The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-08 00:00:00

ANECDOTES, &c.

FRENCH HERO,ISM.—The following heroic trait
of generosity in a French Officer, at the Battle of
Waterloo, is related by an eye-witness of the cir-
cumstance :—" A British Colonel of Dragoons,
who had lost his right arm in the Peninsula, was
leading his regiment to the charge in this battle,
when a French Officer rode furiously up to at-
tack him ; the arm of the foe was raised, his aim
was taken, when the sword, though on the point
of a fatal descent, fell harmless at his side : tiee-
ing the Englishman defenceless,the gallant French-
man checked himself even in the heat of his blood,
and went in quest of a more equal enemy."
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.—Goldsmith was at the
theatre one evening during the representation of
one of his own Comedies, at a certain part of
which some of the audience expressed consider-
able disapprobation.—" Ah!" said Oliver, turn-
ing to a friend who was near him, " they have
found that out have they ? Well, 1 knew it was
bad long before they did ;" and began to hiss
most heartily.
DON PEDRO I , EMPEROR OF BRAZIL, is the
oldest son, of the present King of Portugal.—
The Empress, Leopoldina, is a daughter of the
Emperor of Austria, and sister to Maria Louisa,
widow of the late Emperor Napoleon of France.
The Emperer is about 30 years of age, is a well-
made genteel man in appearance, and has a good•
looking Portuguese face. The Empress has a
good-natured German face, and as for her person,
there is enough of it to make up for any defi-
ciency. of beauty. She has the reputation of being
very amiable, and is much beloved. They
have five daughters. The residence of the
Imperial Family is called the Palace of Saint
Christophe, situated three or four miles from
the city, on a little eminence, in the centre
of one of the richest vales in the world. This
valley extends a few miles, when the country be.
comes mountainous and broken. Foreigners sel-
dom make excursions further than eight or ten
miles from the city. Many of the most opulent
inhabitants of the city have country establish.
ments in this vicinity, and to a stranger, in par-
ticular, it is a delightful ride among- them. The
fields and gardens, in a high state of cultivation,
are planted with coffee and the sugar-cane, the
orange-tree, plantains, and bananas, the mamee
apple, pines, &c., besides a profusion of the
fansily of Flora. Don Pedro keeps up a pretty
large retinue, and at times has his company of
life guards and many attendants with bitn ; but
he frequently rides out in a pluin dress. TII e
Empress often accompanies him on horseback,
and she invariably rides astride, and gallops like
a trooper.

A PRIEST meeting a party of soldiers belong-
ng to a neighbouring army, who were on the
look out for -booty, saluted the leader, saying to
iirn, 46 May God grant you peace." The officer,
ittle pleased with this wish, replied, " May God
ake purgatory from you."

SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS,
MANUFACTURES, AND COMMERCE.

' The Members of this Institution 11.4voiust re-
commenced their labours, and if we.rnfty judge from the nume-
rous variety of, communications which have been received
during the recess, they may anticipate a bwsy session. It can-
not but be a proud satisfaction to this Establishment, that
neither time, which is ever a sad enemy to projections of every
description, or the continual raising up of other societies, who
' do not in the least scruple to establish their finindation'on seve.
ral of the otkjects of this body, in any aray./essen the increasing
extension of the parent Institution. The public view the more
moral phalanx with their best wishes for success, while their
pursuits are laudable; but the thorki of this Society command,
and we trust they ever will; that unbounded patronage it enjoys,
In the mechanical department a plan for.boring and-blasting
rocks, a method of letting go
,an anchor, a t.ble of a peculiar
construction, a window which may be cleauctl without rick to
the operator, a fire escape, a wheel differing from those in use,
a marine cravat, a supporter for invalids, a blhul ft circular;
window, with many other efforts of .ingenuity,: have hien se.
ceived. Several valuable papers; which will no doubt tent to
assist that most impOriant branch of science, :A. gricyiture, have,
likewise been announced. • • •
We were glad to see at the first meeting of the Society many
of the most impartial and warm advocates of the objectsof the.
Institution.

SPORTING INT ELLIGENCE.

STATE or THE ODDS.--:

BETTING-ROOM, Nov. 7.
t BY.
20 to 1 agst Sophist
20 to 1 agst Advance c.
20 to I agst Twatty
20 to 1 agst Tredille c.
25 to 1 agst Canvas.
KS.
10 to 1 agst Parasol
14 to 1 agst Sister to Eve
18 to 1 agst Elizabeth.

13 to 2 agst Monarch
9 to 1 agst Bolivar

15 to 1 ags t Br. to Cedric
18 to 1 agst Zuleika c.
20 to 1 agst The General

1) et

15 to 2 agst Pawn
8 to 1 agst Sister to Castanea
9 to 1 agst f. out of Master
Henry's darn
DONCASTEII
7 to 1 agst Bedlamite
8 to 1 agst Crusader

ST. LEGER.
18 to 1 agst Belzoni
25 to 1 agst Br. to Barefoot.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.
MEETINGS OF HOUNDS IN THE PRESENT WEER.
N. FAL—Mr. Nicoll's Hounds, on Thursday, at Boidre
Chinch ; Saturday, at Paultons.
The East Sussex Hounds, on Thursday, at Black Brook
Wood ; Saturday, at Eastlicilthy.
Mr. Codrington's Hounds, on Friday, at Southlcigh.
The Holderness Hounds, on Thursday, at Brand/button
Moor; and Saturday, at North Dalton.
Sir T. Sykes's Hounds, on Thursday, at Castle Howard Inn.
Warwickshire Hunt..-2 Mr. Wray's Hounds, on Thursday,
at Itchington Heath ; Saturday, at Winipston Bridge.

The ainual Races for the MIL Cup took place on Tuesday
last at Abbottsdon Down, near Alresford, when five horses
started, three heats; the first was won by Mr. Legg's gray
horse; and the second and third heats were decided in favour
or Mr. Vine's (of Otterhourne), chesnut horse, consequently he
was entitled to the cup, which was a handsome and valuable
one, and Mr. Jolliffe's (of Candover), roan mare, to a hand-
some jockey whip, as being the second best ; there was good
sport, and the race after the first heat was well contested ; there
was a great assemblage of spectators on the down. After the
races upwards of 200 gentlemen and farmers sat down to a most
excellent dinner served up with great taste by Mr. Laine, of the
Swan Inn, Alresford, and the wine and other liquors flowed in
copious libations ; after dinner many loyal and appropriate
toasts were given, and songs sung, and the evening was spent
in the most pleasurable humour.

DEATH OF TORTOISE.—On Tuesday last, as
_Sir John
Cope was mounted on his favourite hunter Tortoise, and
about to start with the bounds at fence, the animal gave a leap
forward, and dropped down dead; he was in his 19th year.
His present Majesty once offered 600 guineas for him. We
understand Sir John means to have his skin stuffed.
DEATH OF AN EXTRAORDINARY PONY.—OD the 25th
ult. a pony, remarkable
in the
its diminutive size and compara-
tively great age, died
.the possession of Consett Dryden,
Esq. of Lazenby, near Stockton. It was only 40 inches in
height, and he lived to the age of 36 years--being a very rare
instance of extraordinary longevity in so small an animal.

It is said that the University of St. Andrew
gained 2001. per annum by selling medical de-
grees.

COURT OF CHANCERY—(Tars DAT.)
THE BANKRUPT LAWS.
v
. Mr. KNIGHT, this day, applied to the LORD
CHANCELLOIt to issue an order, authorising five
gentlemen, Solicitors of this Court, to work a
Country Commission of Bankruptcy, which ~had
been taken out against a person at Manchester,
without the attendance of three Barristers. The
application was made on affidavit, but the amount
of property was not stated, the ground assigned
for the motion being the great saving that would
take place by granting it.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, it would •belt
most dangerous .precedent to make such an order
as that prayed for, as any person might make •
himself a bankrupt, and place over his propet4y-
whom he liked. Here no account of property"
was given, and therefore he was bound to dismiss-
the petition.

TME LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Nov. 8, 1825.

[MORNING POST.]
At a late hour last night we received, by Ex-
press, all the French Papers which were missing:
that' is to say, those from the 3d to the 6th inst.
with the Etoile of Sunday. The Constitutionnel,
after announcing the return of Mr. Iluskisson to
England, says that in his communications with
the agents of the Ministers, and with the Mini-
sters themselves, for the purpose of concluding a
commercial treaty with France, that able States-
man developed principles which they admitted
to be perfectly just, but the application of which
they considered impracticable. M. de Villele is
said to have declared that in the present situa-
tion of France and of its elective system the dis-
cussion of a new law of Customs was impossible ;
that the rooted prejudices of every province pro-
duced a degree of confusion from which no
regular result could be expected ; and that the
Deputies, obliged to submit to the despotism
of local interests, would never venture to reach
so elevated an object as the protection and the
vast ensemble of general interests. It is even said,
that an influential Member of the French Cabi-
net being hard pressed by Mr. Iluskisson, frankly
told him—" What can we do? If we act-as we
ought to do, w e shall endanger our political exist-
ence. The mere lowering of the duty on iron,
for instance, would make us lose the elections in
most of the Departments ; for iron masters are at
the head of the revolutionary democracy, and we
are obliged to manage as we can with all kinds of
interests in order not to compromise our own."
Mr. Iluskisson, adds the Constitutionel, " smiled
with pity at this singular confession, and set off
for England with a poor opinion of a Ministry,
which lies at the mercy of every individual pre-
tensionland is not strong enough to be ❑ational."

[BRITISH PRESS.]
A French Ministerial Paper states, that a Com-
mercial Treaty was signed on the 31st of October
by •Count de St. Cricq, and Baron Mackau on one
side, and the Senators Daumec and Rouannez
and Colonel Frimont on the other ,side. This
Treaty would not, of course, be officially pub-
lished until it has been duly ratified by the Hay-
tian Government. The following, however, is
understood to be a correct outline of its provi-
sions: it is founded on the principle of the entire
and perfect independence of the new Repub-
lic. It explains the first article of the Royal
Ordinance of the 17th of April, so that in
opening the ports of Hayti to the vessels of all
nations, no kind of obstacle is raised to the free
exercise of the right belonging to the Hayden Go-
vernment by the simple 'fact of its independence,
to shut or open its ports to nations friendly or
hostile to the Republic. This treaty also extends
to the whole island the privilege of paying only
half the duties of customs on commodities im-
ported or exported in French vessels. By the
Royal Ordinance, this privilege was reserved
only for that part of the island which was for-
merly French. Finally, the treaty fixes the duty
payable on the importation of all Ilaytian pro-
duce, except sugar, into France, at an interme-
diate amount between the duty levied on the pro-
duce of the French colonies, and that on produce
of foreign origin. The other commercial rela-
tions of the two nations are regulated on similar
principles of reciprocity.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
To judge from the dearth, or rather insipidity,
of foreign news lately, one would infer that there
is no agitating question on the lapis at the pre-
sent moment, though the affairs of Greece and
those of Spain are of a character to claim the
earnest attention of the leading European Powers.
Though those of 'Spain may have been given up
for the present as a hopeless case, it is not to be
supposed that the interests of Greece are viewed
in the same light ; and we have reason to -think,
on the contrary, that they have been for some
time past the subject of a very active correspond-
ence. However, not much progress can be made
in any discussions embracing the fate of that
country, till after the return of the Emperor of
Russia to his capital ; and though' there are advices
in the German Papers which arrived yesterday
from St. Petersburgh to the 30th ult. they throw
no light on the movements of his Imperial Ma-
jesty. As the winter has already set in, his re-
turn cannot be delayed much longer; and when
Lord Strangford left this country for St. Peters-
burgh, it was probably arranged that his Lord-
ship should arrive about the time that the Emperor
was expected. Mr. S. Canning, whose departure
was almost simultaneous with that of Lord Strang-
ford, would reach the Turkish capital in suffi-
cientlime to lay before the Divan the first results
of the first conferences between our Ambassador
and the Russian Ministry; and he will, no doubt,'
press them upon the consideration of the Ottoman
Cabinet with an energy to which-that Power has
been little acenstorried hitherto. His apporetinent.
to the mission is, in our opinion, a sure indication
of the policy which our Government is determin-
ed to adopt in the dispute between the Porte
and the Greeks ; and that his instructions are to
urge. with all the means in his power, an arrange-
ment such as this country could avow, and which
would be in unison with the rest of her policy—
we have as little doubt of as we have of our exist-
ence. His success is the less problematical, in
consequence of the harmony of views that ap-
pears to subsist between England and Russia
with respect to the destinies of Greece. It will
be recollected that in the note of Mr. Secretary
Canning, in reply to that of the Greek Provi-
sional Government, he made frequent and point-
ed allusions to the friendly sentiments entertain-
ed by the Emperor Alexander towards the
Greeks. When the Porte is thoroughly con-
vinced, as it-soon will be, that the harmony be-
t Ween the English and Russian Cabinet is no
feint, its pride, as was often the case before, will
succumbvto its interests ; and when it sees two
such great Powers actively and zealously co-
operating for the purpose of procuring reasonable
terms for the Greeks, it will not be long before

it acknowledges the necessity of yielding, with
as good a grace as possible, to their wishes.

[Til E TIM Es.]
Among the great variety of new projects which
were lately started, to exercise the wits of the
enterprising, and to employ the capital of the
rich, we believe there were two or three directed
to cut canals through the isthmus which connects
the northern and southern continents of America.
The Republic of Mexico some time ago discovered
that it had not only mines to dispose of to British
merchants, but barren territory which would be
extremely benefitted by a navigable canal to be
formed by British capital. The Mexican Su-
preme Government, therefore, ordered a survey to
be made of the Isthmus of 'l'ehuantipec, between
the Pacific and the Atlantic, to ascertain the prac-
ticability of the proposed communication ; and we
have, in the Sol of the 29th and 30th of Au-
gust last, the report of a Don Tadeo Ortiz
on the subject. Without the assistance of a
topographical map, it would be impossible to
make our leaders understand the line of the pro-
posed work, or the facilities which would attend,
and the advantages which would follow, its ac-
complishment. It may, however, be some in-
formation to intended canal subscribers to learn;
that in the opinion of the Mexican commission
the project is perfectly practicable, though we
should think the tide of British enterprize must
be again at its flood before it overflows into such
a channel. In looking at the Isthmus of Panama,
and comparing the statements of travellers, we
observe four lines of communication between the
two oceans, which would appear more eligible
than that which would pass through the Mexican
States, and were it as easy and secure for fo-
reigners to collect the dues on a canal which they
had made, as to sell the ore from a mine which
they had purchased,there can be no doubt thatthis
great enterprise,which would excite the admiration
and improve the commerce of the world,would have
been among the foremost of our late speculations.
By the Sol of the 20th August we find that the
editor of a journal called the Philanthropist had
been banished from the Mexican Republic for
publishing the Pope's enclyclic letter without the
permission of the Executive Government. Thus,
as we have before seen, the authority of the
Tiara is not only despised and resisted by a Pro-
testant Sovereign, like the King of the Nether-
lands, but by a Catholic Government, like that
of Mexico, when it attempts to interfere in tem-
poral matters. In the latter case, the severity
of the civil power was, perhaps, even carried too
far, in not only condemning the doctrine of the
Pope, but punishing the inadvertence of his
agent—especially when it is considered that the
Government itself (with a boldness which did it
honour, and shewed its secure reliance on its own
power) afterwards published the obnoxious docu-
ment with a counteracting commentary. We find
no other news in the file of Mexican papers which
we have received up to the 3d September.

[NEW TIMES.]
Among the diversity of sentiments which must
prevail on a subject of so much importance as
the open dissemination of blasphemy in the heart
of the metropolis, we are not surprised to find
that there are persons equally opposed to Carlile
and to those who would put him under the re-
straint of the law. One letter, from a writer
avowing a deep interest in the cause of religion,
and avowing it, so far as we can judge, with sin-
cerity, we think proper to acknowledge, although
its style is altogether unsuitable for a newspaper.'
The sum and substance of the writer's argument
appear to be tills, that so great and overpower-
ing is the truth of the Gospel, that not only it
must prevail without any aid from human autho-
rity, but that the interposition of human force
being contrary to the spirit of peace,. which
the GospeL.breathes, must be injuriousAo,, in-
stead of promoting the knowledge of the truth.
Upon the theological grounds of this opinion we
must decline entering ; because, as we have said,
we deem such discussions unfit for a newspaper ;
but we treat of public occurrences open and in-
telligible to all men—of laws avowedly violated
and set at defiance. 'We say that it is a moral
offence to shock the virtuous feelings of virtuous
men, of all religious persuasions—that this is not
done by the reasoning powers of Carlile, but by
coarse, indecent, and indeed horrible attempts at
ridicule. It is not the putting down of his rea-
sons that we call for ; (indeed they sufficiently
put down themselves) but we do call for the sup-
ression of brutal mockery applied to that Being,
to whom we and the great majority ()lour coun-
trymen look up with emotions of the deepest
veneration and awe.