterness of party animosity, to unite
all voices in approbation of your Government, and to carry
peace and tranquillity to that interesting but distracted
portion of the British Empire.
We would pray your Excellency to believe that these
sentiments are not prompted by feelings of undue partiality
towards one deservedly endeared to us, by ties of country,
and by a long established interchange of mutual confidence
and good neighbourhood ; they arc in unison with th
public voice ; and they do but add one more flower to that
wreath of honour which a grateful country will place on
the brow of the patriot and the statesman.
It is our earnest wish and prayei that your Excellency's
life may he long spared, and your health preserved, and
that the enlightened principles by which Ireland is at pre-
sent governed may establish and confirm the pacification
which has been so auspiciously begun.
Signed in Common Hall, at Exeter, this seventeenth
day of October, 1639.

The address was received with tremendous cheering.
The Mayor proceeded to say that the address had been
signed by himself on behalf of the citizens of Exeter.—
(Great cheering.) His Worship then proceeded to add
some excellent observations, following up the spirit of
the address with a degree of eloquence and ability
which all who know the talent and acquirements of
Dr. Macgowan will readily appreciate, but which I re-
gret that time does not permit me to give.
Lord EBRINGTON on rising to acknowledge the com-
pliment, was received with the most deafening cheers.
He said, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, I return you my
most grateful acknowledgments fur the sentiments con-
veyed towards me in your address--such expressions,
from communities like yours, are amongst the highest
rewards that can be conferred on the patriot or the
statesman—(Cheers)—and my long continued interchange
of confidence and good neighbourhood with the citizens
of Exeter, so kindly referred to by you, adds much of
the grace of private friendship to any mark that you
can give me of your public approbation,—(Great cheer-
►ng.) You did me justice in believing that I undertook
the Government of Ireland solely from a sense of public
duty.—( Hear.) Flattered as I was by the unexpected
elevation to that high trust, I can only assure you that no
distinction ,could but move valuable in toy eyes—no
object of ambition deareito my heart than the honour
which 'I before enjoyed of being one of the represen-
tatives of the county of Devon.—(Cheers.) In the
discharge of my present duty, I have anxiously endea-
voured to carry into effect the beneficent desires of my
graciour Sovereign for the welfare of her Irish subjects—
(Great cheering)— to improve the good which I find be-
gun—(Cheers)—and allay the bitterness of party spirit
and by the just administration of the laws to unite, as
far as possible, all hearts and all voices in one common
sentiment of loyalty to the throne, and attachment to
the British Constitution.—(Cheers.) Great has been
the aid afforded me in the performance of that task by
the zealous co-operation of friends, by the indulgent
forbearance of political opponents—(Cries of " Hear,
hear,' from the Tories)—and by the general good
conduct of the noble and warm-hearted people
committed to my charge.—(Continued cheering.)
And great, indeed, is my pride and satisfaction
at receiving this day from the united voice of
your enlightened city the welcome assurance of your
wishes and your prayers, that the principles by which
Ireland is at present governed may continue to direct
her councils—(Cheers)—and may tend to establish and
to confirm that pacification which has been, in your
opinion, so auspiciously begun.
The Noble Lord sat down amidst the most tremend-
ous cheering, which was warmly participated in by Earl
Devon, Sir T. Arland, &c.

After a very able and effective speech from the
Mayor, and one of great spirit and feeling from Earl
Devon, thanks were voted to the Mayor by acclama-
tion, which having been briefly acknowledged by his
Worship, the business closed with cheers for the
Duchess of Somerset, Lady Courtenav, Lady Fellowei,,
and Miss Newman ; the Duke of Somerset, Sir T.
Acland, Mr. BuLer, of Downes, &c. All parties ap-
peared delighted with the result. •

(PROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)
EXETER, :MONDAY AFTERNOON.—The crowded
and fashionable stir in the High-street, showed that some
event of interest was to occur, whilst at the Guildhall
the preparations necessary for the public accommodation
indicated that there was to be the scene of the days'
interest.

The small galleries and the area of the Hall appro-
priated to the ladies were filled at an early hour front a
private entrance, and long before the hour of meeting
the body of the Hall was thickly set. Here, assembled
to meet his Excellency, were the Duke of Somerset and
the Earl of Devon, Lord Courtenay and Sir Humphry
Davie, Sir Robert Newman, und Sir Thamas D. Aclatid,
Mr. Buller of Downes, Mr. Sillifanti and. Mr. Fulford,
in most unprecedented union of poliC.cal purpose, together
with a large assemblage of influential gentlemen to offer
their united tribute to the Queen's Representative—to a
member of the Melbourne IVAinistry. It was stated, and
I believe with truth, thet, on no political occasion has
the Guildhall of Exete-; been honoured by so numerous
a gathering of the rr,nk, the wealth, and influence of the
county and the cit-y.
The attendance of the ladies was numerous ; it was
highly artstne.eatic, and few of the ladies of the noble
families abo ce-named were absent, and most of the
beauty of the city was present to grace the scene, so
that the sombre hall on no former occasion looked
so gay.

His
'Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
accotrApanied by Dr. DI Gowan, the Mayor, and Mr.
D. R.. Davy, the High Sheriff, took his seat on the
Bench, punctually at the hour appointed. His Excel-
leucy looked remarkably well, and in buoyant spirits.
tie was accompanied by his two sons, promising to
tread in the steps of their noble father, and in their
generation to forward the good work of extending the
liberties of the country.

The speech of the:worthy Mayor in presenting the
address was manly and appropriate. He shrunk not
from the full avowal of the liberal measures and policy
which had culled for this address; at the same time
there was great moderation and dignity which com-
manded general respect. The tone of the meeting
might., however, be easily perceived, for to every liberal
allusion the great mass in the hall responded with hearty
cheers ; and to every notice of his Excellency's previ-
ous career the Assembly's answer was applause. Lord
Ebrington's speech was marked by allusion to the past,
and the manly expression of his objects and aims.
The SHERIFF moved a vote of thanks to the Mayor,
which was seconded by the Earl of Devon, who, protest-
ing against being understood to subscribe to every poli-
tical sentiment of his noble relativel and the Mayor,
cordially agreed in the approval of his Lordship's Go-
vernment ; and after the usual outburst of cheers,
the meeting separated as it opened in hearty good
feeling.

On Monday afternoon the American line of-packet
ship, Montreal, Captain Grilling, sailed from the St.
Kstharine's Dock, for New York, it about forty
emigrants,
chiefly poor agricultur2l labourers, with
their faini es.

COMBINATION CASE.

(From the Edinburgh Chronicle of Saturday.)
POTT_~'t V. HALLIDAY; MACKAY, AND BEATON.
001ITI, met; by adjoiiinthent; this day; Mtifidak.
at twelve o'clock; to give judgment in. thit itnPortant
citte; which is abliihiil4liii fitibliC iniei-eAt; and Prii-
Mika to operate powerfully, it is hoped for good, on
Trades' Unions.
Mr. James Simpson, Advocate, proceeded to state the'
;man& of the judgment; Whitl4 at attestor, he would
WM* adVite Elie dilri id Rcinfitiftei;lii tliiti carter
Aftei• ti careful and impartial; and; he added;
anxious, and painful, consideration of the evidence;
and a leaning, as far as rot iblet td the-0e of the de=
feo,lerc., tits; Was reluctantiyobliged to inniess that what
he had to say was not in their favour. He regretted
the necessity the' more that•the case of-the defenders is
a peculiarly hard one. They are evidently respectable
men, the victims of oppresFion, which has driven them
back on the law, and that OHIO take its course. The
history of• the cast is bri'if. The plasterers of Ethos
burgh have only one unio-I,—that of the journeymen,
to keep up their wages. In Glasgow, besides a Jour-
neymen's Wages Union, the Master Plasterers have
combined against the public to control estimates.. In
other words, the union, and not the Preference of the
employer, determines who shall contract fOr plaster
work in Glasgow.
,Mr. Potter was previously a mem.-
ber of the Masters' Uniiin, the only blot in his case I
but, on the estimate rule 'being adopted, he left the
union. Apropos for a purpose of the masters againtt •
Mr. Potter, the men. struck work in March last for a
rise from Os. to 21s. a-Week. The masters, in council
assembled, unanimously -granted the rise, and sundry
courteous deputations passed 'between the two bodies.
But the concession of the masters had a pointed con- •
dition, namely, that 'no-tnC'mber of the Jeurneynieti's
Union should work to any master who die not coiiform.
to the laws of the Masters' Union. This was agreed
.to by the men, and twelve of Mr. Potteet'workmeir,
being members of the•;Ourneymen's Union, left him
in one day. For this •he has to thank the Masters'
not the Journeymen's Union. Determined not, to
be ruined by this doublit bolted despotism; Mr. Pot-
ter set out for Edinburgh iri quest. of workrnen,
and. soon came into negoeiation with the defenders:
They started for Glasgow on' Monday,, and on Wed-
nesday' the deferlhs all iellored in E.ll'nburgh,,.,
Where they were -VI-Owcd
ployeiT:nnd, on a Warriant''bing ',granted
_1,4 -appre-
hend them,' under the Act, the 4th "Ce0..1 V., c. 34,
which subjects all workmen .deserting an engagement
to three months' imprisooMent, with hard l'abour, they
voluntarily placed theintives at the bar for vxamina-.
lion. In their joint deClaration they admitted their
engagement, as stated in 'the petition, but pleaded a
condition, namely, that if, on going to Glasgow, they
found matters between Mr. Potter and the Journeymen's
Union different from what he had stated to them, they
should return to Edinburgh :—that they found that
they had been deceived, and returned accordingly.
Now the defenders have entirely failed in this their de-
fence.

After going through the e'vidence, Mr. Simpson con-
tinued—l pity the defenders, arid the more that I re-
spect them. But perhaps this ease may do good by.
publicity is admitting the country a little further. into,
the • Working of those tremendous engines of 'oppression
Trades' UnionS. The industrious men now at the
bar, are reduced to destitutiOn, frOm failure of work
here, and are not allowed tti carry their labour where
work is plenty, because 'there is a self-constituted power
there which shuts the door against them. What would
be said of the liberties of this land if this were done by
Act of Parliament, or Order in Council. The
Unionists would be the first, the loudest, the fiercest, in
their opposition to it. Yet they, in the bosom of a
tree country, where such outiageous despotism on the
part of the Government is a moral impossibility, they
can erect a far more grinding tyranny, and by a vast
machinery, link it from town to town, till like an iron
net-work, it covers the length and breadth of the land.
We hear monopolies, agricultural and commercial, justly
denounced ; but which of them, in its selfish spirit. or its
iron grasp, is like to the syateM
,of Trades' Unions! It
is said they are rendered neces.ary by the selfishness
and injustice of masters, who would reduce wages below
what the particular trade can and, ought to afford.
Wherever that immorality- is attempted or perpetrated,
most-assuredly such masters have no reason to com-
plain ; the visitation upon them is quite in the ordinary
course of moral retribution ; but we are not inquiring
how Unions originate, but what they are—cancers in
the vitals of the social system. Is society destined to
witness the cure of so dreadful a malady—will it shake
off this incubus on the rights of labour? I say it will,
and the hour is on the wing. These Unions have wel;
been traced to intelligence out-stripping morality. Com-
pare the talent with which the cninbinations are spread
over the land, with their selfish and cruel proceedings
and objects. They at once' suggest to us thirik:ng, but
erroneous thinking intellect marching on, but justice
lagging behind ; in a word, like every other social evil,
they arc traceable to partial and imperfect education
in -the body of the people.' in a morally, as well as
intellectually' trained generation, and that will come_,.,
there will:l3a -no Employers, and c niploy Cd
will alike know what Wagei'eitla trade can allow, and
the one will not think of offernig less, or the other of
asking more. Labour, the poor man's all, will then be
free. Employers and employed will be friends instead
of enemies—anti all the disputes, and heart-burniegs,
and mutual sufferings of the present selfish, and really
ignorant system, will have an end. This is no theory, no
chimera. I have the happiness to know several instances
where intelligent and highly moral employers have peo-
pled their works with intelligent, sober, and moral work-
men ; in other words, well-educated men. I have seen
the working of these establishments, both here and in
England. The employers have too much sense and feel-
ing to dream of grinding the faces of their workmen. The
highest wages which the trade will allow are given-, of .
course : the workmen know this, and have themselves
sense and feeling enough to be satisfied. A strike is a
phenomenon unknown, and a general system of friendly
co-operation characterises the establishment. I have
been present at the convivial meetings of such mas-
ters and men, and enjoyed the moral luxury of having
.reason to doubt which stood highest in the scale of in-
telligence and morality. In the extensive commu-
nications which a particular object of my attention—
their improvement--has given.. me with the working
classes—for I have met, in friendly discussion, during
four years, with upwards of 20,000 of them—l have
lost no , opportunity of pressing these views ; and I
never met with one who did not approve of them, and
wish that such principles guided their. labour instead
of unions. Many a shudder have I witnessed when
Unions were alluded to. With Unions will become a
dead letter the stringent laws which are rendered neces-
sary to restrain the excesses to which, from their very
nature, they lead. But if we condemn Workmen's
Unions, what shall we say to Masters' Unions. Thank
God, they are rare. I have been unable to hear of
another besides this Master. Plasterers' Union in Glas-
gow. I have heard of a union of 'masters in one of
the most respectable and intelleetual trades, to fix the
Prices of the retail trade. I cannot believe this. If it
be true, I trust they will speedily dissolve it, for it sets
the very worst example, and will,inevitably recoil upon
themselves. But the estimate combination in Glasgow has
no likeness in the country. It goes much further than
the Journeymen's Union. Although this last demands
the same wagesior all degrees of skill, still the masters
may choose the individual workman. Not so the pub-
he with the master plasterers. They must take what-
ever individual the Masters' Union shall select, be 'his
skill what it may. his time the public of Glasgow
should know this. It is time they should know these
Unionists, and put them down- (if they have not the
prudence to dissolve themselves) 'by employing the free
trader. Here is an opportunity fur both masters and
workmen in this line to go to Glasgow, and, in defiance
of heth combinations united, vindicate their ottii rights
as five labourers, and • free capitalists. 'PlaSter-work
cannot be sent to be done elsewhere, like the printing
of Dublin, which a Union, unmatched • for impudence
in the Empire, has driven to England and Scot-
land, so that the Dublin printing monopolists have.
ruined themselves. The same- is true of the Dublin
ship-builders. Much fine cabinet work likewite comes
to this country from Ireland, from the same cause.
But although plaster-work-cannot move, stranger phis.'
terers may resort to •Glasgow. n Personal violence is
now out of the question the vituperations of the unjust
and immoral may well be scorned ; and know lug what
they now. know, there can' be no doubt that the Citizens.
will welcome and employ- them. Certainly this attempt
to crush the• petitioner, Mr Potter, will do him much
goad in his own town. This Court has 'no right to
anticipate,- much less to dictate, what the petitioner,
Mr.. Potter, may do. An arrangement certainly would,
even yet, remove the heavy penalty—three months' ha-
prisonment,-with labour. I would advise the Court, at.
,
the request of the prosecutor, to delay pronouncing sen-
tence, for three days, to give time for a more satisfactory
settlement of this painful matter. If it shall be put in the
power of the defenders, my earnest recommendation to
them is, to withdraw their names from all Unions here
and everywhere. The public eye is on their race, and
they will not only be protected but encouraged. Let
them reject their present counsellors, who are in troth
their tyrants, and would bring them and their families to
destitution. Let them go boldly, and like men, back to
Glasgow. The public will protect their landing, their
persons and their labour. Many will follow their ex-
ample, and a blow may, by their case, be given to the
horrible system of Unions, which may shake it to its
foundation. •
Ballie Stark Concurred with every word that had been
so well said by Mr. Simpson.
The Court adjourned again till Thursday at twelve
o clock.
The defenders have 'gone to Glasgow to implement
their contract.

/_
Yesteruey a gentleman, `at present unknown,
who was riding outside of one of the omnibuses, in the
Commertial-road, the roof in a fic of apoplexy,
and immediately 4zpired. The body was. removed to
the workhouse to be owned. .

THE LATE DUKE Off' ARGYLL.

. ,
By the lamented death of the Duke of Argyll, vvbien
occurred very suddenly at Inverary Castle,. on Monday
last, the situations of Lord Steward of her Majesty's
household; With that of the Lord Lieutenant of Argyle,,.
hire; and Other *portant oftcel in scnth-m(li held by
. his Graties haiehecoilie iaeadt; We, lOragitie flit & his
-nephew, Mr. Campbell, of Islay, M.P. -for ft.'rpyleshire,-
,or probably the Marquis of Breadalbane, will be ati-
pointed to the' Lieutenancy. The present Duke (es
Lord John Campbell) railed some time ago. He is
the hriti Ertl'' his fatie that has entertained Tory principles
for the last three hundred yetirs bat while be enter-
tains these principles he can never meet itltb the re,
ifpiitit Which his sires have done. The best of these
shed their blood ic, file sacred cause of civil and religious
liberty, and their names are dentreerated, and wi l be
.held' in everlasting remembrance, on that aesount.==
Scotch Reformers' Gazelle.
We have had an opportunity of inspecting the lead
and state coffin prepared for the reception of the body
of the Duke of Argyll, and they certainly are most gor
geous and beautiful speciClens of workmanship. The
body is inclosed in a coffin made at Inverary, of Scotch
elm, covered with cassimere. This is placed within a
lead coffin, the plates of which are nearly half an inch in
thickness, and weighing about eight cwt., with orna7
Mental mouldings on the lid. This again is placed within
the outer or state coffin, which is constructed of .maho-•
gatty an inch and a hall in thickness,. lined with rich
satin, and covered With crimson Genoa velvet. There,
are eight escutcheons round the sides, suriounded by as
many ducal coronets, and adorned with Massive, gilt
handles. The edges are ornamented *ith gilt
:studs and gold Gothic mouldings. The 'lid is
:stuffed' and' lilted with satin, and on the nutsid,.
• bears two splendid coronet, with a large gilt plate
containing the following in,cription :—George William -
Campbell, sixth Duke of Argyll, Alarquis of Kintyre.
,aad „Lam, Baron Sundridge and Hamilton, bona
Steward of her Majesty's Household, &c. &c. &c. •
Born 22d September,
.1768. Died 21st October, 1839.
Aged 71 years " The outer coffin is seven feet in
-length, and 'the whole will weigh about I I cwt. Thio
day and to4norrow, the body will lie in state -at'lnv'e-
- rary Castle, the drawing-room of which has been fitted
up for the occasion, hung round, with black velvet dra-
Tery, and wilgte lighted with-tyaz,staadres... On, Wed- •
',espy removed tai„ltosaentb., when!
it will lie iu state till Friday, on
.vvlijch day it .will be
carried, to- Kilmun on the shoulders. of stalwart High
landtpen and iilaced in the Wilily vault.—Glasgoiv
Herald:

- -
AN. EXEMPLARY ENGLISH LANDOWNER.
At a dinner given last Tuesday at North Moltoo, 1)•-
tire tenants of Lord Poltimore, his Lordship delivered
sentiments that do him honour, In acknowledging his
''health," Lord,Pultimore said—" It is it proud situa-
tion for an Englishman to hold, to see himself possessed
of honest, kind, and industrious tenants. But it is a
much more proud situation for an English gentleman
to behold, Isar, his tenantry thriving under him, and ii
is much more gratifying still to see them come, as you
have this day, gentlemen, and show him that they do,
not regret holding their farms :under him.-!-(Cheers.)f
Gentlemen, I consider it the duty of an Englishman to
consult the pecuniary interest of his tenant -.4y pecu-
niaryinterest I mean that be, as landlord, bhould
have more than a fair interest for the use of his land,
and that the tenant should have an estate on such terms
as would enable him to bring up his family decently-
and respectably.—( Cheers.) I say that there is as
touch due from the landlord •to the tenant, as from the
tenant to the landlord.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I look
upon the landlord as a father to his tenantry, and I trust
and hope that the children of my tenants may live tin
the estates which their fathers now hold, and many of
which have been held by their fathers before them—i,
shall not be my fault if they do not.—( Hear, hear.)
1 consider the landlord to be the friend of the tenant ;
and in that light, in the way in which you have worden
the invitation to me, I trust you will ever find me.—
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, there is another duty incumbent
on a landlord, and that is to reside occasionally on his
property, and spend his money where he derives it—as
well as to redress any grievances or hear any complaints
they may, have to make.. These duties I hope to dis-
charge." How very different is Lord Poltimore's len-
guage to the clap-traps about keeping up the price u'
plead, and the heartless, hollow palaver about " pro
tective" duties, anti the other dishonesties that disgrace-
the after-dinner speeches of some short-sighted, self-
seeking spouters. •

PILGRIMAGES TO FERNEY.—More thanlo,ooo
strangers visit annu.dly the country house of Voltair,
at Forney, near .Goneva. It may be, therefore, sup-
posed that the post of cicerone is productive to it,
owner.
.A Genevese, an excellent calculator, -as ar
all his countrymen, has valued as follows the yearly
profits that functionary derives from its situation
8,000 busts of Voltaire, made with • earta of fr.
Ferney, at a franc a piece
1,200 autograph I.tters, at 20 francs - - 24,000
500. walking canes of Voltaire, at 50 fr arms each 25,000
300 veritable wigs of Voltaire, at. 100 francs •30,00 u

In all - - • - 87,000

• STEEPLE CHASE.---A steeple chase came off
on Tuesday on the estate of Sir John Maxwell of Polink,
in the immediate .neighbourhood of Glasgow. Four
horses started, running over a very break-neck looking
piece of ground ; but fortunately no bones. suffered, so
far as we have heard. The winner was Captain Camp-
bell of the 2d Dragoon Guards, now lying in Glasgow
Cavalry Barracks. He is described as having topped
the fences gallantly.—Edinburgh Courant.
REAL THOUGH ROMANTIC.—AiI anecdote has
recently circulated in the Faubourg • St. Germain,
which, though romantic, is not the less authentic. Two
families well-known us the aristocratic world, and
bearing the names of and M—al, were separated.
not only by political hatred, but also 'byr private
interests, a lawsuit of great moment pending between them.
They detested one another cordially, in a style indeed
worthy of the Montaguss and ,Capulets.. M. de. S—y,
jun., a young Master of Requests in the Council of
'State,
':chanced. to meet Mme. de M—al in a drawing.. '
room, without knowing her. He thought her a charm
-
kg young widow, for she was a widow, paid her assi-
duous attention, and followed her everywhere.
Mme, de M—al, who had observed his assiduity,
responded to it in such a manner as not to
deprive him of all hope. A very witty woman,
well aware of, the enmity existing between ,thefamilies,
families,had amused herself by protracting the muttial
arror- of two .foei who adored one another. She had
contrived to give the youth a fictitious name with the
Juliet, and the young widow had &so been introducid
wider a false one to the Romeo of the Council of State.
All was proceeding in the most prosperous manner : tie
lovers met, adored one another, and swore eternal attai,h
meet, always at the house of the lady who enjoyed her in-
trigue. One, day, however, the truth came out, when
M. de S—y and Mme. de M. discovered that
they were bitter enemies. What was to be done ?
The young .gentleman would willingly have made
the first advances towards a reconciliation, • but he
dreaded a repulse. The handsome widow, on the
other hand, felt much more affection than hostility
in her heart, but could only wait for the overtures of
a beloved foe. Neither being willing to make the first
advances, the intercourse was suspended, and ennui
and 'melancholy prevailed on both sides. In a short
time, however, the youth's love seemed to have
vanished, and made room for the old heredi:ary hatred.
M. de S—y gave his whole attention to the -lawsuit
pending between the families. After the most desperate
efforts he won it, and thereby ruined Mine. de M—al.
The handsome widow, still less concerned about the loss
of her fortunes than hurt at the conduct of her late'
worshipper, was preparing to quit Paris and retire into
the family of her husband, when M. de S—y waited on her
to her great astonishment, and, demanding her hand,
assured her that he had' gained -possession of her 'pro-
perty,only that he :.might be able to restore it • to -her.
The marriage took plate eight days ago at the church
of St. Thomas d'Aquin. This story may Seem
bable, but we can vouch for its truth. Had it not been
•a fart ..we should have- given 'it a less ooninwil-phiee
denouement. Surely: after this the age of .ebivalry can-
tint haveieitn gone bql•L-..French Print.
illMllo.lo

Mopdq'twO 'inquests weri held before Mt.'
Payne, and one' before Mr. Higkt, on- the bodies of-
children accidentally burnt to death during the tempo-
rary absence of theit •parenth. Another inquest was
held before the former gentleman to the body of an
aged female, who perished by the same calamity. A
verdict of Accidental Death" was returned in; each
case.. Mr. Payne taking occasion_ toreprobate in strong
terms the practice of leaving chileten unattended in
.
apartmentiwhera there wet no "firatuard." • -