The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-09 00:00:00

WESTMINSTEaSCHOOL PLAY.

Last night the young Gentlemen of 'Westmin-
ster School enacted TERENCE'S Play of Phormio
to a crowded audience of the friends of the mas-
ters and scholars, among whom we observed the
Bislqop of London, the Earl of Aberthwn, and
several other persons of distinction. it would be
needless at this time of day to poiut out the in-
congruity (which is at once so obvious and so
easily ridiculed) of representing a Roman play,
especially as a school exercise, without endeavour-
ing to imitate the Roman costume and other -
dramatic appendages, us well as to rehearse a
Roman dramatic dialogue. Last night there was
no change or improvement in this respect. The
two slaves, Danis and Geta, were dressed like
fashionable EngliSh velets of the 19th century;
with shoulder-knots, plush smallclothes, and
cocked hats—Antipho and Phwdrio like fashion-
able beaux going to a ball—Phorntio in a ‘rhite
beaver, Wellington pantaloons, and coloured
handkerchief, like a dandy of the tirst water
—the two old Gentlemen like the money-
making citizens who keep possession of the
Stages of Covent-Garden and Drury-Lane—
the three laWyers in English gowns and wigs—
and Sophrona with a bonnet and feathers, a scarf,
and reticule. With the exception of the costume,
and the arrangements of the stage, we were highly
pleased with the entertainment which the young
Gentlemen of Westminster last night offered to
their friends. They all seemed to be thoroughly
penetrated with the spirit of the piece—they all
appeared to feel perfectly the force of every
humorous turn or allusion in the dialogue—they
all seemed to comprehend the claims of their dra-
matic situations ; and four or five of them displayed
very considerable power and skill in supporting
their parts. Dunlop, who acted Geta, was the
favourite- of the evening. Ile had a great deal
to do, and he did every thing with much spirit and
talent. Ilis manner of supporting some parts
of his character was so arch, skilful, and na-

tural, that it would have entitled him to con•
siderable applause on any stage. Next to him,
Phillimore, as Phormio, obtained the most cor•
dial and most unanimous approbation. The
young gentlemen who represented AntOto (Jeff.
revs) and Nansitrata (Heath) likewise evinced
considerable power in supporting the spirit of
their parts, and were deservedly applauded.—
The Prologue, which contained nothing very
striking, was well repeated by Littledale, the.
Captain of the School. The Epilogue was a more
laboured and a more happy attempt to please
and amuse the audience. The parasite Phormio
returns on the stage with a mass of projects
in his hands, accompanied by (Armes and.
Demipho, who demand their money. He tells
them that he will be able to pay them from the

fruits of some of those numerous schemes ; and
then give a humorous list of those which have
been started within the last year—docks, roads,
canals, bridges, Macadamization, mining enter.
prises, tunnels, and lust, the great ship Columbus,
a large picture of which is exhibited on the stage.
In the dialogue and description to which these
projects give rise, there are interspersed several
jokes and puns, which, if not very relined, are
very laughable.

SPORTING.

A FINE FOX CHASE.

Emmert:ix, Dec. 7.-:-The East Sussex fox-hotinds, and a
splendid field, met at iVestminster, near Stamper Park, yester.
day, where they threw off and carefully drew the gorse; but,
not finding, they diverged to Westminster-wrxxl, below the hill.
In the wood, two foxes, at one and the same instant, were pre-
sently unkennelled, one of which broke towards the south, and
the other in a northern direction. The dogs would. have took
to the latter, but were checked off; exceptin two couple and an
half, but which were eventually stopped Eby the whipper.in.
The northern fox, in despite of the eifints used to compel hits,
would not break cover ; in about twenty minutes, therefore, the
forfeit of his obstinacy was paid with Iris life. The pack was
now laid on upon the other wiley animal, which had Wien
cover to the south, and melodious and inspiring. was sheLlitsp.
which made the welkin ring the instant afterwards. WIM
hearti light, spirits buoyant, and steeds in lively -aelitor4
l)itchling Bostic was now crossed, Smarm Hi* ihishe*,
over, and on to Clayton and Clayton Holt. From the huh* pluat.
the Cuckfield road was crossed, and a push made for rihitmy
Here, Reynard, who had outstripped his pursuers, as in derti
sion, awaited their approach; but, as danger neared him, he
broke cover in gallant style i though not long :after, he obtreitott
the glee predominant in the field, and went to earth at the bass
of Westonbury-hill, whence the terrier and the park ineffec:
tually attempted to dislodge him. The depth of his ,retreat
precluding digging as
.unavailing; disappointment increased.
its gloom, and the -dogs were tak .n off; the latter Movement;
however, had scarcely proclaimed the admitted death of hope,
when the fox suddenly exhibited his brush within two hundred
yards of the dogs. " Tally-ho I" was now the simultane:ous •
and delighted cry; and a more interesting and beautirid burst
in view was never enjoyed. Reynardt as in triumph, boldly
took a direction for Horstl passing through Dannywoods and
Stonestaple, and then leaving Hurst on his left,' pursued a cir-
cular course, and eventually reached his forrper earth; hut,
as his metal was up, he scorned the inviting refttge, and posiletj
for Newtimber, and thence dashed for Poynings Park.
,Here
he beat the pack; for not a glimpse could be obtained of
him afterwards. During the chase, which had been merrily
continued for one hour anti thirty-five minutes, a severe acci-
dent occurred to the Rev. Mr. Shiner, a Non of Sir George
Shifter, Dart. whose horse fell near to Danny. nod' tlimitiL_
sated the shoulder of his rider. DY prompt saistauce of that,
Gentlemen near to him, who pulled up th .;r horses nod dis-
mounted, the disjointed bone was speedily e-;4, cad, and we
have the gratification to add, that Mr. Shiftier is doing -letiL
aTnhde
tfiweeldn,tyons
ptohretsanbi
cony:
aoccasion,
hionmel twuei ecrel
batorldayssitsocie hundred
oluntnil,
Lord Pelham, Sir- R. Wihnotl Sir William Atlanta, our
Country -Member, Mr. Walter Bunell, General Tr .vor, and,
as a Most welcome participator, his own pack beng ut Miteb.a.
grove, the son of the Earl of Egremont, Col. George Wyndham!

PEDESTRIANISM. ' I
A renewal of the great pedestrian match fur one thousand
sovereigns, between the decidedly fastest in the world, Jcfn
Metcalf and Captain Parker, was made on. Tuesday evening,
to take place on 'Monday sennight, on Sunbury COM MOW--
The great match run lately at Doncaster between these tirtt
raters, one mile, the Captain receiving forty yards was. von
by Metcalf; the stake was then a thousand sovereigns. The
present match is a quarter of a mile, which the Commissary.
General has directions to rope off. The hackers met last night
over a splendid dinner at Moorgate, where NO sovereigtuSik the
stake was deposited. Betting even to a great amount.

5511101.13 AFFRAY.--1.1181, night a quarrel took
place with three men, at the Green Man puldic.houso, in Duck.
lane, Orehard.street, Westminster; from words they pro ed.
ed to blows, and finally one of them took out a knife, and cut 'a
man, named Richardson, several wounds on his left aide. An.
other man, named Wren, was also cut slightly on the face.—
They were taken to NVestminster Hospital, where they receive
surical assistance.
in the year 1745, when the Scots Rebellion
threatened most formidably, H nit ING tiWU
Archbishop of York, resolved, in: case of extra-
laity, to take arms himself and oppose the,
grew, of the rebels. His nvowing his inteitsko
gave occasion to orator AI gN gY to nit ktustue
him—a red Herring.

111 E LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Dec. 9.

[BRITISH PRESS.j
In the Madrid Gazettes received yesterday,
we have'an otfiuial report of the crimes said to
have been committed by, Vigo, the Constitutional
,Governor itt Corunna, in July, 1823. 'Where
judicial proceedings are conducted arbitrarily and
in secret,• little reliance can be had on their
correctness. The character of the Judges, too,
is material. It is unhappily notorious, that in all
these respects the administration of justice in
Spain isdissentitled to public confidence. The
overthrow of established political institutions is
generally accompanied with enormities shocking
to humanity. 'No revolution was ever more calm
or bloodless than the Spanish. .The Constitti-
tionalists were reproached rather With pusil-
lanimity than.ferocity. They seemed more afraid
to punish the .adherents, of the absolute -Mo-
narchy than to put them to death causelessly.
If,, however, the charges against the men con-
demned at Carolina be true, it would seem that
the exasperation of party feeling was producing
the re-enactment of the ntrocities.of the French
revolution. What, then, may -we expect should
another popular- movement take place .in that
wretched and ruined country'! Even now asses-
sinations are daily perpetrated, sometimes by the
Constitutionalists in revenge for previous out-
rages 'on them, but most '.frequently by the
Royalist Volunteers, who are Composed of the
basest rabble, and allowed to' rob and murder,
ithout form or colour of law, whomsoever they
suspect of liberalism. The Spanish Tribunals
are now filled with furious, ignorant, and sail--
guinary bigots, raised from the lowest. stations
of society, without possessing any qualification
for , their office, to which they have been.
preferred solely because they are untainted
with • any participation in the administration
of the Constitutional system. The per Sons
of rank who are nominally at the head of
the public departments, have really-no share in
guiding public affairs. The King gives his con.
Cadence only, 'to such men us the Trappist, the
Curate Merino,'and the ruffian Bessieres. They
actually tonttitute. the Spanish ministry, though:
they have not 'the' honthirs •and emoluments of
office. We .therefore disbelieve the story of the
noyattes of Corunna. There appears to be no
sufficient reason'for the crime.' It is, we' think,
most likely 'that the Royalist sufferers perished
in an attempt to, capture the` veSsel in which
they were confined. 'A t the time the French
army was It the plate, such a moment
would-hardly 'have' been selected for the per-
petration' of 'so' unprovoked and horrible a
massacre. The .Cotistitutionalists heard their
condemnation with indifference, and' died with
fortitude. We fear that lite days of blood
are .only beginning ; the invasion .of the French
will.yet cause torrents 'to be shed.- Spain iS
pidly relapsing into the 'wildest barbarism and
inextricable -confusion ;the elementi Of order and
security have been scattered 'to the winds, and
the work of pretended "pacification" haS ended
in the uprooting of the foundations of 'attires
society. , • ' • '

[Tut To dEs.l
in the Paris Papers which arrived yesterday,
up to the latest customary period, are various de-
bates, assertions, and contradictions, on the sub-
ject of the evacuation, of the Peninsula, by the
Army of Occupation. The news that the French
were to retire is 44 too good to be true." They
may be dimished—perhaps only changed. Yet
the time for their removal must come ; and then,
if' Ferdinand be allowed to' reign in despotic
dignity--so let Win. The people and their
Sovereign will be worthy of each other.—
A monstrous tale is fabricated in a Madrid
Paper against the unhappy men who have been
recently executed at • Cortinna by the Go-
vernment. They are represented as having, during
the .existence of the Constitution in 1823, carried
out to sea and drowned, with circumstances of
peculiar' cruelty, between forty and fifty persons
whose only crime was attachment to the unli-
mited Monarchy, the (ice. The details
of the transaction savour strongly of romance ;
we do not believe' ai`word of them; but that no
pitrticle of deubt'may eiist in any mind, we 'call
Uiport Quiroga and Vigo, who are now in Londun,
tO contradict the report. The affair of the• pro•
jected or rumoured indemnities to the emigrants
seems to agitate the interior of France. It is
very true that a ,difference is-made. at Pales, be.
tweet' a' property of unliroken descent,'" Un bier
patrintoniai,'► and one acquired by the revolution.
And we are net 'sorry. that -the possessors of the
latter should be a little sensible of the weakness
of their title. This- may serve as' a lesson to
future revolutionists, and even reformers, at least
to leave property inviolate, however they may
tamper with the political institutions of their
country..

IMORNTNG POST.]
Thnch Papers to.the 7th inst., arrived yester-
d'ay. They contain very contradictory state-
ments respecting -the evacuation of Spain. Ac-
cording
to the Opposition Journals, Liberal and
Ultras, that measure.had been suspended in con-
sequence of a new arrangement by which a corps
of 10,000 men was to be left in the Peninsula in
addition to the garrisons previously ordered to
be retained, and both Santona and Saragossa
were to be occupied. The greatest joy, it
is added, prevailed in Madrid on that occasion,
not only because individuals considered the
presence of tl;e French a protection against
plunder and persecution, but because it was
thought that'the Cabinet of the Tuileries would
nUt have abandoned its original intention, if Fer-
dinand had not made all the concessions requir-,
Fed, enaces3ions vollich would materially tend to
PuirY the country, and to restore its lost rights
and happiness. This intelligence, however, is
contradicted, by the.Etolle, which, from its offi-
cial din rde ter) MUit certainly have the best
formation respectinctbe intentions of the French
ith„isicy and the, oianner in, which they are
to 1w exccuted• rt says on this subject:—
" The Journal des Debuts, fhe—Constilutionnet,

!and the Quoiidienne, announce to-day to their
readers that the evacuation of Spain by the
French troops will not take place. The Journal
der &bats and the Constitutionnel give a letter
from Madrid, dated November 28, received
by an extraordinary channel, which brings this
news. The Quolidienne says that a courier was
to set off the day before yesterday (last Sunday)
or yesterday, to carry an order for suspending
the movement of the troops. Notwithstanding
all these assertions, we persist in saying, that the
evacuation was' to commence on the Ist of De-
cember. On attentively considering this con-
tradiction, however,' it will he seen that it does
not go beyond re-asserting that the evacuation
would commence at a particular period, a fact
which is admitted' by the Madrid letter. Whether
it would continue and terminate is therefore the.
real question'; and on this head the EtOile .has
avoided giving a clear and deCisive answer.

[NEW TIMES.]
Yesterday afternoOti an Express arrived from
Paris with accounts to Monday evening. It was
inferred, from a slight decline which took place
immediately upon its arrival being known in the
Funds, that some unfavourable information had
been received' by this conveyance ; but for this
supposition there (lid not appear any reasonable
ground,and the alteration in question was probably
produced by a vague rumour that his Majesty was
indisposed. Consols opened and continued at
954 i, until the afternoon, when they declined to
95f-a, and at the close of, business was rather
higher for the account. The long-talked-of
Spanish expedition was stated to have. at length
sailed from Ferrol, with' about two thousand
troops ; but we do not place reliance' upon the
correctness of this statement, or attach much im-
portance to. the fact, should it prove correct. 7--
There was a decline in the price of Spanish
Bonds yesterday of nearly. 1
.per. cent., and the_
usual accompanying reports were in. circulation ;
so- much has been said already against the,proba-
bilitY of their ever being worth a shilling, that
until any alteration in the determination of Spain
:is known to, be a fact, it will be unnecessary to
say any thing further upon. the suhject The last'
price of:the Bonds of 1821 .was 221, and those
of 1823, 15 to 16. There was, not a single Fuf
'reign
.arrival yesterday announced at the Post
Office, or any other arrival beyond the express:
froin France ; the Foreign Securities, how-
ever, were lower than, on the preceding day.—
The scheme for a new Brazilian Company,
alluded to' by us some days ago, is expected to
be brought out to-day ; merchants and others ac-
quainted with the country speak highly ,of the
probable success of this undertaking, and the
permission of the Emperor of Brazil to werk the
-
mines having been officially obtained. some time
back. The Shares of . the two .New ,Companies
continue .steady ; those of Colombia are. at 84 .to
Of premium,and those of Rio de la Plata 54 to 64.'

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
We have-received the Paris papers of Sunday
and Monday. In most of the former it is posi-
tively stated that. the French troops are to re-
main in Spain ; and that such regiments as had
commenced their march, were to return imme-
diately to their old quarters. •This statement,
though given with the utmost confidence, and
on the authority of letters of '.a very recent
date from Madrid, is extremely suspicious,
particularly as titi explanatory circumstance ac-
companies it. It is merely mentioned, that when
every thing was in complke readiness to
carry the original arrangements into execution,
they were suspended by the arrival of a French.
Courier, and that 10,000' men more than were
Originally intended are to be left at the disposal
of the. Spanish Government. It was probably
some rumour of this kind Which had improved the
renter on Saturday ; but it is very strange that such
news should have found its.way from Paris to Ma-
drid, and be kept till the return of post a profound
secret' in the former city. As the measure originat-
ed with the French Government, one would think
that its own subjects would' be apprized of it the
first. Moreover the terms are not mentioned,
which eiould procure the concession for the Spa-
nish Court ; and it is not so much as hinted that.
Ferdinand has yielded a single point. Besides,
the Moniteur of Sunday guards a profound silence
on the subject ; and the Etoile of Monday gives
it a flat contradiction. The silence of the one,
and the pointed denial of the other, particularly
as, from their ministerial 'connexion, they must
have access to the best and earliest sources of in-
formation—are quite sufficient to overthrow a ru-
mour which' bad not before 'it' shadow of con-
sistency in its favour. It would 'be an unnsual
thing to see the French Cabinet accused of form-
ing its resolutions rashly', and abandoning them
precipitately ; whereas it would clearly lay itself
open to both these imputations were it to make
any' change in its policy towards" Spain. Its ho-
nour and good faith are pledged for the fulfilment
of the capitulations concluded between the Duke
of Augouleme and tlw Constitutional Generals.
`Besides the French troops' are extremely dis-
gusted with the service in which they are em-
ployed in Spain, on' account of the atrocities
which they are obliged to witness and How far
they might be influenced by this feeling even-
tually it is difficult to say. At 'least their attach-
tmnt to legitimacy 'would not be confirmed by.
remaining spectators` of the horrible excesses'
which it has caused in that country. ,At the same
time delay would benefit no party ; and, after st,
lapse of six months, or six, years, the Spdnish
Government would be as intractable, and pro-1
bably more so, thah it is at this moment.

[vtonlvika` Nr6.E.]
The rapidity with which the public mind has
been directed to the subject of; Rail Roads, and
the numerous schemes for establishing this new
mode of convey 0t
alle - which have been recently
projected or carried 'into efloct difieyetit Parts
of the kingdom, are matters wfe.ii. worthy of ob.
servation. It is nearly
.40 yeariPsince,hui, raits.
were first introduced, as an ir4i:oyement upon
the old. Wooden or train rail-wax; and the loco-
motite engine, which is to act so prominent a
part in the projected roads, has been in opera-
tion in the neighbourliiiod- of Newcastle-upon-

Tyne some nine or ten years, without excit-
ing much interest or attention. It is only
within two or three years that the public appear
to be, all at once, alive to.the important results
to be anticipated from the introduction, of this
peculiar power. There appear to be two reasons
why an extraordinary effort should be
_made at
the present moment to establish' this improved
means of transportdor merChandize. In the first
place,commercial men, in the preieii t circumstances
of trade, being obliged ta-submit to a low rate
of profit, perceive the necessity of economising
in every branch of expenditure which comes un-
der the technical denomination of " Charges on
Merchandize," and the transit of goods between
the merchant and the manufacturer and the con-
sumer, is one very important item of this charge.
It is to be expected, therefore, that the trading
part of the community will be on the alert to
establish those facilities of communication—those
new methods for
.the. cheap and expeditious
transport of goods—which promise to be of such
importance to the consumer, the manufacturer,
and the merchant. In the second place, the cur-
rent rate of interest being low, monied' men are
eager to embrace any scheme which promises a fair
return for the capital invested; and thus the funds
requisite for undertakings of great cost and mag-
nitude are readily furnished. The public utility of
the scheme being apparent, the means of carrying
it into execution are forthwith provided. The
Steam Engine is the great moving power by
which the commercial superiority of this country
is to be advanced and maintained; and new and
improved applications of this power are naturally
hailed, as extending the basis of our national pro-
sperity. Not long since, every engine was station-
ary and permanent, mighty in its operations, but
limited and confined to one spot. At present we see
them moving on the waters in every direction,
ploughing the lusty billows, and forcing their
way in despite of wind and weather. Almost
all our Packet establishments between England,
Trance, and Holland, Scotland and Ireland, are
steani ships. Neither is their office confined
to the conveyance of passengers ; merchandise
to a large extent is transported with extreme
regularity and dispatch, especially between
Liverpool, Dublin, and Glasgow. In a few
years we shall not be surprised to see this.
same power, under the form of the loco-mo-,
tive engine, conducting the immense traffic be-
tween Liverpool and Manchester, Edinhurgh
and Glasgow, Birmingham and London.—Canals
were' a wonderful improvement upon carts and
pacic-horses. The route was, indeed, more cir-
cuitous, -but the increased power, was consider-
able. Milt is gained in power, however, an,
pears to he lost in time.; and this is a difficulty
which cannot be overcome, and which, in the
present day, will not be summitted to. Between
,Liverpool and Manchester for instance, the aver-
age time• required for the conveyance' of goods,
by canal, is stated to be thirty-six hours; by rail-
w proposed to be effected in one-sixth of
the time it is
ime- and those only 'who are acquainted
business can be fully aware
owfititrhe6ilimportance of this increased expedition ;
what activity it will infuse into various branches
of trade,.and what facilities it will impart to the
general operations of commerce.