The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-22 00:00:00

jeg. and crying out—No rats here, go to ICnaresborough
go to the devil; look at your nurse (Mrs. R. sat at a distance
in her carriage)—no Tories never no more. During this
time Mr. Richards stood trying to be heard, but to no pur-
pose. A man in the garb of a clock-smith was raised on the
shoulders of the crowd, and proceeded to address the
people, declaring. ho was a tee-totaler.—( Cries of " Come
over, end take Richards' place.") Mr. Richards al
r the ti ne rested very composedly against a post, vs:siting till
the c-mfoion should subside. The High Bailiff in vain inter.
posed; but without success; at length Mr. George Corner
came forward and said that Mr. Richards was entitled to a
hearing, for he was considered the tom-fool of the House of
Commons, and if they would only hear him, they were sure of
a fine treat, (roars and hissing; " Is there any t.ne who would
take his likeness?)
Mr. littifeeartv and Mr. HARVEY severally claimed the at.
tention of the meeting in favour of Mr. Riebards. This had
the desired effect,
Mr. Rictimins then showed that the former Mernt!Pr fur
Co4hcster, and his colleague, had done well to literkter *4- II
would Oct. be -wa to have bias retire with
The time was when a lair heaHnossepij ha 0J
• • siven to every Can.
didate. He was aritiatig 4:
tend himself and would bow
to their dee.ielen
(NA The learned member for Colcheltee..,
"
, I)—The former member for Colchester had said he
had;spent no money in the general contest, why did he spend a
fortune there, and not put forward a placard on this me, ien
because he felt himself secure, and wanted to melte South_
wark a close borough. —( Cheers.) lie had seen a placard
with a coalition which was carried through the City.—
Hiv.es.) Who was that who hissed—was he a disciple of
O'Conneli ?—( Great uproar.) Why should it be imputed
to him that he was no longer a candidate for Knaree-
borough, he denied that he was no'. He was charged
with having his name coupled with that of the Queen,
which was done on a placard belonging to the former Learned
Member for Colchester. Hs admitted the power of the Hon.
and Learned Member's eloquence, but he denied that ho had
or was capable of stating facts—(Groans)—and if ho could be
heard he could prove it. The Learned Gentleman had been
heard fully and with attention, and he merely claimed the same
indulgence. lie appealed to the honour of the gentleman who
had moved and seconded ,his nomination—who had bestowed
much to relieve the poor of the borough—the lion. Member of
Colohester.—( Cries of ` No," and great uproar.) He held in
his hand a copy of a speech delivered in 1824.—(Cries of
"is that the Times 2") Then he should speak without the
paper. He wished to touch on a question of importance to
every one, and he only asked them to examine both sides of
it. On the question of the Poor-law Amendment Bill, Mr
Harvey had said that able-bodied men were not entitled to re-
lief, and that they should be left to themselves. They should
recollect that he had no connection with any newspaper as the
lion. Member for Colchester had.__(" Give him Faq. play.")
(Mr. Harvey observed that he was not the Member for Col-
chester.) Mr. Richards replied that he:had been called the
Memb( Knaresborough. He was for the Qu en Ltd ii-wAy,
He had beeen arraigned by the Hon. Member for Col:ft:ester,
and he pleaded not guilty, fur ho strenuously Petted himself
for amending the Poor Law Amendment Bill, particularly
the clause for giving relief to able bocii.ed men, and against
which both the Membere for the Borc.,ugh were at the time.
He was ill used that morn:4lg- by the charges and
and by the flowery language of the HonourableMembers
as well as by the vociferating a his partisans, but he had no
doubt that his friends come forward at the proper season,
and give him their streteaous support. The present Members had
supported the Whig Ministers for their own private objects,
while he was always opposed to them ; he was opposed to them
in cv.!,y stripe whoa the gocd of the people was concerned,
and he would never be found to join those whose acts, what-
ever their motives might be; were of a revolutionary ten-
dency.—( Hear, hear, hear I and cries of " What is the
number of the Orange Lodge you belong to ?")
He would leave. it to them to say who the learned gentle-
man was - who denounced him as a " Tom fool." If
they would submit to his dictation, and judge of
his conduct, they would see that he was the " Tom.
fool" of the borough. He hoped that by their votes
they would teach him a lesson, and to be more discreet in
future. He had been charged with being absent on voting
an addition of five members to the Poor-law Committee, but this
was purely an accident. He was a resident merchant among
them, and he would ask them, was it their interest to return
an Alderman who was connected with the City, and not with
the borough. Neither of them had any interest in the
borough, and yet the rejected of Colchester was fool hardy
enough to walk over the course. It was true he had not
built an inn, but he had purchased a building for which he
gave 10,0004—more than that, there was no mortgage upon it.
He WdS sorry he could not go into a detail of the candidate's
speeches, for he could refute every charge that had been
brought forward. After apologising to the High Bailiff for
detaining bins so long in the chair, he said he was determined
to go to the poll, and know whether the Borough was to re-
main in the pocket of an attorney, or to give it to a man
who had deserved it, and who had the very great satisfaction
of not being refused a vote since lie commenced his canvass.
The thou BAILIFt then put the question for the several can-
didates, and there appeared a great majority in favour of
Messrs. Humphreys and Harvey. The candidates briefly re-
turned thanks, and Monday next, at eight o'clock in the
scorning, was appointed to commence the poll.

A. short time back a horse, called the King of
Trumps, then the property of a gentleman in Norfolk, leaped
a brook with fifteen feet water, and hurdles on the other side
four feet and a half high, making in all twenty-four feet, car-
rying 12st. He was sold to a gentleman in Surrey, and can
be backed to carry 18st. in a leap against any horse carrying
a similar weight.
There is at present growing in the Strawberry Gar-
dens, Church-street, Sculcoates, a cabbage lettuce measuring
three feet in circumference and one foot in diameter. It is
about twelve inches high, a remarkably fine, healthy, and vigo-
rous plant, and has not run to seed.—Hall Observer.
In October, 1835, an interesting female infant,
clothed, and clothes with it, was found in a hopper, in a
ploughed field, at Pentrekenrick, near Oswestry. The child
was taken to Oswestry House of Indwary, and the circum-
wanco advertised in the Shrewsbury Chronicle, but no trace
of the brutal parents has ever been discovered.
PIT r's OPINION OF SCOTT.—Through %%drat
channel or in what terms Fox made known his opinion of the
Lay, I have failed to ascertain. Pitt's praise, as expreszed
to his niece, Lady Hester Stanhope, within a few weeks after
the poem appeared, was repeated by her to Mr. William
Stewart r.ose, who, of course, communicated it forthwith to
the author ; and not long after, the, Minister, in conversation
with Scott's early friend the Right Hon. William Dundas
signified.that it would give him pleasfire to find some oppor-
tunity of advancing the fortunes of such a writer. " I re-
member," writes this gentleman, " at Mr. Pitt's table, in
1805, the Chancellor asked me about you and your then situa-
tion, and after I had answered him, Mr. Pitt observed, He
can't remain as he is,' and desired me to look to it.' He
then repeated some lines from the Lay, describing the old
harper's embarrassment when asked to play, and said, ' This
is a sort of thing which I might have expected in painting,
but could never have fancied capable of being given In
poetry.' "—Lockhart's Life of Scot!.

MALE KNITTERS.—FiIe universal practice of
knitting is not, it seems, confined to the fair .sex in Germany.
I have been told that farther north, and in the • electorate of
Hesse, the men, during the long winter evenings, turn their
spades into knitting needles, and ply them over. the cottage
lire, while the women spin. " This shocks roar English pre-
judices, does itnot ?" said my informant, " but is it not much
better than spending the dusk hours in the beer house ?" After
all, prejudice apart, why may not a man make stockings as
well as shoes?—A Summer in Germany.
THE PHYSICIAN PHYSICKED.—Some time ago
an eminent Scottish physician requested an equally eminent
surgeon to acc9mpal,y him to see a distinguished but a slip-
pery patient, which he readily acceded to. The patient was
exceedingly polite to both the medical gentlemen, shaking
hands with them, and bowing them out of the room in the
most affable manner. Soon after this professional visit, the
same physician called again on the surgeon, requesting him to
accompany hiM to see another patient. On their way thither
the surgeon cibserrod, " I hope this patient will behave more
liberally thin the last did." " Why," said the M. D., Did
he not give_ you a fee ?" "Not a was the reply.
" Excellent," said our Scottish Galen, with a toss of the head ;
" why, he borrowed two guineas of me to give to you I"
Many incredulous people still contest the fact of
the showers of toads, the existence of which, nevertheless,
has been proved by numerous observations. A phenomenon
of this kind has just occurred in the commune of Beaucou-
dray. Explain it, comment on it, deny it as you will, we
affirm that on Sunday, the 9th inst., at eleven o'clock in the
morning, during a heavy shower of rain, the avenues of the
Chateau de Beaucoudry were suddenly covered with an innu-
merable quantity of small toads that fell along with the rain.
These animals covered the ground as completely as the sand
usually covers the walks of a garden newly sanded. We picked
up several, and all of them seemed in no way to differ from
the common toad. We shall not forward our observations to
the Academy of Sciences, but we positively affirm to have
seen what we relate, and' several persons, whose testimony is
deserving of confidence, saw it as well as ourselves.—Paris
Paper.•

It is said that the receipts of the Grand Junction
Railway, the line frpm Birmingham to Liverpool, were 5,0001.
for the first week, and that the receipts last week amounted to
7,0001.

NAPLES, JULY I.—The Queen Dowager set out
yesterday with some precipitation for Manfredonia, after hav-
ing lost in the course of twenty-four hours her two fir.t ladies
in waiting, the Baroness de Schmucker and the Duchess San
Theodora, who both died of a sudden attack of cholera. The
epidemic is extending ,along the coasts of Castelamere and
Sorento, and has made dreadful ravages in Capua and in the
surrounding country. The King and his Royal Consort appear
every day upon the public promenade. He is residing at pre-
sent at the Palace of Capo di Monte. This morning his
Majesty, accompanied by the other members of the Royal
Family, went to the Church dedicated to the Patron Saint of
the city, to invoke his intereoision against the wages of the
cholera.

The. quantity of salmon caught at the different fish-
ing stations from Spey to Findhorn, during the week, has been
unp,reeedently groat, The take at Lotsiemouth, on the morn-
ing of Monday last, was greater than that of a previous season
and at Speymouth tha number taken in one day amoueuted to
tl;ougands,
The insect generally knqwx% 14 this county by the
name of the " red gtn". very prevalent among the young
wheats in u.,-,te.rsil parishes in this neighbourhood. It is state_
tlitit More than half the crop will be devoured in 4=V 11014&—
.Devizes Parer.

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(FROM OUR COURESPON.D'.'
HARWICH, FRIDAY EVENING,4 eyi
rgive you the closest state of the poll i 111‘44pNo an-
ticipte, gi%ing everything. against us vve can question. here.
fore, if some nulgt extraordinary change does not tako place,
the election is safe.

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THE FUNDS.--(THI8 DAY,)

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V/ I'Y,4 T WV, VV Ci U (.-W,
The settling of the Con A
30. ..C2OIIM VitTht off yeetkyrday
without the lent difficulty, and tb..! !tars were the ltaires, but
to no great extent.
.
t}le canry of tho a.krtion cnnuntitti9i!:,„ %cgs reetivett
at thn Plint.l4 tOiChtlge b6?,70-4i told eO,,
hal PeueisTti nn ofticill 1t4.411101ft rolutitik; Id the Moi"Jon
whilt thel wirrOgi Kllct to Ow Howe shortit,
Aq the ef&et, tp, 111.1F3Ve thn NealilAn Stock khr.lut 4 eer
coati t grOxt anxiety Witt kit by the hohlgPS of these 40
entitles, to ascertain th intents of then n official clospatchea,
Upon the wholst expected that they aril qf feivArgbje
tendeaq,

'FIRE FUNDS.
Theilfeney Market was very firm during yesterday, end
discounts were easily obtained,.
The Foreign Exchanges it, (ho course of the afternoon wept
steady, and good bills were scarce. -
Consols, closed `,,t;sterday at 91+ for the Account, "welled
this morning ;A 91i 4 ; Money, the same. Exche4r.er Bills,
46 48 ; India Lioi,ds, 46 48; Bank Stock, 203 x 209; India
Stock, 257 money.
It* the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 191,
ex-Coupons, opened at 20.1 with Cour,ons; Portuguese,
40,3- 41 ; Three per Cents., 251 i; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 52k

rov-
ed
The Con.ol Market is buoyant, and IT
i 4 n.ipP PAST ONE.
since e ly
part of the morning from 911 to 91-'1 ; at prese the
nt may be
quoted at 911 2 ; Exchequer Bills, improved, 47 49; India.
Bonds, 49 ; Bank Stock, 209 210,
In the Fo,-cit.r.n Market, the P.ccounts from Bordeaux of the
retreat of the Carlists from Viencia has had an effect on
Spanish Stock, which was in tb mornin!..! 201 to 20k, at pre-
sent may be quoted pith the Coupons ; Portuguese,
41 ; Three Per Cents.) '25 5-6 26 ; Mexican, 26 ; Peru-
vian, 26; Colombian, cq- ; Dutch Two-and7a- Half •per
Cents, 524 Spanis'a Passive, 51. .Deferred, 74
All tranquil in the, Ciry respecting commercial affairs ;
nQ-
thing thought of I,,at the elections.

THREE O'CLOCX
Consols, f:Jr the Account, 914 1.

A fruiterer, residing in the Quartier des Invalidcs,
who had been for some time separated from his wife, wishing
for a reconciliation, made an appointment with her a few days
since, in a neighbouring wine-shop. He received with delight
the caresses of his child, but, thinking he saw something in
the manner of his wife which made him doubt her sincerity,
he became thoughtful, and left the house. The woman was
uneasy at his' nut returning, and sought him in the neighbour-
hood, when, passing the Pont de Jena, she observed him sit-
ting on the parapet, his feet hanging over the water. She asked
hint what he was doing thCre, when he replied that he was
waitinr, there to bid her good night, and immediately plunged
into the river. His body has not yet been found.— Galignani.
A violent thunder-storm burst on Friday in the
higher parts of Nithsdale, and was heard dying away in the
distance, and again returning in every form of multiplied re-
verberation among the mountains around Durisdeer ; copious
showers filled up every interval between the peals, and in
some instances the plumps were so heavy that they lodged
partially the corn-crops on the richer descriptions of soil. In
Annandale thunder was also heard, and on Saturday Dumf. les
was similarly visited.—DunViies Courier.
Wednesday morning, a little past nine o'clock,
smoke was observed. by a boy passing, to issue from the house
of William Bragg, of Bradford Abbas, and but for the very
ready and prompt assistance of the inhabitants, the fire must
in a few minutes have attained such a height as to have ren-
dered the destruction of the dwelling inevitable. It is much
to be lamented that this is a repetition of those diabolical
acts of incendiarism to which Bradford has been for some )ears
unfortunately subject. The mouldering elements of the fire
were secreted between the side timber and the wall-plate,
precisely as was the case in the destruction of a dwelling-
house, about two years since. The dwelling of Mr. Smith
adjoins, and would, in all probability, have fallen, had the fire
spread. Within the last seven years no less than three de-
structive fires from incendiarism have taken place in Bradford.
—Sherborne Journal.

SULTAN MAIIMOUD.—As this was the first oc-
casion on which I had seen the Sultan, I leant eagerly forward
upon my cushions to obtain a good view of him.; and I saw
before at the distance of fifteen or twenty yards at the utmost,
a man of noble physiognomy and graceful bearing, who sat his
horse with gentlemanlike ease, and whose countenance was
decidedly prepossessing. He wore in his fez an aigrette of
diamonds, sustaining a cluster of peaccek's feathers ; an am.
pie blue cloak was flung across his shoulders, whose collar
was one mass of jewels, and on the third finger of his bridle
hand glittered the largest brilliant that I ever remember to
have seer,. As he moved forward at a foot's pace, loud shouts
of " Long live Sultan Mabmoud I" ran along the lines, and
were re-echoed by the crowd, but he did not acknowledge the
greeting, though his eyes wandered on ail sides, until they
fell upon our party, when a bright smile lit up his features,
and for the first time he turned his head, and looked long and
fixedly at us.—The City of the Sultan.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter are ex-
pected to leav, tcvr next week for Brighton, where they have
taken a marine riga for the season.
Doctor Murray, the late Lord Bishop of Quebec,
was buried on Tuesday at the cemetery on the Harrow-road,
is tl e family vault of the Earl of Galloway, who attendAl
as
chief n ourner. This is the second Bishop who has recently
b •en interred at this come' e j, as the late Bishop of St. Ca itl's
( Lord J. Murray) was removei a few days before from the
chat (1 vault in Audley-street, and re-interred, by the late
Lady Hay Drummond, in the fa.nily vault of the Bishop of
Roci ester in the cemetery catacombs. We understand that
the beautiful new chapel building in this ground is now very
nearly completed.
Field-Marshal Count Emanuel Mensdorf, who is
expected to arrive in town daily from Vienna, on a Complimen-
tary mission from the Emperor of Austria, is the widower of
the late Princess Sophia Frederica of Saxe Coburg, and
brother-in-law to the Duchess of Kent and the King of the
Belgianv,

there are various reports current on the opium
question, but we cannot discover that any of them is deserving
of credit. It is said that an edict arrived from Pekin on the
21st inst , which contains instructions on the subject : but the
contents of this dispatch are as yet only known to the governor
and his colleagues.— Canton Paper.
Preparations are in progress in George's-square,
Glasgow, fur the erection of the monument to the memory of
Sie Walter Scott. It is, we understand, to be a pillar about
a hundred and twenty feet in height, surmounted by a statue,
and will be a great ornament to that part of the city, which
is already adorned with the statues of Sir John Moore and
James Wets. The quadrangle of the Exchange is now finally
co.npleted, the arch over the northern passage to Buehannan-
street having been finished a few days ago. We are ignorant
of the plan on which the Custom-house is to be built, but we
trust it will be worthy of the noble bridge in its vicinity. The
exterior of the House of Refuge is now finished, and, sur-
mounted by a small, though elegant spire, ornaments the east-
ern approach to the city by Duke-street. We may also men-
tion that St. Stephen's Church, which was lately burned, has
been rebuilt, with the additional improvement of a very neat
spire in place of the belfry by which it was formerly surmounted.
The Necropolis has undergone numerous improvements duriNe,
the spring and summer, and affords the most pleasing walk in
the city.— Scottish Guardian.

.... .
On Sunday last, at about two o'clock in the -after-
noon, a hackney-coachman, passing down the Rue Richelieu
in Paris, had the misfortune to run over a poor woman.
He immediately stopped his horses, helped to put the poor
woman into the carriage, and drove to the nearest police-
office. A medical man was then immediately called in, who
declared that the woman had not been seriously hurt. The
Paris paper which relates this little anecdote adds, that the
coachman's name was Million, his employer's, Dcscrranges.
In Circassia sugar is made from the walnut tree,
and is considered a valuable remedy for diseases of the lungs,
and general debility. It is obtained by piercing the trunk
during spring, just as the sap is rising, from which a clear,
sweet liquid flows, which is left to coagulate.

An eminent dealer in Lancashire, writing to a gen,
tleman, resident near Salisbury, says that he has comkireed
his catalogues, and found that thi same marks and qtP'►ities
of wool that went off last year, in June, at 2.5. 7d. and 2s. Bd.,
this year sold at Is. 7d. and Is. 81. ; and sana:Aes taken
from the bales, in examining the wool, last year sold at
2s. 71,-d., went off this year on the average at ls. 54cd. It ig
to be remembered also, that there is nearly half of last year's
stock on hand, and a still larger importation this year. The
revival in the demand for goods will of necessity be very li-
mited, after such a desperate revulsion as we have experienced.
A young fanner In the interior of France, had
lately agreed to elope with the daughter of one of his nei;►b..
bours who had refused to give his consent to their marr;ake.
Everything was arranged, buts it appears our young Loth.ario
had forgotten that secrecy was an important point affairs of
this kind. He had confided his projects to en% or two of his
particular friends, who, singularly etttmgh, 'were no more dis-
creet than the individual most IP:wrested 'in the prevention of
publicity. On the appoint-A evening he was at the window
of his inamorata, the t'.'embling fair olio alighted at the pre-
arranged signal, anti sprung upon the pillion of her lover's
horse. But before the party had proceeded far the gentle
is ly began to apply a cudgel most vigorously to the shoulders
of our amorous swain, who was some time before he discovered
that his travelling companion was no other than the brother of
the object or his affections, whose well-nerved arm inflicted at
sound correction upon the would-be gallant, and extorted &or'
him a achnn promise to abstain from all such attempts for the
future,

Earl" on,ltonday
morning a young lady of great
respectability, p' rsonal charms, and held in universal high esti-
mation, guided her residence in Potter-street, in this town,
and took refuge in the arms of her lover, who had provided
, I:mat-chaise for the purpose; the happy pair were speedily
conveyed to Kimholton, where they were united. The fortu-
nate swain is a Mr. Daniells, a short time since connected!
11115 town. —Bed,fird Chron,
with a drapery establishonq ill