The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE SESSION.--The Session is drawing to a close, and yet
much remains to be done. However, Government have aban •
doned some of their measures, particularly the Irish Registra-
tion Bill ; we suspect not much to the disappointment of the
constituency.—Dublin Evening Post.
THE POOR. LAW BILL—IRELAND.—ThisBiII has been read
a third time, but not passed. The debate will be taken on
the very last question—namely, " That this Bill do pass." It
will pass, and with very few important alterations; and it will
become the law of the land before a fortnight shall have elapsed.
TITHE BILL. --IRELA ND. —Notwithsthnding all we read in
the papers—Whig and Tory, to the contrary, we are still of
opinion that we shall have a Tithe Bill this summer.

IRISH MUNICIPAL BILL.—We should not be surprised if a
strong effort were made in the Lords to modify the principle.
If so, this Bill will also become a law.
REVENUE OF IRELAND.—It has been often remarked that
the quarterly tables afford no means of ascertaining the state
of the revenue in Ireland, although the annual finance ac-
counts, we believe, give the necessary information in regard
to the amount of taxes paid in this part of the Empire. We
arc happym have it in our power to supply this deficiency in
one important branch of taxation, as far as regards the pre-
sent year. In the Excise revenue for the quarter, ending on
the sth April last, as compared with the corresponding
quarter of 1837, there was an:increase of 75,000/. ; and in the
quarter ending on the sth inst., the increase was nearly to the
same amount.

BOROUGH OF CLONMEL.—The Attorney-General has ar-
rived in tckwn, and will forthwith proceed to Clonmel to can-
vass the electors. His return is certain, and we still continue
to think without a contest. We need not say how gladly we
shall have to congratulate the Right Hon. Gentleman.
THE CONSTABULARY.—Thirty of the county of Galway
Constabulary, under the command of Chief Constable Ho-
bart, arrived in this city on Sunday, and proceeded by a
steamer on Monday evening for Belfast, on their way to Port-
glenone, county of Antrim, to assist in preserving the peace
on the 12th July. The party appeared to be in an excellent
state of discipline.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY:)

DEAL, JULY 11.—Wind W.S.W., fine.—Arrived, and proceeded for
the River, the Lord William Bentinck, Doulty, from Sydney; the Ro-
salind, Fonrose, from Trinidad; the Charlotte, from Quebec; the Geor-
gians, from Bayonne; the Jane, Willis, from Newcastle; the Medina,
from Sunderland; the Bridport, from Newcastle; the Minerva, from
Sunderland. Came down from the River, and proceeded, the Jessie
Logan, Major, for Quebec; the Hymen, Digby, for New York; the
Beau Ideal, Forbes, for Newfoundland.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 11.—Wind W. to W.S. W., fine.—A Transport
is in the quarantine ground, supposed to be the Marquis of Huntley,
from Quebec. Sailed, the General Evans, for Santander; the Queen
Victoria, for Mirarnichi.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 10 —Wind W.S.W.—Arrlved off, the Herald,
Mullen, from Teneriffe.
FALMOUTH, JULY 10.—Wind S. to W.S.W., moderate breezes.—
Arrived, the Rocket, Glen, from Miramichi.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 11.—Wind S.W., moderate. —Arrived the Rajah,
Blues, from Mobile ; Commerce, Read, from Mobile ; Cambria, from
Antigua; and Sarah, Leader, from Denmark. Sailed the Cornubia,
Powhattan, and Isaac Hicks, for New York; Christiana, for Newfound.
land ; and Elizabeth, for St. Petersburgh.
DOVER, JULY 11.—Arrived off, the Gustav, Spielker, for Baltimore.
Cowes, JULY 11.—Arrived the Fleides, Lowell, from Matanzas.
DARTMOUTH, JULY 11.—Arrived the Calypso, Graham, from Quebec.
Off' port, the Mevagissey, Arethusa, from Barbadoes.
JERSEY, JULY 9.—Arrived the Nelson, Huelin, from Dantzic.
BRIDGEWATER, JULY 11.—Arrived the Phoenix, Evans, from Quebec.
BRISTOL, JULY 11 —Arrived the Kingston, Key, from Quebec; and
William the Fourth, Kiel, from Newfoundland.
MILFORD, JULY 11 —Arrived the Fanny Palmer, from Smyrna.
LIMERICK, JULY 9.—Arrived the Fortitude, Nicholas, from London ;
and Maria, Jones, from Quebec.
CLYDE, JULY 9.—Arrived the Hero, Thorn, Arabian, Allan, Canada,
Allen, and Indus, Nieal, from Quebec; Mahaica, Jump, and High.
lender, M`Kellar, from Demerara; Sir R. Peel, M'Kellar, Barbadoes.
DUBLIN, JULY 10 —Arrived the China, Vaughan, from St. John's,
New Brunswick; Robert M' William, and Carleton, Anderson, Quebec.
CORE, JULY 9.—Arrived the Lively, Conacher, from Barbadoes ;
Eliza Ann, Hyde, from Quebec; Earl Grey, Donelly, from Newfound.
land. Arrived off, William and Robert, from Puewash.
NEWRY, JULY 9. Arrived the Bellona, Mackay, from Quebec.
BELFAST, JULY 9.—Arrived the Rosebank, Montgomery, and James
Bailey, Oliver, from Quebec.
RUTLAND FIRTH, JULY 10.—Arrived the William Dawson, Beve.
ridge, from Miramichi ; Lord Mulgrave, from America.
HULL, JULY 11.—Arrived Wetton, Reimers, from St. Petersburgh.
PrmWASII, JULY 10.—Arrived. the Vestal, from London.

Parliamentary Electors in Cities and Boroughs entitled
under the Reform Act, will lose their votes for the next
year, unless they pay, on or before the 20th of July instant,
all the poor's rates, (and window tax, if any) payable from
them, in - respect of their premises pre‘iously to the 6th
of April last. County voters must send in their ela;ms by
the 20th of July instant.
Few things have been more honourable to the
national character of Englishmen, than the generous enthusiasm which
the presence o Marshal Smit has c • ted amo ,1; hem in a)4 ranks
alike. ' st that his pr, nee n Fri tt e oli4h Fete at
n'lt
Beul^ is which we underst id is re I ' er d, previous to
the vi e . inmen 1 ez lap.- he lest oppor- '
to • of ow ". " ull nou r the union
o co summate skil rid courage, wit liberal and philanthropic prin-
ciples, in one 4, most gifted of ance's Generals.
The Duke of Devonshire exhibited yesterday at the
horticol-ural exhibition some pines grown at Chatsworth, weighing
qlb and 10th each.
When the roar of artillery commenced on Monday
morning in Fiyd, Park the Queen at first, in a sportive mood, talsari
h.r hands to her ears, as if annoyed by the reports of the guns. As
the firing proceeded her Majesty seemed to enk,y the scene mightily,
and in the midn of the file firing, which, so far as the harmless con.
sumption of gusipowder could make it,was a miniature representation of
a " real battle," her Majesty's countenance assumed a high degree of
animation, and she repeatedly rose from her seat in the carriage, and
expressed her high gratification at what was passing lic!ore her. It
was remarked by those who enjoyed the advantage of being near the
royal party that our lovely youog Queen never looked more interesting

than at that moment.-3lor ning herald. .
AVONIAN DROWNED BY TIER HUSBAND.—On
Sunday afternoon, an Irishman and his wife were walking along the
bmks of the Union Canal, when the man was observed to give his wife
several unmerciful blows, and then to thrust her into the water. The
alarm was instantly given, and the fellow, after- a most obstinate re-

sisthnce, was seized.- A voting lad, a baker, drag3ed the unfortunate
woman fron-Alie tater, but the spark of life was extinsisshed. She is
reported to have been a pleasant-looking girl, about eighteen years of
age, and, what makes her death more to be lamented, she was far ad.
vanced m pregnancy. Tier unfeeling husband is now a prisoner in
Falkirk steeple.--Stirling Observer.
TILE WOMAN OF TIDE WORLD, BY THE DE-
riENNUM—Corusiclerable talent, acquaintance with, and observation
upon, a fashionable class of Society in London and Naples,
and lively
sketches of character are the prominent features of this novel; which,
like all its " order," gives us plenty of balls, routs, de jettnes, intrigues,
and other matters which form the existence of the idle and profligate in
the upper circles. the heroine, a heartless plotter with greet talent, a
beautfiul term, and a suspected, or rather a stained reputation, is well
(trawls; and the hero its not ill painted as her infatuated thrall, flat
exceedingly gifted with clairvoyance, ar.d involves in p sinful family cir
cumstances, by his passion for the irreshtible enchantress. Lord Per.
tumna, an unprincipled politician, arid Minister at Naples,
with a set
of row attaches ; Lord Colebrooke, another worthless nobleman, and a
tit father for the Woman of the World ; Mr. and Mrs. Longman Temkin_
son, upstart millionaires; and other foreign, dues 1, sporting, pelt Cal,
alst dissipated figures fill up the canvas. The authoress has taken some
of her studies, if not all, from the life."—Literary Gazette.
A boy of 12 Years of age, named Gustave Adolphe
ltass'e, whose extraordinary powers of memory and other faculties have
rendered him an otject of great interest in Holland, has just come to this
country. In a prospectus we are assured that he will readily answer
" any question addressed to bins from a programme containing more
than '20,000 facts on subjects the most didicult to be acquired and re.
tained by the memory, and which a person with the most retentive me-
mory and assicluousapplication cmld not acquire without the aid of the
system." M. Bassle, the father, has addressed a letter to us, in which
he expresses a wish that the testimony of certain Dutch Papers to the
singular accomplishments of his son should be laid before the British
public. We happen to have some of the papers to which he refers,
but we cannot comply with his request to translate any of the articles
in which he very naturally feels so strong an interest. It may,
however, be mentioned, that the talents of young Basle
were first made known to the public in Holland in a memo.
technic soiree given at Amsterdam, on the 26th of January, 1837, by
his instructor, M. Albert de Montry, for the benefit of the sufferers by
a recent storm. The boy, then only eleven years old, astonished the
audience by the precision with, which he answered a multitude of ques-
tions in history, geography, chemistry,
mythology, grammar, on the
calendar, the relation of the diameter to the circumference, &c. His
answers were given in French, German, English, and Dutch. There
is a long article in the Ilandelsblad on an exhibition which took Place
in April last, the writer of which commences by inquiring whether the
boy owes his success to a peculiar endowment, a sort of instinct, or to
the system of his tutor, and concludes by attributing. the extraordinary,
results to thecornbined operation of both, namely, natural capacity and
education. The method, it is said, can be easily explained,— Tinzes.
During the violent thunder storm on Friday last, the electric fluid entered the house of a shoemaker, named Bell, at
Metheringliam, near this city, bursting all the windows in the eto
atoms, forced the chimney down, and struck Bell, and a ac
another man
named Anson (who also ,happened to be in the house), senseless on the
floor, where they remained in that state until taken up b
hours who went into the house after seeing a globe of fireydsome neigh-
the premises; on being taken up, both the men were discovered to be
frightfully disfigured. Anson, who is the greatest sufferer
bad his hair entirely burnt off the back of his head, and the akin ac_
coin the two,
tually flayed off his back. He is now in a very precarious state _Lin_ Gazette.

p
We are sorry to learn, that, in very many
roved almost instances
In this and the neighbouring districts, the turnip crop has
a total failure. In several cases they have been sown thrice over, and
is
failed in each time. The failure in the potato crop happily but' of a
partial nature, and does not appear to be giving the farmers
ranch con.
corn.—Paisley Advertiser.
Iw o or three Sundays ago there was a little
tumult at Aix.la.Chapelle. During a solemn procession, at which, as
there were no soldiers, the burgher guard attended, an English servant
remained in the midst of the procession with his hat on when the bene-
diction was given ; every body else, if not on his knees, having at least
uncovered his head. After he had been several times requested in
English to take off his hat, which he always positively refused, his hat
was at length pulled off; when it is probable some blows were given, and
he was himself removed by the police. _ _

Yesterday morning the exchange of quarters of the
household cavalry took place—viz., the Ist Life Guards, from Windsor
to the Regent's park barracks ; the 2d Life Guards, from the Regent's_
park barracks to Knightsbridge; Royal Horse Guards (Blue,) from
Knightsbridge to Windsof ; the 20th infantry, from the Tower on
route to Weedon ; the Rifle Corps, to the Tower; the 4th and 6th
Dragoon Guards, with the 10th Hussars, march from Islington, Chel.
sea, and Hounslow, on route to various destinations in the country.
MILITIA.—Orders have been issued to those
colonels of militia regiments where the adjutancies have become vacant
by death or resignation, that the vacancies thus caused are only to
be filled up by active and well disciplined officers from the half.pay
list, to be approved of by the Commander.in Chief, as sorne very great
changes are about to take place in the whole syq, m of this branch „1
the s,rvice, so as to make it an efficient force, and render it avaii.,ino
and useful to the country. There are at present six of the regiments of
Militia without adjutants,— Suffolk Herald,

SCULPTURE AND PIGTAIL WYAI"i".

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
r SIR--Your brief allusion to Mr. Pigtail Wyatt and George
111. on Monday, revived in me the memory of some old re-
flections, which, as an observer of the Arts, rather than as an
amateur or a connoisseur, I hope will find a place in the world-
wide celebrated Sun. I was many years ago in a picture gal-
lery of one of the most celebrated Italian families, in which
was preserved the portraits of the whole Royal stock ; and I
remarked and admired, in common with every body, the ad-
mirable lesson which such a collection supplied. Between
the first founder of the race, distinguished by a head high,
wide, and firm, that might have served the Greek sculptors
for a model of Jupiter, and the low-browed, goggle-eyed,
thick-bearded, flabby-checked, balf-idiot, in which the once
noble race was extinguished, there was a gradual declen.
lion. The cunning, jealous tyrant, the mere soldier,
' whose hot blood boiled with animal anger, and who
was the courageous hero of the hour,—and the soft sighing
youngling, who preferred poets and women to war and go-
vernment, and let the reins fall into the hands of those who
had boldness and skill to seize them, with almost every variety
of character, except the very best, was visible in the portraits
of the race which had reigned for centuries. Between the
founder however, and him in whom the race was extinguished,
there was a gradual, though marked and varied decay. The
next heir to the cunning tyrant, who had done something by
stratagem and fraud to raise the drooping power of his house,
was immersed in sloth, losing both in reputation and territory
more than his father had gained ; and he was followed by a
more vigorous animal, whose passions made him more the
terror of his subjects than of his enemies. Now all these
characteristics being designated, and the gradual declension
of the Royal race brought visibly before the eye, the art of
painting at once told a tale as impressive and as instructive
as ever book recorded. But some similar histories are true
of all the Royal races of Europe; and the portraits of
the Bourbons and the Guelphs teach the same lesson
at the gallery of the Medici. Heavens 1 what a contract in
form and mind, between the rude image of Henry the Lion,
the great man of the Guelphs, and our last King—though he
was far from being the worst of his race, either in appearance
or in character. What a contrast, too, between Henry the 4th
of France, and Lewis the 16th or Lewis the 18th ! But let it
not.be said that this deterioration of Royal races arises from
the progress of civilization, and that the bodily and mental
powers of other stocks fail and decay in the same manner.
Sir, I will answer to find many Dandy Dinmonts in every
' county of England, or Scotland, or Ireland at this day—men ef
as much thew and muscle—men who stride through their
fields two yards at a pace—men as worthy to be immortalized
for forin and beauty, in marble or on canvass, as were ever
the most athletic or beautiful of the Greeks: Two days ago
only I saw a countryman, in blue smock-frock, galloping
an old cart horse, without a, saddle, down Parliament-
street, and there he sat as freely, and looked as nobly,
making allowance for his brimmed hat, and hisloose dress, as
Marcus Aurelius. Nor are powerful forms to be found only in
our fields, along the vvater-side,on 'Change, or bustling through
our streets, adapted, indeed, to their business or their cir-
cumstances—there are as powerful forms and as beautiful and
intelligent faces as ever sculptor modelled, or painter drew.
Those who blame Mr. Wyatt for not having made George 111.
something more of King and less of Tail blame him for not
falsifying facts ; but if those critics could have their way—if
those writers be just who insist that Art should ennoble every
thing it touches—they would make sculpture and painting
tell nothing but lies, instead of handing down facts to poste-
rity. To represent the forms and features of George 111. or
Louis XVIII. as noble and dignified is to outrage truth, and
to fail in conveying to posterity that great historical and
moral lesson which is implied in the deterioration of Royal
races. If Art must be noble, it must have noble objects to
work on. It is now, however, unfortunately the creature and
servant of wealth and rank, and the continued enjoyment of
both seem inimical—except in the appearance of the females,
who, however, want stamina, and in some rare cases—to
strength and beauty. How can the soft flabby forms of those
who never take one day's vigorous exercise through their whole
lives, and whose health is preserved almost as much by the
art of the physician and the help of drugs as by the ordinary
rules of nature, have a noble appearance, or be free in their
movements ? lam not acquainted with Mr. Wyatt, and know
little or nothing of his works ; but I should infer favoui ably
of the representation he will transmit to posterity of the firm
knit, though slight but strong and graceful form cf Welling-
ton—breathing in every muscle and every feature, a clear, and
within its range. a perfect comprehension, united to a strong
will—from the complaints which the Times and the Spectator
make against his ignoble, unkingly statue of George I I 1..,

Your obedient Servant,

OBSERVER.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET JULY MEETING.—YF,STERDAP.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two-yr-old colts, Bst. 71b. ; and
fi lies, Bst. 41b. ; last haif of Ab. M. 8 Subs. The winner to
be soli for 200 sous. if demanded, &c.
Duke of Rutland's I. Prison, by Camel Robinson 1
Duke of Richmond's Felo-de-se
Mr. King's Condor
The following also started, but were not placed :—General
Yates's b. g. Murdock, brother to Ophelia ; Lord Suffield's Alan ;
Lord Exeter's f. by Redgauntlet, out of Palias Royal ; Mr. Ed-
ward's ch. c. Royal James; and Mr. Thornhill's f. by Emilius,
out of Benefit's dam.

Betting-4 to l agst Alan, 4to I agst Felo-de-se, and 4to 1
agst Condor. Won by a length. Winner claimed.
501. for three-yr•oids, Gat. I Ilb. ; 4 ♦rs, Sst. 21bs. ; five yrs, Bst
• . . ; six yrs, and aged, 9st. D. 1.
Lord Saillnld's Caravan, 4 yrs Pavia l
Mr. Sow erh7's St. Luke, 5 yrs
Lord Exeter's Troilus, 4 yrs
The following also started, but were not placed:—Mr. Rayne'',
Quo Minus, 3 yrs; and -Alr. Pettit's c. by ;...;t. Patrick, out o'
Surprise.
Betting--6 to Son Caravan, 7to 2 agst St. Luke, and 20 to 11
agst Troilus. Won by six Tenths.

(Further particulars of Tuesday's race;.)
HANDICAP.—.Peggy made the running, Eel and the others lying
• well up with the exceFtion of Hilda, who kept in the rear nearly
the whole of the distance. At the corner cf the plantations Eel
took the jowl, was challenged at the cords by Hilda, and beaten by
a neck after a severe race.
JULY STAKES.—The Rowton colt took the lead, followed by
Alms, the others lying up in a ruck for rather more than a quarter
of a mile. Buhvark then went in front with the Advance colt, and,
on reaching the plantations, it was clear that nothing else had a
chance. The Advance colt looked well to the cords, where he
dropped off, and Bulwark won cleverly by a length. Alacremma
was third; Alms, the Mulatto. filly, and Rowton colt followed
about a length behind. Although several mentioned in the odds,
Bulwark was the only horse tacked for any money. Value of the
s:ake, 1,150!. After the race 14 to I was offered apt, Bulwark
for th Derby.
BETTING IN THE EVENING.

LIVER.POOL CU r.
4 to 1 ag,t Lord Eglinton'• St. Bennett—taken
6 to 1 agst Mr. Fergusson's Harkaw•ay—taken
GOODWOOD STAKES.
5 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Valentissimo—taken
6 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mahometan—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. King's Jack-in-the-Green--taken
11 to 1 agst Mr. Walter's King Cole—taken
11 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Heron—taken
THE ST. LEGEM.
20 to 1 agst Mr. Parkins's Lanercost—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Fairlie's The Hydra—taken
The weather is very fine, and the attendance fashionable.