The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-30 00:00:00

EDUCATION.-BRISTOL.

The General Meeting of the British Association termi-
nated on Saturday evening ; but a most interesting meeting
of gentlemen, Members of the Association, was yesterday
held at the Theatre of the Institution in Park-street,
Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P., in the Chair, for the purpose
of forming a permanent committee, and taking other
measures for promoting the object of General Education.
Nothing could be more delightful than the unanimity
which characterised these most interesting proceedings, in
which all party spirit and sectarian feeling were utterly for-
gotten, in the ardour for the promotion of the great and
benignant object which had drawn together so many of the
memers.

After the termination of the business of the meeting, we
understand that an arrangement was made by Mr. Wyse
and Mr. Steele, that, on the. meeting of Parliament. Mr.
Wyse would move for the formation of a Committee of the
House of Commons to take into consideration the prayer
of Mr. Stecle's petition, lately presented by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, that a splendid national monument to
Newton should be reared in London, over the house where
he lived, and the observatory on its summit. The time
and the place, and the circumstances altogether, were pecu-
liarly appropriate for making such an arrangement as that
which was entered into between those two gentlemen.
There is not a person in the world anxious to promote
the cause of science who must not feel deep gratification, if
the plan proposed by Mr. Steele shall be carried into execu-
tion by the British Parliament.

On Saturday evening, a married woman named
Woods decamped with a man named John Candy, a gang
master on the Southampton Railroad, leaving her husband and
a family of four small children, one not weaned and but a few
months old ; she took some money which had been saved for
the rent, and all the wearing apparel of the children, leaving
even the infant quite destitute. The husband, on Sunday
morning, went in pursuit of her, and learned that a box had
been left at the turnpike, directed for Candy, to go by the
‘l'inchester coach, and to be left at the coach office till called
for. He instantly set off for Winchester, and arrived there
about an hour after the delinquents; they had re-directed the
box for Bagshot; Woods claimed the box from the coach
office, but as it could not be given up on his mere statement,
he followed it to Bagshot. On the road he was in sight of his
wife and Candy, but they escaped in Mr. Baring's park, and
have not since been heard of. Woods applied to the magis-
trates at Bagshot, swore to the box as his. property, and re-
covered it. The police are on the look out for the fugitives.
The neighbours meantime took temporary care of the children.
SClClDE.—Saturday morning, between five and
six o'clock, an elderly man, of very respectable appearance,
was found, by a labourer of! the name of Crawley, suspended
by his handkerchief to a branch of a tree, in the wood of
Sydenham, in the county of Kent. cram the appearance of
the body, it is supposed to have been suspended there for two
or three days. In the pockets of the deceased several docu-
ments were found, when it was supposed that his name was
Woodgate, and that he residd at No. 22, Granby-street,
Waterloo-road. Messengers were despatched to town, and,
shortly afterwards, returned in company with some persons
who identified the corpse as being that of Mr. Woodgate, who
left home a few days back, and of whom no intelligence had
beea received till the present mournful occasion.

•
EXPEDITIOUS TRAVELLING !—Stage coaches
were first introduced into Scotland in 1678. On the 6th of
August, in that year, Provost Campbell, and the other Ma-
gistrates of Glasgow, contracted with William. Hume, of
Edinburgh, that lie should run a coach between Edinburgh
and Glasgow, a distance of 42 miles. The following is an
abstract of the indenture, which is rather curious :—Hume
engaged with all diligence to run a coach with six able horses,
to leave Edinburgh every Monday morning, and return (God
willing) every Saturday night ; the passengers to have the
liberty of taking a cloak-bag for their clothes ; the. burgesses
of Glasgow to have a preference to the coach ; the fare, from
the Ist of March to the Ist of September, to be 4/. 16s. Scots
Sceaots
(Bs. sterling) ; and during the other months,l
As the undertaking was arduous, and could 141;e8::,:one into
without assistance, the Magistrates agreed to give Hume me 200
merks a-year for five years. The coach "_as to run for that
period, whether passengers applied or not, :n ' consideration of
his having actually received two years' Premium in advance
22/. 4s. sd. sterling.
EAST CUMBERLAND ELECTIONvrIe Carlisle
Journal says, there will be no opposition. James will be
returned. The Tories dare not fight
berland. The writ arrived this day week, and the day of no-
mination is fixed for Friday next.
Between the Sunderland Herald and a Newcastle
Conservative Journal, a deadly war appears to be raging. The
Herald, among other complimentary demonstrations, asserts
that it has greatly extended "this
e notoriety of the journal-
' writer as a liar, and adds, that worthy scribe, when under
the influence of mountain dew, genuine Ilollands, or any
other equally potential distillation (for he is no way fastidious
so 'that the drink be strong enough), is in the habit of repu-
diating and disavowing the principles advocated in his paper.
In those happy moments of exemption from care, the hero of
the Lying Print becomes marvellously communicative, and
assures all the strangers who are thrown fortuitously into his
company (for it is not to be expected that such a man can
have either friends or associates), that he is a bona fide Libe-
ral, but that circumstances have doomed him to be the Editor
of a Conservative print l"
An officer of rank, " well known in the political and
scientific world," advertises that he had discovered a new com-
pound rocket that will set an enemy's ship on fire in fifty places
if discharged two thousand varda off, and a shell twice as de-
structive as the old one. He offers these interesting articles
to privateers, African traders, &c. f‘ Provided with such
means, besides several others, the smallest vessel will (he says)
infallibly destroy or compel to surrender any first-rate ship of
war."

SNAKES.—In the course of last week, as a manure
heap, placed on the Decoy Bank, on Doncaster Carr, chiefly
formed of decomposed potato tops, which had remained there
for about two years, the property of Mr. John Stainton, of
this town, butcher, was being turned over, a quantity of
snakes,'amounting to upwards of 200, were discovered to the
no small astonishment of those who were engaged in the
operation. They were killed with great difficulty.--Doncas-
ter Gazette.

MR. HORSFALL.

" We are of opinion that there has been nothing to jus-
tify any charge of unfair or dishonourable conduct, or in-
tention, on the part of Messrs. Robertson Gladstone,
George Grant, and T. B. Horsfall, towards Mr. Alex-
ander, and hope that the result of the inquiry on which
we have been engaged may lead Mr. Alexander to the same
conclusion ; and that be may take an early opportunity of
giving expression to it.

"DUNCAN GIBB.
(Signed) " WILLIAM POTTER.' "
" With regard to the second charge, I have only to re-
peat my disclaimer of all participation in the Editorship of
the paper in question. The deed of agreement secured to
Mr. Alexander the sole discretion of inserting or rejecting
any communication or communications to the said newspa-
per.' And during the whole period of Mr. Alexander's en-
gagent, I wrote none of the articles in it with the excep-
tion of two :—those articles appeared as far back as the
the year' 1834—they were both upon the same subject :
that subject was not political, and in neither article was
,there the slightest reflection made upon any individual op-
posed to me in politics, nor have I ever,_ to the best of my
recollection, either verbally or otherwise, furnished Mr.
Alexander with the substance of any remarks which he
thought. proper to publish respecting any individuals what-
ever.

" I think Mr. Alexander, if applied to, cannot but do
me the justice to confirm the truth of these statements.
With regard to the origin of the Liverpool Standard, I have
never denied that I was one of those who subscribed to es-
tablish it. But the idea of thereby necessarily a proprietor
is ridiculous.

" I have only to observe in conclusion, that as it was
not Mr. Alexander's intention to have made public the let-
ters which gave rise to the above charges, so neither would
it be right for me to make public the details of my reply.
Suffice it to say, that immediately upon being aware of Mr.
Alexander's having addressed a copy of those letters to the
gentlemen who subscribed towards the establishment of the
Standard, Mr. Robertson Gladstone and myself requested
their attendance at a meeting, for the purpose of laying
before them a reply to Mr. Alexander's statement. Sir
Thomas Brancker having been called to the chair, the state-
ment and counter-statement were read, when it was unani-
mously resolved--

" "fhat it is the opinion of this meetinc, that the con-
duct of Mr. Robertson Gladstone and Mr. T. B. Hors•
fall towards Mr. Alexander has been honourable and
gentlemanly throughout.

" I have purposely refrained from saying more than is
necessary for the vindication of my own character. I trust
I have said sufficient for this purpose, and that you will
do me the favour of inserting this letter in your paper on
Monday next.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" THOMAS B. HORSFALL.
" Liverpool, Aug. 27, 1836."

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR

AUGUST.

Our most sanguine hopes have been, in many respects
more than realised. In a former report we alluded to the
astonishingly rapid advances which vegetaion made after the
first burst of real spring weather ; and ventured to conjec-
ture, in opposition to the openly avowed fears of many agri-
culturists, and to the actual notices sent to us by some of
our own immediate friends, that the crops would eventually
be found abundantly productive. We have observed tile
regular progress of the Wheat, the harvesting of which be-
gan very early in the month ; and can now assert that we
know not where to find a single sheaf. The whole within
our own richly fertile district has been carried in the finest
condition ; and by the consentient evidence of every disin-
terested judge, it should appear that in point of quality and
bulk this crop has rarely been rivalled. The straw, indeed,
is not so long as that of 1835, but the ears are bulky and
heavy. The character of the year warrants the conjecture
that the harvest must he in progress generally ; and it appears
by public reportsethat very fine new corn has been in the mar-
kets some time since. Barley runs short in the straw ; and
the crop, in some places, is light. Oats are being cut, and are
found various in quality, but much improved by the passing
showers which have fallen, at intervals, during the course
of August. In Berkshire, the species, with " secund," or
unilateral panicles, termed Tartarian Oat.( Avena Orien-
talis) is by far the finest and best crop of the season ; the
weather was too droughty throughout June and July for
the common panicled oat : it, in fact, is calculated for cold
and rather moist climates ; but the Tartarian appears to
resist dry and warm seasons better than any of its con-
geners. Some writers have said did beans are light, and
rather deficient in quantity. We admit that this
legume affects a stiff and regularly moist soil; also, that
it prefers a liberal supply of rain ; but from the many
specimens we have seen and the noble growth of the
plant, clean in stem, its foliage beautifully and regularly
expanded, we cannot conceive that the product will be
indifferent. It appears, too, from examination of a large
field which we yesterday found cut, that the seed is well
swelled and quite perfect. The season has consistently
maintained its character of universal, almost exceptionless
cleanness—no aphis, no honey-dew—no webs—the niduses
of caterpillars, which occasionally disfigure the hedges.
Peas have been somewhat unproductive where the drought
has been severe ; but as rain has fallen copiously in many
western counties, it is presumed that this (as well as other
crops), has there been fine and productive.
Of Turnips the promise is very fair. Some fears began
to be entertained a few weeks past ; and, indeed, the fields
assume here and there a rather patchy appearance. But
we observe that there is a very fine plant, and have been as-
sured
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quite secure.

The rain was too long delayed to permit the chance of a
good second cutting of hay ; the grass in some of the mid-
land counties remains even now without verdure, and this
remark leads us to refer to the weather. Early in August
(after the few efficient showers of the last week of July), the
barometer rose again to the fine weather point, and with
the most equable pressure on the mercury for several days,
sth to 10th inclusive, the sky was brilliantly clear, but the
temperature genial, and far from hot. Ths ground, how-
ever, became parched, though in the best possible condition
for the harvesting of the corn. Reaping progressed wider
the best auspices, and the wheat was housed. On the 15th
a thunder storm introduced a change, and, subsequently,
some tendency to a showery season has been observed.
Steady and really effective rain fell on thehe
grass22cla nd 23d
inst., and this has penetrated the soil. T
hence-
forward will grow, and a fine herbage for the flocks will be
the desired result.

' We have detained our report to the last moment, in
order to complete our remarks on the weather, at a season
and under circumstances which must be allowed to be par-
tially critical. The fourth week of August has terminated,
and the oats continue exposed to frequent showers ; much
rain fell on the 2Sth inst., but the bulk fallen, or ten times
its quantity, would cause no injury, were the capping or
covering sheaf generally adopted. We incur the risk of
• wearying some of our readers, but we also appreciate the
aptness of the proverb, that "constant dropping will pene-
trate a stone ;" and we know that " line upon line, and
precept upon precept," occasionally produce the wished-for
effect. We, therefore, come again to the charge, and urge
the adoption of a safe, secure, and unexpensive mode of
protection—one which is sanctioned by the practice of seve-
ral counties, and cannot fail to prove of very important
service in ail, were it adopted during showery seasons, and
particularly at periods when rain is attended with great
atmospheric temperature. The showers which now, how-
ever, visit us, may alarm the timid, but they are not likely
to be of protracted duration, and, in the mean time, must
be fonnd incalculably serviceable to the latter crop of grass,
and to the turnip crop universally.
Aug. 29.

The publicans who kept Booths at the late Chelms-
ford races have been called upon by the officers of excise to
pay 53. each for selling tobacco on the ground.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD AND

To the EDITOR of the MORNLVG CHRONICLE.
SlR,—From the manner in which you have given circu-
lation to the aspersions made upon my character and con-
duct by the Liverpool Chronicle, I hope you will not consi-
der it more than an act of justice to give insertion to the
inclosed in your paper of Tuesday morning next.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
, . THOMAS B. HORSFALL.
Liverpool, Aug. 27, 1836."

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ALBION.
" SIR,—In a few lines which I addressed to you last
week, and which you were good enough to insert in your
paper of the 22d inst., I mentioned that the matters in
dispute between the late Editor of the Liverpool Standard
and others, including myself, having been submitted by
mutual consent to arbitration, I considered it incumbent
upon me to take no public notice then of the charges .:,
brought against me in connection with that paper.
" The arbiters having now given in their award I feel
myself called upon to remain silent no longer. Of those
conductors of the public press who are my accusers I will
say nothing, except that I think they would have pursued
a more just and honourable course had they refrained from
condemning even an opponent unheard.
" The accusations they have brought against me arc two-
fold, namely, unfairness of dealing towards Mr. Alexander,
and prevarication or falsehood, in having disclaimed all par-
ticipation in the editorship of the Standard.
" With regard to the first of these charges, I have merely
to refer to the following extract from the award of the ar-
biters, for the vindication of my character from any unfair-
ness towards Mr. Alexander :