The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-17 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
The Earl of Carlisle, in Grosvenor-place, from his seat, Castle
Howard, Yorkshire; Viscount Ebrington, M.P., in Grosvenor-
square, from a tour; Earl Harewood, in Hanover-square, from
his seat in Yorkshire; Sir Hugh Stewart, M.P., at Batt's Hotel,
Dover-street, from Ireland ; the Rev. C. and Mrs. Reaston Roder,
from their seat, near Chesterfield ; Earl Onslow, from his seat in
Surrey; Sir Robert Brownrigg, Bart., from his seat, near Ches-
terfield; Eyre Coote, Esq., M.P., at the Burlington Hotel, from
Hants; Messis. Gordon and Dunl, at ditto, from Glasgow;
Brackenbury, Esq., at ditto, from Manchester; Cave, Esq., at
ditto, from Liverpool; George Heneage, Esq., at ditto, fom
Lincolnshire ; J. Fardell, Esq., M.P., at Morley's Hotel, Cock-
spur-street, from a tour; J. Hunter, Esq.. at ditto, from Chat-
ham; Mr. and Mrs. Fordyce, in Brook.street, from the Conti-
nent ; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morris, and family, in Portman-
squary ; Mr. and Mrs. W. Camac, in Mansfield-street, from
Hastings.

DEPARTURES.
Lord F. Gower, for Oatlands ; Capt. Lindsay, from the British
Hotel, Jermyn-street for Brighton; Wm. Sebright, Esq., from
ditto, for Chatham ; Captain Gipps, from Morley's Hotel, Cock-
spur-street, for Canterbury ; J. Hampden, Esq., from ditto, for
Bath ; the Rev. Mr. Preston and Mrs. Boswell, from Warren's
Hotel, Regent-street, for Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. J. Moore, from
Pall-mall, for their seat in Cambridgeshire.

STEAM-CARRIAGES.

(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

Mr. Gurney's steam-carriages commenced running on
Tuesday between Cheltenham and Gloucester, on which
occasion the greatest interest was excited. At Chelten-
ham and along the road to Gloucester, an immense
crowd had collected to witness the starting of the first
carriage. It left the commissioners' yard about twelve
o'clock, and was propelled several hours through the prin-
cipal streets and roads in and about Cheltenham, appa-
rently to divide as much as possible the people, and at
the same time to gratify their curiosity. The carriage is
elegant and light in appearance, and constructed to carry or
draw, or both. On the steam-carriage were ten persons,
and in the vehicle attached to it, eight more. It con-
tinued running through the streets and Montpellier drives
until three o'clock, when it returned to the commissioners'
yard. The crowd by this time was divided, and after taking
in water and coke the carriage immediately started for
Gloucester ; it made the distance, nine miles, in 48 minutes ;
the motion was steady and uniform, the rate scarcely varying
perceptibly the whole distance. After taking in a fresh
supply of water and coke at Gloucester, it returned again
to Cheltenham, accompanied by several private close !
carriages and gentlemen on horseback. The most friendly
feeling was shown by every spectator, not only by the
better educated, but also in a peculiar manner by the
labouring classes, who really seemed anxious to re-
move
the impression that they were prejudiced against
machinery indiscriminately. Their friendly disposition
was pleasingly and most strongly expressed in several
cases, particularly when any persons from curiosity or ac-
cident came about or in the way of the carriage as it pro-
ceeded amongst them. The progress of the carriage was
at times necessarily very slow, particularly round the
corners of the streets and roads where the crowd had col-
lected in dense masses, and offered an opportunity to any
hostile or other feeling to show itself. The carriage was
regulated, stopped, and turned, with the most extraorainary
facility, and although it would have been difficult to have
driven quiet horses safely under similar circumstances, it is
most satisfactory to observe that not the slightest accident
occurred during the day,

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Some accounts have been circulated to-day of
extensive failures at Glasgow, but the best private letters
treat them as of very secondary importance. It appears
that, in the whole, three of the manufacturing houses
have stopped payment within the last ten days, one
of them of long standing, but all in very indifferent
credit for the last two years, se that the failures,
on the s pot, have excited very little surprise. The
immediate cause of the stoppage is believed to he the con-
traction by the local banks of their usual accommoda-
tion, in consequence of the uncertain state of public affairs,
which seldom fails to bring down those houses whose cre-
dit does not rest on a firm basis. Such houses may he
said, however, to owe their existence, as they do their fall,
to the Scotch system of banking,— Times.
At the annual meeting of the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce, on Monday last, the proposed new
tax raw cotton
di
aexaysasisent, a
taken
resolutioninto con-
swas unanimously passed to the effect that it be referred to
ier oaf tile dn. , per
and, lb
after on
of Directors to prepare a memorial, and to
take
rnecessary measures to oppose the proposed
the
all
tax; and the Boroughreeve, Messrs. G. W. Wooi,,
H. H. BIRLEY, W. GARNETT, and J. BRADSHAW, were
appointed as a deputation to wait on the CHANCELLOR
of the ExclaQuElt. with the memorial, without the least
possible delay. It was also agreed that a copy of the
resolutions should he forwarded the same evening to the
Members fur the county, that they might lay them before
defray the expenses of the Deputation, &c. was afterwards
the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. A subscription to
entered into. The meeting was attended by from fifty to
sixty of the principal cotton-merchants, spinners, and
manufacturers.

MANVFACTURING VOTER'S.—In the Lich-
field Reform petition, presented to the House on Friday,
and now
printed by order of the House, which petition is
from the Bailiffs, Magistrates, &c. of the said city, it is
stated that in 1790 the total of freeholders was estimated
at about three
ihundred, of whom forty only, or there-
abouts, were n respect of rent-charges of 40s. a•year
granted out
of lands ; that, and in order to create a
preponderating influence in two noble families in the
election of Members for Lichfield, about seven hundred
and thirty annuties, or rent-charges, not exceeding two
pounds and two shillings each, issuing out of lands in the
city and county of Lichfield, were, between the year 1799
and 1828, granted by two Peers of the realm to their
friends, tenants, and dependents, almost all of whom were
strangers to the city, and many of them living in distant
parts of the kingdom ; that the said rent-charges are fre-
quently charged in great numbers upon the same division of
land; for example, two fields, containing together twelve
and a half acres, and of the value of 601., are jointly
burdened with twenty-six rent-charges; and three fields,
of seven and a half acres, and of the value of 351., with
seventeen rent-charges ; and one field of 12 acres, of the
value of 501., with 22 rent-charges, or thereabouts ;
that the distinction between a freehold estate and a rent-
charge established by law, with respect to the elective
franchise in Ireland, is applicable to the city and county
of Lichfield, &c. Is not this enough to open the eyes of
thosewho are willing to be to their faults a little blind?