The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-06 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.
DONCASTER. ST. LEGER.
3 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Don John
7to 2 agst Colonel Peel's lon-4 to 1 taken
8 to 1 agst Mr. Parkins'sLanercost—taken
11 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's Grey Alomus—taken
13 to 1 agst Mr. Coombes's Cobham—taken
13 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Alzira.
17 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes s Appleton Lad
18 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Pucelle
20 to 1 agst 111 r. S. L. Fox's Jemmy Jumps

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STOCKTON RACES....._s4TURDAY.
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Matches excepted. T. Y. C. 6 Subs.
Mr. Smith's Sr. f. by Voltaire Cartwright 1
I's b. c. Cleanthes
Sweepstakesand6iiies,
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Mr. Attwood's
Mr. Robarts's br. c. by Phsician
Mr. Wilkins 's b. c. Clem o' the Clough .............................. 4
Mr. Simpson's br. f• Vexation
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Handicap Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added, for hunters bona
fide the property of Gentlemen .esiding within fourteen miles of
Stockton. The second saves his stake. Gentlemen riders
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WARWICK RACES.l—Tyr:mix%
The Guy Stakes of 50 sovs. each,
12 Subs. for three years 01011. Milo
Course.
Mr. Bristow's b. f. Balloon, Bst. llb ........................ Chapple 1
Mr. Mott's eh. c. Lustre, ............................. 2

The Leamington Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only 5 if de-
clared, &c., with 100 sovs. added by the town of Leamington.
Two mile course. 29 Subs., 13 of whom declared.
Mr. Meiklem's b. f. Modesty, 4 yrs, 7st. 111 b ...............Lye 1
Mr. Fowler's br. c. Heron, 5 yrs, Bst. 91b ...................... 2
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Osbal-
deston's b. c. Mahometan, 4 yrs, 7st. 81b. ; Captain Lamb's ch. c.
C3,11,i,t5-sCt.ha2tl,b4; yarnsd,
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Won by half a head.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 50 added. Heats, the tv. o mile

course.
Mr. Tomes's gr. g. Isaac, aged, 9st. 101 b Darling 1 1
Captain Lamb's br. c. by Falcon, 4 yrs, Bst. I lib ........ ... 2 dr
The Yeomanry Plate of 50 sovs., and 10 to the second. Two
mile course.
Mr. T. Coleman's b. g. The Monarch, 12st ...Capt. Chetwynd I
Mr. W. Stanley's ch. m. Genevieve, aged, 12st
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Lucas's
b. m. Maria, 4 yrs, 12st. ; Mr. W. Percock's b. g. Young Vivian,
4 yrs, 12st ; Mr. I'. Hadleigh's b. g. Mazeppa, 6 yrs, 12st. ; Mr.
R. Holloway's br. h. Sir Isaac, aged, 13st. 71b. ; Mr. J. Newman's
b. g. Doubtful, aged, I3st. 71b. ; and Mr. J. Watson's Moonraker,
aged, 12st. Won by about half a
length.
BETTING AT WARWICK ON THE ST. LEGER.
3 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Don John
7to 2 agst Colonel Peel's lon-4 to 1 taken
to I agst Mr. Parkins's Lanercost—taken
12 to agst Lord G. 13entinck's Grey Momus-rtaken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Coombes's Cobham
12 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Alzira
20 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Pucelle filly—taken freely

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adame Grisi and a host of talent, musical and
instrumental, are engaged for the Gloucester Musical Festival,
which commences on Tuesday next.
The Lincoln Gazette states that the landlord of the
second inn in the city has absconded, and that his re-appearance
was most anxiously desired by a large number of his suffering
neighbours.
On Tuesday an inquest was held in the Kingsland-
road on the body of Ann Burch, aged 36 years, which was
found floating in the Regent's Canal on Monday morning.
Thomas Burch, the husband of the deceased, stated that, ow-
ing to the drunken and profligate conduct of the deceased, be
was compelled to part from her in June last, but procured a
lodging for her. She was so addicted to the love of drink
that she frequently went out respectably dressed and returned
with scarcely a rag upon her. On Sunday morning she came
to his residence in a deplorable state, and he went to the work-
house and procured an order to have her taken in there. On
Monday morning, on his going to the workhouse to give the
order for the admission of deceased, he was informed that a
few minutes before the body of a woman had been taken in, it
having been found drowned in the Regent's Canal. He went
to view the body, and at once recognised it to be that of his
wife. The Coroner and jury had no doubt the deceased had
destroyed herself, but there being no evidence of the fact, they
returned a verdict of " Found drowned."

CHARGES OF LUNACY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

ESTEEMED Sta,—To illustrate the unnatural facilities
for imprisoning persons under the charge of insanity, which
cannot be too much exposed, too strongly deprecated, or
too effectually or speedily put an end t0,.1 will now, from
a number of cases within my knowledge, state one.—A
conscientious, able, and respectable medical gentleman, who
resides near a Public Lunatic Asylum, and being so is not
unfrequently sent for by the superintending officer in cises
where the opinion of a medical gentleman unconnected with
the Asylum is required. On one of such occasions, the
medical gentleman referred to was told a female had been
confined in a private house for a time, and in the place she
then was, for nearly a year, and that it was the intention of
her husband to remove her (to meet the rules of the public
Establishment) to another Lunatic Asylum for a time,
and then bring her back again! The medical gentleman,
as his practice was, felt no prejudice in respect to the
female's state, in consequence of her being where she was,
but was determined to decide correctly, regardless of what
others might have done ; lie was, however, at the com-
mencement, considerably annoyed by the keeper or nurse,
who with much apparent anxiety wanted to impress upon
his mind that the patient was very dangerous and cunning ;
this he soon got rid of by compelling her to leave the apart-
ment, and then, alone with the patient, proceeded to calm
her mind, which after a reasonable time had elapsed he suc-
ceeded in doing. In an appropriate conversation which
then took place, the medical gentleman gradually induced
the female to state why she had been and was confined,
which (as might have been expected) she with much re-
luctance and timidity did. The statement (which was
found too true on inquiry elsewhere) was as follows—That
her husband had her confined to enable him to enjoy some
property of her's, and at the same time to cohabit with an-
other woman, by whom, during the confinement of his wife,
he had a child ! The medical gentleman assured her that
from thence she should be freed from such inhuman treat-
ment, and took down, under her dictation, the particulars
of her case, and the residences of the nearest friends she
had living, who were at a great distance. After fully sa-
tisfying his judgment and conscience, the medical gentleman
signed a certificate of the female's perfect soundness of
mind, and requested the superintendent of the establish-
ment not to allow her to be removed until her friends could
be brought up from the country to take her under their
charge. The husband abused him, said he would soon get
a certificate of her insanity, went away to do so, and in a
short time returned with one in his pocket from a petty
fellow of an apothecary living at a distance. The medical
gentleman threatened the husband and his accommodating
apothecary, wrote to the female's friends, and eventually
had the pleasure of placing her and her property under the
safe care of her friends. Morality, decency, reckless inhu
inanity, public charity—shall these be in union ?
I am, esteemed Sir, yours respectfully,
HUMANITY.

CORN LAWS.

A WORD ON THE AVERAGES.

The different kinds of new wheat sold in Mark-lane at be..
tween 60s. and 745., the average of which is 675. ; but the
average which regulates the duty for the same week was
71s. 11d., or 4s. lid. higher than the farmers received. Next
week the six weeks' average will undoubtedly be higher; but
in the London and country markets corn is falling in value : so
that the difference between the price at which the farmer sells
and the average which determines the duty will be much greater
next week than last week. The plain and palpable fact there-
fore is, that the averages on which the duty is calculated. are
very considerably higher (even without taking into considera-
tion the two or three hands through which the farmer's corn
sometimes goes before it is sold in the public markets) than
the prices which the farmer actually receives for his corn.
Now when the farmer recollects that the scale in its upper se-
ries takes long steps,—the duty being at 735., ls. ; at 725.,
2s, Bd. ; at 715., 6s. Bd. ; at 705., 103. Bd. ; ho will at once
perceive the immense important to him, so far as he calcu-
lates on receiving what he calls a protecting duty proportional
to the price at which he sells his corn, of this difference be-
tween that price and the averages on which the duty is calcu-
lated. He must see that for him the averages arc a delusive
humbug.
Moreover, the duty is calculated by the average of all the
kinds of wheat brought to market, which enhances the average
far beyond the real price at which all inferior wheats are sold,
and of course lets foreign corn in at a rate of duty calculated
on an average far higher than the farmer actually receives for
inferior wheat. For example, the price of new red Essex wheat
was from 60s. to 65v. ; but the duty is calculated on the price
of superfine wheats which sold at 755. as well as on the inferior
wheats which sold at 655. Those who grow the inferior wheats
however, look for what they call a protecting duty correspond-
ing to the price of their own commodity ; but the fact is that
they receive such duty as corresponds to the average price of
all kinds of wheat. That is one way in which all the growers
of inferior wheat in the kingdom (we know not the proportion
they may amount to) are humbugged. It should be observed
also that this principle operates very adversely to those whose
corn, from being imperfectly grown, fetches a low price.
Their so-called protecting duty is calculated, not by what they
actually sell their bad corn for, but by an average of what all
the corn is sold for including the very best. Tho law is so
kindly drawn up that when a farmer meets a misfortune or is
obliged to grow inferior wheats, it knocks him down. If the
speculator may bless, the farmer may curse the—for him—
cheating Corn Laws.—Brighton Guardian.

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JUSTICE TO IRELAND.---The following definition
of justice to Ireland is gravely given by an Irish Journalist
It is not justice to Ireland (says the Pilot), to grant to Great
Britain four millions of money from the common taxes for tho
furtherance of public works, and, during the same time, but
200,0001. to Ireland ! It is not justice to Ireland to make a
present of 200,0001. to the merchants of London to re-build
their Exchange—a building of me., e ornaments remember—
and refuse to Ireland as much to commence some railway. It
is not justice to Ireland to lend 200,000/. more to the Tunnel
under the Thames Company (who are they? and what's their
security?) and let Ireland off with some paltry 60,0001. or
70,0001. for her public works."

The first representation of a new opera, in three
acts, by Lindpainter, entitled Die Iliac& des Leides (the
Power of Music), at Weimar, has met with great success. A
petit opera, in one act, of Henri Rotsch, Die Entfuhrunq in
Duplo (the Double Elopement), has been equally well re-
ceived, and is likely to become popular.

A few days since a paragraph appeared in the
papers of the sudden disappearance of a young lady from the
residence of her grandmother at Camberwell, and that a re-
ward of 101. had been offered for her recovery. No tidings
were obtained of her until Tuesday, when she was brought
home by a gentleman. It appeared that, on the day following
her disappearance, an advertisement describing her dress and
person appeared in the papers, and was seen by the gentleman
in question. On Sunday, having occasion to proceed from
Deal to Dover, he got upon one of the coaches, when he saw
a lady whom he believed to be the female in question. He
entered into conversation with her, and finding that his opinion
was correct, at length persuaded her to place herself under
his protection, which she did, and he then conveyed her to
her friends. The motive assigned by the young lady for the
step she had taken was, that she considered her grand-
mother had slighted her. She stated that she had intended
to go to Paris and endeavour to obtain a situation as an
English Governess.
Oft Friday, the 24th of August, information having
been brought to Major Wilde that a woman named Mary
Anne Brown had been cruelly treated by a man named
John Sharp, and was lying at Hetherington's public-house,
Wheelbarrow-hall, in a dangerous state, the worthy Magis-
trate proceeded thither, and took her evidence in the pre.
mace of the accused Sharp. From the statement of the
woman, it appears that she is the wife of Thomas Brown,
a blacksmith, living at ll,ihwhistle. She had been at Car-
lisle on Wednesday, the 22d, and left that city on the even-
ing with the intention of proceeding to Warwick. When she
arrived at Wheelbarrow-hall she went into Forster's public-
house and had some bread and cheese and ale, and on leaving
there, as it was raining heavily, she went into Hetherington'a
public-house, where she had more drink, and remained till
about half-past one, when she left. A short time before she
went out the prisoner, John Sharp, and a man named John
Norman, left Hetherington's to go to their lodgings, for they
lodged together. She met a man named Graham, who " set
her" a bit on the road to Warwick, and whilst they were toge-
ther she observed Sharp cross the path. Shortly after Gra:
ham left her Sharp came up and attempted to be familiar with
her. She resisted, and he then knocked her down and beat
her until she became too weak to offer resistance longer. She
got back to Hetherington's about four o'clock in the morning,
and then presented a shocking spectacle, being covered with
blood, which proceeded from some severe wounds on the head.
Medical assistance was procured, and her wounds were
dressed. She stated that Sharp had ill-used her, and he was
in consequence apprehended. She has not been able to leave
her bed yet, and therefore no further evidence has been taken.
It is feared that the woman will lose the sight of one of her
eyes. Sharp is remanded for further examination ; he is a
powerful young man, about 21 years of age.—Carlisle Paper.
CAVIGLI A, THE ANTIQUARY.—We had him
to breakfast two or three days at Cairo, and I had had a long
confab with him before that. Living, as he has done, so so-
litary, I should rather say, in such society as that of the old
Pharaohs of Egypt, their pyramids his home, and that
strange enigma of a sphinx his fellow-watcher at their feet, he
has become, to use his own expression, " tout-a-fait pyrami-
&le," in dress, feature, manner, thought, and language. We
are told that in Ceylon there are insects that take the shape
and colour of the branch or leaf they feed upon. Caviglia
seems to partake of their nature, he is really assimilating to a
pyramid. His history is very curious : "As a young man,"
he told us this evening, " je lisais Voltaire, Jean Jacques, Di-
derot—et je me croyais philosophe"—he came to Egypt—the
Pyramids, Moses, and the Holy Scriptures, converted him,
" et maintenant," said he, "je suis tout Biblique."—Lord
Lindsay's Letters on Egypt.
FRESH-WATER TURBOT.—On Thursday last the
fishermen at one of Lord Gray's fishin ~ stations, down the
river, took ashore in their net a large turbot, weighing i
lhs.
At this part of the river, and for a considerable Way
down-
wards, the water is quite fresh, even when the tide is
Perth Courier.

IRELAND.

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AGITATION.—In the co!umns of the DuYin Evening Post,
last Tuesday, there was account of some proceedings at Lis_
more, in which the Right Hon. H. V. Stuart, Mr. O'Connell,
Mr. Bushe, Mr. Curry, the Agent of his Grace the Duke of
Devonshire, and several other distinguished individuals took
an active part. " These, after all," says the Post, 4' are
signs of the times, and of some peculiar importance to Irelend
at the present moment. The ribaldry and abuse which has
been showered upon Mr. O'Connell by my Lord Westmeath,
has, it would seem, not had the effect of scaring the highest
and wealthiest Protestant landed proprietors of the county of
Waterford from assembling,, under the auspices of a reverend
and excellent divine of the Roman Catholic Church, to pay a
marked and deserved compliment to the learned gentleman."
TIIE LORD LIEUTENANT'S TOUR.—His Excellency's pro-
gress continues to be marked by every possible mei k of popu-
lar regard. He embarked at Kilrush on Wednesday in the
Hamilton, revenue-cutter, Lieutenant Triphook, R. N., and
sailed for Cahircon, the beautiful residence of John B. Scott.
Esq., accompanied by the Knight of Glin, who had tendered
the use of his yacht, the Reinvilla, for the vice regal party.
The Dublin Evening Post denies the truth of the foolish
fabrication set on foot by the Packet, about the rudeness
shown to the Lord Lieutenant, during his frequent residence
at Bray, by the gentry of that neighbourhood. "We assure
our readers," says the Post, " that moiling whatever that
could give the shadow of foundation to such an invention has
ever occurred. This indeed might have been guessed, from
the frequent repetitions of his Excellency's visits to that de-
lightful neighbourhood during the summer, and the intention
expressed of again returning to these picturesque scenes,
whenever the public duties of his office would allow of his ab-
sence from Dublin. Verily, with outrage-mongers for the
lower classes, and manufacturers of social discourtesy for the
gently, the Irish people have reason to be proud of the charac-
ter given of them by their Tory friends."
LONGFORD. —A foolish falsehood, originating, we believe,
in the Evening Packet, has been going the rounds of the
Papers, to the effect that Colonel Henry White had resolved
to resign the representation of Longford, and that the Gallant
Colonel is to accept the CLiltren Hundreds at the opening of
next Session. There is not a particle of foundation for this
figment. Colonel White is not only determined to retain the
honour of representing Longford ; but he is perfectly ready_
we can assure the Orangemen in that quarter—to give them
another sound drubbing whenever they may afford him an op.
portunity.—Dublin Evening Post.
Oureews.—And has it come to this, that our friend,
Randy Plunkett, who had been so recently engaged in
" arousing the dormant energies" of the Orangemen of Dub-
lin—who organized the Ascociation which bears the well-
sounding title of the Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society
—who purchased for them, with his own, or, which is the same
thing, some other person's money, the fine house in Dawson-
street, called the Freemasons' Tavern, and now converted into
the base uses of an agitation shop for the Operative Conser-
vatives—the designation given to the drunken and greasy
Corporators of the minor Guilds—can it be possible that the
man who thus cut so fine a figure as President of the Dublin
Orange Club—who was fixed upon as their future Represen-
tative—can have become an Outlaw I Startling as it may
sound, such is the plain and positive fact. Well, we are sorry
for this. But we often warned him at the time. He disre-
garded our advice, and has been prettily plucked accordingly,
thus affording another melancholy illustration of the danger
of appearing with a full pocket amongst a faction who have
always lived by plunder.—Aid.
Tits CARMELITE MON K.—A person, named Laurence
Doyle, who was 'supposed to be an accomplice of Carrick, the
Monk, in causing the death of a child, named John Touche,
upon whose remains a coroner's inquest has been recently
held, was taken before the Magistrate sof Arran-quay Police -office yesterday. There being no' direct charge against him,
he was discharged upon his own recognisances of 201., to ap-
pear when called upon. Active search is being made for the
Monk, he has as vet eluded the 1 iBilaece of the police—.
Dublin Packet.
[The Monk will, probably, be found about the same time
that scrupulous veracity is found to characterize Orange
Papers. A Monk had as little to do with the death of the
child as the wretch who made the assertion has with truth.l
Th

.e Manchester Guardian, in the course of some
remarks, the professed object of which is the assertion of the
popularity of the present Government, states as its opinion,
" that there is far less political organization amongst the po-
pulation now than there was some twenty years ago," adding,
" we are quite sure, that here at least there is a much more
general sobriety of views amongst the middle classes than at
that time." The Guardian thinks that the Spectator, and
the class of Reformers represented by the latter Journal, know
nothing " of the actual state and tendency of public opinion in
that middle class of society which comprehend the mass of the
electoral body." Agitation, and any political excitement
whatever, are now, it seems, greatly ont of favour, whilst inno-
vation, and a " lust of change" being held in abhorrence, are
of course condemned by the thick and thin advocate of all the
Ministers, and par eminence of Mr. Poulett Thompson, the
Baltic blunderer and Trades' Bill botcher.

We see in the Manchester Guardian that a Church-
rate was recently refused at Holinfirth. At a similar meeting
to this one, which took place on Friday wrck, an adjournment
for twelve months was carried by a large majority. The
abolitionists' last Victory gave them a majority of 217. On
Sunday the Church clock was stopped, and the bell-ropes
removed. •

The potatoes shipped from Path arc preferred in
England, on account of their mealiness ; the English growers
°
lookinm, perhaps, more to the quantity than the quality, ac-
counts for the preference.
A short time ago, some labourers who were en-
gaged quarrying a few stones on the estate of Col. M'Adam,
of Craig,engillan, discovered a small quantity of lead ore.
Inrsti REAPERS.—The Foyle steamer touched at
Greenock on Wednesday afternoon, on her way to Glasgow,
with—as one item of Iter.cargo—six hundred and sixty Irish
reapers, who had paid for a deck passage before that vessel left
Londonderry. As may be supposed, besides the number that
would be crammed in the steerage, every inch of room on
deck, and the paddle-boxes, were covered with human beings.
Fortunately, the weather was fine, otherwise so large a floating
population could scarcely hare been expected to complete the
distance without some casualty occurring.
WILD CATS.—.Mr. Cahill, of \Whiskey Hall, shot
on Thursday at Craggwood, in this county, three wild cats of
mor.strous size. These strange animals attacked the wood-
ranger a few days ago, who narrowly escaped with his life ;
so disfigured were his features, and so completely exhausted
Is as he, that his family did not for a considerable time re.
cognise him on being brought home. Mr. Cahill, on bearing
the above, came from his residence to rid the neighbourhood
of tite cause of so much terror and alarm. In size those wild
cats were larger than any terrier.—Limerick Chronicle.

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We have just been favoured, by Mr. Haycroft, jun.,
with a sight of a peach and nectarine growing close together
on the same branch. This extraordinary production was sent
from the garden of Lord Kingsborough, Mitebelstown Castle.
—Cork Standard.

RUSSIA AND lIER BONES.—The Emperor
Nicholas has published an Ukase forbidding the further ex-
portation of bones. The Russians are adopting the new
manure, and, having tested its virtues, are commanded to keep
in the words of the proverb, " their own fish guts to their own
sea maws." But the trade of grinding bones to fatten turnips
will go on in spite of them. Russia is not all the world; and
every one knows the power of British gold in drawing hidden
stores to light, the bare existence of which was not even sus-
pected. In talking over this subject with Mr. Maxwell of
Gribton, he suggested one patent mode of correcting defi-
ciency, should deficiency arise. Our whalers- in visiting the
frozen North, leave behind immense magazines of bones,
which may yet form a a great article of traffic. Not unfre-
quently the ships return clean, or only half filled with blubber;
then why not complete the stowage widi bones wherever room
is left, or deposit them when the ship is otherwise full, in some
place of safety for future contingencies. The bones of whales
and seals may not be quite so good ah those of land animals;
but the difference is not so great as to mar the traffic, should
deficiency of the latter threaten marked enhancement of price.
The art of manuring is as yet in its infancy; and practical
chemistry has revearinents to make in this department which
will supply more and more what the Emperor Nicholas is
pleased to withhold.—Durnfries Courier.
A short time since, a party of whales made their
appearance off the shore in the parish of Ug, Stornoway,
where seven vessels set out in pursuit of the monsters of the
deep, and no less than 41 were captured. One of the boats
was upset in the melee, and a man unfortunately drowned.—
Glasgow Advertiser.
BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.--A few days ago the
female hyena at the Zoological Gardens, Liverpool, presented
her lord with four fine cubs, this being, we believe, the first in-
stance on record in which these animals have bred in this
country. Several additions have also been made to the mena-
gerie in other ways, both by gift and purchase. Amongst the
purchases may be mentioned a fine male lion (about two-thirds
grown) from Capt. Rabot, of the brign N. Dry Dania, from
Senegal, and also a beautiful gazelle. The lion, we under-
sten& was so tame as to follow his master, like a dog, through
the streets of Senegal. —Liverpool Standard.
Yesterday morning, about eight o'clock, as a man
in the employment of Mr. Coombe, of Bishopsg
wheeling a truck down Newgate-street,
he wascomingvft after
struck on the back by the pole of an omnibus a
him. He was thrown to the ground by the force
his horses, they had of the
shock,
and, before the driver had time to rein up ate-street,
violently
ly sp be
eak-
ing, already trampled over him. As
cated it was found that he had sustained,
side of the face and
ing, but little injury, except a cut on the
some bruises on the body and arms•
woman named Robert-
Yesterday afternoonpoor soon romhpeacroautilvde
S.
girl and boy, the eldest eight
anutliwark, went out with a neigh-
The kettle was on the fire, and
years of age, by themselves.
fine little fellow, after placing the kettle on
the youngest, a.
was in the act of drinking out of it, when
Robert-
son,
leavingvi living
in Gravel.
two i
the whole of the boiling water
fell
pulled it down, and nearly
he
scalelifig him in a frightful man-
his chest and body,
fell over
dangerous state, but not without hopes
ner. He lies in a very
the bob of the
of recovery. . .
grate,
A cobbler living in Swan-street, Minories, thus
pompously announces his calling, " Surgery performed here
upon old boots and shoes, by adding of the feet, making good
the legs, binding the broken, healing the wounded, mending
the constitution, and supporting the body with new soles. Ad-
vice gratis by B. Mares."

A-prospectus is published of a plan for lighting
Calcutta with gas. —East India Magazine.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Low company impairs not merely the estimation but the
actual wor* of those who descend to it ; it brings them
presently to low thoughts, low feelings, low habits, and low
acts. When the Whigs, to regain office, tacked the Irish
tail to their body, they became partakers in the qualities of
of their appendage. Their knightly phalanx degenerated
into a barbarous mob, and the shout of " St. George for
England" was lost in an Irish howl. For the last three
years Ireland and her imaginary grievances (for her real
ores are all redressed) have been the ceaseless, wearisome
topics of debate, till the whole atmosphere of public life
reeks with them, and they stifle the nostrils and blight the
eyes of all men. To different parties they are available
for different purposes. To Mr. O'Connell they are the key
of a never-ceasing rent, the " open sesame" for him and
his 40 : to Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell they
serve as a lasting, though threadbare, pretext for the main-
tenance of the Whig Liberators in the Administration.
As in the choice of their topic, so in the treatment
of it, the Whigs follow the impulses of Mr. O'Con-
nell. if he luxuriate largely in promises and vaunts,
so do his Ministers. If he desert the movement he
has excited, and spit away his pledges when he has
sucked them dry, no less do the Cabinet, who draw
their precarious breath from him, treat their pledges as rot-
• ten boroughs, to be hewn down and cast into the fire. Thus
do the Ministers and their patron, with a common spirit and
a common object, combine to makea common sacrifice of Ire-
land, and build up the hopes and accumulate the discontents
of her people, as so much rubbish, by which they niay
- clamber up, or behind which they may take shelter. We
know not whether the Irish people will bear this mockery
much longer. They may perhaps suspect at length that
they are wasting their scanty funds and overflowing ener-
gies on objects which their deluders are not in earnest to
obtain for them, and which, if obtained, would afford them
no one single advantage, moral or physical : that their
struggles, even if sincerely backed by their leaders, could go
only to increase the Parliamentary power, and thereby the
patronage of a few selfish politicians ; but that the effect of
that very increase would be a further disadvantage to the
poor of Ireland, by stimulating the disquiet of the country,
by discouraging the investment of capital, and, conse-
quently, by checking the employment of the people.
But if the priests, for the ends of their ambitious religion,
shall still continue to blind the Catholic population to these
obvious truths, of this let the pious agitators be assured,
• that in England the farce of Irish grievance can be played
no longer. Grievances there once were, and sore ones,
and while they lasted we were amongst the most zealous
for their redress. But with the extinction of the Roman
Catholic disabilities all just subject of national complaint
expired. For, as to the non-adjustment of the tithe, which,
by the way, would have been adjusted long before but for
the unconscionable demand of the appropriation party, the
complaint, coming from the occupiers or their representa-
tives, was wholly groundless, inasmuch as the burden was
never borne by them, but by their landlords, who got from
them, by reason of the tithe, so much the less rent. The
only material difference now remaining between Eng-
land and Ireland, is in the quota of taxation, in which
particular Ireland is greatly indulged—and we can
venture to assure Mr. O'Connell, that when he sets
up his threatened demand for an equality in the
numbers of English and of Irish Representatives,
the people of England will not fail to ask him whether Ire-
land is prepared for an equality in her taxation too. They
will ask him how it happens that, after having granted to
Ireland all that her advocates were pleased to specify as
requisite for her quiet and happiness, England is still im-
portuned and threatened, as if she were persisting to with-
hold some just and common right of equal fellowship.
What was once a cry of suffering is now but a ridiculous
cant. We remember a child who craved alms in St.
James's-park through a long winter, with a melancholy
plaint of starvation from cold ; but when, in a genial April
day, the old note was repeated to the passengers, who were
unbuttoning their coats and wiping theirbrows, the sympathy
and the relief were forthcoming no more. The master men-
dicant, who takes Ireland out a-begging on his back, forgets
that the pathos of the winter's chill is melted to nothing in
the sunshine. He overlooks, in his cupidity, the plain con-
sideration, that in proportion as real sufferings are affecting,
their detected counterfeit is ludicrous. In short, if the
Irish go on much longer with their threats and murmurs,
the English, who arc heartily tired of all this lugubrious
mummery, will either take them at their t= ord, and repeal
that union which they enjoy so ungratefully (a measure
which we verily believe would long since have been resorted
to, but from consideration for the Protestant proprietors),
or, declining to punish them by granting their prayer, will
find a legislative mode of quieting the agitators. For year
after year the nation and the Parliament are prevented
from giving their attention toreal business by the mock im-
portance of Irish grievances, and the artificial interest im-
parted to them by the supposed identafieation of the Ca-
binet's existence with the concession of the demarl•• d
remedies. But even that secondary interest has now passed
away ; for the Cabinet have shown, that though foiled
upon these subjects, they can still preserve their places.
They still, indeed, affect to attach a vast consequence to
the matter ; but alien brought to the test, they forth-
with prove at how mean a rate they estimate the im-
portance of it, by sacrificing it to so low a consider-
ation as the m tinten ince of their own unworthy Go-
vernment. But it is time that affairs of more moment
should occupy the Legislature of Great Britain, than the
means of gratifying the ambition of jobhng corporators and
hungry agents in the south of Ireland. The completion
and extension cf the modern police—the consolidation and
codification of the laws, and the introduction of cheapness
and despatch- intu its ordinary administration—the regula-
tion of the country's internal intercourse—the improvement
of its colonial relations and resources—the protection of
chemical and mechanical inventions, now smothered under
the uncertainty and expense of the patent system—a better
adjustment of taxation—but, above all, the education of
the people in the useful arts of this life, and the essential
knowledge of a life to come—these are a few of the sub-
jects upon which a Legislature may be well and wisely em-
ployed, and which may abstract the minds of restless men
from squabbles about a barren political power, to fruitful
topics and practical results.—Times.
We are not so unreasonable as to blame our Tory Con-
temporaries for availing themselves of any plausible ground
of attack upon Ministers ; it is their daily vocation, and
now and then they may be able, with the exercise of in-
genuity, to hit upon <.onicthing- whirl: looks questionable;
but they never stumbled upon a more er,sregious mare's
nest than the case of Dr. Hook, which both in town and
country they have been trumpettine forth as if a most un-
justifiable act of power had been committed against him.
We fancied yesterday that the publication of Dr. Hook's
letter in the Times (the paper which so greedily seized upon
the imaginary incident, and which was, therefore, most fitly
made the medium of complete contradiction), denying the
whole story in the most distinct terms, would have put an
end to the " important accusation," but the adversaries of
Government are not so easily silenced ; they have of late
been so hard driven for an opportunity for assailing Mi-
nisters that they cannot afford so soon to relinquish
even a most unpromising and unprofitable topic. " While
there is life there is hope," says the proverb, and
while the Tory papers can keep the subject alive, who
knows but something may by chance come of it. If
there be no storm, the Times, Past, and Herald, like the
three witches in Macbeth, may possibly be able to brew
one, and such ingredients -as malice and disappointment
can supply will not be wanting. Their " excellent ally"
the Standard, as the Hecate of the occasion,
-" the mistress of their charms,
The close contriver of all harms,"
will not have to "look angerly" and to complain that any-
thing has been neglected, or that she has not been called
upon "to show the glory of her art." The Morning Con-
temporaries we have named will leave no stone unturned to
accomplish their end, and where their own invention fails
they will not hesitate to resort to other sources. Therefore,
in spite of the letter signed " W. F. Hook, D.D." and dated
from his vicarage at Leeds, asserting in the most positive
language that he had not been prohibited from preach-
ing in the Chapel Royal, and that he had "no rea-
son to suppose that her Majesty was otherwise than
pleased with what -he stated in his sermon, "the
anti-ministerial journals have been gratifying themselves
and amusing their readers by copying from the Doncas-
ter paper a most preposterous piece of fiction, which
carries falsehood on the very face of it, but which, as
it tended to make out a sort of accusation against Go-
vernment, they could not choose but insert. The dis-
tress of the case with them was such, that even in the
teeth of an absolute and unqualified contradiction, printed
by them all in the same day's
_publicatio n, they could
not forego this most gratuitous effort of imagination by
a country editor. It
;is so fine and finished a specimen
of " the lie circumstantial," with names and a great
variety of minute particulars calculated to impose, at
least upon rustic readers, that it is worth inserting here
as a proof to what lengths certain people will go_ when
unchecked by the slightest regard for truth, and urged
onward by the strongest love of party. The subsequent
extract is from the Doncaster Chronicle, and it is pre-
ceded by a brief explanation, and some high-flown com-
pliments to the Queen for having done what, it turns
out, it never could have entered her Majesty's head to do :
" The facts, as we have them from high authority, are as
follow A few days after Dr. Hook had preached his me-
i% • • •-• , .n of Hear the Church,' in the Chapel Royal,
- lfse‘Aes . upon by a Noble Lord, better known than liked
,rer., ''ding of' this county, who told him that his
ses n great offence at Court. Dr. Hook ex-
ittioie eel,' lass, • ; at its having done so; stated his firm belief
aeicse !te had advocated—principles from which he
• b, uld not del; and said his sorrow arose not for himself, as
, fs; • 'cotild not retract anything he had said, but for the Queen,

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