The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-18 00:00:00

WEYHILL FAIR.

About the usual number of sheep were penned at
this fair on Thursday last, and the attendance of buyers
was very numerous. Notwithstanding the pelting of
the pitiless storm, busirltss Commenced with good spirit
very early in the Inorning, and sales were speedily ef-
fected upon good terms. As the day advanced, thear-
dour for making purchases appeard to have abated, and
for two or three hours very few transactions were ef-
fected. About noon, however, the spirit of the dealers
appeared to be revived, and sales were again very easily
effected, whilst the prices were as good as at the com-
mencement of the fair. We have understood from
some of the farmers, that they expected to have ob-
tained more money for lambs ; but the prices got for
other descriptions were equal to their most sanguine
expectations. The whole were disposed of before the
close of the day, and prices may be stated about as
under :

Down Ewes, 20s. to 4.55.'; Down Lambs, 183. to 355. ;
very superior, 395. ; Wethers, 9.85. to 50s. ; Dorset
Ewes, 40s. to 58s. A pen of Down Ewes, the pro-
perty of Mr. Budd, of Hatch Warren Farm, were ge-
nerally admired ; and a quantity of Lambs, from the
farm of Mr. Sperring, of Chibolton, were also consi-
dered very superior.
The Horse Fair was not so well supplied with the
middling class of horses as on some former occasions,
kit there certainly were more good hackneys and hun-
ters than last year. The prices were high for the better
sorts.

There was a larger quantity of Hops than for many
years past ; but very little business was done until
Monday, when most of the prime Farnhams were sold ;
though very little business was done in the country
rows. On Tuesday the middling qualities might be
purchased at from 10s. to 15s. per cwt. less money than
on the day preceding. The following may be stated as
the pricks :—Farnham Hops from 51. ss. to 81. Bs. ;
Country, from 41 103. to 71. ; and Kent and Sussex,
from 31. 4s. to 41. 10s.
The Cheese pitched was generally good ; the quan-
tity about an average ; and the prices as at recent fairs.

THE MARCH OF TORYISM.-The Tories,
never very popular in large towns, find themselves at
home in the country, whither they have now taken
wing, and where they meet, give public dinners, enlist
recruits, review their troops, make speeches, and com-
placently point to the hour of victory--when to breathe
a syllable against our Corn-laws, or other time-hallowed
institutions, were death and treason. The columns of
the country papers bear ample evidence of the rogues'
march. With the stealthy, cunning, cat-like step that
marks the tribe, the Conservatives are giving increased
effect to agricultural meetings—meetings, for the most
part, tinged with Toryism, while some few are avowedly
Conservative as well as agricultural in their objects and
constitution. These meetings of the farmers and " the
farmers' friends" are general throughout the country,
and it is plain that the landlords, while encouraging the
growth of corn, are by no means indifferent to the pro-
motion of Conservatism. It is the trick of Toryism
thus to strengthen their darling system—thus the To-
ries act, and thus they try to steal a march on the
friends of liberty and good government.
At the Surrey Quarter Sessions held at Kingston
yesterday, Mr. W. E. Smith, a tradesman, carrying on an
extensive business at Ripley, was indicted for refusing to
serve the office of constable. He pleaded bad health
and obstruction to business, but the Jury did not concur
in the plea, and found him guilty. He was ordered to
enter into his recognizances to appear and receive judg-
ment in case he should persist in refusing to serve the
office.

DESPERATE SUICIDE.—Last night a most
determined act of suicide 'was committed by a gentle-
man in the Rifle Gallery, in Oakley-street, Lambeth.
The deceased was left to himself for a short time, and
the report of a pistol created no suspie:on, until a person
went in and saw the person lying on the floor weltering
in h]s blood, and quite dead. The body was conveyed
to the bone-house of the church in the Waterloo-road.
THE EGYPTIENNE AND SIRIUS.—The Times
of yesterday, still seeking to depreciate a Gallant Officer,
who is a political opponent, draws an unfavourable con-
trast for Admiral Fleming between the conduct of the
Egyptienne and the Sirius in Sir R. Calder's action. It
ought in honesty to have added, what James, the autho-
rity it quotes, mentions, that the Egyptienne had previ-
ously lost her mizen mast, and was necessarily in a dis-
abled state. It was to the credit of her commander that
she kept the sea at all, and not to his discredit that his
sbip was not as easily managed as the complete Sirius.
ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAMES OF COUNTRIES.
—The following countries were named by the Phoeni-
cians, the greatest commercial people in the world.
These names, in the Phoenician language signify some-
thing characteristic of the places which they designate.
Europe signifies a country of white complexion—so
named because the inhabitants there were of a lighter
complexion than those of either Asia or Africa. Asia
signifies between, or in the middle—from the fact that
the geographers placed it between Europe and Africa.
Africa signifies the land of corn, or ears. It was cele-
brated for its abundance of corn and all sorts of grain.
Siberia signifies thirsty or dry, very characteristic of the
country. Spain a country of rabbits or conies. This
country was once so infested with these animals, that they
sued Augustus for an army to destroy them. Italy, a
country of pitch—from its yielding great quantities of
black pitch. Calabria also—for the same reason. Gaul,
modern France, signifies yellow-haired, as yellow hair
characterized its first inhabitants. The English of
Caledonia is a high hill. This was a rugged, moun-
tainous province in Scotland. Hibernia is utmost, or
last habitation ; for beyond this, westward, the Phoeni-
cians never extended their voyages. Britain, the country
of tin—as there were great quantities of lead and tin
found on the adjacent islands. The Greeks called it
Albion, which signifies, in the Phoenician tongue, either
white or high mountains, from the whiteness of its
shores, or the high rocks on the western coast. Corsica
signifies a woody place. Sardinia stnifies the footstep of
man, which it resembles. Syracuse signifies had savour,
called so from the unwholesome marsh upon which it
stood. Rhodes, serpents or dragons, which it produced
in abundance. Sicily, the country of grapes. Scylla,
the whirlpool of destruction. Charybdis, the holds of
destruction. Etna signifies furnace, or dark, or smoky.
The Times is at last driven to the poor expe-
dient of calling in low national jealousies to its aid
against Admiral Fleming. " England leaps forward to
rescue her palladium from disgrace ; she proclaims to
the Scotch Board of Admiralty, You shall not job
the sanctuary of my veteran seamen,'" &c. It is true,
the Earl of Minto and Admiral Fleming are Scotch-
men ; but is it the first or the second time that a
Scotchman has been at the head of the Board of Ad-
miralty ? Or is a sailor, because he happens to be a
Scotchman, to be shut out from the honours and dis-
tinctions of the service ? Was not the late Lord Mel-
ville at the head of the Admirality ? And was not
the present Earl of Melville also First Lord ?
Of the many brave officers who fought and bled
during the last war, were not many Scotchmen ?
Was not Lord Duncan a Scotchman ? There will
always be more Scotchmen in the navy, in proportion,
than Englishmen, for this simple reason, that Scotland,
having proportionably more coast than England, has also
proportionably more ships, sailors, and fishermen. Lord
Keith, Sir Alexander Cochrane, Sir Pulteney Malcolm,
Sir Robert Calder, Sir Richard Strachan, &C. &C.,
were Scotchmen, as is S:r Graham Moore, Sir P. C. H.
Durham, Sir David Mike, &c. &c. What can the
blockhead mean who penned this insult to our Scotch
fellow-countrymen ? Are Scotchmen deficient in bravery,
hardihood, or skill, that this libeller dares thus to insult
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PARIS THEATRES.---The following theatres
are now open in Paris :--the Royal Academy of Mu-
sic, the Francais, the Opera Comique, the Renaissance,
the Vaudeville, the Varietes, the Gymnase Drarnatiqu
the Palais Royal, the Porte St. Martin, the Gaite, the
Circus, L'.Ambigu Comique, the Comte, the Folios, the
Gymnase, and the Pantheon.

DINNER TO THE RIGHT HON

F. T. BARING, M.P.

On Wedui!sday the cohAtrinentg of die R:ght Hon.
T: Bering' entertained him at a dinner, at the Beneficial
t...iodety's Hall, Kent-street, Portsea, to which were in-
vited a large number of the most active Reformers in
the county and neighbourhood, D. Howard, Esq., in the
OA Chair. There were present Sir G. 'F. Staunton,
Lord George Lennox, ALP., Sir Raymond Jarvis, Ad-
miral Fleming (Port Admiral), Hon. Colonel Greville,
Hon. Admiral D. P. Bouverie, Sir Thomas Raking,
Bart,

tdast.--" Her Majesty the Queen, and may her reign
be happy and prosperous." Air—God Save the Queen,
sung, verse and chorus, by the whole ooMpaoy;
Toast—" The People; tile source of all legitimate
pm.ver%.4=-•-tteceived with great applause.
Toast—" The Duke of Sussex, and the rest of the
Royal Family."—(Cries of " in England.")
Toast--" The Navy."
Admiral FLEMING
.then rose, amidst enthusiastic
cheering, to return thanks for the honour done him by
the manner in which the compliment had been paid to
that service which he had the honour to command in
this port. They had always been ready to support the
hopes and wishes o':the people, but he hoped it would
be a long time before they were called again into active
service. He expressed himself as averse to war, which
he considered as detrimental to the liberties of the
subject, which he had all his life supported.—(Great
cheering.) He much disliked war, he said, because it
was the worst thing for the country, but not as many
had insinuated by the obloquy thrown upon the present
Government for the inefficient state of the Navy, as he
knew from his own personal knowledge the Navy was
never in a more efficient state, as regarded number of
men, and quality, if not number of ships, than at the
present time. He then concluded a very happy speech
by returning thanks for the honour done to himself and
the service.

Toast—" The Army."
Major TRAVERS said he had more than once stood
before them in that room, but never under more em.
barrasing circumstances than on that occasion, but he
had been called on to respond to the toast of "the Army.'
He certainly, he said, did it with that diffidence and
modesty which was certainly peculiar to an Irishman.
There were two officers present who had both seen
considerably more service than he had done, and both
stood in higher rank. His Friend at his right hand
Lord George Lennox, M.P., had joined the staff
of the Duke of Wellington quite early in the
Peninsular war, and had certainly seen considerable
service. Thu other gentleman he had taken the
liberty to allude to was Colonel Greville, a distin-
guished member of the Royal Yacht Club, who, when
he found the cause of liberty required his services,
left his favourite amusements to aid the righteous
cause. The two gentlemen being retired from the
service, he felt the more called on to acknowledge the
toast, which he would then do by returning thanks for
the honour done to the service.

Toast—" The Royal Marine Corps."
Colonel MENZIES returned thanks in a neat speech,
which he concluded by thanking the meeting for the
manner in which they had received the toast, and said
that when the services of the Royal Marine Corps may be
needed he trusted they would not be found wanting.
Toast—" Prosperity and Independence of the Bo-
roughar Portsmouth."

Ile. W. LANG, having been repeatedly and loudly
eeKed on, came forward. He could not say, on the
present occasion, how much, or in what manner, he
had been connected with the prosperity of the Borough
of Portsmouth, but he thought he might be
allowed to say, that when called on, he had always
done his duty. He called on all parties present to
unite in supporting the independence of the borough of
Portsmouth. There were some who could give their ac-
tive exertions, and other., their purse. He hoped that
the Reformers of Portsmouth, would, whatever difficul-
ties they might have to encounter, hold together, and
that they would train up their children in the way
they should go, and teach them their political morality.
He should like to see them show such a respectable
and bold front as they did then, although only a 3s. 6d.
feed.

The CHAIRMAN then rose and said he was about to
propose to the notice of the meeting the Right Hon.
F. T. Baring, their appointed guest, who had faith-
fully represented the borough of Portsmouth for a
period of fourteen years. The Govermnentof the country
had changed hands since Mr. Baring was first returned
to Parliament, but hefted always been found the same.
Whatever defects may be introduced into the Govern.
ment, he had no doubt that the Right Hon. Gentle.
man, now he was in the Cabinet, would always be anx-
ious and ready to remedy. He would now propose,
" The Right Hon. Francis Thornhill Baring, the faith-
ful represensative of the Borough of Portsmouth ;"
which was received with immense cheering, and was
continued for a considerable time.
Mr. BAILING, after the applause had in some mea-
sure subsided, said, although he had often felt difficulty
when he rose to address such a meeting as the pre-
sent, yet he never rose with so much difficulty as he
felt in rising to do justice to the toast which they had
now so rapturously received. The worthy Chair-
man had reminded them of the change that had taken
place in the government of the country since he first
had the honour of being returned as the Representa-
tive of this Borough. They were somewhat changed,
both in the assembly, and in the person who was then
addressing them. But he trusted there was one thing
which still remained unchanged, which was the princi-
ple which actuated him when first he solicited their
suffrages and support.—( Hear, hear.) He trusted that
the support of civil and religious liberty had been
the polar star by which he had been guided in his
career through life. Many great measures had been
brought forward, though some had not been carried
through the Parliament. He said, though they were
met that evening to celebrate his re-election to Parlia-
ment, he felt it was not the triumph of one individual,
hut the triumph of those principles by which that large
and respectable meeting had been always actuated.—
( Hear.) They had repeatedly fought together, and often
under less prosperous circumstances than on the last
occasion. At the same time, no contest having taken
place during the election which they were then met to
celebrate, they had been deprived of those scenes of
bustle and excitement, and he thought perhaps he
might say fun, which was the accompaniment of
every contested election, but it must be the source
of great pleasure to every sincere Reformer.
There certainly had been the appearance of opposi-
tion, sufficient indeed to show that their enemies would
do all in their power to harm. They could not say they
had nobody to put forward, as they had their man ready
They could not say they had been taken by surprise,
therefore you must walk over the course ; but they had
their man ready, and so certain were they of being de-
feated, and that they had not the slightest chance of
success, that they deemed it the wisest way to beat a
retreat at starting. But there was another point : the
Tory party would not allow their car.didate to
retreat upon a bridge of gold, as it were, nor until he
had been as well drubbed and cudgelled as one could
well have anticipated. The Reformers certainly do owe
gratitude to those Tories who so kindly did the dirty
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certainly been ill-used, that they ;.(1 not allowed
him to retreat with a flourish of trumpets, 'not having
done anything for him, not even having invited him to
a 3s. 6d. feed. Perhaps when they. did meet they
would have something a little more aristocratic. It
had been said that if an opposition had been
started, there would not have been so much union
among the Reformers is this borough, but he felt satis-
fied that he knew them better than to think there
would have been any division. It was not in the hour
of difficulty that they would fail, but they would then be
incited to more active exertions. As far as he
was concerned, he said, he should not at all
have been afraid to have fought alongside of the
most first-rate Tory they could have found. He consi-
dered he should be doing injustice to the memory of his
late respected colleague, John Bonham Carter, Esq., if
he did not say how much he missed that advice and sup-
port which he had always received from him. It was
the first opportunity he bad had of expressing himself to
them on the subject, and he hoped he might be permitted
to mourn with them over the loss which they, as well
as the Liberal cause in general had rustained by the
death of their late truly worthy
,Representative. He
craved the indulgence of the meeting for having intro-
duced the subject, but so much he could not help say-
ing. The election which last took place, he said, though
without opposition, had, from the different position
which he held in the Councils of the Crown,
much more interest to the country than any
former. He knew that all professions of persons in
office were always looked upon with suspicion, but lie
might be allowed to say that he would hold his office, and
fight for the principles which he professed with as much
tenacity as if the situation was the only thing upon
which his place in Parliament depended. The great
subject of attack upon Lord Melbourne had been
that ho dared to give to three Catholic Ministers
situations in the Government. It certainly involved a
great principle. If objections had been taken that
they were not fit men, in point of talent and character, he
should have taken no notice of it, knowing that any Go-
vernment which exercises patronage must be open to
such attacks. But it was not against the men the
objection was raised, but against their religious opi-
nions. He, would then mention the gentle Man who had
received the important appointment "of Secretary to the
Admiralty. He had some slight acquaintance with
him as a colleague for four years, which had given him
ample means for testifying to his qualifications ;
and he did not hesitate to say, that in paint
of talent and character the appointment of such
a gentleman would do credit to any Govern-
ment. If there was one point more than another