The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-01 00:00:00

SALMON FISHERIES IN SCOTLAND.

Mr. ELLICE moved for, and after a short conversation,
in which he stated that he had struck out of the Bill that part
of it which had been objected to by the Right Hon. the Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade, obtained leave to bring in a Bill
to amend the Act for the Preservation of Salmon Fisheries in
Scotland.
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS' DECLARATION BILL.

Mr. BAINE S moved the Order of the Day for the second
reading of the Municipal Officers' Declaration Bill.
Mr. PATTISON gave notice that when the Bill went
into Committee, he should move that the relief be extended
to persons of the Jewish persuasion.--(Hear, hear.)
Mr. SHAW observed that when leave was given to bring
in the Bill, it was on the understanding that Jews should not
be comprehended in its provisions.
Mr. PATTISON should certainly persevere in the propo-
sition of which he had given notice.
Mr. BAINE S had not the slightest hostility towards the
Jews ; but he was anxious to secure to the Quakers and Mo-
ravians the privileges which the Bill contemplated.
Mr. WARBURTON was astonished, at a time when Jews
were placed in the high and responsible office of Sheriffs, that
any disposition was exhibited to exclude them from other
offices. He hoped the Hon. Member would persevere in his
determination to move an introduction to the Committee on
the subject.
After a few words from Mr. G. F. YOUNG, Sir R. INGLIS,
and Mr. lIUME, the Bill was read a second time, and ordered
to be committed on Monday.
Adjourned at a Quarter past Ten.

ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY. Wednesday
morning, at an early hour, a postchaise with four bay horses
were seen by some men going to work on the road to Eltham,
Kent. They (the roan) had proceeded but a very short dis-
tance before they met a young lady, beautiful in person, and
elegantly attired, who inquired.anxiously if they had passed a
postchaise; and, on being answered in the affirmative, she
pulled out a purse and gave them a sovereign ; in a few se-
conds she was met by a well-dressed man, and both having
entered the chaise, the postboys went off at a railway speed.
The young lady is the only daughter of a rich widow, living
not a hundred miles from the Regent's Park (she was on a
visit at a gentleman's house in the neighbourhood of Eltham),
and the lucky husband (that is to be) is the butler to the
gentleman above alluded to. The young lady, who was of
ago in September, is in possession of 5,0001. a-year, left her
by her grandfather. The surprise of the gentleman and his
family on finding his visitor and butler both gone may be easily
imagined.
MRS. GORE'S NEW TALES.—We cannot help
thinking it almost too serious an undertaking for a female mind
and pen, to construct and carry through to its consummation a
regular three volume novel. Our Lady writers, eminently
gifted as they arc, invariably begin their productions of the
above class better than they end them ; and the reason is that
they get tired of their own labour. But for a brief tale—
piquant, pointed, polished, and perfect in all its parts, as all
brief tales should be—commend us to our female pens alone,
and to that above all others which is so happily and so bril-
liantly wielded by Mrs. Charles Gore. Marmontel himself,
though a little more philosophical perhaps, was not so gay,
so graceful, so buoyant, and altogether so felicitous in this
class of writing, as is this gifted lady ; and we venture to say,
that the has never before succeeded more entirely than in the
charming collection she has just given to the world under the
title of " Mary Raymond, and other Tales."

By the last arrival from India, overland, intelligence
has been received that the city of Surat has suffered very much
from an inundation of the river Taptee, one of the worst that
has ever been known, and it is feared many lives have been lost
and great numbers of cattle carried off by the flood. Several
other parts of Goojerat have been visited by the same calamity,
especially Kairo, Gundavee, and Nowsaree.

Yesterday morning, about half-past 12 o'clock, as
a young man of the name of Daniel Campbell, who resides
on the Port. Glasgow-road, was proceeding on his way home
from Greenock, he met two men, one of whom was carrying
a gun, and after a little conversation Campbell charged them
with having been poaching, and continued to walk homewards,
when he was followed by the men, one of them exclaiming,
" I'll poach you at any rate." In a short time a gun was
fired by one of the men, and the contents lodged in the left
hand and breast of Campbell, who instantly fell to the ground,
bleeding terribly. Although the noise of the shot, and the
shouts of murder by the young man, were heard by some
people, yet the loneliness of the place (nearly half way between
Greenock and Port-Glasgow) and the early hour of the
morning prevented people from going to his assistance. The
poor fellow lay on the road insensible for about 40 minutes,
and on coming to himself a little, crawled to the ditch and
put his bleeding hand into the water, and, feeling thirsty,
drank a little of the dirty water within his reach, which
revived him, and enabled him to walk home, a distance of a
quarter of a mile. Dr. M'lntyre of Greenock was sent for
immediately, and it was found necessary to amputate the
thumb and three of the fingers A notorious character of the
name of M'Culloch, a turner in one of the foundries, and
his uncle, a man of the same name, are in custody.—Glus-
yew Chronicle.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Friday evening
last as Mr. Eldridge of Seddlescomb was returning- home in a
chaise from a shooting excursion, his gun, which stood by his
side, went off, and with regret we add that the charge passing
through the unfortunate gentleman's body caused almost in-
stantaneous death. Deceased had been but a short time
married ; and his wife bearing the chaise drive up ran to the
door, as she supposed, to welcome her husband home, when
her feelings may be better imagined than described upon per-
ceiving him brought home a bleeding corpse.—Brighton Gar.
dian.

MAGAZINE DAY.

BLACKWOOD.

In the notice of Alison's " History of the French
Revolution," the sixth volume of which has just ap-
peared, the Reviewer does ample justice, but not more
than it deserves, to this elaborate and impartial work.
But why does lie go out of his way to preach the vices
of what he calls, " Whiggism ?" Surely he should
have known that it was his own be-lauded Wellington
and Peel who carried Catholic Emancipation—not the
Whigs ! As for the latter " fanning the virulence of
American revolt," they did no such thing. Tory taxa-
tion was the arch-incendiary. In like manner, it vas
not the Whigs who " fanned the flame of the French
revolt," but the annual deficit of seven millions sterling
in the national finances, which was almost entirely
owing to the extravagant and corrupt habits of the
Tory Aristocrats of France. The Whigs have quite
sins enough of their own to answer for, without stand-
ing godfather to the more heinous offences of their
adversaries. " Herder "is a translation from this eru-
dite German's criticisms on Homer's two immortal
epics. We should have relished it more—for it con-
tains much acute observation—had we not a vivid
recollection of a masterly series of papers that have
already appeared in Maga on the same subject ; but
" the words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of
Apollo "—that is to say, Herder Is coarse and com-
mon-place, when one has been accustomed to:the grace
and spirit and fancy of Kit North. " Circassia "is a
continuation of a very able and valuable paper that
appeared in this Periodical last month. We subjoin
some remarks on the present condition of Nicholas and
his vast empire, which are characterized by sagacity
and foresight :

" We say that Nicholas cannot stop ; that the safety of his
empire is involved in the question of his progress and success.
His is a course in which to halt or hesitate might be fatal.
He, or rather his predecessors, have long passed the Rubicon,
and must on. This is the law which constrains all conquerors
whose existence must rest upon opinion as much as on the
might of their sword. A check, a symptom of wavering might
change the whole aspect of his fortunes, and raise a host of
foes that now crouch intimidated at the apparent resistlessness
of his career. Besides, these mighty undertakings have in-
volved the necessity of an enormous military establishment,
which even at the miserable rates of pay which it receives, is
far beyond the means of Russia to support without distress ;
and she is now impoverished almost to bankruptcy—a nation
of soldiers and of slaves. The nobles, instead of being occu-
pied in improving their vast estates, are all civil or military
servants, and their peasants are continually drafted away to
supply the vast expense of men. In times of war this evil is
little felt, except in so far as regards the drain upon the
treasury ; but in peace, when the pay of the army is reduced,
and there is no hope of plunder for the soldier, nor of pro-
motion for the officer, when malecontent; have leisure to
brood over wrongs, and to meditate revenge—then is the time
for plots and conspiracies, for alarms and arrests, and military
executions, and wholesale deportations to Siberia and the
Caucasus. Thus, not only must the mighty engine of state
that has been set in motion be kept moving, lest in stopping
it crush its engineers under its weight, but the minor instru-
ments must be constantly in use, lest they get into disorder,
and destroy the machine. In simple language, the enormous
standing army of Russia, the 4 million of bayonets' of Alex-
ander, must be kept in constant action, lest, like the Pretorian
guards, or the Strelitzes and the Janissaries, they take mat-
ters into their own hands, and show up their Sovereign to the
eyes of the world as, what he cannot but feel himself—their
slave."

" Guizot" is an entertaining biographical sketch of one
of the profoundest thinkers, and most learned men in
France, whose works are not yet appreciated in this
country as highly as they should be. " The World
we Live In," runs over all the lighter topics of the

day in its usual lively and rapid fashion. There is
always much variety in this article, and its subjects are
discussed in ad captandum manner. " Augusta Vic-
trix" is a complimentary address to our present Queen
Victoria, more remarkable for its loyalty than its
poetry. " Solomon's Flight" is an amusing tale, full
of humour, which would form the subject of an ex-
cellent farce. " Justice to Ireland" is a desperate
Tor) diatribe, which reads as if it were penned under
the splenetic influence of a liver complaint. " The
Augsburg Goldsmith" is a talc from the German,.
abounding in mysteries and surprizes.