The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-02 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Her Majesty's staghounds will meet on Monday, at Sal
Hill ; Wednesday, at Winkfield Church; Friday, at Hilling.
don—at eleven.

The Brighton harriers Monday, at Patcham ; Wednesday,
at the Race-course; Friday, at the Dyke—at eleven.
The Brookside harriers Monday, at Newmarket Hill ;
Thursday, at Telscombe Tye—at half-past ten.
The Monmouthshire hounds Monday, at Colnbrook Park ;
Friday, at Dingestow Wood—at ten.
The East Sussex hounds Monday, at Abbott's Wood—at a
quarter to eleven.

The Devon and Somerset staghounds Monday, at Harford ;
Thursday, at Dulverton—at ten.
The Tickham hounds Monday, at Hollingbourn Hill; Thurs-
day, at Long Beach—at half-past ten.
Mr. Candler's hounds Monday, at Witley Park; Wednes-
day, at Grafton Mill—at half-past ten ; Friday, at Westwood
Park—at eleven.

Mr. H. Villebois's staghoonds Monday, at Bradenham
Green ; Thursday, at Middleton Towers; Saturday, at Swaff-
ham Splashes—at eleven.
The N. P. hounds Monday, at Eccleston Bridge ; Friday,
at Radhurn—at eleven.

The Whitehaven harriers Monday, at Woth Bridge—at nine.
The Burton Hunt Monday, at Fiskerton Long Wood ; Tues-
day, at Stapleton Moor ; Wednesday, at Blankney ; Thursday,
at Dunholme Corner Plantation ; Friday, at Drimsey Nook—
at eleven.
The Bodenham hounds Monday, at Ullingwiek Village.
Mr. De Winton's hounds Monday, at Lyswen ; Friday, at
Kennel—at half-past ten.
The Marquis of Hastings's hounds Monday, at Hathern
Turn ; Friday, at Moira Baths.
The Shrcv,hire hounds Monday, at Sandiford Hall; Friday,
at Oteley Park—at half-past ten.
Sir T. Boughey's hounds Monday, at the Summerhouse ;
Wednesday, at Norbury Manor;, Friday, at Sheriffhales—at
half-past ten.
Lord Eleho's hounds Monday, at Dunse Castle ; Wednesday,
at Edgilton Hill; Thursday, at Ladykirk ; Saturday, at Bank
House Inn—at half-past ten. _

The Fivehead harriers Monday, at Staple Hill ; Thursday
at West Hatch—at ten.

The Cheshire hounds Monday, at Sandiway Head ; Tues-
day, at Ox Hayes Farm ; Thursday, at Duddon Heath; Fri-
day, at Highway-side.
The Cottesmore hounds Monday, at the Bull Inn, Witham
Common; Tuesday, at Tilton Wood; Thursd,y, at Holywell
—at half-past eleven.
The Duke of Rutland's hounds Monday, at Ropsley Rice
Wood ; Tuesday, at Bloxholm Hill ; Friday, at Poyard's
Leap—at half-past ten.
The Southwold hunt Monday, at Withcall Branches;
Thursday, a+. Kennels ; Saturday, at Tothill Wood—at eleven.
The Earl of Yarborough's hounds Monday at Grainsby
House; Wednesday, at Soraerby House; Friday, at Claxton
Wood—at eleven.

The East Kent hounds Monday, at Ashley ; Wednesday, at
the Tharn, Stone-street; Friday, at Black Mill—at half-past ten.
Mr. I%leyncll's hounds Tuesday, at Kedlestonlnn ; Thurs-
day, at Radborne ; Saturday, at Swarkstone Bridge.
Mr. Bulteel's foxhounds Tuesday, at Puslinch Bridge;
Friday, at Plym Bridge—at half-past ten.
Mr. Cockburn's hounds Tuesday, at Chapplecroft ; Friday,
at the Hare and Hounds, Gittisham Hill—at eleven.

The B. V. H. Tuesday, at King's Mils ; Saturday, at
Stalbridge Weston.
Lord Portman's hounds Tuesday, at Compton Castle.
The Y. H. Tuesday, at Closworth.
Mr. Musters's hounds Monday, at Hexgreave Farm ; Wed-
nesday, at Aversham Guide Yost; Friday, at the seventh.
milestone 011erton Road—at half-past ten.
The Warwickshire hounds Monday, at Oakley Wood; Tues-
day, at Mitford Bridge; Thursday, at Wellesbourne ; Satur-
day, at Epwell White—at a quarter before eleven.
Mr. Hellier's foxhounds Tuesday, at Fein Hill; Friday, at
Hockley House.
Mr. Rothschild's bounds. Monday, at Aylesbury ; Wednes-
day, at Oving—at half-past eleven.
Mr. Drake's !hounds Tuesday, at Charlton Town; Thurs-
day, at Gallows Bridge ; Saturday, at Stratton Audiey_at
half-pest ten.
The Findon foxhounds Thursday, at Appletharn Furze ;
Friday, at Toddington Wood.
Mr. Mure's foxhounds Tuesday, at Hicket Heath—at half-
past ten. _ _

The Norfolk foxhounds Monday, at Langor Bridge ; Wed-
nesday, at Hul'er Hill, Wood Norton ; Saturday, at Wretham
Hall—at half-past ten.
Mr. Tudway's hounds Tuesday, at Gear Hill; Friday, at
Hardway.
The M. H. Tuesday, at Culliford Tree ; Friday, at Dole's
Ash.

The Cambridgeshire hounds Monday, at White Hall; Fri-
day, at Sandy Warren—at half-past ten,
The Atherstoue hounds Monday, at Bosworth ; Wednesday,
at Gopsall ; Thursday, at No Man's Heath; Saturday, at
Normanton Lodge-gate—at a quarter to eleven.

MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage
of Lord Glenlyon ,and the Hon. Miss Home Drum-
mond was solemnised on Tuesday last, at Blair Drum-
mond, in the presence of a select family party. Tht
nuptials of the happy couple :were celebrated by the
Duchess of Atholl, at Dunkeld, by a feast and ball.
The bride and bridegroom were to have arrived at Blair
Atholl on Wednesday, wloen a succession of fetes were
to be given by his Lordship to his friends and tenantry,
in celebration of the happy event. We understand
Monday next is fixed for the marriage of Mr. R. Eaton,
M.P., and Miss Charlotte Conyers, second daughter of
Mr. Conyers, of Copt Hall. It is Lady Mary Howard,
eldest unmarried daughter of the Earl and Countess of
Carlisle, who is to be united to the Hon. George Went-
worth Fitzwilliarn. It is said that the marriage of Lady
Adeliza Manners, daughter of the Duke of Rutland,
with Mr. Arkwright, will he solemnised next month.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE AT GIBRALTAR.
—On the 15th of October, by the Rev. Dr. Burrow, the
Hon. Dudley Pelham, second son of the Earl of Yar-
borough, to Madalina, second daughter of Sir John Gor-
don Sinclair, Bart. The relatives present on the occa-
sion, were his Excellency, Sir Alexander Woodford,
Lady Woodford, the Earl of Yarbourough, Sir Joseph
Copley, Colonel and Mrs. Bridgeman, and Cavendish
Boyle, Esq., of the 48th regiment. His Excellency the
Governor gave a grand dinner and evening party on the
occasion, which was honoured by the presence of his
Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands.
Lord Yarborough arrived in his yacht the Kestrel, at
Falmouth, on the 27th inst.

The Baroness Wenman left Thame Park, Oxon,
on Friday last for Brighton. Captain Hamilton, M.P.,
and the Hon. Lady Caroline Hamilton have also left
the Park for the above fasbioni!ble watering-place, where
they purpose staying for the winter months.

QUEEN ADELAIDE.—WARIVICK, THURS-
DAY.—The good folks of this town are in an extraordi-
nary state of hustle, in consequence of the expected
arrival of the Queen Dowager to-morrow afternoon on
a visit to the Earl and Countess of 'Warwick, at War-
wick Castle. The Mayor and Council received a let-
ter yesterday from the Earl of Warwick, apprising
them of the intended visit of the Queen Dowager to
Warwick. Immediately a meeting was held, when it
was determined that the Mayor, with the Clergy and
inhabitants, should receive her Majesty on the entrance
of the Royal-suite into the town. • A brigade of the
Warwickshire yeomanry is to escort the Queen Dow-
ager from the border of the county, and another troop,
headed by their Colonel-commandant, the Earl of Ayles-
ford, is to assemble in the court-yard of the Castle, to
receive her Majesty. At Leamington Spa, a highly re-
spectable meeting, in compliance with a requisition nu-
merously signed by the principal inhabitants, was held
,it the Town Hall, when it was determined that every
mark of respect should be paid the illustrious visitor at
Warwick Castle, should her Majesty be pleased to ho-
nour the Spa by her presence, which it was fully antici-
pated her Majesty would do.
Earl Fitzwilliam has been entertaining a large
party of friends at Wentworth. The following is an
exatt list of the distinguished visitors at this magnificent
chateau since the Doncaster Races :—The Marquis of
Westminster, his Excellency the American Minister
and Mrs, Stevenson, the Earl and Countess of Carlisle,
and the Ladies Howard, the Earl and Countess of
Effingham, the Earl of Scarborough, the Earl Bathurst,
Viscount and Viscountess Milton, Lord Wharneliffe,
Lord Archibald St. Maur, Mr. Wood, M.P., and
Lady Mary Wood, Colonel and Lady Harriet Lane,
Mr. Algernon Wodehouse, Mr. Dundas, the Hon. Ed-
ward Bouverie, the Hon. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Her-
bert, the Hon. E. Howard, Mr. and Lady Ann Macken-
zie, &e. The Noble Earl and his family will leave
Wentworth in a few days for Milton, Northampton-
shire, whither a great part of his princely establlshment
have already proceeded. Selina Viscountess Milton is
on a visit to her father, the Earl of Liverpool.
GORDON CASTLE, NEAR FOCHABERS, N.B.
—The Duke and Dueness of Richmond and the Ladies
Lennox will leave the Castle in a fortnight for town, on
their way to Goodwood Park for the winter. The fes-
tivities were brought somewhat suddenly to a close
in consequence of the demise of the Duke of
Bedford, his Grace's uncle. Mr. and Lady Louisa
Tighe, who have been on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess, have left for their seat in the county of Wick-
low. Lord March has left to join the Royal Horse
Guards (Blue), at the Re'gent's Park Barrack.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Last week were
married at the Cathedral, Peterborough, the Rev. Mar-
sham Argles, Curate of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Lon-
don, to Julia, the second daughter of the Right Rev.
the Lord Bishop of Peterborough. The ceremony was
performed by the Right Rev. Prelate, the father of the
lovely and amiable bride, who, with the bridegroom,
on leavin the cathedral, was greeted by the congratu-
lations of the assembled spectators.
The Earl of Harrowby, accompanied by Viscount
and Viscountess Sandon, the Hon. Mr. and Hon. Misses
Ryder, was to have left Pisa last week for Naples,
where he had arranged to stay until the latter end of
January. The intened visit to Malta and the Medi-
terranean was given up, owing to the boisterous weather
that prevailed when the party was at Marseilles.
The Earl and Countess of Falmouth and the
Baroness Le Despencer have arrived at Tregothnan,near
Truro, for the winter. Lord Beicawen has joined the ,
family circle from Scotland.

The principle, however, on which he proceeds, is
common, we regret to say, to almost all law-makers. No
person, probably, is competent to grasp the whole
phenomena of society, and tell how any one mea-
sure will affect the national. welfare. Very few ever
make the attempt. Generally, like Mr. COOPER,
they seize on some isolated phenomenon—something
peculiarly affecting their minds or their interests—.
some one thing that has fallen frequently under their
own observation or inspection, and on that local,
personal, and individual experience, without ever
making an attempt to appreciate she effect of tl e
regulation they propose on the mighty whole, they
proceed to make laws which, like the arguments of
Mr. COOPER, go to meet and obviate the trifling
inconvenience, or personal annoyance, or fancied
injury to morals which they have noticed, but
which on the whole perpetuate ignorance, encou-
rage vile habits, and inflict a general and permanent
injury on society. The whole class of sumptuary
laws, of licensing laws, of laws regulating the
observance of the Sabbath, all belong to
this category. They are the offspring of
some such intimate acquaintance with a few iso-
lated phenomena, as Mr. COOPER has with the
Post-office, which prevents the parties having it
from ever extending their thoughts to the large
whole—some personally experienced inconvenience,
some local annoyance, and in conformity with these
individualities, laws are made which extend to all
classes, and aim at affecting them in alt time. Now
such a basis for laws is obviously erroneous ; and
they ought to be framed, like putting-up boxes
to sort letters, not on the principle that a very few
persons will do wrong, but on the principle that the
many will do right. It is not the business of the

In the Canton Register, received to the 23d of
June, we find a number of long but unimportant
decrees by the Imperial Commissioner, LIN, his
Celestial Majesty the Emperor of CHINA, the
Sub-Prefect of Macao, and other Chinese autho-
rities, relative to the suppression of the opium
trade. From the tenor of several of these do-
cuments, it is very evident that the Chinese wished
the trade to be re-opened subject to the stipulation
for suppressing all dealings in opium ; but Super-
intendent ELLIOT strictly enjoined all British sub-
jects not to approach Whampoa before he could
receive fresh instructions from our Government as
to the c‘.urse which he ought to pursue. Of the
sincerity of the Celestial Government all doubts are
removed by the destruction of the opium, which
had it been clandestinely sold, would have produced
the EMPEROR a Ellin equal to twenty millions of
Spanish dollars.
The first of these Proclamations is from the
High Commissioner LIN, and is dated the sth of
June. It having reached the ears of the High
Commissioner that Captain ELLIOT had directed
vessels laden with goods not to enter Whampoa, his
Excellency, in an edict of the above date, says :
In reference to those merchant vessels which during this
year have arrived at Canton, if they are indeed willing to
ought immediately to proceed to Wham-
trade. then the)
poa, and wait till they be examined ,n conformity with the
regulations; they are not willing to trade, they ought
to return home as speedily as ; there is no use in
their remaining hankering about here. As to what he
(Elliot) says, that the ships must wait till they can get a
reply from the sovereign of their country, this is clearly
an evasive excuse. Think for a little: every one of these
ships has got a chop or clearance from their re,pective
countries. permitting them to come to the inner land to
trade, and therefore it is that they come hither with
full cargoes; what reason cen there be in their first ar-
riving here full laden, and then beginninz to wait for an
edict in reply from the Sovereign of their country I The
said Superintendent thinks, that because his country is
distant and difficult cf access, that he may borrow these
excuses to loiter and delay. Who does not know that all
these foreign merchants bring capital along with them
and who is there that likes to involve himself in loss ? He
ought instantly to urge the empty opium ships to return to
their country. Let each follow after a lawful trade, for
we will nut permit the scheming after anything beyond
this. The said Superintendent ought from first to last to
secure the foreign merchants from loss, and thi.nk. anxiously

EVENING ED IT I ON•
how they may rojey their blithesome profits; he sben
eep tie old I as, awl discharg, his duties with pi opriiM
and in unison; teat him not set about producin„.• thorns and
briars (which will choke up business and prick him..
This edict is addressed in the first instance by
LIN to the Hoppo, who accompanies it with one of
his own. The following extract from the latter do-
cument is too characteristic to be omitted :--
Besides urging all the vessels proceeding from wham'
pea with full cargoes to return home forthwith, as regards
the merchantmen which have arrived this year at Centoa
with cargo—if they really wish to trade—let them proceed
to Whampoa, and conformably to the regulations let them
wait till they are examined ; if they do not wish to trade,
then let them not hanker about here, for there are onlY
Thee is
two ways—either to enter the port, or begone.
no medium course to be followed. Seeing that he hass
previously delivered up the opium in the store ships, thi
is proof enough that he is respectful and submissive. The
said Elliot need not be ashamed to be called a superintend-
ent of trade. Let not himself give birth to thorns and
briars.
Tremble at this think of this I A special edict.
This dread-inspiring edict of the Hoppa is fol-
lowed by one from the Emperor, in which he ex-
horts all his subjects to abstain from the use °f
opium, and threatens with death all who disobey.
It appears that the Governors of districts,fearing thatt
proofs of their vigilance might be necessary
prevailed
keep their heads on their shoulders, had
their
upon thousands of poor creatures to deliver up
smoking apparatus, and to acknowledge themselves
guilty of the crime, with a view to obtain the Irri"
petial clemency. With a political sagacity which
does credit to him, the Emperordisapproves of °
confessions, and desires the people to do what
they please with their pipes, provided they (1°r""
""t
smoke with them. "It is just," observes the E
peror, by way of familiar illustration, " like a tuarti
offending against the laws by getting drunk wire
ti
wine ; if he is really able to repent and reform, the
will be no difficulty in reforminba any neeessitY
, nor A d
for him to surrender all his drinking euPs."
his MAJESTY concludes with shrewdly intiulan"
that the affair of theipipes was a trick of the Ott°.
rities, which he had no wish to see repeated. 0,
Two more proclamations remain to be c
deed ; and we feel at a loss to itsoterolo/
which to pronounce the more oriental in t
phraseology. The first is from Superintend ells
thori6es.
ELLIOT, and is intended to apprise the au
and people of China with the real causes of the 56
pension of the trade ; and the second from the
itSlib:
Prefects of Fatshan and Macao, calling uPe"
foreign ships " anchored upon the broad ocean,
not to " receive the commands of the English bas-
barian ELLIOT," nor to stop in the Mae° r%t.
" loitering about, making cause for future rep
od
ante," but resume their trade and become g° a
over
re ners. As the said ships had come,
vast abyss to trade," the Sub-Prefects, after deeP
aded
reflection
on this circumstance, were persutotoal
they could not afford to " sit still on the"
cleat
ocean," and therefore united in issuing this
l.'•aos
proclamation" which the red-haired herba
were to " obey or tremble I" Superintendent
LIOT'S proclamation, or more properly sPe",..rd
remonstrance, is not wanting
firmness. The following extract from it is larr
resting, from being a recapitulation of the grid
too
ces of the Superintendent, and of his determine ,
tne
in moderationinol.t":
not to sanction the opening of the trade before
pleasure of his GovernMent was made kt Go.
Canton, addressed in the first instance to
vernor LIN, and intended for the inspection 0f the
Emperor :
„t n.
On the 24th of March last Elliot repaired to 'jai cjif-
and immediately proposed to put an end to the stethfimeet
ficulty and anxiety then existing, by the faithful -be
of the Emperor's will ; and he respectfully
and the rest of the foreign community might be set at
berty, in order that he might calmly consider and ug%ccl
adequate remedies for the great evils so justly denoun
by his Imperial Majesty. re Os
He was answered by a close imprisonment of more
seven weeks, with armed men day and night before
an n
life'
gates, tinder threats of privation of food, war
a friendli
asked tbatt
Was this becoming treatment to the officer d iways
nation, recognized by the Emperor, and who fariving
performed his duty peacefully and irreproachpacbrinisYce'pris:_af:toro:
Go-
in ail things to afford satisfaction to the provincia,
vernment.
When it thus became plain that the Commission that it
resolved to cast away all moderation, Elliot knee,!"-and
was incumbent upon him to save the imperial digmlo'f- so
prevent some shocking catastrophe on the
imprisoned foreign officer, and 200 defenceless
For these reasons of prevailing force he demanded their
the people of his nation all the English opium in, over
hands, in the name of his Sovereign, and delivered 'too
to the Commissioner, amounting to 20,283 chests'
matter remains to be settled between the two Courts,
ror
But how will it be possible to answer to tbe I.lecult
for this violation of his gracious will, that teese climatic!
affairs should be managed with thoughtful wisdom, bo
with tenderness to the men from afar ! What will be it!
feelings of this most just prince of his illustrious dYn„ishsee
when it is made manifest to him, by the command ot.eoy,
Britannic 314,1esty, that the traffic in opium has been ell
encouraged and protected by the highest officers in the l
bss
pire, and that no portion of the foreign trade to Chi"a this
paidf opium ,
its fees to the officers with so much regularity as
Terrible indeed will be his Imperial Majesty's inciLiglidlo
tiou when he learns that the obligations into whit n ",
High Commissioner entered, under his seal, to the offic-i:
of a foreign nation, were all violated. The merebs%
and ships of the English nation do not proceed to Canoe
Whampoa, because the gracious commands of
~,`"e
Emperor for their protection are set at nought; bass;
the truth is concealed from his Imperial Majesty's kn red
ledge ; because there is no safety for a handfulj of dent,
less men io the grasp of the Government at Canton
cause it would be derogatory from the dignity of'tP",,is
Sovereign and tiation tjforget all the insults and eir°°„o°
which have been perpetrated, till full justice be dene'fo-et:
till the whole trade and intercourse be placed upon a 1,,-„cl•
ing honourable and secure to this empire and to Eng(o
That time is at hand. The gracious Sovereign °'„ to
English nation will cause the truth to be made kn°w-ise,
the wise and august Prince on the Throne of this eirf 1,0
and all things will be adjusted agreeably to the PrinelP
of purest reason. 't tb°
Elliot and the men of his nation in China sutgl%.est
expressions of their -deepest veneration for the
Emperor. A Ot Se'
We are chronicling the existence, an— " ,rbe
riously commenting upon these documents'

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I time for that is not yet come.
The mode of reasoning called by logiciaos the
found the
reductio a absurdum, has often been
only way to cGnvince obtuse or obstinate intellects:
and our Police Magistrates unwittingly are glum
ol.:f
,
a practical illustration of it to the Abatement
great evil—the useless and demoralizing Pac6ceidi
committing for trial boys and girls chgrge ketr
petty offences. The Middlesex Justices hit" "'we
At
the question to a certain extent. 1 °Air
meeting they complained bitterly of the Police de
ester
gistrates for leaving them no work, and y sal op
they unanimously agreed to present a merrior Their
the subject to the Marquis of NORMANDIC.
and
object is to save expense as well as trouble'
e
protracted imprisonment, by sending all ji'vei3-
and petty offenders to the Sessions for trial'
that does not go to the root of the evil. It is %sint
diculous to empannel a jury before gr. Serg
boyADAMS as before Mr. Sergeant ARABIN t° trYe,
A for stealing property of the value of twopen.n,
such trivial offences might he left for the stn'
mediate decision of the Magistrates, without thin
r,
feting with the liberty of the subject, or encr°a.c:r;
ing on the great principle for which trial 11.1 he
was instituted. In fact, the present system is to,
most absurd and oppressive that can be well
gined. One illustration will suffice. The law gl to
a Magistrate power to commit, for one offence' r
the treadmill for three months ; while for another,
which would be amply punished by
for two weeks, the offender is sent for trial---c°
fined among the most debased of mankin at
d for
month if the offence is committed in Lond°°'
if in the country, po:zsibly for five or six M°llt
elich
imp on'
A controversy is carried on among the rr
Journals, respecting an alleged misunderstann
between the Governments of France and Engla%
about the evacuation of the Port of Passages by t'•'s
English. It originated with the Courrier Francai-o!
in whose coitunns an article appeared representinq
Lord PALMERSTON as delaying the withdrawal 19f.
the British troops from Passages, on the plea
holding it asap ledge for the payment of the Slinht."
ish debt, and thereby giving great offence to o'c
Cabinet of the Tuileries. The Siecle gravely f°,ll;
tends, that France cannot suffer Eititand.o lel
Passages, milder any pretext whatever, iiicir'esP-'