The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-30 00:00:00

COWES--ISLE OF WIGHT.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
OCT. 29.—Loss OF ANOTHER OF THE COWES PILOTS.—
A light breeze from the eastward springing up about mid-
day yesterday, the captains of some of the ships in our roads,
anxious to proceed to their destinations, got their pilots on
board, and made the best of their way out of the Needles,
though there was no prospect of the wind's standing. James
and Edward Corke, the former master of the Nancy pilot ves-
sel, went out with the French brig Messager, at 7i p.m., they
left her outside, the wind then blowing fresh from the S. E.,
it raining, and very thick, they run inside and came to in Yar-
mouth Roads. The gale increased, and veering round to the
southward, and about 3 a.m. it blew a hurricane from the
westward ; as it was not safe to ride off Yarmouth any longer
they slipt their cable, and proceeded under bare poles for
Cowes. Edward Corke went below with the other bands to
prepare another anchor, leaving his brother James at the
helm ; but a few minutes had elapsed when their attention
was drawn to the deck by the booms flying about; it appears
that the vessel rolled very much, and a heavy lurch threw the
boom out of the crutch and knocked the unfortunate man over-
board; when they got on deck they could see nothing of him.
He has left a wife and six small children, with every proba-
bility of a seventh being added in a few days, also an aged
father and mother, whose chief dependance he was ; the father
has been blind some years, and is now 80 years of age. He
was very much against going out with the brig, and endea-
voured to persuade the Captain not to start, and during the
night expressed his anxiety for her, and his belief that she
must be lost in the gale, but Providence ordained it other-
wise, the Captain having followed in a bark, which had kept
her pilots on board, and who, when the wind came round, run
for Cowes Roads again. She passed the pilot-boat in the
night off Yarmouth.

STANDING ORDERS OF THE HOUSE

OF LORDS, 1838.

It will be a satisfaction to all those concerned in the promo-
tion of Railway Bills before Parliament to learn that the House
of Lords have, in their Standing Orders, just published,
adopted the rules established by the Standing Orders' Corn-
mitte of the House of Commons, in 1837, and in like manner
ordered that the railway sections and plans should be laid
down in juxta position, after the manner invented by Mr.
Macneill, C. E., and now appearing in a plate attached to the
Standing Orders of either House of Parliament.

RADICAL DEMONSTRATION IN CARLISLE.--
Thursday last was the day fixed upon by the Radicals of
Cumberland for a " Grand Demonstration" in favour of the
People's Charter and the National Petition. Great pains
appear to have been taken to make this an effective display.
Delegates were sent from the Council of the Union at Car-
lisle, to Wigton, Cockermouth, Penrith, and other principal
towns, to rouse the working classes to take part in the pro-
ceedings. A great number of the most popular leaders
amongst the Radicals were invited to attend, and so awaken
Public curiosity. The time fixed upon for holding the meet-
ing was the principal race day, when the town is usually
well-filled with visitors—a circumstance which it was quite
proper to take advantage of, and which we merely name as a
fact necessary to be known, as it was alluded to by some of the
speakers. As in other places, there has been much disput-
ing as to numbers, we deputed two or three persons to count
those who took part in the procession as they passed different
parts of the city. The number, as thus ascertained by per-
sons on whom we could rely, amounted to between 1,640 and
1,700. A member of the Union, however, has stated to us
that there were 1,013 files of 4 each—making a total of
4,052. Yet O'Connor and Stephens both declared there were
" tens of thousands" present I—[ We have taken the above
account from the Carlisle Journal, several of the columns of
which are occupied with the report of the respective speakers
at the meeting.]

An inquest was held yesterday at Islington on the
body of Mr. Joseph Spey, who committed suicide by swallow..
ing a quantity of prussic acid. Deceased had formerly been
in a large way of business in Finsbury as a Staffordshire ware-
houseman, but had recently been greatly reduced, which cir-
cumstance preyed much upon his mind. Verdict-...." Tempo-
rary Derangement."

On Monday last an event took place at Sirhowy,
which has plunged three families in the greatest distress, and
produced a sensation in the adjoining districts of which we re-
collect few examples. On that day four men, named James
Griffiths, Thomas Griffiths (brothers), Thomas Lewis and
Isaac Thomas, went into a coal-pit in the above works, the
air of which was in a foul state, and having incautiously ven-
tured too far, they were incapable of returning. The fears of
those ou the surface being excited by their long absence, efforts
were made to extricate them ; but, after much labour on the
part of those who undertook the work, they were at length
reached, when unhappily the three first were found dead, and
the fourth in a state of insensibility. The deceased have all
left widows and families.—Monmouth Merlin.

ABBEVILLE; OCTOBER 21.—The Conventionalist,
Andre Dumont, former sub-prefect of Abbeville during the
Empire, died yesterday, in the 80th year of his age. He was
one of the youngest and probably one of the last survivors of
that dreaded political body. We have heard related an expres-
sion of his, which does him great honour, and proves that, not-
withstanding the difficulty of the situation in which he was
placed, Andre Dumont found means to spare the effusion of
French blood. Having been sent into the department of the
Somme, at a period when scaffolds covered the surface of
France, he contrived not to be instrumental to the death of any
suspect. " The revolutionary Committee called on me for
blood," said he, in speakirg of this terrible epoch, " I sent it
ink in its place. "—Memorial de Rouen.
QUEEN ANNE'S LOVE FOR HER CONSORT.—
Her friendships were flames of extravagant passion, ending in
indifference or aversion. Her love to the Prince seemed, in
ea
for the eye of the world, to be prodigiously great ; and great as
was the passion of her grief, her stomach was greater
that very day he died she ate three very large and hearty meals,
so that one would think that as other persons' grief takes away
their appetites, her appetite took away her grief. Nor was it
less remarkable where there was so great an appearance of
love, the peculiar pleasure she took before his funeral in set-
tling the order of it, and naming the persons that were to
attend, and placing them according to their rank and to the
rules of precedence, which was the entertainment she gave
herself every day till that solemnity was over.—Correspon-
dence of the Duchess of Marlborough.
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STATE OF IRELAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, OCT. 25.
" Thy favourites grow not up by fortune's sport,
Or from the crimes or follies of a Court ;
On the firm basis of desert they rise,
From long-tried faith, and friendship's holy ties."

ADDISON.

I stated in a former communication, some facts elucidatory
of the state of public opinion on this side of the Channel.
These facts, consisted, for the most part, of incidents arising
out of the formation and progress of the " Precursor Society"
—of the effects, already becoming manifest, of the last Tithe
Act, on all classes of the community ; and of the altered tone,
and new grounds of agitation taken by the friends of Reform
in this country. And the inference deducible from such a
state of public feeling was stated to be, that Liberal policy
had made considerable advances ; and was in the ascendant.;
and consequently that the present Government continued to
be popular, notwithstanding the doctrine of " measures not
men," had come under private and public discussion since the
close of the last Session.

I now undertake to give you an epitome of opinions collected
respecting the great conflict between the Whig and Tory party
throughout the empire, and the reasons assigned, by many
well informed persons here, why that conflict remains so long
doubtful and undecided.

The Conservative party ( I shall not write Tory, for I think
that party, as such, is almost extinct) has continued, by some
means or other, to be in favour with a greater portion of the
Press than ever before supported them. There may be some
doubt as to the truth of this assertion, as regards England and
Scotland, but there is no question about it as to Ireland. The
circulation of those Journals that support Conservatism here,
is much greater than that of those supporting Liberal princi-
ples. Ad to this circumstance may, in a great measure, be
ascribed the slow progress made by the principles of the pre-
sent Government amongst the well disposed and disinterested
class of Protestants, whose greatest fault consists in their sub-
mission to that prejudice which confines their view to one side
of the question. There are, however, two influences just
now in operation, which will go very far to remove this ob-
stacle. The first is the appeal contained in the new Tithe
Act, already adverted to, to the self-interest of the landlords
in general, and to the consistency of those Protestant Whigs in
particular, who always said it was unjust to exact the means of
supporting their religious establishment from their Catholic
fellow-countrymen. The second is the Report of the Railway
Commissioners, containing a mine of statistical information,
never before attempted to be worked to any practical use or
benefit. You are aware it has stirred up a new and very
legitimate sort of agitation, or discussion, between those who ad-
vocate the views of the Commissioners, and those who fear their
projects and speculations in that way may be injured. The
immediate result of this agitation will be a diffusion of the
facts contained in the Reports, which, independently of other
consequences, must be productive of respect for the know-
ledge and intelligence of its authors. Whether their sugges-
tions, or the projects of the private Companies, will be ulti-
mately successful, and carried into effect, need not now he
determined. But so much real information respecting our
moral and physical resources will be circulated, and so much
light thrown upon these matters, as cannot fail to produce
salutary effects, by removing many prejudices—more particu-
larly as the Report has been planned and executed on princi-
ples altogether unconnected with party politics. The at-
tempt made to brand it with the character of a job seems to
have originated in our habitudes, under the old system,
and the belief that a tendency to such practices is
not yet sufficiently discountenanced. But the result of the
meeting at Cork, where Mr. Quin's candid avowal of the
motives of the Commissioners produced so favourable an im-
pression, will greatly facilitate this plan of reform and im-
provement. It is to be regretted that there are not many si-
milar works of merit, as auxiliaries of the good cause, to be im-
pressed upon public attention. On the contrary, many of the
"best possible instructors" are otherwise employed than in
diffusing useful knowledge. The tone assumed, and argu-
ments put forward by some of the Radical prints, so far from
affording such an auxiliary, either misinform the public, or in-
duce them to suspect that these prints are under Tory influ-
ence. Whether such a suspicion be well founded or not, one
thing is pretty clear, that the Liberal party are deficient in
political tactique, and culpable in not adopting some means of
preventing the appearances of instability in the Government ;
which circumstance alone, during the last three years,
has prevented many of those who always respect the
Lowers that be from signifying their adhesion. But
it may be asked, how can this be done ?—how such ap-
pearances of unfixedness prevented ? Certainly not by
bribery nor by any other undue influence, directly or indi-
rectly exercised ; but by the Liberal party comporting them-
selves so, that any independent friend, no matter of what po-
litics, may be obliged to report what they learn, and thus
publish, for their readers, those facts that are favourable to
Liberalism. They should, for instance, be more united amongst
themselves, and more unanimous in their resolves, and urgency
for Reform ; and give evidence of this by facts to be circu-
lated by the Press. They should be more circumspect than
they ever have been in the selection of their friends, and above
all in not permitting, so far as they can prevent it, false notions
to be set afloat as to their ulterior views and proceedings. This
is a point on which they have been deficient and weak in advo-
cates, and support ; and consequently more liable to those
charges which, when uncontradicted, create much prejudice.
Why not put forward at once a declaration of the limits within
which Reform should be bounded ; and thus avowing man-
fully the extent of the finality Reform to which the will
advance, take the sense of the nation on the subject. It is the
more necessary, inasmuch as ever since the formation of the
Grey administration, in 1830 ; and more particularly since the
modification of that Cabinet, under the Premiership of Lord
Melbourne, Reformers have been assailed with every species
of vituperation, from certain quarters, as abettors of Popery,
and enemies to the principles of the Revolution of 1688.
They have been accused of violent revolutionary movements ;
and of pursuing such courses as must inevitably lead to
changes foreign to the spirit, frame, construction, and safety
of the British Constitution. They have been accused, in
fact, of nothing less than a disposition to create anarchy,
and resolve society into its primary elements.l Yet all
these charges are most easily refuted ;_ au puain affairs, or
to them being suggested by the positiofinrsot fb
by the
the condition in which they are placed,
mismanage-
ment and corruption of the party that had so long the manage-
and secondly, by the perversncss of the same
ment of them ;
party, that will not even now submit to a thorough and com-
plete Reform. This state of things places the present Minis-
ters under difficulties which no other ever had to contend with.
They hold their ilaces, not by means of Court intrigue or
repoiliderance in an unreformed Parliament ; but
great party p
public opinion, clearly and decidedly developed
by virtue of
Not by the unanimous opinion of the people
in their favour.
of England it is true • for if so there would be no gleam
of hope at all remaining.. 2 to the Tories ; but by the. inclination
of an almost equipoised balance of approbation in that part of
Kingdom, together with an overwhelming demon-
the United
stration
in Ireland, testified unequivocally by more than two-
thirds of our representatives. Under ordinary circumstances,
such a
majority of Irish supporters alone ought not, perhaps,
to be regarded as a good criterion, or a legitimate ground for
Ministers to rest upon in the government of this vast empire.
But when we recollect what have
been the embarassments op-
posint
, the formation of any strong Government since the
,
death of Lord Liverpool—that these embarassments arose out
of the struggles on behalf of civil and religious liberty, and
presented themselves most unequivocally on the side of Ireland
_that the growing
power of civil and religious liberty through-
out the United Kingdom, compelled th strongest Govern-
it that existed for the last dozen years, to repeal the Test
and Corporation Acts in 1828—and that Ireland, alone and
single-handed, compelled the same Government to grant
Emancipation,b contrary to the avowed principles and prejudices
of its chief members, Wellington and Peel, in the following
year.
.When we recollect that the representatives of Ireland
were mainly instrumental in obtaining Parliamentary and Cor-
porate Reform for England and Scotland a few years after;
and that it was the necessity of legislating, for Ireland on anti-
hthisati,naabtiltiltiye
gtoeuree:
Tory principles, that compelled
confessing
Robert
.Peel to abandon
the helm of the State in 1835, .
in it. And when, again, we call to mind
re-
tain
election in 1837, this country not being at the time excited
by any appeal to their national prejudices or predilections, and
being actuated by no other motive or feeling than a desire to
support the Queen and i
Reform, an unprecedentedly large
number of Liberal and independent Members were sent to the
House of Commons in support of both. When, in addition
to these reminiscences, the transcendent fact, attested by Sir
Robert Peel at Merchant Tailors' Hall, is recollected, namely
—That Reform had so completely changed the nature of our
polity, that Members of Parliament, and Ministers of the
Crown, could no longer expect to hold their places by the
same tenures by which they were wont to retain them—and
that many of the precedents that both relied upon for support
heretofore, could be no longer of authority. When those
things are borne in mind, and with the firm support it has
from the Liberals, the present Ministry may be regarded as
placed beyond the reach of faction and petty jealousy or dis-
appointment. But though thus protected against the assaults
of their opponents they may laugh at their manoeuvres, they
should not be silent under their reproaches. But reproaches
and taunts of the nature mentioned have been frequently
cast upon them, and they have seldom been gravely and autho-
ritatively repelled, though frequent opportunities of doing so
have presented themselves in Parliament and elsewhere. The

propriety, and indeed the necessity of doing so, is the greater
!00, because in the Liberal camp there are undoubtedly some
iridividials, whose zeal for thorough Reform, getting above
their. discretion, gives colour to the imputation of wild and in-
considerate innovation • while the policy and duty of the pre-
sent Government admonish' them not to despise the aid of such
individuals, much less treat them as undeserving the attention
due to such part of her Majesty's subjects. It may be, easily
understood that I here allude only to such men as I, eargus
O'Connor or Mr. Oastler, and others of that class in England,
and to a few of those who aim at similar extremes in Ireland.
The conduct of such men does excite prejudices against the
party whom they seem to support. But it is the duty of the
leading Whigs, and their friends, to avail themselves of every
opportunity for disabusing the public mind of the prejudices
s-. 0 excited. And yet there i
are few instances in which they
I've done so in explicit and satisfactory terms; and without
displeasing some of their most strenuous friends. When Lord
John Russell some time ago opposed the Ballot, he did so in
s
ter—
•, so repulsive, and regardless of public feeling on the
subject,
as to give offence to great numbers of the Liberal party.
Not so the Marquis of Normanby, the other day, when Mr.
Shaw provoked him to an expression of his sentiments on the
great moral revolution now going forward. " The Recorder,"
said his Excellency, " alluded to the apprehension which lie
thinks
must be felt;- of the many' tyrannizing over the
I few.' I confess I have no such apprehension ; but, if I
should be convinced, that in those days of enlightenment, of

general information and education, I was wrong in the confi-
dence which I have placed in the unbounded loyalty
and attachment to the spirit of the Constitution of ray
fellow-subjects ; and that I should feel myself obliged
to take my stand by the principles of that Constitution,
I feel I might do so not the less successfully because I had
given them my confidence, for I believe that in those days,
there is no considerable proportion of persons so ignorant and
unenlightened as not to see that the true interests of all mixed
communities are involved in mutual protection ; and that
those interests are best secured and preserved by the observance
of peace and order, and the recognition of the true and legiti-
mate gradations of society." These sentiments and expressions,
evidently unpremeditated, and elicited only by the pert philo-
sophy of the political Recorder, deserve to be stereotyped in
letters of gold, as containing a plain answer to, and a dignified
refutation of, all the charges brought, from time to time,
against his Excellency's movements, and against that reform
and improvement of which he is so efficient and distinguished
a promoter. It is only on such occasions as that just men-
tioned, when all portions of the public Press are interested in
publishing what takes place, that the public at large are in-
formed of the views and sentiments of Reformers. Those
who confine themselves to the perusal of Tory papers, are,
when Parliament is not sitting, deprived of all information as
to the " sayings and doings" of the opposite party, for their
Journals have adopted a practice, very beneficial to their party
purposes, of publishing but one side of all questions, except
such as are to the prejudice of their opponents. A very re-
markable instance of this kind of Machiavelian policy, or Tory
tactics, has recently occurred ; a meeting was held in Water-
ford, on Saturday last, to consider the Report of the Railway
Commissioners. It was got up for the purpose of disparaging
that Report ; but, the independent people of Waterford de-
feated the intention, after much discussion favourable to
the Report, by adjourning the meeting without passing any of
the resolutions, which are said to have been concocted in, and
sent down from this city. A different account, however, ap-
peared in the Mail of yesterday, with the view of keeping up
the hopes of its party ! Such manoeuvres ought to be exposed
and defeated.

MONEY AND CITY NEWS.

(FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS OF TITIS DAY.)

TIME S.—The transactions in the funds generally have not
been of much importance to-day, and the prices of Consols
have been rather steady. They closed at 93 to 1 for money
4
and account. India Stock, however, was depressed, leaving
off at 258 to 9. The accounts from India are looked upon as
most unfavourable by the jobbers. Bank Stock was lower,
and closed at 2021 to 3f. Exchange bills, 655. to 675. prem.
There was little doing in the foreign house, and quotations
underwent little alteration. Spanish Actives, with the May
Coupons, were 17? to i; Portuguese Five_ per Cents, 314 to
2+; the Three per Cents, 203- to 1 ; Brazilian were 78 to 4-;
Mexican, 22 to 3- ; Colombian, 231- to 4+ ; Dutch Two-and--a-
Half per Cents., 54 to ; the Five per Cents., 1003- to.
Railway shares were dull. Great Western, 13 to 14 ; Lon-
don and Birmingham, 84 to 5 ; Manchester and Birmingham,
1+ to :I- prem. ; Brighton, 2i to -1 discount.
The accounts from Peru fully confirm those reported from
Guayaquil. Orbegosa, appointed President by Santa Crua
himself, who espoused his cause against Salaberry, who was
defeated and expelled, had joined in the revolution, and was
on his march from Lima to join General Nieto, who com-
manded in the district of Truxillo, and was at the head of the
movement in which four of the northern departments had
joined, proclaiming their secession from the confederation.
The revolution appeared to be popular and was spreading.
Santa Cruz had rendered himself unpopular in Piura by his
decrees for shutting Payta, its port, against foreign trade,
which is said to have been extremely prejudicial to the peo-
ple. Intelligence from Lima was anxiously looked for, as
upon the issue of the rising there, the success of the revolu-
tion was considered mainly to depend. Santa Cruz had
some Bolivian troops in that city, and General Miller held
possession for him of the castles of Callao, so that the con-
federates would scarcely succeed in making much impres-
sion there. Santa Cruz himself was at Arequipa at the head
of a strong body of forces, waiting for news of the arrival and
point of disembarcation of the expedition from Chili, which it
is now clear had sailed for Peru in pursuance of a combined
plan of operations with the chiefs of the rising in the north.
That expedition consisted of 4,000 or 5,000 men. The port
of Payta was a great station for American whalers in the Pa-
cific, a list of considerable numbers of which that had entered
since the commencement of the present year is given, with an
account of their operations, which bad been successful.
Advices from Buenos Ayres had been received to the 17th,
and from Monte Video to the 25th, of August. There had
been an attempt at revolution in the former place, which had
failed, and a number of arrests had in consequence taken
place. The markets were well supplied with goods from
Monte Video, by means of the whale boats and small river
craft, which contrived to elude the blockading squadron.
Monte Video was hard pressed by Riveira and his troops, and
a great scarcity of provisions began to be felt.

CH RONIC L E.—No further depression has been expe-
rienced in the Consol Market by the publication this morning
of the intelligence from the East Indies and Canada, but, on
the contrary, its appearance is rather firmer ; and the uneasi-
ness which the reports on Saturday occasioned seems generally
to be gradually wearing away.
The market for shares remains in much the same state as
last week, the quotations being almost stationary, and business
rather limited.

We are without any arrivals to-day besides the American
packet, aid the voluminous accounts both from the United
States and Canada, which appeared in the Morning Chronicle,
have wholly forestalled the contents of the private letters.

POST.—The mercantile advices which have been received
from the United States by the Washington have for the most
part been fully anticipated by the previous arrivals, though the
tone of the information which they convey inclines us to ima-
gine that the trade of the United States generally was gra-
dually approaching to a more healthy condition.
The Share Market continues very dull, from the circum-
stance that buyers who will pay up the bills are difficult to be
found.

HERALD.—The commercial advices from the United
States (for political news we have not any) have been for the
most part anticipated by the private correspondence which was
published this day in the Morning Herald: in fact, during the
short lapse of time between the present and the last advices
it could not be expected that we should receive much impor-
tant information. The New Orleans Bee states that the sea-
son of business was approaching, and under better auspices
than have attended the close of any autumn within its memory.
The banks were to commence the payment of specie on the
first day of the new year ; but it is added, that long before that
day arrives specie will, in effect, be in circulation in sufficient
quantities for all the purposes of domestic economy, provided
that the municipal authorities adopt suitable measures to with-
draw their paper from circulation.
By this arrival we have no further advices from our Cana-
dian possessions ; a private letter from New York, however,
which has been received at the North and South American
Coffee House, states that the advices from Canada on the Bth
instant mention that many were of opinion that the Earl of
Durham would retain his high office. Sir George Arthur
and several of the leading men from Toronto arrived in Mon-
treal on the Thursday evening previous, on their way to meet
the Earl of Durham at Quebec.

The alarm which prevailed on Saturday respecting the po-
litical aspects of this country, both in India and our North
American settlements, having rather abated, the British Funds
have acquired rather a firmer tone than they exhibited at the
close of the last week, although there has been no actual ad.
vances in the quotations.

The following fiendish act has been committed at
Ash Backing. On Sunday week Mr. Stanford, of Ash Hock-
ing Hall, had one of a stall of nine bullocks, which were fat-
tening, die. Thinking that the animal died from inflamma-
tion, a very common effect of over-feeding, he did not pay par-
ticular attention to the circumstances of its death. On Satur-
day and Sunday lust two other beasts died, and several pigs
which had eaten the refuse of the meal given to the animals
alio died. The contents of the animals' stomachs were ana-
lysed, and found to contain arsenic. On Tuesday a fourth
bullock died under the same circumstances. The supp,‘;;iien
is that some diabolical villain had introduced
-poi;on into
the food from a feeling of revenge. Altl'..oug hno person is
yet in custody, strong suspicions arf, entertained against cer-
tain parties, and hopes are held out of bringing home the
facts to therm.—Suffolk Chronicle.

On Friday a fine sirl, aged eleven, daughter of Mr.
Munu, grocer, of bogside, expired, from hydrophobia. Some
weeks ago the deceased had been in a neighbour's house,
‘N hen a strange dog entered the apartment and bit her and
the servant maid. The dog was secured and despatched. It
was hoped no serious harm would result, but two days before
her death she was attacked with spasms and other appalling
symptoms of the disease, the progress of which was not to be
baffled by the first medical skill. She retained her reason and
self-possession to the last.—Derry Journal.

DRArEit's MEN.—The Linen Drapers of this
town have agreed to the propositions of the young men in
their employ, viz. to close their shops from the Ist of Novem-
ber until the last day in February, at eight o'clock in the evens
ing, Saturdays excepted, on which day the shops will remain
open until nine—a very praiseworthy resolution, which we have
no doubt will be followed throughout tho country.—Essex
herald. .--_l A Correspondent writing on the " Linen Draper's
question," observes, that " the next best thing to not over-
working the linen drapers' shopmen, would be certainly not to
work them at all—at least in places which appear much more
appropriate for females than for these calico-complaining sons
of the counter. Measuring mode, tying up tape, smoothing
silk, rolling up ribbon, clipping cloth, cutting calico, selling
stays—all these operations arc properly the work of women, to
whom the sleek, simpering sdns of the shop, should at length
give place. The cause of justice, as well as of morality, would
be benefited by the change."]

Great interest is excited by the preparations for a
tremendous fight, which is expected to take place in this town
on Thursday next. Already are there strong symptoms of
determination on either side, but the movement is most evi-
dent in the Tory camp. It is whispered that the men are all
eager for the contest, and resolved to conquer. Some pre-
tend to say they are to be led to the field after the manner of
horses enticed forward to be caught by a wisp of hay. This
may be but a mere conjecture, arising from the simple circum-
stance of several butchers' trays having been observed, within
the last few evenings, entering the doors of certain public-
houses, well laden with line legs of mutton. It may be but a
jest, yet we know that " many a true word is spokenin jest."
There can be no doubt that men fight the better in m»ny
cases, for a good feeding.— Warwick Advertiser,