The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-07 00:00:00

et, bim to enjoy the sport of pheasant-
shooting among the extensive covers on those spacious
domains.

large party to we

, I We are most sort yto say that Lady Portman is
I reported to be itt the greatest darger.—Leiceskr
Journal.
The Duke of Cambridge was a passenger on
board the Duchess ..of Kent, Ramsgate steam-vessei, on
Thursday, on his w ay to pay a visit to the Duke of
Wellington, at Wainer Castle. His Royal Highness
displayed his usual afrat ility by conversing, in the most
agreeable manner, with several of the passengers en
board, many of whom recognised him without encroach•. ing on his incognito.
GRAND FETES AT Powis CASTLE.—Vis-
count Clive attains his majority on the sth of No-
vember, when a series of entertainments will be given
at Powis Castle to, ail the branches of that noble family,
with the nobility ;sod gentry of the neighbouring coun-
ties. The whole of the poor of the town of Welch-
pool, with their families, arc to be feasted in the Town
Hall. A new church is to be erected by subscription,
which is to have at least 300 free seats, to perpetuate
the event. Several hundreds of pounds have already
been subscribed.
The Hon. Sidney Herbert left the Countess of
Pembroke's mansion on Ha}-hill on Saturday last, for
Stutgardt, intending to proceed to Odessa, on a visit to
Count Woronzow, about the close of the next month,
The Hon. General Upton leaves town this clay
for Paris, on a visit to Count Demideff.
The Hon. Mrs. William Cavendish left Bel-
grave-square on Saturday for Chatsworth.
Mr. John Stewart, M. P., left town for Paris on
Saturday.
The M:Jquis and Marchioness of Thomond will
not visit Restelian Castle, in the county Cork, this
year. Lard and Lady Beerhaven, the Noble Mar-
quis's daughter, are at present sojourning at his Lord-
ship's Baronial Castle.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings, with
Lord Rawdon, and the other members of their youthful
fmily, are passing the autumn at Donnington Park,
Leicestershire. The Noble Marquis does not receive
any company beyond his own relatives.
PARIS, OCT. 3.—Numhers cf English of
rank are expected here for the winter. The Marquis
and Marchioness of Ailesbury have hired a fine house
is the Faubourg St. Honore. Lord and Lady Ches-
terfield, Mr. and Mrs. Anson, ac., are amongst those
expected.

CLIFTON WELLS.—Lady Granville, Lady E.
Courtenay, Sir T. and Lady Elliot Drake, Sir Ric.hard
and Lady Richards, Sir Thomas Clavering, the Hon.
Mr. Calthorpe, the Hon. G. and Mrs. Noel, Sir John
and Lady Grard, Sir Jamey and Lady Bathurst, &c.,
have been among our arrivals. Earl Waldegrave and
the Hon. C:latain and Mrs. Waldegrave left a few
days since.

We regret to state that Sir John Rae Reid tact
with a very serious accident on Saturday se:might
when riding in Hyde-park. Sir John was mounted on
a young and high-spirited horse, which took fright, and
running away brought the leg of his rider with great vio-
lence against a wall. The effect. of the concussion was
a very deep and extensive wound of the calf of the leg,
in consequence of which the Hon. Baronet is still con-
fined to his apartment.
The l 'ow) tess Cadogan and the Ladies Augusta
and Honoria Cadogan were to have arrived at Middle-
ton Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Jersey,
on Saturday, from Tottenham Park, Wilts, the scat al
the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesburv.
At Mar Lodge, near Braemar, the Duke of
Leeds and a party of sporting friends have had excellent
sport, shooting red deer, ptarrnigau, grouse, and black
game. His Grace and friends up to the Ist instant
had bagged upwards of 900 brace. The Dowager Du-
chess of Leeds is passing her widowhood with the Duke
and Du dless.
The' Earl of Eglinton, on leaving Liverpool,
proceeded on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Dun-
more, at Dunmore Park, Falkirk, N.B. The Noble
Earl intends going in a few days to Eglinton Castle,
Ayrshire. A private letter from Irvine ieforms us that
the approaching entertainment to the Noble Earl is
likely to be the most magnificent that has ever taken
place in that part of Scotland.
The Earl of Devon is at Powderham Castle,
Devon, passing the autumn. The Duke and Duchess
of Somerset hive been visiting the Noble Earl.
The Earl and Countess of Granville are ex-
pected at Devonshire House this evening or to-morrow
afternoon, from visits to the Duke of Devonshire, at
Chatsworth, and the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland,
at Lilleshall, Shropshire.
The Duke of Manchester arrived at Kimbolton
Castle, Huntingdonshire, on Thurserily last.
Earl Waldegrave and the Hon. Captain and
Mrs. Waldegrave have returned to Strawberry-hill,
Twickenham, from a trip to Clifton-Wells.
Sir Matthew Tierney, Bart., and family have
arrived in Bruton-street, from the Continent, and leave
town for their residence in Brighton in a few days.
Count Nesselrode will shortly take his departure
for the Continent. Baron Brunow is likely to remain
here some time.
The Duke Torlonia left Mivart's Hotel, on Sa-
turday last, to visit the Earl and Countess of Shrews-
bury, at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, but is expect( d
to return this evening.
Lord Lovainc did not accompany the Earl and
Countess of Beverley and the Ladies Percy to Italy,
His Lordship is on a shooting excursion in Scotland.
We understand that the Hon. C. C. Cavendish,
M.P., derives an addition of 7,000/. a year to his income,
by the death of the Countess Dowager of Pomfret.—
slYesbury News.
Brevet Major Keappock, of the 22d Regiment,
died suddenly a few days ago. This event will give
promotion, without purchase, to the senior Lieutenant
(Butler) and to the senior Ensign (Gainsford.) Ensign
M. G. D. Hall, who was the senior Ensign of this corps,
aid who is of three years and a half' stanoing in the
army, unfortunately exchanged into the 14th Foot on
the 23d of August last, by which he loses his promotion,
and goes to the bottom of the list of officers of his
rank belonging to that regiment. A rolling stone
gathers no moss-- United Service Gazette.
Staff-Stugeon S. C. Roe, M.D., who was pro-
moted from the 38th Regiment on the 17th ult., suc-
ceeds Dr. Mahoney in medical charge of the London
recruiting district. Dr. Mahony was promoted, on the
80th August last, to be Assistant Inspector-General
of Hospitals. His present rank, therefore, renders him
ineligible for the appointment, from which he is to be
relieved by Dr. Roe.—United Service Gazette.
It is with sincere regret we announce the death
of Robert George Clarke, Esq., of Parliament-street,
printer of the London Gazette. Few men in society
were so much respecacd, admired, esteemed, and be
loved. His mind was powerful, and extensively in-
formed, his wit keen, but playful and innocuous, his in-
tegrity without a stain. By the kindness and tender-
ness of his feelings and disposition, his decease was
evidently accelerated, for about two years ago the loss of
an amiable wife overwhelmed him with a sorrow which
he e as unable to control, and to which, notwithstanding
every effort on the part of his family and friends to con- '
sole him, he has at length fallen a victim. Mr. Clarke
died at Brighton, on Saturday, the sth inst., we believe
in the 69th or 70th year of his age. In early life he
was in one of the public offices, and was afterwards
Editor of The Sun Newspaper.
COURT GOSSIP.—WINDSOR, SATURDAY.—
The weather has rather prevented the enjoyment of
these beautiful environs by the visitors at the Royal
residence, En ravanche, Terpsichore has been the nil,
ing deity at the soiries. Not only has her youthful
Majesty engaged in the graceful pastime so suited to
her age and mirthful flow of spirits, but the whole
Court have followed the Royal example. Amongst the
waltzers the most accomplished was Lord Palineiston,
',N•ho, in the giddy measure of the waltz, met with gene-
ral laudation, not excepting that of her Majesty, who
does not waltz, no doubt from the close contact it
would put her in with her male subjects. A topic of
much comment in the secret causcrics has been the
marked and unusual attentions paid by all the Royal
and Ministerial personages to Count Brunow, the Rus-
sian Plenipotentiary, when he was at Windsor--atten-
tions accompanied, very justly, by praise of his Impe-
rial master for the magnificent present he has sent her
gracious Majesty. It would appear that the Emperor
had asked the Queen to choose what she would
like best in his dominions which he could send
as a public mark of his gratitude for the
courtesy and hospitality displayed by her towards
his representative. Her Majesty having re-
plied that she left it entirely to his own choice, the
Emperor sent her the produce of his country in the
shape of a stupendous vase of malachite, so large, in-
deed, that one must see to believe it, and that some
fears were entertained as to the floors being able to
bear the superincurnbent pressure. Another topic of
much more serious conversation, and one not unat-
tended with apprehension, is the rumoured conversion
of the Duke of' Devonshire to opinions opposite to
those of his ancestor:, himself, and, above all, his
numerous official relatives, whom he so fondly cherishes,
entertain. Some say that the late journey and long
absence of his Grace were iv tended to soften down
allegethe el
ca
witht of
f
lis
morei conversionrirobabili to 'Torytrythattbeopienbioinngse; othersihehris6
Grace's notions only extends to one or two points of
Ministerial policy, which
changeful that his Grace
may epolicy, by the bye, is ?o
fereSfrom his friends without being v r y
aware
possibly
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it. have d. i
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How-
ever, by far the most absorbing subject in this Royal
neighbourhood is the arrival of the Princes of Coburg,
nwehxot,. itTirsulyassoeniteedm,ayarzytotbbaet hoenretbe import on Wednesday
of the
younger Prince's visit, and the result of hismucb -talked •
of matrimonial negotiations, the fate of this great
empire depends.-21forniny Post.

OCT. 4.—The
BRISTOL SUGAR AI ARKET
di-manl for sonars has improved, and a very fcir quan
Lteatly
Mercury.

LONDON AND 11' EST MINSTER RI VIE
No. LXI V.
Hooper, Lon flon , 1839.
The critical and miscellaneous essays of Mr.
Carlyle, and more especially his philosophical
tenets, some of
.which are singular and oliginal
enough, form the subject of the first article in this
number. The Reviewer, who is an enthusiastic
admirer of this gentleman's writinos, discusses them
at considerable length, but in his anxiety to explain
minutely the scope and bearing of his philosophical
system, he not only bewilders himself, but mystifies
his readers also. Assuredly, Mr. Carlyle is a man
of much subtle thought, and great intellectual ac-
tivity ; moreover, he is a staunch Reformer in the
most enlightened and comprehensive sense of the
term, riving no quarter to prejudice, whether moral,
religious,
or political; so far, we can understand
his system, for this is its ground-work ; but then
he raises on it a superstructure of the most fantastic
kind ; deals in the perversest crotchets ; suggests
theories as puzzling as the riddle of the Sphynx,
and enforces them in a style, quaint, startling, and
at times picturesque, but too often utterly unintel-
ligible. We well remember attempting to read his
Sartor Resat tus ;" hut we could make nothing of
it, so gave up the task in despair. ; and even now,
with the Reviewer's explanatory comments to help
us, we find ourselves just as much in the dark as
ever. Among Mr. Carlyle's essays, is to be found,
it appears, a character of Johnson, alluding to
which, the Reviewer thus expresses himself :
" For fifty years Johnson has been a perpetual theme
of journalists. He is still a sort of venerable name, as
of something bigger and more sonorous than other
authors of the eighteenth century, not without a shadow
of rornance—a something between the Parish School-
master and the Great Mogul. For a considerable time
arter his death he passed, even among ceitivated mere
for a rrofound thinker, a teacher of the principles of
human life, and the best of authorities in literary criti-
e'sm ; while, as to his rhetorical ability, the only ques-
tion seemed to be whether he was great—almost incom-
parably great—by dint of, or in spite of, his style, Of
late years the tide has turned. The habit has grown up
of looking wider and deeper in literature than was
usual in his day. Men require freedom, energy, pictu-
resqueness, subtlety, even at the cost of a certain neat-
ness and full-dress modishness, then thought indispen-
sable. We have come nearer to reality in all ways, and
find, therefore, that we must widen our circle of mental
activity as the horizon of nature spreads endlessly around
us. Thus the common estimate ofJohnson has changed,
and younger, fresher gods have drawn off men's atten-
tion from the Jove whose shake of his un-ambrosial
wig once ruled the world. A prejudiced, emphatic pe-
dant—is probably the sort of description which would
most nearly bit the prevalent opinion about him during
the last twenty years. Nor has the teaching of men of
high talent been wanting recently to enforce this view
of his pretensions. But listen to Mr. Carlyle's voice ;
the scene changes with a flash, and Johnson stands be-
'ore u-s, revealed in gigantic size, an object for all ages
of reverential love."
If Mr. Carlyle has written in this " reverential"
spirit of Johnson, we give him credit for the good
sense and liberality that dictated such a criticism.
An " emphatic pedant," indeed ! No, no ; Old
Sam is not to be sneered down in this curt, cavalier
style. The Reviewer, we presume, is alluding to
the objection urged against Johnson by Hazlitt,
who should have known better, that he was a mere
common-sense critic. Now, granting that this was
the case, how does it derogate from his sterling
value as a poetical censor. When it is borne in
mind how much of common-sense enters into all
that is enduring in poetry ; that this great art chiefly
affects the imagination through the medium of the
understanding ; and that when it does not do this,
it is very apt to be mere unmeaning verbiage, like
the tropes of orator Phillips ;—it will at once be
evident that Johnson's critical qualifications were
by no means of a petty or pedantic character. To
the unerring sense and strong worldly sagacity of
Shakspeare,no man has done ampler justice ; though
we grant that, from defect of sympathy, not surely from
narrowness of understanding, he was somewhat at
a loss to deal with the subtler and more fanciful
creations of his pen. Spenser, too, with his teem-
ing and voluptuous imagination, would have been
apt to perplex him for the same reason—for Sam
had no business in Fairy-land; but think of his
criticisms on Dryden and Pope, on Cowley, and
the metaphysical • poets of his day ; an Gray,
Savage, and more particularly on Congreve, whose
sparkling, pointed, but artificial dialogues he so
thoroughly understood, and has so acutely exposed.
Let the reader, we say, think of these things, and
sure we are that he will scout time Reviewer's dogma
that Johnson was merely an " emphatic pedant."
Mr. Carlyle's " French Revolution is spoken of,
on the whole, in fitting terms of praise, though he
is justly blamed for the qualified language which he
uses respecting the September massacres. To be
sure they were the means, by rousing and alarming.
all France, of rescuing it from the Prussian inva-
sion ; but, gracious Heaven, at what an expense
Better, far better, be without 'national reforms, than
gain them by the sacrifice of seven thousand persons
murdered hr cold blood I The great defect of
Carlyle's history is, that Danton is his favourite
hero, as much so as Prince Maurice of Saxony is
the hero in Robertson's " Charles the Fifth." The
chief merits of the work are, that it evinces infinite
care and skill in the use of its materials, and omits
nothing that may tend to throw the slightest
light on the Revolution. We have tracked
Mr. Carlyle through many of his authorities, and
have been struck with his unwearied diligence, even
on the minutest points. The expressive aud pic-
turesque epithets which he so frequently uses to
illustrate the idiosyucracy of a Darton, a Mirabeau,
a Robespierre, or a " fiery" Chabot, are no: se-
lected hap-hazard, but have been carefully chosen
as the most apposite, and not without reference to
scarce and curious tracts and inemoifs, many of
which are unknown even by name to the majority of
English readers. " New Translations of the Ara-
bian Nights" is a graceful and eloquent criticism
—a complete labour of love--from the pen of Legli
Hunt, who speaks of our old favourites just in the
way we would have them spoken of. The intro-
ductory portiou of this essay is singularly felicitous
both in style and spirit ; and the comments on the
slir'eucckanwjittlhdgthe,ejtursuttabnadni7partial. bare
s
recent versions of the " Arabian Nights" are, so
beenf:tr a s
sprightlinessli7cd of
passage ;
, " A vast number of things are romantic, that have
no suspicion of being so. Half of the existing age has
been romantically mechanical, while,the other half was
.poetical. Events have been romantic ; not merely the
French revolutions, but the times intervening and suc-
ceeding. Bonaparte's history was a romance, and he
one of the most romantic of men, though he took himself
for one of the least so. He fancied he should conquer
thing?, the minds and wishes of men included, with
ills engineering ; and if we look to results, Napoleon, in
spite of himself and his purely mathematical genius and
military science, stimulated the poetry of his time, like
some great unconscious mountain-top of a man—a huge
event. In all its events the supposed scientific age—
nay, the really and gradually scientific age—was
romantic throughout. The hopes were romantic, the
despairs romantic, the vicissitudes a romantic as those
in the book before us. There is a passage in one of the
novels of Voltaire, in which he introduces three or four
apparently private gentlemen who have met at dinner in
an hotel, and who all turn out to be kings. We forget the
details, but he makes cut his case, ;if we remember,
kith bringing in Stanislaus of Poland, and Theodore
king of Corsica. Those were sorry kings, compared
with such as we have seen raised from private life in an
our time, and who, including those of old families de-
throned, might have made a singular dinner-party
indeed."
The novel of Voltaire to which:A/Ir. Hunt here
alludes, is " Candide," absurdly described by
Wordsworth, as the " long, du product of a scof-
fer's pen ;" but the incognito kings who
dinner, were not three, but seven, in number—and
a most pitiable figure they cut, as the author in-
tended they should. " Heads of the people," is
a very ordinary sort of criticism, in which occasonal
attempts are made at point anll smartness ; but uni-
formly without success. " Oliver Cromwell" is a
clever notice of Mr. Foster's recently puhtished
life of this remarkable man, whose character the
Reviewer draws with great vigour and
skill
of por-
traiture. On the whole, the number is an excel-
lent one.

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seemco"u,nhseiii cel del
iilakiisleilo g
overheard a dialogue
TIIE PEOPLE.—We lately
between two men, apparently artisans, who. had been
spending more than they. ought of their we-ek's wages at
a neighbouring public-house ; on. Weir way they die.
topicsy t greathe.y
could -, imep agree.rt a n ptinwhir} it did not
his back against the post of the toll-gate,
" After observed
companion supported himself in a similar man-
ner at the other side—" After all, what can you know
of the matter ? sure y.ou are only one of the people."
This roused his associate, who, advancing in the way
What do you mean by calling me
"confused" men do when they try to walk in a straight
lice, exclaimed,
names t"—London and Westminster Review.

EXTRAORDINARY CASUALTY. Yesterday
on extraordinary accident occurred in Byrom-street
(Liverpool), happily, but marvellously, unattended by
damage to life or limb. It is pretty generally knoWn
that Cla) ton-street is one of the steepest of those streets
that lead from the upper to the lower part of the .tOwn.,
Near the top of this street, about three o'cloak P 447,
terday, one of the heavy carts belonging to Mesrs.
Bailey, Brothers, and Co., was taking ina_load, of empty;
rz.sin casks. The two chain horses had been,takeb out,
that they might not take up too much of the street. Sud-
denly some person in the vicinity fired a pistolit9,Pr4etice
that cannot be too severely reprehended, or too soon
put a stop to. The shaft horse, a remarkably large
and powerful animal, took fright, and irlitnediately,
started off at a fearful speed down the bill tOWards
Byrom-strcet. The carter and porters called•to'him
but fear had rendered him heedless, and nothing 'Could
check his headlong impetuosity, till, arrived at Byrom_
street, he dashed across the pavement, broke the gas.
lamp to atoms, and rushed through window, door=
posts, stancheons, and every other obstacle, into the
shop of Mr. Pain, the hatter, who carries on business
directly opposite to Clayton-street. Hero finding him-
self in total darkness (for his own bulk and the cart
behind completely shut out every ray of light), he
stopped, and was tolerably quiet till the carter came
up, and backed him out. Of course Mr. Pain and his
assistants were astonished at the sudden and terrific en-
trance of so novel a visitor, and it is most wonderful
that none of them were injured. It is equally asto-
nishing, considering the crowded state of Byrom-
street, and the speed with which the heavy vehicle was
dragged across the street, that none of the pedestrians
were injured. The masw door-posts and thick beams
of the windows of Mr. Pain's shop were completely
burst away by the shock, and the cast-iron lamp-postwas snapped short off at the root, and literally shivered
to atoms.—Liverpool Times.
EXTENSIVE Loss OF SHEEP EY EATING
NEW Corm.—Last week, several sheep on Willoughby
Farm, Broomfield, were discovered in the morning dead,
and many others in a dying state. Immediate recourse
was had to suitable remedies, bet the flock continued
falling under the mi,ehiet, until forty-two died. It ap-
pears, that by thesarelessnoss of some persons not be-
longing to the firm, the gate of a recently cut wheat
field had been left open, and the rakings not having been
carried away, the sheep lad broken in and over-fed
themselves, and having also broken into an adjoining
field of barley, the excess of food thus- obtained, led to
the serious loss sustained on theft ccasion. Several of
the sheep were fat, and most of the ewes in lamb.--
Taunton Courier. •

- - -
ALARMING FIRE.—On Friday morning, at
one o'clock, an alarming fire.broke out on the premises
of Mr. Alexander, baker",'Ne. 112, High Holborn. The
fire commenced in the bakehouse, by a quantity of shay-
iugsjeiting, which melted the solder of the main gas
pipe, and the gas escaping set the lthver premises on
fire. The smoke was so dense that the family could not
descend the stairs, and they effected their escape by the
roof of the house. By the prompt arrival of two pow-
erful sre-toizino; Iron; 4tiOn, th'ilanieS
were extinguished before much damage was done.