The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-11 00:00:00

CHANGES.

The Earl and Countess of Charleville and Lord Tul
lamore, from Ardrossan, Ayrshire, for their seat, Charle.
ville Forest; Mr. and Mrs. Orby Wombwell, from Eglin•
ton Castle, on a visiting tour; Sir James and Lady Graham,
at Netherby Hall, Cumberland, from Glasgow ; Lady
Stuart de Rothsay, and the Hon. Miss Stuart, from Eg-
linton ; Sir Grenville Temple, Bart , from Cowes, Isle
of Wight, for his seat near Winchester; the Hon. Sidney
Herbert, at Wilton Castle, Salisbury, from Southampton
races ; Lord Harley, at Leamington, from a tour.

Count Lubienski, who has been residing for
several months in this capital, has taken his departure for
Paris.

PERSONAL SECURITY.—It is not generally
known that on the 19th of last month an Act passed, in-
tituled An Act for the better protection of parties deal-
ing with persons liable to the bankrupt laws," by which the
law affecting debtor and creditor is materially changed.
Before the passing of this Act the security by warrant of
attorney for repayment of money was always liable to be
upset by an act of bankruptcy committed before the cre-
ditor availed himself of the security; but now all the execu-
tions against the goods of such bankrupt levied before the
date and issuing of the fiat will be deemed valid, notwith•
standing any previous act of bankruptcy committed by such
bankrupt.—Provincialy Paper.
As to the Negroes, they seem to be the happiest
people I ever saw in my life.; our labourers in England
would be mightily astonished, if they were to see the acn-
chalance with which the slaves set about doing any thing,
and they are always laughing, singing, and dancing.
There are very few sick in the hospital, none dangerously
so; and two children have been born since my arrival,
whom I am to christen, and have promised to stand god-
father, if they should be lucky enough to survive the
dangers of infancy. Nothing could equal the rapture of
the poor people on my ar:ival, and the noise which they
made was something wonderful; they all said, that " Till
now they were afraid that they had no massa,'' and all the
old people were in one story--" now they had once seen
massa, they did not care if they should die to
morrow!" I gave them a holiday on Saturday, with a
couple of heifers, and as much rum and sugar as they
chose. Numbers of old servants of my grandfather and
uncle came to show themselves to me ; and even a
great many negroes, who had formerly belonged to my
estate, and had obtained fre,dorn, came flocking from all
parts of the country—for fear it should seem ungrateful if
they did not conic to see massa, because they were free.
The servants, too, they take such care of me, that they
will not let me eat or drink any thing they think likely to
hurt me; nor will any of the others suffer me to talk to
them in the open air, when the dews are falling ; and as
to the old women, do all I can, I cannot prevent them
from tailing down to embrace my knees, and kiss my feet.
Polly is a pretty delicate-looking girl, nursing a young
child ; she belongs to the mansion-house, and seems to
think it as necessary a part of her duty to nurse me as the
child. To be sure, she has not yet insisted upcn suckling
me ; but if I open a jalousie in the evening, Polly walks in
and shuts it, without saying a word. " Oh, don't shut
the window, Polly I" .• Night air not good for massa ;"
and she shuts the casement without mercy. lam drinking
orangeade, or some such liquid ; Polly walks up to the
table and seizes it I " Leave that jug, Polly, I'm dying
with thirst !" " More hurt, massa I" and away go Polly
and the orangeade. So that I begin to fancy m; self
Sancho in Barataria, and that Polly is the Senor Doctor
Pedro in petticoats.—Life of M. L. Lewis._ . _ _

IRISH BEGGARS.—OIIe party we fell in with--
three women, by whom our sympathies were ievoked in the
following manner :—" Ah, my lady 1 ah, your honour
have compassion on the blind, the lame, and the lazy."
" flow's Liat ?" said my husband. " Plaiz sour honour's
glory, I am lame (as you see), this good woman's b:ind, and
my daughter's I:zy." " Well, wel ," said he to whom
this truly original appeal was made, and who began to be
amused at this mode of application, expecting some further
drollery from her,--'. well there's a fivepenny among you,
that is, if you'll divide it equally." " Oh sure," answered
the lazy, " its no matter—we are all one family." " Oh,
said the donor, " but I 'insist upon 4n equal divieion
of the money in my prc‘ence, or withdraw it."
" And so there shall be, your honour, if you'll '
depind upon my virtue," holding out her hand. " Yes,
yes, but I must see you tio it." " And how, your hon-
our, will Ido it, seeing that it's impossible ?" " Very well
then, I shall not give it," said Mr. Matthews (still antici-
pating amusement from her ingenuity). Suddenly she
seemed to have a thought and with quickness asked,
o Will your honour trust me with the, tlyepenny to get
changed ?"." Well," said he, after a shorttause, " I will.'
" Go blsss you for ever," and away she rp', into the inn.
On her return, after a minute's consideriton, she placed
three halfpence into each of the other women's hands,
saying, as she did so, " There's three halfpence for you,
good woman,—there's three halfpence for you, good wo-
man,—and here's three halfpence for me, good woman."
Then looking for an instant perplexed at the remaining
halfpenny, she suddenly darted into a little huxter's shop
opposite to the inn, and as speedily returned with a pair
of old scissars in one hand, and a bit of what is called pig
tail tobacco in the other, saying, as she measured with her
eye, and divided it, " There's one bit for you, good wo-
man,--there's one bit fur you, good woman,—and there's
one bit for me, good woman. Ah 1 now, haven't I done
it nately, yur honour ?"—Liie of Charles Matthews.
" A PATTERN OE GENTLENESS.—' Mrs. T.
Sheridan,' writes Lewis front Inverary on one occasion,
' is also here at present, very pretty, very sensible, amiable,
and gentle : indeed, so gentle that Tom insists upon it
that her extreme quietness and tranquillity is a defect in
Ihr character. Above all, he accuses her of such an ex-
treme apprehension, of giving trouble (he says),
tsobaebrisdoaluntes affectation.ays,icih t
when He affirms that, it amounts
the coek
,has forgotten her duty,. and no dinner is prepared, Mrs.
for mo ; I'll take a disphrloye tdeoan'itusgteeatdd;,inanuedr
hone
declares
himself certain that, if she were to set her clothes on fire,
she would step to the hall very quietly, and say to the ser-
vant with great gentleness and composure, Pray, Wil-
liam, is there anwaterc:n the house ?" No, Madam,
but I can get some !' '
Oh 1 dear,outno no;
ofit i
does
t.
In, 0
nify ; I dare" say the fire
will "_M.
Lewis's Correspondence.
of
valuable
A large quantity
c nveyance from London to the Pa'elacpe4aotfetlienLocrodu
with other
in this city, was on Monday stolen from the van of an up-
I olsterer, in which it was packed,Bishop
in
ptyTilyieinegaisne
goods ordered
by the Right Rev. Prelate from the metropolis.
in which the plate was contained was foun
the public road near Winlerslow. No cluejouhraensmaylet been ob-
tained to the depredators.—Salisbury

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